Rebekah Mikaelson slipped out of the mansion early the next morning without anyone noticing. Klaus was busy trying to get as much information as he could out of Finn (unfortunately, the older Original wasn't giving anything up) while Elijah was monitoring Kol, whose condition was worsening by the hour.
She pulled her car up on the curb outside of her destination and hopped out of the car, walking up to the front door and pressing the doorbell, repeatedly until someone opened the door.
"Rebekah?" Bonnie asked, surprised by the Original's presence. "What are you doing here?"
"He needs your help," she told the witch, getting straight to the point. "Kol," she added with a quick eye roll when she saw a flash of confusion on the other girl's face.
The blonde watched Bonnie's face drop at the mention of Kol. "He's gotten worse," Bonnie said knowingly and Rebekah nodded slowly.
"I don't think I have much time to explain but whatever it is, we think it is magical so-
"You want me to fix it," Bonnie finished for her, arms crossing over her chest.
"Yes," Rebekah said.
"Why should I? He snapped my best friend's neck yesterday and –
"Oh, give it a rest, Bonnie," Rebekah snapped, interrupting the witch. She did not have time for this and neither did Kol. "I know you feel something real for my brother, you'd have to be a fool not to see it." Her voice dropped to a softer tone. "Please, Bonnie. He's my brother, I don't want him to die and I know you don't either."
Bonnie sighed and shifted on her feet before looking back up at Rebekah. "He thinks I did this, he doesn't want me around."
"He knows you didn't, he now knows who truly is behind it," Rebekah replied. "Our mother doesn't give up easy," she added and Bonnie's eyes widened slightly.
"She's trying to kill you again?"
"You honestly thought she wouldn't?" The Original questioned. "My mother is relentless," she muttered. "Anyway, my mother is not the current issue. Will you help or will you not?"
Bonnie knew that whatever spell Esther had casted would be powerful, much more so than she. If she discovered which spell was used, there would be no guarantee that Bonnie would be powerful enough to break it.
But she had to at least try.
"Let me get my grimoire," Bonnie said and quickly ran up to her room to fetch the old book before meeting Rebekah at her car.
"So what exactly is wrong with him?" Bonnie asked when they got on the road, Rebekah pushing the speed limit to get back to her brother as quick as possible.
"We honestly do not know. None of us have ever seen anything like it. All we do know is that is it obviously magical and caused by Esther," Rebekah answered.
"I can't promise that I can break whatever spell your mother has placed on him, she is much stronger than I am," Bonnie said.
"Her power is stemming from your line, Bonnie. The power she is using is not her own but yours," the blonde replied and Bonnie looked at her, puzzled by her response, she already knew all this.
"What does that have to do with this?" Bonnie asked.
"It means you are connected. Bennett magic is being used to create this spell so a Bennett should be able to break it," Rebekah explained.
Only a few minutes later Rebekah parked her car in the drive way of the mansion, Bonnie was out of the car, Rebekah following just as quickly.
"He's in his room," the blonde said as they walked towards the stair case. "It started out just on his hand but now it's spread," she added as they reached the door and the vampire pushed it open, allowing Bonnie to walk in first.
Bonnie walked into Kol's bedroom, seeing Elijah sitting over near the glass doors –at first he seemed confused by her presence but that disappeared when Rebekah walked in and shot him a look- and Kol lying on his bed, under the covers. She slowly walked towards him, noticing that his eyes were closed.
"Kol?" Bonnie said gently to get his attention and she sat down on the bed, her hand pushing some of the hair that had stuck to the light sweat on his forehead away.
His eyes opened and a small smile appeared on his face and he sat up in the bed, back against the headboard, hand appearing from under the bed covers and reaching to hers.
Bonnie inhaled sharply as their skin made contact, thankfully it when unnoticed by Kol but not by Rebekah or Elijah who looked at her, confused. This was definitely magical; she could feel it when she touched him. Whatever spell was used; she could tell that it was dark and powerful.
She looked down to his hand and had to repress the gasp that threatened to leave her lips as she saw the dark veins all over his hand and arm, spreading up past his elbow.
"It's not as bad as it looks," he told her as he noticed her expression as she saw his arm.
