"Remind me again, why did we invite all of them here?" Rebekah asked snarkily, knowing full well what their plan was, but had such a distaste for opening their home to these idiots.
"We want to try something out, Caroline would you please." Klaus he raised his arm palm up giving her the floor in front of her friends.
Elena, Damon, Matt, Bonnie and Stephen were seated on the couches and chairs in the Mikaelson mansions biggest living room and Caroline just stepped forward towards them.
"So uh, we figured out a little power none of us realized before."
Bonnie sat up straighter at Caroline's admission, what could this power be?
"I was wondering if I could try it out with you all here, just to see how it affects everyone. We know it'll effect vampires and it does hurt, but I'll stop quickly!" She smiled, eyebrows up, hoping that convinced Stephen and Damon to put their minds on the line for her.
"Okay, Caroline." Stephen stood up from the arm rest he'd been leaning on, ever since finding out what was really between her and Klaus, he'd been really helpful to her.
Honestly knowing just how charming the Originals could be when they were together, he understood the friendship they had. Kinda like his with them in the 1920's, they experimented with their vampire talents too, just now it seemed, minus the killing.
Stephen looked to Damon who seemed grumpy at the request but nodded pursing his lips at Caroline anyway.
So she went ahead, closed her eyes because she didn't really want to see them crumble in pain and whistled the pitch. Stopping as nearly as soon as she started.
Opening her eyes, she saw Damon and Stephen regaining the control now the pain has ended. Bonnie was grinning at her and looked almost like she was glowing.
"Are you guys alright? What was it like?" She started at Elena and Matt first.
"Just sounded like you whistling, nothing at all." Matt shrugged at her, "But they…"
He didn't get to finish as Damon filled in the rest, "I felt like you were frying pieces of my brain in some lava, Blondie. Like when Bon Bon here does her witchy woo." He gestured to the witch, who was still grinning.
"Yeah Caroline, the pitch feels a lot like that. The reverb when I hear you doing it, though, it makes me feel strong."
The blonde and the Originals looked to her witch best friend, "Okay then, I have another idea!"
Caroline hopped by Bonnie's side and grabbed her coat from her arms, pushing her to put it on, "We will see how far away it still affects them."
Nodding at the Salvatore boys, "Elena call me! We will try twenty feet first!"
Rebekah, Klaus, Caroline and Bonnie filed out of the house and twenty feet down the street, Caroline's phone rang and she put her on speaker, "They don't feel anything."
Rebekah whistled this time quickly and heard their groans over the phone.
"Yeah, they felt that for sure."
Bonnie reached for Caroline's free hand holding it gently as they walked farther from the house.
Thirty or so feet away now, Klaus whistled.
"Nothing." Matt's voice resounded, Rebekah frowned, maybe it was just because Klaus sucked at this power, so she whistled too.
"Well that time there was a little twinge but nothing much. I'll see if Damon or I can whistle too." Stephen's voice replied over the phone.
"Nice, thanks guys! We will be back soon." Caroline tucked her phone back in her pocket and looked to Bonnie who was smiling with her eyes closed, still holding her hand, "Bon?"
Bonnie glanced at her best friend, "Could you guys all whistle at the same time?"
Caroline glanced at the two Originals and they all shrugged in acceptance, all of them whistled the same pitch together, Bonnie's hand in hers started vibrating at the noise. She stopped whistling and the two also stopped.
"What is happening?" Klaus asked of the two girls. Bonnie let go of Caroline's hand and stepped away from them a few paces.
"Try it again?" Bonnie said her eyes closed. They looked to each other skeptical, but whistled together again, this time for longer.
Bonnie's arms came up from her sides, slightly bent at the elbow, as they kept whistling, a gust of wind came and blew her hair up pleasantly around her face but the wind wasn't touching the others, this wind seemed only interested in Bonnie. Slowly her feet left the ground a bit, the wind dragging her up.
The others stopped whistling in surprise at what it was doing for the witch and Bonnie gracefully floated back the few inches to stand on the road again. Her eyes opened after a minute, seeing their questioning faces, she smiled.
"I think your pitch does the opposite of what mine does to you guys. Like, the sound, it clears my head, it brings me power. I felt the nature wrapping around me, begging me to use it." she used her hands to talk.
