~Chapter Eleven~
(Part Two)
"Words are the source of misunderstanding."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince).
Thursday 25th March 2010
Bonnie laid back in her seat drowning out the sound of her history teacher. While she would usually be paying attentive in this class, her mind was too busy going over everything that had happened these past weeks. From finding out the actual requirements to breaking the sun and moon curse to confirming that Katherine wanted to break the curse,
Mason left Light Haven two days after the twin's birthday. He decided to not contact Tyler in fear of involving him. According to her uncle, Mason decided to lay low in California, but he did say he would keep in touch with the coven if he hears anything. Bonnie wasn't sure if it was the respect Mason had for her uncle or the strange connection with the Johnson family.
After seeing Mason's red eyes, Bonnie learned that his protective nature only extended to the members of the Johnson family. Mason couldn't explain it, but his senses were heightened during their little exercise on the night of the birthday even while blindfolded his body just reacted. Like it needed to protect Robbie or Alexis from getting hurt. Of course, her coven decided to test the theory the extent of Mason's protective nature with the Johnson family, making a move on Robbie or Alexis without Mason knowing. With every strike, Mason was there as a shield, wolfed out with his glaring red eyes. There was, of course, radius limit to his sense. The closer Mason was the more aware he was, the further away, the less he felt.
Since bearing witness to all of this, Bonnie too was now intrigued with how intertwined were the history of witches and werewolves. From her history classes with the coven, there have been whispers that werewolves were created the moment the Elders were created. Again, just whispers, never any writings [that they have yet to discover].
In other news, last night was the Masquerade, and it was a success. Katherine Pierce has now locked up in the tomb thanks to Lucy. Mason, on the other hand, decided to lay low for a while leaving Light Haven the day after her coven saved her.
She covers her mouth to hide her yawn to show her lack of sleep these past weeks thanks to her dreams.
It wasn't the dreams that woke her up early instead they kept her up, trying to figure out the meanings of them and who that boy was that he was willing to die by her hands in which he did. The dreams were becoming erratic and incoherent. Some nights she'd be waking after being killed or making a killing. Adara was no longer appearing to her after she awoke, With the dreams becoming erratic and gruesome the harder it was for Bonnie to pinpoint the locations let alone remember details of where she is. If anything the dreams were becoming second nature to her that she worried that these may be visions of who she is to become in the future. A look into what she would become in her true hybrid form.
It scared her, despite Michael and Marcus assuring her that she would not become that violent Bonnie she sees, not while they were around. Despite their assuring words, there is one thing she'll admit only to herself. She wishes to become that powerful in her dreams because Bonnie felt she'd be able to kill Klaus.
The bell ring to indicate the ending of class shaking her out of her daze.
"You okay?" Marcus asks her as everyone noisily gathered up their books while the teacher was spouting homework to be done before the next time they had their history class.
With her books pressed to her chest, she turns to him now standing to ask "Yeah, why?"
She brushes past him as they exit the classroom together
"You're not all here today. Usually, you're writing notes or at least doodling, but today you were in a day dream" he explains following close behind her making their way to her locker.
Reaching her locker, she hands her books to him ready to answer him, but she feels her phone vibrating in her jean pockets signaling a call.
She pulls her phone out slightly to see Matt's name "Cover for me?" she said.
Marcus nods as Bonnie opens her locker door and sticks her head in pretending to look for a book while Marcus stands on the other side blocking her view. Boxed in from the teacher's eyes if they were to walk down the hallway.
"Is everything okay, Matt?" she asks in a hushed tone.
It seems Matt too was trying not to get caught as he replied back in a hushed tone "Elena's been kidnapped."
"What?! Ow," she says in reflex from hitting her head against the locker in shock of Matt's word she whispers back hurriedly "By who? Wasn't she at home with Jenna?"
"I saw her later on at the Gala last night when I was leaving she was having a moment with Stefan. Only I overheard that Elena never came home nor did she spend the night with Stefan."
"Shit" she muttered starting to panic. With Katherine out of the picture, Klaus was the only one seeking to break the curse of the Sun and Moon. Did he kidnap her? He wouldn't do such a thing unless he knew he would get the upper hand in his plan.
"It gets worse," Matt said.
"How worse?"
"Tyler broke the curse."
"What?!"
"Katherine had compelled Sarah to attack him; I stopped her too late once I figured it out. It was an accident, I had to let Caroline believe she compelled me to not blow my cover."
Bonnie closed her eyes thinking of Elena she whispers back loud enough for Marcus to hear "Elena got kidnapped after she spoke to Stefan and we don't know who and where they took her."
"Where?" Marcus mutters only to repeat it getting an idea "Would Lucy still be in Mystic Falls?"
"Don't think so. I think Lucy would've ditched that place after being done with Katherine."
"Actually I saw her at the Grille this morning when I went to go change my shifts. Overheard her saying she was going to spend one more night at B&B."
"Perfect. Tell Matt not to worry I have an idea."
"I'm a bit worried now" is all Matt says hearing Marcus's response causing Bonnie to chuckle.
"Call you later?" he asks Bonnie.
"Yep. Bye, Matt"
"Bye," he says and hangs up.
Bonnie pulls her head out of her locker and places her phone back in her pocket.
"We're gonna need to call Lucy," Marcus said motioning his eyes to her phone and explains "She can use Jeremy's blood to do a locator spell."
"You genius!" she exclaimed grabbing his face and kissing his cheek causing other students to look at them weirdly as they walked past.
Marcus smiled "Of course I am, and then we can just leave it to the Stefan and Damon to go and save her because I know your uncle will kill me if we go and try and rescue her."
Pulling back she said, "It's better us than them."
"Bonnie" he whined "It was part of the condition to not become so sacrificially involved with saving Elena or any of your friend's troubles. It's bad enough we've been involved too many times and that I'm pretty sure we're all going to be jumping into a big pot together with the Sun and moon curse."
"That's an interesting description."
"Look call, Lucy, before-" the bell rings, and he looks at her knowingly.
She grabs her books off him and shoves it into her locker and takes out her bag pack "It's a good thing I have study period."
"Lucky you" his eyes widened "Oh crap I got to get my books" he opens his locker beside Bonnie and pulls out the required books for his next lesson.
Shutting his locker door, he asks "Are you going to be okay?"
"Yeah. I'm just calling Lucy" she said assuring.
"Okay," Marcus said patting her shoulder "Elena is going to be okay. From what I have seen and what you have told me about Stefan and Damon they would move heaven and hell before letting something happen to Elena."
She nods assured and watches him walk past her into the bustle of students in the hallway rushing to their next class.
"Thanks, Lucy. I owe you" Bonnie said.
"Please, you're family. You don't owe me anything" Lucy tells her parking her car at the Falls high school parking lot and just in time to see Damon hurriedly exiting his vehicle. He stops when sees Lucy's car parked on the other side of him.
"Seems Damon has been informed about the kidnapping of Elena."
"It's okay to say I sent you back to help. I'll deal with my uncle when you tell him about this."
"Don't worry about it. I won't tell Uncle Gabriel, besides it's just a simple locating spell. As for the others, they don't need to know how you know, just that the coven knows. I'll call you when it's done, cuz."
