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"It's love, real love and nothing and no one can ever change that."
Chapter 42: Tearfully and Truthfully
"I'm right here love."
Four words had never meant so much in any one moment then that had in this very moment. His words hold meaning, desperation weather its my own need for him or the actual fact that he could need me just as much. Around us, all over us, the electricity of his proximity is strong enough to make my whole body hum. My magic burst to life like a firework going off on the fourth of July.
Have you ever had that movie moment when you see that one person out in the crowd that you've been waiting to see? And when you finally do see that person it's like the whole world has stopped moving...turning in that very moment. Time stops and everything is slowed down and basically all you can do is stand still. And that is exactly what I do.
Still, I stand very still as everything around me moves and all I see is him. I don't know what I expected once we saw each other again, I don't even know what I expect now. I do know, that seeing him for the first time since we last spoken has a sobering effect on me. I guess it's a testament to the power Klaus has over me and my heart, the drinks I had been drinking earlier had nothing on Klaus.
"Hello Love." Klaus says his words coming out almost cautiously as I blink his way. "You're here." He says his dimples deepening. "Looking beautiful as ever." He whispers out in what I would call timidly for Klaus who is never timid.
On instinct I take a step back, my guard up because whenever he gets close I fall into him and running into him tonight was not the plan. Tonight I had planned on dancing till I had to all but crawl into my bed. Tonight I had planned on settling everything with Camille and then celebrating my liberation from past hurts. Tonight I was letting it go and living it up.
What I had not expected tonight was running into Klaus.
I inhale trying not to let his close proximity get to me. "Yeah, well tonight is about forgetting our troubles." I say looking back at Caroline quickly before turning my eyes in his direction. How was it that he looked like nothing happened, while I had to pull myself together. "We decided to come out tonight have some fun, sing, laugh and dance till we had to crawl into bed. Forget about everything else."
For the longest time he says nothing, but his eyes watch me. Still he watches, his full red lips in a pout as he stands above, eyes the color of sand, his werewolf side emerging on the surface. Still, his face even from here looks different to me and it's only been a couple of days. The scruff that normally adorns his face is no longer just scruff now, it's a full blown beard making him look that much more rugged. It's his eyes though that make me ache.
"Forget about me?" He announces surprising me with, the truth as his once sand colored eyes change into a mustard like color. He's angry and maybe even a little hurt by the implication of my words. Klaus was a master at the game could play it all day but his eyes– his denim blue eyes always gave you a hint of what was to come. His wolf always showed everything Klaus would never say.
I can only shrug. I was honest enough with myself to admit that I loved Klaus, I was in love with him, I just hated what he did. I also wouldn't deny that for a little while I wanted to stop thinking about him, get out of my own head settle things with Camille and just live. I hated drama and the last couple of days had been nothing but drama.
I blink up at him, my stance unwavering. "You said it, not me." I admit while Klaus looks me up and down, I can see his incisors start to fall from his gums as a flash of white teeth show. He steps closer as if that's any possible and inhales his eyes closed briefly.
When he opens his eyes, it's that color of blue that has quickly become my favorite color of blue.
"I see." Klaus says huskily. "And are you having fun, is the music up to your standards?" he says pointing to the speakers as a particular song plays. He clicks his tongue. "Have you forgotten about your troubles?" He asks rapidly. "Have you forgotten about me yet or am I still in your veins?"
I lick my lips. "You know this place never disappoints." I say ignoring his last question.
He places his hands into his pockets standing before me as if he is just absorbing everything in front of him. "Given our situation and the way we left things, I'd think this would be the last place you would want to come to." Klaus says as if he's on to something, something I fail to see.
I lift my chin up at him. I didn't back down from anyone not even my maybe boyfriend.
"I wasn't going to let the off chance that I would run into you stop us from coming here." I say casually because it was the truth. I wasn't actively running from Klaus, but I wasn't seeking him out either.
He stands before me, almost as unmoving as I am. "Be as that may, you still took the chance of coming here tonight, and possibly running into me." He says pleased with himself. I can tell from the way his eyes light up and the way his dimples get deeper that he's pleased with all of this. Once again he runs his eyes over me and its so heated that I shift my weight from one foot to the other.
I tilt my head to the side and squint his way. "What's your point?" I ask. "I don't run from anyone, not even you." I remind him.
He chuckles lightly, his dimples deepening as he leans forward. "All I'm saying is maybe, all of this is for a reason." He admits. "Maybe it's kismat– you and I at the same place at the same time." He says huskily. "Maybe you wanted to see me as much as I've been wanting to see you." He declares causing my heart to do that thing it does when he's too close.
I bite my lip and find myself straightening his necklace. "Or maybe I just wanted to come out with my friends tonight and you were the furthest thing on my mind." I say with a bright smile and a white lie on my tongue. I was thinking about him per say but he was in the back of my mind...still on my heart.
He nods. "Doubtful, not when you came here looking like–" He wipes the back of his neck. "Like that."
