Nerves were fluttering around manically in Bonnie's stomach and her heart was thumping in her chest as they neared the entrance to the party. Klaus offered her his arm and she tucked her hand into the crook of his elbow.

"Do you remember the last time we saw each other?" he asked her causing her to glance up at him with a puzzled look.

She nodded slowly, thinking back to their last encounter and almost laughed. "You broke my wrist and I snapped your neck."

"Ah, yes we've had some good times, haven't we?" he chuckled and this time Bonnie did manage to let a laugh escape her.

He had being oddly calming and supportive since she arrived, nothing like she had been expecting him to be and while she was appreciative of his behaviour she certainly wasn't expecting it to stick for very long.

"I guess you could put it that way," she replied as they walked into what Klaus had told her was their old home. "Oh, wow," Bonnie gaped as she looked around the compound completely decked out for the party. She was left amazed by the aerial dancers hanging from silk ribbons and masked dancers with snakes wrapped around them. She had been under the impression that Mystic Falls had extravagant parties, she was wrong. "I'm definitely not in Mystic Falls anymore."

Bonnie wished Caroline was here to see it. Her party loving friend would have loved this…or been jealous by it, probably both. She still remembers the blonde's reaction when she thought Klaus threw a better Homecoming than she did.

Klaus chuckled and patted her hand.

Bonnie spotted Rebekah waving to her from one of the bar stations around the area. She gave the blonde Original a small smile, but that smile quickly faded when she watched Kol walk away from Rebekah. She shook her head at him and let out a sigh.

"I think your brother and I need to talk," she said, letting of Klaus' arm and left the hybrid to follow after Kol, gathering up some of the fabric to her dress in her hand so she didn't trip over it as she went after him.

"I'm getting pretty sick and tired of you walking away from me, Kol," she said, knowing full well that he could hear her loud and clear. She knew he'd be completely tuned into her right now no matter how much he didn't want to be.

She refrained from sighing in relief when he finally stopped with his long strides long enough for her to catch up with him, when she did she noticed they had moved away from all the commotion of the party and to a more secluded area. He turned around and she was taken aback by the glare in his eyes.

"What are you doing here?" he asked her, his tone desperate and angry.

"I…" Bonnie swallowed the lump that had formed in her throat. She hadn't known how tonight would play out but she certainly wasn't expecting him to be this angry with her being here. "Rebekah asked me to come. She wanted my help with finding Elijah," she explained, her words curt.

"We already have a plan," he snapped at her. "You shouldn't be here."

"Then take it up with your sister," she shot back at him, her voice rising along with her temper. Rebekah had made it sound like Kol had actually missed her. That he was hurting but standing there in front of him made her doubt every word she was told. He looked like he'd rather be anywhere but here. "She's the one who wanted me here tonight," she added, lowering her voice back to normal volume.

"Yeah, I can only imagine why she would want you here," Kol cast a glare over her shoulder in the direction of his siblings. "Klaus obviously had a part to play in this too I imagine. No way would he turn down the opportunity for a powerful little puppet to be at his beck and call."

Bonnie felt a strong urge to fry his brain until it was nothing but ash but she refrained from doing so. "I'm not here for Klaus, I'm clearly here for you, you idiot."

There was a flash of emotion in his eyes but it was gone before she could even recognise what it was. "Well then, you have my permission to leave," he said, voice low and uncaring to match the cold harshness she saw in his eyes. "I don't need you nor do I want you."

Bonnie felt her heart clench and her jaw slackened at his words. She tried to ignore the hurt that hit her like a punch to the gut but she couldn't.

"I…" she started to say something but instead she let out a defeated sigh. "Just forget it," she said and turned around to walk away from him. She had hoped that he'd say something or take her arm or something but he did nothing, just stood there and watched her walk away.

Bonnie headed back into the heart of the party, meeting Rebekah's eyes from a little way away. The blonde sent her an apologetic smile and Bonnie replied with a small shrug, telling her it wasn't her fault. Maybe it was a good thing it went this way. Now all she could do was help them get Elijah back then she'd be back on her way home and never have to see him again.

She pushed some hair back behind her ear and looked around the party, not really sure what she wanted to do now. She mostly just wanted to get out of here but she knew Rebekah and Klaus had a plan that was yet to be executed and she didn't know the way back so she was stuck here for the time being.

