Chapter Three.
"So would it be totally inappropriate for me to say that what you did to Damon was extremely hot?" Caroline asked her friend from the backseat. They had just pulled out from Matt's place after he grabbed an overnight bag just in case he needed to stay at Tyler's place.
It was something they all use to do as kids. Staying over at each other's houses at the drop of a hat. Especially when that friend needed them.
"No." Matt sighed out loud.
"Yes." Bonnie said abruptly.
Matt grinned at the narrowed look Bonnie sent him.
"Care, you know I love you." Bonnie told her blonde friend, staring at her in the rearview mirror. "But not enough for me to go there." She emphasized.
Caroline pouted.
"All I have to say is don't knock it until you've tried it, Bons." Caroline advised her, brown eyes twinkling.
Ever since Caroline had became a Vampire her sexual preference ran both ways. Apparently she had dabbled a bit before turning, but now she was a Vamp, her emotions and needs only grew more intense and now she had her feet planted firmly in both camps.
Bonnie believed each to their own, but she preferred men, full stop. Actually she preferred Tyler, full stop.
"Okay, so this conversation is taking me to a place that is slightly uncomfortable, yet highly arousing all at the same time." Matt told the girls, wincing when Bonnie hit him again.
"Dick." She muttered.
"Which is why, I'd have more of a chance with Bonnie than you Care." Matt told the backseat blonde, winking at her.
"Not if Tyler has his way." Caroline told him smugly.
Matt narrowed his eyes at the blonde, knowing she was right. Because when it came to Bonnie, Tyler was obsessively possessive. He didn't know how many potential suitors, Tyler had scared away. And if he couldn't scare them, he'd just bribe them. Tyler considered Bonnie his and his alone. Everyone else was lucky he let them speak to her.
Not that Matt could blame him.
Over the years Matt had always known that there just something special about Bonnie Bennett.
Something that could grab your attention, hold it and never let go. Something about her that made every male want her and every female want to know what it was about her that captured the male fascination.
Matt also knew that despite what she probably believed and even to a certain extent Elena and Caroline, Bonnie was easily the hottest one out of the trio of girls.
Caroline's beauty was in your face, Statuesque, blonde and a killer bod, Caroline knew her hotness and wasn't afraid to display it. She reveled in her sexiness, shooting flirty smiles and come hither looks and any male - or female - she found attractive. That sexiness only increased when she became a vampire
Elena's beauty was haunting. Soulful brown eyes, confident smile and that tall lean body. Elena was usually the one who knew what she wanted and went after it. Sometimes at the expense of someone else's feelings. And it wasn't that Elena was malicious, it was just that sometimes Elena tended to think that the world revolved around her and her alone. And now with her vamp emotions outweighing her normal human emotions, everyone else – including those she grew up with – came a distant second.
But then there was Bonnie. Small, curvy with a smile that could literally knock a man back on his ass. Smooth caramel colored skin, bright green eyes, thick black lashes that tended to give her that sultry, smoky look.
He remembered that Bonnie was his first real crush. The first girl he actually kissed. And also the first girl that broke his heart.
They had been 14 years old and it seemed like he had been in love with her for ever. Unlike Elena and Caroline, he had never been a second thought to her. Never made to feel as if he were an extra wheel and never made to feel as if he were anything less.
Tyler had been grounded from their first school dance for – something. So he had ordered Matt to watch Bonnie. Matt hadn't believed his luck.
Everyone knew that Tyler was downright possessive when it came to Bonnie, and with Tyler out and Bonnie to himself, Matt acted as if she were his date. Scowling at any guy who came to talk to her, ignoring Elena and Caroline's pouts when he refused to dance with them.
And then Gavin Washington had sauntered up to Bonnie, one year older and a smarmy smirk on his face.
"Bonnie. You need to ditch the loser and come hang out with us." Gavin had told her, ignoring Matt and putting his arm around Bonnie.
What pissed Matt off the most was Gavin wouldn't have tried this shit if Tyler were here. Tyler would've just glared at him and Gavin would've scuttled away like the little cockroach he was, even though he was older than them by a year. But because he didn't see Matt as a threat, Gavin's arrogance knew no bounds.
"Excuse me?" Bonnie asked slightly annoyed that Gavin had interrupted their conversation.
"You need to drop the zero and get with the hero." Gavin told her confidently, the arm around Bonnie's shoulders drawing her away from Matt.
"Okay, you need to stop watching old reruns of Vanilla-Ice movies, and get your own lines." Bonnie told him, rolling her eyes and shrugging his arm away. "And I'm busy."
"With the homo?" Gavin sneered indicating to Matt.
Matt grimaced at the flash of anger in Bonnie's green eyes as she narrowed her gaze at Gavin. Here's trouble. If there was one thing that would surely get a rise out of Bonnie was when you insulted one of her friends. Anyone who knew her knew that about her.
"So tell me something Gavin. Who did you come here with?" Bonnie had asked him sweetly. Caroline and Elena suddenly appeared from nowhere, both flanking Bonnie.
