Chapter Four
Standing there in the suit that Bonnie had picked out for him on her recent shopping trip with Carnina, he felt like he could take on the whole world with her and win. He still had a small hole in his chest that he had to patch up with some thick bandage. He cringed a little when he felt a little of the blood escape through to trickle down his stomach. But he would never ruin the wedding by coming clean to Bonnie to let her know that he still wasn't healing as he should be.
Looking across at his brother he gave him a bright excited smile, his nerves clinging onto him. He had never wanted anything so much in his whole entire life as he did with wanting to marry his one true love. His soul mate.
"You ok?" Stefan asked him, watching the colour drain from Damon's cheeks a little and he nodded, the smile still on his face despite the pain he was in.
"Never better brother" he looked past Stefan at the tree house, his smile brightening at the sight of the first place that he had made love for the first time in his hundred and seventy three years of life. "Today is the start of something amazing for me" turning Damon looked at the minister standing in front of him. "Today I am marrying the girl of my dreams" he felt his heat beating a little fast now that his nerves had completely taken hold of him, the blood starting to trickle with a little more pressure, but still he wouldn't alert anyone to it. "A girl that makes me want to strive to be a better man. A girl that sees a good in me that no one else has ever been able too. A girl that doesn't want to change me, but a girl that makes me want to change myself for her. A girl that will love me for the rest of forever as myself. A girl that stole my heart the first second she had ever scowled at me" and that was the exact moment when he had realised that he had fallen head over heels for Bonnie the first second that he had ever laid eyes on her and the smile spread like wild fire to his painful heart.
"Nona I am going to marry that girl you had always told me I would find and I am going to marry her in front of my special place" he sent the words out on a silent prayer as he gazed up past the lanterns up into the starry evening sky as it started to darken. "I hope you are here with me right now watching this. I love you Nona" he smiled fondly at the stars, wishing that she could have lived long enough to have met Bonnie; he knew she would love her just as much as he did.
"Damon" Stefan whispered at his side and turning he saw Bonnie making her way towards him and it was like the sun had suddenly came out in the middle of night and he smiled at her and watching her smile back at him lit him up from the inside and he couldn't wait to start the rest of his life with her.
"You look" he couldn't find the words powerful enough to help him tell her just how beautiful she was right at the moment in time or how much he loved her, there were no words potent enough and she saw and nodding she smiled back at him, lighting up his soul to match her own delicate replica of his.
"Both Damon and Bonnie have each written their own vows" the minister said, looking from Bonnie to Damon. "You can read yours now"
"I will be your warmth whenever you get cold" he took her hand into his, squeezing it a little, the smile never wavering from his face. "I will be your shelter from the rain. I will be there by your side no matter what life throws at us and I will protect you with my own life, always. I will wander the path that leads us both throughout this life together and for the rest of forever I will love you and I will never stop cherishing each moment that we spend together"
Bonnie's eyes filled with tears, a smile lighting up her face and turning she handed Elena her flowers and shaking with an emotion she had never felt before she turned back to face Damon and he reaching across he wiped a tear from her eyes with a beaming smile.
"I love your flaws and I will live with you throughout every one of your mistakes" she smiled at him and he felt tears forming in his eyes. "I will follow you in the dark and together we will be each other's guiding light. I will protect you from all that tries to destroy you. My love for you will never waver or falter. I will be here with you for as long as I draw breath and my heart still beats. I will want you now and forevermore"
"Now they had both read their vows in front of the people they love and cherish the most. They now have to make a commitment to each other with the exchanging of the rings" the minister looked to Stefan for the rings and he handed them over and placed them on top of the black velvet cushion.
