FOLLIS / Falling Leaves


Disclaimer: These characters are the creative property by the writers of The Vampire Diaries and CW. No copyright infringement is intended. Only the plot belongs to me.

Author: TLC

Rating: PG/ High Teen

Word count: 2, 912

Prompt: "1. Abandoned" (AH/AU)

A/N: I'll be doing this series over the time period from kindergarten to…. Idk yet. Hahaha ~ But I will tell you that it will surround one word prompts in alphabetical order. Inspired by one of the writers I follow on Quotev.


It's only the second month of kindergarten but the youngest Bennett was already exhausted, that happens when Caroline Forbes appoints you as one of her Best Friends -Forever. Of course she's honoured also a little weirded out. And then she found out Tyler Lockwood was in her class. Mom and Dad always told her to be nice to people even if they're mean to you, but Tyler was a special kind of bully. So Bonnie was determined to stay away from him as long as possible. Still it's nice, to go to school and see people who are happy to talk to her and be friends with her. Just because

Then one day, as she was playing princesses and knights with her friends she faced a challenge she didn't think she would have to accept until she was older. Much, much older. It's silly really; she just wanted to be the knight instead this time. The hero of the story. The boys laughed and the girls, well Caroline and Elena didn't really understand. Being the princess was the whole point to them, being beautiful and wanted was enough. So when push came to shove and Bonnie rebelled against the Matt, Tyler and even gentle-hearted Stefan; Caroline and Elena didn't have her back.

This will be the first time Bonnie understood being abandoned, something she'll unfortunately cope with for the rest of her life.

This pushed her to expand her horizons; Bonnie didn't really understand what that meant but Daddy said it would be good for her. So she tried joining in on the kids playing 'hide & seek'; hopscotch; 'jump frog' and then she found 'cops & robbers'. And Kol Mikaelson.

"No." Kol immediately snapped at Bonnie as soon as she even opened her mouth to ask him if she could play with him and his mates. He didn't like girls, they were loud and cried too easily but he especially didn't like Bonnie Bennett. Why you may ask, he could give you three reasons ~

1. She was a Bennett. Mikaelsons and the Bennetts have history. That's all his mother told him, so that was enough.

2. She called him 'stupid'. She said sorry later but still, Kol was not stupid. Girls are stupid.

3. She doesn't know his name! She even called him 'Kai' once.

Outraged, she cried out, "And why the hell not?"

"You're a girl and –"

Bonnie scoffed, "You're just afraid to lose to one." She taunted as she held onto her hips.

Fighting a rising blush across his cheeks, he barely resisted pushing this tiny girl to the ground, "Please, I have never lost to a girl."

"Well get ready, you're about to." Bonnie teased, snatching the base – ball that they were using as the 'treasure'.

For the game, Kol was a robber and she became a cop. Of course.

Now to win all Kol had to do was steal the ball from the tree Bonnie hid it in, there were 3 other players on each side so she only needed to tag a 'robber' before they got to the ball. He ran towards her, skidding to the side to dodge her but Bonnie managed to tag him just before reached the tree.

Fuming and humiliated, Kol pushed her to the ground. Bonnie kicked him in the shin.

"What's your deal, Kai?" She sneered at him before rushing to go get a teacher.

Holding onto his leg, "My name is KOL!" He yelled back.

Poetic Justice.

And that's how Bonnie and Kol became acquainted. She'll remember him as the snotty jerk that needed an attitude adjustment while he'll remember her as the haughty priss who kicked him for no good reason.

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"2. Acceptance" (AH/AU)

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the classes in her kindergarten school were mixed up; Bonnie didn't mind she still had most of her friends with her and the teacher was pretty cool.

Kol – on the other hand – did mind. When he found out he was going to be in the same class as Bonnie Bennett, his twin sister – Rebekah, thought his head was about explode. He dreaded being near her. He was sure he could convince mother that he didn't need to go to school.

Apparently he might need to have a chat with father because here he sat, right behind said Bennett. Kol wasn't a fan of acceptance. At all.

While Mr Duffy (his new homeroom teacher) went through the plan for today's lesson, Kol drew in the back of his notebook sneaking random peaks at her. Until his pencil broke, he's only 4 ½ years old so he only thought that he needed one pencil for the day. How wrong he was. He could ask his sister who sat beside him or Stefan Salvatore behind him but he knew one would say 'no' and the other 'get lost'. He wasn't a very liked kid. So he might as well suck up his proud and ask Bennett.

He reached over and tapped on her shoulder, she turned with a little divot between her brows, and Kol waved the broken pencil in question at her.

"Your name is Kol, right?" Bonnie asked a little unnerved at the frightening glare he directed at her.

With Kol clenching his teeth, Bonnie could barely make out an 'Hm'.

"I'm Bonnie," She offered with a smile as she passed him a spare pencil.

"Yeah. Thanks for this."

"You have to give it back you know." She reminded him, smirking as Kol flushed a bright pink.

Kol wandered if he could get away with jabbing this pencil into her hand.

