Bonnie found herself walking through the now familiar scene, but this time something was different. It was a dream, but it wasn't. She was filled with this strange sensation, like she had been detached from her body, like she had no control. It was as if she were a passenger in her own body.

This is not real, she knew that deep down and knew there was no use in fighting. She had to let herself succumb to the dream, she had to let it take her to where it needed her to be.

The setting was the same as all the other dreams, it was the place where all the witches in her family had been buried. She continued to slowly walk through the scattered head stones of the fallen witches of the Bennett family, her feet hidden beneath the thick sheen of fog that covered the ground; and there it lay, at the end of the path, the magically sealed coffin. Rays of light broke through the trees and the leaves overhead and shone down on the coffin, reflecting off the shiny wood; that combined with the fog and the eerie silence that surrounded her was enough to send a shiver down Bonnie's spine. The only sound that could be hear was the dead leaves crunching under her own steps.

The young witch approached the coffin and tried her luck at opening it but of course it didn't budge. Bonnie tossed a quick look around the cemetery, waiting for Klaus, fearing that he would be here like he always was and she stiffened at the sound of leaves crunching under the pressure of the person's steps. Slowly, she turned around and braced herself for the oncoming attack from the hybrid, like she had so many times before but she was wrong, it was not Klaus standing before her. She didn't know who the man was; but there was something about him that was strangely familiar. Like she had seen his face somewhere before but she had difficultly remembering where from.

"Who are you?" She demanded to the unknown male.

He did not reply to her, he only smiled. She let out a gasp of surprise when he used vampire speed to be right in front of her in under a second. While he was close to her, she managed to get a better look at him. He was very attractive. He had to be between five eleven and six feet tall and had hair that was slightly spiked at the front and was a type of ashy brown colour. His eyes were a gorgeous brown colour and he was wearing an old-style suit, one not common in this time.

Bonnie stared up at him, an indescribable feeling pooling in the pit of her stomach as she studied his face. There was something about this man, something almost familiar but she just could not place it!

"I can help you," he finally spoke to her, his voice nothing more than a soft whisper that lightly portrayed an accent. His hand came up to her face, and Bonnie closed her eyes and leant into his hand as he cupped her cheek, his thumb gently brushing back and forth.

"With what?" she asked, almost breathless as she leant into the warmth of his hand on her cheek. She opened her eyes when she felt the hand leave her face and she froze in shock. The unknown man had disappeared and now Klaus stood in front of her.

"Figured it out yet?" he asked with his signature smirk on his face. Bonnie felt the fear fill up in her stomach when veins started to appear around his darkening eyes and his fangs started to descend. She let out a high-pitched shriek as Klaus' fangs pierced the skin on her neck.

Bonnie let out a gasp of shock and fear as she shot up in her bed, panting and covered in sweat, she looked over to her clock on the table next to her bed and fell back onto the comfy mattress with a heavy sigh.

That had been the second just this week but there was something different about that one, something more… real. The dreams had always included the grave yard, the coffin and Klaus. This mystery man was a curious addition to her dreams and one Bonnie was determined to figure out.

XXX

Klaus and Elijah stood in front of the four coffins. One was empty and the others contained their three remaining siblings, Rebekah, Kol and Finn. Klaus had managed to convince his elder brother, Elijah, to keep Rebekah in her coffin. He couldn't have Rebekah telling them all of his lies, so he had convinced Elijah that Rebekah would be safer in the coffin then out and about.

Elijah hadn't been easy to convince, he wanted all of his siblings together once again and while Klaus longed for that too, it was not the right time. There was still so much he needed to do before he could even consider dealing with the drama he knew the news of their mother's death at his own hands would create.

That would have to come later.

He would hide Rebekah's coffin if he had to.

Both Original brothers went and opened two of the coffins, Elijah opening Finn's and Klaus opening Kol's and they both pulled the daggers out of their brothers. They placed the daggers on the nearby desk and placed a fresh blood bag in each coffin for when they woke.

All that was left to do now was wait, and hope everything worked out.

