Sorry for errors! I also apologize for those of you who thought this was a new chapter. I just need to speak on a few things.

For my supporters and none-supporters:

I need to get some things off of my chest as a writer. I am not impartial to negative reviews. They do not bother me. I am, however, bothered by the fact that I have written a story that in only seven chapters' people were expecting my 'anithero' to already have been redeemed. Yes, Damon has some antagonistic moments. He may even be an antagonist to some of you, but the story will have bigger threats than Damon. His and Bonnie's story has to be told first. Damon has some very redeemable qualities. However, his antagonistic moments come at the restraint of his learned behaviors of a Colonial upbringing. He is redeemable in my story, and Bonnie is my heroine. She is in no way a weak girl in my story, she would never commit suicide in my stories. I love her character, she inspires me and all of my stories are bonnie centric. She has been inspirational and strong in every single story I write, this one included.

This story is about two people who love each other in a time period it was not permitted to love one another. Damon's past is surfacing in the last chapter and will continue to in the next couple of chapters. He is not going to wake up a good guy in the next chapter, he has to actually learn and grow. He can't change overnight. But this is a love story, not your typical one, but it will have good and bad moments. I mention in several authors notes what was coming. They have to learn how to love each other, in a way that they do not hurt each other. How can Damon grow if you can't see his darkness, as well as what made him this way? You forget how protective he has been for her, her entire life. He is battling himself on how is supposed to handle her. He really is learning it is all new to him too. Just as she is learning everything for almost the first time, because she was so sheltered. So she is stubborn and defiant. They will learn.

I am going to touch on the fact that as a dark Fic writer, and on behalf of some other dark fic writers, we get a bad wrap for wanting to paint these painful pictures and torture our heroines/heros because we must not be trying to depict strong characters. That is absolutely not true. We just paint a different picture. We see stories differently in our minds. Well, in my defense, my stories are built around conflict and depth of characters who come from a broken place. I like to have a build, sometimes quick, sometimes slow, but a buildup of how they came to be. I just can't believe that in seven chapters, ONLY, people expected Damon to already be redeemed. He hadn't really got a chance to be dark until he isolated Bonnie. Which has been one chapter so far. And Kol, I don't want to give anything away, his characters is important to Damon's dark college/war past, and if you want to know just please read the next chapter. But notice he said something important about Damon. He told Bonnie that Damon was brave, deciding to Marry his slave and start a life with her. He told her many men would be too afraid of how society would treat them. He feels like he has to protect her by any means necessary, even in isolation. Is that right? No, but he will learn the hard way. He drinks, he has a problem, he becomes abusive when he drinks. Damon is his own worst enemy. He won't be bad forever, but they haven't even begun to face the terror and hate of the world once they form their union. They will have to get through it together. I haven't even written about racism YET! Keep this in mind. My antagonists in this story is Colonial America, and what characters that will introduce, as the story goes. This is the eighteenth century. Before the characters can deal with that, they have to deal with each other.

I gave fair warning from the beginning, and for a few chapters that dark Damon would surface. For the time period of an AH story, I would hope people understood what that meant. Why is it that when dark Damon as a vampire gets away with murder and abuse, but human Damon in a story doesn't? Vampire Damon is redeemable but not human Damon? Why, because a vampire can turn his humanity off and on? Listen I am not in any way condoning his abusive side. In fact, I said the next couple of chapters would be dark Damon. Please check my Author's notes. I also said, that my depiction are not nearly as harsh as what times really were. He hasn't raped her. He has tried to have sex with her, when he is drunk. His alcohol is a problem. He hasn't whipped her with a whip, chained her, or drug her by ropes, and beat her with belts. I had him spank her. With his bare hand. He treats her like a child sometimes. Yes, he has been abusive, but I haven't written the abuse nowhere near what it really was for the times. For those of you who think Bonnie is weak, come on, I have stated by Lily, Stefan, Marcel, Damon Giuseppe, Elena, Emily, Jeremy, and even Lorenzo how much she is the light of the story, the educated, humanitarian, true to her beliefs, pure-hearted, business woman, teacher, she is at sixteen! This just didn't happen for girls in her position in life back then. Albeit DEFIANT as hell. She is not weak in fact she is stronger than Damon, and I am not going to give away anything I have planned, because after all I am still selling you all a love story that I want you to continue to read. I am sorry I have lost those of you who feel as though seven chapters was long enough to make Damon a redeemed man. I also am sorry that all this story has made some of you see only the abuse. There have been some exceptionally beautiful moments between several characters in this story. The last chapter had some amazing moments, that may have gone unnoticed. I really am weaving a story with multiple layers. That last chapter for me was 15,000 plus words of hard work, thought, and edit, after, edit, after edit. If you can't see it, and want to call my story shit, then well, thanks for reading this far. I appreciate the support, but I will not be a different writer for the sake of not having a whimsical mind like other writers. My mind is more dark and complex, and I guess it is my fault if I do not depict things more clearly for my readers. I won't apologize for my stories.

For those of you who are deciding to stay with me, thank you. I fucking love the way some of you have supported me in my short 4 months as a fic writer. Do not think the support goes unnoticed. Some writers may like to blow off the idea that reviews don't mean much, and some may also like to avoid the topic all together. But I notice and I pay attention to you who review and support me. I would like to say I notice those of you who may not review but still follow me, and I appreciate you also, I notice I have some of the same guest's reviewer's in stories, and I also notice that everyone will not review a story. Okay. It's anyone's prerogative. My hopes are only that my stories reach you in a place in your mind or your heart where you begin to feel the character, or hurt for the characters, or grow with and be happy for them. I just want to write meaningful stories. I appreciate everyone who follows, favorites, reviews, or even just reads. I get PMs from people that make my fucking day. Even if you read my story, and write a negative review, thanks for taking the time to let me know how you felt. I have learned to write one version for FanFIc, and a second version for my own records, because I can't really write the depth I need to, due to certain sensitivities of some readers on this site. I love to write. I will continue. Thank you so much for ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT and LOVE! READERS, REVIEWERS, FOLLOWERS, AND FAVORITERS! I hope to have the next chapter posted very soon.

Peace n Love! XoX MANiQ1

PS. I hope my note cleared up somethings. If not, the content Warning is at the top of every single one of my chapters!

An antihero or antiheroine is a protagonist who lacks conventional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, and morality. These individuals often possess dark personality traits such as disagreeableness, dishonesty, and aggressiveness. These characters are usually considered "conspicuously contrary to an archetypal hero

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An Anti-hero is a major character, usually the protagonist, who lacks conventional nobility of mind, and who struggles for values not deemed universally admirable. Nevertheless, is the center of the story, and we are drawn to the challenges he must overcome and the goals he seeks to achieve.

An Antagonists is a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

A Protagonist is the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

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