Bonnie Bennet drives towards her house from town. She likes the drive from town back to her house and vice versa. It gives her a chance to think, to be alone with her thoughts. And lately, being alone with her thoughts was all she ever seemed to do. Her father had moved away from the town of Mystic Falls thanks to a job offer in another state. After all the crazy things that had happened in the town, it was good to get away. He had offered Bonnie a way out as well, but Bonnie decided to stay. Despite everything that happened, she felt connected to the town and the people in it. Her friends were there and her life. She couldn't give it up. So she let her father leave without her though he let her stay in the house.
It wasn't as if Bonnie didn't have enough reasons to move, especially now. Her best friend, Elena Gilbert, was put under a curse that tied her life to Bonnie's. Elena was sleep, practically dead, as long as Bonnie remained alive. She had had Elena with her her whole life and it was hard adjusting to live without her, to resign to the fact that she would never see her again. She missed her even though she had her other friends like Caroline, Stefan, Damon and Matt. But none of them were Elena.
Still, she was trying to back into the groove of things. She had done her share of grieving and crying and self loathing. Moving on was her only option. She had reapplied for college along with Caroline. Due to certain circumstances, neither one of them had lasted long their first go around at a university. She had also gotten a job at the grill to help her father with the bills he was still paying on the house plus she had to eat.
Bonnie was in the middle of thinking about Caroline as she drove. She and the blonde vampire were supposed to meet up later that night for a much needed friends night. Wine, food, and gossip. Something normal. Something they used to do. Every once in awhile, it was good to do something mundane, even if all of their lives were anything but. As Bonnie was thinking about what movie she and Caroline could possibly watch, she slammed her foot on the brakes of her car. She gripped her steering wheel tightly trying to regain some composure when she was sure her car wasn't about to get wrecked. There was a boy lying unconscious in the middle of the road with no shirt and jeans.
Bonnie's first instinct was to just keep driving. Mysterious figures in the road and Mystic Falls didn't mix. But perhaps she was being too paranoid because of past experiences. Not everything had to end up in a life or death situation. Plus, she was a good person and good people didn't leave the helpless in the road. Bonnie gets out her car and scurries over to the body. It's male with dark blonde hair. She takes out her cell phone prepared to call 911. She only had one bar in this middle-of-nowhere part of town so she hoped it worked. She shakes the man gently as she uses her other hand to dial.
"Sir? Sir, please wake up," she whispers softly.
The man falls onto his back still fully unconscious. One look at his face and Bonnie immediately ceases to dial for help. A gasp leaves her lips and she feels her chest tightening. The face looking back at her belongs to Klaus Mikaelson, the evil, psychopathic original vampire. Everything Klaus had ever done to her, Elena and everyone else suddenly rushed back to the front of her mind. She didn't care what happened to him. The was zero chance of her helping.
Bonnie stands to her feet slowly. Even if he was unconscious, he was still a vampire. They had super sonic hearing. One loud sound and he could wake up and she would be vampire food. She heads for her car half walking half running as quietly as she could. This was not good. What was Klaus doing in Mystic Falls again? She was not in the mood to get mixed up with him and his crazy drama. Nothing good ever came from associating with the originals.
She makes it to her car and looks down to open the door handle. When she looks back up, Klaus is standing right there next to her. She jumps back feeling her magic energy surge through her wanting to defend her. She's quick and uses her best vampire defense spell of repeatedly breaking blood vessels in Klaus's head. He grabs his head in pain and drops to his knees. He screams as she starts to bust them even faster than before.
Klaus looks up at her trying to fight the pain. "Please...stop. I-I mean you no harm."
Bonnie scoffs and rolls her eyes. "Yeah, I've heard you say that before. Then someone ends up dead or kidnapped or tortured just for the hell of it. The Bonnie you met the last time you came here might have fallen for that. But I'm not the same witch I was back then. I guarantee it."
Klaus falls to his hands and knees. The pain his almost too unbearable for him to keep fighting against it to speak to her. "I don't know who are! I don't! I've never met you before! You've got the wrong person! Please!"
Bonnie was so stunned that her concentration breaks and stops the spell. It was then that she realized that he hadn't been fighting back. He would have still been trying to attack her or kill her through the pain if this had been a normal encounter. He would have cursed her for daring to harm him in any way. He was doing any of that. He stayed on his knees breathing through the pain as it began to subside.
"I'm not up for your games and mind tricks, Klaus," says Bonnie, "I can do a lot worse than that now if you try me."
Klaus shakes his head shying away from her slightly. He looks up at her and his look reminds Bonnie of a lost puppy. "I promise...I-I don't remember anything. The last thing I remember is...my mother. She's the village witch a-and our father made her perform this spell on all of us. Father forced us to drink...blood. And then suddenly it felt like I was dying...like all the life was being taken out of me." His eyes were somewhere distant. He seemed to realize and focused once again on Bonnie. "I woke up on this road and my village is gone and everything looks so different…" He sounded confused and slightly frightened.
Bonnie blinks as she tries to process the information. She knew the originals were from Mystic Falls before it was ever called Mystic Falls. "Klaus, that was over 1000 years ago. You seriously think I'm going to fall for that sob story? I know you. You're a crazy, psychopathic killer who likes to mess with people's minds and ruin lives for your own amusement. You forced me to do spells for you. You killed Tyler and turned him into a hybrid vampire and then killed his mom. You tried to kill Elena and then killed her aunt in some crazy ritual."
The look on Klaus's face is pure astonishment. Had he really done those things? Was he really so awful? 1000 years? How could he not remember 1000 years? Especially if his life had been full of such cruelty. Klaus stands to his feet looking down at Bonnie. His eyes are apologetic and so sincere that Bonnie has a hard time looking at them. "It's hard for me to believe I would be so cruel to you or anyone. But I apologize sincerely and I also apologize for not being able to remember any of these awful things I have done."
Bonnie stares at him looking for any sign that he's playing a game with her, that he's going to start laughing in a view seconds and break her neck. But she finds nothing, nothing but a scared boy in search of answers. "You're...really not lying, are you?"
Klaus shakes his head. He honestly had no memory of the last 1000 years he had been a vampire. Bonnie groans to herself. How was she always the beacon for vampire trouble? And this was definitely some vampire related trouble. So many questions rang through her head. Should she just leave him to fend for himself? How had he ended up here in Mystic Falls? Who did this to him? Memory spells were advanced level magic especially memory spells performed on someone as old and powerful as Klaus. Just turn away, Bonnie, she thinks to herself, You're doing good. You don't need to be mixed up in anything crazy. Not right now. Just turn away.
"Dammit," she curses out loud to herself. She couldn't just leave him unattended in Mystic Falls. He was an original hybrid with amnesia. He was too dangerous to leave alone. What if he got hungry? The whole town could be slaughtered and the blood would be on her hands for ignoring his presence.
She spins around to face him putting on her best brave face. "Alright. You're coming with me. I won't hurt you again, but only if you don't try to kill me. If you do, I'll knock you on your vampire ass and leave you to rot on your own."
Klaus takes her hand and kneels on one knee. It takes all Bonnie has not to flinch and take her hand back. "I promise you I will not do anything to harm you...ever."
Bonnie doesn't think she had ever believed something that came out of Klaus's mouth more than she believed that. She knew in her veins that he wouldn't hurt her; he really meant it. She pulls her hand back telling the expression magic in her body to go back to being dormant. She was on edge and so was it. She lets out a deep breath as Klaus stands back to his feet.
"Get in the car."