I Do Not Own Vampire Diaries/The Originals/Legacies
Bonnie had decided to call Caroline, Matt, Damon, and Stefan together so she could tell them that she was leaving for New Orleans. She wasn't going to talk to Elena about it, she was still frustrated with her best friend and didn't feel like having a fight with her or her brother. Bonnie just wanted things to be stable, for her, for a change. She also didn't want to blow up on Elena about how this was a smart move for her, as a witch, something none of her friends were!
She had to tell Caroline and Matt; they had been her best friends since she'd been in diapers. Telling Damon was a matter of convenience, so he didn't harass her, and telling Stefan was to keep Damon from lashing out about who she was leaving with.
"Hey Bon!" Matt smiled as she came to the bar.
"Hey," she smiled. "Is everyone here?"
"Not yet, we're just waiting on Damon and Stefan," he said.
"Okay," she nodded as she walked over to Caroline.
"Hey," Caroline greeted with a sunny smile. "What's the big news?"
"Can't say until everyone's here," she sighed.
"That important?"
"That big," she clarified as she sat.
"How big is it?" Caroline asked.
"Life altering," she admitted. Caroline seemed to be wary of Bonnie's claim but didn't argue. Matt brought Bonnie a Pepsi and handed Caroline a root beer. The Salvatore brothers appeared with Elena and Jeremy which had her sighing.
"And I'm saying that Jer and I should be here if Bonnie is calling a group meeting," Elena insisted.
"I actually didn't want you here, at all," Bonnie admitted, which stopped Elena and Jeremy dead in their tracks.
"Bon?"
"But since you're here, you might as well sit down," she sighed as she waited. She had decided to take a page out of the Davina Claire playbook and just be above it all. Davina Claire, young or old, had a sort of class no one could ever copy. Davina Claire was an Ice Queen, she was classy though, very much a reminder of Aubrey Hepburn in Bonnie's mind. And Bonnie admired that about the younger woman, she would try to find her own level of badassery and commanded attention when she spoke; and she always seemed to know something everyone else did not.
"I don't understand, Bon, why… why wouldn't you want us here?" Jeremy asked as he slowly sat down.
"Because I didn't want it to be a fight," she answered dryly.
"We're all here," Matt huffed as he sat down. "What's up?"
"I'm moving," she announced. "Davina and Kol are going back to New Orleans, and they've offered for me to come with them."
"Wait… what?" Damon sputtered.
"You can't be serious," Elena gaped.
"Are you out of your mind!?" Jeremy demanded.
"Is this what you want to do Bonnie?" Caroline asked carefully.
"It is. I need to learn magic, none of my cousins are willing to teach me, and my Grams… I can't reach her. I think this will be a good thing," she explained.
"He's a psychotic maniac!" Jeremy bellowed. "He pretended to be my friend! Then he tried to kill me, Damon, and Elena! He killed some innocent vampire so we couldn't learn about sirelines! He would've probably continued to come after me because I'm a Hunter!"
"He wasn't after you because you're a Hunter!" Bonnie snapped. "He was after us because his brother told him to, and then because we wanted to find the cure for your sister, while disregarding the fact said cure was connected to a very dangerous dead immortal!"
"Did he tell you that!" Elena hissed.
"Yes!" she seethed. "Davina did too! And when Davina joined him in his crusade, he helped us! He helped you break the Hunter's Mark, he helped keep us alive, Davina undid his compulsion on Damon."
"That hurt like a bitch," Damon muttered.
"Davina and Kol help people; mainly because Davina tells Kol that's what they're going to do and he's along for the ride, but they help regardless, no expectations, or exceptions, and I need that. They are willing to help me learn magic, and New Orleans is magic central, it'll be a good place to start over."
"Start over!?" Elena strangled out.
"Yes!" she hissed. "Start over!"
"Why!?"
