Bonnie woke up and touched her neck, she was sure she could still feel the heavy bite, but her skin deceived her as it was still smooth, like she was never attacked at all. She now knew the truth about it all from Elena, but it was hard to understand all at once.

Of course once she had begun to accept that she was a witch she had started to consider the possibility of other supernatural beings existing, but this was all too soon.

Bonnie was unconsciously stroking the place on her neck while deep in thought. She could no longer consider herself human, and now she had two more people to add to the list? Bonnie was quite disturbed that she could now seen in the same category as that animal though, that beast which was probably the cause of all the "animal attacks" that had been happening recently. Bonnie wondered how much humanity could really be left in the two brothers. Stephen was able to show empathy, and was quite caring towards Elena, though she felt that even with the fact that he had revealed he was a vampire, there were still many more secrets hidden away in his sunken eyes. On the other hand, Damon, was animalistic, psychotic and manipulating, a much more realistic portrayal of what a vampire was, a monster-something to be afraid of. Bonnie shuddered to think all the horrible things Damon had done to her friend Caroline, and those even less fortunate. Caroline had been continually assaulted by Damon, while still she still craved his existence; he was an animal, a thoughtless heartless animal. He was the first real embodiment of evil Bonnie had encountered in her short life, and everyone in mystic falls was his prey. Bonnie realized her hand was still up against her neck, with a deep sigh she released her hand. This conscious movement made her think back to Damon's attack on her own body, she could not help but think of those pitless black eyes glaring at her and his jagged fangs baring down on her neck, she winced at the memory, her body had been frozen in place, she could do nothing to stop her aggressor. The grotesque image of the vampire was fixed behind her eyelids. Bonnie never wanted to be in such a position again, she did not want to be helpless.

Bonnie shuddered at that idea that she could become a vampire in the next couple of days due to Stephan's blood in her system, well as long as she didn't die she would be okay, and she'd been doing that for at least 17 years right?

Still sitting in bed Bonnie drew herself slowly out of these dark thoughts. It was 7:30 am. and she needed to get dressed and return the normal schedule of things in order not to arouse suspicion from her Gran or anyone else for that matter. For now, she would surrender and ignore the evil that she learned of but she promised herself, once she felt strong enough she would rid Mystic Falls of him forever. With this decision in place, Bonnie got up, got dressed and tried to pretend that she wasn't in the middle of a grave turning point in her life.

"Rise and shine pumpkin, you're almost late." Grams said while softly knocking on the door.

"It's alright I'm ready!" Bonnie said while trying to not let her voice waiver.

"Is something wrong sugar?" Her grandmother answered while opening her bedroom door.

Shit, Bonnie thought to herself, her grandmother was fucking psychic also how was she going to hide this from her? Bonnie felt her Grandmother's gaze boring into her. At that moment, Bonnie's phone rang loudly, interrupting anything Bonnie's grandmother was about to say.

"Sorry, Grams gotta take this" Thank you, Elena, Bonnie thought silently to herself, as she rushed passed her grandmother while answering Elena's call.

"Hi Elena, um... what is it you wanted to talk to me about?"

"Hey Bonnie, I need to talk about yesterday and uhh... I'm thinking maybe we could skip a class or two?" Bonnie was silent for a moment, and answered a struggled "yeah" to her friend. Bonnie then hung up the phone and proceeded to leave for school.

"What was that about honey?" Grams asked sweetly. Bonnie bit her lip, she could not lie to her grandmother.

"Umm, nothing Elena just wanted to talk to me, she's having some problems" Grams searched her granddaughter's face, and gave a satisfied sigh.

"I hope that she will be able to get through her problems" Grams said, while giving an all knowing nod. Just how much Grams knew Bonnie could never be sure. With that, Bonnie turned to leave shutting the front door behind her.

As Bonnie walked to school, she thought more about what Elena would exactly be wanting to talk about. She hoped maybe Elena would tell her it was all a bad dream, maybe she would tell her that Damon and Stephan had left, and maybe even better that the supernatural world did not exist, and she was normal, and no one had died from animal attacks it was all just some sick joke.

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Bonnie got to school, and instead of going inside like the other students she cut into the forest to meet Elena in their designated meeting place. They didn't cut class often but over the years the two friends had found themselves drawn to this particular clearing in the forest and soon after it became their unspoken meeting place. While walking in the forest Bonnie took in her surroundings, she was surprised that she was still able to find any sort of comfort in the damp smell of the forest. The leaves were in the midst of falling and she was surrounded in a myriad of colour. As Bonnie approached the clearing she could see Elena's huddled form sitting quite still on a dead log. Bonnie approached Elena and placed a kind hand on her shoulder. Elena looked up slowly, Bonnie studied he friends face, Elena's eyes were sunken and were ringed with dark circles, and she realized that her friend had probably not gotten a lot of sleep.

"Hey..." Bonnie said softly. She let her hand fall away from Elena's shoulder.

"Hey" Elena gave a relieved smile. She lifted herself off the log in order to be eye level with Bonnie. Elena put her hands on Bonnie shoulders and lightly squeezed. "We have to do something" She said finally. "I've known Stephan and Damon's secret for the past few weeks but I have had no one to talk to, and I felt helpless before you found out." Bonnie searched her friends face for some sort of answer she breathed out softly.

"I am here now, what should we do?" Bonnie cautiously placed her hand over Elena's. Elena's face darkened.

"I talked to Stephan, the vampires that you were supposed to release yesterday can still get out with the right power, and with Damon still alive it's only a matter of time before he finds a way to release them. Stephan says he'll help us but I think that if anyone has a chance at killing any vampires in this town it's you. Yesterday when Emily controlled your body, you did-you could do so many things..."

Bonnie bit her lip; she was gripped by fear at the prospect of soon facing her aggressor. She couldn't say anything.

"I know, I know he attacked you and youre scared but if we don't do anything no one will, Stephan will never be a match for Damon unless he drinks human blood, Damon is still very strong he'll never stop." Bonnie nodded solemnly, she was afraid but Elena was right too many people had died, and Bonnie might just have the power to stop him. Bonnie opened her mouth slowly trying to form the right words.

"How do we stop a vampire?"

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Please review if you enjoyed it, I will be sure to update ASAP. The title is from Tyger, Tyger by William Blake. The characters do not belong to me.