Shattered Worlds

by Vampirepancakes

Thirty years into a post apocalyptic world, Damon and Bonnie meet as strangers, coming from completely different ways of life. But, learn that despite their differences, they have the common goal of surviving in such a brutal world. Soon they team up together on a cross country journey to find one of the last beacons of hope that humanity has left. All HUMAN

12. Chapter 12

The Bennett, Salvatore pair remained back to back, and still had their guns in out, eyeing down who they now knew as Kai Parker. Despite him introducing himself, they weren't put at ease just yet. And were prepared for a fight still from those who surrounded them.

Kai saw this. "Now that we are aware of each others names, could you two please place your guns away."

Bonnie was still in defensive mode. "That depends."

Kai looked at her. "Depends on what? I give you my word that none of us will try to hurt you."

Bonnie returned. "Yeah, well one can't rely on people's words these days."

"I back her up, most of the folks we have ran into have wished us harm or tried to kill us. So, it's understandable why we are on edge, especially when a bunch of you surrounded us with guns." Damon was on his guard as much as Bonnie was.

"If you have had bad luck with others wanting to kill you, then it is understandable why you would think that of us too, I agree with why you might believe that everyone you run across may have bad intentions. But, again I assure you we wish you no harm." Kai insisted.

"Not so fast, if you want us to believe that you don't intend to harm us then why don't you explain some things." Bonnie put in.

"Sure uh, Bonnie why don't you tell me what you want me to explain." Kai aimed a charming curvature of his lips at her.

Bonnie tensed. "Why do you explain this dead lady at our feet."

Damon narrowed his eyes. "Yeah, who exactly is this chick?"

Kai shrugged his shoulders. "I have no idea."

"Really, seems like she came out of your village as you called it and you have no idea who she is." Bonnie expressed.

"We, my family and I don't know who she is. She just wandered into our village today." Kai replied.

"If she was a stranger to you, then why did she ended up dead." Bonnie remained filled with caution.

Damon added. "And why did she try to kill us?"

Kai waved a hand. "I'm assuming she ended up dead because of the injuries which was caused in the struggle with some of the members from our village. You see she just wandered in and for no reason at all started to threaten some people in our village. Acting like some crazed, rabid animal, saying how she was going to kill us all."

"We don't wish to hurt anyone, however we will if we have to protect our village. She got into a struggle with a couple of our people and they had to injure her in order to get her off of them. Then she ran away and saw you guys, perhaps she assumed that you were one of us, or maybe it was just her crazed self trying to kill you like she did to us. But, we have nothing to do with her decision to attack you both."

Going over what Kai had said, Bonnie could buy into his explanation. Especially since she was big on the self defense debate and defending herself at all costs. So, she wouldn't blame Kai and the others for doing all that they could to defend themselves.

"Makes sense I guess, since she charged at us she had lost her mind and declared she was going to kill us." Bonnie muttered.

"It does seem like the now deceased woman was on the crazed side, Guess if she was intending on killing us then she was intending on killing anyone." Damon mumbled.

"You see, then her being dead did both of our sides some good. The only one here who appears to be set on killing someone was her." Kai gestured to the body on the ground.

"Fine, we just need one more explanation before we decide that we are safe enough to put our guns away around you." Bonnie jerked her shoulder.

Cocking his head at her demeanor, the Parker man asked. "What do you need to know now?"

Being around Bonnie long enough, Damon knew exactly what else she wanted to know, even before she spoke it and he wanted to know the same. "Why did your people pull out their guns against us, yelling at us to drop our guns. That is what my partner and I would like to know."

Kai repeated ."Like a said it was just a misunderstanding between our sides. Some of us chased the lady out of the village to make sure that she wouldn't get away for a chance to come back and finish the job she tried to start, then they saw her around you and maybe assumed that you were with her and therefore a threat to us."

Bonnie said back. "Well, me and Damon surely don't know who the hell she is. We have nothing to do with her attempts on your village."

"Now we can see this, it's why I told them you weren't the bad guys after realizing this lady wanted to kill you as well. Since we cleared up this misunderstanding up, can both of our sides now agree to a ceasefire, so no one else has to die here." Kai pleaded.

"I mean there is no need to waste precious bullets on an unnecessary gun fight after all." Bonnie stated.

"She's right, neither of us like to fight if we don't have to." Damon put in.

Kai look relieved. "So, we'll keep everything peaceful between us."

Letting go of their caution and believing Kai enough where they believed they weren't in danger any longer, the two of the finally let their guards down and put there weapons away.

"Yeah, we'll keep it peaceful." Bonnie returned, as much as she was always ready to fight and defend herself, she would always take the often to avoid a fight if she could. Now more so since she had Damon with her, she only fought as a last option and wouldn't risk herself or him getting hurt.

