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A/N: For those of you who follow me on Tumblr, you know I've been pretty hyped up over how the current plot allows for some really great Kennett interaction and even a push and pull between Kol and Bonnie and Shane. And since I'm 95% sure the show would never go that route, here we are.
Enjoy!
She's sitting in the town square, contemplating her life and wondering just what it's come to. How everyone just seems to have stopped caring about each other.
She was watched her Grams get tortured? Who cares? She needs to get her magic back ASAP otherwise she's useless!
Jeremy's slowly spiraling into madness thanks to the hunter's mark? Who cares? Find a way to stop him from killing us (because to hell with everyone else!) so he can complete the hunter's mark and help cure Elena!
Twelve hybrids and Tyler's mom were killed by Klaus? Who cares? Klaus is helping find a cure for Elena!
She nearly killed a girl? Who cares? Just get a grip and get back to work!
It's comical in a way and by comical, she means pathetic.
She loves Elena, she really does. And she knows it's not fair to blame the girl for everything going wrong since they've all made bad decisions. However, she can't help but wonder what would have happened if Elena had never invited either of the Salvatores into their lives.
Bonnie supposes it wouldn't have changed things. Damon still would have mowed everything down in his warpath to try and get to Katherine (and didn't that turn out to be a huge joke?). And even if Stefan or Damon never came to Mystic Falls, it was probably only a matter of time until Katherine realized she had a doppelgänger and tried to sell them out to Klaus and if it hadn't been Katherine, it would have been another vampire.
No matter what, she always ends up here with perpetually nothing to show for her effort. Not even a fucking thank you and she's not so sure there's any one person she can blame for it except maybe Klaus.
She notices that someone is suddenly looming over her and when she looks up, she recognizes Kol.
"The little Bennett witch," he says softly. He looks amused and Bonnie knows that that doesn't bode well for her.
"What do you want?" she asks flatly. She had meant to sound tough, like she used to when people (namely Damon) went out of their way to bother her. Instead, she just sounds exhausted and, well, she is.
"I think it's about time we have a little chat. Care to join me for a drink?" He gestures to the Mystic Grille which lay across the street.
She just gives him an 'you've got to be kidding me' look, but doesn't respond.
"Come now, Bennett, I'm trying to be polite here, but if I have to be forceful, I will be," Kol responds, retaining his eerily pleasant demeanor.
"If you're trying to intimidate me, stop," Bonnie says flatly. "I've faced down things just as scary as you, if not more."
"Ah, sure, sure…but have you faced them without your powers?"
Her green eyes widen slightly.
"I've been keeping tabs on everything that's been happening in this town. I know about Jeremy's little hunter problem, the cure for vampirism, how you're little pathetic little group is trying to find the cure for vampirism…and your lack of magic." He pauses. "Now, if you would like to avoid an ugly scene, then why don't we go have that drink?"
Bonnie resists the urge to smirk. He clearly doesn't know that Bonnie had found a way to practice magic again and she certainly wasn't going to spoil the surprise until she had the opportune moment.
"I'm underage."
"So?"
"So, you don't think that people would be eyeballing me drinking in public in this tiny town where everyone knows everyone? Especially when my father just became mayor?"
He actually rolls his eyes at her. "Please, we both know that no one in this town gives a damn about underage drinking."
She glares at him and lets out a sigh as she stands up and follows him to the Grille.
"What do you want to talk about?" she says, ignoring the shot of what she thinks is tequila that is placed in front of her.
"So straightforward and to the point. That's no fun, darling."
"You clearly want something, so spit it out," Bonnie snapped.
"Fine then," he said shortly and suddenly is saccharine disposition is gone and she wonders if she preferred that to this more menacing one. "What I brought you here to talk about was the cure."
"The cure? You mean, the one for vampirism?"
"Yes, the cure for vampirism," he says condescendingly.
"What about it?" She asks, ignoring his tone.
"Don't allow them to have it."
What?
"What makes you think I could stop them if I wanted to—which I don't? I magicless, remember?" She asks.
He begins to laugh and it only unnerves her more.
"You honestly don't know do you? Why do you even waste your time helping them, again?" He doesn't wait for her response. "The only way the cure can be unlocked is through a Bennett witch and, while you're not the only Bennett witch out there, you're the most convenient and probably the only one that would even consider it."
"And what if I want them to have the cure?"
His smile widens and his eyes narrow even more. "Don't you know? Everything has a consequence to it, especially magic. Haven't you been wondering what the consequence for the cure would be? What the cure would entail?"
Truthfully, she has. She's not stupid and there's no denying that it's suspicious that the cure is apparently heavily buried and it seemed to take so much to get to it. There has to be a reason why a witch would try to keep it out of reach.
"What do you know about Silas?"
"Silas?" She remembers the cautionary tale that Shane once. "What does he have to do with anything?"
He laughs again. "My, they certainly keep you far out of the loop. Getting the cure means releasing Silas."
"What? How would you know that?"
"Your little professor friend told me…right before I killed him, of course."
He doesn't know that he didn't really kill Shane. Well, at least there's something else going my way. Play along, she reminds herself, hardening her expression.
Kol leans in even closer to her and she can smell the tequila on his breath. "Trust me, little witch. You do not want Silas on the loose. It would literally be hell on Earth."
"And why should I believe you?" She asks, not changing her expression.
"I think a better question would be: Can you really risk it? Of course I could be lying to you, which I'm not, but what if I'm right? Is finding a cure really worth it if you all end up dead, anyway?"
"Enough of this," Bonnie says. She hops off the bar stool and turns to leave, but Kol grabs onto her wrist. She considers burning his hand, but she's not sure if it's a good idea to let him know she has her magic back yet.
"I mean it, Bonnie, you can't afford to not trust me right now." She notices that this is the first time he's used her name.
"I can't exactly afford to trust you, either," she counters.
"I'm making an effort to stop what will happen in the least messy manner, but I will kill you if I have to," he tells her and she certainly doesn't doubt it for a second.
"Wow. I wish I could say that that's the first time someone's wanted me to trust them and then tells me they'll kill me, but it's actually not," she replies dryly.
"I'm being honest with you," he says in rebuttal. "Which is certainly more than you can say for your so-called friends."
She just glares at him.
"Think about it," he tells her as he suddenly lets go of her wrist. "But don't take too long." He smirks again before picking up the tequila she didn't touch and tosses it back.
And Bonnie leaves the Mystic Grille feeling a little more than dumbfounded.
A/N: Ugh, I swore to myself I wasn't going to start posting this until I had most of it written so that I could make regular updates. I just got so excited over Kol being back and getting Kennett scenes that I just couldn't resist posting this now. I can't say how close this will stay to canon, but the good news is I have an idea of where I want to take this and the ending is already written.
Thanks for reading!