!Content Warning! Language, adult situations, drug use, triggers. Adult themes and content and suggestive behaviors.
Runaways
Chapter 7 Secrets Part I - Meet the Salvatores
Chapter Rating M Language, Sexual and Suggestive behaviors, mention of non-con and abuse possible triggers, mention of violence.
*I do not own these characters, but I own the original story.
*A/N - So advice, (Warning) Last chapter had a description of Caroline's past, This one has the description of Bonnie's, do not read the first section of the chapter if you don't want to learn of Bonnie's abusive past. Skip to the first full divider just where it says (End of flashback) and read from that point on. Read chapter rating above.
* Sorry for errors
*Happy Reading
"Secrets. We've got dreams.
Mysteries. And crazy schemes.
Secrets. We've got dreams.
Secrets. Can't be seen."
Damon sat in literal shock after Bonnie shared her story. She was strong when she told it, but he had to brace himself before actually formulating thoughts. All he could think about when she finished talking was how much he wanted to Kill Lucien Castle. It had been a couple of days since she told him and he finally got a call from Meredith Fell, with Bonnie's prescription of Ativan.
He walked in the bathroom as she showered, and she didn't really flinch. He became the closest person to her, since Caroline and Stefan got married. She and Caroline were still close, but After the Salvatores nearly killed Damon when he told them about Stefan being married, Stefan and Caroline had spent a couple of days with the Salvatores so that they could acquaint themselves with their new daughter in law. Damon and Bonnie actually stayed at the house in the suburbs alone.
"Bonnie, Dr. Fell just dropped off your Ativan." He said to her.
"Thanks Damon. Did she happen to bring any more Percocet, my cut is a little sore the last couple of days?"
"Yeah, she brought another refill. What do you want to take with it, water or Gatorade?"
"Gatorade, please. I hate taking pills with water. I can still taste them." She yells out from the shower. He tries his hardest not to ogle her silhouette. The words that came out of her mouth the other day won't stop replaying themselves over and over in his mind. Making it hard to look at her sexually, not because she isn't attractive, but because of what she told him. He understood why she was the way she was the night they made love on the beach.
(Bonnie and Lucien – two years ago)
"Lucien was my teacher in my first and last periods of the day. He made it that way on purpose. He made me sit in front of the class with my legs opened. I could only wear my uniform skirt, never the shorts or pants. I had him for study hall first period and I was his TA last period. He made me stay after school every day to go over grading and assignment organization."
"He did this so that when I stayed afterschool, no one thought anything weird of it. At first I didn't mind staying to help. He gave me a lot of special attention. I won't lie. I felt good being around him because he said things to me that the boys my age didn't say. For example, once he told me that I smelled like the epitome of a woman coming into her sexuality. I had no idea what it meant, all I knew is it made me feel like I was wanted and sexy. So I thought naturally it was okay to feel that way."
"He started out my sophomore year of school. He would make me come to class and I could only wear a thong. After school was over, he would lock the door and make me do all sorts of tasks in front of him, bending over and on certain days if he felt I was being a "bad girl" he would bend me over his lap and spank me with his hand, hard. To the point I couldn't sit the next day. I was not allowed to tell anyone or he said he would make it much worse for me. Luckily the summer started and I was able to stay far away from Lucien's punishments. I thought I was in the clear. Then when I went to pick up my schedule for Junior year, I was nervous when I saw that my first and sixth period classes were the same as sophomore year. I went to the office and requested for a change, but they wouldn't let me."
"I did the next best thing and told my father I didn't feel comfortable having this teacher on my schedule. He brushed it off and told me to figure out a way to work around it, because Lucien was a previous member of the Ivy League board of directors, and he had pull. My dad told me to stop complaining about the privilege I was handed. He also told me he worked hard to get me to be Lucien's personal TA so there was no way I could get out of it."
"Anyways when my junior year started, Lucien started to become a little more jealous of the attention the boys in class were giving me. He hated it for some reason. That was when he started making me believe he was falling in love with me. He would write me notes in class and hand them to me. He still made me sit in front and keep my legs parted. I decided one day I was tired of it, so I sat in the back of class. At the end of the day, he locked me in the class and told me I was being defiant. That was the first time he forced fingered me. He threatened to do worse to me if I kept being defiant."
"So I went back to my skirts and siting in the front of class. When the day was over, maybe on the second week of school, he noticed I got friendly with a one of the boys in my class, and he started making that boys life a living hell. Eventually he forced me into my first sexual experience, by telling me I should let my experience be with someone who really cared for me. I told him I wasn't ready and he told me he would be very careful to not make it too painful. I begged him not to, but he said I would love it."
"It was the worst thing I had ever experienced and he wasn't gentle in anyway. He literally was rough every time. Also, when he would force me on top. He would make me face the opposite direction and hold my hands behind my back. Sometimes he would force me over the desk in class. He always entered me in the back. And each time he would spank me until I cried. (Bonnie's eyes watered, and she started grabbing at her wrists, Damon moved over to sit near her and hold her hands.) I thought there would be days he would let me have a break but the more it happened, the he would try to reinforce to me that it was okay, because he loved me and would never leave me. He left marks on my body so that I wouldn't let anyone else ever see me naked. The worst part was when he would bite my back and shoulders. (She grabbed her stomach almost ready to gag.) When he would bite, he told me it was to take away from the pain of the rough way he was … being with me. I thought, that when this was happening it was normal, because he still bought me gifts, and told me I was the most beautiful girl."
"Throughout the entire summer, he talked my father into letting me tutor underclassmen. He would continue throughout the summer. Once my senior year started and my schedule had his name on it three times, I knew it was impossible. I was a senior I was done with math. Somehow he was on my schedule still. So I had to endure it again, beginning of senior year. All I saw every time he would fuck me was number equations on the board. (Bonnie broke down before she told Damon the next line) I was in so much pain, that I would work out every math equation on the board to forget about what was happening to me. Every time I was solving equations. That is why I am so good with memorizing numbers and letters. I was abused for a year mentally and physically by him, then the next year of my life, he fucked me every day. All the while I was solving problems in my head to escape the torment. I told myself he loved me, because he told me he loved me. But when I finally told Caroline what was happening, she told me she was down to leave if I was. She was being abused, I was being abused. We had no one but each other."
"When my dad was on his way to do some work in Asia, he had to leave me in the temporary custody of someone. He didn't let me stay with Liz and Caroline, because he thought I would be distracted. So he gave temporary guardianship to Lucien. I Begged him. I told him that Lucien was being sexually inappropriate with me for over a year, he said I was just trying to find an easy out to stay with Caroline. He didn't care as long as I got into an Ivy League school and made something out of myself, not making him look bad. Being that he had a political image to uphold. My mom was nowhere to get in contact with. I know if she knew what was going on she would have come back. At least I can only hope. But she hadn't been in contact with us for months at that point. I had a week to make a decision, stay and be tortured without anyone to protect me, or take my shit and never look back. Even if it meant being cut off from everything. We left our pain, back in Mystic Falls, and we never turned around. (She sat up and showed Damon the bite mark scars on her back.) I couldn't go back to this."
