Chapter 4

Damon drove Bonnie and the whole ride was silent. Damon knew that Bonnie needed time to process everything and he let her be. He wasn't completely cruel, well not to others like himself. She was not some pathetic fragile little human she was apart of the supernatural world and no matter how much she wanted it or wished it she would never be like her friends, she was special.

Damon pulled up in front of Bonnie's house and turned off the engine. He expected her to bolt from the car but instead she sat there biting her lip and twirling her hair around her finger in contemplation. "Bonnie, your home." Damon touch her back gently and spoke to her in the softest voice he could find.

Bonnie looked over at him and for a moment Damon thought she was going to say something but she stopped herself seemingly thinking the better of it. But Damon didn't want that, he wanted her to be free to talk to him about whatever she wanted. "I want to her what your thinking, I don't want you to be afraid of me."

Bonnie couldn't believe what she was hearing, the man who was blackmailing her cared about what she was thinking. "You care now?"

Damon knew he deserved that, he really did, he just wasn't expecting the feeling that hearing the words come from her mouth would cause him. "I care about you Bonnie and I know that my actions say other wise but trust that I do truly care about you and in time you will see that I am the only one who could truly understand you."

Bonnie didn't know how to respond so she simply got out of the car and walked to her. She walked past everyone and into her room. He waited to make sure she was safe inside before heading out to his next task…..Caroline. Damon was almost cursing himself for even starting a relationship with the self absorbed girl but he wanted to hurt Stefan and he knew to do that was to hurt Elena. At the time Caroline was his only option. Had Bonnie had been in the picture from the beginning he would have abandon his plans against his brother and instead gone right for the witch. He was sure that his previous relationship, no matter how false the relationship was, was going to hurt his chance with Bonnie and draw a lot of unwanted attention. There was no doubt in his mind that Elena would be curious as to why the sudden break up of his relationship with Caroline and her ability to take with ease and to later try to setup her friend with her ex-boyfriend. Stefan of course would be suspicious of his motives and no doubt stick his noise where it doesn't belong.

Caroline was nothing if she wasn't a creature of habit. She was spending her Saturday, like every other Saturday, at the mall. Damon didn't even need to use some of his powers to track her. Her face lit up as soon as she saw Damon and this caused Damon to groan.

"Baby." Caroline greeted Damon by throwing her arms around him and pressing her lips against his for a kiss.

"Caroline." Damon removed her arms from his neck and the spoke to her in his most cold and authoritative voice.

"What's the matter?" Caroline looked at Damon with real shock in her eyes.

Great for all of the times for Caroline to get a clue she had to get one now? "Listen we need to talk."

"But we are talking." Caroline giggled.

And he not only drank from this girl but he willing and purposefully hunted her, he was starting to wonder if her blood would lower his own IQ. "I know that, what I meant is that we need to go somewhere alone." He grabbed her hand and began pulling her, rather roughly, to one of the abandon stores. He quickly picked the lock and slipped the two of them inside. "Now listen you and I are over."

Before Damon could even finish Caroline started to scream and cry. He just knew she was going to try and make a scene. "Caroline stop it." He grabbed her chin and forced her to look into his eyes. At the point his pupils began to enlarge and then shrink insuring that he got Caroline full attention. Almost immediately Caroline calmed down. "Much better. Now listen you and I are over and you are going to accept our break up and realize its for the best. Hell you are the one who broke up with me. You will tell anyone who asked that you broke up me because I am not good enough for you. You will also make it your new goal to convince Bonnie that she belongs with me. Got it?"

"Yes."

"Good. Run along now." Damon was satisfied with what he had done to Caroline and made his way to his next meal, which unfortunately would not be Bonnie. Not yet any way.

When Damon was finished his meal he made his way back to the boarding house to get cleaned up before he went to Bonnie again. He was unfortunately greeted by Stefan before he was even able to step one foot into the door. "Why hello Stefan, what do I owe for the honor of being accompanied into the manor by you?"

"What did you do Damon?" Not an hour ago did Stefan get a phone call from Elena wondering what his brother had done to Caroline to make her break up with her so quickly and not sing the praises of Bonnie and Damon as a better match. Stefan knew right away what he had done but there was no way he could explain it to Elena with out giving away his secret. Instead he told her that he would find out the truth from Damon as soon as he came home.

"That's a rather vague question. Lets see, first I woke up and then I had a lovely meeting with a fiery red head….well you know all about that."

Stefan cut him off. "No what did you do to Caroline?"

"Me, I did nothing. That girl broke up with me. Can you believe that someone would break up with your big brother?" Damon put on his best hurt and shocked face.

"Just what are you up to Damon?"

"That's for me to know and you to dot, dot, dot.

As Bonnie lye in her room pondering what exactly she got herself into and she was going to get out of it she was visited by Caroline.

"So I got news." Caroline proclaimed as she bounced on her bed oblivious to the fact that it was three in the afternoon and Bonnie was in her bed crying.

"Okay… so spill." Bonnie was grateful for the distraction and Caroline in her good mood was sure to rub off on Bonnie.

"Okay so I was like at the mall and guess who I run into… Damon. So we got to talking and I realized how much of a bore he is and how he was so not good enough for me so I dumped him.

Bonnie looked at Caroline as if she morphed into a different person. Caroline was always in competition with Elena and figured that the best why to beat her was to go out with the older brother of Elena's boyfriend Stefan so to hear that she dumped him was a shock. "What?"

"Yeah, he was so just totally plan and boring. You know what, you would be perfect for him." Caroline gushed.

Bonnie couldn't help but fell that all of Caroline's recent behavior could all be contributed to magic. Some how or another a spell or a trance was put on Caroline. Bonnie didn't know how she knew that she only knew that she felt it in her bones. "Caroline look into my eyes." The moment the Bonnie was sure she had Caroline she asked her the most important question. "You are going to tell me who exactly told you to say that."

"I can't he'll be mad."

"No he won't. We're meant for each other right? So he would want me to know everything."

"Damon.: