Damon walked into Stefan's room as soon as he got off the phone with Bonnie. "Cousin witches finally managed to open the coffin."
Stefan perked up at the information, "what was in it?"
The elder brother just shrugged his shoulders, "she didn't say. Just said she and Lucy got it open."
The Salvatore brothers shared some more words as they left their home and made their way to the cave they had hidden the coffin in.
"Bonnie!" Damon called out as they entered the cave. The brothers shared a look of concern at the lack of response and quickened their pace until they reached end of the cave where the coffin was hidden, the part where no vampire can enter. "Oh god," Damon muttered as he looked around. The coffin was wide open and both Bonnie and Lucy were on the ground, unconscious.
"Whatever was in that coffin attacked them," Stefan said from behind him.
"Way to point out the obvious, Stef," Damon replied with an eye roll. "Call Alaric, he's going to have to get them out."
Alaric had gotten to the cave as soon as he could after getting the call from Stefan. He had passed a still unconscious Bonnie to Damon and passed Lucy to Stefan while he gathered up the few Grimoires and other magical items that scattered throughout the cave.
"What the hell was in that?" Alaric questioned, his voice was a mix of concern for the two Bennett witches and worry for what was currently running around Mystic Falls.
"Something that can hopefully kill Klaus," Damon replied.
"How can we be so sure that whatever was in there won't come after us?" Alaric asked his vampire friend as the three of them began to make their way out of the cave.
"We kill it after it kills Klaus and the Originals," Damon said simply.
His reply earned an eye roll from the vampire hunter, "is that your solution to everything? Kill it?"
"It's gotten me this far," was all Damon said before affectionately glancing at the witch he was carrying in his arms.
Alaric could not help but let a tiny smile grace his face as he witnessed the scene. Bonnie and Damon had a bit of a weird relationship and if not for Elena, Alaric was sure that it would be Bonnie for Damon.
Klaus was sitting in his private study room, sketch pad on his lap as he continued to put the finishing touches on his latest piece of art. It had been a peaceful at the Mikaelson mansion, Finn had been brooding away in his room as usual, Elijah had been out all day, probably stalking the doppelganger and Kol had been rather cheerful and slightly less annoying since his visit from Bonnie last night. Klaus could only assume that everything was going well between his brother and the witch.
To keep his brother in his good mood, Klaus had gone down to the hospital very early this morning to compel the human that he had earlier compelled to provoke Kol into killing him to forget anything he may have remembered about the attack which had only brightened his younger brothers mood significantly.
But his reasons for doing so weren't all for his brother's gain. Klaus meant what he said when he told Kol he wanted Bonnie to be a part of their family. Bonnie reminded him so much of Ayanna, the Bennett witch that had been best friends with his mother a thousand years ago, they were/are both strong willed, moral and stood for what they believed in. Klaus was close with Ayanna; she was more of a mother to him than Esther was. He wanted things to be like how they were back when he and his family were human. Although, some things were strained between them, it was a happier time. He only realised that after many hundred years of loneliness and now that Mikael was dead there was no reason to why he and his siblings could not move on with their lives and of course in due time he shall raise Rebekah from her neutralised state, but only after he explains to his siblings what had truly happened to their mother. They would be furious with him, Finn especially, but he believed that they would come around eventually.
Or maybe he wouldn't have to.
He knew the coffin that contained his mother was in the possession of Bonnie and her cousin who were trying relentlessly to open it. He could only hope that their attempts would fail. If Esther was released, it would surely be the end of him.
And that moment came all too soon as a familiar voice greeted from behind him, "Good evening, Niklaus,"
He could feel his face pale from colour and his un-dead heart dropped into his stomach. For the first time in a very long time, he felt genuine fear coursing through him. He'd almost forgotten what that felt like to be that frightened.
Klaus took a deep breath and willed himself to stand from his seat and turn to face his mother.
She stood tall before him, long blonde hair flowing and still dressed in the very same clothes Rebekah had dressed her in after she had been murdered…by his own hands. Klaus studied the expression on his mother's face; there was nothing there, nothing that he could comprehend anyway.
"Mother," his voice shook a little as he spoke and he wanted to murder himself for not only feeling weak and fearful but for showing it, too.
