Chapter 4
Many Apologies for the wait. I know I said i would try to update sooner, but this chapter was hard to write. Its kind of a filler chapter, and did not go the way i accpected so bear with me.
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Boomkarakaraka05: I will not be doing a Damon-Bonnie-Kol love triangle. Unfortunately I'm not a fan of Bamon.
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Chapter 4: Road trip
A knock at the door disrupted Elena from reading her book, Pride and prejudice. The book was a nice break from all the crap in her life. She reluctantly put down the book and went to open the door.
When she flung the door opened she froze in shock when she saw who was on her porch.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Elena managed to spit out.
"May I come in?" an impatient Bonnie asked.
"No, not till you tell me why your here," Elena demanded. Bonnie sighed.
"I need your help." Elena narrowed her eyes.
"With what?" Bonnie swallowed and Elena swore she saw nervousness in her eyes.
"I need to find my mother." Elena's eyes widened in shock.
"Your m-mother?" Elena stuttered, "Why do you need my help for finding your mother?"
"Look I know I'm not the Bonnie you remember, but if you are anything like the Elena I remember than you would do anything to help your friends." Elena narrowed her eyes.
"And how would finding your estranged mother help my friends?"
"I believe that my mother is the key to opening the sealed coffin," Bonnie replied, "thus giving you a weapon to kill Klaus."
"I am still confused why you would just hand us a weapon to kill Klaus, I thought you were on his side?"
"Elena," Bonnie said fiercely, "If I have to go behind Klaus to get my family back, so be it. If you were in my position, you would go against Damon, even Stefan to save Jeremy." Elena looked into her former best friends eyes. They looked hard and determined. She could recognize that look anywhere. She remembered herself having that very look just the other day when Klaus almost killed Jeremy. Elena knew she had to help Bonnie, for the sake of her lost family.
Elena sighed, "Come in."
Books and papers were scattered all over Elena's kitchen, covering every single flat surface. In the middle of it all by the Kitchen table sat Bonnie and Elena shifting through every single file in the boxes scattered everywhere on the floor.
"What about her?" Elena dangled a piece of paper in front of Bonnie's face. Bonnie shook her head.
"Too old." Elena sighed and put the paper in the 'no' pile.
"What about her?" Bonnie shook her head again.
"How many Abby Bennett's are there?"
"Apparently to many," Bonnie mumbled, "I compelled the sheriff's office to give me all their files on every single Abby Bennett in the country."
Elena felt it strange that her former best friend was now a murderous original who could compel vampires and people. It was the more reason why Elena promised herself that she would do everything in her power to get the old Bonnie back.
"Hey, look at this," Elena said handing Bonnie another file, "Abby Bennett Wilson. Born in Mystic Falls Hospital, graduated from Mystic Falls High school."
Bonnie took a hard look of the photo of the woman on the paper and a feeling of familiarity washed over her like she had seen the woman before.
"This is her," Bonnie looking up at Elena "that's my mother."
Loud obnoxious music flooded the front room of the Salvatore boarding house as Stefan entered his home. Giving his unwanted guest a tight smile, he grabbed the remote and turned down the music before asking, "What are you doing here, Klaus?"
"Enjoying our stalemate," Klaus responded taking a sip of a glass of scotch.
"What do you want?" Stefan asked again hoping for a legit answer.
"Question is what do you want?" Stefan cocked his eyebrow in confusion at Klaus's answer. "My Hybrids left town as you demeaned so please tell me what I need to do to get my family back."
"Well," Stefan said clearing his throat and sitting down on a chair, "I'm not negotiating."
"And you understand that holding them indefinitely is the same as dropping them in an ocean," Klaus said amused.
"No, you leave Mystic Falls and in a few years give me a call and we'll…talk." Klaus took another sip of scotch taking in Stefan's proposition.
"Let's assume I take your offer, which would be totally absurd, and I leave town, how are you going to get my darling sister in law to agree to your ridiculous terms." Stefan gave a dark laugh.
"See that's where you're wrong." Klaus's smile vanished from his face as Stefan gloated. Stefan loved the way he could anger Klaus this way, it brought him a sense of pride. He knew he should have stopped there, because of he said anything about Bonnie helping them their plan could go awry, but his sense of pride was too much. "Has it ever occurred you that Bonnie's hatred for you and your actions of putting your family inside of coffins might steer her to work against you." Fury shone in Klaus's eyes and he sped out of his seat and roughly grabbed Stefan by the collar of his jacket and pinned him on the wall.
"What did you do?" Klaus growled and Stefan could feel Klaus's breath in his face.
"I didn't do anything. It was all you who drove Bonnie away," Stefan said with a malicious smile. Klaus threw Stefan to the ground and flashed out the door.
The car was quite as Bonnie and Elena made their way down to North Carolina. Bonnie had offered to drive, so Elena was stuck in the passenger seat next to her former best friend. To say things were awkward was an understatement. It was too quiet in the car, and it was making Elena uncomfortable. She felt like she was going to burst if it kept going on like this.
"So, tell me about your family?" Elena suddenly blurted out. Bonnie swiveled her head to give the doppelganger a harsh look.
"What?"
