Damon led the girls through the same metal door and up two flights of stairs. They walked down a wide hallway until they came to a stop at a white door.

"This is your room. Your bags are already in there." Damon explains.

Upon entering the room there was a large king-sized bed facing the right, with gold and white sheets. The floor was a low beige carpet. On either side of the bed were white nightstands. On the far forward wall stood a matching white dresser with a large mirror spanning across it. The walk-in closet was to the left upon entering the room.

"Wow," Bonnie muttered observing her surroundings

"Is that a bathroom?" Caroline said walking over to the far left doorway.

"There are only 5 bags," Bonnie said looking at the luggage stacked at the foot of the bed.

"So?" Damon retorted.

"We had 6," Bonnie replied.

"Oh yeah your weirdly large suitcase full of military-grade weapons are locked away for safekeeping," He smiled.

"What?!" Caroline exclaimed popping her head out from the bathroom.

"Don't worry, no one is gonna steal your stuff," Damon said.

"We will keep it until you two can be trusted," Stefan added stepping into the room.

"Said the kidnappers," Bonnie mumbled.

"We didn't only have guns in there," Caroline said.

"You don't need your stacks of cash either," Damon replied.

"My favorite boots we're in there!" Caroline snapped back.

"You can survive without a few pairs of shoes." He said leaving the room.

"Whatever," Caroline rolled her eyes.

"If you need anything down the hall is some staff," Stefan said on his way out.

"Oh my gosh!" Caroline said running out of the bathroom in a robe and towel wrapped around her head. "Look at these adorable soaps," She was referring to the cupcake shapes soaps that were in the bathroom.

"Aw, and it smells good" Bonnie agrees, holding one in her hand. She was currently on the bed reading a magazine she found in the room.

"Right," Caroline said.

"I wonder where those Salvatore boys are," Caroline smiles flopping back on the bed.

"Really Care?" Bonnie sighed going back to her Cosmopolitan.

"Come on Bon you know they are so cute. I have my eye set on Stefan." She says rolling over onto her stomach and propping up on her elbows.

"Yeah he sure is a charmer," Bonnie replies sarcastically.

"Whatever, I saw you eyeing Damon," Caroline teased.

"Well it's not my fault he looks good in a suit," Bonnie mumbles turning the page in the magazine.

"We should go shopping," Caroline suggested.

"Really?" Bonnie was skeptical.

"We are in New York obviously we should go shopping," Caroline elaborates on her idea.

"Were on Long Island not on Fith Avenue Care. This isn't a vacation, we were kidnapped." Bonnie stressed.

"But our kidnappers gave us a room with cupcake soap." She emphasized the last part.

Bonnie put down her magazine "You think they let us leave?" She said considering the idea.

"Nope, but we can sneak out," Caroline had a hint of trouble in her eyes. "Get dressed, "

"My hairs' still wet," Bonnie argues referring to the curly mess on her head

"That's what messy buns are for," Caroline responded rolling off the bed.

"Well, theirs nothing else to do," Bonnie sighed. Caroline smiled brightly.

"You look cute," Caroline said eyeing Bonnie's outfit. It was a black and white plaid pencil skirt with a black top and black tights. Paired with black boots and a grey knitted sweater. Her hair was down her natural curls resting a little past her shoulders.

"Loving the shoes but heels really," Caroline teased.

"You know me, their booties by the way," Bonnie said proudly.

"I should wear heels then too," Caroline suggested.

"Totally," Bonnie said.

Caroline began looking through her suitcase, "Oh man I only have my knee-highs," She sighed remembering her other boots were in the consolidated bag.

"It's fine just put on that jean jacket," Bonnie suggested.

"Smart," Caroline said finishing her ensemble. It was a light pink sweatshirt dress that stopped mid-thigh. She put on her oversized denim jacket with a few rips and some crystal embroidery. Lastly, she pulled on her brown knee-high heels.

"I'm so glad it's September. I hear New York Winters are brutal." Caroline said looking in the mirror one last time. She brushed her freshly pressed hair to one side of her head.

"Ready?" She asked Bonnie who was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Yep," She said.

They walked a little down the hallway until they were stopped by a man in a suit. They assume the security of some sort.

"Where are you two going?" The bearded man asked.

