Klaus poured himself a drink and gave Kol a side look as his brother came inside of the library only to walk out just as quickly, he shrugged and took a sip from his really expensive drink frowning when Kol returned inside yet and stood there just looking at him.
"Can I help you with anything Kol?"
"Bonnie and I kissed." he bluntly informed.
Klaus pursed his lips and waited for the rest, when nothing was added he just said. "I know, Caroline told me that the two of you were making out in my room while she was dead." he scolded Kol.
He threw his hands in the air. "That also happened but I was referring to last night in my room."
Klaus narrowed his eyes. "I'm not sure where this is going."
Kol huffed. "I need a drink."
Klaus expected the talk to be kind of be done when Kol left his side to sit on the sofa, Kol wasn't much of the talking kind, especially about his feelings and certainly he wouldn't start now with him of all people.
"It was amazing, I can't stop thinking about her."
Klaus looked slowly behind him, there was no one else inside of the room therefore Kol had to be talking to him.
Kol spotted the genuine surprise in Klaus and spread his arms apart. "Can't you be the older brother for ten minutes? I don't have anyone to talk about this."
Klaus nodded solemnly and sat down across him on another sofa.
All right, awkward sibling bonding moment?
Check.
"So the first time we kissed it was this huge energy swap thing and then last time it was... intense." Kol gravely had his drink.
Klaus did the same not really sure how he had come to earn Kol's trust with such an issue or any issue now that he was thinking about it. "And this is somewhat messing with you." Klaus said encouraging his brother to go on.
"I have thought about her for a long time now, she's kind of impossible to resist and I blame you for using me in that initial spell as her energy talisman or whatever that was." Kol said upset.
Klaus smirked and took the bottle pouring more beverage into his glass, he offered it to Kol who stood up taking the refill, he then sat on the coffee table and rested his foot casually next to Klaus on the sofa.
"You can't blame me for whatever came to be after that day, I was convinced that she hated you and had a thing for Elijah instead. Never in a million years had I expected for the couple of you to be exchanging saliva or energy any time soon." Klaus defended himself.
"Elijah..." Kol rolled his eyes. "He's going to judge me with those noble eyes of his all the way to hell."
Klaus smiled leaning over and resting his forearms over his knees and looking at Kol. "He will understand, after all it was Bonnie's choice, was it not?"
Kol huffed appalled. "Of course it was Nik, I didn't force her into anything, I'm not a complete idiot you know?"
"Then Elijah will respect your involvement with Bonnie. Probably." Klaus said with a huge smile before drinking again.
"Thank you very much Nik, your support is overwhelming." Kol finished his drink.
"Do you genuinely feel something for Bonnie, Kol?" Klaus asked more serious now.
Kol played with the glass in his hand but looked at his big brother committed. "I love her." he admitted for the first time out loud.
Klaus received the news with a deep breath. "She's Caroline's best friend and you are my brother, if this goes wrong in any way..."
"That's not what you should be worried about." Kol considered telling Klaus about all that went down in his room last night but he would lose Bonnie's trust if he did so, she would never trust him again, nor look at him, so he went straight to the second major issue on his mind. "When I kissed her that first time there was this energy rush strong enough to bring Caroline and Rebekah back from the dead so..."
Klaus clasped his lips and widened his eyes going for the bottle, he poured another large drink because he could finally tell where this was headed.
"... what will happen when we have sex? Will the house implode?" Kol asked worried.
Klaus fought with his next words. "You seem to have this really intense connection to Bonnie so... I have no idea?"
Kol gasped in dismay. "What do you mean you don't know? You are like the walking witchcraft encyclopedia."
Klaus grimaced. "I have no real notion of what sort of thing you have with Bonnie that makes you both produce enough dark magic to resurrect vampires not to mention that she's one of the most powerful witches of her generation so there is a possibility that she might kill you without intending to do so."
Kol looked down on his boots. "I'm doomed to never have sex again."
