Chapter 11
While Myriam tried her best to master her ability to turn into animals instead of humans, Bella was trying hard to be as good as her sister, as fast as her sister, in trying to make her brain work the way Kol and Freya had suggested, but all that she could do by the end of the week was to make someone laugh really long. It was a start, but it was discouraging to see her sister seemingly having less issues with her transformations. Bella didn’t show her disappointment in herself, because her sister was doing great and Bella did everything she could to support her.
Bella was drawing in the courtyard one evening and decided to let her mind wander wherever it wanted to be, to loosen her grip on herself a little, because she was sure it would help the next day when she’d practice again. It was then when she heard Edward. And Alice. And Emmett. And a lot of other voices she hadn’t heard in years.
They were close, did the Mikaelsons know that they were close? Kol, Klaus and Elijah weren’t at the compound, Freya was out with Keelin and Rebekah was having fun in town, it was just her and Myriam now, and Bella felt her heart beat faster in her chest. Heavier. Thumping.
The voices sounded frantic, their emotions were all over the place and Bella wasn’t sure what they were doing. “Myriam!” she called out, not daring to move, afraid that one little noise would upset the balance or something, but why had she called out to her sister then? She ran to the front gate and locked it before running back to the courtyard, wondering where her sister was. “Myr!”
“I’m here!” Myriam said as she walked out of Klaus’ study, drying her hair. “Bella, they’ll be back, you have nothing to worry about. Nothing to fear.”
“Do you know where they went?” Bella questioned her sister, somewhat impatiently. Her eyes firmly trained on her as she walked down the stairs.
“Yeah, some meeting or something, I don’t know, wasn’t sure why Kol had to come with, but my guess is that there are witches involved, what’s up?” Her sister’s heart was beating like a maniac, why was she so scared?
“The Cullens and the Volturi guard are close,” Bella said as she pulled her sister down the remaining steps, only to pull her underneath the staircase in hiding. “What do we do? If we call Klaus or Kol, will they be back in time? We can’t take on all the Cullens and the guard by ourselves!”
Myriam swatted her sister’s hands away as she looked into the future, and she didn’t like what she was seeing. It was going to be a disaster with just the two of them, because no matter how fast the Mikaelsons would get here after the phone call, the Cullens and the guard were closer and faster. The vampires keeping watch were going to get killed first, as the Cullens would search the property, and they would eventually find the two girls and Myriam couldn’t take care of them all. They’d be badly hurt and taken as death was off the table for the both of them now. Myriam let out a breath. The future could be changed. “We’ll be fine. We can hold them off for quite some time until they show up,” she said as she shot a message through text to Klaus and pulled Bella with her to the center of the courtyard. “We’re not going to hide, we’re going to stand and fight. You and me. Deal?”
“But…”
“You and me,” Myriam insisted, making sure Bella stayed right next to her. They’d have the element of surprise, because she was pretty sure that they believed Bella was dead after Edward gave her the reset command. Although he hadn’t returned to actually check to make sure Bella was dead. Maybe they believed Bella was nothing but a dribbling mess by now. “You do your best worst when you’re scared. I have no doubt that you’ll be able to put them all down with zero effort once you see them.”
She winced when she heard some crashing coming from upstairs and her gaze shot to the gate when it got kicked open by Emmett. They were truly coming for her, and she and Myriam could not take them all. Well, Myriam couldn’t take them all. They’d take them both and there was no saying what they’d do to them now that they both had the eternal life. She wouldn’t wish the Cullens upon anyone, especially not her sister.
“Bella,” Edward followed after Emmett, flanked by Demetri and Felix. He sounded surprised to see her. “Come home with us, this doesn’t have to go the way Alice has foreseen it. Let’s not fight.”
Bella ignored him and tried to get into Demetri’s head, but reached Felix first. ‘Defend us against the Cold Ones.’ She repeated over and over, each time more force behind it before something clicked inside her mind and Felix actually reached out to Edward and ripped off his head before picking a fight with Emmett. She ordered Demetri to go after Jane and Alec who were influencing her sister. “I did it, Myriam! I did it!”
