"Well, not really, no. At least not yet?" Bonnie stumbled over her words. The man that sat at Lucy's table smiled, but Bonnie noticed it didn't reach his eyes. "So how about you fill me in? It's not every day that we get a witch, a Bennett even, cross into Gemini territory with Klaus Mikealson in a coffin." His voice was deeper than the boy that had left her behind, his face older and more defined, stubble helping to accentuate his ruggedness. But his eyes were the same blue/grey that she remembered. Kai was good looking as a 22 year old, but here and now closer to his actual age, even though the years must have been demanding, he wore it extremely well.
"I'm sorry for bringing Klaus in your territory, I wasn't thinking." She began. He waved off her apology, "I'm not asking for an apology, I want to know what you were planning on doing with him once you got here."
"I don't know." Bonnie admitted. She saw his eyebrows shoot up in disbelief. "I'm not lying to you! I really didn't have a plan in mind. I just knew I couldn't let everything play out like it did before."
"And how did it play out before?"
Bonnie opened and closed her mouth a few times, wondering how to explain the utter madness that was the past few years of her life. "Not well." She finished lamely.
"Great detail there, Bonster." He chuckled.
Bonnie physically recoiled, "What is it with you and that name?"
"I've called you that before?" His eyes searched her face. Bonnie knew that look, he was looking for a weakness, something to use to his advantage.
"You know what? Screw it, can you do that thing Reagan did? With the being able to see my memories?" At his nod, Bonnie walked over and held her hand out, "Do it."
He hesitated, "Are you sure? It might hurt."
Bonnie lifted an eyebrow, "You've siphoned me before, shot me with an arrow, and stabbed me in the gut. I'm good."
"What?"
"In all fairness, I did send a pick axe through your chest, and kill you with a pen so….." Bonnie shrugged. "We doing this or not?"
He looked at her for a silent minute, then directed her to have a seat, "Might as well be comfortable."
She sat and held her hand out again, "I'll let you see as much as you need to, but please don't go poking around unnecessarily. I don't have anything to hide, but certain memories are special to me."
"Duly noted."
With that he wrapped his hands around hers, Bonnie braced herself for the pain that came with him siphoning her, but it never came. Instead it was more like a gentle tugging. She saw as they flashed through her early years, only slowing down when it came to when she first saw Stefan.
Bit by bit he walked through her first few years of being a witch:
Losing her grandmother
Meeting Lucy for the first time
Taking on the power of 100 witches to defeat Klaus
Pleading with her ancestors to bring Jeremy back to life
Tracking down Abby, seeing her be turned, then leave once more
Desiccating Klaus, and fighting hunter Alaric
Putting Klaus in Tylers body to keep her friends alive
Try to prevent Elena from turning, only to see her grandmother's soul be tormented as a result
Losing access to her magic, meeting Professor Shane, him teaching her Expression
The search for the cure, freeing Silas
Dying to bring Jeremy back
Her father's death, and her inability to do anything to stop it
Becoming the anchor, destroying the other side
Her and Damon entering the prison world
Meeting Kai, getting her magic back, sending Damon back home
Kai kidnapping her and bringing her to Portland, stabbing her, then leaving
Her suicide attempt
Finding the map, heading to Nova Scotia
Standing in the cave, ready to leave
Landing three years in the past
Bonnie's eyes were full of unshed tears when he released her hand. Standing on shaky legs, he excused herself to go to the bathroom. When she came out, he was still sitting in the same spot, processing what he saw.
Bonnie dumped out her now cold tea and started making another cup. She heard Kai clear his throat, but refused to turn and look.
"Okay, that was…. How are you not bat-shit crazy?"
Bonnie choked out a watery laugh, "I'm not so sure I'm not."
He shifted in his seat, "So, I think I know what you want to do with Klaus, but I need to hear you say it."
Bonnie turned around, "I didn't get the idea until I came here. But, is there any way you can place him in a prison world? I know Elijah, and even as we speak, he's probably got witches under his control trying to find out where he is."
"Why not just kill him?"
"Well, leverage for one. It'll be much easier to keep the rest of them in line if they ever want to be reunited with their brother. And second-"
"If you kill an original, there goes their entire sire line." He finished for her.
"Yeah." Bonnie took a sip of her tea, "I don't know how to unlink him from his line, and honestly, it will also keep a few vampires that I know in line as well." Thinking of Damon and his impulsiveness. If he ever caught wind of the fact that Klaus and the others were ever de-linked from their respective sire lines, he would be on the warpath to kill them regardless of if the rest of Klaus's family left them alone.
