AN- Sorry for the wait finally got my hands on someone's laptop... tell me what you think of the chapter :) I'm so rude, thanks for supporting my craptastic writing you all rock.

Chapter- The strangest thing is. . . Lying helps.

Since their near kiss, things have been somewhat uncomfortable for Bonnie, she takes every chance to avoid eye-contact and any physical altercations with Klaus, afraid that at any moment she'll be tempted to jump his bones . . . this only enlightens Klaus that he's having such an effect on the beautiful girl who's fighting this every step of the way because of some foolish devotion to that less than stellar human man-child "Jerome, something or other."he amuses himself in the thoughts of making her sweat when he purposely touches his flesh against hers. . . but in the meantime it also gives him something to look forward too.

Klaus hand brushes against hers as they go over some grimoires for other spells and she practically jumps out of her skin, "Are you alright?"

"Fine." Bonnie runs her finger through her hair, turning her back to Klaus. She tries not to be such a nervous wreck around him.

He notices that she is uncomfortable again and although he likes this, too much is about to happen for her to be this jumpy and uncomfortable around him; he wants to help her and himself all with one move. He moves swiftly standing in front of her. He brushes the strands of hair from her face, gently caressing her cheeks with his thumb.

"What are you doing?" She pulls her head back slightly, her eyes fixed on his hand avoiding eye-contact.

"Ssh ..." he says, stepping closer to her.

She resists his touch, pulling away from him quickly. "We can't do this, I can't do this." Bonnie tires to walk away.

"Shut-up, already," he demands.

Klaus grabs her by the arm pulling her roughly into his lips; he kisses her like he's been dying from not having done so sooner.

His hands cup her face devouring her, and she hesitantly parts her lips a little wider giving herself fully to him. Hands play around in his hair and she locks her arms securely around his neck.

She feels so good, so he lets his hands do some roaming; she feels his hands slowly glide down her ass and move to her thighs. She wants to stop this assault on her lips, her body, but she can't.

It feels right. Klaus lifts her into his frame, putting her back against the wall.

Every response her body has is to his touch, his lips, his tongue nipping on her neck, his enlarged anatomy pressed into her center bringing her to the brick of lustful satisfaction.

But no matter how good this feels, she isn't a cheater she will not do this to Jeremy, it's not in her to be this person, even if she really, really wants this. "Stop," she mumbles against his lips pulling back, his lips brush across hers once more, before he releases her.

Now firmly on her feet once more, she could barely stand upright without getting weak in the knees...if he still had a heartbeat, he'd need to keep it from jumping out of his chest. "Why did you do that?" She looks utterly confused and devastated though neither emotion shows what she's feeling inside though.

"Because . . . now it's done, there's nothing to feel uncomfortable about." He stares into her green eyes with his tawny ones and backs away, she just looks at him, and he cocks his brow wondering what she's thinking.

Bonnie isn't sure how to feel or what to say, her heart is still racing. And this warm feeling settles down inside of her. "I love Jeremy." It's the only logical thing that comes to mind at the moment. Because what she's feeling for him isn't something she should be capable of.

Klaus doesn't say anything; 'she isn't ready' is what he tells himself. He thought he knew what it was like to want something so much it hurt. Wanting to break his curse doesn't even compare to the neediness he feels right now, wanting her needing her to want him, and this feeling that he could never measure up into a man she could possibly see herself with wrecks the perfectly plastic person who no longer cared or wanted to be nothing more than the monster with a thirst for destruction and blood.

Bonnie sits on the edge of the table cursing her actions, because she can't believe she almost gave in so easily, how close she came to losing Jeremy with this little mess with Klaus. She makes a promise to herself that nothing like this will ever happen again, she reassures that this thing with Klaus is a fluke it isn't real, nothing that's happening between them is real. She can admit that on some level she's greatly attracted to him but she remembers at the end of the day he's a monster, a murderer and she'd be stupid to ever think that would change simply because he thinks he wants her.

It's tawdry and unrealistic to believe anything different. But she hears the desperation in her own words.

