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1st ғʟɪʀᴛᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ☽O☾ [video]

[ When the video feed comes to life, Isaac is lounging on a rather plush chair looking far more smug than he ever has in his life. He's got a cup of tea balancing on one of the arm rests and next to it a plate of biscuits - quite the sweet tooth at the moment apparently. Two things stick out like a sore thumb - the amount of stubble on the usually babyfaced teenager and the white gauze pad above his eyebrow. Of course when "Isaac" opens his mouth it becomes apparent quickly that either A) Isaac has developed a European accent or B) this isn't Isaac. ]

I'll say, one moment I was smack dab in The French Quarter and then I found myself here and I haven't a bloody clue how it happened.

[ He purses his lips a bit indignantly before speaking again. ]

And while I have to assume the company here is far superior to the company I was forced to keep there - I'm not a big fan of this unbreakable boundary spell. I'd like to meet the witch that cast it.

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It's you...

[The words slip out just as Cami hits the button to reply, her eyes wide and fixed on the phone screen. She hadn't exactly gotten to meet the boy in the cabin, not properly, but of course she recognizes him. How could she not, when the guy had kept running his mouth despite Cami's best efforts to keep Klaus from killing him?

But the question is, does he recognize her? Cami's already gone through this with Elijah, and she's very aware that no one else will likely know who the boy is--including Davina.]

It wasn't a witch. [That much Cami is relatively sure of, and more importantly, hopefully her answer will earn one from him.] This is going to sound really weird--all of it, actually--but I need to know the last thing you remember before you came here. You said you were in the Quarter; not the bayou?

I'm sorry, have we met?

[ He's creeped around enough, he knows of her. Not that... They've met. He just knows she's friends with Davina and Klaus follows her around like a lovesick puppy. Pathetic. He almost feels bad for her that she has to deal with his controlling stuck up bastard of a brother.

He grabs one of the biscuits and takes a bite out of it, speaking once he's swallowed. ]

Don't take offense if I'm not entirely convinced that it wasn't a witch that cast the boundary spell. [ Seeing as witches cast spells... quite often. ]

Why would I be in the bayou? [ There are mosquitoes the size of horses out there, no way. ] I was on a date with Davina, werewolves attacked. [ He gestures to the gauze taped above his eyebrow with the biscuit. ] Tried to do me head right in.

[So someone else from the past. Cami presses her lips together tightly, trying to decide just how to approach this. With Klaus and the others it had been easier, if only because she trusts them. But she'd barely met this boy, only knew Davina felt strongly enough for him to ask him to come to the cabin when she'd refused to tell Cami where she was.]

Not yet, for you. [At least the Wonderland aspect, she can dive into headfirst.] The way this world works, we're all drawn from different points in time. If you're not willing to believe me about the witch, you really aren't going to buy it when I say I'm from the future.

[But she is, and so is he, depending on the perspective.]

You'll recover. And you end up in the bayou to help Davina. That's where we meet.

Help Davina with what?

[ It shouldn't be surprising that that's what he keys in on, but all this hubbub about timelines and different worlds is giving him a headache on top of the one he already has from nearly being brained. Sometimes he really loathed Finn - actually, it was quite often that he did. All the useless sod ever did was lick mother's boots.

A beat. ]

Do we get on - you and I?

[ It's important if she wants him to even consider believing her about anything. Ah, Mikaelson skepticism with a dash of paranoia. This woman, she's close to Klaus, which means he can't really trust her to begin with. If he were still an Original, he has no doubt in his mind that he'd be in a coffin with a dagger in his heart. ]

[For a beat, Cami hesitates; of course there's an obvious assumption, but she's not sure she wants to share that with this boy. She barely knew him, and Davina had been trying to kill Klaus. To some extent the kid is going to be dragged into things here, yet oddly enough, Cami has some ability to control it.]

Some sort of spell. I didn't really get the details. I didn't even get your name before I ended up here.

[Thanks to Mikael's interference, but again, details he doesn't even need to know. She can't hide everything, however. Not if she wants the kid to trust her, and given his connection to Davina? Cami does.]

