Chapter Three

"What are you talking about?" he roared down the phone, running his hand through his hair in frustration. "You can't" he fell against the wall, closing his eyes, losing his mind. "I will come home and I will take away everything from you. Everything" he snapped, his anger rising with his voice and he listened to the other end of the phone, his eyes opening and he saw red. "Well, when are you playing to pull this idiotic little stunt?" he started to pace again. "Fine. But if anything happens between now and then, I will kill you myself" he hung up the phone and turned and saw her standing there. "Bonnie" he whispered when he saw her worried eyes fall upon his.

"Who was that?" she asked him, walking towards him and he sat down on the bench and shook his head, placing his face in his hands. "Damon, who was it on the phone?"

He turned desperate eyes on her. "It was Stefan and he wants to"

"You threatened to kill Stefan" she balked, not sure why he would even say let alone consider such a thing. "Why, Damon?" she asked him when he didn't answer and again he shook his head. "Why?" she was starting to grow nervous now and she grabbed him and pulled him back to face her, looking deeply into his eyes that now were pale and sad. "Please, Damon, I need to know.

He knew that he had no other choice than to come clean to her, and he hated having to be the one to tell her. "Mary Louise has found a way to wake Elena up" he turned his head not wanting to see the look on her face when she digested that piece of information, but he also didn't want her to see the stray tear falling down his face and he quickly wiped it away.

"Oh" was all she could say to that little bombshell.

Damon spun around and took a hold of her face. "I am in love with you, Bonbon and I will never let anything bad happen to you" he pulled her into his arms and hugged her tightly. "Nothing and no one will hurt you. I promise you that. I would fight the whole world to keep you safe. Even my own brother"

"When?" she asked him, trying to pull away from him to look into his face, but he refused to let her go.

"Tonight" he whispered into the nape of her neck, more tears wanting to flow. "And if I could. If I could I would stop it from happening" he couldn't feel his heart beating anymore, his chest was constricting too much and he could barely get his own words out straight.

"But there is a way for Elena to come back" Bonnie looked over his shoulder, a smile on her face and tears sprang to her gaze. "She can come back. She will live again"

"Not if it means me losing you" Damon was on his feet again and pacing. "I won't lose you for anyone" he half snarled into the darkening night sky. "I don't care who it is for, I will not put you at risk" he voice went out of control and his throat grew hoarse. "I can't lose you"

Bonnie got to her feet and threw her arms around his middle. "What did he say?"

He wrapped his arm around her, the other he ran throw his hair, closing his eyes. "He said that there was a spell that the heretic's can perform to wake her up safely and that you will be fine. But I don't trust any of them heretic freaks" he growled a little, wanting to kill them all to stop them doing something that could destroy his whole world.

"I trust Stefan" she told him taking his hand into hers and leading him back to the bench and sat him down gently. "I trust Stefan and I know you do deep down. Damon he is your brother and he would never do anything to hurt you and I would like to think of him as a friend. Don't you trust him"

Damon looked up at her standing in front of him. "I trust you"

"Then please trust me when I say this" she sat down next to him, a bright smile on her face. "If it means that Elena can come back, then they should do it. It isn't fair on her. She didn't ask for any of this. She is just another victim of Kai's that is paying long after he is dead and"

Damon stopped her talking with a kiss and stole her words away. Every thought he managed to cling onto from bouncing around his head and every one of them was he couldn't lose her. He was being selfish again and he didn't care. If it meant Elena sleeping for the rest of eternity to keep Bonnie safe, then he wouldn't acre. Not now. But he couldn't bring himself to say the words to her out loud.

"Damon, are you worried about seeing her again?" she asked him and he shook his head, he really wasn't. "But what if all those feelings you had for her are still there"

Damon held onto her a little more tightly now, his heart crushing under both of their pain. "I am in love with you and no one will ever be able to change that" he said kissing the top of her head, his arms holding her as tightly as he could without breaking her back. "Shall we do something?" she nodded underneath him and he smiled. "Let's take a walk down to the beach"

"I'd like that" she smiled into his chest, feeling like she was starting to lose control of her own little world again and she hated the thought of losing him back to Elena, but she hated the thought of dying and leaving him all alone even more. And not being able to express herself to him was slowly killing her.

There was still a warmness to the air. The sky was lit up with only the moon shining down upon them. He sat there next to her on the rock, both of them watching the waves lapping up ono the shore. It should have been calming him, but each time the waves hit the shore softly, his heart sank further down into his feet and he had to keep biting back the howl from escaping his lips.

