Bonnie stood under the hot spray of the shower, the water mixing with tears and blood. This was all too much for her to take anymore, she couldn't handle trying to protect everyone here, find a way to kill Adrienne and having to deal with some sort of arising feelings for Klaus, not to mention the fact that she has officially became a cheater. She could not believe that she had let him kiss her; he took advantage of her vulnerable state. She eventually shut off the water when it began to turn cold and she wrapped a white, fluffy towel around her body and cursed to herself when she realised she didn't bring any other clothes in with her and there was no way in hell she was going to put those bloody and muddy clothes back on.
Bonnie opened the door enough to poke her head out and satisfied that Klaus was nowhere in sight, she crept out of the bathroom and found her bags on the bed. Bonnie pulled out some fresh clothes out of the bags before making her way back into the bathroom to change, the steam still lingering from the hot shower welcoming her out of the cool air of the rest of the room.
She walked back out of the bathroom a few minutes later, feeling refreshed but still exhausted.
"Are you feeling any better?" Klaus asked from the couch, a glass of alcohol in his hand. She hadn't noticed him there when she walked out earlier.
"Yeah," came her reply and she walked over and sat next to him but left a bit of distance between them.
They sat next to each other in an awkward silence, both of them thinking about the event that occurred earlier in the night. Klaus knew that kissing the witch may have been a mistake, but he didn't regret his actions.
"Are you hungry? Do you want anything to eat?" He asked out of the blue and Bonnie shook her head no, she didn't believe she could stomach food right now, she was still feeling rather queasy from the blood loss and the amount of Klaus' blood coursing through her system.
"Can I have some of that?" She asked him, pointing to the drink that he held in his hand.
"Go for it, darling," he said and passed the glass to her, "you look like you need it."
Bonnie took the glass from Klaus and took a long swig of it. She scrunched her face up at the strong taste and handed it back to Klaus.
"I'm going to need you to do something for me tomorrow," Klaus announced, "and I'm letting you do this because I trust that you won't do anything foolish."
"What is it?" Bonnie questioned curiously.
"I believe that I need to have a word with the Salvatore brothers," he told her, "I want you to bring them here. You have my word that I won't harm them, I just want to talk." Bonnie was not one hundred per cent convinced but in the time she had been with him, he had kept his word so far so she agreed. "Now go get some rest, you've had a long day."
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The next day Klaus had given Bonnie the car to drive to the Salvatore Boarding house and bring the two vampire's to him, repeating his promise from last night that they would not be harmed. She pulled up at the boarding house and her heartbeat started to race. Though it hadn't been terribly long since she had last seen them it had still been long enough. Once she was at the front door she didn't know whether to knock or to walk straight in.
She raised her hand to knock on the door and every passing second her heart came close to pounding out of her chest and the overwhelming feeling of dread and nervousness swelled in her stomach when the sound of footsteps could be heard.
The heavy door was swung open to reveal none other than Damon himself, looking completely stunned and shocked at who was standing at the door.
"Hey, Damon," she greeted with a tiny smile and a half wave. Bonnie looked at him and noticed that he did not look as vibrant as he usually did. He looked incredibly tired and worn out and she felt guilty but at the same time she felt grateful because she knew through Stefan that Damon had been working the hardest to get her back.
He continued to stare at her like she was the ghost of witch-friends/allies past before reaching out for her and pulling her to him with lightning fast speed, crushing their lips together in a powerful and surprisingly enough, passionate kiss. Damon had one hand wrapped around her, holding her as close as possible while the other hand was entangled in her hair.
The kiss was warm and comforting. Not something that she would have ever guessed coming from Damon. Bonnie brought her hands up to rest upon his shoulders and surrendered to the kiss, allowing Damon to slide his tongue inside and entwining it with hers in a sensual dance.
When air became a dire need, she detached her lips from his. "Whoa. What a greeting," Bonnie breathed and rested her head on his shoulder, trying to regain her breath.
Damon chuckled and held her closer, afraid that he was going to lose her. He'd always been so blinded by his love for Elena; he believed that Elena made him the better man. Since Bonnie had left he had been revaluating everything and came to the realisation that Elena brought out the worst in him, she had let him get away with so much that he thought he could do anything but it wasn't like that with Bonnie. When he was around Bonnie he knew not to fuck around because she would be there to take him down. She challenged him; she brought out the best in him.
"Not that I'm not happy to see you but what are you doing here? Did you get away from Klaus?" He asked with a soft, very un-Damon like voice with his forehead resting against hers.
Bonnie shook her head, "he sent me here. He wants to speak to you and Stefan," she told him. "He said he just wanted to talk, he's not going to attack or anything," she added after seeing the unsure look flash across his face.
