I know the last chapter was a lot and there's definitely a lot there, but I appreciate if you're sticking with me. I have to confess and kind of disclaim here, Bamon won't turn into nice people in this fic. They are done with the nice stuff and Bonnie definitely is. I appreciate those who want to stick with me and I also understand if this ain't your thing. I wanted to try something, so this is my attempt at it. I appreciate all that stick with me.
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Bonnie's last comment left her lips so effortlessly, that Stefan was stunned into silence for a few moments. Bonnie glanced over at Elena who watched as her skin slowly healed itself following the attack, "See, all better right?" Bonnie served a self satisfied smirk, "but it will hurt like hell if I burn those legs, so tell me where Damon is," she looked from Stefan to Elena.
Elena's took an intake of breath, "Bonnie, who are you?" Elena squinted, "you are not the friend that I remember, are you possessed?"
Bonnie chuckled and cocked her head to the side sizing Elena up, "So you think I won't set you on fire? Keep not answering my question."
Elena's eyes went wide as Stefan turned to Elena, "Can you give me and Bonnie a moment, Elena?"
"I can't leave you alo…"
"Scared I may steal him like I did Damon, Elena?" Bonnie teased with a deadly smile and quickly set her mouth in a straight line, "don't give me any ideas," she remarked in all seriousness.
Elena straightened up, "I will be downstairs," she stated through clenched teeth giving Bonnie a death glare before leaving the hotel room.
"You want to get dressed, so we can talk?" Stefan asked suddenly avoiding Bonnie's gaze.
"Am I making you uncomfortable? I thought that you and Damon had the same taste in women," she goaded with a devilish smirk that rivaled Damon's on his best day.
Stefan's eyes steadied on Bonnie's eyes taking every bit of self control he had not to look at her below her neck, "Bonnie, please…"
She laughed, "Don't worry, I don't do martyrs," she spat out turning towards the bedroom disappearing closing the door behind her. Stefan breathed in deeply. The three years that passed seemed like an eternity. When Bonnie first returned from the prison world, everyone was happy that she returned and appeared to be safe. Then there were times when everyone would notice that Bonnie enjoyed a little too much going into battle with whatever entity they came up against. Everyone tried subtle ways to get her to open up, but she would hit them all with 'I'm fine' and that was it. Damon kept his distance for the most part, until one day he watched Bonnie torch an entire bar full of vampires and he took charge. He told Stefan that he knew what to do and that was the last time he saw Bonnie or Damon. There were occasional calls, but nothing more than that. He heard about some of their exploits, but there was a part of him that never wanted to believe that his brother and Bonnie were the ones wrecking havoc around the country. The fact that they were able to find a witch to track them down and maybe help them bring back their friends and family was a feat within itself; Damon and Bonnie's reputations were slowly making their way around the supernatural community and no one was willing to cross them or to be more clear, no one wanted to cross Bonnie Bennett.
Bonnie entered the room wearing jeans and a t-shirt, her hair was pulled up into a ponytail, but the color of her eyes was startling, Stefan thought. Bonnie had always had eyes that were unique and enhanced her beauty, but these amber eyes looking back at him unnerved him, "Don't look too long, Damon wouldn't like it," she threw a look over at him, "now where's Damon?"
"Bonnie, let's talk for a few moments…please?" Stefan gestured to the couch starting to sit down.
"After last night, not sure you want to do that," Bonnie eyes twinkled at him and filled with amusement as Stefan quickly stood up to his full height, "and I'm fine with standing to speak to you, so where's Damon?"
"What are you two doing Bonnie?"
"Killing and Fucking, next question," she answered simply watching Stefan grimace at her bluntness. She didn't give a damn. Gone were the days when she played it diplomatic or nice, she was over that. That got her nowhere but almost killed, disrespected and left behind, "was that too honest for you Stefan?"
"It's just…" he paused, "not what I expected from you."
She rolled her eyes, "Stefan, let's stop this. Tell me where Damon and if you tell me within the next five minutes, I won't hurt you."
