A/N: Did not like the premiere that much...but it helped me remember how much I love Stefan and how awesome Stelena is...I demand MORE BONNIE in the show!
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.
Greta weakenly walked through the woods, her eyes blurry and knees weak. That spell she did on Mason plus the spell she did to extract Emily from Bonnie's body was too much for a young witch that has been drained of a lot of blood to handle. She needed her master; she needed Klaus. If she could just reach him in some way and get his blood she would be good as new again...
Greta...
She stopped suddenly, leaning against a tree as she searched around the woods. She could sense him by; hear him call her name. But she couldn't see him. And she felt she would pass out any moment if she didn't have his blood soon. It was dangerous and foolish of her to think she could do all the spells Emily Bennett was able to do.
"Greta..." She turned and found a bloodied Klaus on the ground crawling towards her. Gasping, she took time to take in his appearance. Never in her life has she saw her master so beaten up. "I...need...come here!" he growled, snapping her out of her trance.
She slowly made her way to him and fell on her knees on the ground beside his body. His fangs were already out and his eyes were bloodshot red. "Klaus...who..." Before she could get another word out he jumped up and attacked her, biting roughing into her chest as he managed to get as much magical witch blood from her as he could to heal. He ignored her cries of pain and her begging for him to stop; all he could think about was getting better and getting back at Emily.
Greta tried to push him off and squirm away but his grip on her became stronger and tighter. She could feel the rest of her clothes begin to soak in her own blood as he continued to bite at various parts of her body till he was satisfied. Her then blurry vision was starting to darken into blackness until she felt nothing but ice cold air all over her body.
Klaus pushed her aside and stood off the ground, dusting himself off. He wiped his mouth and glanced down at his unconscious witch. He managed to tear at her body pretty good, her clothes were nothing but shreds of cloth soaked in her own blood.
Rolling his eyes at her whimpers, he reluctantly bit into his own wrist and held it to her mouth and watched as the color came back to her face and the light back to her eyes.
"It's a great thing I felt you using magic because if I wouldn't have found you I would've been one pissed off corpse." He said as she continued to drink from him. "Now how did you manage to escape from them?" He pulled away from her mouth despite her protests and looked at her with dark eyes, "And why the hell did you bring Emily Bennett back to life, hmm?"
Greta's eyes widened at his last question. "I...I didn't bring her back...I found this spell in her grimoire that said something about releasing her spirit. And since she was still in Bonnie I figured I could rip her out and she'd be back to being in her grave!" She explained but Klaus did not look happy.
"That is not how the spell worked...because she's back in her body and is out for blood...vampire blood."
"What are we going to do?" She asked quietly. She could tell Klaus was worried, and if he was then she should be too. It's bad enough they have Bonnie wanting to kill them but Emily too? Emily was way stronger than the other Bennett witch and she was pretty much immortal since she was already dead.
Klaus licked his lips as an idea hit him. "What does Emily love most in this world?"
"Her decedents?"
"That...and a certain Damon Salvatore. Bonnie also has feelings for the guy." Klaus rubbed his chin, "I may have been going at this wrong...using Bonnie to prove a point. When it should have been Damon I was torturing..." He grinned at his beaten witch. "The way to a witch's heart...is through her lover vampire. Am I right, Greta?"
"It's not safe for us here anymore."
Bonnie frowned as she watched Damon run a hand through his hair and pace back and forth. Usually he was really good at hiding his emotions when it came to him worrying but with Mason in werewolf mode, Greta gone, and Emily being alive again there was no way he could hide how dangerous it was becoming for them from everyone in the room.
Alaric remained silent as he glanced over at Lucy who bit her bottom lip. Everyone could tell her mind was on Mason; despite the anger she seemed to show at him earlier they knew she cared. Tyler was even a little timid at the fact that he could change too if Greta or any other witch used that spell on him. The young Lockwood glanced over at Caroline who returned the sad gaze with one of her own. They were thinking the same thing. If he turned and she got bit...that would be the end of their friendship.
