AN: I apologize for the lateness of this chapter, but I had to make changes. Originally this was going to be the final chapter but I thought I left some things lacking and I felt that I rushed the ending, that it wasn't as complete as it could have been, so there is a 6th and final chapter coming. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Thank you for all the wonderful words and reviews and just being patient. You guys are the best. Continue to be safe and be excellent people.

Chapter 5

Bonnie's phone went off interrupting Lucy. Bonnie looked at the phone knowing that she had to take the call, she'd been gone for hours. Lucy noticed her face, smirked, so much for living in peace and harmony, she scoffed to herself as she took a good guess as to whom she was hearing on the other side of the line.

Bonnie took a deep breath then slowly spoke, "Hello Nik."

"Don't fucking 'Nik' me. Where the hell are you? He paused, then decided not to play cat and mouse games with his wife. "Forget that, I already know, I had to ask my brother and his girlfriend where my motherfucking wife went. What the fuck are you doing with him when we need you here?" Klaus yelled into the phone.

Bonnie moved the offending item from her ear, looking at Lucy. Lucy mouthed that she could use her room to talk in privacy, Bonnie mouthed back thank you and walked out the library, down the hall, finding Lucy's room, she shut the door firmly.

She put the phone on speaker. "Niklaus Mikaelson, who the hell do you think you are talking to like that? I'm not one of your minions or spineless flunkies" She hissed as her magic started swirling just under the surface of her skin causing her body to tingle.

"I think I'm talking to my wife who decided that she would leave, traipsing her ass hundreds of miles away to see her ex-fiance and didn't have the decency to tell me where she was going, that's who and had one of my minions or spineless flunkies did anything as stupid and disrespectful they would be dead." He returned sarcastically and just as heatedly.

"I didn't tell you because I didn't want to deal with your bullshit."

Flippantly Klaus shouted, "Thank you for your HON-es-teee, but that doesn't change the fact that I didn't know where you were. I assume that it didn't occur to you that regardless of my bullshit you should have made me aware of your plans."

"I knew you would either try to talk me out of leaving or insist on coming with me and neither was an option I was willing to entertain. And it wasn't like I left and no one knew where I was." She returned just as flippant.

She hated arguing with him, he made her feel like she was a child. And with his accent, which seemed to get more pronounced when he was angry, she felt like she should be asking, 'Please Sir, I want some more' and he would be the shitty master taking her to task.

"Fuck Davina, fuck Kol! Did you tell me? Did you…? No! I'm your fucking husband and you should have told me. I don't give a good gotdamn what you think I would have said and done, you should have told me."

"I know you are my husband, but if you don't stop talking to me like I'm Oliver Twist...you and I are going to have some problems."

"We fucking already have problems and I wouldn't treat you like a child if you werent behaving like one and if you were Oliver Twist, you would be getting a right proper beating," he yelled back, although he chuckled to himself, leave it to Bonnie to make him laugh when he wanted to strangle her.

"Niklaus I am here trying to help our children and-"

"Really or are you already falling for his bullshit? You told me he was a master manipulator when it came to getting you to do whatever he wanted. Has he gotten to you already? Talked you into his bed, into getting rid of your abomination of a husband and children for a new husband and family? Do you even care that he is torturing my children...or children?"

Klaus knew he had gone too far when he doubled over in pain as she threw anusryums at him from over the phone. Miles away and her magic was just as potent and powerful as if she was standing right in front of him, which was probably a good thing for him since if she was close she might have killed him.

"Are you done now?" She asked in a softer, quieter tone, after a few more seconds, she was feeling rather petty. When she felt he had enough she ceased the onslaught. "Klaus, I am your wife and I love you very much, but I am not going to continue doing this with you." Bonnie sighed, she never had a problem with standing up for herself, not even with Klaus and she hated to use magic on him, but he really was acting like an ass.

"I came here for one reason and one reason only and that was and is to find a cure for our children and to find out who did this. I am not going to feed into your jealousies, one way or the other. You are my heart, but you are going to stop acting like a petulant child having a tantrum." Bonnie continued.

