Possession
What happens to Bonnie when Damon and Enzo have been gone for months without a word? Damon comes back without his humanity, and he only wants one thing- BONNIE!
Chapter 7 – Nightmares
Rating M For maturity This is a BAMON story!
*I do not own these characters
*Happy reading lovelies and thank you to my supporters.
Bonnie woke up to an empty bed. She still smelled the lingering scents of their sweaty bodies. The sheets were doused in blood and she realized she was fed Damon's blood. He had fed off of her a great deal and once again, Bonnie was left with his marks. All over her body. She realized she was left with his marks to ensure she wasn't drinking from anyone else. Once again Bonnie was left with the scars of the darkness that is Damon. A man she loved and tried her hardest not to. Apparently, he still had the power to leave his marks on her, even if he fed her his blood, because he claimed her.
When Bonnie stepped into the shower, she felt the sting of his power on her. From her shoulders to back to her hips and inner thighs, he stung her with his venom. Her thoughts reminded her of the night before and she was lost in her memories, until she heard an unfamiliar knock at the door. She knew it wasn't Damon because he never knocked.
"Just a minute." She assumed it was Caroline.
Bonnie wrapped herself in a towel, covered her shoulders with her hair, covered the blood on the sheets and walked over to the door, slowly opening it she saw, "Caroline?"
"Yeah, Hey Bon. Can I come in?"
"Sure. I thought you guys were going to Texas. I thought you were going to see Josie and Lizzie"
"I was, and then something came up on his end and Alaric had to reschedule. So I will be going back in a couple of weeks."
"Wow, well come in?"
"So, Uhh. What's been going on. It seems as though more than sleeping has been happening in this room?"
"What, Caroline? No way."
"Bonnie, I can smell it. I can smell Damon and you and…"
"It's nothing. I promise."
"Bon, come on, I told you I went to see Klaus."
"That is all you said. You didn't say what you and Klaus did."
"Bonnie Stefan is on his way here. When we got into town he ran into Damon. Surprisingly he wasn't trying to run or hide, he was just out in the open. So, I headed back, but Stefan was with Damon and-"
"Damon? Where is he? Why was he with Stefan?"
"He was leaving town, Bonnie. He said he had to take care of something."
The words Caroline spoke stung Bonnie like the marks on her body. "He left?" She tried to ask casually.
"He did Bonnie. Did he not tell you?"
Bonnie stood up to find her clothes. And she forgot about her marks. "I'll just get my things and go."
"Bonnie, what are all of those marks on your body?"
"Uhh, it's nothing okay. I need to get to class."
"You have class today?"
"Yeah, I actually have rehearsal. So I should get going."
"Bon, no… tell me what those marks are. What have you and Damon been up to?"
"I'd rather not. Did he say when he'd be back?" Bonnie's reaction to his name was becoming cold.
"No."
"Its fine. Its better this way. I actually can get back to my life now." Sense of relief both a happy and sad.
"Bonnie?"
"What Caroline? I can't sulk. We were here for a week together. I tried to help him get his humanity back and it didn't work. I am going back to my life now." Bonnie's face showed no emotion. She excused herself to get dressed and left for rehearsal. Before walking out she turned and spoke, "Uhh, I probably won't be back here. I am going back to the cabin and I'll probably clear my things out of there and start looking for a place of my own."
"Really? Leaving the cabin? That is a big step, Bon." Caroline's face showed genuine concern for her friend.
"Yeah, well, a lot has changed. I've changed. I have definitely changed."
"Okay, well maybe I can come by later and help. I've been dying for a girl's night. Just the two of us."
"Yeah, sure Caroline. Call me later on." Bonnie offered a half-hearted smile. "I'm going to take these sheets and wash them. I'll bring them back tomorrow."
"Washing sheets, Huh?"
"Shut it right now!" Bonnie says with a pointed finger.
"I love you Bon."
"I love you too, Care."
At least, Stefan and Caroline said it to her. She didn't need it from Damon, or even Enzo anymore. She was ready to refocus. She left the boarding house with her head held high. She grabbed her phone, and texted the vampire in question.
Bonbon: So that's it, huh? Just leave with no words?
She waited all day and got nothing. Not a call. No text. Nothing.
She didn't even cry or become angry. If anything there was a sense of relief within her body. She was free from the shackles of loving him. She could never get him out of her system, and maybe she didn't want to, but for now, she was only responsible for her own emotions. She didn't have to be responsible for his anymore.
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After three days of seclusion get her things together at the cabin, Bonnie finally called Caroline and they decided on a girl's night. Only Bonnie wasn't in the mood to sit around and mourn, as she had done the past year of her life. She was ready to finally live. They went to the Whitmore grille for Karaoke, a new found hobby of Bonnie and Stefan's
"Hey, Bon, Stefan and I have been trying to get ahold of you for days. We just didn't want to bombard you at the cabin, realizing you were probably recovering."
