Chapter 11 – Bonnie

Bonnie showed up at the door of the mansion not quite sure what to expect. If it had been anyone but Caroline or Elena calling she would have thought they were making it up. Why on earth would the Mikaelson's adopt Elena and Jeremy? She was hoping to get some answers from her visit.

Caroline answered the door, "Hi Bonnie, thank you for coming!"

"Caroline."

"Everyone is in the living room." Caroline told her, "Its this way."

Bonnie entered the room to find Elena sitting on the couch with Niklaus. She was sitting sideways with Niklaus right behind her, she leaned back into him, resting her head on his chest. Elijah was at the other side of that couch with her feet in his lap. She stopped short at the sight.

"Elena?" She asked softly.

Elena looked over her way. "Hi Bonnie!" She said with a bright smile. She moved to get up but the brothers stopped her. She looked annoyed, "Honestly? I just want to give my best friend a hug. I'm not that fragile. Over protect idiots." She muttered. The brothers just ignored her, not letting her move.

Bonnie laughed a little at the exchange, although she was very confused how this came about. "I'm a little confused about what is happening here." She stated.

"We'll explain in good time, but first we need your help." Rebekah said from a chair across the room.

"What makes you think I will help you?" Bonnie asked crossing her arms.

"Because it's something that affects Elena." Finn said from the love seat he occupied with his wife.

"What affects Elena?"

"See we did this ritual when we adopted her into the family, and as a result her blood smells amazing." Kol said from behind her.

Bonnie jumped and then glared at him for sneaking up on her. "What ritual?"

"It's an ancient Celtic ritual, one my family developed. We've never done it with both humans and vampires before though, only one or the other." Sabrina said, stepping out from behind Kol.

"Who are you?" Bonnie asked warily.

"I'm Sabrina, Kol's witch. I performed the ritual." Sabrina offered her hand for Bonnie to shake.

Bonnie shook her hand, immediately knowing that there was something different about Sabrina from other witches, but knowing she could trust her. "Okay, so what exactly is the problem? I mean i get it, Elena's blood smells good, but what happens when you smell it?"

"It has to be a cut or her blood on a towel or something," Caroline said excitedly coming to perch on the arm of the sofa next to Niklaus. "Their eyes darken and they vamp out, when you remove the blood, they go back to normal without remembering what happened."

Bonnie frowned, "Yeah, that's a little odd. Does that happen to everyone? What about Caroline.

"Everyone but me." Niklaus spoke up. "And Caroline was not affected."

"I was going to say that." Caroline pouted.

Niklaus smirked, "I'm sorry love." He placed his right arm around her shoulders. "Let me know how I can make it up to you?"

Elena looked on annoyed, "Ugh. Go get a room," She said wrinkling her nose. Then she blinked and looked horrified as everyone stared at her, "On second thought, no don't get a room. I do not want to think about my best friend and my brother."

Bonnie pouted a little at that statement, she and Jeremy had their ups and downs but she still really liked him. Elena saw and was really quick to reassure her. "Not you BonBon, you and Jeremy are perfect together."

Caroline pouted this time. "So she can date your brother but I can't?"

This time the attention switched from Elena to her and she blushed as Niklaus laughed. Realizing what she stammered. "I, uh,...um."

Elena spoke up. "I'm fine with you dating, if that's what you want, but I'll need some time to wrap my head around it."

Bonnie took pity on Caroline, "Let's get back to the problem at hand. Sabrina, can you tell me more about the ritual?"

Sabrina showed Bonnie to a chair and then launched into a description of the ritual. "The ritual binds together people - making them family. It's a favorite for blood adopting."

Caroline frowned, "What's blood adoption?"

"Love, Blood adoption make you part of the family in blood. It's like you were born into the family, but you weren't. It makes you a blood heir, so any magical inheritance is also yours, even though you aren't born with it." Niklaus explained.

"Wait so Elena is a witch now?" Bonnie asked.

"Not exactly, she doesn't become something she wasn't before. She wasn't a witch before, so she doesn't become a witch now, but if she were to have children, her children could be witches or warlocks." Elijah said.

