Chapter 10 – Part 1

Bonnie stood in the parlor room more shocked than anything that Finn, the brother who was helping their mother kill them all was in the room let alone in the house with his siblings. She couldn't wrap her head around it.

Rebekah and Kol had guided her to a sofa to sit down on as both originals flanked her. Finn just stared at her, he remembered how the met briefly when his mother was out sent to kill is siblings and used Bonnie and her mother as power sources. He did not agree to his mother's methods.

The front door knocked again but no one got up to get it so Elijah sighed at his two younger siblings who would not leave Bonnie alone and went to get the door. Not to long after Elijah left he came back in the room with a familiar face trailing behind him.

Stefan walked into the room and smiled at Bonnie's shocked face. "Stefan? What are you doing here?" Bonnie said speaking up for the first time since she arrived.

Stefan walked over to the armchair closer to Bonnie and sat down. "Klaus and Rebekah invited me. They told me about this dinner and since Klaus said I am like family, very much how you are, that I am invited. Since I knew some Bennett witches as well. The only task I had to do was keep Damon busy."

Before Bonnie could respond with anything Klaus walking in as he was wiping his hands clean with a towel. "And he better be old friend."

"Oh he is, he will be very busy cleaning all his precious rugs and buying a whole new liquor stash as I destroyed everything. Simple accident. I was playing some football in the house with Matt and I didn't catch the ball in time. Oh and Bonnie don't worry about Matt being in harms way, he knew about your dinner tonight and wanted to help me make a big enough distraction plus Tyler helped a little and the two are spend the time away for the evening. Oh and Matt said it was pay back for his incident earlier at school." Bonnie couldn't believe Matt and Stefan purposely destroyed Damon's stuff so he could come. The she became pissed off at Matt for endangering himself just to get Damon mad. But then she warmed up at the thought of Matt wanting to get revenge on the vampire who help destroyed out lives and mainly his.

"Stefan what on earth where you thinking! You know Damon is going to get back at you and Matt. So now you have put his life in danger, yes Matt wants to be apart of what we do and everyone does love to piss off Damon but you know your brother." Bonnie got up from the sofa and took out her phone. "I need to call him." Before any of them could say a word or do anything, she was out the room and calling Matt.

Matt picked up his phone after the third ring. "Bonnie what are you doing calling me?" Bonnie was mad and annoyed. "How stupid can you be Matt? Really playing football in the house, now Damon is going to come after you." Matt sighed through the phone. "Don't worry about me. I'm with Tyler and Caroline, nothing will happen. And if anything does we will go to your house where he isn't invited."

Bonnie sighed. She was just worried about her one last real human friend, she never wanted Matt involved in this life, instead he was tossed in it. Just like how most of them were. "Fine Matt. Just call me if he comes after you." She hung up her phone and walked back into the room. Klaus walked over to her and placed an arm around her.

"He will be safe love, after all he is with my first hybrid and your vampire friend. Damon would be an idiot to come after them as well. As he knows you will hunt him down as well." Klaus said trying to ensure her. Rebekah got up and walked over to them. "Plus Damon knows I will cause him bodily harm if he touches even a hair on Matt."

One of Klaus hybrids came out from the dinning room and announced dinner was ready. They all made there way towards the dinning room as Klaus pulled Bonnie closer to him. Pressing his lips to her ear he whispered. "I have yet to tell you, that you look extremely gorgeous tonight, love."

They all took seats at the table. Elijah had told to have Bonnie sit at the head of the table since in a sense she was the matriarch of the family now. To her right was Klaus, Elijah and Finn. To her left was Stefan, Rebekah and Kol.

How the table is set up:

Bonnie

Stefan - Klaus

Rebekah - Elijah

Kol - Finn

They started to eat the meal when it was time to start with the story telling. Bonnie looked at every vampire in the room; each of them had a story about her family line. They each were connected to her in some way, they where a family.

Finn decided he would speak up first.

"I will speak up first since I knew one of your oldest relatives that any of us met or knew. Her name was Ayana. You probably heard of her when my mother was trying to get you and your mother to work for her. She knew all of us, as she was a great mentor to us all. Some of my siblings will probably agree that she was more of a mother than Esther was. I was closest to her, closer than what my mother believes." Fine spoke.

"Ayana had two daughters, her husband had died during a hunting trip before her youngest was born. Her daughter's names were Dalla and Thora. Dalla was a year or so younger than Niklaus and Thora was the same as Henrick they where only two moons apart. After every hunting trip I would bring some of what we hunted to help feed Ayana and her daughters. It was wrong of me but as I got older I started have a crush on Ayana. Its hard to describe what drew me into her; could be how she saw me as the man I was becoming, how she smiled just in my presences. No one knew of my feelings for her but I gather mother had some sight on it.

After Henrick's death I could not stand being home, so I spent my time at Ayana's, spending time with her and her daughter's. The night my parents came up with the plan of turning us immortal, I over heard it all. I ran over to Ayana's home as fast as I could. I asked her did she know anything of this but she just looked down and said that it's against Mother Nature but Esther was willing to do anything to keep us all. The night we woke up after the spell and having out first feed I made my way to Ayana's and found out I could not go in. From the door way she said she counteracted the spell saying anyone whoever is immortal cannot enter a home of someone who's not immortal. That she had to protect the innocents of this world from monsters like us. Ayana was the first person to call me a monster and that's when I truly believed it. I left the village but I did keep a close eye on Dalla and Thora, making sure they had happy lives. I came back one last time when Ayana was dying; she placed a hand on my cheek and told me I had so much potential. I told her she was first love that she will always have a place in my heart, though she never felt the same about me. Which she still does have a place in my undead heart, I swear I saw her when Niklaus had me daggered for those nine hundred years. You are so much like her Bonnie, so strong and you care. You didn't let my mother push you around just like Ayana. That night when mother planned on killing us all, I had my own set of plans. Plans that would stop Esther from abusing the Bennett line and send her to the other side for good with no magic."

