"Klaus, this isn't a good idea," Tyler said as he grabbed Klaus' arm to stop him from going to Bonnie's room later that evening.

After what Bonnie had gone through today, what Klaus had in store was the last thing she needed.

"Yes, it is and now that Kol's not around it's the perfect time to do it," he said and shook his arm from Tyler's grip and continued to trek up the steps. "He's coddling her Tyler and for as long as he does that she's never going to learn or truly accept what she is," he explained, his voice dropping as he reached Bonnie's room. "This will be good for her and the only way that she will accept and deal with becoming a vampire. It's called tough love, mate," he said before motioning Tyler to leave and knocking on Bonnie's door.

"This isn't going to end well," Tyler muttered and took his leave before Bonnie opened the door.

"Come with me?" Klaus asked with a smile as soon as she opened her door. "I have something I want to show you something," he said and held out his hand for her to take and she took it without question.

"What is it?" she asked as he led her through the house and down the stairs.

"It's a surprise," he winked and when they got outside, he moved behind her, his hands covering her eyes and he walked her over to where he left it.

They stopped at the spot and Klaus nodded to one of his hybrids who was standing there, a young and compelled female in his arms. When given the signal, the hybrid took one sharp nail and sliced it over the girl's neck, letting some blood flow out.

Klaus could feel Bonnie stiffen when she caught the scent. His hands uncovered her eyes and she froze when she saw the bleeding girl. She attempted to turn away but Klaus' hands on her shoulders kept her firmly in place.

"Do you smell it?" he asked and Bonnie nodded slowly, her nails digging into her palms in an attempt to keep herself grounded. Klaus saw it. "No, don't restrain yourself," he said, his hands moving from her shoulders to her hands.

The hybrid began to walk the girl closer to them, the scent growing stronger with each step. She could feel her face begin to change. Her eyes closed as she tried to calm herself enough to will away the change but as the scent grew stronger so did her thirst.

"Klaus, stop," she said as she tried to back away but he was preventing her from doing so.

"You are a vampire, Bonnie and the quicker you accept that the easier it will be," he told her, forcing her to look at the girl whenever she tried to look away. "You want her blood, you need it."

"No, I don't," she gritted out in resistance.

"You do!" he all but shouted. "Stop denying yourself of it, you're not doing yourself any favours by doing so," he said, his voice dropping to a softer tone.

"Not yet," she pleaded but Klaus didn't listen.

One of the Original hybrid's fingers swiped across the girl's wound, gathering up some blood and bringing it in front of Bonnie's mouth. "Just a taste," he whispered and brushed the finger against her lips and before she could stop herself her lips parted and her tongue tentatively brushed against his finger, licking off the blood.

"Tastes good, doesn't it?" Klaus smirked, and Bonnie nodded.

Klaus shooed his hybrid away and nudged Bonnie even closer to the girl. "You need to learn to feed from humans," he told her and closed the distance between them.

"I don't want to," she whispered and tried to back away from the compelled victim but Klaus kept her in place.

"You need to," he replied back just as quietly. "It's easy. Just like this," he said before leaning over her shoulder to bite into the girl's neck – drinking only a little before he pulled back.

Bonnie's eyes closed. The more blood she saw the stronger the desire to drink became but she couldn't let it take over but it was becoming harder and harder to resist the silent call.

A small taste wouldn't hurt, would it?

Bonnie gave in. She brought her head down to the bleeding neck – her fangs puncturing new wounds into the soft flesh. She could feel Klaus' hand rubbing up and down her back encouragingly as she began to drink slowly from the wound but as soon as the sweet taste touched her tongue she could no longer control herself.

She began to gulp down the blood – hands tightly gripping onto the girl so hard there was a cracking sound.

Klaus knew that he should pull her away but the sight was far too beautiful to end it so soon. Seeing a brand new vampire feed from a human for the first time was something that Klaus loved doing – perhaps it was due to his Original roots.

He only wished that Kol was here to witness it – he'd love it too.

"Drink up, Bonnie," he encouraged, moving some of her fallen hair out the way. Out of the corner of his eye, Klaus saw a figure moving closer to them. Looking closer he smirked when he saw it was Kol.

"Come for the show, brother?" Klaus smirked but it soon fell from his face when he saw Rebekah and Tyler following close behind.

Kol ignored his brother's comment and used as much strength as he could to push Klaus away before he took a hold of Bonnie and tore her from the girl Klaus has compelled and threw her to the ground. The Original hated being rough with her but sometimes it was the best way to deal with a new vampire with bloodlust.

Bonnie –seemingly unaffected by his roughness- jumped right back up to her feet and snarled at him before making another move. Kol thought she was going for the girl so he was surprised when she lunged at him.