All he wanted to do was howl up at the moon like some kind of maniac. But he didn't want to alarm her with the true extent of his feelings for her. He heard a few people walking onto the beach a little way down and standing he took her hand into his own.

"Want to go swimming?" he asked with a naughty little smile. "Let's get naked" he told her when she gave him a questioning look. "Back over there inside one of the caves is a natural pool" she got to her feet and took his hand, allowing him to lead her in the dark towards the caves, her heart beating harder with her excitement.

"Will it be safe?" she asked him, not forgetting her life guard training, but she didn't know what kind of creatures would be living inside those caves.

"I won't let anything happen to you" he promised her, giving her a reassuring look. "But you are going to need to make some fire, unless of course you want to swim in the dark" he feigned pain when she mock punched him on the arm. "Through here" he whispered to her, wrapping his arm around her shoulders and being her eyes until they were safely inside. "Ready?" he asked her turning her to a small corner of the cave and all of a sudden the whole cave lit up and her eyes flew up to meet his when she saw the natural little pool inside the cave and started to undress then it was his turn to became awed by the sight of her in her underwear again.

"You really are something else, Bon" he went to kiss her but she pushed him back and ran and jumped into the pool and a few seconds later, he dived in just behind her. "You won't escape my clutches for long" he teased her as he walked slowly towards her, pushing up back into the side of the pool, his mouth meeting the side of her neck, her breathing going out of control and he looked at her with a smile that light up her mind when he kissed her hard on the mouth, the kiss lingering long after he pulled away and smiled down at her.

"Have you fed?" she asked him and he gave her a disgusted look, but shook his head. "Damon you are going to need to feed" she craned her neck, exposing a small delicate vein that now caught his eye.

"No" he whispered weakly, wanting to taste her again, but not wanting her to be his own personal blood bag.

"I want you too" she breathed hard again, his legs turning to jelly and he had to grab onto the side of the pool behind her to stop himself from sinking. "Damon, feed from me" she closed her eyes and he stared down at her face, his fang pushing themselves down to come out to play.

"No" he whispered to her, the thrill of biting her again washing over him and he almost lost his mind and did it, but again he shook his head.

She moved a little closer to him, wrapping her arms around his neck, pulling his head down towards her throat. "Feed from me" she said again in a voice that he was finding it hard to refuse. "Then I will drink from you"

That was it, the words that broke through his tightly held control and he gave in to her and to himself and bit down into her neck and the moment that her blood rushed into his mouth all heady and vibrant she let out a little moan and now he knew what it was. It was one filled with pleasure and he groaned, growing with excitement as she gasped underneath him. He pulled his head back and picking up a small rock her broke it in two and drew the sharpened end across the nape of his neck and pulled her towards him. Her mouth hit his neck when he slipped inside her, his mouth biting down onto her shoulder and they drank from each other while he made love to her. He was sustaining her as she was him and it was the best movement of his entire life and he never wanted it to end. But he had to and feeling her body respond to his as he cried out in ecstasy he flopped his head onto her shoulder and held on tightly. Fear clinging onto him again that if he blinked he would lose her and that was something that he now knew he could never allow to happen. Pulling her face up to his he kissed her blood covered mouth and his heart exploded with his love for her.

"Marry me tomorrow" he suddenly said pulling back a little.

"What?" she gasped shocked at what he just said.

"Marry me tomorrow?" she nodded and he kissed her again, his whole world now fit perfectly into place.

"Thank you for coming out on such short notice" he shook his hand and saw the cab pulling up behind him, his smile widening at the sight of it.

"It is going to be a wonderful wedding ceremony" the minister said shaking Damon's hand.

"Thank you again for doing this"

"It was so good to meet you both" he told Damon looking over his shoulder at the cab. "I will leave you to it and I will see you both tonight at six o'clock" the minister smiled back at him before climbing into his car and starting it up.

Damon's smile fell from his face slightly when she saw Stefan climb out followed by an excited Elena. "Elena" he gasped and the smile brightened on her face and she made a move to run to him, but his stiff stance stopped her in her tracks, her smile faltering.

"What is going on?" Stefan asked Damon, watching the minister's car make its way down the driveway.

Damon frowned at them both and stepping aside they both walked into the house and taking a deep breath he closed the door and followed them both into the den and sat down on the arm of a chair. "Who's getting married?" Elena asked him, confused by Damon's reaction on seeing her again. "Where's Bonnie?"

"Shopping" Damon replied getting back to his feet. "Make yourselves comfortable while I go make us some coffee" he told them both before walking out of the den, wishing that they hadn't just turned up and so soon.

He refilled the coffee pot with fresh coffee beans and switched it on, praying for time to come clean to them both.