Which would cause the remaining originals to retaliate, and start up the whole cycle of madness all over again.
"If I say yes, what's in it for me?" He leaned forward, resting his forearms on the table. Bonnie noted off-handedly that he had nice arms, muscular with a light dusting of dark hair. "If I'm not allowed to kill him, what would I gain by having Klaus Mikealson stashed away?"
"The knowledge that he can't make any more hybrids, and the fact that he won't be free to wreak havoc anywhere." Bonnie could see that wasn't going to be enough, so she decided to play her trump card. "I can also give you the cure."
That got his attention. "That is a pretty hefty bargaining chip, Bonnie. Why would you give something like that up so easily? Unless you have more stashed away somewhere."
"I don't have more stashed away, what I have now is what I brought back with me. But, I do know where it is, and how to retrieve it. Plus, doesn't the prison world re-set every day? You can have an unending supply at your fingertips."
He leaned back in his chair, face unreadable. Bonnie hoped he would go for it, because if he didn't, she didn't have a backup plan and she did not want to end up like Katherine, always on the run, trying to stay two steps ahead of Elijah.
He suddenly broke out in a grin, dimples on full display. "You are Sheila's granddaughter after all."
Bonnie felt hope bloom in her chest, "You'll do it?" When he nodded, she surprised herself, and him she supposed, when she burst into tears. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I just…I didn't have a backup plan, and I had no idea if this was even going to work, and, God. Thank you, Kai."
He looked extremely uncomfortable with her emotional outburst. "Yeah well, don't thank me yet. There's still a few things we need to iron out, plus I want more information on the Travelers that will be popping up soon."
Bonnie nodded eagerly, "Okay, yeah I'll you whatever you wanna know." She sat down at the table again, feeling overjoyed that there was a light at the end of the tunnel.
Three days later…
Bonnie crept next to the bed, "Care, Care. Wake up." She gently nudged her sleeping friend. Caroline moaned, and swatted at her. "Go 'way. Let me sleep." Bonnie frowned before giving her a more vigorous shake. "Wake up, Caroline."
Her blond friend groaned, "Seriously, Bonnie? What the hell-" She cut herself off and sat straight up. "BONNIE! Oh my God, where have you been? I've been worried sick! Where did you go, are you okay?"
Bonnie struggled to free herself from Caroline's bear hug. "Can't breathe, can't breathe, Caro." She felt her friends grip ease, but not completely letting her go. "Where were you? You and Klaus disappeared and things here have been crazy! There's hunter who shot Tyler with wooden bullets, an-"
"Care! I know, but I need to ask you a question." Bonnie looked her in the eyes, "There is no right or wrong answer, I will love you regardless, and I'm sorry to rush you, but I need an answer tonight."
"Okay." Bonnie could tell her friend was confused. "What's the question?"
"If you had the chance to be human again, would you?" Caroline's eyes widened, "I know it's a loaded question, and like I said, I need an answer pretty much within the next hour."
"Why the urgency? Bonnie, what happened to you?"
"I don't have time to go through the whole thing tonight, but I need an answer Care." Bonnie took the vampire's hands. "I know I was an absolute bitch to you when you first turned. I was still so mad about my Grams dying and so pissed at all the crap happening all around me."
Bonnie looked down at the colorful bedsheets, "I spent a lot of time blaming myself for your death and being turned. I tried so hard to look for a way to undo it. I swore that once I found a way, I'd give it to you." She looked up to meet her childhood friends' eyes, "I thought you becoming a vampire meant that my best friend, one of my oldest friends was gone. But it didn't, you handled it like a pro, and I've never been more proud of you." Bonnie sniffed and blinked hard to hold back the tears.
"You found a way?" Carolines voice was small.
"I….made a deal. I found a way, and it's only fair that since you never got a say in your turning, that you get to decide whether or not you want to stay a vampire, or go back to being human again. Like I said, there are no wrong answers, you're stuck with me regardless." She squeezed her hands. "But I wanted to give you the first shot, because you were the first to go through it."
She glanced at the clock, "Shit, I gotta get going. Will you meet me at my dad's place in about a half hour?"
"No." Bonnie frowned in confusion at the word. "You're not invited into my Gram's place, Care. I can't bring you there-"
"No, I mean." Caroline took a deep breath, "I don't want it. I want to stay a vampire." She jumped off the bed and began pacing, "I know it probably sounds like I'm being ungrateful. I love you for offering it to me first, you have no idea how much I appreciate that. But, I'm stronger now. I like how I feel and I like who I am now. I don't want to go back to who I was." She paused, "Do you hate me?"
