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A/N: Alright it's time for another update but first off I want to thank my reviewers from last time; chaylorXtraylorlover, babyshan211, Quizas, Hellzz-on-Earth, Ali08, LunaSolTierra and Phelycia. I hope everybody enjoys this chapter and please remember to Review I love to hear from you guys.
Baby S
Chapter Seven
Lucius was slowly losing his patience with Marcel and his minions, the entire process of acquiring Bonnie Bennett was taking entirely to long for him. Standing up he walked over to his window and looked out over his compound. He was tired of waiting for Marcel to do what he had sent him to do, so it was time to pay his wayward worker a visit. In the blink of an eye, he focused in on Marcel's mind and then pushed himself through.
Marcel was sitting slowly drinking a cup of blood and talking to Garrett before the furious sound of Lucius' voice erupted in his mind. Dropping his cup, he spaced out and stared off in the direction of the far wall. Garrett watched him in shock as he realized that Lucius was paying him a personal visit by projecting himself in Marcel's mind. It was one of the most terrifying things that Lucius could do to his minions. He could make them feel pain, as well as drive them mad. This was one visit that Garrett would never want to experience in his life. Marcel could perform this task as well, but never did unless he was torturing someone. Lucius, however didn't care who he used this skill on. The silence was broken by the sound of Marcel softly and weakly muttering Lucius' name and pushing back his chair.
"Is this what you've been doing since I sent you on this mission, sipping blood and socializing." Lucius snapped as he advanced on Marcel who scrambled back away from him. Terrified of what his master just might do to him if he became angry enough. "Stop backing away from me like some scared puppy, Marcel." the man snapped out angrily, "And answer my question?" Marcel's back hit the wall and he held his hand over his heart in fear as he looked at his raging boss, master, maker...whatever he wished to be called at the moment. "Call me master, for now." Lucius stated coldly as he looked at him. Marcel quickly nodded his head and then lowered his head.
"We are trying to figure something out. Jaxon has protected her quite well. He's killed out trackers and even one of our people who was trying to infiltrate her group of friends. Our numbers are growing thin and well...I was trying to preserve everyone within our group until we came up with a better plan."
"Is Bonnie for you?" Lucius asked pointed as he pulled Marcel to him. Shaking his head furiously, Marcel watched as his master's eyes darkened with rage. "No, right...she isn't for you. She is for me. You don't take your time with what belongs to me, and she will. I am tired of the staling, do that on your own time." he shouted. "I wanted Bonnie with me...yesterday."
"Of course...but you have to realize Jaxon is powerful." Lucius rolled his eyes at what Marcel stated and then back away from him openly laughing now. Marcel didn't move, he didn't even crack what would be at that time a nervous smile. Instead he simply watched as Lucius laughed outright shaking his head as he walked away from him. "I didn't think you were terrified of him...I thought you hated him for what he did. This is the man that murder your family...your whole village. Everyone you knew and loved were murdered by his hands. Killed." he finished as he stopped laughing all together as he looked at him at him. "I thought...you wanted this mission to get me Bonnie Bennett and also to avenge your family and friends." Marcel looked down, at the hard floor his chest rising and falling. The he heard it, the screams. The screams of his sisters and mother, the yells of the men as they tried to fight Jaxon off from their village. He looked up and saw his village and the carnage that Jaxon had left in his wake. Looking down he saw that his feet were in a deep pool of dark red blood. He looked off to the side and his village leader lying up against his tent deep for all the world to see. Then he felt himself moving, moving like he had done that night. He entered his tent and saw his sister bloody and dead near the entrance and then behind her he saw his other sister. Her sightless eyes staring back at him as if asking from the grave why she hadn't protected him. "Don't tell me you've forgotten this?" Lucius asked breaking through the solemn mood that had settled over Marcel's un-beating heart. "If I were you, I'd be leaping at the chance to avenge them...every last one of them. Now I've given you the chance. The order to proceed with your vengeance and yet here you are sipping blood like some aristocrat." Lucius watched as Marcel bent to his knees and reached out with a hand to touch his sister's face. "If I were you I'd already have my vengeance and I would be done with this entire mission, so they could finally rest in peace." Marcel bowed his head at his words, and Lucius slowly pushed the memory back and then knelt down beside Marcel who was still kneeling on the floor staring at the space his sister had been. "Do I need to say anymore?"
