A.N. Hey all! Thank you so much for love you are all showing, as always thanks to those who have read,replied and alerted. Your feedback keeps me going. i'm glad you liked how Damon and Bonnie met, i thought it might have been fun to add a dynamic btwn the two before everything was found out.

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Chapter 3: Stepping Stones

When I came to I found myself lying on the plush pillows in a white room. The brothers were close by, Damon still had his arm around me and his body was spooning me from the back while Stefan was facing me, his hand touching my face. We were a mess tangled limps that interlocked. One of my legs was hooked on Stefans hip while my hand was resting on his brothers thigh. I was lying in a Salvatore sandwich, pressed against both brother, as Stefan was pressed against my front and Damon pressed against my back. How in the hell did I end up here with the Salvatore brothers. Fear crept up inside of me and I did the only thing I could think of, I screamed. My scream was soon echoed by Stefan who seemed just as puzzled and lastly Damon sat up and yawned.

"Where are we?" Stefan asks rubbing his head. while I flee from their grasps. This is just too weird, the last thing I remembered was that we were all in my grandmothers back yard and now we are here.

"I..I don't know." I say while I flee from their grasps. This is just too weird, the last thing I remembered was the white light that had called me. I notice that the boys have changed. Stefan wore a wife beater, the displayed his arms, and dark grey trousers. Damon was wearing a white button down shirt with it open, revealing his naked chest, with a pair of low slung grey jeans. And me, well I'm wearing a white flowing dress with a beaded bodice. The dress is strapless, with an empire waist and quite beautiful.

In all honesty he didn't know why Bonnie was so freaked out-for heavens sake they were fully clothed! This little wake up in bed together thing was nothing new for him, he had done worst with college girls who were mesmerized by his hotness. As for waking up in bed with Stefan, well..been there done that. If Katherine had ever kept a diary, he was sure she would have written about the sexcapades the three of them had gotten in. Of course it wasn't as raunchy as one with think, they shared Katherine and she took turns with them-it wasn't that big of a deal.

Popping open an eye he caught sight of her worrying her bottom lip. "Do you make it a habit of teleporting here and there because if so, next time try teleporting to Vegas." he said a ghost of a smile on his lips.

Stefan rubbed his face trying to shake the feeling of being seriously drunk. Wherever they were had reminded him of the time he had drunk to much with Emily Bennett. He had first discovered that Katherine and Damon were together and had asked Emily to sit with him and had drank way too much of his fathers stash and later blamed it on Damon. His body felt charged and hummed with something that was foreign to him, almost like he was alive again. "Damon, not a good time." he said shaking his head. "Not a good time." he said again, he felt as high as a fucking kite, and Damon was yelling.

I narrowed my eyes in the blue eyed devils direction, how dare he question my freaking abilities! Out of all my friends from back home, my friends who were fierce witches in their own right, I had been the best. In fact when I first came into my powers at the age of 13 I was the youngest witch to have ever received her gift so early so Damon could shove it. "I didn't do this." I say placing my hands on my hips as I look over at him.

He rolls his eyes. "You're the one with the magic." he sing songed. "Hey if you wanted to get me alone, all you had to do was ask, next time leave Stefan out of it though." he said closing his eyes.

I threw my hands up in the air, he was seriously annoying and I had to spend my immortal life linked to him. Soon a floating door opens and a woman steps out, she is wearing white just as we are. Her hair is braided into two and held back with pins, she wears a long flowing white skirt and sky blue top. Almost instantly, I find myself moving closer to the brothers who for once are silent.

'Emily" Stefan says his coming out as shocked and mystified. I looked to him to see that his eyes were fully on the woman. Turning my attention to Damon he had rolled his eyes.

"Should of known you had something to do with this Bennett. "Damon sneers with his arms crossed around his chest. He stole a glance in the direction of her and found that she looked spooked and rightfully so, she had just been transported to god knows with her bitch of a great, dot, dot, dot grandwitch.