Bonnie mumbles and okay before her cousin hangs up. Sitting outside, on the bench alone many were in the library studying or left school for that study period to grab something to eat from Haven bar.
The nerves still hadn't left her. Elena was in danger, and she should be the one doing something to help her. Bonnie breathes in deeply when she remembers her promise to her family to limit her involvement. Gosh, Elena must be so scared right now, she wished there was a way to let her know that help was on the way to her.
She is taken back when a candle is placed in front of her. She turns to see Marcus take a seat beside her.
"A message spell" he stated.
"How did you-"
"I know you, Bon. She's your best friend; it's not you to sit around and not do something to help your friends. Sending her a message would be the perfect way for you to help."
Bonnie smiled thankfully at Marcus. He looked around "The science lab at the end of the hallway is empty, so it's best we perform the spell there. Do you have something of Elena's?" he asked grabbing the candle.
Bonnie shakes her head only to mutter "Shit" when she remembered the need of something that belongs to the person you're sending the message to.
"You're lucky you have me," he said standing up "While we may quickly master the spells to communicate with spirits we also learn of different spells to send messages to those that are alive but I do need a photo of her."
"Got that covered," she said.
In an empty classroom stood Damon, Lucy, and Jeremy. Jeremy looked between Damon and Lucy after she explained the spell to help find the location of Elena.
"I don't trust you" is all Damon says crossing his over his chest.
She rolls her eyes "I don't trust you either."
"Guys, can we speed this up?" Stefan says entering the classroom and closing the classroom door from the peering eyes. He hands the map of Virginia to Lucy.
"Thank you," she says and places on the desk in front of her she looks up to Jeremy standing across from her "Ready to find your sister?"
"Why are you helping us? You owe us nothing."
Lucy looks to Damon "My name is Lucy Bennett."
"Bennett?" Damon repeated while Stefan walked closer to now stand beside his brother.
"Bonnie sent you?" he asked.
Lucy pulls a knife out of her pocket knife from her back pocket and looks to Jeremy. She lays out her free hand motioning for Jeremy to place his hand on top.
"I want to call my cousin with good news please."
Jeremy nods and places his hand on top of her palm. With palm facing upwards moved the knife towards it "Sorry" she mumbles before cutting into it.
The teen grits his teeth from the cut as Lucy pulls the knife away. Jeremy closes his fist and hovers over the map, squeezing it to watching his blood drip onto Mystic Falls on the map.
"That's enough," she says causing Jeremy to bring his closed fists towards his chest.
The older witch closes her eyes mumbling the incantation. Soon the trio watched Jeremy's blood move from Mystic Falls downwards. Soon the blood the stops and she opens her eyes.
"There you go boys," she says.
She wipes the blood off the knife on the corner page of the map and places the knife back in its place,
"My job here is done."
She turns to leave not before hearing Stefan say "I don't know how she knew, but please say thank you to Bonnie."
Lucy drops her hand from the door handle already knowing she was going to regret her next words "You can thank her, by not giving her a reason to come back to Mystic Falls. Where she is right now is where she should have always been. Away from this danger that not only this town brings but you two-"
Before either brother could cut off Lucy she continues "-so save Elena and protect her, That moonstone is going to bring this town a lot of dangerous people so protect it with your life as much as you would protect Elena. Please don't give Bonnie a reason to come back to this hell hole" with that she turns away and exits the classroom leaving behind three confused individuals.
Stefan grabs Damon by the elbow knowing he was going to ask Lucy whatever question was on his mind "Elena needs us."
"Then we best hurry, brother. I just have to clarify some things with the sassy Bennett before she leaves. Meet you at my car" he says moving his arm out of his brother's grip.
Exiting the classroom Damon sees Lucy walking ahead down the hallway with a phone to her ear.
He paces his walk down the empty hallway listening to her conversation to Bonnie "Your request is completed. The Salvatore brothers are making their way to save Miss. Gilbert. Would like to know her location?"
Damon hears Bonnie's chuckling that causes a slight twitch in his eyes. A voice he hasn't heard since seeing her at the hospital "The moment I know is the moment I will break my promise to my uncle."
Lucy stops her walk causing Damon to halt his tracks. Lucy turns to look at Damon "Your Salvatore friends really don't know how powerful you've become do they?" she smirks at Damon.
"Friends? Damon is not a friend and Stefan is just that best friend's boyfriend. So they don't qualify to know everything about me."
"Shame," Lucy says "It seems Damon wants to have a chat. Talk to you later."
"Okay. Take care, Luce."
Lucy hangs up putting her phone in her jacket pocket "You may as well ask while you walk me to my car" she says motioning for Damon to follow her.
"Okay, take care, Luce," Bonnie says closing the door in the science lab.
"Luce located Elena. Stefan and Damon have gone after her" she explains walking further into the science classroom. She takes a seat across from Marcus.
"Ready?" he asks lighting the candle that sat on the bench between them.
Bonnie nods handing the written note to him "So how exactly does this work?"
"Channeling the power of the flame I will picture Elena in my mind-" he pauses "-that does sound weird out loud. Anyway, I will light up the note, say the spell and the words you wrote will appear on Elena's arms. The short letter will disappear after Elena has read it. It's why I said it to be one to two lines."
Bonnie finds the photo of herself and Elena on her phone and slides the phone towards him.
"Keep an ear out," he says.
She nods watching Marcus put the corner of the note on the flame he pulls it back watching the paper ignited. Closing his eyes, he puts the flaming paper over the phone and recites the spell. The fire quickens, and soon it vanishes along with the paper ashes falling on the phone. Bonnie stares at him as he opens his eyes.
"How do you know when it's-" the flame flickers out "-sent" she finishes looking at the candle.
"The message is sent," he says dusting the burnt papers off her phone.
Bonnie grabbed her phone "How do you know Elena got the message?"
"We don't," he said standing up "You just have to wait till you get word from Elena."
Elena trudged to the dusty couch in abandoned house she was held in. There was no point of trying to run when both her kidnappers were vampires, Rose and Trevor. Why they kidnapped her? They were keeping quiet about that. Surely somebody must realize she is missing by now.
Something stings her right arm. Soon it becomes an itch…an irritating one. Did something here bite her? She pulls up her pink sleeve for her eyes to widen at the words appearing on her forearm.
She quietly reads it out loud "Stefan and Damon are coming for you" her eyes dart to the signing off'-B'
"Bonnie" she whispers with a smile.
The words disappear from her arm, and that tinge of hope is ignited within her "Thank you, Bonnie."
Driving down the empty road, Damon looked briefly over at Stefan seated in the passenger seat holding a strange grenade-shaped object his hand.
"What the hell is that?" he could help but ask.
Looking to the passing landscapes, he answered: "I don't know, it's a vervain bomb or a grenade launcher or something like that."
Damon frowned a little to the explanation and little impressed by Alaric's weapon choices "Weird."
"So are you going to tell me what you discussed with Lucy?" Stefan asked looking to Damon.
Looking to the road ahead he stated sarcastically in a cheerful voice "Oh you know, the weather, latest movies and how much a bitch Katherine is."
