A.N. Hey all! I hope you're all having a good day. Thank you to all who have read and replied to this story! Thanks for showing this story love. Finally I feel like the story is picking up again, so I hope you all enjoy this chapter. Side note this chapter is a bit long so buckle up for the ride.
Chapter 34: Out of time
Klaus
He had gone through the trouble, of setting up a room for the three of them and as luck would have it, or maybe it was predictably, the witch who was now wearing the skin of Katherine like it was her own, had willingly walked into his lair.
"How about we lay all of our cards on the table?" He says sitting in his preferred seat.
The witch crosses her arms in front of her arms. "That doesn't sound like much fun, it's two against one." She says playing the Katherine card. "That's not much fair now is it."
He chuckles. "Now Katherine, if my memory is correct," He says leveling her with a gaze. "And it's correct, you like it that way."
She can only glare. "Not when you're involved."
"Would you rather I give you Elijah?" He says causing a mean glare to be sent his way from his brother, while the witch only looks back at Elijah briefly before finally indulging herself and sitting at another seat, Elijah too falls into place.
The witch swallows hard. "Why would you think I'd want Elijah?" She says pouring herself some whiskey.
He leans forward. "Because you're painfully obvious with your little crush. Normally you'd leave him broken hearted but today, you're telling him to hold you closer and longer." He says mockingly as distaste drips from his voice.
"You bastard!" She seethes magic flaring in the air, causing bottles to shake around the room.
"Tsk, tsk, my dear, your anger is showing." He dimples.
Elijah looks between the two before finally decided to speak his peace. He notices now that all playfulness is gone from his brother. The normally carefully quaffed persona is now replaced with the snake like behavior that Elijah is known for.
Elijah now clears his throat. "What my brother is trying to say, is that we know you're not Katerina." He says causes the witch to flash angry eyes his way. "I would know her from anyone else, and you are not her."
He can't help but snort. "And Katherine is rightfully so, terrified of me. You should take note witch." He spits out wanting nothing more than to replace the w in witch with a b.
The witch glares. "Fuck you Klaus!" She growls, as her appearance changes right before their eyes. Her face doesn't change much but the eyes, they do just a little till she morph's into Tatia. It's obvious by the small smile on her lips that she's fucking with Elijah, he wasn't as effected by seeing a ghost of his past. She's focused on Elijah though and he realizes that his brother is her trigger. The mere sound of him sends her into a fit of rage, though she manages to control it.
"As for you Elijah, how pathetically romantic you are still carrying a torch for the woman you destroyed for never loving you." The witch spits out. She then blinks and splatters of blood appear on her face, as well as on Elijah and his hands.
He watches as his Elijah begins to shake. Images of the red room probably on replay in his head. The witch had won that round, her words shaking Elijah to the core. He glares at the witch, despite his ill feeling for his brother, nobody talks shit to Eli, but him and maybe Rebekah.
He's seconds away from snapping Elijah out of his stupor when his brother does it all on his own. "You were saying." Elijah says with an elegant brow raised. In his head, he's cheering Elijah the fuck on. "You thought bringing up my past failed attempts at romance would break me, it didn't." Elijah says leaning close to the witch.
"Oh,"She says holding her chest. "I forgot you've moved on yet again to Lucy Bennett." She says wagging her head. "How's that working out for you?"
Elijah grins. "I'll let you know when we get back together."
He applauds Elijah, which only causes her destructive eyes to be trained his way. "How about we cut the shit and you show us your real face, you wanted us here, we're here."
She looks his way. "I'm never gonna show you my real face, but I will give you two something you might fancy a little bit more, especially pitiful looking Elijah." She says turning into Sabine now.
Once settle the witch cracks her neck and shakes out her hair. "This skin feels much more better than the Petrova clones.
The mere sight of her, the woman that tried to stop the birth of his daughter, of his only hope, has him incensed.
He offers her a smile, and then swiftly reaches across his hand wrapping around her neck. On impulse he squeezes.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, it is I that hold all the cards in this game. I know all about you and your girlfriend coming to town all to rescue her best friend." She says with a grin. "How does it feel Niklaus to know that the girl you're fucking," She says looking down with her lashes, all the while choking out. "Is so concerned about the well being of another man?" She says a sly smile on her lips.
He leans close. "About as good as it feels to know that you'll never win. You can't beat me, and your silly little crush on Elijah is going nowhere because he carries a torch of many women, but that woman will never be you, bitch!" He says standing at once.
Elijah stands as well fist clench face contorted in anger. Wisely he puts his hand on the shoulder of his brother. "Niklaus" Elijah whispers causing him to look over at his brother, the two in sync at that moment.
"Did I hit a nerve?" The witch asks eyebrows raised. "Good." She says with a toothy grin. "Now gentleman I suggest you sit down and get ready because my terms leave little wiggle room."
Elijah glares. "What are we supposed to call you, or do you like being called witch?" He asks his tone barley controlled.
"Well darling," the witch says touching the cheek of love tortured Elijah. "Call me Sabine, you remember her, the woman you shagged and then offed in her sleep."
He rolls his eyes. This woman, this witch had known way too much about them, about their past– it was unnerving. "What do you want?" He asks finally tired of her games.
She grins again. "I want everything, but right now I'm just going to sit back here and bask because I've got you two by the balls."
He looks down at his watch, this fake Sabine may think she has him, but he's always one step ahead of everyone.
