"What are you looking at?" The sound of Bonnie's voice made Kol start violently. He slowly put the phone in his pocket and turned around. "What the hell are you?" He asked.

"What do you mean?" Bonnie frowned. "I'm not a 'what'. I am a person!"

Kol shook his head. "No, you aren't. You have five seconds to tell me what you are what's going on with the real Bonnie."

"Or what?" Fake Bonnie gave an evil laugh. "You won't do anything to me. I look too much like the girl you love, and even if you did come up with the courage to hurt me, you know you wouldn't really do it. You wouldn't hurt a woman who is so similar to your beloved Bonnie."

Kol punched her and she fell to the floor, her nose bleeding profusely. "You may be similar," He said. "But the point is, you're not her, so I can hurt you however I want. But I won't because I have better things to do. Now, where's Bonnie?"

Just then, Kol's phone beeped again. I don't know where I am exactly. But we're in a town a few hours from here. Are you coming?

"Never mind," Kol said. He shut his phone, snapped fake Bonnie's neck, and brought her out to his car. He buried her, got in his car, and got on his way to wherever it was Bonnie was being kept. He was going to save her and whoever took her was going to be very sorry.

"You're taking a big risk, you know," one of the girls told Bonnie. "The ringmaster will find your phone."

"I'm not scared of the ringmaster," Bonnie told her. "Truth be told, I've dealt with much worse than him and got through it. He's no threat to me. If he thinks he can just take everyone's powers for his own gain, he's pathetic, sad, and definitely not a threat."

"I would say that the people who've died while here would view him as a threat," The strongman told her. "He can get an attitude if he doesn't get what he wants."

"Well, the guy I've just contacted will get us all out of here, I promise," Bonnie told them all. "Pretty soon, we'll be free to do with our magic what we please."

"I hate to burst your bubble, sweetie," One of the clowns replied, wiping sweat off of his brow, "but think of all the power the ringmaster has. It's going to take a hell of a man to bring him down. Someone who doesn't think things through, goes on impulse, and is just plain crazy."

"Oh, don't you worry," Bonnie grinned. "That's Kol all over."

Just then, the driver of the circus bus put on the brakes, then the door opened and the ringmaster gazed at all of them. "Here's our next stop," he said. "Let's do much better work than last time, and remember, smiles, everyone!" He grinned a wide grin that made him look insane befor laughing and stepping off of the bus.

"How would you like to wake up in the middle of the night and find that guy and his grin standing over you?" Another clown asked dryly.

Bonnie shivered. "I certainly wouldn't. We should probably get moving now. We don't want him to come back in here."

She led everyone off the bus and into the venue. They went about their usual chores except that when the ringmaster saw her, he took her by the arm and pulled her to a corner. "I have a special task for you," he said. "Since you seem so uppity, I want to make sure you realize exactly what is expected of you."

"Do what you want because I don't care," Bonnie told him. "I'm not scared of you."

"Fine," The ringmaster told her. He turned her into a lion and then led her to another one of the performers. "Here you are," he said. "Your new lion."

The lion tamer nodded and then took Bonnie into his rehearsal space, where he attempted to do the the sort of things that he usually did with the lions, but this one proved to be more difficult. Finally, he got out the whip and proceeded to whip the lion until, bleeding and tired, it finally did what he wanted. He used his magic to heal her and repeated the process until it was time for the first show of the day. When it was time for the lion taming act, everyone watched with eager anticipation as the lion tamer led the lion out onto the stage. The act went as planned until suddenly, the lion jumped on the lion tamer and began clawing and biting him.

Children in the audience began to cry as they watched the man be attacked and when his dead, heavily bleeding body was dragged away, the the ringmaster followed it, quickly sucking away the man's powers and taking them for himself before he was dead too long and the magic became useless.

This same scenario happened in two more towns, and that night, Bonnie called Kol before she went to bed.

"Have you found me yet?" She asked him. "Please tell me that you've found me. I can't go on like this much longer."

"Why?" Kol asked. "Bonnie, what are they doing to you?"

