Part 9 – A quandary
Bonnie and Caroline were on their knees before the covered body, they had been that way since they got there hoping the body beneath the sheet was not Damon, too afraid to confirm their worst fears.
"Are you sure it's Damon?" Caroline choked. Elijah gave a single solemn nod.
"It can't, no, you can't leave us!" Bonnie cried.
"After everything, I won't accept this Damon. I will break the bond and come find you on the other side!" Bonnie growled grabbing a shard of glass to cut into her palm.
"Bonnie, don't you dare!" Hayley said ripping the glass from her hands.
"This is not what he wanted."
"I don't want to, I can't… He was supposed to be home with us, be he was supposed to be annoying us knocking back bourbon and butting into our girl talk" Bonnie was in pain, her heart was shattering and then there was darkness, Klaus knocked her out and Caroline growled at him.
"It's better this way. We'll get rid of the body."
"You will not touch my Sire!" Caroline growled baring her fangs.
"We'll take them both back to the château" Hayley said trying to diffuse the volatile situation. Hayley caught movement from the corner of her eye and pounced away from a very rabid looking Damon before he attacked Bonnie.
"The hell"
Damon eyed them all frantically his golden eyes and black veins making him look even more monstrous.
"Golden eyes… a hybrid" Elijah theorized.
"But how" Klaus marvelled as he circled the newly resurrected vampire.
"Heel" Klaus tested his sire bond and felt pleasure as the older Salvatore brother bowed before him on his knees.
"What's going on" Hayley asked.
"I have no idea… a new way to make hybrids without the blood of the doppelganger. Fascinating"
"Damon, can you hear me? Are you still in there?" Caroline asked edging closer to her sire.
"Damon, let's go home. Maybe after some rest we can figure this out" Hayley suggested and the vampire was at her side in a fraction of the time it would take a normal vampire. His eyes still golden and veins still protruding. He awaited further instruction.
"Come here to your Master and kneel before me" Klaus ordered.
"Stop" Hayley ordered leaving the resurrected Damon stuck between them.
"Stop it both of you." Elijah said glaring and Klaus and Hayley.
"Take him with you, I'll be by shortly so we can figure out what's going on." Elijah said glaring at Klaus.
Hayley and Caroline decided to leave Damon tied with vervain soaked ropes so they could tend to Bonnie.
"He isn't like Tyler when he turned. Tyler was still himself just loyal to Klaus." Caroline said as she and Hayley sipped blood in the kitchen.
"He's more primal, and stronger than the average hybrid, but his mind… his mind is not present." Hayley replied.
"A loyal dog like Klaus always wanted, except he may have split loyalties. I think having both your blood and Klaus in his system as well as the bind that Bonnie performed is somehow the reason he is still with us" Caroline theorized.
"A very interesting theory" Klaus replied as he walked in with an annoyed Elijah.
"Klaus what are you doing here?" Hayley asked.
"Collecting my newest pet"
"My sire is not your pet!" Caroline spat, her rage threatening to spill over.
"I think we should all cool down." Elijah said, placing a steadying hand on Klaus shoulder.
"How do we bring back Damon?" Hayley asked Elijah.
"I think he is perfect the way he is."
"He isn't just sired to you Klaus he is sired to me as well." Hayley sniped.
"Sired is sired, and he is mine."
"Give up Hayley. Klaus doesn't think people are people. Just possessions he can use. Like Pawns on a chessboard. You're lucky the kid isn't around or he'd make her a pawn as well." Caroline spat her vision beginning to cloud in a red haze as her veins started to show.
"You will stand down." Klaus ordered grabbing Caroline by the forearms and trying to compel her.
"Your compulsion will not work you sick control freak!" Caroline shouted and slapped him.
"Behave" Elijah growled getting between Caroline and Klaus.
"Damon had me sipping my blood with vervain since we got here, your tricks won't work."
"Bonnie is waking up." Hayley said as she used her enhanced senses to check on Damon and Bonnie while the trio argued. Caroline was gone in an instant to her best friend's side.
"Klaus, Elijah. I think it might be a better idea to do this in the morning. Once everyone has a chance to cool down. It might be better if just Elijah came. Klaus, I don't know what you did to Caroline; I am going to assume it was something sick and demented, because the Caroline I spoke to yesterday cared about you, this Caroline wants to burn you alive. I just want you to ask yourself one question. Will Hope be proud of your actions?" Hayley said with a raised brow.
Klaus had the decency to look ashamed before he bolted. Elijah nodded at Hayley before making his exit.
Bonnie sat before the snarling Hybrid blood in hand. She was grateful he was alive and before her but she needed to bring him back, his conscious that is back.