"Who was at the door, Damon?" Stefan called out as he walked down the stairs, stopping short when he noticed Bonnie wrapped up in his brothers arms, five seconds later she was then in Stefan's arms.
"Did you guys get Elena out of here?" Bonnie muffled into Stefan's shoulder.
"Yeah, Caroline and Tyler left with her a few hours ago. She will be safe with them," Stefan replied as he released Bonnie from his embrace. "We are so happy you're back," he told her with a smile and pushed a stray lock of her hair behind her ear.
"It's not for long though," she replied with a sad smile. "I'm only here because Klaus wants to speak with you two. I'm not sure what about, but it probably has something to do with Elena but I'm already going to try and find another way. I'm going to go back to the witch house and see if they have a solution to this," Bonnie told them. "I'm not going to let Elena die."
"And we're not going to let you die either. We'll figure all this out together," Stefan said to her, his words brightening up the smile on her face.
After all this time with Klaus, she'd almost forgotten what it felt like to be truly cared for.
"So I guess we should see what Klaus wants then."
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"Can I please crash his car?" Damon practically begged as the three of them neared their destination, "or at least trash it, you know? Smash a few windows slash the tires."
Bonnie rolled her eyes at the older Salvatore brother before answering him, "you can smash his windows, not that I think he could really care anyway," she mumbled the last bit.
"When did you and Klaus get here?" Stefan asked her from the backseat.
"Late last night. We went straight to the witch house but ran into Adrienne and Nathaniel –who is a vampire now," Bonnie answered him, turning the car down the street. "I can't believe she actually showed herself to Klaus, though."
"She did it to distract Klaus while Caroline and Tyler got Elena out of town. We thought that Klaus would try to find Elena as soon as you two got here," Stefan told her.
"That's why I told him to go there. To buy you guys some more time because I'm sure Elena put up a fight about leaving."
"You got that right," Stefan chuckled. He adored his girlfriend but sometimes her stubbornness could be a little too much.
"Hopefully I can find another way for Klaus to create his hybrids," Bonnie mumbled, thinking of her best friend.
"I'm sure you will," Stefan reassured her with a comforting voice.
"So I can't slash the tires then?" Damon asked suddenly.
"Do what you want. Slash the tires, smash the windows, tear the doors off I really couldn't care less right now, Damon.
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The three of them soon arrived reached the place that she and Klaus were staying at. They got out of the car and Bonnie jumped when she heard the sound of metal being ripped off and tossed onto the ground.
The witch spun around and saw Damon looking completely innocent as he moved onto the back door and gave it the same treatment he did to the other before looking up at her, "what? You said I could."
Bonnie shook her head and tried to hold in her laugh. "Let's just get this over with, okay?" she said to them and made her way to the room she and Klaus were sharing.
They walked into the room and Klaus was sitting on the couch, drinking as per usual. If only vampires got alcohol poisoning.
"Salvatore's!" He stood up from the couch and greeted them like they were old friend. "I'm sure you are both wondering why I had Bonnie bring you to me and I'm also sure that she has informed me of my intentions with your doppelganger girlfriend so I'll just cut straight to the chase. I am willing to offer you an ultimatum." Klaus said to them and Bonnie was sure all three of them were wearing matching confused expressions.
"What is it?" Stefan asked with folded arms and a stern expression.
"You and your little group aid me in destroying my sister and after everything is done, Bonnie is free to return home and live out her life or I have Bonnie take down my sister on her own resulting in her death," he revealed to them.
Bonnie was shocked at his ultimatum. He was going to let her go?
"You're letting me go?" Bonnie asked him but he ignored her and continued talking.
"But before you make your decision; there are some conditions that you may want to take into consideration."
"Like what?" Damon asked through gritted teeth.
"My conditions will be determined by what Bonnie can figure out about our current predicament which I am sure you are all aware of by now. I am not able to create my hybrids and I believe that it has something to do with the current status of your little girlfriend. So I will have to get back to you on that," Klaus told them.
"And when will that be?" Damon asked, annoyed by the hybrid.
"Hopefully soon, Bonnie and I shall be returning to the witch house later on today. If you are lucky, she'll be able to figure it all out and we can all live happily ever after," Klaus replied with his dangerous smirk that definitely contradicted his words.
"That is all. I will contact the both of you with more information," Klaus said to the Salvatore's and motioned for them to leave.
Damon had gentle taken a hold of Bonnie's arm to take her with them but Klaus was there in an instant and had Damon's wrist in a tight, bone cracking grip. "Bonnie stays with me," he tells Damon in a low voice, he gripped Damon's wrist even tighter and let go after Damon let out a pained growl.
Klaus stood by Bonnie, blocking her from the Salvatore brothers. "Goodbye, gentlemen."
