Author's Note
Bella's dress for the Ball .
Chapter 10 should be up tomorrow! Thanks for the reviews, I enjoy reading all of them.
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Bella put on her black floor length dress, she had been running so late with Jeremy, she just randomly choose the first dress she got her hands on. She rushed down the stairs in her heels and found Jeremy messing with his tie. Bella did it for him using magic.
"So, are we driving or magic?" Jeremy asked.
"Magic, we're already late as it is," Bella said as she used magic to take them to the front of the Mikaelson home. Bella walked in beside Jeremy. They were greeted by Rebekah and Kol.
"Hello Bella, Jeremy" Rebekah said.
"You look stunning Bella," Kol said with a smile.
"Hello Rebekah, thank you for the compliment Kol," Bella said with a slight smile.
"I'm going to go find Matt," Jeremy said.
"Don't get in trouble," Bella said before Jeremy walked off. Jeremy sent her a small smile and a shrug.
"Where did you buy your dress Bella?" Rebekah asked eyeing the dress Bella was wearing.
"Somewhere in Paris, Jeremy and I went sight-seeing today, and I picked it up last minute," Bella said.
"I liked Paris, the blood tasted well there," Kol said with a smirk Bella smiled, that was what Klaus had told her when she mentioned Paris before.
"Would you go shopping with me tomorrow Bella?" Rebekah said.
"Sure," Bella said with a smile. Rebekah nodded and walked off with a smile, Bella focused her attention on the original in front of her. "What did you do to make a dark enchantress so angry that'd she make a spell just for you?"
"We had a relationship, she was overly jealous, and she kept following me, so I broke it off with her. Than I went one day to talk to this witch friend of mine, and the next morning she was dead, Cynthia the dark enchantress, killed her out of jealousy. Knowing that she had gone completely crazy, I went to reason with her. I tried telling her that what she felt for me was just lust, and then she threatened to tell Mikael where I was, so I killed her before she could," Kol said.
"You got very lucky, I used the spell on Mikael, he didn't go peacefully," Bella said, "It took him about 20 minutes for him to finally die."
"Why did you help Nik kill Mikael?" Kol asked curiously.
"I consider him a friend," Bella said with a shrug, "And when a friend needs help, you help them."
"Here asked Caroline Forbes to come here with him," Kol said trying to see if she would get jealous.
"Good for him, it's obvious he's been pining over forever," Bella said sincerely, but she knew that wasn't the reason Klaus invited Caroline to the ball. Bella walked with Kol to get a drink. He handed her a glass of champagne. "Did you meet a lot of Enchantresses?"
"I met a couple, none of them were as beautiful as you though," Kol said with a smirk.
Bella laughed, at his attempt of flirting, "How many of them were dark?"
"Most of them were dark, light ones were always a bit snobby," Kol asked.
Bella laughed, "You only think light ones are snobby because they have morals."
"Are you saying I don't have morals?" Kol asked with a smirk.
"No, but enchantresses of the light just have stricter morals than others," Bella said, "I'm sure you only thought they were snobby because of their strict morals." Klaus came up to Bella and Kol.
"Come on Kol, leave Bella alone," Klaus said, "There's an announcement going to happen, and mother wants us all together."
"You know, I would expect at least a simple hello Klaus," Bella said taking a drink of her champagne.
"Hello Bella," Klaus said with a roll of his eyes.
Bella laughed, "Not was that so hard? I'll leave you two alone." Bella walked back to where Jeremy was standing with Caroline. Bella greeted Caroline. The announcement began when Bella felt her phone vibrate. She walked outside with her phone, Jeremy saw her leave, but didn't think anything of it. Bella made sure she was hearing distance away when she answered.
"Hello?" Bella said answering her phone.
"She got Paul, we were tracking her, and she bit down on Paul, we don't know what to do, so we called you," Jacob said frantically into the phone. Bella grew angry at hearing Victoria hurt one of her friends, "He's in a lot of pain, and his pulse is slowing, he might not make it much longer Bells."
"I'll be there in 5 okay?" Bella said, "I know I can fix this don't worry, just tell Paul everything will be okay, and tell him to hold a bit longer."