"WHY!?" Bonnie roared as she surged to her feet and felt her magic unfurl hard then as wind pulsed dangerously around her. "WHY!? My grandmother is dead because I saved you, my father denies my witch heritage, Damon turned my mom into a vampire to save you, you slept with Damon despite loving Stefan, you're stupid drama over Damon and Stefan has taken over my life! And I'm not even dating them! You only call me when you need a witch, and it's been like that for a long time Elena! Then Jeremy cheats on me with a freaking ghost! I want to start over!"
"That's selfish!" Elena started.
"SELFISH! I deserve Selfish after all the crap that's happened to me, have you even stopped to notice it! 'Hey Bon, we have a magical problem can you help? Oh, it's dangerous magic you don't know, no problem we can use it, consequences? No, we don't take those!'" she mocked. "I have lost my grandmother, my mother, my father, my cousins, and parts of myself and I have nothing left, Elena! I have grown tired of being used because I'm a novice witch or because I'm uneducated about my own craft.
"Going with Kol and Davina gives me a chance to learn, to be around others who can understand and empathize with me and what I can do, and not use me to get what they want! Kol and Davina are the first people to help me, and Kol doesn't even like me, he tolerates me because Davina likes me! You realize how amazing it is to have a teacher though, someone like Kol, with a thousand years of knowledge no less, and someone like Davina, who grew up living and breathing magic!?
"I didn't even know I was a witch until I was fifteen! And then when I'm just learning about it, my Grams dies to save you!" Bonnie hissed. "Because of Expression, which you think is so great, none of my cousins will even talk to me or teach me! Because of you, to save your life, Damon Turned My MOM! If I knew a fraction of magic, like Davina or Kol, then maybe I wouldn't keep losing everything! Because I lost my magic, saving you! Kol and Davina have helped me, and they haven't made me jump through hoops to get that help or appease their needs because they ask nothing of ME! If this makes me selfish, I would hate to see what you're going to think of yourself in fifty years."
Livid she turned on her heel and marched out of the Grill. She was so mad; she had never felt this angry. Storming outside she was about to turn the corner when a hand grabbed her wrist, which had her spinning around ready to lash out only to find herself staring at Damon.
"Whoa there, Bonster," he said as he caught the fist, she had brought up to punch her attacker.
"What do you want?" she demanded as he released her.
"I came to say good luck," he answered as they stood there.
That stunned her as she eyed him warily. "Why?"
"Cause, they're tolerable… And New Orleans, it's a fun place," he shrugged.
"Wow… that's actually nice, Damon," she said carefully.
"You need anything Bon, you have my number," he assured her and disappeared down the street then.
"Bonnie!" Caroline jogged up to her. "I'm… is this what you want?" she asked as Matt appeared behind her.
"Yeah," she nodded as she shoved her hands in her pockets. "I need them, I need this, Shane would've had me killing a Coven or something eventually or I would've unleashed something like Silas on the world. They're… they're good for me, and to me, and I need them."
"Then… I hope this goes well for you, and I'm going to visit you!" Caroline decided cheerfully as she hugged her tight. "I'm glad I took you to that first lesson from Davina," she whispered.
"Me too," Bonnie confessed with a giggle as Caroline stepped back.
"Not gonna lie, I'm going to miss you," Matt said as he came to loom over her. "But you should get out of here while you can, they seem like good people."
"You like a Mikaelson?" she raised her brows in disbelief.
"Kol doesn't seem half bad; especially with Davina around. And Davina's actually cool in my book," he mused as he hugged her. "Just stay safe. When do you leave?"
"Davina and Kol are leaving with Marcel and Hayley at the end of the week," she answered.
"So, in two days?"
"How about tomorrow we give you a big going away party, here at the Grill!?" Caroline eagerly offered.
"Um…"
"This is big Bonnie!" she insisted.
"Okay," she nodded.
"Yay! I'll arrange everything!" Caroline promised as she bounced forward and gave Bonnie a big hug. Bonnie was alone again when she saw Kol walking with his siblings through town. She waved at Kol who waved back but didn't slow, still, she smiled as she went to her car and headed for Marcel's cabin.