At that point, Damon heard no sounds. He just saw red, and he blacked out punching the mirrored wall in the hotel room. Bonnie jumped up and grabbed a towel soaked it in water and the ice bucket they had in the hotel.
"He's Dead." Damon said.
"Oh my God Damon! Please. You are going to need stitches. Why would you do this? Please, I am sorry for telling you all of this. It is my burden. I just… you asked. I should have trusted my instinct to keep it to myself."
"No, you did the right thing Bonnie." Damon spoke so angrily, and couldn't look her in the eye. Not because he thought differently of her, but now he understood the responsibility he had, to deal with this, and if looked in her eyes and saw pain again, he would explode again, knowing he can't change what happened to her.
"Damon, I understand if you can't look at me the same, but please understand, we had to leave, Damon, and I couldn't tell you my age, because I was afraid. you would find out my age and my privileged background, and think differently of me. You would find out that I am damaged and that I had been a someone's personal property. There was no way you could ever be with a girl like that, who was young, naïve, stupid in love with her teacher. I have become deceptive, heartless, and loveless. So me and Caroline, we are on the run, because I know Lucien will find me eventually. Since he has guardianship of me, he believes he has the rights to me. All of me."
(End of flashback)
Damon heard Bonnie turn off the shower and he handed her a towel. When she wrapped herself, she stepped out and the first thing she noticed were his scared, bruised, and cut up fists. She walked to him and grabbed his fists and held them in her hands. She lifted them and kissed them, regardless of the dry blood. He looked at her as she looked at his fists, and as he glanced up to the mirror of the bathroom, while her back was to it, he just kept realizing the marks on her back weren't scratches but they were bite marks. He turned her around, and her back was now facing him. He loosened her towel and gently let his fingers rub over her scars.
He was filled with anger again.
"Bonnie, is that mother fucker the only person to... Uhmmmm?"
"He is the only person to rape me. Yes."
The word rape broke Damon up inside. He tightened his lips and clenched his first every time.
"Have you ever had a consensual sexual relationship with anyone?"
"Yes, silly. You." She said smiling as if he forgot.
"So, did he…. Use protection?" Asking these questions hurt him more.
"What do you mean, like condoms?"
"Yeah."
"He wore a condom sometimes. But not every time."
Damon looked down. "Did you have any pregnancy scares?"
"No, Damon, I thought I was clear, when I said he always entered me from the back, he only did it anally." She looked down feeling very embarrassed.
Damon was finding out disturbing facts everyday that got him angrier at Lucien. Everyday a reason to find Lucien, and get justice for Bonnie. Realizing the pain of anal rape somehow must've internally damaged Bonnie. His mind couldn't focus.
"Yeah, I was afraid to open myself up sexually, to anyone after that. I swore I would never have sex. It frightened me."
"Oh." He thought about it for a minute afterwards. "Wait, so that would mean…" His eyes met her eyes in the mirror, as both of their bodies faced it, "If you and him only… then when you and I…"
She looked at him and nodded her head, speaking quietly. "Yeah." She turned to him, "It was you."
"Oh my God, Bonnie. What?" His confusion got the best of him. He put his hand over his mouth and just stared at her, "You were a…"
"I was a virgin, the night you met me. Technically. I mean, I had never had vaginal sex, until the night you and I had sex. I gave you my virginity, Damon. Willingly."
He could only look in her eyes and feel confused, yet, somehow he felt overwhelming closeness to her. "Bonnie..." He had no words.
"I am not this little angel, ya know? I do terrible things to survive, and I'm a hypocrite because I rely on my physical appearance, but the night I met you, somehow you reached a part of me no one has ever been able to." Bonnie started to cry.
He held her and she let him.
"It makes sense now." His whisper was low, he didn't intend for her to hear him.
"What?"
Looking at her, he answers. "Everything. The way you were acting, the way it felt, the way you moaned and how I could tell you were in pain initially. I can't believe that you… allowed me to have such a beautiful, special part of you."
"Well, if Lucien ever finds me, he can never take that from me, the way he took everything else. I was able to give myself to someone, I really care for. Someone I chose."
"I won't let Lucien hurt you. Ever."
Damon looks to Bonnie, this beautiful, delicate, concrete rose. Her internal suffering definitely isn't projected in her outward beauty. Damon was instantly drawn to Bonnie, and her strength. He would have never guessed, her life was what it was the night he met her, even until the point he had known her and she told her story a couple of days ago.
"Damon, I remember that night, you know. I remember the moments when you and I had sex. I still don't quite remember the conversation right before we fell asleep, But I remember that I asked you to make love to me, and I am happy I did. I am happy it was you."
Damon finds himself being blown away by Bonnie every day, but today was something different. He felt as though she was his and he was hers. He may not have declared it out loud, but he knew that she knew it. As far as Damon was concerned, she would never have to worry for nothing, ever again. He would take care of her from this day forward.
"Bon, I…"
"Shhh." She quieted him. "Don't say anything. Okay. Mentally, I can't talk about anything that will require us to get too deep right now, but I just want to say, I'm down for you Big Sal. I am, and if the feeling is mutual, then let us deal with the rest another day. Today you promised to take me out to get my mind off of things."
She smiles adoringly at him, then looks with batted lashes.
"I am keeping my word, but first… Giuseppe and Lily want to meet you."
"What?"
"Caroline and Stefan have been there for the past few days, and obviously my mom squeezed a shit load of info out of her. So she knows about you."
"Wow, Damon, with me being a minor, and having the estrangement from my parents, I am not the person, parents want to meet. I don't think this is a good idea. I am not mentally ready to deal with someone's parents when I can't deal with my own."
Damon grabs Bonnie by her face and lowers his face to hers. "Honestly, my mother will want to keep you, I promise she will think you are a doll, and want to dress you up. She has always wanted a daughter."
"That doesn't mean she will like me."
"Listen, honestly, my mom is a little intimidating. But she has never seen me with a woman. So I can't tell you how she will react, but knowing her, she intimidated Caroline out of answers. Because I specifically told my brother not to mention anything about you and me, because I knew my mother would demand I bring you home. I knew you weren't ready for this, but as of now it is too late. Stefan and Caroline needed to take the heat of their marriage."
Bonnie took a deep breath and Damon held her. "Come, on let's get dressed and get this over with. Then its out to have some fun later."
Bonnie smiled and his eyes made her feel ok. Life had been relatively calm for a few days, her cut was even healing beautifully. Deep down, Bonnie knew it was a matter of time before shit hit the fan.
~oXoXoXo~
When Caroline opened the door to Bonnie as she and Damon arrived to the Salvatore's mansion, Bonnie was shocked to see Caroline decked out in cowgirl boots and an itty bitty skirt, with a wife beater.
"Care, what the hell?"
"What? Lily took me shopping." She said as if it was normal to have your mother in law take you shopping for hoochie attire.
"Wait until you see what she got you?"
Bonnie looked to Damon with such confusion, "Umm."
