Tainted Hearts

Chapter 40

        "Kol, I don't know what to do. I've lost all of my family. I have a physcotic doppleganger that is probably hell bent on revenge and then theres you. Why does life have to be so complicated?" I complained as I sat next to Kol on the plush leather couch.

        He sighed as he rubbed circles on my back trying or rather attempting to comfort me which it did. The moment between us was so surreal. I never would have thought that the Kol MIkaelson would be actually comforting me and listening to my problems in life. And for that it made me melt even more. He had changed so much in such little time. I had only known Kol for six months now.

        To a vampire six months is nothing, they have an eternity to live. To Kol six months will blast by in a blink of an eye but to me it felt so long. I leaned back into the couch and rubbed my temple, trying to dull my headache.

        "I promise that i'll protect you. I'm here for you Clara. For as long as you live I will be here for you. A shoulder to cry on, to have a good time, anything..." he said looking at me with hopeful eyes, the last word slowly trailed off into abandon.

        When he said anything I now knew the meaning behind it. It implied more. He had literally implied that he would be here for me as a friend or with me in a relationship.

        And from right then on I looked at Kol differently. I couldn't know him for his past or the horrible crimes he committed. I could only look at him as a woman who loves a man hopelessly.

        I leaned forward and wrapped my limber arms around his warm body. I craned my neck on his shoulders and we stayed like that for what felt like forever. We were content just being in each others arms, holding each other, comforting one another.

        I leaned back and looked him in the eyes. I grabbed his hand and held it tightly in my grasp.

        "Kol...I love you," I whispered so queit that it almost blended with the silence. Though I knew that he had heard me for he could hear the queitest of whispers. His superb vampire hearing, an abilty I wish I possessed.

        He stared back at me, his breathing slow and steady. Though he was looking at me, his attention wasn't on me but almost as if he was staring right through me. I hadn't meant to scare him. I only wanted to confess my feelings to him. 

        I knew that he so cared for me as he had said, but I wasn't for sure where his feelings lied. Where they the same as mine? I wasn't entirely sure but if not I would wait. I would wait a thousand years for him. He was worth it.

        "Kol...say something?" I begged desperately as I fumbled with his hands, trying to gain his focus, to bring him back from the dark abyss he had fallen in. He was a statue, unmoving, still-like, forever silencd until his hand squeezed mine back. He then wrapped his arms around me and whispered in my ear breathlessly,"I love you too Clara. Always and Forever?".