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"3. Adoration" (AH/AU)

"How was school today, baby girl?" Abby asked as she properly locked in Bonnie with the seat belt on the passenger side.

Bonnie gave her mother a toothy grin, mindlessly pushing one of her bottom teeth with her tongue. "Alright, we did some painting and stuff today."

Abby nodded back, slowly pulling out from the school's parking lot, "That's nice, did you talk to Elena and Caroline like we discussed before?"

"No…" She trailed off, suddenly focused on the passing cars out the window. A red BMW, a green buggy, too ugly for the world Corolla.

"Bonnie – "

Bonnie swung her head to the side, refusing to look at her mother as she protested, "It's not my fault mama!"

"That doesn't matter, you're best friends and you forgive people that you love."

She was very disappointed in her daughter's friends but Abigail has known Miranda Gilbert and Elizabeth Forbes almost all her life and she knows that their girls are good kids. And that's all they are, kids. Sooner or later they would make up, but Abby knew Bonnie was willing to be the bigger person; she missed her girlfriends even if she didn't say so.

"But whyyyyy!" Bonnie whined purposely pouting for sympathy.

"Because you love them, and they love you." Abby reasoned, reaching over to push some wayward curly strands from Bonnie's face.

Pushing her mother's hand from her sight, "That's stupid."

"It's not stupid, honey. So will you talk to your friends, for mama?"

In an exaggerated manner, Bonnie sighed as she gave in, "Okay… But for you."

Abby smiled but that didn't stop her from pinching that beautiful sun-kissed cheek, "Thank you, so what else happened today?"

"We swapped classes and seats."

"Ah-huh…"

"And that jerk Kol sits behind me now."

"Bonnie – "Abby started her voice stern at her daughter's language.

"Well he is! Daddy agrees with me."

Abby shook her head; Rudy was too soft with Bonnie, "Your dad would agree with you about anything."

"I know." She boasted her visage smug and proud at being a daddy's girl.

Abby laughed, stopping at a red-light on a cross section, "You're something else, aren't you baby?"

"I'm a Bennett." Saying it in such a way that it was an honour to be part of this family.

"You sure are." She smirked; Bonnie was a lot like Sheila more than anyone, "Now tell about this Kol kid, did he hurt you again."

"No, he asked for a pencil and I let him borrow one." She explained, fiddling with the button of the radio.

"Then what's the problem?"

"I don't like him. He thinks he's better than me."

"Did he say that?" Abby pushed, adjusting the radio back to the news.

"No but – "

Abby sighed, for someone so young Bonnie was already pretty stubborn, "Then don't go making assumptions about people; you wouldn't want him to do that to you would you?"

"That's different…"

"And why's that?"

"He started it!" Abby chortled while Bonnie pouted stubbornly. "That stupid hair – it's too long! And his eyes, they're crooked! His ear are too big too and - - "

Listening as her daughter rambled the apparently many faults of Kol Mikaelson, Abby couldn't believe how lucky she got and as she watched her daughter with a look that could only be described as adoration Abigail Bennett thanked her mother for convincing her that having a family was a great blessing.

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"4. Afraid" (AH/AU)

After waking up to toothpaste in her hair for the fourth time that month Rebekah Mikaelson blew a casket and demanded to have her own room from Kol. Her brothers laughed at the sight of Colgate in her golden locks, father blinked and mother in her infinite wisdom told her to give it time. While Kol taunted her relentlessly Rebekah practiced the art of patience, well - until she punched him in the stomach. "Cheap shot ," He whimpered.

2 weeks and an eye-poking incident later, Mikael and Esther finally gave in to their little girl to give her the guest room as her own. At first Kol was thrilled, playing pranks on his sister to get her to move into her own room wasn't his goal but then he realised that he would be alone. He's not afraid of the dark or anything cause he's a big boy, he can dress himself and needs nobody's help to go to the toilet. He just doesn't like to be alone, it's too quiet but he won't tell anyone that. His brothers and sister will never let him forget it. So he had to come up with a way to keep Bekah in their old room without letting anyone know of his… problem.

Pulling his baby twin sister (yes, she's younger by 2 minutes) into the guest room Kol went on to explain how a monster lived in the closet.

"I don't believe you." Rebekah repeated while she pulled her wrist from his grip.

Plastering on the fakest innocent smile known to man, "I'm just trying to protect my favourite sister." Kol claimed and smirked at her scoff.

"I'm your only sister."

He waved his hand in the air determined to convince her, "Whatever – so the legend is that the monster comes out at night to prey on little blonde girls."

"Why blonde girls?" She reiterated moving herself to stand in front of him by the bed.

Leaning in towards her he whispered in her ear, "Cause they taste better."

For a moment Rebekah went still than smacked her brother for his foolishness, "You're an idiot, Kol."

"You may be right but – "

Kol stopped when he heard a banging noise coming from the cupboard, Rebekah jumped scrambling to get behind her big brother. When their ears peeked at the eerie sound of an animal's howl Rebekah pushed Kol to the ground running downstairs as shrieked "Mom!... Mom! There's a bloody monster in that room!"

