A/N Tying my story into the TV show, as best as I can right now. This is a short chapter, and really just going to be bringing the gang into some awareness of what is happening with Bonnie. Bonnie and Enzo finally see each other again. Hope you like, please enjoy...
* I do not own these characters
It All Falls Down
Chapter 9
Rated T
"Where the hell are Bonnie and Damon? It has been four days?" Caroline yells in the boarding house after arriving alone. She left Alaric and the girls at the hotel. "I can't get ahold of her at all. I am getting worried."
"I don't know, we need to get a small search party and look for them, Damon is not answering his phone either. When we dropped him off at the woods five days ago, there was a bad storm. He figured it had something to do with Bonnie so he went to see if she was okay. I just figured they needed a couple of days to talk. But now I am beginning to think something else happened in those woods." Stefan says concerned.
"Do you think Reyna kept her word. Giving Damon two weeks?" Valerie asked. "I mean, she really wanted him dead."
"We can't trust her; she is the Huntress. She got Damon where she wanted him. Now whoever she was working with has both Damon and Bonnie. This is unbelievable." Caroline yells.
"When we first met with Reyna to switch our marks, she mentioned Bonnie. Something she needed Bonnie for." Stefan remembered.
"Something like what?"
"I don't know, this man had these pictures of her and Enzo, they were showing Damon how they've been watching Bonnie for a while now."
"Plus, they let Damon, come see Bonnie. Damn it. We lead them right to her Stefan. Think about it. They gave Damon two weeks, they have something planned for Bonnie, Stef. Oh my God how did we not see this before. She is in danger, and it is our fault for leading them to her." Caroline, began getting a bit hysterical and Stefan tried to comfort her with a hug. She reluctantly let him hug her. After he hugs her, he backs away little by little. Not wanting to over work his boundaries with her.
"Caroline, calm down, we really need to hold it together and work together to find them. I am sure Bonnie will be okay. We just need to make it our mission to find her before anyone else does."
"Valerie, easy for you to say. It's not your best friend's life at steak."
"I know. But just the same Damon means a lot to Stefan, and we are going to do what we can to get them both back here. Mary Louise and Nora, thought they had a lead in the woods somewhere."
"How is that?" Caroline askes.
"Apparently, Nora finally admitted she and Bonnie shared a telepathic link, from blood sharing."
"What? She has known how to get ahold of her this whole time and never said I damn thing?"
"It's not that simple. Bonnie's body is being inhabited by some dark presence and it keeps putting a blockage on their connection."
"What the hell? What is going on? What dark presence?"
Stefan steps in, "Caroline, Nora sat down this morning and came clean to us about what happened after we all left. Bonne's body went into some shock, her magic put her in a coma. She almost died, and her magic protected her. Enzo, helped bring her out of her coma. He has really helped her as far as dealing with her magic."
"Why would he need to help her deal with her magic?" Caroline asks.
"Caroline, Bonnie has become a dark witch, she uses expression as her main form of magic. It was consuming her, her blood, her mind, her body. She had to learn how to control it. So, at the same time, Mary Louise was also using dark magic. Her magic wasn't as strong as Bonnie's so the control wasn't as tough as Bonnie's but none-the-less, both girls had to learn to control the expressive forms. They started taking some pills from the Armory. These pills were filled with the blood of the Huntress. The pills were controlling dark urges, as well as keeping their blood from being detected by anyone trying to do locator spells on them."
"This is all too crazy."
"That is not all. Apparently, Mary Louise was given the pills by the Armory, but Bonnie wasn't. Enzo was taking the pills without consent of the armory. Reyna and her tribe have been on a trail of Bonnie for a couple of years. He was hiding her from Reyna for a while. He even enrolled her as a patient at the Fells Church Clinic by using compulsion on the staff, pretending he was a doctor. She was there for a few months pretending to be 'disturbed' I guess. She had only been out for a couple of weeks before we showed up."
"How did I not know all of this? How did you get all of this out of Nora?"
"None of us knew because we were all leading other lives, or on the run." Stefan says looking at Caroline, as if he needed her to understand his reasoning for running. "You and Alaric were trying to lead normal lives for the girls, and Valerie decided to go on the run with me, because I am still being hunted. Until Damon is caught that is."
