Captured Hearts [Vampire Diaries]

Chapter Five

 

Kol pushed Bonnie behind him, standing in front of her as if he was expecting Klaus to lash out and attack her. It wasn't Bonnie Klaus was mad at.

"What do you think you're doing?" Klaus snarled at him, not caring that he had a whole room filled with a silently watching audience.

"Isn't it obvious?" Kol replied, a slight smirk on his lips. Bonnie tried moving forward, but he pushed her back again. "It's a party, Niklaus. I'm simply sharing a dance with a beautiful woman."

"There are many beautiful women in this room, Kol. Most of them willing to do anything if it means you sink your teeth into them."

Bonnie's eyebrows knitted together in slight offence. Was Klaus saying she wasn't good enough to be dancing with Kol? Oh no way. She was not putting up with that.

"Who the hell do you think you are?" Bonnie raised an eyebrow, and she shoved Kol out of her way when he tried holding her back. "How dare you to talk to him that way."

"Bonnie," Kol warned, grabbing her arm and making her look at him. "It's fine."

"No, it's not. You're a guest here, and just because he's an arrogant Original Hybrid doesn't mean he gets to treat you like that."

"Guest?" Klaus smirked, and Bonnie looked back to him. "You think Kol is a guest in this house?"

"You've obviously met my business partner before," Kol added quickly as he glowered at Klaus.

"You're working with him?" Bonnie raised her eyebrow. "Is that why you were talking to me? Acting nice to me, asking me to dance? So you can convince me to do some type of work for Klaus?"

"No," Kol shook his head, almost frantically. Bonnie's glare softened when she saw the mixed emotions dance across his face. "You don't believe that I would want to get to know you?"

"Oh Kol," Klaus shook his head. He opened his mouth to talk again, but a hand pressed to his shoulder, silencing him.

"Gentlemen. And Bonnie," Elijah said softly. "We have disrupted Rebekah's party. How about we take this outside?"

"What a great idea, Elijah," Kol snarled, still eying Klaus. "I always knew you were the logical one."

"To talk, Kol," Elijah warned. His tone softened when he held his arm out for Bonnie. "Miss Bennett?"

Bonnie glanced at Kol. He was watching her with an attentive and cautious gaze, as if her neck could be snapped at any minute. She swallowed and put on a smile, taking Elijah's arm.

He nodded for Kol and Klaus to leave, and he followed behind them with Bonnie.

"My apologizes, Rebekah," Elijah nodded to his younger sister as he passed her and headed outside. He dropped Bonnie's arm almost as soon as the door closed and narrowed his eyes at the two men in front of him. "What were you two thinking?"

"Klaus started it," Kol folded his arms over his chest. "It's not my fault he's jealous that I don't have to compel a girl to dance with me."

"Watch your tongue," Klaus growled.

"I will rip out both of your tongues if you don't tell me what happened," Elijah snapped and Bonnie took a big step away from him. She'd moved closer to Kol, and that caused him to smile.

"Kol disobeyed me. I told him not not to something, and he did it anyway."

"I'm not your lap dog, Klaus."

Between the arguments and threats being thrown back and forth between the two vampires, Elijah turned to Bonnie.

"I'm sincerely sorry about this, Bonnie." Bonnie nodded, not meeting his eyes. She had like Elijah at one stage, and then he had forced the Salvatore brothers to turn her mother into a vampire. She'd never forgiven him for that, and she wasn't sure if she could. "Do you have any clue to what those two idiots are arguing about?"