This is all going to being in the Vampire Diaries universe before moving into the Originals. The episodes and seasons are at the top of whichever chapters coincide with them so it's easier to know what's happened. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Season 2, Ep. 19

Klaus

Cold, dead eyes stared down at her. There had been a hint of remorse that flashed for nothing more than an instant before disappearing completely again. The evil took over. It flowed into his features like the demon he was as his hands remained wrapped around her throat.

"I am sorry, but he's left me no choice." he told her in an even voice.

"Why?" she cried, the tears streaming down her cheeks.

There was a snap. A thud. Silence.

She woke with a start, breathing heavily as she tried to steady her head. The nightmare was nothing new, but for some reason it was accompanied with an ungodly, searing pain in her head. Her vision turned white when she opened her eyes and her head was throbbing. It felt like someone was stabbing her in the temple with a hot poker and twisting it just to be mean.

Just as suddenly as it began, the pain stopped. She breathed heavily as she tried to steady herself.

From nowhere, she heard whispering. Her eyes narrowed as she searched her surroundings for the source, but it seemed to be coming from nowhere and everywhere at the same time.

They spoke a single word over and over, but it was being repeated by a thousand different voices a thousand different ways and overlapped making it nearly impossible for her to discern what it was. As though sensing she couldn't understand, the deafening whispers suddenly stopped and one single voice bellowed,

"Bonnie."

The word rang in her ears clearly and made her back go tight. Without a second thought, she flung the blankets off her body and dressed before racing from the house.

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Bonnie and Jeremy were sitting in the basement of the rundown house surrounded in the light from the candles that flickered with each passing breath. They watched the shadows dance across the walls, the way they moved and pulsed as though they were alive. Bonnie never felt so safe anywhere in her life. Most people would see that place -the decrepit building that looked like a strong wind would force it to fall in on itself- as sinister and haunted, but she felt alright. She knew most of it had to do with Jeremy being there with her.

She took a breath and smiled, wrapping herself in the blanket when something sounded in the distance. A car was approaching and its shrieking brakes shattered the silence. Ice shot through their veins as the couple perked. Someone was coming.

"Does anyone else know I'm here?" she asked quietly.

Jeremy shook his head and reached for a stake.

"Stay here." He whispered before standing.

Bonnie rolled her eyes and stood regardless. He wanted to tell her to stay behind, but of the two of them, she was probably the strongest. Relenting his efforts, the two walked up stairs and to the main level of the home. The pair stood behind the edge of a column and waited. When a car door slammed, they knew whoever had driven up was close.

Jeremy motioned for Bonnie to stay behind the obstruction, if anything so she wasn't seen, and to this she agreed. Neither of them wanted to risk Klaus or someone else seeing her after everything they had gone through to make her appear dead.

Slowly, still holding the stake, the young man began to make his way towards the door. He cursed every creaking floorboard.

The door suddenly swung open with a screeching groan and a figure was visible within the threshold. He knew vampires weren't allowed in the building because the witches hated their kind, but he was still nervous. He felt their eyes lock with his and froze the moment they did. Whether he could see them or not, he knew their gaze was on him.

"Is she safe?"

The feminine voice made Jeremy tense slightly. That hadn't been what he expected, Bonnie even less so. When he didn't answer, the figure looked around the doorway. He wondered briefly what she was doing until she stepped through the threshold and walked to his side. Vampires couldn't do that, so he relaxed marginally at best. At least the stranger wasn't going to eat them… maybe…

"Is she safe?" she asked again.

Jeremy opened his mouth to speak, but he couldn't. In the dim lights, he could see the intense green eyes staring back at him from the concerned face of a young woman.

"Kali?"

Bonnie could see the young woman now and couldn't believe her eyes. The stranger's head snapped to the side and noticed Bonnie walking out from behind the column. She sighed her relief instantly.

"Jesus Bonnie." She sighed as she walked towards the witch. "What happened?"

"How did you know I was here?"

"I had about fifty pissed off Bennetts yelling at me." She laughed lightly. "Amazingly enough, your Grams was the loudest one."

Bonnie seemed to smile at the thought, musing sadly over it as Jeremy slowly walked towards the two.

"You know her?" he asked Bonnie.

She nodded.

"This is…" the young witch hesitated for a moment, unsure of how to introduce the stranger.

"I'm K." She offered her hand kindly. "I'm a friend of the family."

Jeremy still had trouble comprehending the strange situation, but shook her hand regardless out of some strange desire to remain polite.

"So," K chimed. She clapped her hands together and turned her attention back to Bonnie. "Want to tell me why I have a bunch of dead witches screaming at me?"

"It's nothing." Bonnie said.

The lie was obvious, but Bonnie did little to hide it in the first place.