I can't help but to bite at the bait he's sent my way.
"Perhaps I wanted to show you what you'd be missing, and you would miss everything about me." I say deciding to give him a taste of his own medicine. "But I'm sure you and Cami could make it work, she's a lap dog following you around with hearts in her eyes." I bite back. "And you–"
"I want you." Klaus says indicating that he was done playing games. His words have the same reaction I get whenever I've had some eggnog and rum. "I've only wanted you since you burst back into my world." He declares boldly. "I still want you now." He says lowly, so low that I barely hear him.
I can feel eyes on us most importantly Caroline who is the only one who can actually hear us in the bubble I've created. She's probably losing her shit on the inside, but on the outside she's just listening, and watching keenly ready to jump in when needed.
My arms cross underneath my chest as I speak to him again. "What are you doing here, Marcel said you were at his house?"
He places his hands in his pockets. "Aside from the fact that I own the place–" He says smartly with a dimpled grin. "Maybe I wanted to do like you and get out of the house." He says all playfulness out of his voice, even out of his eyes. Replaced is that of fear and I had never seen him look that way, ever. Klaus wasn't afraid of anything, especially with Mikael gone. Nothing and nobody could touch him. "As you know, Elijah is in a time out, and Rebekah moved in with Marcel as she should." He says pausing. "Hope is with her mother. And I–" He says stopping himself as he looks at me intently concentrating solely on me, instead of everything that is going on around us, the loud music, the patrons to his club but most of all to the prying ears of Caroline who is still listening. The rest of the world may have heard nothing but Caroline she was in our bubble, she was with us seeing and hearing everything.
He chuckles and looks down. "I was left to my own devices as you were elsewhere." He says blinking slowly.
"Whose fault is that?" I say defensively. "You pushed me to my limit!" I snap my voice rising. I press my lips together, and try to reel in my emotions before they overtook me. "I needed space to deal with everything." I say calmed a fraction down. " I couldn't look at you without being angry and hurt all over again."
He nods. "I know. My seclusion from you, was my own fault." He says quietly. "Alone I realized that the house, is too quiet without Marcel and his laughter. Without Rebekah and her snarky comments, Hope and the patter of her feet, and without you." He says reaching out to touch me but thinking better of it. "Without you," He continues. "It's not the same without you being close to me as I can listen to your heart beat."
I shut my eyes and press my lips together as he steps into my personal space. I can tell because the heat of him makes me open my eyes to see him bending down eye level with me.
"What are you doing?" I ask suddenly because I needed to know where this was going. I knew what I wanted, I just needed to know if he really wanted the same thing.
He reaches out to touch my cheek. "I'm trying to tell you what's in my heart." He says so sincere that I can feel my armor begin to crack and fall off. The first of my armor to fall apart is my shin guards, followed by my elbow pads, knees pads and helmet. "A heart that beats for you, just like your heart is beating for me." He says bold as only Klaus could be.
My breastplate stays intact as he looks down at me with expressive eyes. "Tell me why then? Tell me why we found ourselves in this situation from the beginning?" I ask getting lost in the two of us...getting lost in him. "We were good Klaus, we were so good together and–" My words trail off at his reaction. Though his eyes are glossy he's closed off.
Klaus looks down at lets out a sigh, causing me to roll my eyes. I can see him closing off. It could be because Caroline is close by, or maybe he didn't know the answer or worst he knew the answer and he knew what it would mean.
I scoff but take his silence in stride.
"You know what, we'll talk later." I say catching eyes with Caroline. How many chances had I given him already, I asked one question and he couldn't even answer it, and now I needed to leave because it was obvious we couldn't get anywhere here, not with Caroline listening and certainly not in the middle of a club.
We could talk tomorrow. Or not.
"Bonnie." Klaus calls. "Don't walk away not again, not till you've heard everything I've had to say." Klaus pleads suddenly.
Caroline who had been glaring at Klaus the whole time, yanks me back so that I am behind her while she shows her teeth and licks them. "Back off Klaus, haven't you done enough?" Caroline fumes.
Klaus growls. "I'm trying to fix this!" He says impatient. "And while your devotion to Bonnie is admirable," He says sending her a heated look. "You're standing between me and Bonnie and I won't stand for it."
Caroline only scoffs. "You are the reason you and Bonnie aren't together." Caroline says poking Klaus in the chest. "You're lucky she even gave a chance in the first place after everything you've done and you want another chance so you can screw that up as well." Caroline rants. "The fact that Damon is looking like a better option at this point is crazy to me." She snaps. "But from where I stand right now, Damon would devote his everything to Bonnie and only Bonnie because despite his bitch ass tendencies he loves her." Caroline hurls as Klaus bristles.
Incensed he growls again. "I know what I did to me and Bonnie, I've never shied away from my part in this mess!" Klaus bites back incensed.
Caroline only wipes her face. "It's just added to long list, starting off with the fact that Carol is gone and it's all your fault, then you leave my best friend heartbroken with your b.s."
Klaus laughs now cruelly, he laughs so hard he has tears streaming from his eyes. "That's what this is about," He snarls. "You're pitching a fit over Carol, when her demise didn't stop you one bit from pulling out my dic–" He stops immediately the words dying in his throat once our eyes lock.
A crestfallen look appears on his face. "Love." Klaus say rushing my way. "I'm–."
I click my tongue and shake my head.
"Me too." Caroline pipes in. "I'm sorry, I made it about me and my wedding and the fact that Tyler misses his mother."
I scoff. "You both are unbelievable." I spit out.
Right now I was really starting to rethink my choices of people I surrounded myself with.
Klaus takes a step in my direction while I shake my head stopping him. The feral look on his face has shifted from his face now only showing guilt. I on the other hand decide to pop the bubble the three of us had been talking in and head straight for the bar. Klaus though has other plans.
He's in front of me within a single breath. His body towering over mine. "Please." He breathes out, determined as ever. He reaches for me and places his hands on my face. His large hands cupping my cheeks. "Come up to my office, so we can talk...just you and me." He pleads his tone low enough so you'd have to strain to hear him even for a vampire or werewolf.
"Why?" I ask simply as my voice catches.
He sighs deeply. "Because we want the same thing."
I blink his way. I knew that this wasn't his fault that Caroline had started it but still I didn't want to go through this shit with either one of them. "Love." He calls out as I finally relent. Something about him, makes me want to stay and hear him out, give him a chance; because if it were anyone else I would've easily been over the situation. How many times had I walked away from Damon, yeah I came back in the end but sometimes I didn't and he had to come to me. When it came to Klaus, I couldn't walk away and be done.
"Five minutes." I say, as he outwardly gives a sigh of relief. "And then I'm going to meet up with Lucy and the guys and finishes my night out and then crawl into bed."
He nods. "Fine." He says fondly touching my face. "I'll go up to my office, give you two a moment." He leans close to me and places a kiss on my temple. "I'll see you soon." He says disappearing through the crowd.
I watch him till I can no longer see him and then set my sights on Caroline who is giving me her best puppy dog eyes. Usually I would be upset for all but three seconds but that stunt she pulled was not cool. She knew how much I loved Klaus and to start a fight with him was not ok.
Whirling around I face her. "What the hell was that Caroline!" I ask angrily. It would've been one thing if my best friend was trying to protect me, but what I saw wasn't protecting me.
Caroline shifts from one foot to the other. "I don't really know. " She says putting her hair behind her ear. "But Bon, listen I am so sorry I made it about me, when really it's about you and your feelings for Klaus." She says reaching for my hand. "You want him, you love him and it's obvious to me that he–" She pauses to swallow. "That he's crazy about you."
I bite my lip. "He's important to me Caroline." I admit. "And I know that he's done a lot of things that were fucked up in the past, I don't condone it but I can't change it and neither can he. We just have to be better than we were the day before."
Caroline smiles me way. "Is this your way of letting me off the hook."
I shrug. "Maybe." Pause. "I need to settle things with Klaus."
She hugs me briefly. "Go. I will be at the bar drinking my idiocy away, you go get your man." she says winking. "And I will call mine."
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Klaus
Up and down, back and forth he paces liked a caged wild animal he snarl on his lips and a growl ready emerge from deep down in his chest till it escaped his mouth in a roaring sense. He wants to trust that Bonnie will give him the five minutes she promised so that he could push it to fifteen minutes, maybe twenty if he was lucky enough. But with each passing moment he wonders if this was just a game she playing so that she could, was this her attempt at bait and switch.
No sooner than the words popped into his head he realized how horribly wrong those words were. Like any other Bennett her word was her truth and he had to believe that nothing could change that– not Caroline who he had a nagging feeling was trying to coerce his girl into fleeing opting for another club all together so Bonnie could be as far away from him and in his infectious poisonous nature as possible.
He lets out a troubling sigh as another minute passes by. He wasn't a patient person, but he was trying, trying his best to curb his first reaction which would be to find Bonnie and bring her up here on his own. Instead of doing that– he fiddles with the lights. Should he set the mood, Put on a little jazz, or was that too presumptuous of him. Would she be flattered that he still wanted to impress her or would she laugh in his face because he would never get to have her again? Finally though, he gets out of his own head to find a lighting choice that is neither too bright or exceedingly low.
Walking to the bar, he pours them each a glass of something old and good. He even dares to take a look in the mirror opting to open up one more button on his navy blue button down. He lights a candle that sits on his desk, his nerves getting rattled by each moment that passes. When suddenly she appears as if he's summoned her by his own sheer will.
Once again he's mesmerized, he's mesmerized by everything that she is and everything she posses. Even now, she stands before him with confidence and assurance that most people lack. She was the only one who could dare to stand at his side, she was his equal and the better part of him. But most of all, he knew she was the one...the one he had been looking and waiting for– for over a lifetime.
"I was beginning to think you wouldn't show." He says as his voice coming out raspy. He was nervous, a bit too nervous for his own liking but this moment, he couldn't ruin it, not with everything that was on the line.
She stands before him her immaculate green eyes flashing with something for only a second before disappearing all together. "I thought about it, real hard." She says fingering the things on his desk. She stops at a picture of him, Marcel and Hope, she looks at it fondly before continuing on with her words. "But that's not my style." She pauses to place the picture frame down. "I told you I'd give you five minutes, so I'm here to give you what want."
It's the way she says it that has him standing to his feet and moving from behind his desk closer to her, because she is what he wants. He offers her a drink, in which she takes but doesn't drink. "What if I want more than five minutes?" He dimples.
For a brief moment her eyes look sad but then it's gone. "We don't always get what we want."
It's on the tip of his tongue to remind her that he does indeed get everything he wants in the end but refrains from doing so. Instead he sips his drink as he looks at her as she puts space between them to walk around his office. "True, but sometimes we get more than what we ever wanted, more than we ever expected."
She cracks a grin and then turns her head. "I saw your girl today." She says looking up at him with green apple eyes. Her magic swirls around making his gums itch. "I had to set her straight." She says in a low timber of a voice, that is laced with a hint of venom. He wonders briefly what venom tastes like on her tongue?
He dimples her way and slides closer. "You should see my girl every-time you look in the mirror."
She tilts her head to the side offering a delectable view of her neck. "Your other girl then."
He wants to growl because he knows whom she's talking about. Camille had been calling his phone constantly he had ignored her call every single time. It was crazy how one kiss had gotten her this worked up. It only proved that the two of them not getting together had been a blessing he had never really thought about till right in this moment. Cami was not and could never be the woman for him.
He was looking at his woman, the only woman for him.
"She can't seem to keep my name and business out of her mouth." Smirk. "I thought it was high time we had a talk woman to woman."
"Really?" He asks mildly amused at the heat coming off of her.
"Really!" She says her eyes going wide. She's been spending way too much time with Damon Salvatore. " You wanna know the details?" She asks simply. "I'm sure you'll be hearing from her soon about everything." She says almost whimsically.
He wants to dig and ask her questions about what had occurred between she and Cami, but figures that whatever happened was bound to happen. What was more important was the two of them. "Cami is not my priority," He says as she holds her glass to her lips. "You are my priority."
When he says those words he can see her walls begin to break down. He saw it earlier when he was speaking his truth from his heart, and he see's it now. "The two of us, we are my priority." He says with finality in his voice as he bores into her expressive eyes.
"Is that so?" She asks trying to play aloof but he can hear her heart beating fast.
"I speak no lies."
She only snorts.
"Have I told you how beautiful you look tonight." He declares as he stays in his spot when really he just wants to be close to her. "Because you look beautiful, enchanting even." He grins. "It's your eyes though, they've been telling me a story that is so riveting, that it rivals everything else."
She takes a moment to sip at her drink though he can tell she's not interested in drinking it.
"Is that so?" She asks a sculpted brow raised as he inches closer to her. So close that their bodies actually collide. "What are my eyes telling you?" She asks with a tilt of the head.
He licks his lips. "Their telling me that you miss me as much as I've missed you love." He says sincerely, unable to hide it anymore.
Her mouth forms an oh shape as he begins to spill what's been inside of his heart. "I've missed you so very much." He confesses to bright beautiful wide eyes.
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Bonnie
"I've missed you so very much."
The moment he said those words I felt my heart nearly leap out of my chest. For a moment we stand in front of each other, trying to resist the pull before Klaus who was always so close, takes a cautious step back.
I watch as he sits on the end of his desk, his red pouted lips are twisted as he looks at me as if he can see right through me. And to tell the truth, I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
His blue eyes squint just a bit as his thumb rest below his bottom lip. "Before you got here, I was content with my life." He says finally looking at me as our eyes connect. "I had Hope, my brother, sister and I was lucky enough to have rebuilt a relationship I was hell bent on destroying with my son." He says as if speaking of said life before was off putting. "Life was good." He says simply. "If I was lonely I could have anyone I wanted in my bed, and my bed was never empty for long." He says with a lick of his teeth.
I blink his way. "And you're telling me this for–" I ask my hands on my hips. If he was trying to make me jealous, it wasn't working.
He bites his lip. "I'm telling you this for context." He says sending me a heated look, though it's not anger it's just charged energy that has me looking away. "As I was saying, I was content with my life I had everything I thought I needed and wanted and then you came to town, older– wiser, still with that Bennett flare but with a chip on your shoulder that only life could bring your way and I had never seen anyone more beautiful than you."
I nod my head. "Is that all you see when you look at me, a glow up from the girl I use to be?" I ask my insecurities getting the best of me. "Because I am more than just my looks, and someone to warm your bed." I say thinking back to what Cami had said. "You told Cami that we were good in bed together, that I was emotionally closed off, is that all this is– is it all it ever was?"