"Bonnie, I want to help you," he moved closer to her, "I know that Kai did something to you when you were in the pri…"
"Kai's dead," she interrupted him, "and Kai leaving me for dead has nothing to do with what I am doing now. You know what Stefan, I get it…I get you, Damon, Katherine, Elijah, Klaus…I get it…power is amazing," she widened her eyes, "I'm a Bennett witch, I should have people kneeling before me and now they do as I suck every bit of their power from them."
"Bonnie, but why?"
"I've been left for dead far too many times for my taste, I don't like it. It's not fun, it's not enjoyable."
"So you kill these witches to keep from dying, that doesn't make sense," Stefan shook his head, "and I thought the Bennetts were about keeping the natural balance."
"The hell with the natural balance, the natural balance killed most of my family. I'm balancing things out myself. Stefan, I asked a question and it hasn't been answered yet. Where is Damon? Because if there is one person in this world that I love, it's him and I will kill you before I let anything happen to him," she stepped closer to him.
You only have one shot at this, you can incapacitate for a short time with this, the voice echoed in Stefan's head.
"Where is Damon, Stefan?" she asked again.
"I can't tell you that Bonnie," Stefan matched her gaze.
Bonnie shook her head before staring directly at Stefan who immediately clutched his head. He'd been mind whammied by Bonnie before, but never like this. This was powerful, he felt as if his entire brain was exploding as his eyesight became blurry, "You won't be able to take this pain for much longer Stefan," she warned moving closer to him.
Stefan looked over at her as he realized blood dripping onto the carpet from his nose, he reached into his pocket and removed a syringe and with all the strength of he could muster, he plunged the needle into Bonnie's neck and immediately the pain in his head lessened before Bonnie toppled back.
"Sorry Bonnie, I thought we could talk but things didn't work out that way…" Stefan watched as she became unsteady on her feet and he reached out to catch her before she hit the floor. Stefan laid her on the floor softly and realized that when she recovered from what he'd done to her, she would torture him—but he was willing to do anything to get his brother and his friend back.
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The sound of water dripping drove Damon slowly crazy as his eyes fluttered open. He recognized the musty smell immediately, he was back in the Salvatore boarding house in the cellar. Glancing over at the door, he met eyes with Stefan's brown ones. "So you vampnapped me and brought me here?" Damon rubbed the back of his head standing up from the floor, "you know when I get out of here, you will be lucky if I don't leave a trail of bodies for you to pick up."
"Don't you want to know where Bonnie is?" Stefan asked.
Damon chuckled, "Probably seconds from destroying your entire world."
"Oh I don't think so," Stefan smiled.
"Where is she?" Damon asked with every trace of his calm demeanor evaporating moved towards the door.
"She's safe," Stefan answered noncommittally, "but I think you need to need a few days apart…call it a detox."
Damon's eyes darkened as he met Stefan's gaze, "When I get out of here, someone will have to pay. Where is she?" he said with a low growl.
"You will find out eventually," Stefan stood unmoved by his brother's menacing look.
"If you don't let me out of here, she will burn this entire place down—with you in it. Bonnie really doesn't discriminate these days."
"I will let you out…" Stefan answered, "if you turn it back on."
Damon smirked, "Turn what back on?"
"No need to pretend Damon, turn back on your humanity and we can move on from all of this."
Damon chuckled, "Oh is that what this is about? You think if you bring me here, lock me up in this…" Damon looked around, "dungeon, that I would be so overwhelmed that I would turn my humanity back on and then I would take the miniscule of guilt that I feel and somehow set Bonnie straight or make her the nice witch again?"
Stefan narrowed his eyes, "That would be nice."
Damon laughed, "Well the jokes on you brother…" Damon placed his face up against the bars of the cellar, "my humanity's not off. Everything I've done, I've wanted to do. All the feelings I have for Bonnie, for this world, for the pathetic people in it…are real and if you think what I've done over the past 3 years is bad, don't let me out and see how much damage my lady love does."
Stefan backed away from the bars, "I'll let you think about it."
"You don't have much time and if you think you do, you are signing the death warrant of everyone you care about," Damon warned him.
