Chief of Staff to Mayor Rudy Hopkins, Damon Salvatore, handed Mayor Hopkins some papers to sign, then slyly brought up his 'new living' arrangements! Yes, Bonnie's father had agreed that he could move onto the grounds! Of course, Damon made it appear as if he was doing it to be more indispensable to the mayor.

But the truth was, he knew good and well that Bonnie had moved out of the Salvatore mansion, to avoid having anymore mind blowing sex with him! And THAT, Damon was not going to stand for! That and he could keep an eye on his little witch, just to make sure she didn't start dating anyone else. Behind his back.

Rudy was pleased with the work Damon was doing. He seemed to be able to get anything done that he needed. Now if only he could make Kelly happy. They were trying for a baby. Maybe that could help assuage his wife's grief over Matt and Vicki. He was just grateful Bonnie had not been in that car.

"Is there any news from Sheriff Forbes on the search for Tyler Lockwood?" Rudy asked.

"No, not as of yet. But the authorities do feel that Tyler ran off with another classmate. A girl named Faye Chamberlain. Her mother filed a missing person's report." Damon told him.

"Do we know for sure that she ran off? Is it possible Tyler murdered her?" Rudy asked him.

"That is a possibility," Damon murmured, hoping to make things worse for the werewolf bastard, "after all, Vicki's dying words were about him."

"Yes...Vicki..." Rudy murmured. He then stood up from his desk. "I think I'll spend some time with Kelly. Maybe we can get away for a day or two."

Damon smiled patiently. That would mean he and Bonnie would have the mayor's mansion all to themselves.

"I think that's a SPLENDID idea, Mayor Hopkins. The public will approve, since they are really with you after this tragedy. Additionally, charges are being sought against former Mayor Lockwood, for harboring a fugitive. Everyone knows Richard and Carol know where their son is. Probably."

Rudy nodded and left the office. Meanwhile, outside, Bonnie pulled up, parked and was about to get out of the car, when her cellphone rang.

It was Grams.

"Hello, Grams?"

"Bonnie, I need to see you right now. Can you get out of school?"

"Yes," Bonnie lied, "I'm on lunch break. I'll be over in a bit."

Bonnie then hung up and glanced over at Damon's car. Their talk would have to wait. She turned on the engine and sped off, just as Stefan pulled into the circular drive, parked, got out and went in.

Damon, sensing he was nearby, ushered him into Rudy's office, past the secretary, telling her that Stefan had an appointment! Damon then closed the door.

"Okay, bro, what brings you by?"

Stefan looked him over.

"This job suits you."

"I know it does. So, why are you skipping out of school to tell me what I already know?" Damon asked, leaning against Rudy's desk.

Stefan took a deep breath, then spoke.

"I found Elena crying today. She said Bonnie really scared her."

Damon raised a brow.

"I don't follow you."

"Elena wants to be Homecoming Queen. I want her to be Queen. It's in the bag that I'm going to be King. Or so I hear. But I could end up having to take Bonnie."

"And? Would that be so terrible?"

"Damon, I'm afraid that Bonnie will use her magic to play dirty. To win. Elena couldn't take it. She's fragile enough as it is."

"Is Elena Gossip Girl? Because whoever that bitch is, they don't seem 'fragile' to me." Damon scoffed.

"Okay, okay...Elena's little brother, Jeremy is Gossip Girl." Stefan revealed. Damon's eyes widened!

"What the hell is wrong with guys these days?! I mean in my day...OUR day, when a guy was pissed off at the world he just shot someone...or a room full of people! But now guys start websites named after girls and gossip? What has the world come to?"

Stefan shrugged. He was kind of secretly disgusted as well, but he couldn't let Elena know that. He cleared his throat.

"My point is this: you would be doing me a big favor if you could get Bonnie to back off. Maybe even drop out of the running."

Damon sighed. Stefan pressed on.

"Come on, Damon! You're working for her father! You haven't even looked for Katherine! And you've hinted that the two of you have had sex. So there is something there. Surely you have some influence over her."

"What do I get out of this?" Damon asked.

"Your brother is going to be Homecoming King." Stefan answered.

Damon raised a brow but said nothing.

"Your brother will be very happy." Stefan offered instead.

"Stefan, I'll try but..."