Stefan narrowed his eyes at his brother "Damon" he said in the tone that meant serious business.
Damon rolled his eyes mumbling "releases" he looks over to the still frowning Stefan bar for Damon's answers.
"Fine. I wanted to know how Bon-Bon knew Elena was kidnapped. Turns out Bonnie's little coven asked Lucy to help us."
Before Stefan asked Damon cut in "Yes I did ask how did the coven know, but she gave me that cocky Bennett smirk where they know a lot more than you but will not share with you. All she said was Bonnie's focus was to protect her friends. Apparently, the little witch has been busy and had known that Katherine had been running from someone. She had gotten word from a source that Elena was kidnapped the night before but location unknown hence why she asked sassy Bennett witch to get to Jeremy to do the locator spell."
"Who was the source? Only Jeremy and I knew" he shakes his head "You know what it doesn't matter. This source allowed Bonnie to help us or we wouldn't know where to start."
"Did it occur to you that if Bonnie knows about Katherine, then she must know the moonstone and the Sun and Moon curse."
"And?" Stefan questioned confused about where Damon was going with this.
"What is the little witch really up to?"
"Besides wanting to protect Elena" not wanting to continue on this he changed the subject "Hey how much further is it?"
"About 80 miles. Don't you think it's weird how only the little group of merry witches showed up but not Bonnie."
"Damon drop it."
"What? I want to know if Bonnie wants to protect Elena and everyone she so cares about and why she is sending other people to do that and not herself. It makes one wonder if she really is as great Lucy says she is."
"How powerful did say Bonnie was?"
"Powerful enough to kill us before we even know it."
Stefan chuckled impressed "I believe that."
"She's a vampire, Stefan or did you forget?"
Stefan rolled his eyes "Bonnie is not a vampire, Damon. She is a witch and descendant from Emily Bennett. From what I remember, Emily was a powerful witch, so it really shouldn't surprise us how much stronger Bonnie has become. She moved away from here plus we don't know how her coven trains her."
Damon scoffed "Within these few months it's impossible, especially to take down vampires as powerful as the Maestri brothers. Maybe I should see her myself."
"Let it go, Damon. She has a new life, and we shouldn't involve ourselves in it. I don't know why you're so curious now, she never mattered to you. Unlike Elena-"
"Oh, the elephant lets out a mighty roar."
"Well, it doesn't have to be an elephant. Let's talk about it."
"There's nothing to say."
"That's not true. I'm sure there is. Just get it out. I mean, are you in this car because you want to help your little brother save the girl he loves? Or is it because you love her too? Hmm? I mean come on, express yourself."
"Keep it up, Stefan. I can step out of helping as quickly as I stepped in."
Stefan smiles with a teasing twinkle in his eyes "No, you see that's the beauty of it. You can't."
Late in the evening, after a delicious cooked meal, Bonnie wipes down the kitchen counter in Joshua's kitchen while he finished drying the dishes behind her. Bonnie's eyes darted to her phone on the cleaner section of the bar. Arms wrap around her waist causing her tense body to relax.
"You know staring at the phone won't make it ring quicker" Joshua whispers.
Bonnie closes her eyes the moment she feels his lips press against the back of her head "Don't tease me. It has been hours" she mumbles.
He smirks and pulls back "She's going to be okay," he says.
"I know that's an automatic response to make someone feel better" she releases her hold on the tea bag label and turns around in his hold.
Bonnie wraps her arms around his neck "Yet hearing it from you makes me feel a tiny bit better."
"You said that Stefan and Damon love her" Joshua questioned looking down at her. Bonnie nods.
"Then she'll be okay," he said assuring his girlfriend.
The phone rings surprising them, to both see Elena's caller ID. Joshua unwraps his hold around Bonnie to let her answer the call.
"Elena?"
Joshua smiles at the sight of Bonnie's relieved expression at the sound of Elena's voice on the other line
"Oh thank god you're okay," Bonnie says.
Deciding to leave the two alone, Joshua kisses Bonnie on her cheek and whisper to her "I'll leave you two chat."
"Thank you" she mutters to him.
"Who is that?" she hears Elena ask in a teasing tone
Bonnie chuckles watching Joshua walk out of the small kitchen of his apartment "That's Joshua-" she pauses smiling giddily "my boyfriend."
"What?! Since when?" Elena exclaimed excitedly
Realizing the date, she smacked her forehead slightly realizing why Joshua wanted Bonnie to have a free weekend "It would be about a month now" she finishes with a smile.
"Does he-" Elena paused knowing that Bonnie knew what the question would be.
"Yeah he knows about me being a witch" Bonnie bites her bottom lip at the half truth she told her best friend. Elena didn't need to know about her hybrid nature nor about Joshua being a vampire. Something changed. Bonnie would have been happy to tell Elena everything going on in her life the moment Josh, and she decided to get together. Was it the months away from Mystic Falls that changed her and her relationships with her best friends in Mystic Falls. She hardly spoke to Elena or Caroline only for updates [mostly from Elena]. Caroline seemed to be getting the hang of her new life as a vampire thanks to Stefan. Bonnie spoke more to Matt than to them, because she didn't have to be careful of what to say to him. He knew her, and he knew her family. Does that mean she had changed? Bonnie didn't want to think about it, nor had the time to ponder upon it.
Changing the topics, Bonnie asked "I'm so glad that Stefan and Damon got to you on time. Your kidnappers didn't hurt you did that?"
"No" Elena answered, "They had to keep me alive for Klaus's brother."
"What?" Bonnie questioned surprised "Brother? Klaus has a brother?"
"Yeah- wait how do you know about Klaus?" Elena said surprised trying to remember if she had mentioned Klaus to Bonnie in her e-mails.
'Shit' Bonnie thought remembering that Elena didn't know that Klaus was responsible for her father's death. Her mind already puts together the list of consequences of telling Elena the truth. If she knew that Bonnie knew about Klaus, she would inform Stefan and who in turn would tell Damon.
Bonnie closes her eyes to calm herself from panicking only to remember words from uncle during her coven training 'Half-truths are easier to keep track of.'
Opening her eyes "I don't know who he is exactly, but his name has frequently been popping up in the coven missions I'm appointed to."
"Really? What do you know about him?" Elena quickly asks
Biting her bottom lip to stop herself from telling the truth about her father's death, she was really glad that Elena was not a vampire to have the acute hearing to tell that Bonnie was lying to her.
"Not much, truthfully" she begins "most of the attacks we investigate have been instigated by orders from Klaus. A vampire that seems to scare a lot of vampires we interrogate that they are willing to die than tell us. All our coven have been able to gather is that they're searching for something called a moonstone for-" Bonnie pauses briefly to see if Elena will open up about what she knows and indeed she does
"The Sun and Moon curse. Wow, so that's why your coven sent Lucy to help us."
Bonnie smiles slightly "No that was all Lucy. She came to us when Katherine contacted her. My coven made the decision to entrust the moonstone to be protected by you and the Salvatore brothers hence why Lucy gave it to Damon."
"Oh-" Elena started only to be cut off and for Bonnie to hear Elena's exclamation in the background "Damon!"
"Hello, little witch" Bonnie hears on the other line.