"Uh, you did not tell Stefan-"
"Relax, all I told him was that you tried getting his humanity back, and he left. I didn't tell him about the marks, or the smell of blood and lust in the room."
"Well please don't. I don't need Stefan looking at me differently."
"If anything, Stefan will understand you more than I would, when it comes to that homicidal freak of a brother. So are you going to tell me what happened? Or am I supposed to sit here and imagine you guys just talked for a week, about Elena and Enzo?"
"Very funny Care. Let's not forget the accidental bitch slap I got, when you told me you hung out with Klaus? A man who has put us all through the ringer?"
"He helped me out a bit when I needed it. Despite the ancient original vampire-hybrid bullshit, underneath that callous asshole, was a genuine man who once in a while does a favor to make up for the shitty things he does every other day of the week."
"I imagine he makes up for it in a wild and sweaty way." Bonnie said sarcastically.
"Not fair, Bon. Don't judge me for Stefan. What about Enzo?"
"Caroline, we all know I am not perfect. A year ago I tried murdering you all. Now stop deflecting. What happened with you and Klaus?"
"Uh, I went to get some information about you, about well... the crimes of passion that have been being committed by the dark duo, and one thing lead to another-"
"You know what? Never mind. Don't tell me. Stefan and I are friends and…"
"Klaus and I had sex!" She blurted out.
"Damnit, Care! Why tell me? Knowing how close I have become to Stefan?"
"Because, Bon, you are my friend first, and besides I have been dying to tell someone. You know how I am. I was sitting on that for a week. I having been bursting at the seams."
Bonnie gave Caroline a look of disappointment. She could never be angry at Caroline, knowing what she had done to Enzo.
"Bon?"
"Listen, normally, I'd have nothing to say about it. Okay, but I will carry the guilt of knowing. I love Stefan, and he… He deserves-"
"What Bon? Better? I know Bon, I love Stefan. I do, but we aren't a defined thing right now and I don't know exactly what I want right now, and I am trying to figure it out."
"Okay. I wasn't going to say better. No woman is better than you Care, but I was going to say he deserves to know the truth."
"I know."
"I plan to tell Enzo the truth. Some day. If he ever finds the strength to fight the darkness and come back. I will deal with the consequences, because I can't live with the guilt. It's been killing me for weeks."
"Bon are you going to tell me?"
"It's nothing Care. Damon and I are just bonded to one another now."
"Bonnie, a bond entails-"
"And he claimed me."
"Like a claim, claim?"
"Whatever you think about a claim, is what he did. He claimed me in every dark way imaginable. And to seal the deal, he spent the week establishing his dominant bond over me."
"What? Bonnie, a vampire claim is serious. Like possession serious."
"I know Caroline."
"And his bond? He basically has half of your soul."
"Yes. His claim, and bond established that we share a soul now. More like the two of our souls are connected."
"You will never escape him Bonnie. He will always know how to find you, and his leaving solidifies that he has that control."
"Except, I can also block him out of my mind. As he has done with me."
"Bonnie, this game is dangerous. Damon without his humanity, is dangerous."
"Klaus is dangerous, Caroline. Klaus can hurt anyone of us at any given moment, which he has proven to do."
"But the difference is, I am not bonded to him. You and Damon are now bonded, whether or not you want to be."
"Whatever, I am not going to let this stop me from living. I'm just ready to move forward. From both Damon, and Enzo."
"Wow, Bon. I don't know what to say."
"Don't say anything. I am starting to feel normal again, and despite my new found psychic abilities, I have become a little social again. I had drinks at the grille on campus with some of the people from the show."
Caroline wasn't sure what to think about Bonnie's words. But she was going along with it for the sake of her friend. She was finally happy to see Bonnie smiling.
"Okay, so what? We are doing Karaoke, or what?"
"Yes. Stefan told me about your humanity-less tirade back five years ago when he shut the entire campus bar down and he compelled a room full of studying college co-eds to watch you as you sang the entire playlist."
Caroline laughed long and hard. "It was a great moment in my history, not such a proud one, since I tried killing Tyler and Matt, but it was fun before that."
"Ahh, Caroline. I live vicariously through you sometimes. You have managed to keep things in your life exciting, and I really have always loved that about you. What's it like?"
"What?"
"Being a vampire? What is it like being a vampire, and being young, and wild, and free? Forever, never aging?"
"Well, when you say it like that, it makes it sound more glamorous than it really is. It is not a fabulous life. It can be lonely and dark sometimes. If not for you and Stefan, having people I loved, Josie, Lizzie, Alaric, Tyler, Matt, dare I say it, Damon, I couldn't just be out there in a world on my own. A vampire out in the world alone, is a lonely, humanity-less vampire. Hints, Enzo and Damon. Those vampires are dangerous. The longer you are without your humanity, the more dangerous you are. Trust me I know. I remember how having my humanity switch off was liberating, but lonely, and the sad thing, is you don't really want to be rescued. You want to stay in it. It takes so much to be brought back. It takes the one thing that makes you feel human, to bring you back."