Kol's hand was around her neck before she could even touch him. "Calm down," he growled as she struggled in his grip. "Just breathe," he said as his hand around her neck loosened and moved up to rest upon her cheek, his other hand rose to her face and his thumb brushed against the veins that surrounded her eyes.

He could feel Bonnie start to calm down and he wiped away the blood that was smeared around her mouth, watching the veins disappear from around her eyes as she regained her control.

"Kol," she said his name when she came down from her bloodlust induced haze. Her eyes flickered over his shoulder and to the bleeding and dying girl lying on the cold ground. "Oh my God," she gasped. "I did that?" she asked Kol and when he nodded her hands covered her mouth in shock.

Kol pulled Bonnie to his chest, arms around her tightly as he shielded her from his brother. "What the hell were you thinking?" he growled to his hybrid brother.

"I'm doing what you aren't," Klaus shot back and ordered the hybrid to remove the girl. "You are babying her, brother and it's not doing her any good."

"She's not ready," Kol said, his voice going back to normal.

"She's been ready since she transitioned," Klaus retorted, his voice turning softer. Klaus understood why his brother was shielding Bonnie from embracing her new nature; he wanted to protect her from it. But it would only do her more harm than good.

"This was not the way to do it, Nik," Rebekah cut in. "She needed to be eased into it, not thrown right in."

"We were all thrown right in," Klaus said to his sister. "And we had no clue what was going on!"

"We have had a thousand years to adjust. Bonnie's been a vampire for less than a week," Rebekah defended her friend.

"She needs to understand what she is and needs to learn to control it and if she's not going to do it herself then I'm fine doing it for her," Klaus shot back.

"She tried to kill herself today because she hated being a vampire and you go and do this to her!" Rebekah yelled before she could stop herself.

Silence fell over them and Bonnie could feel all eyes on her. Kol's grip on her loosened until it broke completely and he stepped away from her.

"You did what?" he asked and Bonnie looked down at the ground, ashamed.

"If it weren't for Tyler being there she'd be a pile of ash right now," Rebekah said solemnly.

"Why would you do that? How could you do that?" Bonnie finally looked up at him and her heart nearly shattered. There was a mix of emotion on his face; confusion, worry, shock and the one that hurt her most, disgust.

Kol didn't even give Bonnie the chance to reply, he pushed passed her and stalked off but not before she caught the look of betrayal in his eyes.

Bonnie watched as Kol left, tears forming with every step he took and she turned to Klaus. "Why did you do this?" she asked him in a small voice. "I don't want to feed from humans."

"You have to learn," he replied back and took a step towards her but she stopped him by raising her hand.

"I want you to stay away from me," her voice cracked as she found herself reaching for Rebekah who immediately took a hold of her and led her back to the house, leaving Klaus and Tyler.

"Sometimes I wish the sire bond was still in place," Klaus said to Tyler.

"Sometimes I wish you'd stop being such a dick," Tyler retorted and followed after Rebekah and Bonnie. "You really screwed up with this one, Klaus," he called over his shoulder to the hybrid.

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Bonnie sat alone in the study, Kol was avoiding her and she was avoiding everyone else, Klaus especially. The hybrid had tried a few times to approach her but each time he was stopped by Rebekah.

But when the door finally opened, Bonnie knew who it was.

Kol sat down on the table in front of her, elbows resting on his knees and his hands folded together. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"You were worrying enough about me," she answered.

"I love you and you are going through a hard time right now so of course I'm going to worry about you," he responded.

"I don't even know why I did it, I just did," she told him. "I don't know what came over me."

Kol picked up the blood bag he had beside him and held it in his hands. "But Nik was right. I am babying you through this and I shouldn't be," he sighed and held the blood bag out to her.

Bonnie looked between Kol and the bag, feeling slight panic beginning to start. "Why can't I keep drinking from you?"

"Human blood is stronger than vampire blood, it is a lot harder to resist. If you want to learn control you need to start drinking human blood," he said and stood up to fetch a glass cup. He opened the bag and poured some of the red liquid into the glass. "And I have a feeling that in order to strengthen your powers, you'll need to start feeding properly," he said as he walked back over to Bonnie - holding out the cup for her to take.

She slowly reached out, her fingers curling around the glass and brushing against his as she did. She held the cup to her lips, the scent of the sweet blood nearly making her mouth water. Her eyes flickered back to Kol and he gave her a reassuring smile.

"I love you, too," she replied to his earlier declaration.

"I know," he smiled and watched as she brought the glass back to her lips.

She tipped her head back and downed the contents of the cup just under a couple of seconds.

"I hate how good it tastes," she said with a bit of a laugh before handing the cup back to Kol who took it from her and placed it on the table he was still seated on.

Kol looked down to her hand that he held in his, his finger touching her ring. Kol had spent the last hour and a half trying to rid himself of the mental image of Bonnie ripping her ring off and turning to ash under the sun but he couldn't.