LB-LB-LB
Lucy
The sound of a man screaming and withering in pain on the floor should've made her pause but instead she felt strangely rejuvenated. Electricity flowed through her fingertips to the very body of brother Salvatore, or by his given name Stefan. She watched as he withered on the floor, her magic having much more effect on a vampire who was on the animal diet than it had on Elijah the original.
"Lucy,"Vincent calls from the entryway of the other room. "I think you've had enough fun, he's withering in pain." Vincent says bored. "Besides how is this helping Bonnie?"
She lets out a long sigh and then snaps her fingers and the pain is all gone, though Stefan is still feeling the after effects. She wastes no time crouching down next to Stefan. "Next time you think about throwing my cousin under the bus, next time you have one rude thing to say about her, and the next time you think about her life meaning less than anyone else, you remember this moment Stefan Salvatore because it'll haunt you." Grin. "I'll haunt you." She says placing a kiss to his forehead. "Just so you know, you've been marked and that means your on my shit list."
Having had enough she flounces off in need of air on the balcony. "Pull it together because you've got five minutes and then we're going to try and find your brother." She throws over her shoulder before closing the door behind her.
SS-SS-SS
Stefan
When he's able to regain feeling and brain activity he finally sits up against the bed. Vincent, is still in the doorway looking at him like he's a mess and he doesn't doubt that. Whatever Lucy did to him, was like nothing any other witch had done. He thought the spell Bonnie but on him had been bad, this– this spell had aftershocks.
"What the hell did she do to me?" He asks panicked looking to Vincent.
Vincent doesn't even hide his amusement. "She put that act right in you, now you'll act right won't you?" Vincent says looking to the terrace. "Because Lucy got a lot of leftover anger and one wrong move and you'll make this worst."
He too finds himself glancing in the direction of Lucy. "I just want to find my brother."
"Good." Vincent says easily. "Yo Luce, I'm ready." Vincent calls causing the Bennett woman to walk back into the room.
For a brief moment lime green meets that of honey brown. When she glares his way, he feels a spark he hadn't felt in ages.
V-V-V
Vincent
He had decided while watching Lucy get out all of her anger on Stefan that they were going to use the connection between the two brothers to try and talk to Damon. That way they could get information about his whereabouts.
"Now, lye down Stefan." He says causing the vampire to look between the two, his eyes lingering on Lucy probably because he was afraid of what she might do, but it was mostly because Lucy had that way about her. She had put plenty of men under her spell without even using magic.
"I'll lay down, if she promises to play nice." Stefan says looking between the two of them again.
Lucy only frowns. "The only thing I can promise you is that if you keep dancing on my nerve, I will react."
That seemed to shut Stefan up because he soon lies down.
"Lucy, now you put on hand on his heart and the other on his head." He says leaving no room for discussion. He on the other hand, holds the hand of Stefan while his other hand is placed on his head.
"I want you to think of your fondness memory of you and your brother. Remember the two of you are connected by blood, by life by your connection as brothers. I want you to tap into that."
Stefan shuts his eyes. "Are you sure this is going to work, I'm not a warlock, I'm a vampire how am I suppose to do this."
He and Lucy share a look. "You and your brother are blood and no matter what that bond can never really be severed." Lucy admits.
Vincent can only sigh. "Listen, you may not have a lick of magic in you but you were created with magic but what is more important is that Lucy and I are the vehicle to get you where you need to go- you just have to go the distance."
"What Vincent is trying to say is shut up and lets try it out. If it doesn't work we can always try something else." Lucy says impatient already. "Now close your eyes pretty boy."
Vincent feels his magic charging up. "Now we are gonna count you back from 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4,3,2,1."
When he gets to the last number the warlock releases his magic into the room. "Now, find your brother."
DS-DS-DS
Damon
He awakes with a loud gasp, he limbs aching like that of someone who had the flu, with a splitting headache to match. That bastard Enzo had attacked him not once but twice. Whatever the Enzo had injected him with had him feeling drunker that he had ever been in life and death. Every time he turned hi head, blurred images passed him by with a speed that was downright nauseating.
"What did you do to me?" He asks his mouth feeling tacky suddenly. "I feel, I feel so weak."He says his arms beginning to shake as he quivers to raise up from the ground.
Enzo stands in front of him a smug look across his face, while his arms are crossed in front of his chest. "Well, that's easy my friend." Enzo says knelling down on one knee so that they are eye level. He never noticed before, that deranged look in brown eyes. He had never really paid attention to the company he was keeping and by doing so, he brought Enzo into the world of people he cared about. In the past, his one time friend had already gone after his brother. And now he was going after the woman he loved.
"That's easy,"Enzo says close. "I injected you with a serum that turns you human for forty-eight hours." Lorenzo says pulling back to grin. "That means, no more vamp speed or strength, that means dealing with the effects of being human, but more than that it means letting all those feelings you suppressed come to the surface. Here's to hoping all that guilt for being a shitty person ends you so that I won't have to."
Blue eyed widen. "You- you couldn't have."
Enzo only nods his head. "My witch, she did, now you wont be able to stop yourself from feeling the pain of losing Bonnie to me of all people." Lorenzo says standing. He walks over to the door. "Our girl made her final choice." He says a toothy grin, now that his teeth have come back in. "I won Damon." Enzo says yelling. "I won the girl that you're in love with, I won the life that you always wanted." Pause. "The life you wanted but never had the balls to go for."
