A/N: Finally, I'm updating! I really hate updating late but hopefully from mow on I will be able to update earlier, since my visitors are gone now..

Anyway, I don't really now how this chapter turned out, it wasn't the way I was thinking of going but hopefully, you lot will still enjoy it..

I'd like to thank everyone who has read/reviewed/favourited/alerted this story. It means so much. By the way I'm really sorry that I couldn't do the review replies today, but its nearly 2 am in the morning, I have work early in the morning and I'm really tired.. I'm really sorry.. But know that I appreciate every one of them..

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I really pray you'll like this chapter because it came out different than I had planned.

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Chapter 7 - Rage, Distrust, Relief

"Stefan please. Lets not go there. Its all in the past now".

Stefan was going to say more but he heard the door bell. "I'll get it" he said and went to open the door, to find a furious looking Elena at the door.

Stefan didn't know what to do or say. He was shocked to find Elena at Bonnie's doorstep. It wasn't really unusual for her to come around unannounced, but it was the rage and hostility he felt coming off her, that shocked him more.

"Elena?" he questioned, stepping aside to let her in.

Elena stormed in, looking around. "Where is she? Where is that bitch?" she bellowed, shocking Stefan.

"Elena! What are you talking about?" he asked, trying to understand what was going on.

"Stefan? What's going on?" Bonnie asked, coming to the hallway. She stopped when she saw Elena.

"Elen-" Bonnie started, but was cut off by a slap across her cheek from Elena. Both she and Stefan gasped. Stefan came to Bonnie's side right away, trying to keep Elena at bay.

"Elena! What are you doing?" he couldn't make sense of any of this.

But Elena ignored Stefan. She was charging up to Bonnie now. "How could you? You're supposed to be my best friend!" she spat.

Bonnie's cheek hurt from the slap, but she was numb to feel anything else. She was shocked and hurt, hurt that her best friend had just slapped her, especially for reasons she didn't understand. "I- I don't understand" she tried to say.

"I trusted you! You're such a deceiving bitch!" she said raising her hand again, but felt a strong grip holding her hand. She turned around to see Damon, who had literally appeared from nowhere.

"Do. Not. Try. That. Again!" Damon growled, separating each word.

"Damon!" Elena cried and threw herself at him. But Damon pried her hands away.

"What is going on here?" he asked, scanning every face in the room. He had finally woken up from a long sleep and had made his way here to check up on his brother and the little witch, and found himself face to face with chaos. He repeated his question when no one answered.

"I'd like to know too" Stefan commented.

"They're.. they're having an affair" Elena accused, pointing at Bonnie and Stefan.

Two gasps and one growl were heard. He knew it all along. He had sensed it, deep in his gut. Now everything was confirmed. He felt something breaking inside him, become unhinged. And he felt rage, pure black destructible rage. Damon started towards Bonnie, already transformed into his vampire mode. He'd rather kill the little witch than allow his brother to have her. Some things weren't for sharing.

Stefan saw what was coming and covered Bonnie with his body. But Damon was unstoppable. Stefan slammed into Damon, pushing him to the other wall. He was bewildered.

"Damon what the hell are you doing?"

Though he was not hurt from the impact, it did help to bring him back to his senses. What was he doing? Ready to attack Bonnie. Kill her. What had gotten into him? Why did he even care that his suspicions were right. All he should be doing now was celebrate the victory and console Elena with his very own method. In bed. But he didn't feel like celebrating. It didn't feel like victory, strangely it felt like defeat. Like he had lost to his little brother again. Only he didn't know when they, he, had started competing. Or even why.

Bonnie, who was already tearful from her conversation with Stefan, started crying again. It was all too much for her. The distrust of Elena, Damon's rage, him trying to attack her. It was all too much.

"Elena. That's not true. How could you even think that of me? Me? Your best friend?" Bonnie finally said, when she found her voice.

