A/N: Sorry for taking too long to update this. I was just distracted by my new fanfic 'Original Sin' I had to get the first 5 chapters of that one out of the way before going back to this one which I love equally.

We have Klaroline, Kennett and Stefarine. But sadly, Elijah is all alone…any suggestions on that one.

I love Enzo's humor so I'm bringing him into this story, to team up with Damon, yey! With them together, they would create so trouble for the Mikaelsons….also to bring in a little brother jealousy for Stefan, coz hello Denzo bromance!

World's Apart

Chapter 13

After the dinner fiasco with Haley and Elijah, the Mikaelsons have yet to have another that would put all three brothers with their mother on the same dinner table but after what had happened two nights ago, the brothers had thought it prudent to formally introduce Bonnie to the family Matriarch, a first for Kol. So there they sat all together, Klaus at the head of the table to his immediate right his Caroline, to his immediate left was Kol. Esther Mikaelson was at the other end of the table to her right was Bonnie Bennett who was seated beside Kol and on her left was Elijah who was situated beside Caroline.

It started as an awkward dinner with Kol still not used to acting like a proper gentleman being stuck to his young and carefree ways. It was up to Caroline, who by this time was pretty much used to Esther and her old world manners to buffer between making her friend comfortable and keeping Kol in check.

"I hope you are recovered from your ordeal my dear," Esther had warmly smiled at Caroline. She was happy to note the progress Klaus and Caroline had made in their relationship. She knew her boy needed someone like Caroline in his life.

"I'm fine now, your son as always was there for me, so where Kol and Elijah." Caroline answered.

"My sons have informed me that you have been appraised of the business." Esther asked Caroline once again.

Looking at Klaus first before looking back at Esther, "yes, I have."

Esther looked Klaus in the eye before turning back to Caroline with a smile, "good, that's good. You know if you need me for anything at all, you know where to find me. You have become a daughter to me," directing the help to clear the dishes for the next course.

Esther slowly looked to her right, appraising Bonnie who had picked up her wine glass to sip, "my dear, I hear you are a close friend of Caroline?"

Bonnie almost choked while drinking, this was the first time Esther had addressed her directly. Looking at Caroline who was giving her encouragement, she turned to Esther nervously and said, "yes, she is my best friend, we co-own with another friend the Café," she finished.

Esther summed up Bonnie, "best friends, so you have known dear Caroline for sometime? And she knows you well?" as if saying, as long as Caroline approves of you, then you are good enough for my son.

Caroline glared at Kol who finally took the hint to mediate for Bonnie, "mother, enough with the twenty questions, they practically grew up together, same hometown. Both of them are only children so they're like sisters."

Esther smirked, "it's nice to hear you finally speak up son, I thought for a minute you and Ms. Bennett where total strangers the way you where acting."

This got a chuckle from Klaus who was also noting how Kol was acting. But he had enough of egging on Kol and finally decided to take the topic to another direction, "Mother, my brothers and I has things to discuss while we are all here, do you mind escorting the girls to the parlour for coffee?"

Esther nodded, "ladies, one thing you should learn to read is to know when you are being dismissed, come along, at least now I have you girls to keep me company."

Esther's sons stood up and went to kiss the cheek of their mother knowing that the slant was not empty, "I can never stay mad at any of you for long, now run along and leave us, it is rare I am surrounded by young beautiful company."

Elijah went ahead to the study which apparently was the venue for the boys discussion, before Klaus went to join his brother, he gave Caroline a quick kiss on the lips and said that he would join them after a few minutes. Kol for his part, stepped to join Elijah before seeing Klaus making a beeline for Caroline and followed suit to give Bonnie a quick peck on the cheek.

His ministration did not go unnoticed by Caroline and Esther, who each hid a smile. Bonnie however was blushing, still not comfortable with the situation she was in.

"Is there any chatter on the Silas matter?" Klaus asked his brothers.

Kol shrugged, "none that could be traced back directly to Silas and Salvatore. It's just a general alert amongst the families with interests."

Klaus poured himself and his brothers a glass each before handing each a glass and taking his usual chair, "I've been contacted by people of Markos who have been consolidating their assets and affiliates, taking advantage of the Silas current state. What do you think Elijah?"

Elijah shrugged, "Markos has been a rising player, third in rank right now behind the Silas-Salvatore merger and our empire. If the S&S merger is on shaky ground then its ripe for the picking. I have it on record that the investors have been breathing down Damon Salvatore's neck during the last week. Salvatore is not known to be as competent as Silas, hence the panic of the investors."

Klaus nodded, "and your research on Haley's assets,that are part of her estate?"

Elijah put down his glass, "the Marshall lawyers have been parked in my office for a few days now, trying to best resolve the issue. I think they are still filtering through distinguishing Haley's and Silas' assets. It looks like since Silas used Haley's trust fund as leverage to buy into Salvatore, and as her named heir, I might turn out to be part-owner of the Salvatore empire."