Bonnie looked up at him with a soft smile. "Of course not," she agreed, enjoying the feeling of their fingers laced together. It was a small thing, but something she found she missed greatly.
Kol looked to Elijah, signalling him to leave the room and to take Rebekah with him. He wanted to be left alone with Bonnie.
"Still blame me?" Bonnie joked half-heartedly after the others had left the room.
Kol cracked a smile. "I've since discovered that Esther is probably the cause of that. Nik is trying to figure it all out now."
"Has he gone to find her?"
Kol shook his head. "Finn is in the basement and he's too close for comfort with mother so we figured he'd know something," he told her. "I'm sorry I snapped at you yesterday."
"I'm not the one you should be apologising to. It wasn't my neck you snapped," she replied a little snippier then intended.
Kol rolled his eyes. She never seemed to understand that she was the only one he cared about. He didn't give a damn about Elena or Caroline. He wasn't sorry for snapping the blonde's neck and he would never be. He'd do it again if he had to; she got on his nerves anyway.
"I got to go talk to Elijah," she told him and began to stand up but Kol held her hand tighter, stopping her.
"Don't leave," he said, sounding more desperate than he had liked.
Bonnie smiled at him before leaning down and placed a kiss to his cheek, lips lingering and her hand brushing against the other. "I'm not leaving, I just need to talk to him."
Bonnie gave him a last smile before walking out of the room, meeting Elijah outside the door.
"It is definitely something caused my magic," she said to the older man after she shut the door behind her. "When I touched him I got a sense of it. I still don't know what it is but whatever it is, it's dark and very powerful. I don't think I'll be able to fix it on my own," she informed him and he nodded. "But you are right, it is Esther. I caught a glimpse of her."
"Your cousin, Lucy, do you think she might know anything?" Rebekah asked from behind Elijah.
Bonnie shrugged. "I don't know, maybe. I can ask her to come here," she said and pulled her phone out of her back pocket and quickly dialling Lucy's number. "She's not picking up," she sighed after her call went to voicemail. "I'll go over there and get her," she said but Elijah stopped her.
"No, I'll go, I think you should stay with Kol," he said to her. "You keep him calm," he told her.
Elijah knew that whatever was happening was scaring Kol but when Bonnie walked in the room the Original sensed his younger brother calm down and that was something he needed to do right now, remain calm.
Bonnie nodded her head, agreeing with Elijah's suggestion. "If she doesn't believe you tell her to ring me," she told him. Odd were Lucy wouldn't.
Elijah left the two girls standing in the hallway. As much as Rebekah wanted to stay with Kol, she knew that he wanted to be alone with Bonnie for a while. "I'm going to go help Nik with Finn," she said and gave Bonnie a small smile before turning on her heel and making her way down the hall.
Bonnie walked back into Kol's room, sitting down beside him on the opposite side of the bed. His head turned to her and his eyes opened, smiling at her he lifted the covers and she climbed under without a single thought.
She lay on her side, curled into him and her hand rested on his chest, her fingers tracing mindless patterns.
"He was right you know," Kol said, breaking their comfortable silence. "Elijah, he was right. You being here does keep me calm," he told her and wrapped an arm around her, keeping her close to him.
"Why?" she couldn't help but ask. "After everything I figured the only things I'd make you feel would be hate and anger."
"I was angry, but I didn't hate you. No matter how hard I tried to," he replied, his fingers brushing through her hair gently.
Bonnie's eyes flickered up to his face just to catch a quick glimpse of him before looking back down, fingers still tracing over the soft and smooth skin of his chest. "I couldn't bring myself to hate you either. Even after what you did to Caroline and Matt."
"In my defence, I was not in the right frame of mind when I attacked Caroline," he defended.
"And what about Matt?" She asked. "What's your excuse for that?"
"He was trying to take you from me," he answered, and Bonnie did not miss the low, barely audible possessive growl that escaped him, causing a shiver to run through her.
"He was just trying to look out for me," Bonnie defended her friend and tried to ignore the feelings that were growing inside of her. "He doesn't want me to get hurt."
"Ironic that it was you that ended up hurting me," he said and Bonnie detected no hint of spite in his voice however the guilt she felt from his words was not able to be hidden so well.
