Okay so it's been a while... Sorry about that...
I have been trying to write the next chapter before I posted this one, but it's taking a while. (Damn school)
I do have half of the chapter written though so I should finish it soon.. (She says hopefully)
So anyway, without further ado, Miss Bonnie McCullough.
~ Bonnie ~
"Ugh! I'm bored… Can we do something interesting? I'm sick of sitting here watching you read that god-damn book…"
Bonnie looked innocently up at Mirror-Bonnie. "Don't say that… It's a good book…" She mumbled.
"Look I'm sorry… I didn't mean to be… well.. mean… I'm just bored. Can we please do something else?" Mirror-Bonnie implored.
"Did you just say please?" Bonnie stared disbelievingly. "Well, I can't say no now, can I?" She giggled. Mirror-Bonnie sighed in relief.
"So… What should we do?" Mirror-Bonnie contemplated. "Oh, I have an idea!" Mirror-Bonnie snapped her fingers and the stereo shot to life, playing a song.
"Oh I love this song!" Bonnie exclaimed. "Let's dance!" She giggled.
Mirror-Bonnie laughed, but proceeded to dance along to the music. Both were unaware of what was happening at the other side of the door that was situated across the room.
~ Stefan and Co. ~
"STEFAN!" Stefan and Meredith turned to the door in time to see Elena running up the stairs. The expression on her face had them on their feet in an instant. However, as Elena skidded through the door they watched in horror as her foot caught on Matt's – who was still sleeping soundly beside the bed – and began to fall. On instinct Elena's hands shot out to grab something as she proceeded to tumble over the bed, bringing Bonnie with her.
"Elena!" Stefan raced to her side immediately and helped her off the floor. Meredith stood frozen in place taking in the scene. "Ah, Stefan…" She spoke as Stefan and a limping Elena came to join her. They looked up and followed her gaze to where Bonnie's glowing body was curled up on the floor by the bed. Elena's eyes went wide.
"Oh my g-" Elena was cut off as they heard the window slide open. All eyes – including a now awake Matt – shot to the window to see a smirking Damon perched on the windowsill. No one moved or made a sound.
"What? Resurrected vampire got your tongues?" He mocked before his vision caught the green glow to his right. Now it was Damon's turn to be speechless. There on the floor curled in a ball – with barely any clothes on – laid his Redbird. He was suddenly overcome with worry and an insistent need to cover her up. Damon stepped down from the window into the room, eyes never leaving Bonnie.
"Damon…" Stefan's unsure voice called as Damon approached the glowing body his little witch.
"Well, look who found their tongue." Damon glanced quickly at Stefan over his shoulder before returning his gaze to Bonnie again. "And don't worry little brother, I know how to control myself around powerful blood. Rest assured I won't have the same reaction you had."
"You- You've been watching us?"
Damon ignored the question. Leaning down he scooped up Bonnie bridal style. "Poor little Redbird." He whispered softly while carrying her back to her bed. When he got there he turned to Matt and cleared his voice and turning to glare at the neatly made bed. "Sometime today would be nice Mutt." He growled. Matt couldn't help but smirk a little at the nickname. He hurried over to Damon and hastily pulled down the blankets of the bed. "Great, someone give the boy a medal. You can go now." Damon hissed impatiently at Matt.
Once Matt had retreated to where the others were standing - staring unbelievingly at Damon – Damon placed Bonnie on the bed and pulled the covers up before whispering in her ear and gently placing a light kiss on her forehead. Only then did he turn and confront the others in the room. "So, who wants to explain to me what happened to my witch?"
Surprisingly it was Elena who spoke up. "We- We don't know. She was supposed to meet us at the boarding house earlier and when she didn't show up we came to check on her. When we got here she was glowing like that and floating above the bed. Ms. Flowers said she had put herself in sort of meditative coma and because of her druid heritage, something else happened and that we couldn't touch her or that she's get trapped in her mind forever and she'd never wake up." By the end of her explanation Elena was in tears. "It's all my fault. I fell and knocked into her and now she'll never wake up."
~ Bonnie ~
Bonnie was once again sitting on the couch, curled up staring at the television.
This time the little girl looked about five years old. She looked frightened as she clung to the leg of an older woman that Bonnie presumed was her mother.
The woman smiled down at the little redhead and tried to pry her off her leg. "Come on honey. It's not going to be that bad. Trust me everything will be fine. You'll make lots of new friends." The little girl didn't seem to agree. She held on tighter to her mother's leg and shook her head furiously.
"Uh uh! I won't. I wanna go home with you. I don't wanna stay here!" Tears began to pool in the girls eyes.
"You have to go to school Bon-Bon. I'll go in with you, okay? Everything will be fine, trust me."
The show seemed to skip forward to a later time. The little girl was sitting on the grass outside the school building as other kids played around her. She looked down at the doll in her hands, smiled and hugged her close. Suddenly the doll was snatched from her hands and the girl looked up to see some boys poking her doll like it was a bug or something. "Hey! Give her back!" She shouted at them, standing up. When she tried to take the doll back the boys raised the doll above their heads and tossed it back and forth.
Suddenly a girl in with dark hair ran over. "Leave her alone!" She shoved the boy with the doll and took it back, handing it back to the little redhead. "Now go away." She waved her hand at them dismissively and turned to the girl with a smile on her little face. "Hi. I'm Meredith!" She beamed, thrusting her hand out. The girl took her hand and shook it. "I'm Bonnie." The little redhead replied, smiling and holding her doll tightly to her chest.
