Hi Everyone! Since this is premiere night and I am not watching, I thought I could upload the newest update. Thank you for your support for this fic! In the last chapter, Bonnie surprised us by staking Klaus and now everyone else gets their say.

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Bonnie sat on the floor next to Klaus' desiccated body. She had stopped sobbing, but silent tears still ran down her face as the quietness threatened to choke her. She stared at Klaus' body and an intense anger came over her as she kicked him in the side and then in the head, "I hate you", she stated quietly and then she began screaming, "I hate you!" she stood up from the floor and walked around the room, "you did this to me…our marriage…my life! You made me do this to you! I never wanted to see you like this, you miserable, selfish, psychotic asshole!" she kicked him again, "you think you can control anything and everything around you, including me. Well you were wrong and now you're paying for it, you jackass! I know that you probably can hear me and I hope you hear every word…every fucking word!" she caught her breath as the tears began to fall more freely and she dropped to her knees. The faint sound of the door opening downstairs and footsteps penetrated her thoughts as Sheila, Marcel, Damon and Stefan entered the room. She could see their mouths moving, but she couldn't hear what they were saying.

"Bonnie…", Marcel kneeled down in front of her, "Bumble Bee…can you hear me?"

She turned to him, "Marc…", she whispered, "I staked him…I didn't want to, he just wouldn't stop…"

Marcel grabbed Bonnie into an embrace as she held onto him as she began to cry.

"Get him out of here, put him in the truck and wait for me", Sheila ordered Stefan and Damon as she kneeled down picking up the scattered papers all over the floor.

Damon looked over at Bonnie who was crying on Marcel's shoulder as he helped Stefan lift Klaus up off the floor and carried him out of the room. Wasn't this a bitch? He had thought of plenty of ways to kill Klaus and Bonnie had done it; after she argued with him about killing Klaus in the first place. Then there was the fact that Bonnie looked devastated at what she had done. No matter what Klaus had done to her or threatened to do, she still loved the no good asshole. Just the thought that Bonnie could still have any love for a bastard who lied to her, manipulated her and took advantage of her set his fangs on edge. He was angry and he was tempted to yank the stake out of Klaus' chest and rip his head off. Damon stared down at Klaus for a few moments and lifted his hand, "Don't touch him, trust me…I will allow you to get your revenge", Sheila stated from behind Damon, "let's get out of here".

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"You know Bumble, you have been saving me since we were little kids", Marcel stated sitting on the floor next to Bonnie with his hand laced through hers as she placed her head on his shoulder, "and that's what you are Bonnie, you save people and I remember how guilty you felt for years after not being able to save Mom and Dad. Klaus…he did damage. He did damage to your life Bon and I know that you loved him and that he was your husband, but he would never just walk away from you. You know that. He brought you to the point of staking him, you have to ask yourself—how could someone who loves you, do something like that?"

Bonnie didn't say anything as he unlaced his hand and pulled her closer to him, "You did what you had to do Bonnie, Klaus did some horrible things. He wasn't willing to let things just go. He had to come at you with everything he had. You did the only thing you could possibly do and I know it hurts. I know that once again, your world has been torn apart…but do not let this…do not let him and his actions take over. I don't want to lose you Bonnie, I honestly don't. I remember what it was like when you lost your baby—please don't let that happen to you right now".

Bonnie looked over at Marcel, "How could I be so wrong about him…about everything?" she whispered as her face crumbled and Marcel rubbed her arm as she buried her face in his chest.

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"Bring him in here", Sheila ordered as Stefan and Damon carried Klaus into a mausoleum in one of the New Orleans cemeteries. Damon looked around, this place was a little creepy even to him, "secure him with those chains, he won't be able to get out of them".

Damon and Stefan followed Sheila's instructions and stepped back as Sheila moved closer to Klaus.

"What are you doing?" Damon asked as he watched her remove the stake and Klaus' skin slowly returned to its normal color and the veins disappeared, "what the hell are you doing!" Damon rushed over and Sheila threw her hand up keeping him in place as she retrieved a blood bag from her bag and forced the blood into Klaus' mouth.