Klaus couldn't help the genuine laughter that burst out of him and leaned back on the sofa, while he stretched his arms his body still shook with a rich carefree laughter.
"I'm joyous that my romantic life amuses you to an extreme." Kol said, at first he let out an unwilling small laughter then he started laughing as hard as his brother.
When Klaus calmed down he spoke in all of his wonderful wisdom. "You have time to figure all that out. When the time comes you'll both deal with it and you will for sure find a way to make matters work, preferably without killing each other in the process or destroying the house."
"We'll send out a short notice so that you can all just run for safety." Kol cackled.
After a sip from his drink Klaus rested a finger on his lip. "Reckless rebel, I'm too good for any woman Kol Mikaelson has fallen in love."
Kol looked away annoyed. "Shut it Niklaus."
Klaus laughed again legitimately happy that he was playing that big brother role with Kol.
"Hey, I was looking for you." Caroline sprinted inside of the library interrupting the moment.
Kol looked at Klaus and clenched his lips in a sign of gratefulness before standing up.
Caroline simply looked at Kol as he swiftly dropped his glass on the table and left the library, she looked at Klaus with the strange feeling that she had walked in on some major bonding moment and felt a bit bad about it.
Klaus smiled and opened his arms slightly shaking his head as a subtle assurance that she hadn't.
"So you gave Bekah the stupid ring of doom?" she asked not lingering in her tiny doubt.
Klaus didn't speak, he kept his smile but took another sip from his drink.
Caroline chewed on her lip, not that she wasn't sure that she could work her way around this but she nevertheless knew that he was still a bit upset about her determination to stop him from turning Rebekah. "Are you going to stay mad at me for much longer?" she softly asked whilst clasping her hands together in a nervous way.
Klaus finished his drink and placed the glass on the little coffee table in front of him. "I'm not mad at you Caroline."
She felt the calmness in his voice, this was so Klaus, the daunting calm before the storm, she resumed to chew on her lip and looked at him wanting to ease the strange tension between them. "You've barely talked to me since that and when I woke up today you weren't in bed." she knew how silly it sounded but these things had become somewhat vital to her, it was the consistency of the little things they shared that made everything so natural and easy between them.
Klaus licked his lips and lowered his head, when he looked up at her she felt that sweet shiver that assaulted her whenever he used his intensity like this.
"If you simply wanted a kiss you could have asked for one. I might have given in this time around… or not." He smirked.
"That's very mature Klaus." she folded her arms mad. "Fine, deny me a kiss again and ignore me all you want." she turned fast on her heels. "See if I care."
Klaus appeared in front of her with a crooked playful smile. "I didn't know that denying a kiss would have such an impact on you."
Caroline was furious, like hell he didn't. "Keep them all to yourself, I couldn't care less." she said shrugging but praying that he wouldn't see right through her.
Klaus was pleased with her adorable uncontrolled rage.
"I'm serious!" she huffed tucking her hair behind her ear, when Klaus moved she had to take a step back because he was literally on her face, she took another step back and bumped into a cabinet, she had to look back while he softly pushed her in another direction, when her back finally found the wall she sighed looking at him.
Klaus cupped her face. "Here's the thing sweetheart, you may have found my utter weakness for indeed I cannot bring myself to say no to you..." his smile faded as his seriousness settled in. "... but let's get one thing straight, I will let you win when I want you to win."
Caroline smiled regaining some of her confidence back. "Keep telling yourself that Niklaus."
His face took a wicked dark twist and he came within inches of her face, breathing and talking against her lips. "You can use my full name as much as you want, you may moan and scream it as much as it pleases you Caroline..." he whispered. "... but you will not use it again to get what you want from me."
She had to keep in mind that she had to come off strong upon his closeness. "Why are you telling me this now? Why are you so sure that I have any idea of the real control that I have over you?" she asked knowing that she was playing a very dangerous game.
Klaus sighed loudly and placed each hand on the wall next to her face, making sure that she wasn't going anywhere for now. "I have been on the run my entire life, for over a thousand years people have been after me and I have managed to always be one step ahead of them..."
