I'll take you home if you don't leave me at the front door
Your body's cold, but girl we're getting so warm
And I was thinking of ways that I could get inside
The music was really loud and Bonnie walked inside of The Grill trying to find the girls among the huge crowd that filled the Pub tonight, she smiled at some familiar faces but opened up into a grin when she spotted the two blondes dancing near the pool tables.
She maneuvered herself through the other dancing kids on the crowded dance floor and laughed because Caroline and Rebekah were really lost in the music, they were shaking their hips to the song and singing along, they really looked happy and that made Bonnie happy, she needed joy and happiness in her life for once, she was getting tired of all the gloom and bad luck that always seemed to follow her.
Bonnie noticed the guys standing near one of the pool tables, they seemed hypnotized by her friends and it made her giggle, they were lost in smiles and nods towards the girls who had fun oblivious to everyone surrounding them.
"Bonnie!" Caroline yelled opening her arms as soon as she saw her.
It made Bonnie feel all fuzzy inside, nothing hit harder than a wave of Caroline joy. "Hey..." She said with a big smile and answered Caroline's big hug, sometimes Caroline forgot that she wasn't a vampire but it sure felt good to be hugged with love.
"You're back!" Rebekah said and hugged Bonnie as well.
The greeting felt a lot less awkward than Bonnie expected and she enjoyed the warm welcome from the blondes.
"How was your trip?" Caroline asked with a giant smile.
Bonnie laughed. "It was a nightmare but I danced with Elijah."
Rebekah spilled her drink, nearly showering Caroline with Vodka. "You did what?"
Bonnie opened her arms laughing. "That was my exact reaction but he's really good at it."
Rebekah cleaned her chin. "First Nik isn't gay or a virgin, Kol has feelings and now Elijah dances? My brothers are full of surprises."
"Well the trip was a fiasco, we didn't find anything. I'm sorry Care..." she said feeling her usual gloominess kicking in.
Caroline shook her head. "No, no and no. Tonight you aren't a witch, Rebekah isn't a vampire and I'm not avoiding Elena. Tonight we are just three good friends hanging out and having a drink." she said determined.
Bonnie shared a look with Rebekah.
The later took a glass from their table and filled it handing it to Bonnie next. "She's right, tonight we are just three good friends drinking and dancing, celebrating my man's victory on the game tonight." she said proudly.
Bonnie found it adorable and felt slightly jealous of where Rebekah and Matt found themselves as a couple, or even Caroline for that matter, you'd have to be blind to miss how good Klaus was to her, the man treated her like a queen for Christ sake and she was happy for them, she was, she just... wished that it was her someday.
Bonnie shook her head and took the glass, they were right, tonight she would have fun, God damn it, if she could survive being killed by vampires in some narrowed back alley she was capable of putting everything to the side and actually have fun. "No deals, no spells, no fighting, tonight we are just Bonnie, Rebekah and Caroline having fun." she said determined.
The others joined her in a toast and danced as the set of songs kept changing and for the first time in a long time, Bonnie actually had fun.
Rebekah tapped her fingers on the counter, she was enjoying this so much, it was her official first girls' night out, well one that included more than just her and Caroline getting to the bottom of a couple of Tequila bottles, she waited for her turn to ask for another bottle of Vodka with a smile, having friends was nice, spending time with just girls was nice, she had spent so long with just Klaus that this was a breath of fresh air.
She looked back at her table, not that she was really complaining, she loved her brother but Caroline was a lot more fun to hang out with, she shook her head slightly, the thought that just a couple of months ago she would have taken the girl out of circulation just by looking in her direction was now preposterous to her.
Caroline was the sister she never had and that she wished she had, besides she couldn't deny the way that she made Klaus happy, his human smile was showing more often and she had caught him truly laughing, in his old honest way and she knew who had broken into his cocoon.
She made her way back to the table and on the way decided that she liked Bonnie as well, she was feisty and she liked that in her, the girl didn't take crap from anyone and could stand her own when needed, she was cool and Rebekah was going to add her to the imaginary list of sisters that she wished she had.
"What are we talking about?" Rebekah asked the girls as she reached the table.
Caroline rolled her eyes. "Can you please tell Bon that she can stay at the house for as long as she wants? It makes no sense that she would stay alone in her house, when we are all up there."
"Why would you want to stay in that dreadful house of yours when you can stay with us?" Rebekah asked opening her arms careful not to spill the open bottle.
Caroline smiled. "Not quite the same words I would have chosen but... she's right, why would you?" she turned to Bonnie.
"Because..." Bonnie picked all three glasses so that Rebekah could fill them up. "I can't camp out in your library forever. I already feel bad and we are just talking about it."
"We have 15 guest rooms Bonnie, Nik was obsessed with providing the biggest, most comfortable home in the history of family homes." Rebekah said with wide eyes.