"Out." They said simotanioisly and continued walking. The man blocked the exit.

"You both are under orders to remain in your room." The man said in his groggy voice.

"Come on we need to go shopping," Caroline pleaded.

"Whatever you need we have it in the house, " He responded.

She scoffed.

"Your cash was confiscated." The man added.

"Who said we were paying for anything," Caroline said smirking.

"Back to your room," The man ordered.

"Fine," They both groaned and began to turn around.

"Where's Stefan?" Caroline asked innocently.

"Really Care," Bonnie said.

"Hush," Caroline told her friend.

"Both Salvatores are in their quarters." The man explained.

"Ok," Caroline smiled.

They walked and made a left turn back to their room. Caroline lingered at the corner.

"What are you doing," Bonnie said full of confusion.

"Waiting till he's gone," Caroline explained.

"Let's go," She said when the security guard was no longer in sight.
-

They were able to call a cab and made it to Central Plaza. It was the closest mall with designer outlets. The ride was a good twenty-five minutes long.

"So where to first?" Caroline asked.

"Oh my god, they have a Neiman Marcus! We are definitely checking that out later" Bonnie said pulling Caroline into a Macy's on her left.

"Stop I need that bag," Caroline said moving towards a coach tote.

"When do we ever go anywhere?' Bonnie laughed.

"I'm at least getting those sunglasses," Caroline said walking towards a sunglasses rack. The designer were under lock and key in a glass case counter.

"What can I help you, with?" The cashier asked.

"Can I try those shades in the first row, please," Caroline replied pointing at the display box. She then eyed some of the watches displayed to the left.

"Oh their cute I like those in the back," Bonnie added.

The cashier took both of them out of the glass case and got a bag and two glasses case to place them in.

"No bag we will wear them out the store," Caroline said. The women proceeded to put the empty glasses case in the bags. "That will be $520," she said typing something in the cash register. Caroline handed her a black master's card. They both exchanged 'thank yous' and proceeded to walk out of the store.

"Why did you take those men's watches, Care?" Bonnie asked her friend.

"For the Salvatores of course," She replied. "This one you'll give to Damon, this one I'll give to Stefan, and they won't be mad that we snuck out," Caroline explained.

"You really like him," Bonnie said.

"They obviously live a life of crime like us who better to like," Caroline said.

"I don't know," Bonnie shrugged. "Mabey a lawyer, or doctor old and divorced of course. Easy money." She laughed.

Caroline giggled.

Bonnie and Caroline continued through the mall not passing a store without going in and not leaving a store without at least one thing. Paid or not. The girls definitely stood out with their outfits and multiple shopping bags full of designers. They did their best to avoid the crazed catcallers.

"Do you see those shoes!" Caroline squealed looking through the window of a DSW.

"Yes!" Bonnie exclaimed. They entered the store and Bonnie's phone began to ring.

"Hold on," She told Caroline who was already requesting shoe sizes from one of the employees.

"Hello, who's this?" There was no caller ID.

"Where the hell are you two?" A familiar voice said.

"Oh it's you," Bonnie said to Damon.

"Where? Are? You?" He reiterated.

"The manor of course." She lied sweetly.

"Neither of you are in your room." Damon said.

"We went to the bathroom," Bonnie said.

"Your room has a bathroom," Damon shot back.

"We went to the kitchen first," She added.

"You don't know where the kitchen is - what's that noise?" He asked picking up some of the background sounds of the busy mall.

"Nothing," Bonnie said too quickly.

"I spot some Ted Baker's, let's go before the line gets long." Care said Bonnie a little too loudly.

"Are you at Central Plaza," He asked clearly hearing Caroline."

"Who's that," Caroline asked. "Care shh," Bonnie said turning away from her.

"We just went for a little walk," Bonnie said.

"A walk yeah, To the fucking MALL!" Damon exclaimed.

" It's them?" Caroline said with wide eyes, putting the pieces together.

"We're coming," Damon said as Caroline snatched the phone from Bonnie.

"Care," Bonnie chastised.

"Hey, don't be a buzzkill, we just wanted to get some stuff we'll probably be at Sephora by the time you get here ok byeeeee," Caroline said into the phone before she hung up. She began to smile.