"Since none of us wants trouble, my partner and I will go on our way, we leave you alone, as long as you leave us alone." Damon commented.

"We thought that this village was abandoned like most of the other areas we ran across, now that we know it isn't, we'll go on our way and leave you be." Bonnie conducted towards Kai and the group of people around them.

"Wait, Wait. You two are travelers I take it." Kai guessed.

Damon nodded. "Correct, we're just making our way through."

Said Kai. "And from the looks of it, I would say you have been traveling for a few days at least."

Bonnie let out a breath. "That would be an understatement."

Her comment earned a smirk from Damon, as the two of them had been traveling together for months now.

"Let me make an offer to you." Kai suggested.

The duo shared a sideways glance with each other.

"An offer?" Damon questioned.

"More like a truce." Kai stepped up. "To make up for our misunderstanding with you, I offer you both a place to stay in our village."

"You're offering us a place to stay?" Bonnie questioned him to make sure.

"A place in this village for the both of you to live here, where you won't have to travel no longer." Kai confirmed.

Pausing Bonnie redirected. "Thanks for your offer but as for living here, we'll have to turn you down on that. We were just making our way to our..uh destination a ways away from here and were never planning to stay."

Damon added. "Yep, the two of us were just going to be in this area temporarily, but we aren't going to stay here for long since we have somewhere else we need to get to."

So Kai changed it up. "If this is the case and you are traveling with somewhere you need to reach, then you must need to rest at least."

Neither Bonnie or Damon said anything.

"Come on, I….we offer you a place to stay here, if not to live then at least to rest for a little bit before you make your way further to where you need to get to." Kai pressed in a nice tone.

It was true that they both were planning on stopping and resting for a bit, shortly before the crazed lady had tried to kill them, which lead to the current spot they were in at the moment.

"Guess it wouldn't hurt." Damon said towards Bonnie as he looked at her.

She was still weary and very careful about just trusting people, and was still hesitate on trusting or welcoming people she didn't know. She only dealt with strangers on a business level. However, since she had met Damon, she had been more open to meeting new people and giving them a chance. So, she sought out his judgment on this one.

"What you think, you think this is a good idea?" She wanted to know.

"What do you think we should do?" He asked of her.

"I asked you first." She arched a brow.

"I mean we do need to rest some before moving on again and this looks like a good place to do it, we have spent the last handful of nights outside, maybe we could sleep inside tonight in their village down there. So, as I said I believe it wouldn't hurt." Damon leaned in towards her.

Bonnie wondered. "So, you believe we can trust them then."

Her best friend pointed out. "I believe if they wanted to really kill us they would have done it already, but we're still alive and the only one who actually said she wanted to kill us is dead at our feet, I take that as a sign we can trust these people."

She mentioned. "Does that mean you think we should take the offer of staying here for then."

He gave her a nod. "We should consider it, since it was offered. We wouldn't have to stay here for long, just long enough to rest for a while. But, the decision is all up to you."

"I trust your judgment and I'm with you on this as since you believe it is fine. I have no problems with staying in their village." She finished after she was persuaded by him that they wouldn't be putting themselves into any danger.

"How many days should we stay then?" He inquired from her.

"Three, but no more than four, then we can continue traveling." Bonnie proclaimed.

Damon gave her a thumbs up. "Alright, then it's settled, three days it is."

Kai stood there, watching as the two had a conversation among themselves. "What do you say, will you stay here?"

They turned to face Kai.

"We've worked it out and we decided that we're cool with staying." Bonnie replied.

"You have yourself a deal, we will accept your truce, but we'll only be staying for three days." Damon answered in return.

"Excellent! I promise you won't regret this. Me and my family will make sure that the both of you are comfortable while you're in our village." Kai exclaimed excited they had accepted.

Damon gestured. "We couldn't turn down a generous offer, with how much we have traveled."

Bonnie backed him up. "Yes, it is appreciated."

Kai nearly beamed. "Why you're welcome, Bonnie."

"Okay lead the way." Damon said.

Kai signaled to a couple of the men which were part of his group. "You all get rid of this body and bury it somewhere outside of the village, before she starts to decompose and stink up the joint.

A few of the men moved and lifted the corpse of the women and began dragging her in the opposite direction of the village, to carry her somewhere to bury the body.

Then he turned towards Damon and Bonnie. "You two, follow me."

Damon lent her his arm.

Taking his hint, she looped her arms into his and they then proceeded to walk side by side without their arms linked. As they followed Kai and the other members of the group. Soon they entered into the village which had a line of village style homes on either side of the street.

They took notice on how most of the homes seemed occupied with people living in them. Some of them standing or sitting outside on their porches, steps and yards. Gawking at Bonnie and Damon as the past through, whispering to each other as they did so.

"You'll have to excuse them, it's not often they see new faces coming through here." Kai said to explain the gawking.