"No," Marcel whispered as he tore his eyes away from the spot and then looked up at Lucius. "No you don't."
"Good...now I want this all to be resolved by the end of the week, do you understand me Marcel. I am tired of this waiting game you're making me play and I want this all finished. I have plans that I need to put into action, but they've been stalled because I'm waiting on you. You are my right hand now...prove it."
"What about Jaxon...they will listen to him and-."
"Why haven't you confrontation him with everyone else. United numbers are a thing of beauty when used correctly, especially a group of us. Expose him for the lying murderer he is, and I'm sure Bonnie in her unique good moral sensibility would push the man away which would keep her away from the one man that could protect her."
"Expose him?"
"What did I just show you? The destruction of your village by one man and his name is Jaxon. Tell her that, how I don't care...but you have to get her attention some how." Lucius replied tired of Marcel inability to think. Marcel nodded his head, his mind already formulating a plan for what to do and how to do it. Stepping away from him Lucius rocked back on his heels and then shook his head with a soft chuckle. "I've been after these...well I guess now you can call them Bennett witches, for years. When you expose to Bonnie just how bad of a man Jaxon is. I want you to expose the fact that he killed Aisha, one of the very first Bennett witches." he replied. "Tell her that and let's see how much longer she remains in his presence." Marcel nodded his head as Lucius walked away from him and then stopped and gave him a cold glare.
"I'll send you five more minions, Oh and Marcel don't make me do this again." Marcel nodded his head and in moments, Lucius was gone. Jerking back his eyes focused on the concerned face of Garrett who had obviously witnessed his visit from Lucius.
"What did he say?" Marcel looked at him for a moment before pushing himself up from his chair. Garrett watched as he started pacing and then stopped and looked back at him.
"Once we receive the minions that Lucius is sending us we are going after Jaxon and Bonnie." he slammed his fist into the palm of his hand so hard he felt his bones snap. He couldn't believe he had lost his way. He couldn't believe he had lost his edge on how much he hated Jaxon for what he had done to him and his people. He was glad Lucius had shown him again what had happened that night. He was glad that Lucius had awakened his inner rage and fanned the flame again. "And then all of this will be over."
"Have you been studying?" Jaxon asked as he wiped his hands on his pants as he pushed himself up from the ground and looked at Bonnie who just smiled and shrugged her shoulders before lifting her hand and squeezing her thumb and finger together.
"Just a bit."
"You been helping her?" Jaxon asked their ever presence audience, Damon looked at Jaxon and just smiled.
"You figure it out...I mean do you really think I want to be her practice dummy," he paused for effect as he looked over at Bonnie who was just shaking her head at their now normal banter. "Nope, you wanted that role...I don't want to step on your toes."
"Believe me you won't...sometimes I need a break from being knock on my ass." he replied with a deep chuckle as he looked back at Bonnie. "Again." he snapped out loud. The pleasant instantly dropped to one that consisted of hard work. Bonnie nodded and squared back her shoulders as Jaxon shouted. "Let's see how well you do against a moving target." Rushing forward, Bonnie stepped back and sent a energy burst his way. Jaxon easily sidestepped it and continued gunning for her. Focusing, yet again she sent another burst that caught him in the air and sent him flying back. Jaxon laid in a crouch with his hand on the ground and legs spread as he looked at him.
"How was that?" Bonnie asked as she looked at him.
"Pretty good...but I don't want it to take two tries because there will be multiple people coming for you. You can't miss...you can't make a mistake and you certainly can't hesitate." Jaxon replied with a shake of his head as he pushed himself up. "You're doing fine but once you master that...you'll be fine." he stated with a shake of his head as he looked at her for a moment before sighing. "I think we're finish for today."