Frowning the taller boy stared at her blankly.
"My boys, why?"
"Because don't you think it's funny how you called Matt a homo, when he came to the dance with THREE girls and you were the one who came with four male." Bonnie asked, looking from her two friends to the small group of boys coagulating behind Gavin.
"They're my boys!"
Bonnie leaned towards him, face serious.
"Really?" she asked him in a loud whisper. "Are they really?"
Gavin took a step towards her, causing Matt to step in front of Bonnie. Gavin snorted as he looked down at Matt.
"What are you gonna do, Donavan?" he sneered at Matt.
"Just leave, Washington." Matt told him through gritted teeth.
"You're pathetic, Donavan." Gavin told him. "Totally pathetic."
"I don't know about that." Caroline interrupted him, coming up beside them and slipping her arms around Matt's shoulders.
"Oh yeah?" Gavin sneered at the blonde, taking a cautionary step away from her.
"Yeah, because from the looks of it, Matt's the one that's got three girls on his arm and you have none." She told him eyes hard.
Bonnie slipped her arms around Matt's waist, staring at Gavin. Elena smiled, standing behind Bonnie, her hands slipping into Matt's hair.
"Please, as if he knows what to do with yous." Gavin scoffed, glancing back at his boys who laughed at his stupid joke.
Bonnie shrugged.
"Why don't we see?" Tip toeing she turned Matt's head towards hers and bought his head down to hers.
There were three things Matt realized during that kiss. One: he realized that he was finally, finally kissing Bonnie Bennett. Two: she tasted as sweet as she looked and three. This wasn't her first time.
He could tell by the way she moved her lips sweetly against his, and the way there was no awkwardness in her kiss.
Vaguely he wondered who she had kissed before and if Tyler knew about it.
The other thing he realized was that when Tyler found out about this he was a dead man.
When Matt pulled back from the kiss he said the incredulous faces of Gavin and his friends. The amusement in Caroline's and the slightly weird look on Elena's.
"Seems to me like he knows what he's doing." Caroline told them a smirk firmly on her pretty face.
Yeah that was the night Matt realized just how in love he had been with Bonnie. It was also the night she broke his heart. He had asked her to go steady just before he had dropped her off at Gram's house.
Matt remembered she had smiled at him, and then hugged him. Telling him that she didn't feel that way about him, but she did love him. Not even a month after that Matt found himself in a relationship with Elena.
What a disaster that relationship had been.
"So you'll call me, just to let me know how Tyler's doing." Caroline insisted from the back. Matt realized they had pulled up outside her house.
"Yeah I'll text you." Bonnie reassured.
"Okay. Later." Climbing out of the car, Caroline winked at Matt before.
Moments later Matt and Bonnie pulled up outside the Lockwood gates, the local media still camping out. Blinking Matt ignored one lady as she knocked on the window, her heavily made up face intent as she shouted questions at him.
Rolling his eyes, Matt watched as the gates opened for them, and the Mystic Falls Police Department admitted them through the gates while making sure the media stayed out.
"That was nuts." He muttered as they pulled up outside the sprawling mansion's front door.
"They're gonna hafta do something about them." Bonnie muttered as they both got out of the cars. "If they don't the media is gonna make up their own news."
Matt grabbed his and Bonnie's bags from the backseat.
"I'm surprised –"
Suddenly the front door was pulled open, and an agitated Tyler stood in the doorway his eyes focused solely on Bonnie.
"Bonnie." Matt blinked at the blatant need in his best friend's voice, and the way his eyes had gone from their normal dark brown color to light amber.
Making her way up the stairs Bonnie shot the media, who had camped out a couple of hundred feet from the front door, a look.
"Tyler –"
Tyler ignored his uncle's warning, instead began to rush towards her only to freeze, just inside the door and just out of sight of the media.
Shaking his head, Matt slammed the door shut, making his way up the stairs behind Bonnie.
The low animal like growl coming from his best friend let Matt know just how pissed off he was at being frozen in place.
"Bonnie." Tyler warned.
"Calm down." She muttered, seconds before she reached him and he dragged her into his arms and back into the room.
Ignoring his Uncle and his best friend, Tyler grabbed Bonnie by the waist and hauled her into his arms, his chest heaving.
"I missed you." He heard Tyler grumble, his face buried in her neck. Matt watched as Tyler visibly calmed, wrapping himself around his girlfriend.
"I was barely two hours." She told him. "And I bought reinforcements." She waved at Matt.
Tyler barely spared him a glance; instead his focus was entirely on his girlfriend.
"Mom wants to do a family interview for the media." Tyler told her. "I want you there with me."
"If your mom says its okay –"
"No." he shook his head, leaning back to glare down at her. "I. Want. You. With. Me." He growled, causing his girlfriend to roll her eyes at him.
"Okay, okay, jeeze." She muttered, smiling sweetly up at him when he scowled. Standing on tiptoe, Bonnie kissed him, causing Mason and Matt to groan and Tyler to emit a small growl as he pulled his girlfriend closer.
