In the city of Pompey, on what would usually be a night filled with bloodlust, sex, and alcohol, we have the gathering of 13 noble sires making a decision that could change the lives of many vampires.
"So before we leave here tonight, we have to make a sure decision," Aya said, sipping on her Pinot Noir. Tristan had brought to the group's attention that a witch in New Orleans had been working on a spell that could de-sire vampires and free them of the curse of having to protect their sires, or it would lead to death.
So for the past few weeks, they have been on whether or not they should have this witch help them.
"The Mikealson family has been on top of the hierarchy for centuries; it is time for that to change so we can be free and move this world forward in our image," a blond vampire known as Oskar said to Aya's right.
"Yes, but if we go forward and this fails, we would have sealed our fates. I think we should just have someone meet with this witch and see how sure she is," an ember-haired vampire named Nahum said. The others murmured in agreement, except Aya and Tristan.
"Are we sure Lucien is telling the truth? Why would he give us this information so easily?" Ethan asked.
"I have known Lucien all my life; we have no loyalty to each other, but he would not lie about this," Tristan said.
"How did he get this information before we did?" Oskar asked
"He got it from some wolves in the area," Tristan said.
"Should we be?" someone started to ask Aya before interrupting them.
"That's enough questions; it's time to make a decision." Aya said growing tired of this debate.
"All in favour of going forward with the spell?" Aya asked, and 11 raised their hands.
"Good, we will move forward with Lucien and Tristan's plan," Oskar said.
"And who will be recruiting the witch?" Nahum asked
"We will have one of our witches meet with her so they can connect," Tristan said with a grin on his face.
Aya nodded. She was still having doubts about betraying Elijah, but if it all worked out, she would finally be free of him.
Bonnie sat on her mat, fully dressed. Something was telling her she should shuffle her cards before she left to go by the Mikealson's. As she began to shuffle her cards, two cards flew out. She put them back in and shuffled again. The same two cards, temperance and two of swords, jumped out. Bonnie shook her head and said, Let's do it one more time. She shuffled the cards, and this time five cards came out.
The two of swords, temperance, the ten of wands in reverse, the three of pentacles, and the devil in reverse. She took out her golden and black oracle cards for more clarity. She shuffled them; the first card said believe in your magic and it will believe in you, and the last one said lean on someone you trust. She knew they were basically telling her that she should find a balance between helping and asking for help, or she wouldn't find the balance she needed to live the life she wanted.
Bonnie decided to get her Telfar bag and place her vision journal, it was filled with random numbers, animals or even jewelry most of what she had seen already on her journey here or when was roaming New Orleans, she also got the bracelet she has been using to keep her magic in check since she was back and a grimoire Freya asked to borrow. Once she knew she had everything she needed, she left home.
The moment she arrived at Mikealson's Mausoleum , she barely had time to go greet Freya and give her the things she had for her, when Hope ran up and jumped into her arms, almost making them fall to the ground like the first time they met.
"Bonnie, Daddy told me you were staying for dinner. Is that true?" Hope asked her, looking up at her with her doe eyes. Bonnie nodded in response to Hope because Klaus was standing by Freya's door, looking at her. I think this is the first time I've been around Hope in his presence.
"I'm so glad you are because Uncle Elijah decided to make my favorite tonight, Spaghetti," Hope babbled. "do you like spaghetti? If not we can have him make something else."
"Have you been here before? Can I show you around?" Hope continued without giving her a chance to answer the questions before. She heard Klaus laugh, when she looked up to him, he smiled and walked away so she give Hope her attention again.
"I have been here once before, but I didn't get to see much of it." Bonnie looked at Freya, but she waved her off. She was reading through Bonnie's book. So Hope basically dragged her around the place, she's strong for a little girl Hope made sure to tell her everything she knew about the place; showing her the place where she felt the presence of vampires that were near desiccation
"We can't go too deep into it, though there are evil vampires buried there," Hope told her. The last place they reached was the dining room.
"Are you ready for dinner?" Hope asked her to place her hands on the door to open it.
