The Vampire Diaries V:
The Morrigan
by
Damon's luv Bunny
Disclaimer: the Vampire Diaries and all characters connected with it are the property of L. J. Smith. Any characters that you don't recognize are the property of me, the Celtic Vampire Bunny (Bunny, Bonnie, same dif. What? I'm not the 1st person to live vicariously through her, you all have the hotts for Damon or you wouldn't be reading this! Get that straightjacket away from me!!), unless otherwise noted.
Rating: Hmm, well I'd say PG-13. Nothing in that rating so far, but there will eventually be some swearing and some intimate scenes, though how intimate I don't know yet. And of course there will be violence, and possibly a character death. Depends on my mood.
Summery: Everyone has baggage, whether it's from this lifetime, or the one before it. Bonnie and her friends have finally managed to get on with their lives when an old enemy tracks down its prey and takes vengeance on them all. Is it just me or did that summery suck?
Feedback: Oh god yes. I love feedback. I need feedback. Feedback is right up there with chocolate.
A/N: The only difference in this version is this section with the disclaimer and junk. This was what I was originally gonna post but I wanted to see if you guys liked it first or I wouldn't have bothered to continue. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, I know, but then I am a little nuts so it's no big surprise. Oh and I did change 1 line of Damon's. If you wanna read through this just for that, go ahead. But I don't think you'll miss much if you don't.
Prologue
The End of the Beginning
Bonnie watched the others as they danced around celebrating Elena's rebirth. She was happy. She really was. But the events of the night and everything leading up to it had finally caught up with her and she just wanted to go home, take a nice warm bath, and sleep for a thousand years. As she leaned back, hands bracing herself against the forest floor, she noticed a dark shape moving off through the woods. Damon, she reminded herself. Casually, she got up and walked over to where she last saw him. Looking around for any sign of him, she carefully made her way deeper into the woods. Suddenly she felt a presence behind her.
"Any particular reason why you are following me Bonnie?"
Bonnie turned toward him, mind fumbling for an answer. Why had she followed him out of the clearing? "I just, uh, wanted to make sure you were o... k." God that sounded bad, even to her.
He quirked an eyebrow at her, dark eyes looking directly into her own, face completely expressionless. Then, after what seemed like an eternity of silence, " I've been better." He walked passed her into the woods.
"So what that's it?" he paused. "You were just going to leave without saying goodbye to me-" SHIT "- t-to any of us?"
He turned back to her then, eyes searching her own. He took a breath, "You could come with me."
Well, I definitely did not see that one coming. She looked at him a bit skeptically, "You're kidding me, right?"
"Do I look like I'm kidding?"
What was she supposed to say to this? He was asking her to leave Fells Church, her home. Everyone and everything she loved was here. Where did he get off asking her something like this?
"Well cara?"
"I can't. It's not that I don't want to. I mean it would be interesting to say the least but-"
"Save it Bonnie," he cut her off abruptly. "I don't need you to 'let me down easy'. I can take it." His face remained more or less expressionless, but there was tension in his jaw, like he was holding something back.
"Eretto," Bonnie muttered angrily under her breath.
"What did you just call me?"
"Nothing," Bonnie replied, putting on her most innocent expression.
"You did not just call me a prick." Damon said slowly, voice low and menacing
Bonnie knew somewhere in the back of her mind that the look he was giving her just now clearly said 'piss-me-off-and-I'll-snap-your-neck', but after tonight, she really didn't care. She had just more or less stood down Klaus; there was no way in hell she was going to let herself be intimidated by this arrogant ass anymore. And so, keeping that sweet innocent look in place, the one that had fooled her closest friend Elena for years (not that she was an overly bright individual), she replied, "Oh you mean just now. Yeah, I called you a prick."
Damon just looked at her, eyes flashing in anger. "Now you listen to me you little-"
But before he could get on a roll, Bonnie cut him off. "Don't take this out on me Salvatore," she snapped. "The way I figure it, if the shoe fits wear it and shut up about it."
"And what the hell is that supposed to mean," he practically yelled.
Bonnie closed her eyes and took a deep breath to try to calm herself down. As much fun as it was to finally be able to get under his skin, it wouldn't do either of them any good to loose their tempers. Especially if this escalated into a yelling match, because that would bring the others, and then nothing would ever get resolved.
Once she was sure of her temper, she spoke. " From the moment you arrived in Fells Church you have done nothing but lust after my best friend. The only interest you've ever shown in me was as a light snack. What right have you to ask me to give up my home, and my life for you when I can't even be sure you'll keep your teeth out of my neck.
"I have spent most of my life being treated like a child, like I was stupid and unimportant in the grand scheme of things. I let people get by with it because it made it easier for me, I don't like confrontations. I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong to do so. But it's over now, I've ran the gauntlet and I'm still here. I am not going to end this by going off to be your new sex toy. If you want some innocent little thing to treat like shit, don't come to me cause I am way out of your league. God, I don't even know why I came after you."
Damon said nothing as she chewed him out; he just looked at her, face completely expressionless. The silence stretched on for what seemed like hours until finally, unable to stand his piercing gaze any longer, Bonnie turned away from him and began to make her way home. It was gonna be a long walk, but it was either walk or go back to the clearing and wait for the others to stop prancing around, and god only knew how long that could take. They'd looked like they were on a caffeine high when she left.
She had only gone a few feet when Damon called out to her. ~Bonnie~, his voice whispered softly in her mind. Gathering the little Power she had left she focused her mind on Damon's. ~What do you want now? ~ she responded, not bothering to hide her annoyance at having him trespass on her thoughts so callously.
She heard him sigh and knew he was directly behind her. "Well," she said a bit impatiently.
"I wasn't asking you to come with me just for my own amusement. I thought you wanted to. I had assumed from your behavior towards me, that you had feelings for me."
"Oh I see. So what, you thought it would be fun to break me is that it."
"No!! Damnit Bonnie I would never pull something like that. Not with you. How could you even think that?"
Bonnie could hear the hurt in his voice and at that she turned around. He was standing there looking at her almost desperately. It was something she'd never seen coming from him. "After the way you've treated me, how could I not think that," she replied softly.
Damon looked away at her words. "Bonnie I know I haven't treated you kindly, but I also know that it wasn't quite that bad."
"You tried to seduce my blood from me. After all we'd already been through." For the first time he could see how much he'd really hurt her. He decided that in this case it would be best if he came clean.
"That night, outside of Vicki's, I wasn't trying to seduce your blood from you," Damon began a bit hesitantly. "To be perfectly honest I did want your blood but-"
"Bonnie?!?"
"Bonnie where are you?!"
"Ah shit", Damon and Bonnie both said simultaneously.
Looks like the caffeine high finally wore off, thought Bonnie turning towards all the noise. Turning back to Damon, anything she had planned on saying never made it past her lips.
Damon was gone.