"Can you believe her!? I even… just the other day…" she sputtered but the sounds were strangled as she sat there fuming.
Stefan didn't have anything to tell Elena, or to say to Bonnie's outrage, he couldn't argue that Bonnie wasn't justified, hearing it all from her he was surprised she'd even associate with them. Stefan got up and walked out, he saw Bonnie driving off and he sighed. Then he saw Rebekah walking away from her brothers towards him.
"Hello Rebekah," he greeted.
"Hello Stefan," she met icily. "I was going to come and talk to you to inform you of a change of circumstance but here you are, so I'll do it now."
"What change?" he started.
"My brother and I are leaving after my graduation; but our brother and his witches are leaving this week. You're miserable little town will be all yours again soon enough, Niklaus and I are just here to ask that you, your brother, and your little doppelgänger chit, remain here, far away from our brother Kol, for all of eternity."
"Elena wouldn't hurt Kol."
"Kol believes the same thing, but as Kol is my favorite brother, I will not have any threat looming over his unruly mortal head, especially a doppelgänger who so adamantly despises our family," she clarified briskly.
"Look, I want nothing to do with you and your siblings, and neither does Elena," he assured her.
"I do not believe you, but as incentive, if you should remain far away from my brother, then I won't compel you to tear your own heart out," she shrugged. "That simple."
"I…"
"But if Elena should come near him, I will compel her to do the most vial and horrid things she could do to herself and then I'll personally kill her, I'm my father's daughter after all, a bear by nature," she reminded in a misleadingly delicate tone.
"I have received the message," he stated crisply.
"Good, now I have to go, lots to do, and lots to plan," she waved him off as she walked over to her brothers. Kol just shrugged and shook his head as she neared before the three of them were walking off again.
Stefan watched Kol sling an arm around Rebekah's shoulders as they walked away, and he shook his head.
Admittedly, for as dysfunctional as the Mikaelsons were, he envied their bond though, because come hell or high water they stood together as one, and it was hard for him to get Damon to ever just be his brother. Granted, he and Damon were doing better right now, but how long would that last?
God, he missed Lexi, missed having someone to talk to about this stuff.
Dismissing his thoughts, he continued walking home. He was a bit relieved the Mikaelsons were leaving, but he would miss them in some twisted way. In some sick and twisted way, they were good friends for him, though he hated their guts. And they were a challenge to get along with, but they weren't entirely horrid. He could never explain that to his brother or Elena though.
Caroline was alone in the forest when she leaned on a tree. She had given her hug to Bonnie and run off before she could reveal her true feelings about Bonnie's news. Sighing she kept her sorrow contained as she rested her brow on the harsh bark of a tree. There was a soft sound behind her which had her snapping around when she smelled a familiar scent.
"Caroline," Tyler smiled shyly as he walked over to her.
"What do you want, Tyler?"
"I… I wanted to know where we are?" he confessed nervously.
"You…" she stalked up and shoved him hard by the shoulders. "You… where we are!? After what you did!" she shrieked. "Here's where we are! We are through!"
"Care I did it…"
"Don't! Davina was good enough not to press charges! But what the hell were you thinking!? No, don't answer that, you weren't thinking!" she spat out furiously.
"I…"
"Davina has been good, and kind, and listens!" she hissed. "She saved Bonnie, she stopped Elena's suicidal quest, and you kidnapped her!"
"She's important to Hayley! Hayley who took everything from me! She used me, she used me and played me and Klaus killed us all!" he roared
"You hadn't lost me! I was yours, all yours, I loved you for everything you were, Tyler. But that was unforgivable!" she hissed.
"I…"
"No!" she shouted. "NO! You had me! Even when you ran off to hump random werewolves, or to discover yourself, I waited for you, when Klaus was hunting you, I was yours, when you had lost your pack and family I waited for you, to be there for you, I'm not a wolf, Tyler, but I waited for you! And instead of coming back to me, you pick to attempt to go on a revenge rampage, and you hurt an innocent person!"
