Chapter 35
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'Exactly! I figure it'll be useful for you as well because you can learn how to defend yourself against magical attacks.' she smiles and Klaus' smugness vanishes as he realises how beneficial this could be for me.
'Let's do it!' clapping i'm already decided Bonnie grins at my enthusiasm and, accompanied by Klaus, who'd barely refrained from rolling his eyes, we make our way to the back of the house.
'Let's do this' I roll my shoulders and shuffle my feet on the grass getting ready for whatever my witchy friend wants to throw at me.
Surprisingly Bonnie hesitates, 'Are you sure Care, I can't control the degree of power I give yet, this will probably hurt? I just want to gauge your defences in comparison to an original, but to do that i have to get through them' the way she's asking makes it clear she's nervous about hurting me, probably nervous about the man next to me's reaction.
'Give it your best shot, i've got this Bon' grinning encouragingly i beckon her to continue, even if it hurts I'll heal, plus it's not me that's concerned, an eagle eyes Klaus hovers almost anxiously by my side. Silly hybrid.
Moments later and It feels like a hole is being punched in my temples, acid boiling in my brain, I grasp my head on instinct in pure agonising pain, and considering my history with torture that's saying something about the power she's dishing out, the next momet it's gone and i can breath again.
Sweetheart are you okay? eyes are dark and clearly unamused, Klaus looks murderous, no doubt his instincts are screaming at him to do something, help me.
All good, just forgot what it felt like for a witch to roast your brain, i shake off the lingering tendrils of pain and give what i hope is an encouraging grin.
'You're strong Care, stronger than you should be' Bonnies frown turns calculating, I give her a look as if to say, apparently i'm not the only one, she packs a punch!
'Like original strong?' I ask excited at the prospect.
'It's like you're stronger than Kol but in a different way, it's like I have to get through two different consciousnesses to hurt your mind' she frowns obviously trying to figure it out.
'It's probably because I'm a wolf as well, there's two parts of me, try it on Klaus, if i'm right he should feel the same' I try to make sense of it by turning to him, being strong can only be a good thing surely?
'Would you mind?' she asks eyes darting to the hybrid and I can see her mind ticking over.
'At your leisure' he waves at himself with a cocky little smirk and I can't help but roll my eyes at the dramatics.
A minute later and I see Klaus' eye tick I feel a minute amount of pain but nothing like what I'd felt myself, then it's gone and suddenly Bonnie cries out and falls to her knees. I flash to her to help but she's already glaring getting up and pushing me away.
A second later and Kol flashes into the garden panicked and clearly confused spearheading straight to Bonnie's side, to no avail as she bats him off as well.
'What happened?!' he glares at Klaus furious, snarling in pure untamed aggression.
'I didn't mean to hurt you, you said you'd been practising with Kol I thought he'd have taught you how to shield yourself' even though he's still relaxed body loose, his eyes are tender, for Klaus this is pure remorse.
'How did you do that?!' Bonnie glares back at him, her hair starting to spark just slightly.
'It's an original power, we can set up a mirror of sorts and send our pain back to you for a short time. It's something I do automatically now, I didn't realise that you wouldn't be prepared or I would have disabled it' his eyes are showing his regret but you wouldn't know unless you were looking for it.
'Why don't you do that?' she whirls on Kol and the sparks get bigger.
'I disabled it automatically, you're powerful pet but you haven't been trained in mental attacks that's what I've been trying to do with you lately, we were working up to it. I never imagined you'd practice with Nik of all people, I've seen him make the blood vessels pop in a witches eyes' exasperated and angry Kol glares at his brother.
'Obviously I weakened the shield Kol, I wasn't about to injure her' rolling his eyes at the dramatics Klaus takes my hand in his own, kissing the knuckles.
'We were practising together but she said that my mind felt different, so I said try Nik's thinking it might be a hybrid thing' I try to cool Kol's temper.
'You were right you both are remarkably similar, although I didn't feel anything from his mind, I felt love, happiness, excitement, from yours and that was just touching it' she grins as if remembering the particular 'flavour' of my mind.
'I can learn to block all of that though right?' I can't help but frown, what could enemies gain from that knowledge.