"I told you, my mom loves to play dress up. I never said she was conservative." He looked at her and hunched his shoulders. "I am pretty sure I have told you, were are not the Cleavers or the Brady bunch my judgy little Bonbon."
Caroline takes Bonnie's hand and leads her away from Damon, and Damon acts totally fine with it. Bonnie looks to him for assistance, and he laughs and looks away suspiciously.
"How is she Caroline?" Bonnie's palms were sweating the instant Damon disappeared.
"I won't lie, she is pushy and a bit intimidating, but she has really been, I mean I don't know. It seems like she likes me. But I have never dealt with anyone's Mom, other than my own." Caroline's face downshifts. She didn't miss Liz in the conventional sense, but she missed who Liz used to be, before she became abusive with her.
Bonnie was wearing a simple outfit of Black leggings and a backless electric orange shirt, which forced her to be braless. But, to be respectful, she wore a tube bra underneath it that was skin toned. Her simple flip flops showed off the pedicure Damon took her to get, which didn't match her manicure, but both her hands and feet were "Cute" non-the-less as Damon says.
Caroline swept her fingers through Bonnie's chocolate waves. And looked into her green eyes. "I can't believe I have a family Bon. Stefan's parents have been pretty accepting of me. I mean his father is really quiet, and scary looking. He looks kind of like Damon, and he is intimidating. The few words he did speak to me were just inquisitive questions, and Stefan told him right away about my mom being retired a Sheriff. I think it has a lot to do with why he is quiet with me."
Bonnie turned to find Damon, "Hey, Bon. Don't do this. Don't walk away it'll be okay."
"No, I can't do this Caroline. Look at who I am? It was all so much easier a month ago, before we knew them, now our lives are ten times more complicated. "
"Yeah, but now we ain't alone Bon. Now we have a little bit of support from two amazing men, who we happened to meet by chance, and they just happened to not let us push them away like we tried so hard to do Bon. We pushed and pushed and they didn't let us, Bonnie. And still I see you pushing Bonnie. I see you pushing away. Come on, if at least for the night, just enjoy and trust that we don't have to run everyday."
"Why do I have to care about him Care? Why did he make me care about him, it's going to make it harder to leave."
Bon, we ain't leaving. I am married. We are staying. You can't leave without me. Bonnie, this is us now. We have to stop running sometime."
"The second I Stop, Lucien finds me. I can't stop."
"Damon, won't let him." Caroline pleads with her friend.
"It's not Damon's job Care. He isn't my husband. I am not going to burden him with me. A damaged girl from a fucked up life, I know I'm no good. But, still he for some reason, cares about me. I can't stay here and be this little girl that holds him back."
"So what, you think I hold Stefan back, Bon? We are the same type of girl, am I a burden to my husband?"
"No Caroline. You are stronger than me, you make Stefan want to be strong, and you are strong, and he looks to you like you hold him together. I see it."
Bonnie stares at Caroline. "Lucien has so many political ties, with judges, cops, even my father the senator. He will find a way to get to me, and I can't let him." Bonnie's eyes water. "He told me in an email that my dad accepted his offer for a proposal. After everything I told my dad, he still handed me over to this sick fuck so he can be the sanctified savior, helping everyone but his own daughter. I see this Care. I see what I mean to the man and woman who gave birth to me. Well fuck my dad, and fuck Lucien if they think it's happening." Bonnie spat out.
"Bonnie, you're my family."
"I'm leaving in two days Caroline."
"Bon, no you're not leaving me."
"Care, I'll tell you what, I might stay a little bit longer, to make sure you're in good hands. When I see that, just know I have to trust your husband to be the man I know he can be. It won't be forever Care," Bonnie grabs Caroline to hold her, when her eyes water up, "just until I know Lucien can't hurt me."
"Damon won't let him hurt you Bon."
"If I stay it will be selfish, because you know as well as I he will try to get Damon killed or thrown in jail with his connections with the judicial and legal system. I realize how much I care about Damon, and I can't put him through that."
Caroline looks at Bonnie and frowns. "Promise me you won't tell Damon, Caroline."
Caroline tries to stop crying and Bonnie wipes her tears. "Bonnie, let's just get back inside, before they worry about us."
~oXo~
Bonnie walked back in to a woman with black hair and blue eyes and a man with the same. They looked at her as if she had just stolen the sunshine from the sky. Her intimidation kicked in and she started to play with her thumbs. She slowly walked up to them and introduced herself, standing upright and unashamed.
"Hello, my name is-"
"Bonnie. So I hear." Lily was unconcerned with the name at this point. She looked at Bonnie, and Bonnie looked for Damon.
"So where did Damon disappear to?" Bonnie asked.
"Damiano and Stefano had to take a quick drive to the University to take care of some drop offs, and handle some - issues." Lily looked at Giuseppe then Bonnie.
"Ok. Well, umm you have a lovely home." Bonnie was just filling space. Her nerves were tugging at her as she held onto her wrist. Caroline watched her friend closely.
"Really, thank you. I am hoping I can talk you into picking a room to sleep in, unless of course, you prefer to sleep in Damon's room."
"I was unaware we were going to stay the night. Also, you should know that, Damon and I do not have sex."
Lily looked surprised, knowing her sons were quite acquainted with women, but Damon was much more reserved than Stefan. So hearing this information was enlightening.
Lily's approach and Giuseppe's demeanor were throwing Bonnie for a loop. She refused to be intimidated, but she didn't want to disrespect Damon's parents. Lily walks to Bonnie while Giuseppe, sits and stares at Bonnie. "Caroline, please excuse us a minute, we need to talk with Bonnie alone." Lily walks to Bonnie and looks at her long and hard. Trying to look her in the eyes.
Bonnie spoke.
"Listen, Caroline, come back, I'm not going to be intimidated okay. If you don't like me, I'll leave, but I won't be interrogated." Her defenses flew up and she stood defensively. Caroline stood still unaware of which way to go.
Damon and Stefan hadn't left yet, and once Damon heard Bonnie get loud, he was put in a position to re-enter the double closed doors of the large room and check on her.
"Seriously. I can't do this. I thought I could, but I'm out. I'm sorry. I'm not who you think I am, and even though I love your son," (these words left Damon, Caroline, Lily and Giuseppe stunned) "I think the best thing I can do for him is leave." Bonnie didn't realize she said she loved Damon. He wanted to grab her and hold her, she didn't realize he was in the room and Giuseppe signaled for him to leave the room before Bonnie saw him.
GO! Giuseppe said to Damon silently, and Damon fought his urge to stay and he reluctantly listened to his father. Because, he never went against Giuseppe, but he would for Bonnie. Giuseppe stood up and he walked over to Bonnie. Damon didn't want to leave, but he still had to take care of business. Seeing Bonnie become defensive with his family made him uneasy but he trusted his parents not to fuck anything up.
"I'm not gonna let you intimidate me. I don't care who you are, I've been through enough in my life to know I have the right to walk away." She turned to leave, but Lily grabbed her. "Let go of me." Caroline ran to Bonnie's defense and Lily put her hand up singling for Caroline to stay where she was. Caroline saw Bonnie's fist clench up. She prepared herself for flight or fight along with Bonnie.
