Thanks for all of the comments and reviews! I appreciate them as always. Just one clarification: That night that Damon left Bonnie's house, he didn't remember the girl's name at all. He called her Gia...Giselle...whatever, it was Alexis. Oh and things will only get worse here.
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"Who wrote that note?" Stefan asked.
"If I knew…I would be ripping their heart out right now", Damon said standing up and walking over to Bonnie, kneeling down next to her on the couch.
"Let's get her out of here…if Bonnie wakes up and sees her, that could set her off again", Stefan said bending over and moving Alexis' body onto the carpet. Elena stood staring at Alexis' body, "Elena, if this is too much…"
"No…no…let me help", she replied bending down and holding onto the carpet.
"We will be back", Stefan said as he picked up the carpet and started out of the living with Elena.
Damon looked down at Bonnie, "I know that you are still…you are still with me here, so open up those eyes so I can see them…please".
Bonnie opened her eyes with a gasp and then she turned to look a Damon.
"Hey you", he smiled taking her hand.
Bonnie snatched her hand out of his grasp, "You…that girl…you slept with that girl and you lied to me about it".
"Bonnie…can you give me a chance to explain, it's not exactly what you think".
Bonnie jumped up off the couch, "No…it is exactly what I think".
"Bonnie, you need to calm down…you blacked out earlier, you need to sit down for a few moments", Damon said coming towards her. She reached out and pushed him up against the wall.
"I don't want you anywhere near me!" she screamed as she ran out of the house.
Damon rushed to the door but ran into Stefan and Elena, "I have to go find Bonnie", he said.
"Wait…she woke up?" Stefan asked.
"Yes and she didn't want me near her...I have to explain to her that it's not what she thinks".
"Right", Elena scoffed, "how about you just give her some space".
"She doesn't need space right now…did you not see the note that came in with Alexis' body".
"Damon, Bonnie tried to kill you tonight, maybe you should give her some time to digest what's going on…we also have no idea which Bonnie we're dealing with. I will go…", Stefan replied.
"No…I will go…right now, I may be the only one Bonnie trusts", Elena stated, "you two find out what's happening to my best friend and who you've pissed off to cause it".
Elena turned and walked out of the house as Stefan glared at Damon, "Oh don't start", Damon said walking over to the drink cart and pouring a big one.
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I ran through the woods towards my house. As I ran I could feel the tears streaming down my face and the trees cutting me as I ran through them. The funny part about this evening that the last time I remember having control of my body and mind was in my bedroom as I was running around before my headache started. After that, it was as if Emily had possessed me again…but this time…it wasn't Emily, it was me…it was a different side to me. It was as if I was watching myself say and do things that I couldn't stop. However, I felt all of the emotions when that blond said that she was with Damon and he promised to turn her…I also remembered him confessing that he did sleep with her and then, it was as if my anger boiled over and I found myself trying to kill him…trying to stop the hurt…and that's when I blacked out again.
When I reached my house, I slammed the door behind me and screamed causing all of the windows on the first floor to shatter sending glass everywhere cutting my skin. I dropped down to the floor. I trusted Damon and this is where I ended up, on the floor in my house…alone…cut…and crying. I hated him.
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Elena found the key that outside of Bonnie's house and opened the door. "Bonnie?" she called stepping inside and stepping on all of the broken glass.
She found Bonnie sitting on the couch.
"Bonnie…are you ok?" Elena asked.
"He was sleeping with and biting her, Elena…I don't think I can forgive that…ever".
"You need to let him explain".
"I don't want to hear anything that he has to say…"
"Bonnie, it's not what you think…"
"Elena, if you are going to defend him…you can leave".
"Ok…ok…I'm sorry", Elena said wrapping her arms around Bonnie, "come here…I'm sorry".
Bonnie put her head on Elena's shoulder and began to weep.
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The next morning Damon opened his eyes to the sunlight that almost blinded him. What had happened last night? Who had turned Bonnie into some type of witchy vampire seductress, who had sent Alexis to the school, who killed Alexis and left that note? Who was trying to pull his strings? Those were all of the questions that haunted him.
Damon stood up from his bed and walked over to the dresser trying to go over and over in his head every conversation with Alexis, when he heard voices downstairs. He felt the heart that wasn't beating anymore jump slightly.