'Of course Nik will teach you, he's the one who taught all of us, mother practised on him again and again until he made her hurt every time she tried, he helped us to do the same' Kol says softly stroking Bonnie's hair as if unable to help himself.
A growl escapes without warning, my wolf sensing a threat to her mate, Klaus growls back a wolf whine in a human throat that soothes her. It was a long time ago and I'm with him now, no one will hurt him with us here, both vampire and wolf are in agreement.
'Let's do it again' I shake off the melancholy, the anger and pain that aren't mine.
'This time love imagine a wall between you and Bonnie, like with the mating bond infuse it with your power and make it as strong as you can, then build another behind it and again and again' Klaus' voice goes soft in a way it only ever seems to do for me as he strokes my hand.
I nod at Bonnie and I feel that pain hit my head again, instead of crumbling I follow Klaus's instruction building a wall exactly like the mating bond and the pain immediately vanishes, I quickly build another wall and another feeling that pinch of pain every time she smashes through one, I try to make them stronger imagining the bricks being steel as I weld them together.
It takes her longer to smash through this time and encouraged I do the same again imagining layers of these indestructible bricks I start to fashion a maze of them getting excited at the creativity of it all, I only loose my concentration when suddenly I scent blood, i can't help but squeeze my head, falling to my knee's as the pain explodes in my mind and my vision goes black.
It withdraws a second later and I can see again, Bonnie holds Kol's shirt to her nose as blood continues to leak not just a trickle but a full on bleed as he tilts her head back and seems to apply more pressure.
'Bonnie take some blood' I hold out my wrist, raising it to my mouth to bite it.
'It'll stop in second' she says nasally as Kol practically bites his nails, worry in every screaming inch of him.
'Bonnie Bennet, you take some blood right now' when it doesn't stop thirty seconds later i make my voice sterner.
'Oh you full named me it must be serious' she laughs in a voice completely unlike her own, weak and pained.
Kol bites his wrist holding it out for her and raising an eyebrow, some kind of unspoken conversation happens before she rolls her eyes but takes a small mouthful, automatically the bleeding stops and Kol's eyes almost roll back in his head as he shivers in pleasure. I feel like I'm intruding on a private moment as their eyes lock and Bonnie regains her colour.
'You don't taste like normal blood, it was almost sweet like chocolate' she frowns at Kol and then me as if waiting for an explanation.
'We don't all taste the same Pet, now we just have to keep you out of harms way for twenty four hours' Kol grins smugly looking on top of the world, yet his eyes carefully track the tree's as if a threat would dare approach the now time sensitive witch.
'Speaking of what exactly just happened?' Klaus finally asks the question that's obviously been eating him as he examines us curiously.
'I don't know what you did Care but I could feel you getting further and further away, and I kept breaking through only to get to an empty space I had to search to find your next wall and each one was harder to break through I used a lot of power and I still didn't get there' she frowns at me in shock as if remembering and for once, both Kol and Klaus mirror her.
'What? You said imagine a wall' suddenly i feel defensive, did i do something wrong?
'It wasn't a wall Care, I can break through walls I broke through both Kol's and even Klaus's even though he sent my power back at me I still broke through, but it was like I couldn't find you' the words seem to struggle to come out of her in her confusion.
Is this bad? I can't help but think worried.
Of course not love, it sounds like you did something amazing but maybe you should explain so that we can understand what it was his voice wraps me up in its softness.
'Well I started off by imaging the walls were steel and I welded all the bricks together, then I started putting the wall in a pattern I weaved the normal walls all around and the steel walls in a kind of maze, I was thinking of that game where you have to hit one wall before you can go through the next one. So if she found the wrong wall she wouldn't see it she'd have to find the right one to get to the next one, then I started thinking about what if the walls had colours and some could be elastic like a trampoline and some could be like quicksand… I was just making one green when I smelt the blood' I explain wringing my hands nervously as all three start to gape at me.
Minutes go by and no one has said anything 'Can someone say something please' I ask desperately, i'm not even getting anything from Klaus.
'Your mind truly is amazing, all that creative energy powered into defense has made something extraordinary' of course it's Klaus who breaks the silence, awed.
'I'd love to test it myself' Kol asks a little flabbergasted.
