Madness Too
A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed (David Fishwick, Yson, Nightfallsupernova, BamonForEternity, Maverick37, Alexis, and XHush-HushX) and put this story on their favorites and alerts. I promised everyone that this story is dark and this chapter is one that is very dark. I think that this is a turning point in the story. I don't know how many chapters it's going to be but I'll give everyone a heads up when it comes close to the ending. Please, Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own TVD. All rights reserved to the CW and LJ Smith. I don't own anything expect for the plot.
"His eyes were of darkness
Reflected from his soul
His heart had been shattered
Left broken and cold
… My smile made him afraid
He thought he was in control
My eyes and hair turned black
Darkened like mine and his soul"
-Angel of Your Darkness
Darkened Souls
Bonnie slinked towards the large mahogany desk, everyone in the room watching her every move. She sat at the black, recliner chair and leaned, all with a smile on her face. The smile sent shivers down Katherine's spine, she knowing very well what that smile entailed.
"Tyler, you remember Katherine, right?"
Tyler looked towards the blonde who was holding his mother against her will. "Katherine?"
Blue eyes glared at the hybrid. "It is in fact me. My master decided that my chocolate locks were not suitable so hence the dye job."
Tyler turned back to the witch who was making herself comfortable in his father's chair. "You're evil again aren't you?"
"Abomination, I wouldn't call it evil. A better word for it would be diabolically dangerous. And that whole repenting was just for show. I tricked you all for my pleasure and now I'm back to fulfill my Godly duties."
Bonnie got up and moved around the front of the desk with her long nightgown swishing behind her. Her emerald eyes glowed a dull green as she sat on the desk pouring assorted papers to the floor.
"What do you want?" Tyler growled.
"I want many things, Elena's death and destruction, the world covered in darkness, etc. but what I want right now is a Consort. And my minion has informed me that I need a palace and a kingdom to do that. So what better place to set up shop than in Mystic Falls?"
Tyler wanted to move and rip Bonnie from head to toe. She had tricked them all and was here now threatening his mother for her sick pleasures. "I won't become your Consort."
A shrill laughter rang throughout the room causing the hybrid to flinch at the sound. He looked towards Katherine who wore a blank expression on her face.
"Did you really think that you would be my consort? How hilarious! Besides….I wouldn't do that to Caroline. No, I am going to take control of Mystic Falls."
An eerily silence filled the room as they took in what Bonnie had said. Carol in particular had been shocked at her statement. Did this mean that the woman holding her and Bonnie were going to kill her and Tyler as she took command of Mystic Falls?
The dark witch chuckled which broke them out of their thoughts. "Do not worry yourself Carol with such trivial things. I am not going to kill you or the hybrid, yet. You will still act at Mystic Falls' mayor but only as a figurehead. Like the Parliament in England, I will hold the true power. You will do what I say when I say. Is that clear?"
The woman did not want any harm to come to her only son. "Yes."
Bonnie turned her attention back towards Tyler who remained in place because of her spell. He had a look of fury written across his face which amused her. "You, abomination, are going to obey me. I will have obedience from you, correct?"
"No."
With a snap of her hands, Tyler was covered with black fire. His sudden combustion and the pain of fire licking his skin made the hybrid scream in pain. Katherine looked towards the hybrid and shook her head. He would learn soon enough that being in Hell was better than crossing the dark witch.
"Stop!" Carol screamed, her voice drowned out by the anguish screams coming from her son.
Tyler not only felt the flames on his skin but he could literally feel them inside his body. His enhanced strength may as well been nonexistent because the pain was ripping him apart. It felt like an eternity before the pain disappeared leaving the dark skinned hybrid on his knees breathing heavily.
"Are you ready to give in and obey? That dark fire is special because it not only burns the skin but the soul as well. Would you like another dose?" Bonnie asked innocently.
He looked up at his mother whose face was stained with tears. He sighed and looked up to the green eyes that held no emotion only a desire for hurting him. "Yes, I will obey."
The brunette nodded at Katherine who released Carol from her vampiric grasp. The older woman ran to Tyler and caressed him, careful of the angry red patches that adorned his brown skin. Bonnie got up from the desk and towered over the kneeling pair, a devious smirk on her face.
