Inaction's and Consequences

Chapter 24

Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).

Four hours after leaving the Salvatore boarding house, Kol arrived on the small unmarked island, two hundred miles off the coast of Nova Scotia. He'd flown from the small airfield north of Mystic Falls,which served for small private jets, and arrived at Halifax airport after a four hour flight. After that he'd rented a helicopter and transferred to the island to take a look around before Rebekah and the others came searching for the cure. If the intrepid group of cure hunters had flown, he may have about six hours on them. Trying to get a flight to carry seven was harder than getting a flight for one,although it wasn't beyond the realms of possibilities that one of the Salvatore brothers could fly. He'd be unable to learn as he'd been daggered during the age of air travel, however he was going to rectify the lack of flying by taking it up himself after he'd finished with Silas.

Kol's plan was to get the hunter out of the way, without killing him, as he didn't want to face the Hunter's Curse. However there were other ways of getting rid of him. He'd suggested the rope binding spell to Elena as it would make it easier for him to kidnap Connor as it meant he would be able to control the hunter, allowing him to die of enforced natural causes, bypassing the curse. The part of the plan he'd never revealed to Damon and Elena was that he was also planning to kidnap the Bennett witch and get her to perform the spell to raise Silas so that he could shove the cure down his throat and then kill him. He wasn't intending to hurt the witch, however if she died as a consequence of destroying Silas, well that just made her collateral damage. A small price to pay to save the world.

To set his plan in motion, the first thing Kol had to do was find somewhere to imprison the hunter, until the hunter died from hunger and thirst. He would provide bread and water to last a few mouthfuls,just to be thorough about the curse, but the hunter would never be found alive again. This was why Kol had made sure that he was there before the others. He needed to search for a suitable location, once found, all he had to do was wait until the party of cure hunters arrived.

The morning after they'd set off, Stefan, Damon, Elena, Bonnie,Rebekah, Professor Shane and Connor arrived on the island off Nova Scotia. They'd got a flight from Richmond, with a connection at Newark - New Jersey to Halifax. They'd then flown by chopper to the neighboring island and rowed out from there. The entire journey had taken a total of twelve hours and they were all exhausted, but they knew that with Klaus only on a temporary lock-down in the Gilbert house, they needed to quickly get a move on if they were going to get back before Bonnie's spell wore off.

The shingle beach they'd landed on was surrounded by thick forest,easy to get lost in whilst, a thought not lost on any of them as they took in their new surroundings, with a mixture of fear, curiosity and trepidation.

"Congratulations. We made it." Professor Shane said to more himself than anyone else as the rest of the intrepid group began unloading the small boats of their camping gear. Heading back towards the group he saw Damon sharpening a knife nearby on the beach as Professor Shane approached him.

"Couldn't they have hidden this cure in Hawaii? Where the hell did you take us?" Damon complained.

"Two hundred miles off the Nova Scotia mainland."Professor Shane told him. "If you recall, the whole point was to hide the cure on the world's most obscure, desolate island."

"Oh yeah?" Damon asked sarcastically. "I thought the whole point was that no one found Silas, the oldest, deadliest freak in the world."

"Yeah, that too." Professor Shane shrugged nonchalantly as he held up sunscreen and offered it to a confused looking Damon.