Caroline's mouth fell open, "So something we can do actually focuses your magic?" Bonnie nodded smiling, shocked herself.
"It was incredible!" she beamed.
Caroline looked down the street thought she heard laughing, but it must have been nothing.
"Ah well," Klaus looked between the two youngest, "Let's be a little cautious though, alright? I've seen plenty a witch get access to more power and go absolutely nuts."
Rebekah nodded to her brother, he had a point. Sometimes like blood lust for vampires, witches got crazed over more power.
"We'll take it slow" Caroline compromised for the both of them, grabbing Bonnie's hand back and then making their way back to the mansion to fill in the others with their interesting news.
"Oh girls," Liz exclaimed as Bonnie and her daughter entered her house, "Good timing! I've just made dinner. Can I interest you in some chicken and mashed potatoes?"
Bonnie was elated, the feeling she was experiencing of nature from Caroline's whistling was making her feel so powerful and one with the world. She walked over to Liz and pulled her into a hug.
Liz hugged the girl, her daughter's best friend back, but gave Caroline a questioning look over her shoulder. Her daughter just smiled and gave a little shrug, she had some inkling about what Bonnie could be feeling. She felt it herself when she started really drinking Klaus's blood, that power, that sense of self that came along with it.
"So that's a yes, to food?" Liz giggled as Bonnie pulled away and smiled and nodded.
They all sat around the kitchen table together, Caroline only took a little chicken, not really hungry for human food today. Bonnie filled her plate, not at all squeamish about piling it on, she felt fantastic. Grilled chicken breast, garlic herb mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli, yum, she thought.
"Oh, this is so good. Thank you so much!" Bonnie exclaimed.
Liz smiled at the girl's appetite, "What have you guys been up to today?"
Caroline looked to Bonnie, she'd tell her mom the truth, just as she had with the rest of her friends. Her mom should know what her life has been like since she invited Klaus into the house to heal her that night a whole year ago.
"Well actually, it's kind of a long story." she spoke to the both of them, letting Bonnie know what her intentions were. The witch pursed her lips a bit but nodded, encouraging Caroline to continue and tell her mom the whole story.
"So whistling." Liz chuckled, "Whistling?" stunned that something so simple that so many people could do would be so strong of a gift.
"After all that whole story," Caroline was shocked, "that's what you take away from it?"
Bonnie and Liz were giggling at the blonde vampire, "Well sweetie, it's not as if the whole blood stuff wasn't interesting but, I dunno, you're a vampire, bloods like your thing now. I knew there had to have been something between you and Klaus already."
"Really?! How?"
Liz smiled at her daughter and stood up to grab their empty plates, "He actually came to see me." she walked into the kitchen with the dishes, just placing them in the sink and both girls turned to her surprised, "It was right after… the funerals." She thought better of saying Tyler's name.
She returned to her seat at the head of the table, her face serious, looking to her beautiful daughter, "He explained to me that you needed some space, the days off school." She picked up Caroline's hand in her own, "He seemed confident that you'd be feeling better in no time and for some reason, I trusted him about it. He's quite persuasive."
"OMG mom!" Caroline moaned, "You think he compelled you?"
Liz frowned that's not what she had meant, "No! No, who do you think I am missy?" Her mom stood up again, "I'm the sheriff and part of the council. I'm so full of vervain I could probably spit in a flower bed and grow some!"
Both girls laughed at her statement and Caroline sighed, "Well good. Urg, I don't want him being sneaky, all talking to you without me."
"Oh hm, embarrassed of your mother, huh? Well I retain the right to talk to your boyfriend whenever I want to!"
Even Bonnie was blushing at Liz's use of the word boyfriend.
"Klaus is more than a thousand years old, he can't be called a boyfriend." Caroline joked exasperatingly.
Bonnie chimed in, "Manfriend?" and laughed at how awkward that sounded.
Liz smirked at the girls and turned towards the sink, "Whatever you want to call him, Mr. Cuddles for all I care." and they all laughed at the inside joke, "Invite him over some day. I'd like to get to know him better, if he's this big a part of my only daughter's life."
Caroline could only roll her eyes, this situation was ridiculous and her mother is asking to meet her "manfriend" as if he was just some boy who was courting her. But she was happy her mom was also on board just like her friends.