"Damon told me I made him feel most human. He said that to me. I guess he lied right? We all know Elena is the key to his humanity, Damon may be lost forever, or until I die." She smiled as she spoke, just trying to cover up her hurt. She wasn't weak, and she refused to show a sign of it. She is strong and ready to prove it to everyone around her. Including Damon.
"Bon, sweetie. If Damon said it, he meant it. But maybe, he has so much to lose if you and him pursue a-"
"Oh, no. Damon and I will never try to pursue anything. Ever! Care. When he chose to desiccate, any unbreakable bond we had was buried that day. He came back and he fought like hell to save my life. I will always, love him for that, but… He loves Elena and I had a beautiful relationship with Enzo. I am okay with not having either of them in my life right now. I have you and Stefan, and the twins, Alaric. My life is good."
"Bonnie Bennett… Don't do that."
"Caroline Forbes, Damon and I are the distant broken memories of Elena and Enzo. Two people, who are so far away right now, that even their distance can't keep Damon and I together. And if you think about it, that says a lot. Just think about it. Their distance, away from us… can't even keep us together."
Caroline just looks at Bonnie and smiles. An empty smile that she can't fake.
"Caroline, stop giving me a death sentence. I'm up to my ears in freedom. I tried brining back two men I love from being lost in darkness. I give up."
"The Bonnie Bennett I know, has never given up on anyone."
"Well, you are witnessing the death of the old Bonnie Bennett. Part of her died after 1994, and part of her died when Damon desiccated. There is not much more of me left to die, before a new Bonnie emerges. I'm here and I'm good."
Caroline was staring at a woman with a slight bit of darkness in her eyes. A woman with a bit of freedom behind her smile. "Bonnie, something is different about you. I can feel it."
"You know something funny? I texted Damon three days ago, and was hurt because I thought he never responded. Turns out I went into my phone, and I never even pressed send. I spent three days just wondering… well it doesn't matter what I wondered, but three days spent thinking I didn't get a response when all along I never sent the text. So, that was my que to move on. Subconsciously, I didn't want to send it, because I already had my mind made up."
Just then a tall, beautiful dark haired vampire walks into the campus grille. "Wow, who is the gorgeous guy that just walked in? I have never seen him on campus before."
Bonnie turned to look, "Oh, that is my dance partner Aiden. He's a…" Bonnie made a weird vampire like gesture to Caroline.
"What? No way. How did you find him?"
"Dance class. Care, he is my partner, keep up."
"No wonder you spend a lot of time in class. He's smokin' hot, and that body."
"Easy cowgirl. I'd introduce you, but I think there is the matter of Stefan and Klaus you have to deal with."
"Yeah, well, he is coming over here."
Aiden spots Bonnie and Caroline and makes his way over to them. He walks slowly and realizes what Caroline is as he walks up.
"Hello, Bo. I had no idea you'd be here."
Caroline smelled him, and somehow she begged to differ. Somehow, she knew Aiden felt Bonnie's presence before he stepped foot in the door.
"Is that so? Well, I am Caroline. Here VERY best friend. And you are?"
"Oh. What a pleasure to meet another beautiful, dark member of the afterlife? I have certainly heard about you. You are more beautiful than I imagined. I mean I am not usually into blondes, or pale skin, however… you are a beautiful, flawless creature." He says, somehow making Caroline feel compelled. "Any friend of Bonnie's is a friend of mine." Then he softly kisses her hand.
"Yes, new friends. Sit down, and have a drink with us."
"Sure," said vampire speaks. "My friend is a bartender here. Kenny, please three specials."
"Sure thing."
"Oh, I barely drink." Bonnie said.
"Bon, come on. Girl's night slash, your new friend Aiden tagalong, night." Caroline says laughing.
"Gee, thanks." He says.
"Sorry. No offence, I really just got excited when you decided to throw drinks in the mix. It's been a while for me and Bonnie. Having drinks together. It's no true girl's night without one of three things, Liquor, junk food, or chick flicks. Since I rarely eat food, and we are not at home, I guess that makes it a liquor night."
"Caroline, I can't just drink, knowing I have to drive back to the cabin."
"Well, I can't really get drunk, because I am a vampire. My drunken state will die an hour after I'm done drinking. So as long as I quit drinking in a couple of hours, we will be fine, and you will sleep at the boarding house."
"Caroline, I told you I can't stay there anymore."
"One night won't kill you Bon."
"Yea, what do you say Bo?" Aiden ads to the peer pressure.
"Bo?" Caroline asks. "I like that."
"Fine. A couple of drinks."
"Here you go. Three specials." Kenny, the bartender hands them drinks.
As soon as Caroline, tastes the drink, she tastes the blood. "Whoa, wait a second. Bonnie can't drink this. I mean it is delicious. Don't get me wrong, but you are aware she is not a vampire."