"Oh, okay." Damon said in return.

"This village is the home to all of my family as I told you both. Every single person you see here besides you two is a member of my family." Kai let them know.

Looking around at the people they past, along with the group they were in which were all starting to part ways as they made their way through, Bonnie raised her brows in curiosity. "Really, everyone in this village belongs to one family?"

Kai confirmed. "Yes, we are all Parker's here and all related, Immediate Parker family members, plus extended Parker family members."

Damon walked with Bonnie alongside him. "How big is your Parker family base here by the way?"

"We are seven members strong at the moment." Kai answered in the tone of someone who was proud to talk about how big their family size was.

Bonnie's eyes widened out at the number.

"Seventy members, that's something. I never heard of so many people as a part of the same family being alive before." Damon whistled out.

"Seventy members, hard to for you to believe maybe but it's the truth. All through this village are members of the my family Generations of Parkers from as young as in their teens to as old as in their mid sixties." Kai put in.

"Again never heard of such a achievement of having so many people belonging to one bloodline alive at the same time before. Because of how dying can come easy in this world, making living so difficult, I've only ever seen as handful of the same family alive before." Damon mentioned.

Bonnie uttered. "With the death rate as high as it has been, large families still being around is extremely rare indeed."

Kai looked over his shoulder back at them. "All I can say is that we Parker's are survivalist. We lean on each other and it's the reason why we are still around, while other families have died out."

The both of them could relate to the Parkers on being survivalists.

After a few minutes the rest of the group had parted their ways, and there was only Kai left as he lead them on. The two of the followed Kai, as Damon escorted Bonnie on his arm. Shortly, later Kai had lead them into a large open area. Which was filled with even more people, that they now knew belonged to the Parker family.

This open area had a huge gazebo right in the center of it and brick laid on the ground, then there was a bunch of benches surrounding the the gazebo. Many of which had people sitting on them. All of who turned their attention towards Kai, seeing that he had two people with him they didn't know.

"This is what we call Common's Square." Kai told Damon and Bonnie. "This is the most popular hang out spot in the village for my family, We all hang out here with each other, to chill out as well as we hold a lot of our get togethers here."

"I can see why, this is a pretty neat area." Damon commented.

With her eyes scanning over the gazebo, Bonnie agreed with Damon.

"Excuse me you all." Kai spoke up to the people which were in Common's square. "Let me introduce you as I'm sure you are wondering who I have just brought in with me. These pair on travellers who have wandered into our area, and I have offered them a place to stay in our village. Say hello to Damon and Bonnie."

Everyone stared at them in silence, while a few mumbled out words.

The Salvatore, Bennett duet raised their hands in a symbol of acknowledge to all of those around them.

"They're perfectly safe and friendly to be around, and they need a place to stay for the next few days. So, how about we all open our arms and give them a warm Parker family welcome." Kai added.

Some of them said there hellos or waved from wherever they were as others went up to meet them.

Kai spoke as he introduced the two of them to some of the members of his family which had walked up. "Damon, Bonnie, I would like you two meet my siblings."

"This is Luke and Liv." Kai gestured toward a set of blondes, one male and one female. "They're my sister and brother and they are twins to each other."

"Hello." Bonnie responded towards the twins.

While Damon issued them. "Greetings."

The twins returned a "Hi" at the same time.

"And this is Jo, my other sister." Kai added.

"Wonderful of you to come into our village." Jo gave them a half bow.

Damon issued the brunette woman a "Howdy."

Bonnie greeted. "Damon and I are grateful for your welcome and giving us a place to rest for a few days."

"Yes, it is much appreciate." Damon returned.

"We will do all we can to make you feel at home, isn't that right everyone." Jo cheesed.

"We must certainly will, we are always open to accepting people in open arms. It's just the Parker family way." Kai conquered.

Bonnie gave them all a friendly expression. "Well, again we are thankful and promise we won't overstay our welcome."

That was will Luke said. "You won't have to worry about overstaying your welcome, we have plenty of room for two more people."

Damon stated. "My friend and I will make the most of our stay while we are here."

Kai brought up. "You know what, as a part of our hostility why don't we throw a party for you, Parker style."

"A party for our guest, is exactly what we should do." Luke agreed with his brother. "We do throw the best parties I mean."

"Wow, you don't have to go through the trouble of having a party just because we are here. Offering us a place to stay in your village is enough." Bonnie pronounced.

"It's no trouble, we always through parties here from time to time, as a family tradition. We would be honored to have one for you after your travels." Kai went.

"Well, if it's honestly not any trouble for you, I guess." Bonnie shrugged.

Damon glanced at her with a grin on his face. "Hey, I am the partying type, aren't you Bon."

Bonnie smiled at him. "Yeah, I guess I can be the partying type when you're around."

