~ Chapter One: White Lies ~
There's no place like home- Dorothy Gale (The Wizard of Oz)
Monday, 26th April 2010- Mystic Fall's High School
Elena stood in the middle of Mystic Fall High School's hallway, dressed in her lilac 60's costume staring scarcely at Alaric. The same said man who just revealed to her to be Klaus possessing Alaric's body.
Klaus laughed heartedly at Elena's scared expression, "Relax Elena; I'm not here to hurt you" he said in an assuring tone.
Elena frowned wondering why he got her alone here if he wasn't going to hurt. Her wonderment answered by the sounds of boots walking towards her.
Klaus smiled an evil smile that looked so wrong on Alaric's face, "You're not on my hit list tonight" he said softly while looking behind Elena at the beauty he had been waiting to face again.
Elena turned around, and relief fills her at the sight of her best friend walking towards her. Four months had been a long time, and it seemed to have played a change on her best friend. Bonnie was dressed in cotton black spandex pants with a dark blue tank to match. Elena noted a strap across Bonnie's chest; that seemed to hold a sword behind her, and her left wrist strapped with a retractable wooden stake.
Her combat boots stomped on the floor finally stopping to stand beside Elena.
"Bonnie" was all Elena was able to say.
"I knew my return here would prompt for you to return, my beautiful" Klaus said with a smile.
Without responding, Bonnie raised her right hand and focused her powers on him, and with a swish of her wrist, throws Klaus so far that he crashes into the glass cabinet that held the school's trophies.
Elena stared with widened eyes at Klaus's fallen figure. She knew Bonnie was powerful, but never this powerful. Four months away from here defiantly helped her best friend get stronger in her powers.
Bonnie kept her eyes on the now slowly standing up Klaus and moved to stand protectively in front of Elena readying herself for the next move the older vampire was to make.
Standing up straighter, Klaus raised his hands up in surrender and stated tauntingly, "By all means; fire away. You kill this body; you know I'll just find a new one…maybe Jeremy."
Bonnie felt her rage stir from his suggestion, and immediately she feels her power latch onto the emotion, directly sensing the shift in her powers. Klaus's raised an eyebrow curious of the confident witch hybrid standing in front of him.
She wasn't the same girl four months ago. She indeed was the rumoured witch demon.
Bonnie's green eyes changes to bright red and Klaus smiles knowing he does not imagine things. Klaus sees her smile smugly at the older vampire to reveal her fangs.
"There she! The rumoured witch demon" Klaus sing-song at the sight of Bonnie in her pure form.
"Elena go" ordered Bonnie.
Elena shakes her head grasping onto Bonnie's shoulder to get her attention, "No! I'm not leaving you here alone!"
Bonnie gritted her teeth in frustration of Elena's inability to listen to orders and begins to panic a little when Klaus casually walks towards them. She needed to get Elena away and safe before battling Klaus. Retracting her fangs, she closed her eyes briefly and turned to open them in time for Elena to see Bonnie's natural emerald eyes.
Grabbing Elena's hand, she yells out "Dammit! Elena, run!"
Bonnie's command prompted the girl to run with Bonnie's pull away from Klaus. Dashing through the school's hallway, they turned a corner and burst through the dark blue double doors only to meet with Damon who stops in his track once recognizing Bonnie with Elena
"Woah…Bonnie?"
Wasting no time, she passed Elena to Damon while explaining "Klaus is possessing Alaric's body."
She turned around and began to walk back to Klaus, but it is Damon's flabbergasted "What?" that stops her in her track. Bonnie rolls her eyes for Damon to be wasting her precious time right now.
Turning back around she said annoyed, "You heard what I said, Damon. Now take Elena and go find Stefan and the both of you protect her."
Damon frowned to Bonnie's demands. It had only been two months since he last saw her that night (not that he was counting), and it seemed she still hasn't learned that he doesn't listen to people that order him around.
"No," he said firmly while moving Elena behind him hoping she'd get the hint to go and find Stefan while he and Bonnie go fight Klaus…who was apparently possessing Alaric's body.
Bonnie frustratingly ran a hand through her straightened shoulder length hair "Damon! Now!" her green eyes flashing to red with her angered words.
"I…" he stuttered a bit taken back by her outburst and the sight of her now glowing red eyes. Damon hears Elena gasps in shock, so he knows he doesn't imagine the change in Bonnie.
"Leave. Now" Bonnie enunciated gravely, and it's when she speaks that Damon and Elena see Bonnie's fangs. Elena in shock numbly pulled at the back of Damon's black shirt to get his attention to follow Bonnie's order.
Seeing Elena's action caused Bonnie to smirk knowing that Damon would blindly follow Elena now. Turning away from the duo, she smiled in relief that after months of proper training and preparation for this battle she was going to face Klaus. Bonnie knew she couldn't kill him while possessing Alaric's body, she had to bide her time until he was in his original body to kill him, but that didn't mean she should pass up the opportunity to scare the older vampire. To show him that she wasn't the weak witch all those months ago.
No. Now she was a stronger version of herself. A hybrid.
Damon ignored Elena's pull and slightly shivered feeling the shift of change in the air, and he wondered in that split second if it was Bonnie's doing. He watched her walk confidently away from them. Moving her hand behind her, she grasped a black-handled curved-sabre out of its sheath. Damon watched on with a slight fascination of her swinging the sword in a circular motion of her wrist like it was forged just for her.
Watching her walk further away Damon wondered mentally 'She couldn't possibly be a vampire with those red eyes. Should he even be considering the possible existence of a witch hybrid?'
Damon needed answers to whatever supernatural being the little witch was now, but one thing he knew for sure was that she wasn't going to fight Klaus alone. Not while he was around.
Without looking to Elena, he said to her, "Go find, Stefan" and walked away following Bonnie's path.
Besides Bonnie can answer his questions while they look for Klaus.