"I am aware. But I also know that the Bo has a secret craving that most people of her nature wouldn't be able to stomach. However, thanks to her bond to her… whatever he is, Bo now has a strong craving for blood."
"Gee thanks Aiden."
"Gee thanks, Bonnie. Didn't think to mention that part Bonnie? Damon's bond to you has you craving blood now."
"Caroline, it's nothing. I have it under control."
"So what, you get blood now, through…. Wait, Kenny is a vampire too?"
"Yes. He is my son."
"How exactly old are you Aiden?"
"Over two-hundred years old. Wow, you are older than… Damon and Stefan."
"Older than America is what I said." Bonnie says laughing.
"Damon and Stefan …Is that your….?" Bonnie cuts him off.
"Our friends…"
"Listen, Caroline, just a regular guy, living life. I mean no harm to anyone. My son and I have come here to start over."
"Son? As in you are his maker?"
"Yes. He's my progeny. So as far as these people know, he is my roommate."
"Wow, it's not often we meet new vampires, that aren't trying to kill us."
"I know. Same with us." Aiden says.
"You're not trying to kill us are you?"
He smiles dimly. His eyes are hypnotically darker than she is used to. Darker than Enzo's. "No, I'm not here to hurt either of you. I promise."
"Anyways, Caroline…" Bonnie interrupted, "You promised me Karaoke, and you better deliver. It's time."
Caroline's personal conversation with Aiden was cut short. She didn't get as much information out of him as she wanted, but the drink she had was much stronger than she thought. Within twenty minutes, she and Bonnie were very drunk, singing Karaoke duets throughout the night.
"Gosh, Bon, it has literally been so long… I mean I can't, I haven't had this great of a time since…Well, shit I don't remember."
"Me either Caroline. I freaking love you."
"No, I freaking love you." Caroline pokes Bonnie's chest.
"Ouch Vampire Care. That hurt." She laughed.
"Oops, I forget sometimes you are human."
"It's okay bestie."
"You're just saying that."
"No seriously Caroline. You are like, my best friend." Bonnie slurs and stumbles around the bar a little.
"Like, your best friend. Bitch, I am your best friend." She says holding Bonnie by her shoulders looking her deep in the eyes. For a second Caroline saw Bonnie's eyes go dark, but she was so drunk she didn't realize if it was real or not. "I love you to bits and pieces, Bon."
"No, I love you and all of your bits, of pieces."
"Wait, what?" Caroline squinted, confused by Bonnie's fumbled sentence.
"Um, I don't even know." They both look at one another so drunk they could barely stand. They break out laughing.
"Aiden. Thanks. For all of this. Giving me and me bestie a night of fun, free of worry."
"Hey, I try to do my part."
"No, seriously," Caroline said. "She and I spent three years, worrying about two jack-asses that left us deserted, and somehow we each shacked up with two men, to compensate for the loss, and nothing really filled the void. We didn't even have each other really." Caroline said.
"Hey, those two men were great men." Bonnie said. "The two we shacked up with I mean."
"Yeah, but Bon. You and I both know they weren't the two men we should have been with. We can't lie about it, now that it is over with. But we did, and whatever, ya know. It is all done and we just have to-"
"Say fuck it, and have another drink." Bonnie said.
"Kenny!" Caroline says. As he walks over he looks at Aiden, not sure if he should keep bringing them drinks. "Another round."
"Uhh, you know, the bar is closing. I should get you girls back home." Aiden mentions. "After all, we can always hang out again sometime."
"Yeah, let's go Caroline. Stefan is going to be worried sick about you."
"Let him worry."
"I would, Caroline, but Aiden is right. We need to get some rest. I have two more weeks of rehearsals, before my show, and I need all the sleep I can get."
"Fine. Let's ho gome!" She stumbles with her words, as Bonnie laughs.
"Ho gome? Okay drunkie drunk."
Aiden takes them back to the boarding house. Now he knows where Bonnie has been staying. Once they get into the house, they each collapse in Damon's room on his bed. Until they are woken up by Stefan.
oOo
"What the hell, how does this just happen? How are the Mikaelson's dead? They are the Original family."
"All of them, Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah, Freya, Kol."
"What, Kol Mikaelson is alive?" Bonnie asked. "I thought Elena killed him."
"Your surprise was the same as ours, when we were there."
"Stefan, how did this exactly happen?"
"I don't know Caroline. It had something to do with the struggle for power down there in NOLA. Similar to us and the heretics."
"How did Marcel get that kind of power Stefan?" Bonnie asked.
"Marcel drank the blood of Lucien, who was some freak version of a vampire, werewolf hybrid, with the power of a witch. Or something like that. I'm not exactly sure what he was. He was a dangerous man after Klaus. In order to defeat him, somehow they had to kill Davina, Marcel's daughter. In return, Vincent, the Regent Witch of New Orleans, turned Marcel into the Beast, after drinking the blood of Lucien. Making him much more powerful. His bite can kill a vampire."
"Vincent?" Bonnie asked.
