Hey Everyone! Update! So I started watching the new midseason and was kind of surprised by the direction they've taken, that and the fact that they've taken a direction similar to my story...Stefan working with Bonnie (it was kind of inevitable I guess). But one thing they don't have...Bonnie and Stefan lovefest! lol I'm curious how the season will progress. I'm also curious if they would hook Bonnie up with Stefan (probably won't :( ). So yea...enjoy the new chapter. Please feel free to review!

Chapter 14

"Find anything," Damon asked approaching Stefan in the middle of the parking lot. Elena followed.

"No. I tried calling, but no answer. Did anyone see anything?"

"No, everyone was inside. No one said they saw or heard anything," Elena replied.

"Great," Stefan threw his arms in the air. He sighed heavily.

Elena looked onto him questioningly. "Why are you beating yourself up Stef?"

He lifted his head looking at her sideways. "Wouldn't you?"

"I am. But why are you?"

"Because Bonnie's fucking missing!" Damon yelled.

"I know that Damon!" she said taken aback by his attitude.

"Then why the fuck do you keep asking stupid questions?"

"Stefan's been gone for so long. Why care now?" she refuted.

"Oh, I don't know because she's your friend?"

Elena crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.

"What matters is that she's missing and she needs our help. I'm gonna ride around and see if I find any sign of her," said Stefan.

"I'm coming," Damon followed.

"Me too," said Elena beginning to walk towards them.

"No! We don't need your bitchy attitude. You'll make things worse," Damon growled.

"Elena, it's best if you stayed. We don't need more people getting hurt," Stefan assured then headed for his car. She hung back, though she desperately wanted to find her friend.

"You'll be getting your phone once we exchange payment," said Gregory pressing the off button on her cellphone.

Stefan's calling

She saw his name flash up once he confiscated her phone. She wished she could call to him somehow. She wished he could read her mind and she could reveal to him her location: a dark road with nothing but trees…Very specific…

She closed her eyes and began breathing from her stomach, a relaxation technique he taught her. She concentrated on her center, drawing energy from every circuit in her body to the tip of her fingers.

"Now, before I get my blood, I need to know where your boyfriend has stored my boss's family," he uttered still staring off onto the road.

Bonnie's concentration broke, but after letting a silence linger without a response, she went back to meditating.

"After that, we'll give your friend a call, let her know our location and hopefully the doppelganger will come to me; easier to lure than to chase."

Twisting, turning, coiling and finally aligning, the energy surged through her and with great intensity shot out from her fingertips. Gregory, whose eyes remained on the road, did not see the amazing attack coming. Letting go of the steering wheel, screaming in pain he gripped his head with both hands. He twisted in his seat, growling and cursing. His violent foot hit the gas and they were now flying. Bonnie opened the door against the pressure and praying to make it out alive, leaped out. The vehicle continued to travel while her body tumbled onto the pavement. Raising her head slightly she watched the vehicle disappear into the woods alongside the road and a loud smashing sound followed.

She lowered her head taking in as many breaths as she could. She slowly raised herself with her hands and stumbled onto her feet. There were a few scratches mostly on her arms and one on her face. She removed her heels and began limping back towards where they came from. Her dress had suffered more than her flesh, it had ripped along the waist line, around the knee and a strap was clinging to its last thread.

She walked along the dark road and ever so often she would see what she thought were animals and even worse, creatures of the night, running alongside the road with in the trees.

She held herself tight hoping she'd come across a car or a gas station, but there was no sight of human life.

"No sign of human life in there," said Damon peaking through the slits of glass on the door. "Where are you going?"

Stefan made his way to the tree that he often climbed to get in through her window. He climbed it with ease and facing the window once he'd reached the appropriate branch, he pictured Bonnie's delicate face looking back at him from inside.

"All the lights are out, there's no one home," Damon repeated wondering why his brother was leaping onto the ledge of the house.

"I know," he said raising the window and sliding in. "Wait here."

Navigating through the dark room, he went for her closet. He clicked the light on and found the box where she kept the gun and silver bullets.

"Regular silver bullets won't kill an original hybrid, but it'll sure destroy a newly bred one."

"She's still not picking up her phone," said Damon staring at the tiny screen.

"They took her phone," Stefan casually said and Damon nodded. He then raised a brow.

"Is that a gun?"

"Ahuh," Stefan slid the silver gun back in the pocket after inspecting it.

"Bonnie owns a gun?" Damon said in a skeptical tone.

"What, you can't picture her with one?"

"Seriously? Can you?"

Stefan chuckled, "You'd be surprised."

Damon stared at him for a second, puzzled.

"Stefan what's going on here?"

"What do mean?"

"Oh come on. I'm your brother. How did you know how to get into Bonnie's house let alone know where she kept a gun?"

Stefan stood beside the driver's seat holding the door slightly open not uttering a word.

"How did you know she could handle a gun?" he continued, his voice now softer.