I can tell you I was trying to keep Klaus Mikaelson from killing you because you kept running your mouth when you shouldn't. He's here by the way, so consider that fair warning.

[In case Klaus hadn't contacted the kid himself already. Someone talking about witches from New Orleans would no doubt get the attention of all the Originals, just as it had hers.]

Some spell. That's well descriptive. [ Is the sarcasm in his voice evident? Because he can make it more evident, he doesn't mind...

Kol scoffs, an eyebrow hitching up his forehead as he simply gives Cami a look. ]

I'm not afraid of the big bad wolf. Or - what does he consider himself? A hybrid? More like a stuck up cow.

So he's here? Brilliant. [ He doesn't sound too thrilled. Of course it would be Klaus' keeper that warns him and not Rebekah. ]

Anything else I should know?

I'm sorry, did I forget to mention the part where I was busy trying to keep that "stuck up cow" from stabbing you to death because you didn't know when to stop saying stupid things? [Seriously kid, do not criticize her. Cami knows good and well that she can't keep Klaus from being himself, and with all the stress of Wonderland lately, she can't imagine his patience is doing well.]

Yes, he's here, along with Elijah and Rebekah. So's Davina. [And that brings them to the most complicated part of all this. As much of a brat as this kid is, he deserves to be warned about how Wonderland works--particularly if his feelings for Davina are genuine.]

Except I'm pretty sure she's not going to have a clue who you are. She's from months before I am, and she'd never mentioned you to me. [And given just how desperate Davina had been for someone to trust during that time, Cami's certain the kid's name would have come up if he'd been in her life before.]

[ He brings a hand up to idly wave off the comment, paying literally no mind to Klaus and his anger issues. She considers getting on the wrong side of Klaus stupid, it makes him wonder if she knows how stupid it is to be close to him. ]

What about Vincent? [ Please say no, please say no, god his brother is such a bore. He refuses to give Cami anything to go on about the information she provides about Davina - obviously she was probing for a reaction - one he has no interest in giving her. Despite what she thinks he's not at all stupid nor is he shy of the ways of a therapist, he'd rather not be read like a book by someone who thinks they may understand him. ]

She and I will sort it out. [ He doesn't trust Cami, she's too close to Klaus and Rebekah for him to. ]

[And in turn she ends up fighting off the urge to roll her eyes. Cami isn't typically the sort to say that there's no saving some people, but seriously? She's not asking the kid to kowtow, but a little restraint would go a very long way.

The thought is completely lost, however, when he brings up Vincent of all people.] You mean Vincent Griffith? [As in her college adviser, as in someone who should have no connection to any of this whatsoever. Yet now, a witch Davina trusts enough to call on when she won't even tell Cami anything brings him up seemingly out of the blue?] He's not here that I'm aware of. How do you know him?

[It's an important question. How he answers it will go a long way to determining how eager she is to have him and Davina "sorting" anything out.]

We go back. [ It's the truth. ] Could say we used to be part of the same Coven. [ Also true. ] He's a bit of a weirdo, I'd stay away from that one. [ Still the truth.

Nothing like making Finn's job difficult.

His mother isn't here and she sure as shit hasn't made contact, so he has free range to fuck up all her plans if he so pleases. He can tell Cami's getting skeptical of him, but he doesn't really seem to care, it's not like he's actually lying. A first for Kol. ]

Wait...he's a witch? [Congratulations, kid. Now Cami is entirely suspicious of her adviser. Not that it makes her feel any better about the person she's talking to at present. A smart-mouthed kid with connections to the adviser Cami had been assigned after her former mentor suddenly dropped dead of a heart attack?

Yeah, she's going to be wary of them both.]

Okay, he's a witch. So what happened? A witch leaving their Coven is a pretty big deal, right?

As much of a witch as I am, love. [ Good, Finn deserves it, the twat. He nods slowly before rolling his eyes, oh look, she's trying to get more information on him again. He's not a fan of it. ]

Mmm, it happens every day. Not a big deal. My coven was full of loons and most of them were daft loons. They tried to control everything I did, even made it so I couldn't practice magic for a long time. It's not rocket science to decide you want out.