It had been quite a long time before he had spoken to his two brothers and he would be lying if he said he were not nervous about them returning and if he wasn't already nervous enough, it was not helping that Elijah was sitting across from him and staring at him in that unnerving way only his older brother could manage. Klaus was not naïve enough to not consider Elijah to be a threat to him, which is the reason he put the dagger in him in the first place. If there was anyone in this world that could defeat him, it was the vampire seated across from him looking ready to attack at any given moment

The sounds of a sharp intake of breath and panting is what broke the two brothers out of their staring competition, and shortly after another intake of breath was heard.

Klaus let out a breath. His brothers were now both awake, and they were not very pleased. He rose from his seat, readying himself for the onslaught of wrath his brothers would no doubt lay upon him any moment now.

XXX

Later that same day, Bonnie arrived at the Salvatore's. She called out both their names as she opened the front door and walked in. Stefan had texted her earlier and told her he needed her help with a plan he had come up with.

"Judgy," Damon greeted her as he met her in the parlour, "Stefan's in the study," he told her. Bonnie nodded and made her way there.

Bonnie knocked once on the partially open door to alert Stefan of her arrival before pushing the door the rest of the way open. "What's the plan?" she demanded and stood in front of Stefan. Since the younger Salvatore had returned from his rendezvous with Klaus and he began working with her she had dropped the pleasantries with him. He wasn't the same Stefan she used to know. He was no longer her friend. The only common goal they had was to take down the Originals, something they were both very eager to achieve.

"I need you to do a spell for me," he said, not looking up from the book he was flicking through.

Bonnie couldn't help but roll her eyes at his predictability. God forbid the Salvatore brothers come up with a plan that doesn't involve her using magic for them. While she was tempted to tell him to shove it, this Klaus problem wasn't going to go away without her help. "What for?"

"I need to know what Klaus is planning, and the only way I can do that is to keep an eye on him but there's no way I can do that without him sensing me," he said to her and in a frustrated move he threw the book he was reading onto the table, it landing with a heavy 'thud'. "That is where you come in," he said and got up from his chair, "I need you to do a cloaking spell or something, anything that can hide me from him."

Bonnie thought over what he said for a moment, then nodded her head in agreement. She knew spells like that existed, it shouldn't be too hard to locate one and perform it. "Okay, I think I'll be able to come up with something. I'm sure there is a spell for that in one of the grimoires I have and I'll give Lucy a call and see if she knows of any spells that can help."

She slipped her phone out of her pocket and typed a quick message to her cousin, asking her about cloaking spells. "I'll let you know when we find something," she said to the youngest Salvatore.

He nodded his thanks and Bonnie left him alone in the study.

She made her way to the front door but was stopped by Damon, "Elena told me about your dream," he said. "She said you dreamt of Klaus and another guy? Kinky."

Bonnie rolled her eyes at the eldest Salvatore and decided not to bother with reply. Best not to humour him. She turned back to the front door.

"You don't know who the other guy is?"

Bonnie stopped and shook her head, "No idea. I've been thinking about it all day, I'm sure that I've never met him...but he did look a little familiar. Like he could be related to someone I've met," she said to Damon, her frustration clear. "Or maybe I've seen him in passing or something."

She had been thinking about this mystery man non-stop since she had woken up and it was driving her insane!

A knock on the door broke them out of their conversation. As Damon opened the door Bonnie's eyes widened in shock when she saw Elijah standing there, she thought he was still in one of the coffins. "When you warned me about Klaus' plan I hid the fourth coffin but I also had time to take the dagger out of Elijah," Damon quickly explained to Bonnie as Elijah walked through the door. "Speaking of the coffin, care to share what is inside it?" he questioned Elijah.

"I do," he replied simply, "But I think I'm going to let you find that one out on your own," he added. "Now, the real reason I am here. You were the one that took the dagger out of me," he looked to Damon, who nodded with narrowed eyes, "so I thought it fair to give you all a bit of a…warning of sorts. Niklaus and I have taken the daggers out of our brothers."

"What about Rebekah?" Bonnie asked, folding her arms across her chest and levelled the Original with a suspicious stare. "Is she back, too?"

"Niklaus has left the dagger in Rebekah, he believes she is safer in the coffin," he explained to them.

Damon smirked while Bonnie scoffed, "Of course he does," she mumbled. Both Damon and Bonnie knew the real reason why Klaus has kept Rebekah neutralised, and it was not to keep her safe.

