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A/N: Well it's another time for update and first off I want to thank my reviewers from last week; David Fishwick, Anymous11, babyshan211, Lula6791, and christine. Thank you guys so much. I know the story is starting off slow but there are some things that need to be established so thank you for sticking with me. I hope everyone enjoys this new chapter and please Review, I love hearing from the readers, you guys keep me going.
Baby S
Chapter Three
Bonnie looked down at the piece of cloth that was suppose to be Klaus', reaching out a hand she mentally lit the necessary candles and then took a deep breath. She knew Klaus didn't do much of anything without witches so she figured doing this spell would probably take a lot out of her because she'd probably be forced to take out barrier after barrier. Sighing, she reached out and placed her hand on the cloth while being very much aware of the fact that Elena and Damon were watching her on bated breath. Closing her eyes, she started her chant while clutching the cloth in her hands. Almost immediately, she was fighting her way through a protection barrier one that was stopping her from doing the location spell. "You aren't going to get in." A voice eerily stated as she tried to get in. She ignored the voice and pushed on. Even when she felt a sharp pain shooting through her forehead she pushed on because the idea of finding Stefan was the only thing that kept her going. Even as she heard the sound of shouting voices although it sounded a million miles away. She pushed on until she felt yet another push that literally knocked her head back. The impact was so hard that she felt herself falling back and then everything went back for a second. "You were just gonna stand there and watch as she killed herself!" Was the first thing she heard as she slowly came too. She tilted her head back and saw Caroline holding her and glaring at Damon and Elena.
"She knew what could happened, besides I was going to stop her."
"When? When her shirt was soaked with more of her blood." Caroline shouted out angrily as she looked down at her friend. "I know you want your brother back but that doesn't give you the right to try and kill Bonnie." Damon opened his mouth to say something else but stopped as his eyes drifted over Bonnie's form. Bonnie weakly met his gaze then coughed up some blood that had been caught in her lungs. Turning away from her, he roughly rubbed his hands through his hair angry at the entire situation. It was all fucked up in his opinion and he didn't want to kill Bonnie but dammit he wanted his brother back. He could still feel Caroline's heated stare as he faced away from them all, finally Bonnie spoke up and he had to admit that her voice sounded absolutely weak.
"I couldn't get through but I do know that Stefan's alive and that he and Klaus are on the east coast that was all I could get before I was knocked out of the trance." Elena released a small sigh as she took in Bonnie's words.
"Thank God he's alive." she whispered with tears shining in her eyes. Damon turned around and looked at Bonnie then and gave her a brief head nod.
"Thank you for finding that out." he whispered as he watched Caroline effortlessly lift Bonnie up into her arms and carry her over the sofa so she could rest. Alaric kept his eyes on Bonnie and then looked back at Damon.
"So we have a general area of where Stefan's at. I can call some of my contacts and get them to see if they've heard of any thing suspicious going on." Damon gave him a quick nod and then Alaric walked out of the room with cell phone in hand. Tyler had moved over to the sofa with Caroline and Bonnie.
"Are you sure she's alright?"
"I need to get out of this shirt." Bonnie moaned out as she looked down in disgust at her blood soaked blouse. Caroline looked over at Damon who quickly zipped out of the room and returned with one of his black shirts. Caroline quickly removed Bonnie's blouse and then slipped on the black shirt. Bonnie groaned as she sat up and massaged her temple. She currently was having a headache from hell leaning back she looked at over at Damon.
"I'm sorry I couldn't get more information."
"You did fine." Damon stated softly as he looked at her. "I shouldn't have pushed you like that, Caroline is right just because my brother is gone doesn't mean I should be here pushing you to your limits." Bonnie nodded her head and looked up as Tyler handed her a glass of water. She took it thankfully and gave him a small smile. "So what are you going to do?" she asked as she looked back at Damon before taking a sip of water.
"We're gonna follow your lead, Alaric calling around right now to see if Klaus has been up to something. Maybe some of his contacts have heard something and then we'll move forward from there." he said giving her a rundown of the plan.
"So you are gonna have to take it easy from now on." Caroline said as she looked at her friend. Bonnie nodded her head as she looked at Damon who had his hands on his hips staring at her. The look on his face was mostly unreadable but she was pretty sure he wasn't happy about her promise to take it easy. Caroline looked back at Damon and cleared her throat.
"How long do you think we're gonna be gone?"
"As long as it takes." Damon snapped as he looked at her as if she had lost her mind for asking that question. Caroline frowned at his tone and shook her head.
"I'm only asking because I need to tell my mother, she'd would want to know where her daughter is." Damon sighed and shook his head.