"What's going on, Damon?" Stefan walked into the kitchen behind him and turning Damon eyed him up before he saw Elena standing at his side. "You haven't so much as cracked a smile since we arrived here. You don't even seem happy to see us"

"Damon, are you not happy that I am awake?" she asked him, her voice breaking on the last word and his heart stood still in his chest.

"Elena, we need to talk" he told her as he filled up three coffee mugs and handed one to each of them and picking up his own he walked out of the back door and into the morning sunshine and she walked out behind while Stefan pulled out a stool and sat at the breakfast bar, listening in and he was now more confused than anyone else.

"Damon" she sat down next to him under the pergola. "Aren't you happy to see me?"

He nodded in reply, but he couldn't force himself to look at her now. "Of course I am happy to see you"

"Then why are you so distant with me?" he heard her voice cracking, but still he couldn't make himself turn and look her in the eye.

"You are scaring me now" she felt the tears threatening to break free, but the house phone ringing stopped them from falling when he leapt to his feet and looked back at the house.

"I'm so sorry, Elena" he spoke low, a lump forming at the back of his throat. "I'm in love with Bonnie"

"You fell in love with my best friend?" she asked him, shocked and he nodded his head, taking her hand in his he sat back down next to her. "How?" she cried out. "What I mean is when?"

"Does that really matter?" he looked at the brightly coloured flowers climbing up the pergola.

"No" she whispered at his side. "I have always known you had feelings for Bonnie" he turned and looked down at her in surprise. "But I didn't think for one second that you would have fallen in love with her"

"I am sorry that I hurt you, Elena. But I am not sorry for falling in love with Bonnie" he knew that he would never be sorry for that, not now, not ever.

"I guess if you spend four months with someone this was bound to happen" she looked away from his gaze, down at her hands resting on her lap.

"It happened way before we died" he admitted to both her and himself. "I think it happened when I stayed behind on that island when she went missing. I don't know" he told her, swallowing a lump that tried to form at the back of his throat to steal his words away from him, and he knew that if he had to do this today, then he was doing it right. "I guess I was just too afraid to admit my true feelings for fear of getting hurt by another woman that I loved. But that doesn't matter now. All that matters is"

"You love Bonnie and you never loved me" she finished for him and he shook his head sadly at her still looking down at her hands in her lap and he pulled her face up to look at his.

"I will always love you, Elena" he told her, wishing that he could make her see that he did love her. "But I was never in love with you. Not like I am with Bonnie" he looked into her big brown eyes, a sadness washing over him now that it had all came to a head. "What we had, you and I, it was never real, Elena" Damon looked back down the garden at the trees moving gently in the breeze. "You were never in love with me, and I was never in love with you. It was always Stefan" he looked at her sitting next to him, soft tears flowing gently down her face and his heart broke for her. "You and I both know that it was always Stefan. And I think I wanted you more because you were his and I couldn't have you. And plus you were the image of Katherine. And I know you are nothing like her. But I think those things played a major part in my wanting you and I' m so sorry for doing this to you"

Nodding her head she wiped her tears away with her sleeve. "Yeah" she smiled weakly up at him. "You are right. It was always Stefan that I loved" she gave him a small smile and he leapt to his feet when he heard the back door open and saw Stefan running towards with him the phone in his hand.

"What is it?" he asked when he saw the panic written all over his brother's face.

"It's Bonnie" Stefan handed Damon the phone.

Smiling he took the phone and walked a few paces into the garden. "Bon" he said in a tone that shocked both Stefan and Elena. "I have a" his face fell and he spun on his heels and looked at Stefan, whose pale face matched his own and Elena looked form one to the other in panic. "I am on my way" he hung up the phone, his whole world falling apart on him in under a second. "Bonnie is at the hospital, she's been run over"

"Then we all go" Elena told them both, grabbing the untouched coffee's.

"Yeah" Damon said, his mind a jumbled mess and he had no idea what he would do if anything happened to her.

"She will be ok" Elena reassured him and nodding Damon flew into the house and left them both standing there staring after him.

At the hospital he flew from the car before Stefan even had a chance to park up and ran towards the main entrance. Each step he took filled him with dread. He had no idea what he would be greeted with. His heart hadn't beat since he had that phone call and now he wished that he had gone with her or told her that he would marry her with what she was standing in. He couldn't lose her, not now and that frightened him more than anything ever had.

"Bonnie" he panted when he reached the nurses station, glaring at her when she failed to take him to her.

"We have come to see Bonnie Bennett" Elena said from his side and he looked down at her in gratitude, his words escaping him before they had a chance to leave his lips.