'Who would have thought the fact you get bored so easily would be this useful' Bonnie finally smiles as if now it all makes sense, my creativity is good for defense. Score!
Finally i remember the question, 'What do you mean test it yourself, you're not a witch' I frown at Kol.
'We all come from witches though, and we are of the original witches bloodline we're stronger than most. Normal vampires can control dreams, slip into your subconscious and play around, originals can twist that to an extent we can attack another vampire's mind plant horrors inside to make them easier to incapacitate, the only trick is we have to be close enough to touch the skin to do it, it's more useful in torture than anything.' Kol shrugs the words of rubbing his hands together in anticipation.
'Let me try first brother I don't want you planting things in her mind' Klaus glowers in warning before turning to me.
He touches my head softly and a second later I see an image of a wolf that I'm guessing is me, seeing as it's completely white, fur paws buried under its head as it gives a happy yip and dips into a play bow.
Do I really look like that I ask amazed that i could be so fluffy and soft looking.
You're supposed to be blocking me love, but yes you're that stunning his voice is low and gentle as if he's not at all surprised.
'I can't block you, I can block the mating bond but not you as an outsider my mind recognises you automatically I can't stop it' I explain helplessly after several unsuccessful tries.
'You try Kol, but send her something pleasant' glowering Klaus' eyes promise retribution.
Kol rolls his eyes but walks over bringing Bonnie with him as if he can't bear to let her go, he touches the side of my head gently and immediately I feel the difference of a foreign mind, there's something inherently wrong about the way it feels. I copy what I did with Bonnie setting traps and making loopholes to make sure he can only get through a door if he find the right one, It's almost instinctual and It's incredibly easy now I know what I'm doing.
'Wait for it' I grin to Klaus who looks on curiously as Kol closes his eyes, brow creasing with concentration.
'Oh gosh' Kol wretches in disgust what might be ten minutes later.
I giggle in triumph as I feel him searching for me, unfortunately I'm not there I'm buried through hundreds of doors away, running, playing in my mind.
'Are you okay love?' Klaus doesn't like being shut out from the mental game me and Kol are playing.
'It's easy I'll try and explain better, or I'll try and send a picture through the mating bond once Kol has gone I have to keep that part of me working on keeping him out but it's way easier than you made out' I grin as Kol shivers.
'What are you doing to him' Bonnie asks amazed as Klaus settles with wary reluctance.
'I made him fall into a pit of mud, he's cold because I made a storm' I can't help but grin as Kol shives again before stepping back.
'That's not possible sweetheart, even originals can only make you see things, they can't make you feel things' Klaus explains mystified.
'I didn't know if it would work but evidently It does' my smile widens when Kol glares at me.
'I almost didn't believe you but Nik if you could see her mind it's like a puzzle you can never solve, her imagination lays traps as soon as the thought occurs to her, I actually felt cold I felt the mud on my skin and yet I knew physically I was here' he frowns at me backing away warily.
'Could you block against it' Klaus questions intrigued.
'That's the thing you can't separate it from your mind, and you can't block against your own mind she could have made me feel like I was dying and while I'd have know that it wasn't true I'd have felt like I was anyway' Kol shakes his head furrowing his brow.
'Your mind is amazing Care' Bonnie grins.
'I'd have to agree, I'd love to test it myself, would you let Elijah?' Klaus is clearly excited at the prospect of me not being mentally defenseless.
'Of course, but I need some food first I'm starving' I smile back at them all, loving all of the enthusiasm.
'Come on I'll get started on spicy rice, you can snack on biscuits while you wait' Bonnie rolls her eyes knowing me far too well as she hands Kol his blood stained shirt and starts the trek back to the house.
'So what's in this spicy rice that makes Caroline practically salivate every time it's mentioned' Kol questions as we walk back inside.
'It's a family recipe, but you'll like it' she grins sneakily and Kol beams peppering her with questions about her day and how her spell training went, she answers honestly throwing questions back at him about what he's been doing or asking for his opinion.
It suddenly strikes me how easy there friendship is, they're almost finishing each others sentences, Kol makes her laugh, the sound of it echoing off the walls as we head into the kitchen.
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