Chapter 6:
Damon paced in the living room. It had been a week and Bonnie was getting ready to do the summoning spell, he still didn't think she was ready but there was nothing he could say that would make Bonnie change her mind.
"Don't look so worried." Bonnie said as she entered the room carrying her spell book.
Damon glared at her.
He was worried. He was worried something would happen to her. He remembered the first time he realised he cared enough about her to worry for her safety.
FLASHBACK
"Anything?" Stefan asked as he came back into the boarding house.
Damon shook his head.
Elena had gone to find Bonnie because they needed her help with a spell but when she got to the house it had been trashed and there was no sign of the little witch anywhere.
"I hope she's ok." Elena whispered.
"Maybe we should check her house again see it we can find any clues to where she is." Damon suggested to Stefan.
"It's not a bad idea." Stefan said.
Damon wanted to be offended but all his head could thing about was the different situation in which Bonnie could be in and he realised he was worried about her.
When they got to the house Damon's fear for Bonnie's safety got worse, the house was a tip. There was a broken chair, the table was on its side, there was broken glass and the sofa had been brunt.
"She put up fight." Stefan commented although it was obvious.
It was then Damon smelt it, her blood. He followed the scent until he found some a small pool of her blood by the back door.
"Dam it." Damon shouted in frustration.
Stefan came to him instantly and paled at the sight of Bonnie's blood.
"We have to find her now." Damon ordered.
His heart racing not knowing if she was ok was killing him.
"We will." Stefan promised.
It was three hours later Bonnie walked back home swaying and beaten.
"What the hell Bonnie?" Damon demanded.
She looked exhausted; her lip was split, she had a scrap along the tip of her head her nose was bleeding. Her arms and legs were already begging to bruise.
"Vampires need a witch." She breathed out heavily.
Damon caught her as she swayed dangerously on her feet and she winced.
"Showed them…." She breathed her eyes closing.
Damon bit into his wrist.
"Drink." He ordered as she shoved his wrist to her mouth.
She took a deep breath.
"I am not a toy." She said before she collapsed in his arms.
Damon pulled her tight against him. Glad she was safe. Mad that she was hurt. Angry that he wasn't there to help her.
He bit into his wrist again and dropped some of his blood into her mouth and waited for her to heal.
He thought having her back in his arms would make his worry for her disappear but it didn't.
END OF FLAHSBACK
"I'll always worry about you." He said.
Bonnie froze and looked over at him in pure surprise.
"Since when?" she asked softly approaching him.
Damon met her half way.
They stood facing each other centimetres apart. He gently put his hand on her cheek and he was surprised to find her leaning into his touch.
"You always risk your life for us even when we don't deserve it. Someone has to watch out for you" He whispered.
She looked up at him and placed her hand on his.
"You're my friends, you'll always deserve my help." She replied.
He looked down at her beautiful almond shaped green eyes. She did so much for all of them, even him after all he had done to her. It felt like he was seeing her for the first time and he had never wanted kiss someone as much as he wanted to kiss her right now.
"So what else do we need to do this spell?" Caroline voice called as she entered the room.
Bonnie jumped at the sound of Caroline voice and he dropped his hand. Kissing Bonnie Bennett was probably not the best idea.
Bonnie glanced at Damon from the book she was meant to be reading.
She had no idea what just happened, all she knew was that she had wanted to kiss Damon Salvatore and part of her still did.
"Bonnie are you listening to me?" Caroline asked shaking her out of her thoughts.
Bonnie looked over at Caroline just as Damon smirked knowing full well that she had been staring shamelessly at him.
"Sorry Care, what did you say?" Bonnie asked trying to shake herself into paying attention.
Caroline shook her head but smiled away.
"Are you ready to do the spell?" she asked.
Bonnie took a deep breath and looked round the room Damon, Stefan and Caroline where all here in case something went wrong.
"Who are you going to summon?" Caroline asked.