"We don't know him, personally, but he is a very powerful witch."
"What the hell?" Caroline asked.
"Listen I don't know the exact details. But word travels, and that is just what I have heard on the street."
"What the hell?" Caroline asked again.
"I'm sorry Caroline. I wish I had more answers. It's devastating news, who knows what this means for us. We are still alive, so, I don't know." He spoke seriously. "Listen, I gotta go. I think you guys probably need to sober up, together. You both, strangely enough have hangovers. I'm guessing all of Caroline's years of not really drinking since the twins has caught up with her. That, or lack of blood? Anyways… I will bring back some hangover food. For Bonnie, and blood for Caroline. See you guys in a bit."
Stefan was gone in two seconds.
Bonnie looked to her friend realizing how badly this was affecting her. "Caroline, are you okay?"
"Yeah, sure. I mean, I wasn't particularly close to them, anyways." She said looking off to a distant corner of the room.
"Caroline, stop. Stefan is long gone. Talk to me. I know this hurts you. I know what Klaus meant to you."
"Yeah, but you know. I told you it was the past Bonnie. I have Stefan. I love Stefan."
"I know, but it doesn't mean you can't have feelings or concerns for Klaus. If someone told me something happened to Jeremy, or Enzo, or Damon, I'd have feelings of hurt Care. I would. It would still hurt like hell."
"Bonnie, how can this be possible? I mean wouldn't I be dead?"
"I don't know. All of the crazy stuff we just heard, they have definitely found some loop holes down there in New Orleans, some powerful witches. This guy Vince sounds powerful. Klaus was an important aspect of your blood line, and you really cared for him."
"I mean, I never planned on ever doing anything with Klaus again, but just knowing he's dead… I mean. I just can't right now." Caroline said and broke down crying. She put her head in her hands and covered her face.
"Let it out Caroline. It's okay. I am here for you. I'm not going anywhere. If you want, I'll stay here at the boarding house, a while if you need. I'll even stay a few days longer, if it makes you feel better."
"Please Bon. Would you? It's just, you know," Bonnie wiped some of Caroline's tears. "Stefan wouldn't really understand and-"
"No need to explain. You are hurting, and I am here for you."
"Thanks Bon." Caroline let our some more tears, on her friend's lap, as Bonnie finger stroke Caroline's hair.
Bonnie grabbed onto her friend and held her for a while. Long enough to calm her down before Stefan got back. Which, unsurprisingly, he left them alone a long time. Probably knowing, Caroline, needed Bonnie right now.
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It and been about four days. Bonnie was staying at the boarding house with Caroline and they carpooled to school together. They were becoming a good distraction for one another. Stefan was gone, a lot, and Caroline wasn't speaking much to him. She wasn't angry, neither was he, but since finding out about Klaus Mikaelson, something between them became strained. Caroline was keeping Bonnie busy after dance rehearsals, and they both had hung out with Aiden a couple of times. Neither talked to Stefan about him. As often as he had been gone, they stayed gone also. Stefan mostly saw Bonnie in the mornings when she woke up to eat breakfast, as Caroline slept in. That's when they conversed, casually about nothing really. They were just comfortable enough around one another to do that now.
But the nights were a different story. Caroline and Stefan mostly spoke at night, when they were awakened by a sleeping Bonnie, having nightmares.
.ooo.
Warehouse filled with bodies. The ceiling was flooded with hanging bodies. The lives of people, sauntered the air-filled with death. Not a drop of blood in the building. Sucked dry, and not a trace of life to be absorbed by the afterlife. These people were helplessly and shamelessly drained to the skeleton.
The only thing which remained intact was the epidermis, and that was because vampires aren't carnivorous.
Bonnie awakened from darkness and saw her world upside down. All she could feel was the immense rush of blood to her brain, and she was slowly submerging inside of a darkness that was becoming harder and harder to escape.
She looked and her hands were hanging below her head and she was swinging on a chain as her body weight was shifting from right to left, she couldn't tell if she was coming or going, but she was fading, with the rush of blood flowing to her brain. Bubbling and holding her brain hostage. She felt herself slipping away, her eyes flutter open and close over and over again as she rose and fell from her waisted slumber.
She couldn't stay blacked out due to the pain, but the blood flowing to her brain was keeping her from staying conscious. At one point while she peaked through the darkness a figure walks towards her body and she begs for mercy.
"Please get me down from here, please. I'm going to die, I can barely breath." She pleaded with said darkness and all she got was what she could see was a grin and the words, "In due time, love."
"Enzo! Enzo, is that you. Enzo please, let me down. I'm gonna die, if you don't let me down."
He walked away from her and towards a female figure, tall and thin and they walked out. She screamed and they slowly turned, walking away from her.
Her mouth moved and no longer were the sounds coming out, her ears were flooded and submerged in her own blood as it poured from every orifice in her head. She choked and choked on her blood as she called out and slowly began drowning in her blood. He left her. She reached and reached and he was gone.