Enraged he tries to get up but finds he has little to no strength. "Leave her alone." He grunts out. "You stay away from her, don't you touch her, don't you think about her– just don't." He says crawling toward Lorenzo as he stands at the door a smirk on his face.
"I'll do more than touch her, and when I slide into her, I'll think of you." Enzo says breathy. "I'll think about you." He says whispering. "And how you'll be weeping over the love Bonnie and I found all because of you."
He yanks at the other mans leg as hard as possible but only manages to tire himself out. "Enzo," he says out of breath. "Don't do this."
"It's already done Damon." Lorenzo says kicking his foot out hard causing him to nearly fly across the room. "She's mine and by the time your back to your full strength, she and I will be long gone."
He grunts his body hitting the wall. "Klaus, he won't take well to you taking one of his toys." He says gritting through the pain. "You think you'll have hell to pay with me, he'll be far worse you can't out run him."
"He can come after us, but Bonnie already made up her mind, and she won't go back on her word, not for you and not for him." He says opening the door. "Goodbye Damon." He says shutting the door.
"Enzo" He screams. "Enzo, come back. Come back!" He screams till his voice is hoarse.
It's only when his head starts pounding does he finally lay back and close his eyes, darkness takes over.
Dream
"Damon, Damon can you hear me?" Stefan calls out.
"Stefan."He mumbles. "Why are you so loud, I'm right here." He says irritated.
Stefan chuckles. "It sounds loud because I'm in your head."
"And now I've lost my mind." He mumbles eyes still closed.
"Your in my head to."Stefans voice rings. "Right now, Vincent and Lucy are helping me connect to you."
"He's going after Bonnie." He says his words sounding slurred to his own ears.
"What?" Stefan asked a bit panicked.
"Enzo, he's going after Bonnie, Stefan you have to stop her from doing something Bonnie like." He nearly begs knowing full well that Stefan is probably brooding even more so than usual.
"Damon, I promise you, Bonnie will be fine." His brother says his voice strained. "First we have to find you and then together we can assist Bonnie if she needs it."
Not satisfied with what he hears he shakes his head. "I want to talk to Lucy, no way in hell she'd let Bonnie give herself to Enzo all to save me."
"Sorry but Lucy is busy helping Vincent help me reach you. Currently she's got one hand on my heart and the other on my head. I don't think I can break her concentration or this whole thing is ruined." Stefan says dashing his hopes at speaking with Lucy
"Fuck!" He roars. "Fuck it, she can multitask she's one hundred percent Bennett,"
"Tell me about it." Stefan says his sudden tone changing and piques an interest he would have to explore later.
"Where are you Damon?"
"I don't know." Sigh. "Enzo he's working with this witch who holds grudges like you do all the forest animals." He mentally chuckles at that. "He turned me human with some serum she created, it's supposed to last forty eight hours but Stefan, I'm weak– I don't even know if I can make it that long."
"No!" Stefan shouts through the connection. "You'll make it because you make it out of everything it doesn't matter the circumstances. I need you to hold on, hold on for me, hold on for Bonnie, hold on for yourself."
"I'm tired."
"Stay awake, we'll find you- I'll find you– you're my brother and family is forever."
"Forever sounds like a long time from now. Hurry, find me so we can save Bonnie."
End of dream
BB-BB-BB
Bonnie
The idea was to run around the city to different places so that Enzo could go looking for me. Once Rebekah and Marcel got a whiff of his scent the latter had gone in search of the smell all across the city. With the help of five of the best hybrids Klaus had created, Marcel had led the charge in trying to find Damon, while Lucy and Vincent tried to find him via Stefan.
Everything was set. I had nearly teleported to just about every place I could, and now I was tired of running, tired of playing this game. I wanted to end this so that my life could go on and this chapter of it would end.
Looking down at my watch, I send a text message to Klaus hoping he would be careful. I lock eyes with Rebekah who across the bridge and nod. It was now or never. A gust of wind blows blowing my scent out into the open.
Game on.
When Enzo finally finds me I'm standing on the pier over looking the water. The water had been a sort of calm for me. Though fire had always been the element that had chosen me first– water was something that had adapted to my emotions. If anyone was really paying attention, you could always tell my mood by the weather. In recent years, rain had always been the prelude too just about everything, especially where my magic was concerned, it was essentially the warning that came before the fire and anything else I threw your way.
Now though, as I watched the ocean moving to and fro with violent waves, I felt it more in my spirit than any other time in life. I was so damn angry, angry at Enzo and the situation that was created. My insides shook with rage that I was hoping to keep at bay but had a sneaking suspicion that– that would never really happen realistically.
"I found you." Enzo says cautiously walking my way.
I can hear his footsteps that are tentative and insecure just like him. He doesn't walk like Klaus who always walks with a purpose and fast, nor does he swagger like Damon. it's just Enzo that likes to pretend he's so much more than what he is, Enzo who takes baby steps and thinks he's far smarter than anyone else. With every step he takes I question my reasons for falling in love with him. With each breath he takes, I inhale my surroundings and him. The aftershave he wears is strong and smells so forign now. It's not the woodsy smell that clings to my clothes and my skin after a brief encounter the leaves me breathless and starts with a dimpled grin and ends with me melted like ice cream and my heart beating fast.
It's not even the cool crisp clean smell curtsey of my best friend, that has taken over my house, our home and just about everything in it. Where I may have found some type of warmth in Lorenzo in the past, I feel nothing now. It's just emptiness regarding anything and everything Lorenzo related.
"Darling." Enzo calls standing closer to me than I would like. "I found you and it's just the two of us now, the way it'll always be."
I lick my teeth, choosing to ignore his latter words and focus on the former. "So you have." I say finally turning around to see him. He looks the same, though his accent doesn't make me grin or even ask him to read my favorite book because he sounds downright sexy reading it. His leather jacket is that of vampire attire, it hasn't changed just like the exaggeration of his accent.
"Don't you know, gorgeous I'll always find you." Enzo says a grin on his lips. "You are my forever." Enzo says while he seeks out my hand. Instinctively I maneuver away from him. The thought of him touching me has my stomach churning. Never again!
Easily I sidestep him yet again when he tries once more. Finally getting the clue he just stands in front of me, still with one hand behind his back. "I'm here, just like I said I would be if you found me." I say as wind starts to whip around causing my hair to fly around and thus letting my scent travel around to a certain hybrid. "I kept my end of the deal, now it's time that you hold up yours." I say unflinchingly.
Enzo rolls darker eyes and snorts at my words. If he's offended then he might want to get use to it. I won't be his little doll that lets everything slide and just looks pretty for his benefit. That was before, and this– this is who I am now.
"Let me guess," He says with wide eyes. "You want me to tell you where Damon is." He says nodding though he looks ticked off.
I tilt my chin up. "It's only right, to let him go now." I say putting my hair behind my ears. "You have me now, I'm here– you don't need Damon anymore."
I watch as Enzo looks over the pier his hands on the railing. "If I let him go now, then you'll leave." he looks my way now. "Once we've put some distance between Damon and Klaus Mikaelson then I'll send a text out to Stefan and he can find his brother."
"That was not part of the deal." I snap causing Enzo to appear shocked by my tone. "I gave you my word that should be enough for you– it's enough for everyone else and yet you've done nothing to make me trust you." I say turning away from him.
The sound of the waves crashing gets louder as the wind seems to be getting stronger, and the temperature drops just a little bit.
"You're right." He says suddenly. "I bought you flowers." He says pulling flowers out of his jacket. Flowers that are dying with each second, they must realize that Enzo is a marked man. "You always loved the smell of fresh flowers." Enzo says causing me to look at him and his outstretched hand.
Slowly I take the flowers from his had ignoring the way his fingers brush against mine. I take in the soft petals and the brightness of the yellow flower before sniffing it.
"I thought you'd like them."
"Their beautiful." I say meeting his eyes. "A girl can't help but to be charmed." I say causing him to smile and I can't help but to smile back at him.
He his hand comes out to touch my shoulder drawing me closer to him than I preferred. "You see, gorgeous we're still in sync after all this time apart, not Damon or Klaus can take that away from us."
My eyebrows arch up. "You think so?"
"I know so." Enzo breathes his face getting closer to mine with each second.
When he's close enough, and without much warning I turn away yet again but this time I toss the flowers over the pier, letting them fall into the ocean and get swept away.
"What the hell?" Enzo asks jerking my forward with his strength. His hands are on my forearms so tight, I know marks will be left after this is over.
I jerk away from him after my skin heats up searing his fingers. "Since we are going to be together for the foriciable future, lets not pretend that I'm here because I want to be. There is no love between us, just you using the people I care about to hurt me."
My words seem to sting because he takes a dramatic step back and wipes his face. "Bonnie, I know right now it's difficult to see the beauty in this...in us but in time you'll realize that this was the best decision you ever made."
I scoff at him. "You left me no choice!" I scream at him not caring who hears or see's me. I lick my lips and walk closer to him. "And now you think time is going to fix this? Fix us?"
"Why wouldn't it?" Enzo asks clueless as ever. "It worked for you and Damon."
I cant help but squint. "What do you mean, why wouldn't it? You backed me into a corner and used my bond with my best friend." I cross my arms in front of my chest. "You really think in time I'll want to run through a field of flowers with you, that I could ever love you again– the answer is no." I say shaking my head. "I despise you."
He chuckles. "That fire Bonnie, that's what I love about you. You say you despise me but that sounds like the beginning of a new chapter in our love story." He says matter of fact. "Besides despises someone never stopped you before, it worked for you and Damon, and it worked for you and Klaus."
Now its my turn to laugh and I do, I laugh till tears are streaming down my face. "I can guarantee that it won't work for you– you're nothing like Damon even though he's all you ever want to be. And Klaus– you could never."
Enzo clicks his tongue. "You always were easy to read. Everybody knows what button to push with you, it's because you're so open. Does Klaus know that you decided to run off with me all to save Damon."
I look down at his words causing Enzo to tilt my chin up so that our eyes meet. "I take that as a no. well sweetheart that good thing is, you and I are forever and just like before you'll fall in love with me all over again." He reaches his hand out. "Now take my hand and we will begin again."
I look at his hand but refuse to move an inch.
"You gave me your word, you agreed to forever." Enzo reminds me. "I promise you I'll make up for all my mistakes along the way." He says getting emotional. "But right now I need you to say the words." He says with a pause to wipe at his running nose. "Forever."