"What are you doing…he was out of the way!" Damon yelled as Stefan grabbed his arm.

"Klaus…look at me", Sheila ordered kneeling down.

He looked up at her, "Sheila", he uttered in a raspy voice.

"You know, I couldn't just allow you to get staked and think that you would be able to have a nice slumber, knowing that you tried to destroy my granddaughter's very being", Sheila remarked disgusted, "I knew you would try to bring her downfall, I'm happy that she saw through you and didn't allow it".

"You miserable spinster bitch!" Klaus spat out, fighting the chains that would not give despite his strength "you think that you can erase me from Bonnie's life? I didn't sign those papers and I will get out of these restraints and when I do, I will come for all of you and then I will make Bonnie just like me…how would you like that Sheila".

Sheila raised her eyebrow and gave Klaus a sinister smirk, "Oh so you think that you will get out of those restraints, oh no…Nikalus. I only gave you this small reprieve so that we can all have a little talk. There's some unfinished business and I wanted you to be awake for every moment of it".

"You can't do anything to me", Klaus hissed, "and if you bought these two here to be back up, you're sadly mistaken. Stefan…I know you're more than likely the one who gave Bonnie that white oak stake, I will repay you with kindness. That little family you're building, how will you feel when you come home one day and find Elena and that child slaughtered?"

"Your threats mean nothing", Stefan stated.

Klaus chuckled, "So you think. And Damon…pathetic Damon, the one who couldn't satisfy his own wife and I needed to do it for him. Would you like to know how many times I fucked your wife Damon…how many times she sucked my dick…how many times I made her cum…how many…"

"I will kill you!" Damon towards Klaus and Shelia turned to him stepping in between him and Klaus as he howled with laughter.

"Control yourself!" she ordered, "you will deal with him after I'm done with him". Sheila turned back to Klaus, "that's what you specialize in, mind fucking. I knew that my granddaughter would have nothing but despair when she married you, but today will be the day she starts her life over", Sheila removed papers from her bag, "your divorce papers…"

"I will never sign them".

Sheila raised an eyebrow and smirked glancing at the papers, "What…are you sure…you will never sign them?" she looked down at the papers again and then held them in front of Klaus' gaze, "hmm…looks like your signature right there to me".

"You did that, you Witch! I didn't sign anything!" he roared, fighting his restraints, "when I get free from here Bitch, I am going to spread your severed body parts all around the bayou!"

"Such anger Nikalus…there's no need for any of that", Sheila teased him, "don't worry Klaus, it will be ok though because Bonnie will have your money to keep her in the life that she has become accustomed to. You have also been so gracious to sign over your company to her", Sheila removed additional documents from her bag, "and look at that, your prefect signature".

Klaus' eyes went wide as he began fighting his chains, "I am going to end you, I promise you that".

"Sure", Sheila smiled, "don't worry Klaus, this is all for the best…it will give you something to think about while you're rotting. I hate everything about you and when I don't have to look at your face anymore anywhere near my granddaughter, it will be a perfect day for me".

Sheila turned to Damon, "You have 3 minutes and then put him back the way we found him", she replied before walking out of the mausoleum.

"Stefan, give us a minute", Damon stared at Klaus.

"Damon, don't do anything…"

"I know, stupid. I know what I'm doing", Damon answered as Stefan nodded following Sheila outside.

Damon took a seat on one of the cement tombs within the mausoleum shaking his head, "Well…this all began because I decided to come home early to see my wife", he chuckled.

"You would take the coward's way out. You know you can't beat me, so you decide to help that Witch Bitch torture me some more and then what…stake me again…how pathetic, no wonder why Krystal wanted me to do her on every flat surface we could find".

Hearing the words out of Klaus' mouth felt like stakes going into his chest over and over again, but he pushed it down. He knew how he could truly beat Klaus and he had to keep his composure to do it, "You're right, you had Krystal…I walked in on you two in my house and in my bed and immediately wanted to kill you", Damon began, "but then I realized…what was more precious to you…what would mean more to you than just killing you and that was living with the fact that I had been with Bonnie".

Damon could see the vein in Klaus forehead began to throb.

