CHAPTER ELEVEN PART I

(act ii)

NEW BLOODY ORLEANS I

"Caroline, I'm standing in one of my favourite places in the world, surrounded by food, music, art, culture and.... all I can think about is how much I want to show it to you. Maybe one day you'll let me" ~ Niklaus Mikaelson

We had settled in late last night whilst Enzo was out, and we tried staying awake to see him, but we all fell asleep. We had settled into an apartment I brought a while back. Enzo was also staying there, so there was no point in staying elsewhere.

We were finally now seeing each again after being separated for nearly a year. It had felt longer than that.

We were walking into the bar called Rousseau's, located in the French Quarter. Bonnie and Jeremy were walking behind me because they didn't know where we were going. I was making it a surprise; we were meeting for brunch and a few drinks.

I had changed into my better form, or as one would say, my original form. Anastasia. Bonnie and Jeremy have known I could shapeshift for years and used this form as my main form.

They never knew why I liked my original form (Ana) over my 'birth' form (Care). I never told them and left them to their thoughts. I only used my original form away from Mystic Falls and meeting other people.

We were greeted by a fairly busy, lit bar. Soft jazz music greeted our ears at the doorway. Most residents stopped and looked at us, noticing we were not locals but did not look like tourists. My eyes scanned the bar's inhabitants, and a head of blonde met my eyes.

A grin slowly formed on my face at the site of the woman behind the bar, wiping glasses. It was a local bartender with a soon-to-be psychologist degree – Camille Rose O'Connell, Cami or Klaus's therapist or the Walmart version of Caroline.

We walked up to the bar quietly, and I stood before her, my body blocking the little light. She noticed me and looked up; a fake permeant smile etched on her face.

To be in customer service, ugh.

With a smile, she looked at our small group and asked, "Hey, welcome to Rousseau's. What can I get you guys?". I looked her up and down as much as possible and couldn't help thinking that Klaus could've done better.

Jeremy spoke up behind me and asked for a coke whilst Bonnie ordered a lemonade. My eyes stopped scanning her, saying, "I'll have a vodka. Straight. Thanks, dearie."

She nodded at our requests and went to get our order moving away from us, leaving us free to speak.

Jeremy broke the silence with a sigh asking, "Where is this apparent hunk? I'm beginning to believe you imagined him."

Bonnie laughed at his dig and covered her mouth with her hand after noticing me looking at her. I rolled my eyes at her and responded with a smirk, "Patience is a virtue, darling, and he is plenty real, trust me."

Bonnie rolled her eyes at my sexual innuendo whilst Jer smirked.

Jeremy was about to say something but stopped after hearing a smoother than whiskey voice. The British voice said, "Well if it isn't my darling angel."

A smile made its way onto my face. I turned around to the voice and saw the sexy British vampire, that is, Enzo.

He wrapped his muscular arms around me, making me melt into his arms. I looked at him, feeling his arm hanging loosely around my midriff. I couldn't help the massive smile still on my face and asked, "How have you been, my love?". He brushed a stray hair away from my face, pulled it behind my ears and ran his fingers down my cheekbone, making me shiver.

He smiles at my reaction and says, "I've been good but waiting for you has been torture, angel. I've missed you so much". I nod at his response and lean in to kiss him softly, and we quickly depart after hearing a cough that obviously was from Bonnie.

I step forward with Enzo's arm around me and introduce them. "Bonnie meet my boyfriend, Enzo. Enzo meet my best friend, Bonnie. Jeremy meet my boyfriend. Enzo meet my other boyfriend, Jeremy". Bonnie laughs at the end. Enzo steps away and shakes both hands, and Jeremy and Enzo stare at each other weirdly.

They surprise me by laughing and having a bro hug. Enzo pulls away and says, "It's lovely to meet you both. Ana speaks highly of both of you. Her witchy best friend and her other cute boyfriend" Jeremy blushes at the compliment, and Bonnie laughs.

