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Author note- Iris this all for you so if you don't like this or the start of the story I will delete it and start over…..
Chapter- I need your help
The world once again came crashing down around her…Bonnie felt on the verge of a breakdown the padded room was calling her name, her best friends each now shared a common entity Bonnie had grown to distaste and half-heartedly tolerant.
Katherine had blown into town, Caroline was now undead-Elena was still very much involved with both Salvatore Brothers lives and affairs; and their Bonnie was smack dab right in the middle of this supernatural disaster that she wanted no part of.
The mystic falls carnival left Bonnie Bennett in a strange and unfamiliar position, her best friend was now a vampire, and it was partly her fault.
She set Damon on fire and if it wasn't for Elena reminding her that she wasn't that person she would have killed him and she would've been okay with it and that scares her.
A week after the carnival Bonnie found that life wasn't so black and white and even good people make deals with the devil.
Bonnie sat on the porch as the pale creature in all black approached her steps his beautiful ice blue eyes were intensely trained on her. Damon came to a stop making his way half way up the stairs… he wasn't sure whether he wanted revenge for her sitting him a blaze but that's something he'll think on later.
"What are you doing here?" Bonnie stepped closer to the porch stairs arms crossed. Damon took a step back wary for a moment. "First ground rules… no freaky voodoo mind Jedi tricks, I just wanna talk"
"Well, talk already before I agree to these ground rules."
Damon brought his left foot that was still placed firmly on the step to the porch tightening his jaw he couldn't believe he was about to do this.
"I need your help" Damon rolled eyes his as he said this.
Bonnie shook her head as if she hadn't heard him correctly. "Did you just say you need me?"
"Sadly, yes… you're the only other person besides Stefan, who is strong enough to help me find Katherine and stop her"
"But you love Katherine, so why should I believe you all of sudden want to stop her"
Damon gazed darkened on her as he licked his lips. "Look. Listen all you have to do is use your little witchy powers find her and I'll take it from there"
"No, if I help you we do this together, because I don't trust you"
Damon smirks out of annoyance. "Touché, witch"
Bonnie finally relaxed uncrossing her arms she wanted to kill Katherine for what she did to Caroline. "So when do you wanna start, looking for the slutty ex?"
"I was thinking tonight right now, which means we have to go"
Bonnie frowns rethinking helping him. what if it was trap and he's only going to deliver her to Katherine as a prize.
"Umm, maybe we should-" Bonnie swallows hard when the vampire crowded her personal space his ice blues dug into her seeing the doubt fill in those olive green eyes that played brave.
"Wait, don't be afraid little witch, if I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already"
Damon only stared at her, his threat was callous yet it wasn't cold and his voice was calmed not vicious.
Bonnie's face reminded blank and unfazed at his threat because they've been there done that and frankly she didn't take him seriously some part of her knew he didn't mean it but that he was still capable of it.
"Alright fine let's go" Bonnie shrugged brushing off some of the doubt she was feeling but she needed something form him first. "You have to promise me that, you have my back, and I mean against anyone" Bonnie held out her hand for him to shake it.
Damon smirked. "I promise" Damon says the words with little enthusiasm. "Your suppose to shake my hand, so that I know we have a deal"
"And just for fun, why don't we pinky square, spite in each other's hand and give each other a tap on the ass while we're at it" the sarcasm in his tone was astounding.
Bonnie frowns disgust and annoyed. "You spite in my palm and I'll slap you"
"Oh, Bonnie I love it when we flirt like this"
"I really don't like you" she says dryly.
"You're not the first or only so…don't go feeling all special"
"Do we have a deal and this time make me believe you"
Damon steps closer to her looking her directly in the eyes. "Yes, I'll have your back I'll protect you… you saved my life and I know that wasn't easy for you, so I owe you"
"That includes Katherine, Damon you have to have my back against her too"
Damon swallows hard sighing. "I know"
Bonnie and Damon nod at each other they didn't trust each other but maybe they can learn too.
"So enough with the tender moment, my car or yours" Damon smirked at her with a devilish wink of the eye.
"Mines, definitely mines"
They drive over to where ever the hell Katherine might possibly be. and it was awkward it was the first time they were alone together without any interference, no crowds of people, no Elena or Stefan, it was just them.
The energy in the car could be described as unresolved sexual tension and not just the fact that they could barely stand each other.
Bonnie turns on the radio because the silence is deifying. "Stop that's where were going"
"You do know I'm seventeen"
"Your age is not important, what you say is"
Damon clears his throat. "We're gonna pretend to be a happy couple in love looking for our old friend Katherine, who happens to frequent this Bar."
"I sense a but somewhere in there"
"Tonight your Elena and I am Stefan" Damon broods his brow. "Is this broody enough…do I capture Stefan's tortured look"
Bonnie forces her amusement away stiffing her face from laughter.
"So we pretend to be Stefan and Elena looking for Katherine, which draws her out of hiding sooner "Damon holds his finger up. "Ding, Ding, give the witch a prize… sorry all out of broomsticks" Damon taunts.
