A.N. Hey all! I hope you're all enjoying your day! Thank you for reading and replying to the last chapter! Our babies are going through it, but keep the faith. This chapter launches us to our next section of the story so, I hope you enjoy it.

"Do me a favor, don't waste my time!"

Chapter 39: Pause

Flashback

It had never been more evident to me then in this moment what was the real deal with Cami. She was jealous of me, and had admittedly gone after my boyfriend because she didn't think I deserved him. Well little did she know, he was the one who didn't deserve me. I had given him as much as I could. I was trying to guard my heart the way I had failed to do in the past and even now Klaus still managed to get in the crevices and hurt me.

One day Cami would learn, she'd learn when Klaus stomped over her heart with the weight of a thousand year old man and all the burdens, mistakes and hurt he carried with him.

"What bothers you the most is that I'm everything you're not." I continue on. "I'm a survivor, a fighter," I say passionately. "But more importantly I'm someone who is supernatural when that's all you could dream of." I sing song letting my words dangle in the air. "That's why you're so interested in the tales of Klaus and his life." I say causing her to look uncomfortable. " You only wish you could live a life like anyone depicted in his stories, and I'm the real deal." I grin. "And what eats at you the most is that he chose me, in the first place and never thought about choosing you."

Mic drop bitch!

Klaus had been stunned into silence while I suspected the real Camille was waiting to come out. But first she brings out the tears because tears probably helped her in many situations. Poor baby.

"You're right." Cami says wiping her eyes causing her mascara smudge down her face. "Klaus never chose me, like he chose you." Cami says breathy. "I was never the girl on his arm. In fact he only gave you that privilege."

Eye roll. "Cue the violins."

"My feelings in this situation don't even matter, what does matter is that Klaus wants to be with you, not me. And if you're too high on your own pedestal that's your problem not mine." Cami rattles off. "But if he ever came to me again, I'd never turn him down."

It's then that I crack and slap the taste out of her mouth.

End of flashback

Cami stands with her mouth open, her hand on her cheek looking mortified. Good, hopefully I slapped some act right into her. I bet Sheila Bennett was probably watching now from above a smirk on her lips and shaking her head. Sheila never took any shit and now that I realized my worth, I wouldn't take it either.

"You just hit me!" Cami says awestruck.

"Yep." I say with a nod. "I did!" I admit. Personally, it had been the tone that had done it for me, it triggered me so much and reminded so much of the high and mightiness of Elena. For so many years I had dealt with that treatment from her that when it came to Cami, I had– had enough of it.

"I can't believe you just hit me." Cami says again this time looking to Klaus for some kind of support. I too look in the direction of the hybrid. Klaus though looks on mildly shocked. He doesn't look as upset as Cami or I would've thought instead he edges closer as if to provide a buffer.

"Yep that was me." I say aloof as ever. "If you need a refresher, I've been told I have a mean right hook but," I say with a small smile. "If I'm honest and that's what I'm all about honesty– my left hook is just as superior as my right hook."

Cami only looks on in horror. "Klaus,"

"Nope." I say still standing in front of her. "This right here, is about you and me, you talk a big game but you don't ever back it up. Here's your chance princess." I say backing away to give her some space. "I mean it is you who fell in love with your patient, I'm sure their has to be some code of ethics that was broken by all of this." I say gesturing to Cami nearly naked. "I mean if word got out about all of this, wouldn't your license be revoked?"

Those words seem to get her to at least snap out of stupid.

"Bonnie." Cami breathes out cautiously.

"Don't Bonnie me." I say with a snap. "I don't trust you. I don't like you. I knew you were running game from the beginning but I let it slide because you were his therapist, someone that was suppose to help him sort through all the dark shit he carries with him." I say not daring to look at Klaus. "Instead you make yourself perfectly available to him and his every need."

Cami shakes her head violently. "Nothing happened beyond what you already know."

I grin. "I'm sure the board will think otherwise." I taunt. "Especially since its common knowledge of how much time the two of you have spent together."

"Look at you!" Cami says suddenly. "So eager to wreck my life!" She hollers. " I've worked hard to get where I am today and you- you just want to wreck my life because yours is a mess!" Cami bursts. "I'm sorry that life has been difficult for you, that death seems to follow you like a second fucking skin. I'm actually surprised that you're a well rounded person, that dying so many times hasn't effected you much earlier." Cami pants. "It's obvious now, the mental toll that this life has brought you, and right now you're having a mental breakdown, that's why you're being this way."

I can't help but giggle at her words. "Well thanks for sharing but I didn't ask for your opinion about me. And in case you're wondering this has nothing to do with a mental breakdown sweetie."

I see it then, the moment Cami is ready to unleash her brand of venom and Klaus must see it to, but he growls so loud that it causes for pause.

"Camille!" Klaus roars causing the hairs on the back of my neck to stand up. I wasnt afraid of Klaus never had been and never would be. But I could admit that he had a way about him that had other people quivering before him. It appears he had that effect of Cami because she was shaking like a leaf on a windy day. "I suggest you change your tone now." Klaus says a growl in every word he says.

For my part, I'm unaffected by her words. Cami thought she was smarter than everyone else, she probably thought she could even get into my head. The joke was on her though, I was far wiser than she gave me credit for. As for Klaus, if he thought that outburst earned him any brownie points where I was concerned he was mistaken.