The last thing she saw was a plethora of bodies hanging from the same sky high death as she, and she was unconscious again.
"Bonnie! Bonnie wake up."
Bonnie was convulsing in her sleep and choking up blood.
"Caroline, she is burning up, grab me some ice."
Stefan walked into Damon's room at the boarding house that Bonnie had slept in when he heard her begin to choke in her sleep. He barely slept the nights Bonnie was there because she wasn't sleeping through the night, not that he needed sleep but his body was barely resting at night. She was always having nightmares. This time, however, was different. She wouldn't wake up.
Caroline sped back with a towel wrapped around ice as Stefan unblocked a passage way of Bonnie's that was keeping the blood from flowing to her brain. Bonnie began to cough as the blood spilled out of her mouth and she slowly but surely was breathing again. Unconscious still she was covered in her own blood, and yet and still Stefan could smell his brother inside of Bonnie.
But he knew this had nothing to do with Damon. Bonnie's body was having a negative reaction to Damon's blood, somehow, or rejecting it, and he couldn't figure out which it was. OR even if it was either of those two things.
"I can smell Damon." He told Caroline.
"Why would Damon do this to her? What the fuck is wrong with him Stefan?"
"This isn't Damon doing this. Bonnie's body is reacting to something negatively. And it almost feels as if it is trying to kill her. Her body is rejecting Damon's blood. Her breaths are short and she is barely holding it together these days at night."
"Maybe it's because they spent so many nights together, maybe her mind subconsciously misses him."
"They are bonded. There is no doubt she misses him, whether she admits it or believes it. They are connected."
"You knew that?"
"Caroline, I knew Damon was trying to bond to her before we left I could smell him. She told me she had no recollection of it though. I left it alone."
"Then he should be here, don't you think? HE should be here with her."
"Yes, but he wasn't himself when I saw him. I don't just mean the humanity. He was incredibly anxious. I'm not sure he knew what was going on."
"Yeah, but why would that even explain, Damon's blood being rejected by Bonnie?"
"I think something is trying to possess Bonnie, or control her. That is the only logical explanation I can think of. With her new psychic abilities, she may be tapping into Damon or Enzo's darkness. There is a possibility, Damon's blood was protecting her. Until now."
"Stefan you are scaring me. What is happening with Bonnie?" Caroline's fear was becoming hard to hide in front of Stefan when it involved Bonnie.
"I don't know Caroline."
Stefan and Caroline proceed to take Bonnie to the bathroom and strip her of her clothes and clean her up. Bonnie's body is in shock, and she is not waking up. They give her a cold shower yet she continues to heat up. Caroline begins to freak out. "STEFAN HELP HER! Give her your blood. Please." She continued to freak out as Bonnie's eyes roll to the back of her head, turning white and ghostly.
"I don't think my blood will help her. My blood is no different than Damon's."
"Just try Stefan please."
"Caroline, get out and close the door. You shouldn't see her like this. Don't worry I will help her. Just go take a walk. When you get back she'll be fine."
"No Stefan I can't leave her."
"Caroline, please. I promise. Trust me."
He put a stop into the water, and Stefan sits in the water with Bonnie, since she was unconscious. In only his boxers, hoping his cold body would help to will her temperature to cool down, but it is to no avail. She is heating up beyond capacity.
Stefan gets Bonnie out of the water and dresses her in barely any clothes to lay her on the bed. He iced her throughout the night. Which was working slowly, so he decided at one point to try his blood. He bit into his wrist, and dropped some blood into her mouth. It worked. Eventually Bonnie's body cools off with Stefan's blood, and she wakes up to a fearful Caroline.
In a cold sweat Bonnie wakes panicking, and she is almost delusional.
"Bonnie, Bonnie. It okay. It's me It's Caroline."
"Care. I saw him. I saw Enzo, he was with some woman. He left me there. He left me to die!"
"What? Where Bonnie."
"I don't know a dark place. I was hanging upside down, I was choking, bleeding, I couldn't breathe, I don't know. And… and there were others and I was begging him to help me or I would die… He left me." She said hysterically.
"Sweetie, it was just another nightmare, we were here all night watching over you. You were burning up and could barely breath. Blood was being blocked from your brain and Stefan had to unblock whatever passage way was keeping your blood from flowing."
"It doesn't make sense. I saw him, I was there. There were other bodies there. Dead bodies Caroline." She cried. "You believe me don't you?"
"You lost a lot of blood last night Bonnie. Stefan thinks your body is rejecting Damon's blood."
"Rejecting his blood? What. Why?"
"Yea. It's just a possibility. We are trying to figure things out. How do you feel?"
"I don't know. But what I do know is I am over this. I have to call him, maybe he knows why this is happening."
"No Bonnie. You can't do that." Caroline says quietly.
"Why Not?"
"We have some bad news Bonnie." She tries to brace Bonnie for the blow she's about to deliver.
"What?"