Bonnie's eyes watered and Lily surprised both girls by hugging Bonnie. Bonnie didn't know what to think, she just kept her hands by her side and her fists clenched. Lily hugged her tight. She pulled up and grabbed Bonnie's face. "You are not alone. Ok? Now unclench your fists. You can't force me back into that form of problem solving, I haven't been in a fist fight in a while. Maybe a year or so. I'm getting a little old for that shit. Plus I have a feeling you'd give me a run for my money." Lily laughs walking Bonnie to the chaise to sit on.
Bonnie was still uncertain of the intentions of the Salvatore's so she remained stiff and quiet. "Caroline can stay here, if it makes you feel more comfortable."
Caroline sits next to Bonnie. "Lily, I'm all she has." Caroline says.
"If that is so, why does she want to leave? I overheard your conversation. Seems like someone is your family you don't leave them."
"You don't know me." Bonnie says quietly through grit teeth.
"Oh don't I? You are me twenty-five years ago. Defensive. Alone. Wounded. Angry. Trying to go rogue. Acting like I didn't need anyone. Trying to deal with everything alone. Do me a favor... Stop!" Bonnie looked to her. "It doesn't do anything, but fuck you up on the inside even more, make you angry at the world, and you know what, you end up being more angry at yourself, then you are at the world. You punish yourself, trying to make sense of why you can't get right. Listen to me, baby girl, it's not fucking worth it." Bonnie covers her face and lily pulls her hands down.
Trying to keep her face concealed, lily grabs her and holds her.
Giuseppe speaks.
"Who's the man, Bonnie? The man you are running from."
"No one."
"Lucien Castle." Caroline says without a question. Bonnie glares at her.
"Castle? I've heard that name. I need to look into that. So why are you protecting him from us?"
"I'm not protecting him, I just need to go and be far away."
"Running solves nothing, especially to a predator who seeks the thrill of the chase, and the pleasure in your fears."
"How do you know that?" Caroline asks.
"Because, I'm a predator, it's in my nature. Only I don't torture teenage girls, I torture mother fuckers who have betrayed me, or owe me money."
"He is dangerous. He has a lot of political pull and connections in high places. He had one of the kids in my school beat, and then locked up with falsified and implanted evidence. All because he liked me."
"Oh yeah, Kai Parker." Caroline said "They said he OD'd on drugs that he sold, and tried to kill himself by drinking and getting behind the wheel. He was found in his car half dead, and I think all of the drugs they forced down his throat saved his life because he didn't feel the impact of the crash. His body was already limp. Kai had never done a drug in his life. He was the star athlete, going places. That is what Lucien did to the kid, who liked Bonnie and asked her to the homecoming dance senior year. He never sold a drug, or drank. He got slapped with a DUI, intent to sell to underage minors, selling of narcotics, and a shit load of other convictions. But he was a minor, so he only got a year but two years house arrest and five years parole. No colleges will ever look at him. It may not seem like a huge punishment but where we are from he failed his parents, which is worse than anything. Him being a disgrace will follow him all of his life in Mystic Falls. His life is ruined because he liked Bonnie and Lucien is crazy."
Bonnie looked at Giuseppe. "So just imagine what he would do to Damon, if I stay. Damon isn't a privileged minor from Mystic falls. He's a thug, with every bit of a reason to have Lucien play God with his life. I'm sorry, but I have to leave."
Giuseppe and Lily were no strangers to the lifestyle, fortunately for them, their ties to dangerous people also went to very high places.
"No one scares me. Until I can get some things situated and looked at, you stay put. You are not to leave Damon's side, and when you do I have some security detail to take you and Caroline where ever you want to go."
"But-"
Lily interrupted Bonnie, "I know you don't have parents you are use to respecting, but this household runs differently. Giuseppe sets a standard, that's it. Bonnie, don't try to be such a brat. I don't have any daughters, but I can handle your attitude. Trust me."
Bonnie was shut down.
"Have you eatin?" Lily asked.
"I'm not hungry."
"You need food, Caroline, go make her a plate of the left overs we ate last night." Caroline, walks Bonnie in the kitchen.
Giuseppe and Lily watch the two girls walk out. Bonnie looks back and then forward to keep walking. Giuseppe looks at Lily who keeps her eyes on the girls.
"I see it in your face Liliana." He says seriously.
"What Giuseppe Damon Salvatore?"
"She reminds you of yourself."
"She is me, at that age. Now she is our responsibility. We just acquired to daughters in one week." She smiles. "And that one, the bambina, she's feisty. I see why Junior hasn't brought her around. But I also see why he loves her."
"He told you he loves her?"
"No. He's like you. He only speaks to give orders or shut people up. Other than that, i can see he opens up to her. Why do you think he hasn't been here much lately? He found one of his great ones." She laughs quoting the movie a Bronx Tale.
"His great ones." Giuseppe aka Sal laughs. "Who are his other two?"
"Me, of course. And his grandmothers, count as one."
Giuseppe and Lily laugh. They knew they just inherited a world of problems.
~oOOo~
"Oh my gosh, Care, I'm not wearing those shorts!" Bonnie's was not surprised at the lack of clothing, just the lack of clothing around Damon's parents.
"I picked them out for you, they are your style and size. Lily helped me."
"Why would I dress like that in front of his parents?"
"Because, it's apart of tonight's plans. Lily helped Damon plan it for you, and I put my three cents in because we haven't done it since we were kids." Caroline smiled mischievously.
"What?" Bonnie looks suspiciously at Caroline.
Bonnie puts the outfit on. Then Caroline brings her out the boots. "Here put these on."
"Oh wow. This is actually cute." Bonnie's sculpted legs in the daisy duke cut off shorts, cowgirl boots, and fitted flannel shirt tied at the rib cage reminded her of line dancing with Caroline when they were younger. Her mom took them before she left, and it was one of the greatest memories Bonnie had of Abby. "I already know we are going dancing."
"Yup." Caroline was so excited
"Caroline, why do you wanna make it impossible for me to leave?" Bonnie needed Caroline's attention.
Caroline ignored Bonnie, "Look. This hat is beautiful, right? Damon and Stefan had these hats made custom for us."
Caroline's hat was white and Bonnie's was brown. Both girls hats matched their boots.
"Line dancing? With both Sals? This almost seems like a joke." Bonnie said. She smiled for the first time all day. Remembering her friend's methods for dealing with things buy shutting everyone out, Caroline knew she couldn't let Bonnie leave.
"Fabulous." Lily entered the room looking at both girls glowing and looking like the epitome of young, beautiful, and reckless. She knew she had one weekend to give them of enjoyment, because come Monday, she had to kick their asses back into gear as if she was their own mother. But for now, line dancing. She would have to worry about the rest on Monday.
