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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; David Fishwick, Yson, mehr03, Kelly-Starfly, NaeNae1495, babyshan211, Lula6791 and annabella. Thank you so much for the reviews and I hope everyone enjoys this new chapter and please don't forget to Review.
Baby S
Chapter Six
Damon was still pissed off about his earlier conversation with Samil, the man had certainly hit on a few spots that made him think. After all, he thought he and the witch were slowly becoming friends but Samil had suggested otherwise. "What does he know anyway?" Damon muttered with a shake of his head as he walked over to his bar and poured himself a shot.
"I hope Samil is still alive after your little visit." he lifted his head at the voice and turned to look at the stairs and saw Bonnie standing there. Knocking back the shot, he gave her a cocky smile and nodded his head.
"Your crystal ball friend is alive and well, although I have to say he's a prick." Bonnie smiled at that walked down the stairs.
"That's like the pot calling the kettle," she waved it off and sent him a look. "I'm sure you understand where I'm gonna with that."
"It wasn't hard to figure out." he murmured with a shake of his head. "So is Caroline here or is it just you?"
"No, Caroline's here. She's just upstairs with Elena right now," they both looked at one another in silence before Bonnie cleared her throat breaking through the awkwardness of their little meeting. "I actually came down here for some water."
"You sure you don't want something a bit more heavy." he said wiggling his eyebrows at her while lifting up his shot glass.
"As appealing as that sounds, Damon. I'm underage."
"Of course how could I forget you're about to start your Senior year," he drawled out with a shrug of his shoulders. "Although you and I both know being underage has never stopped you from knocking a few back before."
"Fine then I don't want to drink with you." she countered with a shake of her head as she headed for the kitchen with Damon following right behind her.
"Why you don't want to share a drink with a friend?" he asked bluntly, he noticed how tense Bonnie got at his words. She turned around and looked at him for a moment before shaking her head.
"If you wanna drink with a friend you need to go and call up Alaric," she said as she continued moving towards the refrigerator. "Go ahead and call him maybe he might forget to schedule a lesson because of the interruption and I'll get a free period in history this semester." she said with a smile as she looked back at him. Damon frowned at her words and then shook his head.
"You don't consider me your friend." Bonnie rolled her eyes at his tone and just shook her head, she really didn't know how else to explain it to him.
"Damon I don't know what's gotten into you but seriously a few weeks ago you were walking around here telling everyone it was okay for me to die. In fact you wanted that to happen as long as Elena got to live. So no I don't consider you a friend. . .an associate maybe but even that's stretching the truth a bit." she said as she held up her hand and lowered her pointer finger towards her thumb. He rubbed a hand over his face and looked at her for a minute.
"I'm sorry about that."
"You apologized once before and then you turned around and continued to do stuff to me-like campaigning for my death. You'll have to excuse me if I sound harsh but seriously I don't know how I'm suppose to take that."
"You take it as me being sorry, Bonnie." he countered as he walked over to her and got into her personal space. "I'm sorry for acting like a unfeeling bastard."
"I know you can't help it." Bonnie said with a smirk while Damon merely smiled down at her.
"You're just so witty." he sarcastically stated with a roll of his eyes. "But seriously I'm sorry about earlier." Bonnie nodded her head at that and sighed herself.
"Apology accepted, Damon. Now moving on I hope you didn't hurt Samil or anything."
"I said he was still alive."
"That doesn't mean you didn't hurt him," Bonnie said with a shake of her head. "So is he okay." Damon rolled his eyes and gave her a look while turning on his heel and walking back towards the living room with Bonnie right on his heels. "Damon!"
"He's fine. Completely unharmed."
"Good, I was worried you might try something similar to the whole Mason incident." she murmured, Damon shook his head at that as he kept his eyes on the her.
"Oh so it's an incident now. Besides Samil wasn't working for the bad guys so I had to let him go but just so you know. One wrong spell or something and I'll handle him." Bonnie nodded her head and watched as he sat down on the sofa. "You know I was thinking about Stefan and-."
"I think I can find him." Bonnie said cutting in as she settled down beside him. Damon looked over at her for a moment before shaking his head as he remembered in detail how drained she looked after making the last failed attempt.
