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Chapter 43
"I want you to not get shitfaced so you can remember this moment" a voice said as he his eyes shot open. Standing in front of him, an eyebrow raised, a judgmental look across her face and her arms crossed was Bonnie.
"You came, your spirit, you didn't cross over yet" he said, his voice low and rushed.
"No, and I'm not going to cross over" she said as Damon continued to stare at her. "Klaus was wrong about me. I was wrong about myself, I fell in love with you Damon and at the last minute I wanted to be selfish. I wanted to keep you and all my friends. I wanted to stay here" she said as she kneeled in front of him. "I made a choice" she said slowly as Damon's mind slowly figured out what she was saying.
"You're a…" he trailed off as Bonnie sort of smiled.
"I'm a vampire" she said but Damon shook his head.
"You have to fed to be—oh" he said again, his brain clicking as he remembered the priest. "A vampire?" he said as she nodded and took his hand.
"I know what this does and doesn't mean, and I'm not totally okay with it, but, it will be nice seeing Klaus face" she said as Damon let out an intentionally laugh, pulling her into a hug as he stood up.
"You're okay" he said breathlessly. Bonnie nodded as she instantly relaxed in his arms. "Bonnie you're okay," he repeated not able or willing to let go of her.
"I love you Damon" she said as they pulled apart.
"Do the others know?" he asked.
"No and I promise to explain it later. Only my mom knows, her and Shelia helped, we had a fifty-fifty chance of it working. The others have seen me, they know I'm alive but I have yet to explain things, but, I really wanna see the look on Klaus's face" she said as she held out her hand. Damon taking it as they went inside.
She didn't stop to say anything but thankfully Abby was explaining things. I'll snap her neck just once later, Damon said as he sort of glared at the back of Shelia's head. When they reached the 'dungeon' Rudy had started to get up, either to ask how Damon was or to punch him but abruptly stopped upon seeing Bonnie.
"Daddy" she said rushing into his harms.
"Bon-Bon" he whispered holding his daughter tight. "Wait, does that mean…" he trailed off as he looked over his daughter who nodded.
"Abby is upstairs, she can explain everything" Damon said as Rudy nodded, started off but paused to give Bonnie another hug.
"Damon, your voice is like music to my ears. I'm so tired of hearing Rudy tell me all the ways he's going to chop off my head" Klaus said in a slightly humorous tone as he tried to peek out, but the most he got out to stick out was his nose.
"He might not chop it off Klaus but you should pray that when I'm done it doesn't pop off" Bonnie said as Klaus's expression completely changed. Silent, rigid, terrified.
"Bennett…" he whispered as Bonnie walked over.
"Yes?" she asked crossing her arms over her chest and staring at Klaus with a unforgiving expression.
"You're alive. I take it you did have some vampire blood in you after all" he said as Bonnie gave him a little smile.
"It's a little more complicated than that" Bonnie said as Damon looked at her questionably. "When I died, Shelia was there. She gave me the option of going with her or helping me" she started. "She told me the story about sacrifice, about love, about family. She told more about expressionism. She said as long as I believe I have my powers it doesn't matter if I'm a vampire. Because I'm still a Bennett" She said as she narrowed her eyes at Klaus.
"It takes a strong Bennett to know her limits and to push them, to harvest so much energy and power that she can balance herself out…" She paused, still staring at Klaus who flinched. "I am that Bennett, I know what I'm capable of. I'm not going to let being a vampire stop me" she concluded, her voice strong and controlled, her body language still and calm. Klaus twitched again, but this time more violently, this time more and more. Finally he covered his ears, letting out pained cries, his eyes and ears dripping blood. "Like I said before Klaus. You do not know me" she told him as he sunk to his knees. Damon couldn't take his eyes off Bonnie. She was certainly one badass witch-vampire. "Leave Mystic Falls peacefully and I won't come after you. Stay in New Orleans and forget the cure" she said as Klaus continued to scream in pain. "Do you understand?" she asked, Klaus only nodding.
With a satisfied smile Bonnie relaxed and stopping with the hard expression. She glanced at the door which sprung open. "Alright, you can leave now" she told Klaus who glared at her but got to his feet.
"This isn't over Bonnie" he whispered to her but Bonnie didn't even seem to register it.
"Never is" Damon said for her as Klaus mumbled something but stalked off.
"Wow," Bonnie said as she leaned against the wall, a pleased expression on her face. "That was amazing, you have no idea" she said as Damon went over to her. "It was like a high" she said as Damon shook his head.
"No, you have yet to experience a vampire high" he told her as he slowly ran his finger across her bottom lip and moved closers to whisper in her ear. "I love you" she said as Bonnie smiled, her body slightly shivering as she giggled.
"So this is why you're a vampire" she teased as he shrugged.
"It's certainly a perk" he told her as he kissed her ever so lightly. Again she shivered. "Thank you Bonnie" he said quietly, his eyes searching hers. "I know it's a sacrifice, I know a human life is not something—" she touched his lips to hush him up and then kissed him again.
"I didn't want to give up my human life, but doing so for real reasons, not just an accident is what helped me" she told him as she played with his fingers. "I don't regret it though. I don't want to be that depressing ghost that always hangs around" she said as he smiled at her. "C'mon, let's go see what Abby is saying. And then we can have kinky wild vampire sex" she teased as Damon rolled his eyes. "You think I'm kidding?" she asked as Damon paused searching her face again realizing she was not kidding.
"Okay" he said as she laughed and squeezed his hand as they entered the room.
"This is a new one" Stefan said nodding at Bonnie as he went over to hug.
"Yeah, well, we'll have forever to figure it out" she said with a shrug. "Besides, I rather figure out some kind of plan to let everyone else know we're not working on the cure anymore" She said as she sat down on the arm of couch beside her dad.
"You mean the message that Klaus shit himself wasn't a good enough warning for the others?" Damon asked as Bonnie grinned and took his hand again.
"On Monday we can really start classes" Caroline jumped in as everyone looked at her.
"Yes, on Monday we'll start classes" Bonnie said as Caroline ran over to hug her. "Elena?" Bonnie said holding an arm out for her to join. "I will have forever to pissed at you but right now I just need to hug you" she said squeezing her two friends.
"Welcome back Bonnie" Jeremy said holding a glass. Damon rolled his eyes, though a part of him was sort of looking forward to continuing to fight with Jeremy over a girl he thought as he nodded at Jeremy who half nodded back.
"To Bonnie" everyone said as Bonnie smiled around the room, looking at her always—in the end—faithful supporters, her friends, her family.