Klaus sits with a glass of blood; he's been consuming large quantities, to quench his desire to kill everything in his path, largely because he doesn't want the stigma of being exactly what she sees, destruction with dashing good looks and a fondness for murder.

He wants to be better... for the first time ever.

"How can you be so sure that he'll come here?"

Klaus, smiles. "He doesn't have a choice." Bonnie sighs. "Let me guess, I'm bait."

Klaus breathes through his clenched teeth. "No." He looks distraught, that she still thinks he's willing to put her at risk, even if that may have been his initial plan, but that has greatly changed.

"He'll come for me; you'll just be the nasty little surprise he'll never expect." And his smile is back in place, looking at her with such admiration. Bonnie smiles back. "When he comes, just know that you'll be protected." He focuses on her necklace. She nods turning her back to him, pouring herself a double-shot of bourbon. Because that feeling it's happening again.

Bonnie thinks back to their kiss, and she feels all warm again, his need to protect her is like it's second nature, it makes her feel important, and it also reminds her of Jeremy who's just as protective, and that burns deeper than a few pleasurable moments with Klaus, halting any favorable feelings that linger underneath all her denial. She downs her glass and leaves and He doesn't make any motion to follow after her.

Outside of another broken down vampire spot, Jeremy is sick to death of seeing people give themselves up to blood suckers and waiting, all the waiting all the leads, that lead to another lead but nothing leading him to Bonnie, and he just can't stand it, he wants' her now . . . with her gone it's given Anna and Vicki liberties they didn't have while Bonnie was around.

Jeremy feels two different hands stroke each arm, "If she really loved you, she wouldn't have left with him." Anna says slyly. "She didn't have a choice," Jeremy jumps to Bonnie's defense quickly.

"Are you sure about that?" Vicky chimes in teasingly. "How can you be so sure, because if it was me, I would have included you?" Anna and Vicky nod to each other caressing his cheeks. "She loves me, that's how I know."

"Then where is she, how come she hasn't called you, or anything. . . she called Caroline of all people and left a message, but she didn't bother to call you herself."

"What's with that?"

Jeremy doesn't let on that he has moments of doubts that maybe Bonnie doesn't trust him enough, but then he remembers that everything she does is too protect the ones she loves. And she loves him. "I'm not going to doubt her, she's doing what she has too for us," Jeremy sighs heavily, "I wonder how close they've gotten, people who spend a lot of time together, start to develop feelings and things like that..."

Jeremy stands aggressively, "She would never . . . and I mean never develop feeling-" He's yelling at thin air, well that's what it looks like to people who don't know his secret.

Caroline and Tyler look at Jeremy like he's lost it. "Who are you talking too?"Caroline asks, thinking that Jeremy has gone bonkers.

Jeremy looks at Vicky and Anna, and then back at Caroline and Tyler. "This is gonna sound really, really weird and out there, but I can see. . . Vicky and Anna," He whispers looking slightly embarrassed at finally admitting it to someone other than Bonnie.

"Dude, you see dead people?" Tyler causally says, like it's something normal.

Caroline picks her mouth up. If she can be a vampire, well then he can see dead people. "Are they here right now?" She looks around.

"Unfortunately…" Jeremy rolls his eyes dreading that they haven't just disappeared yet. "What did they say, that's got you all pissed off?" Caroline inquires; Tyler doesn't care much to know.

"It doesn't matter, they're wrong." Jeremy says, not wanting to go into further detail about his ghost ex-girlfriends. "What's up?"

Caroline rolls her eyes, smacking her lips in distaste. "Well, vampire-slut finally came through for us."

"She knows where Klaus is?"

"Don't know yet, Damon wants us inside right now."

Caroline and Tyler go ahead of Jeremy, "We could find her for you," Jeremy stops in his tracks. "What?"

"We could find her,"

Jeremy looks at them suspiciously. "Then find her." He demands of them. "But- - -" Vicky crosses her arms.

"No buts, just find her." The frustration of what he wants and what they want clash with every word he speaks.