“Great,” Myriam let out as she was on her knees on the floor. “Do more,” she said through gritted teeth before she turned into a large grizzly bear and took a swipe at the Cold Ones.
As Demetri was now attacking Jane as well as he could, Bella focused on the minds of the Cold Ones around them. She found Carlisle, who was approaching her with his hands up. “Don’t do this, let us take you back, Bella, nobody has to get hurt.”
Myriam growled as she took a swipe at Carlisle, pouncing on him and biting off his head. ‘Come on, Bella, more, before they decide to be smart and come at us at once!’ It was great that she had managed to tell Demetri and Felix to fight for them, but when would that wear off? The Cold One venom itched her teeth and she had to spit it out to get rid of it. It was a shame that with her transformation she was no longer immune to the venom, and neither was Bella.
She slipped into Alice’s mind and told her to go to sleep, after getting the same click in her mind when she told Demetri and Felix what to do. Alice dropped to the floor in an instant, fast asleep. One by one, the Cold Ones fell around them. Bella stumbled back a few times, getting dizzy from finding the individual minds and dropping them. Myriam was making sure nobody came close but when the last Cold One found sleep, Myriam turned back into her usual self and let out a breath. “Wow, that was amazing,” she grinned as she hugged her sister, not caring that she had torn her clothes while she had turned into that bear and was now totally naked. “Wake them up, let’s do that again!”
Bella looked around as she tried to find someone she may have missed, listening around before finding Kol. Smiling, she leaned against the table. “We did it! And wow, you turning into a big bear! That was unreal! Like… super huge! So pretty!”
“She surely is pretty,” Klaus’ voice sounded as the brothers walked through the broken gate and saw the two sisters standing in the midst of leaking Cold Ones, and some looking as if they were sleeping. They had expected a fight, Kol was itching to kill them all, but it looked as if all they needed to do was to put them all together and create a massive bonfire to get rid of them. A little bit disappointing. Stepping over the Cold Ones, Klaus removed his coat and put it over Myriam’s shoulders. “You requested a clean up crew, love?” He asked amused, checking her over for wounds, but she was in one piece.
“You should have seen Myriam, she was amazing!” Bella smiled widely as she was still leaning against the table. She was afraid that if she’d stand properly, she’d fall over.
“And somehow I have the feeling that you were as equally amazing,” Kol pulled her into his arms and felt how unsteady she was on her feet. “Did you put them all to sleep?” He asked teasingly, holding her a bit tighter.
“Yes, but not how you wanted me to, though,” she said, a little bit embarrassed. “I had to get into their minds one by one, couldn’t get them all at once.”
“Darling, I’d say that I’m proud of you, but there’s no word that describes how proud I am of you because frankly, that’s amazing,” he kissed the top of her head. “We’ll handle the clean up, you deserve a nice nap.”
“Yeah, I’ll help,” Myriam rubbed her hands together in glee. “Where will we be having this bonfire?”
“Somewhere close by, abandoned building that’s ruining the characteristics of this city. We have no idea how long it takes for them to wake up from Bella’s lovely instructions,” Elijah replied as he sent a message to Marcel. One, they were going to have to have a talk – his vampires were definitely not prepared for a Cold One invasion and where they had believed the two sisters were safe, they weren’t protected well enough. Two, his vampires were going to help clean this up. “Take care of your ladies, brothers, I’ll handle this.”
“Fuck that, I want to see them burn, right Bella?”
“Right!” Bella eagerly nodded. “Yes please.”
“I think it’s best if you’d get a truck to load them on, Elijah, and then set that ablaze in that warehouse,” Kol suggested as he lifted Bella off her feet. “And I promise, you’ll be awake to see it, but you need a nap first. I think if we should give Elijah and Marcel’s vampires an hour, they’ll be close to lighting them on fire.”
