Sorry for the wait but I couldn't think of anything else to write.

The next time that Damon saw little Bonnie she was three years old. He, of course, had kept in tabs on the little girl over the years but this was the first time that he actually got to see the little girl up close. He knew that Bonnie, even at a young age, was not an ordinary child. Her powers started to show early and as a result she got into a lot of trouble. On this particular day her preschool class was on a field trip to the zoo. Bonnie had gotten separated from the rest of her class when two other girls teased her. Bonnie was an easy target; she had bright red hair, was a bit uncoordinated, and it was easy to get her to cry. On this particular day the vicious little brats, as Damon like to call them, were picking on her because of her red hair. She had run off and was now sitting watching the zebras. Her favorite animal, crying for her teacher.

Damon approached her slowly. The last thing that he wanted was to scary her further. He sat down next to her and waited for her to left her head and meet his eyes. "Hello there little bird. Why are you crying?"

Bonnie, haven been taught not to talk to strangers, scooted further away from Damon. "My mommy told me not to talk to strangers." Bonnie said with a forceful shake of her head.

"And your mommy is very wise to teach you that, but I'm not a stranger. I'm Damon. I'm sure your mommy has told you that I am a very special friend." He hoped that Mary had told the little girl about the families own personal guardian angel.

"Mommy said that you're like a knight. You know like the ones who slay the dragons and save the princess." Bonnie smiled up at him.

Oh great this kid now thought that he was the good guy. Didn't she know that he was the old bader Salvatore brother? "More like a dark night. So tell me why aren't you with the rest of the class looking at the animals?"

"I don't want to tell you." Bonnie was ashamed and put her head down. She hated that she was always the one who cried. Sometimes she would wish that something bad would happen to the mean girls, and one time her wish came true and Cassie fell off her bike and broke her and missed all of summer camp. Her mother was very mad at her. Mary told her that they were special that if they wished for something hard enough they sometimes came true. She also warned Bonnie that these wishes had consequences, and that she must never wish harm on another or for personal gain.

"Aren't eye your knight?" Damon tried to reason.

"Yes."

"Then it is my duty to protect you. You can tell me anything." Damon, for good measure, took Bonnie's small hand in his and kissed. Bonnie giggled as Damon bowed his head.

"Okay. Tiffany and Cassie were making fun of my hair again. I tried to tell that them what my mommy told me to say. That it wasn't my fault that I had red hair, and they still laughed calling me ugly. I really wanted to wish them away but mommy told me that I wasn't allowed to do that anymore."

Bonnie started to cry again and Damon hugged her close. Right now he wanted to go and find the little monsters and show them what real fear is. That would have to wait; right now he needed to make sure that Bonnie was safe. "I'll tell you what, why don't I go find your teacher and the two of us will do our own tour of the zoo. We'll have a lot more fun with just the two of us anyway. With his super hearing ability it didn't take him long to locate the teacher. It upset he that the teacher didn't even know that little Bonnie was missing. The women nearly had a heart attack when she saw Bonnie with Damon.

"Bonnie we do not run off and we do not go with strange men." The teacher began to chastise Bonnie before Damon stepped in.

He took the teacher off to the side and compelled her to do exactly as he said. "You are going to let me take Bonnie. I am her uncle Damon and she is going to be perfectly safe with me. Now repeat what I just said." The teacher did what she was told. "When her mother comes to collect her you will tell her that she is with her uncle Damon. Good girl." Damon was about to let the women go when a thought came to him. "You are going to tell me who Tiffany and Cassie are you will tell me where they live." The women did what she was told and Bonnie and Damon watched as the teacher walked back to her class as he and Bonnie left to go on their own.

The two of them had great time together. Damon was surprised at how much he enjoyed the little girl. She was a very sweet kid and she took to Damon right away. More often than not he considered just taking her but he knew that she still needed her parents. But he vowed one day, when she was ready, she was going to be his dark princess. Bonnie told Damon all sorts of things, for example; she told him about her new puppy, the ridding lesson and the horse she was using, and even about ballet class. What disturbed Damon was when she told him about how her mommy and daddy were being mean because her daddy didn't like her mommy taking her medicine. When Damon asked her what she meant she told him her mommy was taking the same medican she took when she had an ear ach. Damon vowed to look further into that.

Damon dropped Bonnie home several hours later. It did not go unnoticed to Damon that Mary was stoned. He knew that she was in a car accident earlier in the year but she came out of it fine with just a few bruises and pulled muscles. He guessed that she must of gotten addicted to the pain medication. He would look into that later. He would give her time to clean up before he step in. Right now he had a date with two little brats.

The next day when Bonnie went to school it was the first day that she hadn't been teased. Tiffany and Cassie never said another word to Bonnie. In fact they didn't speak for three months. They only explanation that either of them gave was about the monster who didn't like it when they hurt his little red bird.

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