Damon just sat there staring at Bonnie as she mumbled every word to the bodyguard. He told her once when they were in the prison world that it annoyed him when she did that and to basically cut that shit out. He didn't realize it until now how much he missed it.
Bonnie who was getting tired of him staring at the side of her face, huffed "Take a picture it'll last longer." she said her eyes still on the movie.
When the flash of Damon's phone went off Bonnie turned sharply to glare at him "What?" he shrugged "it was your idea."
Ignoring him she went back to watching the movie. Damon of course took that as the opportunity to keep talking "You're cute when you're pissed off you know that?" he said absentmindedly.
Bonnie rolled her eyes "I'm tired and need to get to bed."
Damon nodded "Your room is down the hall to the right."
"I meant, I'm tired and want to go to bed in my house."
"I figured that, but since you don't have your memories yet. You're staying here."
"You mean since I don't have these so called memories of you, right?" she asked standing up "How long do you plan on keeping me here before I decide to cut my loses and just kill you?"
Damon looked unphased by her threat as he approached her "If you wanted out you would have escaped by now, if you wanted to kill me I would be dead right now. Neither things has happened and neither things will because you're just as eager to know about our history as I am to make sure that you do."
Damon was practically on top of her, every breath she exhaled he inhaled and vice
versa, she didn't know why but she was a little bit confused by his behavior "Have you always been this familiar with me?"
Even being thrown a little a bit by the question, his face remained neutral "What?"
"You seem to enjoy invading my space and it's not because you want to intimidate me, I mean because let's be honest" she laughed a little "we both know that's not going to happen."
Damon snorted "What's your point?"
"My point is that you enjoy getting familiar with me because you don't think I will mind, even though you've never done this before, with me that is."
Damon perked up a little at her observation, was she starting to remember things?
He licked his lips "I can admit we've been close but not as close as I would have.."
He decided to stop that train before it left the station.
Bonnie folded her arms across her chest when he went quiet especially since it was his first time doing so since meeting him "Don't stop on my account, I'm interested in seeing where this is headed."
Blue eyes gleamed "Is this headed somewhere?"
No, it wasn't.
But she figured if she kept him talking long enough she would be able to get clues as to where they were. Thanks to him she was unconscious during the rest of the trip here and looking around now she didn't see a map or anything else that pointed to their location. So Bonnie thought that if she could get him talking for as long as possible maybe a few details would spill from his lips.
Bonnie ignored his question "I'm confused by our relationship and this so called history that we have" she said sitting down on the arm of the chair "You claim that I erased you and let's just say that you're right and I did erased you. Why would I do that?"
Damon swallowed hard. He knew this conversation was bound to happen especially since he wanted her to get her memories back but for some reason he never prepared the right answer or at least one that didn't make the situation worse.
Damon knew turning Bonnie was arguably the worse thing he ever did, the betrayal in turning her into the one thing she never wanted to be was deafening especially since he knew her views on becoming a vampire. Damon could recall when Enzo subtly asked Bonnie to turn for him at the Miss Mystic Falls Pageant. Although he was dancing with Caroline his attention was on Bonnie and her reaction.
He was surprised when Bonnie said she would turn for at the end it went against everything Bonnie was at heart. He was relieved when she gave Enzo back that ugly ass necklace only to get it back a day later for "healing purposes".
Damon couldn't believe it.
But even knowing how Bonnie felt about turning that still went over his head, Bonnie's life meant more to him then her values and pride as a Bennett witch, period.
Damon shrugged, turning his back on her instead deciding to clear the table "I don't know, maybe you were afraid of what could happen? Or what would have happened if you were to embrace who you are now at heart?"
He finally turned back around to look at her "You're a vampire now. You have the power to live your life on the edge with no rules or judgment for eternity and that scared you."
Bonnie merely looked at him "If you knew me as well as you claimed you did you would've known that, that's not what I would have wanted at all. I took risks all the time when I was a witch for the people I loved and I alone payed the price in the end. I didn't have to live for eternity to brace who I really was, I knew that. I was a Bennett witch the most powerful supernatural to walk the earth and now I'm not. How could I ever be happier with being anything else?"