"Damon, are you in there somewhere? I need you to fight and come back to us." Bonnie said as she placed the bag to the hybrids lips who drank greedily from it.
"Come on old man, whose going to prepare me?" Caroline asked as she wiped the blood that started to drip from his vervained wrists.
"Stop struggling" Hayley commanded and Damon sat still.
"We need him to turn completely… I had Tyler turn over and over again that's how he broke his Sire bond."
"You think that will work for Damon?"
"I'm not sure. Right now all we can do is try…."
"What activates the werewolf gene?" Caroline asked, her mind buzzing with the mention of Tyler.
"Spilling blood."
"Damon hasn't spilled blood since he turned, look at his eyes! They're just golden like a werewolves but a hybrid's eyes are black with a gold ring around the iris! Damon was basically reborn, he needs to kill and complete the werewolf part of the transformation." Caroline was breathless with her theory.
"The full moon is tonight… but we would need to sacrifice someone." Hayley said looking at Bonnie.
"Let's find someone" Bonnie said as the doorbell rang.
"We're in the cellar." Hayley called hoping whoever it was heard her. If it was a human they could bugger off, Kai disappeared and she was in no mood to entertain humans.
"I see they're both awake" Elijah said as he approached Bonnie and Damon.
"We have a theory… well Caroline has a theory" Hayley said.
"What would her theory be?"
"Damon is a hybrid but he hasn't performed the part of the process for the werewolf gene to activate. If we consider his rise as a hybrid as a resurrection then he needs to kill someone before the full moon. Once he turns the first time we are hoping he comes back to himself." Caroline explained.
"You realize this requires innocent blood to be spilled?" Elijah directed his question at Bonnie.
"For the love of God, I don't care! I just want Damon back and I don't care if he burns through a hundred mortals! I get what he is, he is death itself you all are." Bonnie said throwing her hands up in the air.
"I'll go choose the sacrifice." Caroline said in all seriousness as she stomped away.
"I guess I will tell Klaus about your progress on the matter." Elijah said and turned to leave.
"Elijah wait." Bonnie said and Hayley raised a brow.
"Before you go there is something you need to know about your brother."
"I can't believe that bastard did that to Caroline" Hayley fumed. Elijah was doubly shamed over Bonnie's revelation before he made a hurried exit.
"Remind me to give him an aneurysm." Bonnie sighed.
"How you holding up? Any suicidal thoughts?"
"I was not going to kill myself I was just going to break the bond so I could find a way to the other side and drag him back."
"So basically you were considering suicide. Damon and Caroline are right about you."
"Not you too" Bonnie sighed.
"Damon has been trying to help me be a better witch, he's been letting me try all my spell work and psychic attacks on him"
"Ouch… I have been the victim of aneurysms from Finn, I can't believe someone would volunteer for that kind of pain."
"Damon says that in a way they'll also make him stronger."
"Stronger than surprise attacks"
"Don't start… he threw a snake into the shower with me the other day saying the enemy won't care if I am showering."
"I thought he was only training Caroline"
"He has been trying to help me get stronger as well." Bonnie said lifting her skirt to revel a tiny pistol strapped to it.
"My aim is terrible but it's enough to hurt someone and get away. Damon says magic should not be relied on alone."
"He has come a long way."
"We went through a lot in the prison world. We were alone for the longest time till we figured Kai was stalking us. After wanting to kill each other we realised that we were the only people there and we needed each other. He opened up to me about so much. His father, his mom, Katherine…."
"So… did you have sex?"
"NO!"
"Did you want to, you were alone for months… I would have done him."
"Damon has been around for 150 years, he has control in that regard… As for me I've had sex like once in my life with Jeremy."
"The baby Gilbert?" Hayley sounded like she wanted to throw up.
"Haha… I was lonely and he was there and he was sweet to me."
"From what I hear he was sweet to his ghost ex as well" Bonnie rolled her eyes.
"You screwed Klaus" Bonnie retorted.
"Touché"
"Any luck with finding a way to send Ester and her sons back to hell?"
"Well not back to hell but back to their original bodies…"
"Do tell…"
"I am not entirely sure but it involves their remains and blood from Elijah"
"Why Elijah?"
"Klaus is not a full blooded family member…"
"I am back!" Caroline trilled as she walked in with a man who bared a striking similarity to Klaus.
"I don't blame you" Hayley shrugged as the compelled man stood before them.
A/N: Hope you guys liked my hybrid twist on Damon, I must say I really love the relationship between my BonCarLey and Damon... I have a question, how should Caroline get retribution from Klaus? Klaus is still in his asshole phase so it's got to be something that would gut him...
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