Chapter 3

After Bonnie ran out of the house the three men were left stunned by the events that had just occurred and who was responsible for them. No one said a word and none of them knew what to say. Damon was the first to recover from the strained silence and felt that a joke would be appropriate.

"She really is quite the little witch. Who knew something that small would have that much power." Damon laughed as he brushed himself off.

"Damon, this is not the time for your little jokes." Stefan knew that his brother could be cruel, he himself had been on the receiving end of Damon's treatment on more then on occasion, but he never thought he would be cruel to some innocent girl who's only connection to him would be she was friends with Elena.

"Who's joking? I was not expecting the witch to be able to lock down an entire residence." He was truly stunned by Bonnie's power. He was expecting to encounter a freshly trained witch not a witch that had yet to learn to control her own powers. If Bonnie was unable to control herself then that meant that she was dangerous and unpredictable. She could easily expose herself as a witch. He would have to try a different approach. "Oh well this just means I have to change my plans a little bite." Damon shrugged and attempted to leave the room to only be pulled back in by Zack.

"You are to stay away from Bonnie." Zach didn't even realize what he was saying until the words came out of his mouth and then he knew that he did the one thing that you should never do to Damon if you want him to stop, tell him not too. He was sure that his provocation was only going to fuel Damon even further.

"My, my aren't you the mighty protector." Damon laughed as he through Zack to through the wall on the other side of the room. "I knew you had a silly school boy crush on her from the moment I smelled you but I did not think you would be as delusional to think that you could challenge me for her. Bonnie is not some silly little human girl. She out of you league and more importantly she not of your world. This is the only time I warn you stay away from Bonnie."

Stefan watched the whole scene and knew that if he stepped in to early Damon would hurt Zack out of spite. Right now he was just toying with, showing that he was the stronger man. All in all he just making sure Zack was afraid. "That enough Damon, you proved your point."

Damon simply smiled and left the room. "You can't let him near her." Zack was still on the floor with his hands to his chest desperate to catch his breath.

"There nothing that I can really do to stop him. His stronger then me and unless I start feeding on people its going to stay that way." Stefan had long since come terms that he would never be able to challenge Damon head on, no if he was going to take down his brother he was going to have to come up with another way.

"What about vervain?" Zack had been growing vervain for years, hell he father taught him how to and his father's father taught him. It had become a Salvatore family tradition.

"What l had I gave to Elena. There wasn't been vervain her for over a century, Damon made sure of it."

"I have some and you can take it all as long as you give it to Bonnie." Zack needed allies and his best option was the only other person who hated Damon as much as he did, Stefan. What was that saying? The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Well Zack and Stefan might not exactly be trying to kill each other but he would never actually be able to trust Stefan. Stefan was a vampire and yes he claimed that he didn't kill people but he would always be dangerous.

"Zack I wouldn't worry about Bonnie." Bonnie was not the person that Stefan was worrying about right now. At this moment he was worrying about Zack. Stefan was sure that Zack challenging Damon was not going to go without some form of retribution, of that he was sure.

Bonnie did know where to go after she ran out of the Salvatore boarding house so she found herself wondering around the forest. She was screwed of that she was certain but how screwed she was not sure. Damon knew what she was and if he told then she could be burned at the stake before night fall. They did still burn witches didn't they? She was to wrapped up in her own thoughts that she didn't notice him walking beside her.

"You know if you keep making that face your face will freeze like that." She had an adorable pensive look on her face and along with worry it showed fear and Damon found himself wanting to make her not afraid.

His words pulled her out of her thoughts and she screamed out of shock. "Damon what the hell, you scared me."

"I'm sorry about that, I really am. Mind telling me what's on your mind?" He could get her to relax around him then it would be that much easier for him to feed on her.

"As if you don't know?" He, Damon Salvatore, was the soul cause of her stress.

"Look if your worried about me telling your secret then you have nothing to fear."

"You said before that you would keep my secret for a price, I just want to know what that price is?"

"Right now it simply is a little of your time." He took her hand his and rubbed his fingers over her knuckles in an attempt to calm her. He would admit that Bonnie was a cute girl, she was no way as typically beautiful as girls like Elena but that is what made her so beautiful. She was painfully shy and insecure. She adorable in every sense of the word.

"Okay, that's it you just want to hang out?" Bonnie was sure that this was to easy and that sooner or later the other shoe would drop and his real price would be put on the table but for now she was willing to play along until she could figure another way out of it.

"More or less." Baby steps that what he needed to take with her, If she need to think that all the two of them were going to do was hang out then he would he let her believe that for as long as she needed too.

"What about Caroline?" Bonnie didn't want to hurt her friend and she was torn between protecting herself and being loyal to her friend.

"Caroline and I are over and she is totally fine with it." Damon made a mental note to find Caroline as soon as he finished with Bonnie and make her realize that the two of them would never work and that Bonnie and Damon made more sense.