Anna shakes her head. "We'll need something in return." He looks puzzled. "Like what?" He asks, unsure of whether or not he'll like the answer.

Vicky and Anna just smile slyly at Jeremy. . .

"Are you satisfied or should I find another helpless victim for you to demolish?" Elijah asks, conveying his annoyance underneath his charming smile.

This is not lost on Stefan who wipes the blood from his mouth like a rabid dog, whipping his face up towards Elijah. "You make the call?"

Stefan says, ignoring Elijah's first statement, the struggle to not feed has long worn off once Stefan was free from Dmitri with the help of Elijah, who understands that Stefan is broken and the need for blood along with the ability to hold onto his humanity are his greatest enemies.

"They'll be here soon,"

". . . Elena, too" Stefan looks at the blood on his hands, he could just image what his face looks like, so he gets up to clean himself off.

Elijah exudes, such a calm into the room, "Of course,"

"How did she sound?" He's thought of nothing but Elena throughout his whole ordeal, well mostly Elena other times he's thought of Elena and Damon and what that means, would Damon finally get the girl. His girl, his Elena . . . he couldn't image his life without her but having to see her with his brother would kill him.

Elijah hands Stefan his white handkerchief, thinking of what to say that will ease the young vampires mind. "She . . . sounded fine, happy that you were safe." Although Elijah couldn't see the lovely Elena's face he heard in her voice what he could not see in her face, there was disconnect a less then affluent response within the surface of her words.

"They'll be here soon," Elijah States, bringing Stefan's thoughts back from that dark place he's gone to.

Stefan goes in the bathroom of the hotel to change out of his bloody clothes, stepping into the shower he wishes, he could remove his skin as the white porcelain beneath his feet became stained with red, sliding from his pale lean body, he succumbs but no matter how much he does that, he will never be able to take it back, what he's done, what he's doing, and what he'll continue to do. because now he wonders if he'll finally accept that the monster he denies, the monster he hates, needs just has much as his humanity, if not more...

Dmitri and Elijah finally face to face outside of Klaus Mansion, they exchange looks. "I thought we were on the same side, brother." Dmitri states, like Elijah has betrayed him.

"And what side would that be?" Elijah asks, coyly. "This was stupid of you, to go against me, for him," Dmitri yells. "Frankly, to hell with both of you, but I'm not going to let you or him hurt people who have become important to me." Elijah glances back toward where Elena stood in the shadows with Stefan, Matt and Tyler... luckily they had a few more minutes before the full moon.

"Can we table this little family reunion, until after we get our friend back?" Damon says, breaking up the brother to brother conversation.

Elijah and Dmitri both cut Damon curt looks, "Go ahead look for her, I've got this." Elijah says, in such a polished way Damon looks at him before heading towards the doors.

Dmitri smirks, before launching at Elijah growling.

While Dmitri and Elijah do battle, Damon bursts through the doors seeing Klaus standing there in the middle of the foyer, he goes to attack Klaus, he was angry that he had stolen his brother, and from the looks of it had ruined him to some extent, although Damon wasn't sure which outweighed the other his emotions weren't something he had very good control over, he just knew that he loved Stefan even when he hated him, but he wouldn't admit out loud that Stefan was the one person he needed to have in his life.

Damon lunges at Klaus who catches him by the throat, digging his nails through his throat as ruby red gushes from Damon who gurgles on his blood. Klaus smiles a voluptuous smile, finally he gets to kill someone, and he'll especially love killing Damon. The elder Salvatore annoys Klaus more than humans. He smirks at Damon's dangling body. Alaric goes in to help Damon but Klaus knocks him out quickly and Alaric's body slides across the room.

"You're not who I expecting but, you'll do."

Bonnie comes in and sees that it's Damon, "Don't kill him, please . . . for me." Bonnie pleads with Klaus.

Klaus twitches, turning his head slightly, "He is important to you?"

"No, not really, but he's important to other people."

Klaus looks back at Damon his hand like a vice grip around his throat.

"You are very lucky." He tosses Damon aside.

"Thank you." Bonnie whispers.