The woman in white, glares her chocolate orbs in the direction of Damon and I get the feeling that he has that kind of response from many women, let alone Bennett women. "Mind your tongue Damon, or I will take it from you." she glares and not to my surprise Damon sticks his tongue out and before we know it his tongue has disappeared.

I let out a gasp in shock and Stefan holds my hand, stopping me from saying anything about the issue. I look to him and something passes between our eyes. The moment is short lived because soon Emily is standing before me a graceful smile on her face.

"Hello, Bonnie." she says reaching out for my hands so that we are standing in front of each other. "It's go great to finally meet you- we've been waiting for this day since you were born." she beams at me.

"We?" I question causing Emily to nod her head.

"The rest witches up here." The woman says smiling at me. "You are here today because after all this time the bond has finally been activated." she says her eyes darting sideways and I realize that Stefan is all but glued to my side and Damon without his tongue is doing the same to the other side. "You became an immortal witch and today your reactivated the bond sealing your fate with the Salvatores."

I watch as Emily walks over to the boys. She places her hands on their chest and suddenly a glow is surrounding where their hearts lye. Their bodies began to glow with a iridescent light and they scream in agony before disappearing before my eyes.

Startled turn to her. "what did you do them?"

She smiles. "I gave them the link." she said as she presses her hands to my own chest. "Open your heart to them, only you can save them, love will lead the way." she says presses a kiss to my temple.

Suddenly I'm blinded by the white light, I see my grandmother and she whispers in my ear before placing a kiss to my cheek, she hands me a flower with instructions and then the wind blows me away.

BB

When we return, I find myself in need of a drink. This had been the weirdest day of my life and here I was with my vampire guardians after we had returned from some witch in between place. Wordlessly I head for the bar that was still equipped. Maybe some liquid courage, could help as an ice breaker-lord knows I needed it. I know my grandmother had told me that I had to let go of my resentment for the Salvatore brothers but it was difficult. I found it hard to believe that the two men who were supposed to protect me and take care of me were nowhere to be found when I needed them and now I'm supposed break bread with them because it was written.

I turn around and hand each boy a glass of whisky. Stefan reaches out to touch my hand in what I guess is something to calm my nerves because I know they are shot to hell. Out of the corner of my eye I watch as Damon curls his lip at the two of us and I feel my face heating up. The prophecy had said that the Salvatore brothers were my saviors and that we will forever be intertwined, which means this moment was inevitable. My grandmother hadn't delved too far into the prophecy but I had gotten the feeling by the way she spoke, that it was also inevitable that I was to fall for one of the brothers, or both.

He had seen the moment that had happen between the two. Stefan was smiling and that never happens and certainly not after Elena. Bonnie had already begun to put her spell on his brother, much like how her beauty sass had unarmored him. He clapped his hands loudly causing Stefan and Bonnie to stop looking at each other. "Alright, enough pussyfooting, as your guardians it is part of our duty to protect you, which means we need to get you out of that sham of a marriage to Klaus."

At the mention of my husband I suddenly went stiff. For a moment I had forgotten about him. Turning my eyes in the direction of Damon, I spoke. "No!" I say suddenly alarmed. If I had reneged on my union with Klaus I would leave the witches of my hometown left unprotected and I didn't want to do that.

Narrowing his eyes into slants. He speaks an edge to his voice. "What do you mean no?" he questioned he glanced at Stefan for reassurance that he was hearing things correctly.

I licked my lips and jutted out my chin. If Damon Salvatore thought, he could tell me what to do and when to do it then he was dead wrong. "Klaus and I have a deal."

"Pfft" he says dismissive. "Deals are made to be broken."

I roll my eyes. It didn't surprise me that he had broken deals, in fact if you took one look at Damon Salvatore, and looked past the fact that he was hot, he looked like the type of guy who didn't give two shits about much."I don't doubt that you've broken all of your deals."

Deciding to intervene before a fight broke out or even worst, they managed to rip each others clothes off Stefan spoke. "Bonnie, what kind of deal do you have with Klaus." Stefan says his voice calm, urging me to speak openly and freely without judgement.

