ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ɪs ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀsᴀʟ ᴛʜᴀɴ ʟɪғᴇ. ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ᴅɪᴇs, ʙᴜᴛ ɴᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ʟɪᴠᴇs.

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ꫀꪜꫀꪹꪗꪮ᭢ꫀ ꪶỉꪜꫀక

1 - kol when he finds out why kieran proposed this experiment.
2 - anything with the heirs prior to David getting possessed.
3 - allison and lydia post nogitsune
4 - shep's early days in the underground
5 - bela and elijah's jet setting adventures
6 - oliver and laurel getting together
7 - rebekah and doc, first meeting
8 - derek and hayley, date night
9 - alice and doc, attempts to bond
10 - faith and mia, training montage
11 - That is a very long story involving a psychic and a circus in South Florida. Sweets.

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[witchaffinity]

Kol's drawbacks to vampirism are few and far between. Top of the list: no access to the magic he's spent his entire life ingratiating himself in. Below that: the inconvenience of your vampire senses rearing their ugly heads when you're not trying to rear them.

Like his brothers subtracting Finn, he has his devious moments. Like his brothers, subtracting Finn, he's prone to fits of violence. Like his brothers including Finn there is an unbreakable bond to his family he has gone to great lengths to dispel.

He has his own proclivities, interests, and life and when things with Davina turned down from their boil, even a simmer was a generous description.

Kieran reminds him of Davina in so many small ways, he can't even count them, and he knows that they are only the sum of her parts and that she is her own woman. Steadfast. Honorable. Brave.

He learns about the why's in bits and pieces, and always from the powers he never asked his mother to have.

The nearby pharmacy calls to make her jump through one more doctoral hoop to pick up her medication. Even though she takes it in the hallway on the floor of his hotel, he hears. He arrives to one of their strategy sessions early and accidentally overhears a heated fight between Kieran and her brother. It's a wonder in the four minutes he awkwardly stands there how far down the road they both go. They touch on their absent mother, dead father, Kieran's albatross (Julian's words) and her brother's darkness. Both siblings hang up on one another.

Ten minutes later, her brother calls back and they spend an hour on the phone together. He reads. And he listens. She's at the back of the suite he's paid for. He still listens.

One thing he's never taken or granted is his amplified feelings. The entire category. Feelings are meant to be felt and he has felt all of them. The problem is, Kol Fake-Last-Name-Mikaelson dives headfirst into his feelings. Follows them to the brink. He becomes cursed. He trusts in his duplicitious, wrong-minded mother. He grows apart from the - admittedly, 20something girl who was 17 when they met.

His feelings for Kieran's shift in increments, like the information he pieces together from her life.

When she arrives just a little too late before the pharmacy closes, she finds her acquaintance. She finds her prescription in hand. And a get out of jail free compulsion for all prescriptions in the future. He makes it clear he's never been one to coax personal identifiers from anyone. As a free spirit, he gives everyone else the same grace. But, if she wants to talk. He's here. Or, he's not. Whichever she prefers. He likes being her experiment. He likes being her friend.

They don't start things there. Not after he learns why. Not on her worst day. Not on the day they fall asleep reading. Not on the day her brother doesn't answer any of his messages before finally sending something near midnight. No. She says something. Something, that if a gun was pointed to his head and it would feasibly kill him, he doesn't even remember, but he remembers her expression. There's something in the facial muscles when a person realizes how much another person cares about them.

Even if that person has kept things professional.

She kisses him because he wants nothing from her. And he kisses her because the world is more colorful with her in it, but not colorful enough for her if things take a turn for the worst.

He never chastises or admonishes her. He understands free will. And telling people when you're ready. And he is sorry he pushed the issue.

She's not.

(...Neither is he.)