Katherine finds Bonnie in the restroom. Not that she was searching for her or anything, but her sudden disappearance after her brother's sudden appearance made her curious. She just happened to have the urge to go to the restrooms and find someone sobbing there. It was all a nice coincidence she told herself later. First she didn't think much of it, but then she realized that she knew the soft sobbing voice. It was Bonnie's.

"Hey, are you OK there?" she asked. They weren't close, well, to be honest, they didn't talk to each other much outside their social circles, but neither of them cared much about it.

A sudden intake of breath and sipping made it clear that Bonnie, inside the booth realized who just asked her the question. "Sure" she answered, "I just needed some time alone" she added.

Katherine didn't wanted to be privy, so she just shrugged and said "see you later then". Oh who was she kidding, gossip was her petrol, her flame, her fuel that worked her motor. Besides the obvious, she was also curious about why her once-sister-in-law-to-be, or so she thought about her, was now hiding from the reception and by consequence, from her brother. "No, I'm sure you're not, otherwise you wouldn't be crying alone in the restrooms"

The answer that came was so obvious and general that she could laugh about it for hours if it weren't for the people involved. "It was just too much for me… the whole wedding, the emotions…." she trailed off.

"I don't buy it" she answered. She knew Bonnie didn't want to talk about it, but she started to be even more curious then before, not to mention she did like Bonnie, in her own way of course, but still.

"I don't want to ruin your time because of my problems" Bonnie came out, her eyes red from crying and her make-up a mess, but she tried to appear like nothing too big, too hurtful happened to her. "I will be out of your life soon, and I don't want to mess with your good times. It is a wedding after all, people tend to cry, because of the emotions and stuff that surface. I am not so different"

"Then why are you crying in the restrooms and not outside with all those emotional freaks?" she asked. It was a valid question after all.

"Please don't tell anyone" she begged, because Bonnie finally realized that her interrogations wasn't about to end unless she puts her heart on a silver platter for Katherine to later gossip about. She knew it was useless, still she tried.

"Whatever" was the only answer, and Bonnie knew it was the best she could get out of her opponent.

"It's about Jeremy"

"I figured that much" Katherine interrupted nonchalantly.

"You know that we broke up about half a year ago" Bonnie took a deep breath before continuing "And then a couple of weeks back, he got married to Anna, and they are expecting a little one in the close future"

"Hmh" Katherine didn't really feel like interrupting, neither had she anything to say, yet. The good part was to come.

"I broke up with him because of her, because I learned that he got her pregnant while we were together" she blurted out. Katherine looked like she was struck by lightning. Bonnie was so deep in her thoughts that she was oblivious to her reaction, so she continued. "Looking back at everything, I don't think either one of us was really in love with the other, well, at least I wasn't, or at least I try to tell that to myself to help me sleep" she trailed off to blow her nose "nevertheless I still feel betrayed and used"

"Ok" Katherine just couldn't get a grip on the things she just heard. It wasn't that she didn't suspect that the breakup between Bonnie and Jer was obnoxiously close to the coming out of Anna's pregnancy and the rushed marriage. Yet she didn't think much about it, she had a lot on her own plate too. "Let me just recap what you just told me" she tried to sound nonchalant "you broke up with Jer 'cause he cheated on you and knocked up Anna, is that right?" Bonnie just nod "You are the one who broke it off, you should be the one out there and laughing about everything, and he should be the one crying and hiding from you, yet it is you who is hiding and crying her heart out. And let's not forget that you just announced that you were never really in love with him, neither was he in love with you, if your judgement is correct." she took a deep breath, she wasn't the one who used to console others, she was usually the one who made them cry. "I don't know what I am more angry about, that you used my brother, or that you're wasting my time"

This last comment made Bonnie cry even more and that brought Katherine out of her revelry. She wasn't so neutral about Bonnie's feelings after all. She did consider her her friend, family even. Bonnie was more like her far-far away fourth-fifth-sixth cousin or something, closer than her own cousin, Elena.

"Please don't cry" she begged. She couldn't stand anyone crying; let it be a child or a pregnant woman. And she had a lot of experience with the last one, not that she wanted to, but she had to be there for Anna for the wedding, because of the whole family thing. She wondered sometimes if she could just abandon all her so called sister-duties to the capable hands of her cousin Elena, who was after all closer to Jer, than Katherine, his own sister. But she didn't abandon the sinking ship, like a good captain she was.

"It's just the betrayal" Bonnie sobbed out. "I feel alone and used, and on top of everything cheated" she told her. "It's like the band aid was peeled off too fast and even though it is just a superficial wound, it still hurts a lot. There wasn't enough time to heal properly. After all we were together for almost two years, not to mention he cheated on me. And let's not forget that he didn't have the decency to tell me face to face, I had to hear it from the gossip mills and piece the puzzle together. When I confronted him, he like just shrugged and told me that we were never really in love. And I have to admit that it is true, yet, still it hurts."

"But you're here with Kol, right?" Katherine asked the question out of the blue, like she usually did. It was her own coping mechanism, she tried to find a solution and when she did, she didn't take no for answer, or even ask the question. She just blurted everything out.

"What does that have to do anything with what I just told you?" Bonnie was non plussed. She was an emotional mess, didn't feel like talking about her abnormal relationship with her boss.

"If he is good for anything, than it is to forget. You should know how many women he had in just the small amount of time you've spent with him, they use him just as much as he uses them. Plus, it is a good exercise. It's good for your figure". This last comment got both of them laughs. "So now that you feel better, let's fix your make-up, 'cause I can't stand it like that" and she put out half of her clutch, started to wipe off her dripping make-up, and apply a new, healthy line of eye-liner, eye shadow, mascara… Katherine was something else, Bonnie was unable to put her finger on it, but it helped. Not just her resolution, but also the talk. She wasn't sure yet if she will take the leap and act upon it. She was able to let it all out, and talk about it. She had all these emotions bottled and slowly eating her up from the inside. Until Katherine arrived and she had impeccable taste and timing.

"Now that you are ready to kill, let's get ourselves out there" she told her after applying the finishing touches with the fuchsia lip-gloss. The colour matched not only her dress, but the whole picture Bonnie was rocking. "You should had let the tailor cut more of that skirt"

"Elijah did choose well" Bonnie told her once they got out, but before they went on their separate ways.

AN: constructive criticism always appreciated