"I can take care of myself." I mutter under my breath as Klaus stands close by.

"I know that." he says not looking my way. "I, however will not stand by and let anyone hurt you." Klaus says causing me to finally turn my head in his direction.

"Of course you wouldn't, when you could do it yourself." I snip back at him.

Cami clears he throat and swallows hard. "As a therapist I can clearly tell that all those moments you've pushed down have gravitated to the surface. It's why you're so violent." She says her tone different then before. I could still detect bitch but she toned it down, for Klaus and Klaus only.

Eyes locked I feel Klaus come close though I hold him off with my hand halting all his movement. "Are you trying to convince me or yourself Cami?" I ask causing her to shift from one foot to the other. "And side note, sweetie, I've had plenty of villains try to get into my head, many have tried to break me, you could never touch me, you aren't on my level."

Klaus breaks through the magic barrier and stands in the middle of me and Cami. If he thinks this is about fighting over him, it's not. This is solely about principal. Klaus could swallow verbena and wolfsbane for all I cared.

"Okay, ladies that's enough, this has escalated further then I would expect from the two of you." Klaus says looking between the two of us.

I frown his way. "Don't lecture me."

"She started it!" Cami says defensively.

"And I'll finish it too." I say causing two pairs of blue eyes to look my way. "I am one of the strongest witches to ever be born and the only way I'll get the answers I want is if I search your mind." I say looking past Klaus at Cami. "You wanna prove that you're much better than the therapist that went after another womans boyfriend, you'll let me search your mind."

"My private thoughts are mine." Cami swallows hard.

"You didn't have a problem going after what was mine." I point out. "My relationship, my boyfriend."

Her face gets red at my words which only causes me to laugh on the inside. "Oh now, he's your boyfriend. He's been practically begging you for more, and all you offer him is pebbles and amazing sex." She spits. "With any other woman he can have so much more."

I scoff. "Well now that I don't want him anymore, you can give him all the love and affection you think he needs. And he can get use to mediocre sex with you." I say causing her face to fall. "Now back to the topic." I say with a tilt of the head.

Cami only shifts her weight from one foot to the other.

"I knew you were all talk, I also knew what you wanted from the very beginning. And even now I see you for the coward you are."

My words seem to ignite something in her, because soon Cami is speaking. "You're such a bitch Bonnie!" Cami hollers. You won, you have Klaus and it's not enough for you!" Cami seethes. "You won't be satisfied till you've ripped out all our hearts!"

I didn't expect the blow I felt when she mentioned Enzo. To hear someone else talk about what I went through with him, so blase like, really had me thrown. It only spoke to the privilege Cami thought she had. How dare she throw Enzo in my face, I did what I needed to do, what had needed to be done.

I'd deal with Cami in a second but Klaus, he was the one that told her about Enzo. "Wow, Klaus I can only imagine what else you've told her about me." I say betrayal laced in my voice.

Klaus takes two steps forward and thinks better of it. "I told her, that you saved yourself from him. I told her how courageous you were to face your fears with that mad man, that would not let it go, the man that would never let you have peace."

I only look his way annoyed by his everything. Right about now, both of them could kiss my ass!

I did what was best for me and I don't care what your side bitch thinks about me." I snarl in the direction of Klaus, before fixing my eyes on Cami. " I saved myself from a man that was content with me being miserable so that he could have me. The same man who had my entire life planned out for me. He had a ring, a house and a plan that was all his and he wanted to control me and my life!" I say impassioned. " I fought and I'll never stop fighting for me." I say causing Klaus to look my way a unreadable expression on his face.

"I'm a warrior." I say to Cami. "And you wouldn't know what to do with yourself if you were ever in my shoes."

Cami looks away clearing her throat. "I had, no idea that situation was that dire."

"That because my life is none of your business, yet you seem to want it so badly." I point out.

Klaus scowls at Cami before turning his attention my way. "Love, you know, I out of everyone knows what it feels like to fight for you, for your own happiness and well being." Klaus says pained. "You and I, we have matching scars, that nobody but us can understand, but it made us who we are now and I wouldn't change you and I wouldn't change me ever, because if I did, then– we wouldn't have found each other...we wouldn't fit together like we do, perfectly." Klaus says passionately "Our paths crossed a second time for a reason, love" He says coming closer. "I know you know that, deep down, under all the hurt and all the anger."

I shake my head and hold him off from getting any closer by holding my hand up against his chest. If Klaus wanted to, he could come much closer because I wasn't using magic on him. "You don't get to talk like what we had was something special when you were the one who threw it away."

Brows furrowed as if he's in pain Klaus speaks. "I never wanted to throw you away." Klaus says suddenly. "I never wanted to throw us away." He says his tone softer now.

"But you did it anyway." I remind him.

Cami holds herself causing all eyes to turn to her. "Oh my god, you two are making my head spin!" Cami bursts. "Bonnie, you won, it's clear even now that Klaus wants you." Cami whines dismayed the attention is no longer on her.

I can only roll my eyes. Cami swore we were in competition, when it was never a competition. I was the better option and Klaus would realize that one day, he'd regret throwing us away and he would live with the memories that would haunt him for the rest if his undead life, while I had the gift of moving on and finding my happily ever after.

"I didn't win anything!" I snap. "But I will get down to the truth one way or another."