Caroline breathed in his intensity, lingering on every word that he shared with her.
"... and then I met you." He dropped the words as the emotion latched around his throat.
She always dreaded for the day that he would realize what a huge mistake he made by chasing her and yet as he spoke the words she still fought the urge to break down and cry in front of him.
"You literally take my breath away Caroline, you have so much power over me that you could ask me to bring down the entire world and I would easily do it for you, because you have asked that of me."
It should be wrong to feel exhilarated with the very notion of having so much power over someone, even more when it came to the most dangerous creature of them all. "So the problem here is that you don't feel totally in control because of me? Am I messing with your Alpha male complex?" she asked keen on setting things straight since they were at it.
Klaus smiled that cocky smile of his. "I am the Alpha male love, I am the Original vampire and werewolf, and you are my woman."
Caroline gushed out the air caught in her throat, it should be even worst to feel aroused.
"I will take it all, I will gladly accept that you have so much control because I love you."
The simplicity in his words brought Caroline back to the easiness that was everything in their relationship, in the end he was the most simple man as well, all that he needed was a reason.
Klaus moved his right hand and cupped her face, he stroked her chin gently and spoke serious now, eerily even. "But what I will not have is my woman using that against me."
And there it was, why he had been upset with her, avoiding her, simmering down before confronting her, Caroline closed her eyes and rested her head against the wall. "I'm sorry." she searched for his eyes desperately looking for the right words to tell him. "I shouldn't have used it the way that I did, I'm sorry for that Nik." she rested her hands on his chest. "But I wasn't using it against you. I could never use you like that, I know that you think like that right now because I just did it to convince you not to turn Rebekah but it wasn't like that..." Klaus was hurt, she knew it, she knew that she had messed this up when she overused her leverage, she saw it across his silent features and sad eyes. "This isn't one-sided, at this point I'm so in love with you that you could ask for anything and I wouldn't even question it Nik so to think that I'm using you in some way to get what I want is unfair because you know the power you have over me as well. You know how much I want you and how much I rely on you for everything, I may be your woman but you are my man."
She was alluring him with every word and as much as he wanted to put up some sort of resistance she was as cunning as the sweet sound of a mermaid pulling him into a sweet doom, he ran his thumb over her red lips. "You drive me to insanity Caroline, you are constantly fighting me, going against me, questioning me, challenging me." he inched closer again to her face.
"Would you really have wanted it any other way?" she whispered while ingeniously moving her hand slowly down his chest and around to his back, she gulped down because she felt his body react to the simplest touch.
"No." Klaus' breath changed when she craftily melted against him.
"Then stop talking Nik and kiss me."
Klaus brought her face closer and kissed her, melting his tongue against hers instantly and sweetly battling her, he kissed her deeply and enjoyed the touch of her hand on his neck because that was his notion of normality between them, no matter how crazy she drove him with her defiance, she was right, he wouldn't have it any other way.
The woman who happily kissed him back, even battling for dominance in a kiss was the one for him and he enjoyed every second that he was allowed to be near her, to touch her and to have her.
Caroline moaned telling him how much she was enjoying the way that he ran his tongue along her palate, how he engaged her tongue again and poured that insane passion that she had never met before him.
"Niklaus..." she pulled his hair when he kissed down her neck.
Klaus stopped and looked at her, tilting his head unsure of how to react.
She gave him the sweetest innocent look and shrugged. "You said that I was allowed to moan it... and it kind of turns me on." she bit her lip trying not to blush.
"I know by God that you will be very death of me Caroline." he took her mouth again.
She had her arms around his neck and his hair was under her fingers, she answered his very demanding kiss with will, she managed to sneak her hand inside of his collar and scrapped slowly her nails across his amazing shoulders, Klaus pulled her closer to him and to another deep kiss.
"Oh Dear Lord, don't you have a room of your own? I'm positively sure that it has walls as well." Rebekah sat annoyed at the sofa.
