A couple of days later Damon and Bonnie had decided on when they wanted to get married and was going to tell their family and friends starting with Bonnie telling the news to Caroline over the phone.
"Wait when are you and Damon planning to get married?" Caroline asked making sure that she heard her friend right.
"In four weeks." Bonnie repeated.
"I know that you're really in love with Damon and all….." Caroline paused. "But are you sure that you aren't rushing into things with him?"
Bonnie sighed. "I'm sure I love Damon and I want to marry him, I know that it's the right decision for us whether we get married in four weeks or six months from now. So no we aren't rushing into anything we're just in love."
"Alright." Caroline said "But there is an issue."
"What issue?" Bonnie asked
Caroline shifted in her chair as she talked to her friend. "You're planning to have a wedding in four weeks?"
"Yes but just a small ceremony." Bonnie told her blond friend over the phone.
Caroline let out a dramatic breath. "Still it usually takes months to plan a wedding and you think that everything can be done in four weeks time?"
"Why not?" Bonnie asked her friend.
"First you would have to book a church to have the wedding at." Caroline said
"Problem's already solved." Bonnie said "Damon and I have decided on where to hold the ceremony."
Caroline was curious. "Really where?"
"The back yard of the Salvatore Boarding house. It will save money." Bonnie explained. "They have a big and nice back lawn and plus people get married outside all of the time in the Spring and Summer."
"Okay but what about everything else." Caroline went on. "Your wedding dress, Damon's Tux, Elena and me are going to need dresses for the wedding, wedding cake, food for the reception, getting a priest that will marry you."
Bonnie chuckled at Caroline's rambling. "Yes that's a lot to handle but I'm sure we'll find a way."
Caroline nodded her head. "Then let's get to work. My mom goes to this bakery they make the best wedding cakes in Mystic Falls, and there's this place with great wedding dresses, Oh and I no of somewhere that caters great wedding reception food. This is going to be so much fun."
Across the room Tyler watched his girlfriends reaction. "You do know that this is Bonnie's wedding right." He joked
Caroline gave Tyler a look. "Oh be quiet Ty."
Tyler just laughed in response.
"It's alright." Bonnie said she had heard Tyler in the background. "I'm sure that Damon and I could use on the help that we can get."
Caroline smiled. "That's what friends are for."
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It had been a while since Bonnie had spoken to her Dad. It was almost a year since she last saw him in person and five months since she last spoke to him over the phone. Bonnie was not close to him at all because of his constant business trips their relationship was strained. But she still made efforts to connect to him and have a Father/Daughter relationship with him, but her Dad made that very difficult like he couldn't be bothered to have a relationship with his child at all.
So whenever they had a conversation after not speaking to each other in months it was forced and awkward like they didn't know what to say to each other and this time was no different. After ten minutes of small talk with her Dad Bonnie decided to break the news. That was why she had called her Father because she thought that a child of theirs getting married was something that a parent should worry about. But his reaction wasn't something that Bonnie had hoped for.
"What do you mean you're getting married?" Mr. Bennett asked
"Exactly what it sounds like." Bonnie said "I'm going to get married in for weeks."
"Why are you getting married?" Mr. Bennett asked
Bonnie could just picture the displeased look on her Dad's face. "Because I'm in love."
"So you are marrying this Dante man." Mr. Bennett was saying.
Bonnie rolled her eyes. "I told you that his name was Damon."
"Damon, Dante, whatever." Mr. Bennett said sounding displeased. "How old is this boy anyway?"
"He's twenty three." Bonnie said there was no need to tell him that Damon had been stuck at twenty three for one hundred and fifty years now.
"You're nineteen years old Bonnie….." Mr. Bennett was about to say.
Bonnie was quickly growing impatient with her Father he always managed to make their conversations turn into some kind of disagreement. "Twenty." She corrected "I had a birth day this past Spring."
Mr. Bennett paused like he had to gather a thought. "Nineteen, Twenty ….Still way to young to be getting married."
"It's not too young." Bonnie said getting upset at her Father's cold and disapproving tone of voice. "I know what I want to do."
"Nonsense you should be focusing on College." Mr. Bennett scowled.