"Fine." Cami says flippant. "Search my mind, it's the only way you'll see reason any damn way." Cami snaps. "But just so you're aware you brought this on yourself, so look into mind see the connection Klaus and I have built upon and continue to build upon." Cami spits. "He may want you but our connection will never be severed."

I blink her way. Cami was so smug, that she couldn't even tell that she was sticking her foot further and further into her mouth, because Klaus didn't look to pleased by her words. In fact that more she professed love for him the further away it pushed him. She was trying to fuck with me, but she had no idea, I was only fucking with her.

"Are you sure, you can back out at any moment?" I taunt.

Cami shakes her head. "No thanks. I'd rather prove you wrong."

"You can drop the bitchtude, you went after my boyfriend not the other way around."

I turn to look to Klaus who's been watching with a pensive look on his face.

"You're not going to jump in, stop this?" I ask Klaus who is watching intently.

"Camille has made her choice." Klaus says easily. "Besides what you see, it'll be nothing, nothing compared to what you and I have."

"Hmm." I nod turning on my heel and walking over to Klaus instead.

"I said you could search my mind." Cami calls after me. Her voice comes out shrill as if, the mere sight of me getting close to Klaus is causing her distress. She always hated seeing us together.

"I'm not going to search your memories," I say surprising her. I can't help the smirk that appears on my lips. "I really could care less about seeing all the ways you love Klaus, I'd rather pass." I say causing her face to drop. " I do have something better in mind for you though." I say causing her to tense up.

I turn round to look at Klaus. "As for you, " I say causing him to come close. "I'm going to search your mind and you're going to let me."

Klaus only gets closer his hands on my hips. "I'm all yours." He says huskily. His hand trails down my arm till our hands are together his fingers between my own.

"That's enough." I say jerking away from him. He only chuckles as I place my hands on either side of his head. "Clear your mind" I say sternly.

"Whatever you want." He says softly. "I give you whatever you want."

"Klaus!" Cami calls her tone pleading. "You don't have to let her into your mind."

For a second I wait to hear what he has to say. My hands are still in his hair as our eyes meet briefly. His eyes have changed to the color of his wolf, as well as his fangs have descended. "Bonnie, can have as much of me, as she wants."

My fingers sink into his hair while I say a spell that opens the door to the events that occurred today, when I walk through the door I see everything. It's almost like I'm sitting beside Klaus and Cami as they talk at the bar, though I can't hear the words they say. The kiss that both had admitted to comes out of nowhere and by the look on his face Klaus was surprised as well. Next I see the two of them at an art exhibit, followed by the rest of events which included the pair coming back to his home drinking talking and then Cami spills her drink. Even from afar I can see the light in her eyes as Cami looks at Klaus, he though looks like he's lost in his own memories.

Pulling away from him I let out a gasp as my magic snaps back into me and Klaus regains conscience. Our eyes meet, his wild and animalistic and mine wounded.

Realization hits me so hard that I have to take a deep breath. He did this on purpose!

"You see." Klaus says looking my way imploringly. "Nothing happened, love. This whole thing was a misunderstanding on my part." Pause. "But the good thing is we can work through this, everything can go back to normal because you want me as much as I want you."

His words were just words, words that left me feeling empty. He hands reaches out to touch me as if to get my attention and the first thing I do, give him a one two hook, that has him wiping blood off his lip. Screw him and his mind games, screw him and his pretty words that now amount to nothing! Screw him and the love I thought we found. Screw Niklaus Mikaelson!

"Misunderstanding my ass." I say breathing hard. "You did this on purpose!" I say flabbergasted by it all. Nothing would ever be the same again.

He approaches me slowly, as if I'm a wild animal ready to strike as stand looking at him like he was an imposter, or maybe this was him the real him. "I know this looks and sounds bad." He says touching my face. "But we can get through it." He breathes.

I look at him in a quizzical way. I can't believe him, he's so clueless in this moment it makes me want to scream! For someone who likes to think he's not only the smartest person in the room, but someone who claims to be one step ahead of everyone at all times, right now he's being obtuse. "We are not okay, I am not ok." I say breathing hard.

My mouth is feeling way too wet, I feel like I could vomit right now. Sliding down on the floor I sit down breathing in, and out as a wave of nausea rears its ugly head. My eyes are closed because I can't look at him with out wanting to vomit.

I feel him close though. Klaus sits on the ground next to me. "This- this isn't easy for me." He admits. "Things don't usually don't go this right, but with you it was always right and I was scared of losing that, and then I accepted that I lost it. Accepting that I lost you was one of the hardest pills I had to swallow, so I set out to destroy everything in my path."

I can only rub my temples.

"I thought you were leaving me." Klaus says a sense of urgency in the way he speaks. "I thought you chose Damon, chose Caroline, Stefan...Elena! He roars. "So, I did what any Mikaelson would do in this kind of situation, I seized the moment and when you came here I set out to hurt you before you got a chance to hurt me." He says his voice now quiet.

I roll my head to the side and open my eyes to see Klaus looking at me with pleading eyes.

The way he's looking at me is similar to when a pet is in trouble, his eyes are almost closed off as he's waiting for me to say something. "Well congratulations." I say offering him a round of applause. "You won." I say bitterly. " I hear you always do." I say getting up and heading toward another exit because I needed to get as far away from Klaus as possible right now.