Caroline stared at Stefan with indifference. It wasn't as if she didn't care, but she refused to allow him to get into her head. She refused to make this about him and her when it was clearly about Bonnie.
"How did you guys get Nora to talk."
"It was her guilt. She wants to help Bonnie. Bonnie is in danger from more than one angle. This darkness within her, and the Huntress looking for her, for some reason." Valerie intervened.
"So how can we find her?"
"We wait on Nora and Mary Louise. See if their lead means anything."
"So we are sitting ducks right now?"
"Yes."
"Well, not me. I am going to search for my best friend. If she is in danger, I won't be sitting on my ass waiting. Alaric is willing to watch the girls a couple of hours longer without me. You guys coming?"
"Someone needs to stay here in case Bonnie, Enzo, or Damon show up." Valerie made a decision to stay. "Stefan why don't you go with Caroline?"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, Stefan. I am sure. I'm sure you two need to catch up." She knows what she is doing, and it was basically relationship suicide, sending her boyfriend on a mission with his ex-girlfriend he was still in love with. "Really. GO." She insisted with a smile. "I love you Stefan."
"I love you too." He gave her a kiss to her lips and they took a while to let go hands.
Caroline acted as if he wasn't disgusted but, she was. It was disgusting and annoying. She just thought about Alaric and the girls and put herself at ease again. As they walk towards the door, they hear a knock. "Maybe it's good news," Caroline runs to the door to open it. Just as soon as she does Caroline, ducks and dodges an evil 5'2' Huntress who barges in the home.
"What the hell?" Caroline yells.
"I'm here for someone, and I know they are nearby, I saw it. Mystic Falls."
"Damon is nowhere to be found. He is somewhere in danger." Stefan says. "Besides you gave him two weeks."
"Of course I did. He's not who I am here for."
"Well then Who, ME? I thought we had a deal."
"We do. I keep my deals, so long as they are kept on both ends. No. I have much bigger fish to fry. Someone darker, and filled with more evil then Damon Salvatore."
"Who?"
"Someone who has killed over fifty people in the past five days, Twenty or so of them were all in church when he ransacked them in New Orleans, the rest were patrons from here to Fell's Church. He is currently on rampage to destroy even more lives as we speak. He is evil and vile, and he must die."
"I don't know any vampire with that type of vendetta." Stefan says.
"Oh, sure you do. And this one, I will take pleasure in killing, he hunted me, tortured me, and helped the armory keep me prisoner. Now, he's on my list, and today his life ends."
"Wait, are you talking about-"
"Lorenzo St John."
"So Enzo didn't let you out?"
"No, you can thank your good friend Matt Donavan for that." She said walking over to Stefan and Valerie, who were slowly moving away from her, unaware of her next move.
"Fuck me running," Caroline said.
"Exactly, Miss Forbes. You better run, because you are on my list too. And until I find Enzo, every day I will make it appoint to kill one of you off until I get him."
Reyna grabbed her gun, shot Stefan with a vervain bullet to his chest, grabbed Valerie by her hair, and stabbed her in the chest with the sword of the Phoenix Stone.
"Valerie! No!" Stefan yelled and could do nothing because he faded into blackness, slowly. He watched his girlfriend be murdered by the Huntress and fall into the worse death a vampire could endure. Eternity in hell. HE could do nothing to stop it.
"Stefan…" Valerie choked out, reaching her arms out to Stefan before her soul fled her body.
Caroline sped to Stefan and grabbed him and sped off far away from the boarding house. Leaving Reyna behind, hopefully for good.
Damon was being drained of his blood. Slowly Bonnie's entity would take more and more from him. He had not seen or heard from Bonnie in two days. Her darkness was overtaking her in the worst way.
"Damon, I must say, I am done being selfish with you. We are to leave this cellar and I am going to take you far away from here."
Damon could barely speak. He was tired. He was holding on fighting for Bonnie's life, all while being drained of his.
"Hello, lover boy. Do you not speak to me anymore?"
He looks up and spits out blood at her.
"Oh I see you are mad. Because I do not let Bonnie visit any longer? Well I asked for one thing and one thing only. That was a vessel. You are supposed to create one for me and you have been neglecting my needs. So I will take this one. I quite like Bonnie's body. I feel beautiful as Bonnie. She is empowering."
