Bonnie
"I thought you were gonna bring Jeremy back, but it turned out you were just a brainwashed crazy person, so technically you're a walking reminder of all the horrible things that have happened to me."
"Excuse the fuck out of me."
"Bonnie."
Bonnie blinks realizing that she must have said it out loud after but decides to hell with it. Ignoring the look on Matt's face keeping her eyes on Elena's even when he calls her a second time.
"Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think I'm the catalyst for the last two years. I haven't been holding hands with one brother while playing footsie with the other. I don't have an army of people bending over backwards to save my life. I haven't watched my friends lose their family because I couldn't get my head out of my ass long enough to see that being in a damn relationship with a vampire makes no sense if I never wanted to become one in the first place!" Bonnie erupts stepping towards Elena reveling in the shock clear on her face "I hate to say this but if we're going to blame Jeremy's death on anyone it's you. We weren't on the island because of me. And maybe if you weren't so wrapped up in yourself you would've noticed that I was a brainwashed crazy person so you wouldn't have-"
"Bonnie that's enough."
"No," Bonnie shakes her head "I don't think it is. Because now that I think about it I wouldn't have been a brainwashed crazy person in the first place if it wasn't because of Elena. I wouldn't have had to watch my Grams be tortured. I would still be able to at least talk to my Grams, talk to the Spirits. I wouldn't have my mind clouded, but" Bonnie lifts her shoulders "If none of that happened, this wouldn't have either. I wouldn't have realized that I have been working my ass off to save the walking reminder of all the horrible things that have happened to me for the last two years. I'm done." Bonnie finally breaks her and Elena's stare, ignoring the flash of hurt in the doppelganger's eyes as she walks around her pointedly ignoring Stefan and Damon not wanting to give them a chance to say anything.
When Bonnie makes eye contact with Caroline she can tell that she's torn between feeling happy and sad, and she feels a wave of guilt wash over her because all she feels is relief.
Bonnie is just taking the last of her makeup off when she hears the doorbell ring and she frowns as she gets up, glancing at her phone before going downstairs to open the door. Rolling her eyes when she sees who's on the other side.
"You're out of your damn mind if you even think I'm going to even listen to anything you-"
"She's back."
"Who?"
"Your best friend."
Bonnie frowns "I just talked to Caroline."
Damon clears his throat to keep from laughing,
"I'm done, Damon. I don't care if 'she's back'."
"Okay, well when you're done throwing your little tantrum. She'll be waiting at the boarding house."
Bonnie laughs, even more when he frowns.
"It's things like that, that prove that we don't know the same Elena. Because if she were really back, she'd be here herself. She wouldn't have sent one of her boyfriends. She would be where you are, staring back at me with those doe eyes waiting for me to invite her in so we could talk. Have a nice night Damon." Bonnie smiles as she steps back closing the door.
When Bonnie sees Elena standing at her locker the following Monday after school she tenses before rolling her shoulders back remembering she has nothing to be afraid of. Though that doesn't stop her from turning her skin into the likeness of vervain. Making a point of ignoring the brunette as she adjusts her bag before spinning the dial on her locker.
"Bonnie," Elena breathes "I know what I said was…" she trails off letting out a long breath "but you have to know that that wasn't me."
Bonnie cracks a smile at the doppelganger's words, if she were to be honest, she found that it was anticlimactic, and her expectations weren't very high to begin with.
"When Damon said you were back...for a fleeting moment I believed him. I don't know why because he's always full of shit but a small part of me was hoping that he'd prove me wrong, just this once. But…" Bonnie trails off with a shrug.
"Bonnie." Elena frowns, taking a step away from her feeling as if she had just been slapped.
"You called me a walking reminder of all the bad things that have happened to you. And then proceeded to give me some weak apology expecting me to forgive you. Like I told your boyfriend...whichever one, they were both there. I am over you and their bullshit. The days of crossing me and only looking my way when you need something from me are over. Everyone has always told you that you were strong. And I think now is the perfect time that you start to prove it. Show me the Elena post vampirism―the Elena that actually showed that she could play with the worst of them even though she was human―" Bonnie briefly lowers her voice to a whisper "with that added boost that you so proudly showed off when you weren't yourself." she smiles, her voice going back to normal "Then maybe we can talk, but until then, we're not friends."
Without another word Bonnie turns her attention back to her locker, pulling it open, grabbing a textbook before closing it, walking around Elena, a smile gracing her features when she sees Caroline leaning against her locker, scrolling through her phone obviously pretending that she wasn't eavesdropping.
"I know that this is going to sound bad but, I'm proud of you." Caroline states, sliding her phone into the back pocket of her jeans.
"And I know that this is going to make me sound like even more of a bitch but, me too." Bonnie says as the blonde falls into step with her. Though she can't say that she doesn't feel bad for hurting Elena's feelings the way she did. Afterall, they did have a bond, but after a moment she realizes that be that as it may, their relationship was deteriorating way before Prom, hell it started crumbling as soon as a certain Salvatore entered their lives. Speaking of which, she wonders how long it'll take before he abandons ship since it seems as though Elena hasn't exactly gone running back into his arms yet.