Vampire Diaries Imagines

Ghostly Companion - Kol Mikaelson

She was different from the others. There was just something about her that drew my attention away from everything else. I couldn't quite put my finger on it though. She was a free spirit among all those who were trapped in time. The girl had a kind smile but an even kinder heart. When we spoke, she would speak to me like I was actually a person and not the monster I had been labeled as.

Maybe that was it. Just maybe all of those things combined made her stand out within a crowded room. That could have been it. Or maybe it was the fact that she was the only one who could see me.

"You're lost in your own little world again," she said as she sat on the other end of the sofa. "Penny for your thoughts?"

I snickered slightly and shook my head. "Not much going on up there, I promise. When you're a ghost there isn't much else you can do, love."

YN looked over at me with those kind eyes I have grown to deeply adore and said, "That's far from the truth, Kol."

I chuckled once more and gazed back upon her small frame. "Oh, is it now?"

She nodded. "If I were you, I would be stalking the hell out of my family. Maybe find a way to scare them a little. Push something over. Throw things across the room. I don't know. Just a little something to catch their attention. Bonus points if you get a scream out of them," the YHC-haired girl said as she popped a piece of popcorn into her mouth.

"And, yet, I rather spend my endless days with you," I admitted as I turned to face her.

"Yeah. Why is that?" She questioned. "I'm nothing special. Just a girl straight out of high school that has some weird magical powers she doesn't fully understand yet and was born with the ability to not only see but also talk to the dead."

"I find quite baffling that anyone could find you anything less than special for all the reasons you speak of and more. You are nothing less than a miracle, YN. I noticed that the first time I met you." I confessed with a genuine tone.

"Oh, you mean when you almost took me out with a crossbow?" The YLN girl asked playfully.

She knew I wasn't aiming for her that day and I had apologized, at least, a thousand times by now for that little accident. But yet she was never going to let me live it down.

I tried to stifle my laughter but failed. "How many times do I have to explain it to you, love? It was that Gilbert prat that was my target, not you."

YNN's beautiful giggle filled the empty room around us before she spoke again. "I know. I know. But that little fact doesn't make it any better. Jeremy is my friend, you know?"

"Yet you have forgiven me and still allow me to be in your company," I stated and leaned back in my seat.

"Because I have the sneaking suspicion that if I was to have told you to fuck off and go on somewhere, you would have haunted me in a totally different, more malicious, manner."

If she had been anyone else, her statement wouldn't have been so off-putting. But I could have never harmed her. Not intentionally, at least. Now, if she would have told me that would I have left her be? No. I can't say that I would. Though I would have kept my distance and still have watched over her.

"I'm kidding, Kol," she said, pulling me out of my thoughts. "I do enjoy your company over a lot of the others."

"Is that why you continue to live here, alone, with me being your only source of companionship on, what seems to be, a daily basis?" I asked.

"Among other things," YNN confessed as she pushed a stray piece of her YHC hair back behind her ear. "I stay here because it's home. It's where I grew up and just because my parents died and moved on to whatever it is that comes after this years ago doesn't mean I just wanted to leave it all behind. And when I say your company is better than the others, I mean it. The most that comes with them is the drama and if you were to ask me, I've had enough to deal with in my life and I rather not put whatever they have going on top of that. But with you, I can be myself and not have to worry if you'll judge me for it at the end of the day or if you will ignore my entire existence altogether."

The young human girl sighed and stared down into her bowl of half-eaten popcorn. "I just wish you were alive so we could enjoy the time like normal people do."

What she didn't know was there was a way to make that happen. I just wouldn't let her do it. Her powers weren't strong enough and she didn't know how to control them properly quite yet. There was no way I was going to give her that information and let her get hurt or worse while trying. I wished, more than anything, for the same but it wasn't a chance I was willing to take.

But for now, I made the better of a quite dampened situation and smiled, saying, "Either way you have me, I'm not going anywhere, love."

YN smiled back at me and nodded. "You're right. Better than not having you at all."

At that moment, I had finally figured out what made her so different. Not because of any of the reasons I had thought previously. No. Not at all.

I realized then that the only reason YN YLN was different from everyone else was because I loved her.