Now it was Klaus' turn to feel like the scolded child. Bonnie always reminded him of the stern schoolmarms or strict saintly nuns that brokered no backtalk lest one would get hit with a hard wooden ruler.

Klaus recovered from the pain, realizing that he let his insecurities, fears and lack of control get the better of him. He knew that Bonnie would never be unfaithful or think about leaving him. He knew that she loved him and he knew she was loyal and faithful to a fault. He also knew he had been talking out 'the crooked side of his neck', as she would say, which made him chuckle to himself as he straightened himself up.

"I apologise my love. You are right...as always. Did you speak to him? What have you found out?"

For the next twenty minutes Bonnie enlightened him to what Alaric had told her, what she and Lucy had discovered and the possibility of a counterspell. By the time they ended the call they were in a better place and ready to end this ordeal.

"Look here," Lucy instructed Bonnie, "I think this is it. I think this will do it." For hours they had searched the books Lucy gathered and when they didn't contain any helpful information, they searched the many grimoires that were in the library, hoping to find something that could work. They were starting to lose hope.

Bonnie hopped up from her place on the floor to look at what Lucy was getting excited about. She inspected the spell, reading it a few times, examining the wording of it and the ingredients that would be needed.

"Yeah, yeah...I think this will do and I can get all the things needed." Bonnie hugged Lucy, close and tight, "Thank you so much for helping me," she whispered in her ear before letting her go.

Holding hands, staring at each other with tears in their eyes and smiles on their faces, Lucy offered, "That is what family is for and above all else, Bennetts should always have each other's back."

"That's true but it isn't always the case," Bonnie nervously looked down before she formulated her next question, "Why...why didn't Grams make you the Regent instead of Alaric? You are an amazing witch."

Lucy bunched up her brows and her smile faded a bit as she looked down, not wanting to say anything but knew that she owed Bonnie the truth. "Grams was a complicated woman, as much as she wanted to be forward-thinking she was held back by years of traditions and ideologies. You are the heir to the title by birth, but she could have given it to me."

Lucy looked away as unshed tears glistened her beautiful warm-honey colored eyes. " I told her she was wrong. I heard what she said to you and I confronted her. I told her that I thought it meant more to be a Bennett than accepting the status quo and listening to wagging tongues that are worse than vipers. I also called her blind and a fool."

Lucy chuckled, "In hindsight I can see that I went a bit too far. In that instant she vowed that I would never be the Regent and she banished me. I was banished for three years into a not so nice prison world...well to be fair, 1994 wasn't a horrible year, well in movies it was, but the company I had to keep was the worst."

Shocked, Bonnie gasped, "I didn't know I am so sorry Luc. I just...I just thought you turned your back on me like the rest," Bonnie bent her head in shame, "I should have known better. I should have trusted in you." Bonnie wiped the tears from her eyes.

"After three years she brought me back, she was sorry about everything, but she was stubborn to a fault, but I knew. She gave me this cottage and some other stuff," Lucy smirked as if the two were conspirators, in a way they were. "I never reached out to you cause I thought you moved on, and who could blame you? I hate the reasons behind this reunion, but I am so glad that we've had this chance to see each other again."

Bonnie squeezed her hands, "Let's not be strangers. Please come and visit us. I really think you will love New Orleans." Bonnie stepped back, with a flick of her wrist a portal appeared. She was about to step into the abyss when Lucy stopped her, she was so caught up in emotions, she had almost forgotten, "Wait...wait."

Lucy ran to the table, gathering up a few items. Back in front of Bonnie she handed her the items, "These really belong to you. I think that Grams would want you to have them," she said as she passed three large grimoires into Bonnie's arms.

Bonnie was struck again by such emotion that tears formed in her green eyes, she looked down, hugging the books close to her. "Thank you so much, I really appreciate you giving these to me. When this is all over we WILL see each other and get to know each other again." Then with a dark shadow that crossed over her eyes she made a promise, "And I will settle up with Caroline and anyone that tries to stop me, that you can be sure." Lucy nodded with understanding, silently communicating to her, Bonnie nodded back and then stepped into the portal.