"The ring is the circle of life. Neither has a beginning nor an ending. And by giving and accepting of the rings Damon and Bonnie are vowing to take the other one, not only as their life partner, but as they're missing piece. The circle resembles a life everlasting. For the circle means forever because there is no end to it and there will be no end to the love that Damon and Bonnie possess for each other. Now repeat after me" he looked at Damon and he took a ring from the cushion and turned back to Bonnie with a smile on his face. "I Damon Giuseppe Salvatore will love, honour and protect you, Bonnie Sheila Bennett for as long as I live"
"I Damon Giuseppe Salvatore will love, honour and protect you for as long as I live" Damon said with a shaken voice that made her heart speed up too quickly and she thought that she would pass out from her love for him. "Take this ring as a symbol of my eternal love and fidelity. In the name of everything that I hold within me and the passion that drives me through each day I continue to draw breath" Damon gently pushed the ring onto her finger and kissed her hand, his heart beating fast again, the blood felt like a mini river flowing down his chest, but he still didn't care.
"We hadn't quite got to that part yet" the minister chuckled a little. "But every nicely spoken" he turned to Bonnie and said. "I Bonnie Sheila Bennett will love honour and protect you for as long as I live"
She slipped her ring half way onto Damon's finger, her hands shaking and tears sprang to her eyes and looking up into her, and she saw that a tear was softly running down his cheek, his smile the brightest she had ever seen from him.
"I Bonnie Sheila Bennett will love honour and protect you for as long as I live" she pushed the ring all the way onto his finger. ""Take this ring as a symbol of my eternal love and fidelity. In the name of everything that I hold within me and the passion that drives me through each day I continue to draw breath"
"Again" the minister chuckled. "We hadn't quite reached that part. But every nicely spoken too" Everyone started to laugh along with the minister and both Bonnie and Damon just stood there staring in the eyes of the one person they loved above all others. "Do you, Damon Giuseppe Salvatore take Bonnie Sheila Bennett as your lawfully wedded wife to love and to hold and to cherish for as long as you both shall live?"
"I do and beyond into death" he whispered breathlessly, his eyes never leaving hers.
"And do you, Bonnie Sheila Bennett take Damon Giuseppe Salvatore as your lawfully wedded husband to love and to hold and to cherish for as long as you both shall live?"
"I do" she grinned up him. "And beyond that into death"
"You may now kiss your bride" he smiled at Damon who didn't need to be told twice, he grabbed Bonnie in the blink of an eye and his lips hit hers with an hunger that consumed him life a wild fire raging through a forest and dipping her he swallowed down the pain in his chest and lost himself in her completely.
"I now pronounce you man and wife" the minister laughed again when it didn't look like they were ever going to come back up for air.
Both Stefan and Elena burst out laughing and Alba started to cough and breaking apart they both looked at the four of them standing behind them and turning back to face each other they laughed lightly before falling into another deep kiss.
"I love you beyond any great imagination" Damon whispered to her, his mouth hitting her neck with a soft kiss.
"I love you" she said with a vaguer that stole his breath away and he kissed her again.
"That part is over now, guys" Stefan said before coughing again and together they waved their hands at him to silence him.
The food had been amazing and she looked at him in awe that he had been able to pull it all off in so little time. The music started up and taking her hand into his, leading her back to the spot in front of the tree house where they had become man and wife. Wrapping his arms around her he pulled her into him, their bodies moving together and with each rising melody they both fell deeper in love with the other.
"Tonight has been the most magical moment of my life" she breathed into his chest, a tear rolling down her face in her happiness.
"My body is aching for you Bonbon" he chuckled lightly into the nape of her neck. "With a love so potent that I fear it killing me" he suddenly had a thought that wouldn't let go of him no matter how he tried to dislodge it from his head. "Bonnie I don't ever want to live without you" he whispered into the side of her face while they danced. "I can't live without you" he pulled back a little and looked back down into her loving gaze. "I would tear the whole world apart"
"I don't want to live without you" she closed her eyes, the fear that she will one day die and leave him alone frightened her more than anything ever would again.
Damon pulled her back into his arms, his body swaying with hers. He tried not to think of her dying one day, but his mind wouldn't let him escape that even for a second. He made a move to pick her up and twirl her, but he doubled over when the pain in his chest got too much for him.