"You must be Klaus' date," someone said when they appeared in front of her.

"Date?" Bonnie nearly chocked out and looked up at the handsome stranger blocking her path, wondering who he was but she had a strong feeling she already knew. "No, I'm definitely not his date."

He sent her a smile that was none short of charming and then his eyes went over her shoulder. "I'm Marcel," he introduced himself and Bonnie did her best to remain unaffected by the reveal of his identity.

"Bonnie," she replied and took his outstretched hand, smiling lightly when he raised it to his lips to place a kiss to her knuckles.

She risked a glance over her shoulder and saw Klaus and Rebekah staring intently at them and then to Kol who was no longer where she left him but instead making his way towards them, eyes murderous and trained on the man standing with her. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Klaus heading over to them, too.

"You must be important to them to gain a reaction like that," Marcel commented but his eyes were on Kol, as if to say especially from him.

Before she could say anything back she felt Kol's hand on her shoulder. She repressed her reaction when she felt his other hand on her arm just below her elbow, gliding down to take her hand in his. She couldn't see his eyes but she knew they were still trained on Marcel.

"No need to cause a scene, Kol," Klaus calmly warned his brother as he joined the three of them.

Bonnie had at least expected Kol to have some sort of retort or insult to shoot at Marcel, or even at Klaus, she hadn't expected him to silently abide Klaus' words. She felt his grip on her shoulder and around her hand tightened and he steered her away from Klaus and Marcel.

"Who is she?" Marcel asked Klaus with keen interest and a hint of amusement as they watched Kol practically drag Bonnie away from them.

"The reason Kol will feed you your own heart if you're not careful," Klaus replied, the unspoken warning to keep away from her clear in his tone.

Marcel scoffed. "From my experience it doesn't take much for your brother to do that anyway."

"You don't know my brother half as well as you think you do, Marcel," Klaus stated, eying his protégé from the corner of his eye. "You asked me to keep him in line," he said and then looked towards where Kol and Bonnie had moved to. "She is how I do that."

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Kol stopped on the other side of the room, near all the dancing couples and turned around to face Bonnie's aggravated glare.

"What the hell was that?" she questioned him, annoyed that he had gone from dismissive and hurtful to protective in a matter of seconds.

"You really shouldn't be here," he told her again, only this time his voice was softer and most of the anger she saw in his eyes earlier had faded and instead were replaced with what Bonnie interpreted as a hint of fear.

She didn't respond and she felt his arm snaked around her waist to pull her closer to him, their bodies not quite touching. He took a hold of her left hand with his right one and she let her free one find its way to his shoulder. They started to sway to the slow music playing in the background.

"I'm sorry," she heard him say softly when he touched his cheek to the top of her head.

"What for?" she asked, wanting him to narrow the pool of things to apologise for since there were now a number of things she wanted him to apologise for.

"For what I said to you back there," he said. "You didn't deserve that and I didn't mean it. Not a word of it."

She made a sound of agreement in the back of her throat. "No, I didn't deserve it and you were a total asshole but I probably shouldn't have blindsided you like that so I guess I'm sorry, too."

"You have nothing to apologise for," he assured her. "But you're right, you were the last person I expected to walk through that door," he admitted, a hint of a smile playing at his lips. "And on Nik's arm, no less. I was caught off guard."

"That was a surprise to me as well," she said with a faint laugh. "But he was tolerable, some might even say decent, so I'll forgive Rebekah for it just this once."

"Your hair looks nice," he complimented her and his hand came up to run through the ends of it softly before returning back to her lower back. "It suits you."

"Felt like I needed a change," she replied, ignoring how nice it felt to have his hands running through her hair. "Cutting it seemed like the easiest and quickest way to achieve that at the time."

Kol twirled her around and gently pulled her back to him, their bodies now pressed together. He wrapped both arms around her, holding her securely against him.

Bonnie slipped her arm under his and curled her arm up his shoulder blades so her hand rest on his shoulder, the other still around his other shoulder and neck. She let her forehead drop to his shoulder and closed her eyes, letting herself breath him in and his presence surround her completely, almost lulling her into a state of bliss.

They were content with the silence that fell over them and for the first time in a long, long while, Bonnie felt completely at ease. She let herself relax and ignore her surroundings, only focusing on Kol.

After three months of nothing, it felt wonderful to be back in his arms.

When Bonnie opened her eyes, she looked over Kol's shoulder and saw Marcel with a few other guys, vampires she assumed, gathered near one of the entrances of the party. They all looked tense and Marcel seemed furious with one of them.

"What's going on there?" she quietly asked Kol while watching Marcel pin one of them to the wall by his throat.

"Our plan," he answered her in a whisper, his lips brushing against her ear causing her grip on his shoulder to tighten slightly.

Her eyes closed when she felt him place a kiss to the skin just below her ear. It had been a small gesture, barely a touch but it had her heart racing, the need to have those lips on hers almost unbearable.

"Do we need to do anything?" she asked him and found herself hoping and praying for some kind of distraction, something to stop her from acting out her need and desires to kiss him.

She felt him shake his head. "It's all taken care of. You don't need to do a thing but we can leave if you'd like," he offered and Bonnie nodded her head.

He slowly pulled away from her, taking all the warmth of his body with him making her want to pull him back to her. One of his hands lowered to take one of hers and start to lead her to the exit that wasn't occupied by Marcel and his vampires. They found Klaus by one of the bars but there was no sign of Rebekah. Kol nodded to his brother and indicated that they were leaving.

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Bonnie settled in on the couch back at the mansion and wasted no time in removing the heels from her feet.

"Can I get you a drink?" Kol offered as he shrugged out of his jacket and threw it over the backs of one of the chairs.

She nodded. "Sure," she said and started to nervously twist her ring around her finger.

Unlike at the party, the silence that fell upon them was unwelcomed, now and during the short trip back and had only made Bonnie's nerves return full force.

"So," she started in an attempt to break the silence surrounding them and pushed some hair behind her ear. "I take it there's some bad blood between you and Marcel," Bonnie said, thinking back to the way the two of them reacted around the other.

"To put it mildly," he replied and handed Bonnie her drink, their fingers just barely brushing each other's. "We've never particularly liked each other."

"Would never have guessed it," she said with a mock seriousness. "Did something happen between the two of you or is it just a case of not liking each other?"

Kol shrugged his shoulders and sat down beside her on the couch. "I didn't have as much to do with him as the rest of my siblings did but there was a time where my brother's chose him over me and left me in a box because of it. Then there was what he did to Bekah which also left her in a box."

"She mentioned that they had a thing," Bonnie said and took a small sip of her drink, coughing slightly at the burning sensation in her throat when she swallowed the liquid causing Kol to smile into his own drink.

"Perhaps I'll make you something a little less strong next time," he teased lightly and revelled in the playful glare he received from her. "But yes, Rebekah and Marcel were once involved for a time. It earned her fifty two years in a coffin."

"I don't think I want to know how many years Klaus has taken from you all," she said and looked down at her drink.

"Over three hundred years from me, a bit less from Rebekah, nine hundred from Finn, and Elijah, well I'm not too sure on the total for him."

Bonnie didn't say anything but she couldn't stop the bitterness from rising. She was annoyed that Kol chose to help Klaus after all he's done to him and his siblings instead of staying with her. She knew that it was selfish of her to think since Klaus was his brother but she couldn't help it.

"I won't lie, one of the reasons I don't want you here is because I don't want you to get caught up in Nik's schemes. I don't want you to get hurt because he's used you to further himself."

What he said to her reminded her of what he said when she first arrived at the party. Even though he had apologised, his words still played through her mind and made her wonder whether or not she should leave.

"Look, If you want me to go, I'll leave as soon as I do the locator spell and Elijah's back," she said and occupied herself with tracing her fingers over the grooves and pattern on the glass tumbler in her hands.

"It's not that I don't want you here," Kol started, his hands itching to reach over and touch her. "I do want you here," he admitted. I need you here, he wanted to add. "But I don't want anything to happen to you, especially not because of me, because of something I have done, someone I have angered."

Bonnie looked up at him. "You mean someone like Marcel?"

He slowly nodded his head and finished off his drink. "I've gone out of my way to provoke him these last few months and now he knows that there is someone he can use against me."

