Call Me Heartless
"Marry him.", they said.
"It's just a decoy.", they said.
"If it works,", they said, "maybe you won't even get to the 'I do's."
Fuck you, she thought.
Then she remembered Ryan - the fucker who won't stop otherwise - so she said "okay".
"Why would he come here?", she asks, "Why would he care if I was marrying someone? I thought Ryan never gave a fuck."
Stefan shrugs, "About us, no.", he says, "But he always wanted your power, Bonnie. And for all he knows, you're marrying a wizard."
She snorts, "Scared I'm going to lose some magic, isn't he?", she says, remembering the traditions.
Damon joins them as they laugh, "Good thing you're not marrying a wizard, then."
She then remembers she's 'marrying' a soul-less idiot and she stops laughing.
"Tell them to start the ceremony, Jer.", Caroline says, "I can smell the fucker five miles away."
Jeremy nods with a smirk, "Remind me to thank Katerina when I see her.", he says as he leaves, putting his ring on, just to be safe, "She sure knows how to spread the word."
Caroline shakes her head and a laugh escapes her lips.
"Until death do us part.", she spits it out like venom as she uses her magic to make the room go wild, making the impression of tieing the magic together. The guests start going crazy in amazement as if on queue (well, to be frank, they were compelled) and soon blue flames fill the room.
Her flames aren't blue.
She grabs Damon's hand tightly and he returns a reassuring grasp back. He nods and she counts to three before falling to the floor. Damon throws the stake in the direction behind her and she hears a loud choke. When she steals a glance back, her eyes widen in horror. The last thing she sees is Ryan's eyes begin to glass up as he falls to the floor, the stake lodged right in his heart. Caroline and Katherine run to his body and start tearing it to shreds, Jeremy prepares the fire and Stefan takes the compelled people out.
She isn't prepared for so much blood.
(Damon holds her tight and for a moment she forgets that she hates him.)
She wakes up in screams. In front of her eyes she relives it all over again and tears fall down her cheeks. She uses her hand to cover her mouth, to prevent her sobs from waking up her dad. Suddenly, she feels someone's hand taking her own and she almost screams.
"Hush, witchy.", Damons says, his voice low, "Back to bed."
She doesn't question him, but simply falls back down into her bed as he covers her with the sheets. He falls into bed next to her and she grips to his shirt as if to reassure her this isn't a dream, but a reality. A reality where Ryan is dead. Where he can't hurt her anymore.
"Thank you.", she whispers and Damon kisses her temple in return.
He spends a month by her side until the nightmares die down.
Then he spends two more because he can't make himself leave.
(Then, he's all out of reasons so he doesn't make them and he just stays.)
(She can't remember why, but she kept the ring.)
A.N.: I know this piece doesn't really make sense, but I've been having trouble putting my ideas on paper. Please, bear with me. I have a few other Bonnie/Damon pieces up, too, so you can go and read that. I've been told they're okay. Definitely better than this, for sure. Also, I just really enjoy calling Katherine 'Katerina'. I just love the way it rolls off your tongue and it's basically my name, so..