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Main pairings: Klaroline, Mabekah & Bamon w/ some side pairings
I'd like to thank everyone for their support and their reviews, follows and favorites, you guys make it worthwhile.
AN: I have nothing to say about the show at this point. You all know what happened (otherwise you live under a rock) and I am still pissed off about what became of Bonnie and Stefan. I thought I would be able to boycott TVD to watch The Originals but that looks like it's going to be a load of fuckery as well so… IDK. Basically I've been grieving and then tumblr happened. Between Bamon week, the Stilas/Bonnie the Stilas fangirl tag, Stefan the Bamon fanboy tag and Bamon fanfics/gifsets/etc I feel a little better so I want to focus on this fic and fuck the show and Julie Plec's illogical ass at this point. If I do watch season 5 I'll only be watching for Bonnie, Caroline and Stefan so they better find a way to bring Bonnie back and save Stefan. Damon better get off his ass, stop smirking about some slut bitch deciding that he's her dick of the week and do something productive to make me remember why I liked him in the first place.
*SIGH*I said I wouldn't rant but I'm ranting. Let's just get on with the chapter.
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Damon walked into his room carrying a shivering Bonnie towards his bed where he laid her down and removed her shoes. He pulled back the covers and was about to pull them over her when she stopped him.
"No, I'm b-burning u-up." Bonnie stuttered.
"Your skin is freezing cold, even for a vampire." Damon protested.
"Well, I feel like my body is on fire." Damon sighed, remembering that feeling all too well.
"Okay, we'll compromise." He said before he pulled the covers up to her waist then opened the window as wide as possible to let the cool breeze in. Bonnie sighed upon feeling it, barely able to keep her eyes open. He left the room and zoomed to the basement and grabbed some blood bags and ice packs from the freezer. He zoomed to the kitchen next and squeezed some blood into a mug before putting it in the microwave. He grabbed some gauze from the cabinet and medical tape and placed them on a tray along with the ice packs. He grabbed the mug once it finished heating up and placed it on the tray as well before walking upstairs.
Surprisingly, Bonnie was still awake though her eyelids drooped heavily. He placed the tray on the bedside table then took one of the ice packs off the tray and placed it to the bite on Bonnie's neck. He wrapped the gauze around her neck before securing it with medical tape so the pack didn't fall off or shift around then did the same to the bite on her leg. The ice packs would ease the stinging, burning sensation if only a little. He went to the bathroom and filled a basin with cold water and a rag before he brought it into the room.
He looked at Bonnie with indecision before putting the basin on the side drawer, sitting next to her and pulling her up gently. He held her so her cheek rested on his shoulder and the warmth of his body enveloped hers causing her to shiver from the many different temperatures affecting her. He removed her long sleeved, knit sweater as well as her tank top leaving her in her bra. He reached over and unclasped her bra but left it on, all that time Bonnie was silent. Damon was sure she probably wasn't lucid at the moment or she'd freak out. He reached over to the drawer, dipped the rag in the cold water and wrung any excess water out of it before moving Bonnie's long brown hair over her shoulder and gently pressing the cloth to Bonnie's back. He could feel Bonnie's sigh on his neck as her head was still resting on his shoulder and her barely concealed chest was pressed to his. He could feel her clammy skin through his silk shirt but that only put him more on edge. She needed to get better. As much as he didn't like it, she needed Klaus. Damon felt Bonnie wrap her arms gingerly around his waist, hugging him as he continued wiping her skin.
"Not trying to take advantage of me, are you?" Bonnie asked weakly with a joking edge to her voice.
"Well, I will say this: this isn't exactly what thought would happen when I finally got you half naked in my bed." Damon replied sarcastically. Bonnie chuckled lightly. She turned her head away from his neck and towards the window as she was hit with a coughing fit but she answered anyway.
"In your dreams, Salvatore." She rasped out.
"Every single one, little bird." He quipped, running the cloth down over her shoulders. Bonnie smiled slightly at the pet name before she frowned a little.
"Did you get ahold of Klaus or Caroline?"
"No." Damon replied curtly.