"Uh-huh…" she muttered, glancing to Jeremy. "Can you give me a second with her please?"

He looked from the stranger -a person he had never met- and then to Bonnie. He thought quickly before shaking his head.

"No." he replied simply.

"Anything you have to say to me," Bonnie defiantly crossed her arms over her chest, "you can say in front of Jeremy."

"Are you sure about that?" she asked, wanting Bonnie to be certain.

Instead the young woman nodded again, still standing firm on her assessment. K nodded and sighed. Clearly something had happened since the last time she'd seen Bonnie, something big if the witch was willing to fill in others to their bargain.

"Bonnie, you know as well as I do my arrangement with your family." She said simply. "So I doubt everything's alright when I've got generations of them all yelling at me -giving me directions no less, to where you are. Now what the hell is going on?"

Bonnie didn't speak for a moment and K knew why.

"Look, I know you don't trust me…"

"You pretended to be my friend." She snapped.

"No, I didn't. I was your friend. I am your friend, just like I was with everyone else in your family. Nothing's changed."

"You're just like them."

K's brows came together and it was clear she was slightly hurt by the declaration.

"Fine." K answered defeated. "If you don't want to trust me that's fine, but you know there's nothing I can do about it. You don't want me around, just say so."

Bonnie stood still for a moment. Her brows were pulled together as she thought about what to do. Jeremy was just lost. He didn't have any idea what was going on, but whatever it was, Bonnie seemed conflicted while her friend just looked sad.

"Okay." She said in a quiet voice. "I, Bonnie Bennett, the youngest descendent of the Bennett family line, release you from your binding pledge to me and mine."

Both Jeremy and K looked absolutely shocked by what the young witch had said, by the words she used, and how sternly she had spoken them.

"Wow." K said surprised. "Well… thanks. But I'm still not going anywhere."

It was Bonnie's turn to look confused. K smiled kindly.

"Believe it or not, I still consider you a friend. Even after you were mean to me." She smiled. "So come on. Just tell me what's…"

Before she could finish her sentence, K was hit with another debilitating headache. She cried out, suddenly collapsing on the ground and grabbing her head tightly. She curled into herself while Bonnie and Jeremy looked on in fear.

Everything ached, pulsed and throbbed. K felt like her body was trying to break from the inside out and unless she held her head tightly, it would explode. For days the headaches came more and more and they grew worse. Each one was harsher than the last and K was suffering for it.

Cold blues eyes shined in the shadows, glowing with unnatural evil and hatred. Darkness surrounded her while his taunting laughter echoed in the distance and the pain started. Her throat split open, blood poured from the wounds being created and the life slipped out of her. All the while the laughing rang… laughing…

"What's happening?" Jeremy asked.

"I don't know!" Bonnie shot back in panic. "I'm not doing it!"

As quickly as it had started, the headaches ended. K pressed her palms flat to the dirty floor, breathing heavily as her ponytail fell to the side of her face. She was still trembling slightly before she rolled over onto her back with a groan.

"Ow…" she croaked. Her cheeks glistened with tears the pain had forced out.

Bonnie rushed forward and kneeled at her friend's side. She looked down at her worriedly.

"What the hell happened?" she asked.

"Headache." K sighed, wiping her cheeks.

"Headache." Bonnie repeated in sarcastic disbelief. "Headaches don't take you to your knees."

"Yeah well, I'm lucky that way I guess." K replied as she pushed herself up onto her feet. Bonnie stood upright, too. "They've been like that for the passed couple of days. I don't know why, but it's been those and nightmares."

"Nightmares? You get nightmares?"

K nodded as she dusted herself off. She was clearly trying to downplay the matter, but it didn't work.

"Yeah. There are these faces. I can see them, but not really, you know? It's hard to describe, but it doesn't matter." She looked back up and forced a smile. "I'm more interested in what's going on here."

Bonnie sighed. She glanced over her shoulder at Jeremy, silently asking for his advice.

"Don't look at me." He said, holding his hands up. "I don't even know what's going on right now."

The young women smiled at his comment before Bonnie resigned and nodded.

"Okay." She sighed. "Have you heard of the Originals before?"

"As in the Original vampires?" she asked. Bonnie nodded. K ignored the ice that moved down her spine. "Yeah, what about them?"

"We're trying to kill them."

K looked stunned by the small woman's declaration.

"Oh good." She chimed in a high pitched, falsely happy voice as she stared at Bonnie in shock. "Here I was thinking you might be in trouble."

"Oh it gets better." Jeremy said.

Bonnie took the young woman into the basement where their living situation had been set up and filled her in on everything that had happened. She told her about Klaus, about Elena and everything else. K took it in stride, but was honestly unable to believe most of what she was hearing and hating that things sounded vaguely familiar.

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