"Damon" is all she says unsurprised to hear his voice.
"Hard for me to believe that your coven is so willing to trust us with the moonstone that is smartly trapped in the tomb with Katherine."
"I'm sorry, did you just say the moonstone is in the tomb with Katherine?!" Bonnie said louder than she expected.
"Smart isn't it?" Damon said with a proud tone. Bonnie bit her bottom lip and shut her eyes to stop herself from saying what a stupid idea it was as Damon continued his spouting.
"Also don't think I haven't noticed how involved your coven have been lately with Mystic Falls."
"Founder's Day" Bonnie hums, now a little amused of where this conversation was going.
"Sebastian Maestri"
"Who?"
"Don't play dumb with me Bon-Bon, I know you or your coven had some involvement with his death."
"How could you possibly come to that conclusion?" she asks leaning against the counter.
"Everything was spotless but the bloody bodies almost if someone magically clean up all evidence to connect to them."
"Magically? You do know that my coven and I are not the only witches in this world."
"Oh no, I heard your voice in Stefan's room the day before I was called to see Sebastian's very dead body. I don't know why Stefan doesn't remember seeing you-"
"Because I wasn't there, Damon."
Ignoring Bonnie's words he continued "- and you guys are the unique kind of coven. An assassination witch coven that gets paid to resolve supernatural issues."
"And?"
"Meaning?"
"Meaning you got rid of Sebastian or someone paid you to kill him."
"Congratulations Damon, you've cracked the case" Bonnie sarcastically said then proceeded to ask curious "Why does Sebastian's death bother you? Was he a friend?"
"No, he wasn't. I want to know why you killed the Maestri brothers- yes I know your coven must have also killed Domenic and witchy girlfriend too. Who would pay you guys to kill them, and how?"
"I believe you have an idea of how. The why is really none of your business but my covens. Why don't you stop investigating my coven and focus on finding out Klaus's location and making sure nobody take the moonstone out of that tomb."
"You're hiding something, Bonnie Bennett."
Bonnie chuckles "You're not going to give up are you?"
"Never."
She smiles a little to his persistence "Whatever you discover make sure it doesn't get in the way of protecting Elena because I will hurt you if your distraction of investigating me and my coven puts her in danger. If she dies, you die. Understood?"
"Yes, ma'am," Damon says sarcastically.
She rolls her eyes not bothering to repeat how serious she is instead she says "Thank you for saving her."
Damon is silent for a while that Bonnie thinks he may have ended their call but she hears him say "Thank you for the help."
Bonnie chuckled "Don't strain you, Salvatore. I know there's a limit to your kindness."
That seemed to be funny from the sound of Damon's amused laugh.
"Let Elena know I'll talk to her tomorrow. Goodbye Damon" Bonnie says and ends their call.
Placing the phone on the kitchen counter, she blows out a tired breath of the day she had. She looks at her phone wondering that she had her first decent conversation with Damon since those months ago he cornered in the school parking lot. Bonnie shakes her head surprised how much time has passed since then.
"A lot has changed since then" she mutters to herself.
Grabbing her phone, she makes her way to the small living area of Joshua's apartment to find him sitting on the couch watching TV. Bonnie smiles to the sight and makes her way to him taking a seat beside him. She curls up to his side as he naturally wraps his arm around her.
"Everything okay?"
"Yeah. Elena's safe. I'm surprised you weren't eavesdropping?"
"Not my style unless I need to."
Bonnie chuckles until her phone makes a sound to indicate she got a message. She looks to see a text from her uncle that stated for her to be home tomorrow. Bonnie told her uncle about what she did today and what she asked of Lucy to do. Let's just say they had a little disagreement over how much help Bonnie should be to her friends in Mystic Falls. Her aunt saw nothing wrong with what she did, in fact, she applauded Bonnie for telling them and not hiding it from them. Did her Uncle Gabriel see that way? No, that stubborn man was persistent to list all the wrong she did and how much danger she put Lucy in for helping them, the day after what she did to trap Katherine.
Joshua watches Bonnie lock her phone and place it on the coffee table in front of them before curling back to his side. Grabbing the remote beside him, he switches off the television and places it beside him.
Joshua looks down to his girlfriend "As much as I love having you here, you know you can't run away every time you and your uncle have an argument. The man already dislikes me already."
"No, he doesn't," Bonnie says.
Joshua raises an eyebrow at her, "Okay, but only a little" she confesses. Sitting up she looks at him "He's just protective of me and a little cautious of your vampire nature."
Joshua sighs "I know," he says.
Bonnie sits back and leans into his embrace "If it makes you feel better, I like you and-" she looks up at him "I trust you."
The man smiles and leans down but stops centimeters from her lips "I like you" he pecks her lips "And I trust you," he finishes with a smile when he sees Bonnie smile at him.
"Happy one month," she says lovingly to him.
Joshua chuckles "She remembers, I was hoping our weekend getaway would surprise you."
Bonnie scrunches her nose with a shake of her head "You can thank Elena for getting me to remember the date today, " and in one quick motion she is sitting on his lap looking down to him, her hands on his shoulders while Joshua placed his hands on her hips to help keep her balanced.
"Now I think we should-" she leans down to kiss the left side of the crook of his neck. Pulling back she says while ever so slowly moving her head to the other side of his neck "-make use of this sudden spare time-" she pulls back and looks down to Joshua and finishes "-we have tonight."
"We do have all night," he says confidently, and with his vampire speed, he holds onto Bonnie causing her to yelp in surprise when he speeds them into his bedroom, shutting the door for a night of pleasing the beautiful, powerful Bonnie Bennett.
Friday, 26th March 2010:
While Michael and Marcus were battling with the newly made weapons, Scott left behind. Bonnie was on the other side of the training room hitting the punching bag. Since becoming a hybrid, her strength heightens and directly hitting the punching bag helped her to train herself in controlling her power. The first couple of days there was a lot of punching bag replacement, but soon she quickly adapted to how much power to use when fighting. Right now, she was trying really hard to not let her anger take over and punch the hell out of the punching bag. Two days. It has been two days since Elena got kidnapped. Later that night she had received a call from Elena thanking her along with information about the kidnappers. Surprisingly one of them is actually staying with them after Elijah killed one of the kidnappers. Who was Elijah? Apparently a brother of Klaus. Go figure. After learning of that Bonnie had no choice but to inform the coven leaders of her discovery.
She hit the punching bag as memories of that argument yesterday comes to her mind.
"You promised me you would not get involved with anything of Mystic Falls."
*Hits*
"Elena was kidnapped! How can you expect me to not do anything!"
-*Hits*
"Not without the coven! What if something happened to Lucy? Can you handle the responsibility of telling her family."
*Hit, hit*.'
"Nothing happened! She just did a location spell. Elena got saved! Besides I'm gonna, have to get involved with Mystic Falls if Elena is going to Klaus's target. We would have never known about Elijah."
"That's it you're off your father's case and anything related to Klaus and Mystic Falls."
*Hit, hit*
"What! Why? That is bullshit, uncle and-"
"And what Bonnie?! I am the leader of this coven! How can I trust that you are not going to go behind our backs to try and stop Klaus on your own? I know you are not used to being in a coven, but you can't do everything yourself. That's how you die quicker."
