It was the smell of bourbon that first woke Kol up. His mouth tasted like dust and ash and he sat up as he opened his eyes. He was surrounded by a forest that looked a lot like Mystic Falls. There were no sounds of nature, nor any sort of wind. There was light, but he saw no sun. He wasn't even hungry for blood. What the hell was going on?

"I see you're finally awake."

Kol looked back over his shoulder and saw a man leaning against a tree, a bottle of bourbon in his hand. He looked familiar and it took a minute to register. Alaric... Saltzman. The man his mother had turned to kill them all.

"I thought you were dead."

"I am."

Kol nodded and tried to swallow down the ash in his mouth. It wasn't going away, no matter how many times he tried. He attempted to Vamp speed over to Alaric, but he stumbled instead. Why wasn't he moving fast?

"No supernatural abilities here."

Kol looked up at Alaric, who was calmly staring down at him. Kol pushed himself straight up and looked around for a moment. "And where is here?"

Alaric laughed and took a drink of his bottle, then handed it to Kol, saying "The Other Side."

Kol accepted it and took a large drink. When he had first woken up, all he could taste was dusty ash. The drink was washing it down but it seemed to be pure grit. Really? Oh right, he had died from a stake to the heart. He had burned alive. No wonder he tasted ash.

Kol smirked and handed back the bottle. "Seriously? That's what they call this place? The Other Side? Not heaven or hell? Just the Other Side?"

Alaric shrugged and took another sip, then started walking away. Kol was forced to follow him, with so many questions going through his head. "Witches. They do what they want. And that's what this place was named. It is the afterlife for the Supernatural."

Kol stopped in his tracks. Afterlife for the supernatural? Hadn't Jeremy been able to see ghosts? He remembered mentions of ex girlfriends, but they had both been vampires. Was he able to travel back to Mystic Falls and be seen by a medium?

"And we have no abilities here. Just... other supernatural dead. And alcohol."

Kol let a cheeky grin slide across his face. "I can live with that."

Alaric nodded and kept walking, and the scenery changed. Whereas before they had been in a forest, it shifted now to a hallway. He recognized it as the Gilbert house. "Ugh, really? I did die here, you know."

Alaric shrugged and the scenery changed to the Mikaelson mansion. Had the man even been there before? And how was it all possible?

"I'm sure you're full of questions, but I have things to do, like catching up on Mystic Falls. Sheila just finished putting everything together so I can see what has happened since my death." Kol's eyebrow raise must have prompted Alaric to explain what he meant. "A Bennet witch. She has been organizing all that has occurred in Mystic Falls into a... show, if you will. So that we can see what is going on back in the world of the living."

Kol nodded and followed him to a room with a flat screen. There was a pretty little thing with red hair sitting with a bottle of tequila in front of her, and she smiled at Alaric as they walked in. "Took you long enough, Ric. Why was it so important you go find him?"

Alaric sat down beside her and gave her a kiss, then settled back. "I figure he could update us on what has been going on."

The tv turned on in front of them and started showing Niklaus' desiccated body in a casket. Well, he remembered that, sort of. "How far back has she recapped?"

The pretty little thing groaned and sat up to look at him. "Ever since the Vampires came to town. Why? Are you actually interested in what happened since your kind took over?"

Kol laughed and gave her a wink. "Perhaps I am. I am intrigued as to how one Doppleganger has brought so much death on a small town. Deaths that I didn't even cause."

The woman tensed up at the mention of Elena, and Kol's smirk grew wider. "Ah, you must be the Aunt Jenna that Jeremy spoke of. No worries, darling. Your little Doppleganger is now a Vampire, and Jeremy is a Vampire Hunter, one of the five."

Jenna stood up in shock and the scenes on the tv began flipping through, as though Jenna was trying to find out what he was talking about.

"Now hold up, I want to see all of this from the beginning."

The tv stopped flipping, as though it was a battle of wills on who controlled it. Interesting. The tv did as the viewer thought. Very useful.

"Fine! I'll go watch it elsewhere. Ric?"

Alaric looked up at his girlfriend and the Original. "Actually, I think I'm going to stay here and watch it with him. I wouldn't mind seeing everything that was going on at once. And I'm still curious as to what happened when Klaus was in my body."

Jenna nodded, then fixed Kol with a glare and left the room.

"Well, she certainly is a pretty little thing."

"Shut up and just watch."

Are you ready for some Kolaric Bromance? We're going to be going back through the ENTIRETY of The Vampire Diaries from the perspective of Kol, Alaric, and some of the other dead. You ready? I'm ready. Prepare yourselves.