CRACK!
The sound echoed through the garden. As soon as Bonnie's mind caught up she had wretched herself out of the hybrids arms, away from his lips and brought her open hand up to his face in a powerful slap.
How dare he! She thought to herself and looked at the 'man' in front of her with pure disgust. How dare he try to pull something like this.
Bonnie glowered at Klaus before she turned on her heels and began to walk away. The witch mentally slapped herself for not seeing through him straight away, she was blinded by something. Never again, she told herself, never again will she allow herself to be sucked in by him, not even for a second. She could hardly believe that she even allowed him to touch her. He killed Jenna! He sacrificed her best friend on an altar of fire for Christ's sake.
Tonight just proved something for her, Klaus cannot be trusted. Every single tiny thing he does has an ulterior motive behind it. Nothing he does is honest.
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Klaus didn't say or do anything as he watched Bonnie walk away from him.
He screwed up big time, he knew that. All he was trying to do was to tempt her into willingly working with him rather than being with him by force. He was getting tired of having to force people to do things. He took it too far with the attempt to kiss her, he knew that. It was not his intention but he couldn't help himself, she just responded so well to him. The way she shivered when whispered in her ear, the way her head fell back slightly onto his shoulder but like everything else in his life, he screwed it up and he knew that it was not going to be easy to fix but he was going to damn well try.
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Bonnie was half way through the restaurant when Klaus reached her, he gently took a hold of her arm and turned her around to face him.
"Don't touch me!" she seethed and pulled her arm out of his grip and attempted to walk away but he once again grabbed her arm again. "I swear to god, Klaus, if you don't let go I'll-
"You'll what, Bonnie? Set me on fire in front of everyone?" he interrupted her and her eyes narrowed dangerously at him. Klaus decided to comply with her wish and released his hold on her arm. "I'm sorry," he apologised to her, "I took things too far out there and I apologise for it. It was not my intention, I just wanted to take you out so you'll be more comfortable around me," Klaus admitted honestly.
Bonnie sighed and shook her head, "I'm never going to be comfortable around you, Klaus," she told him, "You killed someone I cared about and have hurt just about all of my friends and me."
"I'm sorry," he apologised once again.
"Can we just leave?" she asked and ignored his faux apology "I've had enough and I'm tired," Klaus nodded his head and they walked back out to the car in silence.
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They made it to the cemetery in record timing; only stopping once for gas (twice if you count being pulled over by the police but Damon compelled him to leave). The three of them got out of the car and Alaric swung the bag full of weapons around his shoulder after handing Lisa and Damon a flashlight each to see better through the darkness.
"Look out for the name Pickett," Lisa said as they walked through the cemetery.
"God, I hate cemeteries," Damon commented with a sour look on his face, "they are so dreary."
"Over there!" Alaric pointed towards the end of the cemetery where a large mausoleum was built with the words 'Pickett' spelt over the gateway.
The three wasted no time and hastily ran over to the mausoleum; Damon quickly used his vampire strength to break through the padlock on the gate, pulled on the rusty gates and walked inside. It was completely pitch black inside, save for the small lights radiating from the three small flashlights that each of them held.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Alaric questioned and Damon sent a dangerous glare to the history teacher slash vampire hunter. "Hey, I want to get Bonnie back too, but Sheila obviously put this guy down and locked him away for a reason. What's to say he doesn't turn on us after he's done with Klaus?"
"We don't have any other plan, Ric. Not one that would work. Mikael is the only one who can kill Klaus. He does that, we get Bonnie back and then we'll worry about what might happen," Damon said and walked closer to the tomb that encased Mikael. "It's for Bonnie," he reminded them before easily pushing the top of the tomb off and sent it crashing to the hard concrete ground, the sound echoing through the tomb.
Damon looked down at the desiccated Original vampire and stood his ground when Mikael's eyes shot open.
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The drive back to where Bonnie and Klaus were staying was in complete silence.
The witch was disappointed with herself, she should never have let it get to that point but she did and now she felt horrible. She felt hypocritical, she'd never once understood how Elena could want to be in the presence of Damon after everything that he had done and now Bonnie found herself in a similar situation, only Klaus was a lot worse than compared to Damon.
"Where are you going?" Bonnie asked when she noticed Klaus was not following her to the room.
"I think it's time for me to create some hybrid companions," he said to her and a viscous smile rose on his face.
"That's exactly what this world needs, more creatures like you," Bonnie muttered sarcastically.
"I don't think I need to remind you of what will happen if I return and you are not here," he said and took a warning step towards the witch.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," she mumbled and took the room key from his hand.
As soon as Klaus left Bonnie made her way to the room and leaned back against the door once inside. "What are you doing, Bonnie?" she muttered to herself and hit her head back against the door in a self-punishing movement. She really needed to talk to someone and usually with a situation like this it would be Elena or Caroline. But this was Klaus; she couldn't talk to her two best friends about Klaus. They might not understand. She needed someone who wouldn't judge her, someone who wouldn't think any less of her. She needed Stefan.
She stood up straight and went to fetch Damon's phone from the bedroom and dialled Stefan's number. It rang four times before he answered.
"Bonnie?" he asked in desperation and concern. Obviously they worried with every passing day that she'd be dead.
"Stefan," her voice was weaker than she had hoped and it instantly alerted Stefan that something was wrong with his friend.
"Bonnie, are you okay?" more concern rose in his voice. His mind was automatically going towards the worst situations, "Did he hurt you?" he growled lowly.
"No, it's just…something happened earlier tonight and it's really getting to me," she said to the vampire on the other line.
"What happened?" he asked curiously.
"Klaus took me out for dinner and we went for a walk afterwards," she paused, "he said some stuff and…there was a moment…between us." Stefan paused and allowed her to continue, "I'm really scared, Stefan," she confessed with a shaky voice.
"Scared that he's going to hurt you or scared that you…may feel something?" he asked carefully.
"I know that I don' feel anything for him, but I'm scared that I might end up feeling something. The thing is I was having a really nice time with him tonight before he tried to kiss me," she told him, not realising that she told Stefan more then she wanted to.
"He kissed you?" he growled again.
"He tried, but I slapped him and yelled at him a bit," she could hear Stefan let out a light laugh when she told him.
"Nice work," he praised the young witch.
"You don't think any less of me, do you?" Bonnie asked him softly.
"Of course I don't, Bonnie. You are in a difficult situation right now; he is the only company you have so it's understandable what you are going through and what you're feeling," he said to her.
"Please don't tell anyone," she begged. The last thing she wanted was everyone knowing her current predicament.
"Just between you and me," he confirmed.
"Is Damon there? He said there was something he wanted to tell me and I actually want to talk to him for once," she said and let out a small laugh.
"He's not. He has gone with Lisa and Alaric, there was something they needed to do," he said cautiously, he didn't want to give too much away via phone.
"What's going on, Stefan?" She asked, narrowed her eyes a bit.
"We don't want you to worry, Bonnie but Adrienne came to us earlier and told us of a way to kill Klaus. She thinks we are working together but we're not."
Bonnie let out a sigh, she was incredibly grateful that her friends were trying so hard to get her back but she didn't want any of them to get hurt, "please be careful," she begged.
"We will. We have all our bases covered this time," he reassured the worrying witch. "You better go before Klaus catches you."
"Thanks, Stefan. I really needed someone to talk to."
"Anytime, Bon, just please stay safe."
The two said their final goodbyes before hanging up. Bonnie instantly started to feel a bit better after her talk with Stefan, he had this way of calming her down and making her see reason like no other could. He was the friend that Bonnie could go to and talk to about absolutely anything and she knew he would help in any way he could and she was thankful for that because there were just certain things see felt she couldn't share with Elena and Caroline.
After getting off the phone Bonnie slipped off the black heels and messaged her sore feet a little. As glamorous as heels looked on her, she really didn't like wearing them for a long period of time. She pulled a pair of sweat pants and a tank top out of her bag and changed into them after taking off the dress.
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Klaus looked around at the scene unfolding before him. This was not supposed to happen. His hybrids were not supposed to bleed out and eventually die.