Bonnie surge off the bed and enveloped Caroline in her arms. "I told you, no right or wrong answers. I figured you'd say no, but I wanted to give you the option. I love you, silly. All parts. Human, vampire, makes no difference to me, your heart is the same, that's all I care about."
The two girls stayed locked in an embrace, tears rolling down their cheeks. Bonnie pulled away first, "I'm sorry to breakup this love fest, but I still gotta go get-"
"Tyler?" Caroline guessed.
"Actually, no. I ran into him earlier and told him to meet me at my dad's place. He doesn't know why yet, so if you make it there before I do, you can fill him in."
"Okay." Caroline zipped off to her bathroom.
Half an hour later, Bonnie pulled up to her dad's house.
"Are you sure about this?" The question was asked in a whisper.
Bonnie turned to face her mother. "This will work, it helps that all of you were turned recently, so we don't have to worry about anyone dropping dead from old age."
Caroline was at her car door in an instant, "Abby? Oh my God, is that Elena?"
"Yeah, I had to knock out Damon and Stefan, then her, just to get her to come." Bonnie complained.
"Why?"
"Because she refused to leave without them, and this won't work with them." Bonnie said.
"Okay that was cryptic as hell." Tyler reached in and carried Elena's body inside to lay on the couch, while Caroline and Abby brought in various bags and groceries. Bonnie gave Elena a magical nudge to wake her up, and they all congregated around the kitchen table as Abby busied herself in the kitchen. Bonnie explained what the cure was and how it worked, as well as the downsides to taking it.
"So that's why you can't give it to Damon and Stefan." Understanding dawned on Elena's face. Bonnie nodded, "There's no way for the both of them to take it, and it seems really cruel to have make them decide between themselves, so they're out."
"So what am I supposed to tell them when they see I'm human again? I can't lie to them." Elena said.
"Nothing. As soon as you take it, and we know it works, I'll be taking your memories." Bonnie revealed.
"What? Why!" Elena demanded.
"To protect myself, Elena." Bonnie snapped. "You just said you can't lie to them, how long do you think you'd be able to keep this a secret?"
"And how long before they tell someone outside of Mystic Falls?" Tyler added, "Bonnie is the only witch here, it won't take someone with half a brain long to put two and two together. She would become a target for any and every stray vamp that came through looking to become human again."
"Sure, they'll know something happened because, hello human again, but they won't know the specifics. Even if we're compelled by the originals." Caroline turned to Bonnie, "Matter of fact, take my memories too, I don't want to be a liability to you."
Tyler nodded in agreement, "Me too. This is huge Bon, no way am I gonna be the weak link that puts you in danger."
Bonnie shot a grateful smile to the couple, "Thanks, guys. I really do appreciate it." Elena still looked like she wanted to argue, but gave up when she realized the whole table, along with Abby from the kitchen, were waiting on her to agree. "Fine, sure. It's not like I have a choice, anyway."
"You can always say no, Elena." Abby said walking out of the kitchen with a pot of coffee and mugs on a tray, "After all, it's not like Bonnie is going to creep up behind you and shove it down your throat without your permission, causing your life to be irrevocably changed." She offered her a mug, "Coffee or hot chocolate?"
"Savage." Caroline didn't even try to hide her laugh.
"Okay, enough talking, let's do this." Tyler led the way into the living room while Bonnie took a minute to reinforce the wards she had around the house. She would be keeping them all inside for a few days until she was sure the cure worked. Caroline had volunteered to stay and help just in case something was needed.
Since Caroline had turned it down, Tyler would be the first to take it. When she walked into the living room, she saw he had commandeered the couch as his resting point. "We have the room upstairs if you wanna lay in an actual bed." Bonnie offered. He shook his head, "Nah, I'm good here, thanks. The last time I was in a bedroom in your house.."
He trailed off as he remembered Abby was in the room. As in Bonnie's estranged mother. "We did nothing but homework." He finished hastily. Abby rolled her eyes, as Caroline and Elena shared a laugh.
Bonnie produced the vial out of thin air, "Bottoms up, Lockwood."
"See you on the other side, Bennett." He fisted the vial and downed it in one shot. "Ugh, that tastes like ass." He grimaced as Caroline flashed over to the curio cabinet and brought out Rudy's scotch that he liked to indulge in every now and then. Tyler drank almost the whole bottle before he laid back.
