A/N: On a scale from 1 to 10 how much do you hate me for updating this late? I am soo sorry guys but college is so brutal that I haven't really had a second to sit down and write. My teachers are mean plus I'm mentoring freshmen and I really wanted to finish this fic before I came back to school because I knew it was going to be really hard keeping up. I am so sorry again guys. So Stefan in this chapter is a tad OOC but i'm imagining as a middle ground between pussywhipped Stefan and rippah Stefan. Elena is a tad OOC as well which may prove to actually be in character because I think as a drunk vampire she would say things like this. I hope you guys like this chapter! it was hard because I left my plot outline in another state so I had to try and remember what I originally had planned for this chapter. Thank you guys for the favs, follows and reviews it means so much!

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Damon walked into The Grille mindlessly. He scanned the restaurant for his next prey. It was a little past midnight and he was starving. Bonnie wasn't taking his phone calls, Stefan hadn't come back into the house since he walked out and Damon could only guess where Elena was. Damon turned towards the door as he watched the patrons enter.

He didn't expect Bonnie to answer, and as a result he went to her house when he saw Klaus and her at the door. He didn't know what the conversation was but he heard the last few words, "Bonnie the Salvatores can be heart breakers but I personally think it's the doppelganger that is at fault, take care love." Klaus was wrong, Damon decided, it was entirely my fault.

Damon glanced up and saw a blonde woman in front of him. She smiled at him, it took a while but Damon recognized who she was. Leia, he smiled, just what he needed, a little pick me up from a willing participant. Is that what you really want Damon? His inner voice asked him. Damon stalled and decided it was not what he wanted at all.

"Damon Salvatore," Leia spat, "Mr. love –em-n-leave-em."

Damon rose from his seat and walked towards the exit, "It's a specialty."

"Wanna know what my specialty is?" Leia asked following closely behind him.

"Holding grudges?" Damon replied cheekily.

"Funny," she answered, "my specialty is getting revenge."

Damon spun around when she stabbed him with a syringe filled with vervain. She twisted into his back and used her free hand to shock him with her Taser. Damon yelled and fell to the ground.

"I've got him!" she shouted at the guy in the hooded figure.

The man held Damon's legs and she grabbed his arms. They placed him in the truck of the van, as he was now unconscious. Leia walked to the passenger seat and smiled, Karma is a bitch.

Bonnie heard the doorbell ring downstairs and got out of bed groggily. The day was bright and she felt refreshed. She enjoyed her sleep because it helped her to temporarily forget the events of the previous night. She swung her legs over the bed and placed her feet into her bedside slippers. She was about to open the door when she walked head first in to Caroline's body.

"Bonnie!" Caroline shouted as she hugged her, "are you okay?"

Bonnie tried to get out of Caroline's arms but the vampire just held on tighter.

"I'll be fine, if you let me breathe a little," she said in huffed breaths.

"Sorry," Caroline said releasing her best friend, "So if you want to stake Damon, I'll be more than happy to help."

Bonnie sighed. She walked over to her bed and sat on it. She gazed out of the window as she tried to collect her thoughts.

"Damon is dumb," Bonnie said.

"The boy is beyond dumb, he is first-class stupid," Caroline walked over to Bonnie and sat beside him. Bonnie nodded. Caroline embraced her in a hug once more, "Damon has never had something good in his life, and he's always competing with his brother."

"I'm not mad that he kissed Elena, it took me a while to realize, but I'm not mad," Bonnie replied.

"What are you then?"

"Disappointed? Hurt? I think that I liked him a little more than he liked me."

"Why do you think that?"

"Damon couldn't possibly have feelings for me and then make out with Elena, feelings or not, it's not cool."

"What about Elena?"

Bonnie paused. She looked away from Caroline to a photo on her mirror that showed her and Elena on the first day of high school. They were smiling and hiding from the camera. Elena's parents had taken that photo. Elena was dating Matt and Bonnie was as per usual single. She faced Caroline and sighed.

"Elena admitted to Stefan that she had kissed him first."

"WHAT! I THOUGHT HE KISSED HER FIRST!"

"No, she kissed him first," Bonnie watched as the words sunk into Caroline's mind.

"Why would Elena do something like that? She loves Stefan! They belong together," Caroline frowned, "She knew you and Damon were dating."

"I guess that didn't matter."

"I've got to go Bonnie," Caroline said rising from the bed.

"Caroline, No!"

"Bonnie, you can't stop me, this is low even for Elena, she can't have her cake and eat it too."

Bonnie could have gotten Caroline to stay but she didn't want her to. She let Caroline leave the room in search of Elena. Bonnie closed her door and went to take a shower.

"I searched all of Mystic Falls for you, Stefan."

"That's a waste for you," Stefan said walking pass Elena as she sat in front of the Salvatore mansion.