"Are you family?" the nurse asked them getting to her feet and his mind went blank.

"How is she?" Stefan and Elena both asked at the same time and Damon turned grateful eyes on them before turning back to the nurse.

"She has sustained two broken legs, slight concussion and a few stiches to the temple and a shattered left wrist and a few broken ribs" she looked from each of them with sympathy. "But I can't allow you into see her unless you are family"

"Fiancé" Damon managed to get out passed the lump in the back of his throat that was now slowly choking him.

The nurse nodded at him, stepping out from behind the desk. "Follow me" she stopped, looking back at Stefan and Elena. "You'll both have to wait here"

"But I" Elena started to say, but Damon held up his hand and followed behind the nurse and so she sat down on one of the hard uncomfortable seats.

"Did he just say that he was her" Stefan still couldn't believe what he had heard his own brother say. "Her fiancé"

Elena nodded, not knowing how to land the same bombshell on him that Damon had dropped into her lap. "He is" she started to say before her words fell away the same time as they both heard Damon's angry voice yelling from behind the glass doors.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S GONE" he seethed like a savage animal and both Stefan and Elena jumped to their feet as the glass doors banged open and he appeared with two nurses and a doctor following behind him. "HOW?" he barked at them all, his face like thunder. "TELL ME HOW A WOMAN WITH BOTH HER LEGS BROKEN AND WITH CONCUSSION IS ABLE TO WALK OUT OF HERE ON HER OWN" he pinned the doctor against the wall.

"We don't know" the doctor struggled to speak under Damon's tightening hand around his neck.

"Then find out and find her" Damon threw the doctor back into the glass doors. "NOW" he started to pace back and forth, his hands grasping at air, wishing he could break someone's neck. "FIND HER" he growled loudly at anyone and everyone that came near him and turning he grabbed the built in nurses station and flipped it across the room, where it crashed into wall loud enough to deafen the dead in the morgue.

"Damon" he looked up at his brother as his legs went from under him and he fell to the floor in a crumpled heap the whole room now spinning on him.

"Where is she?" he asked Stefan, his heart felt like it was being crushed as his chest tightened and he couldn't breathe again.

"We will find her" Stefan sat down on the floor next to him and put his arm around his shoulder and watched his brothers heart break in front of his eyes and it shocked him when he openly started to cry, turning into him, grabbing a hold of his shirt.

"I can't lose her" he cried, his sobs choking him and feeling Elena's hand on his back he turned and fell into her arms, shaking both of them with his sobs. "We'll find her" she promised him, stroking his back and Stefan sat next to them both looking at the new display in shock.

"We are getting married later today" Damon said aloud to no one in particular. "We need to find her" he let go of Elena and slowly he climbed back to his feet, a phone ringing from somewhere, but he ignored it, trying to think of where she could be.

"Um, Damon Salvatore" he turned on hearing his name and took the phone from one of the nurses.

"Hello" he frowned back at Stefan as he watched him taking the call and Damon's face fell even more. "Touch one hair on her head and I will kill you and everyone that you have ever spoken to" he snarled into the phone before hanging up. "Julian's band of insane men have her and they won't let her go until I hand myself in" he wiped at his face with his hands and bit the palm of one to stop himself from screaming out.

"We have to go to her" she said to them both, her heart beating too fast.

"Where have they taken her?" he asked Damon.

"I don't know. They will call again at home in the next hour" he walked out of the hospital and into the path of three police cars, all pointing guns at him. What the"

"Put your hands up where I can see them" one of the officers yelled at him and he cocked his head to the side, a feral grin spreading across his pale face.

"I don't think so" he carried on walking towards them.

"Stop or I will shoot" another started shouting at him and again he shook his head.

"Go ahead" Damon yelled back at them all. "Shoot me, see if I care"

A shot was fired and he fell back into Stefan, the bullet hitting him in the left shoulder and everything became silent. Stefan shifted him in his arms and helped him back up onto his feet.

"Ouch" Damon groaned, his fingers moving deftly in the wound and yanking out the shell and looking down at it he had the shock of his life. "Wooden" he frowned back over his shoulder.

"They know" Elena gasped, shaking her head.

"Elena" Stefan said, standing next to his brother. "Go back inside the hospital" he still felt her behind him. "Run" he muttered through gritted teeth and she fled back inside the hospital.

Damon heard the hospital door close with a slight bang and started to walk towards the police again. His mind gone and all he felt now was anger. They were standing between him and his life and there was no way that he was going to let them stop him from getting her back.

"Stop or the next one goes in the head" another police officer yelled at him and smiling Damon kept walking forward.