[ Cami, he's not going to share anything all that interesting. ]

[Cami’s only got an outsider’s perspective to go on, but she doesn’t see the whole walking away from a coven thing as so little a deal. Not when Davina had been torn apart with the guilt of it thanks to the ancestors being dicks.]

Given what I’ve learned about witches, and what you just said, deciding you want out and actually making it happen are two entirely different animals.

[Whatever he means to share or doesn’t, Cami’s had a lot of experience to force her over her naivety. She presses her lips together, trying to decide the best way to approach what she wants to ask next. He’s got all the arrogance typical of a kid his age, but she suspects its worse than that—after all, just how much reason does she have to believe everything he says?]

So how did you end up meeting Davina?

Are you interrogating me for a reason? You're not the terrible mum I've heard about; why do I feel like I'm interviewing for your permission to ask Davina on a date?

[ Questions with questions... But Kol will relent a bit, he has nothing against Cami. ]

I met her at a record shop, thought she was gorgeous the moment I laid eyes on her - awful taste in music though. Plan to help her with that, if she'll accept the help.

[ Kol knows his way around these types, give them far more details than they need - useless details. ]

To be honest, it was rubbish music she was buying - but she's sweet. So I asked her on a date... Well, the first one I missed because witchy stuff came up. But the next one I made.

[ Really, listen to this Cami - me me me me me. Let him talk about himself and bore you to death with boring details. ]

Horrid date though; we ended up getting jumped by your friend's werewolf mates. I guess he doesn't take kindly to me much anymore.

[Cami can't quite help the little grin that cross her lips at that.]

Maybe that's exactly what you're doing. After all, I'm not her mother, but I am Davina's friend.

[And Davina is particularly vulnerable right now, between what's happened in Wonderland and what she remembers from back home. Not to mention that there's far too much coincidence here, she thinks. Even through all the superfluous details, Cami notices the lack of the one she's looking for: some indication of when it happened. Of course, technically she hadn't asked for that in the hopes of not being too obvious, but still.]

Witchy stuff? [Of course there are things she won't just let by. Witchy stuff in the Quarter has rarely amounted to anything good for the people Cami cares about.]

I wouldn't say he's my friend. After all, you seem to know him a lot better than I do. [And she also wouldn't necessarily say that the kid had been the one attacked. Still, why go after her then, when she'd been with this kid, if they are working together?]

Yeah. I've heard witches aren't big fans of people who leave their covens.

That's not really fair, is it? I mean - she doesn't scope out your dates does she?

Yes, witchy stuff. [ He pauses - clearly embarrassed by his next words. ] If you must know me mum wanted me to go out and get her some herbs... Can you not tell Davina... It's sort of - I don't want her to think I'm some loser that still lives with his mother and buys her groceries and does everything she says so she doesn't kick me out of the basement.

[ Meh, so it wasn't the truth; it's not like Cami is his friend or someone he particularly cares about. ]

I wish I didn't know 'em. [ Totally and completely the truth for once, god he could do without Finn in his life. ]

Yeah, well, you can understand I don't like when they try to do my head in with a sodding bar table.

I'd imagine she'd have a few things to say if I started dating someone she wasn't sure she could trust.

[Might as well get it out in the open at this point. The simple fact is that none of them knows this kid, save for Cami herself--and that knowledge is incredibly limited. While Davina clearly trusts him in the future, it wouldn't exactly be the first time someone had tried to manipulate her for their own personal gain.]

Really? You're what, all of eighteen at most? [It's not that unusual for kids his age--and yes, Cami still views him as a kid, never mind that there's only a few years difference in their ages.] Somehow I doubt she'll take it that far.

[But it doesn't mix: a kid who is a self-proclaimed rebel, one who claims to have left his coven, but then turns around and stands up Davina to obey his mother? Cami already knows she won't get answers if she presses, but it's enough to keep her wary.

