Chapter 18

Kol entered his suite in a flash and closed the door. Bonnie whirled around. She hadn't been expecting anyone to join her.

"Don't you have Damon to antagonize and Elena to protect?"

"First of all you're confusing me with Elijah or worse yet The Salvatore brothers," Kol scoffed, "and secondly I am far more interested in you."

"Well then it sucks to be you," Bonnie snarled. She moved to walk around him and a second later he had her pinned against a wall. He was startled when her strength almost matched his own. Apparently so was she because the fight went out of her. He reached up and gently caressed her cheek.

"Stop hiding BonBon," Kol said gently. "Getting my memories back did not change the way I feel about you and they certainly didn't change the way you feel about me. You may think you're hiding from me but you're really only hiding from your own feelings. Your emotions are heightened now and you're wasting them on avoiding me because it was okay to have feelings for me when neither of us had to acknowledge my past." She looked away from him.

"I'll give you some time to think about all of this Bonnie but I plan to stay close to you," he said firmly. "In a little while you're going to feed and it's going to all get easier from there on out."

Elena found Bonnie in her room and knocked on the door, waiting for Bonnie to open it. The door flung open by magic as Bonnie sat on her bed, knees up to her chest and her face in said knees. Elena sat beside her as she rubbed her back, soothingly.

"I know that you hate the fact that I'm still needed-before it was for the sacrifice and then for being a bloodbag but I'm doing this again-breaking his curse-because he doesn't feel complete." She sighed. "When you were in transition and you couldn't feel nature, you wanted to lash out and scream, right?" At Bonnie's nod, Elena continued. "He's feeling like that because he can't access that part of him-his wolf legacy-the only thing he has of his birth father."

"Yeah well Kol's spell to give my back my witchcraft - and you can't ever mention that again - didn't cost anyone their life! No one Elena! ...well just me I guess..." Bonnie sighed and looked away a moment. "Elena are you really sure you want to be a vampire? So far I'm terrified and I can't get rid of this burning in my throat. The heightened emotions don't seem fantastic either..." Bonnie worried.

"I would have told you before that I didn't want to but now knowing them," she sighed as she looked at her. "I want to do this. Not just for Klaus and Elijah, I want to do this for everyone. None of this is his fault. It's Esther's fault for what's happened."

"Yes and you're going in with the best intentions Elena, I know, but what happens this time once we make him the hybrid again and he's once more got the upper hand over Kol, Elijah and Rebekah not to mention us...do you really believe next time there's a disagreement that he won't simply dagger Elijah? Could you really stand to go through that Elena?"

"I don't think he'll want to dagger them again...haven't you been watching him with his siblings? They've been acting like a real family and having fun! Everything that's happened from when they've had their minds wiped till now, they've been a family and I think that he wants that to continue." She gave her a hard look. "I don't care what reservations you have against it and yes-I'm doing this and going through with this-but for once, don't coddle me and don't try to guilt trip me with acting all 'martyr like' because it gets old, fast." Standing up, she walked towards the door.

"Elena," Bonnie called halting her best friend's progress. "I'm sorry. I'm not going for martyrdom. I just don't want you to have any regrets. Honestly I haven't really been giving the whole Klaus thing a lot of thought if I'm entirely honest...I've had something else on my mind."

Elena nodded and as she turned to look at her, hand on the doorknob, she spoke softly. "It's okay if you haven't been putting a lot of thought into it but I have since I found out and this is my choice, my decision so please respect it." She ended up smirking. "Also-talk to Kol about how you're feeling with all this alright?"

Bonnie smiled at her, "Of course I respect your decision; you're my best friend. So...you and Elijah? This is really happening? Caroline seemed to be coming to terms with her feelings for Klaus before this too..." It seemed like there was definitely something Bonnie was not saying.

Elena smiled back at her widely. "Yes, me and Elijah." Her cheeks reddened as she thought about him. "He makes me feel...amazing. He doesn't care about me like I'm a prize to be won or anything but he does care about me like I'm his everything and I like it. I love him Bonnie. I love him with my entire being."

Bonnie got off the bed and walked to Elena's side with a big smile. She enveloped her friend in a carefully measured hug. She was a little unsure of herself right now. "I am so happy for you Elena. I can tell that the two of you really love one another. Wow, my two best friends in love with two original brothers...didn't we used to hate them or something?" Bonnie finished with a quip.

