Rebel Just For Kicks: Kol Mikaelson [1]

92: Because The Night

a/n: I'm not feeling too good atm so thought an Elena-free chapter with some long-awaited character development might help.

Some positive vibes would be greatly appreciated too💕(Votes and comments lead to more frequent updates🥰)

After Matt had driven Caroline home, MJ went to Ric's, packed everything that wasn't furniture up, taking the things she'd dumped in storage out, moving it all to the Lockwood's.

Then she'd gone to her room in the mansion and brought all of her possessions downstairs too. Boxes filled the dining room, overflowing into the ballroom, bags of things slowly joining the fray too.

She was cleaning.

Organising.

Keeping herself as busy as she could be.

She technically owned the Lockwood Mansion.

The deed was in her name – all the shining wood furniture and the original Founders' antiques; the ten bedrooms and the tall white Greek columns that turned the front of the house into the porch where Mikael had been killed.

The windows that filled the house up with daylight.

All in her name.

She'd gone from a cramped one-room apartment to Ric's open-plan place, to having the Lockwood Mansion in her name.

It was kinda terrifying.

How the hell was she supposed to just live in a mansion?

Like, how often should she clean it?

What were the deal with the water bill and the utilities?

Caroline was the only vampire able to get in. Tyler was off-the-map and making the best of his situation, and MJ now owned two properties in Mystic Falls, the town she was probably going to leave the moment she graduated.

The real question; where was she going to go?

She needed a reset on her life again, so she and Elliot had decided to go on a soul cleanse again, starting the summer with charity work. Then, she could technically retract her deferred status and go through university clearing if she wanted to go back to New York.

New York was really good at rebuilding her after the bad moments...

But that felt like running away, not moving forward or addressing her problems.

The upstairs office was still going to be MJ's magic space, so that was the first spot she got to work tidying up.

She went through all her notes, rewriting several of them to make them readable, then marking out draws for; completed and neat spells, spells in the making, and messy notes.

Then she had an area for supernatural research, categorised alphabetically by topic.

While she was going through her ingredients, she found herself hitting a bit of a wall.

Blood.

She had so much blood, all from different people for various reasons – the main one; tracking.

Stefan, Caroline, Tyler, Elena (from when she was human – something she was not telling Klaus about), Klaus, Katherine, and Kol, and Jeremy.

Klaus had given her his blood for research.

Katherine too...and Kol.

Kol had left her some in case she ever needed healing.

She picked the vial up.