Seriously! The girl just lost her boyfriend and she walked in on them practically getting it on against a wall in the library, Caroline broke the kiss and collected herself.
Klaus pulled away surely in need of a very cold shower and with no tolerance for the judgy look on his sister, he returned with a scold of his own. "I need to find Elijah." He gave Caroline the sweetest simplest kiss as a goodbye, stroking her cheek gently and smiling at her while doing so.
"I will find you later." she smiled watching him as he left.
In a question of seconds Klaus had turned into, dare she say it? A boyfriend.
The idea was too huge to handle properly and she shook her head trying to suppress the giggle of joy that stupidly wanted to come out, she smiled at Rebekah and sat next to her. "How are you B?" she asked warmly.
"Clearly not as good as you are." Rebekah said with a forced smile.
This was the way that Rebekah had found to cope with everything that went down, she had this semi-scolding tone towards everyone else and she was always upset with everything.
Caroline knew that she would have to kick Rebekah back to her senses very soon but she also had to give her time to mourn Matt properly so she just ignored the rebel teenager mood for now. "Do you want to talk about it?" Caroline asked sweetly.
"I'm tired of talking and I'm tired of everyone comforting me, it's getting all just too suffocating." Rebekah snapped.
Caroline moved her hand to touch Rebekah's. "Things will get better and you'll feel better Rebekah, plus you are not alone in your pain."
With that Rebekah smiled and showed honesty for the first time in days.
Bonnie brushed her hair in front of the mirror and then moved the hair so that she could look at her neck, there was no sign of Kol's fangs except for the lingering feeling of his lips glued to her skin.
She looked down from her reflection and recalled his amazing chest cradling her, she remembered the way that he had scooped her up from the bathtub and carried her to his bed.
She sighed wondering why on earth she had insisted on going back to her bedroom… so that no one caught them together and started asking too many demanding questions, that's why.
She had been determined but now with the sun coming inside her bedroom she couldn't help to feel a bit regretful, had she been sleeping in his bed last night she would have a lot more memories today, maybe he would have slept next to her or maybe he would have been Kol and slept on some chair.
She rolled her eyes and raised her chin up, she was linked to Kol now, that's what she should be thinking about but a soft knock on her door claimed her attention elsewhere. "Come on in." she said easily but gulped down as Elijah walked inside.
"Good morning Bonnie." he said with a smile.
Oh crap. She had mouth-assaulted his brother, drank his blood, fed him with hers and even dared to lust for sex with him and now Elijah stood stoically in her bedroom smiling at her like she was some innocent damsel. "Good morning Elijah." she said trying to smile in the process, there was another tiny detail as well, she had kissed Elijah prior to all of this.
"We should discuss what took place in the kitchen last night." he simply said.
It was fair enough, she owed him this much. "About the kiss Elijah..."
He cut her short by raising his hand. "I'm not here to discuss that Bonnie, I don't want to make you uncomfortable but I do know that you weren't completely honest with me and I am deeply distraught by it."
Bonnie clasped her lips together.
He carried on pacing slowly around her room, when he came closer to the window he touched her books lying on the window-seat. "I expected honesty to prevail between us Bonnie but you have kept me in the dark."
She feared how much he really knew and kept her eyes glued on his actions.
"Your grandmother wasn't being cryptic, you have a plan and she knew about it. You just decided to switch partners in crime last night."
His conclusion was spot on, he had figured out that she had changed from wanting to be connected to him to Kol at the last-minute. "I always thought that I was going to choose you Elijah, it made so much sense to have been you. We always had this non-verbal connection and I do trust you with my life Elijah but..." she licked her lips nervously and felt her heart on her throat pounding heavily. "... I'm in love with Kol."
Elijah brought his tight lips forward visibly upset and placed his hands inside of his pockets. "So you've made your choice Bonnie, we are very different and I know that he is my brother but he can't be trusted, no one in this family can be trusted. You deserve better than any of us and whatever you have planned... you shouldn't be relying on Kol with your life." And with that he simply left.