The feelings flowing through him only intensified when she had begun to make her way to him in slow, powerful steps. She stopped when she was a foot in front of him and he felt himself revert back to the young, scared little boy he once was and stared at the ground, never meeting her eyes.
"Look at me, Niklaus," she demanded.
Klaus complied with his mother's wishes and very slowly raised his head until his eyes met hers. His jaw was clenched and his hands bawled up into fists.
"Do you know why I am here?" she asked him.
The hybrid took a breath before speaking, "to kill me."
The stern, cold look from his mother's eyes dissipate into something warmer and…dare he say it? Loving? Klaus flinched when Esther brought her hand up to rest on her son's cheek.
"You are my son, Niklaus. I am not here to kill you; I am here to forgive you."
Klaus was confused by his mother's confession. It couldn't be right. It had to be a trick for him to take his guard down. She can't have forgiven him. Not for what he did to her.
"I want to be a family again."
Bonnie's sensitive eyes squinted at the bright lights that seemed to be surrounding her when she awoke. Her head was pounding and her throat felt like she had eaten sand. She saw the glass of water next to her and downed the whole glass within seconds, her face scrunching up in confusion when she noticed she was in her bedroom. The last thing she remembered was being in the cave with Lucy and trying to open the coffin. Falling back onto her bed she closed her eyes and tried to remember what else had happened.
A soft knocking on her bedroom door before Lucy poked her head through the partially opened door. "Oh good, you're up," she said with a smile and walked fully into her room and practically launching herself on Bonnie's bed, nearly making the younger witch bounce of it. "Good news, we opened the coffin. Bad news, we lost whatever was inside," Lucy informed Bonnie as she fiddled with the stuffed elephant that never left Bonnie's bed. "Oh, and the son of a bitch attacked us if you hadn't already figured that out yet."
As soon as the words left Lucy's mouth everything came flooding back to Bonnie. After calling Damon she went back into the cave and saw Lucy on the ground and the coffin opened. Bonnie had no idea what attacked her, she didn't get a good look at it before it through her against the rocky wall. The memory of being tossed like a rag doll caused a sharp shooting pain to course along her back, neck and left shoulder. Not to mention the now pounding headache.
"So we don't know what's in it?" Bonnie asked as she sat back up in her bed, letting out a small groan of pain in the process.
"You okay?" Lucy asked, concerned.
Bonnie nodded her head, "Yeah, just a little sore. How about you? You were unconscious when I came back."
Lucy shrugged her shoulders, "nothing I have had done to me before."
The younger witch shot her cousin a confused look, "what do you mean?"
"Remember when we first met and I told you that I was working with Katherine because she saved my life?" Lucy asked and Bonnie nodded her head, "She saved me from another vampire. This vampire was a complete psycho and had an immense hatred for witches. I was nearly dead when Katherine found me. She killed the vampire and healed me with her blood." She finished and leant back against the headboard, besides Bonnie.
"That's horrible," Bonnie replied with a frown. Stories like these did not help with making her hate vampires any less.
"Cousin witches, nice to see you two looking alive," Damon interrupted the two Bennett's and came striding into Bonnie's room like he owned the place.
"Anything on whatever was in the coffin?" Lucy asked the elder Salvatore as he took a seat on Bonnie's desk chair.
"Nothing as of yet but Stefan and Alaric are out looking and I'm sure whatever it is will turn up soon," he replied as he picked through the items that covered Bonnie's desk. "Hopefully with a dead Klaus," he added and held up a folded piece of paper. "Oh, what's this?" he asked as he nosily opened the letter. "Oh! It's a love letter from Baby Gilbert! How positively stomach churning-ly sweet," he answered himself in an annoying high pitched voice before tossing the letter back onto the desk.
"Would you mind not going through my stuff?" Bonnie asked him, annoyed.
"Yes, I would mind," he replied and continued to go through her things.
"Ass," Bonnie murmured under her breath and Lucy let out a snicker.
"If this thing does kill Klaus, then can Bonnie end this thing with Kol?" Lucy asked Damon.
"Bonnie can do whatever she likes when Klaus is dead. Personally, I'd like to be there when you break the news to the little bitch," Damon replied with a smirk.