"Damon" she cried out when he dropped to his knees, fighting to breathe, the front of his shirt completely drenched in his own blood. "Stefan" she called out as he ran towards them, dropping to his knees. "Help him"
"Damon are you not healing?" he asked him, concern radiating from him to stab into Bonnie's heart and she fell back into Elena's arms when they wrapped around her.
"I" Damon said before he passed out.
Stefan tore open his brother's shirt and saw the blood soaked bandages wrapped around his chest. "Knife" he yelled out and taking the cake knife that someone had handed to him, he cut off the bandages and saw the gaping hole still in his brother's chest. "You idiot" he cursed under his breath.
"Why isn't he healing" Elena asked him as Bonnie stared down at Damon lying there still on the floor and it didn't look like he was breathing, her heart came to an abrupt standstill.
"I don't know" Stefan turned and looked with dour eyes up at them both. "But I am sure as hell going to find out" scooping Damon up into his arms he headed back towards the house and found that he couldn't enter.
"Someone is trying to keep us out of the house" Alba said, trying to wrack his brains as to who would do that.
"Hey there" they all looked up at the second story window and saw a pale man with bright red hair grinning down at them all. "Looks like he is dying to me" he boomed with a deeper laugh than his slight body would look to give. "And you don't have very long by the looks of him"
"Caleb" Carnina gasped, clutching at Alba's arm.
"Ah, the ever beautiful Carnina" he grinned down at her with a smile that sickened Bonnie to her core she turned and looked at Carnina clutching at Alba's arm. "Look where marrying him got you. You got very old didn't you?"
"You had what you wanted" Alba said with a force that surprised Bonnie. "I gave you all that I had. There is nothing else here for you"
Caleb shook his head, looking down at him with a pity that would have driven Damon past the brink of insane if he had saw it. "You have more that I want and I have bided my time until you were weak enough for me to take it more" he stopped and pretended to think about it. "Easily"
"What do you want from us?" Carnina said in a whisper, clutching even more tightly onto Alba's arm.
"The rest of his magic" he said with a gleam in his eyes, the love he felt for Carnina still evident in the gaze he laid upon her and she sifted uncomfortably.
"I gave you every ounce of it that day you tried to kill my wife" Alba barked up at him and Caleb shook his head. "I gave it all to you"
"No" Caleb said in a tone that came out flat and dull, his eyes never once leaving Carnina. "No, you didn't" he leant on the outside windowsill, looking at Alba now. "I know you only gave me a fraction of it and you put the rest somewhere safe" his eyes started to glow and Elena gasped next to Bonnie. "You put it somewhere were you thought I would never think to look didn't you" he laughed that deep booming cackle again. "Didn't you and if you don't give it to me then I will simply come down there and take if from you and kill you all in one swift little blow" he stood up and raised his hand and picked up the car and threw it several feet down the garden, knocking over a few rose bushes and Bonnie was glad that Damon didn't see that. "So, Alba, do I have to kill you and your family here?" Stefan dropped to his knees and Damon rolled painfully onto his back, the wound in his chest still spilling out his life force all over the place. "I will start with the second vampire shall I" Stefan started to scream out, blood seeping through his fingers. "I will explode his brain so that he will never be able to come back from it ever again"
Alba turned to Carnina and grabbed her head and started to speak quickly, too fast even for Stefan to hear and like lighting he looked back up at the house and spoke under his breath and Caleb grinned down at him before he vanished from the window.
"Tree house" Alba told them all as he grabbed Carnina's hand and watched Stefan picking up Damon in his arms and they all made a run for it to the safety of the tree house.
"Who was that" Bonnie asked from Damon's side, her eyes never leaving his sallow grey face.
"My uncle" Alba told them as he sat down exhausted on one of the window seats.
"I know you are there" they all heard his voice outside and Elena clung on to Stefan.
"I have us cloaked for now, but I have no idea how long it will be before he figures out a way to break the spell" he seemed to sag a little more. "I don't know how long he has left"
Stefan looked down at his brother, worry etched on his pale face. He had no idea why Damon wasn't healing and it scared him that he still wasn't waking up. He had never seen Damon so ill before and he had no idea if it was down to the vervain mixed with something they didn't know about or if Caleb had anything to do with it. But he did know one thing and that was he was scared, scared for his brother's life.