"You're buying my dad a new bottle." Bonnie scolded, already dreading the lecture on the dangers of teenage drinking.
Tyler started to laugh but then started gasping for breath. They all watched in suspense as his eyes glowed yellow, and he shot off the couch heading straight for the door.
"Don't let him get outside!" Bonnie yelled.
Between the three vampires and Bonnie's magic, they managed to subdue Tyler once more. He writhed on the couch shifting between wolf and human. It took almost an hour before he simply dropped down into a deep sleep.
The next 8 or so hours were spent waiting for him to wake up while indulging in a Netflix marathon.
The three girls also took the time to have a much needed no-holds-barred conversation with each other. More than once Abby had to step in and be the voice of reason when tempers flared and feelings were hurt.
"And then, on top of it all, you wanted to give Klaus's body back to Elijah! What the actual fuck Elena?" Bonnie yelled.
"I was thinking of us! If we gave Klaus back then they wouldn't have any reason to stay!" Elena defended.
Caroline huffed out a laugh, "Oh please, you were thinking with your p-"
"HEY!" Abby stepped in. "Who wants cookies?"
"I am always on the outside! Neither of you let me in on what was going on until I died!" Caroline slammed her mug down. "I was being abused by Damon, you two knew about it and didn't do a damn thing to help me."
"And then" She rounded on Bonnie, "You shut me out right when I was turned. I needed you, I needed my best friend, but all you could focus on was you!"
"Well, shit. Somebody had to! It was like once you turned everyone forgot about my Grams dying and my feelings. All everyone wanted was for me to pull a magical solution out of my ass for everything!"
"You think you're so high and mighty." Elena tossed out, "Judging everyone when they don't meet your high expectations. You're not perfect, Bonnie. Remember when you didn't disarm the device? How many people died because of that?"
"Oh, you mean the device that had to be used to corral all the tomb vampires that escaped because we kept the tomb open to get Damon and Stefan out because you begged us to? That device?" Bonnie snarked. "Yeah, I remember that." She waved an arm in Caroline's direction, "Every single time I look at Caroline, I remember that. Do you remember when you turned Damon down and he snapped Jeremy's neck right in front of you?"
"He was wearing the ring!" Elena defended.
"Damon didn't know that!" Bonnie and Caroline shouted in unison.
"Why do you care what happens to Jeremy anyway? You dumped him at the first sign of him not meeting your high expectations." Elena sneered.
"Oh I'm sorry, is expecting my boyfriend not to cheat on me a high expectation? My bad, let me lower the bar," Bonnie pretended to think, "what's Stefan doing Saturday night? He may be a ripper, but I think I can trust him to be faithful."
Elena scoffed, "You're not his type."
"Yeah, Bonnie you need to have that generic doppelgänger look going on." Caroline called out.
"Hey! At least I don't have to worry about Bonnie chasing after my leftovers." Elena volleyed back.
"Did you just call Matt leftovers?" Bonnie giggled. Which set the other two off as well. Abby walked around the corner to see all three in a heap on the floor, various "I'm so sorry's" and "I love you guys" being thrown around. She shook her head and went back to her room.
Being a teenage girl was hard enough without the supernatural adding to it.
When Tyler finally woke up, they were all emotionally drained. Bonnie poured him a drink and mixed it with vervain to see if he really was cured of his vampirism. He drank it all down with no problem, on a whim she also gave him a bit of wolfs bane. To everyone's surprise, his only reaction was a slight itching, like an allergic reaction.
"I think it cured your wolf side as well." Bonnie said in amazement, "I mean, we'll probably have to wait until the next full moon to be sure, but I think you're back to pre-breaking your curse, Tyler."
"Seriously?" Bonnie couldn't tell if he was happy or not. It was like the damn Gilbert device all over again. Of course then, they'd had no idea werewolves even existed, but it was another kick to the stomach that instead of helping him, Bonnie may have hurt him once more.
"Tyler, I-" Bonnie started to apologize.
"Stop. We don't know for sure. Let's keep going for now." She nodded then turned to Elena, "You're next."
Everyone held their breath while she sank her fangs into Tyler's neck. Once Tyler passed out from the blood loss, Elena drew back. "Whoa." She dropped like a stone.
Caroline and Abby carried Tyler to the guest room, while Bonnie sat on the floor next to the couch. Abby came back downstairs and sat in the loveseat across from the couch. "Well, it seems like I missed a lot while I was gone." Referencing all that she'd overheard the girls say.
