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Bonnie felt at peace as she slept on Damon's shoulder. Damon unwillingly looked down at her and decided against shifting his body because he didn't want to disturb her. Everyone in the limo was in shock as Bonnie slept against Damon as if it was something that she usually did. They were quiet as the limo sped to the boarding house. Jeremy clenched his hands into fists as he continued to stare at Damon and Bonnie. Not too long ago he had held Bonnie against his chest at the decades dance and now she was against someone who he disliked.
Caroline was now at a loss for words, so she continued to munch on her food that was almost finished. She would have a talk with Bonnie later. In fact she needed to talk to Stefan too. Elena sat next to Stefan, watching as her best friend was against the other man she also liked. A question went through her mind Are they meant to be together?
Damon wanted to encircle Bonnie into an embrace but not in front of everyone and he didn't know why. When the limo pulled onto the driveway of the Boarding House, everyone slowly stepped out. Damon and Bonnie were left in the limo alone. "Bonnie wake up," Damon said, gently nudging her shoulder. "It's time to wake up," he prodded her side. He blew into her ear then but that didn't work. Damon could see her eyes move rapidly behind closed lids and after a moment, he slid his hands beneath her petite form and was going to lift her, when Jeremy showed up.
"What's wrong with her?" Jeremy questioned.
"She's sleeping," Damon informed him.
Jeremy started shaking Bonnie when Damon pushed him away. "Stop," Damon said, as he lifted Bonnie. Taking her and holding her like a fragile Fed Ex box, he entered the boarding house.
"What's wrong with her?" Elena and Caroline asked in unison. Concern spread across Stefan's face.
"She's sleeping," he said to the others, but Damon had a feeling that something else was up as he placed Bonnie on the couch. Getting a blanket from his wardrobe, he whizzed past the others and covered her.
"What's going on?" Caroline asked.
"I think the doppelgangers want something," he said, turning to look at Jeremy, who just walked in. "In fact I don't think I know they do."
After a moment he said, "I know what they want," he paused for effect.
"Well what do they want?" Elena said.
"They want Caroline," he said, "and they can have you," Damon said, smiling at Caroline. "We will gladly trade you in for Carolina."
Caroline was on him in a flash. "You think you're funny do you?" Caroline said, throwing him against the ground. Everyone turned to Bonnie, thinking that the noise would wake her, but she was fast asleep.
"What makes you think something is up?" Caroline asked with a hand on her hip, as she looked down at Damon.
Damon got up quickly and scanned everyone before he spoke. "Bonnie and I heard them discussing some plan and Devon mentioned that he didn't have powers yet," he said, nodding his head. He relayed everything that happened, including that Devon had kissed Bonnie and he could feel the uneasiness that had settled over everyone.
"So what should we do?" Elena said, her eyes already tearing up because she hadn't expected this.
"For now, we should all just stay here for tonight. There are enough bedrooms for everyone and it's been a long night," Stefan said, crossing his arms over his chest and Caroline giggled as she thought about how different Stefan was from Steven.
Damon's eyes flicked over to her and she stuck out her tongue at him. Everyone watched as Jeremy sat beside Bonnie and took her hand and held it in his. "You said Devon kissed her?" Jeremy asked Damon.
"Yeah," Damon said, wondering if the boy was jealous.
"Well," Jeremy said, "what if when he kissed her, he did something to her," he said, glancing at Bonnie.
Everyone knew that that was possible, but no matter how hard they began to try to wake her from, tickling her, talking through a bull horn, slamming cymbals together, nothing had worked. Bonnie and Caroline shared a room, while Stefan and Elena were together, and Jeremy had a room all to himself.
Damon couldn't sleep, so he played chess against the computer, imagining the opposing team as the doppelgangers. He heard Caroline wake up from bed and meet Stefan in the library, as Bonnie and Elena continued to sleep. He then heard Elena get up and go to the kitchen and make tea. He listened as Caroline and Stefan talked.
He heard as Caroline said to Stefan, "How about tonight?" and Damon could just imagine her smiling as he moved a pawn forward.
Stefan said awkwardly, "Yeah that was something."
Then he switched and heard Elena go into Bonnie's room.
"Bonnie wake up, I made you some chamomile tea," and Damon smiled at Elena's feeble attempt. As he looked at the screen he muttered in disgust as he lost his queen.
He heard Elena's frustrated sigh, but then he heard the cup fall and shatter.
"We would never," he heard Stefan and Caroline say at the same time. Then he heard Elena's scream reverberate throughout the house. Caroline and Stefan held hands as they ran toward the bedroom. Damon ended his chess game (he was losing anyway) and headed toward the scream. Jeremy turned the TV off and ran out of his room. As everyone came running into the bedroom, they came to Elena, cautiously as she pointed at a sleeping Bonnie. Elena just motioned her hand toward Bonnie as a child would blame the other as the culprit of a prank.
"Elena what happened?" Caroline said, as she examined the shards of the cup and spilled tea.
Elena just sniffled and shook her head. Damon came over to her and held her face in his hands.
"Elena what happened?" he asked softly and gently, looking into her eyes. "Take your time," he said, encouraging her, yet curious as to what had occurred.
She loved when Damon treated her like this and just looking into his beautiful eyes made her feel comforted. "I was offering her tea," she heaved, "and then suddenly her eyes fluttered open and oh my gosh Damon," she yelled out as if it were happening again. Damon held her as she cried against him, but then she turned to Stefan, who had disengaged his hand from Caroline. Elena now started to cry against Stefan's chest.
