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A/N: Alright it's time for another update but first off I want to thank my reviewers from last week; NaeNae1495, Yson, David Fishwick, Lula6791, mehr03, Anymous11, babyshan211 and annabella. I hope everyone enjoys this new update and please remember to Review.
P.S. Anymous11-I get what you're saying but remember this story is only five chapters deep as of right now. Everything you spoke about will be shown in later chapters. It's the summer right now in this story I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear before.
Chapter Five
Bonnie was downstairs in the Salvatore Manor living room, silently flipping through a book she was sure she'd have to read for her English Literature class later on that year, when the door opened to the manor and Damon, Caroline and Alaric strolled in. She closed the book and watched as Damon strolled pass her and headed up the stairs. She could tell just by the clenching of his jaw that he was pissed so she didn't stay anything until she heard the door slam upstairs. Turning around, she saw Alaric and Caroline entering the room. "We didn't find him." Alaric supplied as he looked at Bonnie.
"I know Damon told me earlier while you were at the house." she murmured as she thought about Elena and how she was going to take that news. She briefly wondered if Damon was waking her up right now to tell her or would he wait till the morning. "Did you find anything though? Maybe a clue as what Klaus is doing with Stefan." Bonnie asked, Alaric and Caroline both gave one another a look before focusing on Bonnie.
"We found a pile of dead bodies," Caroline said as she focused on her friend. "So we had to burn the house down."
"And any evidence that might have been there?" Bonnie murmured with a shake of her head. Caroline shook her head that.
"No the bodies were evidence enough," she murmured. "Damon seems to think that Klaus is trying to turn his brother into a-."
"A ripper." Alaric stated cutting in to help Caroline out with the explanation. "He thinks Klaus is trying to turn him into a ripper and judging by those bodies, I think he might have succeeded." Bonnie frowned at that as she thought about Stefan tearing into the flesh of some innocent person and drinking them dry till they eyes were glassy and lifeless. Shuddering, she looked away from them both and back into the fire she had started in the fireplace to keep her company.
"That's awful what's he's doing to Stefan." Bonnie murmured softly, she knew Stefan struggled with drinking human blood and to be forced to do it. "God, we have to find him." she whispered as she continued to focus on the blaze.
"Damon said something on the way back about there being a witch in town." Alaric pressed as he looked at Bonnie. He had to admit when he found out he was worried that they were about to have another "Martins" situation.
"It's a warlock and yeah he's new in town." she replied as she looked back over at them. "But I talked to him today and I don't think he'll be a problem."
"At least you hope he won't be a problem," they all turned and saw Damon coming back down the stairs. "The way I'm feeling right now-."
"You'd do something reckless that would only aggravate this problem." Bonnie replied with a shake of her head, "Besides Samil isn't bad."
"Why do you say that, Bon-Bon?" Damon said and that was when Bonnie noticed the shot glass in his hand. "You've been wrong before about people." he said alluding to the male vampire that had come to town with Anna and the Martins. "Your track recorded is definitely in the negative." Bonnie frowned at his words and shook her head.
"You're wrong Damon, Samil isn't bad." she said as she watched him walked over to the small bar, set up in the corner.
"Yes, you telling me he isn't bad certainly proves it to me. Look, I don't want to deal with something like this so the moment he steps out of line and does something that's against me and against me finding my brother. I'm ripping his heart out." he stated right before tossing back a shot. "Don't push me on this," he paused and frowned. "On second thought, I hope the guy does do something cause I really want to kill something right now."
"Look Damon I don't want to fight with you about this alright," Bonnie said, Damon merely raised an eyebrow at that. "Samil is a good guy."
"I'll be waiting for the evidence but until then I'll think what I wanna think." Bonnie eyed him for a minute and then turned back to Caroline and Alaric.
"Maybe I could try to find them again."
"And end up like you did earlier today?" Caroline snapped out as she looked at her friend. "I know you wanna find Stefan. . .we all do but he wouldn't want you to kill yourself during the process."
"Blondie's right," when Bonnie only looked back at him, he sighed and shook his head. "Despite what I did the other two times, believe it or not I don't want you hurt either. Besides if you go who will be around to judge us mere mortals."
"Like I spend my time judging you."
"You spend all your time judging me, although now that I think about it. I think it's just an excuse to watch me," he shrugged his shoulders. "But I'm not judging you that's your job." Bonnie pushed herself off the sofa with the intent of giving Damon a fierce aneurysm when Alaric reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"How about we all just calm down." he said looking over at Damon who shrugged his shoulders and then down at Bonnie who still had her eyes fixed on Damon. "Bonnie."
"I'm calm." she whispered as she stepped away from him and over to Caroline who was standing off to the side. "I'm as calm as I'm going be."