“We need marshmallows, never had those, but you roast them over bonfires, right?” Bella smiled as she put her head against Kol’s shoulder.
“I’ll get us the goodies!” Myriam called after Bella as she was being carried off to her room. Turning into Klaus, she pressed her barely covered body against him. “An hour… gives us enough time to have some fun,” she smirked as she greedily kissed him. The adrenaline was still surging through her body, she needed to work it off. “I have ideas…” she said as she pulled him along to their bedroom.
“How are you feeling?” Kol asked Bella as he carried her to her room. “You should feel so proud, Bella, what you did was amazing, things could have gone a lot differently if you hadn’t done what you did and I could have lost you.”
“I couldn’t let them take Myriam,” Bella replied as she didn’t move, she was comfortable the way that Kol was holding her in his arms. “And I didn’t want to leave you.”
“Good,” Kol smiled at her as he brought her inside and gently set her down on her bed. When he got up to sit on the edge of her bed, she pulled him down with her and snuggled up in his arms. “Comfy?” He laughed.
“My brain is mushy, but you know… something just clicked into place when I tried to get into Felix’ mind, and then Demetri’s, and then it was easy to let them do what I wanted… quite scary.”
“But you did it and you protected yourself and your sister,” he kissed her forehead. “I’m proud of your mushy brain. Just don’t use it for fun.”
“I’m not using it at all if I can avoid it!” Bella countered quickly, startled. “I didn’t think it was fun, it was easy and scary.”
“Okay, okay,” he said, pulling her closer. “Relax, give your brain a rest,” he said softly as he moved his free hand to her thigh and gently squeezed it. “Relax. I won’t bring it up again now that I know you can defend yourself and I will not ask you to use it when we’re around.”
She nodded and let out a deep breath before relaxing some. “The Volturi will come now. And what about that army of newborns?”
“One crisis at a time, we first have to get rid of these bodies,” Kol replied as he playfully ran his fingers over her thigh. “And when they come, they come. And if they don’t, we’ll go after them ourselves. Italy is beautiful this time of year,” he smiled as he relaxed a bit more himself.
“I’ve never been outside the United States,” Bella said a little dreamily. “We’ve tried to fly to Italy but then I had a panic attack and nearly killed both pilots. Or so I was told. I don’t know if that was true, but perhaps they were simply just scared because I made the plane shake a little more than it usually did.”
“And if the trip had been successful?”
“We wouldn’t have met, I would have been in Italy,” she said sadly, looking up at him. “So it’s a good thing they left me here, right?”
He let out a snort and nodded. “Yes,” he softly kissed her as he moved his hand up a little bit. “I’m grateful that they were afraid of you.” He moved his hand underneath her shirt, gingerly touching her warm skin. He buried his nose into her hair and took a deep breath. She smelled so good, she smelled of peaches and oranges with a hint of lavender – his sister was good with finding scents for the right people at that exclusive boutique down the road. There was a hint of adrenaline and fear lingering, but it was subsiding, because all in all, his Bella was relaxed, her brain was in a nice floaty kind of place and she was beautiful.
They had fought some Cold Ones on their way back from their meeting, both he and Nik afraid that they’d lose their girlfriends, and he had been preparing himself for the worst, but when she stood there, all proud of her sister, all he wanted to do was to screw Bella’s brains out. But kindly. She was his, and he had the need to truly make her his in the best way possible.
She was no stranger to him touching her, he had already located her sweet spots and had often teased her a little. It was so easy to get her aroused and her scent was so sweet. Kol moved his fingers over her torso, underneath her shirt, up to her small but perky breasts. He cupped a breast over her bra as he nuzzled her neck. “Darling?”
“Hmm?”
“Could you look in my mind and tell me if you’d like that?” He said with a little smile as he kept nuzzling her neck and teasing her body with his fingers. He hadn’t anything raunchy in mind, it was going to be Bella’s first time, after all. Oh, he wanted to surprise her, make her all like wax in his hands, take his time with her, but they didn’t have that time if they were going to make it to the bonfire. Kol was curious if what she’d see in his mind would work as foreplay. “And feel it too?”