"Love" He calls out slamming into an invisible wall I've put up to keep him away from me. "Love– love please," He calls out, eyes sad but with a determination that only Klaus possesses . "Let me, let me fix this." He says licking his lips. "I can fix this." He says hitting against the invisible shield. "You, you just have to give me a chance." He declares his tone softer.

The mere fact that he can dare to mention love in a sentence with me right now is astonishing. Hearing him call me that at this moment makes me nauseated. But what really gets to me is that he thinks things could possibly be salvaged right here, right now. "I can't do this right now, more importantly–" I say tilting my head over to spot Cami who is still here listening to our conversation. "I don't want to do this right now! Goodbye."

BB-BB

Instead of walking to the car I use magic to teleport myself right where I needed to be. I needed peace and I couldn't have that with Klaus hovering over me. Digging into my purse, I search for my keys, feeling masculine energy close by. It was Klaus. I don't have to turn around to know that. All I do know is that Klaus was able to break through a spell he wasn't able to before.

"Leave me alone." I say inwardly rejoicing once my keys are in hand. Of course at that moment my keys slip from my finger almost as if someone pulled them off of my finger on purpose. The moment the key slip from my finger, Klaus swoops in, holding them like it's the key to my heart and not my car.

I glare at him. "Give me my keys." I say my palm open. "I mean it, Klaus– I'm done."

He growls out the word no that is so loud the crows in the tree fly away.

"You can't make me stay." I stress giving him as much as he gave me.

Klaus takes a moment and looks around his whole demeanor changing. His eyes are dark and sad. "I know." He says quietly.

"Then what are you doing?" I breathe out. "Why are you doing this?" I plead with him. "When we know, how this ends."

KM-KM

Klaus

He knows he's hurt her, it's the eyes that give her away. Everything about her was warmth, that's what she was to him she was sun when it was raining, she was light when all he could see was darkness. And right now, when he looked at her it was almost like he watching her get further and further away from him without even moving.

"Why are you doing this?" She pleads with no trace of tears, though he can detect the fact that she's tired. Her heart is beating fast and strong but the rest of her is just about defeated. He took part in the long process that was started with Elijah, Enzo, Sabine, and Damon and joined them the likes of them in playing with her heart..and using her feelings against her.

"Because," He says simply causing her to let out a small scream as she turns her back on him.

"Because is not an answer Klaus, if you have something to say– say it and let me go about my way." She says tired of this, tired of him.

He lets out a long breath. "Love, " He calls. "Love look at me." He says standing close to her, though she still has her back turned to him. Instead of saying anything he just stays close to her. Thought they are outside now, he can full the suffocating feeling of failure. He was failing this...her miserably. He wants to wrap his arms around her and tell he's sorry, that he screwed things up that he can be better and he won't let the voices of doubt get to him. "You know how I feel about you." He says finally." He reaches out to touch her shoulder but she rolls it away almost as if she senses what he's about to do.

Now it's his turn to feel defeated, but that defeat doesn't last too long because soon she's turned around to face him, to face this with him. "Are you done?" she asks green eyes all but glowing. "Are you finished wasting my time? Because this is a waste of time, go be with Cami or don't, just leave me the hell alone." She seethes as wind picks up.

He looks around knowing that her magic swirling around them. He can feel her magic as if its touching him which has his wolf inside roaring to life. Normally he would get ticked off if someone spoke to him the way Bonnie had but now he can only smile about it, because she's using his tactics on him. She was full of fire and so was he.

He chuckles now. "No, I'm not done. He says a maddening smile on his lips. "I don't think I'll ever be done." He admits truthfully. He hadn't felt this way in a very long time and the thought of losing her, of losing this– it made him crazy!

He reaches out to touch her face which doesn't seem to go well because she turns her head. "The thought of you leaving me, tore me to pieces." Pause. "Everything that happened with Cami was a result of me thinking I lost you."

"Don't you say her name to me." She spits out. "You talk about the thought of me leaving tore you to pieces but you tore me to pieces!" She cries out. "You let me think that I wasn't good enough for you, that I wasn't enough for you." She says as tears spring from her eyes. "You were another let down. Just like everyone else who let me down." She says her facade slipping if only for a few moments.

He words are like a blow to him because, he never wanted to let her down. He always wanted to be what she wanted, who she wanted because he wanted her. But what was the kicker was the mere fact that he had made her feel the same way so many people had made him feel. Everyone he ever loved, when they left because everyone ended up leaving. He always felt like he had never been enough to make them stay.

I know what I did was wrong, but it's ingrained in me to strike first before someone else gets the jump on me, it's the Mikaelson way." He says simply because it was the truth, ask any of his siblings and they would tell you the same thing.

"Oh my god!" She cries out in disbelief. At the vast amount of space she puts between the two of them it tells him that she needs a lot of space, a lot of fucking space away from him. He know though that he gives her the space she craves, that he'll lose her forever. "Are you seriously going to stand in front of me and blame Mikael for what you did?" she asks pointing his way.

He looks down only briefly. "I can't help that revenge is ingrained in me. Father taught us–"

She's seething now, in fact if he listens quietly now, he can hear the wrath of the Bennett bloodline whispering that he would never be enough for the last of the Bennett bloodline. He can hear the cackles of the witches whispering and talking all kinds of shit. Walking over to him, she stands close enough for him to see the disgust she has for him. "He's dead now!" She grits. "You are the only one holding on to his b.s. ideologies all the while resenting his treatment of you!"