"Why? So he can snap both our necks?" Bonnie asked and both Lucy and Damon turned to her. "Do you really think he is going to take me playing with his feelings lightly? Did you even think of that Damon when you and Stefan came up with this plan?"
"Nothing like that is going to happen, Bonnie. When Klaus is dead we'll neutralise all the other Originals before Kol even gets the chance to do something to you," Damon reassured the young witch.
"Then what?"
"Then we drop the coffins in the middle of the ocean or something and then get the hell on with our lives."
The conversation between the three supernaturals ended there. Damon soon left to join his brother and Alaric on their search for the missing coffin inhabitant and Lucy when to celebrate the success of the spell by heading over to The Grill for a 'celebratory drink' as she called it, while Bonnie stayed home and cooked herself dinner.
She hadn't realised how long she had been out. She'd slept through the afternoon and well into the early evening so when she started to finally feel better she realised that she was absolutely starving.
Having some alone time really gave her a chance to think over what had been going on the last few weeks and more importantly, Kol. Yesterday was most definitely a… interesting experience to say the least. Bonnie won't deny that Kol is a great kisser and strangely enough she finds herself enjoying his kisses and the occasional touches. He'd been able to make her feel things that she had never felt before. He says things to her that makes her think, affects her, and gets to her. He gets to her.
Did she like Kol? She did. She found herself enjoying his company. He's charming, funny and when he's around her his focus is sorely on her which is something Bonnie is not really used to. She does not have feelings for him. There is absolutely no doubt about that in her mind about that. But he is right, there is something between them and it honestly scares the crap out of her. She doesn't want to have anything between them, nothing at all. Not hate, not lust, not want, not affection and definitely not love. No nothing.
Hopefully this mysterious coffin creature will destroy Klaus before any of this gets out of hand.
The young witch had just finished cleaning up the kitchen when the doorbell rang. Bonnie wiped her hands on a towel before she made her way to the door. She opened the door and was surprised to find Kol standing there.
Huh, think of the devil and he shall appear.
But what was more surprising was the expression that was covering his face. He looked almost… sad. Looking into his eyes she noticed that they had lost their mischievous twinkle that they usually held.
"What's wrong?" Bonnie asked. She hated that the concern in her voice was genuine. She hated her natural instinct to console those who were hurt and upset. She didn't even realise her mistake until it was too late. "Kol, just come inside and tell me what's wrong," she said after he bitterly laughed off her previous question.
His head snapped up as soon as she muttered the words that would grant him access to the one place she was completely safe from him.
Bonnie could feel her heart rate increase and she heard Stefan's voice once again starting to ring through her mind,
Make it believable
It was too late to turn back now.
"Please, Kol," she stood aside and motioned for him to walk through the threshold.
The Original stared at the doorway for a moment before slowly taking a step over the threshold. Once inside he turned to Bonnie and placed a hand on her arm and leant down to place a quick kiss to her lips. The whole action seemed very domesticated to Bonnie. Like a wife greeting her husband at the door after he arrived home from work. When he pulled away Bonnie took his hand and let him to her room. If she were sure Lucy would have been gone a while then she would have stayed in the living room but she didn't want Lucy unexpectedly arriving home and finding Kol inside the house. She'd have a fit if she knew that Bonnie invited him in, even if it were an accident.
"Already leading me to your bedroom, Miss Bennett? Have something in mind, do we?" Kol questioned her with a suggestive smile on his face. She was slightly amazed at how fast his mood had changed, his usual mischievous had returned.
She rolled her eyes before replying, "No. I just don't want my cousin to have a fit if she comes home early and finds that I've invited an Original inside my house," she explained as they entered her bedroom.
"I honestly thought it would be a lot longer before I saw the inside of your bedroom," Kol confessed as he looked around her bedroom.
"Yeah well don't make me regret inviting you in," her voice may have sounded playful, but she very much meant it. "Now are you going to tell me why you showed up on my doorstep looking miserable?"
And just like that, his good mood was gone.
"I don't want to talk about it," he answered like a stubborn child.
"Then why are you here?" she asked and took a seat on her bed and watched as Kol snooped through her room, similar to what Damon had done earlier. Damn nosy vampires.