"The Lockwood family serving a Bennett witch? How ironic how things have changed." The witch giggled at the sheer humor. She moved the brunette out of the way and grabbed Tyler's healing chin forcefully making him look her in the eye, her nails digging into the still healing skin which made the hybrid wince at the pain.
"Get up, you filthy abomination. You and your mother have lots of work to do for me. Oh and minion," She turned towards Katherine who had watched the entire display quietly.
"Yes, Master?"
"Prepare the master bedroom for me. We have a big day ahead of us tomorrow and I want to enjoy all of my beauty sleep."
Katherine nodded to the witch and watched as Bonnie made her way out of the room and up the grand staircase. Her attention turned back towards the kneeling mother and son who looked at her with pure hate.
"Don't look at me like that. I'm forced to obey just as you two are."
The former doppelgänger walked towards the door, ignoring them on her way but Carol hastily stood up and grabbed her arm preventing her from leaving. "Wait! Don't you have any advice on how to get out of this?"
Katherine narrowed her blue eyes at the woman before her. "I've seen what Bonnie can do and trust me when I say this, your best interest is to follow her every command. She can and will do worst things to you if you don't." She shrugged off Carol's grip off her arm. "Now if you excuse me, I have to prepare our Master's bedroom."
Katherine used her vampiric speed to race out of the room leaving a now sobbing Carol and a now fully healed Tyler in the study. Both of them looked at each other seeing the reality of their hopeless situation. There was nothing they could do but to go along to the demands of one very evil Bonnie Bennett.
Damon was dreaming again, this he knew. He needed to know if that dream he had with Bonnie was just a one-time fluke. So that's why he retreated up back to his room after the fiasco with Caroline and Elena. The blonde was right, what he and Elena did was wrong and he deserved anything and everything the young vampire threw at him. But her vengeance would have to wait until he helped Bonnie.
An eerie chill ran down his spine as he studied the land before him. The grass around him were burnt and charred and the tar-like smell of smoke clogged the air above him. The plain around him was deserted, as if whoever used to occupy the land had fled in the wake of the fire. He headed north and every step he took, the smoke became worse.
"Bonnie?" Damon called out into the void.
The only sound he could hear was his own echo that vibrated back towards him.
"Bonnie?" He called out again only to receive the same result. He continued to walk, lost in his own thoughts. As he got to a singed clearing, he noticed an immobile figure that had their back to him. He took notice of the chocolate curls that flowed down that person's back and ran to her, his Bonnie.
"Bonnie!" Damon yelled as he got closer to her but the figure had yet to turn around. He leaped forward and wrapped his arms around her, dipping his head in her luscious silky locks.
"God Bonnie, I missed you." He said inhaling her scent. He was waiting for her signature scent of honey, cinnamon, and earth to invade his senses but all he got was a breath of suffocating smoke. Bonnie moved out of his grasp and walked a few feet from him.
She turned around to face him and he watched as tears started to flow down her honey colored cheeks. "Damon, please. You have to help me. You're the only who can!" Bonnie cried.
Damon moved to comfort her but was stopped by a wall of fire that sprung up between them. A scream broke from Bonnie's lips and he watched as the witch appeared on a stake. Her feet and hands were tied together and her head hung low. The fire had surrounded her and he knew from their talks when they were together that this was her worst nightmare, to be burned at the stake because she was a witch.
As the fire around her grew in intensity, Damon forced himself to go through the flames only to be thrown back a few feet from her. He watched in sorrow as Bonnie's heartbreaking sobs tore through him.
"Bonnie!" He yelled. The dark haired vampire tried to reach her again but his efforts proved useless as he was once more thrown back from her. The fires had risen higher, consuming the witch in front of him. Tears flowed from his crystal blue eyes as he watched the love of his life be eaten by orange and red flames and he was powerless to stop it.
"Damon! Save me, please!" She cried before she was swallowed up by the flames that had formed around her. Her anguished screams ripped through his soul as he heard her take her final breath.
"Mor…gan…a..." Bonnie whispered as she took her last and final breath. The wall of fire disappeared and Damon was greeted with the sight of an empty stake. Bonnie's charred remains were nowhere to be found only the stench of scorched flesh and smoke.