He clicks his tongue and takes a step back. "Wow, low blow much?"

"Klaus." She calls her last reserve of patience slipping rapidly. "You're the only person holding onto Mikael and then using him as a crutch for you fucked up behavior." She says wiping her hands over her face, when he looks at her now, she still looks like perfection on the outside. It's the inside he's worried about.

"Maybe, just maybe you should talk that shit out with a therapist." She grips before giggling. He thinks he's driven her mad.

He too joins in on the mania and starts to chuckle lightly. At least she can, they can make a joke about it. "I'm not perfect."

"I never asked for perfection." She answers, her voice strained, and raw...still hurt.

"But I try to be better. I'm trying to be better right now!" Klaus continues. "You're saying everything to get to me–"

"I'm telling the truth." She says bluntly. "That's part of your problem, everyone tip toes around you and your feelings!" She roars. "I say, screw em both, you and your feelings!"

He fiddles with his bracelets along his wrist hoping for calm. "Yet here I stand unmoving because I screwed up, and I know that you're the best thing to happen to me in a long time, and I know that I want you with every fiber in my being." He says walking closer to her. His long dead heart is beating for her, hoping her heart beats for his like his heart is beating for her.

"You mean nothing to me." She says looking up at him, her green eyes telling the truth while her lips lie.

He's seen her like this before, jaw set, heels dig in. She's gearing for a fight, he plans on winning.

"So if I have to endure a lecture, a rant, old school supernatural show down, then so be it." He says causing her to make the mistake of letting her mask slip from her features. He see's the truth, he see's her. "I'll do whatever it takes to wipe that look from your eyes." He says his voice cracking.

"Klaus–" She says with a heavy sigh.

"I'm sorry." He says his voice full of emotion, so much emotion because he knew, just like many that he had fallen in love with her. She was different from anyone else, that was why he had wanted her so much, that was why despite his aloof responses when others asked him how he felt about Bonnie– he had known for a very long time what he felt for her, and how far he would go for her. How far he was still willing to go for her, to get her back, to have her back in his arms and looking up at him with shiny emeralds in her eyes.

Right now they are at a stand still neither one of them willing to stop fighting and neither one of them willing to let go. He won't let her go and at the moment she won't stay.

DS-DS-DS

Damon

He had always loved driving in his car, it was one of the places he could go and be able to just think and be able to breathe without the drama that cluttered his life. Now though as he drove his car, his mind kept going back to his last encounter with Bonnie. She was a woman who knew what she wanted and he was the man that would wait till the end of time for her to realize what she really wanted was him.

Flashback

When it's time for Bonnie to finally board her plane he's stands when she stands and makes a beeline her way, ignoring the way Caroline and Stefan are looking at him. He knows what they are thinking. Caroline thinks he needs to pump the breaks because Bonnie had made her decision she wants Klaus. Stefan just wants him to be cautious this time around and take things slow. He's already going at a snails pace, what more could anyone ask of him?

"So it's that time, you get to go back home." He says now standing in front of her. "Back to Klaus...lucky him."

She sends him a look. "And you get to drive back in your favorite car with your best buddie, everyone wins." She says grinning.

He snorts. "Yeah, Vincent is cool people but just so you know," He says getting closer. "Not only are you much prettier to look at but your best friend number 1."

She fans herself. "Really, I don't even have a speech prepared for this moment."

"Smart ass." He says pulling her into a hug. "Be careful." He says pulling away to kiss her on the forehead. He wants to so badly ask her if maybe she changed her mind, that perhaps she had seen the light but refrains from doing so. For right now, she wants Klaus.

As if reading his mind she sends him a scathing look. "I haven't changed my mind, so you can stop sending me those bedroom eyes Salvatore." She says tilting her head to the side. "He's what I want." She says her tone soft. "I want Klaus." She says a finality in her voice.

"And I haven't changed my mind either. I want you and I'll wait for you."

Unfazed Bonnie waves him off. "Later." She says simply before catching up to Lucy and Caroline.

He watches as she walks away till he no longer sees her anymore. Once she's gone he turns to see Vincent and Stefan looking at him. Vincent shakes his head, while Stefan has his hand on his forehead.

"What? I kept it platonic?" He asks. "I could've tried to swat at her ass."

"And Klaus would be on your ass. Trust me he's got people all over the place, once he considers you his– you're never really out of his sight." Stefan admits from obviously the shared past the hybrid and his brother had together.

They walk out of the airport now heading straight from their cars which are parked near each other.

"How do you do it Vince, keep it platonic with Lucy?" He asks suddenly. He's positive he's asked this question before but he cant remember the answer.

"Lucy and I are on another wave length. I'd never put her in a situation where she would have to chose between me and the man she's seeing. Nor would I ever clip her wings. I know what Lucy wants and needs, but Lucy needs to find that out on her own, and I just have to play my position.

Stefan stands at her car listening intently. "So you and Lucy..." Stefan trails off.

Vincent only looks at him fully aware where this is headed. "We're Vincent and Lucy." Vince says with a hint of warning, a warning his brother would never take. Stefan is use to the word yes, hearing no is something he's not accustomed to.

