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Chapter 6

Kitsune ... That word was familiar to Bonnie. She was sure her grandmother had mentioned it on one of her visit. The name in Japanese clearly transfered into fox. According to Granny McCullough, Kitsune are believed to possess superior intelligence, immortal life, and magical powers. Known for the games and tricks they'd played on humans. But neither Bonnie nor Damon was particularly human ...

Bonnie shuddered involuntarily, looking the kitsune named Hell Shinichi over, her eyes dropping to the many tails behind it.

"What is it you want?" Damon asked, getting to his feet- pulling Bonnie up with him, and tensing into a crouch.

The kitsune smiled, his round gold gaze dropping to Bonnie. "Your the witch. I've never met a live druid before. It's my pleasure."

Bonnie's eyes widened, she glanced at Damon. "I'm hardly a druid."

He chuckled softly, his hands coming together in front of him. "Of course not, your unique, aren't you?"

"What did you want?" Damon said, again, through his teeth.

Shinichi's eyes suddenly became serious and narrowed. "Your in no position to be hateful, Damon Salvatore."

Damon's eyes narrowed and he stepped back, putting Bonnie inconspicuously behind him. He smirked apathetically and asked in a slightly animated tone, "I'm so very sorry, kitsune. Manner's succeeded me. What is it that you want?"

Shinichi smiled, looking at Bonnie he answered. "Nothing in particular. I was in Japan, searching for Power, when I got a blast, followed by a maiden's cry. I followed that here to where to ley lines crossed. Then I bound you both with my Powers and brought you here."

"Why?" Bonnie whispered.

"Because I was curious, mahoutsukai. That was your Power wasn't it?"

Bonnie wasn't sure. "It was meant for only Damon." Bonnie finally told him. "I didn't realize ..."

"But it is what it is." Shinichi said.

"Why am I here?" Damon said. Bonnie had all but forgotten the harbor she clung so tight to. She realized she had moved from behind Damon and was in between Damon and the kitsune.

Shinichi smiled, slow and dangerous. "Curious, again. I'm a curious fox." He winked at Bonnie. Causing her to back up into Damon, again. Shinichi studied them, then with a wave of his arm and a curl of his tails, Bonnie suddenly found herself on Wickery Bridge. She looked to her side and found Damon beside her, his arms curled on either side of him like talons.

"Damon?" Bonnie gasped, grabbing those hands, curling her soft fingers around their rigidness. "Damon? What's happened?"

"Where is it?" Damon spit, his eyes shifting from place to place. "The kitsune?"

Bonnie shook her head. "I don't know. But maybe that's a good thing."

Damon eyes suddenly focused on her, and then she was in his arms. She breathed in deeply and leaned against his strong chest.

"We're out," Bonnie realized, almost giddy with relief.

"Your safe," Damon said in a softer tone.

Bonnie stiffened, she had never- ever- heard Damon show emotion for someone other than himself. She looked up to see his face. His jaw was tight, but his midnight dark eyes- now looking into her soft brown ones- seemed to come from a different soul than the one Bonnie had known. Now, those dark eyes seemed to be getting closer, they had gotten so close that it was all she could see. Then, as if it cost them nothing, Damon's lips pressed lightly against hers.

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Elena looked out into the night from her bedroom window, she could see nothing but endless black and the moon. Meredith was asleep on her bed. Stefan had gone home long ago, not immediately after she woke but soon enough that her heart ached from the separation. Now she was waiting for Bonnie- who she was hoping would materialize with Damon safely at her side. She didn't know when she had begun to care for Damon, but long enough that she didn't want harm to come to him. Stefan had gone looking for them- Elena knew he was not strong enough to break into something if he had to. Stefan was horribly weak these days. It frightened Elena.

Something else frightened Elena more deeply though, and that was how Bonnie was doing. Bonnie was fragile and delicate, and Elena worried for her. She only hoped that Bonnie and Damon would be safe.

Elena, suddenly in no mood to sit around, got up from her window sill and started pacing. I should be helping Stefan right now! She thought. I should be looking for them too! I should help if there was some sort of trouble! I should not be waiting at home, feeling completely incompetent!

She was fed up, and she wasn't going to let stupid human needs defy her. Elena shook Meredith awake.

"Grab your coat; we're going to find them."

Meredith started up, looking at Elena with sleepy eyes. Then she was alert and her normal-Meredith self. "Stefan said to wait here, Elena. It would do them no good to get us lost or trapped as well."

"It's not doing anyone good by sitting here!" Elena burst.

Meredith was quiet for a moment, thoughtful. Then she sat upright and pulled her hair back in a loose pony-tail. "If you want to go looking for them- fine. Did you think of a place to start?"

Elena was already shrugging on her jacket. "Wickery Bridge, of course."

Meredith stood and pulled her jacket on as well. "Alright, let's go."

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Bonnie pulled apart from Damon, she kept her eyes down- knowing they were filled with tears.

She heard Damon mental voice in her mind. Are you well?

Well doesn't feel like I feel, Bonnie thought dryly, then looked up at Damon with apathetic eyes. "Of course. We should go though, everyone is probably very worried."

Damon fixed the collar on his leather jacket. "Yes, your very right."

Just then a hawk spread it wings over them and flew downward, landing right beside Damon and Bonnie before bursting into black smoke.