"Tyler called last week, I wanted to tell you when we were in NOLA, but the time didn't feel right over the phone… Elena's coffin is gone."
Bonnie sat and drew blanks from disillusioned confusion. "Caroline?"
"I promise. Tyler was checking on her like he always does. She wasn't there Bon. Someone has moved her to another location. When we called the facility it had been emptied for months."
"By Who? Damon?" She says in disbelief, shaking her head.
"We don't know Bonnie, but the truth is… we have no idea where he headed, he wouldn't tell Stefan."
"What, so he left for good? He left me, for good?"
"He had to go, Stefan said. Stefan thinks Damon is wants to protect you with his blood. He gave Stefan a vile of his blood for you."
"What, he told Stefan?"
"No. I don't know what he told Stefan. But Stefan knew that Damon had taken your blood and healed you with his. And he had an idea that Damon was trying to blood bond with you, back when he was stalking you, to protect you. Stefan has no idea how deep yours and Damon's bond goes. At all. He'd probably kill Damon if he knew."
"So, Stefan saw Damon again?"
"For a few minutes. I guess. Stefan told Damon what was going on last night, and it gave Damon a chance to meet him earlier this morning a few hours away from here. He should be back with Damon's blood later."
"Damon couldn't come to me himself, then?"
"I'm sorry Bonnie."
"What? No. I don't care." Bonnie began to breath slowly, but deeply. The thought hurt her, she was tired of being betrayed by Damon, she was sick of feeling as if she cared for him more than he ever cared for her and she couldn't quite even give him an easy out for his lack of humanity, because if that was the case, he still wasn't forgivable. She was not going to be sacrificed for Elena. She loved her best friend, but she wanted to live.
At that moment she stood out of the bed and wobbled to the mirror and saw how pale she was.
"Has anyone heard anything at all? Are there any clues that Elena's body is okay?" Bonnie again had to swallow her pain for the umpteenth time, and focus on Elena.
"We have heard nothing."
"Caroline, what am I going to do if Damon is trying to kill me?" It was so hard for her not to think about Damon. She was confused, and she knew her confusion would probably go unanswered, as did every question in Bonnie's life.
"Bonnie, I don't think Damon is trying to kill you. If he wanted to kill you he would have. If you want, Stefan and I can go out of town and find out what Damon is up to, and if we do, Tyler can come here, with you."
Bonnie knew Tyler couldn't protect her from Damon. No one could protect her from Damon. Only she could protect herself from Damon.
Bonnie heard nothing at that point. She heard that Elena was missing and she felt as if she was being fucked with. Mentally she was a target, but physically, she wasn't sure. She couldn't be sure.
"I have to get ready for rehearsal."
"Bon, you don't have enough blood."
"I'll be fine. Trust me. Blood is the least of my worries."
… xXxXxXx …
"Stefan, we need to talk." Caroline approaches him with slight hesitancy because she feels a weird vibe between them and it hurts her to think they are growing apart.
"Shoot." He smiles sweet and convincingly, but he is quiet and reserved with her recently.
"Am I missing something lately Stef? I mean, we are good right? I know things are… I mean, you and I are really working on things slowly, but, I feel you pulling away from me."
"No. I thought I was just giving you space Caroline. I know things have been tough on you since being back. Especially the adjustment without the twins. I didn't want to force anything between us, because I was afraid of pushing you away."
She looks at him worriedly. Her eyes frown while her mouth stays still. "Stefan, I made a decision. I love you. This has to work, but will only work if you make your presence felt in my life. I am here for you and Bonnie. Bonnie and I have been working on things. I know you and Bonnie are even getting closer, which makes me happy. She needs us both. You avoid me like the plague, which makes me feel like we are in a bad place."
"No, Caroline, for three years, you were all I thought about. There is no way I am here and you are not my priority. I gave you space because I know you have been in contact with Klaus, and-"
"Stef, Klaus and I are, I mean were just friends, okay. He was trying to help me with leads for the dark duo, and more recently for Bonnie. No one could, or can come between us, I promise you." She leans into Stefan and cups his face. "I chose you. I left my fiancé, and life in Texas behind. I am all in."
He smiles at her in a brooding way, "I love hearing those words from your mouth."
"Well, I mean it when I say them." Caroline pulls Stefan's shirt over his head, and removes it completely from his body. "Now, you and I are going to see Bonnie through whatever is happening, and try to save the dark duo all at once. You and I need to be strong right now."
"I knew that was one of the reasons that I loved you. You have such a big heart and you are determined to make sure I stay on the right track. I love you Caroline." They gaze at one another and his eyes wonder to her lips before they close and their lips meet.
"I love you too Stef."
~ oOoOo ~
"Bo, you haven't quite been yourself the past few days. I can feel the differences in rehearsal. We have two days until show time."
"I know Aiden. I am sorry. I'll have it together for our dances, I promise. I have a lot of pressure on me with these dance numbers and I just never thought I'd be on a stage again." She speaks, as convincingly as she can.