Bonnie let out a laugh. Oh, how fun it is to cause trouble.

At Salvatore Manor

"God, they're trouble," Damon said hanging up the phone.

"Exactly why we should recruit them," Stefan said.

"Not gonna happen, how the hell did they even manage to find their way around the manor?" He said grabbing his jacket. The manor was less of a house more of an estate.

Stefan shrugged. "Let's just go. My car or yours,"

"We can take yours," Damon said as they made their way out.

At Central Plaza

"What do you think?" Bonnie said as she held up a lipgloss.

"That's not your color," Caroline said. She moved over and started eying the assortment of glosses. "This one," She held up a different shaded pink.

"Perfect, thanks," Bonnie said as she moved into a different aisle.

"Omg care I found those mink makeup brushes you were talking about," Bonnie said.

"Perfect," She said rounding the corner, "One for me, one for you." She said placing one in each of their baskets.

"Ready to check out?" Caroline asked.

"We probably should my arm is about to fall off," Bonnie said switching her basket of goodies to her other hand.

They made their way to the cashier and paid for all their items the total came up to some four-digit number that it really shouldn't have but they were able to get it down to three digits by "putting some items back." The girls were still at the register when Bonnie's phone rang again.

"It's the Salvatores," She told Caroline as she walks to the front of the store near the perfumes to answer the call.

"Which store are you in right now?" Damon asked.

"Well hello to you too. We are leaving Sephora right now." She said admiring the perfumes on display.

"When you leave make a right and walk till you reach the corner, then make a left. There are some benches there and you should see a Dunkin Donuts on the right." Damon explained.

"Mhmm," Bonnie hummed while she slipped a perfume into a shopping bag.

The Salvatores arrived at 3:30 and waited for the girls at said location. They doned dark-colored clothes and leather jackets. They too stood out among the crowd.

"Where are they?" Stefan asked checking his phone for the second time. It was nearing four o'clock.

"When I called them in the parking lot they said they were leaving Sephora," Damon explained with a roll of his eyes.

"Well, they should have been here half an hour ago," Stefan mumbled.

About a minute passed and the girls rounded the corner with bags in each hand.

"You said you were leaving Sephora," Stefan said.

"We were but... we walked passed Aldo and couldn't help ourselves," Caroline said.

"Let's go," Stefan said.

"We need to get our bags," Bonnie said.

"You're holding them," Damon said confused.

"Not all," Bonnie said in a matter-of-fact tone.

They led the boys into a Macy's and walked until they reached a perfume counter. They smiled at the old women behind the counter.

"Spasibo, chto derzhite nashi sumki Vera," Bonnie said with a smile as the women proceeded to send bags upon bags over the counter.

"Net problem, love" The women replied.

"Dasvidaniya," Both girls called as they left.

"You guys know her?" Stefan asked.

"No we met her today," Bonnie said.

"She's really nice, she said we reminded her of her grandbabies and offered to hold the bags we had," Caroline added.

"You speak Russian," Damon asked Bonnie.

"ochevidno," She said rolling her eyes.

"You could have warned us, we would have brought a shopping cart," Stefan said.

"Shut up," The girls said simultaneously.

When they reached the car Damon and Stefan helped them with their bags. Then they all climbed in. Stefan in the drives seat and Damon in the passenger seat the girls sat behind them.

"We took all your cash how did you pay for all that?" Stefan asked.

"We didn't pay for half that stuff," Caroline said nonchalantly. The girls could feel them judging.

"We didn't steal it it's in shopping bags, We just convinced the cashiers to give to us for free," Bonnie explained.

"Are you guys mad we snuck out?" Caroline asked.

"No," Stefan said. "Annoyed," Damon said at the same time.

"We got you guys something," She said as she nudged Bonnie.

Bonnie passed the small shopping bag to Caroline and she gave Damon the bag with two boxes in them.

Damon opened one "A watch." he said. His facial expression was not readable.

"Wow," Stefan said looking at one of the watches when they met a red light. "Did you guys steal this too?" He asked.

"Do you wanna know?" Caroline shot back.

"Nah, it'll sit better with my conscience," Stefan replied. "When we get back we need to discuss some stuff, especially ground rules." He stressed the last part.

"We wanted to go shopping and you guys wouldn't have let us," Bonnie said.

