In the middle of the dark forest stood Elena, trying to find composure. She felt like she was going to collapse soon. Her knees were unsteady, and the feeling in her gut made her want to throw up. The agitation and fear was drowning her into the night and she did not even feel bothered by the cold. But if it weren't for the wild thumping inside her chest, she would have said that she felt quite dead. She was trying to breathe properly as she tried to make out the outlines of the trees. She looked up at the sky and saw an almost crimson moon, feeling the twist of terror playing xylophone behind her spine.

"I'm impressed."

Elena catches herself before she screamed, forcing a trembling hand against her mouth. She turned around to face Bonnie. The same panic filled her being when she saw those familiar bright eyes. It was subtle in the darkness as it held that promise of power. "Bonnie…"

Bonnie walks past her and kneels down in front of Caroline's unconscious form. She smiled at Elena. "You did well, Elena." She pulled the simple ropes that bound the blonde vampire's wrists. It was held tight against Caroline's skin, interwoven with vervain and a locking spell Bonnie had written down for her.

It was not the way Bonnie called her name, but she ignored it. Just a little more, she thought. Her muddled thoughts were broken when she found those haunting golden eyes staring up at her. "Y-yes?"

"I think we're missing the werewolf?"

Elena nods and pulls her phone from her pocket. She closed her eyes to get a little focus, took a deep breath and dialed a number. With all the panic she could muster in her voice, she exclaimed, "Tyler! It's Caroline!" She tells the young werewolf to get to her, giving him hazy directions regarding their location. She's supposed to act frightened, but standing in front of this Bonnie, she need not act at all. "Please come as soon as you can!" As she ended the call, she watched in mild fascination as Bonnie lifted her hand, and used her telekinetic abilities to lift Caroline from the floor, and settled her gently against a certain formation down the ground.

It did not take long for Tyler to find them. But Bonnie had vanished just in time. As Tyler approached her, he was tense. His eyes were morphed into its werewolf form, and he was sweating. Elena could tell it was not because of the long run. "Where is she?" he asks her, grasping Elena's shoulders. He looked like he had a thousand of questions in his mind. How did she get here, among other things? When he sees the faint sunshine that was Caroline's hair, he almost pushes the brunette aside, but before he can do so, Elena saw Bonnie reappear behind Tyler, her fingertips squeezing gently on the jock's neck.

"Rest," Bonnie mutters, and Tyler falls like a sack of sand on the ground.

"Why isn't he…" a werewolf, Elena wanted to ask.

"The Null." Once again, Bonnie raises Tyler's body from the dirt, and settles him a few feet away from Caroline. One position left. "It's your turn, doppelganger."

Elena knows that Bonnie –or whoever who it was that was inside her best friend had made that slip. Nonetheless, she nods and takes her place in the middle of the werewolf and the vampire. She refuses to think about Stefan now. As Bonnie stands in front of her, she finds the confidence to reach out to grasp her best friend's hand. The tears sting her eyes, feeling all the sensations suffocating her. To her surprise, the touch was not rejected. "I trust you, Bonnie." She gulped audibly, forcing herself to look into Bonnie's golden eyes, wanting to believe that it was her best friend –her sister's eyes that she was staring at. "You know how much I love you, right?"

The tears fall when Bonnie –no, when She simply smiles at her. "Bonnie promised you peace and so you shall have it."


Tying Elena's wrists with plain ropes, Bonnie had uttered something too quiet for Elena's hearing, and like a certain fizz to the air, she suddenly felt drunken with an unbelievable sensation. Though the witch's eyes did not glow, like she did when she killed Elijah, Elena knew that magic was being used. It felt strange. Like a burning spectacle inside her chest. A moth to flame. She closed her eyes to relish it, feel more from it, but the sensation felt sucked back in front of her.

"I never anticipated you to be that powerful already," the stranger said, sounding half-expecting. "But considering that you summoned me…"

Elena wanted to see for herself what he looked like, but Bonnie's hair was covering her gaze.

"I'm here to do the spell for you, Klaus."

"Trickster," the Original mumbled, flashing his white fangs. "Though you present these wonderful offerings to me…" He eyes Caroline, Tyler and then Elena, he smiles. "I just don't see your angle."

"I just…" Elena could hear the falter in Bonnie's voice. "I want everything to be over." Bonnie turns to face her and she sees that her eyes were suddenly dimmed in the darkness. The honey color was hidden behind her dark green gaze. Though they knew this was going to happen, Elena couldn't help but let out a strangled cry as Bonnie tugged on the ropes of her wrists to lift her up from where she seemed to have fallen on her knees. "One soul in exchange for Mystic Falls' safety."

Klaus laughs at this. "I always love a good betrayal." But he pauses, eyeing Elena. "But you're lying, aren't you?"


When Bonnie evaporates into thin air, Damon feels the invisible chains disappear and he wasted no time in jumping off the bed and putting on some clothes. The alcohol intake obviously prevented his intuition from working properly. What he thought was a wonderful cuddling after-angry-sex moment turned out to be a devious plan to ensnare him in the confines of her room. Judgey 2nd flaps over to the end table, observing him as he slipped on some pants. He prepares to leap out the window, but as he does, he is slammed back down to the floor. He curses loud and clear. He dashes for the door, and the same thing happens. "DAMMIT!"

"Damon!" Judgey 2nd squawks.