Silence.
Bonnie nodded suddenly feeling tired "I'm going to bed."
When Bonnie vanished to her room, Damon didn't go as well as he hoped it would so instead of chasing after her he grabbed his keys. He had an original to catch up with.
Caroline tried to call Bonnie's phone but only getting the voicemail again, she hung up and after a beat she pressed five on the speed dial "Where are you?"
Elena closed the door "I'm at the boardinghouse, why?"
"I need a list of all the places Damon has ever taken you." Caroline said walking to her car.
Elena frowned "Damon would never take Bonnie to anyplace we've been."
Caroline stopped dead in her tracks "Seriously? are we really doing this again, Elena? We need to find Bonnie."
"I'm aware of that Caroline, Thank you." Elena said starting to get really tired of Caroline chastising her "I want to find Bonnie more than you could possibly imagine but we're not going to get anywhere if we're at each other's throats every five seconds, That means you have to let me help."
Silence
More Silence.
"Fine, I'll be there in twenty minutes." Caroline said before hanging up the phone.
Elena looked down at her phone and sent out a text. She didn't lie when she told Caroline she wanted to find Bonnie because she did, she also knew that Damon would never hurt Bonnie now that they were close, but that's not what she was worried about. Elena hasn't seen or spoken much to Damon since the night he wouldn't flat out deny that his feelings for Bonnie have changed to something other than platonic and hearing how he lost it when he found out Bonnie erased him from her life left her a little unsettled.
So, yes she wanted to find her friend, but she also wanted to save her relationship with Damon.
"Alexandra," Richie sighed "I'm sorry, Bonnie's missing?"
Caroline jumped turning around to see two men in suits approaching her, she stuffed her phone in her pocket "Who are you?"
"Answer the question."
Caroline narrowed her eyes at his attitude "Like that's going to happen."
Seth moved to defuse the situation between his brother and the blonde "Hey" he yelled and then looked at Caroline "I'm sorry my brother tends to get a bit, sensitive when the people he cares about are in danger. I have to be honest I'm not much better so if something happened to Bonnie then-"
"Then what?"
The Gecko brother's turned around and saw Stefan standing there with his arms cross, neither brother was impressed "Who the hell are you?"
"That's my question for you." Stefan said moving to stand in front of Caroline.
"We're two guys who's willing to do anything to find out what the hell happened to their friend?" Richie said taking a step towards Stefan.
Seth stopped him "Relax, we're obviously not getting anywhere so allow me to introduce ourselves. I'm Seth and this is my brother Richie. We're friends of Bonnie."
Caroline looked at Stefan "We're Bonnie's friends."
"Does she know that?" That was Richie.
Caroline narrowed her eyes "I've known Bonnie since we were kids and she tells me everything and she never once mentioned anyone named Gecko " she shook her head "so excuse me if I don't buy it."
"I bet it bothers you that you're not included in every part of her life doesn't it?" Seth said looking the blonde up and down.
Caroline got defensive "Who the hell are you to question me and my relationship with Bonnie asshole?"
Richie rolled his eyes "Are you going to tell us where Bonnie is or not?"
"Not." Caroline said almost childishly.
Stefan looked at the brothers not really trusting them but it was obvious they cared more than enough about Bonnie to be concerned about her. However, it didn't escape him that he only picked up one one heart beat when he first approached. He looked at the tall one "What are you?"
Richie looked at Stefan "Excuse me?"
Not bothering to elaborate Stefan said "I think we all know what I mean."
The corner of Richie's mouth lifted "I'm a con artist who's trying to break his streak of bad luck."
Stefan knew he was hiding something, but he also knew he wasn't going to get it out of them, at least not now. So he changed the subject "How do you know Bonnie?
Seth looked at Caroline "Bonnie was in a tough spot when we met her, she was on the run from some organization who wanted to use her as a guinea pig, she wanted to get away for awhile."
Caroline who didn't really buy that Bonnie would tell them this when she was suppose to be hiding "Did she tell you this?"
