A/N: So Mason Lockwood (taylor kinney) was in Lady GaGa's You & I video and I fell in love all over again. Really wish Damon wouldnt have killed him, they wouldve been best of friends...I like to say this chapter is the calm before the storm : )
Summary: In a world where vampires own witches as their slaves, one witch refuses to give into the stereotype giving one Damon Salvatore a run for his reputation of destruction. Bamon.
Tyler and Caroline finished setting up the dining room table with plates, silverware, and glasses. They finally finished cooking dinner for the household and much to their surprise they got it done in a decent time and Caroline managed to make dessert without burning something down! She was silently praising herself for her handy work while Tyler began to call for everyone else to join them.
"Yo! All supernatural things and Elena...dinner's done!" He shouted, not noticing how Caroline continued to stare at the table with happiness in her eyes. "And for the love of god, everyone who is having relationship problems with someone please keep it away from the dinner table!"
"Can you stop shouting?" Mason asked as he was the first to join them in the room. He rubbed his eyes, "Dinner better be terrific because I have not slept in what seems like forever."
"It is!" Caroline exclaimed, grabbing a pan and placing it on the table. "I made the cookies! Try one!" She pushed the pan towards the skeptical man. "C'mon! They're chocolate chip! Tyler says that you need chocolate since your ex is back in town and you're gonna be all moody..." Tyler quickly covered her mouth as his uncle sent him a death glare.
"What Caroline means is...whens the last time we're gonna get to have junk food? Klaus will have us all dead by morning!"
Mason rolled his eyes but grabbed a cookie anyways and went to take a seat only to realize that Damon beat him to sitting at head of the table. "Where the hell did you come from?"
"Supernatural speed, dog boy." The vampire replied, reaching for the bag of blood placed on the table. "Your wolf senses not tingling? You usually hear or smell when my kind is around right?"
Mason decided not to humor him with a reply and went to sit on the left side of him. Watching Greta wasn't such a tough job since she was still knocked out but having Lucy here was going to be a huge problem for him. He wished he could just ignore it...ignore her. But it wasn't easy to ignore someone you still loved. He just hoped she didn't realize he still had feelings for her.
"Ok..." Caroline looked over at Damon. "Where's Bonnie...I want her to try some of my cookies!"
"Please don't food poison my witch." Damon replied, eyeing the cookies suspiciously. They looked normal. Plus, how can anyone screw up on baking cookies? "Please tell me these are the kind that you just take out the packet and place in the oven?"
"They are." Caroline frowned, not liking how Damon was doubting her domestic skills.
Bonnie entered the dining room and stopped when she saw everyone sitting at the table like a normal family. It was a strange sight since they were all natural born killers and were in deep trouble with Klaus. But right now none of it mattered because they were all brought together to stop him and right now that looked beautiful to her.
"Gonna take a seat, cuzzo?" Lucy asked as she stood next to Bonnie with her arms crossed, her eyes taking in the sight too. "It's weird, huh? Never thought I'd see the day when witches, werewolves, and vampires came together."
"Especially since some of them love each other."
Lucy glanced at her, quirking a brow. "You have a thing for Damon Salvatore?"
Bonnie's jaw dropped, "I was talking about you and Mason!"
"No...I think you may have a thing for Damon. It's not right for a witch to get involved with a vampire. We all see how that ended with Emily..."
"What do you know?" Bonnie snapped, feeling something in her get angry. "You fucked a werewolf! A creature that can't control it's urges and will kill everything and anything!"
Lucy stared at her in shocked silence. She barely knew Bonnie but right now she was seeing the angry young girl who's family was murdered in front of her. Her eyes were filled with hate and anger and it made her look ten years older then she already was.
"Bonnie..."
"Look, we can hear you, you guys. So can you just stop arguing and come grab a seat already?" Damon asked as they all turned to look at the two witches. "Even if we didn't have super hearing I'm pretty sure we would've heard Bonnie shouting about you fucking Mason. Now come eat."
Both witches blushed, embarrassed with themselves. Bonnie bit her lip and glanced at Lucy, silently apologizing for her outburst. She was just tired. They were all tired.