"Nope, I need to use the little girl's room. Why don't you go ahead and I'll find my way back, okay." Bonnie told Hope. She nodded and went in while Bonnie was off to the bathroom.
When she was finishing the bathroom. She had barely stepped out the room before Klaus grabbed and rush her to a hidden corner of the house, he immediately kissed her nose before leaning for a kiss with her, she placed her hands around his shoulders so she could embrace the kiss.
They kissed for awhile before she had to pull away so she could catch her breath.
She looked at him with her eyebrows raised and asked,
"What was that for?" They had seen each other just yesterday when he took her to her family house and told her he had brought it for her. She was grateful for the gift, but she couldn't help but wonder if it came at a cost.
Why was is he being so sweet to me? Is it all a plan? She thought when he said he would not accept anything from her after all he could have anything he wanted. He did ask her call him Nik. She wasn't trying to play the good girl role and not accept any gifts from him because that clearly comes with being friends with Niklaus Mikealson but it was smart to have my guard up right?
Klaus just simply smiled at her, before bracing against her against the door and kissing her again, his hands travelling down her waist, hips then raising her legs so they were wrapped around him, he pulled away, trail his lips from her neck down to her collarbone.
"Klaus," Bonnie try to protest but it came out as a moan instead when he started to suck on sensitive part of her neck. He only slightly stop to say mhhhmmm,before he continued.
"Nik,"she said a barely managed to sound serious, she moved his face so he was looking at her.
"I'm not here for you ya know," She told him
"You can talk to my family another time," he said, Bonnie rolled her eyes and slap him on the chest, which cause him to laugh and pepper her face with kisses, which made her erupt in giggles. They made out some more before he eventually allowed her to move, so she could fix her then took his hands and lead him out to the dining room.
"This is my home, I know where we have to go," Klaus announced, moving his hands to place in on her back.
"Yes, but if I let you lead I doubt we'd reach there," Bonnie responded,
He kissed her neck to whisper,"Don't worry, I'll take you away soon enough,"He gave her one last smile and push the door open. Bonnie took a deep breath before walking in.
When Hope saw her she immediately, came and pulled her into a seat that was between her and Freya, while Klaus sat at the head of the table.
Elijah came into the room along with Rebekah,
"Good Ms. Bennett, you've arrived," he announced, Bonnie resist the urge to groan. Immediately as they took their seats, they were served by what she was sure was compelled servants.
Bonnie dug in to her food the same time as Hope, she was honestly hungry and had neglected to eat since she had brunch with Hayley earlier. When she was done eating she spent most the time conversing with Hope and Freya, Freya even teasing her about some of her visions, she sure was about Klaus. She also glanced at Klaus from time to time and each time he was looking st her.
When was sipping on her wine and Rebekah had finished reading the journal, everyone but Freya was only able to read the vision she had about the Mikealson. Klaus had gone to put hope read Hope her bedtime story and put her to bed. Bonnie felt on edge since Klaus left, she was sure why its not like he would protect her if anything happened if his siblings attack her.
Rebekah finally broke the silence and said "Well, Bonnie how do we know what you have written is not just the ramblings of mad dead witch," Bonnie rolled her eyes at her, its like she can't turn her bitchiness off.
" Rebekah now," Freya began, but Rebekah interrupted her.
"No, you have clearly allowed this friendship with Bonnie to cloud your judgement and think what she saying is the truth but that girl Kol calls his girlfriend could have done better than this," Rebekah remarked
"Now we both know Bonnie has more magic in her left pinky than Davina had when she was a harvest girl," Freya countered, who is this girl and why is she even with Kol?
"Though you have a point Rebekah, she did see Klaus coming to Mystic Falls and our mother coming back," Elijah chimed in.
"Those are both things a baby with stick could have predicted, Klaus went to Mystic Falls because both the moonstone and stale doppelganger was there, and her family brought back our mother," Rebekah exasperated.
"Look I have no reason to doubt what Bonnie has written in this book, There is no issue in hearing her out and assessing how we should take action" Freya insisted. They continued to bicker leaving no room for Bonnie to have say. I'm glad mom stopped at one.
