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"Bonnie, is that you?" Derrick asked walking down the steps as Bonnie walked into the Bennett house carrying a sleeping Samantha in her car seat, the next morning, "oh my god, you got her back…how…who had her?"

Bonnie looked at her father. She dreaded this moment. She would have preferred never to face her father, but she could not stay one moment at the boarding house. She hated seeing Damon…hearing him…smelling him…she wanted to get away from him as soon as she could.

"Yes, Daddy…it's me and we got Sami back, some witches kidnapped her…don't know why and we may never know why", she replied tiredly.

"Well that's great news! You should be happy, what's wrong?" Derrick asked.

Bonnie looked at him as the tears welled up in her eyes, "Let me lay Sami down and I will come back downstairs".

"Bonnie…what's going on…did Damon do something?"

"I will be back down", Bonnie said going upstairs with Sami in her arms.

When she walked into Sami's nursery, she smiled down at the sleeping baby, "I promise everything will be ok…everything will work out, I promise you", she whispered placing Sami in her crib and walking out of the room.

When she walked downstairs, her father was waiting for her. "Now, what happened…if you just found Samantha, I am surprised that Damon is not here hovering over her".

"Daddy, I need you to sit down".

"Sit down…why?"

"Because I have something to tell you and you are not going to like it at all".

"What did he do?" her father narrowed his eyes, "and I'm not sitting".

Bonnie sighed, "Damon misunderstood a moment between Tyler and I…he stormed out, I couldn't find him when we finally realized where Sami was and I thought something happened to him…"

"Did it?" Derrick asked.

Bonnie shook her head, "It turns out that he got drunk, he got drunk and picked up a woman in a bar…"

"Bonnie I told you that he would only hurt you!" Derrick interrupted her.

"Daddy, please…Sami is sleeping…", Bonnie hushed him.

Derrick glanced upstairs, "So did he cheat on you with this woman".

Bonnie nodded slowly.

Derrick shook his head, "I knew it…I knew it…I knew that Damon was nothing but trouble for you, he does not deserve you or that little girl upstairs…it will be a cold day in hell before I allow him…"

"Daddy, there's something else", Bonnie said grabbing Derrick's arm.

"What could possibly be wrong now, tell me you're not pregnant by him again or something equally as horrific".

Bonnie visibly recoiled at her father's words, but quickly brushed it off, "The woman that Damon was with…and I am so sorry about this, but the woman he was with was Tara and I am so sorry Daddy".

Derrick's eyes grew big, "Tara…no that's not possible", he shook his head, "not possible at all".

"It is, I saw them with my own eyes and I am sorry about that…I know that you cared about her and I know that this is horrible for you because I know you hate Damon…"

"Tara would never cheat on me on her own, he must have brainwashed her or something to hurt me and to hurt you by doing this…"

"Damon wouldn't do that Daddy and when I walked in, Tara didn't look like she was under any compulsion what so ever", Bonnie argued.

"Bonnie your daughter was missing and Damon responded to that by going out and sleeping with another woman, you have no idea what he is capable of…and where is Tara? Do we even know…now that he has used her, he may be trying to get rid of her", Derrick went on.

"Daddy stop it…I don't know where Tara is, but what I do know that is just as much to blame as Damon is and she betrayed you just like Damon betrayed me", Bonnie replied, "and now I need you just to help me here, I need some time to process everything happened without you telling me how horrible Damon is because at the end of the day…no matter what he did to me…he is Samantha's father and he loves her".

Derrick snorted, "He loves her…how can you believe that?"

Bonnie looked at Derrick, "Because I know just because a father may not be present when you really need them, it doesn't mean they don't love you…now, I need to get some sleep, we will talk more later", Bonnie replied tiredly as she started for the stairs.

Derrick watched Bonnie disappear and a smile slowly came across his face. Somehow, he had done it and after a few weeks, he would be absolutely sure that it was all for the better.

SSSSSS

Damon and Stefan walked into the bar where Damon had been the night before drinking. Damon walked up to the bartender and looked at him, "Do you remember me?"