"That's all I ask!" Stefan beamed and turned to leave the office. Damon sighed and looked at his watch. What time did school get out anyways?


Bonnie was sitting at her grandmother's table, drinking some milk and eating a piece of chocolate cake.

"Bonnie, I called you here because our ancestors are angry with you, honey."

Bonnie eyed her grandmother, then glanced over at the liquor cabinet. It was open...

She set down her fork.

"Grams, what is this all about? I have to get back before lunch is over."

"I know when your lunch is, young lady! I also happen to know that you caused a teacher to go blind today!"

Bonnie jumped up out of her chair!

"How did you find that out?!"

"I told you, our ancestors, the ghost of lost witches, are angry with you! But they've taken it out on me!" Grams cried, holding up her wrist to Bonnie for inspection. Bonnie peered at the welts on her grandmother's wrist. It looked as if someone carved words into it that read...

"What does that say in your wrist, Grams?" Bonnie asked uneasily.

"Traitor, Bonnie! Traitor!"

"Uh, okay. Well I'd better get back to school."

"Bonnie, you didn't use magic to keep that goddamned vamp away that day, did you? You had bestial sexual relations with him, didn't you? Our ancestors would not lie!" Grams now yelled.

And now, Bonnie was frightened! She started to rise from the chair and a wave of dizziness came over her! What was going on?

"I drugged the cake, baby. I'm sorry." Grams said soothingly, as Bonnie dropped to the ground and passed out.


It would be long after dark, before Bonnie awoke, in her grandmother's basement. She struggled to stand up but found it difficult.

"Grams!" Bonnie called out weakly.

"Yes, baby?"

"Grams! What's going on? Why did you do that?"

"Honey, the basement is protected by magic. You can't get out. That window is too small for you to try and climb out of...you need to be punished until you learn that your powers are not to be used as a tool of evil."

"Let me out of here! Grams, I swear I will report you to child welfare! Now let me out of here!" Bonnie snapped, feeling much stronger. She looked around in the dark, then felt for a drawstring light. Her purse, with her phone, were still upstairs.

Bonnie sat down on the floor, relaxed, and used her telepathic spell...

BONNIE: Damon? Damon, can you hear me?

DAMON: Bonnie, where the hell are you? Your father is about to call Sheriff Forbes!

BONNIE: My grams is nuts! She drugged me and locked me down in the basement! I need help!"

Damon cut off communications, climbed out of his new bedroom window at the mayoral mansion and zipped over to Sheila Bennett's house! He peered in through a window and saw Sheila Bennett drinking from a vodka bottle! Damon then edged around the side of the house and peered in through a basement window.

Bonnie was sitting on the floor, looking surly! She glanced over and saw him! Bonnie then got up and walked over to the window, pulling it open.

"It's too small for me to crawl through."

"I could kill your Grams and then I could come in?" Damon suggested.

"Needless to say, that is not an acceptable solution. What am I going to do?" Bonnie complained.

Damon touched the house around the window and broke some of it off, thus giving Bonnie more room! So now the whole window and some of the house was gone.

Bonnie got a chair, stepped up onto it and Damon pulled her out of the basement. But while he was pulling her, dirt from the ground slid into her mouth!

Bonnie spit vehemently onto the ground once she was free, then began to sob!

"Now, now! What is this?" Damon asked soothingly, pulling her into an embrace.

"Dirt got into my mouth! I swallowed dirt! I've been abused!" Bonnie sniffed. Damon wrapped both arms around her.

"There! There! You'll be fine. Let's get you home and you can tell me all about why your grandmother went bat shit crazy on you, okay?"

Bonnie suddenly looked at him. Damon frowned.

"What?"

"I came home early today to tell you something. I knew you'd be working with my father. And now is a good time, I guess, to say it."

"Say what?" Damon asked, looking her over.

"I think we should take a breather. I mean what happened between us, happened because..." Bonnie trailed off. What was she supposed to say? That she had sex with him, over and over again, to keep him from finding out that Grams and Mom had killed his vampire girlfriend?

Damon used his vampire speed to get them back to the mansion and into her bedroom! He then locked Bonnie's bedroom door and sat down on the end of her bed.

"I don't want to take a 'breather'. Stefan came to see me today. He made me realize that I haven't even wanted to look for Katherine."