"Hmm." Bonnie muttered with apathy, pressing her face further into Damon's shoulder.
"Don't worry."
"I'm not worried, you are."
"... Maybe."
"Don't be. I'll be fine." Bonnie reassured.
"Once again, you're the one dying so I should do the comforting not the other way around." Damon commented.
"I'm surprised I have to do any comforting at all." Bonnie muttered under her breath. She obviously didn't mean for him to hear it but he did.
"Why is it so surprising?" He asked. Bonnie sighed a little before answering.
"I just... I know we've been hanging out more and have practically seen each other every day since I became a vampire. I know we're friends but I guess after everything that's happened in the past between us... I still get surprised by this Damon who cares about someone other than Elena and occasionally Stefan. This Damon who is actually working to be a big brother, who has helped me a lot with my vampirism, who convinced me not to die, who is actually concerned for me and Caroline and wants us safe, the Damon taking care of me now. You've changed... a lot. You're still sarcastic and at times irrational but that's just you. You aren't snapping people's necks when you don't get your way anymore or compelling yourself your own personal blood bag/sex toy. You've changed for the better Damon. I think the reason its happening now is because you did it for yourself not for Elena." Bonnie told him while wrapping her arms his waist slightly tighter and snuggling her head further into his shoulder. Damon was silent for a few seconds while stroking her back with the cloth.
"Maybe I didn't just do it for myself. Maybe I did it partly for Stefan and... for you." Damon said lowly. Bonnie sluggishly pulled her head from Damon's shoulder and looked him in the eye. She could see into him, he was sure. Deep within him, straight into his soul and he didn't think she'd like everything that was there. Katherine hadn't and neither had Elena. Bonnie stared at Damon and could see the beginning of an emotion she had felt but never truly received in return. His eyes practically sparkled and begged for something: to understand him, to accept him, not to reject any piece of him, to one day love him. Bonnie was changing right alongside Damon but to the core she was fundamentally the same just like he was and their souls always combatted each other's. But maybe it was because they let it, because they didn't have time get over the bad stuff before more bad stuff piled up around them, because they were both devoted to Elena but wanted very different things for her, because they would do different things for her. However, now their lives no longer revolved around her. They were their own person now and they deserved to be happy with or without her.
Bonnie stared into Damon's eyes, eyes that were asking her to love him one day and in that second she made her decision.
"Okay." Bonnie whispered before moving her arms to wrap around his neck and resting her head on his shoulder once more. Damon wasn't sure what the "okay" meant but he knew something had just shifted in his and Bonnie's dynamic, something big so she has to stay alive so they could explore it. He resolved while wrapping his arms around Bonnie to return the embrace.
She just has to live.
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Klaus and Caroline sped down the highway in his car. He knew he was over the speed limit but he really didn't care. He wasn't expecting to feel this concerned for Bonnie but after he and Caroline checked their phones and saw they were filled with voice mails and texts from Stefan expressing concern for Bonnie and Damon telling them about the attack, he was right behind Caroline running to his car to get back into town to cure Bonnie. He first thought it was just guilt because it was his hybrids that attacked her as a result of his actions but when you live in a house for a month with someone you run into each other every now again. He and Bonnie did have some issues but they did bond a bit over the time she was there. He vividly could remember a surprisingly civil interaction the two once had.
FLASHBACK
Klaus was in his art studio painting a landscape of a particular clearing he had found in Mystic Falls. It was the clearing that Ayanna had spelled to remain still through time. The clearing in which he and Rebekah had etched a pentagram into a stone together, the clearing Kol took Rebekah to when she tried to kill herself. He hadn't been there in some time but he went earlier and let the nature flow through him and it made him feel so alive that he had to come back and paint it. He didn't hear Bonnie walking past the room or hear her stop and peer in. He was so engrossed he didn't notice her walk into the room and sit on a chair and watch him paint the clearing. He was going into detail on the pond that resided in the clearing when she finally spoke up.
"Lily pads." She said capturing his attention. He turned to see her sat comfortably on a chair by his drawing desk with her legs crossed over each other and leaning her chin on her hand watching him intently.