*Hit, hit. HIT* "Ahhh!" she screams throwing one last punch watching the punching bag fly across the room.
Michael and Marcus immediately stop to see the punching bag land not too far from their training mat and look to the red-eyed Bonnie.
"Bonnie" Gabriel voices out causing all three to see the man standing at the bottom of the stairs.
"Let's talk" he motions for her to follow her outside.
Bonnie's red eyes fade. She angrily takes off her boxing glove and places them on the bench nearby.
Michael and Marcus watch Bonnie follow her uncle upstairs. The tension between the two was thick ever since their argument took place. It was literally like walking on eggshells between the two in the house these past two days. It also didn't help they were both stubborn as hell to talk it out.
"You think they're going to make peace?" Marcus asked still staring at the stairs.
Michael shrugged his shoulders "God I hope so, or I'm going to move to your house until they sort it out."
"Bro, I'd volunteer to help you move in" Marcus shudders looking to Michael patting him on the shoulder.
Bonnie pulled the gray overcoat closer together shivering from the cold breeze as she walks along the walkway towards Gabriel. She takes a seat beside him looking out to the water.
"I don't want to lose you," he said.
She looks to him staying quiet as he continued "Ever since you told me about Lucy's vision it just made me-" he paused unable to continue, but Bonnie understood what he meant. He was scared of the vision becoming real.
"I know."
"The more we discover about Klaus or the people surrounding Klaus, the more it leads to Mystic Falls" he hands the manila folder to Bonnie "Amerie found it in the Johnson journals that Eric brought back from England. Seems like one of the witches of the Johnson line was close to the Mikaelson family."
Bonnie opens the folder and reads through the documents until her name stops on a particular name "Lord Niklaus Mikaelson, Lord Elijah Mikaelson, Lady Rebekah Mikaelson."
"Klaus has a sister."
Gabriel nods "So it seems. Look at the name below of who stayed with them."
"Katerina Petrova" she mumbles surprised and reads the out the year "1492."
She closes the file immediately taking in the news "He- I mean they have been alive for a long time."
"Who knows even longer" he looks to Bonnie "This moonstone has been going on for centuries meaning that Klaus may have been wanting to break this curse for a long time, but we can guess that the doppelganger requirement limits his time of breaking it."
"Then put me back on Klaus's case," she said pleadingly "I'm this close uncle, to pinpointing Klaus's location and then I can find out why dad was killed."
"We."
"Huh?"
"We. Not I. I know you're not used to be in a coven, but we share the burden of what we face. I've told you countless times that I do not want you to handle all of this on your own. You may have been used to that back in Mystic Falls but not here. Not with us."
Her heart warms to her words. She knew her coven was there for her, but old habits kick in. She grew up independent never depending on anyone but her Grams. Was this feeling of not being alone going to be constant because she learned to never expect too much of anyone. High expectations always lead to disappointments in her life.
As if reading her mind he puts an arm around her shoulders, "I'm never going to allow you to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders again. So no more secrets between the both of us" he says.
"No more secrets" she promises.
Taking his arm off her shoulder, he places his hand on his lap telling her his next orders "Which is why I'm asking you to stay away from Mystic Falls. To not go back again."
"Uncle Gabriel, you can't expect me to believe Lucy's vague vision. All she said was that death awaits me. It doesn't mean my death, and in case you've forgotten the sun and moon curse consists of sacrifice. Death. A lot of it."
"I don't want to take the risk."
Bonnie laughs out loud "From becoming an assassin we risk our lives in the jobs we do. There's no telling of when we'll die or not and besides don't I have some great Prophecy to fulfill to be dying so soon."
"Bonnie be serious."
"I am!" she exclaims "What is the point of me having all these powers if you just want to hide me away from what I was born to do."
"And what is that?"
"To help people," she looks at him seriously "Not just me but this coven. You said Micah Bennett created this coven not only to avenge his family and learn more about the Prophecy but to also protect the innocent people from our supernatural world. To save them."
He looks down to his niece "I've sent Scott to keep an eye on Mystic Falls and to interrogate Katherine while she's trapped in the tomb, but for now, I want us to learn more about Klaus's movement, so we know what we're going to battle. We are aware the requirements for this curse. He has Greta to fulfill the witch side. While Katherine may choose Tyler to play the werewolf part, Klaus also has heaps of werewolves to choose from. The same can be said for vampires too. Once we get an understanding of how Klaus's mind works, we'll get an idea of-"
"-who he chooses" she finished in understanding and compromises with him "I'll stay away from Mystic Falls, but if there is a death-threatening situation, then I'll get involved with the coven's help."
"Okay I agree to those terms," he says giving into his niece's wishes looking to her "Looks like our coven is going to become more well known in Mystic Falls."
Bonnie close the file pleased as Gabriel explains his plan "I'm hoping Scott will get more information about Klaus from interrogating Katherine to assist us with our profile on him."
"What homicidal vampire isn't enough?"
"Not enough to know his way of thinking."
Bonnie pursed her lips looking to the Haven spring "Well we can say he is very meticulous about his plans. Everything he does seem to have a reason."
"Meaning?"
"Capturing of Greta is to have a witch by his side. To be loyal especially for the breaking of this curse. The killing of Marcus' parents was to stop them from finding out about Katherine birth place and for us to make the connection to him. The murder of dad is the one that confuses me. Is his death connected to the curse or the prophecy?"
Gabriel hummed in agreement "If I could just figure out what Zach stumbled on then I can make the connection" he chuckles "he was always the curious one out of us two."
"Yeah?"
"Even if it's just for a second Zach senses something wrong he will dig into it, and he was usually right" he sighs "God I miss him so much."
Bonnie leans her head against his shoulder "Me too" she whispers.
"Speaking of being curious-" Gabriel paused waiting for Bonnie to lift her head and look to him "There's a particular vampire that is investigating our coven especially you."
"Klaus" Bonnie smirked that finally, they captured the attention of their intended target.
"No. Apparently Mr. Damon Salvatore has been investigating what happened in Grove Hill."
Bonnie raised an eyebrow "The kidnapping case?" she chuckles "Why? Did he actually know a vampire I killed?"
Gabriel shook his head "Bit about four weeks ago Sherriff Kim of Grove Hill got a call from Sherriff Forbes about the animal attacks in Grove Hill."
"Is this Sheriff Kim a source for the coven?"
Gabriel nods "Kind of. Her name is Stella Kim. Rosario and Stella are childhood friends. They grew up in the same hometown."
"Oakbridge?" Bonnie said remembering her aunt's hometown. A small town like Mystic Falls only it was about an hour drive from Light Haven.
"Yeah. Rosario and Stella were the only two witches in their hometown. Rosario moved here while Stella and her family stayed in Oakbridge until Stella and her husband split two years ago. Stella and her daughter, Leila moved to Grove Hill after traveling for a quieter life hence why they aren't so involved with the supernatural world, but when Stella hears something abnormal happening in her town or in the neighboring towns, she will contact us if she and Leila are unable to handle the situation."
