Nemesis
Chapter 10
Bonnie sat up in bed with a jerk. Breathing coming swiftly she looked around in the room and then leaned back and relaxed. It had just been another dream.
She wiped sweat out of her face and closed her eyes again, trying to go back to sleep. She hadn't been the slightest surprised when she had seen that Angel wasn't there, he almost never came in before 3:AM. When he did, he hadn't found anything to eat, which always led to that he walked around in the room for a long time before he could fall asleep.
Bonnie dozed off into sleep, but heard the sound of when the window opened only a few minutes later, and then the sound of when he shut it and threw himself on the bed. She opened her eyes and rolled over to the side to see him lie in his bed with his clothes on in a tensed position.
"What's the matter, Ang?" She asked slowly. "Bad hunt?"
"It's nothing," he muttered, so unusual his open self.
Bonnie felt that there was something particularly wrong with him, his aura seemed so much darker and filled with anger and destruction. Just as if he was another person.
Stretching out her hand she grasped his shoulder and squeezed it carefully.
"I wish I could have told you this so much earlier, figlio, but I guess that my pride forbade me," she mumbled, and then more felt than saw how he shook his head.
"There are things that are more important than that, mom," he just answered, and her hand jerked back as if she had been burned by him.
She got up from her bed as if it had been on fire and then opened the window quickly.
"Get out!" She hissed.
He turned around in bed and looked all confused.
"What are you talking about?" He asked.
"Damon, get out of the room, NOW!"
Her voice contained so much anger and hate that it was a miracle that he wasn't burned to death by her glare.
"Angel would never call me mom. He would call me 'B' – nothing else, he has done that ever since he first learned to talk, no matter how much I wanted him to call me mom."
Damon just shrugged his shoulders in an ignorant gesture, and walked until he stood only a few inches away from her.
They looked at eachothers, and Bonnie knew the danger she was in while doing so. His eyes were one of his strongest weapons, because none stood a chance against his hypnosis, but Bonnie challenged him in a silent confront. She knew what he would do if he won, that was his price for proving that he was so much better than she was, but she would take the chance, just because she knew that if he lost, he'd be forced to never come again. That was her price.
He just smiled his mysterious smile, and she felt the tension in the air when he focused his powers on her. Her vision went blurred and she had a hard time focusing on things, but she didn't give in for the darkness in the eyes. She kept on thinking of her sister and how she had ended her life, which was much stronger than his powers. It actually looked like she would overwin his powers, and she looked trimphing at him, but he just laughed.
Suddenly it all went dimished, she couldn't remember what she had thought on earlier, all she could think about was the darkness in his eyes. Something important kept on picking on her mind, telling her to pull off, but it was like breaking through a wall thicker than the earth itself, she didn't have the strength to do it.
He smiled, the conquerors merciless smile, and dropped the connection.
"You," he stopped to let a finger slide along her cheek, "lost," he said with a cruel tone in his voice.
It took her a few moments to get clear in her head, but when she got clear, she hung with her head in shame. She cursed in a low tone, and then felt how the hand that still held her cheek gently forced her head up, and stroked her hair down her back to demand his price.
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Figlio: Son
AN: In the next chapter: Funeral. Will Angel be by her side or will he stand by his father's side to rule the world? See for your self in the next chapter of Nemesis.