"Good, I'm so tired." Bonnie replied as she slowly relaxed her stance, Damon watched as she turned and headed in the house no doubt she was about to go and freshen up a bit before allowing him to drive her back home. Once they were alone, Damon looked over at Jaxon who was now standing beside him.
"She's really coming along." Jaxon replied as he swept by Damon and waltzed into the house, rolling his eyes at the closed-off attitude that Jaxon usually had for him when they weren't in the company of Bonnie, Damon followed the other man inside the house. He found him in the kitchen pouring himself a glass of chilled blood. "Do you want some?" he asked as if he knew that Damon wouldn't be able to resist.
"No," he replied as he pulled out a chair from the kitchen table and sat down in it. This was usually how each session ended. With him impatiently waiting on Bonnie to freshen up while trying his best not to get pissed off by Jaxon's closed-off...stand-offish attitude towards him. However, today he was finally tired of wondering why. "Look, man can you just tell me what your problem is with me so we can get pass it. I'm really tired of all the bullshit." He looked up at Jaxon's face and saw that he had caught the older man off guard. Placing his glass down, Jaxon looked at Damon and sighed.
"I'm sorry."
"No I wanna know why you have a problem with me?" he asked as he looked at Jaxon, not willing to accept his apology without an explanation. Jaxon looked down at the cup of blood in his hand and then spoke.
"I suppose it's prejudice." Damon raised an eyebrow at Jaxon in disbelief and just shook his head as if he was trying to knock the disbelief from his skull.
"Prejudice?"
"I didn't stutter, Damon. I said prejudice." Jaxon replied with a deep tortured sigh. "I assume you want me to explain myself."
"Yeah, that would be nice."
"Fine...Lucius the one that turned me and started it all, well he has certain feelings towards vampires. Feelings I suppose rubbed off on me." he stated with a small shrug. "Feelings that I personally believed in for at least over a thousand years. Lucius made it a point to train every last one of us well...everyone after me with vampires. We would practice spells on them, fight them for practice and just...we would just kill vampires day in and day out. We never cared one way or another. If you were a supposedly good vampire or not. Vampires like your brother would have been treated the same way. We didn't care because Lucius didn't care." Jaxon stated. "Maybe that's behind my attitude towards you...just leftover feelings from my time with Lucius."
"What changed you?" Damon asked curiously. The man eyed him for a brief moment before shaking his head and saying.
"Nothing much...I just grew bored with it all. I looked at myself and found that I was just tired, so tired that I didn't care anymore. Some of us...have killed themselves because of their boredom I've know two that were younger than me. They lived to be about six hundred or so...they just took off their rings and walked straight into the sun. I could never do that."
"Why not?"
"It's not a good death." Jaxon replied with a shake of his head. "I want a good death." he stated firmly. "That's all I want." Damon continued to look at him for a brief moment before turning to look towards the stairs as he heard Bonnie coming down. She entered the kitchen and looked at him for a moment before sighing.
"I hope you two haven't been fighting."
"Nope, we are just coming to an understanding." Damon replied as he pushed himself up from the chair he was currently sitting in. He walked over to Bonnie and took her bag from her and then headed towards the door before Jaxon's voice stopped them.
"Bonnie, wait!" They both turned as he walked over to them. He took the bag from Damon and reached inside and pulled out Jacob's grimoire, they both watched as he flipped through the pages until coming to a stop. Once he was on the page that he wanted he looked at Bonnie and pointed it out to her.
"I want you to get familiar with this spell...but don't practice it on anyone, not yet." he replied smoothly as he looked over at Damon who was now looking down at the page curiously. "I am extremely serious. I want you to learn it, but don't practice it on anyone but me. Tomorrow we will start practicing this, by then I should be prepared for it." he stated as he closed the book. Bonnie took it from him and nodded her head before handing it to Damon who slipped it into her bag.
"Okay."
"Good, I'll see you tomorrow." he replied with a small nod as they quickly exited the room. Once they were alone, Damon looked over at Bonnie who was silently walking to the car.
"So do you mind telling me what the spell was?"