Bonnie sighed and leant forward to place her glass on the table then grabbing Kol's and doing the same. She twisted in her seat so she could face him. "You don't need to protect me," she told him. "And I don't know Marcel but is he really stupid enough to even try to piss you off?"

"He really is that stupid," he replied and reached over to take her hand. "And if he finds out you're a witch…"

She laced their fingers together and shifted closer to him. He placed his other hand on her thigh, his warmth burning through the fabric of her dress and searing her skin.

"Do you remember when you came back to Mystic Falls after the first time you left and I had just started to learn Expression?" she asked him, looking down at their entwined fingers. "I took you down pretty easily," she reminded him and looked up at him with a playful smile. "I'm sure I could handle Marcel if he tried anything."

He leant forward to rest his forehead against hers, his hand moving from her thigh to her jaw. "You have no idea how much I've missed you these last three months," he said to her, his voice barely above a whisper.

Bonnie scraped her teeth over her bottom lip and her fingers dug into his leg. "You're the one who walked away," she reminded him. "It didn't have to be like this."

Her eyes shut when he brushed his lips against hers in a touch barely there. She wanted so badly to kiss him and it took every ounce of will power she had to resist the temptation.

He opened his mouth to say something but the front door opening and slamming shut jolted them both out of their trance. Kol's hand dropped from her face and Bonnie moved back on the couch, putting some safe distance between each other just as Rebekah walked into the room.

"How'd it go?" Kol asked his sister and rose from the couch. "Did you find Elijah?"

Rebekah shook her head and all but threw herself down on one of the chairs across from them. "Katie was killed before Sophie could finish the locator spell. Had she of continued it, Davina would have seen her, Marcel would have moved her and Elijah before we could get to them and he would have had Sophie killed."

"Davina's the one who can sense magic?" Bonnie asked them and Rebekah nodded her head.

"We don't know why or how she is able to as of yet," the blonde said, her tone laced with defeat. "But she has all the witches terrified to use their magic and desperate to get her back."

"There is a lot we don't know about these witches," Kol interjected, fists clenched at his side.

"Is she with Marcel willingly?"

"It seems that way," Rebekah replied. "From what I saw it did, anyway. But like Kol said, there is a lot we don't know and a lot they won't tell us which is why I didn't want Sophie to get herself killed," she said, directing her last comment at Kol. "She's the only one here willing to work with us and she'll tell us what we need to know, I'm sure of it."

"Did he like seduce her or something?" she wondered, knowing that it wasn't unusual for vampires to seduce witches into doing whatever they wanted.

Rebekah gave a small laugh and Kol cracked a smile. "No, definitely not," Rebekah said. "She couldn't be older than sixteen. We don't know why she is so loyal to Marcel but it's something we intend to find out and Sophie will tell us whether she wants to or not."

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Soon enough, Klaus returned and joined them but he wasn't sharing in Rebekah's feelings of defeat of the evenings events.

"Tonight was a bust," she said to Klaus who replied with a smirk before pouring himself a drink.

"Contrary, dear sister, tonight played out brilliantly."

Rebekah furrowed her brow and stared at Klaus with confused while Kol narrowed his eyes.

"Marcel killed Katie before Sophie had a chance to finish the spell," Rebekah told him and sat up straighter in her chair.

"I had no intentions of Sophie completing the spell," Klaus said and the uneasiness Bonnie felt when she first arrived started to flare back up. "It's why I killed Katie myself."

Bonnie glanced at Kol who looked annoyed but not at all surprised to hear what Klaus had done.

Rebekah stood from her seat, shock etched in her eyes. "You what?"

"Katie was too close to killing Marcel and I couldn't have that but by saving his life, I now have Marcel right where I want him," Klaus said, rejoicing in his self-serving victory.

"What about Sophie?" Rebekah questioned. "She trusted you; we all trusted you against our better judgement and you had another plan all along."

"The only side the witches are on is their own," Klaus said, stepping towards his sister. "And they want Davina, a young witch with a mass amount of power and when they get her they will use that power against all of us. They will kill us the moment they get the chance."

"I don't care what the witches want or plan to do," Rebekah snapped and got in Klaus face. "The plan was to find Elijah and bring him home but once again you have failed us."