Damon kicked out the chair next to him for Bonnie to it next to him while Lucy sat next to her, shooting Mason a look as he ignored her and angrily tore into his steak.
"Where's Elena?" Tyler asked suddenly. He looked around, realizing he has not seen the brunette since they all came to the mansion. "She still with Stefan?"
"We're here." Everyone turned to see her and Stefan entering the room. Stefan looked weak still but his eyes weren't as sad as they were earlier. His mourning for Lexi must have been more under control.
Stefan walked to sit at the end of the table while Elena took a seat next to Lucy.
"You let him out?" Mason asked incredulously. "Is it safe for him to be out so soon?"
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here." Stefan replied in a low tone. He still refused to look at anyone, especially Damon. His eyes stayed on the table while Elena stared at him with a slight frown.
"He needs to drink too. You guys injected with him with vervain..."
"For a damn good reason! Did you not see what he wanted to do to Greta?" Tyler asked. "We can't babysit a homicidal witch and vampire!"
"He's in this with us!" Elena yelled, getting up and slamming her fists onto the table. "He made some mistakes but look at all of you! You all can't sit here and say you all didn't do some horrible stuff in your lives!" Everyone stared at her in shock as she continued to scold them on Stefan's behalf. "You've all killed...you all did things to survive...he just lost a close friend of course it's normal for him to react this way! He feels alone and he should since all you guys did was throw him in a cell alone! Not one of you tried to console him!"
Caroline looked down in shame and looked like she wanted to start crying again while Tyler and Mason quickly shut up and continued to stare at Elena like she was a stranger.
"She's right." Bonnie spoke up finally, causing everyone; including Stefan, to look at her. "I hate Stefan and may never forgive him but what happened had a huge affect on him. I know how it feels to lose someone you love. We all do." She looked at Damon. "We all have a history...most of us with each other, but we need to get past that and tonight is the night we do this. We can't be fighting Klaus and each other at the same time. We need to help each other if we're going to make it out this alive."
Damon grinned at her then looked over to his brother. "I agree with her. Stefan...I know I've been a complete ass of a brother lately...though most of it was your fault," Bonnie shot him a look, "Fine...I'm trying to say I'm...uhh..."
Stefan's eyes widened as his brother tried his best to apologize to him. He has never heard his brother say the words 'I'm sorry' in his whole afterlife so this would be the first...
"Well...fuck...you know what I'm trying to say!"
Stefan smirked, "Yes, Damon...I know." He looked over to Elena who gave him a sincere smile and grabbed his hand to give it a light squeeze. "Bonnie...Lucy..." The two witches looked at him, both of them knowing what was coming. "There's nothing I can say that can make anything I did those years ago better. And I know you may never forgive me but I was not in a right mind when Klaus ordered me to do that."
Bonnie nodded as Lucy continued to stare at him.
Caroline smiled, "This is actually going really good! Ok...who's next?"
Tyler nudged his uncle, receiving a nudge back. "Come on, Mason, you know you have to get something off your chest with someone in this room..." Tyler looked over to Lucy who crossed her arms and rolled her eyes.
"Stubbornness was always a great Bennett trait." Damon muttered as he took a sip from the blood in front of him, tossing a packet down to Stefan.
"I have nothing to say." Mason replied.
"Neither do I." Lucy agreed.
Tyler was about to say something until they heard the front door open and footsteps make their way towards them. "Who's that?" he asked, grabbing his knife tightly. "How could someone make their way in here without the alarm going off or an invite..."
"It's me, you guys." Everyone sighed in relief as Alaric made his way into the dining room, looking around. "Nice house...Damon told me where you guys were and how to get in..."
"How...vampire telepathy communication?" Mason asked, not really knowing who or what this guy was. "I doubt you're a vamp though..."
"He's human and I texted him you dumbass!" Damon replied, rolling his eyes. "Not everything has to be done with supernatural powers. This is Alaric...he works for me and Stefan. And he's also skilled in killing vampires and werewolves."
"Oh," Mason eyed the other man. "And you haven't killed Damon yet because...?"
