Make Plans: Fate will Laugh

By: Lab7417 and Aria Daughter of Chaos

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Chapter 1

Bonnie moved restlessly in her bed as she slept – sweat beading on her brow. As the breeze blew the curtains at her window Bonnie was entertaining a visitor in her dreams.

She was in Gram's living room only instead of her grandmother she was entertaining a far more distant relative. As she sat sipping tea Bonnie waited for the message that Ayana had worked so hard to bring.

"Bonnie…in the beginning when the witch Esther created the original vampires they were declared an abomination against nature and a disturbance to the balance of things. Over time however the balance has come to include vampires and even to favor those who behave more honorably and admirably than their brethren."

"I thought witches hated all vampires," Bonnie frowned.

"No longer Bonnie – for if the vampires were demolished truly evil things would take their place," Ayana explained. "Esther the original witch has returned to destroy her children and as you know that would be the end of all vampires. It absolutely cannot be permitted to happen Bonnie. To that end the witches have sought fate's intervention and fate has directed us to you…"

"Me? Why me?"

"It is because of your destiny my dear Bonnie."

"My destiny? You know my destiny?" Bonnie asked with wide-eyed wonder.

"Since before you were born…now I need you to trust in that destiny because without you the balance will be destroyed." Bonnie shivered as she thought about that.

"Anything"

"I'm glad to hear you say that," Ayana smiled. "Bonnie the only way Esther can be defeated is by the original family being completed with the originals not yet created."

"There are more originals?" Bonnie worried. As if there weren't enough of them running around already.

"Fate foresaw a witch, a doppelganger and a vampire turned twice. Bonnie you are that witch and you are destined to be turned by Kol Mikaelson."

"NO! Oh no, no, no! I can't! I can't be a vampire!" Bonnie began pacing in the dream. "No there has to be some other way! Anything but that – and anyone but Kol – we can't stand each other!" Actually that wasn't quite the truth. Kol seemed to enjoy her company as he was always trying to get a moment of her time.

"Kol knows great magic and he will be able to help you defeat Esther when the time comes…Bonnie this is your destiny…once you have turned you must call on me again. I will tell you the rest of what must be done."

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When Bonnie woke she hoped desperately that it had been a dream. She knew her hopes were in vain however. What was fate thinking? She was born a witch! She was supposed to be a witch. She couldn't possibly be a vampire! Furthermore there is no way if that ever came to pass that it would be at Kol Mikaelson's hands. He was practically psychotic and though he would undoubtedly enjoy killing her she wouldn't be at all surprised if he just left her dead.

She wrestled with all of these thoughts as she went to school. When she slept the next night she knew Ayana was at work again. Bonnie saw Elena and Elijah looking at one another – that soul-grasping way that they did when they didn't think anyone else was looking. She heard Elena's confession that she had a thing for the original from a harmless game of truth or dare that the girls had played. Those images faded and she saw Klaus and Caroline. Bonnie despised the blonde original hybrid and all the things he had done to them since he had come here. She had to concede however that he did genuinely seem to have something for Caroline. Caroline seemed to see something in him – something that was still worth having. She saw images of Rebekah so pleased when she felt accepted amongst the high school students.

Then she saw images of the original siblings together. They were laughing with and loving one another. She imagined it was rare these days but whose family didn't have strain. When she saw them like this it was hard to imagine denying them the chance to have that happiness. She watched as Kol danced at the Mikaelson ball and as he smiled so brightly at his sister in school. He was an enigma Bonnie felt she had yet to truly scratch the surface of. Just when she felt that she had started to figure him out he would do something to utterly surprise her.

The following afternoon she saw Elena out on her front porch with the Salvatores. She wasn't together with Stefan any longer – again thanks to Klaus. They were curled together on the porch swing though while Damon was leaned nearby and they seemed to be enjoyably engaged as they laughed while they spoke. Elena had already had so many people ripped from her young life and whether Bonnie approved or not Elena considered the vampires some of the closest people in her life. Could she really be responsible for taking Stefan from her life? Damon? Elijah? Somehow Bonnie had a feeling it would break her best friends to lose these people.

Elena had made so many sacrifices already for all of them. What kind of sacrifices was Bonnie willing to make to ensure the balance – to ensure that her friends continued to have those people they cared about in their life? Could she really become a vampire?

VVVVVVVVVVVVVV

Mikaelson Mansion

Mystic Falls

Kol Mikaelson was enjoying the new iPhone he had just purchased in the form of rocking out to all of his favorite new songs via headphones. This last half century definitely had some things to offer. He must have drifted off while listening to music because the next thing he knew he was being visited by a very old friend.