"Why don't we let the little witch speak, how she'll show us these visions are real and we should take them seriously," Klaus said entering back the room and sitting where Hope was. He reached out to rub his thumb against her wrist.
"Of course you on her side as long as you carrying on this thing with her, your mind is clouded," Rebekah protested his thumb stopped and he glared at his sister making her shut up immediately.
Bonnie look at Klaus wondering how he was able to do that,he just looked at her and give her his signature devilish grin. They kept eye contact causing Elijah to clear his throat and Rebekah sighed.
Bonnie took her hand away from Klaus and stood up to move away from where she sitting, she closed her eyes. Was telling them anything really worth the hassle? Bonnie felt their gaze on her back. She turned to face them
"To be honest, I really don't care if you guys believe my visions are real or not, I'm not here for your belief in my gifts." Bonnie affirmed "I'm just doing my neighborly duty and telling you guys what I saw because when it does come to pass, we all had a role to play in stopping it and I'm not in the mood to have anymore regrets," Bonnie said with a simple shrug.
"You say everyone as a role to play what is yours?" Elijah inquired. Bonnie crossed her arms and looked to Elijah.
"I'm not at place where I can share my plans with anyone, telling the wrong person at wrong time can cause too much unnecessary interference," Bonnie admitted, "But your brother should has an inkling of what I'm going to do," Bonnie continued.
Everyone turned to Klaus but he just shrugged his shoulders and peered at Bonnie.
"Great, spending time with Klaus made his paranoia rubbed off on her," Freya groaned, Bonnie looked at Freya with a sour expression on her face. she wouldn't say its paranoia, more the ancestors have ears everywhere.
"So why was only Freya able to see these so called visions in your book," Rebekah demanded, "You could have easily manipulated it to undermine her so we can over look you as a threat to this family," Rebekah said raising her voice.
"We sure Klaus is the only one with paranoia in this family? " Bonnie asked with somber chuckle, "The book was for Freya eyes only honestly cause she asked me to show her,also If I wanted to get rid of this family, I could have done that while you were in Mystic Falls," she stated
"I have no reason to hurt your family, unless you hurt me or mines." Bonnie forewarned. Rebekah stood up and rushed to bonnie in lightning speed, grab Bonnie's throat.
"Where is all that confidence now?" Rebekah spat in her face
Bonnie immediately put her arms out to defend herself and started to say
"Incen-"but Elijah intervened before Bonnie could burn the bitch alive. Bonnie touched her throat and tried to hum a spell but failed and had a coughing fit instead. come on work work Bonnie thought, her face as stomped for magic to work without saying the words,tears running down. Her magic should be working but it wasn't, she could feel it coursing but it refused to obey her.
Klaus walked to her and examined her and offered her some of his blood but she refused. If she died, it would be as a witch. She turned away from him angry, instead she continued gasped for air until she felt her magic finally worked.
"I'm fine," She told Freya rejected whatever was giving her. Her voice a little strained.
Klaus let out a dark chuckle, "Are we done with the theatrics Rebekah? We both know the only reason, you are attacking Bonnie now is because you want to destroy whatever happiness you think I'm creating outside of Hope." Klaus shouted "Who knows you might go after her soon too." Klaus shrugged but everyone could feel his rage.
"You want to blame me for your unhappy life, go head its what you do best, even though you have had seven years to find this so called happiness you want," Klaus argued. "if you were honest with yourself you'd admit, you are still want to be that pathetic little girl that needed to be protect from her poor life choices,"Rebekah rushed to Klaus to slap him but he caught her hand and smiled.
"Stop," Freya said raising her hands to push them across the room with her magic. she turned to Bonnie. Elijah came up to her and offer her his handkerchief, she accepted it and wiped her turned to look at Bonnie.
"How exactly were you planning to tell my siblings about the visions?" Freya questioned. Bonnie raised her eyebrows, is this normal? Bonnie wanted to turn to camera that clearly was in the room cause, why is Freya trying to change the topic like shes not about to die. maybe I'm being a bit dramatic, Bonnie thought or its normal Tuesday for them.