"NO! BONNIE!" He cried heavily as the sky darkened and boomed with looming thunder. The rain started to fall, heavily, as to mask his tears and pain form the world around him. As the scenery around him darkened and faded into oblivion, Damon thought of nothing but the petite with he loved.
Damon woke up gasping as the reside of the dream weighed heavily on his mind. God he had lost her again to her nightmares and he could still smell the smoke. It clung to his skin like cologne, only more potent and suffocating. But she was trying to tell him something, she was in trouble and someone named Morgana was either he captor or her savior.
The familiar ring of his phone broke his train of thought. He reached over to his nightstand and grabbed it, glancing at the unknown number that flashed across his screen. Taking a leap, he slid his index finger over the answer button and a female voice flowed through the device.
"Hello?" The voice timidly asked.
"Who is this and how did you get this number?" He asked annoyed.
"My name is Tatiana and I am looking for a Damon Salvatore."
Black eyebrows arched up as the caller identified herself. "This is he. What the hell do you want?"
There was a pause before Tatiana responded. "I was to contact you if something happened to some members of my lineage. I'm very sorry if I called you at a bad time."
"What is your last name?" The vampire asked thought he knew it already.
"Bennett-Johnson. My aunt is Lucy Bennett."
"Tatiana, what happened to Lucy?" Damon knew deep down that something was very wrong if Lucy wasn't calling him herself.
"Lucy passed away a few days ago. She and others were brutally murdered by an unknown killer. I-I don't know how it happened. It was during one of her coven's monthly rituals and she always made sure to put up wards that prevented non humans from entering." A sob escaped the woman and Damon could hear her openly crying on the other end of the receiver.
"Are you a witch?"
It took a minute or two before Tatiana could get a comprehensible word out between her sobs. "N-no."
Damon breathed out a sign of relief. That was one less Bennett he had to worry about. "Where was Lucy killed?"
"M-Montgomery, Alabama."
"Thanks, and Bennett?"
"Yeah?" She asked, holing her tears.
"Stay safe."
With that he hung up the phone and stared at it for a little while before placing it back on his nightstand. Lucy was dead, killed by someone human and had enough power to take out a coven. This conclusion bothered him. Someone wanted the coven out of the way and plowed through a coven to get to it. It didn't make any sense. Was the same person who killed Lucy the same person that was keeping Bonnie?
Damn, he had also failed Emily. Even though their deal was broken, he still kept up the task of protecting the Bennett line. Sure, the line hated him and on many occasions tortured him for some reason or another, yet he still made sure he kept an eye on them. And the murder of one was, to him, a direct challenge.
Sighing, he sped around the room looking for his leather jacket and his contact list. He needed to find this Morgana person and fast. She was the person that was going to help him find Bonnie. She had to be because he didn't think that his undead heart could stand seeing Bonnie killed again because of his uselessness.
Stefan glanced at the brunette who was currently sitting next to him in his car. Stefan had suggested that they took in a movie in an effort to cheer her up after the fiasco with Caroline. Now, sitting next to her as they parked outside her house was uncomfortable to say the least. They both were silent as they sat there, both lost in their own thoughts.
After a minute or two, Elena glanced at the vampire and spoke, slightly smiling. "Thanks for talking me out Stefan. I enjoyed it, really."
Stefan rested his arm on the window sill of the door on his side and looked at her. "It was no problem. You needed it." His words seemed hollow. He knew it was her own fault that things played out the way that it did and a part of him wondered why he was cheering her up anyways.
Elena ran a hand through her brown locks, nervously pushing them behind her ear. All throughout the movie, not once did Stefan reach out for her hand nor did he drape his arm behind her seat. It was frustrating how close he was and still so far away.
"I've missed you." Elena said quietly but she knew he could still hear it. The brunette missed him terribly and tonight proved just how much. She had ached for his touch, his slightly cooler hand entwined in her own. He was a breath of fresh air and she had yearned for it all night.
The brown haired vampire sighed. In an effort to calm himself, he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Elena, I won't lie to you. I've missed you but I don't think I can act on my feelings just yet."
"Why not Stefan? I've told you that I'll do whatever it takes and I'm sticking to it."