"Stefan, I just came to get some things that I left here that's it", Bonnie's voice drifted into his ears. She sounded tired, as if she hadn't slept at all and it was taking its toll.
"Bonnie, let's talk", Stefan said.
"I don't want to talk…I just want to get the spell books that I left here and that's it", Bonnie said as he heard her heels clicking against the wood floors.
Damon opened his door and before he could think about it, he was standing in the door of the library watching Bonnie place spell books in her bag. Stefan was standing next to her and he shook his head at Damon.
"Bonnie…I just…I just want to talk", Damon said, "there's a lot that you don't know…"
Bonnie continued to put her books in her bag.
"Damon, maybe you should go back upstairs", Stefan urged him.
"I'm not leaving this library, but you need to Stefan", Damon replied narrowing his eyes at Stefan.
"Damon…"
"Stefan, leave us…I would leave you and Elena".
Stefan looked at Damon and then at Bonnie, who refused to look at Damon but he could see that her hands began to shake as she continued to pick up the books.
Stefan walked over to Damon, "Don't push too hard…I don't want her to kill you".
"Stefan…leave the house", Damon said keeping his eyes on Bonnie's back.
Stefan opened his mouth to disagree, but Damon cut him off, "Leave".
Stefan nodded as he walked out of the library.
"Bonnie…I'm glad to see that you're ok?" Damon said stepping closer to her slowly.
Bonnie zipped up her bag and turned to walk towards the door. Damon stepped in front of her, "I'm not letting you leave here until we talk".
"I will set you on fire", she said refusing to look at him.
"Then I'm willing to let you do it, if you will just listen to me".
Bonnie narrowed her eyes as Damon heard the doors slam behind him, "How long do I have?" he asked looking down at her.
"Seconds", she said meeting his gaze.
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I watched as Damon moved closer to me and I held onto my bag tighter. I wasn't sure if he could see, but my entire body was shaking. I knew I should have stayed home or at least stayed away from the Salvatore boarding house. I should have known that Damon would be here; I guess a part of me hoped that he was somewhere in an alley dead.
"Bonnie, I want you to know that I love you", Damon said.
"Don't you dare…" I began shaking my head.
"Ok…ok…I'm going to be completely honest with you about Alexis and everything that happened with her".
"I don't want to hear your sex stories ok", I said moving towards the door flinging them open with my mind walking towards them as Damon got in front of me and closed them quickly.
"Bonnie…I'm trying to be honest with you…let me be honest with you".
I fumed as I stood there looking at him. What right did he have for me to give him the time of day? What right did he have to explain himself? I started to believe that Damon had changed and last night, taught me that he hadn't and that he was the same guy that he was when he first came to town…only he had me…his little vitch to do some of his bidding.
"Alexis was a girl that I met a couple of months ago…I did lie to you…I lied to you about there being no girl…there was a girl and that girl was Alexis", Damon began, keeping his distance from Bonnie, "that night…that night on your porch, when we were kissing and you told me we had to stop because your dad was inside, I did go to a bar…I met Alexis and I went to her apartment with her…we slept together, but it was only once…and then I ran into her on a couple of occasions and I fed off of her".
I looked at him as I felt moved my hands across his face scratching him without even touching him. He grimaced and bit back the pain continuing his speech, "I compelled her to forget…as soon as I did it, I knew that I shouldn't have…I was angry…rejected…I did something that I always did when I was upset…show that I wasn't upset, that I was ok…that I was still the Damon that did what he wanted and everyone else be damned".
Damon looked down at me as the blood trickled out of the scratches on his face, "I swear it was only one time…last night, she was lying…I never slept with her again…I never wanted to…last night, I think she said those things because…".
"Because millions of women want you, Damon, isn't that what you used to say or act like", I said speaking for the first time in minutes.
Damon's crystal blue eyes melted as he reached out to touch me, "Don't touch me!" I shrieked pushing him away sending him flying into the wall. He stood up and I dropped my bags and flew over to him pushing him into the wall causing plaster to fall everywhere.