Bonnie chuckled to herself when she hears his footsteps heading towards her.
"Fool" she whispered.
She vampire sped to stand in front of Damon giving him enough time to catch himself from faltering in his walk.
He looked down to Bonnie in front of him with her sword against his neck; he couldn't help but think, "She could have decapitated my head with such ease."
Thanks to the slight heel from the combat boots she's given extra height to be almost nose, to nose with the blue-eyed vampire.
"You're never going to listen to simple instructions, are you Salvatore?" she said so lowly to him.
Damon smirked replying back teasingly, "Well it seems you just don't know me that well."
Bonnie chuckled amusedly at Damon's manner towards her. He didn't even seem fazed by the curved-sabre against his throat.
Damon noticed her eyes to be back to their usual colors and no fangs in sight, but that still doesn't stop him from questioning her, "Are you a vampire?"
"Sort of," she said vaguely while moving her sword away from his throat. From the corner of her eyes, Bonnie noticed a dark-skinned teenage boy and girl sneaking towards Damon. To distract the vampire; Bonnie decided to indulge the Salvatore into what he wanted to know.
Bonnie places her curved-sabred back in its scabbard answering, "I do have a couple of vampire traits; the fangs, the speed, and the healing regeneration but that can be sped up through blood consumption. The only thing that separates me from what you are is that my eyes changes to red. I don't drink human blood, I don't get burnt by sunlight, and I'm not weak when it comes to vervain. You're a vampire created by magic. I'm not. The type of vampire I am derives from the lineage of demons. So technically I'm half demon."
Damon eyebrows furrowed in confusion and racked through his memories of ever coming in contact or hearing of a possibility of a witch hybrid and questioned her to be sure.
"Half demon then that means you're still-" his question is cut short by an excruciating pain suddenly occurring in his head. Shutting his eyes, he fell to his knees screaming in pain, feeling most of the blood vessels in his brain popping like popcorns then regenerate only to pop again seconds later. His hands latched to either side of his head; teeth gritted together hoping this action would somehow decrease the pain.
Suddenly the aneurysm stopped causing the older vampire to take a deep intake of air in and out while weakly lifting his head to see a blurry-visioned outline of Bonnie Bennett.
Bonnie crouched to be eye-levelled with him he hears her slightly muddled voice "Sorry Damon, it's for your good."
Before he could respond or attack; he felt something prick his neck causing an intense burning sensation throughout his body.
"Shit, vervain," Damon thinks before passing out.
Bonnie's head moved in time with Damon's body dropping to his side. With a tired sigh, she looked up to see her two proteges dressed in their black pants and long black sleeves completed with black combat boots.
Robbie and Alexis Johnson. Twins. Sixteen years old with Robbie being the oldest by two minutes (and he doesn't make Alexis forget that).
Bonnie stood up and looked at them proudly, "No nosebleeds this time" she pointed out to Alexis who nodded happily to Bonnie's statement. Bonnie looked to Robbie, nodding for him to continue their mission.
"Good work you two" she commended them then ordered them "Now deal with him."
"Yes ma'am," Alexis said teasingly with a mocking salute to her mentor who chuckled at her action.
Alexis's brown doe eyes looked down at the pale-faced vampire. She squinted in wonderment of how to deal with this repulsive yet good-looking creature. They just needed him out of Bonnie's way for a while. She looked at her brother who motioned with his head to an empty classroom behind them. Looking at the empty room than to her brother Alexis nodded for him to continue with his idea. Robbie closed his eyes and mentally chanted a quick spell to unlock the door.
Bonnie with her heightened hearing hears the door unlock, "Good work, Robbie" she said impressed at how quickly he was growing in control of his magic.
"Well looks like someone finally learned how to keep their mouth shut," Alexis said teasingly to her brother who glared at her in which she responded back by childishly poking out her tongue.
"Guys!" Bonnie exclaimed to get the twins' attention.
"This is why I should never leave them alone in missions," she thinks to shake her head at the siblings bickering and motioned with her hand towards Damon's body.
"Oh right," Robbie said in remembrance of Damon's body still on the ground. Alexis and Robbie both pull up their long black sleeves then bend down ready to drag [with the help of some magic] Damon Salvatore into the empty classroom.
Seeing the twins have the situation under control she reminded them, "You know what to do if I die."
Looking up to their young mentor, Robbie and Alexis nodded in understanding of her words. Both were remembering Bonnie's orders to return home as soon as possible if she were to fail in her face-off against Klaus.
They heard her orders, but Robbie and Alexis already knew they were going to disobey Bonnie for the first time. If Bonnie were to fail, they would use their powers to bring her home. The twins had made the deal before leaving Light Haven to protect their mentor, their friend, their family.
"Good. Now get Damon in that classroom because it won't be long till he wakes up. Keep a lookout for Elena and Stefan. Stall them for as long as you can and please don't kill the Salvatore brothers."
The Johnson twins let out a reluctant sigh to Bonnie's orders but nodded in obedience. They watched with pride of their mentor walking away from them towards her battle with Klaus.
"Now it's time for some fun" Bonnie whispered excitedly to herself.
Damon opened his eyes only to groan and slowly sit up. Blinking until his vision cleared he found himself to be on the floor of an empty classroom, "What the hell?" he mumbled while shaking his head to rid of his groggy state,
He stood up only to stumble a little and grasped the doorknob in front of him to catch his fall. He turned the doorknob just to realize it was locked.
"Dammit!" he screamed angrily at the turn of events. He quietened when he caught sight of Stefan and Elena rushing by. He hears Stefan slow his pace and backtracks his steps to the classroom he spotted his brother in.
Stefan frowned at Damon's situation causing the older brother to roll his eyes, "Don't ask questions, just bust this damn door down!"
Stefan nodded stepping back while Elena takes a few steps away from him. Damon moved away from the door and in mere seconds later the door is busted out of its door frame.
