Bonnie was frozen to the spot in which she stood horrified by the scene before her. Seeing Damon over the dead man like a predator that had just killed it's prey, his face was vamped out and he had blood all over his lips and chin. She felt conflicted feelings because she hated to her core when innocent human beings senselessly where murdered or killed. But on the other hand she loved her husband so much and it made it hard to know that he was the one who had done such a thing to that poor man.

For a few moments all that she could so was stand there and look. He avoided eye contact with her and she could tell that he was ashamed that she had seen him like this, that this wasn't something that he wanted for himself. Bonnie couldn't help but to feel sorry for him it was her death that sent him spiraling out of control and he never would have been like this if she had never been murdered. Despite the fact that she hated what he had just done she knew that turning her back on him right now would only push him further out of control and she loved him too much not to be there for him.

Damon licked the blood off of his lips. "I-I didn't mean to."

Bonnie gathered herself and began moving towards him. "Everything's going to be alright Damon."

"I couldn't help myself , I'm sorry." Damon told her sincerely.

Bonnie kept her eyes on him not wanting to see the body of the man that he had just killed. "I know that you are, let me help you."

Damon looked at her with so much shame and guilt in his eyes. "You must hate me right now."

Bonnie felt her heart break for her husband. "No Damon I could never hate you."

"I don't want to be like this." Damon told her.

"I know that you don't." Bonnie said holding out her hand. "Come on we're going to get through this."

Damon took his wife's hand and stood next to her. "Thank you."

Bonnie nodded her head pressing her lips in a grim line. "We have to get you out of here before someone sees what you have done."

She lead him out of the alley and back home.

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"You must see me as a monster." Damon said to her the next morning.

Bonnie frowned at him.

"You must." Damon repeated "I wouldn't blame you if you did."

"I don't see you as a monster Damon." Bonnie told him.

"But you protect humans from creatures like me. Vampires who viciously hunt down humans and you'll kill them to protect those humans." Damon went on. "So if I couldn't stop then you would have to…."

He didn't finish what he was saying but Bonnie knew where he was going and it saddened her. "Don't think that way Damon the last thing on earth that I would want to do is kill you."

Damon drunk some of his bourbon. "But you won't let me go out there and keep killing innocent humans with my out of control hunger urges."

"You're right I won't sit by and allow you to do that. I'm going to put a stop to it." Bonnie told him. "But I won't have to do it by killing you, I'm going to do it by being here for you and helping you in any way that I can so you aren't addicted to hunting humans."

"What if I can't?" Damon asked

"You will Damon just believe in yourself, I know that you will be able to do this." Bonnie said

Damon was a little taken aback. "You're still here standing by me."

"Of course I am." Bonnie said

"Even after what I did last night." Damon told her.

"You're struggling through a feeding addiction right now, it's not something that you want." Bonnie reminded him.

Damon sipped more of his bourbon. "Still it's amazing, I wouldn't be angry with you if you wanted to leave me while I'm like this."

Bonnie shook her head. "Let me ask you something."

"Go ahead witch." Damon said

"Let's say that the situation was reversed and you were the one killed and I out of anger and remorse dipped into dark magic." Bonnie explained. "And I lost myself in that dark magic and started to do bad things or harm people would you abandon me."

Damon cupped her face in his hand. "You know that I would never abandon you."

"Even if my dark magic caused me to do awful things." Bonnie went on. "Like take a persons life. Even when it seems like I couldn't come back from the dark magic?"

"I would fight hard for you and would never leave you." Damon told her. "Nothing on earth would stop me from helping you came back from the darkness."

Bonnie smiled. "Exactly, so you understand that I wouldn't abandon you at a time like this."

"I understand." Damon said

"I love you Damon." Bonnie placed a tender kiss on his forehead . "I'm with you for life."

Damon nodded his head. "Ditto, Judgey!"

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Later on Bonnie was trying to get Damon to get through his urge to hunt humans. She had gotten advice from Stefan on how he got through it and knew what she had to do.

"No I won't do it." Damon protested after she told him what had to be done.

"Yes you have to do this Damon." Bonnie said "It will help."

Damon pressed his lips together in a firm line. "I'm not going to feed off of you right now Bonnie."

Bonnie stepped closer to him. "You need to feed off of me until you can go fully back to blood bags, it will help wean you by keeping down the urge to hunt."

