A.N. Hey all! I hope everyone is safe! I'm back with another chapter. Thank you for reading and replying. I'm glad that you all seem to like this story and the journey I'm taking klonnie on! This chapter has a lot to pack in.

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Chapter 7: Pressing Pause

Klaus

Rage, it was something that he was familiar with, something that he had clung to in order to defeat his enemies and right now it was boiling in his veins. To find her, the way he did– it made him want to go out and do all the things that horror stories were made about. How dare anyone touch her, let alone hurt her. She was royalty in her own right, and for someone to bash her head, and leave her on the cold floor as if she were dirt would be the last thing that person, or persons had ever done. He would make them wish the end was near when he found them.

Nobody touched nor hurt what was his and Bonnie was his.

Even if it were just for the remainder of her time here.

Glancing over to his side, he noticed that she was still sleeping. He had spent the night watching her, waiting for her to open jade green eyes. Yet still, she was asleep.

Flashback

He watched as she ran after that childish vampire a snarl on his lips. Why she was fleeing after the fun they were having was lost on him. He wondered if not for the first time if something was really going on between the two. He had thought Bonnie would be the last woman to go after sloppy seconds, however the way she and her "best friend" reacted to each other was something to cause for pause. It was obvious that the vampire had feelings for her, she may also return the same feelings. Why else would anyone put up with someone who not only failed at everything they did, but was also a walking talking joke?

The only thing that was for sure, was the fact that despite whatever may or may not be going on between Bonnie and Damon, he and Bonnie clicked on another level. And even she, couldn't deny that for too long. He could taste how much she wanted him, and he had wanted her just as much if not more.

Stomping back toward the throngs of people he finds Marcel and Rebekah, the latter looks drunk while his protégé just has a big smile on his face, as Rebekah tries her hand at dancing. He guesses she's supposed to be seductive but really she just has her hands up in the air and her hair slinging back and forth. Now, Bonnie she could dance, she moved with ease as her body had followed the rhythm of the beat. He'd reckon that watching Bonnie was like watching a snake charmer, charm a snake as they dance to the beat.

She had certainly charmed him, hypnotized him even.

"Nik." Bekah calls, causing him to stop as he still looks around for the runaway witch. "I thought you were in search for your witch, please tell me it isn't over already- if so poor girl."

He squints his eyes in her direction. "Not now Bekah. It seems my witch has run off, but if she thinks I'm going to let her get far than, she doesn't know me." He bites out.

He stomps away pushing people out the way, but not before hearing the wager made between Marcel and Rebekah

When he makes it to the back door he pushing it open so fast it nearly breaks. He stands outside looking from left to right, when something catching his eyes. The gold flickers in the night sky and instantly he knows it's her.

Using vampire speed he rushes to her, only to see that she's knocked out. He holds her in his arms, as blood from her scalp bleeds onto his hand. Alarmed he bites into his wrist and pushes the crimson liquid into her mouth.

Gathering her in his arms, he looks around again only to see that the streets are bare.

"I promise you, they will pay for what they've done to you." He says to her sleeping figure and then he uses his vampire speed to take them home.

End of flashback.

The teacup he holds in his hand crack under the pressure that is put upon it, causing him to place the delicate cup on the bedside table. Though things could have gone down a much warped path, the good thing was that she had not been violated. That of course did nothing to simmer down his anger.

Hearing the sounds of pacing back and forth, back and forth, he decides to get up and finally see what it is his sister wants.

With one last direction of the sleeping bronze beauty he heads to the door only to find Rebekah waiting for him. He closes his bedroom door and walks along with his sister who leads him to the library.

"How is she?" Rebekah asks after a long while. His sister looks almost as worried as he does, however he is astute enough to know that Rebekah fears what he will do and so should everyone else.

Arms crossed forehead lined with worry he looks up at her. "She's still sleeping." He licks his lips when a cup of blood is immediately handed to him. "You'd think my blood would've done more." He says his voice raw and exposed. "I am the strongest man on earth and yet my blood has yet to heal her!" He says agitated.