Stefan scoffed before turning to head up the stairs as Damon called behind him, "How many people are you determined to sacrifice Stefan?"
Stefan paused before heading up the stairs taking out his cell phone, "Yeah…Damon's not cracking," he replied to the person on the other side regretfully.
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Elena clutched onto her cell phone and looked into the living room of Caroline's house watching Bonnie standing in place in the middle of the room. It was unnerving, Bonnie didn't move, her face didn't change she just stood in the middle watching her. The amber color of her eyes were unsettling and sent shivers down Elena's spine. Over the years, Elena stopped being unnerved or afraid of much, but looking at Bonnie staring at her without breaking her gaze—scared her.
Ever since Stefan carried Bonnie in and the witch that they paid cast the spell to lock Bonnie in the living room, Elena had watched her and she felt uneasy. Staring at her former best friend set off so many emotions. She spent three years being angry, disappointed and hurt by Bonnie's actions previously—but now, she had to admit that she was terrified of her.
"Has she said anything?" Caroline whispered appearing next to Elena.
"No. She just…stares."
Caroline shivered, "I don't like this Elena."
"It's the only way. We can't let it go on any longer. They've been killing people, Caroline…killing people," Elena's eyes grew big and her voice shook, "she set me on fire."
Caroline's eyes matched Elena's as she turned to see Bonnie who was now standing much closer to the invisible field keeping her in the living room, "Who did you get to do this?" Bonnie asked quietly gazing from the ceiling to the floor.
"You don't know her," Elena answered quickly
"Oh but I will," Bonnie smiled, "I will learn her name…learn what witch family she comes from and then I will take her magic and her life," Bonnie answered lazily gliding her fingers along the invisible wall, "and I am pretty sure, I will enjoy it."
"Bonnie…" Caroline shook her head, "what is wrong with you?"
Bonnie recoiled, "Nothing, why would you think anything is wrong?" she asked as if it was one of the stupidest questions Caroline could ever ask.
"Caroline," Elena warned.
"No Elena, we need to talk to her and let her know what she's been doing, how it's not her, "Caroline answered before turning to Bonnie moving closer to the invisible wall, "Bonnie, we know…we understand…we know that Kai did horrible things to you and left you in the prison world. But Bonnie, we love you. We all love you and we just want you back. We want the old Bonnie back, please."
Bonnie stared from Elena to Caroline. She felt a lump form in her throat threatening to choke her, but she pushed it down blinking whatever tears that formed in her eyes away, "The old Bonnie back?" she stated quietly, "the old Bonnie…which one?"
"What?" Caroline asked.
"Which Bonnie do you want back? The one who was the side character to you and Elena's melodramas?"
"Bonnie, that is not true," Elena argued.
"Ok, it's not true," Bonnie shrugged moving away from the wall, "but you need to ask that witch how long she thinks her wall will hold up because I am much stronger than the Bonnie that you think you know. So if this wall was done by an amateur, I will have it down in…" Bonnie looked from the top to the bottom, "about a day and when I get out of here, I will be very angry."
"Bonnie, we know that you're not this person that you're pretending to be. We're not giving up no matter what you say, you will come around," Caroline stated.
"That means you think something is wrong with me, that is the furthest from the truth, right Elena? Tell Caroline that this is who I am now," Bonnie looked over at the brunette.
Elena said nothing before turning to Caroline, "Let's go Care."
"Yes, leave me here alone…I will have time to think about what I do to all of you when I get out of here," Bonnie folded her arms unflinching in her stare at her best friends.
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Damon sat on the floor of the cellar staring at the empty blood bag that he devoured after Stefan brought them an hour ago. The anger that bubbled below the surface was palpable. When he somehow got of this place, there would be no one to stop him from breaking some necks and making sure whomever had a part in this plan suffered.
Because he knew his brother so well, he knew that wherever they were keeping Bonnie, she was safe and not hurt. Stefan wouldn't do that and he also knew that Stefan was well aware that if anything happened to Bonnie, there would be no where anyone could hide from him.