"I won't do it." Damon told her. "I won't risk losing control and hurting you."

"You're not going to lose control Damon." Bonnie tried to assure him.

Damon shook his head. "I've lost control and killed a few people every since I began hunting humans again."

Bonnie put her hand on his chest. "But that won't happen with me, because you love me too much and you would rather die before killing me."

"You're right about that." Damon said

"Then you must feed off of me Damon, Stefan says that he did it with Elena and that it helped." Bonnie pointed out.

Damon ran his fingers through his black hair. "What if I can't stop."

Bonnie looked at him. "I trust that you will be able to stop."

Damon frowned.

Bonnie held his face in her hands. "Trust in yourself Damon, trust that you won't hurt me."

Damon closed his eyes and opened them again nodding his head in agreement.

Bonnie pressed her wrist to his lips.

Damon slowly and carefully extended his fangs and bit into her wrist.

Bonnie winced slightly at the pain but she kept her wrist on his mouth trusting him with her life.

Her blood entered into his mouth, filling his tongue with her rich and sweet taste. Her blood felt so warm and comforting as he drunk from her.

Bonnie gave him a reassuring nod keeping her eyes on his as he felt her suck on her wrist.

Damon gulped down her blood and found that it did ease the urge to go out and hunt and that it calmed the beast in him. He drunk a little more before pulling away not wanting to take too much from her. He licked the puncture wounds on her wrists healing them.

Bonnie pulled her wrists away from his mouth and wiped her blood from the corner of his lip. "I knew that you wouldn't hurt me." She whispered to him.

Damon said nothing he just wrapped his arms around her in a grateful embrace.

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As the next several weeks passed by she helped him slowly wean off of the need to hunt down humans. She kept weaning him with her blood and did other things that Stefan told her to do. Damon had remained in the house during this time not going out to reduce his risk of feeding off of some people. With each passing day it was getting easier and easier to start back fully to the blood bags for his meals. They thought that he was better but one final test was needed to make sure that Damon was back in control of himself.

After a few weeks of staying inside Bonnie thought that he should go out to test and see if he could be around humans without the need to feed from them. She stood behind a pair of trees with him as a group of teenaged girls were near by.

"Hear goes." Bonnie said "Let's see if you have your control back."

Damon looked out at the teenage girls, he and Bonnie were hidden by the trees. "I can do this."

"Yes you can." Bonnie told him.

"If I lose it and go after them witchy migraine me before I can kill one of them alright." Damon said

"Alright." Bonnie agreed.

Damon took a deep breath and focused on the teenaged girls. He could hear their heart beats from where he was standing and smell the blood under their skin. If he was still in rippah mode that alone would send him into vamped out mode and after the teens in a uncontrolled need to feed from them. Damon waited but the urge didn't come, he watched as they walked away under perfect control, after weeks he was back in control of himself.

Bonnie breathed out a sigh of relief. "No witchy migraine needed."

Damon sighed "Thank God."

"Congrats husband." Bonnie said patting his back. "Looks like you will be back to feeding fully on blood bags."

Damon looked over at her and smiled. "Couldn't have done it without you helping me my wife."

Bonnie smiled back. "Anytime, Anytime."

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The next night Bonnie was sleeping as the nightmare came to her.

She was back to the night, the terrible night on which she was tortured and murdered. She was running through the woods desperately trying to get away from those who chased her, the ones who wanted her died. Her lungs burned trying to take in oxygen and her legs cramped with the effort. She heard them closing in behind her laughing evilly as if this was just as fun came to them.

They tackled her to the ground. Suddenly she was kicking and screaming as they dragged her over to the tree chaining her to it. Her body shook with fear as they surrounded her and she pleaded with them to let her go. But they just laughed looking at her with evil and cold faces.

"Time to die you filthy thing." The one with the grey eyes said. All six of them rushed at her at the same time and prepared to kill her…..

Damon was jolted awake with the sounds of her screams. He turned and in the darkness of the room he could see that she was having a nightmare of some kind. He turned the small lamp on the night stand on and reached for her shaking her awake.

"Bonnie." Damon called out to her. "Wake up Bonnie."

Bonnie woke up with wide green eyes looking into his concerned blue ones. She threw her arms around his neck, buried her face into his shoulder and let the tears come.

Damon pulled her into his lap cradling her. "Sshhh It's just a nightmare. " He told her "Just a nightmare."