I knew in the beginning it was just about the rush of our bodies colliding but at some point I thought things had changed, I thought we had changed.
He gets up from his desk and meets me at the couch, he's down on one knee looking at me like, he knows every feeling, I've ever had for him. "I see you Bonnie." Klaus says lifting up my chin.
I turn my head in his direction. "What do you see then, when you look at me what do you see?"
Klaus breaks out into a grin. "I see a woman who was once broken but managed to put herself back together. I see all of you even the parts that nobody else sees." He whispers. "I see the parts that you bury deep inside."
I can't help but look away now, feeling a fragile as glass. "But Cami–"
"Cami,–" Pause. "She doesn't know everything!" He says fiercely. "She thinks she does, but she doesn't."
I bite my lip. "Klaus you told her a lot of stuff and she couldn't wait to throw that all shit in my face." I say my fingers tingling as tears threaten to escape my eyes. I know I had my faults everyone does but to hear it slung my way due to the man I thought I was dating over-sharing with his therapist was a lot to take it in. I may have let it roll off me in front of Cami but the words itself had chipped away at me.
He looks down now. "That was her first mistake." He says venom dripping from his words. "I shared things about the two of us because she more than just a therapist– she was my friend...we were friends." He says carefully. "And she could help me navigate our situation because she was on the outside."
I try to keep my reaction tampered down because lord knows I had gotten into several arguments over my own personal choice in friends, mainly my friendship with Damon. "She told me if I hadn't arrived when I did, more than a kiss would've been shared between the two of you."
He clicks his tongue and walks over to the bar. "She's mistaken."
"Why?" I ask standing up. "I need to know why not?" I ask sniffing. "Everyone said you guys were dancing around each other before I got to town, why not go for the woman you wanted for so long?" I say taunting him. "Why not take her to bed and let her mold herself into the woman you've always wanted or maybe she's already that woman."
He turns around sharply drink in his hand. "Because I know what I want, I've always known what I wanted Bonnie." He says close to me.
"What's that?" I ask needing to hear the words.
"Isn't it obvious?" he says touching my face.
My arms fold underneath my chest. "Spell it out for me."
"Can't you feel it Bonnie?" he says reaching out for me, and slipping his arm around my back to drag me close. My arms fall to my waist as our body collides. Electricity fills the air around us.
"Can't you feel us?" He leans close our lips close, very close.
When our lips are just about to meet, I quickly put the brakes on his next move, I wouldn't let him seduce his way out of this.
"You can't just turn the charm on and distract me!" I say pushing at his chest. "I need words and I need action behind those words and if you can't do that then, this was a mistake!" I say turning on my heel.
"No!" Klaus roars. "We're not done!" He says his voice reminding me of the old days when Klaus would get unhinged at a drop of the dime.
"Fine." I say relenting because I don't want to fight with him. I just want him and I want him to want me like I want him. "You wanna talk, talk!"
He runs his hand through his curly hair, a shaky hand outstretched for his drink as I watch on.
"Are you okay?" I ask not use to seeing him like this, I had seen many sides of him but not this.
He holds his hand up and finishes what's left of his drink. "This– is not easy for me, but for you–" He pauses and smiles. "For you I'd do anything."
Once he's tossed back another drink he calmly walks my way. "We were never a mistake." He says his lip beginning to tremble. "Letting my insecurities get the best of me was a mistake, taking time apart when I should've been honest with you from the beginning was a mistake, but not us...never us." He says grabbing my hands. "Look at me Bonnie, look at me love." Klaus says gently causing me to finally look his way.
"As I said before being apart from you had been the hardest thing I had encountered in a really long time. It was like, I stepped back into time...the time I thought I was content but after knowing what it feels like to be happy, I know that I was never really content– until you came into my life." He says with a shaky breath. "You make me happy, happier than I probably deserve." He says with a chuckle.
I breath hard as tears start to fall from my eyes. "You deserve happiness too Klaus, just like everyone else."
He leans close to me. "I'm happiest with you in my life." He says breathing hard. "I love the life we started to blend together, I love how you are with Hope– she adores you." He says looking down. "And Marcel, he already considers you family." He says with a nod. "I love your strength, your resilience and yes your beauty." He says sniffing.
The invisible armor I had on against Klaus melts away that last piece had been protecting my heart, but I knew my heart had already known what it wanted and that was Klaus. My fingers tingle as a lone tear escapes his eyes and my thumb wipes it away. "Klaus–"
"I love you Bonnie." He says suddenly...passionately. "I'm in love with you." He declares. "And I've been in a love with you for a very long time."
Stunned all I can do is gape up at him.
"This time apart, it only solidified what I already had known, what everyone else had known. I love you, and I want to be with you– only you, nobody else." Klaus declares.
