Disclaimer: This story is a combination of L.J. Smith's Vampire Diaries books, The Vampire Diaries tv show, and my own imagination. I do not own the characters or the background information. All I own is my alternate dimension version of events that never happened in the books or tv show.
Author's Note: Ok sorry for the wait on this chapter. I know I said before I would post one chapter a week until the story was finished but RL keeps getting in the way. I will do my best to get the next chapter up within a week.
Stefan was able to track Damon's paper trail easier than Damon had expected him to. On the plane to Reno, Stefan was checking his credit card balances online and had found a charge on one of them that he knew he hadn't made. Damon in his arrogance had used Stefan's credit card to pay for the room at the Silver Legacy Resort and Casino. So he decided to check there first but knew that it was possible that it could just be a way for Damon to throw him off track and lead him on a wild-goose chase. Matt and the girls were sleeping soundly at this point. He knew that it had been a long time since they had been able to get a good night's sleep so he decided to wait and tell them the new information when the plane landed.
When they arrived in Reno, he woke the three of them up and they left the plane, got their bags, and headed to the exit. They stopped a few feet from the exit and sat down on a row of seats to discuss their next move. "I have a good idea about where they might be but I could be wrong." Stefan said. They just stared at him waiting for him to continue so he did. "Damon used one of my credit cards to book a suite at the Silver Legacy Resort and Casino. It sounds like the type of place he would stay if he were staying in a hotel. However, this might just be a diversion. Send us one place when they're really somewhere else. Just don't get your hopes up that she's there ok. We're going to check there first but if it is just a diversion we may have to find a place to stay until we can find another lead." He finished and they all stood and walked to the door without saying a word.
Bonnie sat up with a jolt. Her body was awake but her mind had yet to catch up with it. Damon was dialing room service as soon as he saw the first twitch come from her body. He had ordered just a bottle of scotch, just enough to get someone up to their room. As Bonnie's mind became aware of her surroundings and her memories began to come back to her, her eyes scanned the room until they landed on him.
A jolt of electricity went through her body as memories of him filled her mind. When she came to the last memory the sadness filled her eyes. "Bonnie!" she heard him say. He sounded excited and confused at the same time. He was happy to see that she was awake but confused as to why she looked so sad. Before he could say anything else she began crying. He rushed to her and wrapped his arms around him. "SSShhhh, it's ok cara mia, it's ok." He said trying to calm her.
"Why Damon, why did you do it?" she asked when she had stopped crying. Just then they heard a knock at the door. "Room Service" a voice called from the other side of the door. Damon released Bonnie and walked to the door. Instead of wasting time trying to get the guy to come into the room on his own Damon compelled him into the room and onto the couch in the adjoining living area. He walked back to Bonnie and sat her down on the bed as he sat down next to her.
"Bonnie, cara mia, I love you. I don't want to lose you now that I have finally realized my feelings for you. The women we met last night are angry with me. They have every right to be. I used them and then left them. But not before I turned them, although I didn't realize I had turned Maeve until I saw her last night. But I never loved any of them. I took their lives from them for my own amusement. They want revenge and if they had realized that I was in love with you then you would be their target. With you still human they could have killed you easily. I may be older than them but three against one would still be overwhelming. And I would be distracted by trying to protect you at the same time."
He paused and Bonnie took the opportunity to think about what he had just said. "That still doesn't explain why you turned me without even asking me first if it was ok with me." She said with a pout. "Mia bella, if we had taken the time to discuss it then we wouldn't have had time to complete the transformation before nightfall. We need to be ready and I need time to teach you some things before they come looking for us tonight. I'm sorry I didn't ask for your permission first but if I had we would still be discussing it now and not getting anything done. Now if you don't mind I need you to finish the transformation by feeding on the room service guy."
When Damon finished talking Bonnie just stared at him in shock. "Bonnie you need to do what I ask please. We need to be ready to protect ourselves from them since you wouldn't let us skip town last night." Damon watched as the sadness in her eyes slowly turned to determination. She was determined not to die, not to leave her love here alone to face the women that he had wronged. She realized that if she had left last night when he had wanted to then he wouldn't have turned her against her will. She had put him in a bad situation, to turn her against her will and to risk losing her to those female vamps. "Ok, I'll do it. But you have to promise that you won't let me kill him and that he won't remember any of this." She said as she looked Damon in the eye. "I promise my love" was his reply.
Bonnie stood, took the dagger that Damon had used to kill her, and walked toward the guy on the couch without saying a word. She looked at him sitting calmly on the couch still under Damon's compulsion. She put the dagger up to his neck and made a small cut. As the man sat there motionless blood began to slowly flow down his neck. She reached down and licked the blood and then began to suck it from his neck. She stopped for a minute when she felt her canines extend and the veins under her eyes became prominent. As she lowered her mouth back onto the man's neck she bit down with her newly grown fangs and began sucking hungrily. Just in time to keep the man alive without giving him vampire blood Damon wrapped his arm around Bonnie's waist and pulled her away. He had to hold her tightly in his arms whispering calming words in her ear for a few minutes before he could safely release her. Then he went to the man and sent him away with no memory of what had happened to him.
Just as Damon finished explaining to Bonnie what she would be able to do as a newborn vampire they heard a knock at the door. Damon went up to the door and looked through the peephole wondering who could possibly be at their door. He hadn't ordered room service again and it was too early for his exes to be there. When he saw who it was he was shocked to say the least. He opened the door and in stepped a very angry Elena and Meredith followed by a smirking Stefan and a fuming Matt. "WHERE IS SHE DAMON?" Elena yelled. "I swear if you have hurt her I will kill you even if it's the last thing I ever do." Meredith told him with her usual cold calm demeanor. "I'm right here. And I'm fine. Please leave Damon alone." Bonnie said as she stepped up beside Damon.
