Hey everyone! So I wrote this today in honor of the Vampire Diaries season premiere! Wooohoooo! What an episode right? NOTE: IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT I SUGGEST YOU SKIP DOWN TO THE BOLDED PART BELOW B/C THERE WILL BE SPOILERS IN THE NEXT PART OF WHAT I HAVE TO SAY. Okay now that the rest of you are still here, tonight's episode was amazing! Okay so I did throw up a little at all the Elena/Damon and Katherine/Damon crap they threw at us but the Bamon scenes made it so worth it. So much heat and intensity between them tonight! I loved how badass Bonnie was and how she did that mind thing to Damon…definitely my fave part. And then when Damon asked Bonnie for a truce and she said no I was like "Yes! Damon you still owe Bonnie". I really liked Stefan tonight because of how in control he was…definitely an upgrade. I wasn't a big Damon fan tonight. I'm not an admirer of sappy, lovestruck Damon. It's like, come on, lets leave the weepy, broodiness to the rest of the TVD guys. Damon doesn't do weepy haha.
Anyway, I think this might be the last chapter I write for this one…still not sure. Depends on if I'm inspired any time soon. But with this new batch of TVD episodes, I'll most likely have some more. Okay well I hope you like it and thank you for all your great reviews, story alerts and favorites! Love, BamonTivaLove
It's like nothing I've ever seen. The look in his eyes when he returns to my house after a day of hunting some crazed vampire who had been stalking Mystic Falls; it's like nothing I've ever seen. I knew from the moment I did it that I was stupid to think I could take him on my own. My powers have been increasing lately and I've been able to do things I never thought possible. But I also knew and I still know, that I'm completely unprepared to fight a six hundred year old vampire by myself. I guess I had wanted to protect everyone. I couldn't stand the thought of Stefan getting hurt trying to take him down. I definitely couldn't stand the thought of Damon getting hurt. This vampire, Sebastian, had been roaming through Mystic Falls for about two months, killing innocent people and terrorizing anyone unfortunate enough to be wandering around at night. The sheriff had called it "animal attacks" again but I knew better. And so did Damon and Stefan and Elena.
When I had suggested confronting Sebastian and trying to kill him, Damon had immediately struck the idea down.
"No way," he'd said, shaking his head.
"Damon I can do it," I replied, watching him pace back and forth his living room.
He laughed bitterly and walked up to me so that he was only inches from my face.
"Bonnie you don't get it do you?" he said, making a gesture with his hands like he wanted to strangle me. "You can't just become powerful enough to take out a six hundred year old vampire overnight. It's dangerous and stupid."
"But I can do it," I argued, feeling a youthful sense of stubborn pride arising in me.
"God, will someone tell her how idiotic this is?" he said, throwing his hands up and walking away from me.
"Bonnie it's not a good idea," chimed in Stefan from his place on the couch. "Sebastian is stronger than even us."
"I can practice," I said, hearing my voice catch in my throat. "I can do this. What other choice do we have?"
I heard Damon scoff. "Hmm I don't know we can avoid him. We can get someone else to take care of him. There are a million ideas that are infinitely better than the one you have right now Bonnie."
"Bonnie as much as I'd love to see this guy gone," said Elena, walking towards me. "I have to agree with Stefan and Damon on this one."
I rolled my eyes at how often I found myself butting heads with the three of them. Was it just me?
I crossed my arms and began going over all the possible spells I could cast when Damon was suddenly right in front of me, his hand grabbing my elbow roughly.
"I know what you're thinking and you better stop," he said, his eyes filled with concern and determination.
"I'm not thinking anything," I said, wondering for a second if he could hear my thoughts the way I heard his.
He smirked. "Yeah right, I'm not stupid. You're staying with Elena and she's not letting you out of her sight until we handle this mess."
"What?" I protested, following Damon as he walked away from me. "No way that is not happening."
"Yes it is," he said, picking up Elena's keys and handing them to her. "Take her to your place."
"Damon you don't tell me what to do," I hissed, clenching my fists.