The tears that were threatening to fall start to fall not because I'm upset but because for the first time in a long time . . . for the first time ever I was in love with someone was loved me back. And yes we were far from perfect but we loved each other and we owed to ourselves to try and see where this went. First though, I have to take a step away because I needed to breathe for a little bit.
"I know I hurt you." Klaus says from across the room. "And I'm sorry for that– but I swear to you Bonnie, if you give me another chance, I promise you the happiness you deserve."
I walk over to his desk and wipe my eyes, probably looking a mess as the tissue sticks to my lashes. Then I pour myself a healthy amount of bourbon. Across the room, with my back turned away from him– I already know my next move. I want Klaus just like he wants me, I just have to find the words.
-Camille O'Connor- Camille O'Connor-Camille O'Connor-
After a day filled with dropped glasses, issuing out wrong drink orders and all sorts of things that had added to a shitty day, Cami O'Connor had decided to shut down the bar early. Of course everyone including her staff has looked at her as if she had lost her mind. And maybe she had lost her mind because this was prime time for her business. But she needed some peace and right now she felt anything but peaceful. In fact she kept looking at the exits just waiting for Bonnie and her followers to show up, if anything but to incite fear in her. But so far nothing but the stress of it all was taking it's toll, and she just wanted to be alone.
"Time's up!" She says standing on the bar. "Everyone, get out of my bar, or I'll be forced to call in reinforcements." She says through a bull horn. When the room quiets down and nobody makes a move she pulls her last card. "And just so we're clear you all know him by name." She says causing people to start to move out at a much quicker speed.
Once alone, truly alone she locks all doors grabs a bottle of tequila and sits down. She hadn't heard from Klaus since the incident. She had tried calling, had sent him a text or two. Okay to be honest she probably texted him about a hundred times. She told herself it wasn't about her, but about him. She knew what he did whenever things got dark. He lashed out. But in reality this was a little bit about her too. She wanted to know where they stood. Were they still friends? Did she still have her job. Where did they go from here and most importantly had he given up the chase with Bonnie.
Kicking her feet up she sits back in her wooden chair that rest against the bar. She had seen the problem of Bonnie coming before it actually happened. Klaus had gone from constantly seeking her out, wanting nothing but to be around her, to talking about the newest Bennett witch. Every other word, was that damn Bennett witch, and then it was Bonnie...Bonnie...Bonnie all the damn time.
Never in her life had she been so envious of someone as she was of Bonnie Bennett. Klaus had made it perfectly clear, at least days ago that he wanted to try again with Bonnie. What did the Bennett witch have that she didn't, because before Bonnie she was all Klaus could see and after Bonnie, well at this point their was no after Bonnie.
Tipping back her bottle she drinks her tequila straight. She had always been the consequential over achiever that failed at nothing. She worked hard, getting a scholarship to achieve her goals of becoming a psychiatrist. A full ride to the most prestigious school in the world was what she achieved by being strong willed. She hadn't failed at anything and yet now she sat here, a failure and that feeling was like ash in her mouth.
When someone knocks on the door she take the time to look up from her pity party to wave the customer off. "We're closed." She says as if the customer could actually hear her. "Go anywhere but here to buy your drinks."
She puts her head down on the table wallowing in her self pity for a little while.
"Are you finished?"
At the sound of a voice she slowly looks up. "How- how did you get in here?"
The woman smiles, her signature red lipstick showing off white teeth. 'That's easy!" She says playing with her curls. "I'm a witch."
She stands up now. "You're a witch!" Cami says nodding her head. "What, Bonnie sent you here on her behalf? Is she suddenly afraid to get her hands dirty? Or maybe, just maybe she's afraid of what Klaus will do to her after coming after me."
The witch tilts her head to the side. "You are a peculiar one." She says walking around the frantic bar owner. "However you are very wrong on all accounts. I am no friend of the Bennett witches."
Her lip trembles. "Then who are you?"
She smiles. "I am a friend of yours." She says taking a seat. "We met in the park earlier."
Cami runs her hands through her hair. "It's been a long day and I've drank way too much so no my memory is not up to par."
Celeste shrugs. "That fine." She says easily. "I was out for pub crawl when I felt your energy. I could feel your anger, malice and rage and it was all centered on one person."
Cami keeps her mouth shut.
"You know Camille." She says with a smile. "You and I could do wonderful things together, if you only opened up." She says opening up her hand. "You see, I'm not a fortune teller but I can see you getting everything your heart desires, if only you reached out to grab it."
She wipes tears that had fallen. "Everything I ever wanted?"
"Yes."
"I don't want to be a failure. From the moment she came to this town, I started failing at everything that mattered most to me. I want that feeling to go away, I want her to go away." Cami mutters.
"Say it." Celeste says enjoying this moment.
"I hate her." Cami spits.
"There you go!" The witch claps.
