The Lost Mikaelson - The Vampire Diaries

10 : Havoc

Chapter 10

"According to Google Maps, Montresville is located right about... Here," Kol stated as he immobilized the car and began tapping eargerly onto his cellphone's touch screen.

"Well Google Maps doesn't know shit," Henry protested, "We're in the middle of nowhere."

Bonnie tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear and seized her knees with her palms. The situation was frustrating. She looked up from her window and perceived an ocean of tall green curved in trees surrounding the horizon. No apparent towns were visible from their position.

She opened her door and the others imitated her, stepping outside the vehicle, their argumentative discussion instantly vanishing into thin air.

"We'll cover more grounds if we separate ourselves," Henry pronounced, "And I suppose I'll leave you two together."

He spoke harshly, bitterly, almost cynically. His stare hovered over Bonnie's face and he offered her a half-smile. He quickly recollected his attitude and then blurred himself away from their sight, towards the South.

Kol rolled his eyes and locked the doors of the car.

"I've always wondered why you two hate each other so much," Bonnie started, stuffing her fingers into the pockets of her blue denim jeans, "I've never seen an hatred so powerful. It's ridiculous."

He chuckled a bit before following her into the forest. He suddenly seemed nervous, him who usually never fell for anxiety. He passed a jittery hand into his short brown hair and begun his tell.

He cleared his throat :

"It dates back to a few centuries ago, when all of the Mikaelson family was alive and well. I remember that I was fourteen, or fifteen, and Henry, perhaps thirteen or something. It was around the time when the leaves turned into a lovely shade of red and fell down from the trees without a sound. There was this girl, Mila, who was living across the river, and we would see her often, her father being Mikael's good friend."

Why does it always have to be about a girl? Bonnie thought, smiling sadly to herself.

Kol didn't notice and followed through with his story.

"I recall that I fell in love with Mila first, as we ate next to the place bordering the river at sundown. She was beautiful under the radiance of the sun, her blonde curly locks illuminated and her blue eyes seeming incandescent alongside her fair complexion. She must've found me very dashing too, because she kissed me. Henry saw. He was enraged."

The narrow path they walked on from the road into the forest lead to a small children's park, left untouched, surrounded by a see of trees that almost engulfed it. There were dead leaves and small branches all across the playground area, bushes growing everywhere like parasites on a host. The place was suffocating with abandon.

Bonnie removed a few twigs from one of the red swings and sat onto it with intuition, while Kol marched up behind her and pushed her lightly. Their quest for a nearby town that would hopefully be Montresville could wait a little.

"What happened next?" she asked, letting the wind brush onto her face and hair, her short legs majestically extended into the air.

As she reached a decent height with her swing, Kol stopped pushing her and leaned against one of the two old and tall blue slides.

"The thing was that Mila loved us both, conflicted between two different kinds of delicious yet dangerous attractions. It became an affliction for my brother and I. We urged her to choose only one of us and she did," he paused only to continue on a deeper tone, "She chose me."