Bonnie's phone dropped from her hand and bounced against her bed. She could still hear Caroline's voice on the other end, asking if she was okay but she ignored her friend.

Kol was back?

After three months he's back?

Why?

The green eyed witch tried to compose herself long enough to pick her phone back up and talk to Caroline, needing more information. "When did you see him?" she asked her friend.

"Today, when we were in the library," she told Bonnie. "He's the one that got Shane for Rebekah."

He's the one that abducted, tortured AND killed Shane? She really shouldn't be surprised by that.

"Bonnie, are you okay?" Caroline asked, sounding concerned.

"No," she answered truthfully. She wasn't okay.

She was confused as to why he was back and angry that he finally decided to return after so long and that he had gone after Shane – someone who she really trusted and had come to care for.

"Do you want me to come over or maybe you come over here?" Caroline suggested. "It might be better if you come here seeing as Kol has an invite to your house."

"I don't think that's necessary, Care," Bonnie replied. "I don't think he is here for me."

If he was, he'd have contacted her by now. He's here for the cure. Like everyone else. Probably siding with Rebekah considering he took Shane to her.

"You sound a little disappointed by that," Caroline noted. There was no judgement or confusion in her voice and Bonnie was thankful for that.

Maybe she was. Not a day had gone by where Bonnie didn't think about Kol, he was permanently stuck in her head and every day she wished for him to return and eventually he did but it wasn't for her. So yeah…Bonnie could not but feel a bit of disappointment.

It seemed that Kol had moved on from her.

"I'm just surprised is all," she responded. "But you don't need to worry, I'm fine."

"Are you sure?" Caroline was a little hesitant about leaving Bonnie alone while Kol was back on the loose in Mystic Falls and had an invite to the witch's house.

"Yes, I'm sure plus my dad wants to start acting like a family and spend some time with me," Bonnie told her blonde friend, her tone showed her annoyance when she mentioned her dad.

A month after Kol, something had happened between her dad and Sally that caused them to break up. Her dad, Rudy, took it pretty hard and threw himself into his work and took a two month long business trip and Bonnie had hated him for it ever since.

She honestly could not believe that he would leave her on her own for two months – yes, he may have returned for a few days here to try and there but he was still gone for two months even though he knew something was wrong with her and how depressed she was and now he returned and wanted to act all fatherly?

No way.

Bonnie wasn't having any of that.

"Still having issues with him being back?" Caroline's voice broke her thoughts.

"I cannot believe they made him mayor of the town," Bonnie groaned and sat on her bed. "Like he suddenly wants to be a part of the supernatural world?"

The whole thing just annoyed Bonnie.

He never wanted to be a part of her life as a witch but now he wants to have a say in every little thing she does?

It doesn't work like that.

"Anyway…How is Tyler?" Bonnie asked Caroline, changing the subject. Bonnie and Tyler may not be close, but she knew what he was going through. His mother was all he had left and now she was gone. She felt the same when it was her Grams.

"Not good," Caroline sighed. "I found him in the gym; he just broke down, Bon. He blames himself for what happened to her."

Bonnie frowned. She of all people knew what it was like to try to do something good but have it backfire tragically. But at least Bonnie had her dad, they might not be close right now but she did have him. Tyler had lost all his family.

His father had died (something Bonnie felt guilty about everyday), his uncle (another thing) and now his mother. But at least he had Caroline. Caroline would always make sure he was okay. He'd never be truly alone as long as he had her.

Those two were seriously lucky to have each other.

"Bonnie!" She heard her father's voice boom from the living area.

"Ugh!" Bonnie groaned into the phone. "I got to go, the mayor is calling me," she said sarcastically, causing Caroline to laugh. "I'll see you tomorrow, Care," she paused as she remembered why Caroline called in the first place. "And thank you for telling me."

The two friends said their goodbyes and hung up and Bonnie stomped her way to the living room to face her father.