I stare at him my eyes starting to fill up with tears. He wanted to play it this way, I'd play dirty. One tear escapes my eye, as I look behind to where Rebekah was somewhere in the distance, before turning back to Enzo and saying the words he desperately wanted to hear. It didn't matter to me that the word was a lie, saying it nearly made me choke
"Together." I say finally when he crashes into me hugging me tightly.
He didn't know now but his forever would be winding down very soon.
S-S-S
Sabine
Sitting between the Mikaelson brothers was probably a dream come true for most women. Each brother was handsome in their own right, it just depended on your preference. Elijah was always seen as the perfect man, everything about him was perfect. He was a gentleman, someone that you would readily trust. Well, that was until recently. As for Niklaus, Klaus was the opposite of Elijah in every way. The hybrid was hot tempered, stubborn and a all around mess. Klaus had no redeeming qualities while at least Elijah had done thing out of love, however misguided that love may be.
"You're both silent that's a first." She says looking between the brothers. "And if I'm not mistaken, I sense some underlining tension between you two." She says giddy as ever.
Elijah is the first to speak. "Why don't you tell us, what it is you want." Elijah says though she can tell that he's a bit nervous by the way his eyes keep darting over to Klaus.
"I've heard from the streets that you two are on the outs." She says happily. "I never thought I'd see the day when you two would be on the outs, nothing seems to tear you apart." She muses as a barkeep walks in with drinks for the three of them. "And to think out of all the women that have come and gone between the two of you, it's little Bonnie Bennett whose the troublemaker." She says with a snort before taking a sip of her drink. "Who knew a Bennett witch would not only break up the Mikaelson brothers with your famous always and forever." She says with a eye roll. "But she also managed to stir up so much testosterone driven impulses." Grin. "How you feelin Klaus, your awful quiet."
The way the hybrid looks on at her with a hard glare and unconcealed rage has her nearly bouncing with joy, that it is until he smiles. Klaus had always been unpredictable. Anger was what you could get use to with him, but he was grinning– well that was when you needed to have your guard up the most. "I'm bored, but I'll advise you to watch your tone where Bonnie is concerned."
"I'm just saying, she's got three men vying for her heart." She says unable to stop herself. "Enzo is obviously a throw away. What she could've seen in him could probably been chalked down to wanting to be with Damon but never getting the chance." She pokes her lip out. "And you, well, girl has clearly lost her mind, if not she will soon enough." she says picking up her drink and draining it.
"You seem awfully interested in my life, but more importantly interested in my relationship with Bonnie, tell me again have we ever shagged." He dimples. "Because you've been giving off jealous, stalker, ex vibes for a very long time." Klaus says in that Klaus way.
She bares her teeth like an animal growling. "For the last time, never would I let you touch me."
He nods. "Well that leaves, Finn, Kol, Elijah or Rebekah." He says oceanic blue eyes dancing. "However, I guess I could knock off three of those candidates. Finn never longed for life away from Ester (that bitch), Kol met a demise at the hands of Jeremy Gilbert, and Rebekah has walked away unscathed by your rage." He taps his chin. "The only people that seem to get a rise out of you is me and Elijah," he says working his way through his theory.
"Your point?" She says stiffly, as her magic is suddenly feeling unstable.
He squints her way, blue eyes narrowed into slits. "You say it's not me, yet you come to my city and pick a fight with my lady, her family and then proceed to pick a fight with me," He says his eyes shifting from fake Sabine and then Elijah. "And yet, Elijah," He says leaning forward. "You have heart eyes for."
She ignore him for the longest time deciding he needs to wait on her. She's the one calling the shots this round. The server arrives just on time to bring her more of the drink she had drained earlier. Offering him a smile, she then turns her attention back to Klaus.
"Cat got your tongue now? That's funny because from the beginning you came into town with a hard on for talking shit about me, my lady, my past and how horrible the Mikaelson family is and now that you have the floor– the grand stage and yet you're silent." he nods sitting back. "Interesting."
After a long sip she turns her eyes his way. "Your pulling at straws. All I'm trying to do is right some of your wrongs, give you a taste of your own medicine and stop the Bennett lineage for rolling in their graves." she says popping some peanuts in her mouth. "You deserve to pay and I will be the person to make you pay."
He chuckles catching eyes with Elijah. "You say I'm pulling at straws." He says rubbing his hands over the stubble of his cheek. "I think I can prove you wrong."
Seconds later a crack so loud rings through the air and she's helpless but to watch as Elijah slumps over in a heap unconscious. She screams her magic flexing out wanting to make him pay for what he had just done and what he had done years ago. He took Elijah from her before and now he's just toying with her.
"I can do more," Klaus says his eyes shifting from oceanic blue that had often drove plenty of women and men wild, to that of amber and dust. "I've got enough werewolf venom to do so much to your little crush. I can drive him crazy, use all of his weakness and I do know his weakness and trap him in those dark places he hides from."
She shakes with rage, her hands clenched as she tries to conceal her magic. But it's impossible, especially when he grins her way and proceeds to kiss at her. "You bastard!" She screams, throwing magic his way, strong magic, magic from the depths of over a century of pain all because of him.
Klaus only laughs which angers her further more. Once again she attacks him which only causes him to laugh yet again as if her magic tickles him pink.
Suddenly her magic leaves her in a jolt nearly leaving her breathless. "What did you do to me?" She asks as her magic ebbs out of her at a faster rate than she even thought possible.