"College students get married all of the time." Bonnie told him.
"If college students jumped off of a bridge would you do it too?" Mr. Bennett asked smartly.
Bonnie cursed under her breath. "That's not the point."
"What it then?" Mr. Bennett asked
Bonnie let out a frustrated breath. "I called to tell you that I'm getting married because I thought that it was something that you should now, the wedding will be in four weeks in Mystic Falls and if you would like to come….."
Mr. Bennett cut Bonnie off. "Four weeks? You know how busy my life is?"
"I have an idea." Bonnie said getting hurt at the tone of his voice.
"I can't just clear my schedule in four weeks and be there because you want to live in some fairy tale land." Mr. Bennett ranted.
Bonnie swallowed. "Of course you can't that would require you to care enough to be there for an important time in your Childs life."
"Don't use that tone of voice with me." Mr. Bennett said harshly. "I put food in your stomach and roof over your head."
"Just forget it Dad I'll never ask you for anything again." Bonnie said
"Now…." Mr. Bennett started.
Bonnie hung up on him tears in her eyes she resisted the urge to throw the phone across the room.
Damon who had been in the room and listening to the conversation gave Bonnie a sympathetic look. He more than understood where she was coming from. "I'm sorry."
"This is not your fault, it's all on my Father." Bonnie told him with a shake of her head.
"I know but no parent should speak to there child in such a way." Damon said
Bonnie felt the tears of sadness roll down her cheeks. "I don't understand why is he always look this."
Seeing the pain on her face made Damon angry. As far as he was concerned Mr. Bennett was lucky that he was Bonnie's Father because that was the only reason why Damon didn't consider tracking the asshole down and kicking in his teeth for hurting Bonnie.
He approached her wrapping comforting arms around her. "He doesn't deserve you as a daughter."
"No matter what I do he never approves of it." Bonnie said "What am I doing wrong?"
Damon tenderly wiped her tears away from her cheeks with his thumbs. "You haven't done anything wrong, he's just a asshole for a Father."
Bonnie sighed. "Yeah but I just wish that he would love me like a parent's suppose to love their child."
"He may not love you like he's suppose to but guess what?" Damon said
Bonnie looked at him. "What?"
"You have a lot of people that do love and care about you." Damon told her. "Like me, Elena. Caroline, Stefan, Tyler, Matt, Alaric."
"You're right, I do have a family even if it's not by blood." Bonnie stated.
"See there, you Dad is the one losing out." Damon said
Bonnie smiled. "How come you know what to say to make me feel better."
Damon smiled back at her. "I guess I'm just that damn good."
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Most of Bonnie's friends were happy to hear the news of her getting married but Jerry wasn't one of them. He paced around furious in the house of Grace Johnson. Grace Johnson was a witch in her early thirties that Jerry had tracked down for help. Grace agreed to help Jerry because part of her was jealous of the power that came from Bonnie Bennett. Grace had milk chocolate skin and black hair that was cut close to her head in a feminine style.
Grace watched as Jerry paced the room. "What is the problem now?"
"The problem didn't I just tell you that Bonnie Bennett is going to marry Damon Salvatore?" Jerry nearly yelled.
"You did." Grace said
Jerry's face was red with panic and anger. "I can't do this anymore, I can't keep pretending like I'm okay with her being with someone like him, not when I want her for myself."
Grace held out a hand. "Calm down Jerry."
"Calm down when she's going to marry that blood sucking freak?" Jerry asked loudly.
"I understand why you are upset." Grace said
Jerry turned to her. "Then do something to help me."
"I already have been helping you." Grace told him "I went all of the way to Mystic Falls to open up the tomb and to let Katherine out, she was Damon Salvatore's old love and I thought that she would convince him to leave. You said that Damon was in love with Katherine."
"I looked up his history." Jerry explained "Katherine was his love way back from 1864 and there were rumors about him looking for her. I thought that if he saw her that he would leave Bonnie for Katherine and leave me to pick up the pieces. Obviously that didn't work."
Grace nodded her head. "He must love Bonnie Bennett for more than you give him credit for."