"Bonnie I really don't think that's such a good idea."
"Why not? I want to find Stefan. He's my friend, Damon and him being around Klaus this whole time and being forced to feed from people," she trailed off and looked down at her hands. Damon kept his gaze on her waiting for her to finish the small speech. "I just want to find him and bring him home to Elena."
"It's too dangerous, Bonnie." he murmured with a shake of his head as he looked at her. "But I get what you're saying I want Stefan home too and I want him home before the summer break ends."
"Two weeks?" she asked as she glanced over at him. "Way to put us all on a deadline." Damon cracked a small smile at that and shrugged his shoulders.
"Look, I want him to finish up his Senior year too. It's something he wants to do so I want him to finish up which means I want him away from Klaus as soon as possible too," he trailed off for a moment as something came slamming into his mind. It was an idea. "Maybe you can ask Samil to help."
"Samil? I thought you didn't trust him."
"And I thought you did." Damon said. "Maybe breaking through Klaus' defenses is to much by yourself but Samil seems to think of you as a friend and he might help you. . .us if you asked him." Bonnie nibbled on her bottom lip as she thought over his words.
"You're serious?"
"As serious one of those headaches your so fond of giving me." he muttered, massaging the side of his head to get the point across.
"It's an aneurysm." Bonnie replied.
"It's an aneurysm." Damon said mocking her voice as he stood up from the sofa and reached down for her hand. "Whatever. . .headache or aneurysm it all hurts."
"Aneurysms can kill you."
"You're not gonna take me out with some aneurysm, Bonnie. You only give me those headaches cause your kinky. You know I'm starting to think you're one of this dominatrix types." he said with a smirk as Bonnie just rolled her eyes at him.
"And on that note I'm going back upstairs." she said but Damon could see the corners of her mouth lifting up to form a small smile.
"Oh come on we were having fun."
"Sure we were." she drawled out slowly as she walked towards the stairs while shaking her head.
"At least think about what I said?" he said with a small smile, Bonnie stopped then and turned around giving him a small nod.
"Don't worry I'll ask Samil."
"Thanks Mistress." Bonnie rolled her eyes and walked up the stairs while Damon settled back down on the sofa. He looked at his empty shot glass for a moment before tilting his head back and closing his eyes. Bonnie was his friend, they just had a love-hate relationship that most people didn't understand. Samil didn't know what he was talking about.
Bonnie entered Elena's room and saw Caroline sitting over by the window slowly turning the ring on her finger. "She's went to sleep again." Caroline said before Bonnie could speak. "She's going to make herself sick with all that crying and what took you so long to get your water."
"Damon's home." Bonnie said as she sat down on the edge of the bed gently. She didn't want to wake Elena out of her sleep.
"Does that mean he went to go see Samil?"
"Don't. . .don't do that." Bonnie said with a shake of her head as she looked at her friend, Caroline smirked and rolled her eyes.
"Do what?"
"Look like that when you mention, Samil."
"But he's so cute and a gentleman. I'm sure he would have fought me vampire strength and all just to protect his fair lady."
"Fair lady? Really Caroline?" she asked with a sigh. "Remind me to come over to your house and toss out all those romance novels."
"Don't worry I won't." Caroline said with a roll of her eyes. "But you have to admit the guy does like you." she said with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Which doesn't happen often." Bonnie softly said, while Caroline just rolled her eyes at that and shook her head. "What it's the truth."
"No it isn't. You just hardly ever pay attention to who likes you. Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it never happens. Do you know how many guys at school would kill to go out on a date with you."
"No I didn't realize I was attracting murderers." Bonnie said as she looked over at Caroline and gave her a small smile. "Just kidding Care."
"You better be, you know I hate it when you get smart with me." Bonnie nodded her head in response while looking at the bottle in her hands. "Now like I was saying there a plenty of guys at school who would love to date you, but you're just to picky."
"I'm not picky."
"Oh yes you are." Caroline said with a smile. "But it's okay Bon-Bon I love you anyway. So what did Damon do to Samil."
"He said all he did was talk to him," she murmured with a shake of her head. "And then he told me that maybe I should call him and get him to help us with finding Stefan since I told him that I was going to try again."