"So originally…", Damon slid off of the cement, playing with the stake, "I was going to seduce her, maybe video it and then send it to you—with her heart in a box…"

"If Bonnie could hear you now…", Klaus shook his head, "you're no better than me".

"I wasn't, but you know what…the first time in my office with Bonnie, I thought…this is revenge…but after that, I realized—Bonnie is so much more than what I thought she was. She's more than a tool for me to use against you. Bonnie is the kind of woman that I should have been with in the first place. She's smart, she's beautiful, she's loyal and most of all…she's forgiving. So you know Klaus, you had Krystal…good for you…", Damon clapped his hands slowly, "you showed me what I was actually missing in a mate", he moved closer to Klaus.

"Bonnie will always love me", Klaus hissed staring up at Damon.

"Doubt it, she staked you", Damon shrugged, "but I will spend many, many, many years making her forget you ever existed…I will take care of Bonnie in every way you can possibly think of. So thank you Klaus, you helped bring me to the woman that I believe very well may be my soulmate".

"When I get free from these chains…"

"You will be staked at the bottom of the swamp", Damon answered, "first I wanted you dead. Krystal didn't deserve to die by your hands. She was flawed, but she loved you. You deserve to burn for what you did to her, to me and to Bonnie and I would love to deliver that blow to you, but I guess the fact that you will have to think about me with your ex-wife every day and every night gives me comfort…by the way, my favorite part of her has to be that crescent moon on the back of her neck…she would go crazy when I kissed her there".

Klaus began pulling on his chains, "You motherfucker! I am going to murder you!" Klaus seemed like a crazed animal as he pulled on the chains, "your blood will run through the streets…I will make sure you beg for mercy…"

"Your idle threats won't work here…suffer you miserable bastard", Damon stated before plunging the white oak stake into Klaus' chest.

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After sending Klaus' body in a coffin to the bottom of the bayou, Stefan, Damon and Sheila returned to the mansion. Marcel met them downstairs at the door, "So is he gone?" he whispered looking from Sheila to the brothers.

"Just a memory", Sheila smirked, "where's Bonnie?"

"Upstairs…"

"How is she?" Stefan asked.

Marcel sighed and shrugged, "Well she stopped crying, so that's an improvement. She's talking though, which is also good—but what she's saying doesn't exactly make me think this will be easy for her".

"But it's what's best for her", Sheila stated, "Bonnie was naïve when it came to Klaus, he showed his true colors and now there's no reason to ever speak about him again…"

"I want to talk to her", Damon spoke up.

Sheila turned to Damon, "Your job is done here, why don't you go back to Mystic Falls and forget about Bonnie and forget about whatever you two had".

"Grams…", Marcel moved closer to Sheila, "Bonnie and Damon are friends, just let them have a couple of moments".

Sheila looked at Marcel rolling her eyes and then looking over at Damon, "Don't upset her. This is going to be hard for my granddaughter and I want her to be ok".

"I won't hurt Bonnie, I would never hurt her", Damon stated brushing past Sheila and Marcel heading upstairs.

When Damon reached the sketching room Bonnie was sitting on the floor looking through her wedding album. She never once acknowledged him as he stood in the doorway, but she did speak, "I was happy when I came to Mystic Falls. I took the trip with Klaus because we were starting to put our marriage together again. Little did I know that it was all an act and it was all make believe…this wedding…fake…this house…all fake!" she screamed throwing the book across the room as Damon moved out of the way and found himself sitting on the floor next to her.

"It's been a rough couple of months. We've both lost a lot and there is nothing anyone can say to make any of this better", Damon began, "I'm sorry Bonnie. I'm sorry that all of this happened to you…to me…there was no reason for any of this, but here we are", he threw up his hands.

Bonnie looked at Damon as tears fell from her eyes, "I just wanted to have a family. That's what I wanted and I was ready to have that with Klaus and now, it's done. It's gone…within a blink of an eye".

Damon frowned, "Bonnie I…"

"But now, we can both move on", Bonnie stood up from her place on the floor, "I can go back to designing and you can go back to…whatever you do…being a lawyer, getting criminals off".

"Bonnie, if you want to talk…" Damon stood up with her.