Kai pressed a little. "Does that mean you two all in for this party."

"We're in." Damon and Bonnie voiced at the same time.

"We'll be sure to show you a great time." Liv told them.

"I sure do hope so, I'm a party animal you know." Damon smirked.

This earned a snicker from Bonnie.

Kai redirected as his sisters. "Why don't you give Bonnie a little tour around, while Damon says behind with me to discuss some party favors."

Jo nodded. "That's the right idea."

Liv added. "We can give her a tour, if she is okay with it that is."

"I'm fine with that." Bonnie said as she was relaxed more than she usually would be around strangers. But, again it was because Damon deemed them as trustworthy and now so did she. As they didn't raise any red flags that she normally would feel around threatening or dangerous people.

"Come with us and we'll show you give you this tour." Jo recommended.

Bonnie gave Damon her brief attention. "I'll be right back."

"And I'll be here waiting for you when you return." Damon gave her a wink.

She gave him a half smile, before going off with Jo and Liv. As Damon remained in the Common's square with Kai.

For the first couple of minutes there was silence as she followed the two sisters, then she decided to make conversation to be polite.

"So, do you have any more siblings besides the four of you?" Bonnie asked as she didn't know how each to start off a conversation with the two stranger women.

"We have three more you didn't meet, which would make seven together in total. Four boys and three girls." Liv let her know.

"Whoa, that's quite a big immediate family you have there." Bonnie commented.

Jo beamed. "Our parents dreamed off wanting a ton of children and so they made it happen."

Then Liv questioned her. "Do you have brothers or sisters?"

Bonnie shook her head. "No, I don't, I'm an only child. Have never known what it's like to be raised with siblings."

Liv put her hands up into the air. "Let's just say that it makes for a lot of competition, but it is a healthy competition between all of us."

"Some who would fight like cats and dogs when we were kids, but now we are all grown we stick together like glue." Jo pointed out.

"Well, I know the importance of having people close to you, who watch out for you in times such as these." Bonnie declared.

Liv and Jo lead her down a couple of blocks, then they made a right turn down a narrow street. Which had more village style houses on both sides.

"It is an advantage for us to have the numbers on our side, with all of the Parker family living in one place." Jo went after a while.

"Speaking of your numbers, with such a large group of people, how do you manage to fed them all. With food often being so hard to come by these days. Even with one person struggles to find food at times. I'm interested in how you all can feed so many." Bonnie was truly curious.

"That's a great question, how can we feed so many mouths in a world where food and be very few and far between. But, we have our ways and manage to make it work." Jo stated.

Liv joined in. "Ways such a hunting for our food."

Bonnie muttered. "I see, how do you manage to take care of the children of your family?"

Liv told her. "We don't have children in this family."

Bonnie was slightly taken aback by this answer. "You don't."

"The youngest Parker here is about sixteen years old, so we haven't had a child born here in sixteen years." Jo expressed.

"Sixteen years, a lengthy time without a child birth in one family." Bonnie responded.

"There is a reason for not having any children born recently. We are hesitate about having to raise a child in such harsh conditions." Liv said.

"We all agreed that certain circumstances would be meet, if either of us were going to birth a child." Said Jo.

Bonnie let out a breath. "I guess I can't blame you, raising a child is hard enough as it is. Raising one to have to survive in a post apocalyptic has to be more challenging."

Jo commented. "Correct, however one day we always hope that we will be able to have little Parker's running around."

Jo and Liv lead Bonnie around their village, giving her their tour. Along the way she met some of their other siblings and family members, including their parents. Then they moved on to show Bonnie the town hall which they said the Parker's had met for their family meetings. There was also a building designated to be their cafeteria which they explained to her the family gathered together to have all of their meals.

All in all, Bonnie thought that they had an efficient set up going with the family community they had created. It didn't provide any of the advances or promises that the settlement in Mystic Falls, Virginia was rumored to have. Of course there wasn't electricity in the village and have things were run, was primitive compared to what she had heard about the town in Virginia which she and Damon were attempting to reach.

Still the Parker's appeared to have all of the most essential items they needed and had everything running smoothly. All of them appeared to be well fed and functioning well, which was a feat within itself. Since she had seen the sizes of groups sometimes be counter productive, because there weren't enough mouths to feed. But, this village didn't have such a problem.

Once the tour was finished Jo spoke. "I'm going to go and prepare one of the places we have for you and your traveling partner to sleep in during your stay."

"Okay." Bonnie responded.

"Liv, why don't you lead her back to the square while I get to work on it." Jo directed towards her sister.

"I will." Liv returned and gestured for Bonnie to follow her back.

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In the meantime while Bonnie had gone on a tour with Liv and Jo, Damon remained in the Common's square with Kai as he talked about those party favors with him. After the conversation, Damon figured Kai to be a pretty decent dude, one which we would get along with well.