"What time do you call this?" he questioned her as soon as she sat down on the couch. "Why are you home so late?"

Bonnie rolled her eyes. "I had to help Elena and Caroline then April got hurt so I helped her get home." There was no use lying to him, he already knew about everything plus, he needed to know that she was quite capable of handling and protecting herself and the town.

"It's far too dangerous for you to be out on your own this late," he said and Bonnie shook her head at him and his sudden concern.

"I'm a witch, dad. I'm very capable of taking care of myself," she responded. "Or have you forgotten what I am?"

"I have always known what you are Bonnie."

"You just didn't want to see it," she jumped in and added and her father sighed.

"I lost your mother to witchcraft, Bonnie; I didn't want to lose you too."

Bonnie looked away from him.

"Why are you being like this, Bonnie?" he asked her. "I only want to protect you." She scoffed at that.

"You want to protect me?" she snapped and got up to stand up to him. "You left me when I needed you most. I was going through a really hard time and you just left me on my own!" her voice dropped. "How was that protecting me?"

Bonnie just looked at her dad with disappointment when he said nothing and she pushed passed him before she locked herself away in her room.

It was hard for Bonnie. She had lost Kol then she lost her dad.

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Kol Mikaelson was outside the Bennett residence when Bonnie slammed her door shut after her conversation with her father.

He had been here since she returned home; he had heard her phone conversation with Caroline, he heard the blonde baby vampire tell Bonnie that he was back in town and he saw how Bonnie reacted to that (he could have sworn that was a bit of disappointment her tone).

It made him smile, that part of her still wanted him here, wanted to see him but it would be for the best if he did not. He wouldn't be here long after all. Just long enough to find out where the cure is and to make sure no one ever gets to it.

He had continue to listen in on her conversation with Caroline, he heard of the troubles Bonnie was having with her father - which surprised the Original because from what he remembers when he had dinner with them that night, Bonnie seemed rather close to him.

But when her father returned home that evening, he found out what had caused their falling out. It seemed that not long after Kol had left town, her father had gone through some troubles of his own and left too, leaving Bonnie all alone.

Kol should never have left. She needed him and he wasn't there for her.

He listened to her argument with her father and how emotional and heated she would get when she spoke to him. He heard her voice crack when she said her final piece to him before he heard her walking back up the stairs and to her room. He heard the door slam and a click of the lock but the worst was hearing her sobs.

He tried so hard to keep himself grounded and not jump up there and comfort her like he so desperately wanted and like she needed.

Kol wanted to stay here and keep an eye on Bonnie, make sure nothing happened to her but he had a bunch of newborn vampires to hunt down and kill so that hunter, Jeremy, would not get to complete his hunter's mark. And if worst came to worst, he'd just cut off the boys arm.

At least that will keep him entertained for a while.

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Bonnie Bennett sat in the empty police station, waiting for her father and the Sheriff to come back out after locking up Shane.

Just when Bonnie thought things couldn't get much worse, Shane had confessed to being the mastermind behind blowing up the twelve council members (and Klaus' hybrids).

Bonnie felt like such an idiot for trusting him but she just wanted someone so badly that she guessed it didn't matter who. Plus, she thought she could trust him since he worked with her Grams.

Worst of all, he had made her lose control and in front of her father of all people. The look on his face when she stopped him with that wall of fire would be etched in her brain forever. He looked frightened.

She had managed to scare her dad and Shane just sat there the whole time with that stupid look on his face. She wanted to slap it off.

She looked up when she heard her father enter the room with Liz Forbes. Liz looked at her with caution while her father with concern.

Great, she thought, just what she needed, for her dad AND the sheriff to see her lose it and think she was a total freak.

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Kol had gotten to the Mystic Grill about an hour ago. He had come back from slaughtering all those vampires, beating the shit out of Damon Salvatore before leaving the younger vampire with a compulsion to kill the hunter. He had then returned back to Klaus' mansion and narrowly avoided a dagger in the back by his darling sister, but threatening her with the White Oak stake made her back of pretty quickly.