"Excuse me?"
"You should add the lily pads to the pond. That's what you're missing in the painting." Klaus looked back at the painting and noticed that that was what was missing. He turned to his pallet, cleaned his brush and then began to dab it in green paint.
"Rebekah took me there, you know? She told me about the fact that she used to be a witch and that she almost killed herself after she was turned. She told me that Kol had taken her there to make her see that she should keep fighting, keep living despite being a vampire and then she did the same thing for me. It was beautiful, so still yet so vibrant." Bonnie said nostalgically.
"Yes, Ayanna's creation is quite something to behold." He agreed focusing on the painting.
"You two were close weren't you? You and Ayanna?"
"She… was like a second mother to me. She taught me a lot growing up. She protected me from Mikael more than Esther did and she nursed the wounds he inflicted on me. She was an amazing woman and a very skilled witch. You should consider yourself lucky to be related to her." Klaus replied fondly, thinking of the dark skinned woman who nurtured him when he was younger.
"I met her once, while I was dead and about to transition. She spoke about you and your siblings as if you were her own children. She obviously loves you all very much even after everything you've all done. She tried her best to save you all from Esther even from the other side. She's helped me a lot too."
"Ayanna had a big heart. She always saw the good in people. Even in my family after we were turned. I don't know why."
"Me neither." Bonnie replied absentmindedly. The two remained silent as Klaus continued painting and Bonnie watched him before she spoke again.
"Is she the reason you didn't use a Bennett witch in the sacrifice?" Bonnie asked. Klaus turned around to face her then as she stared at him curiously before continuing.
"You could've used a Bennett witch. We are… I mean we were… I mean they are…" Bonnie struggled to get that bit of her sentence out. She didn't know how to refer to her family's heritage. Did it really include her anymore? Even when talking about past events, should she include herself? Klaus waited patiently for Bonnie to reformulate her words. She cleared her throat before foraging on.
"The Bennett clan is stronger and more powerful than the Martin clan. There isn't just me, there are my cousins Lucy and her brother, Davan, as well as other cousins with magic and I'm sure you know about them. My loyalty was to Elena so it would've been harder to use me the way you did Greta but Lucy doesn't care about Elena, you could've used her but you didn't. Is it because of your feelings about Ayanna?" Bonnie asked inquiringly. Klaus had never really sat and thought about why he didn't use a Bennett witch back then but he supposed it was due to some lasting loyalty to Ayanna.
"I… suppose she may have had a hand in me not using you all. Then when I became a hybrid I needed you to unlink us to protect myself as well as Rebekah, Finn, Kol and Elijah." Klaus turned back to his painting as he said the next words.
"I… I apologize for what happened to your mother and you as a result of my actions. I recognize that the decisions I made resulted in you losing a lot of things you hold dear. I'm sorry." Bonnie stared at Klaus' back. She wasn't sure what to say about that. He wasn't the only person she had lost important things to. There was also Damon, Stefan, Elijah, Elena, Jeremy and many others but she had forgiven all of them even when sometimes they didn't apologize for the things they had done to her and here Klaus was actually apologizing to her. She knew it was Caroline's influence on him.
"Don't mess up with Caroline. She's more forgiving than most but even she can't forgive some things if you push her too far. So do yourself a favor and just don't push her." Bonnie said suddenly. Klaus turned around to see Bonnie staring at him with a serious expression on her face.
"Because if you do I will make sure you regret it." She warned with finality clear in her voice. Klaus nodded wordlessly and Bonnie nodded back and watched him turn to his painting once more.
"Thanks for the apology by the way." She said before the two descended once more into silence and Bonnie continued to watch him paint the clearing with a greater sense of peace filling the both of them.
END FLASHBACK
Klaus sighed as he snapped out of his memory. He did consider Bonnie somewhat of a friend if not an ally and he knew Caroline would be crushed if she died so she just couldn't die, period. He looked over to the passenger side and he noticed Caroline shaking in her seat. He reached over and grabbed her hand, holding it in his own.
"Don't worry, we will get there in time. She'll be just fine." He said comfortingly.