Klaus watches her with deadly eyes, as a server comes around and fills his glass. She watches as her mouth feeling dry, her stomach feeling queasy, and her head spinning. "Answer me?"
Klaus licks his teeth, and then proceeds to drink his wine. "Oh me, I did nothing." He says smothering a smile. "But that drink, you were slurping down like it was Elijah–" he says looking over a his brother who is still down for the count. "That drink, it's rapidly draining your magic, expelling it to the world and thus weakening your spells."
She hits her hand on the table making it clank. "Whatever, whatever you did." she says standing to her feet, jittery and all. "It cant truly take away my magic." She whispers. "It'll recharge and so will my spells."
"Now." He says wagging his head her way. "My terms, I let you live to fight another day. Give you another chance to win Elijah over, if you call off your followers and let Damon Salvatore go."
She shrieks as magic leaves her yet again, this time the pain is nearly unbearable. How many drink did she have and how long was this supposed spell. If she had to guess, she was positive that this was the making of the Bennett women. Lucy was probably ticked off that she had been caught with Elijah in just about every position. While Bonnie, was probably upset that she had dare to go after her man. "Not gonna happen, especially since now I know Bonnie has you all twisted and shit. You probably follow her around like a little puppy dog hoping she'll pet you." She seethes. "Your pathetic."
He nods and when Elijah comes to he grins her way before launching onto Elijah yet again. She can't bare to watch Klaus tear into Elijah, afraid of what the outcome could be. She knows that you cant rid of the Mikaelson family, but that doesn't mean you can't do other stuff and the thought of Elijah being in pain because of her, despite her often mixed feeling about him– it's unsettling.
"Niklaus we're on the same team." Elijah says as Klaus holds him tight.
"We're not even on friendly terms dear brother, whatever I do is a result of her." He says nodding at her.
"Please." Elijah says. "I don't know if I can take another trip down memory lane." Elijah pleads. "Bonnie had already done her worst but you– your venom..."
Elijah of course doesn't get to finish because she's decided to stop him. "Fine. I'll call off my henchman," She says blinking back tears that threaten to fall. "But you have to sweeten the deal." She breathes out. "Me and my coven will dissolve the magic around him, you can look for him till the world ends, but in return I want back into NOLA, I refuse to live in the swamp any longer." She says through gritted teeth.
Klaus lets go of Elijah who looks ready to tackle his brother. She can only hope he plans something much more entertaining. "I may agree, but first, I need a witches oath that if you want to come at me, that you will only come after me."
She bristles. "Obviously my magic wont harm you, your brother or sister so," She trails off.
"You leave Hope, Marcel and Bonnie out of your attacks on me." He says holding out his hand to shake.
Elijah soon steps between the two of them causing Klaus to turn up his face and for her to only blink at him. "You, appear to have a problem with me as well, all I ask is that Lucy is left unscathed any further."
She steps back. "You guys are something else. I'll agree to all terms but no witches oath, just my word and you'll have to take that." She says pushing past Elijah and walking weakly away. She didn't have to use Bonnie, or Lucy, she'd just pivot her plan and watch as they tore each other apart. When the time was right though, she'd get her retribution from Klaus and Elijah. "Oh and Klaus, your girl has more than just me as an enemy, I guess time will only tell what she's really made of. I cannot wait to watch as she destroys you from the inside out, with the assist of the very man you just saved." She says tossing as magic begins to spin in her hands revealing a map. The map then floats over to the two vampires and falls on the table. "Happy hunting."
SS-SS-SS
Stefan
With a gasp he wakes up he comes to. "I need to get back," He says alarmed from warlock to witch and then back to warlock. "Vincent, he said he's been turned human and the spell will last up to 48 hours, he doesn't have long!"
Vincent wipes at his forehead as sweat dots his hairline. "Just– just give us a second."
"We don't have time." He says his fangs elongating. "You need to do something now!"
It's then that the warlock looks to him eyes lit with magic. "You don't ever speak to me like that again!" the warlock says pinning him in place with his magic. "I don't work for you, I'm doing this for my friend, your brother but not for you!" Vincent says glaring at him. With each second it feels like a snake has slithered up his body and wrapped itself around him, till he can say nothing.
"Do you hear that?" Lucy asks suddenly. "It's the sound of her magic, it's released in the atmosphere." Lucy says eyes wide. "It's full of pain and bitterness."
Vincent nods. "She strong, and that heartache, that bitterness makes her stronger, but Klaus did it, he made her release a big chunk of it."
From his spot nearly paralyzed in his spot he watches as warlock and witch share a smile and then a hug. "We can find her magic now, we know what it looks like, what it feels like." Lucy says a grin on her face. "We can ease Bonnies mind and find Damon."
"Yeah, but first." I need to get a read on Damon. "See if I can piggy back on the connection the brothers share and see what we can do from here."
It's then that both warlock and witch look his way. He expected Lucy to approach but it's Vincent who places both hands on his head, and then all he see's is white.
E-B-E-B-E
Enzo
He had chosen a restaurant on the water. Something that could help smooth things between he and Bonnie. Right now they sat on the patio, white lights were glittering around them, as well as tea lights. The setting was intimate and cozy, just what he wanted for the epic reunion.
"You didn't touch your food." He muses while picking up a slice of potato and steak and chewing it appreciatively.
Wild green eyes the color of an inhibited forest peer his way. "I'm not hungry." She says opting to drain her wine glass instead. When she's finished her glass she flashes a sneer his way.