Bonnie looks him up and down and says, "It's great to meet you, Enzo. Care is always talking about you."

Enzo laughs and pulls me closer to him and replies, "Well, who wouldn't want to brag about me" this makes the others laugh whilst I roll my eyes and nudge him in the ribs.

Jeremy looks at him and then at me and speaks up, saying, "Well, she definitely was not kidding when she said you were hot. God Care we might have to share". As he says this, he walks over to me and puts his arm around my shoulder, looking at Enzo with a smirk that doesn't fit his boyish features.

Enzo's rich and deep chuckles make me shiver, and he says to Jeremy looking at me briefly, "We might have too, love."

Cami interrupted the soon-to-be heated conversation with our drinks.

We all walked over to where Enzo was previously sitting at a square table with four chairs, one for each guest. We sat down and started talking, and the others acquainted themselves further.

I was finishing the last sip of my vodka when Bonnie told Enzo with a serious voice, "You know, Care has been there for me ever since I was kid. She would pick me up when I fell, help me if I didn't know how to do a math question. She helped me come into my powers and not be afraid of my heritage and to love myself. She's my best friend so if you hurt her I will make Patrick Bateman look like a amateur."

Enzo chuckles with a smile, looks into Bonnie's eyes, and says, "She saved me physically and mentally; she's my angel and I will protect her. I would never hurt her." His eyes stray to mine near the end, and I smile softly, giving him a nod. He grabs my hand, squeezes it, pulls our connected hands up and kisses his.

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We went back to laughing and talking until Sophie, the waitress interrupted us, who had a notepad in her hand. She asked for our orders. Jeremy ordered pancakes, and Enzo just ordered another bourbon on the rocks and vodka for me, which I nodded at him for. Bonnie ordered eggs and bacon.

"I'll get the gumbo, dearie. Someone I know said it was to die for." I said with a mischievous smile, handing the menu to her. Our hands briefly touched, which made me automatically narrow my eyes at the contact but with the new tense silence.

She probably felt my aura. I wonder what it looks like...

Sophie tensely smiles, nervously looks around the bar at me, and quietly says, "You best get out of here before he comes."

Her ominous voice puts me on edge, and she quickly packs the menus up and leaves.

Jeremy awkwardly laughs and says, "What in the sevens hells was up with that chick?"

Bonnie looks at me with a scared expression, but I place my hand over hers and rub it, giving her comfort. I look at Enzo, who looks tense, and he nods at me. I look around the place and see someone staring at us intensely. I nod my head discreetly to Enzo at the person, and he scowls.

I look at Jeremy, give him a smile, and say softly, "Don't worry, just a miscommunication. Let's just wait for the food, eat and leave. We have lots to do and see."

He nods, and the conversation begins anew on the topic of the dopplewhore. The others were briefing Enzo on their lives and current events. I sat there quietly, listening to the others with a thin smile and waitied.

Our food arrived, we ate fairly quickly, and the gumbo was surprisingly good. We got up, and the others left when I went to Camille to pay for the food and drinks.

Camille was again cleaning a random glass and smiled when she saw me and asked, "Hey, you guys finished? Was it good?"

I nodded and replied, "Yes, we are. Thank you. The food was delectable."

Camille laughs, making me frown; why was this blonde laughing at me?

Camille saw my frown, stopped laughing, and replied awkwardly, "Who uses the word delectable these days? You sound old."

My mouth turned into a tight line, and I narrowed my eyes and said, "My, how rude people are these days."

Camille straightened up and apologized, making me nod. I handed over a bunch of bills making Camille's eyes widen. Camille asked another stupid question again, donning a smirk. "I wondered if that hot brit with black hair was single."

I glared at her and replied, "No, he's my boyfriend."

Camille just chuckles and says, "Oh, sorry. What about the other guy?"

I roll my eyes and say, "No, he's also my boyfriend, and he's 15."

Camille's eyes widen again, and she gapes at me and hesitantly, "You have two boyfriends? You also look older than him."