"What do you mean could?" Bonnie asked intrigued.

"Well, they could tap their powers or they might not. Kol was the only one of us that tapped his powers when we were human." Finn started.

Bonnie nodded as Sabrina spoke up. "Ok. So I'm guessed that since we are dealing with human and vampire bonding, through blood adoption some of your traits were shared."

"Elena has accelerated healing, and she has vamp speed." Elijah said.

"Right, I believe she passed on some of her kindness and empathy. If not enough to change you, but it's enough to ground you and give you a different perspective." Sabrina said. "However, I think blood lust was passed on as well. Of course as vampires you have always had it, but this is someone you are bonded to, her blood is so sweet you long for it when you smell it, which is also why you forget what happens."

"Our brains are protecting us, by forgetting, we are forgetting that we attacked someone close to us, or almost attacked as the case may be." Kol stated in understanding.

Sabrina nodded. Elena spoke up, "It's not just on their side, although I don't forget. When Nik healed me yesterday I couldn't stop drinking his blood."

"Why did Klaus have to heal you?" Bonnie asked.

"Blood donation," Elena said carelessly.

"Of course." Bonnie rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, I fell asleep during it, listening to Nik's stories. When I woke up I was almost healed completely except for a headache that would have stuck around for an hour or two. Nik gave me some blood to make it go away faster and sent me to eat lunch."

"That's it!" Caroline screeched.

Everyone stared at her in shock. "What's it?" Bonnie asked in confusion.

"Klaus healed Elena by giving her his blood!"

"Yeah, we know. I just said that."

"But no one else gave you blood," Niklaus spoke up catching on to Caroline's thought process.

Elena shook Her head, "No, I didn't need it?"

"So we now know what Klaus did differently from the others." Caroline explained.

"How do we know for sure?" Finn asked.

"We test it out." Bonnie stated matter-of-factly.

Elijah spoke up, we'll test it out on me. "Elena will drink from me, and I'll go outside to see if the towel still affects me."

"Towel?" Bonnie asked.

"I cut my hand yesterday fixing lunch. That's how we found out about this little problem, Kol was in the room. I'm thankful Sabrina was there." Elena shared.

"We all are," Rebekah said with a slight smile.

"Ah."

Elijah bit into his wrist and held it out to Elena, just like before she found it hard to stop, except this time it wasn't as bad as it was with Niklaus. This time she didn't have to be distracted and she forced herself to stop.
She informed them of that when she was finished.

Elijah slipped outside with Bonnie and Sabrina to see if it worked. This time when he held the
towel he didn't react. They returned to the house and shared their findings with the rest or the group. One by one each of the family fed their blood to Elena, with each time, Elena felt the pull to their blood less and less. By the time the last one was done, she no longer needed to force herself to stop.

"Great, glad that is over." Rebekah said lazily. "Now can we go shopping?"

Everyone laughed. "I think you better postpone your trip until tomorrow, Elena looks exhausted." Bonnie said with a laugh, nodding towards Elena who was now nodding off on the couch. Rebekah pouted, "If you wait, you can do the trip more justice," Bonnie said soothing the blond. "Think about it, you can make a day of it, do it up right." Rebekah brightened at the idea, while the guys just groaned.

"Thanks a lot Bonnie." Kol muttered.

"No one said the boys had to come." Caroline said.

"Like we would let you girls out of our sight." Finn said. "You and Bonnie are Elena's closest friends you get to put up with our over-protectiveness as well now. Besides, who will carry your bags?"

Bonnie and Caroline shrugged, "We don't mind." Bonnie said. "As long as you keep Elena safe, that's all that matters to us."

"And I'm happy as long as all y'all keep them safe." Elena said with a yawn. "'Lijah, will you take me to my room? I want to sleep."

Elijah agreed and took Elena to her room after she said goodbye to her friends. Bonnie and Caroline took their leave promising to be back bright and early the next day so they can all go shopping. The rest of the group dispersed, going about their normal day now that the problem at hand had been resolved.