700 years later...

I rubbed the space on my left hand, where my tattooed ring was, with an absent minded smile. I was staring into the mirror as maids fitted me into my dress "We've come close to finishing ma'am just a few more pins and we'll be done" the girl said sheepishly "Actually you guys can take a break I think this will do" I said compelling her to leave, she nodded and grabbed her assistant and walked out leaving me to my thoughts "I thought the rule was no compelling the locals" Pearl said from behind me "Oh hush. Just because I told her to leave doesn't mean I compelled her to come over in the first place" she laughed and walked over looking the dress up and down "It looks positively ravishing Bonnie" I smiled at her turning a little in the mirror "Your husband won't know what hit him" she said as I walked over to step out of the thing without making the pins pop out.

"I hope so this little event he's decided to attend in Mystic Falls had better be worth it I made it very clear that I wanted to steer clear of this place" she sighed and shook her head "When are you going to tell him the truth about that Bon, I'm surprised he hasn't caught on 800 years of being together and he still hasn't deduced that you're from a different time" I rolled my eyes and walked over to my trunk pulling out one of my more simple dresses "The entire time we were searching for the willow I left all the reading to me. He didn't touch it, he knew I wanted to deal with it and because he respects my wishes he let it go. Ever since we stopped looking for it, there's been nothing to cover. I told you my secret so I could have someone to talk to about it not so you could make me feel bad about keeping it" she put her hands up in surrender and shrugged.

"Hey I've only been you're closest friend for the past 300 years while Elena has been missing. Speaking of any sign of her" I shook my head "Nope ever since she found that Klaus was hunting her doppelgangers behind her back those same 300 years ago she hasn't resurfaced" Pearl sighed and went to speak again when her daughter came in "Aunt Bonnie. Mother. I was looking for you both" I smiled and hugged the girl "Anna how nice to see you. I was just telling your mother about how I missed my favorite niece" she smiled and hugged back walking over to talk to Pearl about this apothecary Pearl had interest in. I could see that Pearl was already quite taken with Mystic Falls as I knew she would be, having both Anna and her here brought a lot of memories from my timeline back to the surface.

Being friends with Pearl and Anna's Aunt might seem really weird considering but when I met Pearl Anna was just a girl and over time getting to know the two of them I could see why Jeremy loved her. And I could see why Anna fought so hard to get her mother back. When I met Pearl I had no one to talk to. When Elena left, she left us all, and not having someone who can relate with this time bullshit was hard. Pearl helped me through it and now we were here. No turning back. I do wonder why Kol wanted to bring me here at all, and with me not really being able to explain why I was so against coming here without exposing myself I had to acquiesce. Just as he crossed my mind he came in, Pearl and I exchanged looks and she took her daughter leaving me and Kol in the room alone.

"Pearl always leaves as soon as I come around, almost makes me think she doesn't like me" I laughed and shook my head "If she didn't like you you'd know it" he raised an eyebrow at me and pulled me into him "Well my wife wouldn't let her get to me, right love" I laughed a little more and nodded giving him a small kiss "You gonna tell me what was so important we had to come here of all places to make it happen" he looked off to the side as if he couldn't meet my eye when he spoke "I think it's fitting considering this was where you and I were both born" I paused and he looked at me expectantly "Yes, I know the truth" I sighed and pulled back looking down "Listen I didn't really know how to tell you. How do you tell someone that you're from a different time? The longer I waited the more it spun away from me I could never find the moment to tell you how I'd been lying to you all this time" he sighed and sat on the bed I sat next to him and grabbed his hand "How long have you known" he sighed and squeezed my hand "A few hundred years now" I frowned pulling my hand back again, why spend all this time holding it in why not just say he knew?

"Why-" he cut me off  "I started looking for the tree again, and when I did I figured out what the tree actually does and then I figured out that you actually were from a different time" I frowned "Why are you looking for the tree? Is that what we're doing here? Looking for answers about the tree? Kol I thought I told you I didn't want to go home anymore, I'm happy here with you. Or is that not enough for you, have you gotten tired of me so you want to send me away" he stood and grabbed my shoulders shaking me a little as if shaking me would shake away the thoughts "Listen to me. It was none of those things, yes, I know you don't wanna go home, but my love you weren't the only one who came here from a different time" Elena, I frowned deeper, he's been looking for the tree for Elena? She wants to go home now? Why didn't she come to me with this? I would've helped her. Why hasn't he told me about this until now?