"I felt like seeing you. How was your day with your cousin? Lucy is it?"
Bonnie nodded her head, "It was fine," she answered with a shrug of her shoulders. The movement, while small still caused a shoot pain the course through her left shoulder, the one that took quite a blow against the rocky wall of the cave when she was thrown against it earlier.
Kol, who was looking at a photo of Bonnie and her dad, saw her wince in pain through the reflection of the mirror in front of him. "What's wrong? Are you hurt?" He demanded as he shot around and super speeded in front of her. The Original reached out to touch her shoulder but she slapped his hand away.
"I'm fine," she said, smiling a little at his concern, "just a little sore."
"What from?
"Don't worry about it, it isn't important," she replied with a small head shake.
"Will you let me see?" He asked softly. "I just want to make sure you are okay," he added after she gave him an uncertain look.
The young witch bit her lip lightly as she quickly thought it through before nodding her head but before she could even untie the ribbon that held her cardigan together, Kol was already doing to for her.
His movements were slow and careful. He very slowly brought his hands up and gentle pushed the light fabric off her shoulders. Bonnie's heart rate increased and her breath got caught in her throat when his hands were ever so softly trailing closely behind the fabric as he slowly pulled it off and let it fall to a heap at the feet.
The whole time his eyes never leaving hers.
Kol very gently turned her around so her back was to him as he inspected the faintly bruised area. Tomorrow there was be a nasty bruise there, for sure.
"See? Not that bad," she said after regaining the ability to speak after the very surprising sensual moment.
Damn vampire, he can even make removing a jacket an intimate moment, Bonnie thought to herself with a scowl.
"It will be tomorrow," he replied as his hands moved over the bare skin of her shoulders and upper back.
Bad day to wear a camisole top…
"Why won't you tell me what happened?" Kol asked and wrapped his arms around her middle, holding her to him.
"I don't even really know myself," she replied and covered her hands over his and before she even realised, she had leant back into him.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that I didn't see who or what attacked me," she answered and his stiffened behind her.
"Someone attacked you?" He asked in a low, dangerous voice that caused a chill to run down her spine. He let go of her and turned her back around, the look in his eyes matching the tone of his voice. "Was it Damon?"
Bonnie's brows furrowed in confusion at the Originals accusation, "Why would Damon do this?"
Kol didn't even seem to comprehend what she just said as he let out a string of threats towards the elder Salvatore brother that got Bonnie even a little worried for Damon's safety.
Crap… she was going to have to tell him.
"It wasn't Damon. It was whatever was in that coffin of Klaus'," she revealed and his attention quickly snapped back to her.
"She did this to you?"
"You know what was in there?" Bonnie asked and her eyes widened slightly. Kol nodded before running a hand through his hair. "What is it?"
"My mother," he answered with a deep sigh.
"Your mother?" she repeated in disbelief. "But I thought she was on the other side?"
"Her spirit was but a friend of hers, another witch, preserved her body after Niklaus killed her," he explained as he sat on her bed and put his head in his hands.
"Klaus killed your mother?" Bonnie asked with fake shock and surprise. It was about time Kol knew the truth. "Is your mother here for revenge?"
Bonnie knew that she would be. Esther would want revenge on Klaus for killing her by killing him. Needless to say, Kol's answer sent real shock through her.
"I should call Da-
"No!" Kol cut her off and Bonnie jumped at the volume of his voice. He motioned to her to come to him and she did. Bonnie stood in between his legs and had her hands on either shoulder while he had his hands on her waist as he looked up at her. "Please don't tell your friends yet. Mother said she wanted to be a family again. She forgave Nik for his actions and she wants us to do the same. She just wants us to be a family again, Bonnie. We need some time alone without having to worry about the Salvatore's being a nuisance and trying to kill us every chance they get," he tried to explain to her but she wasn't really listening. All she could comprehend was that the coffin plan just joined the long line of failed plans.
Damon and Stefan would have a field day with this.
"Why did you come here?" she asked him and ran her hand through his hair.
"I just needed to get out for a while," he confessed to her and got up and began to pace around her room.
It scared Bonnie that Kol had chosen to come here, to here when he was feeling vulnerable and upset. It meant that there was some part of him that trusted her enough to let her see that side of him.