She’d been slightly drifting off to sleep as he had wanted her to nap, but did as he requested. While she watched a little movie in his mind, she could feel every touch, every kiss, everything and she wanted more. She could feel her body heating up from the imagery, her feet were tingling and she let out a small moan. Bella wanted more. ‘MORE!’ She wasn’t shown the more part, but she wanted it, and it was sweet that he was asking her for permission.
Kol laughed then, as he could hear her voice echo inside his mind, demanding for more. And that he had her permission to give her just that. He helped her out of her shirt and she wiggled herself out of her sweatpants, and he got undressed himself. He couldn’t resist worshipping her with small kisses on her torso as his hand moved into her underwear. She was already wet, but he needed to take things slow now, she needed to have pleasure, first.
She was wiggling underneath his touch, trying to hold onto his arm but her body involuntarily moved and she simply gave up, surrendering to him completely. “Are you okay, darling?” He asked amused. His finger found her lips below and started to trace them carefully. “Are you enjoying yourself?”
Bella nodded then, fisting part of a sheet as he applied a little bit of pressure, a moan escaping her lips, her hips bucking into his hand. She was so eager, she felt things so deeply, her little noises sounded like music to his ears, and he absolutely loved it. He continued teasing her before finding the right spot. Her eyes shot open as she let out a loud gasp, sitting up, her body slightly convulsing in pleasure, nearly kicking him in the head with her knee.
He didn’t allow her to come down from that cloud though and immediately started to work on opening her for him as he moved over her, kissing her neck and earlobe, before he realized she had actually stopped breathing. “Bella, darling,” he whispered. “You have to keep breathing, take a breath.”
She gasped then, only to find her breath again, her eyes having difficulty focussing on him. “Breathing,” she said in barely a whisper, letting out another gasp when he pressed another finger inside of her. “That feels so glorious!”
Was it sad that it felt relatively easy for him to get his fingers inside of her? Yes, she was tight, but he had a feeling that while Bella had claimed that she hadn’t had sex before, something might have happened anyway. He couldn’t be sure, perhaps it was part of her design, but she didn’t feel like a virgin. Not that it mattered. It was new and pure every time there was a new person, and if there had been someone for Bella, he was going to make sure that he wasn’t going to hurt her, and claim her as his. For the rest of her life.
“What are you thinking of?” Her voice sounded, rousing him from his thoughts. “You’re distracted all of a sudden.”
Kol wasn’t sure if he was supposed to ask this. He didn’t want to accuse her of lying, but maybe she didn’t know. “Are you sure there hasn’t been anyone?”
“I had no penises inside of me,” Bella managed to get her hand buried in his hair and looked at him. “I have not had this before. Why?”
“Nothing,” he smiled at her and softly kissed her.
“No, tell me, is it not good down there? Am I defective?”
His heart sank then, a little killing the mood. “No, darling, you’re perfect. It’s just that in my experience, things are usually… tighter.”
“Experiments,” Bella said as an explanation, not wanting to think about them. “Am I now ruined?”
“No, Bella,” he kissed her eagerly. “You’re not ruined and you’re not defective, you’re perfect and I’m sorry I doubted you.” He kissed her again before starting to kiss her all over again. “You’re mine. The past is in the past, from now on, only pleasure. No more pain.” When he was sure that he wouldn’t hurt her when he’d push himself inside, he shifted again, Bella’s eyes were closed and he could see that she was truly focusing on breathing. “If you’re hurting, tell me and I’ll stop.”
“Okay,” she let out a breath before she opened her eyes again and looked at him, and he had the feeling that he could melt right into her. She looked so trusting, so loving and it filled him with so much want. Need. Kol moved her legs a little and moved a little before guiding himself inside of her.