It was nice to know that they still had leverage over Klaus, with the locked coffin and now the knowledge of know that Elijah and his siblings are unaware of Klaus murdering their mother.

"What kind of trouble should we expect your brothers to stir up?" Bonnie questioned Elijah. The last thing this town needed was two more Original vampires wreaking havoc. It was the last this she needed, too.

"You have my word that I will contain them," Elijah replied firmly. "They have been in coffins for a long while, it will take some adjusting for them. I ensure you I shall be keeping a close eye on the both of them and rest assured their attentions lay firmly on Niklaus. There is a lot they believe he must answer for."

"Your words never meant much to us in the past," Bonnie responded, her eyes narrowed at the Original in front of her. "I trust you even less than I do your brother."

She had trusted Elijah Mikaelson once before and she would not be making that same mistake again.

XXX

It had been three days since Klaus and Elijah had taken the daggers out of Finn and Kol and things had been running far smoother than Klaus had expected.

Finn had taken some anger out on him by breaking off one of the bannisters and thrusting it through his heart and throwing him off the stairs in the mansion, sending him flying to the hard marble floor below. It even cracked his skull a little.

Kol however, went about his anger in a different way. He had not attacked Klaus like the hybrid had been expecting but rather had threatened that if Klaus were to so much as touch a dagger, Kol would make sure the life of the Doppelganger would come to an end, and that had Klaus a little worried. It was a little different from Kol's usual bouts of revenge. Kol was less for tact and threats and more for brute force, kill now ask questions later but he never made threats he had no intentions of fulfilling. The blood of the Doppelganger was important to him, without that he could no longer create hybrids. So unfortunately, Kol had to remain happy for Elena Gilbert and her precious blood to remain safe.

Over the last three days, Klaus had gathered some of his hybrids to assist in helping Finn and Kol adjust to the modern world, helping them with all the gadgets, technology and changed culture. It didn't take long for the two of them to pick it all up. His brothers were not stupid after all.

It also did not take long for one of them to bring up the question he had very much been dreading, why had he not taken the dagger out of Rebekah. Klaus tried his best to explain that he had taken the dagger out of their sister but the Doppelganger had managed to stab her with it a couple of weeks ago and that it would be much better for her to be safe in her coffin. Klaus could tell that neither brother was happy with the explanation, but they let it go.

For now.

But soon enough all three of his brothers would no longer be satisfied with the notion of keeping their beloved sister safe in a coffin. They would outnumber him and release her themselves and he couldn't have that. Not yet.

Perhaps he should look into having her moved.

XXX

She was dreaming again.

Bonnie smiled as a hand slid across her naked back, then a pair of warm lips soon followed the same path. She sighed when the hands moved her hair away from her neck and began to place hot, open mouth kisses up her neck and right up to her ear. He took the lobe into his mouth and sucked gently at the soft flesh. She let out giggle when he started to playfully bite her ear.

"I can help you," he whispered huskily into her ear. Bonnie's breath quickened when she felt his hand slide up her inner thigh. "You can trust me," he said.

She rolled over and looked up at the man leaning over her. He had a heart melting smile on his face and his eyes filled with lust. Bonnie brought her hands to his face and pulled him down to her, their lips meeting in a passionate, lust filled kiss. The still unknown man bit her lip lightly and took advantage of her gasp as he slid tongue into her mouth, exploring every inch. Bonnie let out a low moan when their tongues touched. He tasted amazing; she'd never experienced anything quite like it in her life.

All too soon, she had to pull away to breathe, but he left her lips only to trail his own across her jaw and down her neck causing her to release another moan.

Then, everything changed. The gently caresses and pleasurable kisses disappeared and were replaced by cold, hard touches and painful bites to the neck making Bonnie flinch.

She opened her eyes to find the man had once again vanished and Klaus was now in his place. He looked up at her and smirked before plunging his fangs into her neck, forcing her to let out a loud scream.

Bonnie's eyes shot open. Her hand instantly went to her neck to feel for bites or blood, but it was all clear. She let out a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. These were not the types of dreams she wanted to have.

An hour later a car horn sounded from outside, signalling Lucy's arrival. She had texted her the night before telling her she would take her to school tomorrow so they could talk more about the cloaking spell Stefan needed. It would give the two of them a chance to have a quick chat about these dreams Bonnie had been having. In fact, it had been one of those dreams that led Bonnie to contacting her cousin and asking for her help with the Originals. The two of them had been trying to open the coffin together for the past week, without much luck of course.

Bonnie got into the car, handing her cousin a coffee she had poured into a travel mug for her.

"There's a reason you're becoming my favourite cousin," Lucy grinned and took the coffee, taking a long drink of the dark liquid.

Bonnie smiled and buckled her seat belt. "Dad's leaving town for a bit, was wondering if you wanted to stay with me while he was gone?"

She didn't particularly like staying on her own and usually when her dad would leave on business she would stay with her Grams but… well now that was no longer an option. She also thought this would give her a good opportunity to get to know her cousin a bit better. They had spent a bit of time together since Bonnie had finally managed to get in contact with Lucy but a lot of that was centred around magic. It'd be nice to spent some quality family time with her.

"I'd like that," Lucy gave her a smile and pulled out onto the road. "So, I found that spell I told you about. Got in contact with an old friend whose used it a couple of times, it should do the trick but to hide Stefan from the all of the Originals we need something that belongs to all of them."

"What about blood?" Bonnie asked, knowing that Damon had kept a bit of the blood Klaus had given Katherine for Damon's bite in case of an emergency.

Lucy looked thoughtful as she considered Bonnie's question. "It might… they share the same blood, it links them. It could work but I can't guarantee it."

That was good enough for Bonnie and she picked up her phone to send a text to the older Salvatore, asking if he still had the blood and if not they would need something from each Original.

He quickly replied back telling her he'd take care of it.

"Damon's handling it," she said to Lucy and put her phone back in her bag. "You know those dreams I've been having?"

Lucy nodded. "They getting worse?"

Bonnie sighed. "I don't know, but they're starting to feel a bit different, like I'm aware I'm dreaming. I'm starting to think these are more than just dreams."

"Could be," Lucy replied. "A lot of witches have vision-like dreams, not exactly future telling visions but more of a warning of what's to come. It makes sense, your dreams are what lead you to contacting me and if they're leading to this mystery guy in your dream then you're probably supposed to find him, too."

Well, that was easier said than done.

XXX

"You had the same dream again last night?" Elena asked as they walked through the doors of the high school.

"Exactly the same," Bonnie confirmed. "Started at the burial ground and ended with Klaus trying to gnaw my neck like a damn chew toy."

Okay, so maybe not the exact same dream…but they didn't need to know the dirty details of her dream.

"Same guy?" Elena questioned when they reached their lockers.

Bonnie nodded her head, "same unknown, yet strangely familiar looking guy," she sighed and unlocked her locker. Bonnie hesitated before telling Elena of her little theory,

"Has Lucy said anything about them, what it could mean?" Elena questioned with curiosity.

Bonnie shrugged. "She thinks they're more of a vision, or a warning of something to come, which isn't so crazy, wouldn't be the first time it's happened."

"And this mystery guy clearly is at the centre of it," Elena said, thinking. "Maybe he's sending you the dreams?"

Bonnie shook her head. "I don't think so. But whoever it is, Lucy think's I'm meant to find him, that he could be important to our plans."

"And you can't remember where you've seen him?"

"If I've seen him," Bonnie corrected. "I'm probably way off here but what if he is one of Klaus' brothers?"

Elena raised an eyebrow, "what makes you think that?"

The witch shrugged her shoulders. "When he disappears in my dreams, Klaus is always there, the exact same place where the other guy was, like he changed into Klaus. But like I said I'm probably way off," Bonnie brushed off her theory and pulled her books out of her locker.

"Well Damon did say that Elijah and Klaus took the daggers out of their brothers so maybe," Elena replied with a small shrug.

"Speaking of Damon, what's going on there?" Bonnie questioned her friend with playfully narrowed eyes.

"Nothing, I've been avoiding him actually," she confessed, "I just feel so guilty about the kiss. I still love Stefan it's just…"

"You love Damon too," Bonnie finished and Elena looked at her with a guilty expression on her face and nodded her head slowly. "These Salvatore brothers, they're going to be the death of you," she joked.

Elena's lips curved upwards a little, "Don't I know it," she said with a frustrated groan and leant her head back against the metal lockers.