"If I could do it all over, I would have refused to be apart in their plan," she said, eyes closing as she enjoyed the feeling of Kol's fingers running through her hair.
"Would you have ever allowed yourself to get close to me if you had refused them?" he asked her.
"No," she answered simply. "Would you have given up pursuing me?"
"No. I never stop until I get what I want but I guess the Salvatore's made it a little easier for me." He sighed. "I just wish things could have been a little more honest between us." He paused. "Everything you felt while we were together, I want to know."
"I did feel something real for you, if that's what you're asking," she replied.
I still do.
"From the beginning?" Kol questioned and Bonnie shook her head. "When?"
"The night Esther invited Lucy and I over, that was when the lines started to blur for me and I didn't know if I was lying or not," she answered honestly and felt him tense beneath her.
"We spent quite a lot of time together before that," he said. "Are you saying you hated me the entire time before?" he asked, not sure if he really wanted to answer he may get to that but he needed to know. If he truly was going to die, he wanted to know all of it.
"I don't think I ever hated you, you had never done anything to make me hate you. I hated Klaus and you were his brother so I guess it was by default that I wasn't very fond of you but getting to know you changed that and that scared me. I didn't want to get to know you; I didn't want to like you."
"But you did? Like me." Bonnie didn't miss the hopefulness in his voice when he spoke and it made her smile.
"I did like you but it was the night of the dinner party that everything started to change for me."
"You were stunning that night," he said. The events of that evening -or more specifically one certain event that occurred right here in his bedroom- had replayed on his mind of days after that, longer even.
Bonnie groaned and hid her face in his chest. She knew exactly what he was referring to when he said that. "That was embarrassing, they all heard!"
"At least they weren't around the second time." Kol laughed and Bonnie lightly slapped his chest.
"Why were you really upset that night?" he asked her. "It was me, wasn't it?"
She nodded. "I didn't want to do it anymore," she said, pulling out of Kol's embrace and sitting up.
"But you still did."
"I still did."
"For someone so strong you are so easily manipulated and persuaded," he said and Bonnie frowned. She couldn't tell if he was mocking her or being serious.
"I really did want to save you, but I didn't know how. I didn't even know the details of what Esther really wanted to do." She told him, her hand lacing with his spelled one over his chest, her fingers brushing against the dark lines. "But hopefully I can make up for that now and save you from whatever this is."
Kol shook his head. "Whatever Esther has done it will be too powerful for you to break and I don't want you to put yourself in danger by trying," he told her sincerely and Bonnie smile softly at him.
"I've always kind of been known to push the boundaries of my abilities when the life of someone I love is on the line, just ask Elena," she said and before she realised what she said, Kol's eyes widened and he just stared at her.
"You love me?" he sat up and asked in an uncharacteristically small voice, worried he might have misheard her.
Bonnie paused. She opened her mouth to speak but closed to again, not knowing what to say. She didn't even realise what had just come out of her mouth until he repeated it but now that she did…she knew it was true.
She gave a small smile, bit her lip and nodded. "Yeah, I do," she said and placed a hand on either side of his face when she sat on her knees in front of him. "I love you."
Kol grinned as his hands found her waist and bent his head down to touch her lips with his, gently at first, only brushing against them playfully. "I love you," he said with a smile and pulled her to him so she was sitting on his thighs with her knees on either side on him. "So much," he added before his lips covered hers in a desperate and passionate kiss that left her breathless.
Bonnie could tell that he was putting everything into this kiss, all his emotions, everything she put him through. She could feel the anger and the hurt she caused him and she could feel the love and tenderness he felt for her.
Her fingers laced through his soft hair as her mouth moved eagerly against his, lips parting to let his tongue slide in.
Bonnie sighed into the kiss as their tongues danced and swirled together. Kissing him like this again made her realise just how much she missed it. She missed his kisses, she missed his touches and she missed the way he made her feel, the way everything around them would just disappear, leaving only them and no one else.
He was all around her, all she could taste, smell and feel was Kol.
She felt on of his hands snake around her lower back while the other one held the back of her neck, bracing her as he quickly switched their position so Bonnie was laying on the bed and he hovered over her.
