Someone theorized that Davina would make an offer to the ancestors in exchange for Kol's life so I kind of took that idea a little and made it into this. Kol has been gone for a few months and Davina, with the help of Rebekah, has decided to take a page from Papa Tunde and sacrifice dear aunt Dahlia as an offering to the ancestors to bring Kol back to life. I hope you enjoy and please leave a review telling me what you think!

Dahlia was defeated once and for all and at the hands of an 18 year old witch with little assistance from a fresh off the block witch slash former original vampire. Freya had been dumbstruck but still overjoyed at the same time over her aunt's death, though she was baffled how Davina could defeat Dahlia so easily whereas she herself had been on the run for centuries. Finn, on the other hand, was infuriated that Davina had been able to override the hex on Kol, accidentally letting it slip to Freya that he had killed their brother. In the least say Freya had been furious.

In Dahlia's death Davina had exchanged one life for another. Dahlia for Kol. It came back to her in flashes at first, the thin line of red before blood pooled from the clean cut on Dahlia's neck that killed her, but then she reached the compound with Rebekah and her siblings and Dahlia's death was the furthest thing from her mind. Davina could hear his voice come in echoes in her mind as his death replayed in her head on an endless loop.

"You know you can go in there." Cami spoke to a pacing Davina who had not yet gone into the room where Kol was inside with his siblings.

"No...he's with his family." Davina forced herself to stop pacing and took a seat in a random chair that was nearby.

Hope was attached to Cami's hip with her fingers in her mouth oblivious to everything that was going on in the world around her. Davina smiled at the baby almost enviously. She was so young, so innocent, and she didn't have anything to fear or anyone to lose that she would remember at such a young age.

Cami approached Davina with a troubled frown and reached out for her hand. "Davina you lost someone too that night, but he also lost you. Not to mention you brought him back."

"It's been three months..." Davina ducked her head as her voice cracked. "I'm scared, what if I lose him again? I can't go through this again...I just can't."

No response formulated in Cami's mind that could comfort Davina, she was just as resistant to her therapist ways as Elijah was, maybe even more so since she was a witch who couldn't even rely on a spell book to always help her.

The door opened with a small whine then Rebekah emerged with a smile despite her tear stained cheeks. She stayed in the doorway and beckoned for Davina. "He wants to see you."

Davina stumbled up from the chair, but her feet moved farther away from the door. "I can't..." Her head moved slowly side to side and tears spilled over from her eyes.

Rebekah stepped into the hallway, almost slamming the door shut behind her and rushed up to Davina, grabbing both of her wrists and held them together so Davina was forced to face her. Rebekah stayed silent at first and only stared sadly at Davina until she spoke up to knock some sense into her.

"Do you remember what the past three months have been like? What that night was like?"

Maybe it was cruel to ask Davina such a question. Her eye lids closed heavily and her silent tears became steady and continuous.

"We have him back, Davina, all thanks to you! Our brother, your boyfriend, is alive again and after everything we went through you're not going to see him? What happened to that girl who killed Dahlia to get him back and cried happy tears when you heard his voice again over the phone when you called Cami to ask if the spell worked? Where did she go?"

"Rebekah I feel like this is all a dream and if I let myself see him then I'll wake up and he'll still be gone."

Her eyes softened at Davina's response. This girl was so utterly innocent and pure sometimes.

"It would be painful if that were the truth, but it's not. You saved him and that is real."

"You asked me if I remembered the last three months and the night he died, but that's not what's making this painful. I remember everything before that night. It leaves a void in you that you can't escape or try to refill and it makes it hard to breathe and it makes you wonder if living is even worth it anymore."

"Right now you have the opportunity to get rid of that void, my love, he's right within your reach and all you have to do is open that door."

"I don't know if I can."

Davina ripped her wrists away from Rebekah and turned her back to Cami and Rebekah while she leaned against the wall trying to silence her cries. Rebekah gingerly reached out her hand to Davina, but Cami immediately stopped her from doing so and nodded her head behind them.

Kol came from the bedroom and stared at his sister. "Bex, can I have a moment alone with Davina?"

The sound of his voice reached Davina's ears and her sobbing ceased immediately and her back straightened up, but she still didn't turn around. Not until she heard Rebekah mumble a small 'of course' did Davina slowly turn her body around. Cami and Rebekah looked back at her when a heavy gasp came from Davina.

Before anyone knew it Kol was standing in the middle of the hallway with one hand on her face, gripping her tenderly and firmly as Davina had her hands on the sides of his neck. Their foreheads fell against each others and their mingled breathing was the only sound in the room.

It was a strange feeling of déjà vu back to the night when Davina had lost Kol, but this time Kol's skin wasn't hallowed and sickly looking. He looked alive. He was alive.

Smiles broke out on their faces both followed by laughs of disbelief and pure relief while they grasped at each other to get closer which there seemed to be no proximity that was good enough for them.

"You're okay?" It was pretty obvious that Kol was okay, but Davina needed to hear it come from him and not have it be over the phone or have it be a lie.

"Yeah, I'm okay." Kol refrained from his usual witty remarks to give Davina the answer she deserved. "And I'm sorry for all the pain I caused you the past three months."

Davina blinked repeatedly and stared at him confused. "Were you watching me?"

"I never left your side, Davina. I couldn't let you go."

"Don't ever leave me again."

Rebekah smiled through her own tears when the two let go of whatever they were holding back and embraced each other with such force that they stumbled slightly and freely cried into each others shoulders. Not too soon later did Elijah and Klaus join them in the hall to stare on at the spectacle with their own twinkles in their eyes.

"Davina is a force to be reckoned with." Rebekah stated with an air of pride. "She's done what no witch on the planet could ever do."

"What's that?" Cami asked, smiling at the sight.