"I've hated her the moment she came to town because the moment he saw her, he stopped seeing me!" She admits. "She's all he talks about, he chose her, he loves her, when it should've been me all along, it was always supposed to be us." She says picking up the half empty bottle of tequila and throwing it across the room. "I want her gone." She pants. "I want Bonnie Bennett gone."
The witch grins sitting forward. If she couldn't hurt Klaus she'd watch as someone he considered a friend do it for her. "That would come at a price."
"Anything!" She says desperate.
Celeste sits back in her chair her eyes zeroing in on the frantic woman. "For each of your wants, I want in return one of your families many mystical objects."
Her mouth hangs open. "You know about that?"
Celeste hits her hand on the table. "I know everything!" She shouts before grinning. "I know what you really want."
Cami licks her teeth. "Fine." She admits. "I want Bonnie Bennett to disappear forever, no coming back from the other side, not another chance at living ever again. I want to cement my future with Klaus by ending his future with Bonnie." Cami says covering her mouth almost immediately.
"See, that was easy." Celeste says lazily.
Camille nods her head and the realizes the words she said so effortlessly and then proceeds to vomit. "I can't believe I just said that."
Celeste pats her back. "Believe it."
"After he loses Bonnie, he won't wanna lose me. He'll love me again." She says hopeful.
Celeste chuckles and stands up. She had seen this far too many times when it came to the Mikaelson brothers, they charmed you till you were under their spell and then they tossed you away like garbage, forgot about you or used you up till you were nothing more then a forgotten name. "I'll be in touch."
Cami looks up. "Wait!" Camille calls frantically. Swallowing hard she speaks calmer. "Why me, why did you come to me."
The witch shrugs. "Because we have the same intention, and us girls must stick together." She says before fading away to leave Camille alone with her thoughts.
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Bonnie
Love was a tricky bitch, when you were really in love it was so great, it was floating in the air, it made you the happiest, but when love was bad, it was really bad– it hurt like hell and made you feel sad. You could never really trust love because it came and went as the seasons changed. For me, love had been something I think I had been searching for, first with my parents because I wanted that familiar bond so bad. Then I searched for it with my friends because I felt like they were all I had left, they were the closes things I had to love aside from my grandmother who I knew loved me, more than anyone else ever could. My relationships had been a down hill battle from the very beginning and to think I thought Stefan was hot. Jeremy and Enzo were two people who served a purpose as to keep the loneliness away. As for Damon...he was another story.
With Klaus, I knew I was in love with him, irrevocably in love with him.
I knew that I loved him, irrevocably so. I had never been in love like this and that kind of scared me because I had never loved like this– not ever. When I said I loved Klaus I could feel in my bones, he was in my bloodstream, in my veins...and that kind of love, a love that snuck up on me– it was hard to deny and even harder to ignore. But most of all, it was a love I knew would never really go away.
I knew what we had was real and yes we had a setback but the feelings were still just as strong, just as charged if not more charged than before. I could easily so that, I don't think I had ever loved a man, as much as I had found myself loving Klaus. And that included Damon, which was a very complicated love story that would never come to be, because my heart was no longer in that situationship like it use to be. He would, forever be my friend but as for us ever getting together, that answer was no.
Somehow– someway, Klaus had managed to change my story altogether and while he was changing my story he was chipping away at a heart I thought would never thaw out, not really. He had this rare ability to make me weak in the knees and bring me life at the same time. I don't know how he did it, but he got me to fall in love with him and despite the slip up that had heart me so very bad, the fact that I missed him so damn much told me, I couldn't turn back now.
"I get it." Klaus says forlorn, his voice causing me to jump just a little.
I had been so caught up in my head, I nearly forgot he was waiting for me to say something.
"I had my chance with you– a chance I never thought someone like me, would get with someone like you." He says with a lengthy sigh. "I get it though, the hesitance to believe, I get why you've decided to walk away."
Soon enough his feet have brought him my way where he puts his hands on either side of my arms, his chest to my back, as my eyes drift closed. "I know you– your word is everything, you say what you mean and mean what you say. And your silence had told me everything I need to know." He says as he turns me round to face him.
"I love you." He says with a simplicity that has my chest burning with need. He bites his lip as his face starts to turn red. "I love you, more than I've ever loved another." He says impassioned. "And–" Pause. "My biggest regret is being the cause of tearing us apart." His words come out as an emotional whisper as my eyes prickle with tears.
I sniff. "Klaus– I had never been more happy than when I was with you." I admit turning around to face him.
He doesn't seem to hear my words because he's looking at me but looking past me. "You should go." He says removing himself from me. "Caroline is probably waiting for you." He says this time he's looking at me with sad eyes. "A whole life without me in it awaits you to live." He grits. "Go live it." he says walking away back to his desk.
I watch him walk away finally finding my own voice.
"Do I get a chance to talk, do I get a say in any of this conversation?" I ask causing Klaus to look over at me from across the room. "Because I think what I have to say is important."
He blinks slowly and nods. "The floor is yours love." He says almost painfully.
