Chapter 5:

It was months later that they were in New Orleans and under the protection of Marcel Gerard who had taken an interest in Caroline.

To be honest, he was basically dating her.

Tonight, she and Caroline were at Rousseau's when Elena caught sight of Elijah and as they were about to leave, Marcel texted them to go meet him.

It took them a while to locate Thierry and Diego and when they did, they were all watching Marcel play judge, jury and executioner.

Elena was thoroughly disgusted as she watched her protector slit the throat of Jane-Anne but she held no remorse.

Caroline was beside her as it happened, also feeling no remorse as both girls discovered that she linked Hayley to Sophie and that Hayley was pregnant with Klaus' baby.

"Why am I never good enough?" Caroline asked as they walked past an alleyway where Sophie was.

This was part of their distraction and it was very good.

Every male ate out of the palm of her hand and if they've done magic, they'd be heartless in seconds.

"You're better than the werewolf skank and the witch bitch in the alley." Elena told her.

Said 'witch bitch' glared at them and before she could attack them, three vampires appeared only to hear a cultured baritone coming from behind Sophie.

"Mind telling me what is going on?"

Elijah Mikaelson was there. He noticed her and Caroline, partially hidden by two of the vampires and raised an eyebrow.

"Witchy was just about to start playing with magic again." Caroline snapped at him quite coldly. In all the time that he has spent in Caroline Forbes' company, he has never heard her be so cold. "She and every other witch knows better-use magic and well…you die." She ended up giving the witch a mocking wave as she said 'die'.

The Original Hybrid, his brother, the witch and the two young vampires were all in a mausoleum in Lafayette cemetery where the coven was present with Hayley. Caroline sneered at her. Hayley bared her teeth and Elena was in the middle.

"Care-don't lower yourself to the wolf skank's level," she cautioned. Turning to look at Hayley, she snarled, "skanky, tell us all the truth as I doubt that the Hybrid actually knocked you up."

Hayley didn't care who was there-she leapt off the crypt and went to bite her only for Elena to wrap one hand around her throat and startling everyone, she made it look like she was ready to rip out Hayley's heart.

"One false move and it's your death." She was channeling her inner Katherine as she spoke. "It'd be such a pity if you did indeed die." Dropping her, she sauntered over to Sophie who was paralyzed in fear.

Another witch stood up in front of Sophie with a hard gaze. "You should know better than to kill innocents in this cemetery devil."

Elena shook her head and grabbed the witch's throat, fangs bared. "You think I care what happens? I surely don't." She sunk her fangs into the witch's throat before pulling them out and throwing her at Elijah's feet. "What are you gonna do? Scold me about manners?" she sneered darkly at him. "You may have missed the memo but you can't control me."

Looking from the body on the ground by his feet who was still alive and over to the doppelgänger who threw her there, he was incensed.

"Taking after Katerina now Elena? Becoming emotionless and slaughtering everyone in your way?" he demanded and Elena rolled her eyes.

"Why of course I am Elijah," she sounded fakely surprised. "I just can't believe it's taken you this long to figure it out! What was it that tipped you off or was it when I threw dinner on the floor?" She sounded like she was mocking him as she plastered on a cruel smile.

It was reminiscent of Katerina Petrova in his mind. He wanted nothing more to do than to kill her but that would be too kind to someone who killed his baby brother.

No, he knew what he wanted to do to her and when he was done torturing her, she would beg him to kill her himself but he wouldn't.

His eyes were flashing and she stepped in front of Sophie.

"Let me make this clear-protect that whore with whatever pathetic life you have left or I'll kill her, the child she carries and you all in one fell swoop. Understand?"

Sophie was terrified by her and nodded. She'd do whatever the second in command-Elena Sommers- and Marcel's supposed Queen- Caroline Sommers-wanted and without question.

"I'll tell Marcel what's been happening." Caroline said calmly as she looked at her watch. "Oh dear-hope he won't be too angry that I'll be five minutes late for our date!" She was nervous sounding and Klaus felt the ripple of jealousy flitter through him before squashing it down.

"So you're dating the vampire I sired?" She gave him the same hard look that Elena had worn earlier.

"You have a problem with that Hybrid boy?" She asked coldly.

"I just have a problem with those who would willingly run away with the murderer of an Original."

Elena and Caroline looked at each other and at once, flipped off both brothers.

"Care, call Marcel and I'll put the Originals in their place." Elena told her and the blonde flashed away, calling not just Marcel but Kol as well.

"HE WHAT?" Kol screeched into the phone while Bonnie jumped a foot in the air. "Please tell me that you're joking." He ended up running a hand through his hair, in anger and frustration. "Oh the Ancestral witches have confirmed it? Yeah-I'll see if it's real or not." Hanging up, he looked at Bonnie and grinned.

"Do you wanna go on a few road trips with me? One to Whitmore College to peruse through Shane's occults books and the other to New Orleans?"