Bonnie nods in understanding. It still amazed Bonnie the vast networking connections for the coven. There were even bonds that went on for generations. Covens that had become acquainted with Micah Bennett would pledge their honor to the first Bennett assassin witch to form this coven. The honor of this kind was passed down throughout generations like an unspoken rule they honor their loyalty to their assassin coven by passing on information to the group. It was strange, it was almost like her coven was seen as royalty.
"Royalty we're a part of"
Bonnie bites her bottom lip to hide her smile from Adara's comment and asks him "This is because of Sebastian's death? It's the only reason I can think of for Sherriff Forbes to turn to Damon."
Gabriel nodded "I should have expected some eyes on us besides Klaus, but if Damon becomes more persistent we may have to deal with him."
"Uncle!" she exclaimed worriedly that his idea of dealing with somebody involved their deaths.
The older man rolled his eyes "I won't go killing him. You've made it very clear to all of us to not bring harm to the Salvatore brothers. I have a feeling your friends in Mystic Falls are going to get more involved with us in the future because of this sun and moon curse. Do they know of Klaus killing Zachariah?"
Bonnie shakes her head "No. All they know is that a vampire killed him and haven't questioned me since then."
He shook his head, not at all surprised by their lack of curiosity when it didn't involve them "Good. Let's keep it that way" he says and takes his phone out of his jacket pocket. Swiping to unlock he looks for the images sent to him and shows it to Bonnie "These are the files she sent and wanted to confirm with me if this was our coven's doing."
She looks down and swipes through the images "Either I need to switch up my execution style or Sheriff Kim's observation skills are top notch. Looks like Damon will know about the group of vampires in Grove Hill, Redwater, and New Orleans" she finishes handing the phone back.
"I can shake off Damon if he's going to get in our way," she says.
Gabriel shakes his head "No let him investigate, I'm intrigued to see how much he can discover. All these attacks were purposely meant to be found. So Damon is only following breadcrumbs we laid out for Klaus."
"After my phone call with Elena they know that our coven knows we are aware of Klaus, but I created the excuse that his name kept popping up in the missions I was appointed to in the coven."
"Good cover-up. Half truths are easier for us to follow-up in our covers" he said and changed their topics "We'll keep our focus on uncovering who Klaus we'll use for this curse, and we'll go together to Mystic Falls when it's time."
Bonnie stares at her uncle curious "How do you know when?"
Gabriel smiles a little to her question "We'll know or-" he looks to her "You'll know."
With the kids out on a Friday night, Gabriel and Rosario had the whole house to themselves which was a rarity as they gave each other a night off to watch some movies and knowing them they would end up discussing their current cases. With a bowl of popcorn in her hand, she walks into the living room to hear Gabriel say
"Just don't bring attention to yourselves. It's lucky they don't know you" he looks to Rosario approaching him with the bowl of popcorn. With a small smile, he stretches his arm on top of the couch for her to settle herself comfortably beside him.
She looks up to him listening to him say "Get back here tomorrow as soon as you are done with interrogating Katherine, too many people are becoming involved in this. We need to look over everything we know.. Stay safe, Scott."
"Is everything okay?" she asks worriedly the moment he ends the call.
Dropping his phone beside him, Gabriel stretches his arm a little pulling his wife closer towards him he explains "It seems Jonas and Luka are in Mystic Falls. Scott was just lucky that Matt told him about Luka being the new kid at school. Once Matt said the last name that's when Scott wanted to confirm with me."
"Are they looking for Greta or working with her?"
Gabriel sighed not liking this new information "I don't know, the longer Scott stays then the attention will be on him than on us."
"You know he may have to make himself known to them for Jonas to even speak of his intention here in Mystic Falls."
"I know, but that will put us at a disadvantage if they are working for Klaus-"
"Or Elijah," she said "He was after Elena, and he's Klaus brother" she shakes her head placing the bowl of popcorn on her husband's lap and reached for the remote "No work talk. It's our first night off in a long time, and we need to relax and be you know do coupley things."
"What assassinating vampires are not considered to be a couple's activity?" he joked
She nudges him "You get what I mean, Gab."
Gabriel chuckles to her words and nods "Okay, okay. No work talk just us, popcorn, movie and us relaxing."
"Good," she said pressing play and leaned comfortably into him.
At least ten minutes passed in the movie and Rosario sighed causing Gabriel to laugh.
The woman sits up looking to him "This is your fault for falling in love with me."
He laughed while she said "I can't continue this movie because I'm worried about all of this. Why hasn't Klaus made a move at all? Everyone that we have mentioned is all connected to that vile vampire! The fact that we can't locate him is even more frustrating."
"I love you" is all he says.
Rosario stares at Gabriel in surprise by his response "I love you too, but is that all you have to say?"
Putting the popcorn beside him, he sits up and repeats "I love you because of your heart and that you couldn't even sit through halfway of this movie because you want to stay up all night working with me on this."
"I'm more passionate about it because it involves our niece. She may not be directly involved with the sun and moon curse but she's connected to Klaus, and everyone she cares about is in danger because of this curse and Klaus."
He places a chaste kiss on her lips causing her to smile "Let's get to work then" he says.
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
The rising sun shone through the woods of Mystic Falls that Scott and Matt were trudging through in the early hours of the morning. Scott adjusted the strap of his bag looking for the young teen walking beside him.
"You didn't have to come with me, on a Saturday too. You should be sleeping in taking advantage of the free time you have."
"Yeah and have you get lost in the woods looking for where Katherine was held up."
"I could have just called up Bonnie and ask her to give me the directions to the tombs."
"And disturb her on her weekend getaway with Josh?" Matt laughs when he sees Scott slaps his forehead of his forgetfulness.
"See this is why you're a part of the coven, always on point," Scott said patting Matt's shoulder causing the teen to laugh then stop when he realizes they are nearing the entrance.
Scott too stops in his tracks and looks around his surroundings in awe. The sunlight hitting all the rights spots of the Fell's Church ruins to create a beautiful, pleasing sight of a broken down building.
The man shivers slightly "Damn the magic performed here" he says.
"There," Matt says pointing a little ahead to the entrance "The stairs leads down to the entry of the tombs."
Scott nods then look to Matt "You better get going."
Matt shakes his head "Bonnie told me what you're planning to do and I'm not leaving you. Anyone could come and kill you while you're interrogating Katherine."
"You stay there then. There's a chance your cover may get blown."
"I rather get caught then put you or anyone in danger," Matt said determinedly.
"I can't argue you out of this can I?"
Matt shakes his head signaling that anything Scott said was not going to sway him.
"Fine" he chuckles and says in understanding "I can see now why Bonnie is friends with you."
Matt smiles a little while Scott motions with his head "Just be quiet and stay nearby, but not close enough for Katherine to see you. I can't have Katherine knowing about your involvement with us because we know she'll use that as leverage with your friends."
Not bothering to correct Scott on the term friends being connected to Damon and Stefan to not be true [well may be somewhat acquaintance with Stefan].
"Come on let's get this over with," Matt says walking ahead towards the stairs leading downwards towards the entrance of the tomb.
Following Matt closely behind they walked down the stairs entering the underground chambers and stared at the large stone door blocking the entrance.
Scott passed his bag pack to Matt "Stay by the stairs. Out of sight."