Damon senses something different with Klaus and Bonnie, what the hell did he just witness?

Klaus doesn't say anything he just turns his attention back towards Elijah, Who has now entered the house "Brother..."

Bonnie hears screams outside. "Go help your friends, Dmitri didn't come alone." Bonnie stops looking at Elijah and Klaus before she hesitantly leaves them alone.

She stumbles upon her unconscious friends, rushing towards Caroline first who looks like she had been shielding Matt, and Elena looked dazed slipping in out of consciousness... there was no sign of Stefan, Tyler or Jeremy. She attributes Tyler being missing do to it being a full moon; he must have run off before hurting anyone, at least that's what she hopes. But where the hell is Jeremy why isn't he here? Bonnie calls out into the darkness... Caroline gains consciousness, "Bonnie," She smiles at Caroline hugging her, "Hey, What happened?"

"They attacked, these things like vampire and werewolves, only not." Bonnie helps Caroline sit up.

The blonde looks over at Matt, "Is he alright,"

"yeah he's fine, just out of it." Bonnie reassures her.

"Are you gonna be okay?"

Caroline rubs her head and Shoulders, "Yeah, I'll be fine."

"Look, I have to go find Jeremy and Stefan stay here with them," Caroline sighs worried, "What if those things come back?"

"Don't worry about them, I'm going to do a spell you'll be protected."

"I'm worried about you, be careful," Caroline hugs Bonnie once more,

Bonnie runs off into the darkness, "Jeremy, Jeremy. . . Stefan," Bonnie sees, someone on their knees slouched in pain. Bonnie steps closer. "Jeremy,"...

Klaus becomes distracted in the middle of his battle with Elijah, "Bonnie. . ." Klaus grabs himself in pain.

Klaus feels the dagger enter his chest; he stares into the eyes of the brother he betrayed one too many times but he still doesn't fully comprehend what's happening. "Elijah… " He held onto Elijah, feeling his life slipping and there was nothing he could do to stop it."For our family. . . Nicklaus,"

"Don't." Klaus Body drops to the floor. Elijah exhales staring at his brother. he steps over his body carelessly,

"Hey, betrayer, where's your other brother?" Elijah strolls over towards Damon.

"Dmitri is gone... all is well,"

Caroline with the help of Elijah and Damon get Matt and Elena safely inside, they look at Klaus's lifeless body, his gray mummified corpus covered in wolfs-Bain and silver chains, this gives them such relief that they are through with him. "How were you able to kill him?"

"He's not dead; he's just indisposed for the moment."

Caroline opens her mouth to ask one more question, but Stefan and Jeremy make their way into the house with, Tyler hot on their trail, "We need something to knock him out with," they close the door behind them.

"It'll be daylight soon."

"In exactly thirty minutes."

Caroline rushes to the window gazing out at Tyler in his werewolf form, ramming into the door. "Where's Bonnie?"

"Isn't she in here?" Jeremy asks, the worry in his voice amplifies the fear on his face. "I thought she was in here..."

"She went looking for the both of you,"

"Dammit, why does she always have to be the hero?" Jeremy curses her heroic nature, and he hates that he's just a mere human unable to save her when she really needs it.

"What did you do with your other brother?"

"He was down; I throw him in the woods." Elijah says, with a shrug.

An hour goes by, and they go over what could have happened to Bonnie, Where is she? What happened? How do they get her back?

"We're finally through with this scum and you want to bring him back," Damon quips, hating the idea of bringing Klaus back.

Elijah sighs, "As much as hate this, I agree with Damon." Elena looks towards Stefan who was reliably quiet in the corner. "What do you think?" Stefan makes eye contact with Elena swiftly looking away, He sees the looks being exchanged between his brother and his girlfriend and he don't want to think the worse.

"We should do what's best for Bonnie,"

"I vote we let him stay dead and find her ourselves... we found her once, we can find her again." Damon air quotes.

"That took too long, I want risk her being alone with him, especially considering who she may be." Alaric says, although what she "is" has been kept under wraps for obvious reasons.

Jeremy looks at them, "What are you talking about?"