He nearly lost her once; if he lost her again he'd go insane.

He glanced up to her face, his eyes locking intensely with hers. "Don't you ever think about taking this off again, do you understand me?" his voice was dark and sounded more threatening than he had intended it to, but the thought of losing her permanently was one he couldn't stand to bear.

He wouldn't risk it. He'd find a way to have that ring magically sealed to her finger if that's what it took.

"Why did you stop me?" she asked him suddenly. "I know you don't care about humans so why did you stop me from killing her?"

"Because you do care about them and I know that as soon as you calmed down and realised that you killed her that you'd never forgive yourself," he stood up and held out his hand for her to take, she did and he pulled her off the chair. "You need to get out of the house for a while," he said to her.

"Is that a good idea?" Bonnie asked him and he shrugged.

"You need to go out in public, being around humans is a good exercise to learn control," he told her and brushed her cheek with the back of his hand affectionately. "If you're worried that you'll slip up, don't," he said. "I'll be there and I won't let you."

Kol had taught new vampires the ropes of being a vampire countless times but he didn't exactly teach them control he just taught them to kill but he couldn't do that with Bonnie. He had to handle this more delicately than his others. She wasn't a killer and she never would be and he respected and loved her enough that he would teach her how to control herself and to stop her from hurting anyone.

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Kol led Bonnie into the Mystic Grill and the new vampire was instantly overwhelmed by the amount of people that occupied the establishment. It wasn't unusual for the grill to be buzzing with people on a Friday night but with Bonnie's new found vampirism – she found it a little worrying.

"Calm down," Kol said when he sensed her worry and gave her hand a gentle but comforting squeeze. He led her over to the bar and ordered them some drinks.

"Uh…whiskey?" Bonnie arched a brow when she heard what he ordered her.

"I know you aren't much of a drinker but alcohol really does help with the cravings," Kol said and handed Bonnie a glass. She gave him a smile and a quick kiss on the lips before taking the drink from his hands. "I'm glad to see the smile back on you face, darling," he added and gave her another kiss, this one a little deeper than the last - his free hand cupping her cheek and his tongue dancing with hers.

She moaned softly against his lips but before she could pull him closer, what she had been dreading happened.

Bonnie's head snapped around when she heard the sound of smashing glass, but it wasn't the sound that caught her attention but rather the sweet smelling blood that was seeping from a wound made by one of the glass shards.

She couldn't stop herself from inhaling the delicious scent and it was then when she felt Kol's arms snake around her – his lips brushing against her cheek as his head leant over her shoulder.

To anyone looking on, it would just look like a man embracing his girlfriend but in reality he was holding her back. His arms were like steel around her waist as they held her against him, stopping her from making any movements towards the bleeding patron.

"Can't we just leave?" she asked him in a whisper as she turned her head to him.

She felt him shake his head against hers and she felt his steel grip around her loosen. "This is a good way to learn control," he told her and his arms dropped from her but his hands stayed on her hips and motioned for her to turn her attention back to the man.

Bonnie turned back to the scene and watched as a bartender handed the man a cloth to place of the cut and she was tempted to follow him as he moved in the direction of the bathroom obviously to clean himself up, the scent dying down with each step he took.

"See? Nothing to it," he said and placed a kiss to her cheek – making her smile.

"What if the wound was bigger? What would have happened?" she found herself asking as he released her and turned back to his drink.

"I'd have you out of here before you'd even smell the blood," he replied and drank the rest of the alcohol in the glass. "I'd catch the scent quicker than you would."

"What if I didn't care about humans, then what?" She didn't know why but she just wanted to know what he would do if she were different – more like him.

"If we weren't in a populated place I'd have let you kill him," he answered her truthfully. "Probably would have joined in too," he turned around to face her. "Or we could just slaughter the entire bar," he added with a careless shrug. "But resisting the urge will get easier, believe me and drinking blood will get easier."

"You had trouble drinking blood?" she asked him and he nodded.

"In the very beginning we didn't know what was happening to us or why we craved blood. The first time I drank blood, I slaughtered an entire village I was so out of control but eventually you learn and we all did," he revealed to her.

"Do you still have control issues?" they never really spoke much about Kol's vampirism when they were together and she was human but now she figured she should know.

He shook his head at her question. "I haven't lost control in centuries. Everything I have done, I did it because I wanted to," he said, referring to the countless massacres he'd done in his time.

"I don't want to be like that," she said with a soft voice and looked away from Kol. "I don't want to get to the point where I have to slaughter innocent people for entertainment."

"Then don't," he replied simply. "Not every vampire is like me, Bonnie. Not every vampire finds amusement in killing."

Sometimes Bonnie hated how brutally honest Kol could be…

"A vampire who loves to kill and a vampire who doesn't…"

"Talk about a match made in vampire hell," a sarcastic voice cut in.