The blonde teen just nods, holding the bag pack he goes to take a seat on the stairs. He eyes the man curiously of how he would remove the door. Matt's unasked question is answered when Scott swishes his hand to the right causing the door to magically move aside revealing the entrance into the tombs.
Scott walks towards it and sits cross-legged on the ground not far from the entrance. Footsteps echo towards Scott. The older man closes his eyes, readying himself while Matt resists the urge to get up and see if Katherine is truly in the cave.
"Well you're new, not that I can complain about the new view" a female voice stated.
Scott cracked a smile and opened his eyes to the sight of slightly ragged Katherine Pierce sporting a black dress, dirty and slightly torn for the extended wear.
"You really do look like Elena, fascinating."
Katherine rolled her eyes "Elena. Let me guess you want answers to help the damsel in distress. I told her everything yesterday" she turns to walk back into the cave not wasting another minute of her time here talking to a stranger about what Elena already knows.
"What a time it must have been for you Katerina Petrova to be spending it with the Mikaelson family."
Katherine stops in her tracks and turns to look at the cross-legged man who fearlessly stared at her.
"Smart thinking on becoming a vampire to avoid becoming a sacrifice."
Katherine leans against the cave walls "Bravo for you, you know my past."
"I don't want to know you, I want to know about Klaus."
"Like I told the downgraded version of me, if you do anything to mess with Klaus he will get his vengeance and everyone you love, so run and look out for yourself to survive against him."
"Basically what you have been doing for what the last 500 plus years?"
Katherine squints her brown eyes curious of how this man knew so much about her, and she had no clue on who he was.
Before Katherine could question the man's identity, Scott said "I want to know more about your time with Klaus. It took a while to put together, but we know what is required for the Sun and Moon curse. What we don't know is how he thinks. Who would Klaus pursue in his selection for a vampire and werewolf."
Katherine smirked walking to the entrance she places her hand against the invisible barrier looking down to the seated man "Why don't you step into my office, and I can tell you all about him."
Scott closes his eyes "Dividere" he whispers causing Katherine to stand up straighter warily of what is to happen.
"Now you can tell me everything," Scott says behind her causing Katherine to turn around and see the bearded man standing in the cave.
Katherine frowns looking at the man standing in the cave and the man seated outside.
Looking to the illusion of the person "A witch, I should've known."
"Now you do," he says with a smirk.
Katherine walks to stand in front of him "So there's no point of me attacking you right now."
"Nope."
"You do realize that you're probably trapped now unless-" her eyes widened and before she could attack him, she was thrown against the wall.
Sliding down, Katherine looks up "How? No witch can do this?!" she exclaims in shock for all of her years of being alive she never witnessed a witch so powerful.
Scott crouches down to be eye leveled with the Petrova vampire "Oh, but I can. Sadly, I can't physically grab the moonstone, but I've trained myself to perform a limited number of spells in this state. Let me demonstrate " he says with a smile.
The illusion Scott easily raise his hand swish to his right, before Katherine could react she watches the moonstone go flying past between them out of the cave to land in the lap of the physical body of the Scott.
The illusion looked to the now angered Katherine at her only leverage left. Her vampire face appeared, but the man's words stopped her "I should introduce myself. My name is Scott O'Donnell."
Katherine's vampire face disappears "O'Donnell," she says with a look of fear in her eyes and whispers "Assassin."
"So you have heard of us?" he smirks and with a shrug of his shoulders "Perhaps I should thank for your involvement in getting our coven created. I'm going to have so much fun looking into that pretty head of yours, hoping you can psychologically handle reliving your memories."
"No! Please! Klaus killed my family! I didn't know he would go after the Bennett and the O'Donnell family! Please, you have to believe me!" Katherine cried out in fear already knowing the stories of the coven of witch assassin which was why she tried to stay under their radar until she met Emily Bennett. She was just lucky Emily didn't involve herself in the assassin life, or Katherine would've been dead a long time ago.
Scott stares hard at Katherine. Her hands fly to her throat as she violently coughs from the air leaving her system from Scott's magic. She couldn't attack him, but he could do worse damage to her without lifting a finger and that what made her fear him right now.
Scott releases his magical chokehold on her and states "No, I don't believe you. I have had this nagging feeling from the first time I heard about you and your connection to the year our coven was put together. I always believed your actions were the causes of the death of those witches of the O'Donnell and Bennett line" he stretches out a hand to touch her forehead.
Katherine stares at the illusion of Scott, the hand on her forehead was like a feather just lightly grazing her skin causing her to shiver slightly from his touch. It was a strange feeling, almost if she was being put into a trance. An outer body experience.
"Now I get to see what truly happened" he raises his other hand, and with a click of his fingers, Katherine lets out a shrilling scream.
Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Stefan yawned waking up only to frown and sit up in his bed when he heard a familiar voice entering his room
"Finally awake. You know for a vampire, you sleep like a log."
"Scott?" Stefan says confused watching the older man walk in with a foam cup of coffee in his hand. Scott takes a seat on the chair by Stefan's desk, and with his free hand he places it in his jacket pocket and pulls out a milky white stone.
"The Moonstone," Stefan says more alert.
Getting out of his bed, Scott tosses it towards the towards the shirtless Stefan to quickly catch it.
Stefan sits down on the bottom edge of his bed staring amazed at the rock that had been in the middle of this Sun and Moon catastrophe "How?" he asked looking at the calm Scott
"Perks of being a witch. The moment Bonnie told us it was left in the tomb with Katherine we knew that would be a bad idea because you know as well as I am aware that she would use that-" Scott motions to the moonstone with his eyes "as leverage for her freedom."
Stefan chuckles slightly "Bonnie is still looking out for us even when she's not supposed to."
Scott chuckles "She can't help it or rather we can't help it when Klaus's name keeps popping up in our coven missions. Too many vampires going on a killing spree to please this guy."
Then it clicked to Stefan, all of Damon's research on the murdering case of vampires "The animal attacks on the vampires? The Maestri brothers. Did the coven do that?"
Scott smirks and wordlessly sips his coffee. Swallowing he stands up and says "Make sure you keep that moonstone safe, especially from falling into Klaus's hands."
"Wait-" Stefan says stopping Scott from leaving "What do you know about Klaus and this Sun and Moon Curse?"
Scott turns around and leans against the door frame "According to Bonnie we seem to know as much as you guys. The Sun and Moon curse are for vampires or werewolves to break. If vampires break the curse, then they can walk around in daylight, but if werewolves break it, then they don't have to change at every full moon. We know what is needed for the curse hence why Bonnie is working hard to find Klaus to protect Elena" he tips his half-empty foam cup towards Stefan "Any ace up that sleeve to share with me?"
"Klaus is the Original vampire."
Scott stands up intrigued "What do you mean the Original vampire?"
"Klaus and Elijah are the Original vampires."
"Huh?" Scott muttered to his knowledge that the original vampire didn't technically mean the first vampires. Still to be called the original vampires said something. He thinks back to Katherine's memories wondering any moments struck out to him, but nothing. Looks like he'll have to dig more into Klaus or Elijah's past.
"That's all we know," Stefan says pulling Scott from his thoughts.