For a moment she takes in the sight. Usually her brother would play his cards close to the chest, never letting anyone see anything, let along his feelings. But, obviously he was shaken up by seeing his witch so vulnerable. And yes she knew that Bonnie was indeed his witch because the writing was already on the wall. She only hoped they all survived the aftermath of it all

"It did save her life, whoever knocked her out, made her scalp bleed, that could've ended her all together, she could've had a concussion or worst." She says softly her hand on his shoulder. "But you- you saved her."

He looks over at his sister grateful for her words. Though her words were meant to calm him, it just made him want to act fast at finding the person behind the act. "I want you to send out a memo, I want information about last night as soon as possible, put a reward at a million dollars for the right kind of information. I want to know, who saw what, who did it and where I can find the person."

She nods her head. "Of course." She takes a sip of her blood still watching his movements as he begins to pace back and forth.

"I want to know who did this to her as soon as possible, and those who give me falsehoods will pay dearly." He says so dark that she shivers at his voice.

Swallowing hard she speaks. "The good thing is, they didn't assault her in any other kind of way. The doctor from last night, told you so."

He stops pacing to look at his sister. She was right, if anything else would've happen to Bonnie everyone would have hell to pay. "I need to go check on her, thank you for everything, your connections with Dr. Amber who did her physical and for get the word out on the reward for any type of information about last night." He turns to leave when Rebekah calls him again, causing him to halt his movements.

"Elijah," She says licking her lips. "He hasn't been home and this is not like him at all." She looks down as her hands are beginning to shake. "We need to find him as well."

He hears her, understands her worry, however Elijah is an original vampire, nothing can kill him therefore he is not worried at this time. "Elijah is a grown vampire, he shall find his way back home when he's ready." Pause. "Right now Bonnie, is my top priority."

With that he leaves his sister alone while he returns to his chambers to be with Bonnie.

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Bonnie

When I open my eyes, the first thing I notice is that it's way too bright in here. The second is that, Klaus is standing at the foot of the bed looking at me like a miracle has just occurred. Not even a second later, he's at my side, his hand touching my face ever so softly.

"You shouldn't move too fast." Klaus says suddenly at my side. The alarm in his voice causes me to pause. I run my eyes over him, noticing he's in a simple white tee and pajama pants. Then I look down at my own clothes, surprised to see that I've got on pajamas as well. Or at least an attempt at pajamas in the form a henley that belongs to a certain hybrid.

"What am I doing here?" I ask trying to sit up, but finding the act hard to do. Every time I move, my head starts to throb. It's like a migraine from the pits of hell.

Klaus comes to sit on the bed next to me, concern etched across his face. "Someone attacked you last night." He whispers, his voice cold and steely.

At his words I let out a curse. Why would someone attack me? I had learned a long time ago to keep it pushing and not to interfere too much in other peoples problems because it always seemed to become my problem. "Why would anyone attack me?" I ask slowly.

"That is what I am going to find out." Klaus says in a voice so deadly it reminded me of his days of horror back home. Opening my eyes I see that his face is neutral though his eyes are flickering from sea blue to hybrid yellow rapidly. When he notices I'm looking up at him, he smooths out any signs of anger and smiles down at me. "I have my hybrids out combing the streets for answers and if they fail, I have sent out a reward for answers."

I shift in the bed, closing my eyes. "You brought me back here?" I conclude.

"Yes of course." He says his voice soft. "I also had a friend of Bekahs' a supernatural doctor, to check you out to make sure that they only place they hurt you, was your head."

Immediately I'm sitting up. Why I hadn't thought of that, was beyond me? I could only blame it on the blinding pain in my head. "And." I ask looking into his eyes.

He cups my cheek, causing my eyes to close briefly. "They didn't touch you."

I let out a sigh in relief, that are followed by tears that are rare to be seen by anyone. They were happy tears of course, but still tears. I had been through a lot over the years but that- if that had happen, I wasn't sure I would be able to pick myself up again.

I had been here before, life threatening, or just plain hurt and I didn't want that to ever happen again. Kai had nearly broke me before and after him it had been the loneliness and depression. I didn't want anything or anyone to steal my life from me ever again.

"Love, open your eyes." Klaus calls so tenderly that my eyes open to see him inches away from me. "You're safe." He says tenderly. He uses his thumb to wipe the tears that are falling from my eyes off my face. "You're safe, I promise you."

Without a second guess I throw my arms around him and hug him. I hadn't been saved many times. In fact I had often been the one person to save myself from...everything. I hadn't been able to really trust that anyone would save me, but Klaus he had saved me.