"There's no talking to Emily?" Elena asked suddenly, her eyes looking to Damon then her best friend. "I mean, she's Damon's love and Bonnie's ancestor...she has to feel something for you guys! Even if she did die and want revenge, she can't just want to hurt you guys too! Even Lucy!" She exclaimed, pointing to the older witch. "Someone has to talk to her. Calm her down!"
"What about Klaus?" Alaric asked, "Aren't we suppose to be worrying about him too? Just because Emily is back doesn't mean we can sleep on him and Elijah...they kinda are a big deal still."
Damon stopped and looked over at Bonnie. After their little talk she's been quiet which was unusual for her. This whole time he's been around her she always had something to say; whether it was a threat or a plan. But now she was speechless and he couldn't deal with that. He needed reckless, untamed Bonnie Bennett back. He needed to see the fight and fire in her eyes again.
"Damon, do you think she would just want me dead?" Stefan asked, causing everyone to stare at the younger Salvatore. It was no secret that Emily hated Stefan for what he did to the Bennetts. But the question was did she really want him dead? "Maybe if I sacrifice myself..."
"No!" Elena yelled, standing up quickly. "Having Emily kill you isn't going to fix everything. She wants everyone. Klaus, Elijah, the werewolves..." She looked over to Tyler who looked down. "She's already killed most of the pack, right? Someone just...we need to talk to her..." She looked over to Bonnie. "Maybe you can get through to her, Bon. Tell her it's Klaus that's done this and not everyone else."
Bonnie nodded silently then got up from her chair. "I'll contact Emily and I'll talk to her..."
"Me too." Lucy said quickly, standing too. "You're not the only Bennett witch, Bonnie. I'm here too and there's no way in hell I'm going to let you talk to Emily alone. She may not be in her right mind...who knows the side effects of the spell Greta pulled."
"The both of you sit down. I'm doing it. You may be related but I knew Emily better than anyone." Damon replied as he eyed the two witches. "If anyone needs to talk to her it's me."
Bonnie rolled her eyes and made her way out the room anyways. She's sat back and played the victim long enough. It was time she stepped up and helped around more instead of depending on Damon and the others. Especially since technically it was her fault Emily had returned in the first place. If she was able to protect herself against the wolves she wouldn't have had to be possessed and no one would have died by the hands of the ghost of her ancestor.
It wasn't long before she was grabbed by the wrist and thrown up against the wall of the dark hallway by Damon. His light eyes bore into hers as he blocked her body with his own, his voice low and angry, "I told you I'm going to talk to Emily. You and the others can go to a hideout and worry about Klaus. There's no need for all of us to worry about her..."
"And what are you going to say, Damon? Sorry you got killed because of me? I still love you?" She gave him a humorless laugh, "She doesn't want to hear that crap! She doesn't care about how much you love her or how Stefan was ordered to kill my family. She wants blood. No one knows that better than me...I can relate to her more." She tried to push him back so she could leave but he wouldn't move. "You have to trust me here. I know what I'm doing."
"I'm not letting you go alone..."
"Dammit, Damon!" Bonnie yelled, not caring if the others down the hall heard her. "I am not a fucking child! I don't need you watching my back 24/7 just because you feel like you owe me something because you screwed up with Emily and your brother! I. Don't. Need. You!" She watched his face soften at her words and the emotions she saw when his shell was cracked almost made her want to take her words back. He looked heartbroken and hurt. "I'm not going to sit back and wait for the next bad thing to happen to me or my friends. It's time I did something other than sit around and bitch."
Damon backed away from her and crossed his arms. His face was back to being emotionless as he gave her a crooked smirk, "So it's ok for you to want to risk your life for the ones you love but I can't? Very hypocritical, Bonnie. Very."
Bonnie sighed, thinking of a way to word what she wanted to tell him. It's not that she didn't want Damon to worry about her; it was kinda nice having more than Elena and Tyler care about her well being but having Emily inside her made her realize that she died angry. And her spirit was out for revenge. How was Bonnie to know that she wasn't going to take some of that out on Damon? Even if she did still love him.