"Isn't there anything you can do for him?" Elena asked and Bonnie's eyes left Damon's face for a few seconds as she sat there in her wedding dress clutching his hand to her heart, willing him to wake up with every beat it made.
"I'm afraid he is under a spell and I don't know which to try and break it" Alba admitted, hating seeing Damon so void of life, he felt Carnina hold his hand. "I wish I knew" he shook his head, closing his eyes. "I really do"
"Maybe we can put our magic together to break it" Bonnie frowned up at him from the floor, not wanting to look at Damon any more, it was breaking her heart too much and she couldn't bear it anymore.
"What about the black roses growing at the bottom of the garden" Carnina said suddenly getting to her feet.
"I think those might have been destroyed when Caleb blew the car into them" he shook his head, hating his uncle even more now than he did all those years ago.
"Well we can only try" Stefan got to his feet, heading for the door. "I can't just sit here and watch my brother die. I have to do something to help him"
"You can't" Carnina got unsteadily to her feet, grabbing his arm. "You are going to need magic to take them from the bush. They are special roses with healing abilities, but they are resistant to danger"
"Then come with me" Stefan told Alba who slowly shook his head. "I am too weak from the cloaking spell"
"You have your magic back" Stefan frowned at them all, not knowing what to do now that plan had been foiled before it had even taken off.
"I am eighty four years old Stefan and I am dying and my magic is not half what it used to be and out there in the open I will only prove to put you in further danger. I am sorry, Stefan, but I cannot risk any more of you being hurt or worse by my weakened hands and I can't"
"I will go with you" Bonnie interjected, kissing Damon on the forehead she got to her feet and turned to Elena. "Take care of him" she grabbed Damon's jacket from off the window seat from where he had left it the night before. "Let's do this before I change my mind" she slipped into Damon's jacket, feeling it wrap around her and his scent on it made her feel as if he was right there with her, with his arms around her.
Stefan watched her kicking off her shoes and walk straight out of the door and with one last look down at Damon he followed her outside into the cool night air. He had to run down the spiral steps to catch her up.
"Bonnie" he called out in a whisper from behind her. "Hold up"
She stopped and waited for him to catch her up and the second he did she spun on her feet and slapped him with everything she had across his face. "Why did you take him there" she cried out, her pain at seeing Damon dying turning to anger and she wanted to tear Stefan's face off. "Why did you take him there to his death" she hit at him, her fists pummelling his chest and he let her get it all out of her system. "He is dying and there isn't anything that I can do to help him" she sunk to her knees and with her face buried in her hands she sobbed.
He knelt down in front of her and waited for the tears to subside before he put his hand on her shoulder and moving her hands from her face she looked up into his eyes. "Bonnie there wasn't anything that I could have done to stop him from going to rescue you and if giving himself up to those goons was the only way to keep you safe, then he would always do it"
She nodded, tears still falling down her face and wrapping her arms around herself she pulled his jacket tightly around her and closing her eyes she breathed him in. Another stabbing pain hit her heart and she thought she was going to pass out from the agony of it. She needed to help Damon and she was never going to be able to do it if she was going to sit there and cry. Even if it meant she had to face Caleb alone, face to face to get him back, then she would. She knew she would do anything to save Damon. Like he would and did with her.
"Let's go and find a black rose to save my brother and your husband" Stefan smiled at her as he helped her back to her feet. "And it is weird calling him your husband" he gave a hearty chuckle that made her smile back at him despite the pain she was constantly feeling without Damon. "You really do love my brother, don't you" he asked her.
"More than my own life" she whispered to him walking at his side down to the rose garden and both stopped when they had the shock of their lives.