"Do you want to come by later?" Elena asked as they started to walk to class, "I could use some company at home what with Jeremy gone and all."

"Yeah sure, I just got to head to Stefan's after school and do that spell for him. I'll head over right after," she replied.

"What spell?"

"Stefan wants me to cast some kind of cloaking spell so he can spy on Klaus," she filled in her friend on Stefan's plan and Elena made an O shape with her mouth, making Bonnie frown a little. "You're okay with me working with Stefan, aren't you?"

"Yeah, sure, why wouldn't I be?" Bonnie wasn't exactly convinced by her friends answer but dropped the topic of Stefan nonetheless.

"How is Jeremy doing, by the why?" She treated carefully with this question, neither girl agreed on the outcome of the Jeremy situation.

"He's good, making friends… he got a dog, too I think," she said then paused before speaking again, "Look, I know you don't agree with what I did but…"

"I understand why you did it Elena; I just wish you didn't. Jeremy is old enough to make his own decisions, and I don't like that you took that away from him," Bonnie replied honestly.

"I don't want this life for him, Bonnie. I want him to have a safe life."

"He's a Gilbert, Elena. He would have gotten involved with it all eventually. It's his heritage."

"He's the only family I have left, Bonnie, I'm not going to lose him too," Elena said firmly.

Bonnie gave her friend a solemn look. "I hope that when he finds out what you did, and he will, I hope that you won't lose him, but you just might."

She didn't want to hurt Elena, she hated seeing the look of hurt on her best friend's face, but it was the truth. Bonnie knew how hurt and betrayed Jeremy felt when he found out Elena had Damon compel him the first time and if he finds out she's done it again, he'll never forgive her. Elena needs to know that she can't control everyone; they can make their own decisions even if those decisions are the wrong one.

Bonnie put a hand on her friend's arm. "You know I love you," she said, "and I'll always be here."

Elena smiled and pulled Bonnie in for a tight hug. "I don't know what I would do without you and I don't ever want to know."

Bonnie grinned. "Lucky for you, you won't ever have to."

XXX

That afternoon, Bonnie and Lucy met with the Salvatore's at the boarding house for the spell. Stefan was seated on a chair while Lucy stood behind him with her hands hovering over his temples. There was a circle of candles lit around the two while Bonnie and Damon watched on from the sides.

"How does this spell work?" Damon asked, watching on intrigued as Lucy prepared to performed the spell on his brother.

"It'll alter the perception of Klaus and the other Originals. They won't be able to see or hear or sense Stefan, even if he were right in front of them," Lucy explained the spell as she smeared some of Klaus' blood Damon kept on Stefan's forehead then eyes closed as she concentrated and began to chant.

The flames of the candle flickered a bit then became larger. The fire of the candles went back to their usual size once Lucy had finished the spell.

"How do I know if it worked?" Stefan questioned the witch and stood up, wiping the blood from his head with a tissue Bonnie handed him.

"Well if it works, you'll come back alive and if not…well…you'll be dead," Bonnie replied with a snarky tone she coupled with a sweet smile.

"Only one way to find out, brother," Damon smirked, "time to go play some spy games," he said and motioned to the door.

Stefan growled lowly as he walked passed his brother and the witch, wondering when the two became friends.

"Do you think it worked?" Damon asked Bonnie once Stefan had left.

"We'll soon find out," she replied and helped her cousin to pack up the supplies.

Just as the witch was about to leave, Damon stopped her, "can I ask you something?"

Bonnie turned to look at him, he looked somewhat nervous. "Sure."

"It's about Elena," he said and Bonnie scrunched her nose up, knowing where this was heading.

"And this is the part where I tell you I'm gonna wait in the car," Lucy said and patted Bonnie on the shoulder and flicked her wrist at the vampire in a half-hearted wave goodbye.

"Oh, no, I do not want to get in the middle of this," Bonnie nearly whined.

"I just want your opinion on something," Bonnie had never seen Damon like this before. Given they had never had these kinds of moments but over the last few months they have gotten to be what could be classified as frenimes. He looked nervous and vulnerable and that made Bonnie want to help the bastard.

Bonnie sighed, giving in. "Okay, what is it?"