"Years ago maybe," she teased. "But I've always been attracted to Elijah, even when I was with Stefan. I don't know what it was about him that I found so...attractive-besides his looks-until I realized that I was attracted to him because he was the only one who didn't try to coddle me or anything. He treated me like an equal." Her eyes danced with some unshed tears. "You can understand that, can't you? Being treated just for who you are?"

Bonnie was obviously approximating a blush as her thoughts returned to Kol and the way he thought she was the most beautiful and interesting of the three girls. Everyone seemed to gravitate to Elena and Caroline first. Then when that was over Bonnie got to be second best but Kol had only ever looked at her since he'd come to Mystic Falls. "Yeah," She finally answered, "Elena am I crazy for feeling this way about him? I mean without his memories I thought maybe it was just a little thing but now..."

Elena nodded. "Go and tell Kol how you feel." Elena took a deep breath. "I still have to tell Jeremy that I'm doing the sacrifice again and hope he doesn't go mad at me for it." Opening the door, Elena made a motion for Bonnie to go find Kol while she left the room, her cell phone in hand and ready to call Jeremy.

Kol found Elijah in his study and flopped into a chair with a drink in hand.

"Brother I hear you're contemplating making a vampire..." Kol decided to break the ice.

"I am." He looked him over. "Why is this any concern of yours? You already sired Miss Bennett and Miss Forbes is of Niklaus' line. Why should it matter that Lovely Elena will be of mine?"

"Wow Elijah, when you go all defensive like that it's practically a dead giveaway that you haven't popped the siring cherry," Kol laughed. "I actually have no interest in your siring Elena so long as that makes you happy. As you said I have my own sire to worry about - one that's not feeding or eating..."

"Have you tried talking to her or helping her with the feeding?" he asked as he raised an eyebrow at him. "Maybe help her with what she's feeling and see if she is doing well with this newest transition in her life."

Kol was quiet for a long moment. Normally he would just play off Elijah's well-intentioned advice. He always preferred to not show anything that could be perceived as weakness but this was Elijah...and more importantly it was Bonnie.

"No, I haven't asked her because what do I do if the answer is she hates it. What if she's miserable and she wants out?" Kol said with genuine undisguised worry. "I keep trying to be patient like you're always yelling at me - I still think it's senseless by the way."

Elijah sighed. "It is not senseless Kol." He eyed him and at how miserable he was looking. "From what I can tell, it doesn't seem like she wants out." He quickly got up and from the mini bar nearest him, grabbed a club glass and a bottle of scotch. Pouring it, he took a sip and smirked at him. "If she is miserable, find something about this life that she will like and no, it cannot just be sex." He took another sip. "Maybe lend her some grimoires that you've collected and look through all of them as she is a hybrid witch vampire-there might be something that she likes in them."

"Do you think Klaus is right?" Kol worried, "love is a vampire's greatest weakness?"

"Love is not a vampire's greatest weakness but it can be it's greatest strength."

"I'm feeling something through my bond with her," Kol frowned, "I've never felt it before. You do realize once you turn Elena you'll be able to connect with her through your blood in her veins. I wound up killing a bunch of my sires that way..."

"Unlike you brother, she will be my first sire and there will be no way for me to kill her."

"I won't hurt Bonnie!" Kol said adamantly setting his glass firmly on the table his relaxed manner replaced for one more befitting a caged animal.

"I know that but does she know this?"

"Not according to the train wreck of a three-way conversation going on upstairs," Klaus said as he settled onto the sofa with a sketchpad. "How do they even keep up with what they're saying?"

"What did she say?" Kol jumped in eagerly and Klaus grinned. The hybrid looked to Elijah and smirked.

"He doesn't know what's hit him yet does he?" Klaus asked Elijah in reference to their younger brother.

"I don't think so brother." Elijah himself had a smirk on his face. "It will be interesting to see his reaction." He added with some playfulness they haven't seen since they were changed.

"I'll show the two of you some reaction if someone doesn't start explaining!" Kol growled.

"Kol," Elijah said lightly. "Just relax and Niklaus will explain this to you, am I correct?" The look he gave him was intense.

"Elijah believes you're in love with your little witch," Klaus grinned, "and not the sadistic fantasies you usually indulge in but something you haven't encountered in a thousand years..."

"Have you not noticed it yourself Kol? You are worrying over her and unlike our brother here who believes that love is a terrible burden to carry, you seem to enjoy being in it." He could see Kol looking at them with wide eyes and an innocent gaze up at the ceiling. "You have fallen in love and yet you are terrified of it. Don't be. Embrace it."