He clicks his tongue. "You, love your food and yet," he says picking up his own wine glass and sipping out of it. "You're not going to touch anything out of some act of rebellion." He muses yet again while she only raises her eyebrows at him and then proceeds to fill up her wine glass to the brim before slurping it.
She tosses her hair to the side. "I told you, I wasn't hungry and now you can see for yourself." she then proceeds to hold up her wine glass. "But this wine is amazing."
One finger to his forehead he watches as she continues on. "Is this how its going to be, you acting like a petulant child?"
She leans forward. "Why not, it worked for you." She says chuckling dryly. "In fact it's the only reason I'm here right now."
Exasperated he places his utensils down. "What do you want, I'll give you anything you want, I just...anything."
She hits her tiny hand on the table causing plates, glasses and utensils to clatter around. "Stop lying to me!" she says harshly. "If you wanted to give me what I wanted you would have already. As for what I want, I don't want to be in this situation Enzo!" She rasps out. "I don't want to wear your ring like we're in love and I don't want to be here with you."
Taken aback he bites his lip. The ring he had brought for her still on the table in front of them.
He nods his head and chuckles darkly. "This is about Damon isn't it?" He asks as she turns her head away from him, not even bothering to look his way. "You always made everything about him." He grits out. "You wanna know a secret?" He asks causing her to finally look his way.
She rolls expressive green eyes and finally begins to pick at her food. "Spit it out Enzo."
"You know, he begged me to leave you alone, he would've done anything to keep us apart." He admits lost in his thoughts. "He even dared to tell me some story about Klaus Mikaelson to try and scare me away."
She puts down her fork and narrows her eye his way. "Why are you telling me this?"
He smiles now. "Maybe it's just not about Damon, but about Klaus too." He says grins sitting back in his chair.
She licks her lips and he's helpless but to watch as his brown eyes follow. "Of course, this is about everyone but you and what you've done." Bonnie spits out, her rage easily seen.
He sees it now, the anger that's bubbling below the surface, the passion that he's always wanted to just be for him. "Oh Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie–" He says tsking. "Look at you, you went and fell in love with Damon and Klaus too."
BB-BB-BB
Bonnie
His words catch me off guard , so much that I let my guard down and my magic flexes instinctively. Next thing I know the table catches fire, next is his precious leather jacket and everything between us.
"Let me tell you this, I'd rather fall in love with anyone else then to ever get caught up in your bullshit ever again." I snap. "You don't know what love is, because this... what you're doing has nothing to do with loving me and everything to do with you controlling me and beating Damon at a game you will never really win." I say standing as thunder sounds in the air followed by a flash of lightening before rain starts to fall from the sky.
Without another word I start walking away from Enzo and his mess. Rain pelts my skin as I walk faster, though it's no use. Enzo hovers over me like a depressing fog that refuses to raise till its ready.
"You don't have to worry about them." Enzo calls catching up to me. "Damon– he'll go back to Elena, because that's the image of the only woman he's ever really loved." Enzo calls from behind. "He'll mourn you and then forget about you."
At his words I stop and spin around nearly running into him. He only stands before me a slow grin appearing on his lips. "You'd like that, for me to forgotten." I say already knowing his answer. "You want me isolated with you so that you'd be my everything."
"What's wrong with that, it kind of worked before." He says reaching out to touch my face. Before he gets too close I swat his hand away from me.
"Don't touch me, don't you ever touch me again." I say my voice so deadly Enzo for the first time seems like he really realizes how my I hate him in this moment and every moment we've shared since he came back into my life.
He scratches his neck, a nervous habit that tells me more than his words ever would. "Fine, talking about Damon makes you angry, lets talk about Klaus." He says suddenly. "Klaus has so much more to worry about than you." Enzo says doing that thing he use to do whenever he saw Damon and I together. He would tear me down, make it seem like I was a lovesick idiot falling for the rouge vampire. "He's been so distracted that he's left himself wide open and forgot about his only Hope."
The hairs on the back of neck raise up at his words. Clearly he couldn't be this stupid. "What did you just say?" I ask furious by his insinuation.
Enzo holds his hands up. "I'm just saying, he has a daughter. She should be his main focus, instead of you." Enzo says walking closer to me, and getting so close that our bodies touch.
"You know nothing about Klaus!" I shout in his face as the rain gets harder.
"I've seen the two of you together, I've hidden in the shadows and watch how you act around each other. As for Hope,"
"Don't you say her name." I say pushing at his chest. "Klaus is a wonderful father, that little girl is lucky to have him because she is his main focus. He loves her, and he's not selfish, not with the people he cares about."
Enzo only stands before me a hard look on his face. "We'll see about that, about Klaus in due time." He says threateningly.
It was the way he said his last words that had reminded of something that witch had said at the town hall meeting. Seconds later my magic sinks into his skin, causing Enzo to sink to the ground as my magic does its best and to him it's worst as he screams out.
"What is she planning?" I demand using much more force this time. "Tell me!"
"I," Grunt. "I don't know what you're talking about." He grunts out breathless.
"Don't lie to me!" I scream over the loud sound of raining falling to the ground. The ocean water shifts back and forth as violent as my mood. "That bitch you're working with, she hates me but she hates Klaus more!" I yell. "I'll give you one more chance to tell me what's she planning."