"I'm asking you this because you're her best friend, you know her better than anyone," he started. She really didn't like where this was going. "You know that I love her."

"I do," she replied softly. "And I think I know what you are trying to get at," she could tell this wasn't easy on him so she took pity on him and saved him from having to say it out loud. "Our rocky history aside," she clarified before continuing, "Elena does feel something for you, Damon, but in the end, I think it's always going to be Stefan for her. You and Elena could have a good relationship but do you really want a relationship where you're constantly going to be wondering if she still has feelings for your brother?" She actually felt horrible for telling him this, but she meant every word of it. Elena would drop Damon in a second if Stefan went back to her and that would not be fair on Damon. "I'm really sorry, Damon."

He forced a smile. "Don't be. I've already thought about everything you said," he replied with a bitter laugh.

The young witch walked over to him and wrapped her arms around him in a friendly, comforting hug. He looked like needed one. "Thanks for being honest," he said and brought his arms around her.

"Anytime," she smile and pulled away.

"Are we friends now?" Damon questioned slyly.

"Hell no," she replied, still smiling.

"Thank God," he feigned relief making Bonnie laugh.

"Let me know how Stefan goes," she requested and with a final wave she left the boarding house and joined Lucy in the car.

"D'you tell him to pull his head out of his arse and move on?" Lucy asked when Bonnie started the car and pulled out of the Salvatore's drive way.

"In a nice way," Bonnie answered, smiling at her cousin's way at wording things.

Lucy scoffed and looked to her cousin. "There is no nice way to tell someone they're not the one and never will be, cuz."

XXX

After dropping Lucy off at her hotel, Bonnie parked her car in the driveway to her house, wanting to drop off her things and change before heading over to Elena's. She gathered up her things and made her way to the front door with her keys in hand.

"Evening, Miss Bennett," a voice sounded from behind her causing her to drop her belongings on the ground.

She whipped around and came face to face with Klaus.

"Klaus," she spat out his name as if it were a curse. He had caused so much pain to her and her friends that just the mere glimpse of the hybrid was enough to ignite an intense hatred within the young witch. "What do you want?"

"Do I need a reason to visit my favourite witch?" he asked, his lips turned upwards and Bonnie raised an eyebrow.

"What do you want?" she demanded again, folding her arms over her chest. She had no time for his games or false flattery.

"Been doing some magic have we, love?" He asked, ignoring her question and motioning to her grimoire that was still lying on the grass.

She made no move to retrieve it, or the rest of her belongings on the ground.

Bonnie sent him a sardonic smile. "Mmhm, you see we have a pest problem in Mystic Falls at the moment. There's a bunch of hybrids running around and, of course, their psychotic leader is becoming a bit of a pain," she replied to him, standing her ground.

She refused to allow him to unnerve her.

It wasn't till she looked away from him that she noticed the man standing next to Klaus and her breath hitched and she nearly trembled with shock. It took everything Bonnie had to keep her composure but it was nearly impossible.

That face.

It was him.

Klaus waved his arm in the direction of the man behind him. "I do believe introductions are in order, Bonnie this is my youngest brother, Kol. Kol, this is Bonnie Bennett, resident witch," he introduced and then placed his attention firmly on Bonnie, a smirk playing on his lips as he studied her. "Now, may we come in? There is much we have much to discuss."

Bonnie didn't answer him, she was practically stunned into silence… The man that had been appearing in her dreams now stood, in the flesh, directly in front of her and to top it off, he was one of Klaus' brothers.

That was just perfect.

XXX

Hello, everyone!

I have done a major revise and rewrite of Fool Me Once, Fool Me Twice and I am far happier with it now than I previously was. This isn't just a rewrite, I have also changed the direction of the story (I will still keep the original up). I feel my writing has improved since I started this fic and thought it was time to give it the proper edit it deserved and take the opportunity to change a couple of things I was unhappy with/didn't like. I have also condensed it to remove the filler chapters I had, this chapter is 1 and 2 of the original plus some extra content! But because I've done that it feels like it's moving a lot quicker so I am sorry for that and I'm trying to add things to make it flow better.

And hopefully this will help me with inspiration for Once Bitten, Twice Shy!

I hope you enjoy reading it or enjoy reading it again and following Bonnie and Kol through their journey!

Thank you, guys, so much!