Elena went into the bathroom, closing the door behind her. She reached over to turn the water on, stripped down and got in the shower. The water felt wonderful cascading down washing away last night, she had only a slight bruise where Damon had roughly grabbed her arm. Once out of the shower, dried off, and dressed she thought about what Stefan had said fleetingly before heading downstairs.
"I take it you slept well" Klaus smirked.
"Yeah I did, the waking up part reminded me of how much I drank last night" she said smiling.
"Kol I believe is in the kitchen attempting to make you breakfast, anyways love I am off to take care of some business" Klaus said with humor as he headed out the front door.
"Thanks" Elena said.
She made her way to the kitchen and sure enough there was Kol making breakfast. She stood in the doorway just watching him before entering.
"Do you need any help?" she asked looking at everything he had made.
"No love I got it all done, now all you need to do is eat" he said handing her plate with a little bit of everything on it.
"You know I can't eat all of this by myself" she said right before taking a bite of a cannoli.
"Well what do you think?" he asked waiting.
"Oh wow this cannoli is good, you made this?" she asked surprised.
"You seem surprised that a vampire can cook human food, yes darling I made it. Granted a cannoli is more a dessert, but I wanted to show off" Kol said chuckling. With that being said Elena dug into her food and savoured every bite.
"What would you like to do today or would you have like to spend time with your friends?" he asked, "I know you haven't really talked to them since we got back."
"I don't know, it's Friday so I was thinking maybe you would like to go up to my parents lake house with me for the weekend...that is if you would like to. Then when we get back I'll deal with twenty questions from Caroline and Bonnie" she said looking down at her plate deciding on what to try next.
"I would love to go with you, tell you what you finish eating and I will go pack some clothes. Then we'll go to your house for you to gather your stuff, and head out to your lake house" he said with a smile.
As Kol was upstairs packing he smiled to himself remembering back how Elena and him couldn't stand each other, then Kai had locked them together in a room for almost two weeks changing that. Here they were almost a month later and together, something neither of them had expected.
"Penny for your thoughts" Elena said from the doorway.
"I was remembering how we got to this point...you and I, " he said looking at her.
"I remember too, it was the only good thing to come out of that nightmare" Elena said shuddering.
Kol walked over to Elena and took her into his arms, resting his chin on the top of her head. They stood like that for a few seconds, then Kol reached down and grabbed his bag as Elena shut his bedroom door.
Kol drove Elena home so she could pack before they headed out. As he was waiting it dawned on him they would be alone for the whole weekend. He only hoped that Damon wouldn't show up and ruin it. Elena had been through enough, constantly being smothered, told what to do and Damon always throwing the word love around to justify his actions. In Kol's mind what Damon was doing wasn't love, it always seemed to be about what he wanted never about what she wanted. That was something Kol was going to change, he wanted Elena to feel free with him.
"Ok I think I have everything, now we can go" Elena said with a smile.