Kol flashed out of the study and Klaus looked to Elijah with a raised brow.

"He's turning out more like you every day," Klaus smirked.

"Five hundred says she's professing her love for him before breakfast tomorrow," Elijah smirked as well.

"Not a chance, she was running scared up there," Klaus said with wolfish grin.

"Are you sure that you want to do the sacrifice again and have Elena's death on your conscious?" Klaus suddenly asked.

"First of all I am not allowing or denying Elena anything," Elijah replied. "She is completely capable of making her own decisions. I look at it from a slightly different angle Niklaus; Elena has asked me to turn her and you just happen to be getting your sacrifice out of it. I can give to two of my family members at the same time."

"She is willing to turn to be what everyone doesn't want her to be?" the question fell before he could stop himself. At his brother's nod, he gave him a grin. "I hope that everything works out in your favor brother."

"And what of you and the enchanting Miss Forbes, brother?" Elijah raised a brow. He couldn't remember the last time he had such an amiable conversation with either of his brothers and yet here they were.

"I believe that it's none of your business brother." Klaus glared at him as he spoke. "She and I are...not where I want us to be." That was putting it delicately.

They were in a very bad place and he hated it.

"What stands in your way?" Elijah asked evenly. Despite all their past conflicts Elijah truly wanted his brother to find happiness; he rather especially liked the idea of it being with Caroline.

"For some reason I don't think she's all too happy with me wanting to break the curse again because of what happened last time." He held his head down in shame for having killed Jenna.

"These are three of the strongest young women I have ever met, Klaus; none of them like to be bullied. Last time I was indulging your lust for power and control to suit my own agenda. I cornered and coerced Elena and her friends - until I realized that amazing young woman could see right through me and she still wanted to cooperate. Then you showed up like the big, bad wolf," Elijah smirked at the partially intentioned pun, "and you tried to force an already compliant young woman into a corner. Caroline, Elena and Bonnie are loyal to one another with every fiber of their beings. If I remember correctly Elena's aunt, Jenna was your second choice. You tried to use Caroline herself." Elijah paused a moment, trying to carefully measure both his words and Klaus' mood.

"They truly hated you back then brother," Elijah continued, "but since then you have been slowly allowing your humanity back to the surface. It is not your weakness brother but your strength. Caroline was willing to tend to you for a week while you remembered nothing. They could have played us all brother but now they are here willingly; even now Caroline is still here. She is worried Niklaus and I don't believe she's the only one; that you will give into your baser urge for power and control. She does not want her heart to be the victim if you choose to let your anger and aggression rule once more."

There were no words from Klaus as he took in his brother's words. Yes, before he bullied them with his blatant use of power and control, but now...now he wanted to be a part of something that had been lost to him because of their mother.

"It won't happen again like it did last time." He promised his elder brother. "I know my word means nothing to you but I swear that it won't happen like it did last time. We will have either Sage or Mary for the vampire, Elena for the doppelganger and a female wolf for the wolf part. No mess though I wish we could use Katerina but death will be too easy." That last part he had a wicked grin gracing his lips.

"May I ask you the most simple and most difficult question? Do you love her Niklaus?"

Klaus stared at him and blinked twice before nodding.

"I do. I do love her."

"Then I offer you this piece of advice," Elijah said gently, "when Elena announced her intentions rather than jump to conclusions I sat down with her and we talked about it. Sit down with Caroline and be honest with her. Lay all of your feelings on the matter on the table; it is not a sign of weakness but a show of strength. Be prepared because she may not immediately or even ever fall in line with your wishes but I have a feeling that you could both find where you stand on the issue and there would be some middle ground there. Iron fist never won fair maiden." Klaus snorted.

"Where did you hear that line from?" he instantly sobered up. "Are you sure that this will work? What if she decides that being with me-a monster-isn't worth it?" For the first time in one thousand years, he was finally showing his brother the one emotion he kept under lock and key-fear.

"If Caroline Forbes was going to reject you because she thought you were a monster she would have done so when you were actually behaving like one. Now that she's gotten to know the real you I'm rather afraid you're stuck with her. Not to mention since Elena is soon to be my sire and Kol has sired Bonnie and is hopefully romancing her as we speak I believe they come as a matched trio..." Elijah smirked at his brother. "You'd best hold up your end of the deal. Would it help if I told you she was playing with your insignia ring yesterday?" Klaus nodded happily.