"I thought you said you were going to be taking it easy." Caroline asked as she raised an eyebrow at her friend. "Cause that's what I remember after what happened last time." Bonnie sighed and shrugged her shoulders.
"Stefan is still missing and-."
"And he wouldn't want you to hurt yourself while looking for him, Bonnie. You know Stefan would never forgive himself if you got hurt in all this." Bonnie just nodded her head as she looked at her friend.
"I know what you're saying is true but I just can't sit back and do nothing which is why I'm going to ask Samil for help."
"Are you sure Damon really is okay with all that?"
"He suggested it." Caroline stared at her for a few moments before shrugging her shoulders.
"Well, I guess it's alright. I mean after last night I know Samil would be willing to help you out. Like I said before, he's such a gentleman." she said as she batted her eyelashes at Bonnie who just shook her head.
"I'll ask him later on today," Bonnie murmured as she rubbed her hand over the chilled bottle of water. "Hopefully he won't be pissed off about Damon's little visit." Caroline smirked at that and shook her head.
"I don't think you'll have much to worry about there, Bonnie. Samil seems like the type of person that wants to impress you cause it's obvious he's smitten with you."
"Smitten?" Bonnie asked with a raised eyebrow, Caroline smirked at her voice.
"I thought I'd break out that romance novel language you seem to think I'm so good at." Caroline said with a small smile while Bonnie just rolled her eyes and stood up. "Hey where are you going?"
"To go see Samil. . .and ask him for help."
"I thought you had his phone number." Caroline said in confusion.
"Nope I don't." Bonnie said as she looked back over at Elena. "I hope he does help, I wanna see Stefan again." With that said, she walked out of the room leaving Caroline to look after Elena while she went to see Samil.
As she headed downstairs, she saw Damon still drinking a few shots of whiskey, he lifted his eyes from the unlit fireplace and looked at her. "Where are you headed, Little Mistress?" she paused at the foot of the stairs and glared at him.
"Is that like my new nickname now?"
"Only when we're alone." he said with a wink. "But seriously where are you going?" Bonnie looked over towards one of the windows and then back at Damon who was staring her down while turning his shot glass around and around in his hand.
"I'm about to go ask Samil if he wants to help us out with finding Stefan." Damon raised an eyebrow at that.
"I thought you would have his number."
"Why? I've only talked to him about three times. . .do you think I just give my number out to guys all the time."
"Well you gave it to me."
"No I didn't, you stole my number from Elena's phone." Bonnie said with a shake of her head while sending him a small smile. Damon just grinned as she gave him a slight wave and then exited the house. It barely took Bonnie fifteen minutes to make it back to Samil's shop. Parking her car outside on the curb, she quickly headed inside and saw Sovann sitting behind the large check-out desk near the back of the room. He looked at her and sent her a small wave before clearing his throat.
"Hello there Ms. Bennett how are you today?" he asked with a small grin as he leaned forward in his chair.
"Hi Sovann, I'm here to see Samil."
"Well he's out to get some breakfast from the Grille." she smiled as she watched him visibly shudder.
"I guess you don't like it huh."
"No not really." he said with a shrug. "He should be back soon enough, so what brings you by?" Bonnie didn't know if she should tell Sovann all her busy, she couldn't remember if Samil had told her that Sovann knew about him being a warlock or not.
"Samil told me if I needed him for anything I could come and ask and I guess I'm coming to ask." she said, Sovann nodded his head.
"Well you know while you wait you could pick out your free item. Samil told me you still hadn't picked it up yet."
"I thought you didn't want to give away products."
"Well, for someone as lovely as you I think I can make an exception." he said with a wink, as he got off his chair and moved from behind the desk. "Come on I'll show you around the store and point out some stuff that I think you'll like." At her hesitation, he smiled. "Think of it as just a way to kill time before Samil gets here."
"Alright but do you think he'll be here soon."
"Oh yeah, he should be. He left quite some time ago so he should be here any minute." Bonnie allowed Sovann to show her around for a few minutes but stopped once Samil walked through the door. He paused as he saw them both over by one of the shelves near the door.
