CONDEMNED • K.M

22 | I promised

As soon as Angie went into her room she immediately lit a piece of sage. Kol had showed her that trick a few days ago.

Angie sat on the window seat with her legs to her chest. She curled her arms around her knees and rocked back and forth. It was all hitting her now. She would never see her old world again. Her cat Stormy. Her warm cozy apartment she shared with Maggie. Even her best friend and neighbor Jordan Cooper.

Angie cried into her arms.

A pair of warm arms circled around her. Not the ones she was wanting. "It's okay." Rebekah's voice soothed. "Elijah is just grumpy because you took Kol out."

"Th-that's not why I am cr-crying." Angie hiccuped.

"It's not? Then why are you crying?" Rebekah pulled Angie further into her chest.

"I-I'm cr-crying because I just realized I will never see home again. My cat. My little apartment. It wasn't much but it was all Matty and I had. Maggie probably hates me. I promised I would never leave her. 'No matter what I will never leave you.' That is our thing. You guys have your 'Always and forever' thing. We have ours. Maggie probably went back with our egg donor and her new boytoy. I will miss my friends. I have a best friend. You would have loved her. Her name was Jordan. She was a big fan of this show as I was. Maybe bigger." Angie laughed a little then hiccuped again. "She had a thing for Elijah. I hope Maggie is staying with Jordan. Every Friday night we would gather at Jordan's apartment and we would watch the new episode. Maggie would huff and whine but she secretly loved it. We each had our favorite person. I was always a Kol and Rebekah fan. Jordan liked Elijah and Finn. Maggie was a Niklaus fan. Maggie also liked Jeremy. The brat." Angie scoffed, slowly calming down.

Rebekah sat and listened to the girl that shook up their lives. Rebekah realized that they never really knew Angie. They just accepted her into their house and their family. Rebekah began to get an idea. "I think I know of a way we can fix this. Both Kol and not knowing you. First, let's get my laptop. We need to get some question ideas off the internet."

"What?" Angie asked.

"Get to know you questions." Rebekah said impatiently. "We can play it like a drinking game."

"Uh . . . I am twenty." Angie pointed out.

"Yes and you are also immortal. You forever will be twenty." Rebekah countered.

Angie groaned. "I will never reach my twenty first birthday. I will be stuck at twenty for the rest of my life. I was so looking forward to being twenty one." Angie pouted.

"I am frozen at seventeen. I personally think you have it better. Now, move." Rebekah snapped.

Angie and Rebekah went out of Angie's room and into Rebekah's room down the hall. After printing out a few dozen questions, cutting them up and folding them, they went into Kol's room.

"Now, place your hand over where you injected him." Rebekah instructed.

Angie looked at her weird.

"Just do it." Rebekah said.

Angie warily placed her hand on Kol's arm.

"No. In the air about an inch above it." Rebekah lifted Angie's hand up. "There. Now repeat after me. Spiritibus, adiuva me. Exhaurire venenum ab hoc vulnus. Spiritibus, adiuva me. Corpus abluere. Repeat that until all of the vervain is out of his body."

Angie cautiously repeated Rebekah's words. A wind picked up and Angie's eyes glowed. At first nothing happened but after a while Kol started moaning. Angie looked uncertainly at Rebekah. Rebekah gave a reassuring nod. Angie concentrated on Kol. In thirty seconds he started screaming. Angie yelled the words Rebekah gave her as her nose started to bleed. The injection site opened up and clear liquid came gushing out. Two minutes later Kol's eyes snapped open and Angie's closed. Angie heard Kol's gasp for breath as she blacked out.