The two girls sat on the grass and continued to play for a few minutes, when the sound of oncoming footsteps alerted them. They looked up to see a little blonde girl in a blue dress pulling a blonde boy along behind her. She came to a stop in front of Bonnie and Meredith, causing the boy to bump into her. She giggled before introducing herself.
"Hi! I'm Elena! And this is Matt. We were wondering if we could play with you because those boys are no fun." She shot a look at the group of boys that had previously been bothering Bonnie. Bonnie and Meredith smiled and welcomed the blondes and introduced themselves. The four sat there like that, playing and giggling, then the television screen once again went black.
Bonnie sat there in wonder. She thought over what she had just seen. She turned in her seat to look to Mirror-Bonnie who was standing with her arms crossed looking at Bonnie expectantly. Bonnie smiled. "The little girl has the same name as me! Well, us.." She stated proudly, not noticing the look of disappointment that crossed Mirror-Bonnie's face.
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Bonnie was walking through the grass and flowers when the rumbling began and the ground began to shake violently. Looking around quickly she couldn't understand what was happening. Not even thinking she ran for the safety of the cabin. Even while stumbling it didn't take her long to get there and burst into the cabin looking wild. If it was any other situation Mirror-Bonnie would have laughed, but now really wasn't the time.
"What's happening?" Bonnie shouted, looking more frightened than ever.
"Someone must have disturbed our body." Mirror-Bonnie replied, trying to keep calm for Bonnie's sake.
"What?" There was another violent shake and it made both Bonnie and the mirror fall to the floor of the cabin. It lasted only seconds but it was enough to make Bonnie get up, run to her bed and curl into a ball and cry. After that it stopped. Nothing happened for what felt like hours, but Bonnie knew it was only minutes. Then Bonnie suddenly felt comforted and began to relax into the bed. Just before she gave into the darkness of sleep she heard the sweetest voice whisper, "Rest now Redbird." Feeling warmth on her forehead Bonnie gave in and drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
~ Damon, Stefan and Co. ~
Damon stood staring out the window of Bonnie's room, an annoyed expression set on his face. There was only so much of this he could take. "You know, it's rude to stare." He snapped. This seemed to shake them out of their slight stupor. He could no longer feel their steady gazes on his back, so he turned back to face them again. Elena and Stefan had left the room due to her unstable and guilty state, which left Damon, Matt and Meredith - who were both now examining their shoes.
"Well, Mutt and Scary Mary… I'd like to say it's nice to see you again, but under the current…" He glanced at Bonnie's glowing, motionless body. "Circumstances, I don't think that's very true…" His voice faded towards the end of his statement and he had a look on his face like he was far away. It's didn't take him long to snap back to reality and his infamous smirk returned. "But don't flatter yourself Mutt. I probably wouldn't have been happy to see you either way." Despite his best efforts to scowl, Matt once again couldn't help the smile that stretched across his face at the insult. Even he had missed Damon to some extent. He missed their arguments and the insulting tone and disgust their voices held as they spoke to each other. Of course, for obvious reasons, he would never actually admit that out loud. He'd never live it down.
To Matt's unholy displeasure he looked up to see a smirking Damon leering at him. "You heard that didn't you?" He flushed slightly from embarrassment.
"Don't worry Mutt. I'll never out your secret. Hell, I'd miss me too. Oops, did I just say that?" Damon was making the most of the Mutt's embarrassment. It was keeping his mind off the fact that Bonnie – his Bonnie – was laying lifelessly on the bed just behind him. He didn't have to love her for him to think of her as his. He had always thought of her that way. Ever since that first night they met. The night she didn't remember. The first time he saved her life. He didn't have to love her for her to be his. Did he?
"I really need to start wearing vervain again." Matt sighed as he turned to Meredith, who had been watching the scene in amusement. Even if he didn't realize it, everyone knew that Matt missed Damon, at least a little. Hell, even Meredith had, and she wasn't afraid to admit it. She was glad he was back, for her friends' sake, of course. Meredith didn't like vampires… Okay so maybe she was being a little in denial, but everyone was allowed to be sometimes.
"It's good to have you back Damon." Meredith smiled genuinely at Damon – who was now stroking the hair out of Bonnie's face while gazing expressionlessly at her. "And since no one else has said it yet, thank you for saving Bonnie. Though I wish she was actually here to see you. She'd probably be clinging to you right now." Meredith didn't try to hide the sorrow from her face and in doing so she had time to notice the sorrow that sparked in Damon's eyes at her words. He really did care about Bonnie. Maybe even loved her. Meredith guessed he always had, in his own way. He might not have always acted like it, but it tended to show, like at that present moment. And it was times like those that Meredith felt real hope. That perhaps Damon and Elena would see sense and realize that the person they truly belong with has been right in front of them all along…
Yay! So Damon's back.. I know he's a little OOC in this chapter but I tried to stay as true to his character as I could while keeping to the storyline.
Also, I love that Damon has a nickname for everyone, so he'll probably use them a lot in this story.
So what did you all think? Please don't be too disappointed, I'm actually quite proud of this chapter.
I hope the have the next chapter up soon but I'm a terrible procrastinator so don't hold me to that.
P.s. What about the "tv show" Bonnie watches?.. ;)