"It would help matters greatly Elijah." He went over to the door and grinned. "I have a blonde baby vampire to talk to brother! Thank you for the enlightening conversation!" Once that was said, he left the room and Elena walked in, staring at Klaus' back with a weird look.

"Is he okay or did your mother put another spell on him?" she asked and Elijah laughed.

Kol found Bonnie sitting on his bed with her knees curled against her chest. Elena and Caroline seemed to be a little worried. Kol offered his best smile.

"Could you ladies please excuse me and Bonnie? I would like some alone time with her," Kol said gently. Elena and Caroline exchanged a quick glance, smiled at Bonnie and then left the room. Kol settled next to Bonnie on the bed. He looked at her for a moment before he opened his wrist and let the smell of blood permeate the room. Bonnie's eyes immediately darkened. She turned her head away and his wrist closed up. He opened it again and this time Bonnie fled across the room but he was right behind her. Her back was against a wall now and he leaned casually over her.

"Bonnie I don't know why you think you need to fight this," he said gently. "Is it because you think I don't care for you? Or is it because you're afraid to care for me? Look into my eyes Bonnie and see what's really there because I can already see the depths of your feelings in your beautiful eyes." He blinked and dropped his façade of disinterest letting Bonnie see every raw emotion he was feeling.

As she continued to stare into his eyes her heart rate elevated and as she gasped Kol lowered his head and his lips met with hers. She hesitated for a moment before she opened her mouth to him and her hands slid into his hair. Their kissing quickly became feverish and Kol gripped her backside lifting her up the wall. She wrapped her legs around his waist and moaned as she felt his desire pressed against her.

Boldly she gripped Kol's shirt and tore it open sending buttons flying while he smirked at her. He gripped her shirt and snatched it off of her. He grinned as he admired her pert breasts displayed perfectly in her black lace push-up bra. He leaned in to kiss her shoulder and then his mouth worked its way down onto the tops of her breasts.

"Do you like that little witch?" he asked as she trembled against him. She answered by reclaiming his mouth for another kiss. He flashed them over to the bed and gently laid her down never breaking the kiss. Her hands left his shoulders to trace the contours of his chest as his lips trailed down her neck. He dipped his tongue into the hollow at the base of her neck and she moaned. In a flash he ripped her bra apart and tossed its remains over his shoulder. Bonnie frowned.

"I'll buy you a dozen more, gorgeous" Kol grinned. Bonnie blushed as much as she could when she realized how much of her he was seeing. She tried to cover herself but he lifted her arms over her head and pinned them there. His knees were straddling her hips and with a smirk he looked his fill. Then he leaned down and his lips touched one tender peak setting Bonnie on fire. It was as though she could feel every nerve-ending in her body. He licked and sucked until she was writhing with pleasure. He switched to the other side and her back arched off the bed in response.

The youngest living original had moved his hands to brace himself as he worked. He was a little surprised as he realized her hands were undoing the button on his jeans. Kol smirked as Bonnie lowered his zipper. He groaned as she slipped her hand inside and began to caress him he enjoyed the pleasures of her touch for a few minutes before he backed down her legs and took her pants with him. His lips branded her skin as he started at her knee and worked his way up her inner thigh.

His knuckles rubbed her underwear against her innermost space and he smiled as he felt her moist heat. Her sharp intake of breath told him she was in uncharted territory and with a grin he pushed her underwear aside and slipped a finger inside. Her gaze snapped up to meet his. He held her gaze and the depth of his just fueled the emotions raging within her and pooling deep inside. His thumb found her bundle of nerves and Bonnie groaned with delight which spurred him on.

Soon it wasn't enough and he ripped her underwear away before slipping another finger inside her. He could feel her muscles tightening; feel the tension building within her and he smiled.

"Kol! Kol! I'm going to…"

"I know beautiful; I've got you." He leaned in and kissed her before he watched her face as her world came apart. As the sensations began to subside he increased his movements to vampire speed and watched as Bonnie had several climaxes. She arched her back and gripped the sheets as wave after wave of pleasure washed over her.

"I think you're ready darling," he said tenderly before his lips met hers. His underwear discarded he slowly slipped inside her. "Don't tense up love. The pain will go away I promise." Bonnie couldn't imagine this was possibly going to work; she had just seen Kol in all his glory and there was no way he was going to fit. Just as she contemplated that thought however he settled completely inside of her. He kissed her forehead tenderly and then her lips.