Damon got up from his seat and went to place an arm around Alaric's shoulder. "The way I see it is we have a human on our side now...a human that can get into things we can't and knows more about us than we do."
Elena frowned, "I'm human too..."
"Yeah but you're completely useless to us, Elena. No offence."
"Look, I came here as fast as I could to tell you guys something." Alaric spoke up quickly, "You might want to turn on your tv."
Tyler gave him a confused look but got up to turn on the flat screen tv in their dining room anyways.
Klaus was on the screen, his eyes boring into the camera menacingly:
"So if anyone sees these people I want them killed...all except Bonnie Bennett...I have plans for her. They took one of mine so the way I see it...you owe me a new witch, Damon Salvatore."
The tv then showed pictures of all of them, except Lucy, saying they were all now wanted dead or alive.
"Fuck." Damon cursed, looking over at Bonnie who stared up at the tv with an unreadable expression.
"I got the stuff you wanted me to get." Alaric said, "In the trunk of my car I got all the devices to kill vampires and most supernatural beings...it wasn't easy finding it. Most of the stuff was destroyed but I knew a guy in the black market..."
"Good. We're gonna need all the shit we can get." Mason replied. "Because right now it's all of us against Mystic Falls."
Greta's eyes shot open as she looked around the dark room. The pounding in her head finally stopped but the feel of chains around her caused her to curse, remembering what happened.
That Bennett bitch actually defeated her, but now she was realizing it was because that power was not her own. Someone must have gave her more...some one like Emily. She was going to make sure she resurrected that witch ghost bitch and slowly killed her again for doing this to her. No one treated her like this!
Klaus...
She tried calling out to her master but something disconnected them from communicating. It must be some spell Bonnie put on her. She had to get out of here and quick. Or kill everyone trying.
Bonnie watched as Elena began to unmake her bed to get ready to sleep. It was way after midnight and mostly everyone was going to bed but since Bonnie felt like she hasn't talked to her friend in forever she was helping her get use to her room.
"It's just so weird...I know my parents probably seen that and are freaking out." Elena said as she continued to talk about how Klaus wanted all of them, except Bonnie, dead. "And what do you think he'll do with you? He seems to be really pissed at Damon!"
"It doesn't matter...I just need you to get some sleep. You've been through a lot lately."
Elena rolled her eyes, "I get it. I'm only human...but I don't need you babying me, Bonnie. No one is out to capture me...they want you...I need to protect you..."
Bonnie smiled then gave her a hug, "I've protected myself my whole life. I'll survive. But right now I need you to get some rest...tomorrow is gonna be hell for us."
Elena nodded in her embrace then pulled away from her, "Bonnie...do you...would you hate me if I told you I don't hate Stefan..."
"I couldn't hate you if I tried, Elena. But I figured there was something going on when you stood up for him tonight..."
"It's just...I saw a completely different side of him. I hated him because of the stories and what he's done to you...I hated him because he's a vampire and I know how they are but..."
"He's different." Bonnie finished for her. "I know what you mean..."
Elena smirked, "Damon?" she asked slyly. "I know you're warming up to him...by the way...who was the other girl?"
Bonnie laughed, remembering Elena wasn't around for the great revelation of Lucy Bennett because she was too busy nursing Stefan. "That would be my cousin..." She watched as her brown eyes got wide. "Yup...I'm not the only Bennett witch in town anymore. But no one else knows of her...well except everyone here now. And get this...her and Mason had a little thing..."
Elena squealed, "I knew it! I saw something between them tonight! And the way Tyler wanted them to talk!"
It was at moments like this when Bonnie realized that they were only 17 years old; gossiping like regular high school girls should.
"Hey..." Caroline interrupted, poking her head into the room as the two girls stopped their chatting to look at her. "Umm...sorry if I interrupted but do you have any spare blankets? Tyler's turn to watch Greta and he can use some."
Elena and Bonnie glanced at each other, a plan forming in both of their heads. They never really knew much about Caroline but they knew she was the same age as them and was as much as a teen too. Tonight they wanted things to seem normal. Tonight they wanted to pretend they weren't about to go on a mission to destroy one of the most powerful vampires.