"Tends to happen when you just up and leave like that." Bonnie said softly.
"I know my reason for leaving might seem flimsy and self-serving." She paused at Bonnie's raised eyebrows, "Okay it was flimsy and self-serving, but I am sorry, Bonnie. I really did think you'd be better off without me."
"Why? I just want to know why, really. That whole thing with Mikael and draining your magic, I get that can be hard to take, but you could have come back and lived a mundane life. Why didn't you?"
"I never wanted to be a witch, much less a 'Bennett Witch'." Abby sighed, eyes growing unfocused as she thought back. "Your grams was a legend, I mean she had a way about her that made people sit up and take notice. I was gifted, yes. But nothing like her." She glanced at Bonnie, "Or you. Even as a baby, you were highly intuitive, and I could just feel what you'd become. Mom had already started doing little spells around you, and you were just enraptured by magic.
I didn't want a life of magic. Not for me, or for you. But every time I attempted to ease you away from it, you would cry for days, and be so inconsolable that I couldn't help but bring you back to it. You'd already bonded with your magic, and there wasn't a thing I could do to separate you. You knew what you wanted, and it wasn't me or the quiet mundane life that I craved."
She focused on the far wall, "I was actually grateful that putting Mikael down depleted my magic. I had the perfect excuse to stop practicing and live how I wanted. I was sorry to leave you, but deep down, I think I was more relieved than sorry." She focused on her daughter, "So there you have it. I'll understand if you change your mind about letting me have the cure. Sometimes I think being turned was the spirits way of punishing me for turning my back on family and I'll accept the consequences, come what may."
She stood up to go back into the kitchen, "If I can add one thing? You have a lot here Bonnie. I listened to everything you girls talked about, and yes, some of it was downright cruel and mean. But what I noticed is they didn't leave you. Especially Caroline when she was turned. She had every right to never forgive how you treated her, but she stayed. She kept trying, because you are that important to her. Elena is more complicated, but she's trying as well. It may not look like it from where you're sitting, but she's being pulled in so many directions, and wants to do what's best for everyone. Sometimes what's best for one person, ends up hurting others. You're all young, you need to give yourselves enough time to grow."
Bonnie rose and went to her room. Her head was aching and she had a lot to think about going forward. She stopped to check in on Tyler and Caroline and found them both fast asleep, curled around each other. Seeing the couple seek solace in each other just reminded Bonnie of how alone she was most days. Her father was usually gone, her mother would be leaving after this, both of her best friends were in relationships. She decided then and there to broaden her social circle, picking up her phone she replied to the invitation she had received from Kai. Within a minute, he texted back "smart choice, kid."
When Elena woke, they did the vervain test, as well as removing her daylight ring and having her walk around outside in the sun. She was overjoyed, scooping Bonnie up in a hug so tight it rivaled Caroline's.
"I love you so much Bonnie Sheila Bennett! I swear from now on, I'll do better to be more considerate of your feelings."
"I'll try not to be so high and mighty and lower my expectations." Bonnie teased.
"I'll try not to be so fabulous as to overshadow you two." Caroline added. Elena exchanged a look with Bonnie, the girls moved in tandem to the fluffy pillows that decorated the couch and commenced a pillow fight to end all pillow fights.
"All right! Pillow fight." Tyler called out from the top of the stairs.
They all agreed to stay for support when Abby took the cure from Elena. Somehow Caroline had found a game of monopoly hidden somewhere and badgered them into playing.
4 hours later and Bonnie remembered why the game was hidden.
Abby sailed through with no issues. That night before they all went to sleep, using a spell that was borrowed from the Gemini, Bonnie proceeded to pull the last 3 days from everybody's mind except Abby. No one except Jamie knew what happened, and Abby rarely associated with anyone supernatural, so Bonnie didn't have to worry about her spilling the beans.
The next morning was a bit chaotic as her friends had obviously forgotten not only that she had returned, but why they were at her house at all. Bonnie sat them all down and over breakfast gave them the story she had come up with to explain her whereabouts for the last 2 weeks.
She's not sure they bought it, but her mysterious disappearance and return was overshadowed by the fact that both Elena and Tyler were both 100% human, along with the fact that Klaus was gone for good. Caroline called Matt and Jeremy over, and for a while it felt like they were all just normal teenagers.
Bonnie was putting the food away in the fridge when Elena approached her, "I don't know what you did, but thank you. I didn't know how I was going to survive being a vampire, but now I don't have to! I'm heading over to the boarding house to tell Stefan and Damon."