Before he could get himself up, Klaus peeked around the closet door, "Psssh, she believed it right?"

Kol laughed gesturing for him to come out, "Yeah. She's not going anywhere."

Well he had to tell someone and Klaus wanted that room to himself so all's well that ends well.

"So you're afraid of the dark?" Klaus questioned grinning like the cat that ate the canary.

"I'm not – Mind your business Nik."

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"5. Aggravated" (AH/AU)

Halfway through their year, Bonnie surprisingly and unbelievably had her first growth spurt, becoming one of the tallest kids out of both the girls and boys. Kol couldn't believe it, she use to be one of the smallest people he had ever seen; now he refused to stand next to her. Bonnie was loving it though; Grams warned her that it wouldn't last long so enjoy it while it lasts. She gets teased now and then - mostly by Tyler but after hitting him in the head with his own football she hasn't been bothered since.

She could now reach the second highest shelf on the backpack rack and was able to snatch the cookie jar in the kitchen. She's not meant to cause Grams would smack her bottom with a ruler if she found out, and she wouldn't dare… Only to make a point to Caroline and Elena.

Did she mention that she could see over the dash in daddy's truck? It's a whole new world up there.

While on the other hand, Kol was aggravated for a lack of a better word. If he was going to destroy that elf Bonnie Bennett he needed to humiliate her at every turn. So when Kol asked his big brother – Elijah – how to grow taller, faster, it was need to know. Kol trusted his brother Elijah the most, Finn always told on him to Mother, Nik was a monster and Henri was just a chubby baby that drooled constantly but it turned out that he was wrong. He ended up being tricked to being bound to his bed with ropes tied to his wrists and ankles, sadly until mother walked in he was none the wiser.

Thanks to Bonnie Bennett, he found out that Elijah was the worst of them all. Now he had rope burns and his arms and legs hurt like a nutcracker.

His biggest problem now was figuring out a new name for Bennett, he couldn't call her elf anymore. Elves were small and funny looking. Kol still thought Bonnie had some freaky eyes but at this point he'll call her Troll. They're big, ugly and live under bridges. Plus 2 out of 3 wasn't bad right?

In a few months, Kol will be glad to find out that Bonnie's magical grow spurt didn't last long and he could go back to calling her an Elf.

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"6. Amazed" (AH/AU)

Every week the girls and guys split off to play team sports with their home teachers, they change activities each week to mix it up. This week for girls was netball and the boys did baseball. After Caroline and Rebekah started a fight in the middle of the game, Mr Duffy decided to call it quits. Bonnie was beginning to think that most of her friends had a violent streak in them. So the group moved to watch their male classmates play ball behind the cages.

Clapping whenever one of the guys ran to home base, Bonnie was getting increasingly bored but her interests reluctantly peaked when Kol stepped up to bat. He waved to the small crowd and even had the nerve to wink at the girls; she was almost tempted to sabotage him to a first strike. Apparently Kol had a reason to be arrogant, surprisingly and amazingly he hit a home run on his first swing; she was kinda – sorta amazed at his skill with baseball. Until…

Matt was up at home base while Stefan was getting ready to pitch, Bonnie cheered for Matt (of course) while Caroline and Elena cried out Stefan's name in chants. She screamed as Mattie hit the ball high in the air and ran for first base, second base and just as he passed third base Kol purposely stuck his foot out sending Matt skidding face first into the dirt.

…. Kol tripped Mattie. Well Bonnie wanted to vomit at the thought of giving him some credit, things probably ended up for the best.

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"7. Amused" (AH/AU)

He would take it to his grave – hopefully decades from now, he's only 5 might he add – but Kol's first and only weakness was tomatoes. If you asked him they're red and juicy, what more did you need? As a result, when lunchtime rolled around on the second Tuesday of August and Bonnie opened up her 'ninja turtles' crib box, Kol spotted a bunch of bright, firm cherry tomatoes his mouth watered a little. Who's he kidding? He was drooling.

As subtly as a kindergarten kid could he tapped on the left of her shoulder as his other reached around the right for her lunchbox aiming for those beautiful tomatoes, nearly jumping out of his skin when her dainty hand clutched at his forearm.

Bonnie giggled at the blush on his face, "That's called stealing Mikaelson."

"I just wanted a couple…" He weakly argued, avoiding her laughing green eyes.

Waving one of the red fruits before his face, Bonnie asked with a hint of mischief, "Really?"

A little distracted by his favourite food, "Ah-huh. "

Looking at his lunch spread out on the desk behind hers, she found her favourite fruit, was it fate? She seemed to think so…

"How about this, I'll swap you my cherry tomatoes for those strawberries, all of them." Bonnie offered already mentally giving herself a pat on her back at the giddy light in his eyes.

Kol had to admit that he was impressed at the Elf's skill of compromise while he was amused at her eyeing the strawberries his mother packed him. Seems like a win-win situation to him.