"Keep it G rated you two." Mason complained, clapping Matt on the back. "Thank you for coming, Matt." He told him. "And I'm sure once Tyler gets his head on straight he'll thank you too."
Matt shrugged not at all put out by his best friend not acknowledging his presence. It was something he was use to when Bonnie was around and Tyler was agitated. Tyler's whole focus was on the only thing – or only person – that could soothe him. Bonnie.
"Shit, sorry Matt." Tyler said finally turning to acknowledge him.
"It's all good. Understandable." Matt told him, holding up his and Bonnie's bags. "Bought clothes just in case."
Tyler folded Bonnie in his arms, arms tight around her shoulders as he gave Matt a wane smile.
"Spare room next to mine is free. Take it. Bonnie's stuff can go in my room." He told him causing Matt's brows to rise. That would be interesting to see how Tyler's mom reacted to her seventeen year old son's girlfriend staying in the same room with him.
"Tyler?" Mrs. Lockwood appeared from behind Matt causing him to turn quickly.
"Mrs. Lockwood." Matt greeted softly. "I'm sorry to hear about Mr. Lockwood."
Tyler's mom smiled as she reached out and grabbed Matt's arm and gave it a squeeze.
"Thank you Matt." She said softly. Turning back to her son, Mrs. Lockwood stared at Tyler, some unnamed emotion crossing her features. "We talk to Mystic News in 30 minutes." She told him. "I need both you and Mason ready."
"Bonnie will be there too." Tyler told his mom, unyielding. A small smile crossed her lips as she gave Bonnie a small nod.
"I expected as much." She told them. "Be ready in 15 minutes. You both need to change." She said quietly. "Let me do all the talking." Sighing she smoothed down the sides of her tailored dress. "We better feed the beasts before they turn on us." She muttered more to herself than anyone else. "Matt, could I ask you to sit in as well? The more people who looks like they are here to support us, the better."
Matt nodded.
"Good. Change into something with dark colors but conservative. Mason, you'll be one my left side, Tyler on my right. Bonnie I want you beside Tyler and Matt beside Bonnie." She instructed, eyes dark. "Again let me do all the talking unless they specifically ask you a question. Understood?"
"Yes Ma'am." Bonnie and Matt chorused. Mason nodded and Tyler just kept holding onto Bonnie.
"Bonnie I need to you pick something out for the boys to wear. Please."
Nodding, Bonnie shot her a sweet smile before taking Tyler's hand and dragging him after her. Matt followed the couple, bags in hand.
"Do you think he'll be alright?" Carol asked Mason.
"He'll be fine." Her brother-in-law told her. "Bonnie's here."
"I hope so." She whispered watching as her son left the room.
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He watched as they presented a united front. The Bennett Witch and her Lockwood Wolf.
Two powerful beings that really had absolutely no idea just how powerful they actually were.
Him so protective and so possessive. Her so calming and so serene. They really did make one good looking couple.
The Bennett witch was captivatingly beautiful. Small, dark and delicate, yet there was no denying the power simmering just beneath the surface. Her skin practically vibrated from it. Her eyes barely concealed it.
She was powerful, this one, he mused, forefinger rubbing the generous swell of his lower lip. Much like her three cousins, her power simmered just below the surface.
He could almost taste that power from the other side of the State. The sweetly addicting taste that lingered over his tongue like an age old shot of whiskey.
Yes, Bonnie Bennett was definitely a force to reckon with.
He had kept an eye on her over the years, abandoned by her parents and being raised by her constantly inebriated grandmother.
Watched her as she grew up and grew in to her powers.
He also watched as she was tutored by her grandmother to do parlor tricks, when she was destined for so much more.
They all were. The Four Bennett Witches. Lucy, Callie, Bonnie and Ari. All from the Bennett bloodline. All extremely powerful in their own right.
However, unlike her cousins Bonnie had started late learning to wield that gift. While the other three had started while they were children, Bonnie had started at the age of 14, Shelia Bennett being the overly paranoid witch that she was, didn't want her only grandchild exposed to the supernatural world too early.
But when at the age of 14 the Lockwood boy started showing signs of his werewolf nature, Shelia knew she had to let Bonnie know of her heritage.
Because only a Bennett Witch could control a Lockwood Wolf.
The Lockwood boy complimented her in everyway, he thought drawing his attention back to the family on screen. Tall, broad, darkly handsome. He watched the Witch with animal eyes. Loyal, protective, hungry.
There was such a connection between the two. Such strength. Such power.
They complimented each so other beautifully. The Watcher gave a dark sort of smile. Everything was finally falling into place.
One part of the prophecy was finally being fulfilled.
So as you can see some of the characters are a little OCC. Bonnie's a little more kick ass, not allowing people to push her around too much, Matt's a bit of a flirt and Caroline is bi! Next up, the Funeral and the introduction of the cousins.
