The Powers that Bind Us
Chapter 2- First Impressions
A/N: Hello! Here is the next chapter for the Powers that Bind us. Here we see Elena and Bonnie meeting some new people and maybe an old friend or two. For the record, Elena and Katherine are sisters but they aren't identical as Katherine is older than Elena. By the way, we still don't own the vampire diaries. Now, onto the story!
Ester ushered Klaus, Henrik and Rebekah out of the kitchen. "Our newest pupils have arrived!"
They walked towards the main entrance where they met Elijah. Rebekah glanced around the entrance hall. "Where's ´too sexy for my shirt´" She asked.
Elijah shrugged "I don't know. It's not my turn to babysit him."
Rebekah rolled her eyes. "I'm going to get revenge. You just watch me."
Klaus laughed. "And we all know how terrifying it is when you get revenge."
Rebekah mock pouted. "Don't make fun, Nik. I'm being serious."
At that moment, Bonnie and Elena made their way to the entrance. Ester walked over to greet them.
"Welcome to the Mikaelson Academy..." Ester started welcoming the girls.
Klaus leaned over to Elijah. "Is it just me or does the girl on the right look a lot like Kat? How is she by the way, I'm guessing you still check up on her. You know, just as ´friends.´" Elijah sent Klaus a withering look. Klaus held his hands up in mock surrender. "I was just asking."
Ester turned to her children. "May I introduce my children Elijah, Niklaus, Rebekah and Henrik. Children, this Bonnie Bennett and Elena Gilbert. My husband, Mikael is on a business trip." Suddenly, Ester frowned. "Where on Earth is Kol? "
Rebekah smirked. "He's too busy being sexy to greet anyone. " Ester sighed and turned to Elena and Bonnie.
"I'm afraid I must go and find Kol. Niklaus, Elijah and Rebekah will show you to your rooms. Henrik, come with me. " Henrik and Ester went inside the house in search of Kol.
Klaus turned to Elena. "Your last name is Gilbert, right? " Elena nodded. "Do you have a relative named Katherine?"
Elena nodded again. "She's my older sister."
Rebekah gestured for Elena and Bonnie to follow her. "This way, girls. You´ll be staying in the west wing of the manor. That's where all the girls sleep."
After the girls had walked out of earshot, Klaus grinned and elbowed Elijah in the ribs. "Told you so." Elijah merely scowled in reply.
Inside the house, Elena, Bonnie and Rebekah were headed to the west wing. Rebekah turned to them and asked, "So, what are your powers?"
Elena and Bonnie stared at her, surprised by her bluntness. After a moment of silence, Rebekah shrugged. "It's fine if you don't want to tell me, I was just curious." They walked on in silence until they reached their rooms. "You two are side by side. Lunch is served at noon, so you can just come down to the kitchen if you're hungry." Rebekah turned around and left.
Later that day, Elena and Bonnie were lost. They had been intending to go to the kitchen but they couldn't find it. "Face it, Bon. We're lost." Elena sighed. Bonnie frowned before nodding.
"I guess we'll have to find someone and ask for directions." She sighed. As they turned the corner, they narrowly missed running into Niklaus Mikaelson. "Sorry, Niklaus."
Klaus shrugged. "It's fine. And please, call me Klaus."
Bonnie nodded. "OK, then Klaus. Can you show us the way to the kitchen? We got lost."
Klaus nodded. "Of course. It's right down the hall, turn left and it's the first on your right. I would show you but Kol seems to have gone missing again and I need to find him. Goodbye, ladies." Klaus walked off down a hallway to find Kol.
Elena and Bonnie headed in the direction that he had told them to. "His accent is delicious." Elena commented.
"Elena!" Bonnie giggled.
"What? You have to admit that it is. All foreign and sexy." Elena giggled.
"Well, yeah, but he's the headmistress' son and I'm pretty sure he must teach here or something." Bonnie reminded Elena as they turned left and walked through the first door on their right. "Whoa." She murmured after seeing the kitchen. "This kitchen is enourmous."
Elena glanced around. "Are we just supposed to take what we want?" She wondered, gesturing to the buffet-like table at the far end of the room.
"I guess." Bonnie shrugged, heading towards the table.
The door opened again and Henrik Mikaelson walked into the kitchen. "Hello! I see you found your way to the kitchen." He greeted cheerfully, heading to get some food. "I'm Henrik, in case you don't remember."
Elena smiled slightly at him. "We remember. Hey, Henrik?"
Henrik glanced up from the plate that he was piling food on. "Yeah?"
"Where are the other students? Why are we the only ones here?" Elena asked, gesturing around the empty kitchen to emphasise her point.
"Well," Henrik started to explain. "The new students that start at the beginning of the year ususally come a bit before the others so you have a chance to look around without the other pupils hassling you. The others will probably be here in an hour or two, maybe earlier."
Elena nodded and put some food on her plate and walked to sit with Bonnie at a table. Suddenly, there was a loud bang as a handsome, young man ran into the kitchen. "Hello!" He announced cheerfully. "I'm Kol Mikaelson, you must be Elena and Bonnie, right?" He didn't give them a chance to answer as he continued talking. "You're from America, right? Have you ever been to Las Vegas? I bet it's cool there, I mean there's loads of casinos and girls in bikini's."
"Well-" Kol cut Elena off.
"I had a really weird dream last night. I was swimming in the ocean when suddenly Neil Patrick Harris appeared and he was like 'yo' and then he was eaten by a shark. It was really scary. Anyway, I'm gonna go now. Bye!" Kol jumped up and ran back out of the kitchen. Henrik, however, was doubled over with laughter.
"Excuse me." He choked out before leaving the kitchen in hysterics.
Bonnie and Elena looked at each other, bewildered. "What the hell?"
After eating lunch, Elena and Bonnie headed back to their rooms. On the way there they bumped into Kol Mikaelson again, only he seemed more calm and he was wearing different clothes. "Hello again." Bonnie greeted warily.
Kol looked blankly at them. "Again? I have no idea what you're talking about. I've never met you before in my life."
Elena stared at him. "We just met at lunch, like 10 minutes ago."
Kol frowned. "I wasn't at lunch. I was too busy running away from Nik. It was too easy, really."
"You were running away from your brother?" Bonnie asked.
"He was trying to make me do work." Kol shrugged. At that moment, Henrik joined them in the hallway, still smiling.
"Anyway, we definately met you at lunch. You were talking about Las Vegas and a dream that you had where Neil Patrick Harris got eaten by a shark."
Kol frowned in confusion, before he caught sight of Henrik's smile. "Henrik." He said stiffly. "Where is our sister?" Henrik shrugged, still smiling. Kol clenched his fists before yelling "BEKAH!" And with that he ran off in search of his sister.
Bonnie frowned. "I'm confused."
Henrik laughed. "You didn't meet Kol at lunch, that was Bekah." He saw that Elena and Bonnie were still confused so he elabourated. "Bekah's a shapeshifter. She shifted into Kol to get revenge on him for not putting his shirt on this morning. She does it quite a lot." They started walking towards the west wing of the house and after a few minutes they ran into Klaus. "Hey Nik." Henrik greeted his older brother. "What's up?"
"Another student has arrived. I can introduce you, if you like." Klaus said to Elena and Bonnie, who nodded. They walked towards the girl's rooms. There, they were greeted with a shocking sight.
"Caroline!" Henrik cried, running forward to hug her.
"CAROLINE?!" Bonnie and Elena said in unison, shock colouring their tones.
A/N: That was chapter two. In the next chapter we will find out how Caroline, Elena and Bonnie know each other and we will meet a few more familiar faces.