Damon just lay on the ground and takes slow breaths, steadying his control. The transference of his huntress mark was starting to show. Reyna must be somewhere nearby.
"I tell you what lover boy. I can allow Bonnie to visit. But… only for consummation. If you consummate, I will allow Bonnie control back."
Damon looks at the body of Bonnie. Who would have told him five years ago he and Bonnie would be in this predicament? Battling each other, but Bonnie wasn't totally Bonnie. He was in the middle of both loving and hating Bonnie Bennett right now. A torture he well deserved for thinking he could leave her ever.
"Ahh, I see. You still will not speak to me. But what if I let Bonnie come out to talk?"
"I will only speak to Bonnie." Damon finally speaks out.
"Fine. But not here. We need to go somewhere else. Now. I am sick of this dirty dungeon. I won't force you to do anything while you appear to be dying. That mark on your collar is getting worse. I will take you somewhere and if you fulfill my wishes, I will let you feed from Bonnie."
He realized Reyna must have been near, and he was on the verge of dying one way or the other. He'd gladly die to protect Bonnie. He would sacrifice himself for her, because she meant that much to him.
Bonnie picked up Damon's body with a strength she had from feeding on him. She walked to the cellar stair way, getting prepared to get out, and a sound came from behind them.
Nora and M Lou were at the Lockwood mansion. They were standing on the porch trying to figure out how they would get into the house uninvited. Just as they stood there, Caroline showed up with Stefan.
"Oh my God, what happened?" Nora asks looking at an unconscious Stefan.
"Reyna Cruz happened. She is here, looking for Enzo. It is a long story, but she is going to kill someone every day until she finds him."
"What? Where is Valerie?"
"She killed her."
"No. This can't be true." Both girls gasps, holding their mouths and each other.
"Unfortunately it is and I am very sorry. But I need to get into the Lockwood mansion before she finds us."
"You guys can get in?"
"Yes. We have been invited in before."
"Is there any way you think you can get us in? I think Bonnie may be in there?" Nora needs all the help she can get, but getting in the mansion might be impossible.
"I am not the owner. I can't invite you in. But, I am headed to the cellar, so I am sure you can get into the underground entrance. We need to hide out from Reyna. If you think Bonnie is in here, I hope you are right." Caroline says.
"Meet me over by the cement looking shack, right over there covered in vines. There is a door that leads to the underground of the cellar. I will walk to the cellar and let you guys in over there. Give me five minutes to get there."
"Okay, we will be there. Come on M Lou let's go." The girls run over to the small shack out in the distant side of the mansion. They waited a few minutes and Caroline let them in. They close the door forgetting to lock it. But head down to the Cellar.
"This is so dark and creepy." M Lou says, feeling as if there are spider webs lingering on every inch of her skin.
"Yeah, but you are a vampire, this should be nothing. Especially after spending all of the time slowly drying out into corpses for Lily in the 1903 prison world."
"Caroline, I still hate spiders. Vampire or not, they are creepy and disgusting."
"Yeah, well better spiders than a huntress. After I get you guys settled in the cellar, I will search the mansion for Bonnie and Damon."
"I'll help you. "
"Thanks Nora."
"Yea, of course. She is one of my best friends too."
Caroline knew she and Nora had to work together to find Bonnie and Damon no matter how much they disliked each other. Little did they know, they didn't have far to search. As soon as Caroline unlocked the cellar door, she pushed the heavy blockade to get into the cellar. It was heavier than she thought. Nora, and M Lou had to help push using all three of their vampire strength.
On the other side of the door, Damon was praying for a miracle. He was praying that someone had found him, and come to get he and Bonnie.
"123 PUSH!" the girls said in unison.
'Oh my god. Thank god.' Damon thought.
"Oh my god. Damon! Bonnie what are you doing with Damon?" Caroline was shocked at her friend's strength to carry the heavy vampire.
"Careful, Caroline. It is not Bonnie." Nora warned.
"What?"
"It is Bonnie, but her darkness is controlling her. So it isn't quite her."
"You again!" Bonnie says to Nora. "Aren't you sick of trying to get into my head already? You are pesky, making me use magic constantly to keep you out of my head. It is very annoying."
"So, is Bonnie's darkness foreign, what is up with that accent?" Caroline asks.
"As a matter of fact I am created by the blood sharing from these two beings."