"Getting under your skin, Bon-Bon."
"No just dancing on my nerves." she replied back, Damon quirked an eyebrow up at that and nodded his head while Alaric sighed. "Maybe I can get Samil to help us."
"Yes let's invite a stranger here so he can kill us all."
"Don't you think if Klaus had sent him he would have killed me already. Klaus knows I can kill him so if he did send him here to kill me he would have done so already. I was alone in his shop with him today. He could have killed me then and none of your would have even known." Damon's narrowed his eyes at her words.
"You were alone with him," he paused as he waited for her to nod her head. "What is wrong with you? You willing go off with a strange ass witch and you don't even know-."
"I could have protected myself."
"Yes, cause you certainly never need any help." Damon said with a roll of his eyes before turning to look at Caroline. "Make sure you watch over your friend while we're in town, who knows what type of trouble she wind up getting herself into." Bonnie just rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"I'm going home now."
"Good, Caroline go with your friend." Damon said with a shrug of his shoulders. "The last thing we need is for her to get kidnapped or hurt." Caroline nodded her head and followed behind Bonnie who was quickly making her way out of the Salvatore house.
"Don't let him get to you." Caroline said softly as she looked at her friend. Bonnie glanced back at Caroline and nodded her head before sighing.
"I'm not gonna let him get to me. . .I'm just annoyed." she mumbled before moving around Caroline and going back into the living room. Damon looked up at her as she reentered the room and frowned. "I'll be back tomorrow to check up on Elena."
"Good she's gonna need her friends and while you do that maybe I'll go and track down this new witch."
"Warlock."
"Whatever," he said with a wave of his hands. "Maybe I'll tell him to leave you alone besides he's to old for you anyway." Bonnie's eyebrows shot up in surprise over Damon's words. Shaking her head she glared at him.
"Too old for me why does that even matter." Damon shrugged his shoulders at that and looked away from her while answering.
"He's probably well versed in all that little witchy juju you guys do. We don't need him as an enemy so-."
"Well if you feel like that then how about you stay away from him." Bonnie stated with a harsh glare before turning on her heels and walking away from him with Caroline following right along behind her. Damon studied her retreating back for a brief moment before looking over at Alaric who seemed to be watching with an amused expression on his face. Damon released a low growl and then turned to look at his friend.
"That girl drives me crazy," he murmured with a shake of his head. "And I'm still gonna go see this Samil guy cause she does not tell me what to do." he snapped out angrily as he set his shot glass down afraid he might break it.
"I don't know if that's-."
"All I'm doing is making sure her little witch boyfriend is on the up and up. Besides I'm sure Jeremy will thank me for looking out for his girlfriend since he can't do much of anything even with that ring." Damon said with a nod of his head as he confirmed his plans for tomorrow. "You can stay here if you want but right now I'm going to bed." Alaric watched as Damon slowly made his way back upstairs to his room. Looking over his shoulder, he could barely hear a car pulling out of the Salvatore driveway. He wasn't sure what he was just a witness too but he certainly didn't want to be Damon tomorrow when Bonnie found out that Damon still went to see Samil despite what had been said.
"Do you really think this Samil guy is a good guy?" Caroline said as she sat in the passenger seat of Bonnie's car. Bonnie waited till the car pulled up to a red light before replying to her friend.
"He's a good guy, Care. I mean I would have picked up on any bad intentions the moment I shook his hand. Caroline nodded her head although she wasn't so sure about that. If he was indeed more powerful then her friend, he would have been able to mask that fact from her. Bonnie looked over at her and groaned. "Don't do that."
"Do what?" Caroline asked in shock as she looked at her friend.
"Don't sit over there thinking things and not telling me." Caroline laughed at that and just shrugged her shoulders.
"I'm not thinking anything other than you basically just forced a meeting between Samil and Damon." Bonnie's mouth dropped open in shock at that and shook her head rapidly from side to side just a car horn blew behind them. She couldn't believe what Caroline had just said to her, there was absolutely no way that could be true.
"I didn't do that."
"Oh yes you did, you went in there and told Damon to stay away from him, like he's going to listen to you tell him what to do. If you tell Damon to go left he'll go right. . .if you tell him to stay away from someone, he'll go meet them the next available hour. He's an asshole like that." Bonnie groaned and placed a hand over her face just as the car horn blew again.
"Oh my God, you're right Care."
"I know." Caroline said with a small smile. "Damon's probably already made plans to go and see this Samil guy so-." her speech was cut off by a tap on Bonnie's window, both girls released a scream as Bonnie rolled down her window and saw Samil standing outside her car. He looked in on her surprised and then over at Caroline. Bonnie couldn't get over the fact that he was there, talk about speaking someone up.