I tore my eyes away from Damon to look at Stefan. "Our alliance...our union last for a maximum of four years and if I don't fall in love with him by the end of four years he'll let me go." I say pausing to see the two vampires with mouths agape. "The second part of the deal is that Klaus can end our alliance, or set me free whenever."

Enraged he stood up and fixed himself more whisky. "And why the hell would you agree to that."

I rolled my eyes and stomped over to grab the bottle from him, I needed more whisky if I were going to engage in any more conversation with him, near me. There was something about Damon that made me either want to rip him apart, split him in half and just jump his bones and get it over with. Our eyes locked and he all but dared me to break contact, so I accepted the challenge as we locked eyes. I leaned closer to him and soon took his glass of whisky.

"Bonnie, what does he have on you?" Stefan asks once again breaking my staring contest with Damon.

"Klaus doesn't have anything on me, I agreed to marry him as long as he protected the rest of the witches with his hybrid army." I say and for the first time Stefan looks frustrated. He runs his hands through his hair tiredly.

"Bonnie," Stefan says walking over to her and reaching out to take her hands. "Klaus can't be trusted, he's a liar and he does really bad things." He says as calmly as possible. He knew how Klaus operated, he was ruthless and when he had set his sights on someone who was innocent he'd make sure to bend them to his will.

I look at him and although I believe him, I can't help but wonder if there is more to this story. Before I get a chance to ask Damon had moved and suddenly he pressed against my back. He easily spins me around so that I'm no longer looking at Stefan but at him.

"He knew that you belonged to us, and played you for a fool. He only wanted you to get under our skin." He says pausing. "He used your weakness against you."

I pushed at his chest hoping to get him out of my way. As my hand my contact with him, my necklace began to glow as did his ring and astonishment caused me to let go of him, I turned around to see that Stefans ring was glowing as well. What that meant, I wasn't sure.

Teleporting away from the two of them, I stood off to the side. "Let me say this one time and one time only." I say my voice taking on an edge. "I don't belong to anyone. I don't belong to Klaus because our marriage is in name only. And I surely as hell don't belong to either one of you."

He let out a sarcastic laugh. "My blood running through your veins says differently." He grits out smirking when her green eyes began to blaze with anger. God she was sexy he had known that the moment they had locked eyes, he wasn't sure if he wanted to tape her mouth shut or fuck her senselessly, both sounded good in his opinion.

I have the sudden urge to give him two middle fingers but I fear he might like it. I storm over to him a threat on the tip of my tongue and I guess Stefan can tell because he's soon between the two of us. Why did I get the feeling that for the rest of my immortal life I would be sparing with the blue-eyed devil. And poor Stefan I feared he'd end up playing referee.

"Let her come over here, keep it up and I'll throw you over my knee till you're a good girl for daddy." He says licking the palm of his hands as if he's ready for it.

I glare his way as once again Stefan stops me by holding onto my waist. He's just stopped me and Damon from starting a war. "Bonnie we just want to help you." Stefan says.

Now it's my turn to chuckle bitterly. "I find it funny that now you want to help me, but when I tried to reach out for the two of you, you were nowhere to be found." I nearly shouted. "You think I wanted this...that I wanted to marry someone I didn't love because that is far from the truth." I voiced causing the two brothers to look my way in concern. "I wanted my guardians to save me, from marrying him because I was unsure but you were nowhere to be found and like always I had to take matters in my own hands." I say while running my hands through my hair.

I hated feeling so unglued but I knew it had to happen. I couldn't be strong all the time, and I felt like this was the moment that I was about to break. The night I had found everyone I loved slaughtered I hadn't cried, I hadn't shed one tear, I knew then that it was the beginning of the end and even at the end, I still hadn't cried because the kind of pain I felt was imbedded deep within me. I had gone through a dark, dark period and Klaus had come to me, just as fractured as I was, but for a different reason and that was how we had started our "friendship". Klaus had been they're when I needed him, he didn't push like Melissa, or expect me to deal with it and move on like Kol, he just gave me what I needed and that was an outlet.