When I pull away he's looking at me with unreadable eyes, and I suddenly feel self conscious. I could count on one hand how many people had seen me actually break down. I had always thought that I needed to be the strong one, but as strong as I was, I was just as fragile, and now Klaus had seen it. "I'm sorry about–"

He places his thumb on my lips silencing me. "Never apologize for being real. This world lacks real people like you."

We share a look before he clears his throat. "How's your head?"

I close my eyes leaning back against the headboard. "It still hurts."

"How about a little blood to make it better." He says causing me to open my eyes just as he's biting into his wrist.

I watch as the crimson blood drips from his open wound. I knew that original vampire blood was suppose to a much higher potency, it was also frowned upon by most witches to have vampire blood but, this was one of the times when I had to go my own way.

"Okay." I say finally causing his brows to get lost in his hairline. "What?" I ask as he still looks shocked.

A slow smile comes to his lips. "Nothing."

My mouth soon finds it's way to his wrist. My tongue darts out tasting the crimson liquid, all the while catching eyes with him.

"More?" He asks pulling his arm away to take a much deeper bite and then pressing it to my awaiting mouth. I waste no time this time as mouth sucks hard on his wrist.

Once I've had enough blood he's looking at me smugly, while I'm just glad that my head isn't hurting as much.

"I bet this is the best thing you've swallowed since you were last in my bed?"

I roll my eyes and nudge him with my shoulder. "Thank you, for everything." I say in the silence of the room. I was starting to feel good, it felt like I was soaring with his blood weaving it's way through my body.

His red lips curve into a smile. "I take care of what is mine."

I pause at his words. "I'm not yours." I remind him.

He only leans close to me. "I concur, your lying in my bed," He breathes close to my face. "Wearing my shirt and my blood is in your veins." He raises his brows. "I think that makes you mine, and if not now, it will later."

His words hold promise and the excitement that is in the pit of my stomach is followed by a sudden swarm of butterflies. "We'll see about that."

He grins showing teeth. "We shall, but for now, your going to regain your strength." He says pulling me down on his chest. "And I'm going to rest with you."

He tucks me in, with him settled close to me. I had to admit it felt good being in his arms. He's warm and smells the right way. But most of all, he sees me, and for a long time I was invisible. I see him too, even if glimpses of him is behind my closed lids.

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An hour or two later I awake, to find Klaus and I in the same position. My head is still buzzing but for the most part I feel good. Sneaking a peak I look up at Klaus as a sense of de ja vu hits me. We had been here before, of course I knew but something about today was much different.

My nap had been filled with images of what had happen before I had been knocked out. I place my hand over my forehead, everything was a bit fuzzy. But the things I do remember was me and Klaus in the club, things got out of hand fast and then Damon appeared and everything kind of fell apart.

I shift in the bed, causing eyes the color of the sea to blink open as Klaus now looks at me.

"Thinking about escaping again?" He asks, his voice thick with sleep.

I turn over to face him. "I was thinking about Damon." I notice how his face which was once smooth shows lines of anger. "I wonder if he's okay."

He bristles as that but bites his tongue. "I'm sure he's fine, your phone had been going off all night." He says patiently. "Come on, I need you to sit up so you can drink this." He says getting up to pour a cup of tea in a fancy tea cup.

Sitting up I take the glass he hands my way. "Thank you, for taking care of me." I say again and the look he gives me gives me the chills. I don't think anyone had ever looked at me the way Klaus had just looked at me.

He reaches out to hold my hand and strokes it with his thumb almost affectionately.

"What's the story between you and him?" He asks suddenly, nearly causing me to spit out my tea. The turn around was that swift.

I put my hair push my hair out of my face. "We're best friends." I say simply. It was the truth.

He nods his head. "When I last saw the two of you, you hated each other and now..." He pauses. "I didn't take for the type to go after a man that's been with your friends."

At his change of attitude a frown finds it's way to my face. I had a strict rule I'd never touch a dude that Caroline or Elena had dabbled with because they had switched guys so much it made my head spin. "I'm not the type." I say after putting my teacup on the bedside table. "I don't do guys my friends have already done." It was the truth, that was just not me.