"Ayana?" Kol looked very surprised to see the old friend of his family.

"Kol we haven't much time. No one can know that I came to you save Bonnie Bennet."

"The Bennett witch?"

"You and she must save the balance together by uniting the Mikaelson family…"

"Elijah's been trying to do that for a thousand years," Kol scoffed, "maybe you need to talk to him."

"No Kol it is your destiny…with the help of the Bennett witch. She will need to rely on you for you are her mate and you will make her an original." Kol was in utter shock at these revelations.

"She hates me and vampires and I'm not sure which one she hates more," Kol said.

"Kol Mikaelson when your favorite witch comes to you and tells you to live out your destiny you don't give me lip!"

He gulped and knew that she wasn't joking-she was, after all, a mother figure to him.

"So I have to turn Bonnie and she will become an original?" Kol asked with all seriousness.

"There is a box in your mother's study – Elijah brought it with her things. Inside is all that you will need…"

"I will try not to fail you Ayana," Kol vowed.

"Fail in this and all vampires will cease to exist, plus the doppelganger, the witch and the vampire that will turn twice," Ayana said and Kol could tell she was deadly serious.

VVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

The second he awoke, he felt his forehead and after moving his hand away, saw that he had been sweating. His headphones were still plugged into his phone and in his ear and he knew that the music must have lulled him to sleep.

He pulled them out and turned off the music portion of the phone. Shoving it into his pocket, he left the house under the guise of 'needing fresh air'. Making sure that none of them were watching, he hijacked Klaus' favorite sports car and drove off to the old witch house where he knew that his quarry would be.

He wasn't that surprised to see Bonnie standing at the doorway when he pulled the car into park. Getting out, he walked towards her and smirked.

"Hello my darling little witch." She glared at him.

"I'm not your anything Kol." She snapped, still high on adrenaline and fear from the last couple days and her visit from Ayana. He shook his head.

"Oh little witch," he said sounding sympathetic to her. "Have you never had a visit before?"

"Of course I have. You had a visit too?" Kol nodded.

"I'll be happy to fulfill my requirements," Kol smirked. She snorted.

"That's why I'm worried." She said darkly before walking into the house, Kol right behind her.

All at once, they ended up fainting and a vision started to appear to them…

They had no idea of where they were as everything seemed normal-except for everyone was in black and they were in the cemetery in Mystic Falls.

Even with his super sight and hearing, Kol couldn't guess whose funeral they were at. Bonnie was looking but they just looked sad, especially the figure who sat by the tombstone and laid orchids on the soil underneath it.

She wanted to cry when the figure-definitely a male because of his physique-began shaking and sobs escaped him when a female figure placed her hand on his shoulder.
Now the words were beginning to sound.

"I should have told her-I should have made my move sooner and told her but I was a coward. The only things I have left of her are the memories and our son...our son who will grow up without her."

"He still has you, that has got to count for something." The female figure told him sadly, obviously understanding his sadness.

The male managed to stand up and the female looked quite familiar as did the male...

"How did you get over what happened to Elijah?"

Now they knew why he seemed familiar.

Stefan. This man was Stefan. It made them wonder whose funeral this was.

"It took me a while and still," the female figure-they could now tell was Elena Gilbert- looked teary eyed. "I'm still grieving over my husband and I know that he's watching over us." She placed one of her hands on her abdomen that was larger and rounder to show that she's expecting.

"How are the others?"

"Caroline turned it off and was staked by Damon while Bonnie has been placed in a psychiatric hospital." Tears fell. "Damon is somewhere drowning in bourbon and well...after this angel is born, we'll be leaving Mystic Falls."

"Do you..." She nodded.

"He's going to be named after his father-Elijah John Mikaelson."

The second they woke up, they looked at each other and Kol was tender as he wiped away her tears.

"Whose funeral was that?" she asked him, hoping that he had seen the name on the tombstone.

"Bekah. It was Bekah's grave." He had to hold in his tears as he thought of his brother and sister being dead. Bonnie had never seen him show this much emotion – outside of anger – before and Bonnie found herself wanting to support him.

"Elena was pregnant and having a mini-Elijah." She marveled but he could hear the sadness in her voice. "He died and he would never know about his son."

Kol looked and he knew what her answer was going to be.

"I'll change. Destiny has decreed it. I can't let all these people die just for me," Bonnie finally said resolutely.