"Can I do anything?" Bonnie offered, walking over to him.
Kol said nothing just look at her before leaning down to kiss her but before their lips could do more than brush against each other, Lucy's drunk voice rang throughout the house.
"I'm hooomme!" She slurred in a very loud voice.
Bonnie couldn't help but give a small laugh at her cousin's expense. "I better go put her to bed before she hurts herself," she said to Kol. "I'll be back," she told him before making her way out of her room and to her cousin who was making a lot of noise in the kitchen.
The younger witch walked into the kitchen and found Lucy raiding through the cupboard trying to find something to eat.
"Oh hey, B!" she greeted loudly when she caught sight of Bonnie. "Do we have any noodles?"
Bonnie poured Lucy a glass of water and got some pills and handed them to her, "here take these." She managed to get Lucy to take the pills without any trouble but she wondered just how much Lucy had to drink when she mistook the pills for noodles.
Thankfully, Lucy was not a difficult drunk, nor was she a violent drunk so getting her into her bed was rather easy and she was out like a light as soon as her head hit the pillow.
After all that she made her way back into her room but noticed that Kol was nowhere to be seen but there was a note on her pillow. The young witch picked up the note and began to read it,
Bonnie,
Thank you for tonight. You truly are a beautiful soul.
I will come by and see you tomorrow.
Sweet dreams, Beautiful.
Yours,
Kol
Bonnie re-read the note a couple of times, the feeling of panic growing stronger with each time.
There was no possible way that this could end well.
Not for her and not for anyone involved.
Esther was standing in the middle of her new bedroom was admiring the evolution of the home décor since she had been on the other side when she heard her youngest son yelling for her.
"Yes, son?" She answered his calls as she walked down the stairs. She had since changed out of her long cloth dress and into a more modern dress that ended just below the knees. Although different from what she was used to, it was far more comfortable.
"You attacked Bonnie. She freed you from that coffin after a thousand years and you give your thanks by causing her harm."
Esther let out a sigh before replying to her son, "Kol, you have to understand that I needed to get to you and your siblings without any trouble following. You of all should know that I would never want to bring harm to Bennett's and I intend to make right with my actions towards them, do not worry my son," she explained to her youngest son.
"Kol, are you and the youngest Bennett in a relationship?" she asked, "I only ask because it is unlike you to feel concern for anyone but your own family."
"No, mother, we are not in a relationship but I do care for her," he answered her honestly.
His response brought a smile to Esther's lips. This was all too perfect, she thought. The Original Witch had not been completely certain that young Bonnie had received the dreams that Esther had sent to her but she was certain that she had now.
"It is amazing that even after all these years, the Bennett's and the Mikaelson's always seem to find their way back to each other," she said, the smile still on her face as she left her son standing in the middle of the foyer.
It would not be long now.
Wow! You guys didn't have to wait a month for this update! Haha. Well, there you have it! It was Esther that sent the dreams to Bonnie! What will all that mean? And why did Kol think that Damon attacked Bonnie? Well you will just have to wait and find out! And you all discovered why Klaus wants Bonnie to be part of their family and the answer wasn't very heart stopping and jaw dropping but is the truth ever really spectacular? Hehe. You will find out a bit more about that later on too. I really hope you enjoyed this chapter. And does anyone else feel sorry for Kol?
Okay there are two reviews that I received for the last chapter that I would like to answer for all of you.
First from Twanz: Does bonnie like Kol at all?
I think you'll find in this chapter that she does like him but she isn't overly fond with him at the very moment but he gets to her. And I hope that this chapter did answer your question at least a little bit!
And the second is from randomlittleme:
Only Bonnie has an ulterior motive being with Kol. Kol's 'feeling' for Bonnie are a lot more genuine than Bonnie's are for Kol. Klaus' little plan won't interfere at all with a possible relationship between Kol and Bonnie. Klaus is just using Kol's interest in Bonnie to his advantage.
Thank you all so so much for your reviews. They are all so lovely and kind and keep me writing!
I apologise for any mistakes in this chapter.
Also guys, I just have to say this. There will be no romantic Bamon in this story! Just don't want you guys to get the wrong idea from Alaric's point of view.