"Who two beings?" Caroline asks confused.
Nora stepped in, "Bonnie and Damon."
"What the?"
"But my origin is from the Shaman Tribe. I have been recreated to pull darkness from the world. I draw my strength from it."
"Wait, what?" Caroline is still getting confused.
Damon looks to want to speak but can't.
"So you pull darkness from vampires, and use the energy to recreate life?" Nora asks.
"Precisely."
"Then what?"
"I am rebirthing the protection of the human race. Bonnie's powerful body and blood have been chosen."
"Chosen for what?"
"When the tribe sent its predecessor to search for Julian and the heretics three years ago, a presence of the Bennett witches blood was felt. Our predecessor, gave us the message, she wanted Bonnie. The tribe has performed a ritual, transferring energies to Bonnie's body and blood."
"Who is your predecessor?" Nora asked.
"Reyna, perhaps you have heard of her." Bonnie smiles an evil smirk.
Nora explains to Caroline and M Lou, "So, the creation was created in the most powerful form of blood sharing, known as rapture. This dark but very powerful vampire, and this pure and powerful witch. Together, their blood forms one of the strongest bonds. The tribe used ancient magic, to transfer some of their ancestor blood into Bonnie's body three years ago. They tried finding her, which was when Enzo began to hide her, and give her pills that kept her blood from being tracked in a locator spell."
"What does that mean for you and your kind?" Caroline asks.
"We are recreating the tribe, through these powerful beings. Slowly, and we will wipe the Earth clean of ALL vampires."
"So you are Reyna's tribal blood line? You are trying to rebuild with Bonnie's body. Making her procreate and continue this lineage of hunters and huntresses, and you kill, and torture vampires, sucking the life source out of us, so that you can create powerful predecessors, in order to kill us?"
"Yes. You blood suckers will be extinct in less than a centuries time."
"Doesn't this make you just as bad as us evil blood suckers. Using evil tactics to get rid of evil beings? You are just as evil. We are not all bad people."
"Certainly not all bad, evil none-the-less. You must be destroyed."
Bonnie throws Damon's Body against the girls.
"Oh my God, Damon are you okay?" Caroline holds Damon's weak body in her arms.
"No, she looks to have been draining him. He needs blood."
"We have to get him some blood."
"Bonnie." Damon whispers, unable to barely talk. He reaches for her, because he doesn't want her out of his site. She has been with him the past five days. No one knows what is actually going on with Bonnie but Damon.
"No. You are not going anywhere with my vampire." Bonnie speaks.
"He is going to starve to death." Caroline yells.
"He's going to die anyways, he got a mark on him from Reyna Cruz!" says another voice coming in from behind them.
"Enzo? Where have you been and how did you get in here?"
"I followed you. You are not very careful Nora. I knew I could find Bonnie and Damon as long as I found you."
"Mmm. Lorenzo. There is something different about you." Bonnie says.
"Same could be said about you, love." Lorenzo sped to Bonnie and looked her face to face.
"Where did this darkness come from? Power emanates from you." She smells his skin. Licks the blood dripping from his lips.
"What have you been up to, in hiding with Damon Salvatore?" His voice lowly penetrating her ears like music.
"Jealous, are we?"
"Enzo it's not Bonnie." Nora Whispers, hoping he will hear her with his vampire hearing.
"Jealous, of this Bloke? Never. Just worried about my girl, is all." Enzo is still devoid of his humanity. No one knows accept for Nora.
Enzo looks deeply into Bonnie's eyes. It almost brings back his humanity, for a second, until he sees her dark eyes, and her black veins, and smells the expression in her blood.
"I need to get you out of here. Away from these people." He says to her.
"You are reading my mind Lorenzo." Bonnie says kissing him on the lips softly.
"Enzo don't leave, please, there is something you don't know about Bonnie." Caroline pleads.
"Let's go get you cleaned up, love. I know the perfect little place in the middle of the woods. It's quiet and cozy."
"Sounds perfect." She smiles at him, and Enzo picks up his Bonnie and speeds away with her.
The gang is left standing there to figure out what the hell to do next.
What's to happen Between Bonnie and Enzo, she's filled with Vengeance and so is he… Will there be bloodshed or will they be able to bring each other's humanity back?
Next chapter Bonenzo…