The whole entire garden had been torn up by Caleb when he had thrown that car and stepping over the last of his Nona's rose bushes he took her hand and helped her climb over a fallen tree. He looked down at her when she jumped down on the other side and thought with an inner grin "this is my sister in law"
They walked for what Bonnie had thought was miles when Stefan suddenly cried out and started to point a little way into the trees. "I see the bush" he ran towards the bush and stopped in front of it and waited for Bonnie to catch up.
"Wow" was all she could say as she stood there looking at the upturned rose bush with its tiny black rose buds all over it and dropping to her knees she pulled off a few and shoved them into the inner pocket of Damon's jacket to keep them safe. "Let's head back" she got back to her feet and turning she came face to face with Caleb his bright red hair seemed to light up the darkest parts of the garden and his green eyes seemed to glow with a fire that frightened her and turning she found Stefan down on his knees clutching at his throat.
"Bonnie" he manged to get out between struggling to breathe. "Run"
She shook her head, there was no way that she was going to run and lifting up her hands she opened her mouth to speak, then everything went black.
"My god" Carnina leapt to her feet followed by Elena when Stefan ran into the tree house with her lying lifeless in his arms and gently he laid her down next to Damon, sinking to his knees.
"What happened" Elena cried out, fear clutching at her chest.
"He broke her neck" was all he could say as he looked down at the still figures of his brother and Bonnie lying on the floor, tears framing his eyelashes darker and he grabbed his hair, wanting to tear it out. "He came out of nowhere and took me out and then" he found it hard to breathe suddenly and Elena was at his side, rubbing at his back, tears flowing down her face. "And then he, he broke her neck" he started to cry, his anger over taking him and his fangs came through abruptly. "He killed her and Damon will never forgive me for letting her die like that" Elena pulled him into her and they both sat there on the floor crying. "He killed her, Elena. And when Damon wakes up he is going to blame me. I blame me. I should be blamed. It was my entire fault"
Elena was sat there next to Bonnie holding her hand, a steady flow of tears running down her face. She lost someone else that she loved and she didn't know if her heartache was ever going to end from another fatal blow. She looked across at Stefan with his face in his hands, his shoulders hunched defeated. She couldn't take it anymore. And at that point she really wished that she had died when Kai put the sleeping beauty spell on her. Closing her eyes she took a deep breath. Contemplating what they're next move could be to stop Caleb. But she had nothing.
She leapt to her feet when Bonnie abruptly sat up and letting go of her hand she stared at her best friend staring wide eyed and panting.
Bonnie hurt all over and she found it hard to breathe. She remembered going to get some magical roses to help Damon and then. "He broke my neck" she gasped her hand reaching for her neck, rubbing at it and it felt like it was about to fall from her shoulders. "Caleb" she turned to Stefan, eyes still wide. "He killed me"
Stefan was sat there frozen in shock. Her had thought that his blood had left her system and shaking his head he looked across at Elena sitting the other side of Bonnie, but she was staring at Bonnie in shock herself.
Bonnie leapt to her feet before falling back onto the window seat, resting her face against the cool glass when she suddenly started to feel too hot. "Am I going to be a vampire?" she looked down at Damon still lying there on the floor, tears pricking at her eyes. "I can't be a vampire" her bottom lip started to wobble and for the first time in a long time she started to feel weak again and she hated the feeling more than the throbbing pain that seemed to be her whole body now and feeling colder she huddled inside Damon's jacket and she closed her eyes, feeling his arms around her again and she felt a little better. But opening her eyes and seeing him on the floor took that little comfort away and she felt sick to her stomach.
"I can't be" she cried out, her eyes full of tears and biting her lip she willed them back in, she felt weak enough.
"You are in transition" Stefan flew to her side and sat down, looking at her gently. "You are going to need"
"I know what it takes to become a vampire" Bonnie interjected, feeling annoyed with him for what had happened to her, even though deep down she knew that it wasn't his fault. "I have seen enough of my friends become them over the years. So I know what happens, Stefan" she got to her feet and stood there in the middle of the room, her hands on her face.