Looking down to the broken door, he looked up to Stefan who was now standing by the door frame looking sheepishly at the door for forgetting to control his strength.
Elena runs past Stefan to Damon asking in concern "Are you okay, Damon?"
Damon knew he would usually be taking advantage of Elena's arm on his arm and invade her personal space…thankful for her concern [with the bonus of pissing his brother off], but he was too distracted of how he ended up in the classroom and seeing Bonnie reveal her demonic nature to him.
Moving out of Elena's touch he stated with conviction "We need to find that witch. She somehow put me in here."
Stepping out of the classroom with Stefan and Elena beside him; they were stopped by twins they didn't recognize.
"I'm going to assume that you two are Stefan and Elena," said Alexis looking at the new-faces standing next to Damon.
Robbie looked at them stating in an almost bored tone "If you're looking for Bonnie, you're going have to get through us" he couldn't help but smirk cockily at them.
Damon didn't give a damn to question who these two new brats were because all he had on his mind was that Bonnie was dealing with Klaus. Alone.
Damon's eyes turned pitch black, and the veins become prominent under his eyes. With fangs bearing he speeds towards them only to get thrown back further away from where Stefan and Elena stood to crash into the double doors to this hallway. Stefan and Elena looked from Damon to the newcomers now wary of who they were dealing with. They were a young warlock and witch, but they seemed to be quite powerful for their age.
Without wasting time, Stefan sped towards them only for Alexis to stretch out her left arm and with a swish of her hand, her magic throws the younger Salvatore against the lockers.
"Stefan!" shrieked Elena, rushing to his side. Damon gets back up and speeds towards the teens catching them by surprise when he grabbed Robbie by his neck and slammed him against the lockers. Ready and willing to snap his neck; he paused at the sight of the boy smirking at him, and then he feels something stab his stomach.
"Ugh!" was all Damon got out once releasing his hold on the dark-skinned boy. He staggered back to find the boy with a brace on his right wrist that held a retractable stake (very similar to the weapon Alaric introduced to them on the night of the masquerade ball).
With the stake in his hand, Robbie moved to attack Damon, his eyes on his target. The heart. A stake to his heart to end this, but he is stopped by his sister who rushed to stand in front of the injured Damon.
"Stop Robbie! We can't kill them," a grunt of displeasures is from Robbie's throat his eyes still on Damon as his sister reminded him
"Bonnie's orders remember? Not to kill them."
Bonnie took a deep breath in and out once she nears the cafeteria. She walked in to find Klaus/Alaric seated by one of the tables with his legs resting on the tabletop while leaning back against the chair allowing it to balance upon its back legs.
With a black-handled army knife in his right hand, he smiled at the sight of Bonnie entering the cafeteria.
He canted his head to the side, "What took you so long, my beautiful?"
Bonnie growled lowly at the nickname he dubbed her four months ago. Flashbacks of the night of her father's death come to her mind causing her breathing pace to quicken. Feeling her magic awaken and dance upon her fingertips readying for her next move.
"Don't lose control now" she mentally reminded herself. Bonnie knew Robbie and Alexis might not be able to hold back the Salvatore brothers and Elena for so long. Bonnie couldn't have them in her way of this fight. With her eyes steady on Klaus, she mentally chanted the spell to create an invisible barrier across the entrance of the cafeteria; locking herself and Klaus in the cafeteria.
She closed her eyes briefly and opened them to stare at the calm vampire through her now bright red eyes.
"Bonnie's order?" Stefan said confused while struggling to stand up with the help of Elena. Alexis turned to look at her at Damon then at Stefan who was standing not far from Damon but stood protectively in front of Elena.
"Yeah, it was Bonnie's order. If it were up to us, we'd just kill you two and doppelganger over there to end all this hassle, but Bonnie cares about you and says no to our idea."
Robbie looked at his little sister "Killing Elena would be inhumane of us to do, she is human."
Alexis shrugged "Eh that too," she said but ended up laughing at the sight of Elena's horrified face, "I'm just kidding we're not monsters that kill innocents unless-" she paused looking to Damon and Stefan "we're talking about these two."
Damon shook head and winced at the feel of his skin regenerating. He lifted the bottom of his black collared shirt slightly to find his stab wound from Robbie healing.
Robbie noted the wound healing and couldn't help pointing out "You're lucky Bonnie didn't stab you. Her sword is magically laced and sealed with vervain that she could bring a vampire to their near death if she did enough damage."
"Bonnie" Damon whispered in realization looking to the twins "Where did she go?"
Alexis shook her head, "Sorry Damon, but this fight has been a long time coming."
Klaus felt pride seeing Bonnie having more control over her demonic side. She honestly had grown in her powers the last time he saw her.
His grip tightened around the handle of the knife as he casually asked Bonnie. "Now do you prefer we do this the easy way or the hard way?"
Bonnie pretended to think for a while and responded to his question by lifting her right hand and pictured Klaus…well, Alaric's hand that was holding the knife and imagined his fingers breaking. What only seemed like minutes to conjure up in her mind was just seconds in the real world.
"I mostly prefer the hard way," she said. She smirked and revelled at the sound of Klaus's scream from his fingers being magically broken. Klaus watched the knife fall to the ground as his uninjured hand grasped his hand with the broken fingers. He stared at Bonnie with crazy eyes and snapped them out of place bone of his index and middle finger back into place.
The painful expression shifted into a maniacal expression as his delirious laugh echoed in the cafeteria. The vampire stood up; not at all bothered by Bonnie breaking his fingers, in fact, he was impressed. She straightened her posture when he took a couple of steps towards her with an evil-like smirk on his face. Bonnie readied her stance to fight.
"Very well then. The hard way" he said excitedly, and vampire sped towards her. Bonnie instinctively raised her right arm and magically threw the vampire across the room watching him crash into a table causing it to snap in half.
Damon and Stefan turned their heads towards the sounds of Klaus's screams. Damon sped past the twins and down the hallway towards the cafeteria. Stefan followed behind at human pace for Elena to tag along in a rush.
Robbie and Alexis turned around to watch all three individuals past them to try and help Bonnie.
Alexis looked to Robbie and asked, "You think Bonnie will let them help her?"
Robbie looked back to his sister and raised an eyebrow at her question, "Sis, it's Bonnie. She'd never put Elena in a dangerous position and knowing Bonnie's tactics she would have already have put up-"
"A barrier" they both stated and chuckled afterwards. The twins decided to take their time and followed the trio knowing that everything was going exactly the way Bonnie had planned. Now all was left was to either kill or weaken Klaus.
Bonnie stared smugly at the fallen vampire only frown in confusion. Was that a look of contentment and relief she saw on Klaus? It was almost as if he was saying he finally met his match in battle.
Wasting no time, Bonnie raised her right hand behind her back and pulled out her curved-sabre, swinging it in a circular motion readying to attack Klaus.
"Come on Klaus. I thought you were stronger than that" she taunted him while her grip tightened around the handle of her sword. She mentally recited an incantation to call upon her elemental power of fire.
Klaus's eyes widened in awe at the sight of a small line of fire wrapping around the edges of Bonnie's sword like a shield. He concealed his surprise and slight fear at this view of this new power by picking up the army knife near him. With his vampire speed, Klaus resumed his attack on the witch hybrid. Bonnie quickly deflected his attack with her sword and smirked when she heard Klaus hiss from being burnt by her sword. He stopped and looked down to see the burn marks instantly heal.
Four months of training and on missions taught Bonnie to train her vision to the fast movement of a vampire, and she will admit being half demon attributed to her success in training and her missions. She had to remind herself the vampires she fought were never as old as Klaus.
Holding her sword high up and ready to attack; she smirked at Klaus and with her free hand motioned for him to come at her again.
Klaus growled no longer fascinated of somebody to match him in battle instead he was frustrated with his underestimation of Bonnie Bennett. He sped towards her again to continue their struggle. They continuously fought at vampire speed; blocking each other's attack. Bonnie controlled herself from screaming in frustration, but it doesn't stop her from attacking him harder. She needed to ram her flaming sword into Klaus before she passed out from the excessive combination use of magic and vampire speed. Klaus continuously counter-blocked her movements which were starting to look sluggish in the vampire's eyes, and they both realized it when Klaus's knife sliced against the skin of Bonnie's left cheek.
Bonnie piercing scream echoed the cafeteria causing the light bulbs in the room to explode. On reflex, she raised her left hand and again magically throws Klaus across the cafeteria to crash into the soda machine. Electrical sparks began to ignite from the soda machine.
Panting excessively, she looked down to see the fire shield around her sword disappear.
"Dammit! Guess it's my combat and speed from now on" she strategized in annoyance that she burnt out so quickly with her magic. Now she would have to rely on simple spells here on out especially if she wanted to keep the barrier up active at the entrance. She couldn't allow herself to be weakened now.
Klaus's painful chuckle disrupted her thoughts.
Struggling to stand up he asked, "Come on Bonnie, do you really want to do this your favorite history teacher?"
Bonnie looked up her red eyes narrowing at his words only to feel a sudden boost of adrenaline within her as she felt a boost in her powers feeding onto her simmering anger.
"Why are you holding back, Bonnie? We can do this" the voice whispered in her mind.
Bonnie smiled at the comforting voice that she had grown accustomed to these past months and with more confidence in her abilities she gripped a firmer hold on the handle of her curved-sabre.
With the back of her left hand she wiped away the blood from the cut on her cheek and told Klaus truthfully, "From what I know about Mr Saltzman; is that he would've wanted you to suffer first."
Damon halted at the entrance of the cafeteria and his eyes widened at the scene in front of him. Klaus was struggling to stand up from being thrown into the soda machine and Bonnie standing there with a flaming curved-sabre.
He watched as the fire diminished around her sword then hear the trade of words shared between the two. He smiled a little at Bonnie's words of Alaric wanting Klaus to suffer. Damon moved to enter the cafeteria only to bump into something solid.
Stepping back, he mutters in realization "Shit! The little witch blocked us."
Hearing footsteps nearing he turned his head to the side to see Stefan and Elena turning the corner and making their way towards him with the twins following not far behind.
"The witch put up some barrier like the tomb, except this one traps herself with Klaus" Damon quickly summarized while walking towards them to meet them halfway.
"What!" Stefan exclaimed worriedly while Elena's eyes widened fearing her friend's life. Tears filled her eyes as she made her way towards the cafeteria only to be stopped by Damon grabbing her elbow.
"Let go of me!" she said harshly.
"Did you not just hear what I said?!"
"It's Bonnie!"
"What could you possibly-"
"Damon" Stefan cut his brother off who now looked at him "Let her go," he said.
"Fine" Damon mumbled rolling his eyes while he let go of Elena and watched her run towards the entrance.
Klaus laughed so loud that Bonnie swore the vampire was losing his mind. Plus, it didn't help that it was Alaric's face that was doing the maniacal laugh. Now that was creeping Bonnie out.
"Who knew the girl I met those months ago would become so powerful in such a brief time. I heard stories of you about a month after our last encounter; Tales of a witch with the demon eyes striking fear among vampires. A witch demon. But, that's only half the truth, right?" he asked tilting his head to the side.
Bonnie's tongue consciously runs across her fangs as Klaus continued "You really are the Chosen One, am I correct?"
Bonnie's eyes widened asking immediately, "You know about-" but she is cut off by Klaus
"Bonnie, I've been alive for centuries. I'll admit I didn't know the exact outcome of the curse. A witch born with special powers beyond traditional magic, but the powers wouldn't be triggered until-" Bonnie sped towards him already knowing the answer to the trigger and swung her sword to attack him.
Klaus deflected it by stepping further away continuing to talk to her now amused by her anger, "Having the speed of a vampire must help a lot in your family's coven. It seems your family has embraced both of your nature and trained you to be stronger. I must admit you have better control of it."
Bonnie couldn't help but smirk to Klaus's impressed tone of voice "Why Klaus, all this chit chat is making me wonder if you're scared of me?" she questioned in a challenging tone.
"Not at all beautiful," he said and sped towards the hybrid witch.
Seeing Klaus speeding towards her best friend caused the panicked Elena to yell out in fear, "Bonnie! Look out!"
Elena screaming out her name caught her by surprise, but it was exactly the distraction that Klaus needed for that split second. He sees Bonnie in that split second of hesitation look behind her to see Elena, Stefan, Damon and Johnson twins standing by the entrance.
Then it came. The sharp metal knife stabbed into Bonnie's left shoulder causing her to drop her sword and move her now free right hand to her injured left shoulder. Not even given a moment for her mind to comprehend what just happened let alone the pain, Klaus had grabbed her by her throat and rammed her against the wall next to the door frame of the cafeteria entrance. Bonnie grunted and ignored the sharp pain. She used her strength and flicked her left wrist upwards causing a stake to come out its brace and stab right into Klaus's stomach.
It wasn't enough to bring Klaus down, but it was enough to cause him some pain as he was not expecting a wooden stake to his stomach. Klaus released his hold on Bonnie and took a couple of steps back to detach the wooden stake from himself.
Now free, Bonnie's right hand grasped her bleeding shoulder hunching a little from the numbness that was beginning to take over in her left arm. That extra move of stabbing Klaus made the injury worse. She mentally reminded herself to take slow deep breaths in and out. She wanted to pass out just, so she wouldn't feel this pain and this building numbness, but she was taught better than that. She was better than that! No way was she going to defeated by a measly stab wound!
She's Bonnie Bennett! She was going to be a little more challenging to defeat.
"Besides every battle I have is to drag the enemy to hell and back" she chuckled at her thought. She couldn't pass out now; she couldn't put people in danger, and she couldn't make Klaus's job easier to capture Elena.
With the right motivation set in her mind; she raised her head and forced herself to slowly stand up straighter and drop her right hand from her shoulder.
"Damn it, Bonnie! Kill him!" Robbie yelled out behind her. Bonnie couldn't help but snicker to Robbie losing his cool. In these type of moments, it was usually Alexis who would yell those outbursts. Her heightened hearing picks up on the sounds of Robbie and Alexis both banging their fists against the invisible barrier. She can already predict the twin's frustration that they weren't strong enough yet to break through the spelt barrier.
Klaus smirked at Bonnie's posture and expression of staying strong as he already felt the stab wound healing.
He raised his hands in a mocking surrender, "Yes Bonnie, listen to Robbie and kill Alaric. You know I'll just easily find another body to possess" his eyes wandered to the group standing outside the cafeteria.
Bonnie's heartbeat quickened when Klaus said Robbie's name. How did he know his name? How much did he know about the coven? Before she could question Klaus, the double doors behind Klaus burst open and everybody looked to the eighteen-year-old, dark-skinned male walking into the cafeteria with his dark-brown eyes locked on his target.
"Hey, jackass! Stay the hell away from my cousin!"
He flicked his left hand to side causing Klaus to go flying into the wall away from Bonnie. His eyes instantly turned to look at Bonnie who smiled weakly at him. She felt relief fill her at the sight of her older cousin, Michael Bennett is here. He saw the knife stabbed in her shoulder and rushed to her aid. Bonnie gave up on her strong facade and fell into Michael's hold hissing a little from the wound. Michael wrapped his arms around Bonnie looking down to her worriedly and then at the man which he had thrown across the room to be getting up with minimal struggle.
"So, this must be Klaus," he thinks.
He needed to delay the vampire's next attack, "Sorry" he whispered to his younger cousin.
Bonnie closed her eyes knowing his plan and waits for the pain to come. The sharpness of the knife sliced against her shoulder bone- yep, it was more painful to pull a knife out then actually being stabbed.
Michael pulled the knife out as quickly as possible, and with his concentration and all his strength, he throws the knife targeting the vampire's heart.
Robbie, Alexis, Elena, Stefan, and Damon watched with held breath. Played out like a movie they watched the knife being thrown across the room towards Klaus. Michael's confidence in his attack instantly evaporated the moment Klaus grasped the handle of the flying knife.
He missed. Michael Bennett never lost when throws knives.
Pushing down his bruised ego, he stands protectively in front of the kneeling Bonnie. Her right hand gripped her shoulder, stopping the overflow of the bleeding. She took a deep breath in and out to stay conscious and looked up to Michael who was already calculating the defense move to counter Klaus's attack.
Klaus doesn't attack instead he looked to the group outside the cafeteria, then to Michael and lastly at the injured Bonnie who was already staring at him with pure hatred.
"Oh, Bonnie my beautiful, you just made our game so much more interesting," he said with a broad smile and vampire sped out of the entrance Michael entered.
Michael's eyes narrowed at the empty sight and yelled out in anger, "What were you thinking to face Klaus now?!"
He looked down to Bonnie for an answer, "Home…now" she gasped out loudly before collapsing to the ground.
"Shit!" muttered Michael catching her in time. Robbie and Alexis sensed the invisible barrier disappearing and rushed to Bonnie's side once it vanished.
"Bonnie!" Elena cried out rushing in and falling to her knees once near Bonnie.
Michael cradled his cousin while his hands applied as much pressure as he could to stop the overflow of blood.
Elena looks to her boyfriend who was crouching beside her, "Stefan! Give her your blood please!"