Flashback

I knew I shouldn't be here, the last place I needed to be right now was at some dinky bar on the outskirts of Harmony. Yet I couldn't bare to go home. I loved my friends and really I was glad that they had wanted to take care of me, but what I needed was to not think about how my world had been ripped apart.

I walk through the bar hoping that know one says a word to me because I just want to be alone. My powers have been off the charts and everyone seems to think it's the only way I'm dealing with my grief, and the magic is my only outlet. I find a seat smack dab in the middle of the bar and meet eyes with a bored bartender. He asks for i.d. and I roll my green eyes but retrieve a fake i.d. I've used too many times. If he thinks I'm younger the twenty-one he doesn't dare ask and I'm relieved. I order and beer and he quickly sends it my way. It's stale and warm and I hate it but I figure I'll start off with something light and get to the good stuff by the end of the night.

I'm halfway through my warm and watered down beer when I hear a voice from behind.

"Fancy meeting you here on a night like this." He says pulling up a chair beside me. I give him the once over before turning back to my half drank, warm, watered down beer. His name was Klaus and I knew he was Kols older brother. Apparently Klaus had only come to town whenever things he needed a break from Mystic Falls which is where he lived. From what I gathered he and Kol didn't really get along, especially since Kol had spent the better half of a century locked in a cedar box with some dagger in him. I shook my head, vampires you can't live with them, you can't live without them.

"I don't know where Kol is." I say already bored with our conversation. Klaus and Kol had a weird relationship they were like friendenimies but they were brothers. I knew that sometimes Kol would go on super secret missions for Klaus but that was only because Klaus didn't trust many people and Kol liked to get into trouble. As I look his way I notice that he's rosier then I've ever seen before and I wonder if he's just sucked the life out of someone, and that brings back the scene at my parents home and I'm shutting my eyes.

"Bonnie." He says resting his warm hand on my back. "Are you ok love, do you want me to call anyone, Kol maybe?" he questions and I notice how red his lips are.

"No" I say vehemently. "I'm fine.." I muster out. "I will be fine." I say this time with new found strength.

Klaus says no more and soon joins me. He tells me all about the girl who he thought was his kindred, how the last couple of nights he's reverted back to the old Klaus before said girl and how he isn't a good guy but a bad guy who wants to sink his teeth into something juicy. In return I told him to stop whining over some bitch who obviously didn't want him in the first place. I told him about finding my parents slaughtered drained and ripped apart by a vampire, or werewolf and vow that when I find him or her that I would watch them die. He tells me he can make me forget and how sexy he always thought I was.

"I reckon you need and outlet love, and I'll gladly offer up my service." He says his English accent making the words sound much more appealing.

I turn my head and look his way debating his proposition. "What's in it for you?"

He smiles his deep dimples showing and I can't stop looking at his rose-colored lips. "I get to sink my.."

I stop him before it starts. "I won't let you bite me." I say not bothering to let him finish the sentence. I already had a love hate relationship with vampires, mainly because my heart had always been broken by vampires (can't live with them, can't live without them).

"Well then" he says rubbing his hands together. "I can sink other parts of my anatomy into you." He says with a leer. And before I get a chance to reply he's picked me up and led me to the bathroom.

Our lips connect and its harsh and bruising. His hands are colder then I expected from the one and only hybrid but I say nothing. His jean clad knee pushes between my legs and I let out a cry as he soon removes his knee and glides his finger up my thigh. He's wearing a smirk and I can't help but feel like the big bad wolf was going to eat me up.

"Love" he murmurs as he laves my thigh before ripping my underwear from beneath my jean mini. "This is your last chance." He says as his finger skates beneath my skirt. His finger gets closer to where I want it and soon he's dipping his fingers into to me.

I watch to half lidded eyes as his fingers move at a rapid speed and before I've settled myself into a rhythm he replaces his fingers, as his mouth crashes on mine.

End of flashback

The one thing he hated most was dealing with feelings because in the end when you felt it always brought on more pain, but watching this girl who looked so broken in front of him, he couldn't help but feel something. He hated it, this was the first time he felt anything outside of anger and hurt after Elena had died and now he felt like he needed to protect the girl with the green eyes. But the question was, was it because it was what he was really feeling or was it the effects of finding her and that damned prophecy? "Tell me, you don't honestly trust him because if so that is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard." He says in a bored tone. "You'd be an idiot to trust him off all people and not us." he points out while Stefan continues to look pensive as usual.