"Not entirely true-" Stefan began

"-She's right we wouldn't have," Damon said cutting him off.

"Don't you guys have people to deal with your hostages," Caroline cut in.

"Your not hostages. There are very few people who know where you are and it has to stay that way," Stefan turned to his brother, "Non sanno quanto siano importanti le informazioni su quel file."

"Bene" Damon responded.

They were seated in the same interrogation room as before. Except, no handcuffs and much less tension.

"So we understand you want revenge on Elegen" Stefan began.

"Correction, we want them dead," Caroline snarked.

"Ok so do we. How would you like to work together?" Stefan proposed.

"We work alone," Bonnie said.

"We have resources money weapons, everything you need to take down something like Elegen." Stefan began. "Now we know your pretty capable yourself just image how much you can do with us on your side."

"Non abbiamo nemmeno ottenuto il padre di essere d 'accordo ancora" Damon cut off Stefan.

"Lo farà" Stefan said. (He will)

"Odia quando gli andiamo dietro le spalle." Damon shot back. (He fucking hates when we go behind his back.)

"Lo superera, "Stefan said. (He'll get over it.)

"Stefano," Damon said with authority in his voice.

"I'll take the blame!" Stefan said trying to get his brother on his side.

"I'm the eldest the blame will automatically be on me!" Damon said.

They stared each other down for a second.

"Se mi metto nei guai Stefano lo giuro-,"

"Are you guys done with your family meeting?" Bonnie asked.

"Yes, we are," Damon said. "So how would you like to work together?" Damon stated through gritted teeth glaring back at Stefan.

Caroline and Bonnie exchanged looks and did a few hand motions for about a minute. The Salvatores were thoroughly confused.

"Fine, but we have a few demands," Caroline said.

"You deal with it, Stefan," Damon said with a smirk.

"List your demands," Stefan said.

"We can come and go as we please," Bonnie said.

"You can leave the manor if and only if you alert one of us first and one of us must escort you wherever you wanna go. Since the security guard are of no uses," Stefan said

"Good enough," Bonnie said.

"You show us where the kitchen and we get free use of it,"

"Really?" Stefan asked.

"What, I like to cook when I get the chance," Caroline explained.

"Deal," Stefan said.

"We want our duffel bag back," Caroline said.

"Nope," Damon but in immediately.

"Keep the guns, I had to change my outfit today because I didn't have my shoes," Caroline said.

"Ok well give you your shoes," Stefan said.

"I want access to your library," Bonnie said.

"I need the wifi password," Caroline said immediately afterward.

"Deal and deal. Is that it?" Stefan asked.

"Yeah, I guess," Bonnie said looking at Caroline, she nodded as well

"Ok we will have meetings as often as possible to-"

"Do you have a room with a bigger closet," Caroline cut off Stefan.

"We can give you separate rooms," Stefan offered.

"No," Bonnie said.

"Yeah, no" Caroline agreed.

"Are you too..." Damon trailed off pointing between Caroline and Bonnie.

"No," Bonnie said. "Were like sisters,"

"The closet situation," Caroline continued.

"We can add a clothes rack," Stefan offered.

"That'll do," She shrugged.

"Is that all?" Damon asked.

The girls nodded.

"Great, we can shake on it," Stefan said.

They all stood and shook hands.

"Do you have a shooting range?" Bonnie asked.

Damon began "Yeah, I'm heading there tomorrow would-"

"Great we can begin around 10. "Bonnie said cutting him off.

"So where's the Kitchen?" Caroline asked

"Time for your tour," Damon said leading the girls out of the room.

I didn't make too many changes t this chapter I actully liked how it came out the first time and the revision I was making didn't make sense so I just kept most of it. But thank you my amazing Belavore fans for all your support. :)

Translations:
Spasibo, chto derzhite nashi sumki Vera: thank you for holding our bags Vera
Net problem, love: no problem love
ochevidno: obviously
Non sanno quanto siano importanti le informazioni su quel file: They have no idea how important the information on that file is.)
Bene:good
Non abbiamo nemmeno ottenuto il padre di essere d 'accordo ancora: We didn't even get Father to agree yet
Se mi metto nei guai Stefano lo giuro: If I get in trouble Stefano I swear