"Are you okay?" Elena asked.

"What do you think Elena? My girlfriend, who makes it her mission to tell me that she is nothing like Katherine, kissed my brother while he's dating her best friend."

"Stefan,"

"No, Elena, you don't get to be the sad one, not today."

"I was really worried, you were gone all night."

"Stop acting like nothing happened! Something did!"

Stefan growled and walked into the boarding house. He went to the basement and got a blood bag. He came upstairs to Elena standing over the counter looking frustrated.

"Stefan, please talk to me, this isn't us. We don't fight like this. It isn't right."

"Neither was kissing my brother, I knew you had feelings for him but you made it seem like I had no reason to feel threatened."

"I care about Damon but I love you."

"Yes, so I've heard," Stefan walked towards the door, "You don't get forgiveness Elena, not right now."

Elena stared as Stefan left. She was an emotional wreck. She didn't know why she kissed Damon. She knew she loved Stefan to the fiber of her soul. There was no doubt in her mind that Stefan was the one for her. Damon consumed her but Stefan was her epic love, as Caroline would say. She wasn't going to give up on him.

Damon opened his eyes, adjusting to the dark. Where am I? He scanned the room and saw chains and various torture devices. What happened? He groaned. Damon tried to recall exactly what had happened last night. He remembered kissing Elena and Bonnie finding them. He also recalled going to The Grille and encountering Leia. Leia, Damon perked up as he remembered her injecting him with vervain.

Damon tried to move his arms when he realized that they were bound on either side of him. He moved his feet and realized that they were always in the same position. It finally registered to him that he was in a dungeon somewhere on what seemed like an operation table. Great, just fucking great. He tried to listen keenly but heard nothing.

He thought back to Leia, what had he really done to deserve this? So he slept with her, he did try the dating thing but it wasn't for them. She was creepy and way too pushy for his liking. Furthermore, he hadn't wanted to have sex with her the first time they met, she wanted it. Damon thought this was way too serious to be hung up on a one night stand.

Suddenly the shades in front of the window opened up and the sunlight burned his skin. Damon hadn't realized but she had taken off his ring. Damon gritted his teeth as the beams pore into his flesh. He began to smell the burning flesh and before he knew it, the window was once again closed. Damon groaned, this was going to be a long day.

After Bonnie finished her shower; she decided to go in to the woods because she needed a way to reconnect with the earth. The day was in a clear contrast to what Bonnie was feeling. The sun shone brightly and the birds sung sweetly. Bonnie considered what her plan of action would be in regards to the whole Damon and Elena situation as she sat quietly on the ground.

She hummed softly to herself, as she tried to find her calm. She heard the leaves being crushed indicating that someone was walking towards her. She turned her head slightly and saw Stefan through her peripheral vision. She observed his demeanor and knew he was not pleased. Stefan had every right to be. She visibly saw when he exhaled and sat beside her on the ground.

"I'm sorry," Stefan said after a while.

"Why are you apologizing?" Bonnie asked, "You didn't do anything wrong."

"I apologize on the behalf of my girlfriend and brother."

"Don't you get tired of doing that? Apologizing for Damon every time he does something stupid?"

Stefan sighed, "I get tired of competing with him for Elena's affections."

"That must get be terribly exhausting."

Stefan stared at the lake for a few minutes while Bonnie braided her hair. They were content for a while, just sitting there. Stefan turned to face Bonnie, he carefully inspected her face. Her eyes were not red and her cheeks weren't puffy. It was obvious that she hadn't been crying.

"Elena loves me, I know she does," he said softly.

"I know she loves you as well," she replied.

"Then why did she do that? Why did she choose me and then kiss him?"

Bonnie stared at Stefan; the pain she saw in his eyes broke her heart. Stefan was completely in love with Elena and everyone knew that. It was a slap in the face to imply that Elena was questioning her feelings for him. She outstretched her arm and hugged Stefan.

"I don't know you are going to have to ask Elena that question."

"I don't really feel like speaking to her at the moment."

"Of course not, you are hurting."

"What about you?"

"When Damon tries to speak, I will try to listen."

Stefan nodded. They sat together for another hour or so when Bonnie decided it was time for her to leave. She needed to speak with Elena and Stefan had informed her that she was at the boarding house. Bonnie asked Stefan if he would join her and he said no, he also decided that he needed to speak with Damon. Bonnie smiled at Stefan and said that she knows things will get better.

Caroline rushed in to the boarding house and found Elena sitting in the den drinking gin. Caroline stared at one of her best friends in the world and noticed the changes in her personality since she became a vampire. Elena was definitely not the same, she had changed.

"Am I here to get a lecture from Caroline?" Elena slurred, indicating that she was drunk.