Bonnie looked from Klaus over to the brothers who looked like they wanted to do nothing more than slaughter Klaus, but knowing that they really didn't stand a chance against him they took the smarter choice (for once) and slowly turned the leave but not before Damon casting one last glance in Bonnie's direction before shutting the door behind him.
"Well if I may say so myself I believe that went quite well," Klaus commented, and turned to face Bonnie once the door had been shut.
"Whatever," Bonnie mumbled. She pulled away from Klaus and threw herself down on the couch with a heavy sigh.
"What's wrong, love?" Klaus asked as he watched her lie down on the couch.
"What do you think's wrong," she replied sarcastically and stared at the ceiling.
"If the Salvatore's play their cards right, you can be free to do as you please. Why are you upset about that? I thought it was what you wanted. To be free, to be rid of me," Klaus replied but the last bit was so mumbled that she nearly didn't catch it.
"That's just it, if they play their cards right," she said and sat up to face him. "Everything is a game to you and you don't care about anyone but yourself. And I know what you're getting at with this whole ultimatum. I know what you're waiting for."
"And what's that?" Klaus asked as he stalked closer to her.
"You're waiting for the confirmation that Elena's death is indeed the solution to create your hybrids and then you'll make Damon and Stefan choose between Elena and I when everyone knows they will choose her but my question is why, Klaus? Why do you want me to stay with you?"
"What makes you come to that conclusion?" He asked and stood in front of her seated form, looking down at her.
"You want Damon and Stefan's help to kill Adrienne but you will only let me go if they agree with your terms and you are most likely going to make them choose between Elena and I, knowing full and well that they will choose her so where would that leave me? Still stuck with you," she explained to him, looking into his amused eyes. "Am I right?"
"I'll get back to you on that," Klaus replied with a grin which made Bonnie fume.
"No, you'll get back to me now," she said firmly and stood up to face him.
"Fine, if you must know it is a lesson for you. They will never choose you over Elena, none of them will and the quicker you realise that you mean nothing to them that you are just the go-to witch for an easy solution to their problems, the better off you will be," Klaus replied to her. His tone had lost all amusement and sarcasm. He was being sincere and serious.
Bonnie stared blankly at Klaus for a moment before she let out a laugh. "You don't know a thing about my life or my friends. They care about me; you'll just say anything to get me to turn against them. I expect Damon and Stefan and even Jeremy to choose Elena over me, I expect that of them. The same way that my dad and my aunt would choose me over Elena but I know that Caroline, Tyler and Matt wouldn't even choose. They would refuse to. So don't try to act like you know my life or my friends because you don't," Bonnie said to him, her whole demeanour turning deadly serious. She was sick and tired of Klaus trying to turn her against her friends.
"You're pathetic, Klaus," Bonnie told him.
The witch made a move to walk away from him but he quickly pulled her back to him, locking his eyes to hers. "I enjoy your company. You keep me on my toes and you're never afraid to tell me what you really think of me. You have this amazing fire inside of you and even after I've hurt you and threatened you it never burns out, it burns brighter. I want to keep you around, Bonnie but I want you to stay willingly, I want you to want to stay with me and the only way I get that is if you feel your friends don't care about you," he opened up to her. Every word he spoke was completely honesty and he was terrified of her reply. Opening up wasn't something he did often and whenever he did, he got shot down and this time proved to be no different.
"Nothing you can do could ever make me want to stay with you. I don't want to stay with you, I'll never want to stay with you," she replied with him, being brutally honest. "I'm sorry but that's just the way it is."
Bonnie didn't know why, but she placed her hand on his arm in a somewhat comforting manner, paired with a small smile before leaving him standing in the middle of the room alone.
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Oh my Lord! It's been so long. I'm awful for making you all wait so long, I'm sorry, But Klaroline just traumatised me haha. Plus I've have a lot of assignments and exams and the dreaded real life problems. And I am having too much fun with my Bonnie/Kol fic. I'm really sorry!
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, a bit of Bamon in this one and I realised while writing it that Bonnie just kissed Klaus and Damon and is still with Jeremy…my bad lol I kind of wish I didn't have them together at the beginning of the fic but I will sort it all out within the next few chapters so don't worry!
After Klaroline happened, I am determined to keep Klaus in character as much as possible so I hope I'm doing alright with him and not turning him into a puppy dog when he is around Bonnie but if I am please let me know! I want to keep his evil-ness but I do want him to have a softer side with Bonnie but not like they have done on the show.
Klaus' ultimatum doesn't just have to do with wanting to keep Bonnie btw.
Now, I know I said that the witch house and a few other things were going to be in this chapter but I changed my mind. It will just make it easier for chapter 12 to come out quicker!
You are all so lovely with your reviews, thank you so much!
I apologise for the mistakes, I didn't go over it very well.