"Fire away" he smirked at them all just before a shot went off and he felt a pain shooting through his whole skull and dropping to his knees he tried to focus and then everything went black and he fell face down onto the concrete, feeling his nose shatter and as he floated away he heard another shoot being fired. "Bonbon" he thought to himself, then he was out.

"Let me out" there was something holding the door closed and no matter how many times he kicked at it or threw his shoulder into it, it wouldn't budge an inch. "I'm coming for you all" he bellowed through the thick wooden door. "Open this damn door and let me out" he felt his frustration biting into his mind and all he wanted to do was get out of there and find Bonnie. "Let me out" he cried out again, his anger ripping open every single wound he has ever had in his whole entire life. "If you don't let me out of here right now then I am going to kill every single one of you" he threw himself into the door again, feeling his shoulder dislocate from the force. "Dead" he barked at whoever walking passed outside. "You are all dead" he threw himself into the door again, the pain only driving him on. "Dead men walking" he growled, his anger through the roof.

The small hatch in the door opened and in peered a pair of dark green eyes and Damon snarled at them. "Calm yourself down" he heard him shout into the cell.

"Let me out of here before I tear you and this god forsaken prison to nothing but a pile of even uglier rubble" he felt his face start to contort.

"You are not leaving here until you have been on in court tomorrow morning" he smiled in at Damon mockingly.

Backing up a little Damon threw himself back into the door, a wild snarl escaping his whole being. "GET ME OUT OF HERE RIGHT NOW"

The guard shook his head and smiled at Damon's livid face. "Sorry, princess, but you are going nowhere until the big van takes you to the big house in the morning" blowing a kiss in at Damon he slid the hatch across.

Damon stood there and glared at the hatch, an idea hitting him and a sly smile crossed his face. "Oh I will be calm" he smirked at the back of the door, his hand hitting the hatch until it fell out on to the floor with a soft little thud on the other side of the door. "Real calm" he smirked to himself shoving his whole arm through and finding the lock and pulling back the bolt he pushed the door only to find it opened inwards and he shook his head at his own stupidity and walked out into corridor.

She could barely breath through the pain. But there was no way that she was going to give up and let these goons keep her down. Twisting her head a little she tried to see through the blindfold, but it was useless, it was tied far too tight and now she was starting to get a headache again. She had no idea where she was. All she could hear was Damon's name being mentioned every few minutes and she prayed that he would use his head and stay away.

"What" she heard one of the goons laughing with a deep booming cackle. "Arrested?"

Bonnie turned and almost cried out when a pain in her chest stole her breath away and closing her eyes she felt tears stream down her face past the blindfold.

"Yes, arrested" she heard a female voice say in glee and she cringed inwardly, hoping that she was lying. "Wrecked the nurses station after you took his little human plaything"

"Witch" a second guy spoke up and Bonnie wished that she could see who she was dealing with. "And by the looks of it, she is now awake"

Bonnie felt the blindfold tugged from her head and she glared up at this huge goon. "I'm glad that Julian is dead" she smiled up at him with a sickly sweet smile. "Saves me the job of getting my hands dirty"

He grabbed her by the scruff and yanked her up onto her feet, the smile still plastered and shook her and biting her lip to stop herself from screaming with the pain that now shrouded her entire body.

Brightly coloured lights started to swim in her vision but there was no way that she was going to allow herself to pass out again. She held up her hand and tried to break his neck, but her concentration was all over the place and she couldn't see anymore, everything was too blurry.

"Ah" the girl feigned empathy. "Can you not focus to do your little magic tricks, princess Tenko?" she laughed in Bonnie's face.

Bonnie smiled into the unknown face despite her pain. "I wouldn't need magic to take care of you pop tart"

"Who is she calling pop tart" another female voice giggled and the first girl snarled back in reply.

"As if it wasn't jersey shored up enough in here as it was" Bonnie retorted, shaking her head in disgust.

"Krystal" the second girl laughed. "Is she calling you cheap?"

Bonnie's eyes came back into focus slightly and she turned and looked at Krystal. "Krystal with a K" she burst out laughing when the girl nodded at her. "He certainly was reaching into the bottom of the barrel for you, wasn't he" she shook her head in pity at her. "You might want to go pick up your skank skirt before the local church declares war on it and burns it at the stake for diseases"

"Bitch" she gasped punching Bonnie in the face, breaking her nose, but still Bonnie laughed, feeling the blood run down your face. "I'm going to kill you" she roared as the bigger vampire pulled her away from Bonnie.