It was the way his eyes lit up as soon as the words left me mouth, that told me the untold story.

"Are you sure about that?" He says with a tilt of his head. His hand falls to my thigh as a smirk falls to his lips.

Eyes widen I speak. "No fucking way!"

He can only smile. "She didn't tell you?"

"No!" I say trying to pull away from him, only for him to pull me closer to his side. With a sigh I finally continue speaking. "Back then, I was on the save Elena train, so I guess Caroline didn't feel the need to confide in me." I couldn't meet his eyes after my confession, let alone after his confession.

He lifts my chin up his thumb resting on my bottom lip. "What happened with Caroline happen. It wasn't spectacular especially since she decided to name it." He says wiggling his eyebrows. He brings my hand down to it, to let me know just what he was talking about.

I open my mouth and bust out laughing. "That's just wrong." I say watching as his face reddens.

He rolls his eyes. "Till this day if I hear the word pickle, I'm ready to smash things." He says chuckling.

That of course made me laugh even harder. Tears are starting to stream down my face because that is so Caroline!

"Being with her," He swallows hard. "Wasn't nearly as enjoyable as –"

I can tell where this is going and I know that I need to stop him before he says what he's about to say. A lot had happen in the last couple of hours and I had his blood in my system making my attraction to him much more potent and he was probably following the bad boy vampire play-book. We may have come to a conclusion the night before that we were going to keep everything light and fun, but the way he was looking at me was making my heart beat fast.

"Klaus,"

"You."

When he reaches for me, I reach back or maybe it's the other way around, when I reach for him, he reaches back. Our lips dance against one another, before someone makes the first move. I'm not quite sure who does what, but soon I'm in his lap as we share the sweetest kisses ever.

Our mini makeout session is cut short when he pulls away abruptly.

"What?" I ask as his hybrid eyes are in full view.

"The calvary has arrived."

DS-DS-DS

Damon

The very moment he had seen Bonnie and Klaus together, something snapped inside of him. He had been holding it together for a good amount of time. He was curbing his reckless habits of drowning himself in blood and sex and found a more healthier thing to do, which was to just be with Bonnie. That had been what he had been doing since his return, it had been just the two of them, and he had to admit it was what he was beginning to think the rest of his vampire life should be like. Sure, Bonnie had always said she never wanted to become a vampire, but he knew that the appeal was beginning to look better to her. They could live forever together. If she wanted kids down the line, the could adopt a puppy and then maybe a kid.

He was even starting to see why Stefan was itching so badly to settle down with a white picket fence, because with Bonnie he wanted to do that too. It didn't matter if they were roomies for all eternity, though he liked to have thought that by the time he turned her they would be so in love that the idea of being roomies would make them laugh.

Of course, all of this would happen after he had finally settled things with Elena.

He had it all planned out really, at least in his head. They would be just as they were friends and then one day it would turn into more, and than more and soon they would be it for each other. That was the plan, until well Klaus and his dick got in the way.

Once he had seen the two of them in person, it nearly crushed him. He hadn't expected it, the ache he felt suddenly at the mere sight of them. It was supposed to be him right, it was supposed to be he and Bonnie, not Bonnie and Klaus and yet somehow the latter was happening right in front of him. The only thing he could do, to stop himself from either going on the attack mode to a very old vampire or making a fool out of himself in front of everyone was to disappear.

And disappear he had.

He had gone to a bar, picked up a beautiful woman with chocolate brown eyes and cinnamon spiced skin. She felt right, and said all the right words. She was attracted to him and he was attracted to someone who was Bonnie and not Bonnie at the same time.

When he brought her home, it had been amazing sex for her, mediocre for him, but if he squinted, or drank just enough bourbon, she reminded him of the Bennett witch who had no idea she held pieces his heart in her hands.

By morning he had shuffled no name girl out of the house and hoped to have a talk with Bonnie. Maybe he could even articulate why he ran out of the club like an idiot. However, Bonnie had not returned home and he knew in his gut just where she was.

That was why he was presently sitting outside the Mikaelson home with a scowl on his face. He hands itched for a fight, but most importantly he just wanted to see his best friend. His feelings for her may be complicated... the two of them may be complicated but the one thing he knew was that, she meant the world to him. And if he had to face down every Mikaelson in the world, he would for Bonnie

Slamming his car door shut, he gets out. Sunglasses on, flask in jacket he makes his way to the house.

