~Damon~

I looked back around where my little brother and Bonnie were still talking. Then looking down at the book I started rifling through it quickly.

"Hmmmm…" I muttered "I need something that will help us work together just a little better."

Stopping on a page I smiled.

"This'll work just fine." I grinned

Ripping it from the book I closed it, and quickly and swiftly put it back in her little guest room before she noticed. This had to work. She couldn't hate me forever, and now she wouldn't. I smiled lightly to myself…I didn't know why, there was no explanation as to why I didn't like her hating me. It stung, and I didn't like it and what I don't like I fix…for the most part.

"Damon?" Elena called up the stairs

~Bonnie~

Stefan, and I looked down the hall as she called his name. Damon came out of one of the rooms and walked downstairs without even acknowledging our presence.

"Did you know he was up here?" I asked

"No." Stefan answered

After attempting to think about it for a second I shrugged, and yawned.

"Look, I'm going to head home." I said

"I'll walk you." He said

"Thanks. Just give me a second."

I walked back to the room and looked at the bed where I had placed the book. I felt my eyes go wide at its missing. Looking around wildly I stopped when I saw it on the desk. Letting out a deep breath I picked it up, and walked out.

"Really?" Stefan chuckled

"You want to trust them with it?" I asked

"Good point."

I nodded. Walking downstairs I saw Elena still looking through other books whereas Damon was nowhere to be seen.

"Damon went out hunting." Elena said

"Okay? Your point?" I asked

"Just thought…" she trailed off

I walked out the door not caring too much about what she had to say. It was getting dark and quick.

"Is there anything in there that can help us?" Stefan asked

"Being that the book was put together in multiple languages that could take me months upon months to translate…I have no idea." I said

"How useful." Stefan said sarcastically

I laughed a little.

Getting to the house I said goodnight to Stefan then went inside, and straight upstairs to avoid Mary. I set the book in the corner of my room, and went to my dresser to grab a pair of shorts and a tank top.

~Damon~

I looked up at the nearly full moon.

"This has to work…"

Looking down at the old worn out page I picked up the knife on the ground, and looked down at the dove lying dead on the ground. Its white wings painted red with its blood. Apparently it was an animal of love, so maybe it would help to have a sacrificial lamb.

Taking a deep breath I mumbled the words on the paper three times.

~Bonnie~

As I came back into my room the lights went out leaving me in the dark. My heart raced quickly, and a sudden feeling came over me that I couldn't describe. The anger I felt constantly lately was fading away as it was replaced by something else I couldn't place.

I grabbed my chest trying to breathe, but having difficulty.

"What's happening?" I said feeling as if I'd cry

I looked around in the dark hoping to find something. Why wouldn't it stop? Then like that it was gone, and I felt nothing. Absolutely nothing. A sudden tap on my window made me squeak loudly, and jump. Walking over to it I saw Damon sitting there.

"Umm…" I started

There were no words to come out as I saw him sit there, and look at me blankly.

"Are you okay?" he asked "I was on my way back towards the boarding house, and sensed something was wrong."

"I'm fine." I said unsure

I turned away, and walked a few steps.

"I have no idea actually. The strangest thing happened and I can't describe it." I said

"You want to talk?" he offered

"Damon Salvatore wants to talk?" I asked confused

"I'm trying here." he said

"Trying to what?"

"Trying to get you to let me in." he said slyly

"I don't think that's a good idea anyways." I said feeling shaky all of the sudden

"Oh c'mon, it won't be so bad. I promise not to bite." He said jokingly

"That's not funny." I said

I don't know why, but there was nothing even in the slightest bit funny about that sentence. It actually made my skin crawl.

"Just invite me in already." Damon said as if he were bored

For several seconds I just stared at him. I didn't know what I was looking for exactly, but I know I didn't find it. What I found was something completely different than what I had ever seen in the past.

"Sure. Come in." I said quietly still looking at him

He came in over the window sill gracefully awkwardly enough. I knew I could never even get through a doorway gracefully. He stepped closer to me. Going to take a step back I tripped, and before I hit the floor he'd caught me. My breath had staggered as he did.

"How many times have you caught me from falling on my face now?" I squeaked

Damon chuckled lightly as he just stared at me. That's all he did. He didn't stand up or even help me. He just sat there in that position he'd caught me in and stared at me. Then he reached out and moved a strand of hair from my face. I blinked rapidly as he did. My heart raced quickly and at the moment an image flashed before my eyes. If nothing more than a fantasy I thought about. I thought about his lips, and what they'd do if they touched mine. Would it hurt? Would it send me reeling? Oh did I ever want to find out.

As if having read my own thoughts which I was sure he did being all my walls had disappeared, he kissed me. It wasn't like anything I had ever had in my life. It was enough to knock me off me own feet, that was if I wasn't already off my feet basically.

In the next instant as he was still kissing me I felt something else. Like another flash in a memory I remembered suddenly why I was so angry at him, and hated him so much.

~Damon~

The kiss broke abruptly, but my deepest wish at the moment was to make her happy and this wasn't it. She looked at me with complete hatred then slapped me across the face.

"What do you think you're doing!" she exclaimed angrily

"Shit…it didn't work." I mumbled

"What didn't work?"she asked

I glanced at her briefly then made my way towards the window. For a second before I had a chance to put my own psychic barriers I felt her in there, and quickly shoved her out.

"A spell!" she yelled "You put a spell on me! Oh, I can't believe you! And of all things a love spell?"

She started pacing then, and ranting on and on. It'd be hilarious if I wasn't worried that'd she'd do something to me. Something bad, and now days I wouldn't put it past her.

"I can't believe what an idiot you are?" she said

She was so angry like a ball of fire, and I couldn't help but want to laugh. Okay, it didn't matter now. This was too good. I bit it back the best I could though.

"Why would you do something like that huh?"

"I figured it would tone down the hatred levels, and maybe we'd work together better." I answered

"We?" bonnie asked seriously

In seconds I realized what she thought.

"Stefan." She said

"Elena." I said