2013-2015
Kol arrives in Lawrence shortly after his death in a whole hell of a lot of confusion because this does not look even a little bit like The Other Side. And he's pretty sure he's alive and is not at all sure how that happened, considering the flaming glory he went out in moments before. Soon after, he finds familiar faces—his siblings are here, the day is saved! Sort of.
Shortly after settling in, he has a run-in with Vicki Donovan and Jeremy Gilbert. This goes about as well as can be expected. He kind of takes a bit of a liking to Vicki, but when Jeremy waltzes up it kind of sours his mood. There's a lot of blaming going on because Jeremy was part of the Gilbert-kids tag-team that did him in, and Jeremy hasn't lived that and feels it's unfair to be judged for future actions he hasn't actually committed.
Kol finds out Vicki has no control when she has an almost-accident during one of Bobby Singer's hunter's camp sessions. He talks to her brother Matt about how best to help her and handle this. Despite some initial wariness, Matt agrees and Kol takes Vicki under his wing and helps teach her control of her still too-new vampire abilities. His methods aren't conventional, but it works.
Eventually seeking out advice from people about his family and their many dramas, Kol ends up with a few rather unlikely friendships. First, Rose Tyler, who happens to be the very first person outside of his family that he opened up to about anything serious. She became a sort of rock and foundation in his support group. Next, Lois Lane (Smallville style), became another quick and fast confidant for him. These two women, who knew the vague broad strokes of all that he'd done, still gave him the chance to begin building himself into a better version of who he was, and they kind of formed the foundation of a lot of the way things changed for him later.
In the early days of September, now 3 months into his new and ever-changing, ever-dramatic life in Lawrence, Kol poses a question to the masses of the displaced: Why are some people vilified for bad, future actions they have yet to commit, while others are given a free pass? This naturally leads to a lot of arguments breaking out, but it also created several conversations for Kol to truly consider. Including one in particular with Robin Hood, who actually managed to shed some light on how sometimes, people just have to accept things as they are, even when they don't make sense or they are unfair.
Around the end of the month, Kol is possessed by a demon. A demon puppeting an Original went down about as well as could be expected. He ruined all of the work that Kol and Vicki had done to get her on a good track, tortured an innocent vampire for grins and giggles, and generally tried to wreck every single relationship Kol had built in his short time here. Kol is trapped inside his own head with no way out and has to watch while friends and family members alike are fooled into believing he's the one behind the words being said and actions taking place.
When the demon goes on the run, it takes almost a week before Rebekah catches up and exorcises it, sending it straight back to hell. However, a complication arises when, on the way out, the demon flips the switch on Kol's emotions and he spends another week or so outside of his usual self where he continues to wreck his personal relationships and brags a lot to Crowley, who the vampire has been sort of in an bit of an on-going fling with for a few weeks, about his skills in the bedroom.
Eventually, Lexi, the psychotic vampire whisperer, manages to strike a nerve and get Kol to feel something and eventually turn his emotions back on. This is what she does, she's good at helping people come back from their time off the rails and get back to who they really are.
Mid-way through October, an attack is launched on the main apartment complex occupied by most of the displaced and several other important buildings around the city. Caroline Forbes, the girl that brother Klaus has taken such a liking to and is dating and who happens to mostly be adopted by the family now, is killed in the explosion. Nik handles it really horribly, as expected. A few days later, Kol is the one that finds Caroline when she returns, thanks to magic from the Seal. He also discusses some family drama with Crowley, who he's recently started seeing in a pretty casual way.
November spells trouble when Crowley ends up in over his head with Lucifer and Kol has a lot of emotions about it. The pair of them escape to a hotel for some quality time and end up having a pretty deep and serious conversation that reveals the very beginnings of something a little bit more like a relationship than a fling, even if neither of them are anywhere near close to admitting it.
Everything that the community of the displaced and locals involved as a whole have been working and building toward finally comes to a head, December brings the Apocalypse along with it and everyone has to play their part. Kol spends time with Crowley in the aftermath of the hardest, most brutal battle anyone could have fought. With Rebekah, and several others, lost to the Cage in the final moments, the remaining displaced are left to regroup and begin repairs on the city at large, while Crowley and a handful of others work on finding a way to hopefully open the Cage and retrieve the fallen, without also releasing Lucifer and Michael all over again and making all their efforts be for nothing.
In the end, with some rather tricky and detailed spell work, the trapped are released from the Cage and reunions happen all around. Their time in the place was brutal, and equivalent of the levels of hell detailed out in Dante's Inferno, living in constant loops of terror and pain and hunger and rage. The toll on those involved is harsh, and the oncoming weeks and months thereafter are hard, particularly for Rebekah, who in addition to the mental and emotional pain and detachment, is also having trouble feeding as a result.