Out of instinct, Bella wrapped her legs around him, pulling him in closer, deeper, faster than he’d have liked. If she was in pain, she wasn’t showing it. He buried his face in her neck as he continued to push until he was fully inside, then stilling for Bella to get used to him. “Are you okay?”
“Hmm… that feels so good,” she said in barely a whisper, her hands buried in his hair, keeping his face in her neck.
“Ready for more?”
“Yes please.”
Letting out a snort, he started to thrust. Slow at first, before steadily picking up the pace. She was making these little noises as they connected, her moans making his whole body vibrate in pleasure. When she had another orgasm, he could feel it around his cock, her muscles playing catch and release with it, making him want to finish himself.
He didn’t pull out to catch his breath, afraid that he’d topple on top of her, but also because she seemed to be quite content on that cloud of hers and she was such a sight to look at. However, he couldn’t stay in this position for too long and softly kissed her lips as he left her. “How are you feeling?”
Bella merely giggled as she looked at him with a big, goofy grin on her face. Oh, she was gone, she was going to need some time to recover for bonfire night! They were going to be late, but Kol was sure that their family wouldn’t mind. Much.
Klaus could fully understand why Myriam would want Bella to be present at the burning of the Cullens and the Volturi guard, but the hour they had agreed upon turned into two as they waited for Kol and Bella to show up. Not that it was a boring extra hour, no. Bella’s compulsion was wearing off and they had to rip off the heads of the vampires that came to. Which was a blast, Klaus had been wanting to do this ever since he received that message from Myriam, so it wasn’t that bad that his younger brother and his girlfriend arrived late.
Myriam took extra pleasure in dealing with Carlisle Cullen, you might say she went a little overboard, but the look of glee on her face was worth it. This was the man who messed with two human babies and had the care of one of them and severely fucked up. She was carrying around his head as a trophy and kept asking when Bella and Kol would show up because she was ready for that bonfire. She had even made sure there were marshmallows and sticks to put them on for Bella to enjoy them.
Elijah was watching his brother’s girlfriend having fun with the remains of the Cold Ones, careful not to get burned by the venom. She was being disrespectful of the dead, but he and his brothers had done far worse in the past, it was simply not… appropriate. Marcel even suggested recording a video of the massacre and send it to the Volturi, and Elijah wasn’t sure what to do with that knowledge. It was even out of character for Marcel to even suggest that.
Oh, how Elijah wished that things could go back to normal. The way it used to be before Nik decided to keep a girl in his basement for their younger brother to find. He was fairly certain that Myriam, in her animal form – or at least he hoped in her animal form, had urinated on his bed, and if that was her choice of retaliation for something he’d do or had done, then she was going to be costly.
On the other hand, his brothers were happy and content, something they hadn’t been in a long time, and it was Elijah who was still trying to take care of them. Was there still room for him in this family or was it time to create some distance? However, these moods of happiness and being content never lasted long, not with his brothers. It was best to stay with them to steer them back onto the right path when needed.
“Sorry we’re late,” Kol announced, holding Bella’s hand as they approached the rest of the family. “Bella’s still a bit wobbly.”
“If you had chosen not to have sex and had allowed her to sleep for an hour, you would have been here on time,” Klaus teased before nodding towards his girlfriend. “Not to worry, Myriam has had fun with the Cold Ones after they woke up.”
“Yeah! Bella! Look!” Myriam skipped over to her sister, holding Carlisle’s head by the hair. “We should keep all the heads in the dungeon so we can bowl with them, at least then they’ll be useful.”
“Ew,” Bella shook her head as she took a step back. Even though Carlisle was decapitated and couldn’t do anything other than bite, she didn’t want to be near it. At all.
“Really?” Myriam pouted. “No bowling?”
“Not with them. They need to burn,” Bella said as she took Carlisle’s head in an act of bravery and put it next to the heads that were laying in a circle as if they were stones for a bonfire that would be the neatly stacked pile of Cold One bodies. “But you can use the Volturi heads once they try to come to take us in revenge,” she said playfully. “I didn’t see them much, they won’t hurt.”