My fangs were showing, my eyesight was red, I could feel the webbed veins appear under my eyes and I straddled him, "I hate you…I hate you…how could you do that to me!" I said hitting him, "how could you fool me into thinking that you changed and you didn't…you had me believe that this wasn't as bad as I thought and you lied to me…you have women running around stalking you and begging you to turn them…do you know how humiliated I felt last night!"
Damon grabbed my hands and flipped us over so that he was on top of me, "Bonnie, I never wanted to hurt you…that's why I thought that I could leave whatever happened with Alexis in the past!" Damon yelled in my face as he held onto my hands.
"You lied…don't you understand that…just because you don't say it doesn't mean its not still there!" I yelled at him pushing him off of me sending him flying up to the ceiling as I moved over when he came back down.
"I killed Katherine for you…doesn't that mean anything…I have proved over and over how I feel about you and nothing is enough for you! I didn't do the things that Alexis said last night and you don't even love me enough to believe me!" Damon said standing up and walking over to me.
"Oh you killed Katherine for me…for me?" I laughed walking around him, "I think some of your anger regarding Katherine was about Katherine and how she left you alone and never looked back…that's what your problem is, so don't you dare place Katherine's death at my feet".
"Are you kidding me! You were the one running around talking about Katherine killed my grandmother…I must avenge her…I killed Katherine for you because she was about to destroy you…I saved you".
"And who's going to save you?" I asked as I raised my eyebrow.
"The question is…who will save you!" Damon said grabbing me and pulling me to him. He pushed my head to the side exposing my neck.
"Get off of me!" I screamed at him.
"You love me and that's something that you can't just push to the side…that is where all this fury is coming from…you love me…and you can't stop loving me, even when you think I'm at my worse", he whispered in my ear as he held onto me.
"Shut up!" I screamed trying to get out of his embrace.
"You love me and a part of you hates it…a part of you hates that you could fall in love with someone as messed up and depraved as me…but there is a part of you that loves it and that's the part that wins all the time".
"Let me go!" I said.
"No…I'm never letting you go, Bonnie!" he said, "and I don't care if you bring down this entire house to make me let you go…I'm not letting you go".
I turned around to face him, "I hate you".
"You love me", Damon said, "and I'm sorry Bonnie…I'm sorry for lying to you".
I hit him on his chest as the tears escaped my eyes.
He pushed me up against the wall as he bared his fangs and his eyes went red, "Don't hit me again".
I smacked him in the face.
He knocked me against the wall, "Don't hit me again".
I raised my hand and he grabbed it as he pushed his body into mine, "I will set this house on fire".
"Then we will be burning together then", he smirked as he moved his mouth to my ear.
I looked at him through slits as I felt him knick the delicate skin on my neck.
"Damon…I can't do this…I can't get hurt like I did last night", I whispered.
"I won't hurt you like I did last night", he whispered in my ear.
I gazed up into his eyes and I could see the desperation in them.
He moved his hand to caress my cheek as I closed my eyes and held his hand there.
He lifted me up with one arm and carried me over to the desk, "I love you…remember that", he said closing the space between us with a kiss.
A kiss that I didn't return.
"Bonnie?" he asked.
"What is going on", I asking looking at him.
"I love you, that's what's going on", Damon said as he kissed me and lowered me down to the desk.
I looked above at the ceiling…I wasn't sure if I was still angry or not…but the foundation had been cracked.
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Damon looked around the library as Bonnie finished getting dressed behind him, "You have really done some damage to my house", he said looking at her.
"Nothing compared to what you did to my heart", Bonnie answered zipping up her jeans.
"I'm sorry…but last night, Alexis was lying and someone is pulling the strings", Damon answered.
"Well…maybe…I…maybe we should find Alexis and ask her".
"She wouldn't remember if someone compelled her and…she's also dead".
"But…how…did I black out again and kill her?"
"No, I don't believe so…hey…what went on last night, were you just trying something new or…"
"I don't know…it honestly…it was weird, it felt like I was being possessed by someone…but not really. I can't explain it. I've been having these blackouts and nightmares lately, but I think it's just my body adjusting to the changes that have went on".
"Bonnie, I don't believe that's what's going on…last night before you woke up…", Damon began, as the library doors burst open and Stefan walked in followed by Elena.
Stefan stopped and looked at the library and Elena ran over to Bonnie, "Are you ok…he didn't do anything to you, did he?" Elena asked checking Bonnie's face.
