Happy Holidays everyone! Thank you for all of the reviews, I appreciate them!
Now, Bonnie is not forgiving easily...she had soo many blows all at once, but I think Damon may have a chance...we shall see. ;-)
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I watched her as she slept on the floor of the tomb. I wasn't sure if she had fallen asleep because she was exhausted or because of what happened earlier. There was also another factor, there was no food left for her in the tomb and soon she will be suffering from hunger.
I wasn't sure how we could get Emily to help us, but apparently Emily knew more than I did about this situation. "Emily, if you are around…now would be a good time to show up", I whispered.
"Bonnie!" a voice drifted from the opening.
Bonnie opened her eyes and looked towards the opening to see that younger warlock standing in front of the opening. Bonnie stood up and walked towards the opening with me right behind her. "What do you want because if you haven't come to get us out of here, you are useless", I snapped.
"Bonnie…I can't get you out of here, my father put up the seal…look, I never wanted to do this…I…"
"Let me guess, you had no other choice…I don't believe that Luka", Bonnie answered.
"Bonnie…look…things are complicated, but I wanted to come and make sure that you're ok".
"You left me in here with a vampire…with no food…"
"Food…is that what you need?" Luka asked as he held out his hand and I turned around to watch food materialize in the tomb, "look Bonnie, I know that you hate me and I don't blame you but…"
"Leave", she said turning around and walking away from the opening, picking up the food as she went disappearing into the darkness.
I turned to look at Luka, "Don't come back here…if you need to give her food, send it another way", I threatened as I followed Bonnie into the darkness.
When I reached her, she was sitting on one of the rocks eating the sandwich that Luka conjured up. I almost wanted to tell her not to eat it, but she looked as if she was enjoying it soo much, that I didn't have the heart to tell her.
"Are you enjoying that?" I asked.
She glared at me and continued to eat.
"You know we may be in here for awhile, so you will have to talk to me".
She rolled her eyes, "Why are men such jerks?"
I chuckled as I shook my head, "Do you mean all men…including your father who didn't bother to come home when your house burned down?"
She narrowed her eyes and threw the trash from her sandwich at me as I ducked, "Ok…maybe I shouldn't have said that…sorry, but you know Bennett…you gotta give me something here".
"I did…I asked you a question…what makes a man lie, cheat and steal to get what he wants?"
I came closer to her and stared into her eyes watching the brownish tint start to form in the greenish pools, "You want to know what would make a man do all of those things…a woman", I answered as I stood up and walked away from her.
SSSSS
Damon disappeared into the darkness after making his little clever comment and I promptly rolled my eyes and drank some of the water that Luka brought. I did contemplate whether to eat the food he conjured up was suitable for me to eat; but then, I realized that this situation could not get any worse than what it was and I needed to eat something.
I stood up from the rock I had been sitting on and looked around. Damon claimed that Emily could help us. I was clueless as to how she could do that considering that she was dead; but he also said that she was the one that bonded our dreams.
Why would Emily do that? She had to know the effect that it would have on me or even on Damon. Why would she put us in a situation like those dreams…something so intimate…so passionate…I would never understand why Emily would set up a situation like that.
"I looked for a way out, there's not one", Damon replied appearing in front of me.
"You and Emily…your deal…how did it come about?" I asked looking up at Damon as he studied the walls.
"Why does it matter?"
"Because I want to know…I want to know about the deal…tell me".
Damon sighed, "Why…will it change anything?"
"Maybe", I shrugged. Of course it wouldn't, but I want to hear why Emily trusted this person to do anything for our family.
"Ok…fine", he plopped down next to me and I moved over in disgust, "I begged Emily to save Katherine, I told her that I would do anything to save Katherine…anything…she told me that she couldn't save Katherine at the moment, but she could seal her in a tomb and 100 years plus later, the seal could be broken by someone in her family line. The only way that she would be able to do it is if I protected her line".
"And how did you protect us…because Emily got burned at the stake, so I know you didn't protect her…and my Grams…she's dead…so who have you been protecting all this time?"