"I just, I don't understand. Why would they attack Bonnie?" Caroline questioned, wiping a tear from her cheek.
"I fully intend to get answers from them for this. I'll take care of it, I promise." He replied holding her hand tighter. Caroline nodded while holding back tears and thinking concernedly about Bonnie. While she was enjoying her time with Klaus Bonnie had been attacked and was now dying. She knew her friend wouldn't blame her but she blamed herself.
"God, she has to be okay. She has to get through this." Caroline said almost to herself.
"She will, I'll make sure of that." Klaus reassured again before kissing Caroline's hand. She smiled a little and turned to thank him but was cut off when three canisters came smashing through the back window. The two turned around just as gaseous vervain and wolfsbane started to fill the car. The two broke into coughing fits as the poison entered their lungs and filled the car so rapidly that their vision was obscured. They both began to feel themselves losing consciousness and soon Klaus lost control of the car and ended up slamming into a tree before the two finally passed out.
Down the road Lily and Samuel stepped out of a pick-up truck, leaving seven other hybrids sitting in the truck bed watching them, and began to walk towards the gas filled car. They both ripped the doors off their hinges and Lily snared at the two barely visible forms within the car. They pulled them out of the totaled vehicle and away from the gas and injected Caroline with a needle full of vervain and Klaus with a tranquilizer dart full of vervain and wolfsbane mixed together.
"This was the plan all along wasn't it?" Samuel asked, lifting up Klaus and throwing him over his shoulder.
"Of course it was. I'm not stupid enough to think that Klaus couldn't just cure the Bennett bitch as soon as they got wind of what happened. I just let Cassie and Valerie think I was so insane that I wasn't thinking straight. We can't trust them, we know we can't." Lily sneered thinking of her traitorous comrades. She grabbed Caroline's foot and began dragging her to the truck.
"We remove Klaus from the equation and who's there to save Bonnie?" Lily said mockingly, putting Caroline in the back with Klaus.
"So what's the next phase of this plan?" One of the hybrids sitting in the truck bed asked.
"We take them to the cellars and make sure they suffer." Lily replied before hopping into the truck and driving off, leaving Klaus' car a wreck in the middle of the highway. She didn't see the two pair of brown eyes watching her drive away.
"Why didn't we attack them again?" Kol asked his companion watching the hybrids drive away with his brother and the pretty blonde he fancied.
"Because hybrids are stronger than you give them credit for especially when they are so many of them. They could easily have killed us and the fact that we haven't fed in a while wouldn't exactly help." Katherine answered, narrowing her eyes in the direction the car left.
The two were traveling together simply because they were tasked with the same assignment. Klaus had asked Kol ages ago to try to find Bonnie's father to bring him back to Mystic Falls so he could invite Bonnie into her house. Klaus was doing it to get into Bonnie's good graces at first but he genuinely wanted to give her that gift. However, Kol being Kol got distracted from the task. As a result, Elijah asked Katherine to join Kol and to find Rudy Bennett. Katherine and Elijah had been together when he left Mystic Falls following his mother's first plot to kill all his siblings. They had talked about what happened centuries prior and dealt with much of the mistranslation that had occurred and the two had reconciled. He kept her away mostly because he didn't trust Klaus around her but now it seemed like Kol and Katherine had come back just in time.
"You're one of the best trackers I know, you think you could tail them while I call for back up?" Katherine asked Kol already pulling out her phone to call Elijah.
"Of course." Kol said with a mischievous smirk.
"Don't do anything to get yourself killed because I will not be getting the blame for your idiocy, Kol." Katherine warned without looking at him whilst dialing Elijah's number. Kol rolled his eyes but nodded before running off and following the hybrids' truck at a safe distance.
"Katerina." Elijah answered with a clear smile in his voice. Katherine smiled a little before remembering the task at hand.
"We have a problem."
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Damon looked at his watch and saw that an hour had passed since he last called Klaus and Caroline. He knew they had to have noticed his texts and calls by now so he knew that officially something was wrong at this point. He looked into his room and saw Bonnie lying on his bed with her tank top back on "talking" to her Grams. She had been in and out of both lucidity and consciousness but either way he didn't want to alert her of any danger that Klaus and Caroline may be in. He leaned against the door jam and watched her speak to thin air.