"She weaseled her way into Kol Mikaelson's heart." Rebekah shared a smile with her brothers then returned her eyes to Davina and Kol.

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It was early morning when Kol and Davina found themselves sitting in his room at the compound with Kol's hands wrapped around Davina's while he stayed as close to her as he could. Not until around 1am did his siblings finally leave him to be with just Davina because though he missed his siblings terribly, it was Davina's cries of despair that had haunted him when he was dead. Her face covered in tears because of him had been his last sight alive and the months that followed when he hovered by her unable to move on, it was her who took his death the worst. Rebekah was a close second, but Davina had sadly taken it the worst.

"I didn't want to say this in front of the others..." Kol kept his eyes on her small shaking hands that he held clasped between his and focused on her uneven breathing that seemed impossible to control as tears refused to stop streaming down her face. "But my death wasn't your fault."

Davina let out a cry she had been holding in for a long time and tried to bow her head, but Kol cupped the side of her face and pressed his forehead against hers. Both of their eyes were closed and neither of them could shake that scared feeling that seemed to capture them like it did the night he was dying.

Why did a reunion feel so bitter?

After he died he was unable to move on from Davina, to let her go, and he lingered around her through those three painful months wanting to put an end to her despair, but could do nothing to soothe her tears or tell her how wrong she was when she blamed herself for him dying. Now he could.

"It was my fault." Davina shook her head stubbornly, still crying profusely. "I made you go to Finn."

"No." Kol grabbed her face with both his hands and made her look at him, ignoring the tears in his own eyes to wipe away hers with his thumbs. "Finn hexed me for going against our mother, for siding with our brothers. It was not your fault."

"He never would have gotten the chance to hex you if you didn't go see him." Davina couldn't stop herself from crying like the night she lost him.

"I'm going to let you in on a little secret." Kol waited until Davina's cries quieted from his constant attempts to soothe her before continuing. "You know my mother brought me back to follow you...spying on the prettiest witch in town." He cracked a small smile at Davina, referencing a talk they had a while back, and he was graced with her smile that she couldn't put off any longer. "And it was her who told me to take you out that night to dinner and I was supposed to get information from you; find out what you were hiding in that attic of yours."

"Why are you telling me this?" Davina's eyes darted between Kol's, still shining with tears and confusion.

"My actions after that weren't free of much betrayal." Kol admitted to her ashamed. "But that night with you was when I started disobeying mother dearest." Another smile at his own humor to try to lighten the mood, and loving the small smiles he was getting from Davina. "Finn, he came to me when you went to answer your phone, he told me to stop flirting with you and to start getting answers."

This time a hint of a laugh came from Davina, bringing a relief to Kol when he heard her ghost of a laugh. "You always told me that the flirting was you."

"And it always was." Kol nodded at her affirming and gently caressed her cheeks with the pads of his thumbs. "Then the wolves attacked you and you called Mikael, dad of the century, to help you. I saw him clear as day even with the nasty hit to my head, and my job was done. I found what I was supposed to: Your secret weapon. Thing is I knew that if I told my mother what you were hiding then she would kill you so when she asked what your little secret was I told her I was knocked out the entire time and never saw a thing."

"Why are you telling me this?" Davina asked again. By now her sobs had just become short breaths and her tears began to dry.

"Because it was one of my finer moments in life that reminds me how stupid I was to think I could ever walk away from you after that." Kol's voice had lowered to a whisper and it was him who had averted his gaze. "Then again, I guess I never really tried or cared to."

An uncertain smile crept onto Davina's face, she felt like it was wrong of her to smile. Hours ago she had killed someone and even though that person deserved it and she has killed people before that was always with her magic, but killing Dahlia was different. Magic had been involved to get Kol back, using Dahlia as a sacrifice, but it had been her own hands slicing the skin of her throat that killed her. Not magic.

Then despite everything, Davina's smile grew larger. Right now all that mattered was that after three months of agony she no longer felt that void she had explained to Rebekah. By killing Dahlia she had not only brought Kol back to life, but she had also protected Hope and the rest of the Mikaelson family and that was enough for her to justify what she had done.

Being able to hear Kol's voice again outside of her head and saying different words than those that had broken her heart that night before he slipped from her fingertips and she saw the life leave his eyes was enough for her to smile. Seeing him was even better. Simply having him back was greatest.

"I guess you're just always protecting me." Davina spoke softly, afraid to speak louder than a whisper in fear of her voice betraying her. "Even when you were dying you gave me that stupid dagger so I could protect myself against Klaus."

"Eh, what can I say?" Kol quirked a brow at Davina, his lips slanting in a smile. "We uh, we protect each other. You keep saving my life and I do my best to keep you safe."

Davina leaned forward so her arms wrapped around Kol's back and her cheek was pressed against his shoulder. Davina didn't want to say much more, not now, she figured any other talking could at least wait until the sun came up. Right now she just wanted to be in a place she hadn't been in months: Kol's arms.

His scent obscured her senses as all she could smell was his jacket that she had strangely missed and she allowed herself to close her eyes. This time she knew that when they opened again she wouldn't have to worry about him not being there anymore because he would be.

It felt good to have her eyes closed and all she could smell was Kol and all she could feel was his hand in her hair, gently stroking the curled strands. She was so tired and it wasn't all from the busy day she had; Davina had been tired ever since Kol died, but now he was back and some invisible chain seemed to have released her and allowed her to breathe again.

So that was my little shot at trying to get over Kol's death and I hope it was enjoyable enough for you to read :) I'm unsure if I want to leave this as it is or add the second chapter I've already gotten written, so if you'd like to read more just leave a review and perhaps I'll continue! Either way please review to let me know what you think, it would mean so much to me!

Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this, I hope it wasn't a waste of time!