Damon.

A low growl rumbled in Bonnie's chest as she looked at the blue eyed Salvatore.

"Whoa! Witchy, look at you! All alive and fanged up!" Damon exclaimed and looked to Bonnie who just glared towards the blue eyed vampire. "Got to say though, did not expect to see you so…alive," he smirked and ordered himself a drink – pushing through the couple to get to the bar.

After Damon got his drink he turned back to Kol and Bonnie – his focus on the new vampire. "Well, it was nice to see you and I hope you don't slaughter anyone," he winked and raised his glass to her in a mock salute before walking off.

Bonnie was about to follow after Damon but Kol grabbed her arm and pulled her back to him. As much as Kol hated Damon and nothing would bring him greater pleasure then beating the Salvatore within an inch of his un-dead life – he wouldn't let Bonnie go after him. She was still trying to learn how to be a vampire and Damon would rip her to shreds.

"I want to kill him," Bonnie growled and glared after Damon.

"Maybe later," he chuckled and wrapped his arms back around her.

"Now that he's here, I want to leave," she murmured and downed her forgotten drink in one go, too distracted and pissed off to even wince at the strong taste.

Kol shrugged and finished his own drink before taking Bonnie's hand and leaving the grill. His arm wrapping around her should the moment they stepped outside.

"I hate him so much, Kol," her voice was so full of anger that she was nearly shaking.

"I know you do," he responded and turned his head to kiss her temple.

"Bonnie?" she heard a familiar voice call her name.

Bonnie turned from Kol to come face to face with Matt and Caroline. "Matt, Caroline," she said their names with a hint of shock but smiled nonetheless, happy to see her friends. She hadn't seen them since the whole transition thing.

"I'll wait for you by the car," Kol said to her, understanding that she would like to speak to Matt and Caroline alone.

Bonnie gave him a thankful smile and gave him a quick kiss before he made his way to the car, leaving her alone with her two oldest friends.

"You seem to be adjusting well," Caroline commented with a smile.

"Not exactly," Bonnie replied with a small shrug. "This is my first public outing since the whole ordeal."

"How are you handling it?" Matt asked her. "I can't imagine how hard this must be for you."

"I'm beginning to accept what happened but I wouldn't exactly say I am handling it very well," she answered with a dry laugh. "I'm trying though."

"It does get easier," Caroline told her. "And I know you'll get through it and come out even stronger and you have both of us too, we'll help you."

Bonnie was surprised at that. She figured after what Kol (and she) did to Elena, Caroline and Matt would never want anything to do with her again, let alone offer to help her. Did they even know they it was Elena's blood that completed her transition?

"We know what happened," Matt jumped in. "Elena told us."

"I know firsthand how hard it is to resist blood the first time and when someone puts a bleeding person in front of you when you're craving nothing more, resisting it would be impossible," Caroline stated.

"Elena would be pissed though," Bonnie muttered.

Matt and Caroline shared a look before the blonde vampire spoke. "Something like that."

"We're trying to tell her that if she wants to blame anyone, blame Kol. He's the one who turned her after all," Matt said.

"She has no right to blame Kol either. This wouldn't have happened to her if Damon and Stefan didn't kill me in the first place. They are the ones to blame for this," Bonnie defended herself and Kol.

"Do you really think she'd put the blame on either of those two?" Caroline frowned. "We'd just rather she blame Kol and be pissed at him than you."

Bonnie sighed. "Just let her be mad at me. I don't really care anymore."

It took her coming back to Mystic Falls, getting killed and turning into a vampire to realise that Elena Gilbert was the last person she needed in her life. She came back because Elena needed help and she got killed because of it.

"Look, I'm kind of tired," she said to Matt and Caroline. She wasn't really. She was just tired of the vampire and Elena talk.

"How about we meet tomorrow? Just me and you?" Caroline suggested.

Bonnie nodded her head. "Yeah, sounds good," she said before giving each of her friends a hug. "I'll see you tomorrow."

Matt and Caroline headed into the grill while Bonnie headed to where Kol had parked the car.

"You okay?" Kol asked when she joined him at the car.

She nodded. "Yeah, I'm good," she smiled and stood on her toes to place a kiss to his lips.

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The worst thing about having a few fics going at once is odds are you're going to forget about some…which is what I did here so I am really sorry if you've been waiting for an update and I hope this chapter was okay!

I did plan for it to be longer but I lost a bit of steam and I didn't want to continue and have the last bits of the chapter totally suck so I decided to stop it there while it still had a bit of structure :D

Thank you all for all the feedback, I really appreciate it!

Any mistakes in this chapter I apologise for and please leave a review!

Next chapter will have more on the hunter and his plans along with the Elena/Bonnie confrontation I promised and more!

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