"I'm sorry Grams." Bonnie rasped out looking next to her where her Grams sat on the bed stroking her hair.
"For what, baby?"
"For my magic hurting you. I'm so sorry."
"Bonnie, I'm fine now." Sheila reassured.
"What?"
"You haven't killed anyone, you haven't transgressed against nature in that way and your presence as well as Caroline's is having a good influence on the Originals. You're doing good Bonnie. The witches on the other side know that and with Ayanna and Emily's help I'm okay now."
"Wait, is this a hallucination or a dream? Are you real?"
"As real as I can be."
"How do I know that?" Bonnie asked desperately wanting concrete affirmation that this exchange was real. She'd been waiting to hear of her grandmother's fate for a month. Was this really confirmation or just her failing mind playing tricks?
"I suppose you'll have to wait until you're better to know. Let me tell you one more thing before I go: whether you're a witch or a vampire hell if you were an ogre I'd still love you, baby girl. Never ever doubt that. I'm so glad you have people there for you now and don't you worry, you'll pull through this." Sheila said earnestly before kissing Bonnie's forehead, then wiping her thumb on Bonnie's forehead where she kissed her as she saw her lipstick left a mark.
"Don't go Grams." Bonnie weakly protested as her Grams stood up.
"I have to. I don't belong here. Oh and I know what's happening between you and Damon. You're changing him too, sweetheart but still be careful. I don't want you getting hurt." Bonnie watched her Grams disappear and she felt tears slipping from eyes. Damon pushed off the wall as Bonnie soon started to groan from pain.
"Bonnie?" He called, leaning over to see her face. Bonnie lazily looked over to Damon but didn't say a word, just looked at him with tired pained eyes. Damon gently laid down in the bed next to Bonnie and pulled her stiff body over to him so her head laid on his chest. He began stroking her hair comfortingly feeling helpless as there was nothing he could do but sit with her and wait for the wave of pain to pass. Five minutes later Bonnie's tense body relaxed in Damon's arms and she burrowed further into his chest looking for more comfort.
"You know when I first met you I never thought I'd be anywhere near this close to you." Bonnie commented.
"You had no problem being close to me when we first met." Damon replied.
"What are you talking about? I didn't like you, you were harassing me about Caroline and the crystal and I ran away from you." Bonnie replied.
"That's not the first time we met."
"What?"
"You don't remember? You should have when you turned. The compulsion should have worn off." Bonnie turned her head up to look at Damon inquiringly.
"When you were sixteen, by the library, with three other vampires I met you before I officially came to Mystic Falls. Hell, that was even before I met Elena." Damon said trying to jog her memory.
"I mean I had a dream about you saving me but—"
"That was the compulsion wearing off. You weren't in tune with your powers at the time so you were susceptible to compulsion." Bonnie focused hard trying to recall the dream which now turned out to be a memory through her hazy mind.
FLASHBACK
16 year old Bonnie Bennett sat in the Mystic Falls local library going on nine at night. She wouldn't usually be here this late but her laptop had an unfortunate meeting with Caroline's caffeine addiction and it was currently in Matt's care being fixed. She had a term paper due the next day with Mr. Tanner and the tyrant of a man wouldn't hesitate to give her an F if she was even a second late. Bonnie rolled her eyes and continued typing out her report on Joan of Arc.
"Bonnie? You're still here." She heard and looked up at the librarian, Olivia, as the older girl looked at Bonnie inquiringly.
"Report for Mr. Tanner and my laptop is out of commission for the time being." Bonnie explained.
"I get it, I really do, but I have to close up soon. Two more minutes." The recent high school graduate said. Bonnie nodded and watched Olivia disappear in the vast library before turning back to the computer. She needed more time. She looked up and saw the bathroom was just within her view. With quick thinking she saved the file to the computer and then grabbed her bag before making a beeline for the bathroom. She went into one of the stalls and locked the door, stepping up on the toilet so she wasn't seen and patiently waited for Olivia to be gone.