"Get here as soon as you can," Jacob said. Bella rushed back inside the house and found Jeremy in the dancing room. Bella walked up to him.
"I have to go, I'll be back in 10," Bella said.
"What happened," Jeremy asked.
"I'll explain when I get back," Bella said, "Just stay safe please."
"Yeah alright," Jeremy said worried. Bella gave him a reassuring smile before rushing back out of the room. When she was out of sight of the house she popped over to Forks. She was in front of Sam's house. She knocked, needing to be invited into the house.
"Bella come in," Sam yelled. Bella rushed in to the room where Paul was at. She kneeled by his bed, he was lying on his stomach, the bite was on his side. Bella pressed her hand on the bite and created a spell to heal it. She felt the wound healing itself. Everyone watched with bewilderment, as Bella stepped back.
"He should be just fine, but he'll need rest, and well a lot of food to build back up his strength, he probably shouldn't go into his wolf form for another day," Bella said.
"Why the hell are you in a dress Bella?" Jacob asked looking at Bella with a confused look on his face.
"I was attending a ball with Jeremy," Bella said, "I have to go back, the ball was being held in a room filled with vampires, and I left Jeremy by himself."
"Go, we'll call if anything else happens," Sam said giving Bella small nod.
"I'm going to kill her," Bella stated to the pack before she left, "I'm going to find her and kill her, and she's going to die a slow and painful death. I am going to make her regret everything she's done. Every person she's killed and every person she's hurt. She'll be begging for death before I'm done with her."
"Vengeful Bella is scary," Quil said with a smirk.
"Vengeful Bella seems like a badass," Seth said with a grin, "I'll see you Tuesday Bells."
Bella nodded and popped back. She walked back inside to find Finn leading Elena off to a different room. Wanting to make sure her cousin was okay Bella followed slightly behind. She was sure to make sure that she wasn't noticed. She was listening in on the other side of the wall. Esther was putting up a privacy spell, and Bella was getting a bad feeling about what was about to be said inside the room. Bella listened as Esther explained her method of killing her children. Bella sighed when Elena was only too eager to get rid of the originals. When they were done Bella rushed down the stairs and walked into the dancing room. She knew going to Klaus was useless, he was obviously planning something with Caroline who had helped steal his coffin, and he was too happy to have his family back to listen to Bella. Bella went to the next best original. She walked up to Elijah who was talking to someone from the town council.
"Elijah, can I talk to you outside for a moment," Bella said trying to act as normal as possible.
"Of course Bella," Elijah said holding out his arm for Bella to take. They walked outside to a small bench and sat down. Bella put a silencing spell around them and turned to look at Elijah.
"Did you know Elena was going to talk to your mother?" Bella asked looking at Elijah.
"Yes, Elena said she would tell me what it was about," Elijah said.
"Well, let me do it for her since she'll probably lie to you. Your mother, she's done a spell, she's lacing the wine with a spell that will bind all of you together, so that if one of you dies you all die. I need you to not drink the wine, if one of you doesn't drink the wine, then the spell won't work, and it won't bind you together, and you won't die," Bella said hoping Elijah would believe her.
"Why would you come to me and not Nik," Elijah asked curiously.
"Because, Klaus is happy with your mother back, and wouldn't believe me until it's too late. You, you're more skeptical about your mother, I have a better chance in getting you to believe me than trying to get one of your other siblings to believe me." Bella said.
"She would notice if I don't drink the wine," Elijah stated to Bella.
"Not if I put an Illusion charm on it, to her you drank the wine and the spell worked," Bella said, "In order to pull a spell like this off, she'd need the full moon, so she wouldn't try to kill one of you until Thursday."
"Thank you for helping us Bella," Elijah said standing up and offering his hand to Bella, Bella smiled and took it.
"So you believe me, I thought I would have to convince you more," Bella said.
"You haven't tried to go against our family so far, and if Nik can trust you, that means a lot," Elijah said.
Bella nodded, "When she passes out the wine, you won't have to do anything she'll believe you drank it."
Elijah nodded in understanding and led Bella back inside. He walked off to talk to his sister and Bella went to talk to Jeremy.