Bonnie rolls her green eyes that had a soft golden light reflect every so often especially when her emotions got the best of her.
"Instead of pretending why don't you just compel someone?"
Damon had a flicker of guilt for the kid Caroline killed all because he used compulsion to learn a secret. "Because I'd rather not…end of discussion"
Bonnie and Damon each get out of the car heading for the door.
"alright, act like you love baby" Damon smirked pulling her close. "Don't call me baby" Bonnie walked off head of Damon who trailed closely behind her slapping her ass.
"I see Stefan do stuff like that to Elena all the time, there kinky" Damon smirked at her whispering; Bonnie's scolded eyes burned on him for his childish behavior he was enjoying this too much.
Damon held his head feeling a migraine panting heavily. "So uncalled for" Bonnie shook her head. "I beg to differ"
Bonnie and Damon argue all the way to the front door waving their fingers and insults at each other.
"She's a spite fire isn't she?" The husky guy asked looking at Bonnie like a piece of meat, it was obvious from the stall beer on his breath and grease stains on his shirt that he was quite at home in this bar and that he would also be the perfect person to get information from.
Bonnie grunts turning to the guy. "Hi, I'm Elena and this is…this is my boyfriend Stefan and we're looking for our old friend Katherine, we heard she comes here a lot."
Bonnie said this through gritted teeth while Damon smiled amused with his hand at her waist.
"Well, Kat isn't here right now but she's sure to show up sometime tonight"
Damon nudged Bonnie. "Does she have a specific time she comes?"
The husky man laughs. "She normally blows through here wherever it pleases her"
"Yep, that's Katherine always doing what the fuck she wants and screw everybody else" Damon nostrils were flared his love and hate for her was pushing through.
So Bonnie elbows him.
"Thank you" Damon and Bonnie went inside his hand still at her waist. "You can move your hand now."
"But it's grown so attached" He did that eye-brow thing he did when he flirted.
Bonnie smiled a giddy smile faking excitement. "Either remove it yourself or lose it permanently"
His charm does not work on her, and that's something he simply cannot understand. "There's an empty table." Damon pulled the young witch closer she was catching the eyes of half the men in the bar and he was feeling protective.
He pulled out the chair closest to the wall leading to the adjacent restrooms it put her out of view of most of the sleaze balls who couldn't keep their eyes off her.
What she was wearing didn't help the sheer-black spaghetti strap tank top that hovered slightly above her happy trail only made worse by her low rise skin tight midnight indigo colored jeans that made the men thank God and her parents for her being born.
Damon exhaled heavily he was man after all. "You should really learn to ware more less fitting clothes"
"I'm not a nun Damon …and what's wrong with what I got on?"
Damon shrugs."Nothing, it's just that it's not appropriate for a place like this…especially with guys like them"
Damon looks out at the crowd of shifty guys who were averting there gaze from him as they peaked at the beautiful girl in his company.
Bonnie ignored the man and Damon's obvious discomfort about them ogling her. "What finally made you want to go after Katherine?" she was curious about his motives.
"Revenge of course, the bitch broke my heart so I wanna rip out hers….is that what you wanna hear"
"You would have to have a heart in order for someone to break it" Bonnie pouted her lips at him condescendingly.
Damon fake laughs. "Funny, you're so hee-lirious, she deserves to have her slutty, manipulative bitchy heart ripped out and stomped on." his voice honest and not sarcastic as the words flew from them.
Bonnie saw from his soft and hardened features that she really did a number on him, Damon's love for Katherine was no excuse and it excuses none of his actions just because he did them all in the name of love but she could see a little of herself in Damon, when it's come to some of her on self-destructive choices and actions especially against him.
And as Bonnie made this realization she checked back into the conversation. Damon was going on and on about how is father loved Stefan more, or How Katherine only blew back into town to get the saintly Stefan back, oh and mostly importantly how Elena doesn't want him… and while he babblers on Bonnie thinks the Elena/Katherine situation he brought on himself for Pete sakes man go after someone who's not with your brother first.
"God your whiny" Bonnie rolled her eyes interrupting his spew. Damon leaned in inches from her mouth closing the space in between them with his body. "Am whiny, Am whiny" Damon asked looking at her like she was crazy.
"That's what I just said, you just go on, on, about this person doesn't love me yada, yada" Damon interrupted. "Well at least I know how to express myself, I don't go around setting people on fire, when life gets to hard" Damon mocked.
"No you just murder them, and that was one time" she threw her hands up in defense whining.
Damon shrugs licking his lips. "Guilty I kill, but you still set me fire?"
"I apologize, but you kind of deserved it, you were being an ass" Bonnie pouts innocently.
He looks at her finally seeing past the visage of the unbreakable strength that she hid behind in order to protect herself from the likes of people like him, monsters who only want what they want and be damned anybody else.
Damon blinks wildly at her. "We should eat while we wait for my slutty ex, you like ribs right"
"I love ribs" she smiles at Damon amazingly this shocks them both because he smiles back.
Bonnie distastes Damon he knows this but what she doesn't know is that he didn't know what he felt towards her; it wasn't hate or love or tolerance but it was something. She was something.