The song is "What The Water Gave Me" by Florence & The Machine
When Damon came to he was spooning Bonnie, his arms wrapped around her and locked in place. But her steady heart and rhythmic breathing showed that she was perfectly content as she slept. He almost pinched himself; he was so sure he was dreaming. But she was so warm; she'd even managed to warm his tired bones. She didn't make him cold anymore, because he wasn't interacting with the memory of her but with her actual person. Which reminded him…
"What the hell?" She hissed as he shook her awake. She turned to face him with a groggy scowl on her face and he'd have ooh'd and aah'd at the adorableness of it all if it wasn't for the one pressing question that fell out of his mouth the minute she opened her eyes.
"How did you get back?" He demanded, not angrily, but more out of a niggling curiosity to discover how she managed to get herself out of purgatory without the ascension device and without Kai straggling somewhere behind. She looked at him then, her back still pressed against his chest and her neck turned when her heartbeat stuttered before speeding off into an unprecedented pace as she tried to wriggle out of his hold. Both sets of their eyes were still half blue and half green and it sure made a jarring addition to their aesthetic – both of them were already beautiful, but with their eyes these two colours…they looked otherworldly. "Don't move, just tell me. How did you do it?" She sighed and turned around in the circle of his arms so that she was facing him. Something told her they were being listened to by whoever else was in the house. She could practically smell traces of Caroline's strawberry shampoo in the air, or maybe she was just being paranoid. "Bon…" Damon prompted her and she blinked rapidly, trying to remember what he asked.
"The fifth element." Bonnie managed to get out, despite her senses suddenly rising up and over her. Damon was too close, every detail of his face too acutely recounted by her eyes; the smells crawling in through the door from the kitchen were too sweet and too mouth-watering. "Something weird happened when I sent you home."
"No kidding." Damon answered, watching with a furrowed brow as a list of emotions flitted over Bonnie's face as she lay in his hold.
"No…" Bonnie shook her head as she tried to look at him to convey what she meant and not just, you know, look at him. "I mean… I mean my Damon…I mean," She wanted to smack herself on the forehead, "The you that I hallucinated –"
"Your Damon, yes go on," Damon said, as casual about it as he was serious, because he knew exactly what she meant. He'd had a Bonnie of his own despite the torture it had brought him.
"–He said something to me, he said," she frowned as she thought back to 'Damon' pointing around himself and then at her heart, "He said a part of you stayed behind with me because you were in my …you were in my heart." Bonnie swallowed uncomfortably. Damon pursed his lips, it didn't sound like something he'd get caught dead saying…Ironically. But he couldn't dispute the logic behind it. Slowly he began to nod.
"So what does that have to do with this fifth element?" He wondered and she pulled an extremely awkward face. "…What."
"The fifth element is love." Bonnie said, looking like she wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
"So you're saying…" Damon began, making sure to keep his tone light, "That because we love each other," he raised his brows at her as he looked down at her making sure she was paying attention to the fact that he wasn't denying it, "And you sent me home instead of yourself, something interdimensionally magical happened and then I started hallucinating you?" Bonnie frowned then.
"Damon if I knew sending you back alone would have turned you into a crazy person, I never would have done that to you, I wouldn't have –" he pressed her mouth shut between his index and forefinger and mulled it all over.
"That's not what I meant," Damon pointed out, releasing her when her cheeks started heating up from her glare, "I don't think the hallucinations were all though."
"They aren't." Bonnie said with a fierce nod. "After we had that dream …in the woods, the first one?" He nodded, "I woke up on the Whatever Side with this gash on my forehead where I fell after passing out on the stair case," Damon frowned as he looked at her forehead, it was flawless, had she spelled it? "It healed all by itself Damon." Bonnie said, her heterochromic eyes boring into his.
"Lucy tried to protect herself with a spell when I was deciding whether or not to feed on her," Bonnie's eyes went wide until they narrowed suspiciously.