The plan had been to run in, get his friend and then charter a plane so they could go home. It was obvious that Klaus was a bad influence on Bonnie, and that meant that he needed to get his friend far away from the hybrid.

Rebekah stands at the door arms crossed in front of her chest. "Damon, I thought I smelt a brewery, good to know you still funk up everything."

He smiles her way before blowing a bubble with his bubble gum. "Always a pleasure Bex." He says moving past her into the house.

When he stands in the middle of the between the foyer and stairs he turns to look at Rebekah who looks all to smug for his liking.

"Where is she?" He asks walking back Rebekah who standing watch.

Bored the original sister looks at her nails. "Am I supposed to know whom you're talking about?"

He grits his teeth. "Witch, about five feet tall, long hair, green eyes–"

Rebekah nods. "Oh yeah, I think I know what you're talking about; red lips, gold dress and killer shoes."

He claps his hand. "Yeah, where is she?"

The original vixen smiles over at him. "Oh you're serious?" She says hand on her hip. "What happened to your obsession with the whiny twit, ya know Elena. Does she know how your chest is puffed out all over her best friend?"

He wags his finger her way. "Don't be jealous Bex, you had the pleasure." He says showing his teeth. "Now step aside while I find Bon, I know she's here I can smell her scent."

Rebekah observes him for a while before speaking. "She's probably in my brothers bed."

Twitch went his eye and his vampire speed when Rebekah only body slams him into the ground.

"Fine." He says wiping himself off. "We'll just do this the hard way."

Soon he's picked up a rather pricy looking crystal and throws it on the ground. It's just the first thing he does before he begins to tear apart everything that looks like its ancient and expensive.

He only stops when he hears her voice.

"Damon."

Poised with something shiny in his hand he looks up to see her descending the stairs with Klaus hot on her heels. He knows she okay now that he's seen her it's just seeing her with Klaus is what makes his skin crawl.

"Bon."

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When I saw him, a let out a sigh of relief. It was good to see that he was okay. Damon and I, we may have fought on occasion, sometimes we were brutally honest with each other, other times we were ruthless and sometimes times we played around so much that people around us got irritated, Caroline especially. But at the end of the day, we were friend who had each others backs even when we were annoyed with each other.

"You couldn't call anyone?" Damon asks once I'm standing before him.

"You're one to talk, I distinctly remember calling you and getting a voice mail." I point out.

Damon for all his talk at least looks a bit sheepish at my point. "Alright, we both suck, hug it out?" He asks opening his arms.

We make a move to embrace when Klaus stands in front of us, he's like literally standing in the middle.

I can feel the heat of him, the anger like it's a fire in the hearth.

"Glad to see your friendship is still in tact especially since you were attacked after running after him." Klaus says his tone so dry, I felt like I needed water.

I turn to look at Klaus who has now moved from his position between Damon and I and now heads toward the drink cart. He pours himself some tea, takes a sip and then glares at the two of us.

"Klaus."

Damon soon pops up in my eye sight waving his arms around. "Wait a minute you were attacked? Why am I just finding out about this?"

"You were running away." Klaus says putting his tea cup down. "The good thing is that our Bonnie is safe now, no thanks to you." Klaus says putting an arm around my waist and pulling my back toward him.

Ocean blue eyes and methane blue eyes glare at one another, with Klaus still holding onto my waist while Damon grabs a hold of my hand.

Rebekah who had been watching everything rolls her eyes. "For goodness sake she isn't a rag doll."

I give her a nod in thanks. "And I don't belong to either one of you, so you can both let go." I say my voice so icy that both men seem to get hint. Klaus is still standing really close to my back and Damon he still standing super close to my front.

Damon licks his lips. "Bon, what happened?"

I rub my hands across my arms and move away from both men. "I don't know, not really." I say scratching my head. "All I know is one minute, I was on the phone calling you and then everything went black." I bit my fingernail out of nervous habit. My manicure was going to be so ruined by the time this conversation was done.

Damon swallows hard. "Where was Lucy? Vincent?"

I turn around to face him. "I don't know where Vincent was, he was probably dancing. As for Lucy she was probably with Elijah." I admit.