Damon chuckled, they had no idea what they'd done by separating him and Bonnie. Even if he was calm and collected, Bonnie will burn this town down if she got so much of a headache because of this little plan of the Mystic Falls gang. Just thinking about how far he and the witch had come since they left town blew his mind. There were moments that he didn't think they would make it, but it was undeniable that they were each other's other half.
She burned an entire bar full of vampires and walked away as if there were just paper dolls. While he cared not one bit about their lives, he cared about Bonnie's. She was turning into someone unrecognizable. Her moodiness, fearlessness and the way she isolated herself from the rest of the crew made him suspicious.
There weren't many things he regretted in this world, but not reacting quickly enough to get them both out of that prison world haunted him. He left her there with that sociopath and tried to convince himself, despite how terrible it was, he convinced himself that she was dead. The thought of her being there alone with Kai and hurt tore him up inside. The night he found Ms. Cuddles gave him a new hope…a hope he hadn't felt in decades. Bonnie became his best friend and without her around, he felt like he couldn't completely breathe.
Walking into that kitchen, seeing her standing there looking like an absolute guardian angel, his body wasn't his own anymore, his arms outstretched and she just flew into them. They were perfect and she felt so at homel in them…he should have known then. It was one of the last times he saw a genuine smile on her face.
So after sitting around listening to Stefan, Elena, Caroline and Matt debate on how to get Bonnie to open up and share her feelings, Damon took off. She wouldn't respond to their melting faces or their words of sympathy. Bonnie Bennett needed tough love and he was just the one to give it—or he would die trying. He raised a fist to knock on the door, but before he could—the door opened and Bonnie was on the other side. Her face was unreadable, but he could see that she wasn't exactly settling in to watch her favorite TV show.
"So Judgey, thought you would come by the boarding house for awhile. Maybe celebrate you torching all those vamps with some bourbon," he smirked.
She turned away from him allowing him to follow her inside her dorm room, "Bon, you're not going to answer me?"
"Did they send you here to get me to snap out of whatever they think is wrong with me?" Bonnie stood by her dresser looking at a picture of her and her parents, when she was a young child. Damon had never seen it before and the large smile on her Bonnie's face in the picture made him frown. She had a happy life at one time.
"Who says there's something wrong with you?" I turned to her and she met my eyes nodding slowly.
"So there's nothing wrong with me?"
"I don't know, you tell me."
"I set a bar full of vampires on fire," she informed him as if he hadn't been there.
"Well their time was up anyway," Damon shrugged.
Bonnie threw a look at him, "The funny thing about that is…I didn't see a bar full of vampires, I saw a bar full of Kais," she swallowed, "I think I'm losing my mind actually," she chuckled without any humor, "I don't sleep anymore, you know. I spend all night thinking about when the next person will come. When I will have to fight to stay alive, IF I manage to stay alive. It's just hard and everyone here is just waiting…I don't know for what, maybe for me to break? I don't know. But I've already been broken, into a million pieces when I was left in that place alone."
"Aww Bon," Damon lifted his arm up to hug her, "Don't you dare," Bonnie warned him.
Damon dropped his arm, "So what do you want to do?"
"I don't know, sometimes I just want to leave here. Take off. Start something new or don't start anything new, just be for awhile."
Damon nodded.
"I am going to confess something and if you ever repeat it, I will burn you alive…but I enjoyed some of our time together in that other world. You were annoying as ever, but I enjoyed that I didn't have to cast any spells or save anyone…well until Kai showed up. I was just allowed to exist. To be."
Damon looked down at Bonnie, she had a faraway look on her face and yet, it was still a sad one, "Bon…what would you think about getting out of Mystic Falls for awhile?" he turned to her not exactly understanding how that proposal came out of his mouth. She turned to face his waiting eyes and she opened her mouth, but he noticed something in her eyes. They had some light in them, "You want to leave Mystic Falls for awhile…what, me, you and Elena?" she asked.
"Just me and you," Damon answered.
Bonnie's mouth turned down. There was no way, he was proposing this to her. Damon Salvatore would never leave Elena Gilbert to go around the world with her best friend and his, "Damon, that's a nice dream—but no," Bonnie shook her head moving away from him. There was a part of her that stewed with anger that he would dare bring that option up to her. Damon was in love with Elena, waited to be reunited with her for weeks and talked about her all the time, he would never give up a few seconds, let alone a few days with Elena to make sure Bonnie felt better.
"Bonnie, come on. We went through hell. I'm sure that we both could use some time away from this place. Besides, I know a lot about the world and I owe you. You sent me back, sacrificed your chance to leave that world and gave it to me. How many times have you saved my ass…let me save yours here, because Bennett—if you keep charging into places with vampires setting people on fire, there may be one night when you are not fast enough or strong enough and your time will run out. I don't want that to happen, so trust me on this. Let's get out of here for awhile."
"What about Elena?" Bonnie asked.
"She will understand. She wants the best for you, just like I do."
Bonnie looked over at Damon and nodded, "Ok…fine."
Damon chuckled. When he suggested that little trip with Bonnie, he believed he had every intention on coming back to Elena, but somewhere along the line—the witch took his heart and hadn't let go of it yet and he didn't want it any other way.
"What's that smile for?" Elena's voice hit him in the chest.
Damon looked up. The face that used to inspire him and make him believe that he was the luckiest man on earth suddenly made him angry, he rose from the floor quickly and rushed to the door, "Where's Bonnie?" he asked immediately.
Elena shook her head, "Are you seriously asking me that?"
"I am seriously asking you that," Damon answered.
"Don't you think you should have more to say, something along the lines of Hey Elena, long time no see…sorry that I dumped you over a text after taking off with your best friend orhow about I'm sorry Elena for what I did and I hope you can forgive me," Elena hissed at him with underlying venom.
"Elena, it's been three years and you've moved on haven't you?" Damon questioned, "you and Stefan cozy again? Everything is as it should be."
"That doesn't change…"
"It changes everything. Look, since you came down here and you want some type of explanation…here it is. I was gone for weeks. I was there with Bonnie in 1994 and I came back here and things just weren't the same."
"Damon, we were in love. You were ecstatic to be back with me. That doesn't change over night."
Damon looked down at the floor and then at Elena, "Do you know that after I came back I would call Bonnie's phone just to hear her voice and talk to her voicemail. That's how close we got, Elena."
Elena looked down at the floor for a few moments and slowly brought her head up as if she realized something, "Your humanity…you never turned it off," she whispered almost in disbelief.
Damon stayed quiet.
"This entire time!" Elena shrieked banging on the door, "you had your humanity on and you still chose…you chose to leave me behind the way you did? What kind of monster does that?"
"Elena…" Damon stated calmly, "I'm who I've always been. Now, I'm going to say this calmly. Let me out of here and tell me where Bonnie is, we will leave town and you can forget we both existed."
Elena looked Damon square in the eye, unblinking and twisted her lips into a snarl, "Rot in here," she hissed before turning and heading towards the stairs.
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Bonnie walked out of the powder room to Caroline standing on the other side of the invisible wall, "Elena left you alone here with me?" Bonnie teased.
"Bonnie, tell me what's going on?"
Bonnie looked around the living room, "Not much Caroline."
"What made you change?" Caroline asked.
"Dying one too many times?" Bonnie suggested.
"Bonnie, are you killing witches and taking their magic?"
Bonnie gasped in feigned annoyance, "Who's spreading those lies about me?"
Caroline frowned, "Stop it Bonnie."
Bonnie moved closer to the wall, "Do you know how many times I've died or come close to death before I left?"
"Bonnie we all had brushes with dea…"
"Caroline, no. We all did not go through what I went through. Do you know how it felt to die trying to bring back Jeremy and then being stuck? I was stuck for months watching you and Elena live out your lives with the people you loved. Then I was sucked into a prison world, terrorized by a sociopath and then I came back here. I wasn't the same. Each time I died, a piece of my soul faded away," Bonnie went on, "and I decided that I didn't like dying, so I needed to find a way to stop it."