"Oh yeah, you were the one yelling at me and then tonguing down that woman who came in with the green eyes…some of the patrons weren't exactly happy with that".

"Yes…well…did the woman do anything to him, slip something in his drink…anything?" Stefan asked.

"The only thing she did was slip her hand somewhere it should not have been", the bartender replied.

Damon narrowed his eyes and Stefan could tell that he was ready to strike out and he grabbed his arm. "Thank you for helping us", Stefan replied calmly as he pulled Damon away and out of the bar.

"None of this makes any sense…yes, I know that Tara is attractive…but I would never cheat on Bonnie with her and why don't I remember half of what happened and the way I acted after Bonnie found us…"

"The vampire said that the witch had green eyes, I'm starting to think that Tara was the witch who hired the vampires to kidnap Samantha".

"Why?" Damon asked, "it wasn't like she wanted something…we never got a ransom call or anything".

"Do you recognize Tara at all?"

"What…no…never saw her before Derrick Bennett brought her here".

"Well we need to find her and ask some questions…or go back and talk to that starving vampire in our basement, someone set me up and I want to know why…I know the mutt had something to do with this, but I don't think he's the mastermind", Damon said getting in the car.

"Tyler disappeared yesterday after we returned to the boarding house…".

"Of course he did. He kissed Bonnie and he knows I want to rip his head off".

"Did you really believe that Bonnie would kiss Tyler after all you two have been through", Stefan asked, "answer me honestly here, she loves you…she loves the family that you two have and when you were saying anything and everything to get her to leave you alone, she stayed and took it".

Damon gripped onto the steering wheel, "Since the beginning of all of this, Tyler has been in the middle…he was the one driving when she was in that car accident and then I gave her my blood…he was the one she was lying and sneaking around with when he wanted her to help him with his curse…and now, he was the one standing in the middle of the room kissing her. There's a part of me that knows that Bonnie loves me, but there's another part of me that knows that Bonnie loves and misses the normal part of her life and better or for worse, Lockwood was a huge part of that…and sometimes I do think that she wants that back and if he's there offering to her, I think she would have a weak moment".

"And you would allow her just to have that weak moment; you wouldn't rush in there and try to kill someone?" Stefan asked.

"Sami was gone…Bonnie was kissing another man…I just…I don't know, I felt like the life that I didn't deserve was being snatched away from me and I did what I always do self destruct…but as you can see, it may have worked this time".

"It didn't work, you are not giving up here. Someone set you up and we are going to find out who, let's go back to the boarding house and question that vampire some more".

Damon nodded as he pulled out of the parking lot.

SSSSSS

The vampire that Stefan and Damon held down in the basement was of no help when they went back to question him. He maintained that the only thing he knew about the woman was the fact that she had green eyes. Damon finally got so frustrated that he staked the vampire and walked out of the basement. At least he got to punish that vamp for kidnapping his daughter.

The truth was that he had to find out where Tara was. She was the only one who could give him the answers to the questions that flowed through his mind. The only person who knew where Tara lived was Derrick Bennett and there was no way he would tell Damon a thing. Damon was sure Bonnie had filled her father in on what happened and Derrick was probably planning Damon's demise that very second and maybe Damon had a death wish and that's why he was standing in front of the Bennett house in the middle of the night in the pouring rain looking up at Bonnie's window.

Derrick Bennett was in his office on the phone totally distracted and Damon scoffed. His daughter and his granddaughter had returned home and all was right in Derrick Bennett's world. Damon crouched down and jumped up to Bonnie's window. He had done it plenty of times before and this was probably how they made Samantha in the first place. He jumped through her window and landed as quietly as he could. He stared at her for a few moments as he watched her sleep. She was probably exhausted after all that occurred over the past two days. He stood over Bonnie's bed gazing down at her sleeping form. He reached out to touch her, but then stopped…she needed to sleep. He slipped out of the room quietly as Bonnie opened her eyes as soon as she heard her door close but did not move.