"I don't know!" he snapped as he looked at her, he saw Tyler straightening up and sent him a impatient look. "Better bring your mutt to heel."
"Don't you talk about Tyler like that." Caroline snapped out and Damon saw a hint of fang peeking out from the girl's mouth. Bonnie could see that Damon was being his normal self-destructive self and reached out and laid a hand on Caroline's arm. Her friend looked down at her and slowly calmed down while Damon still stood there before them angrily.
"Fighting isn't gonna bring Stefan back," she said as she looked over at Damon pointedly and waited till he relaxed his stance. "We're gonna need one another right now so all this fighting isn't gonna work."
"She's right," they all looked up as Alaric reentered the room, "We all need to stick together and all this in-fighting isn't going help anyone." he said as he walked over to Bonnie and placed a hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him and gave him a small smile as he turned towards Damon and then glanced over towards Caroline. "Do you guys understand me?"
"I do." Caroline replied.
"I understand you." Damon said as he crossed his arms over his chest and looked at Caroline. "So what did you find out?"
"They said they would get back to me so I guess nothing so far but I'm sure that Klaus will do something soon." Damon nodded his head and avoided Elena, he knew she would be on the verge of crying and right now he wasn't ready to deal with all of that. Releasing a deep sigh, he looked at Bonnie.
"Do you want me to take you back to the Grille so you can get your car?" Bonnie looked at Caroline, who quickly helped her off the sofa.
"Sure I'm ready. I need to go home and get rest anyway." Damon shoved one hand in his pocket and looked at her.
"Fine then I'll drive you back like I promised." Bonnie just gave him a brief nod as Damon crossed the room and latched onto her arm. His grip thankfully wasn't rough, he looked back at Alaric and Caroline. "I'll be back in a second, you guys should stay here so we can get a real plan together."
"Alright we'll be here." Alaric stated giving Damon a nod. Once Caroline promised Damon that she'd be there when he got back, he led Bonnie out of the manor. They walked to his car and he opened the door and helped her inside. He quickly got inside and looked over at her for a moment before sighing.
"I'm sorry for pushing you back there." he said and Bonnie had to admit she was taken back by his sincerity.
"I want to help you guys find Stefan, he's my friend." she stated matter of factly, "I'm gonna help in any way I can to bring him back to Mystic Falls and to Elena." she said as she leaned her head on the window as Damon pulled out.
"Well still I shouldn't have pushed you like that we're gonna need you later on down the road to kill that bastard." Bonnie didn't reply to that, so she just remained quiet as he continued to drive back towards the Grille. As he pulled up next to her car, he turned and looked at her. "While we're gone could you look out for Elena make sure that she doesn't do any of that daredevil-shero shit." Bonnie raised an eyebrow at his description but nodded her head.
"I'll look out for her just make sure that if you find him that you bring him back." she stated as she looked at him. He gave her a smirk and nodded his head.
"So bossy." he muttered with a shake of his head as he looked over at her. "But I guess if you were any other way I'd probably suspect invasion of the body snatchers." Bonnie quirked her lip up as she turned to look at him.
"Really Damon." He shrugged his shoulders and leaned back in his seat.
"Heck, if a vampire can also be a werewolf then body snatchers can be possible to right, after all he did snatch my brother." he stated bitterly as he glared out the window. Bonnie sighed at his tone and reached out cautiously towards him.
"We're gonna get him back."
"Well next time just let me know if I'm pushing you to hard. Blondie was right with what she said back there and you know I loath to admit anything that girl says is true." Bonnie shot him a look but didn't try to say anything to what was just said. Instead, she moved to get out of the car but Damon's hand on her arm stopped her.
"Are you sure you'll be okay?" she was once again taken by surprise due to the genuine concern she heard in his voice almost like when he thanked her during Founder's Day.
"I'll be fine." she said as she climbed out of his car, she turned around and gave Damon a quick wave. A moment later he pulled off leaving her standing on the sidewalk outside the Grille. Turning around, she saw Samil Atkins exiting the restaurant with a bag of food in his hands. He looked over at her and gave her a brief head nod before stepping off the sidewalk. She stood there for a moment before deciding that she should probably investigate why he's in Mystic Falls, especially since Damon, Alaric, Tyler and Caroline would be leaving soon to follow that lead about Stefan.
"Hey!" she called out, Samil who had just put his foot down in the street, turned to look at her and sent her a quick smile.