He claps his hand on his buds shoulder. "Has anyone ever told you, you're a good man Vincent."

"All the time, it's why in the end, guys like me ride off in the sunset with the girl in the end" Vince says as he and Stefan share a look.

Stefan only nods. "Well, then shall we go, I'm ready to start my life over again and try it different this time, with someone different, vibrant and wild."

Vincent nods. "Good luck to ya."

The gauntlet is thrown down now, and for the first time the drama has nothing to do with him, now if only he had some popcorn.

End of flashback

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Bonnie

I couldn't stress how difficult it was for me to even look at Klaus at this moment in time. He had let me down so much today that it was unfathomable how we could even move past this. But what was worst was that I wanted to move past this. I knew in my head that not every relationship was smooth sailing and thus for that had been sort of how Klaus and I had been. It was always outside drama that had caused a reaction and this time was no different. I just couldn't let myself go any further with him right now, or think past this moment between us.

"I really mean it, I'm sorry– for all of this, for causing the divide between the two of us and being no better than the people who you trusted in the past that wronged you." sigh. "But we can get past this. You just have to let me make it up to you."

I close my eyes at his words, I wanted to believe him, I really did but I was still raw, still hurt and yes I could be being dramatic over a kiss, but Jeremy kissed Anna because he had never gotten over her, and I was in a relationship triangle with a ghost, my boyfriend and me. I would never go through that again. Klaus let Cami kiss him, because he wanted it too.

"You're sorry, but you intentionally punished me, by letting me think the worst and now you wanna talk about feelings and shit." I say exasperated. "I am so tired of you and Damon thinking I'm just going to fall in line into whatever you want me to do. I'm not going to do that, I will never do that again for anyone."

He can't help it, his temper flares. "Did you save that speech for me or did Damon get it as well?"

I let out a madly laugh which causes Klaus to look at me questioningly.

"I'm talking to you right now." I emphasize. "I'm disgusted with you!" I say my voice coming out strained and raw. "I thought you'd be with Hope, I thought you'd be waiting for me, and instead you decided to pour your heart out to a bitch you know is in love with you, instead you lean on her because I'm too complicated." I say swiping at my nose. "Instead of doing what you should've been doing your first instinct is to run to Cami, let her kiss it make everything better!" I scream.

Klaus crosses his arms in front of his chest. "This falls solely on me." He says hitting his chest. "Forget about Cami." he says raising her voice. "This is about us!"

I lick my lips. "There is no us!" I shout. "You made sure of that." I say pointing at his chest. "You, you did this to me." I say as tears start to fall.

He looks away, so much emotion written on his face. "You don't know how hard it is to make sure I keep the voice of Mikael out of head, to keep myself from continuing to play chess with that bastard!"

My hands are shaking when I walk up to him. "Mikael is dead and gone." My words sound stringent to my ears but I continue because Klaus needed to hear this. "I get that, I get that he fucked up your head, and played mind games with you. I understand where you insecurities come from, and I can even get that he's the reason your untrusting, insecure, angry and a whole lot of shit, but you don't get to play mind games with me, and that's what you did." I say pointing at him.

When he wraps his arms around me I want to scream and yell at him some more, I want him to understand how much he hurt me, but all I can do is cry. I'm crying for the fact that I nearly had to fight for my life again at that hands of Elijah. I'm crying because I know that the friendship I had with Damon at some point in time is going to have to change and it may not be for the better. But most of all I cry because I really wanted me and Klaus to work.

"It's ok." Klaus says into my ear. "Let it out love, let it all out."

I let myself fall apart for one more second before pulling it together and pulling away from him. It was the hug that did it for me, I really needed a hug even if it were from him.

"I can't forgive you right now and I don't know when it's going to happen." I say suddenly while we're still close. "Now I'm going to go home for real this time, and you're going to let me go."

When he lets me go, I feel so cold, it was like my insides were freezing or maybe I was just numb from the pain. I had been betrayed before, but nothing like this.

"Now, I'm going to go home and spend time with my best friend who changed all of her vacation plans so I could be closer to you." I say bitterly. "Give me my keys."

"Your in no condition to drive." Klaus says holding onto my keys.

"Don't do that." I say snatching my keys from him. "You're just prolonging the inevitable." I point out. "I'm leaving you." I say as my words echo back to me. I can hear myself and I don't sound ok, I sound damaged.

A look crosses his on his face, a fleeting moment where he looks so broken, in fact he looks as broken as I feel. "We can't leave it like this, we can't just let us go without a fight." He says pleadingly as he puts his hands on my shoulders. "You're the best thing that has happened to me, since Hope and Marcel."

I ignore his words and the way he still makes my heart flutter. Right now, I needed to shut him out for my own protection and he needed to fix himself. "I'm leaving you Klaus, and I suggest you use this time to figure it out, whatever it is." I stress. "I won't do this with you again Klaus. If you want me than it's me and only me." I admit. "And if you're looking for a way out then go." I say causing Klaus to look my way surprise written all over his face.

"I don't want Cami, I want you." Klaus says strongly.

"You ran right to her when things between us didn't go your way."

His temper flares at my words. "It was one kiss."

"A kiss always means something." I say not being able to look his way any longer. "I've been down this road before." I admit thinking back to Jeremy. "I'm tired of the games, I'm over it" I whisper.