Michael's attention snapped from Bonnie to Stefan after hearing Elena's demands, "Your blood has done enough damage to my cousin!"
Stefan, Elena, and the surprisingly quiet Damon looked to Michael questionably at his words. Michael lifted his hand to see the wound not healing fast enough. They could wait it out for it to heal, but he knew it would be a slower and painful since she hadn't had her blood feed for this month since she broke up with Joshua.
"Mike…" Bonnie faintly said causing Michael's heart to break at her voice. He couldn't help but internally panic at the sight of her bright red eyes slowly fading to her green eyes. Closing his eyes, he thinks of another way to speed up the healing process, but he knew that vampire blood was the only way to speed up her healing.
"Michael, you have to" Alexis speaks up.
"I know!" he yelled back at Alexis only to mutter an apology to her, but she understood.
Michael looked to Stefan cringing to his request, "Give her your blood, Stefan."
Without hesitation, Stefan bit into his wrist, while Michael slightly tapped Bonnie's cheek to wake her up.
"Come on, Bon…you need to get healed" he whispered to her. Everyone watched Bonnie slightly open her mouth to Stefan pressing his now bleeding wrists to her lips.
Damon couldn't help but smirk at the scene of the little witch not only drinking his little brother's blood [and it seemed to be effect Stefan] especially the moment she grabbed his wrist allowing her fangs to cut furthermore into his skin to get better suction of his blood. His smirk disappeared when he saw Bonnie's green eyes flash back to her bright red eyes.
Feeling herself heal, Bonnie stopped drinking before taking too much. She pulled away from his wrist slightly embarrassed that Stefan, Elena, and Damon had to see her like that. It seemed her demonic face didn't seem to bother Elena who immediately threw her arms around Bonnie catching both herself and Michael by surprise (who had no choice but to release his hold on his cousin) to be hugged by her best friend.
Bonnie hugged her back weakly and then moved back. It seemed to register to Elena that Bonnie was looking at her with red eyes and fangs. By instinct, Elena moved back into Stefan as he helped her stand up with him. Michael held back his annoyance at Elena's reaction and helped Bonnie stand up.
Bonnie closed her eyes and compressed her anger. The same rage, that powered her demonic powers. She felt her fangs retract and her powers simmer down. She opened her eyes and looked at her left shoulder. Moving her tank top sleeve, a little to the side to sees her wound to be healed.
Looking to Stefan, she said, "Thank you" and turned to see tears from Elena.
"Hey Elena," Bonnie said softly stepping towards her, but Stefan and Damon stood protectively in front of her.
Bonnie looked in disbelief at the brothers, "Really?"
Damon nodded to Bonnie's disbelief expression "Yeah really, little witch or should I say little hybrid?"
Ignoring Damon, Bonnie looked to Elena shielded between the Salvatore brothers, "Elena it's me, Bonnie. Bonnie Bennett, your best friend. We grew up together. I'm still the same girl except I'm half witch and half demon, but I'm still the same girl."
"How is that possible?" Elena asked still not moving from her spot.
Michael, Robbie, and Alexis saw the hurt in Bonnie's eyes of Elena being afraid of her.
Michael's annoyance shifted to anger as he moved to stand beside his cousin "How it's possible is none your business doppelganger" he sneered at her then looked to Bonnie "We need to make a move out of here."
Bonnie nodded ready to walk past Elena and the Salvatore brothers, but it was Elena's movement towards her that stopped her from leaving. Elena pushed past Stefan and Damon, but Damon grabbed her elbow pulling her back slightly.
Looking to him she tells him with certainty "It's Bonnie."
"Let her go," Stefan said causing Damon to oblige begrudgingly and allowed Elena to pull Bonnie into a hug.
"Welcome home," she said as Bonnie hugged her back whispering a thank you.
Elena pulled back asking again in a softer tone, "Are you what Klaus says you are; a hybrid?"
Bonnie nodded "It's a long story and-" Bonnie paused at the sound of Robbie clearing his throat. Bonnie stepped away from Elena and turned to Robbie. The teen held out her curved-sabre that laid across his open palms and bowed respectfully to her. Bonnie nodded her head back in response and grabbed the handle of her sword.
She looked thoughtfully at the blade whispering "Rest now."
While placing her sword back in her sheath, Alexis stood next to her brother and asked her mentor "Miss. Bennett, what shall we do about this mess?"
Bonnie raised an eyebrow at Alexis' words because she never called her Miss. Bennett when she trained them. In fact, Bonnie told them never to call her that despite being their teacher.
Alexis secretly did it to show Bonnie's best friend and her vampire lapdogs just how respected Bonnie is, in their coven. Alexis mentally did a victory dance at the sight of their confused looks when they heard the way she addressed Bonnie.
"Alexis, we're not in training, so it's not Miss. Bennett here" said Bonnie.
"Oh yeah. Sorry, Bonnie" said Alexis attempting to look apologetic to her.
Bonnie looked suspiciously at Alexis but decided not to question Alexis' intention furthermore. She would have answered Alexis' question but chose to prose this question to Robbie. While Alexis excelled in combat, Bonnie had noted Robbie for his exceptional observation skills. She had been sharpening up on his analytical skills every time they were in the field; hoping for the twins to catch on and combine their strengths when they fly solo missions.
Robbie immediately straightened his posture when Bonnie looked to him, "Robbie, what do you think we should do?"
Robbie nervously looked around the cafeteria. He knew why Bonnie asked him, but he still felt nervous when asked during missions or even in training with already-made scenarios. Pushing down his nerves, he began to think of the many situations that could cover up this mess and narrowed his options to the most convenient and time effected outcome.