"Hello." he said with a small patient smile. "Are you here for lunch too? Sovann doesn't really care for the place but I do despite the fact that they don't carry fruit." he said as he shrugged his shoulders while looking down at his bag. Bonnie opened her mouth to say something else but froze as she felt a small twinge of pain behind her eyes. Samil's eyes widened in shock as he watched her stumble back a few feet, he stepped towards her. "Are you alright." Bonnie lifted a hand to her nose and gave it a gentle massage while looking at Samil, who was currently staring at her with nothing but concern in his eyes.
"I'm fine." she mumbled as she looked at him before pushing ahead to the subject that she really wanted to talk to him about. "Can we go somewhere to talk?" He looked at her and smirked for a second before smiling.
"I'm really flattered but I think you're a little on the young side."
"What? How old are you?" Bonnie asked as she looked at him, Samil looked down at himself and then back up at her.
"Twenty-one. . .twenty two it doesn't matter cause you're like what fifteen?" Bonnie's mouth dropped open in shock at his words and Samil just smiled. "Just joking with you. I know you're not that young so what do you want to talk about." he said as he looked at her.
"Do you wanna go inside the Grille, so we aren't talking out here in the street." Samil looked back at the Grille and shook his head.
"Naw I was just in there I don't want them to think I'm obsessed with their food or something -got to keep them guessing. How about you come over to the shop, I'm sure I have some herbal remedy that will fix that headache you're currently having, and you can pick up that free item I offered you earlier this morning." Bonnie frowned at that but once again the throbbing in her head restarted. "Come on before you pass out on the street." Bonnie didn't say anything instead she allowed him to lead her down the street. Once they were inside his store, she broke away from him ready to use whatever magic she could just in case he proved to be trouble. He walked over to a few shelves while she stood back and watched him.
"Why didn't you tell me you were a witch um warlock?" she asked bluntly deciding that it was best to just get down to business, Samil turned to look at her and shrugged his shoulders. He looked over a couple items until he found exactly what he was looking for. Walking back over to her, he held out his hand and gave her a few pills.
"That should help with the headache," he looked down at her face and sighed. "And as for what happened earlier I didn't say anything because I figured you didn't want to talk about it or you didn't know what you were and I'm not nosey so I kept it moving." he said as he walked behind the counter and fished out a bottle of water. "Here this should help you take the pills." he said as he sat his food down and turned his back to her.
"So you're a warlock."
"I can perform a few spells here and there, nothing big." he said with a shrug as he settled down on the stool and nodded his head towards the chair beside him. Bonnie slowly took a seat and looked at him for a moment.
"Where's your friend?"
"Sovann, well I'm not really sure, I went out for food and he just disappeared." he shook his head and looked around the store before sighing. "He's always doing that disappearing and reappearing all the time it's rather annoying."
"Is he a warlock too?" Bonnie asked starting to feel quite comfortable with the man beside her. He didn't seem like he was up to no good in fact he seemed like a cool guy very down to earth and she liked that. He certainly wasn't like Damon and the others using her-she paused and shook her head wondering where that thought had come from.
"No he isn't." he finally said. They sat there in silence, Samil quietly digging into his meal while she drank from her water bottle.
"So you really don't know anything about me."
"Why are you suppose to be the witch Sheriff of this area?" he asked as he looked up at her with a fry in his hand. At Bonnie's dumbfounded expression, he cracked a smile and shrugged his shoulders. "Sorry a True Blood marathon was on last night and I stayed up watching it." Bonnie slowly nodded her head as he gave her a small smile. "But seriously am I suppose to know something about you?" Bonnie looked at him for a moment and then shook her head. Not really wanting to reveal much about herself to him. After everything with the Martins, she certainly didn't want a repeat.
"No, you aren't suppose to know about me." she said with a shrug of her shoulders. "So tell me about you-that is if you don't mind."
"I don't." Samil said with a shake of his head. "I'm from up north, I used to live with my father but we had a um falling out and he kicked me out of the house so I headed down south," he said with a far away look in his eyes. "I guess I needed a change of scenery. . .you know a chance to be my own man in my own domain. I met Sovann some years ago and we've been close ever since. In fact he came up with the idea for this shop." he said as he lifted his hands up and looked around. "So that's basically the cliff notes to my life." Bonnie nibbled on her bottom lip as she listened to Samil's story, she too didn't have a good relationship with her father so she completely understood Samil and his need to leave. There had been so many times she thought about moving out of the house. Her father was rarely home, so she didn't really have to worry about leaving Mystic Falls.
"I'm sorry that happened to you."
