Chapter Twenty: What a mess we have made

For a moment I felt as if I had been submerged in ice cold water. I struggled to get to the surface of it, and not let the death like sleep over come me yet again. And then it was like it was gone, I was free and that freedom made me shoot up gasping. My eyes flying open, and then shut again from the blinding light in the room.

A hand touched my arm and I cried out and pulled away sharply my breath becoming raged. I couldn't breathe all I could think about was that the vampire had tried to kill me and the feel of my own blood sticky like candy on my skin. Then there was the women in my dream, who had told me that someone, wanted my power, wanted to use me. Or for me to use it? I didn't know.

It took time for my whirling mind to hear someone speaking to me or rather two someone's. One was holding me and the other I knew could not be seen. My eyes met Kol's before my hearing kicked in and I started to hear what Klaus was saying to me.

"Nik?" I let out a shaky breath as I looked up in to his eyes, mine beginning to fill with unstoppable tears. Then I buried my face in to his chest and let out a sob.

"Shhh… Love I've got you you're ok." He said, as he held me, as if fearing I would somehow slip away from him some how.

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It had taken a long time for me to calm down from everything that had happened to me, having cried nonstop for several minutes, and once calmed down Nik began to interrogate me.

"Why were you down there!?" Nik asks angrily, shaking my sobbing, hiccupping form a bit roughly.

"Because! I was- I was just- I was bored!" I retort back, my mood bad, regardless of the fact he had been the one to save me from a premature death.

"You deliberately put yourself in danger because you were bored!? Are you stupid!?" Nik growls, looking ready to explode from disbelief.

"Well maybe I wouldn't end up in danger if I had something to do or you didn't ignore me like the plague or some kind of burden!" I shoot back, getting angry at Nik being angry at me.

"You're recklessness could have killed you!" Nik growls.

"Why do you care!? You don't even pay attention to me! Maybe you should have just left me down there!" I shout back.

"Because against my better judgment, the idea of someone hurting you drives me crazy!"

By now we had gotten very close to each other when we were yelling, having almost no space between us and a rather shocked silence flowing Nik's words. I don't know who was more shocked, me that he would make something like that up or him that he said it.

"This coming from the man who wanted to kill me as a child for saying someone could have more power then you." I spat as I pushed him away from me.

"And yet I never hurt you in anyway. In fact I saved you, and then let Rebekah take you away and keep you safe. Why do you think I would lie to you?" It seemed that his outburst had taken down some kind of wall in him, but I just couldn't put that kind of trust in him.

"Because you want something from me! Just like everyone else!"

I just couldn't let him in even if a part of me wanted to.

Whatever had let that wall come down was now gone, as his eyes once more hardened. "Whether I want something from you or not it seems you cannot seem to keep yourself out of harms way. So when I'm not home you will be coming with me wherever I go. Until I feel I can trust you not to do something reckless."

Then he stormed from the room.

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I lay back down on the bed and curled in to a ball. I had no tears left to cry but that didn't stop me from wanting to. Words echoed in my head:

"Because against my better judgment, the idea of someone hurting you drives me crazy!"

"Rose you have much to fear child. Many will seek to use your power little Ostensor Vita. But there is one with much power who would give there life to see you live." She told me as she got closer to me.

"Why do you think I would lie to you?"

My head was so filled with the things that now consumed my life and head that I didn't hear Kol until he waved his hand in my face.

"Are you ok Rosie?"

"I don't know I had this odd dream when I was passed out and now I fear I've made your brother hate me." I said sadly.

"Let me tell you something, my brother only gets that upset with someone if he cares for them. That's why he wants you with him. He doesn't think anyone else can take care of you but him." He smiled at me and then turns serous. "Tell me about this dream."

And so I told him about the dream I had. He looked more and more grim the more I told him. But he tried hard to keep me from seeing.

"You have nothing to fear. You seem to be getting help form the other side and that's a good thing. As for everything else we will figure it out with time."

"Do you think you could find out who that women was?" I wanted to know who is was but I also just needed some time to myself to think more about what's going on.

"I can see what I can do. Oh and sweetheart lets keep this between me and you until we know what's going on. That includes that you can see me."

"Ok." I said.

He then smirked and disappeared leaving me once aging to my over filed mind.