"Bonnie?!" She heard her calling. The call steadily got closer. Bonnie held her breathe as Olivia came into the bathroom calling for her.
"Huh. Guess she left." The girl mumbled to herself before walking out of the bathroom. Bonnie listened to her flicking off lights and walking to the front door and then listened to the door close and lock. She let out the breathe she was holding but didn't move for another two minutes. When she was sure Olivia was gone she left the bathroom and went back to the computer desk. She flicked on the desk light, opened up the computer and continued working.
Bonnie worked on her paper for the next hour in solitude before she finally finished and then printed it out. She placed the crisp papers in her bag just as she heard a creaking off to her left. She turned and jumped in fright as she saw a man dressed in a janitor's outfit staring at her.
"What are you doing here this late?" The janitor asked. Bonnie quickly got over her fright and then began to feel nervous. What if she got arrested all because of Mr. Tanner's inability to show her a little leniency? Her dad would be furious. Her Grams would probably laugh though and reminisce about "her old rebel days".
"Miss?" She heard another voice say. She turned to see another janitor off to her right leaning against a bookshelf.
"He asked you a question." The second man said with some kind of underlying tension in his voice. Bonnie felt slightly uncomfortable as he looked her up and down and openly leered at her in her knee length, white, lace sun dress. She almost needlessly tugged the dress lower.
"Oh, well I was just… working on my paper. It's my term paper, it's sort of important." Bonnie explained, putting on her best smile.
"More important than your life?" A third man said walking up behind the first man.
"What?" Bonnie asked confused.
"You know it's dangerous to be out at night all alone." The first man commented.
"I'm not alone though, am I?" She replied giving a nervous laugh.
"Oh you poor naïve girl. We're the worst sort of company." The second man said. Bonnie watched in horror as the three men's faces transformed into something from a nightmare. Their eyes were surrounded by red and glowed unnaturally so, black veins spread under their eyes and they suddenly grew fangs. Bonnie backed up slowly as the three men advanced on her.
"I almost feel bad going after her. She's so clueless." The third man told his companions.
"Well she'll make for a good cautionary tale I suppose." The first man replied to his comrade. Bonnie didn't hesitate any longer. She turned and began running down the hall. She swerved around a corner just as one of the creatures lunged for her. She kept weaving hazardously through the endless rows of shelves searching through her bag vigorously, looking for her mace. As she turned another corner she came face to face with one of the men and she sprayed the mace in his eyes before kneeing him in his groin.
"Ugh, you bitch!" He spat at her but she paid it no attention and continued her run towards the back of the library until she was by the emergency exit. She slammed her way through it and into the lit backyard parking lot and closed the door back firmly. She turned around and stared at it while backing away as if the door was a wounded animal. She kept backing up until she felt herself bump into a hard chest. She screamed at the contact and turned around punching the person in the nose without hesitation.
"Ow!" The man exclaimed holding his nose. Bonnie looked at him closer and realized that he wasn't one of the three men but that didn't mean he wasn't one of their friends. She backed away from him and held her mace out in front of her.
"Stay back. I'm armed and dangerous and… pissed." Bonnie warned faltering a little in her words but nonetheless glaring a hole through the dark haired male.
"You punched me in my nose. What'd I do to you?" The man complained.
"Oh please. Like you're not waiting for your little friends. Well, I'm Bonnie Bennett and if there's thing that you can guarantee I'll do, it's go down fighting." She continued threateningly.
"Wait Bennett?" The man asked, snapping his head up to look at her.
"Yeah, why?" Bonnie said but before she could get an answer something flew into her side and pushed her to the ground at least fifteen feet away from the dark haired male. Before she could do anything she felt teeth sink into her neck harshly. Bonnie screamed at the feeling but quickly pushed her mace in by where the person was biting her and sprayed it in their mouth to get them off of her. The person immediately jumped off her holding their mouth but when she sat up see the two other men from inside right behind him. She looked up at them fearfully but before she could do anything the fourth man was suddenly standing in front of her blocking her from the other men's views.
"Now boys, is that anyway to treat a lady?" The dark haired man asked sarcastically.
"Who the hell are you?" One of the men asked.
"The name's Damon Salvatore." Bonnie peeked out from behind the man, Damon's, boots in time to see that creatures who were attacking her actually showed fear at the name.
"You've heard of me. Excellent." Damon said smirking at the three other vampires.
"What do you want?" One of the vamps asked.
"Hmm. What do I want? To win the lottery, a gaggle of hot girls worshiping the ground I walk on daily, world domination: the usual. However, I will settle for this…" Damon flashed quicker than Bonnie's eyes could detect and suddenly one of her attackers' heart was in Damon's hand and the man fell to the floor a graying heap. Damon carelessly tossed the heart over his shoulder and looked to the other two men inquiringly.
"You two ready to die or are you going leave?" Damon asked with clear sarcasm. The two men backed away slowly before turning to run but before they could Damon's hands was in their backs.
"I lied, I wasn't really going to let you leave. It isn't Christmas." Bonnie watched them fall to the ground and then Damon dropped their hearts to the concrete. She slowly stood up and walked a little closer to Damon before stopping. He turned around and was staring at her and Bonnie felt her defenses building back up. She tilted her head up slightly and stood a little taller.
"Thanks… I guess." She said with equal parts gratitude and nonchalance. Damon nodded at Bonnie before shrugging.
"Eh, I was bored. I've done my good deed for the year." Bonnie raised an eyebrow at that.
"The sarcasm: is that your thing or something?"
"My thing?" Damon inquired with slight confusion.
"Yeah, I mean… are you doing it on purpose?"
"Yes." He answered bluntly before smirking at Bonnie. Bonnie let out a little laugh at that. She felt herself relaxing a little in his presence.
Which I really shouldn't considering he just ripped three dudes' hearts out effortlessly. She thought to herself.
"Sorry about punching you in your nose. I was kind of running on adrenaline." Bonnie said apologetically. Damon shrugged,
"Whatever, it was a girly punch anyway." Bonnie placed her hands on her hips indignantly.
"Excuse me? I seem to remember you shouting in pain from my supposedly girly punch so I guess that means you're a wimp then." Bonnie replied fiercely. Damon had to crack a smile at that fire. She was definitely a Bennett. For some reason he found himself not wanting to kill this girl, this was rare occurrence considering he'd officially turned his emotions off some time ago.
Damon watched Bonnie look at her watch and then her eyes bugged out in alarm.
"Oh god, I'm so late. Grams will be so worried." Bonnie looked back up at Damon.
"It was nice meeting you Damon… Salvatore? Any relation to Zach Salvatore?"
"Distant." Damon replied curtly thinking of his nephew. Little Zachary, he hadn't seen him since his wedding.
"Well, he's a good guy." Bonnie said with a smile, thinking of the man who on many occasions was exceptionally nice to her despite the fact that most adults favored Elena or Caroline. Bonnie looked over and saw her bag was still fifteen feet away. She felt a breeze pick up and suddenly Damon was picking up her bag before suddenly standing before her.
"Do I want to know how you're doing that?" Bonnie asked looking up in Damon's eyes. Damon took the opportunity to compel her.
"You didn't see me here tonight, you didn't see them either. You weren't attacked tonight. When I look away you're going to walk straight out of this lot without looking back." Damon told her. He looked at her with slight indecision before uttering his next words.
"And you're going to try your best to be more careful in the future, especially with vampires. You're more important than you realize." Damon stared at this girl's face. The newest Bennett, he'd be seeing her again. He flashed from in front of her and watched her snap out of the trance. She walked determinedly out of the parking lot without looking back.
I'll definitely be seeing you again. Damon thought, turning back to the bodies.
END OF FLASHBACK
"You saved me, the first time we met." Bonnie said with wonder. She couldn't believe that that had actually happened. She was so naïve back then and so young and bright eyed, it's hard to believe that that was only two years ago.
"Well as soon as you said Bennett I knew I had a deal to uphold. Plus I was listening to those men attacking you and I could tell you were fighting back. Most girls just stand there and scream but you didn't. Then you flat out punched me in my face." Damon said, chuckling a little with the last sentence. Bonnie joined him snuggling closer to his chest.
"You intrigued me so I figured it was a waste to let you die." Damon explained.
"You said I was more important than I realized. Did you mean that you needed me to open the tomb?"
"At the time, yeah but obviously that's changed."
"Why?" She asked, mindlessly tracing patterns on his chest.
"I… I don't know just… you're Bonnie Bennett. The world just needs you to stay balanced… or something, I don't know." Damon said a little nervously. Words weren't really his forte and Bonnie knew it, that's why she knew exactly what to say next to break his tension.
"You've obviously been spending too much time with Stefan. You're turning into a romantic. Soon you'll be brooding by fires and keeping a diary." Bonnie replied teasingly. Damon cracked a smile at that.
"Hey, it's a journal not a diary." The two heard and looked towards the door to see Stefan stood there smiling at the two with Valerie lingering behind him.
"Can I come in?" Stefan asked. Bonnie nodded while sitting up. Damon quickly sat up as well and let Bonnie use him as support. Valerie watched Stefan sit on Bonnie's other side and feel her forehead. The fever was hotter than he expected but nevertheless he still smiled optimistically at her. Bonnie smiled back at Stefan before watching him take off his leather jacket and sighing when she felt him begin to stroke her hair soothingly. The whole exchange made Valerie feel guiltier than she already felt.
"Don't worry. I'm sure Klaus will be here soon." Stefan reassured. Bonnie nodded before laying her head sleepily on Stefan's shoulder. Stefan looked over her head at Damon questioningly but the older man shook his head 'no'. Stefan looked at Valerie next but she just shrugged and looked at her watch.
Where the hell is Klaus? She thought.
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Klaus groggily began to regain consciousness. He was tied to some kind of chair, heavy straps were wrapped around his hands and feet. He groaned while trying to lift his head but it felt heavy. He caught sight of an IV sticking in his arm through his hazy vision. He could tell it was wolfsbane and vervain being injected into him due to the discoloration of his skin around the surgical tape. He tried once more and managed to lift his head only to see that directly in front of him in the same predicament was Caroline. Her hair was out of the bun and her shoes were nowhere to be found. There was obvious fear in her eyes but she didn't speak to him.
"Caroline?" He inquired and suddenly heard a voice sound from behind him.
"Good. You're awake." He tried to see behind him but couldn't.
"Who's there? Whoever you are do not make the mistake of thinking this will end well for you." He warned. Klaus watched Lily step in front of him with Axle not far behind.
"I should've known. Are Cassandra and Valerie here too?" He asked almost sarcastically.
"No. They're surprisingly loyal to you, not that it matters anyway."
"What are you going to do? Kill me? You'll kill yourselves in the process." Klaus said matter-of-factly, slightly smirking.
"There are other ways to make you suffer. That's why Caroline is here." Axle replied, sauntering over to Caroline. Klaus' smirk instantly fell.
"Get away from her." He warned.
"You're in no position to give orders." Lily mocked. Klaus watched Axle grab a stake and drive it through Caroline's stomach causing her to scream in pain. Klaus' back flew off the chair but the restraints kept him from doing anything. Lily smirked at his predicament.
"How does it feel, Klaus? To be powerless. Caroline is going to slowly but surely die in front of you and her little friend is going die miles away with the only means for her survival tied up in a chair with no escape." Lily taunted while circling Klaus. She leaned down to speak almost seductively in his ear.
"This is my revenge and I'm only getting started." Lily flashed over to Caroline and twisted the stake in her gut agonizingly slow causing her to clench her teeth in an effort not to cry. Klaus' back flew off the chair once more but once again he couldn't do anything.
"I swear I will make you pay for this." Klaus vowed venomously. Lily looked over at Klaus with an almost innocent smile but her poisonous words betrayed her look.
"Oh I'm just getting started."
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AN: I've been wanting to include Katherine and Kol for some time now and I finally found an opening. So for everyone who wanted Kol to show up you guys have got your wish granted. I think I will have loads of fun portraying his character.
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