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Kol Mikealson expertly fixed the filter on his professional camera. He went around the grand hall taking pictures of the wedding. Sage had wanted as many pictures of all of the guests as possible. Finn wanted to make sure his bride was happy. Oh his poor brother was so in love. He was just glad that he actually accepted his services as their main professional photographer. They had plenty of photographers under their employ working for one of the many magazines they owned, not to mention one of the most famous family enterprises out there, they could have the best photographers in the world and they still picked him, even after he broke off away from the family business. Most of his family was not too happy about that. But he needed it. He needed to go out on his own.
As he went around the room taking pictures of guests, he stopped as he caught sight of an exotic woman, with fine caramel skin and smooth silk dress fluttering against her legs as she pulled down her skirt nervously.
He stopped at her taking her picture at different angles. His breath escaped his body as he watched the beauty. She was the girl he bumped into before the wedding. He couldn't help but wonder about her and why in the world she left the wedding before it even started but here she was in all of her glory.
She almost fell and then steadied herself, which made Kol chuckle.
Then she walked across the ball room she stopped happily sitting next to Elijah. Uh. Really? So was she his date? Were they dating? If it was serious he was sure Elijah would mention it at the bachelor party. He asked him how his love life was and Elijah answered with his usual he and his computer were really happy with together. Workaholic jokes. He never really found them funny. Especially when workaholics made them about themselves, like they were wearing it like a badge of honor or something.
He watched this girl talk to her brother she smiled at him, telling him that perhaps there was something romantic going on, but then she divided her attention from him to her cell phone.
Speaking of workaholics, she must be one too. It's kind of rude to go to his brother's wedding with her mind on work. He decided he should tell her a thing or two about manners and have her lighten up a little. His brother clearly wasn't up to the task, so he would have to volunteer.
He watched her as she fiddled with her cell phone. Then she finally put it in her purse. Then she got up right before she gave a bright smile to Elijah.
He took that as his cue. He quickly sauntered in front of her, blocking the doorway.
"Oh, it's you again." She said folding her arms and tapping her index finger on her forearm.
"So you missed me. I was afraid we would never meet again." Kol said.
"I hoped I never see you again." Bonnie muttered.
"Oh, I'm hurt." Kol said mockingly.
"I bet. Get out of my way." She demanded.
He ignored her and continued to stand in her way.
"You know, it's incredibly rude doing what you're doing." Kol said.
"You don't know what I'm doing." She said frustrated.
"I can stifle at a guess. You have a busy work load but your friends with the bride so you decided to show up but you just can't stop thinking about work so you're traveling back and forth between the two."
"Nope. Wrong. Now let me pass you Neanderthal."
He shrugged, "Enlighten me then."
"I don't know you so I don't have to tell you a thing." Bonnie said frusterated.
"I will let you pass, once you tell me what's more important than my brother's wedding."
She raised her eyebrow, "Your brother? Then that makes you Kol Mikealson."
"The one and only." He said proudly.
She watched him for a moment reflective and said, "Hmmmm that makes sense."
"It does. Have you heard about me then?"
"Yeah, you're Kol Mikealson irresponsible party boy. You gave up your job in the family business to prance around the world taking pictures of half naked women." She said not hiding her disapproval.
"It's a tough life but someone has to do it." He said overdramatic.
She snorted, "Whatever, let me pass."
She said as she tried walk around him.
He still stood in front of her moving his index finger back and forth.
Then he said, "A deal is deal. I'll move once you tell me where you're going."
Bonnie huffed annoyed and then said, "Fine. If you must know, I have another wedding."
He looked at her and said, "Wow, that's worse than the work thing."
"It's not. I needed to be here and the other wedding, they're my family and this is my bosses brothers...What am I doing? I don't need to explain myself to you. A deal is a deal, get out of my way." Bonnie said trying to push him out of her way.
He smoothly moved out of her path raising his hands up in surrender. As she left he continued to watch her leave tilting his head as she agitatedly marched in the hallway and towards the exit. He smirked as he admired the view. He couldn't peal his eyes away from her. She suddenly stopped just as she was about to head out of the door. She took her cell phone out of her purse and looked at it for a moment. Her mood worsened and then she shoved her phone back in her purse.
He moved out of sight so she would not see him watching her. She was about to continue the same way she was going. Then she turned around walking around the corner.
She leaned against the wall putting a hand through her hair frustrated. Then she let her head fall backwards letting out a long sigh. She had that worn out exhausted look on her face. In that moment he felt that workaholic assumption may have not been that far off. There was something eerily beautiful about her stillness. She looked fatigued, exhausted even, like she just wanted to stop from the constant going and going that life brought her but didn't know how. He could not look away from this beauty. He needed to know more. She then went in her purse and took out her compact mirror to fix herself up. Then she took a deep breath and walked with confidence. She went towards the hall he quickly sprinted back into the ball room so she would not catch him in his voyeurism.
He took random pictures from across the room and spotted Rebekah and Stefan talking to Elijah. Then he moved his camera around the room and saw her enter. He counted five seconds before he approached her again.
"What are you doing?" She asked annoyed.
"I should ask you the same thing." Kol said intrigued.
"I am no longer needed there." She said masking some kind of hurt he cannot decipher.
"Lovely, that means you can join me for a dance, darling." Kol said.
"I'm not your darling and I am not joining you for a dance." Bonnie said.
She said giving a piercing spiteful look.
"Are you sure? It is a wedding after all. Shouldn't you be having fun?"
He asked with a challenge in his eyes.
"Dancing with a playboy is not exactly my idea of fun."
"Oh I can give you lots of ideas for fun." He said with a mischievous smile on his face.
"Thanks but..."