"Don't lie Bonnie. How could you Stefan? I thought you loved me? How can you be so low and go after my best friend?"

"Elena. You need to calm down, you're getting everything wrong. Where the hell did this come from anyway" he tried to ask calmly, hoping it'll calm his girlfriend too, but Elena got even more animated.

"Where? Where? Well let me tell you. You don't come around anymore. I don't see you, when I do you're either tired or distracted. No wonder why, Bonnie must be tiring you out. What do you do pretend she's me or did you pretend I was her all this time!"

"Elena! Stop right there. If you continue, I don't think I can refrain myself from tearing one of yours neck. And at this point, I don't care who's it is" Damon hissed, looking straight at Bonnie.

"Bonnie stop crying!" Damon bellowed from across the room. Which only resulted in Bonnie crying even more harder. Damon was in front of her in a flash. "Damn it. I said stop crying!" he hated seeing her cry. He hated seeing any woman cry, they became whiny, clingy and in need of support when they cried and he hated providing that support. But with Bonnie it was different. When she cried, something twisted inside of him. Something he couldn't define.

Bonnie cried harder and buried her head in Stefan's chest, who was still at her side, to muffle the sound of her cries. This infuriated Damon further. He pried Stefan's arms from around her and roughly moved Bonnie away from Stefan.

"Damon, you're hurting her!" Stefan warned, and received a glare from Damon.

"Oh my God!" they heard Elena talk and all three turned to face her. Although she was the reason for this chaos, they had forgotten her presence.

"I cant believe this. You're using both! You could've at least leave Damon to me!"

Shock, outrage, and hurt flickered on the faces of Bonnie and Stefan, they're emotions mirrored each other. Another emotion flickered on Damon's face. Conflict. This was his chance, Elena all but had admitted her attraction to him. He should take her and leave now, because he knew at this moment it was so easy to get Elena and win a battle with his brother. But this battle, didn't feel like the biggest and most important one. He wasn't sure whether he wanted to win this battle. Just this moment, he saw Katherine in Elena and he wasn't sure he wanted to go down that road again, at least not with her.

Bonnie tried reasoning with her friend again. "Elena. You need to come to your senses. How could you think that?"

"How? My boyfriend doesn't want me anymore. I followed him today after school, only to see him leaving with you. But I didn't think anything. And then what do I see? He comes in with you and hours past, and he still doesn't leave!"

"You followed me?" Stefan asked incredulous.

"Yes"

"I cant believe you Elena. How could you not trust me? I'd give my life for you, the minute you'd ask. And yet you can think this of me? Is that how low you view me, Bonnie?"

"You made me think that Stefan" Elena replied calming down. She went next to him. "But I'm willing to forget it. Forget that it ever happened. I'm willing to make you forget her. We'll continue like nothing happened. Like she never existed"

"Elena I think you should leave. Now" Stefan said removing her hands, which was now on his cheeks.

"You want me to leave?" Elena asked, unable to believe Stefan would ask her that.

"At this point yes. I believe its better if you leave. We'll talk again when you're calmer. But not today, today you destroyed a lot Elena"

"You should leave too brother" Damon added.

"No" Stefan replied, angering Elena and Damon.

"No? Fine!" Elena huffed and left, slamming the door behind her.

Damon turned his attention back to his brother. "You should leave"

"I said no Damon. You really think I'm going to leave her like this?"

"I'll take care of her"

"No!" Bonnie shouted out of fear.

"Do you really think, she'll want to stay with you after all you said and done today?"

"I didn't do anything. Its all you two. You two started this twist up relationship thing"

"Not you as well Damon. How can you believe it? You know what's happening in Bonnie's life. Why we're practically living here. Why are you making this any harder?"

"I've had my own suspicions" he replied and missed the flicker of hurt in Bonnie's features.