"No…he didn't…we had a talk, we worked some things out", Bonnie answered.
Stefan raised an eyebrow and looked at Damon, "So everything's fine".
"Peachy", Damon answered.
"Not fine, but I don't want to stake him…do you have any idea as to who could have sent Alexis there and why?" Bonnie asked.
Stefan looked at Damon, "No…I haven't heard anything, but someone definitely set that in motion".
"But why would someone set all that into motion?" Elena asked,
"Maybe someone wanted us to destroy each other…we almost did", Bonnie frowned.
"This doesn't make any sense…who is this person and wouldn't they have known at some point that we would talk and we would find out that Alexis was lying", Damon spoke up.
"Well we need to find whoever this person is and find out what this plan was about".
"And how do we suggest we do that, Stefan…we have no idea who this person is".
"We can go do some hunting of our own", Stefan said, "Bonnie…Elena…we will talk to some of the council members, they may know something that they've been hiding, you two be careful…we don't who or what this person is or what they are up to".
"Whomever they are played their hand and lost", Bonnie replied.
"That is hopeful thinking".
"Ok…fine…well, I need to get home…Jenna wants to do a family dinner…I will talk to you later", Elena said kissing Stefan.
Bonnie picked up her bag near the door, "If you two need any help, let me know…I need to get home…my dad's calling on the house phone to make sure that I'm home and in the house".
Damon walked over to Bonnie, "We're ok now…aren't we?"
"We are something", Bonnie answered walking out of the library.
"What happened here?" Stefan asked looking around.
"Bonnie and I had a little fight".
"The library looks like a warzone…I'm surprised that you are in one piece".
"Yeah…well I am".
"Bonnie didn't look like she truly forgave you, just now".
"Bonnie and I have come to an understanding…I know I have a lot of work ahead of me, but she at least believes that Alexis was lying and that I do love her".
"So once we get this repaired, I shouldn't expect anymore damage to our house because you have pissed Bonnie off?" Stefan asked.
"Maybe we should make sure we have fire insurance", Damon answered.
"And she didn't seem to know about the note that came with Alexis' body last night".
"Oh sure…right after we make up, I'm going to tell her that someone wants to kill her because it appears I hurt someone's feelings…no…not at all. We will find out who this person is and why they are targeting Bonnie".
"And what about last night…the personality change…"
"She says that it was like a possession…it's not easy to explain, but she did say something interesting…she said that she was getting headaches".
"Headaches?"
"Right before she blacked out…now, what does that signal for you".
"Definitely a witch".
"Exactly…so if we find the witch, we find the person threatening Bonnie's life and trying to make mine a living hell", Damon answered.
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I parked my car and sat staring at my house. I started the day being furious, hurt, confused and ready to set Damon on fire. I ended my day with trying to destroy his house, hitting him a couple of times and having sex with him on a desk…not exactly how I expected it to end. I wanted to believe him…I wanted to believe that he only wanted me…and I did believe him and I fought not to feel like a fool for believing him. Damon Salvatore had my heart and as corny as it sounds, I don't think he's giving it back any time soon.
"I blame the vitch hormones", I said to myself as I opened my car door gathering my bag.
I opened the front door of my house and dropped my bag in the foyer. I think my dad was starting to become suspicious of my lifestyle as of late and made a point to say he would call me on the house phone. I walked over to the answering machine to check the messages when I felt that someone was in the house with me.
I immediately turned around and was face to chest with Gavin. I looked up at him, "How did you get in here?" I asked as spells went through my head.
He smirked, "That's my little secret".
"What…what do you want?"
"That's always the first question isn't it…what do you want?" he smiled as he grabbed me and wrapped his arm around my throat.
"Let go of me", I said as I turned around and concentrated causing him to grab the side of his head.
He let me go as I ran away trying to get to my bag with Emily's grimoire inside.
He grabbed my leg, causing me to fall to the floor and that's when I vamped out.
"Oh yes…I bet Damon just loves that part of you", he growled as he retrieved a syringe from his pocket and plunged it into my thigh.
I screamed in pain as I felt my body go numb and it became hard to keep my eyes open as the vervain that must have been contained in that syringe overtook my body and I finally closed my eyes.