"Hey...how about all of us crash in here tonight...I'll give Tyler the blankets from my room." Bonnie suggested, shooting Caroline a friendly smile.
Caroline gaped at her. Was she actually befriending her now? She thought she hated vampires. "Thanks...that'll be great...I mean if you guys don't mind...I can totally sleep on the floor..."
"No!" Elena spoke up, "This is a king size bed. I'm sure we can all fit on it. And of course we don't mind! Elena Gilbert, by the way." She extended a hand to the blond who happily took it and shook it.
"Caroline...Caroline Forbes."
"I'll be right back...I'll go get those blankets for Tyler." Bonnie said as she made her way towards the door only to have Caroline stop her.
"Bonnie...thanks...for this...I know what you guys are doing and let's just say it has been forever since I had friends...being an abandoned vampire and all..." Caroline said as she stared at the young witch.
Bonnie smirked, "No problem, Caroline."
Damon sat in the darkness of his room, nothing but the moon from the outside of his window illuminating his room. He stared down at his bare, pale chest that seemed to shine with the moon and wondered how everything came to this. It felt like the day he last had with Emily...before she was taken from him.
He rubbed his knuckles against his lips in deep thought. Klaus was once again mad at him but now he was using yet another Bennett witch to get back at him. There was no way he was going to fail Bonnie like he did Emily, there was no way he was going to lose her too. He mentally cursed as he heard Emily's screams in his head; her pleading for him to save her and for the people to let her go. But back then all supernatural beings were to be killed.
Damon!
He shut his eyes tightly, trying to turn it off. The feelings, the emotion, the memories...but he knew that he was too old of a vampire to try and do that. He cared once again and this time it was for Bonnie...he even wanted to make sure everyone else in the mansion made it out this alive because they all deserved it. All of them lost something dear to them...and it was time they got their revenge.
He caught a scent of someone familiar and looked towards his open bedroom door into the dark hallway, smirking. "I never pegged you for a creeper, Bonnie." He said as he continued to look out the door until the shadow of the young Bennett witch came into his room. "Can't sleep?" he asked.
Bonnie shrugged as she slowly made her way to Damon, "I was on my way to my room to get some things for Tyler." She ignored the face he made. "I wanted to check up on you...I see you just sitting here thinking."
"Yeah I tend to do that a lot."
"What you thinking about?"
He glanced up at her, his eyes adjusting to the darkness to finally focus in on her face. "You really don't want to know."
"Try me."
"You." He replied. "Emily...Klaus...how I seem to fuck up peoples lives I care about. I mean...Lexi is already dead and I'm pretty sure we're gonna lose a lot more of us later. Klaus has the whole town up against us. The only thing we have of his is Greta and I'm sure he can replace her easily...I mean he's already talking about taking you."
Bonnie frowned. He had a point. She really wished Emily's feelings would stop crowding her mind right now because with him in the dark with her shirtless...Emily had a dirty mind! She looked over towards the window to avoid looking at him, "You guys don't need to worry about me. Klaus is afraid. I know he's afraid...why do you think he made that announcement on live television? He wants his little pets to do the bad stuff while he just takes me..."
"Yeah but I won't let him have you." Damon replied sharply. He got out of his bed and stood in front of her, his blue eyes glowing in the darkness. "I promised you when I first got you that I would not let anything bad happen to you. You're mine now and now that you somewhat trust me...we can make it through this."
Bonnie nodded then raised a hand to cup his cheek, ignoring how he stepped closer to her and placed a hand on her lower back pulling her closer to him. "Thanks."
"For?" He asked in a small whisper, trying to control himself as she lightly traced her fingertips on his cheek, lips, and jaw.
"Saving me." She leaned forward towards his lips until a sharp pain hit her head. She quickly grabbed it, closing her eyes tightly as she fell to the ground. Something's wrong...Emily! She cried out as Damon quickly pulled her up towards him. He was yelling her name and asking her something, but she couldn't hear anything. There was a loud ringing in her head. Emily?
"Damon!" Damon looked up to see Tyler staring at him with a worried look. "Damon...Greta's gone!"