Bonnie was still defensive around Lily. Caroline, reluctantly accepted Lily, because her own relationship with her mom was unbearably painful. But Bonnie, in her own mind, still had a relationship with Abby that was salvageable. Granted Abby hadn't reached out almost a year, but she had never physically or mentally hurt Bonnie. Just left her emotionally vulnerable. Bonnie never spoke too many words to Lily. But she listened and she was respectful of her.
"Bonnie, I don't blame you for feeling skeptical of me. After all I'm not trying to replace anyone, I just know what it's like to be you and Caroline. So, with that said, let's head out, we are meeting the boys there."
"Is Giuseppe coming?"
"You kidding me? We don't line dance, this was Caroline's idea."
Bonnie looked at Damon's mother, and how pretty she was, couldn't be more than her early forties, "You're a beautiful woman, he trusts men not to..."
"Hit on me? No they do all of the time. He'll just send me with Julian."
"Julian?"
"Her bodyguard." Caroline answered.
Bonnie smirked when she saw Lily checking herself out. Lily was dressed in an outfit that was a mixture to the girls, she had on jeans shorts and a wife beater with a flannel over top.
"Okay let's go." Lily exclaimed.
"Just us tonight?" Bonnie asked.
"For now, Damon and Stef will head out when they are done handling business."
..xXXx..
"I didn't realize places like this still existed." Lily said smiling, with a beer in hand.
Bonnie Caroline, and Lily were at a line dancing place called Tombstone. It was a sort of dive bar place, but it was low key and kept them out of too much spotlight. So low key they didn't card the girls when they came in.
"Here." She hands them each a beer, they look at each other skeptically. "This ain't gone be a habit. So don't get used to it. I'll admit, I don't usually come to places like this but this is fun." Lily mentions as she learns to two-step and country slide. Lily has a beer in hand and holds Bonnie's hand in the other as Bonnie teaches her how to do the moves.
Silky smooth legs, cowgirl boots, flawless skin, golden tans, pretty smiles, and no men, made these girls garner attention of some of the frequent customers. Caroline received a phone call from Stefan and she couldn't hear over the music, so she told Bonnie shed step outside.
"No Care, not alone. Let me go to the bathroom and I'll be out there with you." Caroline agreed and waited by the front door for Bonnie. Lily kept inside at the bar with Julian having a drink and taking a break. Julian, or Jules as they called him didn't drink but always paid close attention to Lily, she was a flirt, and often gave cause for him to break noses or bones to keep men from trying to take her home.
Jules was out of place, with his suit on, but he didn't care he was the kind of man no one questioned because he didn't smile and it looked like he barely blinked. His glasses stayed on his face at all times. Even when someone spoke to him.
Caroline couldn't wait anymore, her phone kept ringing, so she just stepped outside of the door. She could barely hear Stefan and he was trying to find out where they were. Before she could fully answer it, she was grabbed by her waist and a hand was wrapped around her mouth, forcing her to drop her phone.
She wiggled and wiggled and tried to break free and the man was too strong. When she bit his hand he pulled her by her hair hard. Caroline felt immeasurable fear, the kind of fear you feel when you might die, but the only instinct you have is to fight. She couldn't scream, he covered her mouth tightly. She was walked over to a sketchy pickup, hard to see the color in the dark, but a familiar smell of disgust hit her nostrils. She couldn't place it, but the smell none-the-less was sitting on the body of a man who was large in size. His beard was full and she felt against the back of her neck.
The hairs raise on end of her arm, in the dark of the night as Caroline realizes she may never see her best friend or husband again. Her long cream colored legs begin swinging in the air, and if not for her fair color, Bonnie would not have seen Caroline in the dead of the night fighting her aggressor. Bonnie saw Caroline's cell phone on the ground, lighting up from an incoming call, she picked it up along with a beer bottle sitting on the table outside of the establishment. She quietly approached the dark silhouette of a man with a truckers cap on, and tried contemplating how to brake the bottle over his head as she saw him trying to throw Caroline into his truck. It was so dark Bonnie couldn't see the color of the truck or the make, but from what she recognized it might have been a ford. She knew how much she hates Fords.
"Care!" She screamed.
"Bon! Don't leave me!" Caroline was crying and trying to muscle over the large man.
As the little fist of hers clenched the bottle neck and broke over the large mans head, Caroline screamed for Bonnie who then stepped on the man's back after he had fallen to grab Caroline out of the truck. When Caroline grabbed Bonnie's hand, and was preparing to step out of the truck, the man grabbed ahold of Bonnie and attempted to throw her inside of the truck also. Bonnie didn't scream, she remained calm and as the mans face almost made line of sight to Bonnie, her new leather cowgirl boot with the hard wood bottom connected to his nose , instantly pushing it upward and breaking it and both girls escaped out of the other side of the truck running for their lives. Soon as they made it through the dark lot, almost to the entrance to the bar they bumped into the hard chest of Jules.
"Ahhhhhhh!" They said simultaneously.
Both girls were shook up and afraid of the dark at this point.
"Where the fuck have you two been?" Jules spoke low and deep. He was scary and they were afraid he was angry with them. "What happened?"
"Some big man out there, he's fucking huge and he stinks." Was all Caroline could say, she was still shaking and feeling paranoid.
"He's out there! We were attacked. He's over there. I think I broke his nose." Bonnie said.
Julian ran through the lot hoping to break a few bones or kill someone, and he was left with the dust of a pick-up that took off into the night. There was no recognition of a face, plate, or exact vehicle make. Bonnie and Caroline were startled and instantly ran to Lily, ready to leave.
She made them explain step by step what happened.
"What the hell girls? Who the hell would be after you? Do you think it was him?"
"I don't know. He has no idea where I am right now. Maybe he has found me, but I can't imagine Lucien dealing with anyone like this guy. This guy was dirty and grimy, and he seemed like he was straight out of the backwoods of some po-dunk town."
"Like he had a real dirty Hick vibe about him." Caroline said.
"How would you girls have any acquaintances like that?"
"We don't okay. When we were running schemes, they were all very wealthy business men."
Bonnie is now realizing Caroline told Lily about their past, when she still hadn't fully told Damon. "Care, we said we wouldn't talk about that."
"Bonnie, I told her because she told me she used to do the same thing."
Bonnie looked at Lily, two strong personalities, and Lily was feeling Bonnie's defenses again.
"You little broad's need to be straight with me. I need to know the types of men you dealt with. This is really serious. If you can't remember who you fucking deal with, how will you be able to look out for this shit when it happens?"
"That is the thing, it was more sugar daddy stuff. We never left any men, with a reason to want to kill us."
"Think hard, is there anything I need to know about girls? You can trust me, I won't mention it to the boys, if I can deal with it myself."
"That's it, I can't think of anyone." Caroline said. "Dean and Sam are long gone, I haven't heard from them since the fight on the beach. You Bon?"
"I mean, Dean text me a couple of times, but I never responded."
"WHAT?" Caroline yelled.
"I NEVER RESPONDED CARE!"
"Still, why would he text you after he stabbed Damon?"
"He apologized and he said that I would not hear from him for a while. That is it I swear. I never responded."
"Did you tell Damon?"