"Lucy and Elijah." Damon snorts. At least she got her man. "Let me guess and Klaus saved you?"

"Just what are you getting at Salvatore?" Klaus asks, his voice sounding deathly calm but not truly calm at the same time.

"You set this thing up, didn't you? You did it all to get closer to Bonnie?" Damon glares. "I mean I get it, you save her, look like the good guy, I've done it before- but Bonnie isn't going to fall for your tricks."

Now it was Klaus turn to chuckle. "I didn't do this. Bonnie and I were getting closer before this happen, so I didn't need any help." Klaus says so matter of fact Damon looks like his face is about to fall, but then he thinks better of it and turns to me.

"Bon, this is Klaus." Damon reminds me. "You know what he's capable of."

I knew the destruction both of them were capable of.

All eyes are soon on me and I know what I'm going to say, I know that Klaus didn't do this. He may have done a lot of things in the past, but in this moment, in the now he didn't do anything wrong. "Klaus didn't do this, he didn't attack me Damon."

The air shifted at that very moment. I spared a glance to Klaus who looked relieved that I didn't believe he had anything to do with this. Then I caught eyes with Rebekah who had been watching everything go down. She looked perplexed by my revelation.

Damon soon stands in front of me, his hands on my shoulders. "Listen Bon, you're my best friend and I love you." He says smiling. "I want what's best for you, and what's best for you right now, is to realize that- that bastard set this thing up." Damon says pointing at Klaus.

I shake my head. "Not this." I say causing Damon to shake his head in the negative. "Okay, why would he do that after I already agreed that we could hang out and see what happens."

Damon backs away almost stunned. "Your dick hypnotized!" He rants. "I've done it before and I've seen what it does to people. You are obviously further gone then I ever thought." He mutters.

I cross my arms in front of my chest. "Why because I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt?" I nearly scream at him. "You're not the only person who can change, who can be three dimensional!"

Ok, tell me this?" He asks with the lick of the lips. "What's the difference between Klaus and everything he did and what Kai did, or Silas even?"

I squinted at him and walked closer my arms folded in front of me. "The difference is that Kai terrorized me, you know that!" I spat out. "Silas tried to drive me insane, Klaus has done a lot of damage, a lot of damage but he never inflicted it personally on me."

We're both breathing hard by now. I realize that we haven't argued like this in a long time, and I don't want to argue with him. I put my hands together. I smile over at my friend before speaking.

"He saved me Damon, and that matters to me!" I whisper.

He flashes his teeth. "I'm glad your okay," He sincerely. "Even if he is the one who put you in danger." He swallows hard. "But you are forgetting everything he put us all through? I may have done some crappy things in my time, but think about what he's done. He killed Jenna, turned Stefan into a jerk in order for me to get his blood, killed Carol, broke up Caroline and Tyler–"

I stop him real quick. "First of all I hate that he killed Jenna and Carol. Everyone seems to die in that town, all the innocents and it has never been fair." I say looking from Damon to Klaus and then back at Damon. "Secondly you don't even like Caroline and Tyler so lets skip that."

He only wags his head in my direction.

"As for your brother he's ripper and he has a tendency to be a jerk when he's not trying to impress someone." I say causing Damon to roll his eyes.

"Fine." He says walking back. "I know I've don't have much room to talk but,"

I blink at him. "You don't, you've hurt a lot of people including me." I remind him. How many Bennett family members had he failed in protecting through out the years, the number was probably much higher than even I wanted to think about.

Damon stuffs his hands in his pockets. "And I'm sorry about that, about last night– I was out of line." Damon walks closer to me. "But I need you to listen to me about Klaus, he tried to kill you and if you want to gloss over that fact, what about..." He stops. He his hands are suddenly wet with sweat and he debates his next words. "He tried to sacrifice your best friend!" He says desperately.

I blink back tears.

"While everyone, including you wanted to sacrifice me!" I shout so loud I hear the windows rattle.

Just because we were friends now, didn't mean I could excuse all the shit he put me through. We had even gone to therapy to work on our friendship, a friendship that came out of nowhere. We nourished it helped it grow and we were closer now for it. However, I didn't forget anything, I may forgive but I never forget.