"I've cried, I've talked and now I just want to…I want to move on with my life. I need to just move on, put this behind me and focus on my work…if I don't, this will consume me and I'm not going to allow Klaus or his actions to do that to me. I have to deal with this the only way I can and that means, putting all of this behind me".

Damon knew exactly the meaning behind her words, "All of this…"

"Damon, we both were hurt by Krystal and Klaus and we bonded over that, but let's face it. As long as we talk to each other, it will always be that memory of what Krystal and Klaus did and what happened to our marriages and ultimately to them", Bonnie's voice broke as she swallowed, "despite what you always say Damon, you deserve good things and I know you will get them", she hesitated before hugging him and then whispered in his ear, "but you need to go back to Mystic Falls".

"Bonnie Bennett", Damon breathed out as he let her go and took her hands in his, "you are definitely a different person than I thought you were".

"Yeah…", Bonnie stated.

"I understand what you need, but if you need me…call me?" Damon asked.

Bonnie nodded as Damon squeezed her hand before slowly walking out of the room. Bonnie watched him as Sheila entered the room behind him. "Bonnie…", she frowned.

"Grams", Bonnie rushed towards her as Sheila hugged her tightly.

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"The plane is about to board Damon, what are you doing?" Stefan asked as he and Damon stood at the airport gate in New Orleans.

"You know Stefan…I'm not ready to go back to Mystic Falls…", Damon turned to him, "I feel like I need to be somewhere else, take some time you know…do some other things…"

"So are you staying here?" Stefan asked, "because I don't think that's the best place for you".

"I think I'm going to head west…California, it was always good to me", Damon turned to Stefan, "I need a break. I need to put a couple of things behind me and I think that's a good place to do it".

"So you're not coming back to Mystic Falls tonight?" Stefan asked.

Damon turned to him shaking his head, "I'll see you later Brother", Damon called as he turned and started walking away from the gate as Stefan watched him shaking his head.

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Hours later, Bonnie found herself staring in the bathroom mirror at the mansion. Sheila was downstairs in the meditation room and Marcel had stepped out for a few moments. The steam from the shower had built up and the mirror was slightly foggy. She took her hand and opened the drawer in vanity taking out a pair of scissors. She stared in the mirror for a few moments.

Bonnie my goddess…she could almost feel Klaus' hands running through her long tresses at that moment.

Bonnie grabbed her hair which hung past her shoulders and stared at it for a moment before taking the scissor blades and closing them around the strands. The hair fell slowly to the floor as Bonnie grabbed more and continued cutting her hair until it grazed her shoulders. She looked in the mirror and smiled. She stripped off her clothes and entered the shower, stepping under the spray of the water and ran her hands through her shortened hair. The tears flowed from her eyes and she promised herself—this would be the last time.

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With an empty heart, I am free again

For some things to start, some have to end (have to end)

With an empty heart (an empty heart), I am free again (I am free)

For some things have to start, some have to end

Bonnie slipped into one of her favorite black dresses and walked out to the balcony outside of her bedroom at the mansion. She thought the black dress was fitting as she looked over at the divorce papers and the dark purple night sky. A bottle of wine waited for her on the small bistro table on the balcony. Bonnie poured a glass of the red wine and lifted it up to her lips taking a sip. She looked out at the city and stated, "Ashes to Asssholes", before taking another drink.

But I won't wait any longer

When you left me down, I got stronger (hey yeah)

If you wonder 'bout the lightning

Out on the horizon

Well, I'm coming back with the thunder

Well Klaus is floating at the bottom of the bayou, not dead, but definitely out of Bonnie's life for the foreseeable future. I think it was hard for Bonnie to finally push him out of her life, but she has and it's time for her to move on.

As for Damon, he knew that he could never overpower Klaus—but he knew what he could do to Klaus, hurt his pride. Klaus realized that Bonnie had feelings for Damon and the thought that HIS wife could even look at Damon twice, infuriated him. Damon got the last laugh and I think he got the closure that he needed.

Sheila is a Queen…always will be.

The next chapter takes place 6 months later…

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***Thunder-Leona Lewis