"I couldn't figure it out that fast...it's really deep." she replied with a shake of her head, Damon just nodded and opened up her door for her. Once she was seated, he walked around to the driver's seat and climbed in, and that was when he noticed the look Bonnie was sending his way.
"What?" he asked bluntly as he looked at her, she leaned back in her seat and watched him for a few moments before replying.
"What were you and Jaxon talking about?"
"Why he doesn't like me and Stefan?" he stated as he started the car and pulled out. Bonnie looked up in surprise at his words and then looked back at her home.
"What did he say?"
"Prejudice...it seems that Lucius had several hundred years to make him and others from their group look down on vampires." he replied with a shake of his head. "It certainly wasn't what I was expecting. It seems he wasn't even really aware that he had been doing it." Damon finished with a shake of his head. Bonnie looked over at him for a moment and then sighed.
"You know he's a good guy...just didn't have the best start obviously especially if he was dealing with someone like Lucius." Damon looked over at her just rolled his eyes.
"Right, so you're going to jump to his defense."
"No, I'm just pointing something out. You didn't have the best start either...dealing with you were dealing with, but you turned out to be a good guy as well." she finished with a roll of her eyes. "Why do I feel like I'm going to regret telling you that."
"You shouldn't cause I'm certainly not going to bring it up...I have a image to maintain and I can't do that if you're running around saying I'm a good guy and all that jazz." he muttered as he sent her a small smile. He had to admit he was secretly glad that Bonnie was loosening up around him. He would have hated it if she had continued to be openly hostile with him. Now that didn't mean he didn't like the chippy conversations that they still had with one another. No, those conversations were still fun, and he greatly enjoyed them. He was just happy that seem to be finally accepting him and not becoming overly angry with him for the past. He wasn't quite sure if she had forgiven him, but he was positive that they were moving in the right direction and perhaps once they were finally where they needed to be he could reveal his feelings to her and hopefully he wouldn't be rejected outright like he was positive he would be if he admitted them now.
"Oh sorry, I didn't mean to attack your image." Bonnie replied back with a smile that let Damon know she was playing right along with him.
"Hey, I'm serious now...nobody will believe that I'm a good guy, besides then what will be my brother's identity, the brother of the good guy. No, you have to keep that to yourself or you completely throw Stefan and me out of whack."
"And will the universe as I know it self-implode and collapse into itself?" she asked with a smile.
"Maybe...it just might." he stated with all the seriousness of an actor on a syfy produced horror movie. Bonnie giggled and then clutched her hand over her mouth and looked over at Damon who was looking at her as if she were crazy.
"I'll keep you're secret if you keep mine?"
"Do you mean the fact that you just giggled like a ditzy school girl?"
"Um, yeah."
"Consider it done, but the moment Elena or Stefan walk up to me talking about how you said..." he trailed off and looked at her before sighing. "Let's just say, I'll expose you for what you really are."
"What I really am?"
"Damon squeal fan-girl." he smirked at the look of outrageousness on her face as he pulled up outside of her home.
"That isn't even funny...I am not your...your-"
"Squeal fan-girl." he supplied with a raised eyebrow. "Oh I think you are, that giggled proved it." he finished as he climbed out of the car. Bonnie quickly followed suit angry that he would even say such a thing. She was not a fan-girl, and certainly not a fan-girl of his.
"Oh you think you're so witty."
"Please you love my wit, my abs...my looks." he stated over his shoulder as he walked up the front steps and onto the porch. Bonnie followed behind furiously shaking her head to each and every statement.
"No I do not love your wit...nor your abs and looks."
"You may be good at casting silent spells, but not so good at lying." he replied with a shrug as he handed her the bag and then stepped back. "Any chance you'll be inviting me in tonight?"
"Not on your life." she replied with a bright smile as she opened the door and strolled inside. Damon waited until she closed the door before stepping back, he jumped off the porch and looked back towards the door.
"Someday you will." he shouted out playfully as several lights within the neighborhood flashed on. The door opened and Bonnie stuck her head out of the door a frown marring her features. "Yes?" he asked playfully as he looked at her.