He didn't understand. He had done everything they had told him; he followed the sacrifice to a T. He killed the werewolf, then the vampire then finally the doppelganger… but the doppelganger was still alive, Klaus recalled. Bonnie had performed a spell to bring her back to life after the sacrifice; Elijah had informed him of that.
Bonnie, Klaus growled. She messed everything up.
Klaus compelled the human he was using to feed his hybrids to set the dead bodies on fire before setting himself alight and left the scene.
If the doppelganger still being alive was the cause of his hybrids dying, there would be hell to pay.
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Bonnie jolted awake when she heard to loud bang sounding from the main room. She quickly got out of the bed and ran out to see what all the commotion was about. Bonnie saw Klaus standing next to what was left of a chair after being launched into the wall.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Bonnie exclaimed.
Klaus' head snapped up when he heard her speak. "You screwed it up," he gritted and began to stalk towards her, "I cannot create my hybrids because you kept the doppelganger alive," he said and backed her into the wall. "You screwed it up," he repeated viscously. Bonnie said nothing as she stared up at the furious hybrid in front of her. "And now you need to find the fix," he bent down a little to become eye level with the witch, "and if you can't then guess who I will be paying a visit too," he said with a wicked smirk.
"That curse is over a thousand years old! Grimoires don't go back that far," she tried to explain to Klaus.
"Well then, guess where we will be heading."
"The sacrifice has passed, killing Elena won't make a difference!" she tried to reason with him.
"It never hurts to try. Get your stuff together, we'll be leaving in an hour," he told her as he backed away from her and walked out the door, making Bonnie flinch when he slammed it shut. Once he left, Bonnie let out the breath she didn't realise she was holding in and slid down the wall and sat on the ground, feeling the tears well up in her eyes.
This night really had taken a turn for the worst.
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"So, Alaric, you up for donating some blood?" Damon asked his friend with a smile.
"Mikael doesn't feed from humans, Damon," Lisa reminded him.
"Unfortunately human blood is the only thing that will wake him up. So what do you say buddy?"
Alaric sent a glare Damon's way and pulled out a small pocket knife from his pocket, creating a clean slice across his wrist and holding it above Mikael's mouth, allowing some blood to drop into his mouth.
"There we go," Damon said as the colour appeared in Mikael's face.
"Get that away from me!" he cried out, his voice raspy.
"You need to drink," Damon encouraged, leaning over the tomb and breaking the chains off his body.
"I haven't drunk human blood for many years," he revealed.
"Then what do you drink?" Lisa questioned.
It was then that Mikael reached out and pulled down Damon's leaning body and sunk his fangs into the other vampire's neck leaving both Lisa and Alaric completely stunned as Damon's body fell limp onto the cold ground.
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Elena and Caroline watched worriedly as Stefan tried to console an obviously distraught Bonnie.
"What's she saying?" Elena asked the blonde beside her.
"She's talking about Klaus and creating hybrids and something about it not working," Caroline answered, straining trying to hear what he best friend was saying. She was in hysterics and it made it hard to understand. "Oh my god," she breathed.
"What?!" Elena hated being left out of the loop.
"Klaus can't create hybrids because you're still alive and if Bonnie can't find a way to fix it he's going to come here…and kill you," Caroline explained to her friend. The blonde hated this so much. Not only was Bonnie in danger but now Elena too? "She's ordering Stefan to get you out of Mystic Falls because there is no way for her to find another way," she related to Elena.
"No! I'm not leaving!" Elena exclaimed, looking between Stefan and Caroline.
"You might have to," Adrienne announced as she strolled calmly into the room, Nathaniel following closely. "I have eyes on Klaus; they say he will be making his way here very soon."
Stefan tried to sooth Bonnie some more, reassuring her that everything will work out before the two hung up.
Everyone was in a deep discussion about what to do about the situation and Stefan received a text message from Alaric.
He's awake and he's gonna help
Some good news at last, Stefan thought with relief.
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Did you all really think I was going to let Bonnie fall for him so soon? Hehe. I hope you liked this chapter. Please review!
Up Next: Klonnie angst, Elena argues with everyone about their plan and there may just be a little bit of begging ;-)