"Elena what happened?" Jeremy asked in what came out as an angry tone.
"Her eyes," Elena lifted her head to look at her brother, "they glowed. Like a cat's eyes."
Damon went over and sat beside Bonnie. "I'll stay with her tonight," he said to the others.
"No I will," Jeremy said.
"No you won't. What are you even doing here, you're just a child, you can't help her," he said.
"How about we take shifts," Jeremy thought.
Damon shook his head. "I think not."
"What if you fall asleep?"Jeremy questioned.
"Then Freddy will come and get me," Damon said already livid.
"I don't think I can sleep tonight," Elena said, sadly looking at her friend.
"You have to though," Caroline said, widening her eyes and grasping Elena's arm.
"Why?"
"Remember we have a test tomorrow," Caroline said regretfully.
"You guys have a test tomorrow and you decided to party," Jeremy said, "and I thought I was bad."
"Shut up," Elena and Caroline said in unison and smiled at each other. "Tomorrow's Friday, so we we forgot Jer okay."
"I can compel your teacher," Damon suggested.
"No Damon don't," Elena said. "We shouldn't have gone to the party, but at least we know that they are no good."
"They definitely did something to Bonnie," Stefan said and everyone looked as Bonnie lay there, quiet.
Elena yawned, causing Jeremy to yawn and it went around. "Let's just go get some sleep," Stefan said.
They filed out, while Damon stayed and sat on the chaise, just staring at Bonnie. Then something eerie started to happen and at first he thought he was just imagining it, but as he continued to look, he saw Bonnie smiling. Yes she was smiling, the corners of her lips upturned. He got up and slowly walked toward her.
"Stop it, he's noticing," Devon said to Connie.
"Well how else was I supposed to know it was working," Connie said.
"So what was that with her eyes glowing and all?" Devon asked.
"She was like a lighthouse that's all, just searching," Connie shrugged.
"Yeah, but you can control her now," Devon said, trying to follow Connie.
Connie nodded. "Yeah, but Damon's watching her, so I'm going to have to do another spell later. Anyway, we'll have to wait, but for now, we can just," Connie stopped talking and moved Bonnie's lips into a thin line, all the while, relishing Damon's confused expression as he went to sit back down.
"The spell only incapacitated her for a while, so I'm going to have to do the switch sooner than I thought," Connie said, and Devon could see the wheels turning in her head.
"Yeah but it didn't work soon enough, we don't know what they talked about when they got home," Devon said.
Connie hissed. "Just stop it. Look Bonnie is a vessel right now, we can get her to do practically anything, but we don't want to be too obvious, so let's just get her out and get me in," Connie said with an attitude.
"Oh, I know what this is about," Devon, said smiling.
"What?" Connie asked.
"It's about the kiss isn't it?"
"No."
"Yes it is," Devon said not convinced at all.
"No it didn't mean anything," Connie said, but she sounded doubtful.
"That's right it didn't mean anything," Devon said, wrapping an arm around Connie's shoulder.
"She's here," Carolina announced, without knocking on Connie's bedroom.
"No please no," Connie said. "I really don't need this tonight.
"Same thing?" Devon asked Carolina.
"Yep," she said bored.
Connie and Devon drew the curtains and watched as people still danced, while others began to clean. Her eyes roamed and she spotted her, lying down in the middle of the dance floor. "Typical," she said under her breath. She shook her head as Helen got up off the ground and threw herself on the floor again, another one of her usual and frequent fainting spells. Connie couldn't be bothered with this not right now. She felt guilty for the way she had treated Steven after Damon and his gang had went home. After Steven had winked at her, she had given him an aneurysm that had him stumbling well after it was over.
"I need your brother's help," she said to Devon.
"He'll help us," Devon said confidently.
"He has to, after all we all want the same thing," Connie said. Devon looked at Connie, and she could tell that he was really worried about the whole thing.
Connie opened Bonnie's eyes slightly and she was grateful that the spell had allowed her to see in the dark, but more importantly she was elated that Damon did the one thing he said he wouldn't: he slept.
Reluctantly, Damon had dozed off, he tried to stop, he really did, but all he kept thinking was the interlopers, which is what he decided to call them now. Bonnie sat up and stared at Damon, with her glowing eyes and she moved jerkily off the bed, whispering softly as she walked. The boarding house was now sound proof.
Meanwhile, Devon and Connie were on their way, as Pat drove them to the boarding house, Bonnie waited. "What about Elena?" Devon questioned Connie.
"Let's not worry about her," Connie dismissed him.
Bonnie waited outside as the car stopped in front of her. Connie got out of the car and studied Bonnie and said a spell to copy her attire.
"Hey, be safe and I love you," Devon said, pulling in Connie for a kiss and that just made her cry against him. Rubbing her cheeks of her tears, she looked at him and said, "I'll try." Connie walked toward the boarding house with poise as Devon took Bonnie by the hand and led her into the car.
Connie opened the door to the boarding house, her eyes glowing as well and went into the bedroom with a sleeping Damon.
So that's it for now. I hope you enjoy this chapter and here are some questions. Will Damon realize that that's not Bonnie? What's going to happen to Bonnie? Anyway, until next time.