Chapter 25

Kol had been looking for Bonnie all over the house. When Klaus had finally pulled him off Damon Kol's only other concern was Bonnie. He had checked every room in the house and was beginning to worry that somehow she had disappeared yet again when he felt pulled towards his bedroom. Why hadn't he realized that he could use the bond to find her?

He followed the bond to his bedroom and looked again. At first glance the room was empty but then he realized she was completely hidden under the down comforter of the bed. He quietly closed the door.

"I'm alright guys," Bonnie's muffled voice called from under the comforter. "It's just another storm."

"Have you always hated them love?" Kol asked as he lifted the comforter and slid carefully underneath it to join her.

"Kol" He smiled at her obvious surprise and wrapped his arms around her waist as he curled the rest of his body around hers.

"Now I feel foolish. You don't have to stay."

"There is nowhere else I'd rather be right now," Kol replied. "Why do you feel foolish? Lots of people are afraid of bad weather."

"I doubt you're afraid of anything," Bonnie said. "Kol Mikaelson the big bad original and fear shouldn't even exist in the same sentence."

"I'll tell you a secret," Kol said tenderly where his mouth was just below her ear, "I have been afraid several times in just the last week. I was terrified when I realized that I had by some miracle convinced you to marry me and then I betrayed your trust by turning you. To make matters worse you were out there somewhere in transition and if I didn't get to you in time I was going to lose the most amazing thing to happen to me in a thousand years." Bonnie tried to look at him over her shoulder shocked at what he had said.

"I'm still worried that someone will take this away from me – they will declare our marriage invalid and you will want that." He added. "So you see love I'm not nearly as tough as I pretend to be."

"I'm glad," Bonnie said after a long silence. She trembled in his arms and Kol held her tighter. After the jerking motions continued he finally realized that she was crying a little.

"Bonnie?"

"Kol Mikaelson that is the most amazing thing anyone has ever said about me – you better have meant it."

"To the depths of my very soul Bonnie Mikaelson," he said tenderly. As it continued to storm outside he held his little witch - for he would always think of her as such – keeping her safe from the storm. He smiled as she actually relaxed and eventually fell asleep in his arms.

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Meanwhile Rebekah had carefully ascertained that Klaus was in the basement with Damon and both Kol and Elijah were with their wives. She led Stefan into one of the little used sitting rooms and as soon as the door was closed she kissed him with reckless abandon. Stefan resisted for only a moment and then he was kissing her as she was kissing him. They stumbled backwards towards the chaise and finally Stefan lowered Rebekah onto it. By now she was down to just the scant pair of lacy, black underwear she had worn just for him.

Stefan smiled hungrily at her as she shoved his shirt over his head. As he settled atop her on the chaise her tongue reached up to tease first one nipple and then the other as Stefan groaned. He leaned in and kissed her jaw and then down her neck. Their mouths met hungrily again before he took his turn capturing one of her delicate nipples and teasing it taut with his tongue.

She opened her mouth to protest when he literally ripped the small triangles of black lace off her but he silenced her with another kiss and a moment later he was inside her. She struggled not to cry out her passion as she eagerly met his every move with counter thrusts of her own. She climbed higher and higher realizing that it hadn't been this good in a very long while. Finally her world shattered and she couldn't hold back any longer. She cried out his name as his own climax slammed into him.