"But how?"
"For every life I take…I add to mine. All the magic coursing throughout me, it keeps me young and pretty much immortal. It's what I deserve for everything that happened to me."
"But those witches Bonnie…"
"I don't care about them," Bonnie answered quickly, "and I really wish you would understand that."
Caroline sighed, "Bonnie, this is not you," she replied tiredly.
Bonnie was quiet for a few moments as she studied Caroline. Caroline was a friend that Bonnie knew would be easy to button push and if she was lucky, she would find a way to get her to let her out, "Caroline…hey…are Stefan and Elena back together?"
Bonnie noticed Caroline's eyes flutter to display annoyance, "Yes, they…they are dating."
"Really?" Bonnie asked surprised, "I thought you two would get together awhile ago. You know, get married and pretend you're not vampires…"
Caroline frowned, "Well Elena is the doppelganger," she sighed.
"And don't you get tired of playing second to her? With Matt…with Stefan…she gets them under her spell and they can never just let her go. Isn't that annoying? Don't you hate it?"
"Bonnie, I've moved on from that. It's not a big deal."
"Caroline, we always just shrug things off when it comes to Elena and her selfishness. Look at everything that changed in her life because of her obsession with the Salvatores?" Bonnie moved closer, "Katherine murdered you all to play into some greater plan. Elena is the cause of it all. How can you stand beside her or listen to her at all? We went through hell because of her."
"Bonnie, we are all friends," Caroline stated attempting to convince herself more than Bonnie.
"We were friends. I bet at the end of this, you will still have to hear about Elena complaining about how Damon left her even though she's with Stefan. You don't deserve that," Bonnie smiled sympathetically.
Caroline bit her lip, "You and Damon leaving changed so many things."
"Or brought things to light," Bonnie offered.
"Bonnie, I…I have to go," Caroline turned away from her and headed towards the stairs.
"Caroline, whenever you want to talk…I'm here!" Bonnie called after her watching her stop on the stairs and stare at her before heading up.
Bonnie smiled as she heard Caroline close the bathroom door on the second level, "It won't be long Damon," she whispered.
"What are you doing Bon!" he had followed her to the bar and was now, chasing her along the sidewalk as sheets of rain poured down on them. She didn't want to hear what he had to say about what he witnessed. She was so sure to be careful about him not finding out and now he had. Bonnie didn't want a lecture and if she was honest—when no one knew, it was easier.
"Leave me alone Damon!" she called behind her walking as quickly as her legs could muster. She should have known it was a waste of energy, when he appeared in front of her.
"I won't leave you alone until you tell me what the hell you were doing to that guy in there!" he pointed down the street.
She looked up at him, she was drenched and the lump in her throat grew, "Nothing."
"Nothing…oh it looked like something when he collapsed on the ground in convulsions. Did you give him a seizure?"
"No!"
"Then what did you do?" Damon asked.
"I took his power!"
Damon stood staring at her stunned, "You took his power?"
"Can we just go home?" she asked.
Damon looked down at Bonnie, her arms were folded across her chest and he could see her shivering a little. He'd spent hours searching for her after she stormed out of their apartment rental. He wanted to talk to her about a conversation he had with Elena, but she didn't bother to listen to him. She stormed out and left him trying to find her in every restaurant or bar within a 2-mile radius. When he finally walked into one of the college bars in the town of Swarthmore, PA, he saw her. She was in a booth talking to a guy and she placed her hand on his arm. He watched them for a moment and within a few seconds, there was a slight glow between them and the guy started convulsing. Damon called Bonnie's name, she let the guy go and that began their trek in the rain.
"We can go, but you are going to tell me what you did," he stated.
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Damon opened the door to the rental apartment and Bonnie walked in. She stood in the middle of the floor pacing for a few moments, "So Bon what was that?" he asked.
"Why do you care?" she bit back.
Damon couldn't believe her! His eyes bugged out, "Take a look at me! I've searched for you an hour in the rain! So I care, you better believe I care!"