"I was going to summon Arabella but you need something at belonged to the sprit you wish to summon before you can do that and I don't have anything of Arabella's." Bonnie confessed.
"So who are you going to summon?" Stefan asked.
Bonnie shrugged her shoulders.
"I was thinking Emily." Bonnie replied.
Before her grams had died she had given Bonnie a broach that had belonged to Emily. It hadn't been Bonnie's thing but it was pretty so she kept it.
"You ready then?" Stefan asked.
Bonnie found her eyes wondering to Damon as if seeing him would give her strength. She really needed to work out what was going on with her emotions when it came to Damon.
Damon smiled at her a real genuine smile something people rarely got to see. Bonnie would have been a liar if she had said she didn't find Damon attractive because he was but when he smiled he was truly stunning.
"You don't have to do this yet if you're not ready." Damon told her softly.
She was nervous not because she was afraid of using her powers, she was nervous at what she would find out.
"I'm ready." She said and she hoped they believed her.
She placed a circle of five candles on the floor and stood back. She closed her eyes and muttered familiar words and the candles lit.
Bonnie smiled to herself she loved the moment a spell happened it was satisfying. She opened her eyes and looked down at the spell book in her hand.
Now it was time to test her powers properly. She memories the words on the paged before closing her eyes once again and started muttering the spell. The room evaporated into a white light and Bonnie fought against her need to open her eyes but as she muttered the last word the light faded.
"Bonnie," A soft voice called.
Bonnie took a breath before she opened her eyes.
Emily stood inside of the circle her hands clasped together in front of her as she stood prim and proper. She looked just like she did the last time she saw her.
"Emily." Bonnie said smiling brightly.
Emily smiled back and took a breath before stepping out of the circle. The spell allowed her to be almost living for 24 hours.
"I'm surprised you summoned me and from here of all places." Emily said looking from Damon to Stefan.
She didn't look happy to see them again.
"I need your help Emily." Bonnie begged.
Emily looked over at Bonnie and took a breath.
"What happen?" she asked.
Bonnie told her about her experience in draining and Arabella's necklace.
Emily took Bonnie's hand.
"Tell me he's dead," she begged.
Bonnie frowned she had never seen such fear in someone's face as she did now.
"We didn't even see his face." Damon said regretfully.
Emily shook her head and stood up.
"You have once." She told Damon softly.
Damon looked up at her surprised.
"When?" he asked.
Emily walked towards the window and basked in the sunlight.
"Do you remember the day not long after you changed that you rescued me from that man who held me by my neck against the wall?" Emily asked Damon.
"You said he was older than me." Damon clarified.
Emily nodded.
"He is a vampire and a very old one." Emily added.
Bonnie looked at Damon and could see he was deep in thought.
"Who is he?" Bonnie asked.
Emily shuddered.
"I knew him as Lord Alderson and my mother was terrified of him." Emily replied.
"Why?" Stefan asked.
Emily sat down on the sofa.
"I never knew, I saw Lord Alderson three times in my life. Once when I was five then again when Damon rescued me and the last time was the night before I died." Emily informed them.
"And each time he asked about your mother's necklace?" Damon inquired and Emily nodded.
"What's so important about the necklace?" Bonnie asked.
"The necklace allowed the witch who wore it to communicate with the dead." Emily explained.
"So Lord Alderson wanted to talk to someone from the dead." Stefan commented but Emily shook her head.
"Lord Alderson believed that the necklace could raise the dead." Emily replied.
Bonnie new to do a spell like that came at price, she had seen it when she brought Jeremey back.
"And can it?" Bonnie asked.
Emily looked grim as she nodded.
"For a powerful witch like you yes. But at a price." She added.
"What's price?" Damon asked sounding serious she could hear his worry.
"The life of the witch who cast the spell." Emily replied.
Damon looked over at Bonnie and realised just how close they had come to losing their little witch.
"Where's Arabella's necklace?" Bonnie asked Emily.
Damon's eyes shot over to Bonnie.