She rolled her eyes. "Do I have a choice?" She asked as she stood up.

He shook his head. "Nope. You don't-get packing for our trip, will ya? I'll inform Stefan and Jeremy what we're doing."

"What about Rebekah?" Bonnie knew that Rebekah had pissed off Kol somehow but he never told her what it was that she did.

He shook his head. "The others can inform her and no-not the girls-my idiotic brothers were who I was talking about."

Marcel hung up and flashed over to where Caroline was, smiling at her warmly. She smiled as she went into his arms, feeling a little bit better at not being second place while she was with him.

They didn't see Klaus walk out to see Marcel run a hand through the blonde locks and kiss her throat. His anger and jealously came up but again, he squished it down as he made his way over towards them.

"Marcel, old friend," he greeted and Marcel glowered at him. "Why didn't you tell me that you were with her?"

"I didn't think it was any of your business who I date sire." Marcel got out before he smiled at Elena who walked over towards them with a smug grin on her face.

"The noble one is boring to be around and the little were skank is going to be staying here for a while." Elena didn't care that Elijah could hear, in fact, she knew that he could hear her and knew that her words stung him. "It's a pity that I can't just kill his little pet wolf considering that she decided that the 'Big Bad Wolf' was what she wanted to play with."

The low growl from both Originals made her giggle uncontrollably.

The road trip was boring. It wasn't just Bonnie and Kol though-they had Jeremy and Stefan with them.

A recovering witch, a Hunter, a Ripper and a psychopathic Original who's been making everyone believe he's dead on a road trip? The worst idea ever! Bonnie thought darkly.

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When the car finally came to a stop the first night Bonnie's eyes opened as soon as Kol said 'we're here Bonnie' just as she had been programmed to. They checked into the Westin hotel and hauled their luggage plus a suitcase of grim moirés upstairs. Bonnie smiled as they opened the door to their room. Stefan and Jeremy were rooming across the hall. As soon as they got settled in Kol and Bonnie went across the hall where the four of them had dinner. As soon as that was finished they went across the hall. Jeremy and Stefan would hang out for a while and then go to sleep. Meanwhile Kol and Bonnie settled on the king size bed and began to pull out grim moirés. They worked for about an hour and then Bonnie took a shower. They were looking through the books and Bonnie began chanting. She immediately had Kol's attention.

"What are you doing?" he worried and she finished the spell by putting a hand to her mouth.

"Excuse me," she said from behind her hand and hurried to the bathroom. As she pulled her hand from her mouth in front of the mirror she stared in shock at a set of fangs.

"What the bloody hell?" Kol gasped from behind her though his tone was more delight and surprise than upset.

"It's a spell that masks my being a witch by making me a temporary vampire," Bonnie said.

"Bonnie that's...do they work?"

Bonnie took Kol's wrist and a moment later he moaned as she bit him and began to ingest her evening requirement of blood. When she pulled away Kol's lips crashed onto hers and he lifted her onto the bathroom counter. They kissed until Bonnie pulled back and she was gasping for breath.

"Darling I'm sorry I forgot you're not actually a vampire," Kol smiled.

"Well I can now turn the illusion on whenever I want. I memorized the spell," Bonnie said. "Come on we need to get back to work."

"That was a big spell," Kol said with a grin. "Your magic is definitely coming back BonBon." They looked through the rest of the night and by seven in the morning Bonnie was tired and Kol ordered breakfast. They ate and then checked out loading their luggage into the car. Stefan and Jeremy would take turns driving while Kol and Bonnie slept.

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The next night they arrived at another swank hotel (paid for by Kol) and joined Stefan and Jeremy in their room for Chinese. The noodles were salty while the shrimp and broccoli was wonderful tasting. It was around nine that night that Kol and Bonnie went back to their room where they were joined by Stefan and Jeremy for a couple of hours and got the grimoires out. They had been making some progress and felt like they might be getting closer. They had been at it for two hours when Kol had Bonnie take a second look at something. It was a reference to a vampire pregnancy.

"This is interesting. It says that it can happen but it has to have some sort of magical help…well, whoever wrote this blurred out what kind of magic needed to be used," Kol sighed.

Bonnie rubbed his arm. It sucked, really sucked as this was the closest thing they got to an answer.

They had been looking at it, trying to decipher what the word was when Kol closed the distance and began to kiss her. His hand reached up to cup her cheek and she moaned with longing as the passionate kiss continued.

"Uh...guys? Uh guys..." Jeremy called and finally he decided to wave a book to get their attention. Unfortunately the book flew out of his hand and clubbed Stefan in the head. Stefan turned to growl at Jeremy but stopped when he saw Kol and Bonnie completely making out.

Stefan got up and motioned for Jeremy to follow him and the two of them left the room. Kol and Bonnie didn't get any farther on the pregnancy and they settled in to bed about one in the morning. It would only take half of the next day and they would be in New Orleans.

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