Once she had relaxed a little he began to move and soon her movements matched his as they each strove for climax; climbing towards a peak of pleasure. Gripping her thigh Kol tilted her hips and Bonnie cried out as he nailed her G-spot. Her eyes went wide as she realized the house wasn't empty.

"Don't worry; no one can hear us in here," Kol smirked, "I like my privacy." He continued to hit that perfect spot over and over and Bonnie began to fall apart in his arms as first one climax and then another slammed into her.

"Kol! Kol!" she cried out his name and he smirked.

"That's right darling I want you to say it," he said. "Whose are you?"

"Yours"

"Say it Bonnie"

"I'm yours Kol; and you're mine," Bonnie said and he wondered if she realized how gloriously beautiful she looked right now with her hair all wild about her, in the full throws of passion and her face completely vamped out. Of course so was his and it had been a very long time since he had harnessed so much control. Finally his released slammed into him and he bit her wrist. A moment later his pleasure increased as her fangs broke the sweet spot on his neck and their passion reached new highs as they blood shared. Finally he released her wrist and she lifted her head. He rolled to his side and pulled her close against him.

"You're mine little witch – always and forever."

Klaus went over to track Caroline down and as he passed her bedroom door, he heard her start crying. He began to turn the doorknob but it wouldn't budge and as much as he loved his house, he didn't need another repair bill sent to him-the last time that happened was because of Kol and his love for his baseball bat breaking most of the walls in the living room and utterly destroying his room.

Sighing, he said, "Caroline love! Please! Open the door so we can talk!"

No answer but he could hear the music pumping out through the iHome that was in all the rooms. He wasn't paying attention to Blank Space by Taylor Swift as he pounded on the door again.

"Caroline! Open the door please!"

Again, no answer but the repeating of Taylor Swift just ran up his annoyance factor by tenfold.

I hope that she forgives me for this he thought as he broke down the door and found her glaring at him through tear stained eyes on her bed. Crossing over to her, he shut off the iHome and scooped her up in his arms. He raced down the stairs and once he found the pool he had installed (it looked more like an underwater lagoon than an indoor pool really) and tossed her in.

"NIKLAUS MIKAELSON! YOU ARE SO DEAD!" she screamed and he was thrilled that he got her to speak. He smirked and jumped in with her. "I am going to make you pay for what you did!" she was seething mad.

"Catch me if you can love," he told her and flashed away to the other end of the lagoon. She went in that same direction only for him to end up near the waterfall and it kept going until she gave in and he was right in front of her. "Are you willing to listen to what I have to say or are we going to continue playing hide and seek in the pool?" he asked casually. She snorted.

"This isn't a pool-it's a freakin' lagoon!" she looked at him and saw just how vulnerable he was being with her. "I'm just…I don't know what's going to happen when you become the Hybrid again. I'm just afraid that you'll go on a murder spree or something like that." He shook his head.

"That was before my enlightening chat with Elena." He saw her look surprised. "Oh yes, we spoke about why she's doing this and all. This time, none of what happened from before will happen again and though you don't believe me, I will make sure none of it will happen."

"So you won't go after Elena and kill her because she became a vampire?" He nodded.

"She would be Elijah's first ever sired vampire-the last time he tried to do this it ended badly." He looked down. "He had wanted to sire Tatia's child-a little boy-when he was older as Elijah cared for him throughout his lifetime but Andras told him that he wanted to experience this human life and Elijah allowed him."

"So when he found Katerina five hundred years later…" she was now grasping the situation Elijah had placed himself in. "He never truly fell for her did he?"

He nodded again. "He didn't. Yes, he wanted her saved and to be sacrificed but he was going to compel her to move to some English city and to start a family with who she loved but look how that turned out."

She wanted to feel horrible for Elijah-he had given up his heart to one woman but she had died and he had wanted to protect her son but he wanted to die.

"He wears his heart on his sleeve more than Rebekah could ever try to mimic." He chuckled before turning sober. "I'm not going to hound my future sister just because she didn't stay human. There will be no way for me to win if I do that." He pulled her flush against him, the water suddenly heating up between them. "I swear to you Caroline Forbes, I swear that I won't go back on my word-your friends will be safe this time around."

As much as he wanted to kiss her, he wanted to go slow with her and if she wanted a kiss, she would have to be the one to initiate it.

Laying his forehead against hers, he allowed his humanity to turn on again and it was only for her.

His humanity was Caroline Forbes.

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