"Did you not just hear what Emily said?" he demanded.
Bonnie looked over at him.
"Yes, but Emily doesn't know why the necklace is so important to him. If I can find the necklace then I can summon Arabella and find a way to stop him." Bonnie explained.
Damon instantly felt angry and the whole room disappeared but her.
"In all the years I have been alive you are the only one I know who is powerful enough to cast a spell like that." Damon yelled.
"You don't think I know that." She argued.
"Then why the hell would you want to find the necklace?" he demanded.
"To find a way to stop him. Do you know what it's like to be drained?" she asked and he fell quite.
"To feel you very essences leave your body." She demanded.
Damon didn't have to be the one that was drained he felt her pain every time he heard her scream. It nearly killed him having to listen to her agony.
"He will kill you if he gets that necklace." Damon pointed out.
"I would rather die ten times over then feel that pain again." She said.
Damon walked towards her.
"I will not let you put yourself in danger by finding this necklace, while no one knows where it is your safe." Damon argued.
"I will never be safe." She screamed at him in frustration.
She took a breath to calm herself.
"Not while he's alive." She added.
Damon shook his head.
"I will protect you." He replied.
She shook her head and gritted her teeth.
"You can't you and you know it." She argued.
Damon punched the wall behind her in frustration and she never flinched.
"I will not let you get yourself killed." He replied.
"Since when do you care?" she whispered almost repeating what she did earlier.
Damon looked down at her.
"Since I realised nobody ever tried to stop you from risking your life to save there's." He replied.
Her eyes widened in surprised.
"You deserve to live and I will not let anyone risk that not even you." He added before walking away.
He needed space, he was angry at her for not seeing her worth and angry at everyone else for not making her see it.
Stefan sipped blood at the kitchen counter as Caroline walked in.
"Ok so I'm in." she said.
Stefan looked at her confused and Caroline sighed.
"You said that Damon needed someone to love him for him and Bonnie needed someone to protect her even from herself." Caroline said and Stefan nodded remembering his words.
"Well I think your right." She added.
"You think Bonnie and Damon should be together?" he asked in disbelief.
"Now you no normally I would never agree with Damon on anything but he's right." Caroline said.
"Every time Bonnie saves one of us she always get hurt in the processes yet will still let her do it time after time." Caroline added guilt in her eyes mirroring his own.
He nodded agreeing with her.
"But Damon he cares about that its clears as day and Bonnie she only loves someone for who they are. Bonnie and Damon need each other." Caroline concluded.
"Your right." He replied he just hoped they could see it.
Emily took a seat next to Bonnie as she sat staring off into space. Emily smiled to herself, the Damon she saw tonight was the Damon she remember. The Damon she had cared for deeply, she never believed that she would ever see that side of him again. There was something about Bonnie that seemed to bring out the real him.
"Damon's right Bonnie, that necklace is nothing but bad news." Emily commented.
Bonnie looked over at her.
"I need answers Emily." Bonnie argued.
Emily took Bonnie's hand in her own and squeezed it gently.
"And I agree but there may be another way." Emily replied.
"How?" Damon's voice demanded from the door way.
She smiled. Damon had feelings for Bonnie that was getting clearer and clearer every moment she spent with them.
"In the witches house is my mother's engagement ring you could use that to summon her." Emily suggested.
Bonnie nodded.
"Where is it?" she asked.
Emily explained where she had hid the ring in a floor board upstairs.
A couple of hours later Emily sat in the garden enjoying the sunshine. Bonnie had tried to get Stefan and Caroline to stay but Emily new Alderson could be watching and didn't want them to take a risk with Bonnie's life.
"Beautiful day were having isn't it." A voice said from behind her.
Emily jumped she recognised that voice, just as everything went black.
He smiled at the sight in front of him. Emily Bennett chained in the very way her mother and great great whatever it is granddaughter was.
However the witch had brought her back to life he would find out one way or another and he would make her do it again for him.