note: So this might be a few chapters longer than I expected. Not too long, as I have other stories that need finishing/updating. Sorry for any grammatical errors. I don't get chance to edit like I would like, but will go over it again and re-edit when I get chance. Please share your thoughts/reviews and let me know what you think. :)
You have captured my heart
and now you torture me sweetly
you own my body and soul
and yet you can't beat me
Even with her hands now untied, and a new meal without the blood was placed in front of her, she could not eat. Her power has still not fully returned. All she could do was glare at Kol from across the table, as he tucked into his roast dinner full of calm. Acting like he had not just murdered a man in front of her.
After what it seemed like a long time of her glaring daggers at him, he finally looked up and took notice of her. Of course he smiled at her scowling face, finding it adorable.
"Something wrong little witch?" he asked playfully.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe it's the repulsive killer sitting across the table from me!" She didn't mean to shout that out.
She thought that might set him off, causing him to finally decide to kill her. Instead he raised an eyebrow, but continued looking amused. Tucking into his meal like her comment didn't bother him.
"I'm surprised darling. I thought with your group of vampire friends, you would be used to little displays like that."
He looked at her then without amusement. She gulped, feeling her throat was as dry as sandpaper. She picked up the glass of water, refusing to touch the wine after remembering him drinking the blood from it. The water helped cool her aching throat, and her dizzy mind, that was trying to come up with a good response. She also thought she was used to horrible displays like that. Then again, maybe she had repressed those memories due to the fact it was her friends.
"I must say I'm disappointed. I expected more arguing from you. More of the fire I know you possess, little witch." His look was back to seductive again.
He was drinking in her form with his eyes, delighting in it like he had did with the blood. She should have felt repulsed, but she felt him touch her body as he stared. He of course was not touching her psychically, but she felt the ghost of his fingers leaving no part of her body untouched. She was happy when he lowered his eyes, and continued with his meal.
"You didn't have to kill him," she whispered. Thinking he probably didn't hear her, or care to answer.
He did in fact hear her, due to his vampire-hearing. He looked up and raised an eyebrow again, as if her comment confused him.
"Yes, I did. I'm a vampire darling. it's in our nature to kill innocent things," his tone held none of the remorse she was looking for.
"There are blood bags!" She argued. Knowing it was a lost cause when it came to Klaus and Kol.
He wrinkled his nose in disgust at the thought of what she had suggested.
"Those are nothing like the real thing. It leaves nothing to indulge in, and that is part of our nature. Your friends may drink from their revolting blood bags, but they have gone back to killing more than once. You know this Bonnie, even if you deny it." He gave her a look of fake sympathy.
She hated his words and fake look he cast her. She continued to glare at him again, but could say nothing to refute is comment. She wanted to say how wrong he was. That her friends had better self control than he and his awful family lacked, but she knew it wasn't completely true. She knew of her friends murder sprees. Damon when he threw a tantrum. Caroline when she was upset about losing her mother. Stefan when he lost control, and Elena when she had found it hard adjusting to being a vampire. Then the amount of times she had let them kill whoever they thought was associating with the bad guys. She was guilty of this too, she knew. She had over the years learnt to repress and ignore the bad deeds of her friends, because she could not be without them.
After losing her father, and her mother going AWOL again, she had no one to turn to other than them.
"Silence again. Guess I must be right." He wore his cocky smile again.
"Think whatever you damn well want Kol. You and your brother don't have any control, you're just plain evil. You attack innocent people like that man, because you won't dare touch what will fight back!" She could not help but resort to shouting again. He set her off more than his horrible brother.
She didn't see him move again. It was in a blink of an eye, before she felt him behind her. His warm breath tickling her ear, as he got close enough to whisper something. He had grabbed her hands and arms, putting them behind her back. So she was in the same position as when she was tied there, but he held her hands lightly. He could have easily crushed them with his vampire strength, but he was surprisingly gentle. Even lightly massaging her wrists as he held them, while his posture was that of a predator waiting to pounce on it's prey.
"Are you offering?" his voice was now deeper than before.
He sounded hungry, making her shiver. He hummed in delight at seeing her nervous. Getting closer to brush his lips gently against her neck. She could feel him touch the sensitive skin there, as he savored the feel. He placed a light kiss near the pulse point, enjoying the feel of her heartbeat echoing in his mouth. She thought he would bite her then and there, but he continued to linger his lips against her skin. Before rubbing them further up her neck, tongue peaking out a little to taste her soft satin skin. She both feared and enjoyed the sensation, making her feel even more on edge.
"Because I would certainly rather have you, than that man from earlier," he whispered into the skin of her collarbone.
Causing her to jump and try to free her hands, but he continued to hold her still without hurting her.
"I thought you only used witches, not fed on them?" her voice came out squeaky from fear of his proximity.
She was both surprised and thankful when he let her go, taking a step back. The warmth of him near her skin vanishing with it. She felt suddenly more cold than before, but her body felt less on edge now he stood a bit further away. He seemed to be thinking over her question.
"You're correct darling, I tend not to feed on witches. I happen to have great respect for them. But you on the other hand, appear so delicious - I was dying to take a bite," he sounded as hungry as he suggested.
She tried to ignore how his hazel eyes turned a darker shade as he said that. How he would look over her whole body when he made those kinds of suggestive statements. Even more scary for her, the way she reacted like a horny teenager upon hearing and feeling his stare. She decided to use that inner will power she possessed and ignore his advances.
"If you're going to kill me, I'd rather you just do it already." That was not actually a lie, she really was fed up of these hostage scenarios.
She at the mercy of the bad guy to save her friends and others. It was becoming exhausting, but she had to be brave no matter what.
"Kill you? Why would I want to do that?" He sounded perplexed by her comment.