As he stood around with Kai, they were approached by a man who had long dark hair, falling above his shoulders. Along with brown eyes and pale skin.

"Kai." He started. "I need to see you for something."

Kai switched his attention. "What is it, Ren?" Identifying the long haired, pale skinned man.

Ren replied. "I need your assistance with something back at my house."

Kai held up a hand. "I'll give you assistance shortly, But, right now I'm handling matters with our visitors."

Ren looked confused for a moment. "Visitors?"

"Visitors." Kai hinted towards Damon.

"Oh." Ren blinked as if he noticed Damon standing there for the first time.

"This is Damon, he and his traveling partner wandered near our village. So, we invited them to rest here for a short time." Kai went on.

Ren asked. "He is resting here?"

Kai confirmed. "For a few days before traveling on, until then we are going to treat them as our guest. Damon, this is Ren my close cousin."

Damon offered his hand. "Hello, Ren."

Taking Damon's hand in a loose handshake, Ren returned a Hello and then told Damon. "Been a while since we've had outside visitors."

"We're going to throw a party, Parker style for Damon and his partner." Kai let Ren know.

"Really, a party when." Ren switched his attention briefly to his cousin.

"I think tomorrow night, to show them a good time before they leave here." Kai reacted.

"Tomorrow night, I will make sure we gather up the wine, just like we have at all of are other get togethers." Ren Parker deadpanned.

Kai simpered. "Wine would be a perfect addition to the party. You like wine, Damon?"

Damon smacked his lips together. "More of a bourbon man myself, but I'll gladly drink some wine."

Kai conveyed. "Enough wine will be gathered for all of us to drink."

"We'll just have to get it out of the wine cellar before the party starts." Ren muttered.

"Looking forward to it." Damon voiced.

"Damien…" Ren began.

"Damon." Damon correct.

Ren corrected himself. "I meant Damon, where is your partner, is he around."

Damon raised his pointer finger. "She, my partner's a she."

Ren acted like his interested rate raised. "She?"

"She." Damon repeated. "I traveled here with a woman, named Bonnie my friend, she went on a tour."

"Liv and Jo took her on a tour." Kai let Ren know.

"Can't wait to meet our other visiting guest." Said Ren.

Just then Bonnie entered into the opposite side of the area, to where Damon stood with Kai and Ren. She had followed Liv back, even though he didn't see Jo with them.

"There she is!" Damon exclaimed.

Realizing that he was talking about her, Bonnie looked across the way at her friend.

Their eyes connected and Damon eyed her down with an intense look of longing mixed with pining.

She returned his gaze with an intense stare of her own. Which was equally as longing, mixed in with meaning.

For a few seconds they held each others gazes as their eyes were locked on the others across the short distance. And for a brief period of time it was like the people currently around them didn't exist.

Then Bonnie caught herself and realized quickly how they weren't alone, so she broke the stare down by looking away, which resulted in a blush coming onto her face.

Damon eyed her down for a moment longer, before he looked away to continue his conversation with Ren and Kai.

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They spent much of the day in and around Common's square hanging out with and getting to know some of the Parker's. By the end of the day both of them found themselves getting more comfortable with the family. Then night time fell and some of the family started to go back to their homes as it had gotten dark. That was when Jo informed them that the place she had prepared for them was ready.

Just before nine 'o'clock of the night, Jo lead them through some of the village, until she came up on a small village style house. "Here you are."

Damon and Bonnie walked through the open door and into the house, which contained one large room that had a couple of cots spread apart, the room was lit by a couple of wall installed fire light torches and there was two other smaller rooms which branched off to the side.

The pair off them placed their bags which they had been carrying around with them all day down.

"There are the cots for you to sleep on, there's also an outhouse outside right ahead, just in case either of you need to get out and use the restroom during the middle of the night." Jo told them.

"Thanks for setting this up for us." Bonnie showed gratitude towards Jo.

"You're welcome, let me know if you need anything." Jo added.

"We will, but we'll settle down for the night for now." Damon aimed at Jo.

Jo rubbed her hands together. "In that case, we will pick up where we left off in the next daybreak."

Damon did a single nod. "Right, see you in the morning."

With that Jo left, leaving the two of them alone.

He shut the door and turned to face Bonnie.

"Whew, it's been one hell of a long day." Bonnie stretched out her muscles.

"It has been, but it's also been a productive day." Damon vocalized.

"Yeah, it has." She went along.

He studied her. "How do you feel about today?"

She maintained. "Content I would say."

Damon removed his coat. "The Parker's seem like a generous, well set family."

"They're decent enough, we got a cool deal by running into them though." Bonnie agreed.

"And what do you say about the party they are throwing tomorrow night." Damon asked her.