Kol would never use the stake on his sister, but he wasn't entirely sure if she wouldn't use the dagger on him. Could he not trust anyone in his family anymore?

All that had built up quite an appetite for him, but his plans to feed on the lovely red headed waitress were put on hold when he saw his beautiful witch enter the building about a half hour after he arrived.

Bonnie had walked in with her father and Kol could almost see the tension surrounding the two of them and of course, he needed to know what had happened.

So he listened in on their conversation and he heard what had happened today. He heard that Bonnie discovered what Shane had done and that she had nearly lost control over herself and her power and since hearing that, his desire to protect her had gone into overdrive.

But one good thing had come from that, she had seen who Shane really was and she was smart enough to see how insane the professor was. She never wanted to see him again and for that, Kol was thankful.

He overheard her father talk about getting help for Bonnie who immediately refused, She said she didn't need help and that she was fine and in complete control.

Kol nearly scoffed. He wasn't even there but he could tell she lost it.

"Stalking her now, brother?" Kol heard Klaus say as he sat next to him at the bar.

"Stalking is such a negative term. I like to think of it as protecting her from a distance," Kol corrected him. "Why are you here, Klaus?" he asked him. "Did you promise Rebekah you would finish the job?"

"You pulled the stake on her," he said and ordered himself a drink.

"I would never have used it on her; it was just to scare her off because unlike you I care for our family."

"If I didn't care for you, I'd have let Mikael get to you," Klaus responded.

"I see," Kol deadpanned. "You daggered us out of love."

"I know that is hard to believe but it is true," Klaus replied.

"Why are you really here, Niklaus?" Kol asked him, tiring of his brother's company and 'sweet' words.

"You need to remove your compulsion from Damon Salvatore," Klaus said and Kol scoffed.

"Nope," he replied and took another drink.

"I need the hunter alive, Kol," Klaus gritted, getting very tired very fast of Kol's attitude and how much more difficult his presence in this town has made things for Klaus.

"I don't nor do I want Damon Salvatore alive."

"Because of the cure or because of a different reason?" Klaus asked and motioned towards the young witch who was involved in a heated conversation with her father.

Kol glanced at his brother for the first time since Klaus had sat down next to him. "What are you talking about?"

He honestly hadn't the faintest clue what his brother was referring to? What other reason would he have to kill the hunter other than to stop them from getting the cure?

"Well after you left, Bonnie and Damon became quite close and she and Jeremy have been spending a bit of time together lately not to mention the fact that she is his detour," Klaus explained.

"Detour?"

"There was a bit of an issue when Jeremy first became a hunter, trying to kill Elena and all but now whenever he feel a little murderous, all he has to do is look to the young witch over there and poof, murderous thoughts gone," Klaus smirked. He rather enjoyed the look on Kol's face. "I think there may be some romance rekindling there," Klaus continued. He couldn't help it; he just loved to rile Kol up.

"If you want me to kill him, please, by all means keep going," Kol growled.

He was tempted to deal with the hunter's curse if it meant getting rid of Jeremy, but then if he did that he'd have about a one hundred per cent chance of losing Bonnie for good so he'd settle for Damon killing him.

Kol watched as Bonnie left the grill, her and her father going separate ways. He heard Bonnie saying she would head home and see him when he got back.

"The compulsion stays, brother," to Klaus and finished off his drink before he followed after her.

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"He did what?" Bonnie gaped into the receiver of her phone, Elena on the other end. She couldn't believe what her friend was telling her.

Bonnie had only just Bonnie returned home from the grill after dinner with her dad (who had gone to see Liz again, with a promise to return home soon), when he phone began to ring from her bag. She immediately knew something was wrong when Elena's name was on the screen.

Sometimes Bonnie thinks she should personalise Elena's ring tone to the Jaws theme because her friend only rings when she wants help or advice for a plan. Bonnie couldn't remember the last time Elena just rang to see how she was doing and catch up.