"Well look for Katherine and convince her to take Damon away." Jerry said
"I can't do that." Grace said
"Why can't you?" Jerry asked
Grace looked at the red headed man. "Katherine's dead."
Jerry frowned. "How do you know that she is?"
"Because it's just a feeling that I have." Grace explained "I think that she went after them or something and Damon Salvatore killed her."
"You sure that he killed Katherine?" Jerry asked
"It's a feeling that I have." Grace said.
Jerry kicked at the floor. "There must be something else that you can do to help me."
Grace sighed "I did do something else, I put you in contact with the wizards James and Adam."
"Yeah I paid them to kill Damon what a waste of damn money." Jerry pouted.
"If Damon Salvatore were to ever find out that we sent people after him and it got Bonnie Bennett hurt. He will hunt the both of us down and kill us." Grace said warily.
Jerry rolled his eyes. "He's not going to find out."
"He'd better not." Jerry said
"Look I just need you to help me out again and get Bonnie away from that vampire and with me." Jerry demanded
Grace furrowed her brows. "How am I suppose to do that exactly?"
Jerry gestured with both hands. "You're a witch aren't you make her fall in love with me."
"I can't do that?" Grace said
"You can't cast a spell to make people fall in love with someone?" Jerry asked
Grace shrugged a shoulder. "Sure with a normal human I could easily make them fall in love, but not with Miss Bennett because she is a witch."
"So?" Jerry was confused.
"For a witch once she falls in love with her true love then nothing can break that bond and love. There's no spell that I can do to make her fall for you, especially with a witch as powerful as she is. Any spell would only backfire." Grace explained "Instead of loving you she would hate you for trying to take her away from Damon Salvatore. Damon and only Damon would be the man in her heart for as long as she lives."
Jerry swallowed. "That's it? She'll just have this everlasting bond with him because she's a witch?"
Grace nodded her head. "As long as he loves her as equally as strong then yes."
"Maybe he doesn't love her as much." Jerry was desperate for any hope.
"He killed Katherine the woman he loved for over one hundred years, he killed her for Bonnie." Grace told him. "Does that not give you a hint at how much he loves her?"
"There must be a way to break her love for him." Jerry said
Grace tapped her foot on the ground. "I'm telling you that there isn't., on top of her being a witch, he's a vampire and that makes their love stronger than the average human couple."
"How so?" Jerry asked
"Just as a witch can share a bond forever with the person she's in love with, a vampire can love their lover fiercely with all consuming love." Grace explained "As a matter of fact if Damon Salvatore and Bonnie Bennett have been exchanging blood than that only adds to their bond."
"What do you mean by blood exchange?" Jerry asked
Grace eyed him. "He drink's her blood and she drinks his and they can read each others thoughts or enter into each others dreams at free will."
Jerry look disgusted at the thought. "Bonnie wouldn't do that she hates…"
"Hates what vampires?" Grace interrupted "She loves Damon Salvatore , them drinking each other's blood would be a showing of love, bonding, seduction, even arousal."
"Enough about the blood exchanging." Jerry snapped out.
Grace ran her hands over her pants. "Sorry I'm just telling you the truth."
"Fine." Jerry said "I can't make Bonnie fall in love with me. But you still can help me get her."
"How?" Grace asked
Jerry rolled his eyes. "You're a witch think of something."
"If I help you again I need more money." Grace said
"More money I already paid you." Jerry complained
Grace moved towards her spell books. "I'm putting my ass on the line for you, do you know how dangerous it is for me to be on your side, what Damon Salvatore would ever do to me if he found out about what I did?"
Jerry threw up his hands. "Alright I'll pay you more money."
"Then just give me time to come up with something else." Grace said
Jerry scowled. "Time? I don't have time she's getting married to that blood sucking animal in four fucking weeks."
"I'll come up with something Jerry." Grace told him. "You just keep pretending to be supportive of her relationship with Damon."
Jerry looked like a little boy about to cry. "How much longer, I even tried to use Megan to make her jealous and that didn't even work."
"That's all that I can tell you." Grace said
"It doesn't matter." Jerry narrowed his eyes. "Bonnie will be mine in one way or another."