"How much have you had to drink Lena?"

"Not enough, because I still remember Stefan being mad at me and Bonnie probably is too!"

"Maybe next time you shouldn't kiss your boyfriend's brother."

"I do NOT need this from you Caroline," Elena took another sip, "Caroline who was insecure about everything and everyone wants to lecture me on morals."

"Lena, let's not go there, I am trying to be nice, I am not attacking you."

"Shut the fuck up Caroline," Elena got up at stood face to face with Caroline, "how did you do it? How did you stay faithful to Tyler? Klaus was pretty good looking."

Elena walked away and started giggling. Caroline watched her friend completely drunk. She was so completely wasted and since it takes a lot to get a vampire drunk; Caroline can only imagined how much she had drank.

"No worries, Care! I kissed Damon because I'm attracted to him, I am in love with Stefan and I will get us back."

"Bonnie?"

Elena stopped, "Do you think she'll forgive me?"

"Honestly Elena, I'm not even sure if I would forgive you."

"Bonnie will forgive me; she can't stay mad at me, that's not us, that can't be us."

Caroline watched Elena sit down and sink her teeth in to her blood bag. It was a vampire's way of sobering up. Caroline believed that in those few seconds that she had seen her drunk, it was the 'real' Elena that she had witness. Caroline sensed a shift in the atmosphere and turned around to see Bonnie standing in the door of the house.

"Bonnie," Elena said softly, "Bonnie I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me and I cannot apologize enough.

Bonnie stared at Elena as the tears streamed down her face. She knew she was supposed to feel sorry for her but she didn't. Bonnie didn't feel an ounce of remorse for Elena as she stood there crying.

"I don't hate you Elena," Bonnie said finally.

"You don't?" Elena smiled and made her way to hug her but Bonnie placed a hand in front of her indicating she stop.

"I can never hate you Elena, we are best friends, you are like a sister to me but," she paused, "You know I would do anything for you, I wonder if you would do same. I wonder if I still matter to you." Bonnie moved to stand beside Caroline. "I wonder if our history surpasses what you feel for the Salvatores. You may have forever with them but you only have now with me."

"Bonnie, you know I care about you, I consider you my sister."

"You kissed Damon, knowing that we were dating," Bonnie glared at Elena, "You always have to be the center of attention, and it's okay, really. I've learned to live with everyone noticing Elena first, and I'm not saying your attention whore, trust me you are not but it's the way it's always been and it's what you have become accustomed to."

Bonnie watched as Elena's jaw dropped and Caroline tensed beside her. She didn't know where all this was coming from, her mouth was simply relating what was in her heart.

"I know why you had to kiss Damon, you needed that attention. You needed to have both brothers, it was something deep and primal within you. I know you love Stefan and you care about Damon without a doubt. See, the problem is Elena, Damon was getting over you and you wanted something to hold on to him, so you told him what he needed to hear, enough to get his guard down and then you kissed him. Damon being Damon would have kissed you back no matter what. You kissed Damon because you had this fear that you would lose him too like you have lost everyone else."

Elena's face was impassible. Her jaw clenched, Bonnie watched as she fought hard to hide her vampiric vines.

"You say you are nothing like Katherine, and that is true. Katherine openly acknowledged that she was playing both guys but you don't. I will always love you Elena, but I don't forgive you, not yet. Show me that I matter because recently I've been starting to feel like a guest star in the Elena show."

Bonnie watched as one of her best friend walked away from her and the other held her hand. Bonnie wasn't mad at Elena, she just wanted to make her thoughts known and this was the only way. Bonnie knew she had hurt Elena's and feeling and quite frankly she didn't care. For the first time in a long time Bonnie Bennett wasn't on team Elena.

"Was I too harsh Caroline?" Bonnie asked.

"Just right, Bon," Caroline embraced her best friend and smiled, finally Bonnie had spoken her mind to Elena.

Damon felt a slight discomfort and what felt like a sharp blade run across his skin. He let out a muffled groan and heard laughter. He opened his eyes and saw Leia standing over him. Her hair was flowing because of the slight breeze, her skin glowing in the afternoon sun. If Damon had to guess, he would assume that it was about three in the afternoon.

"Nice of you to join us," Leia said before she jabbed the knife into his chest, Damon growled.

"Why are you doing this?"

Leia smiled then removed the knife only to stick it into a different part of his torso.

"I'll tell you my secrets, if you tell me yours," she smiled, "actually I do know your secret, vampire."

Damon had already come to the conclusion that she knew he was a vampire. The question was, what was she?

"Who are you?"

"All in due time Damon, dear, how about some afternoon sun?" she walked over to the windows and opened the blinds. This time Damon couldn't help but scream.

'Cause I feel the distance between us could be over with the snap of your finger, oh, no