"Kol compelled Damon to kill Jeremy," Elena repeated.

"Is Jeremy okay?" Bonnie asked with concern.

"Yeah, Stefan stopped Damon at the last minute. He locked Damon up in the cellar in the basement," Elena told her. "I tried to go see him but Stefan would let me, he used the damn sire bond excuse saying that if Damon told me to let him out I would."

"A real reason isn't an excuse, Elena," Bonnie said. "You are sired to Damon, you do what he wants. You would let him out if he asked you to."

She heard Elena sigh on the other end. "Whatever," the doppelganger mumbled. "But now we are back to square one. Kol killed all those vampires; he'd compelled Damon to kill Jeremy and even threatened to rip off Jer's arm and Klaus has threatened Matt!"

"Look, don't worry about it. Klaus wants the cure just as much as we do, he'll keep Kol in line," she tried to pacify her friend and calm her down. "Just keep Jeremy and Matt safe. Keep them at your place; neither Kol nor Klaus have an invitation to it. They'll be safe there and I'll be over tomorrow morning to check up, okay?"

"Okay," Elena agreed. "I'll see you tomorrow then."

After they hung up, Bonnie was about to head straight to her room, eager to get some sleep after the emotionally draining day she had endured but of course, she could never have it so easy. The sound of the doorbell ringing through the house made Bonnie let out an annoyed groan.

Couldn't people just leave her alone tonight?

Bonnie didn't give who was at her door, if they asked her for any kind of help – she'd fry their ass. She'd had about enough of everyone's shit for one day.

"What?" she growled as she swung the door open.

She was left completely blindsided by who was standing there.

"Is that any way to greet a guest, beautiful, especially one that only wants to help you?"

"Kol," she uttered his name in shock.

She knew that she would eventually face Kol…actually she didn't. She didn't think he'd ever contact her. But knowing he was back and seeing that he was back were two very different things.

Seeing him standing there brought all those memories back of him, ones that she had tried so hard to forgot (she never did but she managed to push them away) but now it was impossible to think of anything else but him.

"What are you doing here?" she asked him.

"Like I said, to help you," he answered her. "Can I come in?" he asked.

"You already have an invite," she responded, a little bit confused to why he was asking her. She invited him in months ago, did he suddenly forget or something?

"I do but I also told you that I would not abuse that invite so if you don't want me inside, I won't," he replied and tried to meet her eyes but she avoided all contact, looking anywhere but at him.

He was trying to leave things to her, let her make the decisions. He was trying to make things just a little bit easier for her.

"My dad will be back soon," she said and he nodded.

"I'll make it quick then," but before he could continue, she stepped aside and motioned for him to come inside.

Kol crossed over the threshold, very gently brushing against Bonnie who took in a deep breath as she tried to calm herself before she closed the door behind Kol.

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I believe that this is the third update within a week? Woo! I'm on a roll! Hahaha. I just have so much inspiration right now that I'm just trying to get it all down before it runs dry and I'm back to not updating for like a month.

This one is short and for that I am sorry but I wanted to leave it there (I was gonna leave it with a dramatic "Kol" but I thought you guys might want just a little bit of Kennett) and also I didn't want to go fully into the episode because I don't really like to follow them and if I have to, I change them around.

Next chapter there will be Kennett but it won't be a 'reunion' so to speak (I know I should probably keep them apart longer but that's boring and I can create more angst if they are actually interacting) and the chapter itself will be more eventful, however chapter 27 is the one I'm really looking forward to!

Thank you for all the feedback and omg over 200 favourites? Uhh…I love you. I can honestly say I wasn't expecting that many so thank you!

Any mistakes I'm sorry for (like I said previously, I'm lazy so I don't really like editing) and please review! (I'm nearly at 400!)

Hopefully chapter 26 will be out within a week and it will be longer than this one (word wise) :D

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