"Bonnie?" he said in confusion as he looked in on her.
"Samil what are you doing here?"
"I was just about to ask the driver of this car if they had some type of car trouble," Bonnie looked over at the streetlight and saw it change from green to red. Bowing her head down on the steering wheel, she heard Samil laugh. "I didn't think I'd run into you, so are you having car trouble Ms. Bennett."
"Um, no we were just talking." Samil looked over at Caroline again and smiled while extending his hand.
"Nice to meet you Ms.-."
"Forbes, Caroline Forbes." she said as she placed her hand in his as soon as their palms touched, Samil yanked his hand back and looked over at Bonnie.
"I'm gonna to assume you know what she is." he said looking down at Bonnie pointedly, she stared back up at him and then nodded her head.
"Of course I do, she's my friend." at her words, Samil seemed to relax. Looking back at Caroline, he sent her a small apologetic smile.
"Sorry about that, it's not everyday someone meets a friendly vampire although I should have known that was what you were since you're riding in the car with this beauty." he said winking in Bonnie's direction. He smiled as he watched her face heating up, "Now are you two ladies sure your not having car problems, Sovann and I can help."
"No, we aren't I'm sorry we stopped like this." Bonnie said with a quick smile as Samil nodded his head.
"Alright then well we're gonna head home," he stepped back from the window and turned to go but paused, turning around he looked back at Bonnie. "Oh and you forgot to pick up your free item today when you came to the store." Bonnie could feel Caroline's eyes on her as she looked back at Samil.
"Maybe I should stop by tomorrow and pick it up."
"The offer will stay in place until you do." he said with a shrug of his shoulders. "So take your time, I'm in no rush besides the longer you wait the more opportunities I get to remind you to come by." With that said, he walked back to his car. Bonnie waited till she heard his car door slam before turning slowly turning around to look at Caroline who had a small grin on her face.
"I have to say I approve." Bonnie released a small snort at her friend's words and shook her head.
"You don't even know him, Care."
"Yeah but I saw him and he seems to like you a lot, I mean it's so obvious. Although, I'm gonna have to give you the side-eye cause I thought you were dating Jeremy." Caroline said plainly, Bonnie shook her head as the light turned green. Driving forward, she looked out the rearview mirror and saw Samil turning left. "What's that suppose to mean, aren't you dating Jer."
"He broke up with me," she looked over at Caroline and shook her head. "Or asked for space either way he doesn't really want to see me right now." Bonnie said as she looked at her friend, Caroline reached out and laid a hand on her forearm.
"What happened?"
"I'd rather not talk about it." Bonnie replied with a sigh, Caroline nodded her head at that and settled back in the seat. "Do you want to spend the night at my house?"
"Sure but you're gonna have to invite me in." Caroline said.
"Don't worry I will."
"And just for the record I think he's a good guy, I wasn't getting a bad vibe from him at all." Caroline said with a shrug of his shoulders. "And what type of shop does he have and why are you getting free stuff."
"He just offered it to me this morning." Bonnie said with a shrug of her shoulders. "I met him at the Grille when I went there for breakfast." she said as she continued driving, Caroline just smiled at that.
"Well here's hoping he can handle himself cause Damon is gonna visit him, especially after you told him not too." As Bonnie pulled up into her driveway, she placed a hand on her forehead and released a tired groan.
"I know. . .I know but there really isn't anything I can do about it." Bonnie murmured as she looked over at her friend. "I mean I could head him off but I promised myself that I'd be there for Elena tomorrow when she heard the news." They both got out of the car and Caroline released a tired sigh.
"I guess then you're just gonna have to hope that he can handle himself." Bonnie glanced over at her friend who was grinning from ear to ear.
"You're enjoying this aren't you."
"You and Damon are entertaining and I love to be entertained." Bonnie shook her head and opened the front door.
"I just hope this doesn't end up with a pissed off warlock," she said as she stepped into her house and looked back at Caroline. "Come on in Care-bear." Caroline just smiled and waltzed into the Bennett home.
Damon sat in his car outside the new herb shop in Mystic Falls waiting on the little witch's new playmate, once Bonnie and Caroline had come over to help him tell Elena the news about Stefan he had slipped out. If there was one thing he couldn't stand it was Elena's tears and his guilt over having kissed while his brother was off giving himself over to Klaus. As soon as he heard the news, he promised himself that he would never touch Elena again besides all he wanted was his brother. He shook himself out of his thoughts as he saw two men walking up the store, one pulling out a set of keys to open it. Getting out of the car, he cleared his throat while looking at them both. "Which one of you is Samil?" Both men froze and turned to look at him. Damon took in the defensive stand of the Asian man and then saw the younger white man looking at him calmly.