Klaus takes steps to come closer to me. He lifts my chin up so that I'm looking into his eyes. "I never played games with you."

"Until now." I remind him. "I'm not Aurora, and I'm not Cami. I'm not going to do this your way because it's what you want." I say causing him to look my way perplexed. "I deserve someone who wants me for me. Who doesn't want to control me. I deserve someone who'll love me as much as I'll love them and won't punish me for not doing what they want."

He gets close to me, he always so close to me. His hand cups my face. "I am all those things."

I tilt my head defiantly up at him. "Really, you could've fooled me. Scratch that you did fool me."

"I tried to fool myself to. He says with a bitter chuckle. "But I knew you were all I wanted. Even when I was drinking my sorrows away, you were all I wanted. You are all I want." He says his voice just above a whisper. "And I'll do everything in my power to make things right between us again."

My lips are tight as I listen to his passionate words. The bigger question was what if I didn't want him anymore, what if the connection we had was broken for good by all of this?

"I need you to understand that we need space and that means no contact at all." I say causing him to wipe his chin. "We both need to figure things out."

He places his forehead against mine. "I don't need time. I already know what I want, I want you." He says fiercely. "I want you, so very much and that won't ever change."

I back away from him because Klaus only hears what he wants to hear. "I'm gong home."

"I know what you want Bonnie, under all the hurt and anger." Klaus calls while I walk to the car. "You want me." He says suddenly. " Just as much as I want you."

When I get to the car, Klaus is behind me. "I'll let you go for now. But I'll never give up on you or us again, I promise you that." Klaus says placing a kiss to my cheek.

I waste no time hopping in my car and putting as much distance between me and Klaus. The broken pieces of my heart may have longed for him, but the logical part of me, knew the further I got away from him the better.

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Bonnie

On my way home, I kept going over every word that was said, every gesture, everything about everything. I know Klaus had a lot of hangups that he was reckless, and impatient and whole lot of other things that stemmed from his own childhood trauma. But what he did, was just so foul that the thought of him right now, made me want to scream. In fact I did scream a couple times just to get out the emotions that were still very much bottled up inside.

After a very disastrous, emotional and taxing talk with Klaus; I arrived home to Caroline sitting on the couch with a big bowl filled with chocolate chips, pretzels and of course popcorn as she watched the title shot to the movie the Notebook. Immediately when I walk through the door she looks up a grin and probably a sassy remark on her tongue before that all went out the window by my sheer appearance.

"Bon," She calls all the while putting the remote down on the sofa. "What happened? I thought you were going to see Klaus and find out if you two were on the same page?" She asks concern written all over her face.

I nod and head over to the drink cart. "I saw him." I say pouring myself a smidgen of bourbon. "And I realized that not only are we not on the same page, we arent on the same chapter and not even in the same book."

"Goodness what happened?" Caroline asked.

"In my head everything had gone so much different." I say after tossing back my drink. "But of course Klaus happened." I say turning to look at her. "And he was Klaus, just not the Klaus I was use to." I admit. "That should've been my first red flag my bullshit meter should've been flying off the charts but I, was too emotional."

Caroline takes my hand and leads me to the sofa. I sit quietly looking at the title of the Notebook. When were teenagers we had watched that movie so many times. We had all hoped to find a love like Noah and Allie, a love that could hold the test of time, that one person who loved you through it all. Back then, we had thought that love was what Elena and Matt had. When their relationship collapsed it was obvious that– the love Elena and Stefan shared was more love of your life type of love. That was till Elena had blown that to pieces and left Stefan for his brother. Despite my ill feelings for Stefan and I did have ill feelings for him, I could admit that she did him dirty. Caroline was another person who had found her love of her life with Tyler. They had been through it all and yet they were still together.

As for me, I had a disastrous love life. Jeremy and I had gotten together, but really it was because we were the only two people in our group who was single. And that didn't work because he cheated on me with his ghost of an ex. Enzo and I had been through some good times but our relationship was built on loneliness. Damon and I were a tangled mess that I was content on keeping in the friend zone. And then their was Klaus. And that was all I could say about him right now.

"Bon, what did Klaus do?"

I click my tongue. "He pulled a Klaus wildcard on me and acted out all because someone sent him a picture of me and Damon hugging."

Caroline rubs her eyes. "I knew something like that would happened." Caroline says with a bite of her lip. "Klaus is like me, we make everything much bigger than it really is and then fuck shit up all because of it."

I rest my arm on the couch my hand on my face. "Please don't go into detail of how you get Klaus and you understand what he's done because right now I need someone else to be as angry at him as I am right now." I say my voice getting raspy.

"You're my best friend always." Caroline says holding onto my pinky. "Tell me everything."

And so I began.

"It all started with him running to his therapist for comfort." I say popping some popcorn mix into my mouth.

"No way does Klaus have a therapist." Caroline says shocked.

I roll my eyes at the mere thought of Cami, that bitch. "He said he went to therapy for his daughter which I get and lets face it, he does have a lot of issues." I admit. "Not that I can talk."

Now Caroline rolls her eyes. "Girl please, you may have a couple books but Klaus has a library of issues."

At her words my eyes start to water. "Speaking of issues, my biggest issue is that I fell in love with Klaus Mikaleson when I should've been guarding my heart instead."