Bonnie cleared her throat. "Because I was the one who spoke out against the ringmaster, every time we do a show, he turns me into the lion and then has the lion tamer hurt me!"

"Fuck," Kol muttered under his breath. "I am looking for you, don't think I'm not. But the circus moves so fast, it's hard to catch it."

"At our next stop," Bonnie told him, "I'll make sure that we'll be staying longer than we have to, in order to give you time to catch up."

"Thank you," Kol said. "And I swear to you: When I find you, I will personally kill every person in that damn circus slowly and painfully. No one hurts my girl and lives to tell the tale."

"Thank you," Bonnie told him, a tear running down her cheek. "But be careful yourself. The ringmaster is one tough customer."

"I know," Kol said. "You told me. But I don't care. Once he allowed you to be hurt, I stopped being scared of him. He needs to start being afraid of me!"

A couple of nights later, while everyone was eating dinner, Bonnie sneaked out of the hotel they were staying at and out to the bus. She whispered some magic words under her breath, there was a quiet little explosion under the bus's hood, and she smiled to herself. "That should keep us here for awhile," she whispered to herself. Suddenly, she heard noise in the bushes. She took a deep breath and looked around.

"Whoever you are," she called, "don't think you can mess with me because I can hurt you, and I will!"

Suddenly, a shape lunged out of the darkness and grabbed Bonnie around the waist. She struggled against them for a bit before they both fell to the groud and she punched her assailant in the nose.

"Ow, shit!" Kol swore. "I knew this wasn't the best way to surprise you! I'm sorry!"

"No!" Bonnie cried, her voice full of relieved laughter. She pushed his hood back and he grinned at her, taking her in his arms again. "How about we do this over?" He suggested and kissed her. "How are you? Are you still being hurt every day?"

"Yeah," Bonnie nodded. "But you wouldn't be able to tell. I get healed after every show."

Kol took Bonnie's arm and admired it. "How anyone could want to injure something so beautiful is beyond me..." He began kissing her hand and up her arm. She giggled. "That tickles!" She cried. "And I don't know if I want to do this out here. Let's get in the bus and then we can take as long as we want."

Reluctantly, Kol paused and follow Bonnie onto the bus, where she shut the door behind them and started kissing Kol. After a few minutes, he lay her down on the floor of the bus and began undressing himself and then her. "I'm sorry it took me so long to get here to rescue you," he apologized as he kissed down her neck and collarbone. She moaned. "It's okay," she replied, her voice breathy. "I can handle myself."

Kol grinned. "But it's much more enjoyable when I handle you, isn't it?"

"Yes," Bonnie agreed. Then he pushed into her. "Oh, yes!" She shrieked and then Kol put a hand over her mouth. "I appreciate your enthusiasm, darling," he told her. "But we don't want anyone to hear us."

Bonnie shrugged. "What will it matter if they do anyway? It's not like we're going anywhere for awhile."

When they woke up the next morning, they quickly dressed and sneaked back into Bonnie's hotel room, then curled up together in her bed. When there was a knock on the door, Bonnie put a robe on and Kol hid under the bed.

"Yes, sir?" She replied when she saw it was the ringmaster on the other side. "How are you this morning?"

"Very bad!" He snapped. "Someone's tampered with the bus and now it won't start! We'll be late for our upcoming shows!"

"Gee," Bonnie said with a grin, "Isn't that a shame?'

"Was it you?" The ringmaster asked her. "I ought to take your powers right now!"

He made to grab her and then let out a yell as he was pulled away from her with a whoosh and slammed against the wall. Then, before he could speak, his neck was snapped and he lay dead on the floor.

"Wow," Bonnie said to Kol. "That was simple enough. I wonder why none of us thought of that?"

Kol shrugged. "Who knows? I would have tortured him longer, cause he deserved it, but I figured it wouldn't have been nice for you to see, so..."

"So?" Bonnie asked. "What do you say you and I get dressed and tell everyone else they're free?"

Kol nodded. "And then I'm gonna take you home and we're going to lock the bedroom door and not come out for a few days. Is that all right with you?"

"Yeah," Bonnie laughed and gave the ringmaster's head a swift kick. "It's all right with me."