Part 15 – Take me with you

Caroline slowly rose from her slumber as she felt the twins start to drain her. She poked Hayley in the ribs to wake her up. Ever since they found Stefan panicked and hiding in the bushes after a PTSD episode both Caroline and Hayley stayed with him or Bonnie and Damon.

"Easy Stef, remember what Cami said? Use your senses. What do you hear? My voice right? You aren't with him anymore. What can you feel? You feel the bed right, your nice comfy bed and your clean sheets." Caroline tried to calm the mentally fragile vampire who was jostled in her attempt to wake Hayley. Damon who had heard their exchange walked in then taking Caroline's place next to his brother as she woke up. He cradled his younger brother to his chest with gentleness he never thought possible.

"What do you smell Stef? Can you get my scent? It's a little different but it's still mostly the same. Open your eyes Stef" The younger Salvatore opened his eyes and blinked a few times expecting his brother to vanish from his sight and like every morning since they had returned her threw his arms around Damon and sobbed. They were making small amounts of progress, Stefan wouldn't speak there was nothing amiss physically but his mind was fractured. Damon took on most of his care.

"Are you up for a shower?" Damon asked Stefan who stared at him with apprehension.

"Are you up for a shower if I come in there with you?" Stefan nodded slowly and clung to Damon as they walked to the master bathroom.

"It's hard to see him like that" Caroline sighed.

"Camille said that until we know then kind of trauma he went through she won't know how to help him. For now we can just give him assurance and make him feel safe." Hayley said as she made her way to the guest bathroom.

"Damon" Bonnie called bounding into the room with a bright smile.

"Your snookums isn't here" Caroline teased and Bonnie rolled her eyes and whacked her friend's butt with a cushion.

"I made progress on the original mommy and daddy problem, I just need Damon's input" Bonnie said turning to make her way to the bathroom.

Stefan looked on in interest from the shower stall at Damon and Bonnie. Damon sat on the edge of the tub waiting for him when Bonnie joined him. Damon held her around the waist and smiled adoringly at her while she wore a huge blinding smile as she excitedly explained something to him. She kissed him on the forehead and bounded out the room and Damon turned to find his emaciated brother smiling at him creepily.

"Maybe you'll look less creepy when you start drinking more than a few drops of blood a day" Damon teased as Hayley entered with a mug of blood for the vampire, she exchanged something regarding the originals with him, they both grinned conspiratorially, Hayley bumped him with her hip almost flirtatiously and left. Stefan just glared at his older brother who shrugged at him before opening the morning newspaper and sipping on his blood. Caroline then bounded in like a 4 year old on a sugar rush, spoke in a rush, Damon handed her his wallet she took out a wad of cash, gave Damon a smooch on the cheek and left. At this stage Stefan had both hands up on the stall pressed up against the glass glaring at Damon. Damon almost shrieked when he saw Stefan.

"Step away from the glass or I'll have Kai sponge you down for the foreseeable future." Damon threatened and Stefan growled then stepped away.

Stefan started communicating a little better 2 weeks after living with Damon and his girls. He would speak a little but refused to talk about either of the traumas he went through with Silas or with Enzo.

"Bon, do you think Enzo may have…" Damon didn't know how to complete his sentence, the ending sickening him.

"We have to expect every possibility as Camille advised." Bonnie said as she stroked her fingers through his hair while he rested his head on her lap.

"I should have been there for him… It's my fault."

"It is… you should have made sure Enzo died in that fire all those years ago." Bonnie said with steel in her voice.

"How would self-righteous Bonnie feel about open minded I'm okay with murder Bonnie?"

"Self-righteous Bonnie would probably be dead again."

"What would I do without you Bon?" Damon said threading his fingers through her hair they heard someone clear their throat and raised their heads to find Stefan staring creepily at them with a strange smile.

"Having fun?" Stefan asked in a gravelly voice.

"Are we sure he isn't possessed or something?" Bonnie asked as Stefan walked away.

"I think we need to close the door when we have our private time."

"Problem with that is Caroline and Hayley making sex sounds outside the door."

"That gives me an idea…."

Later that night saw Hayley, Caroline and Stefan glued to Bonnie's closed bedroom door hearing moaning and sex sounds from the porno that Damon left playing while he and Bonnie caught the nosey trio on camera.

"Having fun are we?" Damon asked as Bonnie stood beside him camera in hand.

"You voyeuristic pervs" Bonnie snickered.

"You can't show that to anyone!" Caroline hissed.

"But we already did… We sent it to Elijah" Bonnie and Damon then ran to the confines of his spelled room while the trio tried to enter and destroy the camera.

Elsewhere Klaus pondered why Elijah's mobile was lying in several pieces only to be followed by his laptop.

"We don't need technical gadgets we are going to start using pigeons again, heck we'll use smoke signals" Elijah said to himself throwing his hands in the air. Klaus called the only people who tended to play with his brothers sanity. Hayley answered on the third ring.

"It was Damon and Bonnie" She said, Klaus could hear Caroline using some choice language in the background involving things she would do with Damon's manhood.

By the third week, Stefan started opening up about his ordeal. Damon sat in and held Stefan as he went down the dark path Enzo took him on. His worst fears came to pass when Stefan admitted tearfully that Enzo had sexually assaulted him several times during his abduction which occurred right after his nuptials with Elena.

Stefan was safe and loved, Damon was there and he wouldn't leave him again.

"Do you want to go back to Elena" Damon asked Stefan on the ride back to Chateau Salvatore.

"Do you?" Stefan countered looking out the window.

"No, I'm happy here"

"I'm happy with you" Stefan answered after a while.

"Do you love Caroline?"

"I don't have a death wish with Klaus" Damon answered.

"Do you love Hayley?"

"She's pack, makes us family" Damon shrugged.

"How about Bonnie?"

"Are you going to ask me if I love porky next?" Damon raised his brow and Stefan chuckled.

"Thank you for coming back. I didn't know how to live without you" Stefan said quietly.

"I won't leave you again if I can help it."

"If you do… take me with you"

A/N: Hi guys, thank you for the reviews on the previous update. You are awesome. A little bro bonding. There will be Bamon I just like my Bamon in this fic organic same as Klaroline. There will be some Bamon soon, I promise!

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