Sorry about how long its taking me to update. I'm having to do something after school and will have to for the next two weeks. Its torture and if I could get out of it, I would but I can't. Its taking up almost all my time so writing is becoming hard, though not impossible. Anyways, not a lot of Delena in this chapter but mostly Damon and Bonnie. Ha ha. I know. So in this weird alternate universe that is my story, the deal Elijah and Elena made did not include Elijah protecting the people she cared about. It strictly was that she could stay with her family and when he wanted to her to come with him, she would. Enjoy and review(:

An obnoxious beeping noise woke Damon from his rather peaceful sleep. He thought it was just a dream but, with his arm still draped lazily around Elena's waist, he listened carefully just in case. Yep, there it was again. He stifled a groan and sat up, careful not to jostle Elena. She shifted with the weight of him suddenly gone and she reached her hand out, touching his thigh. He smiled down at her and quickly reached for his phone.

"What?" he whispered into the phone, not bothering to look at the caller I.D.

"Damon?"

"Yes," he said, rolling his eyes. Who else would answer?

"Its Bonnie," the suddenly familiar voice said on the other end of the line.

He paused for a moment, surprised. Bonnie? Calling him? He knew instantly something was wrong. Bonnie hated him with every ounce of her being. The only reason she would call him is if something was very, very wrong. His mind raced through a hundred different options, all bad. Elijah in town, rogue vampires terrorizing the town, some other god awful creature that had yet to come and make their lives complicated.

"What's wrong?" he asked, lowly, not wanting to wake Elena. She'd endured enough stress today already what with telling Jenna everything, which couldn't be good for her or the baby so he didn't want to drag her into what ever catastrophe this would be.

"I'm staying over at Luka's house tonight," she said, lowly, like she was afraid of being overheard. "And about twenty minutes ago him and his father both left."

Damon glanced at the clock beside his bed. It read 2:29 A.M. "A little late for going out," Damon said, quietly.

"Exactly," she agreed. "So I waited a few minutes after they left and then I left too. I followed them to an old warehouse about twenty minutes outside of town."

"Are you still there?" Damon asked.

"Yes."

"What's going on?"

"They met some guy outside and then disappeared into the warehouse," she explained.

"Was it Elijah?"

"I don't think so," she said, slowly. "I can't be sure but I really don't think so."

"Are they still inside?"

"Yeah."

"I'll be there as soon as I can."

He was about to hang up but her voice stopped him. "Damon?" she asked. He couldn't trace any hint of anger or distaste in it. He did however trace something he'd never heard in her voice before, at least not directed to him: gratitude.

"Yeah?"

"Thank you," she said.

"Sure," he said, taken aback. "I'll see you soon."

The line went dead.

Damon had left a note for Elena just in case she woke up and realized he was gone. It had simply said that Bonnie needed him, not to worry and he'd be back soon. He hoped she didn't wake up because she'd worry.

After extremely illegal speeding, he found the warehouse and within ten minutes had parked his car a distance way and was approaching Bonnie's car. She was sunk down in the seat, completely unaware of his presence.

The meaner, wickeder side of Damon saw this as a perfect opportunity to scare the living hell out of her but he squashed that impulse down. If Bonnie could be civil, so could he. Instead of jumping on the car, he walked to the passenger side window and tapped on it.

She jumped and he felt the barest touch of magic and he quickly backed up. Bonnie's magic and he usually didn't mix very well. Not well at all.

When she saw him she sighed in relief- also a first and unlocked the door. He slipped in and still felt the prickles of magic on his skin. She must have used it on instinct.

"Sorry," she said, looking sheepish, whether it was from embarrassment or the fact that she had just said sorry to him he didn't know. "You scared me."

"Sorry," he said, the word tasting funny on his tongue.

"Yeah," she said, looking away awkwardly.

"Any site of them?" he asked.

"No," she said, shaking her head.

"Then we'll wait," he said.

She nodded.

He almost laughed at the situation he was in right now. He was in a car, working with Bonnie Bennett for a common purpose. They, for once, were fighting together instead of against each other.

They waited in silence for what felt like a long time until finally, they saw movement near the warehouse. Damon leaned forward and strained his eyes to see. He could see three people and two he recognized as Luka and Jonah. The third person wasn't Elijah but he didn't know who he was. One of Elijah's workers perhaps? They waited quietly for the three people to stop talking and the unknown man disappeared.

"Ready?" Damon asked, glancing at her.

"Wait," she said, looking pale.

"What?"

"Don't do anything stupid," she warned.

"Why would you think I'd do anything stupid?" he asked, grinning wickedly.

She frowned at him. "I'm serious Damon," she said. "I may have power over Luka, but Jonah is a thousand times stronger than I am. I can't protect you."

"I don't need protection," he argued.

She grabbed his arm, gripping it tightly.

He almost pulled back out of surprised but he controlled himself.

"Damon," she said. "Please. Jonah won't think twice about hurting you. And I can't protect you. You may think you can handle yourself, but if something happens to you and I couldn't protect you… Elena will never forgive me."

Damn it, Damon thought. He hadn't thought about that. He couldn't do anything reckless or stupid because he couldn't leave her.

"She needs you," Bonnie said. "As much as I wish she didn't, as much as I wish you weren't such a big part of her life, she does and you are. She expects me to protect you just like I protect everyone else. I can't let anything happen to you, Damon because it will kill her."

He let the rush of information sink in before he nodded. "Okay," he agreed.

She blew out a breath, relieved. "Alright, lets go."

Luka and Jonah were surprised to see them. Their eyes went wide when they saw Damon and Bonnie approach.

"Bonnie," Luka said, shocked. "W-what are you doing here?"

"We could ask you the same," Damon said.