"Stop being so childish Bonnie," he replied, rolling his eyes. "I know this is about you showing off how you can take care of yourself but I'm willing to allow you to be pissed at me if it keeps your neck away from Sebastian's fangs."
"This is bullshit," I said, running a hand through my hair. "I don't need the protection."
"No but you need the supervision," he said, putting his hand on my back and pushing me out the door as Elena followed behind us.
When Stefan and Elena were outside by the car and I was getting ready to walk out, Damon grabbed me gently by the wrist.
"Hey," he said, turning my face up to look at him. I avoided his eyes, too angry and indignant to look at him.
"Eye contact Bonnie," he said, smiling slightly.
I finally looked at him and saw the slight worry in his eyes that he covered with humor.
"I'm doing this for your own good," he said, kissing me on the cheek. "You think I like playing Stefan?"
I shook my head, knowing how much it bothered him to have to play my protector. Damon had always been okay with, even proud of my independence. I knew he wasn't trying to be this macho alpha male and that's why it was so hard for me to be mad at him in that moment. He kissed me on the mouth and then forced me into Elena's car. Despite my understanding of his intentions, I still thought at the time that there was something I could do; and I was determined to do it.
"Elena please," I had pleaded, putting on my best innocent face. "I promise I'm only going to the restroom."
I saw Elena's face fill with worry and hesitation. I felt bad for taking advantage of the fact that I knew she couldn't say no to me but I had no other choice.
"Fine," she said, giving in. "But I'm going to be right outside on my bed. If I hear anything weird I'm coming in."
"Okay," I said, smiling. "Thank you."
I shut the door behind me and thanked god for bathroom windows. I tucked at the lock but it wouldn't budge so instead I used my mind to open it.
"Thank you telekinesis," I muttered, smiling with pride.
I managed to fit myself through the window and jumped down twenty feet. My landing was anything but graceful but nothing was bruised or broken so I continued on.
I had known where Sebastian was staying because Damon and I had seen him entering a local motel a few days before. He was good looking, but so was every other vampire I'd seen before. He had chestnut colored hair and different colored eyes; one was green and the other was gray. He was tall and lean and looked like he could've been a character in a Bronte novel. He had this romantic look to him and even I was a little taken with him at first.
I found myself driving to his motel, my heart pounding as I tried to memorize the spell I'd taught myself a few days earlier. I felt as though I was on my way to die and I probably was.
The moment my feet touched the ground when I got off my car, I knew he felt my presence. He had this uncanny ability that I'd never seen before to sense when I came around. The door to his room was open and I sensed immediately that it was a trap. I don't know why I went in but I had this overwhelming need to protect those I love that nothing else mattered at that point. I entered quietly and looked around. It was lit enough so I could make out the room but dark enough so that I had to squint.
"I can't decide if you're brave or stupid Bonnie," came a slight Danish accent I knew was Sebastian's.
"Maybe both," I replied, turning around to see him sitting in the corner, smoking a cigarette.
"You've come here to try to kill me I suppose," he said, nonchalantly.
"Not try," I answered, getting ready for him to lunge at me at any moment.
"I am surprised you didn't bring your friends," he said, smiling. "Damon and Stefan."
"I can take care of myself," I said.
"Yes I know that," he replied, laughing. "But there is only so much you can do around me. I'm not your typical vampire Miss. Bennett."
"No you're even more disgusting," I muttered, looking him dead in the eyes.
He laughed again. "You're ballsy Bonnie. I like that."
Before I could allow him to come near me I began reciting a spell in Latin. I put all my focus on it and felt my veins bursting and my heart beating at a million miles an hour. I felt dizzy all of a sudden but I kept going, hoping and praying it would work. At first, I thought I was successful since it was completely silent other than the sound of my voice but when I opened my eyes Sebastian had lunged at me and had me by the neck. I felt the air in my lungs give out and my eyes became watery.
"You really thought a seventeen year old human witch could kill me with her little magic tricks?" he spat, his mouth grazing my neck.
I attempted to pull away but his grip on me only became stronger.
"Now, now," he said, smiling deviously. "You came to play so that's exactly what we're going to do."