I glare at her again and tell her, "Never comment on a lady's age, and it's really not your business but yes. They are both my boyfriends. I believe in polyamory relationships and monogamy doesn't have to be the norm. You can love whoever you want and however many people you want".

I walk away after speaking and walk into Jeremy's arms, and we depart but not before glaring at the figure who was previously looking at us during brunch.

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Timeskip ~ Later that Night

I was on my way to the apartment carrying bags full of groceries. The others were already there, getting ready for dinner. We had gone to some tourist hotspots earlier today and brought souvenirs.

It was great seeing everyone getting along, especially Enzo and Jeremy. Bonnie was having fun, too, with all the open supernatural lore, even if most of it was simple things for the tourists. As I walking and my thoughts racing over today, I sensed someone. Someone who I thought I would've seen much earlier, but they were also alone, which surprised me.

"You must be the hot witch girlfriend who makes daylight rings. What are two witches doing here?", a voice rang out into the eerie silence of the street.

I stopped and grinned and turned around slowly. The figure was covered in darkness, and as he walked into the light, I said, "Well. Well. Well, if it isn't the 'King of New Orleans', Marcellus."

I twirled my hair around my index finger while looking him up and down and said with a grin, "Well, Marcellus, I am here for my boyfriend. The very one who told me about his escapades with your little vampire servants. I wouldn't mess with him if I was you. He's been hold up for a while, and I don't think he appreciates young vampires trying to attack him."

Marcellus narrows his eyes at my carefree act and says, "Hmm, I'll remember that but you didn't answer my question, witch. How do you know that name? Tell me before I kill you, slowly."

I narrow my eyes at his pathetic threat and stop twirling my strand of hair. I slowly circle him and tell him, "You know I do admire you somewhat. Form a slave boy to a king. How well you've done for yourself now, you've taken out anyone who could hurt or even destroy your rule. But you best remember your origins, boy. I'm more powerful than you, so I would watch your tongue and never, ever threaten me again unless you want me to strangle you with your own intestines." I finish as I stop right in front of him, caressing his neck. He tenses us and glares at my touch and threat.

I grin at him and say coldly, "That's how you threaten someone. Tsk tsk, didn't dear old Niklaus not teach you right?"

His eyes turn fearful, and he quickly looks around as if the big bad would appear by just saying his name. I laugh at his response and tell him, "Chuck. No need to be scared, dearie. Niklaus isn't the dark one."

He straightens up and quickly replies, "Of course not. How do you know anything about my origins? Did Klaus send you? Does he know about me?"

I chuckle and respond, giving him a mischievous grin, "Clam down, dearie. He doesn't know yet, but he will. You best look out for yourself, dearie. Because before you know it. The Big Bad Wolf will huff, puff, and blow, down your kingdom. And this time, you won't get away with it."

I pick up my discarded groceries and turn around and walk off. He interrupts me and asks a question, "Who are you?"

I stop and turn my head to the left and tell him, "Anastasia Raven. A pleasure, I'm sure" with that, I walk off to the apartment.

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As I walk into the apartment, I hear laughter which brings a smile. I walk into the kitchen, place the bags on the counter, and feel the looming presence of Enzo. I feel his hands encase my stomach, pulling me into a hug. My back lies firmly against his chest, and warmth reaches me to the core. I simply melt into him.

It's been too long.

I turn around in his arms, drape my arms around his neck, and lean in to kiss him. We kiss passionately, and my back nudges against the countertop. We fight for dominance, and I am about to win, but Enzo hoists me up onto the counter, making me gasp, and he quickly takes control.

After a while, I lean and rest my forehead against his, just basking in his presence. I look into his dark brown eyes and smile. I step out of his arms, walk across the kitchen to the door, lean on the door frame, and look up at him.

I smile at him and slowly back into our room and say, "Well, are you coming?

He nods eagerly like a kid and follows me in.

I sat on the bed waiting for him. I take my heels off, leaving with a happy and appreciative moan. He stands in the doorway, watching me with a grin. He walks in, gets closer to me, and watches as I take my coat off. He runs his eyes up and down my form, making me shiver from the dark and lusty look. He says to me, "God, somehow you look even hotter than the day you saved me. I've been gone too long".

I stare into his eyes and reply cheekily, "I know. You shouldn't have left me at Mystic Falls with all those teenagers' eyes on me."

Enzo grunts and pushes me down into the bed, and I let him take control for once. Enzo hovers over me, plays with my hair, pushing it away from my face, and whispers lovingly, "My angel".

Enzo kisses down my neck slowly and sensually, making me let out a soft moan. He kisses down my collarbone, nipping at the skin every now and then. He slowly makes his way down my chest, looks up into my eyes, and pulls down my shirt. He keeps eye contact, and he nibbles and sucks at my nipple. He rolls the other one between his calloused hand and pinches it making me gasp and moan.

I close my eyes, lying in bliss as my boyfriend kisses and sucks my body. After he pulls on my nipple, I open my eyes, making me arch my back in pleasure and pain. Movement at the door makes my eyes flicker to it.

I see Jeremy at the doorway watching, and I nod my head at him, and he walks in. He sits on the chair near the window next to us and would have a great view of the action.

Enzo's eyes flicker to Jeremy and grin as his eyes lower to Jeremy bulging hard on. Enzo's eyes focus on me again, and he softly kneads my breast and switches to the other, sucking it. Enzo runs his hands up and down my side and squeezes my hip.

He trails his tongue up my chest to the left side of my collarbone. He kisses up and down my neck and starts sucking on my sweet spot. A spot he loves paying attention to and one that makes me realize what he was about to do. He nips at the skin, making me groan at the light pressure.

He sinks his fangs into the spot, making me moan and arch my back off the bed. He begins feeding off my neck, making me a moaning mess. My eyes move to Jeremy's concerned ones, and I grin at him, making him realize it is fine, and he grins at me.

My eyes trail down his body, and I realize his hand is moving quickly up and down his dick. He was jerking off while watching us.

I knew he had a voyeurism kink.

Enzo's fangs slowly loosen, and he leans back away from my bloody neck. The bite still oozes out blood, and he laps the stray drops running down my neck, pooling in the shallow spots of my collarbone down my cleavage. It was a bloody sight, but it turned Jeremy on as I watched him quicken his speed.

I could hear the groans coming from his mouth. Enzo was lapping up the blood down my chest while keeping eye contact with Jeremy, making me moan. Jeremy was reaching his limit and quickly exploded into his hand, making me groan at his trail of moans.

Enzo pulled away as he finished licking all the blood off my chest, and he kissed me passionately and hard I could taste my blood on his lips.

I slowly got up and made my way over to Jeremy, breathing raggedly. I sank to my knees slowly and trailed my hands up his legs to his thighs, squeezing them lightly.

I brought his glistening hand to my mouth and lapped up the cum greedily. I kept eye contact as I trailed my tongue up to his finger and sucked lightly on it, making him groan, "God, your such a whore".

I smirked around his fingers, and my other hand went to his dick and gave it a small squeeze making him gasp at the sudden contact. I brought his hand down and out of my mouth and paid attention to his throbbing dick. I leaned in and trailed my tongue from the bottom to the top, bobbing my mouth tightly around his dick. I pulled back with a pop and continued licking it clean and moaning at the taste.

I pulled away, sat on my knees, looked up at him, and sensually said, "Thanks for the meal."

He grinned at the comment, pulled me up by the neck, and kissed me. He groaned as he tasted himself, making me grin into the kiss. He pulled away as he heard Bonnie's yells, "Stop fucking and come cook dinner!"

I lean back and chuckle, peaking Jeremy on the lips and saying, "Go clean come babe and come help cook after". He groans in annoyance, looking down at his slightly clean but messy state. I walked away and up to Enzo, who was still watching us with his damn smirk of his.