"It was nothing, I've moved on and I don't want you to feel sorry for me." he firmly stated as he reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder. They sat there quietly for a few more minutes when the front door opened and in strolled the Asian man that Bonnie had seen with Samil earlier that day at the Grille. He was a handsome guy, with short black hair and a little beard that was mostly thin and went from one sideburn to the other. Samil and him basically gave the Salvatore brothers a run for their money in the looks department.
"Sovann this is Bonnie the girl I was talking to earlier this morning." Samil called out as he motioned towards Bonnie. Sovann looked her over and then raised an eyebrow at his friend while smirking.
"You mean the girl you were flirting with."
"Talking-flirting what's the difference." Samil said with a wave of his hand as Sovann walked over and offered his hand to laughing Bonnie.
"It's nice to meet you Ms.-."
"Bennett-Bonnie Bennett." Sovann nodded and looked over at Samil who was leaning back on the counter.
"Thank you for getting the food, man." Sovann said as he sent his friend a quick nod. Samil waved his thanks off and reached for the carry out bag.
"No problem man, so where have you been. You've been scoping out the ladies or something," he looked at Bonnie and winked. "Sovann here is a ladies man don't let the innocent look fool ya." he laughed as he watched Sovann blush and shake his head. "Here's your food man." he said as he took out a carry-out tray and handed it to him.
"Thanks and as for me picking up the ladies I don't think you have room to talk man." Sovann said as he looked over at Bonnie, who blushed under his gaze. Samil cleared his throat and shrugged his shoulders.
"What I can't make friends now."
"Whatever Samil," Sovann muttered with a shake of his head as if he didn't believe a word that was currently coming out of Samil's mouth. "And on that note, I'm gonna go in the back and leave you to your company." Bonnie watched as Samil and Sovann hit one another's fists and then Sovann disappeared into the back room.
"He's nice."
"The best." Samil stated as he looked at Bonnie with a wink. "He's the best friend anyone could ask for." Bonnie nodded as Samil looked at her. "He's always willing to help me out." Bonnie looked up at him then.
"But you do stuff for him right."
"Of course, I'm not a user Ms. Bennett." Samil stated with a shrug of his shoulders. "I would never treat my best friend like that, although if I did I guess you can't really say he's my best friend. Cause where I'm from, friends don't use friends."
"Of course." Bonnie said as she tightened the cap on her bottle of water just as her phone chimed, picking it up she looked at the message which was from Caroline telling her that they were leaving because one of Alaric's friends had gotten a lead. "I should be going." Samil nodded his head and stood up as well.
"But I'll see you again won't I." Bonnie looked at him and gave him a small smile as she looked at him.
"I guess so after all this town is pretty small." she said with a shrug of her shoulders as she sat the bottle of water down. "Thank you again for the pills my headache is gone." he graced her with a quick smile as she headed towards the door.
"At least leave one of your shoes so I can find you later on."
"A Cinderella reference?" she asked as she turned to look at him. Samil just shrugged his shoulders and leaned back in his chair smugly. She shook her head and then disappeared out the door. Once he was alone, Sovann made his way back out front.
"You know I feel the same a Cinderella reference really?" Samil shot him a look and waved him off.
"It's one of her favorite movies at least it was when she was a child." he said as he stood up and dumped the rest of his food into the trash can. Sovann crossed his arms over his chest and looked at Samil who had now picked up a pen and began scrambling something on a piece of paper.
"Let me guess while you were in here flirting with her you were picking through her mind like a crow."
"I always knew there was a reason my wings were black." Samil muttered sarcastically as he continued to write. "About my so-called originals do you know where they are now?" Sovann stepped back for a moment and shook his head.
"No, I didn't follow through with-."
"You are lucky that I consider you a friend otherwise I would have thrown you into the pit by now. Who told you not to follow through with finding and keeping a tab on them. I know it wasn't me and I'm the only person you should ever listen to."
"I'm sorry."
"I'll accept the apology when you give me details on where they currently are." he said as he stepped away from the paper and looked over at Sovann who nodded his head. "I want you to find Klaus and try to figure out why our little witch is looking for him and why she almost killed herself doing it."
"If you don't mind me asking-why?"
"Because I intend to lend her my so-called services," Samil replied with a small smile. "And at the same time I'll be killing two birds with one stone. I'll kill Klaus and also compromise her soul maybe by the time this is all done we'll be the three amigos." he laughed at his own joke then and sat back down. "I've already planted the seeds of doubt in her mind." he said as he tapped the side of her head. "Now I'll just let her friends do the work for me while befriending her." he released a deep tortured sigh as he looked back at Sovann with a shit-eating grin on his face."I swear there really is no need for me sometimes-with the way people act nowadays, unneeded doesn't even describe the way I feel half the time."