"No. He was already so upset behind other things. I didn't need to give him something to worry about that wasn't anything I was concerning myself with anyways. Besides, Damon got rid of that phone. I don't have the number anymore either."
"Dean and Sam, are the guys from the beach?" Lily asked.
"Geez, Caroline, talk much?" Bonnie was angry at Caroline for trusting so easily.
"Sorry Bon, I was meeting them for the first time. I wasn't prepared, I just... I don't know."
"Besides, I have no doubt in my mind, Dean and Sam were hired by Lucien. They operate with people in both Low and High places. From here to anywhere on this side of the southern part of the country along the Atlantic coast. They are good at what they do, and if they found you, they won't hesitate to look for you again. But Damon and Stefan having had the fight on the damn beach threw them off, because it showed you guys are well connected yourselves."
Lily's phone began ringing, she answered it. It was an angry Stefan. Yelling.
"Where the hell is my wife?"
"Stefano, have you lost your damn mind, did you forget who you are talking to?"
"Mi dispiace Ma (I'm sorry) I have been calling her phone!"
Lily looked to Caroline. "Oh you have been calling her phone?" She asked suspiciously "Mio figlio camati (my son calm down)" Caroline signaled for Lily to not tell Stefan what just happened. "Uhh, she and the little feisty one went to the bathroom." Bonnie's neck flew back.
"For twenty minutes Ma?"
"You know girl's son. They have to powder their noses and fix their hair."
"I was about to signal for some back up. I was worried. Okay. We are on our way."
"Okay. Arrevederci. (See you soon.) Please do not speed, and make sure to wear your seat belts, I know how you boys are." She says before hanging up.
"Si. Si."
Lily hangs up. "Okay, you mind telling me why you just asked me to keep that secret from my son?" She asked with a serious face.
"Uh, well, that guy took off. I think he was just trying to mug me, he is gone, and I don't think we will ever see that guy again." Caroline was trying to keep from stressing Stefan out behind her.
"Ah ragazza ingénue (naïve girls). I know you are used to dealing with shit alone. Excuse my language. No, just get used to it, this is how I talk. But forgive me when I say... but in our family, we don't deal with shit that way. We are open because we have each other's backs. Things you did before the Salvatore's - no more! We can't look out for each other if we aren't honest. That man, tried to take your little ass outta here, and I told you don't leave outside alone! Caroline, what were you thinking?"
Carline broke down crying.
"She's cries? She is counting and her steps… Why?" Lily was thoroughly confused and boggled by Caroline's instant behavior change. Caroline walked up and down the wooden walkway of the outside of the bar counting her steps."
"You are yelling at her!"
"That is what parents do. We yell when we are trying to guide you sometimes." Lily stops and looks at Caroline. "Stop counting."
"I can't."
Bonnie walks to Caroline, gently grabbing her by the shoulders.
"Caroline, Listen to me. My voice." Bonnie lifts Caroline's face. "I love you. I won't leave you. Okay. Stop counting. Listen to me. After tonight, I realize I can't leave you. I Won't okay. Please Care, don't cry." Bonnie looks to Lily. Then back to Caroline. "Lily, is not Liz, okay. Lily was just worried about you. She won't hurt you, she won't do anything to you. She just got scared because she cares for you. Anything could have happened in that moment and if I didn't happen to see your phone on the ground outside, and God forbid those long white legs kicking in the night, you could have been gone." Bonnie was feeling more emotional.
Bonnie starts to cry looking at her broken friend. "I'm so sorry for even thinking of leaving. If you felt even a percentage of what I felt when I saw him try to take you from me, then I am sorry. I will never leave you Caroline. I almost lost you." She grabbed Caroline and squeezed her. Tears flooded both girls eyes and Caroline held Bonnie like she was a lost little girl.
"You are all I have. Caroline. Please don't go anywhere alone. I am here. Always. Look at me." Caroline looks up "Sop counting. I am sorry. I love you. I will never leave you. Please. Don't ever scare me like that again."
Caroline hugged Bonnie, and Bonnie looked at the darkness seeing headlights coming up out of the black picture in front of her face. Caroline reluctantly, stopped tapping her feet when Bonnie finished counting with her. "Let's wipe your face before your husband gets mad." Bonnie wiped Caroline's tears and Caroline wiped Bonnie's.
They laughed at each other and tried to pull themselves together. Lily witnessed it all. She was blown away by these two girls closeness. Her eyes even watered. They looked to Lily.
"Well, shit, you guys have me crying."
They laughed. "Let's go dance. That was at least the highlight of my night. Before my daughter-in-law, almost got kidnapped. I will really think about telling Stefan this. For now, I will keep your secret. But we can't make this a habit. Do you girls hear me?"
"Yea ma'am."
"Umm, no. Call me Ma. Or Lily if you aren't comfortable. Never that ma'am shit."
"What's your street name?"
"Oh, Lady Sal. Rich huh? So original" She mocked. "But you guys are family, and not allowed to call me that."
They all looked as the headlights got closer.
"Get your behinds inside and dance those red faces off. We will salvage this night, because I finally figured out some of those dances and I want to show my boys because they swear mama lost her groove." Lily grabbed both girls by the hands and went inside.
~oOo~
Stefan walked into the bar and headed for the leggy blonde who he was ready to give a piece of his mind until he saw her dance. Her legs were long and shuffling along the old scraped up and broken down wood floor. He heard her clicks hit the beats so perfectly it made him move to the music himself. But Stefan couldn't dance so he watched her for a little while and just realized what a beautiful sight she was, her golden hair, her smile, her addictive laughter. If he didn't know better he'd swear she was crying because she looked a bit red, but maybe it was tears of happiness. She appeared to be having so much fun. She appeared to be feeling carefree. A look he hasn't seen on her face since the night he met her.
He then turned to Bonnie who thank God was around, because in his mind, Caroline, wouldn't be herself without Bonnie. Bonnie was the extra piece to Caroline's heart that he could feel it missing the days they spent at the Salvatore mansion without Bonnie for a few days. Now, Caroline looked happy and complete. He just watched her, and realized, what lucky guy he is. He was rotten to his core. A ladies man, who had a different girl in a hotel bed every Friday night. He had somewhat settle down since meeting and marrying his teen bride. He wasn't perfect and she sure as hell wasn't. He didn't know if they were coming or going half of the time in their marriage, but he knew that at least for now, they were happy and he wasn't planning on going anywhere. He would hold on to this feeling as long as he could. She made him want to be the man she needed.
And he just watched her, as Damon walked in five minutes later. Dusting off his black pants. Thanks to all of the loose dust outside. He was worried about how his mom was getting along with Bonnie. They had similarly strong-minded attitudes. But when his parents made him leave the house earlier, Bonnie was defensive and unapologetic of her attitude. Rightfully so.
His eyes caught Stefan's head over heels daze, then wondered out to where Stefan's eyes were and he spotted the girl who made him think twice about everything. She wasn't upset either. In fact, she was leaning onto his mom, holding her hand teaching her some of the steps. They were laughing and Lily looked genuinely happy. His eyes squinted in almost disbelief, and he had to really take in the sight. They were dancing and having fun, and he has never seen Bonnie look this way ever. The short time he has known her, the only time he saw her look so carefree was the night he met her, and she was high on coke, and dancing to the endless beats in the music of her Chevy Nova in the parking lot of the beach. Leave it to Lily to make Bonnie smile.
Damon remembers that when he saw her move to the music, he could tell it was natural for her. It was a place she was comfortable. (side note: she likes to dance.) He told himself to take that mental note and remember it. He and Bonnie have not had a chance to really be intimate since the night he met her. He wasn't going to rush anything either. He knew she needed the space to be okay mentally. So he never rushed her into anything. But tonight, he just had to do something.
Something he hasn't done since the night they met, he had to grab her, and kiss her, because she was so beautiful, and he couldn't handle not touching her anymore. He left Stef standing there, and walked through the crowd of people that had actually grown since the ladies got there. He didn't fit in at all. He had on Black jeans, with black laced up boots, which weren't laced up, a black button up shirt and Black leather jacket. He and Stefan didn't venture far outside of black, he stood out like a vampire in the daylight.
It didn't stop him from moving swiftly through the crowd and standing behind her, towering her. His presence was strong, making everyone move away from her. He took a second and breathed her scent in, because he loved her smell. He turned her around, and held her face gently between his two palms and looked at her. He wanted to kiss her so bad, but something was holding him back; the thought of her pushing him away. He didn't want to rush her, but he wanted her.
Bonnie's finger tips began to shake and her body was tingling from the inside out. His smell in her nostrils, his hands on her face, his body near hers, her life in the clutch of his current level of mercy and she knew she wasn't going to let him just leave her hanging, so she reached her hands to the back of his neck and pulled his face into hers until their lips touched, igniting a warmth inside of her body. His hands dropped slowly to her back and he held her tighter as she let her arms drape around his neck.
Their lips remained locked and he lifted her off of the ground spinning her in the place they stood, and he knew his life was better somehow, with her in his life. He gently stood her onto her feet and pulled back. "I missed you today." He said.
"Ditto Kiddo."
"Shouldn't I be saying that?"
"Umm…" She smiled.
She kissed him again.
After the long day they each spent separately, and the last few days of them spending time alone and being very platonic, his need for her embrace was long overdue. "Kissing you felt better than I remembered. It's been almost two months."
"I mean, I do have pretty kissable lips." After sighing, "I can't believe it's been almost two months." She said. Lily walked up to them, to which Bonnie dropped her arms and turned around so that her back was against Damon. He wrapped his arms around her and buried his face in her neck.
"What are we going to do with the bambina?" She looked to him.
"She is my family Ma." He said. Bonnie put her head down and kind of blushed but straightened her face up quick, before anyone noticed.
"Yeah. She is, I agree. But this man, that's after her. The one who has legal documentation as her guardian. What's the plan if he finds her?"
"I am going to kill him Ma. Simple." Damon face was serious and cold.
"Junior, not in front of the girls. Be mindful of them."
"Damon, no. I won't let you guys be responsible for me. I will figure out how to deal with Lucien."
"Don't say his name." He said.
Caroline and Stefan walked up. "What's up guys, we staying or going?"
"I guess we can go, but we need to all figure out what we are doing about the bambina."
"What do you mean?" Stefan said.
"The man that is after her is not going to stop, so…. You know I need to go and see what Giuseppe dug up today. Its fine. We are family we'll be fine. It'll be fine. Leave it to my boys to bring home trouble." She laughed.
"This family is can't stay out of trouble." Damon said.
"Well, I just know I can't ever risk him finding out about Damon, he is liable to have him thrown in jail, among other things. If anything ever happened to Damon, I couldn't live with myself."
Caroline looked at Bonnie and Damon, then something clicked in her head.
"Lucien's guardianship can be broken." She said
"Yeah, how?" Damon asked.
"If you guys get married."
"Absolutely not. Caroline, you are out of your mind?" Bonnie exclaimed
"It's not a bad idea." Lily said.
"No. Do guys hear yourselves? Marriage works for Caroline, but it wouldn't work for me. So get it out of your heads. I can't do it."
Damon looked at Bonnie, not angry or mad, or hurt, just listening to her, he knew how she was. He knew she hated people forcing things on her, or trying to control her.
"Stop you guys. She said no. So stop pressuring her." Damon said.
She looked at him, detecting a slight change in his demeanor. "You agree with them, don't you Damon?" She asked with apathy.
"I didn't say that, but it makes sense Bonnie."
"Damon, I am seventeen and your twenty-four. Caroline is eighteen and Stefan is twenty-one. You don't have to be tied down to taking care of me. I am not going to let Lucien scare me, I will deal with him. I will figure something out. You don't want this Damon. Okay?"
"Bonnie." He said.
"No. I need go outside, alone."
"You can't Bonnie. Remember what happened?" Caroline said.
Lily smacked herself in the forehead.
"What happened?" Stefan demanded.
"Umm, it was nothing. Some guy tried to mug me and then Bonnie came and smashed a bottle to his head and broke his nose. He is long gone."
"What the hell keeps happening to you two when we are not around?"
"Nothing. Just a mugger okay. It can happen anywhere." Caroline said
"But it didn't happen anywhere, it happened here, when we weren't with you guys."
"Stefan, please, and look we handled it." Caroline pleaded.
"When were you going to tell us Ma?"
"Damon, I was going to let the girls tell you guys."
They all start arguing not realizing Bonnie was gone. Damon went after her.
"I'm sorry for pissing you off okay. It has nothing to do with marrying you okay. You are anything I could want Damon, but I am seventeen year old high school, drop-out, fuck-up! Okay? I can't even keep myself out of trouble."
"I get Bonnie, but just hear me out. We can keep things simple. Changing your name will benefit you in so many ways. You will have access to basically anything in Florida. You won't be Bennett anymore. Screw your dad."
"It's not my dad's last name. It was my mom's last name. The only thing I have left of her."
"I know you want to hold on to what you can, I will support whatever you want Bonnie. But I just want to protect you. That is all I want to do. But I won't risk pushing you away." He hugs her. "You really are my family Bonnie. I meant that in there."
"You too. I only have you and Caroline."
"And Stefan, Giuseppe, and that woman in there seems pretty attached too." He laughed.
"Damon, you are twenty-four, and I am seventeen, I am not sure I'd even be worth the gamble, or trouble."
"Stop talking about yourself, as if Lucien still has control over your mind. You are special. Fuck him Bonnie. You almost got hurt tonight, someone is after you! I'm not letting anything happen to you, as long as you let me help you."
Her eyes water and he wipes her tears. "Bonnie, if you want to get married, I promise to take care of you. If you can be honest with me about everything that I need to know. You marry me, you'll never have to be questioned about me in a court of law. Everything I have will be yours. I will take care of you. What are you afraid of?"
"Damon, I don't want another older man, lying to me and hurting me! Testing me like property."
"Bonnie, I would never... Like I said. I am on your side Bonnie. No pressure. Whatever you want."
"Okay, then. I'll do it, on one condition... Don't baby me. Let's kill him!"
"What?" Damon was shocked.
"You heard me, let's Kill Lucien."
Even though it turned him on to hear those words leave her lips he had to stop himself.
"No, Bonnie. That is not a thing for you to do. You are not going to be involved in what happens to him in anyway. I will make sure what I do has no ties to you at all."
"Damon, I want to help. I want to know, you will let me be your equal."
"No."
"Why?"
"Because I lo… I don't want anything to happen to you. I just want you to wake up one day, and he no longer exists. I would much rather marry you, and give you everything you could ever ask for, then to ever let another man's blood be spilled on your hands."
"Why?"
"Because, marrying you is the only thing that makes sense, since the day we met. I'm actually jealous of my baby brother for being so recklessly in love. Because I have always been too careful. But for you I would do anything. Even kill a man, that I have never met, based on anything you told me about him. I would do anything to protect you. Including give you everything of me."
Damon looked out into blackness, as Bonnie watched him. She grabbed his cut up fists again, and looked at all of his busted knuckles. It was such a contrast to his beautiful face. "If anything ever happened to you Damon, or Caroline... I'd..."
"Trust in me Bonnie, please. I'm asking you. I've been living calmly for two months, looking after you. Let me invite you into my world, a fearless world where I take care of you. My world is dangerous, but you will be safe, I promise you that."
"Damon, you'll protect me?"
"As long as you let me, I promise to always protect you! I'm not your parents Bonnie, I won't abandon you, ever!" He holds her while he dries her tears.
"We speak in codes and no one knows
Cause we're living a double life.
Kept inside our love dreams hide
Cause we're living a double life."
"Caroline, I have a feeling you know something you're not telling me!"
"Stefan, I'm telling you, I just went to answer your call and the man attacked me!"
"Why Caroline? Why the fuck, in the middle of no where is someone trying to attack you?"
"Stefan, fuck you. I feel you insinuating something. I'm going to lose it if you do t fuck off."
"I think, I would have lost my got damned mind if you had been taken. If not for Bonnie, you'd be gone."
"I know. I got enough from your mom. Okay. Don't talk to me like a child."
"Stop acting like one."
"You think I'm a child?" She narrowed her eyes at him.
"No, but you do things without thinking, and it can get you hurt."
"I don't need you taking care of every little detail of my life Stefan. I married you, I'm not your daughter."
"Caroline, let me tell you something, in this family we do shit differently. We don't lie, we protect each other, and we work together. All I know is I can't do my job as a husband, if you even tell the smallest lie, or keep the smallest detail out of the equation. I need to know everything. So IF the smallest thing pops into mind, I'm asking you to tell me. Okay?"
"Alright Stefan. I will." She rolls her eyes and he kisses her head and walks away. Caroline walks over to Bonnie whose standing outside in the
"So, is everyone making you feel like a baby too?" Caroline asks Bonnie.
"You mean is the fact that they coined me the bambina, affecting me yet?" She laughs.
Caroline laughs and they sit on the back deck of the Salvatore mansion. "Care, when I thought you were gone, I went a little crazy. I wanted to kill that man. What would I have done?"
"I'm here Bon."
"I know, but what if? Ya know. I'd be lost and I'd probably go crazy." Bonnie looked out into the night sky. Her arms crossed over her body and she stood alone.
"Bonnie, I'm sorry. I made a mistake. But I-"
"Stop Care. Don't explain to me. I know you made a mistake, just look at me. We need to stick together. We are all we have, outside of the Salvatores. No one knows us from jump. So, if Lucien is tracking me, he's tracking you too. We have to keep Stefan and Damon out of the picture. Or Lucien will have them taken care of."
"What are you thinking Bon?"
"I wanna kill him. Caroline, I want him dead, and I want to make sure he's dead myself!"
"What's Big Sal think of this?"
"He won't let me help him."
"Bonnie, what does that mean?"
"It means, I'm going to take matters into my own hands." Bonnie's face was so serious, and stoic. She looked at Caroline.
"How will you do that, if Damon told you he doesn't want you helping?"
"I can't tell him Care."
"No more lying, remember Bon? You just told me no more lying!" She said mocking.
"I'm not going to kill him Caroline. Cherie is going to kill him!" Bonnie's scheming, ruthless, coniving, their of a bitch alter ego is going to make one more Cherry Bomb.
"Fuck yeah, I'm so down Bitch. I was afraid I lost you for good!" Caroline licked her lips and applied more gloss, smiling conivingly.
"What are you saying, Care?"
"My bitch ain't doin this shit alone. Joanie and Cherie are about to do another Cherry Bomb! Fuck yeah!"
"I guess I'm getting married now too!" Bonnie smiles.
"You mad? I think you love Damon, Bonnie. I really do."
"I honestly, truly, love Damon, but I have unfinished business, and I can't have him being drug into my bullshit, fucked up world." She pulls out a blunt and lights it.
"So now, I have to plan a wedding and a funeral!" Caroline said smiling. "Let me hit that shit."
"Fuck that! Lucien, doesn't get a funeral, but as his only living next of Kin, according to court documents, I'm taking that fucker for his money."
"Fuck yeah. bitch. Let's do this shit!" Caroline laughs and grabs Bonnie's hand.
They men walk out of the mansion, towards the two girls adoring them.
"You guys okay? You talked about the what we were speaking of?" Stefan asks Caroline.
"Yeah, I think Bonnie feels better about everything now." Caroline says laughing to herself.
"Bonnie, I'm only okay with this, if you are." Damon says.
"Yeah, I'm more than ready." Her smile is genuine, because she knows, her best friend has her back.
She smiles innocently at Damon.
"You ready to be my wife?" He asks her.
She nods her head hugging him.
Caroline smiles. She was more than ready to get back to her old tricks again. "Fuck yeah!" She says hitting her blunt again. Her and Bonnie have been good for too long. They were more than ready to fuck some shit up again.
But this time, it was going to be different. This time they were going to kill a man, and lie to their ruthless, over protective, drug slanging, mobster husbands about it all the while.
Caroline and Bonnie put out the blunt and tucked it away as they approached Lily.
"So it's decided?" Lily asked as they walked in the mansion. She anticipated anything.
"It is." Damon said smiling.
"Well Damiano, Stefano... Either these two girls are brave as hell for becoming apart of our family, or crazy as shit."
Bonnie and Caroline both knew, they were crazy. It was a matter of time before the Salvatores figured it out.
A/N – Bonnie and Caroline have been behaving too well for me. So they are getting back to it, and I debated marrying Bonnie because I wasn't going to, but It's adding to the development of her mischievous behaviors right along with her bestie. Bonnie and Caroline want to kill the man who tormented her. Caroline loves trouble, so she's happy Bonnie is on board to do something reckless. Next chapter, conspiring besties, go back to their dark ways.
So much happened in this chapter... Thx for sticking with the terrible twosome!
I hope you liked this chapter!