The younger brother sighed shutting the door. He put both hands on the roof of the car; he shut his eyes tightly before opening them again, directing his vision onto his older brother. Damon waited for a reply, but sighed before he got an answer. He knew something was up.

"I've...been confiding in Bonnie with something."

"Is that 'something' the reason why she's in trouble?

Again Stefan held back words and instead stretched away from the car pushing both hands onto the roof.

"Wow..."

"It's one of Klaus's hybrids. He wanted Elena's blood. I told him I'd get it, but I was only stalling. I didn't think he'd come for Bonnie. I should have killed him when I had the chance," he slammed his fists against the icy metal; his own cold skin caused no feeling to the impact.

"How long has this been going on?" Damon asked approaching the hood of the car.

"A while," he concealed.

"Before or after your supposed return?"

"...Before..." he confessed and everything he'd been hoping to reveal in a later event had just unlatched and spilled onto the dark street. He avoided his brother's eyes for fear of judgment.

"Well let's look for this bastard," Damon said.

Stefan slowly raised his gaze in confusion and found Damon's intense blue eyes waiting for him. There was no judgment in them.

He sighed then smiled before getting back in the car.

Bonnie rubbed her arms for warmth. She really wished she could have brought her jacket before being kidnapped. The night was growing colder, perfect for a vampire's hunt. She looked up at the moon. She had been walking towards it for twenty minutes hoping to find a sign of other people.

"You thought you'd get away?" a voice called out.

Bonnie felt her heart sink once again and after turning quickly to see the approaching menace, she took off running.

"Oh, no you don't," he said and before she knew it she was upside down hanging over the hybrid's shoulder.

"Thought you could out run a hybrid?" he chuckled then coughed and hunched over slightly. He was in pain.

"Let go of me!" she began kicking and screaming.

"I didn't like what you pulled back there, Witch."

Bonnie stopped kicking and held onto her breath.

"Now we're going to have to go with the second part of our plan instead."

After his words all Bonnie could hear was the wind as they blew into the dark woods.

"That's better," said Gregory tightening the rope around her wrists. In a cabin hidden deep within the woods Bonnie hung from the ceiling. Her bare feet were barely touching the wooden floor boards.

"Can't give me an aneurism with your arms tied up now, Witch."

Bonnie swallowed deeply then glared at him.

"Wondering how I found out? You knocked me right out without using your hands. Knew you weren't human," he said this time placing his hands on her waist. "But you're brilliantly built like one. These curves!" he ran both hands down her sides and onto her hips. She tried kicking him but he quickly gripped her leg.

"Uh uh. Don't do it or I'll snap it,"

She huffed in anger and her arms were beginning to hurt.

"Ahh," he bellowed, his voice echoing in the basement of the structure as he slumped onto a wooden chair.

"You banged me up good witch," he said extending leg. He hissed in pain as he went for his pocket.

"Now, let's call your little friend Elena."

He slowly walked over to her with the cellphone in hand.

"Tell your friend you're okay and to meet you here. Got it?" he ordered.

Bonnie nodded, but couldn't see how she could keep Elena away.

"Bonnie?" exclaimed a voice after the first ring.

"Hi,"

"Oh my gosh where are you, are you okay?

"Yeah,...yeah...I'm fine..."

"Oh my gosh Bon! You had us worried. The boys are out looking for yo-"

"Yea, hey can you meet me. I have to show you...something,"

"Yea sure, where are you?"

If she couldn't keep her away, maybe Stefan and Damon would. Hopefully Elena would tip them off on her location.

"Elena," click, " Hello?"

"Hey, so I found Bonnie," said Elena from the other side of the line.

"Really, where?"

"Don't worry I'm going. She wants to see me."

"Are you sure?"

"What did she say," Stefan asked juggling both the road and his anxiety.

"She says she knows where Bonnie is and that she wants to see her."

"Where is she?" he called out to the phone in Damon's large hand.

"Where is she?" Damon repeated.

"I told you I have it!"

"Elena, give us an address."

"Ugh," she sighed.

"Did she say where?" Stefan said annoyed this time.

"Yea...yea okay got it," Damon captured the address, but before he could say another word he found his phone no longer in his hand.

"Elena, listen to me, Damon and I will go. Stay at home," Stefan shouted into the receiver.

"What? Why? Stefan I'm going to see her," Elena refuted. Stefan became angry. "Elena-"

"She said she's fine and she wants to see me. I'm already getting there."

"No!" he slammed his palm on the steering wheel.

"I'm a big girl Stefan. I've grown since you left."

"Don't go it's a tr-" click

"Shit!" he shouted and tossed the phone to Damon.

"Let me guess, she's already there."

"She's so stubborn!"

"No Stefan, she's dumb."

Stefan sighed heavily.

"Honestly I don't know how you put up with her."

Stefan chuckled and his anxiety seemed to have lowered. "I don't think I can put up with her now."

Damon turned to look at him; a look of astonishment on his face.

"Really...so there's no getting back with the ex then?"

"Things are different... It's just not the same."

Damon's face pouted in understanding.

"We're here..."

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