Blood Witch

6

The vision was frightening in it's vividness and it shocked her into numbness. It was a few moments before she could speak, and by then the hysteria was peaking inside of her, sending her heart into a painful beat against her ribs. "He's here..." Bonnie breathed finally, after plenty of shaking from Damon, trying not to have a heart-attack. What she wanted to tell him, to shout at him, was that in her vision the devil himself had come and claimed Damon – and not in the same way that it wanted her. Even knowing that it wasn't a reality, yet, she could not stand to see him smiling at her again like he had already won. She flinched at even the thought of his name, how could she speak it?

"Who, Bonnie? Who's here?" Damon's preservation instincts needed to hear the name before they came to life inside him. He needed her to tell him that they were in danger before his body could prepare for it, though the look in her eyes should have been enough for his body to react like he knew it could. There was only one name he dreaded coming from her lips, and he waited to hear it with barely restrained impatience.

"Klaus, oh god... oh no! Klaus is coming for me!" She was screaming now, although she knew that just because she said it louder it would not make the problem go away. In her vision there had been blood, too much of it to come from just one person, and Klaus standing at the centre of the chaos looking undisturbed by any of it. She knew that there must have been more, but the thought of revisiting it was unbareable. She could not see his smiling mouth another time and not break down in hysterics. Damon hugged her close.

"I won't let him have you," he promised into her hair, "you are mine."

"I am yours," she replied obidiently, knowing that what she said was true – he owned her heart, she was his in a way that transcended any other kind of relationship she'd had with anyone else. Although her heart knew that it would beat for no other, she knew that if and when Klaus caught up with them he would use power to make her brain think otherwise. If there was a spell to protect her from his voodoo she would cast it over Damon and herself right this second, but there hadn't been anything strong enough in her grandmother's book of spells that would be strong enough to block powers from an original.

Damon took her hand and squeezed it tenderly. "Believe that I can protect you, please Bonnie. I need you to believe that you are safe with me, I need you to say it." There was so much emotion in his voice that it got caught in his throat and thickened his voice to a low rumble. He brought her fingers up to his lips and kissed them almost as tenderly as he did her mouth. He had never felt so vulnerable as he did as he waited for her answer, because he need her conviction to strengthen his like he had never needed anything from her before.

There was a soft knock on the passenger-side window and they both turned in their seats... to see nothing. There was nothing but grass and a vague impression of a building in the distance – a barn probably, though the light outside was so bright that neither of them could look very long. Bonnie did not know for certain if the light was so unbarable to a regular, human person but it definately was now with vampire eyes. She turned her face away from the window and saw a face smiling at her from Damon's window instead. Klaus winked and smiled almost kindly.

Damon, oblivious to the presence behind him on the other side of the glass, could not have possibly dodged the hand that came through the glass to clench a fist around his throat.

"Stop!" was all Bonnie could think to scream next, all the blood rushing to her head making her disorientated and confused. Her brain hadn't caught up yet, it felt like, though her heart let the rest of her know exactly what was happening. The adrenaline rush that washed through her in a tidal-wave of sensation made her quake not with fear but the need to run. Her fingers trembled as they tried to work that mechanism to open the car door.

Pressing the button the realease the seatbelt, Bonnie ripped the door clean off of the car with her new vampire strength and propelled herself out of it as if she sat on a spring. She did not stop to marvell at how she flew through the air or how quickly she ran once she hit the ground. There was only one thing she could focus on, and that was getting to the barn she'd thought she had seen from the car. The animal growl of fustration from behind her only made her run faster.

"Come back here!" Klaus shouted from where he had beaten Damon unconcious beside the still rumbling car. He did not even have to contemplate what he should do next.

Bonnie stopped running and leant a hand against the wooden frame of the barn, feeling flecks of paint flaking away beneath her small hand. She took a couple of moments to gather her courage and turned slowly around. There nothing to be seen but swaying plants and bright blue sky.

TBC