Four days had passed since Bonnie shared her kiss with Niklaus and during that time, she found herself spending more and more time with him down in the cave… and a few more kisses may have been shared between the two of them. They would stay in the rocky cavern well into the evenings and he would show her all the carvings on the walls and explain to her what they meant.
Most of them already looked familiar to Bonnie as she already spent a few hours back home with Alaric trying to figure out what they meant (and boy were those two way off with the meanings of some of them) but it was interesting to hear them from the artist himself.
"You spend a lot of time down here," she commented from her seat on one of the rocks as she watched Nik continue to carve into the wall.
"I do sometimes consider it to be my sanctuary for when I need to be alone and away from my family," he said to her and she knew that 'away from my family' really meant' away from Mikael'. And Bonnie was thankful that there hadn't been any more family quarrels between the two of them. "And everyone does come down here every full moon to avoid the wolves," he added and Bonnie remembered what Elena had told her about the Originals living near a village of werewolves.
"You know of the wolves, do you not?" he asked and turned to face her and Bonnie nodded her head.
"Tamara told me when I first arrived," she replied.
Although Bonnie had come across some werewolves (and grown up with one), she had never seen a werewolf in their animal form and from what she has heard from Caroline, she does not particularly want to.
"When is the full moon?" Bonnie asked curiously.
Nik seemed to think for a moment before answering her. "Three days' time."
Bonnie knew what would happen on one of the full moons, Nik's entire family would be ripped apart. Henrik would be killed by the wolves and Esther would perform the spell to turn her children into immortal beasts. And the witch had a very strong feeling that those events would begin to take place three days from now.
The green eyed girl turned her attention back to the wall, scanning over the markings and her eyes landed on the one that she and Alaric had a very difficult time deciphering. It was also relatively new as she did not see it the first time when she followed Nik to the cave.
"What does that one mean?" she asked Nik and got up from her seated position to approach the marking in question.
Nik turned his attention to the one she was talking about and let out a light hearted chuckled. "When Kol was younger –before Henrik was born and when Beckah was only very small- Elijah and I would bring him down here with us but we would never allow him to handle a knife so he would sit over there," he pointed over to one of the larger rocks, "and would whine and complain until we would give in and when he did that and then he cut himself with the knife," he laughed. "He also cried but he will continue to deny that little bit of information," he added and Bonnie giggled at the thought of little baby Kol throwing a tantrum.
"It is not anything significant, just a bit of scribble," he finished off and went back to his previous carving.
It would certainly explain why she and Alaric couldn't make anything of it.
"How are things with your father?" she asked after a short period of comfortable silence fell over them.
"They are still the same," he replied in a sad tone. "I have accepted that they will never change, that he will never come to care for me the way he does everyone else," he continued as he finished off the drawing and putting away the knife before turning back to Bonnie. "Were you close with your father?" he asked and she nodded her head.
"Very close. He was very important to me and I know that I was to him as well." It felt a little strange talking about her father as if he was gone but she did have a story to live by here. "My mother and I however were not. I don't really think that she cared for me at all," she said. "So losing her was not all that difficult to accept," she finished with a bitter tone.
Bonnie already pretended that her mother was dead; she obviously didn't care about her one bit if she just decided to leave without a second thought.
"My siblings are the only thing that is keeping me here," Nik said and moved to sit next to her.
"You are lucky to have them," she smiled at him and leaned into him when his arm went around her shoulder and he placed a kiss on her temple.
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It must have been an hour before they decided to head and before they exited the cave, Bonnie took a hold of his arm and smiled up at Nik before standing on her toes to place a light kiss on his lips and feeling his lips turn upwards in a smile as his hand went to her jaw to deepen the kiss.
His tongue swiped along her bottom lip and slipped between her parted lips and their tongues danced together.
When breathing became a necessity, the two pulled away from each and Nik wrapped his arms around her and held her close, her head resting on his chest and listened to the beating of his heart under her ear.
"I am so happy to have met you," she found herself telling him and closed her eyes when she felt his lips on her forehead.
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Bonnie returned back to Tamara and Godric that evening and found them in what looked to be an intense conversation with Mikael.
"What's going on?" Bonnie asked, interrupting them and raising an eye brow at the glare she received from Mikael.
It was tempting to stick her tongue out at him for a moment.
"Nothing, dear, just clearing up a few things," Tamara answered Bonnie with a friendly smile before turning back to glare at Mikael. "Never forget what we have done for your family, Mikael. You are alive right now because of us," she said to him in a rather harsh tone of voice.
Bonnie wondered what their conversation was about that evoked that kind of answer from Tamara and the death glares he was receiving from Godric.
Mikael stormed out of the house (giving Bonnie another icy cold glare on the way out) and the young witch turned back to the two spirits in front of her with raised brows. "What in the world was that about?" she asked them.
"He certainly is not very fond of you," Tamara told her with a humorous smile.
"Well, the feeling is very much mutual," Bonnie responded.
"He wants us to prevent you from spending time with Niklaus," Godric informed her and Bonnie rolled her eyes.
"Not going to happen," she muttered and combed her fingers through the tangles in her hair.
"No, of course not, we need you around them anyway," Tamara said and walked over to the window and pulled off one of the many hanging pendants and handed it to Bonnie.
"What's this?" she asked the older spirit and looked at the tiny pendant hanging off the end of a black string.
"Just keep it with you," Tamara smiled and took it from Bonnie to tie it around her neck.
"Can I ask another question?" she asked and looked between both Tamara and Godric.
"You can but we cannot guarantee that we have an answer for you," Godric replied with a nod of the head.
"The full moon coming…is that when everything happens?"
The two spirits exchanged looks before Tamara answered her. "It is when things start, yes, but there is still some time before they are set to make the change into vampires."
"Does Henrik have to die for this to happen?"
"I'm afraid he does," she replied with a frown. "They have to turn and his death is the key to it all."
"Wouldn't the world be better off without vampires? Why go to all the trouble of saving them?" Bonnie found herself questioning.
Tamara let out a heavy sigh. "We have been over this, Bonnie. It is crucial that they turn. We may not be overly fond with their species but they help to keep the balance in the world and we need that," she tried to explain to the younger witch.
Bonnie was enjoying her time with the Original family and seeing the real them but it made her feel sorry for them. What happened to them destroyed them. It would be better for them not to turn at all.
But the young Bennett witch could not help wondering what she did to make Niklaus hate her enough to try and kill her back in her time.
What did she do? Or what was she going to do?
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A little shorty of a chapter and a filler that contained nothing of real importance because the next one is going to be long and drama filled because it will be the full moon!
I hope you enjoyed this one and I once again apologise for the very long wait for last chapter.
If I am ever taking too long to get an update out don't be afraid to PM me and give me a verbal kick in the butt! Because sometimes it is what I need (or so my mum says =D) as I can get a bit slack at times.
Sorry for any mistakes you find in this chapter and please review!
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