24 | one out of five

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CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
ONE OUT OF FIVE
( s3, ep. 18 )
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The moon had not yet fallen, yet the sun had not risen over Mystic Falls

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The moon had not yet fallen, yet the sun had not risen over Mystic Falls. Stars remained visible, standing out against the sky which was like a canvas painted in hues of deep purples, gradually transforming as the sun prepared to make its grand entrance. It was a time when nature whispered its secrets to those who are awake to listen.

Kol had been alive long enough to know every secret the world had to offer and the joyess part about immortality is that he was around to discover it — when he wasn't tossed aside by his siblings in a pine box with a dagger in his chest, of course. He thought he had seen every hidden beauty after travelling to city after city.

He was proven wrong when he watched a blonde woman across the room hand his sister a dagger that caused his half brother severe pain. He had been intrigued within minutes of being undaggered.

The vampire stirred, his mind momentarily foggy as his eyes slowly blinked his eyes open to see a blonde head of hair nestled on his chest. His thoughts lingered on the events of the previous day, his mind a battlefield of memories and emotions. Kol eventually recalled sharing the adventures he and his siblings went on during the centuries, her head resting on his shoulder as they talked into the early hours of the morning.

Cassie slept peacefully, mind at ease, legs untangled with his. He lifted the hand that was draped over her stomach to brush a loose lock away from her face, finger running down her jawline, a subconscious smile tugged at his lips when she unconsciously leaned into his tender touch.

He laid there contently for a while, until a relentless buzzing sound fills his ears and Kol realises that noise is what woke him in the first place. Cassie's phone lit up, the screen illuminating the dark room. Fed up with the constant noise, he reached over to grab it, not completely knowing how to silence the incoming messages. The doppelgängers, the blonde vampire Klaus was infatuated with, the Bennett witch — they were all checking up on her.

His eyes narrowed as another one appeared, from Alaric, the one who hurt her.

The pure fear in her voice, hammering heart, blood seeping out of her multitude of wounds — Kol didn't understand the feeling that arose when she ran out the house barely able to stand, it was unfamiliar to him. Eyes moving up from the floods of messages he looked at the time, suddenly remembering that he was meant to leave for Denver yesterday.

He pushed himself out of bed, determined to face the day ahead, and quickly finished packing, having already started the day before. Kol picked up the two books she summoned for him, flickering through the pages to see annotations decorating the paper and he found himself looking forward to reading the neat handwriting, reading her thoughts and opinions on literature.

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