Chapter 20
He thought about it and nodded.
"I think it'll be a worthwhile experience and with me as your sire, it'll be magical."
"I think I want to do it...before I'm older than you; physically speaking that is," Bonnie said.
Elijah and Elena couldn't help but tune into Kol and Bonnie's conversation after they heard the new topic.
"Wow," Elijah marveled, "that's a long way for someone who started off hating us."
Elena nodded. "True." Her eyes sparkle in the light. She smiled at Bonnie. "So you wanna be a real vampire?"
"Yeah I do...my family will probably flip out but my two best friends are vampires and I'm," she blushed brightly, "in love with an original. I don't want to be the one left behind. That's kind of why I've been doing the spell. I will miss my magic but I would miss Kol more." That statement shocked both brothers. She had truly fallen deeply and irrevocably in love with Kol.
Elena couldn't keep the smile off her face when she heard that. It was wonderful to hear her proclaim her love for the Original playboy Mikaelson but as she saw a slightly deflated look in her friend's eye, she had to ask.
"Is there a spell that can make you both-a vampire witch hybrid?"
Bonnie blinked and shrugged. "I haven't looked but it's an idea though."
"There is," Kol confided and Elijah looked surprised. "I've had it in my arsenal for a long time. It's not something I plan on disclosing to Niklaus, brother and the reasons should be more than obvious. I trust that you will agree with me," Kol dropped that little bomb of information.
Elijah knew what his brother meant and nodded. If Niklaus knew that particular spell then it would cause trouble and that was the last thing that they needed.
"Of course brother." Elijah easily replied. "I understand-if Niklaus knew about it then the world would be on fire." Seeing the surprised looks from both girls he chuckled. 'Figuratively speaking."
Elena had to hold in the smile. "Of course. We wouldn't want New Orleans to burn down again, now do we?"
"I think it's practically sacrilege to say that here and Chicago," Bonnie grinned. By now they had moved to a table for four and officially declared it a double-date.
"Well Chicago can thank Mrs. O'Leary's cow and New Orleans can unofficially thank Niklaus and my father. Rebekah and I were enjoying sharing the opera house together and that simply didn't sit with him," Elijah frowned. The waiter was surprised to find they had moved tables when he began to bring out their main course. Both Elijah and Kol had order Ratatouille, Elena had ordered Les Fruits de Mer and Bonnie had ordered Beef bourgeon.
"Mrs. O'Leary's cow?" Elena choked on her bite of food. "Who's Mrs. O'Leary?" She managed to ask without choking.
"Klaus and Mikael ruined New Orleans because you took Rebekah to the Opera House?" Bonnie asked. Kol seemed intrigued about the bit about New Orleans and Chicago.
"Did all of this happen while I was daggered?" He asked casually. At his brother's nod, he chuckled. "Here I thought I was the pyromaniac in the family-it looks like Klaus and Mikael have a lot more in common besides their love for blondes."
Elijah - who loved to play historian - smiled and began to explain, "Mrs. O' Leary lived in Chicago in October on the eighth of 1871. In the back of her charming home like many people of the time she had a small barn. One night her cow kicked over the lantern she had milked by and set the straw ablaze. Due to a lack of stringent building codes back then the homes were far too close together and they went up like wildfire. The fire departments tried in vain to put it out but by morning it had reduced much of the great city of Chicago to ashes. The only building that survived was the stone-constructed water tower."
"As for the glorious city of New Orleans," Elijah lowered his voice to barely a whisper. Bonnie had to work to hear him. "New Orleans had a real Opera house. The kind that was rarely seen out of Europe and England. Rebekah and I had been thoroughly enjoying ourselves and attending often because I felt it important for her to have the proper exposure. Niklaus preferred some of the city's other entertainments. In 1919 we had rather a large row about whether or not he could seat his latest conquest in the family's box to watch whatever was showing that December. I remember because Rebekah wore a most becoming red gown with white fur-trimmed cape. Anyhow, I forbid it and he took his date to the restaurant in the back of the opera house. He got rather drunk and suddenly decided to burn the whole thing down. As it happens Mikael also found us that night. Rebekah grabbed our essentials while Niklaus and I kept him occupied. There was a lot of fire and chaos. As we fled the smoke could be seen for miles and miles."