Their lips parted, Bonnie gulping down air as Kol's mouth trailed from her lips, across her jaw and down to her neck. Bonnie let out a breathy moan as his teeth lightly bit down, tugging gently at the flesh before soothing the skin with a swipe of his tongue.
Her fingers gripped onto his hair, guiding his lips back to hers. This kiss was more desperate than the last; she gripped his hair tightly and pressed herself fully into his body, her gasp when she felt his hardness brushing against her thigh being swallowed by the kiss.
"Whoa, this is not what I wanted to see so early in the morning!" Bonnie heard her cousin's voice sound from the doorway, Elijah by her side.
"Lucy!" Bonnie squeaked, surprised that her cousin arrived so fast, even without calling Bonnie first to make sure she wasn't walking into a trap.
Kol rolled off Bonnie, unimpressed by the interrupted caused by Bonnie's cousin and his brother.
"At least you got your clothes on," Lucy muttered before walking over and less than gently taking Kol's arm to look at it.
"It's a curse," she said a few seconds later, dropping his arm. "I've only seen it once before," she turned to Elijah. "The curse takes a day to take effect, but the spreading depends."
"On what?" Elijah questioned, stepping forward.
"Age, strength. The vampire I saw it effect was only around four hundred years old, it took a day and a half to reach his heart and when it does it kills them," she told the elder Original. She looked back to Kol. "Two days at the most and you'll be dead," she said without as much as a hint of concern or sadness. If anything she sounded pleased about it.
"And what of a cure?" Elijah asked.
"I don't know. I wasn't going to go out of my way to save a vampire and there may not even be one. It's usually a witches last resort when it comes to killing a vampire or when they want to inflict a large amount of pain on them."
While Lucy and Elijah continued to converse Bonnie felt Kol gripped her hand tighter, looking at him she realised he wasn't doing it intentionally. He was frightened, she could tell even if he tried to hide it. She squeezed his hand back.
She was not going to let him die, not again.
"We need to find Esther," Elijah said.
"I know where she is," Lucy replied, almost reluctantly and all eyes turned to her. "She trusts me, we have a common goal on getting rid of all of you, she told me she was planning something else but I didn't think it would be so soon and she did not tell me what but I know where she is and I'll make her reverse it."
"Why would we trust you with that? You said it yourself; you share a common goal with our mother?" Rebekah sneered as she walked into the room.
"I will not be doing it for you," Lucy sneered back. "For some strange reason I cannot understand, Bonnie cares for him and I care for her. I'm doing this for her," she said, turning to Bonnie who smiled to her cousin gratefully.
"I'll stay here; see if I can find anything about it in my grimoire. Rebekah said that she's using our magic so maybe there is something in there about it," Bonnie said.
"Rebekah and I will help you; we have a large number of grimoire's in our possession," Elijah spoke. "Rebekah, show Bonnie to the library," he said and Rebekah nodded, motioning Bonnie to follow her.
Bonnie turned to Kol, her hand brushing his cheek. "I'm not going to let you die," she whispered before pressing her lips to his in a sweet kiss. "I love you," she added then got up off the bed to follow Rebekah out of the room, leaving Kol with Elijah and Lucy.
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Not too fond of this one but awwww Kennett! Hopefully you liked it! But be warned, it's not over yet, there is still some hardships left for Kennett and by that I mean one big one that will most likely make you all wish a thousand fiery deaths on me! Or maybe not, what I have planned may not be what I end up going with but if I do I guarantee you will hate me forever! I hate myself for thinking it! And it has something to do with what I didn't show in this chapter, something towards the end! Haha
This is another shorty. I wanted to give you guys another quick update before I move house because I don't know when the next will be out but it will be a long one :) The votes were pretty even so I decided to split it.
I hope you liked this chapter and thank you for your reviews for the last chapter! I loved them! And I'm going to have an OMG moment because you have given me over 300 reviews! I love you all so much! Thank you!
This is only very roughly edited so sorry for any mistakes and pretty please review!
Next Chapter:
Lucy finds Esther, Bonnie does some research, Rebekah and Bonnie's friendship rekindles, Kol's condition gets worse, more Kennett (they will have another moment), Klaus does some torturing and you'll learn ever more about the curse.
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