"Elena, I'm torn towards my feelings towards you. One part of me wants to forgive you, you know that. The other side wants to see you just like I saw Katherine, a manipulative and hateful person." He glanced at the road ahead of him. "Maybe tonight was a mistake."
Chocolate eyes watered with tears and Elena had to wipe them away before they could spill. With his words, Elena felt her heart burst inside her chest. "It wasn't for me, Stefan. I truly believe that we can overcome this just as everything else we have faced."
With that, she opened the door and got out, closing it as she moved away from the car. He watched as she opened the door to her house. Before she walked in, she glanced back at him with teary eyes before she turned away and closed the door behind her. Stefan started up the car and drove away, making sure he didn't glace back at the white house. Elena needed to hear the truth and he was going to be honest with her.
Driving down the narrow road, he stopped at a red light being the ever cautious driver. He took the moment to run his hands through his already tussled brown hair. Elena. He both loved and hated the effect she had on him but he had to give his broken and betrayed heart some time to heal and she was not making it easy on him. The stop light changed to green and he had prepared to lightly press on the acceleration pedal when movement out of the corner of his eye caught his attention.
It was subtle but it was enough for him to catch it. He glanced around the interior of the car, seeing nothing was out of place. I must be going crazy. He thought as he chuckled to himself.
"You're not crazy Stefan. In fact, you are quite the opposite."
Stefan whirled his head around to the passenger seat only to see a familiar face starting back at him.
"Bonnie, what are you doing here?" Stefan asked clearly confused as to her sudden appearance. He glanced at her from head to hoe. She was wearing a delicate white nightgown that seemed to be floor length with a robe made of the same material and color. Her curly locks seemed longer and darker, almost to a black color. She smiled at him, her pink lips glistening with lip gloss. Bonnie never wore lipstick.
"Oh Stefan. I've come to Mystic Falls in order to reclaim it as my own personal kingdom. I have a palace and servants as well as power but I'm missing something Stefan and you're going to give it to me."
He watched as she slowly moved over to his side of the car, her green eyes twinkling with glee. The vampire tried to move away but it proved impossible as he couldn't move at all. He could only watch as she sat in his lap, licking her lips while running he fingers through his hair.
"What's that?"
He watched in horror as her green eyes bled black. "Revenge on your brother as my Consort. I told you we would continue this at another time and I am a woman of my word."
She lowered her lips to his. The warm sensation that Stefan felt on his chilly lips was indescribable. Sure Bonnie had kissed him once, but what he was feeling now was…sensational. In the back of his mind he knew this was wrong. Bonnie didn't kiss him without an agenda and the last time proved it, she wanted to cause misery to his brother and Elena for the breaking of her heart.
But as he tried to halt her advances, he felt that sinister aura emanate from Bonnie. The more he struggled against her, the more the aura intensified. It sent dark chills up and down his spine making the witch in front of him giggle. Just as he experienced before, the enormous aura breathed into him, forcing him to accept it as his own. It fogged up his mind, luring him with dark temptations and malicious thoughts.
Bonnie kissed him fervently, sensing as the Darkness latched onto its host. It clung to him like an inky, web-like substance, a parasitic organism attaching to its ignorant host. The vampire in front of her growled and she pulled back only to watch as his eyes changed to black, resembling her own and veins form under his eyes. She caressed his cheek and watched with a smile on her face as Stefan took her hand and kissed it lovingly.
"My Goddess." He breathed, glancing into the face of his Goddess. The glow radiating from her seemed to bathe him in its light and soothed him.
"Welcome back, Ripper."
A/N: Ahh! Ripper Stefan has come out to play! And what does she mean, revenge on Damon? Dark Bonnie is now controller of Mystic Falls and of Tyler and the Mayor. That's not a good sign. Now that Damon has been informed of Lucy's death and a clue from Bonnie in his dream, will Damon save Bonnie in time? As for thursday's episode, Caroline is now in a love triangle again, this time is Klaus, Caroline, and Tyler. I was glad to see Stefan helping out with Elena. Damon is getting too much like Stefan and it's not a pretty sight. And the sleeping with Rebekah? Low point. Another Rose if you ask me. Also, where was Bonnie? She would've looked very awesome in a ball gown too. I would Love to know what everyone thinks about the chapter!
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