"No, she made up an entire bull shit story when we met her. She didn't tell us the truth until two days ago when we saw her at some party with some guy." Richie responded.
Caroline and Stefan looked at each other but it was Caroline who asked "Did he have black hair and really blue eyes?"
Seth shrugged "Hell if I know, but he was a real prick and you can tell he didn't like her talking to us. "
"Don't you just hate the jealous type?" Richie asked looking at Seth.
Yup, it was Damon.
So Damon saw Bonnie at a party before she erased her memories? "Were they arguing when you saw them?"
Seth and Richie looked at each other "Was he the one that took her?"
"He won't hurt her, he just needs her to remember a few things."
Seth looked almost confused "Remember what?"
Caroline sighed "How much time do you have?"
When Bonnie first walked into the room she noticed that the room Damon said was her's was decorated with her taste in mind. All of her favorite books and movies lined the bookshelves, her clothes and underwear were all in the dresser drawers and closet. The room even smelled like her.
It was as if she was here before.
Slightly freaked out Bonnie walked back out of the room "Damon." she yelled and found the house empty.
She tried the door and windows and found it locked from the inside "Of course he hired a witch to spell me in here."
Bonnie sped through the house in search for a phone or anything that would point to where she was so she can get the hell out of here.
Damon and Bonnie were on the outskirts of Louisiana so it didn't take him long to find out any places the Mikaelson clan would hang out. He caught a lucky break from a bartender, a pretty little blonde name Camille who said Rebekah came there every once in a blew moon. He can tell she was hiding something and before he could question her she vanished and his back was being slammed on the bar by the she devil herself.
Damon laughed "Nice to see you too sexy Bex."
Rebekah whose hand was around his throat tighten "What the hell are you doing here?"
Damon surprisingly used enough strength to push the original off of him "You've been gone for years and you're still a pain in my ass."
Rebekah shrugged "How else will you get your worth?"
Damon scowled thinking it was best to get to the point "You compelled Bonnie to forget me, I don't want to know why I just want you to fix it."
"Did Bonnie send you here?" when Damon went silent she laughed "Of course she didn't because she doesn't remember you. If Bonnie wants her rather unmemorable memories back she can come see me, I'll be happy to do it."
"Why the hell would you help her anyway? You don't even like her."
Rebekah shook her head "I didn't know Bonnie enough to not like her, I didn't like the company she kept and the fact she tried to kill my brother. In fact I respected her and everything she's accomplished despite being surrounded by a bunch of parasites who only valued her when they needed something from her."
Damon nodded "And you can relate?"
Rebekah shrugged "Bonnie and I found out we have a lot in common, she was forced into turning into a vampire by someone who claimed to care about her like I was."
Damon's jaw flexed as he balled up his fist, his knuckles turning white "Only difference is I did it to protect Bonnie."
"When did you start to care? Bonnie isn't Elena so her life meant nothing to you" she approached Damon "But I guess that still applies because you killed her without a second thought. I don't know what happened between you two but I know she deserves to forget you."
Damon and Rebekah stared at each other and after a while he walked off.
With Rebakah's laughter as his soundtrack.
It's been over an hour and she still hadn't found a single clue as to where she was or how she could get out of here.
Bonnie heard the door open "I should be surprised that you had a witch spell me in here but after being kidnapped as a way to force faux memories to return, I'm not surprised by anything anymore." she laughed almost bitterly.
Damon looked at Bonnie before throwing his keys on table "We're a few miles from New Orleans, you use to love it here."
Silence.
"We were trapped in a prison world together with no one but each other for months and after a while of arguing and board games we took a road trip and we stopped here before heading to New Orleans. This place was mines but I never used it until we made it ours."
Bonnie cleared her throat "I don't remember."
Damon nodded "That's my fault and I'll spend the rest of eternity trying to make up for what I did to you."
Bonnie's brow furrowed "What did you do to me?"
Damon swallowed the lump in his throat "I killed you."
AN: Damon couldn't hold off the truth for too long, What Bonnie does after this is anyone's guess but I'm sure she won't take this well. As usual drop me a line and let me know what you think.
