Playing Cupid
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Sarah: just a little fanfic for Valentine's Day. Hope you enjoy.
DISCLAIMER
I only own what I write as I write it. Everything else belongs to someone else.
WARNINGS
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE! Rated M for my sanity, not that I have any. Beware of Elena bashing Stefan.
SUMMARY
Bonnie sees just how unhappy Elena is as Stefan's girlfriend and just how happy Damon makes her. So she decides to give her friend a little magical help as her gift to Elena for Valentine's Day. She still may not entirely trust Damon in everything, but the witch knows she can trust him to make Elena happy. So she decides to play Cupid with a little true love spell she found in Emily's grimiore. She just forgot to read the warnings her ancestress wrote about the side-effects before she cast the spell. Oops? Damon/Elena
Chapter 1
Watch Those Arrows, Cupid
Bonnie sighs as she flips through Emily's grimiore, looking for the spell she had seen the other day. She should have tagged it because it would be damn useful right now. She remembers that the ingredients are a strand of hair from both people she wants to cast it on tied in a knot. Well, getting Elena's hair was easy. She just grabbed one from Elena's brush last time she was in her friend's room and wrapped it in a bit of wax paper. But getting Damon's hair proved more of a challenge. Damon doesn't trust her and on most things she doesn't trust him either. But when it comes to making Elena happy, Bonnie trusts Damon unconditionally to manage that. So she had snuck into the boarding house, located Damon's room, and took a hair from his comb while the brothers were out.
You might be wondering what she's planning on doing. She had seen a true love spell in Emily's grimiore a few days ago and had decided to use it to give Elena a magical Valentine's Day present. She knows that Damon loves Elena unconditionally whereas Stefan doesn't like the flashes of the real Elena that Damon's been drawing out. No matter how many times those who've grown up with Elena tell Stefan that those flashes are a peek at who she was before the crash that killed her parents, he still believes that those flashes are signs that Damon is corrupting her. And it's making Elena miserable because she's being forced to play a role that she's no longer suited for just to please Stefan. And Bonnie's had it. She knows Elena has very strong feelings for Damon, quite likely even loves him as much as he loves her. So the witch doesn't understand why Elena is making herself miserable by sticking to the brother who doesn't truly love her. Because unless you can accept all sides of a person, you can't truly love them. But Bonnie's determined to use a little magic to make Elena see that Damon is more than willing to make her eternally happy. Because Damon is more than willing to turn Elena so that he can be with her forever. And Bonnie is more than willing to make Elena a daylight ring if it means she'll be with the man – okay, the vampire – that makes her happy like no one else ever has.
"Found it," Bonnie says as she finally finds the spell. She figures that since it's a true love spell, the side-effects can't be too serious. So she skips reading them and goes on to the spell. "Okay. 'Tie the hairs together in a knot in the middle without breaking them. Using magic is advised for this step'," she reads. "Very well then." She pulls out the two bits of wax paper out of her pocket and unwraps the hairs. She uses her magic to carefully tie the hairs together in a knot in the middle, just as the spell calls for. She then reads the next step. "'Put the hairs in a small glass bowl.' Good thing I thought to get one," she tells herself, putting the hairs carefully in the small glass bowl she had grabbed before getting out the grimiore. "Now, what's next? 'Begin casting the spell. A fire will start in the bowl as you cast, burning the hairs. Once the spell is completed, the fire will go out and the hairs will be gone. The spell will be permanent at that point, binding the two the hairs belong to together forever.' Well, that's good. I don't want Stefan ever stealing her back from her happiness with Damon," Bonnie says. She begins chanting the spell. Just like the grimiore warned, a fire – a purely red fire – starts burning the hairs in the bowl. As the spell progresses, the hairs burn faster and faster. With a final shouted word, the fire extinguishes itself and the hairs are gone. "There we go. Happy Valentine's Day, Elena and Damon," Bonnie says with a smile. "My gift to you two is each other." She decides to check the warnings just for the heck of it. As she reads, her eyes widen in shock and her skin turns ashen. Finally she sighs. "Things are going to be very interesting from here on," she says softly. "At least Elena will be happy."
What were the warnings, you ask?
Think carefully before casting this spell. I did not realize the consequences until it was too late. The two I tied together with this spell became so devoted to each other that any outsider trying to get between them was viciously repelled by both parties, even if the outsider had been courting one of them prior to this spell. If the outsider continued to attempt to get in a relationship with one of the two tied together by this spell, the repelling attempts grew more and more vicious until the outsider was taken out of the picture permanently by the one they were trying to court. The girl who had asked for this spell to tie her to the man she truly loved had been in a relationship that was upsetting to her with another man. The man who had been courting her that she did not want was so persistent in his attempts to get her back that she one day took a kitchen knife and carved his heart from his chest. And this from a girl who had never been able to hurt another living being. When she was through carving out her old lover's heart, she told me that she only regretted that he would not listen to the warnings she and her 'mate' made before he forced her hand. So be very careful when casting this spell lest my carelessness be repeated.
Things are going to be very interesting from here on is indeed the case.