I glared in the direction of blue steel eyes. I could not believe that he was supposed to be one of my guardians and what made it worst was that it was his blood, the blood of the great Damon Salvatore had made me an immortal witch. I guess that upside was that I wasn't a vampire because yeah that wouldn't work. "If I did trust Klaus, I guess it had everything to do with that drop of your blood running throughout my system." I say challenging as he kind of smirks as if to say touche, and for some reason im kind of smirking too.

"Bonnie, if we could've stopped you we would have, but" Stefan interrupts causing me to remember why I was pissed at them in the first place. I hated being told what to do, and the Salvatore brothers were the last people who should be able to dictate what I can and cannot do. Especially after what I had heard about them.

"But what Stefan?" I asked my anger boiling over. "My whole life I was told that you were supposed to protect me, supposed to watch over me yet you've never really done a damn thing." I say pausing. "And now you guys are telling me that my husband is pure evil and I'm supposed to trust you and go along with whatever you say without any questions or opinions."

"It's true, if you only knew the things he's done to this town to the people in it." He says deciding to help Stefan out.

I wasn't naive to either Salvatore brother. I was sure that sometime in their lifespan they too had decided to go down the wrong path. It was after all human nature. I crossed my arms and tapped my foot and waited for someone to say something.

For his part Stefan had made the decision in that split second to tell her why they hadn't been able to lend her support or comfort her. " We were saying goodbye to someone- she had drowned and we were saying goodbye." He chokes out. The one thing he and his brother had never spoke about much was her death.

At the sound of hurt and anguish I feel remorseful, because I was being a brat. I had made the decision to marry Klaus on my own accord and I couldn't blame Stefan or Damon for getting myself into this mess. And as for their horrible guardianship I had never needed them till I turned eighteen anyway.

"You loved her." I say making a move in the direction of the younger Salvatore. Stefan looks up at me with sad eyes. "It's the reason why your eyes are so sad." I say not being able to help myself as I move a bit closer. For some reason I just want to give him a hug, because Stefan wears his pain all over his body, in his pauses in the way he talks. He's hurting and I can sympathize because I'm still hurting.

"Very much." Stefan says looking from the girl in front of him to his brother.

I feel like something is tugging at me and turn around shocked to see that Damon too, is wearing a pained expression. It's then that I realize that the brothers may have been in love with the same girl. "You loved her too?" I say more to myself. I let go of Stefans hand and find myself tip toeing in the direction of his brother. By looking at his face, I could tell that there was something inside of Damon that was broken, like the broken inside of me. And I knew that if I had held his hand like I had done to Stefan, then I too would have to confront everything I had tried too deep down inside of me. The words I'm sorry is about to trip out of my mouth when Damon holds his hand up as if to stop me.

"Yeah well." He says pausing to take a sip of whisky. "This is a small town and you should get used to the way we do things down here. We always have love triangles and at least two at a two with some of the same people, love rectangle and my personal favorite a rectangle plus one! He says making his eyes go wide and then squinting in her direction.

I look between the brothers with a furrowed brow not understanding what the dynamic is in this town and if im honest I don't care to understand much about Mystic Falls. The only thing I can understand in this moment, is the amount of hurt that the Salvatore brothers are going through right now. I feel all the hurt and pain it's almost like it's slammed into me. "I'm sorry." I declare, its not fun getting your life ripped apart, I knew, I was living it. I want to say more but my cell rings. Its Melissa again and she let it slip that Klaus has now invited her to stay at the mansion. Im bursting with happiness after our phone call till I look at the brothers who are shaking their heads.

Damon chuckles causing me to look up. "He'll do anything to keep you and inviting your bestfriend to stay in his big mansion is one way to do so." He says, crossing his arms over his chest. "It's a way to keep you in line." He bites.