Myriam put her arms around her sister from the back and handed her a lighter. “Set them ablaze, sis, you’ve earned it.”
“But the whole building will burn down.”
“That’s okay, Klaus choose this spot because it’s old and in need of a replacement anyway,” Myriam said encouraging. “Burn.”
Bella nodded as she flicked open the lighter and produced the flame, before throwing the lighter into the pile of Cold Ones. It didn’t take long for the flames to consume them, clothes catching fire, large flames licking on the venom and marble. Myriam pulled Bella away for safety but once the fire was stabilized, she took Bella back to the flames and handed her a stick that had marshmallows on them.
“Let’s truly roast them!” Myriam cheered. “You’re free of the Cullens, Bella. For good.”
~o.O.o~
It was nice to live in a relative sense of security after their disposal of the Cold Ones. The Newborn army was retreating, and the Volturi had sent a messenger over with a white flag. The messenger tasted nice, according to Kol, who had wiped his mouth on the white flag and sent it back with the messenger, who he had compelled to kill himself on the square of Volterra upon arrival.
Myriam had been wanting to take Bella out in New Orleans forever, especially since her sister hadn’t really known the freedom that she had now. She’d never gone shopping for fun, or seen the masses and masses of people, because she was either being restricted or ‘on a job’. She had been begging Klaus for a few days, even threatening to stop having sex with him, and he relented eventually, on the condition that Kol would accompany the two sisters. Not because they couldn’t take care of themselves, but because Bella would feel more safe with the two of them with her.
And so, Kol and Myriam took Bella into New Orleans, to show her the beauty of the world around her and to have various kinds of food that they wouldn’t normally have. Meeting witches who did favors for the Mikaelsons from time to time – although that wasn’t truly necessary anymore with Freya around. Myriam had wanted to go to Walmart for so long, and hadn’t had the opportunity yet, but that was one store that Kol drew the line at. There was no way that he was going to set foot in that death trap that was Walmart. He was going to give the girls an hour to look around and buy stuff, but he wasn’t going inside himself.
At first, Myriam took a cart and took Bella through the store, getting everything she had missed as a Cold One, including several boxes of cereal, chocolate, drinks and other stuff that she had asked Chef to get her many times before but never got what she wanted. When a store associate came over to them while browsing the book section and asking if they needed help, Myriam started to cry. “Why won’t you people just leave me alone?”
Bella had been as startled as the store associate, who paled and backed off. “Are you alright, Myr?”
“Of course I’m not, he asked if we needed help, but do we look like we need help? Do we look helpless?” She still cried, the associate still backing away. “Just because we’re females doesn’t mean that we need help.”
“I think he was just being kind,” Bella said quietly, feeling sorry for the associate and really not understanding what Myriam was doing. She didn’t feel sad, she felt funny.
Myriam sighed as she wiped her pretty convincing tears and stopped crying. “It was a joke, Bella, jokes are to make people laugh. Let’s see if we can annoy more people!” She grabbed a handful of self-help books and they went back to the groceries.
“Self-help books? Why do we need those?”
“They aren’t for us, exactly… For other customers. And maybe a couple for Elijah. I think I need to piss in his bed again soon.”
Bella blinked as her sister blatantly admitted to peeing in Elijah’s bed. It was a strange thing to do, but who was she to say something about it? She then watched her sister put the books in various carts before dropping two of them in their own cart. She then started to stamp her feet like a maniac. She started spinning like crazy before cheering. “What?”
“That was a cockroach!” she exclaimed loudly. “And I think it was pregnant but I killed it and the babies!”
“Myr!” Bella hissed. “There was no cockroach!”
“I know that, but they don’t know that, look at their faces!” Myriam giggled as they quickly went out of the aisle. “What else can we do… hmm… Oh! I’ll be right back! Keep on shopping for groceries Bella, anything you might think you’ll like, I think you’ll like chips.” She then used her speed to go somewhere, leaving Bella absolutely terrified of what she might do now.
Myriam picked out various sizes of sexy lingerie and put them in carts where married men, preferably old, were pushing them. She didn’t have to wait long for a wife to come back and find it, berating her husband and accusing him of cheating on her because that’s so not her size.
Myriam then went on to compel random people to do the stupidest of things, only for her own entertainment.
Bella didn’t like Walmart much, but her sister seemed to have a blast. Kol had told her that at a store she’d have to pay for her things at a register, and when she found them, she queued up and texted Kol that she was coming out with the stuff Myriam had wanted, but that she had no idea what Myriam was up to – and acting crazy.
Kol found Bella at the register with the cart overflowing. “Myriam wants all of this?”
Bella nodded. “She wants to eat it all.”
Sighing, Kol put half of it on the counter and then kicked the cart back into the store. “She’s getting half. I’ve called Nik, he’ll be here shortly to make sure she doesn’t do anything too outrageous.” Bella then proceeded to tell him what she had already done and he merely rolled his eyes. “Don’t allow her to corrupt you, darling. You’re right, messing with an entire store of people isn’t right. Even I wouldn’t do that on a bad day.”
“That’s bullshit,” Bella countered quickly. Having been in his mind for a few times, and having been connected to him like that, she knew better than that. “If it weren’t for me, little old me who’s a stranger to New Orleans as a city, you’d be right there with her to create chaos and mayhem. Perhaps drink everything in the alcohol department while you were at it. Go on then, have fun with Myriam, I’m not helpless and I’ll wait. Outside.”
“No, Nik will be here shortly,” he said as he put an arm around her. “And you’re right, this is my kind of fun, but frankly, I’m having more fun with you. We’ll have someone bring this back to the compound and then I’ll take you somewhere that I think you’ll like.”
“Where?”
“Oh, it’ll be a surprise,” he smiled at her. “But trust me that you’ll see enough to be wanting to go back with your sketchpad to draw everything you see.”
Kol took her to the zoo, and he’d been right, she was enjoying it very much to see so many animals in one place and she did want to go back to draw them all. But for now, she’d have to do with the pictures that she took on her phone. She was glad that she had received a phone from Kol for this day and he had shown her how to text and now how to make pictures with it.
He then took her out to dinner, to a restaurant that was not really a restaurant as it was in a normal house, with the front room decked out as a dining room, and the family living in the house serving as the cook and waiters. He liked a small setting like this, especially because Bella had been exposed to a lot of influences that day already. The food was spectacular, and he was grateful that it was still around, that an anonymous donor helped to keep the doors open. And Kol liked it that she liked the setting very much too.
Oh, wouldn’t it be nice to have his own little apartment with Bella once they knew for sure that the Cold Ones wouldn’t be a threat to her and her sister anymore? Granted, that likely meant moving somewhere close because of Myriam, but he believed that Bella would flourish being away from it all. On the other hand, maybe it was too soon to take the two sisters away from each other, they were both still adjusting to their new lives, after all.
When they finally got back to the compound, Klaus was fuming and drinking in the courtyard. “Never ever take her to Walmart again, do you understand?!” He said the moment he laid eyes on his brother. “Do you have any idea what she’s done? Aside from small pranks, she had all the managers line up and had their underlings pelt them with marbles taken from the children’s department. Apparently there was this really annoying pharmacist that she got wind of who was treating his staff poorly and wasn’t doing his job, so she had him strap on some gear and abseil from the building, but not safely, no, half way down he had to let go of himself and hit his head. Killed! The amount of police and ambulances present was massive. Even NCIS showed up because surprise, surprise, the pharmacist had been part of the Navy for a few years!” He refilled his glass and gulped it down. “Oh, and she also put pregnancy tests in women’s baskets. Condoms in other baskets. She took a bite of all the fresh produce in her sight, and even ruined the food court! You will not take her to Walmart again!”