Elena took another bite of her delicious dinner before taking a bite of Elijah's. He looked at her amused but she silenced whatever he was going to say with a kiss and he didn't mind.
"God you two are nauseating." Kol complained playfully. "I mean-good for you two to be together and all-but I don't want to see it or even hear it."
"Please keep the PDA down to a minimum around us." Bonnie added before turning back to Kol. "This spell that can make me both-a vampire and a witch-what can it do for other vampires?"
"Depending on what they were-or had dormant in their systems-half whatever that was and half vampire." He looked at Elena and nodded. "While also playing dead, I discovered something about the Petrova family."
"Go on." Elena and Elijah said. "What was it that you found?"
"The Petrova family practiced Traveler magic and if we did that spell on you-you will be half vampire and half Traveler."
"What's a Traveler?" Bonnie asked. "Does everyone have something dormant in their systems? Why wasn't Elena's magic awoken by now?"
"A Traveler is another type of witch." Elijah explained. "They can practice but none of them can be around each other otherwise nature will find a way to separate them. They've been around as long as the cure that Kol put a stop to finding."
Kol nodded. "Travelers, when they do magic, speak in Czech and one of their more potent spells happens to be a Passenger spell."
"Passenger spell?" Elena asked. "The book that I found about the Petrova family never mentioned anything about being Travelers."
"The Passenger spell is made when a witch spirit decides to go into someone else and until they're activated, they lay dormant in the host body. Most of them are extinct now because none of them were fast enough to outrun a volcano." Kol explained. "Why they weren't in the book? Not many people like it known that they are Travelers or they think its devil magic."
"As to why it hasn't awoken in me?" Elena demanded.
"You never knew so therefore, if you haven't practiced it, none would be the wiser." Kol told her.
"What makes a Traveler witch different from say...me?" Bonnie asked. It was a good thing Elena wasn't a hybrid if it meant they would have to be separated. That was actually one of the perks with their dating several brothers. They could keep everything all in the family so to speak.
"The fact that Travelers hate nature magic-nothing at all." Kol answered with a sip of his wine. "Their magic isn't like nature magic at all as nature itself considers Travelers-when traveling together in a group-a plague which started their vendetta against nature witches."
"Okay...is there anything I should do while I'm human? Anything that's better?" Bonnie whispered. There were after all quite a few "firsts" she still hadn't crossed off her bucket list yet.
Elena thought for a moment before smirking. "Everything on your bucket list should be crossed off while you're here in New Orleans. Half of mine still needs to be crossed off."
"I could help you with that Lovely." Elijah told her as he squeezed her thigh as her foot ran up and down his leg.
"I'm sure that you can." Giving him a peck, she smiled.
"I can't think of a single thing that is better as a human," Kol grinned.
"How about s-e-x?" Bonnie whispered and Kol spewed water all over Elijah.
"You've never had sex?"
"Please announce it to the whole world!" Bonnie was so completely red another shade would not have been possible.
Kol groaned and Elena glared at him. Turning to Bonnie, she smiled and nodded.
"Have it once while human and then have it again while as a vampire." She was nearly purring as Elijah was drawing patterns on her thigh with one hand while glaring at Kol as he mopped himself up with a napkin in the other. "It's so amazing!"
The second Elijah stopped, his glare at Kol was intensified.
"You owe me a new suit and with a silk shirt." Elijah got out stiffly to him.
"Sex as a human isn't worth it," Kol debated. Then he turned to Elijah, "I'll be happy to buy you a suit but I'm sure you can understand the circumstances."
Elijah turned from Kol to Bonnie, "much as I hate to admit it he is right. Once you make love as a vampire anything you may have done as a human pales in comparison," Elijah said gently, "particularly if you intend to give my brother the honor of being your first." They halted all conversation for a moment as the waiter brought bread pudding in bourbon sauce for dessert.
Bonnie looked at Elena with wide eyes as if to say 'do you believe them' and Elena nodded.
"It's so worth it as a vampire." Elena was practically on cloud nine as she took a bite of the bread pudding in bourbon sauce. "It's so very worth it as a vampire and believe me, if you were to be with an Original...no other vampire can actually compare."
Elijah preened at what she said.
"Okay well," Bonnie said with resolution, "I guess that answers that. This is fantastic bread pudding by the way." She leaned over and kissed Kol.
"Hey if you can have PDA then so can we," Elena pointed out.