"Been there so many times that I have actually lost count" Bonnie looked at the girl with amusement. "But be my guest" she waved her hand around her, winding up Krystal with a K and wondered what the hell had Damon seen in her.

"I will kill you" she bellowed as the bigger vampire kept dragging her away.

"We need her alive or we will never avenge Julian" he warned her, letting her go when she nodded. "Good, now stay away from her until he gets here and then you can have first shot at ripping her head off"

"Ok" Krystal shook him off her and sat down on a crate. "Well he had better hurry and get out of jail or I'm killing her anyway"

The hand holding Bonnie up let go and she cried out in pain when her legs gave way and she landed on the floor in a painful heap. She felt something digging into her hip and using her good arm she rolled over onto her other side and pulled her phone out of her pocket, thanking her lucky stars that she still had it and it was working. But she couldn't dial Damon, he had broken his phone back at the hotel. Closing her eyes she sighed a little, wishing he had gotten himself a new phone.

"Stefan" she thought to herself when she saw his name flash up on her screen with a text and opening her inbox she read it. "Bonnie I know where you are and I am going to get Damon out and we are coming to get you. Stay safe"

She smiled to herself, hugging her phone, praying that her focus would come back so that she could at least try and fight her way out of there.

Letting the officer drop to the floor he stood there and looked down at all the bodies of the police officers lying scattered all around his feet, wiping the blood from his face with the sleeve of his jacket and grimaced when blood stained the inner cuff and cursing to himself he closed his eyes and wished he knew where they were hiding her. He stiffened when he heard a sound behind him and spinning on his feet ready to attack he saw Stefan walking into the holding area, his eyes wide open.

"You have remained calm I see" Stefan grabbed Damon by the labels of his jacket. "I know where Bonnie is"

"You do?" he asked him, his voice breaking with the weight of his worry. "Then let's go"

Stefan shook his head and Damon's eyes bulged in shook. "We have to plan our move" Damon pushed past him and headed for the door. "We cannot walk in there blindly" Stefan called out after him and Damon stopped in the doorway, keeping his back to him.

"I would rather walk in the blind than not walk in there at all and risk losing her" Stefan watched his brothers shoulders drop.

"We will all die"

"I don't care about dying Stefan" Damon spun around and glared at him. "I would gladly die a million painful deaths just to keep her safe, do you get that?" he watched his brother nodding. "I don't care about me or even what happens to me. All I care about her is and keeping her safe and for the first time in my whole existence, I am putting another person's life above my own and no faking it this time"

"You faked it with Elena?" Stefan gasped and Damon closed his eyes, and feeling ashamed, he nodded back at him.

"I knew that I was never going to die any of those times recusing Elena" he wrinkled his nose, wishing he didn't have to come clean, but now the words were out there was no pushing them back in again. "It was all risk free. But this time I do not know if I am going to go in there and walk back out. I am unsure how this is going to end. But I would rather die fighting for her life on my feet than live on my knees without her"

"You really do love her, don't you?" Stefan said to him and Damon nodded with a half-smile on his face.

"I really do" Damon turned to leave and looking to the side of him he found Stefan standing there next to him.

"Then you and I are going to have to fight this together to get my future sister in law out of there alive" he smiled at Damon and ran out of the police station with Damon hot on his trail.

"Are you kidding me" he grimaced looking up at the abandoned warehouse. "How cliché can these dicks be" he turned back to Stefan who just shrugged his shoulders at him. "They're keeping my girl locked up in this germ riddled hell hole with open wounds" he gritted his teeth so hard that Stefan feared them cracking.

"Let's just get in, find Bonnie and get her out of here" Stefan told him and Damon gave him a look. "I mean it. Bonnie needs medical attention and the longer she is in there, the more in danger she becomes"

"She just needs some more of my blood" Damon said under his breath, looking up at a dirty window on the building again.

"What?"

"Nothing" Damon frowned at his brother who was no glaring at him now.

"You fed her your blood, again?" Stefan shook his head, hardly believing anything Damon does anymore.

"I had no other choice?" Damon told him, shuddering at the memory of her almost draining herself to help him escape Julian's back up squad. "She would have bleed out. But that is in the past now and we need to get her out of there" he waved his hand in fury at the warehouse. "And before my bride dies would be even better" he finished in a low bark.

"You fed her your blood" Stefan said again, annoying Damon.

"Yes" he replied with an angry smile. "Yes I did and I will do it again. Now let's go in and bust her, the hell out of there" he made to move a step forward but Stefan held him back and turned him to face him.

"You fed her your blood" Stefan repeated again, driving Damon nuts.

