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The Beach on Bourbon was an outdoor club whose employees wore two different style uniforms-those who dress in butt shorts and those who dress in skinny jeans.

Caroline sighed as she took in her surroundings feeling a little like a spare at the party. Bonnie was on the dance floor grinding up on her Original lover while Elena was with Elijah in his bedroom at his townhouse. Caroline shook her head at how mentally disturbing that thought was! Both were like siblings to her and she didn't need to hear about their sex life!

Elena, on the other hand, couldn't stop glowing like the sun whenever she would return home in the wee hours of the morning and Stefan had to look away from her with a reddened face. Caroline had been dumbfounded until she saw a memory that Elena was unconsciously sending to those in the house that had Caroline needing the coldest shower known to man as she was blushing like a virgin bride.

Needing to wind down, she opted for this trip with her friends that was now a downer. Only Bonnie showed and with her were Klaus and Kol. If this was her witch best friend's idea of a matchmaking thing she had going on, then it sucked.

Caroline glanced over to see Klaus doing a double shot of something out of that brunette bitch's mouth. Smirking, she found the nearest girl and compelled her.

"You want me to take over your shift so you can have a break." As the girl repeated those words, she handed her the wooden tray with the shots on it. Looking around, she spotted her target which was a group of eight-three men and five women and four of the people were drunk as hell as one of them had their Jesters cup in her hand and singing some Flo Rider song about apple bottom jeans.

Walking up to them, she picked the two guys and didn't need to compel them to do double shots out of her mouth. Klaus, who had looked at her and what she was doing, felt anger and jealousy rolling into one as one of the men grabbed her and kissed her cheek. If Caroline meant nothing to him then why was this bothering him?

Klaus was seeing red as the guy kissed Caroline's cheek and his lips lingered on them a little bit longer than he liked. He made his way over to her and pulled her out of the club and over to an empty alleyway where he let loose.

"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT ALL ABOUT CAROLINE!" She stood her ground and glared at him.

"If you're allowed to have a good time," she growled at him. "Then so am I Klaus!" She leveled a cold stare. "All I did was give him a shot! He did everything else and besides, I saw you taking those shots out of that cocktail waitress' mouth!" The thunderstorm that the weatherman predicted happened as lightning was heard around them and their clothes were being soaked due to the hot rain falling on them.

"The only reason I did that was to try and get over you but I can't!" He shouted at her. "After everything that happened, every emotion that I felt for you, you lied to me about why you're really here!"

"NOT ALL OF IT WAS A LIE KLAUS!" She stormed out. "It's true that I lied! I did it for Rebekah and Stefan but I do have feelings for you and I do want to see where we end up!" Time seemed to move slowly before suddenly they started kissing each other and as they tried to get closer to one another, they stopped and she smiled warmly at him.

"Do you want to try this out again?" He grinned wolfishly at her.

"Now why would you ask such a dumb question love? Of course I would."

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Damon was on his way to Denver just as Stefan predicted. After Stefan had said that he 'didn't see the girls there'. Jeremy's phone call had been the real turning point though. Something about it had told Damon this merited investigation so he had boarded a flight from Paris and was now on his way to Denver. Honestly he had doubted that his brother was really looking for the girls, especially after Damon and Elena's nasty breakup in which Damon alluded to Elena being a whore like Katherine when Elijah came to pay her a visit. He knew full well that he was past her forgiveness - maybe he had been from the start but it didn't matter he thought as his fists clenched and unclenched at his sides.

They were meant to be together.

Didn't she see that? She was his everything-next to his bourbon.

He had tried calling his brother before his flight started but he didn't answer. Pushing that frustrating thought aside Damon realized he had spent far too many hours on a plane without entertainment or even a decent bite to eat. Now, as he looked at the leggy, red headed, stewardess who was passing by, he grinned and compelled her to follow him into the restroom where he introduced her to the benefits of the Mile High Club and getting blood taken out of her.

Once he was done with her, he compelled her to forget what had just happened and smirked when forty minutes later; they descended and were in Denver.

Calling his brother again, he was surprised to hear a female voice answer the phone. He knew at once it wasn't Elena but the voice was still familiar. It took a moment for him to place it – Rebekah – and he just so happened to know where the originals were supposed to be living these days.

"Hello?" Rebekah asked again. Without responding Damon hung up and took another flight-this time to New Orleans. He had some people he needed to talk to-his brother Stefan and his girlfriend Elena being the two prominent ones.