"He's right" Stefan agrees. "He knows you're with us, he told me who you were because he wanted to make a point. And now he's worried you'll back out of your deal with him because you know what role we will play in your immortal life."

For a moment I feel white-hot panic creep its way up and down my spine. It feels like all of this, is just too much too soon. I wasn't even sure if I were to take on the duty of trying to save on the supernatural world. Up until two weeks ago I was a 17year old girl who was still dealing of the loss of her family and now I'm a 18year old immortal witch who is destined to save the supernatural world.

Somehow I had found myself in the middle of a very dangerous game between my hybrid husband Klaus and my vampire guardians (saviors) the Salvatore brothers and I didn't know what to do. What if I were supposed to be with Klaus and the brothers were to aide us in the supernatural war. Or what if it were fated that I be with the brothers and we were supposed to take down Klaus.

"I have to go." I say suddenly, urgently. I can't bare to look at the brothers because I don't know what to think about the whole situation. The only thing I know is that I need to leave and now.

"Good!"Stefan says, "we can all go together and get to know each other. It won't happen overnight Bonnie but you will trust us, its just going to take time." He says with a sheepish look on his face.

"No!" I say suddenly hearing a sound of surprised echoed "no's from the brothers. If Klaus was indeed the really big bad guy everyone made him out to be, then I needed to protect Melissa. However I found it difficult to see Klaus as the monster that the brothers saw. On our wedding night he had seemed so honest, so open and I wasn't sure if that was an act or not, but I knew I needed to find out and I could only do that with him, not against him.

For his part Damon could do nothing but let out a sound that was between a scream, laugh and growl. It was so typical of Bennett women, not only were they martyrs but they were just as stubborn as blood stains on clean carpets. That made him shudder. He had known a thing or two about the Bennett witches and two things were for sure, they were defiant as all fuck and stubborn as hell. But this, this was ridiculous. Bonnie had belonged to him...to them and he wasn't going to let her go back to the big bad wolf.

Without much thought he zoomed in front of her, catching the caramel beauty off guard which caused her pretty mouth to hang ajar just as he threw her over his shoulder. The cave men had it right, sometimes you needed to just throw em, over your shoulder. "Your coming home with us, if you like it or not." He said fighting the urge to chuckle as a slew of curse words flew out of her mouth.

I let out a shriek as Damon continued to hold me against, my will because that was what he was doing. In fact he seemed so freaking pleased with himself. He had even dared to turn me to Stefan who looked slightly perturbed yet amused by his brothers caveman action. I close my eyes concentrating on setting his mind aflame, but nothing happened. "Ahhh" I scream only to gain yet another chuckle from him. I pound my tiny fist into his back, hoping to get power from my punch but find nothing.

Stefan crosses his arms in front of his chest and chuckles. "It's the bond." He clarifies as if he can read my mind, and I wonder if he can. Silently I send a big F U to him hoping he gets it but he just continues watching me. "The elders don't want you to use your power against us." He states, causing me to glare his way.

Swallowing hard I decide a different tactic. "Damon, will you please put me down so we can talk about this civilized." I say hearing Stefan chuckle at my obvious displeasure.

Seconds later Damon is carefully sliding me down his body. His strong hands grip me, just the right way as my feet touch the ground.

"You see what happens when you use that pretty mouth of yours for good." He says suggestively as he eyes her mouth. Damn he really needed to get laid because the things that ran through his mind just by looking at her should be illegal. He knew the moment his eyes had landed on her he wanted to have her, the only problem now, was that she might be the girl that he was supposed to have and if so, its too soon after Elena. That of course didn't mean, he couldn't fantasize.

"You use it as an excuse to cop a feel." I shot.

He winks. "If I really wanted to, I'd do more then cop a feel." He says enjoying the look that crosses her features.

"Are you two finished?" Stefan bites out annoyed. His voice brings me back to the reality of the fact that im still practically on top of someone I had just met, guardian or not. I feel a blush creep to my cheeks, as I take a much needed step back. However, Damon just seems to squint at his brother.