"Jeremy, I'll explain it to you later."

Jeremy shakes his head, "No, you'll explain it to me now, Elena what aren't you telling me?" Jeremy grabs her arm, "Baby Gilbert, hands off." Damon removes his hand from Elena's arm, Jeremy yanks away, "I just want the truth,"

"Later."

Stefan watches, he sees the way Elena looks at Damon with a newly found devotion a sense of trust, and it takes everything in him not to run over to Damon and rip him to pieces, but what good what it do? he'd still lose the girl and his brother with his actions.

"We need him, take it out, Elijah please." Elena asks, Elijah looks into her peanut eyes, and feels compelled to oblige her.

Elijah puts on his leather gloves, removing the silver chains, while removing the dagger. "Now we wait,"

Klaus awakens suddenly; rolling around on the floor he catches his breath needlessly and feels his chest heal as he staggers to his feet. Looking around at all the familiar faces and he breaks free from his daze and confusion.

"Where is she?" He yells, questioning them. "Where is she?" His voice booms through the room, as he stumbles over to his cylinder of blood. Although a fresh body would be better, he couldn't kill her friends no matter how much he needs too.

"We think, Dmitri took her,"

"I thought you handled that." His lisp comes through slightly.

"I thought… I had," Elijah says, coy. "But it isn't my fault he's different now is it."

Klaus throws his glass across the room, he was absolutely livid that this was his fault, his Bonnie, she needed him, and the anguish he feels breaks the plastic calm of cool his features when he thinks about what he could be doing to her. Klaus's emotions aren't lost on Jeremy, Klaus is acting like he's a man in love, and he's acting like Jeremy. Jeremy pulls Elena to the side," What is going on?"

Klaus stands in front of his big brother, he's ready to throw myself at the mercy of his feet and give him everything he's ever wanted. For her, he would give anything, do anything.

"I'll give you back our family, hell I'll even let you kill me, just help me save her." The clouded anger in his eyes isn't lost behind the desperation on his face.

"Do you expect me to buy that you actually care for the witch,"

"Believe what you will,"

"Give me our family, or I'll let Dmitri do whatever he wants with her, before you ever leave this house."

"You will not stop me from saving her… so get out of my way." Klaus slams Elijah against the wall with everyone else watching. " If she dies you'll get nothing...and I'll kill you but this time I won't put you in a shiny box," Klaus lets Elijah loose, Elijah dust himself off, fixing his suit in accordance. The humanity he once saw in his brother, something he thought was long lost, has since returned, no doubt it had something to do with a woman, but don't most things?

Klaus feels his strength slipping, "We have to go now, the rest of you get the hell out my house," He demands nastily.

Elijah and Klaus disappear quickly...

The light flashes above Bonnie's head, she focuses on it to keep from passing out, she couldn't put two and two together that would give her any clue about where she is, it's small and cramped, her arms are bound to her sides, the rope it's rubbing into her flesh the more she struggles and this chair she's strapped to is beyond uncomfortable. She tries to use her powers but she's a little to dried to do anything useful, plus the freaking witch he has helping him is making her great escape a little more difficult than she'd expected.

Dmitri stands over her, his fingers play in her hair, he's grown fond of smelling her in such a short time, and like's to pretend that he's so gentle before he does what he's doing to her, "You have lovely hair, it feels like silk," he tells her, like this will make him likable to Bonnie and make what's he's doing better. Bonnie doesn't say anything but if he yanks any harder he'll be holding a fist full of her brunette curls in the palm of his hand. "Stop trying to butter me up, and do what you came for." He merely smiles wide as a kid on Christmas morning. He can see why Klaus may have been fond of her.

Dmitri does as she requests and bites her; she screams in agony, he's biting her over and over in different spots.

"You taste delicious," he says caressing her hair. "Why don't you let me bite you, let's see if you taste the same." Bonnie say's brazenly.

"Eh, tempting offer let me get back to you that." Dmitri licks her cheek. Leaving the bleeding girl. . .

"Klaus..." She calls out, looking at the flashing light blab before passing out...