She removed the beanie knit cap from her head and smoothed down her her with a hand. "I would say that parties are made to be fun and I always embrace a chance to have some fun, when chances for fun can be hard to come by."

He kicked off his shoes. "With how shitty conditions on this planet are, letting loose at the party is something the both of us could use."

She exclaimed. "Exactly!"

"You know, we are in a very positive place at the moment." Damon enthused

"We are, aren't we. With a promising future ahead." Bonnie beamed brightly.

They took some time to get settled in, after they had removed their coats and jackets, along with their shows. Then because neither of them felt like going to sleep just yet, they stayed up and had a conversation with just the two of them. They had a conversation about light hearted and fun things.

Bonnie talked about some things with him which made her giggle and laugh, and it made him laugh and brought a smile to his face in return. As he sat there watching her, as her beautiful emerald green eyes were filled with joy and laughter. His heart caught up into his throat as he thought about what a vision she was to behold. And how he lucky he was to have Bonnie Bennett by his side.

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At daybreak, the pair of them woke up in their separate cots, then he put his coat and shoes back on and she put her jacket and shoes back on. And after a while they stepped back out into the cold mid morning chilly air. Together they went into the Common's square where a small group of Parkers had already gathered to mingle about.

The two of them were just sitting on a bench next to each other, when Kai approached them. A short time later.

Kai started. "Bonnie, Damon you're up and I'm glad you are, is there something I can get you."

Damon replied. "No we're good, thanks for asking though."

Kai added. "Are you sure, with the welcome we gave you yesterday I totally forgot to offer you some of our food. You must we hungry this morning."

"We are hungry, but…." Bonnie began to speak.

"You should go to the cafeteria then while we are having breakfast there, they'll gladly serve you some food knowing that you are our guest." Kai interrupted.

Bonnie finished her sentence. "We are hungry, but we won't be eating food from your family."

Damon stated. "Yeah, we're fine on remaining here."

Kai furrowed his brow. "You say you are hungry, yet you turn down an offer for food. Never heard of a hungry person turning down a food offer where food is so scarce."

"And the majority of the time,we would gladly take any food source which we came across. It's not meant to be a offense to you or your hospitality of offering the Damon and me food, it's just that we don't need it." Bonnie said to Kai.

"We have our own source of food we have been carrying around with us." Damon gave the explanation to Kai.

"Yep, it's the main reason why we are turning down your food. No need to take unnecessary food from your family with all of those mouths you have to feed it we have our own." preserved.

An expression of cordialness came across Kai's face. "You don't have to be concerned about that, we have food to feed my family and some left over for you two as well."

Bonnie implied. "It's fine, we have plenty of food for ourselves right now."

Damon featured. "I and Bonnie have some deer meat which we roasted over a fire some days ago."

Kai went with wonderment. "Deer meat, you have deer meat?"

"Enough to last us for the next week." Damon confirmed.

"Enough meat to feed about four people." Bonnie added.

"And we want to eat as much of it as we can before it goes to waste and spoils." Damon put in.

Kai shifted on his feet. "May I ask how you came across so much deer meat then."

Damon responded. "Through hunting of course."

Bonnie mentioned. "Just a few days ago, we ran across a deer and killed it for our meal."

Damon dramatically widened his eyes in the way he did. "A white tailed buck deer, it was massive, with like about like twenty antlers points."

"You're exaggerating, the buck had about eight antler points." Bonnie snorted.

"It was still a huge ass buck though." Damon chuckled.

"About close to two hundred pounds I would say." Bonnie stated.

"And you guys hunted him down just like that?" Kai listened for the answer.

Damon jerked his thumb. "She was the one who killed it actually."

Bonnie's lips curved. "Was the biggest game I have ever managed to hunt down."

Damon continued "And with a bow and arrow."

"Bow and arrow." Kai was shocked as he had expected to hear that they had hunted with a gun of some sort.

"A bow and arrow and if you could have seen her take the buck down you would have been impressed." Damon expressed.

"Wish I would have been there to see then." Kai said as he looked at her.

Bonnie cleared her throat. "Well, it wasn't such a big deal I just aimed fired and got lucky."

But, Damon emphasised. "Don't be modest now, Bon-Bon. It takes more than luck to hunt down a deer. It takes a lot of skill, especially with a bow and arrow."

She shrugged. "True, I just did what I had to do for us to eat."

Symbolizing, Damon pointed to his forehead. "And that arrow landed right between the buck's eyes with perfect accuracy."

"Okay, that part I do have to give myself credit for." Bonnie patted herself on the back.

"Anyway, once she had taken the animal down, we saw how huge it was. Large enough to feed about at least ten people or more at one time." Damon recurred to Kai.

"It was much more than either of us could eat at once, once we had cooked it over the fire. But, that we made the best of it, because we had so much left over." Bonnie commented.