"You need to go, and please don't do that again." she pointed out coolly as she looked at him. He smiled but slowly nodded his head and then walked away. Bonnie kept her eye on him as he sped off into the night. Closing the door, she pressed herself against it and almost jumped out of her skin when the phone rang. Placing a hand over her heart, she looked at the phone and then rushed over to answer it, "Hello?"
"Bonnie where have you been? It's a school night and it's almost ten o'clock what in the world are you doing young lady. I've called you twice already and you didn't answer here or your cell phone." Benjamin Bennett exclaimed, Bonnie could hear the obvious worry in his words as he spoke.
"Dad calm down...I'm sorry I was out hanging with Elena and her boyfriend." Bonnie stated thanking God for her quick mind which helped her think of a good excuse. Benjamin sighed and Bonnie quickly went to the sofa.
"I was worried about you."
"I know and I'm sorry I put you through that." she whispered as she lowered her head. "I really am." Benjamin Bennett sighed over the phone and then spoke his voice low and filled with tiredness.
"Bonnie it's okay...but you know I like to keep in touch with you. I worry about you, my mother..." his voice broke off for a moment and Bonnie felt his pain through the phone line.
"Daddy?"
"I'm okay." he whispered softly, and Bonnie was sure she heard a sniffle. "Just...now that my mother is gone I worry about you even more than I did before. She isn't there to protect you and you're basically on your own."
"Daddy, I'm fine."
"I know that...but I'm your father it's in my job description to worry." he stated softly. "And I'm going to do my job regardless of what you think." he stated with a soft sigh. "It's should be quite late over there...I want you to get some rest okay."
"Okay." she stated.
"Good night sweetie." he said softly
"Good night daddy." she hung up the phone and sighed. She must have been driving her father crazy with the constant missed calls that she kept having in regards to him. She knew he called to check in but lately she'd been working nonstop with Jaxon and missed his calls. Placing the phone back on the hook she walked over to her bag and picked up her grandfather Jacob's grimoire. She flipped to the spell page that Jaxon had showed her and started studying.
"You're home late." Stefan stated with a small smile as his brother entered the manor. Damon raised an eyebrow at him, and lifted his hand and a waved a finger in his brother's direction.
"Now I thought we already had a talk about this, Stefan. I'm the older brother and that means I check up on you not the other way around." Stefan just chuckled at his brother's statement and leaned back in his chair. Damon walked towards the stairs, but paused on the first step and looked back at his brother. "What?"
"Just wondering how was your night?"
"The usual...Bonnie trained with Jaxon and I just watched." he stated with a shrug of his shoulders as if he didn't care one way or the other what had happened that day. Stefan watched him before pushing himself.
"Well, Elena and I are coming over tomorrow, how does that sound." Damon narrowed his eyes at Stefan before sighing and pinching the bridge of his nose.
"I thought you too were getting some much needed time alone." he asked as if he was completely tired of the whole thing. Stefan watched his brother before shaking his head.
"Elena both want to be there for Bonnie and we certainly can't do that here or at her place." Damon narrowed his eyes for a moment before moving quickly over to his brother.
"What are you getting at?" he asked bluntly as he looked at Stefan, who simply tilted his head to the side as if he was studying his brother before he just flashed a smile and reached out and patted his back.
"Don't worry about it, Damon." he stated with a chuckle. "I just think it's um...cute how you're all territorial towards your private time with Bonnie."
"Did you not hear me...Jaxon is there?"
"And like you told me...he isn't after her." he replied. "So correct me if I'm wrong but you enjoy driving her there and back right." Damon just turned on his heel and walked away. Stefan watched him retreat with a small smile on his face before turning around and walking back to the sofa. Leaning back he called out. "It's okay to admit that you want to be alone with her, Damon." The slamming door was his only answer.
Marcel looked up as Garrett entered his room, pushing away from his desk he turned to look at his right hand man. "Are they here yet?" he asked his voice harsh as he moved towards the glass cylinder of blood and poured himself a glass while placing his hand on the table and taking a sip. Garrett simply nodded his head, and then pointed towards the door.
"They are outside the room right now."
"I don't want to talk to them yet." he replied with a shake of his head as he stepped back from the table and then over towards his desk. Garrett watched him for a brief moment. He didn't know much about this master, but he did know that whatever Marcel was shown by Lucius had unnerved him and made him even more angrier than before. Marcel looked up from his desk and rested his eyes on Garrett who still stood in front of his desk as if he was lost. "You can go now, Garrett." he replied coolly.
"What did Lucius show you?" he asked bluntly, he knew he was the closet to a friend that Marcel had so he wasn't too worried about him getting mad at him. Marcel settled back for a moment before taking another sip of his blood. "I'm sorry if I overstepped my bounds."
"You haven't...overstepped them," Marcel snapped out. "I just don't want to talk about it yet." he replied. "You'll find it all out when we attack them...I'll spill then beans then." he stated with a shake of his head.
"Why would you do that there?"
"I have to let them know what type of person their dealing with. I'm pretty sure that Jaxon won't tell them what he did to me or to Bonnie's ancestor Aisha. So it's up to me as the good citizen I am to expose him for the evil mutha he is." Accepting that answer, Garrett nodded his head and moved towards door only to pause as he heard Marcel getting up from his chair.
"I think I'll go and see them now." he replied with a shake of his head downed the rest of the blood in his glass and then walked out of the room. Once outside he saw the minions that Lucius had sent to help him. The biggest one stepped forward and lowered his head, before speaking his voice coming off as humble as possible.
"Marcel." A small smile graced his lips as he looked at them before chuckling and looking over at Garrett.
"Looks like they are going to help me pay a home visit."
Bonnie had practically stayed up all night studying the spell that Jaxon had told her to study and one she found on her own. She didn't know why she cared so much for the spell that she found but she did. When school ended she was surprise to find not only Damon by her car waiting as he usually did but also Stefan and Elena. "What's going on...is something wrong?"
"Nope...the super couple just wants to ride along." he stated with a sigh as if he were completely put out. Bonnie just nodded her head and then reached into her purse. She pulled out two gold chains with a strand of gold hanging from the center on both. Damon looked down at the jewelry in her hands and then back up at her with a raised eyebrow. "Cute jewelry." he replied with a small chuckle, "But shouldn't you be wearing it inside of keeping it in your purse."
"It's not for me." she stated with a roll of her eyes, biting her tongue to keep the comment, 'smart ass,' from coming out. Damon looked down at the jewelry again and then back up at her.
"Then who is it for?" he asked
"For you and Stefan." she replied with a smile, Damon couldn't help but notice just how proud she seemed to be about the whole thing. Sharing a look with his brother he turned back to Bonnie and spoke his voice slow and low as if he was talking to someone not completely there.
"Look, I know the ring might throw you off but Stefan and I don't wear jewelry like that." Damon replied with a shake of his head, which only caused Bonnie to narrow her eyes. She should have known that he would get all macho on her if she presented him the jewelry without explanation. Elena just grinned as she watched the exchange before speaking up.
"Oh just put it on."
"What and have Jaxon...I'm the greatest talk about me."
"If you does...why don't you fight him." Bonnie replied as she thrusted the necklace towards Damon and Stefan. Taking the necklace from her hand, Damon put it on and then moved towards the car. Opening the door he slipped inside and then motioned for the other's to follow. Once they were all in they drove to Bonnie's late grandmother's home. Once inside, they were greeted by Jaxon who had been reading a book that Sheila Bennett had kept in the house.
"Did you study the spell?" he asked after his customary nod greeting that he gave the other three. Bonnie nodded her head and looked away from him.
"I don't want to practice that on you." she stated with a open frown, Jaxon narrowed his eyes at the statement but didn't speak right away. Damon, Stefan and Elena all looked on as if they were completely surprise by that statement. Moving forward, Damon placed a hand on Bonnie's shoulder before looking at Jaxon.
"What spell do you not want to practice?" he asked bluntly his tone full of accusation as he looked at the man before him. Jaxon rolled his eyes at the younger vampire before turning his attention back to Bonnie.
