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Stefan walked into the Salvatore crypt. His eyes are sad and he takes a swig out of the bourbon bottle he had in his hand. Feeling it burn in his throat, he laughs miserably.
"Yep... This is happening. I'm gonna talk out loud to a... a crypt filled with my dead family."
His eyes looks around the crypt staring at all the buried coffins and their name stones.
"Everyone but you, Damon. Because wherever you are, it's not here."
He takes a seat unable to stand anymore at a small bench in the crypt.
"I gotta say... I'm not doing so great without you. I keep trying to start over, but... I can't get anywhere. Because I'm lost, brother. I'm lost."
His voice was breaking in sorrow and grief. He was struggling with the emotions he was feeling and a flicker of thought came in his mind that maybe Elena's method of handling the grief was not too bad. But then he knew that Damon wouldn't want him to lose his humanity and he didn't want to forget his brother.
This struggle made him angry and he got up and threw the bottle in anger at the far end of the wall in vamp strength. The bottle crashed with a thud and glass pieces flew everywhere while the bourbon stained the wall.
The crash brought out a moaning sound that was barely audible. Human ears couldn't have heard it but with his vampire hearing, Stefan was able to hear it. Initially he thought it was some homeless person taking shelter but he got curious. He walked over to see a body lying on the ground at the far end of the corner under a pile of clothes. He could smell the person bleeding and he thought it was caused by the shards of glasses. He immediately got to the person trying to help.
When he turned the body, he got the shock of his life.
"Bonnie?" He called out unable to believe. She moaned louder this time and he could see she was bleeding from her abdomen. Immediately he opened a vein in his hand and fed her the blood. She drank from it and her bleeding started to stop and giving her some strength. She opened her eyes.
"How are you here? How did you get back? Where's Damon?" Stefan bombarded her with questions that was rushing into his mind.
At the mention of Damon, Bonnie started to panic frantically looking everywhere around her and started thrashing. Stefan held her back to calm her down before she hurt herself. After a moment, she started to calm down and Stefan helped her get up and they both sat down in the bench he was sitting before.
"Bonnie. What happened?" Stefan asked softly.
"Damon…" Bonnie whispered softly unable to formulate a sentence.
*****Flashback*****
"I'm sure there are about a billion people you'd rather be here with" Damon tells Bonnie holding her hand.
She smiles at him. "Not exactly." Damon responds with his own smile reflecting the sentiments. During their time imprisoned in a world with no contacts except for a psychopath, they both have connected with one another.
"Let's go…" before Bonnie could finish her sentence, she yells out "Ah!" and falls to the floor. There's an arrow sticking in her abdomen. Damon whirls around angry when he notices Kai with a crossbow.
"Forgetting someone?" Kai asked nonchalantly.
"Did you really think I hadn't tried to kill myself before?" He continues talking while reloading his crossbow. Damon turns around to look at Bonnie who was grunting in pain. He looks at the ascendant and Kai notices that too.
"Grab that, and the next arrow goes in her heart. Your choice." He warns pointing his crossbow at Bonnie. Bonnie moans again and Damon was by her side in a blink holding her. He bites into his wrist opening a vein ready to heal Bonnie when she noticed that Kai was getting close to the Ascendant.
"DAMON, NO!" Bonnie warns him about Kai and Damon super speeds to Kai and shoves him to the wall. He had dragged Bonnie closer to the Ascendant when he did and she grabbed the Ascendant. She also noticed that she was under the spot where they were supposed to be.
"Damon, Come on." Bonnie urged him knowing that time was close. Damon turned around to look at her and Kai used the momentary distraction to stab Damon in the neck with his arrow. Damon grunts in pain but doesn't let go of Kai. Tolerating the pain, he snaps Kai's neck and let him crumple to the floor. He turned around just in time to see Bonnie disappear into the limelight.
"Goodbye, Bon Bon." He whispers to her.
*****End of Flashback*****
Bonnie shakes involuntarily at the memory after finishing telling Stefan what happened. Stefan stood there still trying to wrap his mind around the fact that his brother was alive and stuck in a prison world unable to escape. Bonnie starting to cry woke him up from his shock and he helped her stand up and take her someplace else.
A/N: One of the annoying things in this episode is how Kai with no powers overpowered Damon. He could have just snapped Kai's neck and be done with it instead of struggling with the crossbow. So I changed it in my story. Please Review. It is very much appreciated.
