Fade Into Me

Phoenix

"Bring the boxes in, careful with his precious Art, bring the car around... dig the big grave..." Kol mumbled to himself. "Bloody hell..." he cursed and shoved the shovel deeper into the dirt mad that he was the one stuck doing the heavy work for Klaus again.
Caroline came closer to the grave and looked down on Kol cursing and mumbling, digging his way into the coffin. "Is everything ok?" she asked with a smile.

Kol straightened himself up and gave her a look. "Sure, I'm digging a grave at 5 am... alone. Everything is just peachy."
Caroline giggled and shed some light into the hole he was making. "You should go a little more to the left."

Kol pressed his lips furious. "You are a vampire, why aren't you down here helping me with this? I'm getting tired of being used by Nik as a slave."
Caroline gasped mockingly. "How dare you good Sir? I'm a lady and a lady does not handle the heavy work."

Kol smiled mischievously. "So now you are a lady?"
Caroline returned his naughty smile. "And a lady I shall remain."

Kol rolled his eyes and went back to his heavy work, Caroline smiled shaking her head. "Where is he anyway?" Kol asked happy that the dirt was finally starting to give in as he reached the area closer to the old coffin.
"He went to check on the rest of his pack, Finn killed the werewolves that were watching my house." she grimaced.

Kol removed the dirt from the top of the wooden box with his foot and then pushed the shovel using it as leverage to open the coffin. A rotten old dress covering a pile of bones appeared before their eyes.
"Who's that?" Caroline quietly asked trying not to be too sick with the view.

"Emily Bennett." Klaus' deep voice came near them. He stopped behind Caroline and looked down on the coffin. "I haven't been totally honest with you love, when I caught Finn 900 years ago he had a weapon on him, something that could kill us. I took the weapon, always changing its location, after Emily closed that tomb I had it buried with the witch."

Caroline squinted without moving entirely, remaining with her back turned on him. "I thought a werewolf bite from an original werewolf like Tyler was the only thing that was deadly to your family."
"It is, but apparently that can be cured with my blood, the werewolves found something else that we couldn't really fight against. The white oak tree that the witches used as energy when they turned my mother, the first vampire. We burned it to the ground but they had their hands on part of it before we destroyed it."

Caroline looked at Kol that bent down removing the stake from inside the coffin. "What gives life, takes life." he said looking at the dirty weapon in his hand.
"So that little pointy thing is able to kill any of you?" she asked pulling a face.

Klaus chuckled behind her and she had to hold back a shiver because he was so close to her. They had been forced to cut short their first night together, Klaus was worried about Finn being on the loose.
He took the stake from Kol and smiled handing it to Caroline. "Be careful with this one."

She met his eyes with a hint of a smile. "This one can actually kill you."
"Try not to drive it straight into my heart." he said smiling like the bastard he was and knowing he was messing with Caroline.

"I'll be gentle..." she whispered and couldn't help looking down on his lips, wishing they weren't cursed to constantly be running and trying to stay alive.
Klaus shared her trail of thought and rested his eyes on her lips, the ones that had been his just a few hours ago.

"For Christ sake, get a room." Kol snapped loudly.
Caroline smiled and looked up to Klaus' eyes, that sounded like the best idea in a very long time.

"By the way, I didn't know you two were so religious... with all that God praising going on inside Nik's room." Kol said with a stinging smile.
Klaus smiled. "Him... you are allowed to kill."