"So what happened that you left earlier?" Jeremy asked.
"I had to go heal someone from the pack," Bella said, "She's getting more desperate, and I have to kill her sooner or later."
"What's your plan?" Jeremy asked.
"I don't know yet, but she won't go back to Forks so quickly, I have about a week or so before she'll try anything again." Bella said, "Are you enjoying yourself?"
"It's a great party," Jeremy said, "I asked for my homework for the rest of the week, I said I was sick."
Bella laughed, "Why'd you do that?"
"I wanted to spend some time with Uncle Charlie when he came, I already finished all the homework, so my schedule is free for the rest of the week," Jeremy said.
Bella smiled, "Such a little sneak! Alright, I don't think Charlie would have a problem with this." Esther began giving her speech, and the servers began passing out the glasses of wine. Bella sent a glance to Elijah who was looking at the Wine and then to his mother. He sent Bella a reassuring smile and then Bella put the spell on him. Everyone took a drink and Esther thought her spell worked. Bella was talking to Jeremy when Damon walked up to her.
"Do you want to dance Bella?" Damon asked.
Bella smiled politely, "Sure Damon." Bella walked off to dance with Damon.
"When did you turn?" Damon asked as they danced.
"Did Elena not tell you? Well, I just recently turned, sometime around yesterday afternoon, Elena and Katherine came up with a plan to turn me to take away my powers, but that didn't work," Bella said
"I'm sorry, Elena said she was spending the day with you and Jeremy trying to mend your relationship," Damon said, "We never thought she'd do something like this."
"Elena is driven by her hatred for me right now, nothing will stop her from trying to kill me and get me out of here," Bella said she looked at Damon and her face turned slightly serious, "You have to get away from her Damon, Elena is doing some reckless things, and I won't be able to hold back the originals if she does something to go against them again. They may not kill Elena because they need her blood, but they will kill Stefan, and then they might go after you. I'm giving you a warning to separate yourself from all of this."
"I won't just leave my brother," Damon stated, "I'll figure out a way to get him out of here, away from all of this."
"Do you mind if I cut in Damon," Kol said
"Not at all," Damon said. Kol stepped in and took Damon's place dancing with Bella.
"I saw you talking to Elijah earlier," Kol said to Bella.
Bella nodded, "I was having a conversation with him it's usually what people do at parties."
"Are you enjoying yourself Bella?" Kol asked.
"I am," Bella said with a smile, "What about you?"
"I find dancing with you to be enjoyable," Kol said with a grin.
"Really, I've been told I'm a horrible dancer," Bella said with a small laugh.
"I think just the opposite Bella," Kol said as he twirled Bella.
"That's only because now I'm less clumsy then when I was human," Bella said putting her arms around Kol's neck, Kol rested his hands on Bella's waist.
"You're much different from other enchantresses I met," Kol said, "The ones of the light wouldn't bother helping an original, and the ones of the dark would always ask for something in return for their help, but you, you've helped Nik so many times, and yet you haven't asked for a thing."
"I don't need to ask for anything," Bella explained.
"Isn't there anything you want?" Kol asked.
"Not really," Bella said, "Is it that strange to you that I'm just here to help?"
"It is, no one really ever likes helping the originals," Kol said with a slight shrug.
"Thank you for the dance Kol," Bella said smiling as she walked off the dance floor. Rebekah met her when she walked off.
"Hey Rebekah," Bella said smiling.
"Hello Bella," Rebekah said, "Are we still going out tomorrow?"
"Of course, I mean as long as I can bring Jeremy?" Bella asked.
"I'd love the company," Rebekah said, she was developing a small crush on Jeremy, but she wouldn't say anything to anyone about it.
"Alright, I'll pick you up tomorrow morning," Bella said with a smile.
"Okay," Rebekah said smiling as she walked away. Bella smiled at Jeremy as he danced with Rebekah.
"My siblings have taken a liking to you," Klaus said walking up to stand beside Bella.
"Of course, I'm a very likeable person," Bella said with a smirk.
"I never knew you could be so vain Bella," Klaus said with a small smirk.