Early January brings a long since-lost, but never forgotten little brother to the Mikaelsons, which does at least, tend to help bring the siblings closer. At least for awhile, and for his sake. Mid-way through the month, still reeling from recently managing the gaining back of Cage victims—and rather successfully, thanks—and all that had come with it, including keeping Ruby calm and a temporarily emotionless Rebekah, Crowley gives Kol a gift. His bones, and his true name. And it's all in the name of safe-keeping and ensuring no one can get utterly rid of him now that Crowley's taking on being King of Hell. But it also is a weirdly huge step in their relationship, in the trust they have built into each other by now.
February brings a need for a very specific brand of advice that only Rebekah can offer, and quickly leads to a vampire and a demon admitting things to each other in terms they've never spoken of before. That dreaded, feared, never-whispered L-word exists between them now. And will promptly be rarely ever used again because what is normal, anyway? Later in the month, Ruby's attitude over the open discussion of contingency plans against the Mikaelsons—and, admittedly also others deemed in any form dangerous, but those are details too deep for a brief summary—and chats with Elijah a bit about it, among other things.
After an odd, Seal-wibble of magic in March that turned most of his siblings into the much smaller, much more human, much more adorable and sweetest versions of themselves while Kol was suddenly the oldest, he goes off to think for a bit. Muse over things that were said to him by the tiny versions of his siblings. And Nik just happens to find him and they have an honest-to-God, great, brotherly moment for the first time in a very long while.
April brought with it a lot of drama, in the arrival of Marcel Gerard, Kol's mostly-nephew and one of the more important of Nik's sires, as well as Anna Milton, the angel that Crowley had once had a thing with.
The news of Marcel's arrival was met with a lot more joy than other things, but as with all levels of Mikaelson situation, there was a bit of drama. Mostly in form of Kol realizing that in the future, none of his siblings had spoken word of his death to Marcel. He chats with Caroline about it, because going over it with family would only lead to more hurt than was necessary, given none of them were from the proper point in the timeline to actually give reason to their actions.
Somewhere between all the drama that Anna had brought with her—panic that Crowley would leave him, jealousy of what he knows was once between the angel and the demon, the paranoid thought that maybe Anna would steal him away somehow—she and Kol manage a rather perfect moment, which sort of changes everything for all three of them.
When Elijah makes the decision to marry Katherine, much to all of his family's annoyance and warnings of how bad of a life decision this will clearly turn out to be, Kol makes a point to her, just to make sure she knows what will befall her if she hurts his brother. Again.
Summer of 2014, a good several months out from the Apocalypse and the Cage, and things are still rather hard on Rebekah. She feels too much, was hurt too hard by her time trapped in the Cage—all just to save Nik, what a waste, he's done nothing but make her regret it ever since, though she'd never change a thing about her actions if given the chance at a do-over—and ultimately is still having a lot of issues feeding. Kol tries to give her the space she needs, but when she calls, he's always there, for any distracting or comforting that he can offer. When he catches a bit of time to himself, Kol just sort of has to take a bit of time to sort his head.
All of Rebekah's issues, added with plenty of other family issues in all directions—Rebekah's marriage to Stefan Salvatore, Elijah's engagement to Katherine, Nik's entire lack of grace at accepting that Rebekah sacrificed herself for him at the Cage, a plan conceived by Jacen Solo to help the family see things from each other's eyes that includes a lot of loss of agency which was met with a lot of wariness—Kol decides to try and move things along. Find a way to fix it, or at least get on the track to it.
His attempt utterly backfires, quite epically and ends in Klaus ultimately deciding to disown the lot of them, save Henrik. Kol doesn't handle it well at all because he's done nothing in his time in Lawrence but try to fix things and make a better go of things with his family this time in this place where they had the chance to be more than what they ever were back home. And every time, it's been thrown in his face and burned to the ground. This particular instance was just a last straw that, while everyone may have expected on some level, no one ever saw as something that would ever truly come to light. And now that it has...a family is broken. Utterly, heartbreakingly broken, with no sign of possible repair in the future.
Christmas brought the anniversary of the battle at the Cage a year ago. Rebekah was hit hard over it, as was Kol. They, along with their respective significant others, helped each other through it. But it also meant it was time for another infamous Lawrence Christmas bauble wish-- and Kol made a big one. He wished to be a witch again, which meant all of his usual vampire capabilities were null and gone-- he's human, and he has his magic, and that's that.