"You just need to feed" Elena said pulling her hands away from her face. "You will be ok, Bon, I promise"
"I can't become a vampire" Bonnie turned, gazing out of the window at the rising sun. "I can't. I'm a witch and I love being a witch. It is who I am. Who I was meant to be, who I was born to be and nothing was supposed to change that. I can't be a vampire, Elena" she looked down at Damon still lying on the floor, covered in his own blood, unmoving and her heart fell out of her head. "I'm sorry" she whispered to him, dropping to her knees. "I know this isn't what you wanted for me. But now I have no other choice but to become the one thing I dreaded the most. But I can't lose you" she bent forward and kissed him on the top of his warm dark head. "I can't leave you" she whispered into the side of his face, stroking his clammy cheek. "I love you" she closed her eyes, leaning her face against his and taking a deep breath she got back to her feet and removed Damon's jacket and taking out the black rose buds she handed them over to Alba. "Ok" was all she said.
"Bonnie I am so sorry" Stefan said from behind her, putting his hand on her back and she turned around to face him.
"I'm not doing this for me" she glanced back down at him lying on the floor. "'I'm doing this for him"
"Feed from me" Elena smiled fondly at her, moving to stand in front of Bonnie.
"No" Alba leapt to his feet. "Feed from me"
They all looked at the old man standing there on shaking feet, the magic he had pulled to save them all had surely taking its toll and he would never be strong enough for Bonnie to feed on him.
Bonnie shook her head. "I can't put you in any more danger, not after everything that you have already done for us"
"Bonnie I'm an old man with terminal cancer. I'm dying. And I want to give my magic to you as a gift to save my friend. You will fed from me to finish your transformation and while you drain me dry I will give you my magic in the hopes that it will absorb into your new vampire body" Alba was clutching both her hands in his. "Bonnie I can see that you have the inner strength of a tiger and nothing is going to stand in your way to save them all"
She looked from Alba to his wife Carnina who was now standing just behind him with the black rose buds in her frail hand. "He is telling you the truth. He has six months left to live and he would rather die fighting for those he loves than riddled in pain, helpless, in his own bed"
"Help Damon, Bella" he smiled at his wife who went and knelt at Damon's side, pushing his torn shirt
Aside.
"But it would be a total waste of your magic" Bonnie looked back at him, her heart feeling like it was about to explode along with her mind now. "Why don't you give it to Elena?"
Alba shook his head. "Elena would never be able to keep it. The magic would just evaporate from her human body"
"But Carnina" Stefan frowned at him, confused.
"She didn't know it was there, I had hidden it from her" Alba sat back down on the window seat again, patting the side for Bonnie and she sat, watching Carnina feeding an unmoving Damon petals from the buds. "Bonnie, you are a witch by birth and your body stores your own magic. By becoming a vampire your body will over throw that, but" she turned and looked at him, a frown creasing her nose. "If you feed from me to finish your transformation while I feed my magic into you, there is a greater chance of you keeping it, of it sticking to your vampire side. I want you to have my magic, because I believe that you are the only one that can stop Caleb for good"
Bonnie didn't know what to say, she didn't believe that her becoming a vampire would also leave her part witch. Kind of like a hybrid. But she had no other choice to accept it. She had to save her friends and her husband.
"Ok" she said, looking back down at Damon. "But what is going to happen to him. Don't you need to cast a spell to bring him back first?" she was really worried that when Alba gave her his magic, she would be useless in bringing him back and it would all have been for nothing.
"Once he has eaten the petals it will then be all up to him to fight his way back from whatever spell that my uncle put upon him"
Bonnie watched Stefan crouch at Damon's side and take the small flip knife from his pants pocket and hand it to Alba who drew it across his wrist and closing her eyes to not see what she was about to do, she drank from him, feeling the blood rushing into her mouth and his magic into her whole being.
Damon now trapped inside the darkness of his own mind and he could hear everything that went on around him and it broke his heart to hear his own brother verbalise his worst fear, that Bonnie was dead. And each new time he heard those words they would never get any easier for him to hear to even begin to handle.
