You are not alone

Chapter 8

Stealing his brother's phone turned out to be easier than he had anticipated. Elijah was too busy planning a party or something. And Kol had managed to avoid Nik for the past three hours. Apparently his brother had some important business to attend to, as per usual.

He quickly dialled Elena Gilbert and waited for her to pick up.

"Hello? Elijah?"

"Not exactly, love." He wanted Elena Gilbert dead and he needed Katarina to distract Elijah. It was perfect. He would get his revenge after all and keep Elijah busy.

"Kol." He heard her gasp.

"Yep, I am back from the dead." He chuckled.

"I..."

"Oh, not to fret. I know it's you, Katarina. I have a proposal for you."

"How did you ...?"

"Know? I was on the other side."

"Look, even if I wanted to help you, which I do not, I have more important things on my mind."

"And here I thought you cared about my brother." This was supposed to be easy.

"Yeah, well, unless you have a vial of Klaus' blood as part of the deal, I am not interested." Hmm, did the poor thing got bit? Well, he supposed he could get the needed blood needed. He would just get bitten by some mutt and suffer a bit or maybe even talk his brother into it.

"What if I told you there was?"

"What exactly do you want me to do?" Ah, now he had her attention.

"Just be your charming self, get here, and charm my brother's pants off. And for the love of God, do not let me watch!"

She laughed at that: "And I will get Klaus' blood?"

"You have my word."

"There is one more thing."

"Good gracious, woman! You really are a high maintenance!"

"Yes, well." She knew that and wasn't going to apologise, "I don't really care about whatever is it you are planning, however, I am in the body of one Elena Gilbert and her insufferable friends want her back and me dead. I need to fix that. I won't be of any use to you otherwise."

"Hmm... I will think of something once you get here. For now, hurry up."

"Have that vial ready." With that, she hung up.

He left Elijah's phone on the table and when to find Nik. Now, this was going to be a conversation he was not anticipating.

Klaus was on his phone, texting someone. Kol knew that look. He was scheming something, something on his own. That was why he was locked up in his room.

"Hello, brother. Not even a greeting?" Kol smirked as he leaned against the doorway.

Klaus looked up from his phone and his eyes found Kol's. He abruptly appeared right in front of Kol.

"When Rebekah told me, I thought she wanted to buy herself more time and when Elijah said he saw you, I started to believe." Klaus' eye still looking doubtful with wonder.

"And yet, you hide here instead of finding me." Kol silently congratulated himself for not sounding bitter.

"You told off Elijah." Klaus shrugged his shoulder, "I figured you would have probably done worse to me."

"Why, Nik?" Kol asked and moved away from his brother, suddenly more interested in the books laying around on the table Klaus had been sitting behind a minute ago, "Because you mourned me all of five minutes and your vengeance plans lasted about as long as well?"