"You", he answered.
I rolled my eyes, "Please…how did you protect me?"
"You don't know everything, Bonnie…when you are a child, you have no idea how the things that you thought were in your closet or under your bed…were really there…when you ran out in the street to get a ball and suddenly found yourself back on the sidewalk just as a car went down the street…you will never know what I did".
"And none of those things were selfless actions…you have always wanted something…whether it be to free Katherine or my blood…there's always a catch…there's always something in it for you", I said staring at him, "but I just wish that it didn't always have to come with a price…my throat almost being ripped out…my house burning down…and so on and so forth".
He looked at me and shrugged, "I guess that's just the monster in me".
"I guess it is", I agreed.
SSSSS
Bonnie was sleeping up against the wall. I could tell by the way her breathing had changed. After our little talk earlier, she became very quiet. She didn't bother to even snark at me anymore and I missed that even. "Emily…you need to convince me that this can be salvaged because your little great grand whatever is not exactly cooperating", I whispered into the darkness.
"Damon…I never said it would be easy", Emily appeared outside of the seal.
I stood up and walked over to the opening, "Yes…well you also never mentioned that we would end up in a tomb behind a seal".
Emily raised an eyebrow, "So you are…are you speaking to each other, getting some things out in the open…?"
"She hates me more and more each moment, so yes…we're getting a lot of things out in the open, Emily".
"Damon, I know that things appear to be bad between you but I have faith…"
"Faith…Emily, excuse me if I don't believe you anymore…look at us…we're in a tomb, she hates me and right now we're sitting ducks for the Originals, so no Emily…I don't have faith in any of this".
"Then I can't help it until you do", Emily replied as she disappeared.
"Emily…Emily…you come back here!" I yelled banging on the invisible field, "come back here…get us out of here…now!"
"What are you yelling about?" Bonnie asked rubbing her eyes.
"Emily…she was just there…", I gestured outside of the tomb with wide eyes, "…she can help us get out of here but she refuses to and for some reason that doesn't surprise me".
"Your outrage is…interesting", Bonnie smirked as she shook her head, "if I believed that Emily actually appeared, I have no idea why she would appear to you or why she even likes you after all that you've done".
"Because Emily doesn't see things as black and white as you do", I replied.
"Emily knew you when you weren't a monster…maybe that helps".
I looked at her, "Did you always think I was a monster?"
She rolled her eyes and looked away from me.
"No…Bonnie, answer me…did you always think I was a monster?"
"No…I didn't…but all of that was a lie, wasn't it?"
"Let me be honest…it was at first…I created situations to get you to trust me, am I proud of that…no…but that's what I did and I regret what it did to you and what it caused you…but Bonnie, when you and I…when you and I started getting closer the guilt started eating away at me, because I wanted it to…Bonnie, I care about you and I know that you don't believe that right now, but maybe you will one day".
She stared at me, "I wanted to believe that you could be a good person, that you were changing…that after all that happened, that we could come to a truce".
"Bonnie we came to much more than that", I said kneeling down in front of her, "look, I know that this started out horribly…I know that I messed everything up, but I realized I had to tell you because I didn't want this to continue with everything hanging over my head…I told you the truth".
"You don't get points for telling the truth".
"Do I get points for admitting that this became about soo much more than your blood when we first slept together?" I asked staring into her eyes, "you asked me that night to bite you…and I didn't…I couldn't do it, I knew that I didn't deserve to do that…"
"And the other night…did you deserve it then?"
"I believed in what was happening between us then…I believed that it was turning into soo much more than we ever thought it would", I said leaning in closer inches away from her face.
"Damon…"
"Bonnie, you know deep down under all that anger that I am sorry…that I regret what I did and that there is something between us that is not going away".
She watched me with her eyes and I saw a flicker…a flicker of some understanding or at least softening.
"Get away from me", she said standing up and pushing me out of the way.
I was determined to have some kind of breakthrough because that is the only way we are getting out of here, "Bonnie, you can't walk away from here", I said walking behind her and grabbing her by the arm.