"She's my best friend, the only family I have left, aside from Kol." I nearly plead with the brothers. I understood that they were my guardians and everything, but some rules were meant to be broken.

For a beat we are all silenced and I hope my words mean something to the brothers. I couldn't lose anyone else in my life, and I knew they understood because they had just lost someone they had both loved dearly.

"We are your family now Bonnie." Stefan says lifting up my chin with his finger. I look into his green/gray eyes and know that he means it when he says we are family but that doesn't change my stance on things. "But, if she means that much to you-she can stay at the manor with us." He says meeting my eyes. He reaches and touches my face and I can't help but lean into his touch. His touch had made me feel comforted. It was insane how this bond thing worked. When Stefan touched me, I felt comforted. When Damon touched me, I felt unhinged and so many other things I couldn't even put into words.

"Yeah."Damon agrees from his corner. "We can keep you safe, let us." He says causing me shiver. His blue eyes are so blue and have to look away. I was sure he put many girls under his spell, which was why I needed to stay as far away from him as possible, but one look at Damon and I was sure I would forget about what I supposed to do and do what I wanted to do. The way he's looking at me almost makes me cave, as im sure many girls have caved before but I couldn't not when lives were on the line. The people of my small town, the witches that were left, would die without Klaus and his hybrids, I couldn't turn my back on the witches of Harmony.

My body felt charged and I swear I was beginning to feel claustrophobic. The brothers were too close...just too close. I felt each brother on either side of me and soon held my hands out, to keep them arms length away from me. "Listen, I know you guys have bad blood with Klaus, but I've made my decision." I say gaining a grunt from Stefan and I glare from Damon. "You don't have to like it-but you will accept it." I say my voice strong, as I look between the brothers and landing on Damon.

Soon Stefan has zoomed in front of me and his eyes are full of pain. "Bonnie, you need to stay away from Klaus, if you don't want to move in with us, just stay away from him." Stefan says his grey/green eyes lighting up and I can't help but to wonder what happen to the guy who just said I had to make my own decisions

"What did he do?" I asked waiting for either brother to say a word but neither said anything. If they couldn't give me a legitimate reason to leave to leave the people of my hometown unprotected from the war that was raging in Harmony, then I couldn't honestly leave Klaus.

"He tried to drive me crazy!" Stefan burst surprising me, so much that I take a step back. I watch as Stefan begins to pace and chance a look over to Damon who is drinking out of the bottle at this point. Maybe he had the right idea.

I lick my lips unsure of what to say or do, but find myself once again locking eyes with the youngest Salvatore. "What happen?" I asked resting my hand on his arm hoping to still his pacing.

"Damon had been attacked by a werewolf, and the only way to save him was to get a vile of blood from Klaus. " He says once again looking past me at his brother who nodded his head for Stefan to continue. "The only way he would save my brother was if I had gone back on human blood."

"But" I said furrowing my brows.

"I don't drink human blood. " He says pausing. "The effects on my system after so long from obtaining from it, it nearly shattered me...it did shatter me. I lost myself for a while but not before going insane." He paused. "So exchange for me being his best mate and back on human blood he saved my brother." Stefan says ashamed of his past actions.

"Now do you understand. " Damon says causing me to look his way. "Once Klaus finds your weakness, once he knows your weakness he uses it against you. You're know different from anyone else. He'll use your love for your friends and your town to keep you."

At the velocity of his words I felt silent tear break down. I had originally gone into this thing thinking that whatever Klaus had done before me, had happened before me; therefore, I could not judge him. But trying to drive someone insane, refusing to help someone else that was just, it was so wrong on so many levels.

I place my hands on either side of Stefans face, hoping he can understand why I am doing this. If Klaus was so cruel to people, he knew, his friend, he had spoken about Stefan before to me, he even called him his best mate, but to harm his friend and go as far as to only help if negotiation was reached was horrible. That told me that I needed to protect my friend, and the only way to do that was to stay with Klaus. "I won't go into this blindly."

I smile and fly into Stefans arms. "Thank you Stefan." I say before turning to Damon.