Before I knew it, he'd thrown me to the other side of the room so that my back had crashed against the wall. I felt my head land on the floor but everything went dark after that.
When I woke up Stefan was standing over Sebastian, pouring gasoline around his dead body. I looked up to see Damon kneeling over me, holding my head with one hand.
"Damon," I managed to say, attempting to sit up.
"Your rib is broken," he said bluntly, not looking at me but at my arm. "We need to get you to the hospital."
"I'm fine," I replied, but stopped when I saw the murderous look in Damon's eyes.
"Okay," I said, nodding.
He didn't talk to me the whole way there. Stefan threw me a sympathetic glance occasionally. When Elena saw me, she too was angry but got over it when she saw how injured I was. Damon, however, was not about to let anything go. After spending the night at the hospital, the doctor gave me the okay to leave and Elena took me home. She bought me soup and rented me movies and promised to come back the next day with gossip magazines and a box of Twinkies to devour.
Now, as I watch Damon burst in the front door, his hands shaking, I kind of wish I had died instead.
For the first time in a long time I'm genuinely afraid of him. The anger in his eyes is wild and uncontrolled. I'm sitting on the couch, not able to move and this scares me even more.
"Do you have some sort of death wish?" he yells, grabbing a nearby lamp and throwing it at the wall.
I flinch at this and shake my head because I'm too shocked to speak.
"Then what the hell was that last night?" he continues, running a frantic hand through his already messy hair. "What is wrong with you Bonnie?"
"I'm sorry," I manage to spit out, tears forming in my eyes. "I just wanted to help."
"I told you to stay away!" he shouts. "Why can't you ever listen? You could've died tonight Bonnie, do you know that?"
"Yes," I reply.
"God you're so selfish sometimes," he says, kicking the coffee table in front of me.
"I'm selfish?" I ask. "You're the one who spent 145 years lusting after Katherine and doing whatever you could to get her. You're the one who used me and my grandma to get her back. You're the one who went around killing people for no reason. You're the one who has no regard for Stefan's feelings."
"Newsflash Bonnie," he says, coming closer to me. "That was in the past! Now you're the asshole here."
I think about causing Damon some great bodily harm but when I see his defenses go down, I realize I'm in the wrong here and I back down.
"I know," I reply, which elicits a taken aback response from Damon. He didn't expect me to give in so quickly.
"I just…couldn't stand the thought," I begin, but feel myself choking up. I clear my throat.
"I couldn't let you go out there and try to take him down," I say, straightening up. "I had to do something."
Damon rolls his eyes but comes and sits next to me, putting at least a foot of space between us. He put his face in his hands and begins speaking again.
"You can't protect me Bonnie," he murmurs. "My safety is not your responsibility. I know you're strong but you're not that strong and I need you to realize that. I can't be worrying that you're going to go out and get yourself killed every time a new vampire comes into town."
"I know," I whisper.
"You can't just go out and decide you're going to risk your life whenever you feel like it," he continues, shaking his head. "It's not fair."
I nod and look over at his hands, which are now hanging limply over his knees. I close the space between us and I take his hand. I kiss his neck softly and feel his intake of breath. I can tell by the tension in his body that he's still not completely over it but I know he has forgiven me by the way he turns his head slightly, puts my face in his hands and kisses me passionately. He holds his forehead against mine.
"If you ever do that again," he warns, "I'll kill you myself."
"Deal," I say, laughing and crying at the same time.
He takes my neck and hugs me tightly.
"So how did you get Sebastian anyway?" I ask, looking up at him an hour later as we watch a movie.
"Good old vervain bullets," he says, taking a few out of his pocket. "Vervain is every vampire's kryptonite, no matter how old they are."
I smile to myself as I watch Damon's hand stoke my arm, up and down. Up and down. I feel safe here with him and I know that right now nothing else matters. I love him more than anything and I know he feels the same about me. I realize then and there that my love for him is stronger than I had originally thought. This scares me but it excites me. How many seventeen year olds feel love like this?
I'm ready for whatever lies ahead.