Bonnie slumped in her place, had she made the right choice?
She had given up the unconditional support and already existing connection to Elijah for Kol, with everything that could come with that, with him.
Could she even refute Elijah's words at this point? When Kol wouldn't even budge in his quest to hide his feelings from her?
Well there was nothing that she could do now and even if Elijah was resentful with her decision she couldn't deny that she expected him to come around and be that solid figure in her life again.
Stefan came out of the bathroom drying his wet hair with a towel, he was not pleased when he found Katherine lying on his bed with a playful smile.
"Hello Stefan... hmmm... you smell delicious." Katherine pursed her lips at him.
He simply rolled his eyes and grabbed a shirt, the fabric started to stick to his still wet chest as he got dressed.
Katherine licked her lips in lust with the privileged sight.
"What do you want Katherine?" he asked annoyed while throwing the towel away.
She lazily stretched on his unmade bed. "New clothes… that pair of boots that I saw online... you on top of me." she pointed at him.
Stefan inhaled trying to keep calm. "Can you please leave my bedroom Katherine?"
She giggled and sat up on his bed with her legs swiftly folded on her side, portraying the perfect picture of sexy and innocent at the same time. "Why are you resisting me so much? I know that you want me as much as I want you... let's just skip the part where I constantly seduce you to the part where you make me really happy."
"It's not going to happen and I don't know why you insist on staying in this house."
Katherine made little circles on his pillow. "Mr Salvatore, have you no manners? That's no way to treat a guest on your house and even more a lady."
Stefan laughed. "Katherine... you are not a lady."
She pretended shock. "How dare you, good Sir? I am nothing but a lady who needs shelter."
"Katherine... I don't fall for your ways anymore."
"Oh, I think that you do, you just don't want to give in... just yet." she played with her bottom lip.
"I don't feel anything for you anymore, so why don't you just move on and go find someone new to seduce and to play with." he challenged her.
Katherine smiled and moved so that her feet touched the floor, the really skinny jeans showed just how sexy and hot she was. "I only want to play with you."
Stefan looked away feeling his patience running low, he tried to ignore the way that she looked at him sizing his body and the way that her long curly hair casually fell across her really tight and cleavage-showing shirt. "I'm not interested Katherine so you need to move on."
"No... you are the one who needs to move on. Elena made her choice and I doubt that she will be done playing with Damon any time soon." she winked at him.
He just kept on ignoring her stinging words.
"Stefan... when will you understand that I'm the only one who has always loved you?" she left the bed to near him.
Stefan coldly faced her when she came up close. "But I don't love you Katherine, I never did. You compelled me to feel all that for you."
Katherine looked at Stefan absolutely fascinated by him, he still made her feel like an angel, just like he had called her that night, even when he tried to show hate in his words or the way that he looked at her, she still saw his pure love. "We both know that's a lie Stefan. I never loved anyone like I have loved you and you only loved Elena as much as she allowed you to. The ever consuming love and true passion was mine. I had you before and I had you completely." she spoke with intensity now, serious as she made sure that the distance between them was shorter. "And I still can have it all back." She walked away knowing that she still had that much power over him because she knew Stefan and the only reason he was allowing her to be around was to test himself, to see if he was truly over her, so for Katherine the fun times had just started.
Bonnie was searching for Caroline and for Rebekah but it was Kol that she found in the hallway towards the library, she smiled awkwardly, it was the first meeting after an intense night. "Hey..."
"Hello. I was... on my way to look for you." he said with a smile.
"I'm a busy woman today."
Kol looked puzzled.
"Elijah came to see me earlier."
He changed his entire posture. "What did he want?"
Bonnie gave her shoulders a move. "To tell me that I was wrong about choosing you. That he knows that I lied to him and that he basically feels like I wasted his diligence to find a cure."
"Why did you choose me?" Kol asked curious.
Bonnie looked down on the floor and shrugged. "Because that first kiss messed me up and if I have to die I want to die knowing that I was somehow... yours?" she looked at him now, feeling like she was exposing her vulnerability but not really caring for it at this point.