“It wasn’t my idea, Nik,” Kol countered, trying really hard not to laugh. “She wanted to give Bella the Walmart experience. Had I known Myriam would do all of that, I’d certainly would have joined! Lighten up, Nik. It’s just Walmart,” he started to laugh and ducked when his brother threw his empty glass at him.
Myriam flounced down the stairs with her chocolate twizzlers and flopped on the couch beside Klaus. “Oh don’t worry. There’s is a Super Target in Harvey we can always visit next!”
“Yes! Let’s!” Kol grinned.
“Absolutely not!” Klaus huffed as he looked at his girlfriend and then at his brother. “Have you two lost your mind?”
“It’s a bit of harmless fun, Nik!”
“Tell that to the pharmacist!”
“He was an asshole, believe me, I’ve coaxed it out of the pharmacy workers. They’re better off without him. He was some transfer from New Jersey because they didn’t want him there, but he was bound to kill people with his lax behavior and not paying attention to the fucking details,” Myriam rolled her eyes at him. “We don’t like bad people, we do like killing them!” She then reached for the bottle standing on the table next to the couch and drank from it, not bothering to grab a glass. They were all dead, and couldn’t catch anything from each other, why use a glass? “Did you have fun at the zoo, Bella? That place Kol took you to for dinner looked great!”
“Yeah,” Bella smiled, almost remembering that she had the pictures of the animals on her phone. She couldn’t wait to start drawing them. “We had a great time, but I don’t think that I should be in the city that often… what if I get lost and I don’t have the phone on me?”
“You’ll be alright. You simply need to become more familiar with the city, that’s all. And you can do that by going into town more often,” Myriam said as she took another swig of the bottle. “But I think we should go to Italy first, take care of the Volturi and the newborn army that’s retreated to them. We need to end this. Now. They’re preparing something big and it won’t be pretty.”
“Hey now,” Kol said as he put his hands on Bella’s ears. “No ruining the great day your sister’s had, you could have saved this for tomorrow.”
Myriam shrugged. “I’ve been sitting on this for days now because we were having so much fun, but seriously, it’s getting bigger the longer we wait, better go there now and end this,” she then pointed at Bella. “It will be easy. We’ll set off a few glitter bombs so they can’t really see things coming and then Bella will just put everyone to sleep. We’ll puncture everyone until they start leaking, light a match and watch them all burn,” she then sighed. “The only snag is, Bella will have to wipe everyone out in one fell sweep. That’s at least two hundred of newborns and the Volturi.”
“No!” Bella said as she swatted Kol’s hands away. “I can’t do that! Think of something else!”
“Fine, but you are coming with. On an airplane. To Italy. And once we’ve gotten rid of them, we’ll go to the beach and soak up some of the mediterranean sun,” Myriam countered before looking at Klaus. “And you have no other choice but to take that holiday, too.”
“I don’t?”
“No, you don’t. You’ll like being away from New Orleans for a bit, recharge. Buy cool trinkets for Hope,” she smirked as she put her arms around his neck. “So summon the troops, we have to leave soon.”
“We’ll leave tomorrow,” Kol insisted as he took Bella to her room. After closing the door, he sighed. “I am sorry that she ruined your day, darling.”
“Nothing ruined,” Bella assured him, a big smile on her face. “I still had a great time, Kol, thank you,” she put her phone on the table and then went towards him, putting her arms around him and looked up at him. “Can I keep the phone for the photos?”
“It’s yours, darling,” he smiled and softly brushed her lips with his. “It’s yours. No need to return it to me, because I’ll hand it back to you,” he kissed her again and then grinned. “I was thinking we should knock the wall down that’s separating our rooms, that way we can have a living space that’s as big as Nik’s, what do you say?”
“I’m saying that….” she thought for a moment before tiptoeing and kissing him hard. “We should have some more fun before we are going to Italy tomorrow, and think about other things when that’s over.”
“You won’t hear me complain, darling,” he grinned as he scooped her up and brought her to the bed. “Not a single complaint here.”
