Chapter 8

Here's chapter 8 hope Chapter 7 was pleasing to the eyes and imagination; I hope that it will go well. I do not own anything! Song reference to Everything by Lifehouse.

Stefan sat with his brother to have a chat as Damon was taking his daily drink.

"Want some?" Damon offers his little brother, without even looking at him, Stefan declines his offer.

"So, what are you thinking so deeply about Damon?" Stefan asks him as he notices the deep expression on the older Salvatore's face.

Damon does not reply him on the spot, he keeps silent for a while and then he says, "You know what bothers me, the fact that I am not supposed to care, yet I do."

"Care about what?" Stefan asks looking as confused as ever.

"Everything and well everyone who pretty much thinks I am the devil." He says to his brother, who notices the hurt in his eyes when he says that. This is pretty much one of the few times in more than a hundred years; he had seen that in his brother, hurt.

"Is 'everyone' Bonnie Bennett?" Stefan questions his brother who looks up at him with his blue eyes opened wide.

"I am talking in general. Why bring that little witch up?" Damon asks in a harsh tone.

"Never mind. She kind of asked me to tell you to stop…" Damon cuts his brother off to complete the sentence for him.

"Covering everything up? Yeah! I know she told me herself." He replies.

"She seems to care about you too." Damon just rolls his eyes at Stefan's upfront comment and gets up and walks away. Stefan just shakes his head with a smile knowing how much his brother loves to put on a suit of armor when it comes to his feelings and emotions and slowly lets it out as he breaks apart.

Elena was hanging out at the Salvatore's as usual and invited Bonnie and Caroline over. Caroline had other plans with her trusted boyfriend so she did not go. Bonnie was reluctant but decided to go, when Elena told her that Damon was not there. Honestly, up to this point she had wanted to be away from him but slowly, her heart was changing lanes where Damon was concerned. She told herself that after the way he kind of poured his heart out, she felt nothing but sympathy for her vamp. My vamp? What the? She quickly brushed that thought of as these were running in her head, as she was on her way to the Salvatore's place. When she had arrived there her eyes scanned the hall to see if he was there. As Elena had said, Damon was nowhere to be found. The girls and Stefan hung out as Bonnie really wanted to catch up with them. She missed not having Caroline around but she thought it was alright as, since Grams death Caroline and her had spent a lot of time together and she had secluded herself away from Stefan and Elena. After the whole incident with Eric, it had brought them closer together yet again.

When it was time for bed, Elena had prepared a place for Bonnie to have a queen fit rest.

She felt so safe in this place, it was so white and everything was perfect until he came along, his fangs were out and he was charging towards her like a soldier. She ran for her life. She continued screaming and telling him to stop trying to hurt her. As she faces the front while running she bumps into someone else he didn't look as scary as the other figure. His piercing blue eyes that used to make her fear suddenly made her feel safe, but at that moment he disappears and the fierce figure appears. She screams"Leave me alone !.""I got you Little Witch. I got you!"

She is woken up by the same words said by him but the person in front of her is different.

"I got you. You were dreaming little witch, noisily. You are annoying even in your sleep." Damon Salvatore says to her as holds her hands and then let's go when they both realize it.

Bonnie finds herself close to him, once again and this time she just does not seem to bother about getting away from him or snapping back to herself. She just looks up at him with fear in her eyes and tears almost coming down but she holds back.

Elena and Stefan come in just in time to find Damon sitting at Bonnie's bedside.

"Damon, what did you do? Bonnie are you okay? I heard you screaming." Elena shouts out.

"Yeah, blame the psychedelic vamp, yet again." Damon blurts out.

Elena and Stefan roll their eyes at him and focuses on Bonnie.

"I am fine. I just had a nightmare. He was just trying to snap me back to reality." She points out and by then, Damon is halfway out the door without a bother of any reference to him.

"Grams, again?" Elena asks.

"No. Eric." She replies.

Stefan and Elena look at each other and then look back at her.

"I'll be fine, okay? Just go have a good rest," With that Elena hugs her and she and Stefan leave her.

Bonnie is unable to go back to bed so she just stays up all night ,lying on the bed yet eyes wide open.

Damon sits by the fire, alone and later is joined by Bonnie. He is surprised to see her next to him.

"Don't you ever sleep?" She asks him.

"Don't you ever mind your own business, and not invade the vamp's privacy?" He responds with a smirk.

"Fine, then! Sorry, Mr. Menopausal, or have you already passed that stage?" She replies with a sense of sarcasm that Damon finds cute.

Bonnie slowly goes and sits herself down on the sofa that is placed a distance away from the older vampire.

"I would offer you a drink, but it may not be of your taste." Damon jokes.

"Nothing that is of your taste is of mine Damon." Bonnie replies.

They sit in silence for a moment after that until Damon decides to speak.

"What did you see in psycho ex Edward Cullen?" Damon asks her.

"Someone genuine, someone who seemed like he was never going to let me down or leave me like everyone did." She says without looking at him and just staring at the fire and quickly looks away when it suddenly gets bigger.

"Whoa! Don't emote in front of fire. It's unsafe to anyone around you." He says to her with a smile and that causes her to let out a soft giggle.

"I guess you judged to fast." Damon says as he gets back to a serious note and a serious expression, with his eyes on her.

She does not look at him even though at the corner of her eye she can tell he is looking at her.

"I guess I did." She stops with that, not knowing what else to say to him regarding what had been said by him. The vampire and his little witch were practically side by side and actually having a conversation that did not involve killing each other in any way. I really have no idea what to say to him, this silence is awkward maybe I should go. She thinks to herself.

"Why do you feel so afraid of me even though you have said you are not scared of me?" He asks her. Bonnie looked up at him and he caught her eye contact after trying to avoid it all the while.

She then quickly looks away and says "I am not scared of you at all. I've been around worst than you." She replies him.

Eric is worst than me? That's good right? He thinks to himself.

"Then why can't you look at me without quickly looking away like you just did?" He catches her attention with that question.

Bonnie keeps silent and stares at him trying to show him that she is not afraid of him. "There, you happy? I am staring at you and I am not turning away." She gives him fierce look.

"You are seriously a bunny, trying to be a lion." He says to her and laughs.

Bonnie uses her mind to light up the candle in front of him that burns the sleeve of his black jacket that he slowly shakes off as he jumps up from the sofa.

"Ouch. You crazy little witch, it's just a joke!" He shouts at her.

"Yeah, I know it was funny to watch." She laughed as she said that, ignoring his reference to his comment and referring to what she had just done.

He slowly walked over to her sofa as she was busy laughing and pulled her up by one hand causing her body to hit his. His eyes holding on to her gaze and refusing to let go. She felt helpless and speechless. She could not feel herself and could not move. She is the witch but it seemed like the vampire had her under his spell. He leaned forward to that his lips were already embracing hers and he slowly kissed her. Her heart had stopped racing at that moment and all she felt was comfort. Comfort that she had been waiting to feel for so long. It had to be him. The one she feared for so long. As they pulled apart, she could not take her eyes off his and slowly blinked her eyes. "I can't. I can't do this. Not after all that has happened between us." She tries to fight it with her words. That was only her mouth speaking but her heart had already halfway turned into his lane. She turned around and quickly went to get her stuff and left. Damon did not rush to stop her. He stood by and watched as she left.

How could I stand here with you?

And not be moved by you