Kol grabbed her hand and opened the first door that he found, they went inside of some dark unused room, he searched for the light and as dim as it was he still could see her amazing eyes. "You are not going to die. If there's one thing that I've learned from Nik's obsession with witchcraft is that there's always a way. We are linked now and if you die, I die along with you."
Bonnie smiled powerfully. "I would break the spell before that happens. I'm strong now, remember?"
Kol rested one hand on the wall next to her face and the other graced her chin gently. "Bonnie Bennett, you listen to me and you listen well, I will not allow anything to happen to you. Do you understand me darling?"
Bonnie couldn't help the huge smile that left her lips. "Is that a promise Kol? If it is, you have to be careful or else I might start believing that you actually have real feelings for me."
"I'd be careful as well because one might say darling that you would love that."
Bonnie softly traced his neck with her palm. "Yeah, one might say that..."
Kol pressed his lips hard against hers, he was eager to feel her taste once more, he kissed her rejoicing in her warmth and softness while she brought her body closer to his.
Bonnie kissed him back answering all of the nagging little questions inside of her, Kol was the right choice because in the end he was willing and ready to do whatever it took to keep her alive, and by extension his entire family.
Abby looked up from the fire that she was minding inside of the huge silver bowl when she saw Tyler approach her.
He handed her a white oak stake. "Is everything ready?" he asked her.
Abby took the stake and dipped it inside of the bowl filled with Tyler's blood, the stake became red instantly and then it just turned grey as the liquid solidified around the stake completely. "One immortal weapon to destroy an entire immortal family." She handed it back to Tyler.
The hybrid looked at it impressed. "Not bad Abby… but are you sure that it won't burn out when I stake the first one with it? This is the only one that he managed to snatch before Klaus had a chance to destroy the rest of the stakes that Elena gave him."
Abby nodded. "The witches have made it impossible to destroy it…" She had a long look at Tyler. "Just like you."
Tyler smiled smugly. "As long as I don't go against them, right?"
Abby smiled when her dead sisters spoke inside of the old witch house. "They are on our side, they have kept us hidden in here until now and they have kept everyone else out, so don't screw that up Tyler."
"I won't. I want everyone in that family dead as much as you all do." he said trying the stake as a weapon and slicing air with it, just to get the hang of it.
"What about Kelly, have you undone her compulsion?" Abby started cleaning her working table.
"Yeah, she's drowning her hot ass inside of some Gin bottle in some sleazy bar in California. Where I found her to begin with." he said invisibly staking someone, he had a pretty vivid image nonetheless of who he wanted to fry right now.
"What about him? Is he ok?"
Tyler simply nodded. "Everything is going exactly according to the plan, he's free now and together we are going to start taking them out, one by one." he smiled feeling pretty satisfied for coming up with part of this flawless plan.
Abby crossed her arms still a bit apprehensive. "I hope that they have turned Rebekah by now..."
Tyler opened his arms super confident. "There is no way in hell Klaus hasn't turned her already."
"Are you sure? We can't tell now that we are blind to what happens in the house." she pressed on.
"Relax Abby... Klaus is paranoid about protecting his family and he will do anything to protect his precious sister. By now, he has snapped her neck after feeding her with blood and she's back to being a vampire."
"Rebekah can't stay human." Abby was worried.
Tyler stopped his training vampire hunting movements and faced Abby intrigued. "Are you really ok with letting Bonnie die?"
"Are you ready to kill Caroline?" she shot back.
Tyler clutched the weapon in his hand. "She is already dead to me."
Abby nodded and then added coldly. "We have all made our choices, it's time to deal with them."
Tyler watched her as she walked away and then looked down on at the stake in his hand. "Yeah... let's go kill some vampires and replace the Alpha Moron." A really dark and sinister smile took over his features. "It's time that someone shows him what it's like to be a true werewolf."
Soundtrack:
You give me something – James Morrison