Revealing the deer meat they had packed away, Damon pulled out a big ziplock bag packed with the cooked deer meat. "We managed to preserve and keep enough to last us for a few days."

Rubbing his chin, Kai saw the bag of deer meat. "I'm satisfied to see you both have something to eat, just didn't want to be rude to our guest and not offer food to you."

"I don't see you as rude, your generosity of letting Damon and I sleep in was enough." Bonnie communicated in a civil way.

"My parents taught me well." Kai puffed out his chest. "But, how do you learn to use the bow and arrow."

"She is self taught, which just proves how badass she is." Damon boosted.

Bonnie rolled her eyes in a good natured way. "Damon!"

Damon nudged her with his shoulder. "Come on, Bon you know that you're the master with the bow and arrow.."

Bonnie admitted. "I am."

Damon went on singing Bonnie's praises. "And not just a master at the bow and arrow, but a master at surviving overall. I don't know what I would do without you, just sure that I wouldn't be here."

"May I ask what you mean by that?" Kai arched a brow.

"Sure, I meant I would be dead if it weren't for her already, she saved my ass a couple of times along the way." Damon disclosed.

"To be fair, with as much credit as he gives me for saving his ass, he saved mine too. I also would be dead without him, so it goes both ways with us." Bonnie indicated.

"Aw, shucks." Damon pretended to be coy.

Bonnie glanced at her friend. "He is also resourceful for finding food, I would say that he is as good of a fisherman as I am a hunter. He caught fish more than once along the way and taught me how to fish as well."

Kai looked between them. "Seems like you pair make quite the team."

Bonnie delivered proudly. "We sure as hell are!"

Damon outreached his hand, "Hell yeah, Bon team kick ass,"

Taking his hint, she gave him a high five.

"On a real note, for all of this time we have been traveling together, she's been a excellent partner and an even better friend." Damon complimented her and was looking at her, even while his comment was sort of direct at Kai.

"Same in return, you know the best thing about having a partner you can trust, who is also a good friend is that I always trust he'll have your back and watch out for me." Bonnie gave a sweet smile towards Damon.

"Right, a it's important to have someone who will always be there and support you. Like we have each others backs." Damon smiled.

Kai made a sound with his throat.

Which made both Bonnie and Damon return their attention to him, as they had been caught up in explaining their traveling relationship with each other.

"Sounds like you both are loyal people to the other." Kai noticed.

"Indeed we are." Damon confirmed.

"We treasure loyalty around here in this village. And learning of your skills of hunting, fishing and surviving in general the both of you would be an perfect addition to our community. We would really value your use around here if only you could stay permanently." Kai told to them both.

"I'll tell you this, Kai that you have a fine establishment here in this village." Bonnie nicely said to the Parker man.

Kai's tone was cunning. "Why thanks Bonnie, I wish that it was fine enough for you two to reconsider living here."

Bonnie shook her head. "We can't live here."

Kai pushed. "Sure about that, for the short time you have been there you seem to fit in."

"No offense but Damon and I just can't stay." Bonnie put in.

"And we would kind of feel like outsiders since everyone else here is Parker's and related, but Bonnie and me aren't. We wouldn't want to mess with the family vibe you all have going here." Damon added.

"Don't be silly, me and my family would easily adopt you into the Parker family and treat you like one of our own." Kai insisted.

"Thanks, but no thanks. There is just an important place where he and I need to get to. And we wouldn't get it it if we remained here." Bonnie described.

Damon clarified. "We decided there is a goal we have to reach in our traveling, and this village isn't where we are meant to be in our lives. We just have to head into a different direction, but as my friend said we mean no offense by it."

Kai murmured. "Well, if either of you ever change your mind there is a place here in this village for you."

The two of them gave Kai a symbol out of respect for his offer. Although neither of them was willing to reveal where exactly they were going. That and the location of the settlement in Virginia was something they were going to keep between themselves.

"May I ask when you are leaving?" Kai questioned them.

"After discussing it last night, we decided we were going to leave in the next day or so." Damon responded.

"...Perhaps the day after tomorrow to get one more day of rest before going on." paused Bonnie.

"Understandable, hey we'll just make sure to give you one excellent parting gift during the party tonight." Said Kai.

Damon gestured. "We agreed that we're looking forward to letting loose and having some fun. Right, Bon-Bon."

Bonnie exclaimed. "Right!"

Kai looked down at his watch. "I'm hungry myself, so I better get to the cafeteria to get some breakfast in me."

"Sure, we will just be hanging out right here." Damon gave a nod.

"I'll talk to you later I guess." Kai's eyes landed on Bonnie for a moment.

"Yeah, later." Bonnie acknowledged in a friendly tone.

Kai walked away in the direction of the cafeteria.

Damon turned his attention to her. "I think I could use some breakfast as well."