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As soon as he entered New Orleans, he went straight to the AC Marriot Hotel and compelled himself a room where he left his things before walking out and leaving the hotel to go onto Bourbon Street. He was pacing himself and as he passed The Beach on Bourbon, he decided his jet lag deserved a drink before he confronted Stefan and Elena. He entered the bar and took a seat promptly ordering a bourbon. As he took the first sip of his drink he surveyed his surroundings and was completely shocked when he saw none other than Kol Mikaelson looking like something out of a music video with a dark haired beauty in gorgeous white dress. He was disappointed to note she had shorts underneath as the original flipped her to the delight of the other dancers. When he saw her face Damon reeled as he would recognize Bonnie Bennett anywhere! What was she doing dancing with psychotic original?

Damon flashed over to them and pulled Bonnie away from the Original.

"Hello Bon Bon." He sneered at the intoxicated witch with such loathing that she looked up at him in horror but before anything could be said or done, Kol took her back in his arms and they left, Damon following them.

Once they left the club, Damon began to snarl at her.

"So you leave everyone behind while you come here to start screwing the Original jackass?" He was stark raving mad at how obtuse this all was. "The Bonnie I remembered wouldn't even allow him to touch you!"

"Things change Damon," she snapped as she felt braver after her four daiquiris that she had ingested in the course of two hours. "I've changed and believe me, it took him and I a long time to get to this point in our relationship." Bonnie had tucked her hand in Kol's. Damon jerked her free again and pulled her into an alley putting her back against the wall and pinning her there with a hand on either side of her shoulders.

"Really?" he asked. She nodded and Damon bared his fangs at her. "You and Elena must have been taught by both Katherine and Caroline about being whores." Silence filtered through the two while Damon was on a tangent about how screwed up everyone is when he was suddenly slammed against the opposite wall of the alley. He should have known better than to have said that about Elena and Bonnie as Kol was looking at the vampire murderously.

"If I were you, I'd watch out." Kol's voice was deathly cold. "Next time I hear you talking about my sister like that and you will end up dead. UNDERSTAND ME!" The last words he yelled out and Damon sneered at him.

"I didn't even start on your original whore of a sister who has had I think every male vampire in history."

"Kol don't!" Bonnie's plea stilled Kol's hand but his murderous rage never left his face and he continued to glare at Damon. Finally Kol decided to think like his older brother and use his words. He relaxed and released Damon wrapping his arm tenderly around Bonnie and then giving her a tender kiss as Damon watched in shock.

"No, the sister I was referring to was Elena," Kol said. "I think of her as my sister as I'm sure she and Caroline very soon will be. Now if you'll excuse us I'm going to get my girlfriend back home. Oh and Damon...this is our city please be on your best behavior." With his arm around Bonnie's shoulders the two left the black-haired vampire confused and screaming mad in their wake.

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The two were definitely sober the second they entered Elijah's townhouse and as they saw the man just sitting in his oversized club chair with Elena on his lap and they were reading the same book. Elijah brought his head up from where it was on her collarbone.

"What happened?" Elijah asked and Elena looked up at them, seeing how angry they were.

"I thought you were clubbing?" she knew that they had said something along those lines and had expected them to be home later-maybe three or four in the morning, not at eleven at night. Kol nodded and sat Bonnie down on the couch while he began pacing.

"Damon Salvatore is here in New Orleans."

Elena felt numb as she subconsciously went into the last argument that they had…

"What do you want me to say Damon? That Elijah and I are secretly sleeping with each other?" she shouted at him. "Guess what? He and I are friends!"

"I don't believe it!" He roared at her. "I doubt that he would come all the way to Mystic Falls to see how his friend is doing without any ulterior motives!"

"Damon! He's my friend and has been helping me deal with what I did to Katherine! Do you think I liked killing her? I hated it! He doesn't want me to lose what makes me who I am!" She screamed at him.

He snorted and angrily took a drink of his bourbon before he snarled.

"You and Katherine are truly related! Both of you are sluts!"

Elena slapped him with her vampire strength and flashed away.

Kol and Elijah were staring at her as she looked close to tears when Elijah turned her around in his arms and kissed her lightly.

"Thinking of the last time you saw him?" Elijah asked gently.

"He insinuated I was behaving like Katherine."

"You and Katerina are related but you are nothing alike." Elijah told her as he peppered her face in kisses.

"I agree with Elijah." The three looked at Kol who looked back at them. "What? I'm being honest! She's not like that!" Elena smiled at him.

"I guess that I should tell Stefan that Damon's in town." Bonnie shook her head.

"No, I'll do it. You stay here." Elena gave her friend a small smile. "Trust me, knowing how he'll react to this-it's best if I tell him that Damon's here and is insinuating that Caroline and Rebekah are teaching us how to be sluts."

Snorting, she kissed Kol on the cheek and left to call Stefan.

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