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Klaus

After his talk with Bonnie he finds himself sitting outside for the longest time. Maybe he was trying to avoid Cami, or maybe he was just trying to sit in silence and be left in his thoughts. All he knows is that when it's dusk he finally pulls himself upright and heads into the house.

Walking into his home, he was surprised that Camille was still here, especially since he had finessed his way into getting a deeper conversation with Bonnie. She hadn't been happy at first but they said everything or at least everything they could say today and that was enough for him.

Now as he stood in his sitting room he found Cami drinking out of the decanter.

"If you're wondering if my face still hurts, the answer is yes." The therapist says dryly. "Bonnie has a mean right hook."

He stands far away making sure to put as much distance between he and Cami. "She's got a wild temper and it's activated when she gets upset." he says simply.

"And now?"

"She's still upset." He says curtly. " You might want to lay low for a while." He says giving her the heads up. "She's got a friend in from back home and she's very protective of Bonnie and will probably come looking for you." He says thinking of Caroline.

"And lets not forget Lucy." Camille groans. "You don't think Elijah can put a good word in for me." Cami quirks. " I heard he and Lucy are seeing each other and the thought of two of them meaning the Bennett cousins being ticked off at me can lead to a lot of trouble I don't want."

He can't help but chuckle. "Elijah is actually on a much needed time out."

"Great." she sighs. "You were gone an awful long time, judging by the fact that we're not sporting matching shiners, things must be better between the two of you."

He chooses not to answer her questions because leaning on Cami was part of the reason that everything had gone to shit. "About what happened earlier, the kiss, and everything."

Cami looks down momentarily. "You mean, your girlfriend figuring out that I had feelings for you all along, or the fact that I kissed you because in that moment I couldn't deny those said feelings I had been working tirelessly not to act on."

"All the above." He says suddenly.

"You had to know, and if not, I blame it on the illustrious Bonnie Bennett." She says with a sad chuckle. "Klaus we came so close to being together, all those moments that were shared and I was afraid to lose you in the end." She admits drink in hand. "And then when I get the nerve to finally tell you how I was feeling, you had your eyes on Bonnie. In fact the first night she walked into my bar, you couldn't keep your eyes off of her, it was like she was this beacon of light and you were a moth drawn to her."

He remembers that first initial meeting in the bar fondly. Bonnie had sparked a fire in him, he hadn't felt in ages.

"I know how I feel about you Klaus." Cami says with a sigh. "I care about you so much. I know you deserve love, and to be loved by somebody who really loves you back." She says rising from her seat on the two steps in the room. She walks over to him slowly. "I can be that person for you, if you let me, let me love you the way you deserve to be loved." She says now standing before him.

He looks her up and down, his jaw set. "Camille." He warns.

"You felt it too, what we had. We had a spark that could turn into much more, if only you would say yes." She breathes.

He stands to his full height now, towering over her. "My answer is no." He says with finality. "I love her Cami. I love Bonnie and I will do everything in my power to get her back."

Stunned she backs away. "You don't- you don't want me, you want Bonnie." She says as if she surprised by his words.

He nods his head. "I want Bonnie. I love her, and I know I have a long road ahead of me to getting her back but I won't stop till she's mine again."

She clicks her tongue. "What if that never happens again? What if, you've lost your chance?"

He doesn't hesitate. "She loves me too." He says suddenly. "I saw it in her eyes, and if she loves me but of fraction of how much I love her, then I know we'll find our way back."

His words seem to get to her because Cami is suddenly nodding her head. "If Bonnie is what you want, then it's her you deserve." She says honestly.

He breathes a sigh of relief because hurting Cami was not his intention. She was his friend and he trusted her.

"I get that Bonnie is hurt, but she'd be a fool to let you go." Cami continues. "Just like I was a fool for never going after you when you were free." She says playing with the long shirt she's wearing as a dress. " I know kissing you– when you were clearly still hung up on Bonnie wasn't the best idea but I don't regret it." She says resting her hand on the armchair. "And I'll never regret my feelings for you."

He clicks his tongue. "This conversation is over Camille and that kiss, I regret letting it happen because it hurt someone important to me and I regret dragging you into my mess." he says turning his back to her.

"You didn't drag me anywhere, I wanted to be here...I wanted to be with you." Cami says passionately. "I still do, even though it's clear as day that you want Bonnie and that even you'll always want Bonnie."

He tightens his lips not wanting to delve into his feelings about Bonnie. That was a subject that the two of them obviously shouldn't talk about because it was a messy situation. "Josh is on his way up to take you home...please see yourself out."

When Cami makes her move to leave, he stops her with his words. "The way you spoke to her, unacceptable. Don't you ever speak to Bonnie the way you did today." He says with a growl. "You may be my friend," He says gravely. "But if I can fix this mess I've created...she will be my mate." He says, as wild eyes catch hers. "And that will be forever."

Later when she leaves, he sits by a roaring fire, a drink in his hand.

"You must be laughing your ass of now father?" He says to the empty house. "But it is I, who will have the last laugh. I'll get Bonnie back, and she'll love me just like I love her. And I'll have everything you never wanted me to have, a life filled with happiness and love. ."

He takes his sip and feels the cool chill of the house. The echo of laughter from his father long gone, but still leaving the chill of doubt lingering a little while longer before disappearing completely.