He walked down the hallway towards Samantha's room and opened the door closing it behind him. When he walked in, he noticed that Sami's eyes were open as if she sensed him and wanted him to know that she knew they were there, "Hi Tabitha", he whispered picking her up out of the crib and heading over to the chair by the window, "I see you're awake, I guess you are pretty smart there. I guess you know that things are not that great between your mother and I, but I promise you that I will make everything ok", Damon whispered, "I used to think that I could do whatever I wanted…whatever made me happy, whatever satisfied me, I could do it and there would be no repercussions and then I fell in love with your mother and things changed…then you were born and I thought I changed…I know I changed…I won't let our family end this way", he lifted Sami up and looked into her greenish blue eyes, "I promise that I will find out who tried to rip our family apart and I will rip them apart", Damon promised.

Sami smiled back at him with a giggly smile as he smiled back at her, "See, I knew you understood me", Damon smiled back at her.

SSSSS

The next morning Bonnie was awakened by Samantha's wails in the nursery down the hallway. She jumped out of bed and flew to Samantha's room where Sami was lying on her back screaming with tears running down her face. "Aww…Sami…it's ok, Mommy's here", Bonnie said picking her up and holding her.

Sami quieted down as her head rested on Bonnie's shoulder.

"Everything ok?" Derrick asked sticking his head in the door.

"She's probably still feeling a little weird because of being away from me…it's ok, I'm going to get her a bottle and she will probably go right back to sleep…I'm sorry if she woke you up".

"No…no…it is quite all right and if you need someone to help you, I'm here Bonnie", Derrick replied walking over to her, "I know that you are going through an extremely rough time and I'm here Kitten, always remember that".

Bonnie nodded as her father kissed her on the forehead and touched Samantha's arm as he left the room.

Bonnie held Sami as she walked down the stairs to get a bottle out of the refrigerator and warm it up. As she held onto Sami, she felt her fangs start to itch. When her father was home, it was always hard for her to eat properly. Usually, she would just stay at the boarding house most of the time that her father was in Mystic Falls, but now that her and Damon were over, she needed to do something at home.

"I know your Daddy came to see you last night", Bonnie said to Sami as she placed her in her baby seat, "and I know that you are not happy about him not being here".

Sami looked at her with wide eyes, "Yes, I know he's not perfect…I know that…I've always known that…but I can't…I can't just forget what happened that night and while I know that he loves you more than anything, Mommy just can't be around him right now".

Sami looked at her for a few moments and her face suddenly crumbled and she began to cry, "Oh come on Sami…don't do this to Mommy right now, please", Bonnie sighed as she picked her up out of the seat and juggled the bottle as well. When she placed the nipple in Sami's mouth, she closed her eyes and began to suck and Bonnie breathed a sigh of relief. She really hated being the bad guy.

As Sami continued to drink, the doorbell rang and Bonnie held Sami walking towards the door. When she noticed the person on the other side, she closed her eyes for a moment and then opened it as Tyler stood on the other side, "Hey", he greeted her.

"Tyler, what are you doing here…"

"I was out for a run and I thought I would stop by, I remember that you were a morning person", he replied.

"Even moreso now", Bonnie smirked looking down at Samantha.

"She is beautiful Bonnie", Tyler looked down at Samantha.

"Thank you…umm…I did want to talk to you, do you mind coming in?" Bonnie asked moving to the side.

"Sure", Tyler replied walking in and following Bonnie to living room. He stared at her for a few moments and then shook his head.

"What?" Bonnie asked.

"You…you're a mom…it's wild…I remember when you and Elena used to make me and Matt play house with you guys and you was always a bossy mom", Tyler smirked.

"I was not".

"Yes, you were".

"You were just a bad Daddy", Bonnie laughed, "but anyway, I want to say a couple of things to you. I want to thank you for helping us find Samantha. I know Damon accused you many times of being behind it and you could have walked away at any time, but you didn't—so thank you".

"Bonnie, I would do anything for you", Tyler replied.

"And I thank you for that, but I also want you to know that we are friends Tyler and that's all that we can ever be".

"You and Damon are still the happy family despite what he said to you and how he treated you", Tyler shook his head.

"No, Damon and I are not together, but that doesn't mean that I am ready to jump from a relationship with him to one with you".

