Chapter 3: Persistence!!
It didn't take Damon as long as he thought it would to find Bonnie. She was at the grill, laughing at something some guy said to her. At first he couldn't tell who her companion was, until he got a closer look, it was Kol. He was touching her so intimately, in such a public place as if they were a couple. He didn't know why but for some reason this pissed Damon off even more than Caroline telling him about this new attraction between them. He sauntered into the place like he owned it; this was usual Damon behavior to be told. He walked right up towards Bonnie and her date as if they were old friends; which everyone knew couldn't be farther from the truth.
"Damon, what are you doing here? I made myself clear to Caroline about wanting nothing to do with any of you."
"Well, I never was one that listened well or followed orders well either, you should know that. Besides I am not leaving this is my town too, so you better get used to my presence witchy."
"Don't call me that, in fact don't call me ever, I'm leaving, it just got too crowded for my taste, they will just lest anything in here won't they? Come on Kol, let's go back to your place where we won't be invaded or disturbed either."
"Yea, we can be alone because my family is mostly out doing their own things."
They started to leave but Damon stepped in front of them before they made it to the door, "What the hell are you doing, move now before I make you move."
"I am not moving until we talk first, I know that you are hurt but if you will only hear me out, I know that I can convince you that there was no other choice, we were out of options. I did the only thing that I could do and besides it's not like your mom is dead, I only turned her. Is there not anyway that we can get past this?"
"You are such a bastard, I just finished planning my mother's funereal because even though you, Caroline and Stefan decided to turn and become a vampire not everyone makes that same choice as you saw when Caroline's father refused to become one. My mother made the same decision as he did; she just could not live as one of you. I mean could you even imagine for a moment, that you were taught your whole life to fear and fight against something but then one day you was turned into the very thing that you were taught to fear, would you want to choose that life still?"
"I don't know what to say, I really thought that she would want to live for you if nothing else. I'm so sorry Bonnie, I never meant for any of this to happen the way it played out."
"Yea, well I guess that I underestimated you and Stefan but don't worry, I won't be making that mistake again. Do you even know why she left in the first place? It was because of Elena, which should not have been a big surprise though. Especially because it seems that life just revolves around Elena, I am sorry that I ever met her and became friends with her, I would have changed it, if I only knew how much her friendship would have cost me."
"Don't blame Elena or Caroline because neither of them knew what me and Stefan were gonna do until it was too late to stop us. If you want to hate someone then hate me please but not them, they are blameless in this case anyway. They are your friends and they didn't betray you."
"Go ahead and defend their actions but they are as dead to me and you and Stefan are."
With that statement Bonnie started to leave again only to be stopped once more by Damon, now Kol was starting to get ticked off by the intrusion.
"In case you missed it, Bonnie doesn't want anything to do with you and your little group any longer now please will you leave us alone before I get angry."
"I told you that I don't take orders well, especially from the likes of you. Don't you remember what happened last time you tangled with me?"
"Let me see, if I remember correctly, you tackled me to the ground but your brother intervened before I could react and show you what an original vampire is really made of. If he had not interrupted us, I would have taught you quite a few things like how to really fight fair."
"Well if you have the time why don't we have a rematch right here and now, I'm game if you are?"
"As much as I would love to beat you to a bloody pulp, I am already occupied as you can see. I mean which would you rather do, fight a fight that you know you will win or go home with a beautiful woman and make made passionate love to her?"
"I think that you are scared that I will win and then you will look like the sad and pathetic excuse for a man that you are in front of Bonnie and then she will never want to see you again."
Bonnie spoke up, "That is so laughable especially coming from Damon Salvatore the man whore. I mean you may claim to be in love with Katherine or Elena but does that ever stop you from sleeping around with everyone and anyone, no it doesn't. I actually don't think that you could ever tell the truth or be faithful to anyone if you ever actually did get the girl away from your brother that is. I mean the idea of you in any relationship lasting longer than a week is laughable."
"That's not true, you don't know me Bennett, I was faithful to Katherine, I was in a relationship with Caroline that lasted for a few weeks."
"Oh, please don't make me laugh, that thing with Caroline doesn't even count because you had her compelled almost the whole time she was with you. I am sure that you were faithful to Katherine but too bad that she can't claim the same, I mean she was sleeping with your brother at the same time that she was seeing you right? There is one question that has been bugging me about the whole Katherine ordeal, I mean did she at least bath before she jumped from one brother to the next or did she still have Stefan's sweat on her when she came to you?"
Damon was furious at her words because her opinion of him matter more to him than he ever realized before, "That is pretty harsh words coming from you considering all the times that you put your life in jeopardy to save a friend don't you think?"
"That is the differences between us, I put my life on the line for people that actually give a damn about me or at least I thought they did but thanks for setting me straight. Now I know where I stand with my so-called friends, I am going to do what's best for me for once in my life."
"Bonnie, you don't want to leave with this guy, he is only using you."
"As opposed to you and your brother using me instead? At least I get something out of him using me. We're both using each other."
"Oh what could he possibly give you that we couldn't?"
"For starters, he gives me immeasurable pleasure which you are not capable of giving to anyone. I used to feel sorry for you because you follow Elena around like a sad puppy making moon eyes at her, just hoping for a second of her time and she never gives into you. That was B.T. T. though, before the thing, you know how you killed my mother thing. Now I don't feel anything and it feels damned good. Let's go and have sex at my house this time Kol."
"Sure whatever the lady wants, she gets."
Damon tried to stop them once more but Bonnie gave him one of her witchy headaches that knocked him out of the way. Damon thought that Caroline was exaggerating about how mad Bonnie was but she didn't prepare him for hurricane Bonnie enough. They were in serious trouble and he didn't have a clue as to how to stop the pain that Bonnie wanted to rain down on her friends. He knew that Bonnie was beyond pissed off at them but something was definitely off about her behavior that Damon just couldn't figure out.
Then suddenly it hit him, even though witches can't be compelled, maybe there was a spell or something that could turn her humanity off the way that Stefan's was turned off by Klaus. He hoped that was what happened because then it was fixable. This was a problem that he could fix but if he was wrong then god help them because no one else would. Damon left and searched for Caroline because they were in more trouble than either of them thought they were.