"They are going to enter my mind of course," Bonnie said in a low voice, her voice still affected by Rebekah's attack. Freya released Klaus and Rebekah and walked up to Bon and touched her shoulders,
"You do know they will have access to your thoughts and memories right?" Freya asked, Bonnie moved away from Freya and sipped her wine, which burn on the way down, Bonnie eyes started to water everyone eyes were on her again, but she focused on Freya only and shrugged her shoulders and shook her head.
She had an idea, they might see more than she wanted, but she had nothing to hide. She sat and rubbed her eyes, honestly wanted to get on with this and go home and scream.
"The man in my vision, I'm sure one of you would recognize him and as Rebekah said my writing isn't enough, which I knew," Bonnie said, she was speaking but she felt like she would puke up her blood at any moment. To make matters worse, the spirits were not liking how things was going for her and wanted her to lash out on the family.
"So you are going to let us enter your mind, even though we'll have access to any plans you have of destroying this family," Rebekah asked still unsure.
"What better way, to believe than have the full experience right," Bonnie said . "so whenever you guys are ready," she said nonchalantly. I wanna go home, this night is a complete shitshow Bonnie thought but she maintain a neutral face.
The siblings all shared a look before nodding, Klaus guided her to the living room where she kneel at the center table and took out her cards and started to shuffle.
"What does it say?" Freya asked her, Bonnie peer at her before turning and touching the cards.
"The queen is betrayed and left grieving and hiding bidding her time." Bonnie muttered before picking up the cards again, slowly chanting in her mind waiting for the siblings to enter her mind.
Klaus took one more look at Bonnie as she kneel in front of the center table with her eyes closed, her body lambent like the full moon. She was constantly reshuffling her tarot cards and placing them down getting the same four cards each time, 5 of cups, 10 of swords, queen of pentacles reversed and hermit reversed.
Hesitating He entered her mind, the first thing he notice was the air on his skin, It reminded him of the tense atmosphere whenever he was hunting with Mikeal, of every moment he was aware he might was also aware of was the cold metal on his skin and the fact he was on his knees, he tried to stand but a magical force kept him down, he focus on his sense find his little witch. What did she do? Was this a trap? was Rebekah right?
"Bonnie," he tried to call out, but his throat was dry and constricted. He saw a shadow before him. He focused his eyes and saw it was Lucien, the first human he turned into a vampire. He wasn't Klaus enemy or his friend. Klaus body started to shake in fury, but the angrier he got the more he felt a force pushing him to the heard Lucien talking , but it was all incoherent.
Klaus tried to focus and assess the situation, What's going on? Did Bonnie plan this? He shook his head.She was showing them her vision, but isn't she here? why the others weren't here?
He looked around him and saw he was surrounded by bodies of wolves with their pack sigils branded on him. He recognized each pack from his years of studying them. All seven packs were here and all of them dead with their heads severed off.
Beyond Lucien, he saw Finn. he looked like he was in pain from a wolf bite, but the way it looked on Finn's body, it looked 10 times worse than that.
Can I heal him? Is that why I'm in chains and can't move? did Lucien plan this? Klaus growled at the thought of Lucien having him on his knees, but instead of growling, it came out as a cough; he was coughed up blood.
He felt someone touch his shoulder, he turned to see it was Bonnie, here he was covered in his own blood and she looked perfect, her skin soaked up the sun giving her a glow. I must paint her like this, he thought, closing his eyes embracing her touch.
When he opened his eyes, he was back in the room, but his siblings weren't back with him; their eyes were still closed, and everyone was in the same position he left them, including Bonnie. He went to get some blood he felt drained. After he sat next Bonnie playing with her curls
After reading Bonnie's vision journal, she didn't see the point of jumping into her mind along with her siblings. She couldn't do it on her own and hated the idea of her siblings helping her and even having a little access to her mind. When Rebecca volunteered to take her, she was glad it was the least of the devils, plus Bonnie was sacrificing a lot by allowing them into her mind, knowing she had access to her mind, her memories, and her motivations.