"Klaus!" he started.
"Is a thousand-year-old unkillable Original Hybrid!" she shrieked. "You were my boy friend and friend! I don't care what Klaus did or does do, I cared about you, and you tossed us aside for revenge, we were done the moment you hurt Davina. I don't ever want to see you again," she stated as she stomped away.
She didn't know how long she walked, but somehow, and for some reason she found herself at the rear of Mikaelson Mansion and she saw Klaus standing there talking animatedly with a dark man and Kol who had Davina neatly tucked up against his side. Rebekah was laughing as the family talked, and then she heard them playfully arguing. She didn't know why she was still walking towards them, but soon she found herself shyly tucked against a tree as she watched them. They just seemed like a normal, dysfunctional family.
"I don't believe we've been formally introduced," the dark man said appearing before her, with a dangerous, charming smile of sharp white teeth. "The name's Marcel Gerard," he announced dangerously.
"Caroline," Klaus appeared and seemed to placate the other man. "Why don't you join us?"
"Um… sure," she said nervously as she scooted around Marcel. She had always seen him around since Davina had come to town and in the Boston house, but she had never been around him on her own. Marcel watched her with dangerous dark eyes as she walked towards where Davina and Kol were talking with Rebekah.
"Hey Caroline," Davina greeted with a smile.
"Hey!" she smiled and waved at the little witch. Davina smiled brightly and she let go of Kol to hug Marcel who appeared again.
"D's told me all about you," Marcel said as he walked with the small witch clinging to him.
"Um, that's nice, she's an amazing witch," Caroline chuckled.
"Who's being a spider monkey," Marcel growled playfully at the small girl.
"Shut up and let me hug you, I can finally move!" Davina cackled as she clung to the large man.
"D!"
"It's Lil D, and I want hugs now that I can hug!" she declared as she held onto the other man.
"You did adopt a peculiar witch Marcel," Klaus decided dryly as he offered Caroline a beer. She accepted as she smiled at Davina and Marcel.
"Hey!" Davina called out.
"Don't worry, love, he's just jealous," Kol stated.
"Ah yes, cause my kid adores me," Marcel chuckled as he hugged the small girl. "And his kid is still not talking to him."
Klaus glared at Marcel who was hugging Davina who had wrapped herself tightly around Marcel.
"You have a child?" Caroline asked.
"Me," Marcel answered.
"Klaus raised Marcel from the time he was a boy," Rebekah explained.
Caroline looked between Marcel and Klaus who were still arguing while Marcel held Davina close and Kol just sipped his beer and had a quiet conversation with Davina over Marcel's shoulder.
"And Davina's his kid?"
"Very much so," Rebekah sighed.
"Huh," Caroline nodded. "Why's Davina being clingy?"
"She could move without pain and has been on a hug mission all day apparently. I even got a hug," Rebekah smiled.
"Someone hugged you?" Caroline questioned blandly.
"It happens at times," Rebekah shrugged.
"Rebekah's nice," Davina called out which stopped everyone's conversations.
"I am!?" Rebekah asked in disbelief.
"Yes," Davina decided. "So, she deserved a hug."
"Do I not deserve a hug then little witch?" Klaus drawled.
"Don't you touch her!" Marcel snarled as he twisted her away from Klaus.
"I'd sooner hug a hungry gator," Davina stated primly.
Kol roared with laughter and Caroline hid her laugh in her beer, but she saw the way Marcel and Rebekah were smiling while Klaus looked offended and amused.
"Would you hug Elijah?" Rebekah asked.
"Depends," Davina answered.
"On what?"
"On if he's been an ass or not," she replied.
"Kol, we're keeping her if you don't!" Rebekah shouted at Kol who was now hanging on a chair to remain upright.
"I already have first dibs!" Marcel snapped.
Caroline shook her head in amusement.
"For the love of the gods Bex, Davina isn't a puppy!" Kol gasped between laughter.