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"The fifth element." Bonnie mused aloud as she peered down her nose at Kai who was strewn across the front lawn of the Salvatore estate, an arrow piercing his heart. "Fire, water, wind and earth and the fifth element. Human emotion." She growled and kicked at the tufts of jade grass under her feet. Giving Kai one last fleeting glance she went back inside and replenished the walls. She'd noticed something in the last few days, the more she killed Kai, the longer it took before he came back to life seeking vengeance. She could only hope that the next time she killed him she'd get a full day of peace. It was beginning to drain her, emotionally speaking, being stuck in the endless loop of killing Kai, refuelling the protective wards and trying to understand what exactly it meant to hone in on 'human emotion'. Humans are notoriously convoluted when it came to matters of the heart; Bonnie knew this deep to the core of her being. Why else would she put up with Jeremy's wandering eyes and his suspiciously physical take on mourning her? Also, why else would Damon and Elena even be together if emotions were straightforward and simple? Bonnie sighed and rubbed at her temples. The other elements were compartmentalised even though their synergy was required, perhaps Bonnie had to compartmentalise all of the human emotions into distinct groups before focusing on one to take her home.
"Happiness," she thought aloud, "Love," she kept pacing, "Hatred," she chewed her lip then, "Sorrow." She frowned and jumped when she felt a tap on her shoulder.
"You're doing it wrong." Damon said playfully, grinning and wriggling his brows at her as she spun around to scowl at him. She lifted a brow and crossed her arms, she wouldn't admit it out loud, not even to fake Damon, but waking up without him had been surprisingly brutal. She'd fled out of his room and hadn't gone back since. She was just glad the wards had held and she hadn't woken up to Kai instead.
"What am I doing wrong?" She asked, jutting her chin out to emphasise that she meant business.
"Human emotion. You can't compartmentalise it," He explained, "And I know that's what you're trying to do. You can't categorise feelings, if you could, everything would be different."
"Oh?" She pressed, hoping he'd get to a point and not just toy with her like his glittering eyes told her he was doing.
"Yup," he said, popping the 'p' and hopping up onto to the counter and swinging his legs over the edge, "Come sit," he said tugging on her arm and she sighed but humoured him and lifted herself up onto the kitchen counter with him, "Think about it," he said, throwing an arm around her shoulder and gesturing with his free hand as he spoke, "One emotion easily floods into and dictates another when we are forced to react and process how we feel about something. For example," he said, looking down at her with an odd expression then, "When you let me go instead of you, you didn't do it because you're a wonderful person, you didn't do it because you felt compassion for me…no, you did it because you love me. That's why you were able to forgive me in your heart and that's why you said there was still hope for me. You love me Bonnie, and that love, as you realised it, however small and fleeting was able to latch onto me and the ascension device that sent me home…which is also why I'm still here." She frowned, leaning into his hold and keeping her eyes on the floor as she concentrated on his words.
"What do you mean that's why you're still here?" She asked, lifting her eyes to meet his but he had vanished into thin air. "Damon?" she called out in vain and then dropping her head into her hands, "Dammit Damon." She muttered sadly.
After Lucy's third nose bleed she had given Damon a moment to recuperate and had told Enzo to keep an eye on him while she tugged on Caroline's arm into the next room where an incapacitate Liv was sitting, bound up in a chair. Caroline had to admit that in a twisted way she was impressed with Lucy. The Bennett witch had cast a spell over her spacious apartment loft that any other witch who entered was immediately bound to her will. Seconds after Liv stepped through the door Lucy had gripped her by her jaw, locked eyes with her and spelled her asleep.
"Okay," Lucy began as she flexed and stretched the muscles in her upper body and her arms as she spun to face Caroline who was poking Liv's body. The sleeping witch's head rolled to the side, her form slumped over and slumbering. "Remember all those years ago when someone took Bonnie's powers from her?" Caroline frowned as she thought back.
"Yeah, this guy Jonas Martin who was working for Elijah." Caroline answered and Lucy nodded her head.
"Well, whatever his name was I felt it when Bonnie's powers were stripped from her, and I don't know how you feel about this one," Lucy jerked a thumb in Liv's direction, "But I may have to perform the same spell on her if we have any hopes of getting Bonnie back. I'm strong, hell even stronger than her, but I'm not strong enough to delve into this thing inside of Damon."
"Could you give Liv her powers back afterwards like he did?" Caroline asked the inevitable guilt seeping into her chest. Bonnie wouldn't have wanted someone to suffer to get her back home and Caroline was trying to do her best to honour her friend's memory.
