Out of everyone, that Bonnie would have expected to meet in New Orleans, Elijah Mikaelson was at the bottom of that list.
The two had a rocky past, to put it lightly.
He tried to kill her. She tried to kill him.
His sister was a bitch. His brother was a blood-thirsty psychopath with mommy and daddy issues.
She fucked said bloodthirsty psychopath with mommy and daddy issues.
Perfect balance.
Elijah regarded with a neutral expression as if waiting for her to make the first move, or to speak.
“Well…” Elijah finally said, breaking the silence. “This is…unexpected.”
“That’s putting it lightly,” Bonnie murmured.
“Are they holding you here, against your will, Ms. Bennett?”
Bonnie rolled her eyes and held up the ropes that held her arms. “This is their third attempt in holding me captive. That’s all you have to know.”
Elijah’s lips curved into a smug smile. “Well, I suppose that answers that question. Now, about the matter at hand. So, is it true? What the witches claim about you and my brother?”
A muscle jerked in Bonnie’s jaw as she turned away, staring into the flickering flames of a candle nearby.
“I can hear its fetal heartbeat,” Elijah interjected. “But wither it belongs to my brother is what need to know?”
“If I was moral or even human, I would deny it even being possible,” Bonnie replied, her voice soft. “I would claim that vampires are dead, there’s no way for this to be…to be…a thing. Yet, you and I know he’s not a whole vampire, right?”
Elijah nodded. “No, he is not. So, I ask again.”
“They held me captive for I don’t know how long, running all these strange, witchy tests on me,” Bonnie snapped. “If they wanted, all I had to do was pee on a fucking stick, and it would have given them the answer they wanted. So yes, it’s true.”
Elijah nodded. “Then that is all that I had to know.”
Bonnie watched him stand up and straighten his suit, then began to walk to the door. “Wait!” She called out. “Where are you going?”
“To find my brother, of course. I can not excuse his…behavior in the past. But you must understand that there is a reason why he behaves thus. From our mother and our father, every time we found happiness, our father destroyed it with his bare hands.”
Bonnie stayed silent, but continued to listen, her face unreadable.
“When Klaus broke the spell that prevented him from becoming a full-fledged hybrid eon ago, he defeated our father and I thought this would make him finally happy,” Elijah continued. “Instead, he was angrier than ever. I wonder if, perhaps this baby…”
SLAP!
Bonnie’s hand struck out before she could stop herself. The sound of her strike against Elijah’s cheek echoed in the empty room.
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FanfictionWhen Bonnie left Mystic Falls, she did it to start a new life. But while she traveled the world, trying to put her past behind her, the young witch didn't know that a drunken mistake would come back to haunt her. Drawn to New Orleans, Bonnie is plac...