"I didn't say that we had to jump into a relationship, I just want you to know that I'm here for you Bonnie".

"I know that, but Tyler…Damon went off the deep end because he saw you kiss me".

"I'm sorry about that, I realize it was the wrong time…"

"It definitely was", Bonnie agreed, "and I know that it was innocent and you got caught up in a moment…"

"I did and I'm sorry if that started this entire spiral, but I know that I would never hurt you the way Damon did. You don't deserve to be hurt like that Bonnie, you would sacrifice everything for the people you love…you cured me and I can never repay you for doing that".

"You don't have to repay me, you helped me get my daughter back and I am grateful for that".

Tyler nodded and then looked at Sami, "Can I…can I hold her?"

Bonnie hesitated for a moment and looked down at Sami, "Sure…sure you can", she replied placing Sami into his arms.

Tyler looked down at Sami in his arms as Bonnie smiled and touch Sami's hand.

"She looks exactly like you", Tyler smiled as he looked over at Bonnie.

"She does doesn't she?" Bonnie scrunched up her nose, "but she has Damon's smirk…after she threw up on me a couple of times, she always gave me that smirk and that was definitely Damon".

"Ok, so she looks like him a little", Tyler conceded.

Bonnie chuckled as Derrick walked down the stairs. Seeing Tyler and Bonnie sitting on the couch with Tyler holding Samantha was a perfect picture to him. "Tyler, I didn't know you were here", Derrick grinned as he walked over.

"I was taking a jog and I wanted to check on Bonnie and Samantha, here".

"Thank you, we appreciate it", Derrick replied, "hey Bonnie, why don't you get dressed while you have four other hands here with Sami".

"You're right maybe I should, I have to take Sami over to the boarding house anyway".

"Wait…you're taking her over there…why?"

"Because she wants to see her Daddy", Bonnie replied simply as she headed upstairs.

Derrick grimaced and then turned to Tyler, "I think she likes you".

"Are you talking about Bonnie or Samantha?"

"If you keep coming around, perhaps it will apply to both Derrick replied as he smiled and touched Sami's hand.

SSSSSS

"Should I stay here to play referee?" Stefan smirked as Damon stood in the kitchen heating up a cup of blood.

"Actually, I would like you to stay here where Bonnie comes. I want to talk to her and I don't necessarily want to do it with Samantha in the room".

"Damon, I think that you should just give it a few days or wait until we find Tara for you to approach Bonnie again".

"Stefan, the more times goes by…the longer Bonnie thinks the worst of me and the longer Derrick Bennett has to turn her against me and let's not forget about the mutt, he's probably sniffing around her house as we speak".

"Well you know, when you speak to Bonnie, you don't need to go in with your usual Damon quips…"

"Wow thank you Stefan, I've only been dealing with my little vitch for about 2 years, I know exactly how to handle her", Damon replied.

Stefan shook his head, "I just know what happens when you get angry. You lose sight of what really matters".

"Stefan, I am going to fight for my family. I have to fight for my family", Damon replied.

"I know and that's why I want you to please keep your cool when you see Bonnie today…don't push her to automatically see things the way you see them".

"Got it…don't push her…got it", Damon said drinking his blood.

SSSSS

Bonnie stood in front of the boarding house holding onto Sami's car seat and she was trying to control the emotions inside of her. She knew that Damon was inside and she knew that he would want to talk about everything going on. As she began to walk towards the house, Elena's car pulled up behind her. "Hey Bon", Elena grinned walking up, "and hey Princess", she bent down touching Sami's hand, "I wasn't sure if you would come over here today".

"Well I don't want to keep Damon and Sami apart", Bonnie frowned.

"Are you ok?" Elena whispered.

Bonnie closed her eyes for a few moments, "I don't know…I'm still so angry and hurt, but I look at Sami and it's so hard to hate him as much as I want to".

"I don't understand, I thought he had changed", Elena shook her head.

"See that means both of us were fooled, come on…maybe we can go and get some coffee or something while Sami is visiting with Damon".

Elena nodded as she hugged Bonnie as they walked up to the front door.

Damon could feel Bonnie's presence as soon as she and Elena walked in the house. "Hey!" Stefan greeted them as Bonnie and Elena walked in.

"Hi Stefan", Bonnie mumbled as she looked past Stefan to lay eyes on Damon.

"Well…um…Stefan, I wanted to get that book from you…so maybe we should go get it", Elena fumbled as she pulled Stefan by the arm up the stairs.

Damon and Bonnie stared at each other as Bonnie held onto the car seat. "Let me take that", Damon said reaching out and touching the car seat handle and touching Bonnie's hand. He felt the sparks from her and he looked down at Sami.

"Hey Tabitha, look at you today…do you think you can give me a smile?" he smirked as he carried the car seat into the living room sitting it down on the floor, "how did she sleep last night?"

Bonnie looked at him, "She slept ok…she woke up this morning crying a little, but I gave her a bottle and she was satisfied for awhile".

Damon nodded as he suddenly smelled something different on Sami. He looked up at Bonnie who stared back at him with no expression what so ever. He stood up holding onto Sami, "Stefan!" he yelled with his eyes on Bonnie.

"Damon…what's going on?" she sighed.

Damon continued to stare at her, "Stefan!" he yelled again.

Stefan appeared in the doorway with Elena not far behind, "Damon, what's going on…is everything ok?"

"Stefan take Samantha out of here", Damon said looking at Bonnie.

"What…Samantha is not leaving, if something is wrong than you need to tell me", Bonnie spoke up.

"Stefan, take Samantha out of here", Damon said through clenched teeth.

"She's not going anywhere", Bonnie argued.

Damon walked over to Stefan and handed him Samantha, "I think you need to take her out of the house".

"Damon what is going on?" Elena asked.

"I need to speak with Samantha's mother for about an hour", Damon replied staring directly at Bonnie.

"Bonnie, we won't go if you don't want us to", Elena stated.

"Go ahead", Bonnie replied matching Damon's eyes, "I can handle myself with Damon".

Stefan and Elena exchanged looks as Elena picked up Samantha's car seat and headed out of the room.

Bonnie heard Stefan's car start and drive away as Damon walked behind her, "I smell him on her", he whispered in Bonnie's ear placing his hands on her shoulders, "and I just want you to know that I am going to kill him".

Bonnie turned around to look at Damon, "What him would you be referring to…my father…you already slept with his girlfriend, are you done punishing him and if you are talking about Tyler, then I'm not going to let you touch him".

"You let him touch Samantha", Damon stared down at her with barely concealed rage in his eyes.

"He came over, he wanted to see how she was doing…so he held her…yes".

"He wants to replace me", Damon replied.

Bonnie rolled her eyes, "Your paranoia is amazing. You sleep with another woman and now you are ready to rip one of my friends apart because I allowed him to hold my daughter?"

"Our daughter", Damon corrected her, "and he had something to do with this, you know that…so for you to sit here and pretend after he kissed you is just ridiculous".

"You know what's ridiculous…me standing here listening to you act all jealous over someone holding Samantha…you were upstairs…", Bonnie said through clenched teeth, "having sex with someone while we were fighting for Samantha and you want to stand here and rage at me, go straight to hell Damon", and with that she turned around and started towards the door.

"I'll see your mutt friend there", Damon called after her.

Bonnie placed her hand on the doorknob and then turned around, "You know what…you don't get to act like this…you are the reason why we are fractured Damon…you're the reason…you slept with my father's girlfriend! How was I supposed to act after that? Was I supposed to forgive you and for you to compare being drunk and cheating on me to me being cursed…you disgust me".

"And here we go…the judgey witchy side of you takes over, I guess you get it from your father…hey…how's he dealing with the fact that his girlfriend was so desperate to get away from him that she picked me up in a bar?" Damon smirked.

Bonnie marched over to him and raised her hand to slap him, but he caught it and she ripped her hand out of his grip, "I hate you!" she screamed, "you act as if I'm supposed to shrug off what you did…you act as if I'm overreacting…you slept with someone else Damon, you took everything that we built together and threw it away…what do you want me to do!"

"I want you to remember that I love you and I have loved you for a long time!" he shouted at her, "is it soo hard to believe that someone may have set me up…that maybe someone wanted to end our relationship?"

"Damon I saw you with her…you enjoyed it…you enjoyed every moment of it, I saw the look on your face…I thought that look was only for me, but it wasn't…it's not", she shook her head as tears sprang to her eyes, "and I want to forgive you, you have no idea how much I want to push myself to forgive you and make everything ok…make everything alright…I feel like a fool Damon, I feel like you've made a fool of me".

Damon walked over to her, "I love you…I only love you", he said touching her cheeks.

"What you did with Tara had nothing to do with love!" she spat out knocking his hands down, "you may love me, but that didn't stop you from being with her!"

"Bonnie", Damon sighed, "just keep the mutt away from my daughter while we're working on us".

"There is no us and Tyler is a friend, he helped me find Samantha…right now, he has more of a right to be around her than you do", Bonnie snapped as she turned around and started for the door.

Damon rushed in front of her and slammed the opened door shut, "I want him to stay away from you and Samantha", Damon looked down as his stare penetrated her.

"You can't control who I am friends with", Bonnie replied staring up at him.

"You are underestimating my determination to keep him away from you and my daughter", Damon said looking down at her.

Bonnie looked up at Damon, "You're a jackass".

"But you love me anyway", he replied grabbing her arm.

Bonnie looked at Damon as her face vamped out, "Get off of me".

"I'm not letting you go", Damon answered.

Bonnie jerked her arm, but he held onto her tighter.

"I love you", he replied, "and I am not giving up on our family".

"You already did", she hissed.

Damon let her go as she backed away from him. She stared at him for a few moments and within a blink of an eye he was in front of her pinning her against the door, "You saw the look on my face with Tara, tell me…did it look like this?" Damon asked as he stared at her.

"Damon…please…"

"You are the only one that I want…the only one I have wanted for a long time", he went on as he put his hands on the sides of her head forcing him to look at him.

"Damon…"

He placed his lips to her ear and whispered to her, "You are the only one that I want to make love to".

"Damon", she breathed out closing her eyes as she felt her anger start to turn into something else. It was like a switch in her head that he had flipped on and suddenly things were different.

Damon felt some of her resolve chip away and he immediately went in for the kiss that he desperately wanted from her. He pulled her to him as he watched that look of absolute want was in her eyes and he knew it well.

"I love you", he whispered.

"Get off of me", she said pushing him away from her.

"I love you", he said coming closer to her as she pushed him again.

"Leave me alone", she replied pushing him again and he fell onto the couch. As he fell onto the couch he pulled her down with him and she looked into his eyes for a split second and then he grabbed her head and kissed her. She refused to relax her lips, but as pressed her body into his more, she found her body betraying her.

Damon flipped them onto to the floor as they both hit the floor with a thud. Bonnie grabbed onto Damon as she sat up kissing him with the same fierceness that he was kissing her. As he worked her shirt over her head, she felt as if the anger button had been turned off in her head and the button that wanted Damon…the button that wanted Damon to show her that she was the only one he wanted had been turned on. She licked her lips as she ripped his shirt and buttons went flying all over the room. She bit into his shoulder as he lifted her up so that he could slide her jeans off. As he went for his own belt buckle, she vamped out looking up at him and if it was possible, she made him want her more than ever before. When they collapsed into each other the foundation of the house threatened to crumble as they battled each other in passion to prove who was taking all of their frustration and anger and lust out on whom. As their bodies joined, Damon held onto Bonnie's face and looked at her as her face turned back into the human visage. "I only want you", he whispered as he kissed her. She dug her nails into his back as she looked up at the ceiling as their lust, anger, passion and love filled the room.

As Damon lifted Bonnie up to sit on his lap, she gasped as she held onto him tightly as they never broke their stride. She bit her lip as she tried to focus on being there with him. He held onto her tightly as their moment reached their peak and as he gripped onto her whispering her name, they collapsed back onto the floor. He fell to the side of her and she looked over at him as he looked back at her with a face of pure love.

Angsty hate sex is pretty fun, but of course…two steps forward…two steps…

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