"Sure, yeah," Lucy said easily, "It's actually more a case of adding another 'layer' to your magic as opposed to 'powering up'. Magic is notoriously finite, you could strip a thousand living witches of their powers and you still wouldn't be able to guarantee your own life at the end of casting a big spell. Ask our dear little Bon-Bon." Lucy smiled when she saw some confusion on Caroline's face, "Think of it this way, by taking Liv's power from her temporarily I'm finding another angle to approach this situation from, a different perspective. And we need as much of that as we can get." Caroline nodded then, finally coming to understand what she was saying.
"You said that something was inside of Damon…" Caroline said, her delayed realisation causing fear to creep into her tone. Lucy nodded sombrely.
"I can't tell what it is yet but I know that it has something to do with Bonnie, something magical to do with her. But his…his guilt is obscuring it from me. It's literally eating him from the inside out."
"…Is it going to kill him?" Caroline asked, her voice dropping down so low that Lucy settled on reading her lips instead of seeking out the sound of her words. The two women locked eyes then and Lucy's mouth pressed into a thin line.
"I don't know." She replied honestly, "I really don't know."
"What the hell are we doing in Cape Town?" Elena asked for what felt like the twentieth time to Stefan as they walked out into the fiery heat of the Southern Hemisphere. Elena blinked rapidly, scuttling after him as he hailed down a taxi. Stuffing their things into the boot he ushered her into the cab and rattled off an address. Elena stared at him until he looked back at her, raising her brows expectantly.
"Just trust me, okay?" Stefan asked tiredly and she shook her head.
"I've always trusted you Stefan, you're the one who made a habit of keeping things from me for my own 'protection'" Elena said, curling her delicate fingers around the words with a subtle disdain. Stefan sighed and ran his hands over his face before leaning back into the think upholstery of the car seat.
"We're going to figure out a way to fix Damon's hallucinations." He said finally and Elena looked at him incredulously, clearly having expected something more than that. Why hadn't he just said so in the first place? She asked him as much. "Because I need this to work Elena, I need to get my brother back." Stefan said, looking out into the pale blue summer sky as they sped to the heart of the city, leaving the airport behind in their dust.
"Then you need to trust me Stefan, because I want the same thing for you. And I also want Bonnie back so she better be a part of this plan of yours."
"She is." Stefan said with a determined nod, "That's why we're here; I have a friend who's agreed to help us."
Caroline watched as Lucy crouched down in front of Liv and pressed her index finger to the girl's forehead. Liv sucked in a shuddering breath as her eyes shot open.
"Gestillan." Lucy commanded softly and Caroline watched in fascination as Liv's eyes glazed over and her lips parted subtly as she fell under the spell of the witch in front of her. Lucy adjusted her position then and both women were aware when the other two vampires ghosted into the room, staying near the exit purely from instinct as they watched. The Bennett witch placed one hand over Liv's heart and another behind her head, holding her firmly in place. Sucking in a deep breath Lucy's hand flexed over Liv's chest, arching as her palm lifted and her nails dug into the material of the sweater right above the girl's heart. Liv's body began to shudder and her face twisted in growing discomfort. Lucy exhaled harshly and grunted and Caroline could almost see the exact moment when the power went from one body to another. Liv's body sagged once more and Lucy rotated her neck as she stood to her feet and turned to face her audience. "Damon, you're coming with me. You two, stay here, she'll be awake in the next ten minutes. Find out as much as you can about the Gemini Coven. She's human now, her hands are tied. I'll lock the door as a precautionary effort but please…don't torture her. She seems compliant enough, guilty; use that to your advantage." Lucy walked past Caroline and Enzo and waved a hand for Damon to walk ahead of her as she turned to say one more thing to Caroline, "I'm glad you came to me with this. I guess we're all carrying our own guilt when it comes to Bonnie Bennett." Caroline nodded and then her eyes fell down to the floor. All she'd been feeling lately was guilty and sad and lost, she would never, could never get used to losing Bonnie. But what scared her most of all, is that this time, with the way things were looking, especially with Damon the way he was even if they did get Bonnie back – would she even be the best friend Caroline had loved for most of her life?
"Come on gorgeous," Enzo said his voice snapping her out of her despair, "We don't have time to mourn, we're finally getting close to a glimmer of hope, I need you firing at all stations." Caroline nodded and threw a weak but bright smile his way and righted her posture.
"You're right." Caroline said, turning to face Liv, "Now let's see what this whole Gemini Coven hoopla's about."
Gestillan means 'bestill' or something (in ye Olde English). I have a thing for different dialects and languages and after brushing up on my Witchypedia I decided that not all chanting will be done in Latin. As sexy as it is. Also, magic takes so many forms in different cultures and over different continents so I'm bringing that into play here because if they actually put more of an effort into Bonnie's magic or magic at all really in TVD the show would be waaay cooler to me.
Because, it's magic and magic is awesome.
Stay excellent.