"Yes for the last time" Damon threw up his hands. "I gave her some of my blood, not only once, but twice or was it three times" he shrugged. "But that is not the point here, Stefan. The whole frigging point is to get her the hell out of there"

"And so if she dies she becomes a vampire and she will hate you for the rest of your forever together. If" he pointed at him and Damon glared at him. "If your forever will make it past the transition"

"I would rather she hate me for the rest of eternity than be dead" Damon growled at him, shaking his head. "It was days ago and it would be out of her system by now" he took a step closer to the warehouse. "So if she dies then she dies for real and then I am holding you responsible for keeping me out here talking about things that don't even matter anymore" he was losing his head again and Stefan saw that and nodded at him. "What about the blood I feed her when we made love? Was it still in her system?" he thought to himself and shook them away; he had no time to try and figure that one out just yet.

"Ok, let's go and get her out of there and we are not" the last of his words fell away from him when Damon flew into the entrance of the bulling and he had no other choice but to follow suit.

"Ready" he whispered to his brother at his side before kicking open the door and walking into the main space.

"You could have just pushed it open" Stefan shook his head walking in behind him.

"I could have, but I didn't" Damon retorted looking around the wide space and saw her lying on the floor a few feet away from him, her face covered in blood and she was so still. "Bonnie" he cried out as he ran across the space between them and was about to drop onto his knees at her side when he felt someone hit him in the stomach and he flew back across the room, hitting a few crates.

"There he is" he heard her voice and getting off the floor he looked at Krystal, spitting out a little blood. "My last lay"

"My cheap one night stand" he said in the same flat tone. "If you have harmed one hair on"

"Blah, blah, blah" she shimmied over to him, looking him up and down. "Don't tell me that you actually like the little bland thing"

"Love her actually you cheap little bitch" he said in the same uncaring tone as he would have used for any of Julian's back up bicthes. "I was wondering" he said to her and she nodded for him to go on. "Is it Krystal with a K because you lack class" he smirked at her before kicking her legs out from underneath her and breaking open a crate he threw a piece of wood behind him and took down one of the little guys. "Bullseye" he raised his eyebrows at her as he glazed down at her lying on her back. "Still on your back I see" he stepped over her and kicked her in the ribs when he saw the bigger guy at Bonnie's side with a knife held to her throat and he ran across the room towards them. "No" he croaked as he stopped just short of them both, a tiny droplet of blood running down her graceful décolletage.

"Look over there" the bigger vampire nodded behind Damon and turning he saw his brother being held by two other vampires. "You make one more move and not only will I cut the throat of your witch girlfriend" he laughed deeply when he spoke. "But, they will tear out your baby brother's heart and to make sure that he is really dead, they will rip his head from his neck. After all, that is the way all rippers prefer to go out" he crouched down next to Bonnie and Damon saw him pressing the blade a little more and he held up his hands.

"You have me" he said, not taking his eyes from the blood still flowing gently down her throat. "Let her and my brother go and I will surrender myself in peace" he saw the bigger guys mistrust. "And he will take her out of here in peace and then you can kill me, anyway you see fit, just don't hurt either of them. Not for me. Not for what I did to Julian"

"For what" Stefan started to say and Damon turned and glared back at him and he shut his mouth again.

"I killed Julian with that chair" Damon raised his arms at his side and pulled a crazy face before letting them fall back at his side. "It is me you need to punish, not these two. But me. I killed Julian and if I had the chance to do it all over again, then I would, because I enjoyed every second of it and I would love to get the chance to kill him again" the big guy growled at him and Damon's smirked widened.

Damon's heart slowly started to return to its normal rhythm when the bigger vampire laid her head back down on the floor and stepped away from her, walking towards Damon. "I am going to have the greatest pleasure killing you"

"How could you kill Julian when you were screwing me against the wall?" Krystal piped up suddenly, frowning at Damon.

"That was after" Damon spat at her through gritted teeth, praying she wasn't about to ruin his quick thought up plan.

"No" she shook her head, walking around him, eyeing him up. "It wasn't. It was during. Because he was still alive when I got that Tequila and came around to yours and you didn't leave my sight after I arrived and so it must have been you" she turned her eyes on Stefan, angering Damon further.

"I think you have been screwing around way too much, it has rattled your brain" Damon chuckled, annoyed. "Well whatever brain you do have inside that vapid head of yours"

"It was you" She flew to stand in front of Stefan and Damon turned to face his brother, his eyes grave now.

"So what" Stefan laughed in her face. "Do you honestly think Julian even cared about any of you. He was a liar and he was crazy and manipulative for his own end. So do you honestly think he cared about you?"