"This is a stupid idea." he blows. He had listened to her reasoning but it still had boiled down to nothing. He was going to protect her, the way he hadn't protected Elena from anything...everything. He was going to protect her the way he hadn't protected Stefan from his ripper ways. He was going to protect her. He was going to be on her like white on rice. He'd use every dirty trick in the book to get her where she belonged...with him...with them.

He swaggers her way with a glint in his eye and determination on his face. He watches as she eyes his suspiciously, and he makes a show of licking his lips. Bringing his arm around her, he smiled fully and listened as her heart sped up. "Come home with us, and I'll give you the best night of your immortal life.

I bit my lip and tugged him by the collar of his shirt. His face is close to mine as our breaths mingle. I can feel the heat of the stare of Stefan but continue to play this game. Damon bends down and I stand on my tip toes, so that our mouths are so close. "Goodbye Damon." I say teleporting away.

Using my power I place a kiss to the cheek of Stefan as my goodbye and wack Damon across the ass. If he thought he could seduce me to his whim, he had another thing coming.

Bonnie and Klaus

When I return home, I find that the sitting area is now a mess! I look around at the sudden destruction and find that chairs are strewn across the floor, the painting that once hung above the fireplace is now smashed, and broken glass is now shattered across the hardwood floors littering it, like snowflakes.

"Bonnie, so glad you've finally pried yourself away from screwing Damon Salvatore to remember where your home is and whom your husband is." He drones a drink in hand.

"Excuse me?" I say started by his sudden change in demeanor. I narrow my eyes his way, ready to give him a tongue lashing. I had heard Klaus speak nastily to a lot of people but he had never done so me. And this would be the first and last night time he would ever speak to me so harshly.

"You heard me!" he nearly spits out at her. She had been gone far too long, that was why he had sent Stefan on her trail. He didn't like knowing that Damon was sniffing around her and the only person who could ruin the chances of Damon Salvatore was Stefan Salvatore. But she still hadn't returned home and his mind had wandered just what his wife had been doing with the Salvatore brothers...her saviors.

Tossing the glass aside he zoomed so that he was now standing in front of her, his hands gripping her forearm. "I saw the way you were looking at each other." He said not bothering to further elaborate. "And don't bother telling me it was all in my head. You guys were basically fucking with your eyes."

I let out shaky breath. Klaus was mad, I had never seen him so angry and for the first time I wondered what the hell I had gotten myself into. "Klaus..." I called trying to pull away from him, which caused him to hold on tighter. "Klaus let go of me...your hurting me!" I cry alarmed.

He smiles fully at her. She didn't know who she was messing with. He wouldn't lose another woman not again. "Sorry love. I can't do that." He chirps out. "Not until you answer my question." pause. "Did you fuck him?" he questioned. And when she turned her head, his blood nearly boiled. He liked her, really liked her and knowing that she was with Damon of all people made his inside bubble with anger. "Answer me love" he demands in a sweet tone that was hidden with threats.

Im and dagger and a shield

I lifted my chin up and looked him square in the eyes. "Nothing happened. I didn't have sex with him." I say causing Klaus to finally release me. I shake my hands hoping to regain feeling as Klaus is suddenly at my side offering a drink. He looks ashamed by his actions and if I could I would rip him apart. Silently I take the offer of a drink and down the dark liquid. My nerves are shot and the alcohol has little effect on me.

"Bonnie" Klaus calls and I send him a glare.

"Why did you bring me here, and introduce me to the Salvatore brothers if you knew I belonged to them?" I asked causing him to look up at me.

He can't help but smile. "I was under the impression that you weren't the type of girl to belong to anyone." He says his eyes never leaving her. He had gone too far, he knew and he'd have to work really hard to regain her trust.

"I'm not." I say pushing away from him. "I don't belong to them, and I don't belong to you either."

I say turning on my heel and heading for my bedroom.

"Love. I'm sorry I thought you had left me." He says his head hung low. "I promise I'll make it up to you."

I didn't say a word and headed up to my enormous bedroom. Once inside I sink to the floor with my back against the door. My hands are shaking and it's the first time I realize that I am truly scared.