Damon waited until Bonnie left for class to make his way out of the dormitory. She slept all night and although she tossed and turned a lot she have any nightmares. He slipped on his signature leather jacket and slipped out of the building making sure there was no co-eds a foot.
He was going to make his way over to the fitness center to take a shower but first he wanted to check on Shane to make he was behaving himself and to do a little snooping around. He wanted to know how he was able to strip Bonnie's powers. Damon's sensed he was human but he was sure something dark was going on.
Parking down the street he waited in his car and watched the Professor leave for his morning classes. "A Buick Le Sabre, really? A 35 year old single guy drives a retirement car and no one thought he was evil." he muttered aloud.
A few minutes later, Shane's housekeeper arrived as scheduled every other Tuesday. Damon walked up to the door and rang the bell. The housekeeper answered, "Hello, Mr. Shane not at home."
" Leave and don't come back for two hours."
The old woman slipped on her jacket but before she could leave Damon grabbed her again. " If you have daughters or grand daughters don't let the professor near them."
She nodded and left. Locking the door after her, Damon looked around the living room. He had been in the house several times before but he had yet to find anything suspicious. It was a bachelor pad, The oddest thing he found was the collection of mask. There were hundreds of them all over the house. He had one more room to check, the basement. He headed down the stairs, turning on the light when he arrived at the bottom step. Painted all the walls were foreign writings and symbols. He used his cell to snap a few pictures for research later. The markings covered every wall of the basement except for one, on that wall from top to bottom were bookshelves and lined from top to bottom were books. Perusing the titles, he saw were all books on magic and witches. Most were about dark magic. They were all in pretty good shape. He looked though several of them but one in particular caught his eye. There was nothing special about it, but he felt as if someone was pushing him towards that book.
Opening the cover Damon was surprised to find that the books pages had been hollowed out and on the inside a smaller book was hidden. It appeared to be very old, Damon had seen some old books before but nothing like this. He looked inside and the pages were filled with images and captioned with the same strange writing that lined the walls and a few pages were dog eared. One page was of a woman with long braided hair standing in a circle of other women being worshipped. In the middle of the book he found a well worn page with a man wearing a mask, nude standing over the worshipped woman. She was chained to a boulder and she is naked also. He flips to the next page and it is the same picture of the man and woman. He looks closer at the pictures and the woman appears to be afraid and screaming. She also has something coming from her mouth, smoke perhaps, he couldn't tell. A few more pages and the woman is stretched on the boulder and the mask man is pulling a baby from her belly. On the last pages of the book the man in the mask is dressed in fine robes holding a baby on top of a mountain while on lookers stand down below.
"What the hell is this, the Lion King. "
On the last page the masked man face is finally shown and Damon is shocked to see the man bears a striking resemblance to Shane. The onlookers were not only people their faces were contorted like vampires, there were also wolves and other mystical creatures. Damon flipped back a few more pages and saw images of women being chained and tortured, flipping through book he noticed something, it was telling a story like cartoons. Starting back at the beginning he tried to understand the story. The masked man taking something from the woman, witches maybe he thought. Wolves, vampires and humans, fairies engaged in wars with each other. The braided hair woman being assaulted by the masked man, him taking something from the young woman and becoming strong. The witches being hunted by them all and burned alive. The child, the masked man being worshipped by all the creatures. Vampires bowing to him, bowing to Shane. He started the story back over again, not believing what he was seeing. It was just story right? But why was it hidden. He was so engrossed in the book he didn't hear the door open.
"Shane, honey are you here?" Damon snapped out of his reverie. He put the book in his back jean pockets and sped up the stairs. He recognized the voice but he had to be mistaken, he prayed he was.
If Jesus was standing there he would have been less shocked.
"Abby, what are you doing here?"
" I could ask you the same thing!" She was obviously shocked by his presence.
" What are you doing here?" he said again through clinched teeth.
She was glancing around nervously trying to find a way to escape.
"What are you doing with Shane? And why did you call him honey?" he asked.
"None of your business Salvatore."
He was in front of her before she knew it, he wrapped his hand around her neck and squeezed. Her eyes began to bug out as she clawed at his hands. "What are you doing here with Shane?"
" He's my friend, shouldn't you be looking after Bonnie?" she let slip out accidentially and immediately knew she slipped.
"How did you know I was looking after Bonnie." He questioned.
She said nothing just folded her arms.
"You are unbelieveable, have you seen Bonnie?"
" No, I've been occupied with other things."
He removed himself from her space he didn't want to be anywhere near her sorry ass.
"You are here with this dick, while your daughter is right across campus?"
" You don't know what is going on Damon, he is helping me." A beat, "we are in love."
" You useless bitch!" he spat, "in love? Do you know what he did to Bonnie, to your daughter?"
"He was only trying to help me get back what you took from me when you turned me into a vampire." she spat out.
Very slowly, enunciating every word Damon asked her, "What did he do to Bonnie."
"My magic, he is only taking what I gave Bonnie when I gave birth to her, I want my powers back. He told me how miserable Bonnie is being a witch and how you vampires are abusing her and her powers. He is looking out for Bonnie's happiness."
"Are you really this stupid?" He said shaking his head. "He's using you like he used Bonnie."
" He loves me."
He snorted crossing his arms.
" He loves me and Bonnie trust him. He is her friend."
"Don't say Bonnie's name again and he is not her friend" he warned.
" Who do you think you are? You have used her power for years to protect you and your brothers lady love, Elena. Still chasing that dream Damon."
"That ship sailed a long time ago, Elena belongs with Stefan," he shrugged leaning against the wall.
" I must say I am surprised you got over it, you were so damned whipped," she smiled and then frowned, "Don't think that you can move onto Bonnie…"
He stood straight up when she said the name and Abby took a step back.
" We are doing this to help her," she said.
"Help her, do you know what he did to her?"
"He is a good man Damon, not like you."
" A good man? That piece of shit drugged your daughter , held her down and r…"
Just then the front door opened and Shane walked in carrying papers and some binders.
"Can I get some help babe?" he said to Abby but when she saw Damon he dropped the items in his hands and ran back out the door.
Damon sprang after him but was knocked into an armoire by Abby allowing Shane to get away.
He stood up and straightened, " You useless bitch, you protect that piece of shit."
"I love him, he is all I have and he is a good man!"
"What about your child!" he screamed.
She looked away from him, " I love him, he is helping me to be me again."
"Who are you trying to convince Abby, me or yourself."
She wiped a tear away from her face and stood defiant.
"You don't deserve to be a witch, you aren't a Bennett. The Bennetts took care of their own. You don't deserve to be a mother, a dog is a better mother than you. But you are going to tell that filth to stay away from Bonnie and so are you."
"Leave Shane alone he is innocent, he was only trying to help me he is a good man."
" You're a bitch and so is he. He is not a good man, he was helping himself not you, he doesn't give a damn about you." He stalked towards her. " Innocent? What do you know about innocent, Bonnie was innocent!' He thought of how much Bonnie was hurting, and the look on her face when he found Shane at her house. The look in her eyes when she asked him not to look at her because of the shame." You want to know what your innocent love did?" She didn't want to know he could tell, she knew that somehow this had all gotten out of hand. She shook her head. " That BITCH drugged and raped Bonnie, I am sure it was not his first rodeo either. He took her powers and left her defenseless against him, he came to see her a day later and tried to rape her again!" he shouted.
Abby backed up and sat down hard on a stool in the kitchen. She shook her head. Shane had been off lately. When he came back from his meeting with Bonnie he said the spell she gave him didn't work, it was dark magic and she was not familiar with it, Her magic was pure, but once she became a vampire she became acquainted with the dark arts. Her and Shane enjoyed it.
"No," she denied, "you're lying."
He straightened and walked away a bit. "I'm not and you know it. He hurt Bonnie, she is falling apart, while you play house with her rapist."
"Why?" she asked.
He didn't answer, he had no answers and if he did he wasn't telling her. He didn't trust her and he never had. He cursed the day he told Bonnie where to find her.
"I have to go," she said.
"You aren't going anywhere, you are staying here and you are going to play house with that poor excuse for a man and you are going to keep him away from Bonnie."
" He didn't do what you said, if he did then she will never forgive me if she finds out about us."
" I'm supposed to care why? You just stay away from Bonnie, you can't help her." He stated honestly.
"She is my baby, I love Bonnie."
Damon sped over to where she was, put his hand on her mouth and shoved her head painfully into the wall behind her.
" I told you not to EVER say her name again, " he whispered through clenched teeth.
"You remember what I told you to do." He said as he pointed to her.
"Is she going to be okay?"
He didn't answer her, she didn't deserve an answer. How had someone as selfish and useless as Abby, given birth to someone like Bonnie. He was going to help Bonnie. He slid into his car and remembered the book in his back pocket, it had to have something to do with what Shane and Abby had done to Bonnie. Maybe they used a spell from the book to steal her powers. Whatever it was he was going to get to the bottom of it. He made a promise that when this was all over, when Shane was in prison and Bonnie was recovered, he was going to help give Abby what she wanted, she didn't want to be a vampire well he was going to end her life, and this time for good.