So Freya took a deep breath, toughened up, and went into Bonnie's mind with Rebecca. When she entered Bonnie's mind, she lost both Rebecca and Bonnie. It felt like life just before she was taken by walked around until she saw Rebecca lying comfortably in the bed of Gladolius with her dagger in her heart and her hands around it like she had placed it there herself.
Freya walked up to help her, but she was suddenly surrounded by dark cloud. It caused her to take a deep breath, causing all the dust to enter her body. Inhaling the particles caused her to heave and her eyes to water, she felt as poking around her lungs right up to her throat, she began to cough and puking blood, it just kept coming, she was suprised her body had so much blood.
She sank to her knees, her hands covered in blood touching the ground, she tried to gain back her sense but she was losing herself. She closed her eyes, seeing her siblings in her mind. I have to help Rebekah. She tried to get up but failed; she fell face-first to the ground. She tried to take deep inhales, but it felt like she was losing consciousness. Bonnie where are you? she begged
She laid there immobilized, she blinked as she saw a light and heard a giggle that sounded like Bonnie's.
"So are you okay?" Freya blinked "with joining my coven?" Bonnie asked her, her voice still sound like it had when Rebekah had choked her. Freya's body tensed when she realized she was no longer on the ground but they were sitting on a porch, her head on Bonnie's shoulder,watching the wind blow the leaves on the trees. Freya could breathe again, and Rebekah was nowhere to be seen.
"I know you have way more experience than me spellwise, but it would be nice for people to know who you are outside of being the Mikealson witch, wouldn't it?" Bonnie said."I'm trying to create a community where witches can lean on each other ya know." she continued. Freya felt herself nodding, and she started to cry. cause she did understand, how does Bonnie know her so well after only a few weeks?
"I'll think about it and get back to you," Freya told her. Bonnie smiled at Freya.
"Okay, don't take too long," Bonnie said laughing as she slowly disappeared, and Freya was back in the room. She looked around and saw that only Klaus was back; he looked up at her and got up to pour her a glass of bourbon.
Darkness, that was all Rebekah saw when she entered Bonnie's mind, like she was daggered, but this time, it was like how Finn described it: she could smell the fresh flowers around her, feel the water on the ground, all her senses told her a storm was coming, and she felt the hilt of the dagger grating her palm. Her body like it slowly desiccating.
I was right about that girl she wanted to kill us. was her siblings okay? what will she do to hope? thoughts raced through her head and she tried to gain and understanding of what was happening
Rebekah felt her face being examined,which caused her to blink her eyes open. She looked around and saw nothing; she couldn't even sense Freya any longer; she was alone again as usual. She started to cry, feeling hopeless. She tried to call out to her siblings, but her throat was too far gone to produce a sound. I'm sorry please just get me out of this, she pleaded.
She felt someone wiping her tears. She looked and saw that it was Bonnie.
"I know you are in bad mood, but there is no reason you should be grumpy right now," Bonnie said, handing her a shot, Bonnie soft voice gone only filled with blinked her eyes adjusting to the blinking lights, she looked around and noticed they were in a club.
"Don't worry, I'll get back at her for you," Bonnie said over the loud music, urging her to take her shot. "You know you never told me how you turned her." Bonnie mused,
turned who? Rebekah was confused, but she took the shot, it was stronger than she anticipated and she stumble, she felt Freya holding her.
"Are you alright?" Freya asked her, and Rebecca nodded her head, blinking a few times to make sure it was another vision.
Klaus came and gave her a glass filled with blood. She took it and asked,
"What the bloody hell was that?" Klaus raised his shoulders and went to sit next to Bonnie. He traced her jawline, looking at her and holding her with such care that she had never seen him do that with any other woman outside his family.
She looked away when Klaus looked at her. she walked out the room trying to think of who Bonnie was talking about.
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Authors note
This chapter was kinda giving me problems so forgive for any mistakes