"This is certainly a blessing," he drawled out with a small grin as he closed the door as both Sovann and Bonnie turned around at his entrance. "What brings you by our shop?" he asked as he looked at them both with a smile.
"I came by to see you."
"And I was keeping her company until you came back from the Grille." Sovann supplied from behind Bonnie's back. "And trying to get her to pick out that one free item you told her she could have." Samil smiled at that and nodded his head.
"I've been trying the whole week to get her to pick something," he shrugged his shoulder and held out a plastic bag. "Here's breakfast my man." Sovann took that as his signal to leave, reaching out he grabbed the bag and quickly headed back to the check-out counter. Bonnie watched him with an amused smirk on her face.
"I guess he was hungry."
"Ravenous." Samil suggested as he shoved his hands into his pant pockets while looking at her. "So what brings you by, are you finally going to pick up that one free item."
"Actually no. . .nothing here has actually caught my eye yet." she nervously replied as Samil looked down at her. She allowed her eyes to dart around the room for a brief moment before pushing forward to the topic that she really wanted to discuss. "I need your help." Samil stared at her briefly before grabbing hold of her arm and leading her away from Sovann.
"You mean with your witchcraft?" he whispered quickly while looking over his shoulder back towards the area where Sovann was currently seated. "Witchcraft that your little vampire friends are in need of."
"We're looking for a friend." Bonnie said, "And I was hoping that you could help us find him." Samil crossed his arms over his chest as he looked at her for a moment before shaking his head at her words.
"I wasn't kidding with you when I told you that I knew a few spells. I'm not that well practiced and if the spell is causing those type of headaches then I'm not so sure I can be of service, Bonnie." She looked up at him and sighed.
"Please Samil, we really need to find him. I'm worried about him. . .so worried. All I need is your energy in this."
"And if I say no?" he asked, Bonnie's shoulders slumped slightly at those words.
"Then I guess I would just try the spell again by myself." she firmly said, Samil could hear the stubbornness in her voice. She was going to go ahead with the spell without him. Sighing, he shook his head.
"I can't let you do that. . .and I won't." he muttered softly. "I won't let you hurt yourself so I guess I'm in." he said with a shrug of shoulders. Bonnie graced him with a small smile while clasping her hands together.
"Thank you so much, Samil."
"No problem. . .let me just go ahead and talk to Sovann a bit and then I guess I'll just ride with you to our destination." Bonnie nodded her head and stepped back as Samil carefully walked around her and over to Sovann at that check-out line. Deciding to go ahead and tell Damon that Samil would be coming by, she pulled out her cell phone and dialed his number.
Sovann looked up from his meal as Samil walked over to him, closing the lid he looked at his master who took one glance at Bonnie before speaking. "It seems that compelling that Salvatore boy worked out just as I had planned. It seems he's already asked for Bonnie to come and ask me to join them in their little search." Sovann knew there was something that Samil wanted him to do, putting down his plastic fork, he looked at his master.
"What would you like for me to do?" Samil rubbed the bottom of his chin in thought while tapping his free hand on the counter.
"I think it's time to start working on removing Klaus from the equation. Free the boy but make sure he's so far gone that they'll have to focus all their energies on him." Sovann raised an eyebrow at that and shook his head.
"I don't understand," Sovann whispered. "I get that you want to remove him from Klaus' custody but how would I get them to focus all their energies on him?"
"Are you fool? Stage an attack here. Allow some human to get killed and then you can come in a save the day or just get saved by me do whatever you want but make sure he kills a civilian and make sure they find him." he said with a shake of his head. "Then they won't think we're here to get them or anything like that. In fact I suspect that they won't doubt us at all after this happens." Samil murmured with a shake of his head as he looked at his servant. "Next time try to figure it out on your own. You know how I hate to explain things that I picture to be quite simple." Samil murmured harshly before turning back around and flashing Bonnie a wide smile. "All set on this end, Sovann's gonna watch the shop while I help you out."
"Oh call it what it is you two." Sovann called out with a laugh, he watched as Bonnie blushed and shook her head.
"He's really helping me out, Sovann."