Damon watched her ram her hand inside his brother's chest and he flew across the room and shoved his hand into her back and pulled out her heart. Stefan gasped in pain and took in a deep gulp of air just as the bigger guy picked him up by the neck and threw him back across the room. He hit a crate side on and it shattered under his weight, stabbing him in the kidney. He closed his eyes and pulled the sharp piece of wood out of his body and got back to his feet only to be kicked in the chest. He lost his breath when the blow winded him and doubling over he tried to get his breath back.

"Giving up pip squeak" he looked up at his amused faced and shook his head. "Oh goody"

"The only time that I will ever give up is when I no longer have a heart" Damon spat at him, heading back for more. "But try not to give up when you become exhausted Shrek" he heard Stefan gasp and turning he saw one of the vampires holding him about to tear off his head and ignoring the ogre he ran as fast as he could across the room and leapt in the air, kicking the vampires head clean off and the other turned in shook and as he landed Damon tore out his heart. "Get her out of here" Damon told him.

"I can't leave"

"Get her out of here" Damon repeated, turning back towards the giant troll. "Now, Stef"

"Let him take your little girlfriend and run away with her. It is you that I have wanted to kill ever since you killed my brother in the ring by staking him" he clicked his neck, turning Damon's stomach.

"That great big ugly ogre was your brother" Damon stopped walking and smirked up at him. "Now you mention it, I can see the great ugly family resemblance"

Damon started to laugh in his face, most of it was relief that Stefan had managed to get Bonnie out of there and to safety. But that was short lived when he felt someone shove their hand into his back and grab his heart. He gasped for air, his eyes bulging when he felt them slowly pulling it towards his back and he thought that his time was genuinely up and all he wished he had done was marry Bonnie before he died and that was something that he would forever regret in death. Everything started to go black and he couldn't hear anything around him anymore. Then all of a sudden sound came back to him and he opened his eyes and saw the big guy down on his knees and running across the room he wasted no time in shoving his hand into his chest and yanking out his heart before throwing it back down on top of him and turning around he felt the stake slip into his chest and he gagged on the blood that started to seep from his lips and somewhere from a distance he could hear Bonnie shouting his name in fear. His vision was now blurry and he looked into the blonde girls face and before he went down he shoved his hand into her chest and clutched at her heart and then he fell to the floor, the last sound was Bonnie's cries. His last thought was. "She is safe now"

He came to lying in warm arms and opening his eyes he looked up at an angel crying over him. The smile he gave her lit up her whole face, her tears now flowing softly and he felt them falling onto his face.

"I thought you were dead when you started to desiccate" she told him, her voice shaking and he shook his head at her.

"You are not getting rid of me that easily" he tried to sit up but the pain in his chest was unbearable and he looked down and saw that he wasn't healing.

"Vervain on her hand" Stefan told him as he sat down in front of them. "She had a glove on soaked in vervain. Try not to move too much as your heart might fall out" he teased him and that was when Damon realised that he could see his own heart beating through the hole still in his chest. "Drink this" Stefan handed him a blood bag.

Damon drank it down in one and handed it back to his brother, who gave him another. He tore it open with his teeth, drinking that one a little more slower than the last, he could still feel her tears falling onto his face.

"I am ok" he reassured her, looking up at her he caressed her face with his free hand. "Are you ok?"

She nodded. "Stefan healed me. But you are not healing"

"I will heal" he smiled up at her and then a thought hit him. "What time is it?" he asked his brother who looked at his watch. "A little after five" he shook his head. "Why?"

Damon tried to sit up again and winced. "We are getting married at six and we need to get out of here or we are going to miss our own wedding"

Bonnie held him in place, shaking her head with a smile she looked down into his cloudy gaze. "You are not going anywhere until that hole has healed up"

"I need to marry you tonight" he told her, trying to get back up again, but the pain was making him woozy.

"Damon if you get up now then you are going to kill yourself" Stefan warned him.

"I need to marry her tonight" Damon repeated still trying to get up. "I need to do this" he turned pleading eyes on his brother who nodded back at him.

"Then you can marry her right here" he pulled out his phone to call Elena back at the house.

Damon shook his head, struggling to lean forward to grab Stefan by the arm and flopping back against Bonnie he pulled his brother down to him and whispered in his ear. Bonnie frowned down at them both after she failed to hear a single word.

"Ok" Stefan smiled down at his brother as he scooped him up in his arms. "Come on" he smiled down at Bonnie, holding out his hand for her he pulled her up onto her feet. "Let's get him home" she smiled at Damon's happy face and they all walked back out of the warehouse and headed towards Carnina's car.