He felt like he was floating in an endless nothingness. But he didn't care where he was. His mind was breaking down on him along with his heart crushing in his chest. The pain was the worst he had ever experienced in his whole existence. He tried to cry out, but nothing would come to the surface and so it continued to eat away at his very soul. He was left hanging in the balance between life and death and he knew that he would never be able to hold her in his arms again, or kiss her soft sweet lips. He couldn't even kiss her goodbye. That tore at his very being and all he wanted to do at that moment was to tear out his own semi beating heart and all he could do was float there in the dark, wherever he was.
"Bonnie" he said to himself, his heart tearing at him with that one single word that he had spoken a million times, but this time it felt like a red hot poker burning right through his heart.
He tried to find the words to scream out, but there was nothing, his pain was too much for him to bear and he begged death to hurry up and take him. He would never be able to live in world without her. The last time had almost destroyed him. But this time he knew that he wouldn't be able to breathe without her. Anger started to ripple through like a hurricane, but that slowly died down again when an image of her walking towards him that morning brought him an endless foreboding distress.
"I love you" he heard her voice floating to him from both somewhere and nowhere and he tried to move to find the location of it, but he didn't even have a body anymore and his anger rippled through him once again.
He felt something there with him even darker than the emptiness he seemed to be floating within. He felt its power and it both annoyed and frightened him. He could feel its need to take his soul as its own and he fought to get away from it. But each time he felt himself floating away from it, whatever it was, he felt it dragging him back in its hold and the more he fought the closer to it he became.
He knew that he would never give up his own life until he said his goodbyes to Bonnie, then he would take off his daylight ring and sit at sunset, ready to join her in the afterlife. It was driving him beyond mad and then it drove him insane to hear that Bonnie was now going to become the one thing he had never wanted for her, a vampire. He hated Stefan for allowing this to happen. But most of all he hated himself for lying there useless and not being able to do the one thing he had always promised her he would do, protect her. When he was able to wake up he was going to make Caleb wish that he had never been born. He tried to fight the darkness that flowed all around him. But each time he tried to wake up he felt it pushing him further back into it. He growled in anger. His whole body was flaring with it now and he fought like he had never fought before. Bonnie needed him and he was never going to stop fighting his way back to her.
"I'm going to come back to you, Bonbon" he said to himself as he floated in the darkness with the beast still behind him, trying to claw at him to devour his very soul. "Don't give up on me" he begged her, hoping that she would feel a spark within him to say that he was still there, that he was trapped within his own darkness.
"It's not working" he heard Alba say form a great distance away as the beast of his own mind dragged him closer towards it and he gave it everything that he had to fight his way back to her, she needed him more than ever now.
But it was no good, the beast caught a hold of him and he felt himself being dragged faster and faster, his whole soul felt like it was being torn from his body and then slowly his thoughts started to fade away from him. He couldn't think and he desperately brought forward an image of her smiling up at him to his mind and he kept it there while everything started to harden around him while he himself started to soften and fray and tear at the edges of his mind and he knew that he was dying.
"I love you, Bon" was the last thing he thought and then he was engulfed within the beast.
Closing her eyes she fell back against the window feeling her fangs breaking through her gums a little painfully. She could feel every single vine in her face swell and throb with a hunger that she had never felt before and she had to admit that it made her feel things that she would never had known existed. Opening her eyes she looked across at Stefan and he gave her a little smile, she glanced at Elena on the floor next to Damon and watched her climbing to her feet to stand next to Stefan and she cocked her head to the side and stared at the vein throbbing at the side of her neck and rising slowly to her feet she made her way across the room, her hand reaching out she started to stroke Elena's neck. Dying to know what she would taste like, her fangs itched painfully at her to test it out.
"Damon" she heard Carnina gasp out loud and turning around so quick she almost toppled over when the room moved too fast for her to keep up with and that was the moment when she knew there was never any going back for her again.