Elena was the first to step toward Bonnie. She was so eager to wrap her arms around her friend and make sure she was alright that she didn't notice the changes at first. Stefan grabbed Elena and pulled her back. "What the hell Stefan. Let me go." She almost shrieked as he jerked her backwards into his arms. "She's been turned." He stated simply while glaring at Damon. It was then that both of the girls and Matt looked closely at their friend. They immediately saw the changes. She looked pale, she was always pale compared to Elena and Meredith, especially Meredith, but this was a different kind of pale. It was a kind of pale they had only ever seen when looking at Stefan and Damon. She stood more confidently almost as if she had a great power and she knew it. Her normally wild curly hair hung in loose, smooth waves. It looked like a red waterfall flowing down her back. She was beautiful. More beautiful than any of them had ever realized she was or could be.
That was when they noticed the outfit that Bonnie was wearing. Matt was looking at her with his mouth gaping open. She was wearing a pair of thigh high black vinyl boots that laced up the front. The heel on her boots was 6 inches which brought the top of her head right up to Damon's chin. Her outfit was a two piece. The top was a black vinyl bustier with a front zipper and a very low neckline. The bottom was a miniskirt also in black vinyl. It seemed to be a theme. Around her neck she wore a necklace symbolic of her Celtic heritage. The pendant displayed three crescent moons connected at the center of the curves. In the center of the pendant sat a faceted black onyx stone. On the ring finger of her left hand she wore a ring. The edges were white gold while the middle was yellow gold and was engraved all the way around with Celtic Love Knots. It was the only thing that did not match the rest of her outfit.
Her friends were shocked to see her like this. She looked like she was either ready to go clubbing or ready for battle if that battle consisted of her using magic and her newfound vampire abilities. "Bonnie what has he done to you?" Elena asked when she found her voice. "Elena who said he's done anything to me? Is it so impossible for you all to believe that I might have wanted this?" Bonnie replied in a calm even tone. Meredith was the next to find her voice. "Bonnie this isn't you. You may have been foolish enough to want to become a vampire because you thought it would be Romantic but it's not like you to dress like this. You look like a tramp." Meredith hit the ground as soon as the words left her mouth. She tasted the blood in her mouth where her teeth had dug into the inside of her cheek when Bonnie slapped her.
"What the hell Bonnie! You can't just go around slapping people when they say something you don't like. Meredith is your friend." Matt exclaimed when the thump of Meredith falling to the ground knocked him out of his stupor. "Matt I can do whatever I want now. I'm so sick and tired of the three of you treating me like a little kid. I can take care of myself. I don't need any of you and I don't need anything from you." Bonnie told him in a voice so cold and calm that it scared him. "Actually, cara mia, we do need one thing from Stefan. I think he knows what I'm referring to." Damon finally spoke up for the first time since her friends had arrived. "No Damon, I can't give it to you. I won't. I have plans for it." Stefan told him but he knew by the look on Damon's face that there was no sense in trying to refuse.
"She needs it Stefan. You can always buy a pretty engagement ring for Elena that I'm sure she'll treasure a lot more than Katherine's lapis ring. Tell him Elena. You don't want an engagement ring that used to belong to our maker do you? Don't you think that's kind of cheap of him not to mention the creep factor?" Damon said giving Elena a smirk. Elena looked at Bonnie with a mixture of pride and sadness. She was proud of her friend for standing up for herself and her love but also saddened that she would hurt any of them like she did Meredith when all they wanted was for her to be safe. "Stefan I want you to give her the ring. Damon's right. She needs it and he's right about the creep factor too. I don't want Katherine's ring as my engagement ring. I'm not Katherine."
Stefan looked as though he had been doused with cold water. He couldn't believe that Elena would agree with Damon. But as he thought about it he realized they were right. Elena deserved an engagement ring made specifically for her not one that had been left behind by Katherine. He took the chain from around his neck and slipped the ring off of it. He handed the ring to Damon who slipped it onto Bonnie's finger next to the engagement ring he had given her before they began her training. She had said she would marry him as soon as she saw the ring but he had gotten down on one knee and gone through the proposal anyway just to hear her say it again.
The next two hours were spent explaining to the others what had happened since they arrived in Reno and why Damon had felt the need to turn Bonnie so soon. Stefan agreed to help Damon and Bonnie take care of Damon's exes but told the others that they had to stay hidden. Elena started to object but he reminded her that if she was there it would only be a distraction. He and Damon were both older than the other vampires they were going to fight and while Bonnie was younger she also had a power that the others wouldn't expect. After all she was still a witch and her powers had only increased when she became a vampire.
Author's Note: Ok I know there was no smut in this chapter. Sorry. I'm not promising but I'll try to put some in the next chapter. I'm thinking I may bring Katherine in as a new evil in Mystic Falls since my story started before anyone found out she was there. If I do it won't be much like the books but it will contain some book elements. What do you all think? Well please review. Reviews are my inspiration. Oh and the links to Bonnie's outfit are below so you can see just how much like a tramp she really did look. Just copy and paste then remove the spaces.
http: / / www. fatalwoman. com /images /detailed / sexy- boots- 609- Olivia.j pg
http: / / www. fatalwoman. com /images /detailed / vinyl- sexy- clothes- 5- 8057_ 13- 8057_ catalog. jpg
http: / / www. eyescreamjewelry. com / moon_ goddess_ pg_ 1. htm
The necklace in the link above is the third one down Triple Moon Goddess (ss) - 'Freya' (small Filigree)
http: / / www. 123celtic-irish-jewelry. com /mall /Rings / TJH_Wedding /rg00737fg_ large. jpg