"If you say so." he called back with a smile, Bonnie just rolled her eyes and sent him a small wave as Samil opened the door for her. "See you two later."
"Bye Sovann." Bonnie replied with a wave while Samil followed behind her while giving him a look that plainly told him that he better not screw things up.
Samil closed the door behind and looked at Bonnie who was walking over to her car parked on the curb. "So where are we going?" he asked as he walked towards her, Bonnie looked up at him.
"Do you remember that guy who came by and harassed you?"
"You mean your overprotective boyfriend?" At the coughing fit that quickly came over Bonnie, Samil laughed and rubbed the back of his neck as he watched her lean into her car for support. "I guess I misspoke."
"No it wasn't you. . .it's just that me and Damon are no where near that. I mean we aren't even friends so-."
"But he came here to defend you, Bonnie. I mean if he isn't your boyfriend, which by the way I still believe, then he's your friend." Bonnie sobered up at that and looked over at him.
"Oh I so don't like you right now." Samil just laughed and shook his head as he walked over to the driver's side of Bonnie's car and opened the door.
"I figured but you know I think you doth protest too much." Bonnie just rolled her eyes and slipped into the car and waited for Samil to close her door and get in. Once he slipped into the passenger seat he looked her over and sighed. "I was just teasing you, Bonnie." She turned on the car and gave him a small smile.
"I know."
"Good and for the record I don't like that Damon guy. If you're dating him believe me you can do better." Bonnie didn't respond to that, instead she pulled out and headed back towards the Salvatore Manor wondering if she and Caroline would have to play referee between the Damon and Samil, which was something she certainly wasn't going to be looking forward too.
They arrived at the manor in record time as they both got out of the car, Damon stood at the doorway watching them. As soon as they were within ear shot, he spoke. "Nice to see you again, Samil."
"Believe me the pleasure is all mine." he replied with a deep chuckle as he looked at the man. Bonnie just shook her head at the two of them and headed towards the door.
"Can we save the pissing contest for later."
"Sure Bon-Bon." Damon replied slowly as he stepped aside and allowed Bonnie to enter the house but stopped Samil short. He looked the other man over and then spoke, his voice low and menacing. If Samil hadn't been playing the part of human warlock, he would have laughed outright at Damon's little warning. "Once this is over you need to leave Bonnie alone."
"I know you're old enough to be her father several times over but I think Bonnie can make her own decisions about who she wants around her." Samil said as he forced his way passed Damon and entered the manor. "Nice place you got here." he said aloud while following Bonnie into the living room. He heard the front door slam shut and knew he had pissed the older vampire off. Entering the living room, he saw several people sitting around. "Bonnie I wasn't aware we'd have an audience." he said as he looked over at her.
"These are my friends and once we give them the location they're gonna go ahead and see if they can get Stefan back."
"And no one is gonna stay here to make sure you're alright?" he asked his voice showing his disapproval as he looked over the people sitting down. His eyes passed over the brunette and landed on the blonde. "That's not right Bonnie."
"We're gonna make sure she's okay before we leave." The blonde rushed to say as she looked at him, Samil smiled at that. At least he had found Bonnie's one true friend, the brunette was so consumed by pain and fear and just a hint of selfishness that she wasn't going to be a good friend at the moment which was something he was counting on.
"I would hope so." Samil replied as he walked over to Bonnie's side who was looking down at a table with her things on it. "So what are we suppose to do?" he asked bluntly as he gently laid his hand on her forearm so he could gain her attention. He could feel the heat of Damon's gaze but chose to ignore that and instead focused on Bonnie.
"We have to break through a witches' barrier in order to find our friend." Samil studied her for a moment and forced himself to look nervous and scared.
"Are you sure we can do that? I told you I wasn't much of a witchcraft practitioner." he murmured softly, Bonnie looked up at him and gave him a brief smile before shaking her head. She placed her hand on his and gave it a gentle squeeze.
"You'll be fine, I promise." Samil just nodded his head then and looked down at the table while mentally sending Sovann the signal to go ahead and break Stefan out of Klaus' custody. Once he was sure Sovann had gotten the message he looked down into Bonnie's muddy green eyes and smiled.
"Alright I trust you let's get this done."