Finally deciding on the answer, he began his explanation "Uhhhh we could fix up everything in the cafeteria to its original form but given the short amount of time we have, we could get caught using magic or one of us could pass out from the overexertion of powers. So, the most reliable solution that involves less use of our magic is that Alexis and I use Marcus's illusion spell. Creating an illusion of the cafeteria before you and Klaus battled. Then we could send a call out to the cleaning crew to magically fix up this mess before tomorrow."
Bonnie smiled proudly at him, and even Michael looked impressed. Robbie and Alexis Johnson indeed had come a long way from when they began their training two months ago.
"Excellent idea, Robbie," Bonnie said and looked to see shocked looks from Damon, Stefan, and Elena at the sight of Bonnie strategizing with her team like a leader.
Ignoring their shocked expression, Bonnie looked warily at the three individuals and realized that nothing really changed ever since she left. Bonnie didn't even want to question Elena's relationship with Damon with the way he was being overprotective of her and wondered if Stefan was okay with their closeness. Who was she to judge? It was Elena's decision if she wanted to keep dragging Damon around. It was Damon's choice to follow Elena around like a lost puppy begging for a smidgen of her attention, and it was Stefan's choice to be ignorant of Damon's intention to his girlfriend.
Bonnie chuckled at her thoughts and looked to Elena "It should be safe for you to go back to the dance" she said.
"Will you be joining us? I know Caroline will be so happy to see you" Elena said eagerly
Bonnie patted Elena's shoulder in comfort, "I got to help clean up the mess, but maybe tomorrow you can come over to my place. I'll be able to explain everything."
"We can stay and help you guys" Elena suggested only to feel embarrassment once she heard Robbie and Alexis snicker to Elena's suggestion. The twins stopped their chuckling when Bonnie glared at them.
Robbie had the decency to look sorry and said, "I'll call in the cleaning team for an emergency clean-up-"
"-and then we'll get started on that spell" finished Alexis.
"Now that's a good idea," said Bonnie and watched the twins walk towards the broken soda machine to inspect on overall just how severe the damage was.
Bonnie pulled her hand away from Elena's shoulder while Michael tells Elena and the Salvatore brothers, "Bonnie's right. Klaus wouldn't be showing his face again, and we can't have your absences raise suspicion that could put us in a more complicated situation."
Elena bit her bottom lip not wanting to agree but had a feeling that her disagreement would not play well with Bonnie's cousin, so she nodded to Michael's order and hugged Bonnie goodbye.
Pulling back Elena asked, "Can I see you tomorrow?"
"Yep, any time is fine" Bonnie replied then looked to Stefan "Thanks for the blood."
"You're welcome," he said and wrapped an arm around Elena's shoulders.
Michael and Bonnie watched the silent Damon follow Stefan and Elena out of the cafeteria and back to the gym.
"Are you going to tell her everything?" asked Michael.
Bonnie looked to the side and tilted her head up a little to look at him "Only about my transformation" she said.
"You think she would be okay knowing that it was Stefan's blood that triggered your demonic side?" he asked.
Bonnie rolled her eyes and turned to face her cousin.
Crossing her arms over her chest, she stated "I don't see the problem with telling Elena that. It was only Stefan's blood, and it's not like I'm bonded with him. Besides if it weren't for Stefan's blood, it would have been another vampire's blood activating my powers."
Michael sighed tiredly, "I just don't think you should be so open about your life now to…her."
Bonnie canted her head a little to the side "Why?"
He nervously scratched the back of his head, his lips formed a thin line, and his eyebrows furrowed thinking of the wording of his sentence without offending his cousin.
"I just…I don't want you to go back to the girl that would run to Elena's side as soon as there were signs of danger to that girl."
Bonnie placed her hands on her hips, "What's wrong with that? She's my best friend" she said with a perfectly raised arch-shaped eyebrow.
Michael groaned at the change of Bonnie's body language, "Fuck it. I'll just tell her" he thinks.
Beginning to pace from left to right he began to explain the outcome of events leading to this moment, "You still don't regard the importance of your life! Just this morning we got word that Klaus confronted Elena…confronted- not threatened. The point of Matt telling you about Klaus is so that you could tell us. You could've called me yet you sent a fucking text saying Klaus was here and you were going to Mystic Falls to protect Elena! By the way, you are so lucky that Marcus was able to perform the teleportation spell for me to get here on time! What happened to us making it a to find Klaus's weak spots before blindly attacking him?!"
"He was going to hurt her!"
Michael stopped his pacing, "No he wasn't!" he yelled back looking at her with incredible disbelief that she still hadn't made the connection. Did her friends blind his cousin's judgment?
"How would you know?!"
Michael stepped towards his cousin towering over her to get his next point across, "Klaus knows Elena is your weak spot. He drew enough attention, knowing Matt would contact us. Klaus knew taunting Elena would have you running to protect her-" he paused waiting for Bonnie to argue back on him about this, but it seemed she was catching on cause the wheels in her head were turning.
Michael continued "Elena may be the doppelganger and the key to this sun and moon curse that has everyone in frantic, but tonight…tonight Elena and all your other friends were the bait. You were the prize. He wanted to see just how powerful you've gotten, and you just played right into his plans."
"Shit" she muttered thinking back to Klaus's words of the rumors about her. She clenched her hands into fists to control her anger. How could she be the one just blindly to attack without any further thoughts to Klaus's intention. Since she became a witch, the target had always been Elena, so her mind automatically assumed that Klaus was going to kidnap her ready to break the curse of the sun and moon. Guess some old habits were hard to break.
Michael could already sense that Bonnie was mentally berating herself.
Placing a hand on her shoulder "Too late to get angry about this, Bon. I thought you had stopped this impulsive actions after the Rose incident."
Bonnie chuckled and said truthfully to her older cousin "You know even with the explanation of Klaus's intention I would have still shown up to help Matt protect Elena."
Michael smiled knowingly "I know," he said and raised his hands to playfully mess with her hair causing her to screech "Mike!"