"Lucy's here? Why did you try and drink from her? Why didn't her magic work on you?" Damon shrugged, adjusting his hold on Bonnie's waist.
"Probably the same reason you can heal quickly and why your senses are all over the place…"
"How did you? –"
"When you first looked at me your pupils fluctuated repeatedly and you looked at me like someone who was seeing the world for the first time …through a vampire's eyes." Bonnie's mouth fell open. Before she could respond the door burst wide open, sending her already frantic heart into a tailspin. She clutched her chest as Caroline beamed at her, trying to steady her senses.
"Okay I'm done pretending I'm not listening!" Caroline burst out as she flashed to Bonnie's side of the bed. Bonnie's eyes went from Damon to Caroline and back a few times before she practically climbed onto the blonde's lap. Damon moved to sit up and rest his back against the headboard. Both girls squealed and Damon watched as a small part of the world he'd come to know fell back into its rightful place as Bonnie laughed as she wiped away Caroline's tears…Damon just didn't know how much of the world they'd come to know and fight for was still salvageable…And he also didn't know why but that suddenly didn't faze him as much as he thought it would. Their old sense of normal; with Bonnie dying periodically, this 'life' with him, Stefan and Elena; even Caroline…They could all use a change. Damon smiled as Bonnie turned to grin at him. As much as he hated that Elena got her memory's erased he …in that moment, envied her because it would be so much easier to ease into this transition that was lifting up and over all of their heads. But he'd do it the right way, he'd change along with whatever came their way now and it would make him a better man for it.
"Caroline, my uh- my friend from home," Stefan stammered, "She called and said that Bonnie somehow managed to get back." Amelia sat back in the dining room chair, with Fahada and Imran on either side of her. Elena was next to Stefan on the other side of the rectangular wooden dinner table. The table itself could seat about twenty people.
"You must bring them both here if the trouble persists." Imran advised while Stefan nodded.
"I think it does."
"Then that settles it, we have plenty of room, tell them to come."
"Uh, no!" Caroline harped and Bonnie winced and then pretended to clear her ear out as Damon scowled at the blonde, "You're not going anywhere, or doing anything, you just got here!"
"There's too much to do," Bonnie argued lightly, "We have to lift this spell on Mystic Falls, figure out why Damon and I look like this, get Elena's memories back, the list goes on…" Caroline growled prettily.
"Bonnie, stop!" The vampire girl exclaimed, "You haven't been back a day and already you're throwing yourself headfirst into this magical crap…Cut yourself some slack."
"And who's going to fix it if I don't?" Bonnie quipped a little heatedly and Damon was about to intervene when Lucy spoke up.
"I will." The older Bennett witch said smoothly with a small smile as she and Bonnie locked eyes. "Bennett's need to stick together, right?" Bonnie's eyes welled up a little.
"I can't expect you t–"
"Oh shush, you deserve to be cut some slack; these supernaturals have a total boner for dying so you need all the help you can get." Lucy walked up to Bonnie and pulled her into a hug as Caroline's phone rang. Bonnie couldn't help but laugh as she hugged Lucy back. "We need to work together kiddo; I hear it's been rough on you."
"You could say that." Bonnie said with a watery smile.
"Come on, I've already started with the unbinding spell for Mystic Falls, once we figure that out we can start on whatever is happening between you and Damon." Bonnie's eyes bulged but Lucy rolled her dark brown ones in response, "I meant magically Bon, magically."
"Okay so apparently Stefan knows of someone who can help you and Damon figure out this whole thing between the two of you…" Caroline said with a clap of her hands once she ended the call, "Some dude called Imran or whatever. Sooo…How about we all band together and get this wall down so Mystic Falls can go back to what it was and then we fix the two of you up? Huh?" Caroline looked so determined then, so happy, so much like her old self that Bonnie didn't have it in her to say that maybe her and Damon being this way wasn't a bad thing – so what was there to change? But instead, she smiled and nodded as Lucy tugged her away by her elbow, her eyes locking with Damon's over her shoulder.