"Damon" she cried out, her heart leaping into her mouth when she saw him slowly starting to desiccate before her very eyes and it shocked her how clear her vison was now. "What is happening" she dropped to her knees at his side, holding onto his face, leaning over him. "Don't leave me" she begged him through a torrent of tears. "Damon, don't you dare leave me" she sobbed, clutching at him. "You promised me that you would never leave me"
"I'm sorry" she looked up into Alba's sad eyes and shaking her head she started to back away from them all staring down at her.
"No" she mumbled, trying to make sense of what was happening around her, everything become too quiet and she wanted to scream but she couldn't remember how.
"It was too late" Alba came a little nearer to her, reaching out to touch her leg, but she shook her head, screaming inside but couldn't quite figure out a way to let it out.
"No. No. no" she kept repeating over and over again, each time she spoke it hit her in the heart like a knife.
She heard Stefan cry out and looking up at him she saw him nestled in Elena's arms, his body shaking with each bone crushing tear that left him and that was when it hit home that Damon was dead. Her hands grabbed onto her hair and she yanked it, reality quickly taken over and she wanted to run away and never stop. She looked over at Damon lying on his back and quickly she crawled over to him and pulled his head up onto her lap, her tears burst through and flowed down onto his face.
"I can see you" they all heard, but Bonnie ignored him, clutching Damon to her chest, her heart felt like it was now on fire and she begged it to destroy her along with it. "Hello little piggy's"
"He has broken through the spell" she heard Alba say, sounding like a whisper from miles away to her, as if it were now floating to her on a light breeze and she clung onto Damon a little more.
"I will huff and I will puff until I blow your little house down" Caleb came through on a breeze and she continued to block them all out.
"What is he doing?" someone asked, and by now she didn't care who it was that had spoken or what was going to happen to them all.
"He is going to destroy the tree house and kill us all" came a frantic reply. "Bonnie you are going to need to pull yourself together and help us get out of here"
She clung onto Damon a little more tightly, not wanting to let him go. She no longer cared about anything or anyone anymore. She just wanted it all to hurry up and be over so that she could be with Damon again.
"Bonnie" Stefan was now at her side, trying to break through the wall she had built up around her and Damon. "We are going to need to you remain strong right now and fight with us" she shook her head at him. "We need you" he tried again, and again she shook her head. "Bonnie we need you. We need to find a way to get out of here"
She lifted her head and looked up into his green eyes that looked almost olive in his grief. "Ok" she said, knowing somewhere deep inside her shattered soul that Damon would want her to keep on fighting no matter what happened.
Stefan took her hand and helped her back to her feet and she looked from Damon back to him in question. "We'll come back for him" he promised her and she nodded sombrely.
Bonnie dropped back down onto her knees and hugged his still body to hers and whispered something in his ear too low even for Stefan to hear and kissing his cheek she stood back up and wiped her tears away and turning towards the others she walked out the front door and made her way to the other side of the garden and turning back to face the tree house she saw the whole thing collapse and she fall forwards, her whole body crumbling on her, only to be caught by Stefan before she hit the ground.
"Damon" she cried out before Stefan's hand covered her mouth and she felt him dragging her backwards towards the house while she kicked and fought her way back to Damon, she had to get him out of there. "I can't leave him" she fought him like a rabid beast, but he still refused to let her go.
"He is gone" Stefan yelled at her after closing the back door and she heard someone lock it, but she couldn't tear her glare away from his devastated face. "Damon isn't coming back" he told her, a little gentler this time and she fell to the floor, her cries the only thing above her heart beating out of control she could hear.
Elena was sitting next to her and she felt her body being hugged and then Stefan was in front of her talking to her, but she could only see his lips moving.
"I'll kill him" she screamed out, breaking free of Elena and trying to make a break for it back to the tree house. "I'm going to tear him limb from limb"
Stefan was in her way and she couldn't get around him to leave. She made a move to attack him but he was a lot quicker than her, and she couldn't move like she wanted to still in her wedding dress, when she watched him reaching out and breaking her neck, she sagged into his arms.
"I'm sorry" he whispered to her as she fell into complete darkness.