Bonnie saw a flash of hurt on Klaus face but he quickly covered it with anger at the doubts of his sister. "By saving Marcel from the witch I have cemented his trust and in doing so, he has promised to return Elijah to us," he didn't revel in the shock of his siblings and continued on talking. "And when Marcel has told me everything I wish to know about Davina, I will take her for myself."

Klaus was too busy listening to Rebekah's response and watching his sister storm from the house that he didn't see the look that crossed Bonnie's face upon hearing his plans for the young witch, Davina.

They heard Rebekah slam the front door behind her and Bonnie awkwardly sat there, looking between the two brothers. She could tell from Kol's clenched jaw that he wanted to say something to Klaus but was refraining from doing so, probably due to her presence.

"I'm going to go get changed," she said and excused herself from the tension filled room, brushing her hand against Kol's arm when she passed him. He replied with a small but tense smile.

Kol waited until he could hear Bonnie reach the top of the stairs before he looked to his brother.

"Was this your plan all along?" he asked his brother. "To kill Katie yourself for the sake of gaining Marcel's trust, not to get back our brother like we had discussed, like you had promised?"

"Doesn't matter now," he said and set his now empty glass on top of the fireplace. "We have Bonnie, she'll find Elijah if Marcel goes back on his word to return him to us. Either way, what I did will work in our favour."

"Speaking of Bonnie, you and Rebekah encouraged her to come here and while I know Rebekah will do her part to make sure no harm comes to her, I'm not so sure about you," he said and walked towards his brother. "So know this, if anything happens to her because of you, I will take the dagger you left in my heart for a century and use it to gut you with."

Klaus did his best to remain impassive to his brother's words but Kol could see through him. He was serious with his threats and Klaus knew it. "I assure you, Kol, I have no desire to put her in harm's way."

"I'm sure you'll understand if I choose not to believe you with what happened tonight and all."

"What happened this evening was for the best," Klaus said. "This way I still have Marcel's trust."

"It's not Marcel's trust you should be worrying about, brother," Kol replied and crossed his arms over his chest. "It's ours and after tonight I begin to wonder if it's even possible for us to trust you anymore."

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Bonnie went straight for her purse when she got to her room. She rummaged through her bag and pulled out her phone, cringing at the amount of missed calls she had from Lucy. She hadn't yet told her cousin that she was in New Orleans but judging from the large number of missed calls and demanding text messages, Joanna must have told her.

She hit redial before she could talk herself out of it and held her phone to her ear, waiting for her cousin to answer.

"What the hell is this I hear about you being in New Orleans?" Bonnie winced at her cousin's furious and demanding tone. "I thought we agreed no more vampire business."

"I was going to tell you," she said and sat down on the chest at the foot of the bed. "I just didn't want to worry you. I wanted you to enjoy your time away."

She heard Lucy sigh but she knew her concern did nothing to ease her cousin's anger. "You're my family, Bonnie, I'm always going to worry about you," she said. "I don't like the thought of you being there and I don't care what my crazy mother told you, it wasn't a good idea for you to go and not just because of what's happening between the witches and the vampires. I don't want you to get hurt again."

"I'm going to be careful," she assured her cousin, addressing both of Lucy's concerns with her being in New Orleans. "And if you're that worried about me, then maybe when you get back you could join me here?"

It was a suggestion Bonnie didn't realise her cousin would actually take serious. "Considering that I don't trust those Originals with your safety as far as I could throw them, maybe I will. Someone has to look out for you."

"I'm sure Elijah would like to see you again," Bonnie added and a smile started to pull at her lips knowing that her cousin would always have a soft spot for the eldest Mikaelson brother no matter how much she tried to deny it. "He's currently missing with a dagger in his heart but I'm doing a locator spell tomorrow morning to find him."

"I don't think I even want to know what happened there but then again I don't care because I warned him," Lucy said, her annoyance no longer directed at Bonnie but now at Elijah. "I warned him that Klaus would be the death of him but of course he doesn't listen, the stubborn bastard."

"I never realised that you and Elijah were that serious," Bonnie said, her tone conveying her surprise. She knew Lucy and Elijah had some kind of relationship but her cousin had never gone into much detail about the two of them and she had no idea that Lucy had been so concerned with Elijah's blinding loyalty to a brother who clearly did not return it.

"We weren't," she replied a little too quickly for Bonnie to believe her.

"Uh huh," she drawled out, letting Lucy know that she didn't believe her.

"Don't change the topic. I'm still furious with you," Lucy snapped but she only caused Bonnie's smile to grow. "You should have told me you were going."

"So you could have stopped me?"

She heard her cousin sigh. "You being in New Orleans with Kol scares me, Bonnie," she confessed. "I can't shake the feeling that something is going to happen and he's going to hurt you again, whether it is by his hands or someone else's."

"That makes two of you," Bonnie told her and ran her fingers through her hair. "He's worried about the same thing."

"Good to know he has more than two brain cells left," Lucy uttered under her breath. "Still does nothing to ease my concerns."

"Sounds like nothing will," Bonnie said. "But I've decided to spend at least a week here," she told her cousin. "And if after that I don't like being here then I'll be on the first flight back home."

"If after a week you are not back, I'll be coming there," Lucy responded. "No way in hell I'm going to leave you there on your own. I don't care how hard they try to keep you safe; you need family there to have your back."

Bonnie's lips curved up in a smile. "And this has nothing to do with the possibility of seeing Elijah again?"

"Shut up," she playfully snapped, making Bonnie laugh softly. "Call me tomorrow, okay?"

"I will," Bonnie promised her. "And if anything happens I'll let you know."

"Be safe, Bonnie," Lucy said.

"I'll tell Elijah you said hi," Bonnie replied with a smirk.

"I'm just going to hang up," Lucy said but Bonnie could tell she was smiling. "Love you cuz, even though you're a pain in my ass."

Bonnie laughed again. "Love you, too."

"Everything okay?" she heard Kol's voice ask from the doorway.

She looked up and gave him a small smile. "Yeah," she said. "I didn't hear anything crashing down stairs; I take it as a good sign?"

The last time she saw Kol, his relationship with Klaus was practically non-existent. She wondered if it had improved since he followed him here. She hoped it had since she figured the friendlier they were the less likely it'd be that he got a dagger in the heart.

"Everything's fine," he told her. "Just making sure Nik and I are on the same page."

"Can I ask you something?" She asked before he could walk away. He replied with a nod. "This Katie you were talking about before, did she know what she was walking into or was she just another unwitting pawn in Klaus' schemes?"

"We all agreed it was for the best," he told her, refusing to hide his part in the plan, refusing to lie to her. "We needed to conceal Sophie's spell and Katie was in a relationship with one of Marcel's most trusted vampires. Her circumstances fit what we needed."

"The one at the party," she guessed quietly, remembering Marcel throwing a guy against a wall in anger.

"We wanted to paint Thierry as a traitor and of course Katie would try to save him from Marcel's punishment creating the perfect cover for Sophie's spell. Davina wouldn't have seen Sophie and wouldn't have known we were looking for her."

"Did Sophie know?"

"She did. She's the one who told us that Katie was the witch Thierry was involved with."

"She gave up one of her own just like that?" she questioned, a little stunned.

Kol shrugged his shoulders. "It took some convincing but Sophie is smart enough to see the bigger picture." The look on Bonnie's face made Kol sigh and run a hand through his hair. "New Orleans isn't Mystic Falls, Bonnie," he said and Bonnie remembered him saying the same thing the night he left her. "Things will happen that you won't approve of and if you don't want to know then I won't tell you and I'll try to keep you out of it as much as I can but if you do, I'm not going to lie."

Bonnie chewed on the inside of her cheek. She didn't know if she could handle what would be happening here but she also knew that if she wanted to be a part of it then she needed to know all the facts, not just the bits she could cope with.

"I don't want to be lied to."

"We're not going to force you to stay here. Any time you want to leave you can, I won't stop you," he promised her.

"Sorry you didn't get Elijah back tonight," she said just as he turned to walk away. "But hopefully I can find him tomorrow morning."

He gave her a small smile. "If you need anything, I'm just down the hall," he told her and she nodded just before he walked off towards his room.