'Cause they took your loved ones
But returned them in exchange for you
But would you have it any other way?
Would you have it any other way?
You couldn't have it any other way
Lucy didn't want to believe it but Bonnie had figured it out after about half an hour of looking through her notes. Bonnie had nodded her head, looked at Damon and then everyone else and asked them what they were all waiting for. So there they stood Caroline, then Lucy, Bonnie, Damon at the border outside of Mystic Falls. Enzo had been left behind to make sure Liv came to okay once her powers returned to her. Lucy had spelled him to be temporarily protected from other witches…so technically, he'd be fine. Bonnie took a step forward and out of habitual instinct, Damon's arm shot out to hold her back.
"Do you have to get that close?" He wondered aloud, clearly unhappy, "I don't want to have to flay myself alive trying to get you back on this side of the border." Bonnie turned to him then, her face showing subtle nuances of amusement as she stepped out of his hold, now two feet away from the border.
"I'll be fine, Damon." Bonnie said, turning to look to Lucy and jerk her head for the other Bennett witch to follow. Caroline and Damon exchanged wary glances; Bonnie shouldn't be doing magic this soon to returning home…anything could go wrong. "Lucy, you're in charge of maintaining the four elements, and I'll hone in the fifth and chant the overall spell. That okay?"
"Sure," Lucy agreed, but her eyes widened in silent pleading with Bonnie, the spell was too big for someone as depleted as she was – Lucy just hoped she had the strength needed if something happened to Bonnie to make sure Bonnie survived it. "Whatever you need." Bonnie nodded and turned to face her home. She shook out her hands and raised them in tandem with Lucy. Lucy began the elemental chanting and Bonnie took that as her cue to hone in the fifth element. She could feel Damon's apprehension as if it were her own, like she had an intrinsic understanding of everything he did now…All because she'd spent the last few weeks without him, hallucinating him anyway while he was in the same boat, if not worse seas, as she was. Clearing her mind she allowed the words to come to. Damon and Caroline watched as four spheres appeared before Lucy; one a swirling ball of water, another of dirt lifted from the floor, one of fire and another that just appeared to be a small vortex of spinning air.
Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones
"Et incarnatus est de voluntate et quinta mundi spiritus invoco odio purgare hic moretur, et me inter violentos moenia domi. Qui sunt domo mea. Ego dilexi." Bonnie chanted, feeling the air around them thicken and begin to hum with magic. Lucy had gotten the elements in perfect synchronicity. "Et incarnatus est de voluntate et quinta mundi spiritus invoco odio purgare hic moretur, et me inter violentos moenia domi. Qui sunt domo mea. Ego dilexi." Bonnie knew it would take everything she was willing to give to remove the dome – so that's exactly what she gave. Heat rose from the tarred road that they were standing on and Caroline's wide eyes turned to Damon, but his were locked on Bonnie. The green eyed witch was looking to the sky as she chanted, watching in utter fascination as embers began to flicker up in the distance, burning off layer after layer of magical wards as they chanted. A sudden burst of fire engulfed the sky as the duo freed Mystic Falls of its spelled wards. Both witches screamed suddenly, their backs arching as the spell took effect. In a flash Caroline and Damon were holding Lucy and Bonnie respectively while fluttering's of ash and smoke swirled down from the sky to fall down around them.
Oh my love don't forget me
When I let the water take me
"Dammit Bonnie!" Damon shouted as he eased himself onto the floor to cradle her body and bring her back to consciousness. Her heartbeat fluttered and then progressively began to slow.
Lay me down
Let the only sound
Be the overflow
Pockets full of stones
"By the power of the fifth I call upon the spirits and the will of the world to clear the hatred that lingers here, the violent walls between me and my home. The home of those who belong to me. The ones I love." – That's what I made the chant be.
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