I take a deep breath as I had these words in my head, in my heart for longer than I would like to admit. I had spent the last couple of days agonizing abet silently over the fact that I had fallen in love with a man that could be calculated, cruel and reckless within a span of five seconds. And then once you've reached the end of five second mark he could be the most loving man possible. In short Klaus was a mess and I was a mess for loving him but I did love him.
"You know, " I say after a long while. "When we started to entertain each other, I didn't go into this naive, despite what everyone else may have thought. I knew who you were and what you were about from the very beginning." I say swallowing. "I knew you kept your siblings in coffins, I had seen your cruel side, been on the other side of your temper and I had fought against you."
He dimples at that, the brow that once furrowed now without any tension. "You were, by far the best foe I had ever encountered." He dimples again. "You encompass strength, loyalty and resiliency that many lack." pause. "I was annoyed by it, by who you were loyal to, who you would fight for and in awe of you at the same time." He breathes out. "But I was always amazed by you."
I blink back tears. "When I got here, you were the breath of fresh air I wasn't use to having. You were honest and real, sometimes raw but you were you and you made no apologies for who you were, who you are and I gravitated to realness you brought." I bite my lip.
He looks down and then up at me again with eyes that express sorrow. "The moment I saw you, here in my city, I knew my world was going to change." Pause. "Because from our first encounter in the city, I wanted nothing but to be around you." He proclaims before tossing back a drink.
I lick my lips. "After that first night I told myself, I would never let you touch me again." I say with a snort. Gosh thinking back to it, that first night and then running into Elijah afterwards, goodness it was a recipe for disaster but somehow we made it work. We fell into a rhythm that worked for us.
He can only dimple at my response. "It was too good to stay away from each other." He says flexing his hands.
I run my hands through my hair. I knew this was crazy that we might be a little crazy, that I was probably crazy but I still wanted to be with Klaus. "Despite everything, I couldn't stay away from you then and even now I'm still standing here even after everything you put me through." I say causing him to look my way perplexed.
He gets up from sitting on his desk. "What are you saying?"
Blink. "I'm saying that I hate what you did, I loathe what you did!" I say through gritted teeth. "It was cruel and mean, ruthless, cut-throat and everything I thought you matured away from being." I say wiping at my face as annoying tears fall. "I thought for once, this would be different. You made me feel secure and safe and then you ripped it all away from me, over a picture." I say closing my eyes and taking a deep breath because I would not go over that debacle again. I needed to let it go, so I could be happy.
When he walks my way I'm tempted to push him away but when he puts his arms around me, I melt into him.
"I'm so sorry love, hurting you... hurting us will haunt me all the days of my life." He says remorseful. "It'll haunt me because I know how good we were together, how much better we could be, and what we shared– it was love, real love." he says looking down at me. "I know in my heart that the feelings I have for you, they'll never go away, you will always be in my heart."
It's the conviction in his voice that makes me break away from him. I need to look I his eyes and make sure all of this is real.
"You really mean that?" I question.
He bends down so that we're eye level. "Cross my heart."
I nod my head. "I need you to know that I have no more reserve, because if you're playing me– you need to stop it now." I say as my voice begins to shake. "Because if you make me believe you just to pull the rug underneath me the minute things don't go the way you want them to go, I swear to you Klaus." I say clenching my teeth.
He must be able to sense the change in me because his face begins to light up. "I've never meant anything more in my entire existence." he says cupping my face. "Tell me you want the same?"
"If we do this, you can't just fly off the handle when things don't go your way, not if your going to be in a functioning relationship." I say needing my words to be heard.
"Whatever, you need." Klaus says tugging me close to him.
I smile at that. "Honestly though, we have to give 50/50 if we do this, it'll be you and me."
He chuckles now. "Someone like you is all I ever wanted, whatever it takes is what I'll do to keep us together."
I look up at him now, while he's got his arms wrapped around me. "For what it's worth– I don't think I can go back to living my life before without you in it." I admit, as I tug on his necklace.
He laces our fingers together. "I couldn't either." he echos fiercely.
A warm look takes over his face. "No going back now– we've already come so far."
I nod my head agreeing with his words.
I take a deep breath. "What I'm trying to say is that I want to be with you Klaus and I do l–" My words are cut off as Klaus has made his move.
Within a blink of an eye he's on me, his arm wrapped around my middle hugging me to him. "Are you serious?" he asks our face close.
"Very." I say grinning.
"Say it again." He says placing kisses on my face.
"I want to be with you Klaus." I say as my palm cup his cheek, looking at him with all the love my mouth had yet to say.
He dimples. "And I want to be with you Bonnie Bennett." He says running his hand through my hair. "I only want to be with you."
Our foreheads are meshed together as we breath in sync. "Please don't break my heart." I say as a lone tear slides down my face.
Klaus sniffs as he peppers kisses all over my face. "I will make it my mission to break both of hearts."
Slowly the gap between us starts to fade away till our lips meet.