* * * dream* * *

"Bonnie…"

She heard the voice as if from a great distance and she turned right, where she saw Elena standing, smiling sweetly at her.

Time hadn't changed her at all, she still looked the same, except for that the gold-blonde hair was a little longer and a few marks had been burned into her face.

"You're back!" Bonnie exclaimed and lunged towards her, hugging her tightly. "I've missed you so much!" she whispered with tears in her eyes.

"Same here," Elena said, her voice blurred by all the emotions in it.

Backing off a bit, Elena checked out her friend's new looks, and nodded, appreciating what she saw.

"You look good," she said after a while.

"You too," said Bonnie, smiling widely as she dried her eyes.

They begun walking along an empty street, and Bonnie recognized it as one of the smaller streets in Fell's Church. Her gaze wandered all over it, though she didn't find anything new, except for that Mr. Jones had repainted his fence.

"Why did you leave Fell's Church, Bonnie? You left everything without a trace, just a small note that you would never come back. Everyone has been worried sick for you, until Stefan found out that you were in LA a year ago."

Elena's voice was filled with pain and grief, and Bonnie turned away, not knowing what to say. She felt so ashamed, her mother had always been so frail in her strength, and she knew she probably had broken her heart that day. Many times had she thought of returning, to tell them everything, but her pride had forced her to stay where she was.

She wondered if she could tell Elena about the pain inside, the humiliation that had driven her to do this. Or would she lie, to hide everything and shut them out?

"Something happened," Bonnie begun slowly, considering every word before she said it. "I couldn't stop it. It has to do with my powers, things I couldn't control," she said, just lying about the last thing.

But while thinking of it, she knew it had been true. He was not just a vampire, he had other powers that other vampires didn't. Not even Klaus, the original that nearly had killed them all.

Elena frowned, but nodded slowly, knowing that the little witch would not lie about such a thing. 'Or would she?' A quick thought came up. 'She has changed a lot since last we met, when she still had her childish dreams. Her heart is now cold and lonely…'

"I know there is a reason why you contacted me, so please tell me," Bonnie interrupted her thoughts.

Great sadness was shown upon Elena's face, and Bonnie prepared herself for something terrible.

"Early this morning, two girls was found dead in a glade near Franchers place, throats slit. According to Stefan it couldn't have been anything else than a vampire…"

Her voice trailed off, and Bonnie's heart stopped beating for a second.

"Who were the girls?"

Bonnie's voice was choked by fear and hatred thoughts. 'If someone touched them I'll kill them all!'

"Meredith's cousin, Jaime… and your sister, Mary."

Time seemed to stop, everything happened in slow motion.

Loosing grip of everything, Bonnie's legs did not longer seem to bear her weight, and she fell down on the asphalt, scraping her knees and hands, and if she had felt the pain, it would have been hard. But she didn't.

Salty tears trickled down her cheeks, though she didn't know how, she felt so distant to everything. This had not happened, not to her darling sister, not at all.

Bonnie barely noticed when Elena got her back upon her feet, dragging her to a bench a few blocks away where they sat down. Bonnie kept on crying, without any sounds or motions, which scared Elena more than anything. She wanted her to scream of anger and pain, anything but this!

Though she didn't say anything, she just held on to her friend, knowing there was nothing more she could do to comfort her, except being there for her.

"Come home as fast as possible," was all that she said, and then saw her friend break down and cry even more.

* * * end dream* * *