"We would totally kill it if we were ever featured on MTV's Cribs." Caroline suddenly said.
"Bonnie, really… you are more than welcome at the house and I would like you to stay there with us." Rebekah said with a warm smile.
"Awww..." Caroline said with a sigh and clutched her glass close to her heart. "That was the nicest thing you ever said B."
Bonnie laughed. "How many of those did you have Care?"
Caroline shrugged. "Five or so."
Rebekah and Bonnie laughed at her huge effort to sound sober and serious.
"What...ever" she said and poured herself another drink.
A huge commotion started by the front door and Rebekah realized that the winning Football Team was here, she looked after Matt excited but felt a sting of jealousy as all the girls flaunted around the famous quarterback, she twisted her lips nervously and wondered if she should break the hand of the red-haired girl who insisted on touching his jacket.
Rebekah sulked, his fans were all over him and he was eating it up, it was nice to be popular she assumed, eventually she smiled when they crossed stares.
Immediately he left the ravenous group of teens behind and walked over to her, in that moment she felt like she was the most important woman in the entire world and she bloody loved that feeling.
Matt came closer to her with a big smile. "Hey..."
"Hey yourself." she tried to sound indifferent but what a joke as she melted upon a skillful gaze of his deep-blue eyes.
"So, we won the game." he said excited.
"I got your message and the adoring club of fans still drooling behind you show me that you were the star of the game." she said sounding a lot more annoyed than she intended, as a result Matt laughed his deep cool laughter and she felt her knees wobbly, curse him for it.
"I do not have fans and if I ever did I'd like to believe that you would be the president of the club?" he asked giving her a puppy look.
She tried to contain the damn smile that escaped her lips. "Only so I could wipe out the competition." she said meaning every word.
Matt laughed harder before cupping her face and kissing her lips. "You look so hot when you're jealous."
Rebekah smiled without returning his kiss. "I'm not jealous. You won the game, it's natural that they are all so into you now, tomorrow they will have forgotten all about you." She simply said knowing that he was only hers as soon as the game fever ended.
Matt shook his head and smiled taking his red Team Jacket off. "Do you know why they were all over me?"
Because you are the hottest man in Mystic Falls, she wanted to answer, instead she shrugged.
"Because after every game it's tradition for the Quarterback to choose the girl who will wear his jacket."
"It's tradition." Caroline squealed excitedly behind Rebekah.
"And whoever gets the jacket is like the chosen one. Every girl wants this jacket right now but Becks... you are my girl." he told her artfully smiling.
Rebekah gulped down as he moved and placed the jacket over her shoulders, she could feel the girls around her killing her with their eyes and she heard Caroline sniffle behind her as well but all that she could focus on was Matt.
His eyes, his face, his huge smile and the way that she felt, she bit her lip feeling like the luckiest woman in the world and finally laced her arms around his neck, kissing him deeply, no one would touch this jacket or this man, they were both hers.
"They look perfect together. They are so beautiful and blonde." Caroline said leaning against the wall after they left the bathroom, she was there with Bonnie while Rebekah did a kissing marathon at their table with Matt.
"You are so drunk Caroline." Bonnie giggled.
"No I'm not." Caroline pouted which made Bonnie give her a look. "I'm... tipsy."
"Cute!" she replied amused.
"Mabekah..." Caroline giggled.
"Did you just… make a name for Matt and Bekah?" Bonnie cocked an eyebrow. "You actually made a name for them?"
"Of course Bons... everyone is doing it. I ship them."
"Oh my God, you are so far gone." Bonnie laughed.
"It's perfect and I love it." Caroline said determined to stand by her ship's name.
"Do you have a name for you and Klaus?" Bonnie asked suddenly.
Caroline grimaced. "No... I've tried but nothing sounds right."
Bonnie shook her head laughing. "Caroline, I shouldn't say this as your friend but bless you for the things you say when you are drunk."
"Are you going to stay with us?" she looked at Bonnie serious now.
"Care... I don't know... things are a bit... weird at the moment."
Caroline squinted at Bonnie. "What do you mean? What did happen in New Orleans?"
"Besides dancing with Elijah?"
"Yes." Caroline looked at her friend trying to read her.
"Exactly that... I danced with Elijah. The Original who kills vampires with a stroke of his hand." she replied with a fierce nod.
"Did you like dancing with him?" Caroline asked softly.
Bonnie sighed and leaned against the wall next to Caroline. "Honestly Care? I don't know anything anymore, things are just so messed up right now. I shouldn't feel the way that I feel at all but out of nowhere I'm feeling a lot of confusing things."