"You've kept this from me. You knew how much I missed Elena and you've been corresponding with her for years following leads on a tree to send her away from me" he sighed and grabbed my face in his hands "I would've told you but Elena made it pretty clear to keep you out of it. She said that you said that you were happy here and she wasn't going to stand in the way of that" I let a small tear slip down my face only just realizing how hurt I was and what about "She hasn't reached out to me, she's known where I am and hasn't come to see me" I said looking down and wiping my face "She said that seeing us together made her think of Klaus and where they stood and she was having a hard time getting over the fact that you helped him with whole doppelganger thing" I rolled my eyes and growled "I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR!! He said he wanted me to do some marriage rituals before the whole thing started he turned up with her blood and I assumed she knew I didn't know what he was trying to do" I said frustrated that she was still mad at me for that, granted after I figured out what he did I kept it to myself to keep them together and granted that was a mistake but I apologized.

"She told me about what Klaus does to her in your time. I can see how that was bad for her. In her eyes he's still the man that she was running away from and you keeping that from her is just hard for her to swallow" I sighed knowing he was right, I just didn't want to ruin her happiness, she's never been able to be happy for years on end, no bad guys, no issues besides the normal marriage kind. And with Klaus that had really happened for her, I felt bad having to be the one to burst that bubble for her. I sighed and laid my head against him "Where is she now" he shrugged "Last I talked to her I didn't ask for a update on her whereabouts. All I know is that she wanted me to be here, she said she believes someone important will show up here and that she wants to question her, that if anyone were to know about the Willow it'd be her" I frowned who-, my thoughts derailed and I knew exactly who she would mean. Katherine.

She was here around this time, planting a 100 years worth of seeds and trouble. I sighed it was a good hunch Katherine was a resourceful bitch, if anyone would know about a tree that could turn back time it'd be her. Well I guess that leaves it up to me to find her. Kol wanted to go to this party at the Salvatore Boarding House he assumes she'll be there and I think it's possible that she will be. If I'm not mistaken around this time she meets Stefan and Damon, the idea of me being around them at this time... when  they were still human is interesting. I never thought I'd know the human side of Damon but it seems that today I will get the pleasure. When I walked in I looked around at all the people it reminded me a lot of the way the Founder's Ball is now. This must've been the very first, I walked in and watched Kol mix in with the locals, he's always been good at blending in with the people. Making friends in whatever crowd he's put in, as I watched him I felt someone come up to me from my side.

"I must admit being at war I've missed a few things but I believe that I would recognize a face as beautiful as yours" at this Kol's head snaps in my direction the man talking to me doesn't even notice the way he's glowering at him at across the room. I give him a look and he gives me one back, Kol has always been possessive but he knows that I can handle the random flirtatious humans. He looked away reluctantly and I looked over at the man finally "Damon Salvatore" I looked at him sort of in awe, it was strange to see him without the condescending smirk and the insufferable attitude "Bonnie" he smiled and kissed the back of his hand "You must be new in town" I nodded "I've just arrived not long ago with my friend Pearl" he nodded and looked over at the woman and her daughter talking to another man "Yes, she's a friend of the lovely lady Katherine, she and Jonathan Gilbert get on very well" I looked back over at the man I now knew as Jonathan Gilbert.

Seeing him memories of Jeremy flooded my mind and I shook my head to remove them. Damon grabbed my hand and gestured towards the floor "Would you care to dance Lady Bonnie" I saw his eyes flicker over to woman I was looking for and suddenly his intentions became clear. I frowned but accepted his hand anyway, she didn't deserve his attention neither of them. She would turn them into monsters, and it's partly all my fault, I helped Klaus find her, I helped him make her. All the blood she spills from here on is my fault. As we danced I kept my eyes on her as she kept hers on mine, I found her and now I would find out what I want to know. Kol walked up giving Damon a look and then smiling at me "Mind if I cut in?" I smiled and wrapped my arms around him "I was wondering when you would stop watching me from afar and come dance with me" he smiled as Damon respectfully bowed away. 

"Did you do it to mess with me" I laughed and shook my head nodding discreetly over at Katherine who was wrapped in conversation with Stefan "I did it to mess with her" he looked over and paused briefly where he stood "Is that-" I grabbed his face turning his head "It's not Elena. It's one of her doppelgangers, and who we came here to find" he nodded and sighed "Well now that we've found her I suppose it's time for me to question the girl" I nodded and pulled away from him watching him walk over to Katherine and pull her to the side. My focus was pulled away as I was snatched aside suddenly "What are you doing here" I was asked, as soon as I saw her face I knew just who she was "Emily" she looked me over and sighed "Bonnie what are you doing here" I pulled the girl away from the party and began to explain to her how everything happened. Maybe Katherine wasn't who I was supposed to find, maybe it was Emily the whole time.