"Uhh, because you're a deranged asshole that likes to kill innocent things?" she threw his earlier words back at him.
He smiled at the reference.
"Ahh yes, that is true, but not you sweetheart. No, that would be no fun. Torture and flirting, with some added love-making, is more my style." He got closer and smiled down at her.
She felt her face burn up with the visualizations his comment brought to her mind. Him in his nightgown that had slightly opened some more, to reveal more of his lean pale chest, was not helping. Trying not to meet his boyish face and charming smile with her eyes, instead turning away from the temptation they brought.
Wow, if I get out of here alive, I seriously need to get laid. Since when did I let my hormones rule me? I don't need that. What I need is a holiday away from creeps like Kol, klaus and annoying boys like Kai. I need to get out of here! I need to get out!
She tried to steady her ragged breathing. It had taken a good while after the prison world ordeal for her to sort out many PTSD symptoms she had gotten. Not just from there, but the trauma she had been dealt since she was fifteen. It seemed she never got to process the trauma properly, and it made her crazy with the constant battles she had to keep fighting.
"Hey, it's okay darling, I'm not planning to hurt you. At least I won't if you play nice, and don't ruin my plans." He had begun stroking her hair back in a soothing manner.
He got down on one knee in front of her, like he was proposing. Instead he continued to look into her eyes and stroke back her hair in comfort. It confused her, and had her wondering if he was placating her before finishing her off. Then again, she was smart enough to know he would have done it by now if it was his plan. She wished he would have. She didn't want to die, but she hated the concern on his face as she had a panic attack, and the way his soft pale fingers played with her hair. She couldn't get used to this version of Kol. She knew that this was just one facet of his personality. The charmer with the ladies, but he was still the playful torturer at heart. He would go back to his sadistic nature in no time.
As if someone had called him, he turned his head away towards the door. Before nodding to himself and standing up. She had not heard anything, but then she knew vampire hearing picked up everything her human hearing couldn't.
"I must go darling. I will make sure Brian checks in on you, as we don't want you have a mini heart attack in our care. Then my brother would probably send in an unsatisfactory replacement for you." He stood up and smiled down at her, ruffling her hair a bit.
She pushed his hand away from her head, glaring at him. On one hand she was happy he would be leaving. She could figure out a way to get the hell out, and get rid of the spell incapacitating her. She guessed Brian was the rude blonde vampire from earlier, and needed to figure out a way to stop him from ruining her plans.
"Don't think about it darling. I can see the cogs turning in the pretty little mind of yours, and it won't work. Whatever you're planning, it's best to not try it. Or I won't be playing nice."
He came up to her chair, leaning down so that he was so close his breath fanned her face. She could not help but stare at his handsome features, and his smile that put her on edge. She really wanted to burn his pretty face right off. If only that it would at least stop her feeling things when he was close. Though, she did really want to make him suffer for killing the man earlier.
"If you're thinking of trying to take off the spell, it won't work. This is a very ancient spell that had to be crafted by a whole group of witches, over several days. It is not easily broken Bonnie. Believe me, I know a thing or two about magic. You're free however to go where you wish within the mansion, but I would stay away from my boys in the other room. I may love witches darling, but they certainly don't. Also, stay out of my room." He had said the last part with a stern warning.
She wondered if the key to getting rid of the spell around the mansion, was in his room he had just forbidden her to enter. She would have loved to get rid of the other vampires who would be a nuisance, but she needed her power back.
"When will I get my power back? How did you even do it?" She asked curiously.
She really was impressed with the mechanics of the spell. That it would take away the power of a witch, but not like when she had lost it before. She could still feel it, but every time she tried to use it - she felt weak and unable to.
"When and if I allow you to leave this mansion. Your power is still there sweetheart, have no worries. But most of it has been drawn out and lays within the spell's confines. You need the words for the spell to unlock your powers once you leave here, and then you will get it back again. It's the same as when you send your magic off in an object really, but instead of an object - it's the spell itself that draws it and traps it where I set it up." He continued to look smug.
She thought back to when she had sent her magic away in Ms Cuddles, and saw how it could be similar. Although this time she had not sent it away herself. Instead the magic trap has taken it without her consent, and she could even feeling it using it against her everytime she wanted to tap into it. This might be more complicated than she first thought.
"Well, you just thought of everything, haven't you?" she gritted out in frustration.
He smiled in delight, looking proud of himself.
"Well of course. You have to with my family, and a brother who put you in a box for centuries," he sounded bitter.
She could sense the hostility there. It was the same she saw in Klaus when he spoke of his family. They really were dysfunctional in that way. Even giving Kai's family a run for their money.
"I will leave you in peace now darling. Remember, curiosity killed the cat." He winked at her before placing a soft kiss against her cheek.
As if he could not help himself, his lips moved to her mouth, leaving a soft peck there. His right hand touching the side of her leg ever so slightly. His fingers skimming up her thigh to her backside, but he did not rudely grab it like most guys would have. He just left his hand where it was, and she could feel the imprint of it through her jeans. He had managed to gently grab her thigh without hurting her, and moved her closer so that their lips were a breath apart. She had grabbed the back of the chair with her hands to steady her, as she stared at him in surprise. He was too close, so that if she wanted, she could kiss him easily. He was not kissing her though, but breathing in deeply against her mouth, as if he was drawing her scent into his lungs. His lips then went to place a lingering kiss on her jawline.
She jumped at the contact, and was going to slap him before he moved away. She felt flustered from the intimate contact, and wanted to both attack him and draw him back near her body. Unfortunately he had vampire-sped away before she had chance to do either.
Looking down at her cold meal, she decided she would skip eating. Instead she would use every minute she now had to try and find the best way out of the situation she was in.
Getting up, she decided to go exploring. She was determined to beat Kol, no matter what the consequences were.