"I don't want you hurt." She said finally. "Your Emily...the woman you loved...she's dead, Damon. Dead. She burned along with all the love she had for you, it all burned away and died." Bonnie saw him flinch at her words. She could tell he did not want to hear this but it was the honest truth. "She's angry and wants all vampires dead...and you're a vampire, Damon. You're what she hates..."
Before she could react, Damon had her pushed back up against the wall with his face inches from hers. "If you think I'm going to let her continue to be this monster than you're wrong. I can save her. I can bring her back." He whispered harshly against her ear as his hand tightened on her hip, "I brought you back didn't I? You trust me now and so will she. I will never give up on Emily." He backed away a little to stare at her face, "Like I'll never give up on you." Soon his lips were pressed against hers in a small kiss but before she could react he was gone and out the front door.
"Damon?" She asked, blinking a couple of times to make sure she didn't imagine the whole thing. "Dammit, Damon! Get back here!"
Damon didn't know where he was running to. Where would Emily be? And if he did find her what would he say or do? Bonnie could be right; this might not be his Emily anymore. But her words were hitting too close to home. It was feeling like the last day he spent with Emily. How all hell broke lose in less than a minute and all he could remember were her eyes; her big brown eyes full of fear and disgust at him before he was forced to watch her burn.
He shut his eyes and stood still as he remembered that night:
Emily cried as she watched Klaus and his men tear Stefan and Damon from the room. Their bodies were already bloody and beaten but the bite marks on their necks are what made things worse for her. She tried to shoot forward and reach out for them but the werewolf snarled angrily and tackled her to the ground so she couldn't move.
"Move, Miss Bennett, and you'll be puppy chow." Klaus smirked as he stared down at the young witch. "Oh and if you use any magic I will make sure your love here," He kicked Damon roughly in the side, breaking his ribs and causing him to cry out. "will die very painfully." He watched as Emily quickly stopped moving and sobbed quietly. "That is a good lil witch."
Klaus bit into his wrist and put it against an unconscious Stefan's mouth, pouring some blood into his mouth as Damon turned to watch what he was doing to his brother. The young Salvatore's gashes and bruises began to heal as his eyes shot open, waking him.
"That is it, young Stefan...drink." Klaus signaled to one of the other vampires in the room who then cut his own wrist and held it up to Damon's mouth, but he wasn't as easy to feed as Stefan was.
Damon kept his mouth shut and tried to move away from them but the grip the other vampires had on him made his movements more painful. He turned his head as the blood instead poured on his face instead of in his mouth like the vampire attempted.
"Drink you stubborn human!" He heard the vampire yell but he wouldn't obey. Soon there was a death grip on his jaw and Damon opened his eyes to see Klaus above him, painfully prying his mouth open and nearly breaking his jaw off as the blood successfully made it into his mouth.
He tried to spit out the disgusting coppery liquid but he knew it was too late when he felt some of the soreness in his body go away too. His blue eyes looked across the room at Emily who watched the whole scene in horror. Her brown eyes were red and puffy from crying as the werewolf remained over her still body.
"Now...we're getting somewhere." Before Damon could look up at Klaus, he heard a sickening crack and turned to see Stefan's neck broke. He was about to move towards his brother but there was a quick sharp pain and then darkness for him too.
"Bring them in." Klaus said finally as he stood over the Salvatore brothers' dead bodies. It was only a matter of time before they would be back up with the vampire blood running through their veins. He ignored Emily's screams of their names and grinned as the door opened and revealed two young girls.
One was a young blond with blue eyes no older than twelve and the second girl was someone both Damon and Emily knew well, Emily's little sister.
Noticing her sister, Emily began to try and struggle and get up again making the werewolf growl and snap at her. "Please!" she cried out, "Let her go! She is just a child! Please...I will do anything!" She stopped moving when she saw the brothers stir and awake from their death. That's when she knew what Klaus was doing, was about to do...