Klaus warned his brother, "that would also put you directly into the line of fire of Silas, should he survive, any word on his condition?"

Elijah nodded, "his lawyers just said he is recovering, sketchy information."

Klaus smirked, "well as a dutiful ex-son-in-law, shouldn't you visit your father-in-law, it might be a good time to test the waters."

Klaus turned to Kol, "it's time to also get more intel on Salvatore, we wouldn't want Markos uncontested when the once great Salvatore empire is ripe for the picking," grinning, "in the meantime little brother, I suggest you exert more effort in making your girl more comfortable. Your sharing our family history with her suggests you are thinking of her as more than a passing fancy?" Klaus finished with his eyebrow raised.

Kol grumbled, "mother is making this difficult."

Elijah shook his head, "on the contrary, mother exerted more effort to put your girl at ease than you did."

Kol scowled, "now you're both lecturing me. I liked it better when it was just Klaus," promptly standing up to leave the room.

Klaus also stood up and approached Elijah who was standing up the whole meeting, "come now, let's have coffee with the ladies."

By the time the brothers had entered the parlour, the three ladies were laughing, fully relaxed. Kol had entered first, finding Bonnie and sitting down beside her, "miss me Bonnie love?"

His question earned him an eyeroll from Caroline, who was very much at eased with Esther. Bonnie also wanted to roll her eyes but was afraid that Esther would frown at the action instead glared at Kol. She was glad at the distraction of the entry of Klaus and Elijah with Klaus kissing Caroline's cheek once again before sitting beside her on the loveseat and Elijah taking the last single chair opposite his mother.

Esther truly loved occasions like this which were now very rare, the quite dinner with her sons, now with the addition of Caroline who she had quickly grown to love as a daughter she had never had and the mysterious Bonnie who was still ill at ease with the family, she has never enjoyed a moment like this in a very long time. Thinking it would hopefully be a matter of time before she would be surrounded by grandchildren, she secretly craved for grand kids and had almost lost hope of ever having them, given the world they moved around in.

"Good Morning Bonnie Love!" Caroline teased as she arrived at the Café. As usual Caroline had her now ever present security detail consisting of a personal driver and body guard who drove her thru and fro the Café everyday….

Bonnie grumbled, "don't you start with me, it was so embarrassing. How could you be so relaxed in their company? I mean, hello! Not only are they like a billion rich, they're scary and so….british!"

Caroline laughed heartily, "that's a good one, but seriously! At the beginning I didn't have my memory so it wasn't so intimidating for me, well only Elijah was a bit aloof but since he wasn't always there it didn't bother me that much."

"I felt like I was under a microscope, I should never had agreed to the dinner," Bonnie said.

Caroline went to her friend and sat down beside her, "hey, no one is judging you. They are a tad intimidating but they grow on you, you'll get used to it."

Bonnie winced, "I don't know if I want them to grow on me as you put it, I'm just so frustrated with Kol. He practically blackmailed me to go to the dinner then ignored me the whole time!"

Caroline smiled, "well the way I see it, Kol was as nervous as you were, according to Klaus he had never introduce a girl to his family before, so that should count for something, Both of you are adjusting. Wait 'til you let him meet your parents that would be something."

Bonnie laughed at that, "small town mayor meets my mobster boyfriend, yah that would go so well."

Caroline lifted an eyebrow, "boyfriend ha? So you're like together, together now?"

Bonnie shrugged, "I guess so."

Caroline teased Bonnie, "so how together are you, like 'oh God' together or like 'don't you dare hold my hand' together?"

Bonnie rolled her eyes at Caroline, "quit with the third degree will you," looking around, where's Kat?"

Caroline answered, "she said she will be here a bit later than usual, by the way, we have to celebrate. The article has brought in more clients and the Kat has been bugging us about deciding on the second branch."

Bonnie smiled, "we really should take a look at the area Kat scouted, she said it had good foot traffic, perfect for the Café."

"For someone who owns a Café you suspiciously know very little about cooking." Stefan stated.

Kat drank her coffee, "that's because I run the front-end of the Café, you know marketing, public relations, the like. Caroline is the expert on that front."

Stefan smiled, "well lucky for you, I am a great home chef. One omelet with everything on it, as requested mademoiselle," putting the plate in front of Katherine before grabbing her neck to give her a kiss.

The ringing of Stefan's phone interrupted their passionate make-out, Stefan broke the kiss and laughed, "sorry, I have to take this."

"Brother, what can I do for you." Stefan listen for a minute before saying, "I will meet you for lunch is that fine with you?" pausing again before he finally said, "see you later."

Katherine searched Stefan's face, "everything ok?"

Stefan smiled, "yes, everything's fine, he just wanted to meet for lunch." Looking at Katherine, "you know, you should meet him, I will set up dinner."

