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Chapter 7

Stefan was suddenly crouched beside them. He stood upright and spun around in one tight movement. His eyes, normally troubled, were now furiously dark. He looked from Damon to Bonnie, his eyes growing soft as he took in her expression. "Are you alright?" he asked her.

She nodded, not sure what was happening now. "How's Elena?"

"Better." Stefan said. His eyes wandering back to Damon. "What happened?"

Damon's face was smooth. "A kitsune bound and trapped us."

Shock flitted across Stefan's features before asking Bonnie for confirmation.

"Yes, it's true." She said in a small voice.

"H-how did you escape?"

"For some reason the kitsune sent us here." She said, the bewilderment of the situation seeping into her voice.

Damon and Stefan exchanged loaded looks. "I think," Damon said, smirking slightly and laying a hand on Bonnie's should, "I should get our little mahoutsukai home."

Bonnie shuddered.

"I think I'd better." Stefan said in a hard voice.

Damon looked insignificantly at Bonnie, then shrugged. "Saves me the trouble." He smirked, then he suddenly spun on his heel and bolted. Mid-run a slight black mist came and Damon turned into a crow.

"He's one for dramatic exists." Bonnie muttered.

Stefan was too tense to laugh at Bonnie's joke. "You look pale."

Bonnie swallowed and sharply looked away from Stefan. "I've always been pale."

"What did Damon do, Bonnie? I could tell something was troubling you."

Bonnie felt tears leak into her eyes. She pressed her bitten arm against her side and tried her best to sound indifferent. "It's nothing, Stefan. Just a little shaken from the kitsune." She wondered why she was protecting Damon- after all he'd done. She wondered why she let him kiss her. She wondered a lot of things in that moment.

Apparently Stefan was calculating, and figuring a few things out. "Why are you protecting Damon? He cares for no one but himself."

Bonnie's head snapped up and she met his gaze head-on and answered in a icy and firm voice. "Now I know that isn't true." Stefan squinted and he studied her. She took a deep breath. "Deep beneath the surface a kindred spirit burns. Like a quiet fire. He's different, now, Stefan. I don't know if it has to do with the kitsune, but-"

"We'll gave plenty of time to talk about it later, Bonnie. Your incoherent. We must get you home to rest. I'll warm you up a glass of milk. Let me see your arm." He lightly touched her arm, Bonnie hesitated then held it out to him. The moonlight made for poor lighting, but Stefan's smart eyes studied it smoothly. "How much do you think he took?"

"Enough for me to pass out," Bonnie answered, her voice shaking and sinking to a low monotone, tears springing to her eyes again.

A sharp intake of breath. She had to ask. "What is it?"

"I don't know," he said, his voice sounding strained. "Come on. Elena and Meredith are probably worried. Just then a bright light flashed over them, Bonnie turned- hoping it wasn't the kitsune- only to be blinded by two lights- car headlights.

Elena made Meredith take a sharp turn. "There they are!" She cried. Meredith swung the car around again, kicking up mud. In all their hurry their eyes swept over Stefan and Bonnie. Meredith slammed on the brakes and Elena jumped out of the car and ran to them, Meredith was right behind her. "There you guys are! I'm so sorry, I couldn't wait! Oh, Bonnie!" Elena took the small red-headed girl in. Her face was paler than the usual pretty translucent skin, and there were dark circles. Bonnie was swaying in place with her right arm clutched to her side. "What happened?"

Bonnie looked ... Well, not terrible.

"Bonnie, what's wrong?" Meredith gasped.

She swayed slightly, "I feel fine."

"What happened?" Elena asked, again. She caught Bonnie as she swayed again.

"Damon." Stefan said. "She needs rest. Let's get her home."

"Damon?" Meredith hissed.

"Well, to be fair it was probably the kitsune." Bonnie mumbled, being slightly dragged to the car.

"Kitsune?" Elena asked, her voice raising till it was almost a shout.

"Shh!" Meredith hushed her, her keen eyes looking around. Then she turned to Bonnie and Stefan. "What's a kitsune?"

"A sort of fox/demon thing," Elena said quietly. "In Fells Church? How!" Elena cried, having to be shushed again.

Stefan looked to Bonnie, now helping her into the car. Elena and Meredith sat on either side of her. "I don't suppose you know how to drive?" Meredith asked Stefan, handing him the keys.

He scoffed solemnly. "Of course." He took the keys from Meredith's hand and walked around to the front seat. Elena waited til he was driving to start the interrogating.

"Bonnie, are you well enough to tell us what happened?"

Bonnie's eyes were drooping, but she smiled slightly. "Certainly. I was being attacked by a very strong form of Power, and then I woke up in a concrete cell with Damon. I don't know how Damon got caught, but it was obviously by the kitsune." Bonnie paused. "His name is Shinichi and he has ink black hair with fiery tips- like it was dipped in lava." Bonnie chuckled blackly. "He got a burst of my psychic Power and was curious. That's why he's here, he's curious." Bonnie's eyes suddenly flashed open, wide with horror, and they were on Elena. "He has a tail! It long and there's many, all joined into one, though. And it never retracts. It's always there just swinging behind him. It's disturbing!"

"Okay, Bonnie, back to the kitsune. What else did he say?" Elena asked, holding Bonnie's hands.

Bonnie let out a soft sigh and leaned back against the seat. "I could repeat the whole conversation for you. But I don't know if you would make anything out of it. He didn't make any sense, except that he was curious. Again, and again, he was simply curious."

"Please, Bonnie, we need to know everything."

Bonnie's slight face scrunched up in pain, then she exhaled. "Ouch!"

"Your arm?" Elena asked, her hands fluttering, she glanced nervously at Stefan.

"No ... Never mind. It's gone." She sighed. "Anyways, he showed up when we toyed around with this light switch, and then he said 'Why, hello." and Damon asked, "What is it you want." And then Shinichi looked at me- oh, yes, I forgot to mention his eyes are gold! Well, anyways, he said 'Your the witch. I've never met a live druid before. It's my pleasure.' I didn't like that, him calling me a druid. I said 'I'm hardly a druid.' And he said Of course not, your unique, aren't you?" And then Damon said 'What did you want?" And then Shinichi got sort of mad and said 'Your in no position to be hateful, Damon Salvatore.' And I don't think Damon liked that- him knowing his name. So Damon said 'I'm so very sorry, kitsune. Manner's succeeded me. What is it that you want?' And Shinichi said '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.' And I asked 'Why?' And he said, 'Because I was curious, mahoutsukai. That was your Power wasn't it?' And I think mahoutsukai means witch, but I don't know."

"It does," Stefan said from the front of them.

"Well, yes, anyways. So I said 'It was meant for only Damon. I didn't realize.' And Shinichi said, 'But it is what it is.' I didn't understand that. And then Damon asked, again, 'Why am I here?' And Shinichi smiled and said 'Curious, again. I'm a curious fox. And then .. and then, nothing. He, for some strange reason, sent us to Wickery Bridge."

"I knew you would be there," Elena whispered. "I don't know how, but I did."

"It's called a precognition." Bonnie said. "I read about it." Then her eyes suddenly flashed open, wide with terror. "WATCH OUT!"

Stefan swerved, and there was a deep ear-piercing metal screech- and the sound of whips.