Pulling his hands away he watched her comb her fingers through her hair to not look so messed up.
Chuckling at the sight of his cousin's pout he tells her "I'm still going to get rid of this martyr solution of yours."
"Don't we always do that in missions?" she said still annoyed at him and herself.
"That's our life, and you're my cousin. You have so much to live for instead of sacrificing your life for somebody who wouldn't do the same for you."
Already knowing who he was referring to caused Bonnie to look at him bothered by his words, "Michael she is like a sister to me. She would do-"
Michael shook his head "I don't want to get into this argument right now. Lets' just get this settled and get back home so you can deal with Elena tomorrow."
Bonnie bit her bottom lip to hold back her words as Michael ordered her, "I'll make sure Robbie and Alexis perform the spell correctly, and we'll meet you in the parking lot. The walk will give you enough time to calm your adrenaline."
Bonnie nodded quietly. She thanks her cousin, then look at Robbie and Alexis to apologize for dragging them with her impulsive plan, but the twins were already waving her off and telling her not to worry.
Bonnie left the cafeteria, her ears picking up on the loud music in the gym and if Bonnie concentrated hard enough she would be able to pick up the voices of her friends. In another lifetime, she would be there dancing to the cheesy 60's music with her friends and having fun.
Or was her cousin right about her?
If so, would that mean in that lifetime Bonnie would still be a fighting Klaus to protect Elena? She would be an untrained witch grasping to do anything to protect her best friend. Bonnie shuddered not wanting to think how far she would go to protect Elena, but if tonight was any indication maybe her family was right and that she needed to start rethinking her priorities.
Bonnie chuckled, "What a wake-up call," she thinks.
She needed to rethink her priorities, but then again this is who she is. Bonnie Bennett, the protector. It's all she knows how to be. She didn't just play the protector role for Elena; she was a protector for her other friends and her family. She's a Bennett witch; it was in their blood to protect- well to defend their own.
She would die for her loved ones; if it meant protecting them.
Was that so wrong?
"So, you were just born to die for somebody else?" she hears her demon whisper with such distaste in her tone "Do you hold your life in such low regard? I should be the one living your life."
Bonnie shook her head and turned to her left to walk away from the cafeteria and loud music in the gym towards the double doors at the end of the hallway to lead her to the back-parking lot.
During her walk, she responded mentally back to her demonic side, "That's why you will never understand that wanting to protect everyone from you is where I found my strength to defeat you."
"And I warned you, that if you continued to live the way you did before then you are making it easier for me to take over. Your cousin is right, you are impulsive, and there's nothing wrong with that, but you can't be stupid with your life. My powers are only lent to you because I believed you to not only have the will to protect others but also to have the will to fight and protect yourself."
"And I thank you for that, Adara."
"Looks like someone didn't listen," Adara said as their powers picked up on his presence when they neared the middle of the crossroads of the hallway.
"I didn't expect him to," Bonnie thought back in response to Adara and continued her walk towards the doors.
"You're not going to acknowledge me?" the blue-eyed Salvatore asked while watching Bonnie walk past him.
"What's the point?" Bonnie replied to him almost reaching the door but ends up taking a couple of steps back when Damon blocks her path to the door's bar handles.
Bonnie looked up at Damon, "Hello Damon" she said dryly then sarcastically finished with "I've acknowledged you, happy now?"
Ignoring the sarcasm in Bonnie's tone, he cut straight to his questions, "You were a hybrid when I saw two months ago?"
Bonnie nods.
"Even when we spoke?"
Bonnie stifled a laugh "Yes, and?" she questioned unsure where this conversation was going.
Damon squinted his eyes realizing all his research on attacked vampires the past months was Bonnie. Bonnie and her coven were responsible for the death of the Maestri brothers.
"That means it really was you-" he started "Wait, how did you become a hybrid? Was it my little brother's blood?"
Bonnie pinched the bridge of her nose now becoming irritated because explaining the whole story of how and why she became the way she is would go from now till the end of this dance and still that may not be enough time to tell the story knowing that he would disrupt her with all his questions.
"Look, Damon, it's a long story. A long story I was planning on telling Elena tomorrow, but it would be a win for you."
Damon looks at Bonnie confused, "How?"
"After Elena and I are done talking, and she goes back home. You can be your nosey self and bug her to tell you what I've told her, which will take up the whole night. I've given you a chance to have a whole night of Elena's attention to you."
He stepped into her personal space irritated by her words "Witch you better tell-"
"No, she won't," Michael said cutting into their conversation.
Damon looked at Bonnie to Michael with an irritated look on his face with the twins standing to his left. Three witches and a witch hybrid. Yeah, his chances of making Bonnie talk was not a possibility right now.
"We're leaving now" Michael sternly said to mask his annoyance that his cousin would still have a civil conversation with this vampire.
Bonnie motioned with her head for Damon to step aside in which he obliged to by opening the door and held it open for Bonnie.
Bonnie smirked "Goodbye Damon," she said and walked past him quietly followed by Michael, Robbie, and Alexis.
Damon leaned against the opened the door and watched Bonnie, and her small coven head towards their parked car in the almost full parking lot. Damon couldn't help but smirk realizing how much Bonnie had changed in over four months. Not just in her powers, but the way she held herself and conversed with others…and him. She wasn't the scared little witch he quickly cornered in the parking lot.
"Welcome home little demon" he whispered a little amused and intrigued by the impact of Bonnie's return will have on life in Mystic Falls.
AN: Hi everyone! Welcome to the first chapter of "Instruments of War" I have a couple of chapters already typed out currently editing them. I am hoping I will upload the next chapter next weekend. Will be uploading the cast video for this fanfic tonight or tomorrow morning on my YouTube so keep a look out for that update on my tumblr- .com
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Hope you all enjoy this Book 2. I apologize for any grammatical errors, I've lost times of how many times I've read this chapter to fix it.