Scott nods "I guess we're all caught up. Until next time" he says with mocking salute he walks out.
Hearing the front door open and close, Stefan realizes that Damon wasn't home. Stefan looks down to the moonstone.
"Maybe I should give it to Damon to hide it" he wonders worriedly that since getting back with Elena could mean danger for her if he had knowledge of where he hid the moonstone.
Monday, March 29th, 2010
Late at night, Bonnie lays back in her bed. Night finally back home after a romantic weekend with Joshua. It was weird being spoilt by someone else other than yourself or your family. Who knew she needed a break from her life. Bonnie turns to look at the book laying on top of her white bedside table. She reaches out to pick up the "The Little Prince" book that she asked Scott to pick up. She thought she had packed it with her but remembered her dad had taken it a month before his death. It wasn't unusual given the fact that this was both of their favorite books. When her mom left them, they bonded over this book. Bonnie had liked the colorful illustration, so Zachariah brought it. Then every night before bed he would read part of the story for an hour. This went on for three months, Bonnie chuckles losing count of how many times he read this book to her.
Bonnie's thumb grazes of the blue front cover staring at the illustrated little prince standing on the moon. Bonnie grew older, and soon the book would stay on the shelf only brought out to read when they were feeling sad. Bonnie's thumb flick through the pages of the book only to get surprised when a folded up paper fell on her face.
"What the hell?" she mutters placing the book on her bedside table while her free hand grabbed the paper off her face. She unfolded it only for eyes to widen of what was on the first page of the stapled paper.
"No. Freaking. The way" she enunciates her eyes running over the words to make sure she didn't see things, quickly turning the page over and skim through four pages of different entries from this Rosita.
According to Rosita's diary entries, it seemed Ayana held a lot of guilt and confessions would slip out in the final years of spending on her death bed. Rosita never thought much of it until Ayana started talking about the Prophecy.
Sitting up with the paper in her hand, Bonnie rushes out of her room towards her uncle and aunt knocking on the door loudly.
"Uncle Gabriel! Aunt Rosie!" she yelled out impatiently.
The door opens with Gabriel raising an eyebrow at her "You want to wake up the neighborhood Bonnie-bear?"
"Ha ha ha," she said dryly holding up the paper in front of her face for Gabriel to read.
Gabriel's eyes widen at the sight of Bonnie holding up photocopied pages of one of the Bennett entries, Rosita Bennett to be precise. Grand-daughter of Ayana Bennett.
"How do you have this?" he asks grabbing the paper from Bonnie's hand and walking into the room with Bonnie following inside. She hears the shower running which meant her aunt was taking a shower.
Getting back on track, Bonnie waits till her uncle sits on the bottom end edge of the bed.
Crossing her arms over her chest, "My book. Well, dad and I's book. I think this is what dad was researching about or at least started his search into Klaus" she explains.
Gabriel read the multiple photocopied entries pages "When did Zach even get his hand on Rosita's journal?" he muttered.
Before Bonnie could shrug her shoulders, Gabriel answered his own question "Mom" he looks back down to the pages "Words of the Prophecy she would have handed to Zach immediately. Why would they hide this from me, let alone where is this journal now?"
Bonnie looks sadly to her uncle's confusion and sits down beside him "I'm sorry, that I can't answer that"
Gabriel looks to his niece "It's okay, you're just as more in the dark than I am about what this Prophecy means for you besides being in a battle."
Gabriel looks back to the page he was reading stating "I know it was my brother's lifetime mission to find out more about this Prophecy, but I'm beginning to worry about how much he hid about you from me. Mom and him."
Bonnie nods in understanding, already having secrets kept from her family for so long. Secrets kept for the protection of each other, while with good intentions she is beginning to wonder if they should have been kept secret.
Seeing the page that Gabriel stopped on Bonnie points to the lines highlighted by her father "A witch that Ayana knew used dark magic to turn Klaus and his siblings into vampires. At least we have actual evidence and not theories about why the Mikaelson are referred to as the Original vampires. "
The man chuckles to the sound of optimism in Bonnie's voice he adds "And a little about something related to the Prophecy" he points to the last entry on the page he was reading.
"A little? Uncle, we have more question than answers" she looks at the highlighted line reading out loud "I mentioned that Grandma spoke of Death stopping her. Stopping meant the Prophecy to happen. While helping her get to bed tonight, she speaks of an Immortal stone. That Death and she created it the night before the Originals. I have no idea what she means because she mumbles later on in her sleep of destroying it-" Bonnie paused looking to her uncle "The Immortal Stone? What in the world is that? What is it about magic and stones. First the Moonstone and now the Immortal Stone."
Gabriel flips the page "We know your father was looking into that" his eyes motions to side note scribbles of wanting to learn more about the Immortal Stone.
Bonnie frowns at the written words of 'Immortal Stone' followed by two arrows drawn underneath the word. One arrow pointing to 'Bennett?' and the second to 'Mikaelson?'.
"Connection?" she mutters looking from the page to look at the face of her confused "Dad was seeking to see if there was a connection of the Immortal stone to the Mikaelson."
"It would make sense, the Immortal Stone created the night before they were turned into vampires, I would look into the Mikaelson family too. Now we know the why that makes sense of why Zachariah was seeking information about the Prophecy, but now it's the what?"
"The what?"
Gabriel nods "What did Zachariah discover to have Klaus kill him?"
"Is it safe to say that Klaus or Elijah may know about the Prophecy."
"The high chance of that is possible. We need to find that journal. There may be more information that may make sense to us and not to Zachariah at that time."
"Dad or Grams?" Bonnie asked who was more likely to have the journal.
"My mom, knowing Zach for photocopying these pages he would trust her to keep it safe."
"You have Grams stuff here?"
Gabriel nodded "Yeah, the boxes are piled up in the garage. Rosie had started going through them, but we got busy with...everything" he finishes.
Gabriel hands the stapled pages to Bonnie "Best add it to your wall. Tomorrow afternoon we'll fill everybody in during the meeting."
Bonnie nods taking the pages "You better head back to bed for an early wake-up."
"I could skip school and help Aunt Rosario look through Gram's things for Rosita's journals."
Gabriel chuckles to Bonnie's compromise "Nice try, Bonnie-bear. I need you to at least have a break from this life."
She scrunches her nose "Never" she says with a cheeky smile "Night, uncle."
"Night," he says watching her leave the room.
Gabriel falls back on his bed taking a deep sigh "Mom, Zach just how much did you discover about Bonnie and the Prophecy?"
He closes his eyes when he is met with silence. Gabriel tries to calm his mind, to pray that the nagging feeling in the pit of his stomach of what the future was growing. The more details they discovered about the Prophecy, the more they learn about Bonnie's powers. If the Mikaelson were to be somewhat involved, then how much blood is going to be shed? Will they all come out of this alive? Is he strong enough to protect everyone? Gabriel hears the shower shut off causing him to sit up. One day at a time was what Rosario always told him when his mind would run wild with worst scenarios.
"One day at a time" Gabriel whispers to himself.
AN: That's the end of Chp 11! The last chapter then Book 1 of "Trilogy of War- Battling my Demons" is finished!