"Damon," she warned before turning back to Luka and Jonah.

"We don't want a problem," Bonnie said, genuinely. "We just want to know the truth."

"Bonnie what are you talking about?" Luka asked, looking so genuinely confused they almost believed him. Almost.

"You know, Luka," Bonnie said.

Luka opened his mouth to deny the accusations but Jonah put out a hand, stopping him.

"We just want to know the truth," Bonnie said. "We live here too. We deserve to know what's happening here."

Jonah cocked his head to the side. "How long have you been suspicious of us?" he asked, curiously.

"Awhile," Bonnie admitted and Damon had to give it to her, she handled problems well. If it had been just him there talking to them, someone would probably already be dead. "Of course, we didn't know for certain but we've been suspicious."

Jonah nodded. "I'm sorry we had to lie to everyone, but I found it would be best that way."

"You're working with Elijah aren't you?" Damon asked.

Jonah nodded. "Yes," he said.

Distaste showed on Damon's face and he had to swallow back a comment.

"The judgment on your face…" Jonah said. "You don't know Elijah well do you?"

"Not exactly," Damon said, smirking. "We're not exactly friends. All chance of that died when I staked him to a wall, unsuccessfully killing him."

Luka's eyes widened but Jonah remained collected. "He's protecting her, you know."

Damon stiffened. "Excuse me?"

"Elena," he said. "He's protecting her. That's why we came here: to protect her."

"All of this just to protect one girl?" Damon asked, though he didn't believe his own words. Elena wasn't just some girl.

"Elena is the doppelganger," Jonah said, simply. "She has to be protected."

"But why would Elijah care?" Bonnie asked. "Klaus wants her to break the curse. A curse that would benefit Elijah if it was broken."

Jonah shook his head. "Elijah wants Klaus dead more than he wants the curse broken. He can already walk in the sunlight so nothing would directly benefit him if the curse was broken."

"Why does he want Klaus dead?" Bonnie asked.

Jonah and Luka's eyes both noticeably darkened. "Anyone who is familiar with Klaus wants him dead. He is insane and needs to die."

"Why you?" Damon asked. "Why did Elijah choose you to protect Elena?"

Jonah hesitated and Damon almost snapped at him but bit back the comment, his mind drifting back to the conversation with Bonnie in the car. "We don't need to keep secrets," Bonnie said. "We're all working towards a common goal and that's to protect Elena. Our motive is because we love her. We just want to know your motives."

"My daughter," Jonah said, sadness entering his voice. "Klaus has her. He's keeping her for the sacrifice. We just want her back. Elijah said if we protected Elena and helped him kill Klaus, we would get her back. Elijah keeps his word."

Bonnie nodded. "I'm sorry about your daughter," she said. She motioned to the four of them. "This doesn't have to be hard. We can all work together."

Damon had to forcibly bite his tongue not to say something. "Anything else we should know about?" he asked, eyeing the two of them.

"No," Jonah said. "Do we need to know anything?"

Damon opened his mouth to say no but Bonnie stopped him.

"Damon," she said.

Damn it. He didn't want to tell Luka and Jonah that Elena was pregnant. Bonnie may trust these people, but he didn't. He didn't like them hovering in his town even if it was to protect Elena. Especially when they're working with Elijah.

"She's pregnant," Damon said, watching the surprise cross their faces. "We've been hiding it for awhile but we won't be able to much longer. She needs extra protection."

Jonah nodded. "Then she'll get it."

"This doesn't change anything?" Bonnie asked, making sure.

Jonah shook his head. "She is still the doppelganger. She still needs to be protected. This doesn't change anything."

"Thank you," Bonnie said, looking relieved.

"How exactly do you plan on killing Klaus?" Damon asked, curiously.

Jonah's face became skeptical. "I can't tell you that Damon," he said. "I'm sorry but I can't."

"What happened to being truthful?" Damon asked.

"Elijah doesn't want us to tell anyone that," he said. "Its too dangerous. Worry about protecting Elena and we will do the same."

Damon could have argued but he wanted to get home to Elena before she woke up and panicked and he had a feeling he wasn't getting anything else out of them.

Damon nodded once and Jonah began walking to the car, also ready to leave. He turned when he noticed his son wasn't following him.

"Luka?"

"Give me a minute," he said, looking at Bonnie.

Damon decided it was time to go to the car. He didn't want to hear whatever they were about to talk about.

He gave Bonnie a nod and descended to his car, leaving the two kids to talk out their problems.

He had hoped Elena would still be asleep when he got home. Of course, that wasn't the case. He walked in the door to see her sitting at the table with a cup of tea in her hands. Her face filled with relief when she saw him. She sat down the tea and jumped up, running to him. She threw her arms around his neck and squeezed him tight to her.

"Where the hell were you?" she asked her voice rising with stress. "I've been worried sick."

"Did you not get the letter?"

She rolled her eyes. "'I hope you don't have to read this but if you do Bonnie needed me and I'll be home soon. Don't worry,'" she said, mimicking the letter. "Was that suppose to stop me from worrying?"

"Sorry," he said, realizing how unsatisfying that letter must have been. "But I knew if I woke you up you'd want to come."

"Of course," she said, exasperated. "What happened? Where did you go?"

"We went and talked to Luka and Jonah," Damon explained.

"What happened?" she asked, eyes wide.

"We came to an agreement," he said. "And Bonnie stayed back to talk to Luka."

"What happened?" she asked, eyes softening. "Is she okay?"

Damon shrugged. "I don't know. I left. I'm sure you'll know first thing in the morning."

She sighed. "Are we all good?"

"Yeah," he said, nodding. "We're all good."

She sat down and yawed.

"Come on," he said, grabbing her hand and pulling her up. "You need to go back to sleep."