Damon feels ridiculed. Well, the bird did see him land on his ass two times already. His temper is driving him insane and as much as he wants to trash her room to express the anger, he might just get extra punishment for doing it. Her pink wallpapers have not annoyed him up until tonight. Where the hell was she? How dare she leave him in bed alone! Other than his petty complaints, he knew that she had just used her Power a few minutes ago. He screams loudly as he tries to break through the unseen barrier on the window. Once again, he falls down the floor. "FUCK!"

"Damon!"

"Shut the hell up, Judgey!" he growls to the cockatoo, who had flown over to the top of Bonnie's study.

"Damon!"

Since when did the bird learn to talk anyway! Must have gotten it all from Bonnie's repetitive moans of his name. Damon certainly thinks he is going mad. He sits down the bed and tries to calm down. He runs his fingers through his hair and glares at his only companion. "Fucking left me to babysit you." He clenched his jaw. "If she wanted to cause some trouble, why not let me in on it?" She should have known by now that he was more than willing to feed and cause mayhem.

"Damon!"

"STOP FUCKING CALLING–" Damon almost explodes, but the bird doesn't even look scared of him. Instead, it pokes its beak against a certain book. Frowning, he walks over to it, and as he takes the book from the pile of other school bull, Judgey flies to his shoulder, evidently interested with what was in the book as well. Twilight. He peeks at Judgey 2nd. "Seriously? You want me to read you this bedtime story?" Before the bird could glare at him, he opens the front page. Framed in the carefully-cut inside ream of the book was a hex bag. Feeling a bit dizzy by its spell, he suddenly feels a pinch on the lobe of his ear, as if trying to get his focus. He waves off Judgey 2nd's beak and he takes the bag, crushes the contents in his hand and tears the bag apart. He tears the book in half and throws it across the room. "Fucking Twilight."

Just then, he feels the barrier ebb like melting candle wax. Damon waits for the effects of the spell to wear off and looking at the bird, he nods. "Thanks."

Judgey 2nd gives out a loud squawk.

"Now, let's get your momma back," he mutters, and they both fly out into the night.


Remembering his transforming brother, Damon passes by the boarding house. He sees his brother sprawled out in the middle of the living room –not the place where he left him. Stefan was paler, when supposedly, he was well-fed with all the blood he left for him on his room. "Stefan. Did Bonnie…"

Stefan was probably too hurt or tired to even be angry for killing him. "No."

It wasn't Bonnie. Means only one thing. Elena. Damon tugs on his brother and places him upright. He cuts open his wrist and forces the blood on Stefan's lips. "I swear to God, Stefan, if you're human again…"

"The turning was actually faster than I expected," Stefan murmured tiredly, giving him a curious look. He gives Damon a weak, yet superhuman punch on the gut. Stefan falls over and Damon catches him. "Women…" he gurgled. "They're so… conniving."

"Told ya she was a Katherine clone."

Stefan just glares at him.

"I have to go," Damon says, setting him down.

"I'm better. Take me!" Stefan shouts, and he stands up, though he's still weakened. Damon gets him a pack of blood as they left the boarding house. Before they entered the woods, he pulled his brother's arm, "Damon… I don't think that's Bonnie anymore."

"You're such a pain in the ass." Damon takes his brother and goes into the woods. Aside from being the ultimate sex god, there's something else he's pretty good at: proving his brother wrong.


Elena almost believes it. But despite how different Bonnie was now, seeing Bonnie's face was always going to mean something. It was enough reason to believe that Bonnie can take care of everything. But whatever should happen now, whether she would die or not, Elena knows that it is partly her fault. When she had caught Bonnie sporting a bloody nose one plain afternoon, she had made sure that her witch friend came clean. It was a rare occasion, for Bonnie to have shown weakness, but she wanted to be there for her best friend, even if all she could offer was just a shoulder to cry on.

When Elena found out a few months ago that she spells have been shortening Bonnie's lifespan, she was unable to be the strong one any longer, and broke down. She cried for what felt like hours, but Bonnie didn't even shed a tear. That's when Bonnie told her about the Bennett spell. Something that could stop the impending doom, something that could make her more powerful. Though they were not sure how strong Bonnie would really get, it would be powerful enough to save Bonnie's life. How can she help if she was dying, right? So Elena agreed. They even made a fake plan. A plan that meant that if ever she became so powerful, Bonnie herself would take care of all those selfish Originals –anything that would ever threaten their hometown, their friendship. Elena thought they were just joking then. Bonnie did not even tell her about breaking the spell for real. But if they agreed on anything, it is that they keep it a secret and make sure no one gets word of their plans.

But that day Bonnie killed Elijah –it was the first time she had really seen an idea of how powerful Bonnie had become. She had an inkling that her best friend had broken the spell, but she did not expect any of this. And Bonnie had just whispered something so simple to her. 'Remember the plan.' And since then, Elena felt like losing her mind. So just like that, the plan was set: eliminate Elijah's threatening presence and then bring out Klaus.

"Bonnie, I'm not so sure about you breaking the spell. What if…"

"But we have to try, Elena. We can't always rely on Stefan… or Damon."

Elena nods. "Will you be safe?"

"I will be."

But this she didn't expect. She think she just made the biggest mistake of her life. She felt her life flash before her eyes when Bonnie gave her a sad, pathetic look. She feels that same vulnerability, when she first saw Bonnie use her powers on Elijah. She lost her. She lost her best friend.


AN: Apologies for the delay! Please tell me if you guys are still there! xD Thanks for reading!