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"Elena, what are you doing, you know this will not end well and I'm not—"
"Risking Bonnie's life because of my stupidity?" Elena interrupted as she spoke casually travelling down the halls in happy strides as Damon cursed her under his breath.
"She's your friend" he whispered but kept his distance. "Stop" he continued hissing at her but she just continued walking.
"If you don't care why should I?" she asked as Damon thought over the question. He could always turn his humanity back on. Then again, he would be at a disadvantage he couldn't do that, not to Bonnie. If it meant keeping her safe he'd keep his humanity off. Elena on the other hand, she was going to be of no help with her humanity off. "Bonnie?" Elena called out but Damon grabbed her arm, spinning her around and covered her mouth.
"Don't make me hurt you again" he said firmly as Elena just glared at him. Great, that wasn't going to work. He said realizing fear wouldn't help. "Okay, let's make a deal, we find Bonnie, we rescue her, we turn our humanity back on" he said as Elena searched his face. "Got it?" he asked uncovering her mouth. Elena slowly nodded, though she didn't move.
"Fine" she said quickly before she continuing.
"I hope they didn't hear you" he said as Elena started off in another direction and Damon continued straight, listening closely as he passed each room. "Where are you…" he said quietly as he looked into ever door window. Then he heard it, a distant but muffled scream. "Bonnie" he hissed running to the sound of the voice. Again, her screaming, it sounded painful, but he wasn't in any pain, how did that make sense? Didn't the connection spell enable them to feel the same thing? "Elena!" Damon said halting in front of Elena who was suddenly in front of him.
"You know it's a setup, don't go" she said looking over shoulder, toward the sound of screaming. "If it was real, you'd be in pain, you know that" she reminded him even though he did know that himself.
"Then where is she?" Damon asked looking down the hall. She could be anywhere, any of these rooms, anywhere in the school. It would take forever to find her, and he just didn't have the time to look forever. This wasn't going to be as quick as he hoped. Couldn't someone else look? He thought as he stared absently down the hall. "C'mon, give us something Bonnie, we're two vamps with our humanity off, we're not gonna waste our time here" Damon said aloud.
"Damon…" Elena said quietly as he turned to look at her but noticed she was looking at something else. "That wasn't there before, was it?" she asked noticing a long mark on the side of the wall. Damon shook his head, slowly walking over to the wall. A long dark streak was engraved into the wall, it looked like a burnt line. And it certainly hadn't been there. "There's more" Elena said looking down the hall, Damon continued to follow the line. It was sign, it had to be, from someone. A sign to get to Bonnie. Wherever she really was. But how was this working, how was Silas making this so easy? Him and Elena might have their humanity off and therefore harder to read but Bonnie wasn't.
"I don't see Silas," Damon told Elena who looked relatively less concerned about it. Just as he started to get annoyed with Elena's lack of attention or care he noticed a room, the light was on, but barely. Slowly, he crept over to the room, peeking inside. If he could feel anything, he'd feel overjoyed to see Bonnie. But he was a little confused why she looked so still.
"Is she in there?" Elena asked creeping up next to him to look in.
"Come on" Damon whispered, twisting the door so it opened. It's not locked? He asked himself feeling extra cautious as he took a step in. And then another, Elena close behind him. "Bonnie?" he whispered as he felt Elena looking around the room. Bonnie grumbled something but didn't move. "Bon, hey" he said kneeling next to her and slowly untying the strings. "I'm so glad I found you" he said stroking her cheek as she mumbled again. "I was so worried Bonnie…" he said quietly as her eyes fluttered a little.
"Damon…" she said weakly, her eyes barely open.
"Yeah, I'm right here, and we're gonna get you out of here" he said untying her other hand.
"Damon, Silas isn't here" Elena said as Damon turned his attention on her for a second. "Look" she said picking up the map, something circled in red. "What's this?" she asked picking up a bottle that was sitting on a table along with some other things. "Is this..?" she asked taking a whiff of the contents.
"He…he made me say a spell to take my powers….said he'd kill Jer…and then—then I passed out and h—he had to get help, there's a—someone down the hall, a distraction…" she weakly explained in a semi-conscious voice. "H—he's coming back soon…" she said starting to fade out again. "He—he as to find out some more information and then…" she blinked a few times, trying hard to hold up her head. "He'll kill me" she said. "I'm gonna die again Damon…" she said as Damon shook his head, his hand stroking her check as she fluttered her eyes again.
"I'm not gonna let that happen Bonnie" Damon said as something started to fill his chest, thoughts pouring back into his mind. Him and Bonnie. That's how it was supposed to be, that's how it was always supposed to be he thought as his humanity switch turned back on. "I'm going to save you from dying" Damon said as got up to check the halls before running out with Bonnie. Just as he went to pull his head in he felt a sharp pain that brought him to his knees. His first thought was obviously Silas was posing as Bonnie and trapped him and Elena and he fell for it. But when he turned around, clutching his stomach he was more than surprised to see Elena with a knife shoved in Bonnie's stomach.
"Don't tell me, Harold connected you two?" Elena asked twisting the knife as Damon let out a grumbled and Bonnie squeezed her eyes so she wouldn't scream. "After everything I've done for you, after everyone I've gave up, after all the bad decisions I've made you're going to go to her?" Elena asked pulling the knife out only to ram it back in, Damon feeling it deep inside his stomach.
"I'm so sorry Elena…" Bonnie whispered before passing out. Elena shook her head, going back over to the table to look at the many objects.
"If you were, you wouldn't have done it" Elena said to an unconscious Bonnie. Damon closed his eyes, the pain was too much for him to really move, to figure out what he needed to do. But he knew he had to get Bonnie out of here, to get her to safety. And really that was all the motivation he needed.
"Elena," he said quietly as he eyed a woodened sake at the same time she did.
"I loved you so much Damon" Elena in a chillingly dark and distant voice as she took a step toward the stake but Damon grabbed it first.
"It wouldn't be fair to kill you, so you can stay in here until you turn your humanity back on" he said and then shoved the sake into her right side, Elena stumbling backwards and falling over. Half able to move properly he went over to Bonnie, pulling the knife out and throwing it across the room before picking up Bonnie. He walked out of the room started down the halls but then remembered his bottle of salt. Just because he was leaving didn't mean he had to let Silas kill her. Closing the door, he made a straight line of salt and then readjusted Bonnie in his arm and quickly headed outside.
"Damon" he heard Stefan and Jeremy shout coming around the side of the school. "This way," he said motioning him toward themselves. Damon hurried through the space, Jeremy pouring the remainder of the salt to complete the circle.
"Don't bother, he's not there" Damon told him without glancing back.
"Where's Elena?" Stefan asked as Harold came from wherever he was.
"She's still checking the school, we think an innocent bystander is in there" Damon said as he watched Jeremy glance over Bonnie. "I'll bring her home" he told everyone as he walked over to his car, lying Bonnie in the backseat. I swear if I have to do this again I'm going to someone's head off. He thought with annoyance as he sped off, driving at top sped to Bonnie's house. Thank you. He added glancing up at the sky he knew Bonnie's grandmother had heard his plea for help before, he knew deep down she was the one who sent the message where to find Bonnie.