"How do you expect to know if the spell is working if you never test it out. The others won't allow you a trail and error period it would just be over for you." he replied bluntly as he looked at her. Bonnie furiously shook her head, before speaking up.
"It's too dangerous."
"You won't hurt me."
"Much...this spell is bound to hurt you and anyone else I do it on. There's no way to block it...you have to kill the originator of the spell." she stated, her words causing more and more confusion for Damon, Stefan and Elena. Seeing her friend's distress, Elena moved to Bonnie's other side and looked at Jaxon.
"If she doesn't want to do it...then she doesn't have too."
"I wouldn't make her do it if it was completely unnecessary believe I don't want her to practice on me, but I understand that this is something that needs to happen, and she can't just run from it." he replied bluntly as he looked at her. "These people...Lucius...Marcel...the others will not just go away. You will need this spell for survival, besides I hate to say it but they-." he stated pointed to Damon and Stefan, knowing where his comment was going Bonnie quickly spoke up.
"I found a spell in Jacob's grimoire and...well let's just say I was happy to have found it." Jaxon turned to look at her as he took in her comment.
"What spell did you find?"
"Let's just say it evens the playing field for Stefan and Damon in regards to you and others like you." she replied proudly, Damon looked down at her and then over at Jaxon who was watching her silently. "Go ahead test it out."
"Um, Bonnie don't you think we should be saying that." Damon asked worriedly as he took in the smug look on her face. Bonnie looked up at him and shrugged her shoulders.
"You wouldn't let me explain it to you outside the school so I'm doing it here." she replied with a grin. Jaxon reached out and touched her shoulder in an attempt to get her attention back on him and what she was going to tell him moments before.
"Bonnie?" he said, the infliction in his voice clearing telling her that he wanted her to continue with what it was that she was going to say before. Bonnie looked back at him and smiled brightly, something that Jaxon wasn't quite use to seeing. "What spell are you talking about?" he prompted with a sharp look, Bonnie sighed and then walked over to a chair and sat down.
"Are you aware that some witches and of course those that are um, mixed."
"Call them vitches?" Damon replied with a chuckle, happy he could find a way to put his special nickname for Jaxon and those like them. The look that Jaxon immediately sent his way didn't do anything except make Damon smile over at him cheekily.
"Um, okay...witches and vitches sometime have visions are you aware of that?" she asked again, Jaxon raised an eyebrow at her words before sighing.
"Of course." he answered as he sent Damon one last look, Damon just simply assumed that he didn't like the name that he was giving him and others like him. "I've had visions myself...why are you talking about this?"
"Because Jacob Bennett had some visions as well. He knew that I would be in trouble and he always knew that you were going to help me," she paused as she allowed her words to sink in before continuing. "And he also knew that there would be vampires to help me as well." she stated as she turned to look at Damon and Stefan.
"They simply can't help you, Bonnie. We...vitches," he stated as he looked over at Damon and Stefan. "Are simply-."
"He gave me a spell that would even the playing field." Bonnie blurted out, "Damon...why don't you test it out."
"As much as I trust your powers, Bonnie...I'm not quite-" he cut his own sentence off and rushed Jaxon throwing his fist into the other man's face. Jaxon stumbled back clenching his jaw as Damon shook out his fist and spoke over his shoulder towards Bonnie.
"I don't know about evening the playing field but damn that felt good." he boasted right before Jaxon stood up and rushed him. Clutching him around the waist they barreled outside the house and into the backyard. Jaxon jumped up just as everyone else rushed outside, Damon quickly stood to his feet and looked at him.
"Let's see just how much the playing field has even." Jaxon shouted as he sent a spell at Damon, Damon flinched but surprisingly nothing happen. He looked over at Bonnie who was now standing outside watching them.
"See, you can't fight him as a witch...only as a vampire." she pointed out with a nod of her head. "All spells that you and other...vitches cast...well they won't work on Damon and Stefan. Jacob made sure of that." Jaxon rubbed a hand over his face as he tore his glare away from Damon and looked over at Bonnie.