He spits out blood. "Bonnie, you're hurting me darling."
I shake my head. He still wasn't answering my questions. "I'm not your darling, your girl, your anything! There is nothing between us, nothing good." I say my voice quieting down. "Nothing good, your burnt that to the ground when you refused to let me go and went after Damon for revenge." I admit. "But this– keeping her secret, it's the worst." I throw out as my magic run rabid on him causing the vampire to twist and turn on the ground.
"Fine" Enzo yells. "You wanna know what she's up to, she wants to tear his life to shreds by any means possible."
I shake my head back and forth. "I'm not gonna let that happen."
Enzo tries to stand but fails. "Her plans have nothing to do with us. She plans a bloody war, where he's left all alone."
I start to chuckle as I wipe at my face and nose as vervain rain continues to fall harshly from the sky.
"I told you before, there is no us." I snap as my watch bings. Klaus is on his way.
"What?" Enzo says crawling my way. "You– you gave me your word!"
I got down to his level uncaring how the ground scraped against my knees. "I lied." I say grinning at him before standing yet again.
Enzo starts to laugh now, madly so. It was like he was practicing his bat shit crazy laugh all his life and now he got a chance to use it.
"Well then, Bonnie darling," Enzo says pushing his hair back out of his face. "That makes two of us then." He laughs again, which only irritates me further. I turn my hand clockwise intensifying the strength of my magic. Chunks of his skin starts falling from his face, though he still looks my way with soulless eyes. "Your precious Damon, he's been turned human."
I gasp at his words. "What?"
"Yeah." He says spitting teeth out. "Damon has been turned human and by now he should've kicked the bucket."
"You bastard!" I scream running at him like I was playing football. I'd seen enough football and played around enough with Matt to know how to take someone down. When I hit him the force shocks me, it was almost like he had a very thin protective spell against him, it was fading quickly but it was enough to cause me lose control of my own magic for a split second.
The very moment my control slips, Enzo wastes no time in turning the tables on me. "I didn't want it to be this way." Enzo says now on top of me.
"Get off of me." I scream. I knew that if I said the safeword Rebekah would come running but this was the fight that I needed to fight and win.
"But," Enzo says leaning down to rub his face against mine. "If I cant have you, nobody else can have you. He says head butting. "Damon cant have you and neither can Klaus."
Dazed I look up at his as chunks of skin is still falling off, his skin is even starting to ashen up.
"For the last time I'm gonna tell you, I'm not yours and you can't have me!" I say my hands claws at his chest, where my magic tears through his already fragile skin. Soon enough his heart is exposed and with wide eyes he tries to break away from me, but my magic has him where it's wanted him from the very beginning.
My manicured nails shine as lightening strikes. "How does it feel?" I ask digging my nails into his heart causing him to scream out in agony. "To know that you lost, and that I am about to do the one thing you've accused me of doing for so long."
He face contorts in pain as he breaths rapidly. "Bonnie, baby please don't do this." Enzo cries out his voice wavering. "You'll regret it if you do." Pause. "We were supposed to be forever."
I squeeze harder on his heart. "Forever was too long for me." I say tugging lightly, while watching him flinch with my every movement. "Now you know for sure, I'm not yours." I scream as my nails sink further into his heart and pull with the strength of anyone who had ever felt the way I felt in life. Years of pent up angers fuels me as I yanks his heart out of his chest.
Shocked Enzo looks at me with wide eyes. "You bloody ripped my heart out."
"Burn in hell Lorenzo St. John." I say pushing him off of me once the deed is done.
In the background I can hear Rebekah talking, she's congratulating me on taking my life into my own hands. As I stand I look at Enzo lifeless and seconds away from becoming dust and then mud as the rain fall lightly now.
"Bonnie." I hear a voice from behind, a voice that brings me back to the present instead of lost in memories that I tuck away never to think about again.
When I see him, I can't help but let out a small sob. I run to him as fast as I could and when he wraps his arms around me, everything else melts away.
For a while I just let him hug me, before pulling away to look at him. "That witch she plans a bloody war Klaus, she wants to take you down and rip your world apart." I say quickly. "Enzo even mentioned Hope.
His face contorts into a scowl as he looks as the pile of dust or mud that Enzo is becoming, now that I've taken care of him. When his denim blue eyes meet mine a streak of violence flash just as the lightening strikes.
"Hope, Hope is the safest out of everyone, I've made sure of it." He says matter of fact. "I always protect what's mine." He growls out a determined look on his face. "As for him, he was just trying to upset you, get in your head and twist everything around. But you're a fighter and he knows that now." He says putting both hands on my face. "As for me, let her try, I bounce back easily and I always win."
I smile weakly his way, while he kisses my forehead. Not satisfied I tug him down till our lips meet. Rain continues to pour as he wraps strong arms around me. It's only when I need air does he break away as a long curl hangs over his forehead.
Rebekah who I had completely forgotten about soon makes her presence known. "I don't mean to break this up, but don't we have a Salvatore brother to save."
"Oh gosh, we have to get to Damon." I say snapping into action.
"Lucky for love, I have the coordinates of his location."
BB-BB-BB
Bonnie
When we get to the warehouse I was surprised that it wasn't guarded. With my hands outstretched I try to get a read on Damon but find nothing. Klaus though, tilts his head to the side.
"I hear a heartbeat." Klaus says leading the way.
When we do open the door, the sight before me horrifies me.