His words though, they cut like a knife. I even felt tears start to prickle in my eyes. I chuckled but in a sad way, This was about Elena. It didn't matter that she was stuck in a hole somewhere, it didn't matter if the girl was toxic for anyone in her presence, everything would always go back to her.

"Bon–"

I stomp over to him and look him in the eyes. "That's what this is about? Elena?" I say rage filling my every being.

"Bon, it's not like that." He says guiltily and I don't care for his wounded look or his hurt feelings, or his pathetic apology.

"You're still mad about Elena, the vampire who still can't do anything, she's as much as a damsel now as she was before." I spit out.

Damon reaches out to touch my arm causing me to flinch at the mere thought of him touching me right now. "This isn't about Elena right now, it's about you...I just...I just want to protect you."

I shake my head angrily. "You're right about one thing, this isn't about Elena. As for protecting me, Klaus did that!" I say my voice rising. "If we were at home, how long would it have taken anyone to look for me, to find me!" I say touching my chest. "So I don't care what he did in the past because what he did last night, it erases it all!" I say pointing him in the chest. "I fucking matter, and I mattered enough for him to come and look for me."

Damon encloses my hand in his. "Okay, I know what I said, came out wrong, Elena should've never been mentioned, but she's apart of his history and what he's done."

I roll my eyes. "I cannot with you right now." I say snatching my hand away from him. "You want to be forgiven for everything, for all the things you did because Katherine didn't want you, because Elena rejected, or because you simply decided you were in love with Elena." I say through gritted teeth. "But you can't forgive anyone else, not when it comes to your precious Elena!" I say tears falling from my eyes.

I hated crying like this, but I was so angry with him. I was angry that he was second guessing me and I was angry that he thought to use her to get me to change my mind. Elena I had stopped being friends long before we actually stopped being friends. She tried to kill me and blamed me for everything that went wrong in her life, when really it should've been the other way around.

Damon swipes at his eyes just as I had done earlier. "Okay, Elena is not in this. Lets talk about us, I chose you over Elena." He reminds me.

My brows raise."And you chose to dessicate to get away from me." I snap.

"And I came back, we worked through our issues, it's you and me- we have each others back."

"I don't feel like you have my back right now." I admit causing him to stumble back. "I feel like you're holding me back!" I say swiping at my nose. "I want to live Damon, and I'm going to live."

The silence drags on as we try to collect ourselves, until Damon spares a look in my direction.

"I want you to live too and that is why I'm pushing this so hard." He admits. "I don't trust him, not after all he's done and especially not with you. I won't apologize for that."

I close my eyes slowly and then look back at him. "You mentioned Elena, maybe you should go find her." Pause. "Go find her in that hole she fell in." I sniff and then look back at him. "Go back to that toxic cycle you love and hate so much." I bite my lip. "Because I need space."

Damon nods his head and then steps up. "You want space fine!" He walks over to the door. "But I'm not leaving you, I'm not giving up on us because we're best friends and no matter what, we always work it out."

I look away. We were so far apart from what we were before getting here, it was sad. However, right now I wanted nothing to do with him, I could barely look at him let alone listen to him speak. A break was what we needed.

"I told you before, I would spend the rest of my life making up for the pain I caused you, and I promise you I will. Just as I will always have your back and your best interest even if you don't believe me right now.

I watch as he walks out of the Mikaelson home. It was only the sound of Rebakahs voice that brought me out of my thoughts.

"Are you sure the two of you haven't shagged, because that was..." She trails off only when Klaus glares at her.

Klaus links his hand in mine. "Thank you, for believing me."

I look up at him and try to smile but fail. "Well, you did save my life."

He kisses my forehead as Rebekah watches the two us.

Before any of us can move, the door swings open revealing Elijah who is still wearing his clothes from last night. They look rumpled and not at all the style I'm use to seeing the original in.

"People," Elijah says loud and still a bit drunk. "Lucy took me to the roof," He declares with a smile.

I knew what the roof meant at least Lucy finally nailed Elijah. At least now she could tick him off of her to do list.

"Naughty," Rebekah says grinning.

Elijah looks at us, almost lovesick. "She kissed me!"

"Where?" Klaus asks causing me to frown at him, he only chuckles.

Elijah furrows his brows. "On the lips." He says slowly.

It was the way he said it that made me laugh, and laugh I did for a very long time.