He pulls me in with a kiss, and we get lost in each other after Jeremy pushes us over on the bed and leaves with a laugh. I laugh, peck Enzo on the lips, and finally, I leave him on the bed with a smile.

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I watched Jeremy and Enzo cook dinner together and bonded, which made me smile. I was sitting behind the kitchen counter drinking wine whilst Bonnie was playing a new vinyl she brought earlier today. She was excited when she saw a vinyl record player in the apartment and demanded we bring new records because apparently Frank Sinatra or The King, Elvis Presley, was not New Orleans music.

The boys were cooking fettuccine with pesto alfredo sauce and were arguing about how many pine nuts to add. It was a funny sight, a vampire and human arguing over something as simple as dinner.

Enzo turned around after hearing my chuckles and shook his head at me.

"Don't just sit and laugh at us and come help?" he said

I laughed, got up, and held my wine glass as I walked over to the cupboard, grabbing the dinner plate chargers. I began to set the tables, and Bonnie came over to help. It was a human moment that made me realize the type of life we could have if we didn't have soon-to-be supernatural drama to handle.

I wouldn't let anyone jeopardize our happy lives, even if I had to kill everyone that stood in my way. My family would be safe.

Somehow Bonnie could sense my thoughts were away from me and looked up at me, squeezed my shoulder in comfort and smiled. Her smile made me come back to focus, and I smiled back.

It was times like this that made me think of Aisha. Bonnie and she are so similar it's scary; they would make great friends if Aisha were alive. I knew Bonnie thought she was lesser than Aisha, but that wasn't the case. They were similar but so different it was similar to how Damon described Katherine and Elena.

Sure they looked similar but had their differences which are where they shined. Bonnie was soft and very caring, which is where her selflessness shined and could be seen as naïve, but that wasn't the case. Bonnie was soft, yes, but she wasn't naïve. She took the saying "fool me once, shame on you but fool me twice, shame on me" quite literally. Bonnie wouldn't allow someone to take advantage of her. She could be villainous when it came to or when her loved ones were in danger.

But Aisha was downright villainous at times. She was a lot like Katherine, sexy and seductive, and she knew the power she had over me and took advantage of it, which Bonnie never does for simple things. Aisha was very complicated, selfish, and not kind at times, but she could be loving when the time calls for it. Ultimately, they were very different, and I shouldn't call them similar.

I entered the kitchen to fill my glass and see if the boys were done with dinner. I walked in and saw Enzo behind Jer, running his hand up Jeremy's back slowly, and heard him say, "that was hot what you did in there."

I just watched their interactions, and it was cute seeing Jeremy being flustered. I walked past and told Enzo, "Stop teasing him, darling". Enzo huffed, making Jer smile, and Enzo kissed his cheek, leaving Jeremy even more flustered. I just laughed and filled Bonnie's, and I glasses up with wine and got Enzo a glass of whiskey and Jer a glass of rum and coke, mainly coke.

We all sat down and ate dinner as a family; laughter occupied the room more than we did. It was moments like these that made me happy I was alive.

After dinner, we watched Hocus Pocus to get in the Halloween mood since All Hollow's Eve was tomorrow. I was cuddling Enzo on the couch, and Jer was sitting on the floor with his back on our couch. Bonnie fell asleep and cuddled up to the couch pillow.

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so sorry about the wait but the anticipated chapter is here!!

i'm splitting the chapter, don't worry the next part will be out soon.

I'm trying to flesh the characters out more and to see their relationship dynamics with each other because I don't want this story to just be about care/ana but about all of them. I feel jer and enzos relationship is going a bit fast but enzo knows everything about jer from ana so there's a deeper bond on his side and he's a vampire, so he doesn't take his time. Jer just wants to be included and experiment because he is bi in this story and he does actually like enzo – who wouldn't.

again if you want to see a scene or something tell me. if there's any errors tell me too i won't take offense lol

quick question: do we like Jer or Jeremy or something else. i need some nicknames!!

also should i bring aisha back??

edit: aisha won't be coming back!

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