"Well you know long road trips are perfect for bonding with people you don't know very well-"
"You know me," Bonnie interrupted sharply.
"Well not this Bonnie, not original Bonnie. If this is who you are now then I want to get to know the girl who used to be my best friend. And it was also getting too quiet." Bonnie stayed silent. Elena worried that maybe this Bonnie didn't want to be her friend, and just saw her as the Doppelganger.
Elena gravely hoped that the Original Bonnie was not like the others, but deep down Elena knew that if Bonnie spent a thousand years with them than she was just as monstrous. She hoped that this trip would prove her wrong.
"What would you like to know?" Bonnie said after minutes of silence.
"Huh?" Elena looked at bonnie confused.
"You asked me about my family, did you not?" Elena nodded before turning away with a small smile in her face.
"So, what would you like to know?" Elena pondered for a second before starting with a simple question.
"How did you meet them?"
"Shortly after I landed back in time, the witch Ayana took me in and cared for me like her own. When we first met I didn't have any clothes and none of hers would fit me, so she asked her very close friend to see if her daughter had any clothes that would fit me, and that's when I first met Esther and Rebekah Mikealson. From then on when I would have free time from working for Ayana, Rebekah would teach me how to cook, sew, and many other things. Rebekah soon became my closest friend in the village. We were like sisters. When I fell through time I lost everything, but my name and the knowledge that I was a witch, and Rebekah helped me adjust to living in the 10th century."
"So Esther turned you because you and Rebekah were like sisters?" Elena asked. She couldn't help but feel jealous that Bonnie replaced her even if all the memories of their friendship were erased.
"No," Bonnie answered, "It was because I was married to her son." Elena starred at her in shocked.
"You were what?" Bonnie turned briefly to give Elena an annoyed glance.
"I'm sorry," Elena apologized, "its just so hard to believe that you would be married."
"These times are different then back then. Marriage at a young age was acceptable."
"So who is he? Your husband?"
"His name is Kol," Bonnie answered with a wide smile. Elena turned her face away and smiled too. She hadn't seen Bonnie's true smile ever since Bonnie became an original. It was nice to know that her friend was happy even though Elena desperately wanted to fix her.
"What's he like?" Elena asked wanting to keep the conversation going. Bonnie smiled even wider
"At first he was infuriating. He was loud, obnoxious, and sometimes very immature, he still is, and I couldn't stand him. But he was very persistent on wooing me. It took many, many attempts before I finally gave in and started to court him, not long after that we were married." Elena suddenly felt envious of Bonnie. She had gotten the life she always wanted maybe not in the right time, but Bonnie had seemed happy there, and she had gotten a life with out vampires.
"That's why you want the coffins then? Because Kol is in one of them?" Bonnie's smile turned into a sad one.
"Yes, and my children are in them too."
"Children? You have kids?" Elena said leaning forward in her seat in interest, "How is that possible?"
Bonnie sighed, "That's sort of a long story."
"Well we have time," Elena said looking at the map, "It looks like we have a few more ours to kill." Bonnie sighed.
As they drew closer to the address of Bonnie's mother, Elena learned the entire story of Bonnie's life in 10th century Mystic Falls.
"This is it," Bonnie said pulled up to a small red house with a white picket fence. Getting out of the car she couldn't help but felt nervous and she didn't know why. Her mother left her when she was just a child and now with her memories of Ester and Mikael being like parents to her she felt she shouldn't be nervous, but she still felt the uneasiness in her stomach.
"Are you okay?" Elena asked from beside her.
"Yeah, I fine," Bonnie replied coldly before walking up to the porch and knocked harshly on the door. Bonnie wasn't sure what she was going to tell her mother.
"Can I help you?" a dark skinned man questioned coming up on to the porch.
"We're looking for Abby Wilson," Elena told the man.
"She's out at the moment. Can I ask who you are?" he inquired looking between the two.
"I'm Bonnie, her daughter."
With that realization the man introduced himself as Jamie and invited the two inside to wait for Abby.
"What are you going to say to her when you finally meet her?" Elena asked Bonnie when Jamie left them alone, "are you going to mention, you know…"
"Me being an original." Bonnie finished, "no, she's not going to talk to me if she knows." Elena nodded, but didn't answer because Jamie walked back into the room.
"So, are we related?" Bonnie asked genuinely wanting to know who the boy was to her mother.
"Oh, nah. Abby's not my mom. She dated my old man back in the day. He was kind of a dead beat, so when they broke up, Abby took me in. She put me through school, didn't freak out when I totaled her car, twice." Elena looked over at Bonnie, who only smiled and replied with, "She sounds great."
"Jamie?" they heard from the front door, "whose car is out front?"
A woman walked into the kitchen and opened the fridge. She stopped when she noticed the two strangers sitting at the kitchen table.
"That's mine," Bonnie said standing up, finally looking at the women who abandoned her as a child, "I'm Bonnie," she paused for a moment, "your daughter." Abby's face paled in shock as she starred at Bonnie and Bonnie suddenly feared that her mother would turn her away. Damn it Bonnie, she yelled at her self, your not here to get sentimental, your only here to get help.
"Hello, Bonnie," her mother breathed.
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