Thirteen

"You don't seem surprise by any of this," Bonnie said to Kol later that night. She had been waiting for either Katherine or Caroline to show up to tell them about the Harvest ritual and how the fate of the witches relied on one single girl, but conveniently they were MIA.

And since Bonnie didn't have any former lovers to be mad at, she only had Kol to report her finding too. To be fair, Kol was a fairly good listener.

Though, he had stopped listening right now and was now looking outside the window to New Orleans.

"Hello?" Bonnie scoffed as she threw the complementary notepad at him, but of course since he was a ghost it went right through him. "Are you even listening to me?"

Kol shrugged. "I stopped after you started blubbering about poor Davina. Honestly, I've heard worst."

"Really?" Bonnie raised an eyebrow. "You've actually heard worse than a young girl being sacrificed against her will for a ritual that may not even work?"

Kol gave her a patient smile. "The earth isn't black and white, Bonnie." He leaned back against the chair. "I hung out with a lot of witches back when I was alive, so to say. I've meet witches in Africa, Japan, China and some of the sacrifice methods are more . . . gruesome to say the least. The Harvest is actually tame compare to some other rituals."

"That doesn't mean we can just stand there and watch, I mean this girl Davina is like sixteen, we can't-"

"Bonnie," he rolled his eyes. "You don't even know the girl and you want to save her?"

"I was a witch once too, and if someone tried to sacrifice me I would be pretty pissed." Bonnie snapped back. "Besides, if we had a chance to save her-"

"Would you save me? Bring me back from the dead if you could?" Kol interrupted her speech. "Resurrect me? If you could with your special anchor powers would you, if it were a possibility?"

Bonnie didn't speak for a moment, before she said. "Yes." Kol looked surprised. "Because as annoying as you can be, you have been a decent companion and it would be nice if people stopped thinking I'm crazy every time they see me thinking I'm talking to myself."

Kol surprisingly petted her cheek. "You don't deserve this, Bonnie. Being the anchor is a punishment, not a reward."

Bonnie's throat tightened. "It's better than being dead."

"Well, today officially sucked." Hayley sighed as she plopped down in the Mikaelson living room. Well, not everything. She though gleefully, she and Elijah had kissed. Well, she had kissed Elijah, but it still counted as a kiss.

Elijah hadn't pulled away, but Hayley did noticed that he just sort of stood there. Like he didn't know how to kiss. Afterwards, he had just patted her cheek and vamp flash out of there. Hayley didn't know if she should take that as a good sign or not.

"Tell me about it, two unwanted visitors in one day." Rebekah handed her a glass of water. "I thought you were staying at the bayou today."

She shook her head. "It's too late, Klaus would kill me if I went out."

There was an awkward silence until Rebekah said, "Hayley? Be careful when it comes to Caroline and Katherine."

"I'm not afraid of them."

"Well, you should be. Caroline may be a baby vampire but she knows how to fight dirty, it does help that she has Klaus wrapped around her little finger. Katherine on the other hand, well I hate to say it, but she is admirable. You have what, eight years of surviving on your own, Katherine has 500."

Hayley raised an eyebrow. "What are you saying?"

"I'm saying that it would be smarter to befriend them, than have them as your enemies."

Hayley's cell phone rang. "What the hell do you want Sophie?" she hissed.

"Do you have it yet?" Sophie asked. The two of them had made a deal between themselves a few days earlier. Hayley finds out where Elijah buried Celeste's bones so that they could be used in the ritual and in return Sophie promised to free her family from the curse.

"No."

"Then what are you waiting for Hayley?"

Hayley looked over her shoulder. "Everyone is gone tonight, I'll go through Elijah's diaries and find out where Celeste was buried."

"Hi, you've reached Caroline-"

Klaus hung up so fast that he nearly broke the screen of his phone. Where the hell was she? He had been calling her over ten times ever since Caroline had walked away from him. With his luck the baby vampire was halfway to Mystic Falls right now.

Klaus shook his head. No, that wouldn't be like Caroline. She wouldn't go down without a fight.

Klaus looked out of his window, he would search every crack of the city if it meant that he would find her.

Where was she? Elijah had been walking around the French Quarter for at least two hours and there was still no sign of his Katerina. He knew she was here with Caroline and Bonnie, Cami had told him, herself. So where was she?

Though his mind was fully on Katherine, he couldn't stop thinking about Hayley. The kiss has been so unexpected, so strange. It was true that he had felt a growing attraction towards Hayley, but honestly it had been brotherly at best.

Elijah was more focused on the baby that she was carrying.

"Hello, Elijah."

Katerina?

Before Elijah could turn around everything turned black.

-End of Chapter Thirteen-