"Why do you? Aren't you leaving me here? Isn't that what you were talking about with Elena, the fact that she misses you and wants you home? Damon, it's been 6 months. I get it. You've done your duty with me as a best friend and now you want to go home to Elena. Go! I don't need you here," Bonnie started to walk away as he grabbed her arm, "Let me go!" she shrieked trying to wrangle her arm from his grip.
He pulled her closer to him staring her down. She was breathing hard and her chest heaved as she met his stare, "I'm not leaving you," he stated through clenched teeth.
"Not tonight?" she countered.
"Not tonight and not any time soon."
"Why? I know Elena wants you home and what Elena wants she gets," Bonnie tried to get away from him, but he just pulled her closer continuing his gaze.
"She's not getting me."
Bonnie stared up at him, "Why not?"
"Because I'm lost to her…she said that tonight and she was right," his gaze softened, but his grip didn't. She needed to hear what he had to say, "when I decided to leave Mystic Falls, I walked away from her, our relationship and everything between us. I made a choice and I chose you. I chose you six months ago and I am still choosing you."
Bonnie blinked. He was lying to her. He wanted her to calm down and he thought this was the way to do it. She couldn't believe what he was saying. Bonnie wouldn't allow herself to. So much time passed since the day she realized that she had fallen for Damon Salvatore, but pushed all of those feelings down. Knowing that he was the one place she could go to when she returned from the prison world and could start to feel normal again—it was then, she knew her feelings changed. So standing here, in the middle of the apartment they'd shared for weeks, she refused to believe that he felt anything more than just friendship or gratitude, "Don't say things like that to me." The alternative was to earth shattering.
"You don't want the truth Bonnie?" he questioned, "I remember when you came back after being trapped. I remember walking in my kitchen…" he dropped his grip on her as she looked down at his hand and then met his eyes, "and you were standing there, why…why did you come to me?" he stated in almost a whisper.
Bonnie swallowed. She opened her mouth, but the words wouldn't leave it.
"Why did you come to me, Bonnie?" he pressed.
"Because coming to you, coming to the boarding house, felt like I was truly home," she whispered and noticed the color of his eyes darken a deeper shade of blue. She had admitted it and the subtle pull was no longer subtle, her body wanted him. The six months (or more, if she was being honest) had brought them to this moment and every bit of control that she built up where Damon was concerned had broken down, "can I please walk away now?" she whispered keeping her gaze on him.
"Only if you want to, because I'm not."
She nodded slowly turning around and walking slowly away from him.
"Bon," he called out to her quietly almost pleading.
It was just her name, but it said so much more. Her body moved almost of its own volition as it walked back over to Damon and she paused for only a second, before placing both of her hands on his cheeks and leaning into a kiss. The kiss was slow and probing for a few moments, until Damon wrapped his arm around her tiny torso bringing her closer to him. It was minutes before they broke the kiss, breathing heavily and staring into each other's eyes.
"You're wet," Damon stated cheekily.
"I am," Bonnie answered and as soon as the words left her mouth, Damon was moving them over to the couch while removing Bonnie's t-shirt. They hit the couch and their kisses intensified as Damon threw his shirt across the room, allowing Bonnie to take in his physique. Her hand trailed the ripples on his stomach as he unbuttoned her jeans and slid them down her legs. He straddled her, looking down waiting for the sign, she leaned up and kissed him. That was the last sign he needed before he quickly undressed himself and settled in between her legs.
"I'm not leaving you," he whispered softly in her ear.
"I believe you," she answered as he slowly entered her eliciting a gasp while he laced his fingers through hers.
Bonnie remembered that night like it was yesterday. It was a night that changed everything between them and for the first time since her Grams died, she believed that she had someone who was 100% in her corner. That she had someone who loved her; now, did she ever believe that person would be Damon Salvatore? No. But somehow he became that person and that person showed that he would do anything for her and she the same.
"There will be no mercy," Bonnie stated staring out into the empty living room beyond the invisible wall.
Damon has warned Stefan repeatedly…he won't listen. They are underestimating Bonnie and it may very well be to their detriment.
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