Above All Else

Chapter 23

Bonnie knocked on the front door to the Mikaelson estate then folded her arms, the relentless tapping of her foot the only sound she heard as she waited impatiently for a response. Just as she was about to knock again the door flew open making her long hair flutter wildly around her with the force.

Kol held the door open leaning his body onto it with a smirk on his face as he appraised her, "Well well. Aren't you looking marvelous this morning Bonnie."

Bonnie huffed, "My eyes are up here Kol."

Kol let his eyes slowly trace over her body before his mischievous brown eyes met hers, "Oh I know."

Bonnie rolled her eyes taking a step into the house, her shoulder knocking his as she entered. Kol shut the door after she rudely passed, "Please do come in." He said sarcastically. "Mind telling me what you are doing here?"

"I'm not here to see you if that's what you're getting at." Bonnie told him scornfully as she crossed her arms and once again began tapping her foot against the floor in frustration at being called over here by someone other than Caroline.

Klaus stalked his way into the room with a scowl on his face, "Would you two mind keeping it down." He hissed at them.

"Well you called me over here Klaus, so what do you want?" Bonnie snarked at him in irritation.

"Oh so you called her over did you Nik? Tell me, does Caroline know?" Kol grinned at his brother trying to tamp down the unknown irritation at the fact.

Klaus threw a disgusted look towards Kol at the implication of his tone, "No she does not. And I would appreciate it if we could keep it that way, hence me telling you both to shut up. Now, follow me." With that Klaus spun on his heels, heading for the downstairs study leaving both Kol and Bonnie to look at each other in shock over his brisk manner and what he could possibly want. Shrugging their shoulders they followed him into the study closing the door behind them.

"Look I know you are with my best friend and all but let's make something clear. I am not one of your sired little minions to order around." Bonnie told Klaus in a voice filled with coldness after the door to the study was closed behind her.

"I have no idea what you mean Sweetheart." Klaus told her in ignorance as he walked to the desk.

Bonnie huffed in exasperation, "You sent me a text that said, and I quote, Come here now and be quiet about it."

Klaus sat himself in the desk chair giving her a hard look, "Yes and you followed those instructions so well. If you were a sired minion I would have ripped out your tongue for such impertinence. I told you to be quiet about it not argue with my brother at the front door."

Klaus rolled his eyes, whipping his hand down his face in frustration as the witch and his brother began to argue over who had started this whole mess in the first place.

Knowing he was getting nowhere anytime soon with them being at each other's throats, he slammed his fist against the top of the desk, "Enough!" Both Kol and Bonnie froze staring at Klaus as he pointed a finger between the two of them growling, "I don't care if you two hate each other or if this is just your way of flirting with each other, I don't have time for it. At the moment Caroline has herself sequestered in the library where she has been for days trying to find a loophole that is not there."

Bonnie's disgusted look at him implying she was flirting with Kol turned concerned and puzzled when Caroline's name was brought up, "A loophole? A loophole for what?"

Klaus ran his hand over his jaw tiredly and sighed, "She wants to find a way to not only save herself but save Silas as well."

Kol's normal cocky demeanor fell into one that spoke of his sorrow, "There isn't a way Nik. She can search all she wants but the witches have been looking for generations. If they didn't have any luck I doubt she will either."