"I have to agree with her on that one," Bonnie looked at Kol, "unless you want me to stop kissing you?"
He looked at her like she just asked him to dance around in a dress.
"No stopping." He told her with wide eyes.
Just as Elena went to take a bite of the bread pudding again, Elijah managed to sneak that bite from her. He gave her a peck on the lips.
"Mmmm...still delicious." She said with a smile on her face.
Once they finished dinner the brothers conferred and then drove the girls to a warehouse. When they arrived inside it was a hip little night club with a Cuban flare.
Elijah pulled Elena onto the dance floor and as soon as she gave herself over to his lead they were doing the salsa.
"Wow," Bonnie gasped as she watched. Kol found them a table for four and ordered mojitos for all of them. When Elijah and Elena took a break from the dance floor they savored their mojitos.
Elena couldn't stop laughing at the stories the brothers were telling her and Bonnie about everything-including the time when they were younger and Finn had a pet rabbit named Fluffy who became dinner.
Elena could understand. "I have two parakeets and if someone killed them, I would be just as devastated as Finn."
"You have parakeets?" Kol and Bonnie asked. She nodded.
"I do-one is blue and the other is green." She said smiling. "I named the blue one Aqua and the green one is named Petrov."
"Well who's going to watch them while you're at the mansion with Elijah tonight?" Kol teased.
Elena stuck her tongue out at him.
"What makes you think we're going back to the mansion with you two? We might go back to the Compound and make rabbits jealous." Her smile was as saucy as ever when talking about sex with Elijah.
Kol was gaping at her. She must have shed her modesty when she became a vampire.
Elijah wore a seductive smirk. "Elena I think you're scaring Bonnie," he teased. Bonnie was in fact very red again.
"Sorry BonBon I keep forgetting you're still a proud V-card carrier. When are you going to trade that in for the other kind of V-card anyhow?"
"I don't know. Kol and I haven't discussed it," Bonnie replied.
Kol just looked Elena in the eye and smirked.
"I have a feeling that I can show you a good time." He said.
Elijah growled at him and Elena shook her head.
"I won't do that whole triangle thing again as it was horrible." She ended up batting her eyes at him. "Do you think I'm Katherine?"
"No," he growled angrily.
"Then don't get me confused for her. She screws anyone who can protect her and at this moment I bet she's with a wolf."
"I don't share," Bonnie looked at Kol pointedly, "is that going to be an issue?"
"No love, no issue at all." He said and he gave a playful glare to Elena. "You just had to mention that, didn't you?"
She nodded and pulled Elijah back to the dance floor. He moved her into position and they began to dance in the style of Bachata.
"So what were you and Elijah betting on when I came down?" she asked. He smirked at her with a lusty gaze.
"How long it'll take for Nik and Care to get together." She raised an eyebrow at him. "Elijah said that it was five hundred just for them to talk without her insulting him and I think that he gave it a year."
"Knowing Caroline I give it three months," Bonnie said. "She likes to talk a big game but now that Elena has caved Klaus is going to start looking pretty good unless he just makes a total mess of it. After all Caroline is the one that used to always joke about the end plan." Bonnie laughed lightly as she thought about it. The end plan had been devised by Caroline to ensure that the three of them always stayed together and she argued that the best way was to be married to three brothers. Elena had told her that it was a feeble attempt to make her and Bonnie feel better about Caroline's interest in Klaus. The next song came on and Kol grinned.
"Come on it's the tango, now that's music to dance by," Kol grinned and before Bonnie could object they were on the dance floor. Bonnie had no idea how to do the tango but suddenly as she looked deeply in Kol's eyes her body seemed to know the steps by heart. She had to admit it was an incredibly sensual dance. When they finally finished the other couples were dancing for the two pairs. Meanwhile Elena and Bonnie could not stop staring at Elijah and Kol.
"Wow," Bonnie finally managed as they returned to their table.
Elena had to nod her sentiments as she had her arms around her boyfriend's neck and was kissing him like her life depended on it.
"We should leave Bonnie and Kol alone for the rest of their date." Elijah murmured into her mouth and she whimpered in agreement.
"Have fun!" Kol said as he saw his brother scoop Elena up in his arms and flash her away. Turning back to Bonnie, he smirked. "It looks like it's just us."
She nodded.
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