"Oh Bons, do you think that I didn't try to resist Klaus? That I didn't try to stay away from him, to not give into him at all? I did, with everything that I had Bonnie, my head was yelling me one thing and my heart was pulling me in the exact opposite direction. I'm too smart to be seduced by him. I still know this but at some point you can't keep fighting the way you feel and I know how I feel when I'm with him, just thinking about him makes my heart ache. And you can't fight that, not forever, at some point you just have to give in."
"I like Elijah... he makes me feel special." Bonnie smiled at her friend admitting to something for the first time.
"But..." Caroline asked with an affectionate smile and a little knowing twinkle in her eye.
Bonnie had a deep breath. "But I don't know if that's enough to even think about something else but friendship at this point... is it weird that I want them as my family, all of them? Even Kol? That I only feel happy when I'm up there at their house?"
Caroline smiled. "No... you never actually had a family besides Grams and even with everything going on, even doing the really questionable at best, things that they do... they all live for the family. I have never seen a bond like that and it's compelling to watch and to be a part of it. I think that deep inside we all dream of being part of something like that, minus the killing and the blood and the torture and all that." she added an awkward look to her face.
Bonnie laughed. "Minus all that, they are the perfect family and I really came to see them as that. I think having no family is my excuse."
"What's mine?" Caroline asked Bonnie with a sigh. "I don't notice men anymore, every guy I see I compare them to Klaus. I think of him all the time, I can't keep my hands off him and I love that he can't keep his off me. That we have this insane deep connection and sometimes I want to just yell at people who try to break us apart."
"Elena?" Bonnie softly asked.
Caroline nodded. "She called me to rant about what Rebekah did to Damon and I have avoided her ever since. I'm happy that she didn't show up tonight, I don't know what I will do if I ever have to choose Bons."
Bonnie smiled at her friend, she knew that there wasn't any choice, Caroline had made her choice a long time ago, she just never realized it. "Your excuse for the Klaus obsession is that you are a vampire and everything is heightened, love becomes epic and you feel everything a thousand times more." she said trying to steer them back into joy and fun.
Caroline smiled a little lost in daydreaming. "God bless Klaus' vampire abilities."
"Way too much information Caroline." Bonnie closed her eyes. "I need a drink, or ten!"
Caroline laughed and followed her friend to the bar.
They drank tequila this time annoyed that Matt decided to ruin girls' night by hijacking Rebekah and her lips.
Caroline giggled when she saw Bonnie shiver at the salt taste in her mouth for the 6th time since they started their own marathon. "Bons..." Caroline put her empty glass away. "I have to tell you something."
"Please let it not be about Klaus and his... abilities." Bonnie had a bite out of the lemon.
"Silly." Caroline giggled but straightened her hair trying to look serious. "Kol has been here all night gawking at you."
"What? Where?" Bonnie turned on her stool, maybe a bit too fast because she felt dizzy now.
"He left 15 minutes ago." Caroline said folding her hands over her lap looking actually innocent.
Bonnie wanted to scream. "Why didn't you tell me?"
Caroline pouted. "We were talking about Elijah and the family and Dancing with the Stars."
Bonnie gave up, Caroline wasted was just impossible to keep focused. "Did he leave with the entire volleyball team?" she tried to sound casual and hopped that Caroline would be too drunk to notice, it seemed to fail miserably because Caroline smirked.
"He spent the entire night checking you out."
"Please..." Bonnie shook her head and huffed, followed by a shot of Tequila.
Caroline teased her friend some more. "And he left alone..."
Bonnie looked down on the floor, it didn't mean anything, why was she even asking Caroline these questions? God, Tequila was strong and it was just messing with her.
"It's none of my business but maybe you should go after him, he looked like he wanted to talk to you and that he was building courage for it."
"He knows where I live, he can come and talk to me whenever he wants to."
"I know but you are high on alcohol now and that usually helps." Caroline whispered.
"Helps with what?" Bonnie asked low as well.
"I'm not that wasted Bons and I know you. I've seen the way that your eyes sparkle whenever you mention him and I saw the way that he looked at you tonight."
Bonnie clasped her lips. "You are drunk because you keep calling me Bons."
Caroline shrugged and returned to her drinking. "Okay... I used to be an expert in this, just in case you forgot. I can tell when there's a spark."
Bonnie shook her head and stood up. "It's getting late and I should go. I'm tired from the trip and all."
"Mmhm…" Caroline hummed before licking her hand. "Text me later with the sordid tells."
Bonnie left the Pub in a hurry.
Caroline looked around and sighed, the Pub was getting empty, it should probably be really late but she had no idea of the time, she looked over to where Rebekah had been but found out that she already left with Matt.
She wondered how she went from having a great time with the girls to sitting alone at the bar, she released a loud gagging sound as some random guy tried to hit on her and decided to go home, maybe Klaus would be awake or better, he would sleeping and she could wake him up.