"Drink." Klaus said, ignoring her as he pushed the blonde to Stefan and held Emily's sister up to Damon. "I want you to drain these two precious girls dry." Stefan looked up at him in horror, refusing to go towards the young blond while Damon glared angrily at the vampires. "I said drink!" He commanded. One of the vampires grabbed the young blond by the neck, digging his nails into her skin drawing blood.
Stefan's eyes filled with bloodlust and he couldn't contain himself anymore as he ripped into the poor girl's neck. Damon, on the other hand, stared at Emily's scared little sister in fear. He felt something different inside him and knew it wasn't long before he was following Stefan's lead.
He glanced one last time into Emily's eyes, apologizing before he attacked her sister's neck.
After that, when he was turned, Emily never looked at him the same again. She was disgusted by what he became and even when they went to burn her at the stake; even after he fought to try and save her, she never looked him. She wasn't the same Emily that loved him. She changed...
"Well look at you! Standing out here in the streets by yourself...really brave, Damon." He snapped out of his thoughts to see Klaus grinning at him. He hated that smile, he hated that monster. "Where's the rest of your little group? I thought you all would be working together to destroy me..."
"I don't have time for your shit, Klaus. I have someone more important to worry about."
"Ahh...Emily, right?" Damon frowned, wondering how he knew. Did Emily contact Klaus already? But if she did, he should be dead. "Yeah, that witch is something else. Not the same little scared woman I had killed. She's...mad...at me!"
"I wonder why." Damon replied sarcastically. "By the way...where is that bitch witch of yours? Greta, right? Stefan said she tasted delicious and I was hoping to run into her and get a taste for myself."
Klaus glared at him but then smiled, "I'll let you have a taste if you let me taste Bonnie..."
Before Damon could reply there was a sharp pain in his head as he fell to his knees. He was really starting to hate witches and their little head tricks. "Should've known...she wouldn't be...far behind..." He cringed as Greta stood behind him. "So predictable..."
"We were kinda hoping it would be." Klaus replied as he walked up to him and leaned down, "Because you are going to be what brings Emily straight into our trap, Salvatore."
Lucy joined Bonnie on the porch, watching as her cousin looked of into the distance trying to see wherever Damon ran off to. She told the others to let her handle this one because if anyone knew how it was to feel something about another supernatural being it was her. Since she had Alaric and Tyler on guard of Mason she figured now was a good opportunity to have the talk with her cousin.
"Hey..."
"I cannot believe he just ran off like that when I said I was going!" Bonnie yelled, not bothering to look at her cousin. "That idiot! Emily can burn him alive! Why doesn't he realize that she's not the same person?"
Straight to the point, Lucy thought as she tried to hold back a smirk. "Damon's a vampire, what did you expect. It's kinda hard for him to remember how human emotions and logic work since vamps pretty much live off memories and what use to be. If you expect him to just forget about how him and Emily use to be then you're the idiot." Bonnie glared at her. "Hey, I'm just being honest!" Lucy said as she put up her hands. "Sorry if I tell it like it is..."
"What does he expect me to do? Wait here? I don't care if I'm 'his' or if he's my 'master'! I'm not just gonna wait here and.."
"I doubt Damon sees you like that. From what I see he actually cares and wants a chance to talk to Emily before she can hurt any of us. Maybe it's time you started trusting him..."
"I do trust him." Bonnie replied with a sigh, "It's Emily I don't trust...I gotta find him...and her...I gotta find them both!"
"And do what?"
Bonnie ran a hand through her hair and looked down, "I don't know. But I'm not gonna let him handle her alone. You guys stay here and think of ways to get to Klaus and I'll look for Emily too. She can't be far and I know she wants to talk to me too." She was about to walk off the porch but Lucy stopped her, "What?"
"...I...just be careful...ok?"
Bonnie gave her a small smile, "I'll be right back. I promise."