A classy tango began to play. Then he took her hand and spun her right there. She twirled briskly. She gave up on rejecting him and danced. He pulled her close to him and she pushed him away and challenged him for dominance. She moved her feet towards him, moving her hips closer to his. She forgot about denying him and fell into moving her body to the steady rhythm of the beat. He took her hip moving it closer to him she then moved closer raising her leg wrapping it around his. He moved his hand up her leg, slowly, admiring it. She seemed to be waking up a bit from this strange trance she had been in. Her eyes opened wide as she looked up at him. She then released her leg. She began to back away from him and then he took her hand dipping her backwards. Then he pulled her up. Her heart raced, her breathing became erratic, and her skin flushed.
As the song ended she looked back up at his deep chocolate eyes. Then she let go of him a little embarrassed that she danced so vigorously with a guy she barely knew. It was just a dance. It wasn't that bad was it? She used to like going out dancing with Caroline and Elena but it has been a really long time since she went. She was surprised she remembered how to dance.
"Would you care for the next dance miss...?"
"Bennett, Bonnie Bennett." Bonnie said a little flustered.
"Bennett as in my brothers …?" Kol asked starting to tense up.
"Best assistant I ever had, yes that is who she is." Elijah said walking up to them.
"Oh." Kol said sounding like a kid who was just informed he couldn't play with the shiny new toy he was enamored with.
"May I cut in?" Elijah asked.
"That would be great." Bonnie said smiling sweetly.
Then Kol spotted Rebekah dancing with Stefan giving Kol the glare of death.
Then he heard Elijah say, "Rebekah just informed me how I couldn't let you leave the wedding without a proper dance from me."
Bonnie smiled up at Elijah. Kol just wasn't going to stand out there in the middle of the dance floor and watch his brother dance with the girl he was just dancing with.
He went to get a drink.
Then Rebekah and Stefan followed him. He swore those two were connected at the hip.
"That was some display you just did there. You do realize this is Finn and Sages wedding. You shouldn't be stealing their spotlight." Rebekah said.
"I wasn't trying to steal anything." Kol defened as she took his drink.
"Are you sure about that? Because it looks like you are trying to steal your brother's girl." Rebekah said pointedly.
"His girl? So she is his girl." Kol said out loud to himself troubled. The last thing he wanted was to put the moves on his brother's girl.
"She's not his girl." Stefan chimed in perturbed. He could tell that Stefan has been annoyed with Kol's dear sister all night, which has been the norm for years.
"Don't listen to him brother for all you are concerned she is Elijah girl." She said forcefully.
He gave her a sideway glance. Then he looked at his brother dancing with Bonnie. They dance pleasantly with the proper distance between them.
"Does he fancy her?" Kol inquired, not quite sure.
"She's his assistant." Stefan said.
"I heard." Kol said still watching Bonnie and Elijah dance.
"He fancies her; he just doesn't know it yet." Rebekah said stubborn with a hand placed on her hip.
"Oh, I see, they're one of your little projects." Kol said amused.
"They both want to be happy." Rebekah retorted.
"And you just know that they will make each other happy." Kol said.
"Hey, I saw that Finn and Sage would be perfect for each other and now here we are at their wedding."
"Oh, please for the last time introducing them is not the same as interfering and trying to force them together." Stefan said infuriated.
"Ignore him." Rebekah said to Kol referring to Stefan.
Then she continued to say, "They are perfect for each other. I can tell. I always suspected that she had a crush on him and he is lost without her. They've been working together for a couple of years."
"So if they are so perfect for each other why haven't thy gotten together yet?" Kol asked.
"They just need a little push." Rebekah said gleefully.
Stefan rolled his eyes loudly.
Kol chuckled at him.
Then Kol said, "Alright little sister, I will make you deal."
"This should be good." Stefan said exasperated.
"I will back off if you get those two love birds together in two weeks." Kol said.
"Two weeks?" Rebekah asked appalled.
"Yes, if they are truly meant to be then that is as long as it should take. Do we have deal?" Kol asked waiting for her to shake his hand.
"You have to be serious Kol. If you still try to go after her I will burn your one of a kind Babe Ruth Special Edition baseball card."
"You wouldn't dare." He said shocked and slightly terrified.
"Try me." She said folding her arms determined.
Kol hesitated for a long moment. His Babe Ruth Card was one of his most prized possessions.
"Okay, fine if you set Bonnie and Elijah up by two Saturdays from now then I will back off."
Then they shook hands on it.
Rebekah had a satisfied smirk on her face. Stefan frowned.
Then Rebekah looked at Elijah and Bonnie dancing and smiled, "They are as good as together anyway."
Kol shrugged.
Then Rebekah spotted Finn and Sage finally sitting on their table.
"I better spend a little more time with the bride and groom before they go. Oh, maybe I can talk Sage into throwing the bouquet to Bonnie." She said sounding like a girl on a mission.
She then headed towards their direction.
Stefan took a long drink exasperated.
"This is going to be such a headache, if our company suffers for this so help me…"
"Relax Steffy." He said as he patted his shoulder.
Stefan glared at him.
"She's not going to mess with your precious company dynamics." Kol said.
"What makes you so sure about that?" Stefan asked weary.
"Because they are never going to get together I will make sure of that." Kol said.
"What about your precious baseball card? You know Rebekah never gives empty threats." Stefan reminded him.
"I know. Don't worry the Great Bambino is safe. The deal was if Rebekah can get them together in two weeks then I will back off. I didn't say anything about backing off before then. Now did I?" He said with an excited glimmer in his eye.
Stefan smiled pleased and said, "No you didn't. I am a witness so the verbal contract is valid."
Then Kol raised his glass and said, "To sabotaging my little sister."
Stefan clinked his class with Kol's and said, "I can drink to that."
