Bewitched

6

Kol, with a bouquet of red roses, walked into Ella's room as she was on her laptop.

"What do you want, Kol? Don't you get that I don't want to talk to you? Or at least, not just yet." She closed her laptop and was making her way to the door.

"No, you don't get to walk away from me again. Or do that appartion thing you always do." Kol grabbed her wrist.

"Last time I checked, you were the one that walked away from us." She replied, bitterly.

"Yes, and that was my mistake. But I know what you're doing. You're walking away from me, not because you want revenge and make me feel what you felt, but because you're hurt. You're hurt from what I did to you and you don't want to feel that way again." He held her hands.

"Wow, Kol. You know me so well. Where exactly did you steal those lines from?" She released herself from his hold.

"That's the thing, I didn't steal those lines because I do know you well." He instilled.

"No. No, you don't. You haven't known me in a long time. You lost that privilege when you lost me." She softly spoke.

"Let me start over. You were the one, Ariela. You were the first and only girl to make me feel something real. I've had hundreds of flings for centuries, but you were the only one that got to me. The feeling I had for you was unknown to me. I was scared. I didn't know that feeling and that scared me. But I was more scared to see the look on your face if I would end it, so I just left. You still are the one. You still make me feel that way, but I'm not scared anymore."

Ella sighed, "You can't fix what's already been done. Whatever you do can't erase the past."

Kol's eyes became glassy. "Please, Ariela. I want you in my life. I need you in my life." His voice cracked.

"And at one point in my life, I needed you! My whole life has been filled with people abandoning me. My family dropped me off at a boarding school for wizards halfway across the world! I was 11 years old. When I came home for holidays, they still acted as if I'm a stranger of sort in their house. I found out about a brother I didn't even know I had. I thought you understood what it was like being left out. But how could someone understand if they have siblings that would go to the ends of the earth to save them? My siblings wouldn't even book a flight to visit me for my birthday. I needed you, but you had already left. How pathetic of me to think you would come back. It was even more pathetic to think you actually cared about me." Ella shouted, hurt filled in her voice.

"Ariela, I- I didn't know." Kol stuttered.

"No, you don't get to say that because you did!" She yelled, causing Jake to run up to her room.

"Hey, hey, hey. What's going on, El? Are you okay? Are you hurt?" Jake took her by the shoulders, examining her with concern written all over his face causing Kol to get jealous.

"It's none of your business. Get out of here!" Kol shouted at Jake.

Jake pulled Ella behind him and shielded her from the livid Mikaelson. "Listen, buddy. It's involves El so it now involves me."

"Oh, are you sure about that?" Kol puffed his chest and walked closed to the boy protecting Ariela to intimidate him.

"Oh, I'm positive." Jake did the same until they were few inches apart.

Ariela lightly pulled on Jake's arm which drew his attention back on her. "Hey, it's okay. I can handle it." She spoke softly to him.

"What? No! He's being an arse." Jake defended. Ariela responded with a look. "Okay, fine. But if I feel there's something wrong, I'm going to hex him to bits, El." He gave in and walked back downstairs. Ariela sighed.

"Ariela-" Kol was cut off by Ariela continuing to say prior to the intrusion.

"You did know, Kol. You knew my relationship with my family. You knew the fear of abandonment I have. You knew the side about me that I was so scared of people knowing. I showed you a vulnerable part of me that I now understand you didn't deserve to know. You knew all about me, but I knew nothing about you." Her voice cracked.

"I was scared, Ariela. Loving you, something I've never felt for anyone but my family, scared the shit out of me. I was terrified how you would react when you found out about the real me." He responded softly.

"And you think I wasn't scared? My whole life I was scared of love. I still am. The first thing a child should feel is the love from their parents. They may not understand what love is, but they can still feel it. The love I felt from my parents was so messed up. I never understood what love was. That is, until I met you. I made my own definition of love. You somehow made me forget about everything I was so scared of. Then, you left. And everything I was so scared of happening, happened." Ariela softly spoke as a tear escaped her eye. She sat on the edge of her bed.

"Hey, I'm right here." He slowly walked up to her and sat next to her.

"For now. And just like that, you won't be." She turned to looked at him and he could see how broken she was.

"That's not going to happen. Not again. Not this time. Not ever." Kol tried to reassure her.

"What happens when you get scared again? What happened when another girl comes along?" She questioned.

"Well then, she's going to have to sod off because the only girl I want is you. And we're both going to face our fears, together."  Kol let Ariela know. He knew she wouldn't want to start anything yet, but he'd wait for her.

"Not to ruin the moment or anything, but what the fuck?" She chuckled. "If you think getting all deep is going to change my mind, you're sadly mistaken, Kol. But you almost had me. I just want to be away from you for a little bit. Just to think."

"Take all the time you need." Kol kissed her on the forehead, left the roses on her bed, and went off.

* * * * *

"Hey, Davina. Do you want these roses?" Ariela asked as she entered Davina's room.

"Do you not like them?" Davina looked up at Ariela from her bed.

"I don't really like flowers. As they start to wilt, they remind me of cemeteries. They only exception I have is for carnations. But these are too gorgeous to just throw away and it's also a waste of money, so here." Ariela said embarrassed.

"Okay, I'll go put these in water. Thanks, Ella." Davina graciously said while grabbing the bouquet. Ariela smiled back.

Author's Note:

I'm a horrible person, I know.
Who takes an entire year to publish one chapter? Me. And the problem is, it's not even a great chapter. But at least you somewhat get a picture of the relationship between Ariela and Kol that led to a falling out. Maybe? Idk.
My apologies.
But hey, if you are still reading this, I appreciate you so, so, so much. Thanks for your patience, my loves.