"It seems you have me at a disadvantage you know my name but yet I know absolutely nothing about you." he said smoothly, just from that statement alone Damon was pretty sure he didn't like this Samil guy.
"I guess you're Samil."
"Your deduction skills are astounding." the man said again with a small smile causing Damon to clench his jaw and close his hand up into a fist. The Asian man stepped forward and Damon met his gaze head on. "But again I have to say this. . .I don't know you."
"I'm Damon Salvatore."
"You say that like it should mean something to me." Samil said with a shake of his head. "Never heard of you." he turned back around and opened the door pushing it open his Asian friend walked inside after receiving nod from Samil that things would be okay. Once the man disappeared into the shop, Samil turned to him and narrowed his eyes. "Normally I would be a bit pissed off about a confrontation like this but I can tell that you care about someone so I'll let it slide."
"What are you-"
"Obviously I don't know you so I can only assume that I know someone that's close to you." Samil said with a shrug of his shoulders. Damon blinked at Samil for a moment, his mouth hanging open in disbelief at the man's statement. Samil had hit the mark, dead and center, although he would have to think about when he started caring about Bonnie.
"You're right I'm here because of Bonnie-."
"She certainly keeps strange company." Samil stated softly as he looked at him and shook his head, Damon narrowed his eyes at that statement and took a step forward while Samil merely raised an eyebrow. "You don't look to be as friendly as the vampire from last night so take another step and I'll burn you here on the stoop."
"Vampire." Damon exclaimed, "How did you know I was-."
"Please I can feel the death, guilt, heartlessness and darkness coming off of you in waves. I didn't even have to touch your hand to figure all that out." he stated coldly. "What Bonnie's doing with you though I haven't the slightest clue."
"You talk a lot of shit."
"I'm just saying what I'm thinking," Samil said with a shrug of his shoulders. "So Damon what brings you by?"
"I want you to stay away from Bonnie." Samil's brow furrowed as he quirked a lip up in a half crooked smile.
"Stay away from Bonnie," he drawled out as if the words didn't fit together. "And who are you to her. To try and tell me to stay away from her. Are you her brother? No you're a bit too pale for that. Are you her boyfriend? No I think she has a little bit more sense than that." Samil said as he tapped the bottom of his chin in thought.
"I'm her friend." Damon snapped out angrily as he glared at the other man.
"Really?" Samil said as he tilted his head to the side and looked Damon up and down before shrugging his shoulders. "I've met Bonnie and I find it hard to believe that she would be your friend." Samil had to resist the urge to smile at the look that filtered across Damon's face at his words. It seemed Damon would be almost to easy. "In fact I find it hard to believe that you have any friends."
"I've got plenty." Damon stated. "And Bonnie is one of them and I want you to stay away from her."
"Or what?" Samil asked bluntly. "Are you feeling threatened is that why you're here? Believe me I do not have the time for this male posturing that you want to do. This entire conversation has annoyed me." he stated dismissively, Damon glared a him for a moment and then took a step forward.
"You just stay away from her."
"I'm sorry but I'm a person of my own free will and so is she," he stated coolly as he glared at him. "So you can't tell me to do anything." He turned to go back into the shop but paused at the doorway. Turning back around, he made his way over to Damon. "You know you almost killed her yesterday."
"I did-."
"Who else would she be performing spells for other than your little band of vampires," he looked Damon in the eyes and stepped fully into his space. "How about this the next time you want to use her for a spell ask me to help now get out of here." Damon blinked at him and then shook his head.
"It doesn't matter who she's performing spells for you just stay away from her." he said as he walked back to his car with Samil watching the entire time. Entering his shop, Samil closed the door and looked over at Sovann.
"Did you just compel him?"
"I had to get the ball rolling somehow," Samil said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Besides we don't have all of eternity to spend here." Sovann nodded his head and looked back down at the paper work he was slowly going over.
"What do you plan on doing when they do ask you for help."
"It's simple I'm gonna help them find Stefan," he glanced over at Sovann and sighed. "I thought I already told you that, Sovann. What have I told you about paying attention?" Sovann jumped slightly at the tone in Samil's voice.
"Sorry sir it won't happen again."
"Of course it won't. . .you keep not paying attention and you'll miss out, Sovann." Looking into his master's eyes, Sovann felt a bit unnerved by the look he saw there. He didn't know what Samil could be talking about but he was positive it wasn't good for him. "Besides we're nearing that one year vacation you get every century and I know how much you like those. So please pay attention, I'd hate to take that away from you."
"Yes sir again I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize to me, just correct the mistake." Samil said as he stalked into the back room leaving Sovann out to man the main floor of the shop. Sovann waited till the door closed before bowing his head and looking at the papers in front of him.