"Are you sure that is all Bo? I mean I am a vampire. I can sense when you are lying because your temperature rises. Although, I must say you are getting better at lying, from when we first met."
"That bad huh?" Her body language was so lax he controlled her like he owned her in rehearsal today.
"Yeah. I mean I can teach you how to lie, consciously without allowing it to affect your temperature, but I really just want to know why you are stressed out. Does it have anything to do with the man you are bonded to?"
"Maybe." She looks at him, unwilling to talk about it. "Or the other man, whom you still have not seen in over a year?"
"Honestly, I am fine. My problem is, I'm lacking in blood intake, and it has been making me feel sick lately. Weak."
"Bo, do you want my blood?"
"No Aiden, last time I took your blood… Never mind. I just shouldn't. It's a bad idea."
"Bo, if you need blood, please, don't hesitate. I am very strong. My blood will not only satisfy your cravings for a couple of days, but it will give you a rush. Didn't you feel it last time?"
"I went home and went to bed."
She lied. Damon drained her of Aiden's blood that night, and filled her up with his own. She had no chance to feel the rush. But as she remembered, Damon, was very different that night. Filled with invariable darkness. More than he has ever had before. They made wild, passionate, love. He left his traces on her by marking her up, again.
"That is strange. The only reason, you couldn't have felt the effects of my blood, is if he drank it all from you."
"If he did, what would it mean for him?"
"For you, it would make you feel like you were on a high. Like a heroine high, combined with a coke high, and vampire blood. For him, once it settled into his system, may have strengthened his blood lust., it could have pushed him further into darkness."
"For how long?"
"There is really no telling. My blood is invariably consuming and powerful."
"Hmm. Well, it wouldn't matter. I haven't seen him in almost a week, so…"
"I'm sorry Bo. Hey, I am here if you want to ever get a drink sometime. You feeling low on blood, and too afraid to take mine, I can have Kenny make you a special." The level of contents in that drink cover up the smell of the blood."
"No wonder Stefan never confronted Caroline or me about it after we came back from the campus grille." She said as they were pulling closer to the boarding house.
"Exactly, it's almost undetectable."
"Whelp, here we are. I really need to get in and shower. Thanks for the ride Aiden."
"Anytime Bo. Call me, if you need me. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Okay, bye."
Aiden waits until Bonnie makes it into the boarding house. Once he leaves she begins talking to herself. "He's just your friend Bonnie. You are not attracted to another vampire Bonnie. Vampires are a bad idea Bonnie."
She needed some blood, it was true. She hadn't had any since the night out with Caroline and Aiden. Her loss of Damon's blood was weakening her, and Stefan hadn't gotten back with the vile yet. She texts Caroline.
Bon: I need blood. I am starting to feel weak.
Care: Really Bon? What should I do?
Bon: Idk. Maybe, get a drink?"
Care: You mean Kenny?
Bon: Idk. Maybe.
Care: I'll be home soon.
Bon: Okay.
Bonnie's marks had healed. It had been a week and she was able to take a shower without having to be left with his memories. The hot water felt amazing on her body, washing away the sweat. She remembers how he invaded her thoughts, and her body months ago in the shower. How he touched her and felt her and… "Snap out of it Bonnie." She stopped herself. When she finished showering, she got dressed and went downstairs to find food. Her body needed strength and maybe proper nourishment would make her feel better she thought. Just as she got to the kitchen, she first poured a glass of wine, and spotted the strawberries and grapes. Then, she thought she heard noise in the front room.
"Care? Is that you? That was really fast?"
The sound stopped and she stopped. She knew with her heightened since of hearing she could figure out who it was. A familiar, rugged boot hit the ground. A walk…. No a steady stride with a quiet confidence. She walked into the front room and saw nothing.
"Caroline, Stefan? This isn't funny. Okay? Haha. Jokes over."
She held her glass of wine and took a sip, walking back to the kitchen, sure to see her friends. Low and behold her glass of wine drops in slow motion and shatters. Red wine everywhere. Shards of glass sting her feet. Her face froze and she nearly jumped out of her own skin. "Enzo?"
A/N DAMON WILL BE BACK NEXT CHAPTER! No worries...
Okay, so Bonnie did take Aiden's blood last chapter, and she lied about it out of fear. She was without Damon this chapter. He will be back next chapter! After he drank Bonnie's blood (Not realizing it was tainted by Aiden's blood) at the end of last chapter, it enhanced his blood lust, and he ends up leaving to keep from hurting Bonnie, because Aiden's blood is consuming and powerful, that'll come out later. He still doesn't know it was Aiden's blood. But it is a good sign that he made a conscious effort to leave without hurting her more. We will find out why Bonnie's body was rejecting Damon's blood soon.
Elena, coffin is missing. Stefan's blood helped Bonnie after she loses so much blood. And Enzo returns.
The story gets deeper, especially as far as Bamon relationship goes, and Stefonnie friendship. Thx for reading!