A.N. Just a little story about what may have been Bonnie's mindset during last episode, and an explanation to why she suddenly sided with Shane/Silas.
His voice, deliberately slowed to a soothing murmur, was as sweet as honey. It melted in her ears with a numbing weight, until all she could register was Shane's wordless purr. All his clever little riddles and cryptic clues and enigmas he used to persuade her… all that became nothing but noise, just empty, white noise buzzing in the air.
Because below the noise was his voice and it said trust me and so she did.
Because he spoke the truth. It was so obvious now that Bonnie was astonished she had missed it for this long. All that time before, when she was oh-so suspicious of Shane, all those hours spent plotting with Damon, those long debates on how best to dispatch Shane should the need to do so arise.
Those wasted hours of planning and scheming.
In Shane's voice she sees the answer to all. She sees the solution to the problem she never knew existed.
The Expression Triangle is the key. Silas is the savior. Silas is the king. She understands all now, comprehends the truth.
And the truth pounds through her skull, overwhelming in its sheer, absolute totality. Silas will reign over his new world… a world Bonnie will help deliver to him.
In Shane she grasps at her purpose. She sees now how lost she was before, how empty she was, devoid of purpose. She pities Elena and Stefan and even Klaus, for they are all lost and hollow. They are all bereft of purpose.
Her purpose is Silas. She sees that clearly, now.
Even through the delightful haze of the truth Shane offers, a different sort of understanding stirs inside of her. For as Shane examines her, a slight smile tugging at the corners of his lips, his dark eyes glittering coldly with an unfamiliar confidence and power, something slimy and sick churns in her stomach. A new truth nags at her from deep within, whispering that Shane is not Shane. Shane is Silas.
And with that knowledge, the part of Bonnie Bennett that remains immune to Silas's hypnotic deceit recoils in revulsion and tries to fight against the false-truth he has sown inside her.
But Silas is over two millennia old, and that part is not strong enough to resist that power, concentrated and focused by years of isolation and hatred. And so she accepts the truth he feeds her, and understands what is to come.
Silas will rule the world. He will be emperor-king-regent-ruler-lord-sovereign… and all will kneel.
Because she will make them kneel.