Matt's hug lifted her off her feet, "Thank you for whatever you did." Bonnie pulled back a bit, "You know what happened wasn't your fault, right? Stop blaming yourself, and if anyone has anything to say about it, tell them to meet me outside." Matt laughed and set her down before leaving to drop Elena off at the boarding house before his shift started.
The rest of the group trickled out and soon it was just Bonnie again. "Home sweet Home."
"All I'm saying witchy, is that it's suspect as hell that you all managed to graduate on time. I mean, exactly how much school did you miss when you were recovering from that spell to take out that shapeshifter?"
"I made all that time up!" Bonnie exclaimed. "I didn't need to have anyone compelled in order to graduate, thank you very much." Bonnie hitched her box higher, "And why do you need me to help you carry these? You're a vampire, could have sworn extra strength came with the fangs."
"You were the slowest to say not it. I don't make the rules, be faster next time." Damon tossed out.
"Jackass." Bonnie muttered. Soon they had everything packed into the SUV. It was graduation day and save a few hiccups along the way, they all managed to finish their high school career without raising Silas, dropping the veil, or Bonnie dying again.
That's not to say they didn't have issues, there was still the council to deal with, as well as the hunter that had come to target vampires specifically. Professor Shane still tried to sway Bonnie to learn expression, but one phone call to the Gemini had him suddenly resigning his position and moving elsewhere. Plus the originals, well Elijah truthfully, were a constant shadow over Mystic Falls. He was convinced that the disappearance of Klaus and Bonnie at the same time was no mere coincidence, but was unable to prove anything.
"Why are we stopping?" Bonnie whined as they pulled up to the store. "We have enough food and drinks at the cabin, come on let's go."
"Calm down, I just need to pick up something real quick." The got out of the car bickering like usual. They had only taken a few steps when an SUV with blacked out windows stopped in front of them. The back passenger window rolled down, and a familiar face emerged. "Congratulations."
Bonnie stopped walking. "Thanks." Bonnie said slowly, "What are you doing here?"
Kai shrugged, his eyes hidden by his aviator sunglasses. "I was in the neighborhood, thought I'd stop by while I was here and pick you up."
"I literally just graduated." Bonnie informed him.
"Yeah, I saw. Red is your color, Bonster."
Bonnie felt a blush spread across her cheeks, "You were there?"
"Like I said, I was in the neighborhood." He opened the door and patted the seat next to him, "Hop in."
"Umm, she's not hopping anywhere. Who are you?" She'd forgotten about Damon standing next to her.
"None of your business, that's who." Bonnie felt Damon scoff next to her. "Well I'm about to make it my business."
"Okay, that's enough." Bonnie threw out a hand to stop Damon from charging the vehicle. She knew this Kai would kill him and not even blink. She walked closer to the vehicle, even though she knew Damon would be listening anyway. "Can you give me a day?" She asked.
"Trying to back out of our deal?" He leaned closer.
Bonnie bristled, "No. I will keep my word. Just….can I have one day to celebrate that we made it to graduation without me dying?"
"It's better this way, trust me. No long drawn out goodbyes, no tearful 'call me every week'." He raised his voice to sound mocking. Bonnie grimaced, "Fine. You don't have to be an ass about it." She stepped back and looked at Damon. He was already shaking his head. "No way witchy, I'm not letting you leave with him."
There was a bark of laughter from the vehicle, "Let her!"
"Not helping." Bonnie said through clenched teeth. She grabbed Damon and walked a few steps away. "Remember when you asked about how Klaus and what being able to change Elena back cost me? This is it. I made a deal, and I will honor that deal." She poked his chest with a finger, "You will go back and tell them…..tell them that Abby came back. Tell them she had some sort of motherly urge, and I'm going to be with her all summer long."
Damon frowned, "Come on, that's not even believable." Bonnie wanted to laugh until she cried. "Yes it is, wanna know why? Because you will sell it like it's the truth. I need you to do this for me. I'll be back by the time classes start at Whitmore." She started walking back to the SUV, the back door now being held open by Kai.
"Hey!" He flicks his eyes in Kai's direction, "There better not be a hair out of place when she gets back. She may be a pain in the ass, but she's our pain in the ass."
"Careful Damon. I might start to think you actually care." She repeats the line she tossed out years ago.
He smiled softly, "We wouldn't want that."
She took Kai's hand and jumped into the backseat, scooting over to give him room. Kai jumped in and rubbed his hands together.
"So, who's ready for a summer of fun at magic camp?"