Bonnie waited a few minutes (hearing the door to his room down the hall close) before she got up off the chest and walked over to the dresser, removing all the bits of jewellery she wore and carefully placed them back in the box onto of the dresser. She took off the dress and put it back on the hanger before tucking it away in the wardrobe. She pulled out some sleep shorts and a tank from her bag and decided to leave the unpacking until tomorrow. She got dressed in the bathroom and removed all the makeup she had put on for the party.

All the while she couldn't rid Kol from her head. It wasn't anything he had told her tonight but just simple desire that had been building inside of her since the moment she laid eyes on him at the party. It had gone into overdrive when they returned to the mansion and she was both thankful and disappointed for Rebekah's interruption downstairs. A few more minutes and she would have kissed him and who knows after that.

She tried to ignore it as she crawled into the comfortable bed, tried to push it deeper down but it was an itch that refused to go away until tended to but Bonnie was as stubborn as the itch persistent.

At least for a short while anyway.

Bonnie managed to lie in the bed for five full tortuous minutes before she snapped and shot up and left her room, heading straight to where Kol had directed her. She let herself into Kol's room without knocking and she took the time to notice that his shirt was unbuttoned, revealing his bare chest and torso. Had it not been for the desperate need for him she could no longer contain she probably would have let herself admired the view a bit longer.

He didn't say anything as she approached him, just eyed her with curiosity and lust. He didn't resist when she grabbed the sides of his face and pulled him down, crashing their lips together in a desperate and long overdue kiss.

His response was immediate and enthusiastic as he took her by the hips and pulled her flush against his body. He buried a hand in her hair and pushed his tongue between her lips, relishing in her sweet moan.

Her arms wrapped themselves around his neck and shoulders, holding him as tight as she could as their tongues danced.

It was almost impossible for Bonnie to pull herself away from him, even when oxygen was dire. She managed to pull back and her fingers dug into his shoulders when she felt his lips trail along her jaw. She gasped when he nipped the skin between her ear and jaw. Her head fell back when his hand slid under the back of her shirt, giving him perfect access to her neck and throat and he took full advantage of the exposure, nipping her skin and soothing the bite with kisses that had her trembling in his arms.

She lifted her head back upright and brought his lips to hers once again, biting down on his bottom lip a little harsher than she had intended but that had only seemed to encourage him more as he spun them around and had her back against the wall in less than a second.

His hand cupped the side of her face and deepened the kiss more. One of her legs hooked around his waist and his other hand dropped to grip it and hold it tight. She moaned into his mouth when she felt his hardness against her core through her thin sleep shorts.

Kol was the one to pull back this time but he didn't move away from her, just pressed his forehead against her. He would have loved to continue what they were doing, would have loved to move her over to his bed, rid her of her clothes and spend the rest of the night and the entirety of tomorrow making up for the three long months of lost time between them. But he knew that's not what she came in for.

He watched her start to come to her senses through her lust filled haze and knew any minute she'd probably start apologising and he didn't want that so he placed a chaste kiss to her lips and gave her a smile so soft and gentle it nearly made her melt.

"Sweet dreams, beautiful."

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Was there enough Kennett here for you? ;) They weren't meant to kiss at the end but what the hell, right? I felt like they needed to but the tension and the angst won't end here because I love it too much.

Thank you so much for the feedback, I really appreciate it and I'm happy you're enjoying it! Some of you mentioned the Klaus/Bonnie scenes and I'm glad you enjoyed those because aside from Kennett, that's the relationship I'm most looking forward to delving into (non-romantically of course). They are going to have a roller coaster of a relationship!

And if you're wondering (or even hoping) if Sophie and Bonnie will meet the answer is HELL YES! I'm actually wondering if I should take the route of the show with her character circa episode 13 (if you've seen the Original's you'll know what I'm taking about) or not. I don't really want to because I like her so what do you guys think?

Also, just to let you know that I've decided to take a two week break from uploading just so I can get two or three more chapters done in advanced so I don't have to worry about missing my one week goal since some chapters come easier to write than others. I might end up uploading next week but if I don't I just thought I'd give you guys a heads up. Hopefully the Kennett in this chapter will make up for it if I don't :) Next chapter Bonnie and Rebekah will have an actual reunion/catch up

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, any mistakes you find in this I apologise for (only a rough edit so there's probably a lot) and please let me know what you think!

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