"Damon…let me go", she said.
"No".
"Damon…let me go", she said more slowly.
"No", I said.
She tried to get her arm out of my grip, but then she realized that my powers were still as potent as ever. She looked up at me and that's when the air totally changed in the tomb and everything became silent. I grabbed her towards me as I looked down at her, "When I said you can't walk away…I meant…you can't walk away from this", I said dropping my grip from her arm and then placing both of my hands on her cheeks.
She looked at me and that's when I took the moment. I placed my lips on hers and that's when I forced her up against the tomb wall.
At first, I could feel her fighting me with her lips not allowing me any entry whatsoever and then I felt her stance relax a little and I pressed my body against hers more. She wrapped her arms around me as I worked her shirt off and lifted her up never once breaking the kiss. She clawed at my buttons on my shirt as she slid it over my shoulders and down to the floor. I broke the kiss to concentrate on getting her pants unbuckled as she leaned her head back against the wall, "I do not forgive you", she said gasping for breath.
I picked her up off of the ground as she wrapped her legs around my waist, "You will", I answered as I closed the space between us.
SSSSS
I opened my eyes to a dark tomb, Damon asleep next to me and myself on the ground half clothed. Yes, Bonnie…you are really coming along great. Two men have duped you into doing what they want, you're trapped like an animal waiting to be sacrificed…and oh…you just had dirty, hate sex in a tomb with one of the men who duped you…you're doing great, I thought to myself as I slid away from Damon and searched for my pants. The more I think about all of this in my head, I believe that I am going crazy. Maybe at some point in a witch's development, she loses her mind and begins to want to be vampires. I mean….Buffy was attracted to vampires and she was supposed to hate them, maybe it's the same for witches?
"Oh Bonnie…", Emily smiled standing in the cave bathed in soft light.
"Emily?" I asked feeling very embarrassed suddenly and trying to make sure that all of my clothes were back on properly.
"Bonnie…it's ok…I figured it was time that I come to you and not Damon…I think we need to talk".
"Yes, we most definitely do…first you possess me and leave in just enough time for Damon to take a bite out of me and now you decide to bond our dreams together…what did you think that would accomplish?"
"I thought that it would accomplish exactly what is occurring now".
"What…my house being burned down…being kidnapped…"
"Having a relationship with someone that you have very deep feelings for", Emily supplied.
I think my eyes almost fell out of my head, "I don't have deep feelings for him…I hate him".
"Oh really?" Emily asked raising an eyebrow gazing down at the bare-chested Damon.
"That…that has nothing to do with how I feel about him…you know what he did to get me on his side…you know that he sent a vampire after me…how could I have feelings for someone like that?"
"I think that's what angers you the most, yes…you are angry about all of his manipulations, but the fact that you still feel a pull to him infuriates you the most".
"You are the cause of the pull…you are…you made those dreams happen".
"I bonded you in the dreams, but I could not control what went on the dreams…"
"You lie as much as Damon does", I snapped.
"Bonnie, you need to accept that you have feelings here that won't disappear no matter how much anger you have towards Damon or me".
"And what…am I supposed to forgive him for what he did…am I supposed to just laugh and say, 'Well that was just Damon being Damon'…I am not Elena".
"Yes, you are not and I think that is what he likes best about you".
"Look…I don't know what you want me to do".
"I want you to allow Damon to make his actions up to you", Emily replied.
"And how could he possibly do that?" I asked but Emily disappeared before my eyes.
"Thanks", I mumbled as I suddenly felt something in my hand.
I opened my eyes again and I was lying on the tomb floor, Damon was lying next to me with his hand around my waist with his eyes closed. I looked down into my hands and noticed Luka's dog tags.
"Damon…", I said sitting up.
"Huh…", he asked sitting up and rubbing his eyes.
"I can get us out of here", I stated standing up, "I can get us out of here", I nodded.
Soo being angry doesn't exactly take away the physical connection...but maybe they can get out of there now.