Bonnie looked away for a moment, then spoke.

"Damon, you need to settle how you feel about her. I mean I loved Tyler, but he cheated on me, twice that I know of. I'm not interested in anything like that again."

Damon stood up.

"I'm not offering anything like that, Bonnie. Look, Katherine left. She didn't want any part of me even though she knew I loved her. Hell, Stefan loved her once and yet she spit on our help and left! She can't be up to full speed and yet she'd rather suffer out in the elements, than take my help. Someone I waited to be with, for hundreds of years, didn't care enough about me, to wait for me when she got well. I'm not looking for her, Bonnie, do you understand that? Do you understand what that means?"

Bonnie turned away. Guilt was knawing in her gut. Never mind the guilt that was already there over the accident. This guilt was different. Damon thought Katherine hadn't cared. But Katherine hadn't had the chance to rebuff Damon.

She had been smothered with vervain. And somehow, Bonnie got the distinct impression that Damon wouldn't think she was so cute if he knew that!

And yet...could she really afford to rebuff him herself? He was the only one that knew that she had caused the accident that killed Caroline, Matt and Vicki...

Bonnie turned back to face him.

"Fine. I suppose we can try this. But I think you should go home. I'm going to have to sneak back and get that new car Daddy bought me."

Yes, Damon had told Rudy that someone stole Bonnie's car, and he purchased her a new one. He then told Zach and Abby that STEFAN totaled Bonnie's car and that Rudy was getting her a new one! Damon knew that Zach wasn't about to confront a vampire(Stefan) about a damned thing!

"I am home, witchie! I compelled your father to let me stay in the room next to yours. I also compelled Kelly, through all of her tears." Damon said, reaching for Bonnie's hand. "You might want to stay away from her. Her crying gets a little old."

Bonnie nodded. Damon sighed. It was now time to bring up something unpleasant.

"Stefan came by today. He said that you scared Elena earlier."

Bonnie suddenly pulled her hand back from Damon's!

"Excuse me?"

"Stefan said that you scared Elena and he asked me to talk to you. About this stupid Homecoming thing."

Bonnie eyed him. She smelled trouble! But she decided to hear Damon out.

"Stefan asked me, to ask you, if you would withdraw from the competition. I mean you never were interested before Caroline died."

"Hey! I'm doing this in Caroline's memory! And what girl isn't interested in being Homecoming Queen."

"You'll have to be crowned with Stefan." Damon warned. Bonnie shrugged.

"So? He's cute."

"Okay," Damon said, running a hand down his face, "I'm just going to come out with it. Withdraw your name, or everyone will know that you were the one that ran Caroline, Matt and Vicki off the road."

It was the wrong thing to say.

It was the wrong tactic to take with this young woman/witch.

Bonnie cleared her throat, then spoke.

"So it's like that?"

"Bonnie, try and understand...Stefan is happy and it is such a small thing..."

"Turning me in after telling me you wanted to protect me, is no small thing!" Bonnie countered.

"I'm not turning you in!"

"But you will if I don't withdraw from this race and let Elena Gilbert win?"

Damon stared at her for a moment, then nodded.

"Fine. I'll withdraw from the race." Bonnie said, then moved past Damon and towards the door. Damon started to follow.

"Okay, look, where are you going? I know you're angry but...Bonnie would you stop...I care about you very much...would you STOP!"

But Bonnie didn't stop. She hurried down the stairs, past her her father and Kelly, who were in the dining room and out the door. Damon caught up with her outside!

"Where are you going?!" he hissed, grabbing her arm.

Bonnie shook him off.

"I have to get my car back from Grams's. I forgot it when you 'rescued' me."

"Bonnie, please, let's talk this out! We can go away somewhere Homecoming weekend..."

But Bonnie walked off into the night.


Bonnie returned to her Grams home, found her passed out drunk, picked up her purse and keys and left the house.

She then got in her car and drove to Elena Gilbert's house, peeked in through her garage door and spotted her car. Muttering a spell, Elena's car suddenly had the exact same crash marks, like the ones Bonnie's car received after the accident.

Once that was done, Bonnie slipped into her car, and punched up the number to the Sheriff's Department. Disguising her voice, she said told an officer that there was a horrendous looking car at the Gilbert house that looked as if it might've crashed into a tree...