Bonnie sat there shocked at what he said, how he was close to her ancestor. She has a book that belonged to Ayana's at her house with some entries about Finn. She knew she would have to bring it over and let Finn read it. Getting up from the table she walked around and gave Finn a half hug, she hugged him tightly as she could see telling that story had hurt. Pulling back she looked him in the eyes. "Thank you for sharing that with me Finn, I know how much that hurt to tell and I have something to show you later." Getting back up she walked to her seat and sat down. Looking around the table she wondered who would speak up neck.

Kol decided he would like to go next.

"Since I was the second one to get daggered I think I should go next. You might have heard of her or not, her name was Pauline Bennett. She was a spitfire, had that spark that lite up any supernatural. I met her sometime in the 13th century, it before my traveling years when I came across her in. At first I had no idea who she was, but I saw her everywhere. I was traveling with witches across everywhere cause, as you know I hold witches to a high level. When Pauline crossed our path the witches I was with all drew scared. So while one night I crossed paths with her, I made sure we did, I pulled her aside and asked her in my kind way of whom she is.

Learning the hard way of course she told me she was a Bennett as she knew who exactly who I was. One of the famous Originals, she said. I'll be honest with you Bonnie; I never had anything romantic with her as she was happily married with a son and daughter. Pauline was the first Bennett I had come across since Ayana, so she updated me. In return I helped her with a pack of wolves that was attacking the town, I didn't want to get Klaus help so I took care of them. But I missed one and the wolf knew who sent me, so he went after Pauline. As Pauline was protecting her family with her magic, she was using too much. Her magic failed for only a minute but within that time it got to her and tore out her throat."

Kol looked down at his lap, the memories hitting him of that night. "I helped her husband bury her with the rest of the Bennett witches. I vowed I would send in support and have my people protect them. Which I did, I sent what I could so they would have money and I had two vampires I trusted to protect them. That's my story."

Everyone was quiet for a moment, Bonnie remembers seeing Pauline's tombstone whenever she visits Grams. "Her son and daughter are beside her. I always wondered why she had such a well-crafted tombstone. You bought it." Kol nodded his head.

The room went quiet again; Rebekah rolled her eyes at how suddenly everyone was too scared to talk. "Oh bloody hell, I'll go next."

"Her name was Amelia Bennett, I met her in New Orleans in the early 1800's. We had just arrived in New Orleans. She was a handmaid for the Governor's wife, I honestly had no idea she was a witch. Klaus didn't like him so much but Klaus, Elijah and I had to pay the Governor to keep our secret. He was a cruel man but his wife was worse. As I was always at their house as at the time I fancied the Governor's son I saw Amelia often. Some days I saw her she was covered in bruises and she would never looked up at me. I was leaving the Governor's house when I caught the scent of blood. Following the scent it lead me to a small shack that was furthest from the property.

The door was open so I walked in; straight in front of me Amelia was bleeding terribly from a wound that was on her collarbone. In an instant she put her hand up and put up a shield around herself. She yelled out 'Get away from me. I know what you are and I rather die than let you have my blood.' I thought that was the funniest thing. I had no reason to kill her, as I wanted to save her. Her spell was wearing thin as she was slowly dying, as soon as it was down I ripped open my wrist and gave her my blood, then I picked her up and took her back to our home. I placed her in one of our guest rooms, my blood started to heal her wound but not before I got a further inspection. I'll just say I didn't like what I saw and I told my brothers. When she woke up she used her magic on Elijah but I told her we were not going to harm her that we just wanted to talk. She said she would talk, but only to me as she only knows my face and that the Governor fears my brothers. So we talked, I introduced myself and like Kol said we had become pretty famous. Though she heard of us through the family. She even said that before introducing herself as Amelia Bennett. I asked her how did she get hurt, she told me that the wife believes that her husband and her are having relations which Amelia greatly denied as she was saving herself for a proper man.

The wife had grabbed a knife and attempted to slit her throat but missed and got her just below. Then I had to ask the difficult question. How long was she being beaten, Amelia said for as long as she lived there; she became their property when she was seven years old and she was in her early twenties. So for thirteen years has lived this way. I asked her if she wanted freedom would she take it and said yes. After talking to my brothers they bought Amelia and sold her to herself; she would never be labeled as a slave again; we where friends for a while until some things got in the way. I caught up to her fifty years later; she was married, her magic strong as ever and had four kids. I told her everything that had happened and she kept me up to date what's been happening in the witch's world. She had become a great friend and ally. Klaus had even painted a portrait of her for records, I believe we still have it and it's locked up."

The dinner party isn't over just yet as this is only part 1. I didn't want to over whelm you all with so much.

What did you think of our other surprise guest? What did you think of Finn's, Kol's and Rebekah's stories?

Yes I didn't explain why Finn was there but he is a Mikaelson and family. Family above all.

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Part 2 will be up next Sunday.