Katherine bit her lip, "really, you sure." Stefan shrugged, "well I met your friends, so it's only fair that you meet my brother. I want you to meet him," Stefan told Katherine before leaning in again for another kiss.

"Sorry I'm late brother, what do you want to talk about?" Stefan asked his brother.

Damon signaled the waiter to refill his brink and to get his brother a drink before answering, "I went to Silas but he's still in coma in ICU, doctors are not really confident he would recover. Something about some shrapnel from the blast damaging his internal organs, so it's going to be a longtime, only time will tell if he would pull-through.

Stefan frowned, "then you will have to do some damage control, take over the reins again, Dad trained you for this."

Damon shook his head, "I don't want this that was the reason why I readily passed the baton to Silas, with him down, the situation is messier than ever. You know I don't thrive in this type of environment."

Stefan, "okay, so what do you want to do."

Damon leaned back from his chair, "the way I look at it I have options to consider, "liquidate some assets by getting new partners on board, getting someone else the run the empire or wait until Silas recovers, if he ever recovers."

Stefan drowned his drink before saying, "I don't think you should consider the third option, I'm sure the investors will have your neck if you wait that long. Getting someone to run things is an option but it would be difficult to get someone we trust plus someone Silas would be able to work with if he recovers. Getting more partners or investors to cover the losses, I have been out of the business to long but last I heard, it was just the Mikaelsons who had the funds and capability to handle the empire."

Damon eyed his brother, "there's a new player in town who has the clout to pull this through, off course the Mikaelsons are still on top but from the intel, looks like this player is loaded too." Damon sighed, "I don't know, Mikaelson has been snooping into the affairs of Silas, do you know he's actually his son-in-law? Married Haley, Silas daughter who suspiciously passed a day after Silas was almost killed, I think the Elijah Mikaelson is looking to claim Haley's estate and with it the Silas interests."

Stefan thought for a minute before responding, "Why don't you sleep on it first. Hypothetically speaking, if you where considering your second option, who would you bring in?"

Damon looked away before looking back at his brother, "Enzo," seeing his brothers expression, "just because Dad didn't like to guy doesn't mean he's not good. In fact, according to the underground, he's the best at what he does now."

Stefan shook his head, "don't say I didn't warn you. The problem with Enzo is he tends to eliminate the competition and takeover, he's unpredictable."

Bonnie was tired, not only was it a long day but she still hadn't recovered from dinner the previous night at the Mikaelsons. A knock on her door made her groan in frustration as she went to open the door, the sight that greeted her was of Kol smiling with a dozen roses on one hand and a box of chocolates and what look like take-out food around his other arm.

Against her better judgment she opened the door wider to let him enter while giving him the evil eye. "What are you doing here," to exhausted even to put up a fight.

"I'm sorry, forgive me?" Kol looked at Bonnie with puppy eyes, but Bonnie still had her arms crossed and had not moved. "Please love, flowers and chocolates for my favorite girl," handing her both items.

"You're favorite girl is still mad at you, but I'm really just to exhausted right now." Bonnie sank down at her couch.

Not used to providing comfort, he grabbed Bonnie to lock her in his arms and started to rub her back. Surprised at what happened, Bonnie reacted a few second late, "what the hell are you doing!"

Kol stood up frustrated, "I'm comforting you, you said you where exhausted," looking at Bonnie, "look, I'm not used to this, this isn't me, we Mikaelsons don't do relationships. This is new to me, so just give me a break. I'm trying here."

Bonnie exhaled, then patted the couch, "come here."

Kol obliged her, as he slowly made his way back to sit beside her. Bonnie moved closer to put her head on his shoulder. Kol stiffened until Bonnie said, "put your arm around me." Kol did as Bonnie instructed as Bonnie folded her legs to press against Kol. She looked up at Kol for a second before saying, "that is how you provide comfort." Grabbing his other hand, Bonnie continued, "Kol Mikaelson, ladies-man-extraordinare, you have a lot to learn about how to be a proper boyfriend."

Kol tightened his arm around Bonnie, "and you are the woman to teach me Bonnie love. Will you teach me?"

Bonnie asked Kol quietly, "are you sure this is what you want?"

Kol wrapped his other arm around Bonnie, kissing her head, "there is nothing I want more."

Caroline and Klaus where lying exhausted in bed after two rounds of making love when Klaus asked Caroline, "have you ever been to Paris?"

Caroline who had been wrapped around Klaus arms while she had been leaning on his chest answered, "I've never been anywhere. It's been here and my hometown, those are the places I've been too."

Klaus, "I'll take you. Rome, Paris, London, Japan. Anywhere you want to go, if you'll let me."

Caroline kissed Klaus' hands which were gently caressing her. "how can you be so perfect with me."

Klaus brought Caroline;s body up so he could stare into her eyes, "no, you're the one who's perfect. I only bask in your light. Come with me to Paris, let me show you the world."

Caroline buckled for a moment, looking into his eyes, "yes, yes I will."

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