"I always knew that Jacob was a good spell creator...now that we're done with that demonstration...how about you try out that spell I told you to study." he stated as he looked at her. Bonnie frowned and then shook her head.
"But I figured that if I could get Damon and Stefan to help with this spell I wouldn't need," she gasped as Jaxon rushed towards her and stopped directly in her face. Stumbling back, she was only stopped by Damon who appeared beside her. He thrusted his hand out and placed it on her back so that she wouldn't fall.
"She already told you that she didn't want to do the damn spell." Damon snapped out, as he looked at Jaxon who just turned and walked several feet away from them or rather Bonnie. It looked like he wasn't about to let this go. He was going to make her to the spell. "Leave her alone, she doesn't want to do this-."
"This doesn't concern you, Damon." he stated firmly his voice leaving absolutely no room for argument, turning his attention towards Bonnie who spoke up his voice low and firm. "Bonnie do the spell."
"Are you sure? It's going to hurt you."
"Of course it's going to hurt me...it needs to hurt, how else do you think it will work. This is for your own personal defense." he stated with a sigh as he looked at her. "So don't worry about me...I just want you to know this spell alright." Seeing that he wouldn't let things drop Bonnie nodded her head and then looked at him.
"Fine." Damon shook his head and then looked down at her.
"You don't have to do this...Bonnie."
"No, he wants me to do this...I will." she replied softly as she focused on Jaxon who was watching her silently. Damon just nodded his head and backed up as Bonnie and Jaxon squared off like they normally did during their practice sessions. Once Damon stepped back, Bonnie focused on the spell and sending it towards Jaxon.
For a moment neither Damon, Stefan or Elena knew exactly what happened. However, when Jaxon grunted and his knees buckled they knew that something had happened. Damon and Stefan studied Jaxon as he held a hand to his stomach as if he was in pain. Then they saw it, the blood seeping from his skin. It started out as a slow trickle and then rapidly sped up. The stupor that they was instantly broken by Elena and Bonnie's scream.
"Oh my God, Jaxon." Bonnie shouted out as she rushed forward, it seemed that her spell instantly broke due to her lost of focus. Stefan and Damon acted quickly they rushed towards Jaxon and grabbed two of his arms and then dragged him inside the house. Elena who had made her way inside quickly gave them a towel to put on Jaxon. Bonnie watched Jaxon quietly, as Damon and Stefan sat him down on the sofa.
"Why did you make her do that?" Damon asked with a shake of his head as he looked own at the older man who had blood resting on the top of his skin. Bonnie bite into the bottom of her lip as she looked at Jaxon who seemed to be literally reeling from the spell. He slowly lifted his head and looked at her before sighing.
"It seems you did studied huh." he grunted out weakly, Bonnie looked at him as he leaned back on the sofa before speaking up.
"What do you need?"
"Some blood...and I should be back to feeling like myself." he stated with a sigh, as he looked at her. Bonnie nodded and then quickly headed towards the kitchen to get him some of the blood bags that he kept in the house. Once she returned, she handed him the bags and then stepped back and watched as he started drinking. Once it looked like he was turning she spoke up.
"Why did you make me do that, Jaxon?"
"I needed you to," he paused and winced a bit before continuing. "I needed you to know that spell it's how we're going to take out Marcel and his people." he replied with a shake of his head. "I needed to know if you could do, and you can...quite well."
"You shouldn't have made me."
"What and let you have your trail and error during the real fight." he asked bluntly as he studied her. "I was sent here to protect you...not put you in anymore danger." Bonnie opened her mouth to respond but stopped as she felt a chill go through her. Jaxon lifted his head at her behavior and then pushed himself up off the sofa.
"What is it?" he asked. Bonnie had a nervous look on her face. The look immediately made Damon, Stefan and Elena uneasy as they along with Jaxon awaited her answer. Bonnie looked towards the front door and then turned to look at everyone in the room.
"Someone's here...and they just crossed the ward I put up."
A/N: So what do you think?