"Both of you go. I want to be alone"

"Hell will freeze over before you stay alone!" Damon rasped. "Fine. You don't want me to stay. I'll leave you with your boyfriend" he said and left. Him too, slamming the door shut. He was leaving the house, but he wasn't leaving them. He perched himself onto his usual spot in the tree and began watching. He vowed that if he saw any funny business he would interfere. He told himself the only reason he was mad and angry was because Stefan had made him go through a lot about pursuing Elena. It only angered him, because he thought, if his brother had a thing for the witch, he shouldn't have made things harder for him about Elena. That's what Damon told himself. That's the reason of his rage, nothing more.

Bonnie cried and cried and cried for the last 3 days. She refused to go to school. She refused to Damon staying with her. She couldn't believe he had gall to turn up at her doorstep the next day, informing her it was his day. She had just slammed the door on his face. She had thought they were becoming friends, but the previous day had proved her wrong. Stefan had never left her side for the 3 days, when she refused, he hadn't went to school as well. They were both hurting. For the same reasons. They were hurt that Elena had even thought of such thing. He was hurt that she didn't trust him enough and believe such ridiculous thought. He was mostly hurt about Elena's comment on leaving Damon to herself. Frankly, he was disappointed in Elena.

Bonnie was hurt too. Maybe more hurt than Stefan. She was hurt that her best friend would think such thoughts about her. She was hurt that Elena had slapped her. Mostly, she was hurt that Elena would erase her from her life so quickly. Like she never existed, this was the sentence that broke her most.

Though she never wanted to admit it, Damon hurt her most. His distrust in her and his brother. He said he had his suspicions before. How could he think that? She was hurt that he would try to kill her again, because she knew, when he charged for her his only intention was to kill not attack. She had sensed it. Bonnie thought she could never be hurt like this again.

"Bonnie we should tell Elena the truth" Stefan urged when they were walking toward the school gate. They had finally decided to return to school.

"No Stefan. I don't want you to. To be honest at this moment I don't care what she thinks about us. But I don't want her open to danger"

Stefan smiled a sad smile. Even after everything happening, she was still thinking about her friends safety. Elena would regret losing a friend like Bonnie. Because he knew, just as Bonnie did, the moment Elena slammed the door shut, she slammed the door shut on their friendship too. And it was going to be so hard, and take a lot of effort to re-open that door.

Bonnie and Stefan parted ways, as she was just about to enter her Physics class, she felt strong arms pulling her aside. She gasped and saw Damon.

"What are you doing?" she asked, her voice rising from fear.

Damon shut his eyes, then opened them and stared straight at Bonnie's green eyes. "Please" he muttered.

"What?"

"Please don't be afraid of me. I will never hurt you" he said, his voice low.

"Funny. I re-call so many moments you did exact that"

"Re-phrase. I will never intentionally hurt you. Those moments I lost myself for a bit. I wasn't in control then"

"What do you want Damon?" Bonnie asked, tired.

"I'm sorry. For the way I acted, for everything. For ever doubting you and Stefan. I now know, there's nothing between you two"

Damon had watched the pair every second the last 3 days and was finally convinced that there really was nothing between the two. Though they were in the same house, they practically never have been in the same room. Stefan was downstairs, walking up and down brooding, and Bonnie was in her room crying. Endlessly. It hurt Damon to see her cry so much, especially knowing he was part of the reason. But finally he was convinced that there was nothing between them. An indescribable relief had coursed through him then, and suddenly he had felt himself again. So he came to school to make amends with the little witch. Because no matter what the danger wasn't over yet, and Stefan was incapable of protecting her on his own. Also, though he hated to admit it, a part of him had missed the little witch. Missed hearing her talk, their banters, and mostly hearing her laugh. He also couldn't bare to see her cry anymore.

"Maybe there is. How do you know?" Bonnie challenged. Not sure why? But then again, Damon always brought out the worst in her.

"Nice try. But I know there isn't little witch. If there is, well, you'll be paying the consequences" he whispered next to her ear. Bonnie shivered, and something other than fear coursed through her spine.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed..