Chapter two

Sitting at the kitchen island in her grams house, Bonnie was eating a bowl of chilli for dinner. It's something that has become a tradition of some sort for her after been trapped in Malachi's prison world with Damon. It's one of the things she didn't change along with having pancakes for breakfast every morning.

She moved into her grams house after her trip to Silas' cave which for her wasn't a pleasant experience the very first time. No one liked being used and manipulated which she was, almost got killed by angry witches and being punished by the spirits. She never did remember what happened on the island or how she got home, but this time around was different. She ate enjoying the quietness which she has now become accustomed to, finding solace in it. It was hard at first but now she actually likes it because she could now meditate for longer hours without disturbances and practice her magic for longer hours too.

She's been building her physical and magical strength. The stronger she is physically, the more tolerance her body has for magic especially when performing a powerful spell. Cleaning up after herself once she was done eating, Bonnie brought out her grams grimoire to practice both new and old spells. She's been doing that since she got back her magic, well Quetsiya's magic. Sitting on the floor with her legs folded in, she focuses on the spell, feeling the magic flow through her vain and blood...she could never stop loving that feeling. Pouring magic out to everything around the house and pulling it back into herself. She opened her eyes to see that is was really dark outside; checking the time, she couldn't believe she's been practising for five hours without feeling strained, tired and having her nose bleed.

She picked up her grimoire, walked to her grams room and laid on her bed because the sheet smells just like grams. She missed grams and being in her house gives her comfort, a feeling she hasn't felt in a really long time. This is what home feels like and she missed that because her grams is gone and so is her dad. Snuggling into the duvet, she smiled to herself...tomorrow is the day; she's waited so long for this day to come and now it's only a sleep away. " I'm going home " she thought to herself. Feeling excited, she drifted off to the land of dreams. Home is only a sleep and a dream away.

Waking up to the sun shinning in, Bonnie was excited, smiling widely and humming she got up and went into the bathroom. She took a nice long shower, put on her sweatpants, flannel shirt and jacket. Jogging happily to the kitchen, she made some vampcakes for breakfast, ate and cleaned up. Looking around her grams house one last time, she picked up her backpack and Damon's camera while walking out the front door. She walked to mystic falls forest breathing in the fresh air. She went into the cave where the eclipse will be.

Sitting on the floor, she decided to practice for a while before the eclipse starts. Placing her hand on the ground, she recited the spell in her head pulling magic from the earth into herself...becoming one with the earth. Feeling the richness and pureness of the earth flowing through her...she reveled in it before stopping the spell just in time to see the start of the eclipse. She jumped up, dusted herself and dropped some blood on the ascendant; chanting the spell needed to get back to the present mystic kept chanting the spell, the lights came and she thought she was back at the present mystic falls.

She ran out of the cave to see snow everywhere; not sure what's going on, Bonnie ran to the Salvatore's boarding house and went inside. She was shocked when she saw it wasn't the present Salvatore boarding house but from a different time. Calling out to know if anyone was there, she looked around the house. Seeing or hearing no one, Bonnie ran out and headed straight for the cave. She was panicking on the inside and scared that her hopes were going to be crushed but she still had hope. Standing under the eclipse reciting the spell over again, she saw a woman carrying logs dressed like someone from a really old movie looking at her.

" Who are you?" The lady asked.

" Who are you?" Bonnie asked only to be pulled by the blinding white light but at least her camcorder was on and it recorded their meeting.

Bonnie looked around her, she was in the cave but the question is which cave was she in now. Walking out of the cave, Bonnie ran to the boarding house nervously. She opened the door carefully, walked in and looked all around her making sure she's at her right destination. She released the breath she's been holding in and laughed loudly,

" I made it, home, I'm here" she said aloud.

Entering into the kitchen, she dropped her backpack on the chair and the camcorder on the kitchen island. She got out ingredients needed to make pancakes, she made them and plates them for her friend/prison buddy Damon.

Damon

It's been a really long day for Damon, he just buried one of his friend considering he doesn't have that many and wrote eulogy that he read at the ceremony which brought up old memories of his own mother's death. He was exhausted, all he just want to do now is get drunk and wallow in his sadness. Walking into the house, he smelt pancakes.

" That's weird, am I drunk?" he thought. He went into the kitchen and he couldn't believe his eyes, at the end of the kitchen island was Bonnie looking right at him with a sober expression.

" Bonnie?" Damon asked not sure if its real or if he was just imagining it all.

" The one and only" Bonnie answered waiting to get a reaction out of him.

Damon smiled, put out his hands and Bonnie smiling widely ran into his arms like a child seeing her dad who's being gone for a really long time come home. She just on him, wrapped her legs around his waist and held onto him like her life depended on it. Damon was so happy to have Bonnie back, he held onto her smiling like Christmas came early. He had missed her and its so good to see her again.

Some minutes after their reunion, the both sat at the kitchen island talking to each other and catching each other up on things that's been going on in their lives, well the shorter version. Bonnie told him about the event that took place when she was trying to get back, took the camcorder and showed him the video. Seeing the woman in the video, Damon was speechless. That's impossible because the woman in the video died of consumption years ago. Bonnie noticed his expression and waited for him to tell her what he was thinking.

" That's my mother, Lily Salvatore" Damon told Bonnie.

The revelation left Bonnie lost of words as well. Wheels turning in both their heads. Damon's dead mother was never 's weird how dead people in mystic falls almost everytime happen to be undead, for example Alaric's wife a.k.a Elena's birth mom. There's also Anna, Jeremy's vampire girlfriend before she died for real, that's just to show that in mystic falls, every corpse has their legs and hands hanging out of the grave. It's a metaphor .

How is she alive? Why is she in a prison world? What is she? This her all questions that Damon needs an answer to but who has the answers? Also there's Stefan to consider, Stefan thought their mother was dead too. He has to tell him about their mother but not yet, he needs to know the full story and make sure he won't be putting his brother in danger. That's his only family and even though they sometimes do not get along, they will always stand by each other and protect each other.

Smiling at Bonnie, he said " it's so good to have you back and I'm really glad you made it back 'cause its not been the same without you judging me and your annoying ways".

Slapping him on the arm " I could say the same" Bonnie told him smiling back.

Seeing how tired Bonnie looked, Damon told her she could sleep in the spare room. Nodding, Bonnie walked up the stairs turned backback.

Looking at Damon, she said " I'm not ready to let everyone know I'm back, I just want to enjoy being back now before telling them".

Understanding fully well what she meant, Damon smiled and said " your secret is safe with me. Good night Bonnie and welcome back home".

He watched her go up the stairs, listening in until he heard the door open and close, and her gentle breathing indicating she's asleep. Smiling he vamped into his room with a glass of Bourbon in hand.