She smiled excited and left for the exit when she felt a hand quickly wrapping around hers, she was ready to fight the bastard who dared to touch her when she turned her head to find that perfect face of his with a smile. "What are you doing here?" she asked him surprised.
"Rebekah arrived without you and with Matt instead so I figured that girls' night was over."
Caroline smiled. "So you came to take me home?"
Klaus corrected her with a smile. "I came to see if you wanted me to take you home."
"Of course, you always make everything about me." she tilted her head.
"Isn't it everything about you?" he asked astonished.
Caroline fought the urge to roll her eyes. "I don't want to go home."
"What do you want sweetheart?" he asked smiling and willing to do anything that she ever asked of him.
"I want to dance." she smiled elated.
Klaus showed his dimples before he twirled her around, he then pulled her softly to him, she landed on his chest with a laugh, this reminded her of their dance at his house that night, the way that he spun her around and the way that he held her strongly yet cautious at the same time.
Klaus smiled and narrowed his eyes. "Are you all right love?"
She pushed away a few locks of hair that stubbornly kept falling over her face. "I might be a little tipsy. But just a tiny bit."
Klaus laughed. "You can't hold your drinking sweetheart." he trapped the soft locks behind her ear.
"Sort of." she tried deflecting from the horrible truth.
"You are a light weight." He whispered amused.
"I can so hold my alcohol." she huffed.
Klaus laughed again. "And you make so much sense when you hold it."
Caroline closed her eyes. "Ugh stop, you are confusing me."
Klaus pulled her closer, she rested her head on his shoulder and he rested his chin on top of her head, she sighed loudly because she felt so safe when he did this.
Her hand was under his next to her face and his other hand rested on the small of her back, she did the same pattern on his back with her free hand, they were perfectly matched together.
"I'm happy that you came..." she whispered against his body.
"I'm satisfied that I came as well, watching you slightly... tipsy is always fun."
She lifted her head to scold him. "Stop it."
"It's quite all right sweetheart, in a few decades you will master the art of drinking, trust me." he said with a nod of his head. "You will have a lot of time to practice and to endure it, it eventually becomes soft on you."
"I hate when you do that." she said disheartened.
"I'm not mocking you Caroline, I'm being quite honest." he spoke softly and looking into her eyes.
"Not that... when you stress how young I am."
Klaus was taken aback. "What do you mean love?"
"You have this tendency to remind me how really young I am, how you are so much older and wiser I guess, depends on the nemesis. I know that you had this entire life before me, I just wish you'd stop reminding me of it." she said unhappily.
Klaus smiled with a small shake of his head. "Is that what you really think love?"
"Yes." she nodded reinforcing her statement.
Klaus licked his lips. "If anything... the years, the centuries that I've endured only mean that I have lived them without you Caroline." he said with sadness.
"I hate when you do that!" she said again but smiled this time.
"Is there anything that you actually fancy about me, at all? Because you seem to hate me for an awful lot of things." he sounded worried.
"I completely despise you, it's a complete mystery how I have been able to fool you so well for all this time." she said utterly serious.
Klaus nodded. "If that's the reality of our situation, there's a girl I saw at the bar, she looked delicious and she was giving me the eye-sex so..." he released the hold that he had on Caroline with the intent of leaving but she fiercely pulled him back to her and kissed him.
She kissed him passionately but also a bit possessive which instigated him, Klaus smiled and pulled her closer to him to make the sizzling kiss last longer.
"Take me home Nik." she whispered when she decided to break the kiss.
"Only if you say that you love me." he asked her serious.
"After you show me how much you love me." She eyed him lustfully.
"I thought that you were inebriated." he said inches away from her lips but still not moving to kiss her.
She felt his breath tickle her lips and licked them enjoying the way that it made him practically groan, she suddenly remembered where they were and wondered if anyone was watching them but as much as she wanted to move, she couldn't, not even an inch.
Her eyes rested on his perfect lips and she smiled. "I wonder if I can find the guy who was hitting on me earlier and..." she didn't finish it because she felt Klaus' hold on her intensify.
She saw that irrational raging jealousy fire in his eyes, his own possession on her showing and honestly, it excited her more than she would ever admit, she liked knowing that he wasn't willing to share her at all, these were the terms of their relationship, they belonged to each other and no one else was allowed to ever come between them.
She smiled going back again to that night, the night when she said something to him that now sounded so ludicrous, she hadn't fully understand the ramifications of her words at the time but she did now.
Caroline rested her hands on his chest and asked him. "Are you spoken for?"
Klaus smiled, dear Lord, unpredictable Caroline always switching everything on him. "Yes I am sweetheart. How about you?" he asked in agony almost, he never knew what to expect from the woman so willingly melting against him.
Caroline smiled and looked at him with love and happiness. "I'm taken."
Soundtrack:
Shake it – Metro Station