Kind of like what he follows up with.]

Wait, wait. They tried to kill you? Was that before or after you left?

You don't think you can trust me? Who says I can trust you? You're one of the ones that sat by and let those witches terrorize her, aren't you? Now, don't take that the wrong way - I don't know you, and you don't know me.

[ Is that a jab at Cami? Yes, yes it is. ] I mean you must've known what was happening and yet you let them terrorize her whilst she hid from the Harvest Ritual. Unless you weren't friends with her at the time. Were you?

[ Cami your rude is showing. When she guesses his age he just nods, with a soft mhm. ] Oh, really? You don't think.

[ Hmmm. ]

The night I was with Davina. One of the blood bastards got me. [ Oh, and listen how mad he actually is, how dare they attack him. They were supposed to be on the same side - it was an order of his brother's no doubt. ]

...Wow. Then please, tell me just how I'm supposed to take the accusation that I wouldn't have anything I could for Davina while she was being tormented?

[That's officially not the way to get Cami on his side, for the record. Clearly this kid doesn't know the situation in full--how many people honestly do? But the blatant accusation is a few dozen steps further than Cami's gone so far, and it leaves her with absolutely zero desire to get into the whole mess of her history back home with him.]

Well, for the record, I didn't actually know what was going on. That's what happens when vampires compel you to forget the truth about the crazy supernatural world you're being dragged into. [She gives him a moment to grasp that before she continues on.] And when I was decompelled, finally, the first thing I did was to try and help Davina get out of town. So maybe before you make baseless accusations about which of us should be suspect, you might want to get your facts straight.

[Because Cami has proven herself, time and again, to be Davina's friend and protector in whatever way she can manage. This kid, on the other hand? Isn't doing anything to convince Cami he's worth trusting.

It doesn't stop her from continuing to pump him for information, however. For better or worse he's the only source she's got.] So Vincent's in the coven leading the wolves. Well that's just fantastic.

[ Kol sucks a deep breath in through his nose, letting it out as a sigh. Offense seeming to dim at her explanation - so she had a reason for not helping Davina. One that made sense. ]

Okay. [ Wow, really? Was it that easy? ] You're her friend, so am I. I'm not going to hurt her. You've got no reason to believe me or even like me, but it's the truth. And if I were out to get either of you I wouldn't have warned you about Vincent, would I have?

[ Cami doesn't have to trust him, he's not really all that trustworthy, he's a trickster and a troublemaker - but he has no intention of hurting either of the ladies from New Orleans. ]

Vincent - he's dangerous, you can't let him know I warned you - he'd... [ Kol has an unnerving feeling he knows exactly what his brother would do to him. ] If he's focused on you, it means there's a treacherous reason - you're not a witch, you're not a wolf, or even a vampire. A pressure point, possibly. [ For better or for worse. And while he'll give her most of the truth, he's not going to give her the entirety of it. ] Or he fancies you - which is just as awful, I'd say. [ Ew. ]

[Though she doesn't reply, Cami can't deny that the kid brings up a good point. It's just difficult to trust his good intentions, given the delivery of them and what little Cami is certain of for herself. She needs time to think through all this, and to see just how the kid acts here in Wonderland. For better or worse they're both stuck here now, so she'll have plenty of opportunity to observe.]

A pressure point. [That's easy enough to see; it's not the first time she's been warned that she could prove to be someone's weakness. Elijah had said as much, and Klaus so many months ago.] Well, whatever it is, we won't find out unless he shows up here.

I should leave you to settle in. [She puts on a small smile as she starts to end the conversation.] This place takes some getting used to to say the least, but I'm sure I'll see you around.

[ Kol matches the smile, and while it doesn't quite reach his eyes, there's nothing malicious about the look - if anything he looks a bit curious. ]

For both our sakes I hope he doesn't show up here.

[ God, he's got free reign here, if Finn showed up that would be crappy as hell. ]

Thank you. [ He's not sure there's really much to thank her for, but he does regardless. ] It was lovely to meet you.

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