Chapter 9

Never Tick Off A Witch

Damon was in a very bad mood the next day as he sat down at a table at the Grill and started in on a bottle of vodka. He wasn't exactly in the mood for company, but it wasn't long before Elena and Bonnie showed up and joined him.

"Hey Damon what's up?" Elena was worried about him, having seen his breakdown yesterday, she wasn't sure how he'd be today.

"Nothing." Damon took another drink from the bottle.

The girls ordered sodas when a waitress came around. Bonnie eyed Damon. She didn't just remember the breakdown, she also remembered what he'd done to the deer. Damon was like a bomb at the moment, there was no telling what might set him off, or when.

"What are you staring at?" Damon growled at Bonnie.

Bonnie smirked. "Not much obviously." Gah, what was she doing? It had just come out naturally. She was always verbally sparring with him, but right now that probably wasn't the best idea.

"You must be seeing your own reflection in my eyes little witch." His eyes narrowed.

"Whatever, Elena I gotta go to the ladies room. Come with?"

"Sure." They left.

After they were gone, Damon dosed Bonnie's soda with the tasteless alcohol and smirked.

After they got back, they talked about this and that, Damon using vampire speed to dose Bonnie's drink whenever the girls weren't paying attention. Elena wondered why Bonnie was drinking so much soda, and why she was getting so very giggily.

"Bonnie... are you okay?"

"I'm great! Ha ha ha!"

"Bonnie if I didn't know better I'd say you were drunk!" She saw Damon smirk at that. "Damon... you didn't." He tried to look innocent. "Damon! That was really mean!" Damon just snickered and she groaned. "Come on Bonnie, I'll take you home."

The next day Bonnie had the mother of all hangovers. She spent most of the morning in the bathroom puking her guts out. She felt sick as a dog. She was glad this was Saturday so that she didn't have school. She was so going to get Damon for this!

She felt better on Sunday, and early that morning she flipped through her spell book. Her eyes stopped on one particular spell as she skimmed over the paragraphs. That would do, she thought. She smiled and begun.

Damon woke up later than usual and went into the bathroom. He looked into the mirror blearily after he splashed water on his face and dried it, stopped, and stared. He brought his hand up to his cheek. His eyes widened, then... "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Stefan jumped and looked towards the stairs before rushing up then after hearing a shrill scream. He dashed to the bathroom and his own eyes got wide. "What the... who..." His eyes ran over the figure. It was slender, with curves in all the right places, and currently the person's hands were holding their chest, staring in the mirror in disbelief. "Damon... is that... you?"

Eyes with long lashes turned to look at him. "Yes," the person snarled up at him, since they were now shorter.

Stefan could only stare in disbelief.

Elena and Bonnie were at the grill again when a young woman came storming up to them. "You... you... witch!" Bonnie took one look at the girl and started laughing.

Elena was confused, she looked awfully familiar but... "Huh? Uh... who are you?"

"Who do you think?"

She stared hard, then... "Damon?"

"Ding! Ding! Ding!" He, well she, said sarcastically.

"What happened to you?"

"Ask HER." He/she pointed to Bonnie, who was still laughing.

By now Elena was having to fight her own laughter. "Bonnie, did you do this to Damon?"

Bonnie finally managed to calm down. "I sure did. That's what you get for spiking my drink Damon."

Damon actually stomped his, well her, foot. "Nothing deserves this! Nothing I have ever done in my entire existence deserves this! Elena! Tell your power abusing friend to change me back!"

"Oh I dunno Damon... it's kind of a good look on you." Elena grinned.

"You call this a good look?" All the clothes were hanging on him strangely. They didn't fit well anymore due to the new size and shape of his body. Damon pointed at Bonnie who was grinning too by now. "I promised Elena I wouldn't kill anymore, but I am going to stand here and give you hell until this is fixed!"

Bonnie waved that away. "Don't worry about it, it'll wear off after twenty four hours."

"Twenty four hours?"

"That's about how long I was suffering from a hangover. It's only fair."

Damon growled angrily but just then Tyler walked up. "Hey what's up people?" He saw Damon. "Wow, who's the looker?" Damon's eye started to twitch.

"Oh," said Elena thinking quickly. "This is Stefan's cousin. She's visiting for the day. This is Dawn."

"Nice to meet you Dawn." Tyler took her hand and shook it, not seeming to notice the twitching. "I'm Tyler, can I buy you a drink?"

Damon grimaced. "I need to go, like now." He rushed out the door.

Tyler blinked after her and looked at the girls in puzzlement. Elena coughed. "Uh... she's really shy."

To Be Continued...