"I wasn't being vain, I was just telling the truth," Bella said with a smile, "You know, for a ball that was planned last minute, it turned out really great."
"Rebekah likes decorating," Klaus said, "Where did you go off to earlier?"
"I had to go heal a friend of mine," Bella said, "He was in a bit of an accident and I went to heal him."
"What happened?" Klaus asked.
"Cold one bite," Bella said, "He's a shape shifter, so the bite wasn't turning him, but killing him."
"Since when do you know shape shifters?" Klaus asked.
"About a year that I've known them, I'm an honorary pack member," Bella said with a grin.
"What were they doing with a cold one?" Klaus asked, Bella and him had always avoided the topics of their pasts.
"She was on their land," Bella said, "They kill any human drinking vampire that goes on their land."
They didn't kill you," Klaus said.
"I'm part of the pack, and I drink from blood bags only," Bella said.
"Hey Bells, ready to go?" Jeremy asked.
"Sure Jeremy," Bella said, "Thanks for the invitation Klaus."
"Goodbye Jeremy, Bella," Klaus said with a slight nod of his head he left and Bella and Jeremy walked out of the house to a secluded area and Bella popped them home.
"I'm going out with Rebekah tomorrow, are you coming?" Bella asked.
"I've got nothing to do," Jeremy said, "As long as we go out of town."
"Alright, now let's go to bed, because I'm exhausted," Bella said. Jeremy nodded and they both headed upstairs.
-Mikaelson Home-
Esther had just gone to sleep. Finn was in his room. Everyone else was in the living room together.
"Tonight went well, wouldn't you say brothers?" Rebekah asked taking a seat on an empty chair.
"Better than expected yes," Elijah said pouring himself a drink.
"You seemed to be cozy with Caroline Nik," Rebekah said.
"She and her little witch friend stole something from me, and I'm just planning out my revenge," Klaus said continuing his drawing.
"Nik, do you have Isabella's number," Kol asked from his spot on the couch as he fiddled with his phone in his hands.
"I do," Klaus said not bothering to look up from his drawing.
"Can I have it," Kol asked looking at his brother.
"No," Klaus said simply.
"Why won't you give it to him Nik?" Elijah asked curiously wondering if Klaus had developed romantic feelings for Bella and didn't want Kol near her. .
"Because Bella is a close friend and Kol will only use her for a while and then get bored of her and toss her to the side like trash," Klaus said looking up, "And I don't want that for Bella."
"That is not my intention," Kol said defending himself.
"Kol, Nik has a point, you don't hold a relationship with someone for more than a month," Elijah said.
Rebekah handed Kol a piece of paper, she sensed her brother didn't mean any harm towards Bella, "Here, Bella gave me her number."
Kol grinned, "Thank you sister, you are now my favorite sibling."
Klaus glared at Rebekah and then looked at Kol with a serious look on his face, "I wouldn't hurt her Kol, Bella can be nice, but she can be just as bad as any of us when she gets angry, and if you hurt her I'll feed you to my hybrids, that is if Bella doesn't do it first."
"You really do care about the girl," Elijah stated after hearing Klaus's warning.
"She's a close friend of mine," Klaus said returning to his drawing.
"Well, I'm going to ask her if she would like to go out tomorrow," Kol said standing up.
"She's going to say no, she's going out with me tomorrow," Rebekah said with a smirk.
"And she has family moving in the day after that," Klaus said with a smirk.
Kol groaned he'd have to act fast if he wanted to get to know Bella, "Where are you going with her tomorrow Rebekah?"
"I don't know, I just know that she's bringing Jeremy with her when we go out," Rebekah said with a smile.
"Great, I'm tagging along with you," Kol stated.
"No you are not Kol," Rebekah said.
"Yes I am Rebekah, I want to get to know Bella, and what better time than the present," Kol said with a grin.
"What attracts you to Bella brother?" Elijah asked Kol, it was strange to see Kol so wrapped up in a girl, he could understand that Bella was beautiful, but to have Kol so wrapped up in her, she must be more special than she realizes.
"She's different, I like it," Kol said simply, in reality, everything about Bell drew him towards her, it was more than just her beauty that attracted him to her, it was everything.
