Kol hadn't even considered that and the mere idea of it had a funny way of both make him completely livid and drop on him like a weight with the realization. "They can try," he mumbled, voice just a bit more gravelly than usual. "we won't let them." There was a conviction in his voice that said this was non-negotiable, it was a simple fact. And he couldn't imagine any of his siblings arguing against that conviction. They had only just gotten the boy back, there was no way that any of them could suffer losing him again.
Kol ran both hands over his face. He'd already fought this fight. He'd had this argument and quite honestly, he was over it. But he could understand Elijah's need to talk about it, so he didn't fight the conversation. "I don't like it either, but it is what it is. And that...is the exact same thing it's always been. Threats. Plots, plans against us... it never changes." He shook his head. He was so caught up on that and it honestly bugged him just how much it all bothered him. "They should. And they've all spoken about it, about how he needs to be handled. Crowley sent a pack of his bloody hounds after him, for fuck's sake. Everyone realizes that the threat that is Sam Winchester needs to be detained. But the second I say it, she flies off the handle. It's bloody ridiculous." He shook his head again, a bit more furiously this time, "But honestly, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because we can't act on any threat she sends to us, or we're only proving their theory right. And...it shouldn't be you. It shouldn't be Bekah, or Nik. It shouldn't even fucking happen at all. But if it does...we'll figure out a way to handle it that won't backfire entirely." Not that he remotely had a clue as to how they would manage that, but he had to hope that it was possible, somehow.
"I know," Kol said softly, lifting his eyes to lock with his brother's own. "She touches any of us and the remaining will...not take it lightly." In all of their fighting and bickering and even at times disownment of one another, the single thing that the Mikaelson siblings could always be sure to agree on was no one touched their family. No one.