Bonnie eyed him. "Yeah, I'm hungry too."

"How about we share a breakfast of this deer meat." Damon suggested.

"Deer meat sounds like a delicious way to start a morning." Bonnie proclaimed.

So, he opened up the ziplock bag of deer meat they had packed, which was cold but still delicious. And they sat there sharing the meat between them, as they enjoyed each others company, eating until they were full and then saving the rest of their deer meat until later.

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Once night time had fallen, the Parkers had began to throw the party that Kai said they would for Bonnie and Damon. Most of the village had gathered in Common's square. Where they all sat, stood, or mingled around in the party like atmosphere. With fire torches lighting the area and some music blasting out of a battery powered radio. Wine was spread around and many of them were drinking it, some of them were drinking it too much as they stumbled around drunk or tipsy.

Damon, along with Bonnie stood and watched in amusement, as some could barely stand on their feet and they were only an hour and a half into the party at this point.

That was when Ren Parker approached them. "How are you pair doing?"

The pair of them said in unison. "We're fine."

Ren wanted to know. "And are you enjoying yourselves."

"We are having a great time so far." Bonnie replied lightly.

"You folks do know how to throw one hell of a party!" Damon lifted his half empty glass of wine.

"We learn from experience." Ren's lips curve.

Damon snickered. "Seems like others are having a better time than we are though."

Ren wondered. "Who is that?"

Keeping her amusement Bonnie pointed. "Him over there."

Ren followed to where she was pointing to. There was Luke Parker, stumbling around, as he drunkenly sang off key to the song which was playing from a cassette tape on the radio.

"Oh, Luke he always overduleges himself when it comes to wine, speaking of which would either of you like more wine. We have plenty of bottles of it." Ren directed at them.

"Nah, I've had one and a half glasses already and I'm finished before I pushed myself too far with the drinking." Bonnie mentioned.

"I've had more than one and a half glasses, but I think this will be by last one. I wouldn't want to risk a hangover since me and Bonnie will be leaving the village in the next couple of days." Damon voiced.

Just then an upbeat song started on the radio. It was one of this upbeat, uptempo songs from the 90's.

"Hey, I love this song." Bonnie perked up as soon as she heard the first beat.

"Me too." Damon agreed after he got familiar with the songs lyrics.

"You should dance with me." Bonnie loudly over the music.

"Really, you like a dance from me." Damon was ecalastic with the idea.

Vocalizing with enthralment Bonnie chuckled. "We're here to let loose and have fun, remember so yes dance with me."

"Of course." Damon grinned from ear to ear.

"If you would excuse us, Ren." Bonnie addtionalized.

"No need to excuse yourself, I'll give it for you two to enjoy this party." Ren went on expressionless.

Bonnie then pulled Damon onto a area and she and Damon began to immediately dance to the upbeat music. Laughing, giggling as they moved together with the music. And just having a blast with each other, as they let loose. At one point Damon took Bonnie's arms and spun her around in a few circles, which caused her to giggle hysterically.

As they were busy dancing with each other, neither of them were aware of the set of eyes which were watching them from across the way. Those grey-bluish set of eyes which belonged to one Kai Parker.

He watched them and in particular Bonnie as she danced with Damon. Her arms wrapping around Damon's neck and his around her torso, as they swayed and gyrated together to the fast pace song. She was smiling brightly with her eyes locked onto Damon's face and Damon's on hers. Their dancing was cordial, yet with the undertones of being sexual. They danced like this for a few songs in a row. And during the time almost never taking their eyes off of each other, it was clear that Bonnie had deep interest in Damon and he in return.

Even after they had finished dancing and had moved over to one of the benches to sit down. Kai keep watching them while at the same time pretending he was minding his own business. They sat huddled together, with her hand resting on Damon's knee. Only interacting with each other and pretty much ignoring everyone else around them, even though the square was crowded with other people.

Kai eyed them down as they interacted this way for the next couple of hours. Bonnie's eyes brimming over with warmth as she eyed Damon. And Damon eying her as if he cherished the woman. They were surely having the time of their lives and it was with each other. Interacting like they were the only two in the world. They were joking and goofing around with each other. Then Damon leaned in and whispered something in her ear, whatever it was it had her tilting her head back and letting out joyful laughter in response. Then she said something to Damon which had him laughing in return.

Kai felt something like envy as he wished that she would laugh like that with him and interact with him, the way that she was interacting with Damon. They're interactions was subtle with the hints of how a romantic couple would be, not obvious but it was there.

Being so busy with his eyes locked on them, Kai jumped when he felt someone tap him on his shoulder. He saw it was Ren. "A little warning before you sneak up on me, will you."

"I wasn't sneaking up on you, you just weren't paying attention to your surroundings." Ren mumbled.

"I was paying plenty of attention." Kai tried playing it off.

"Not so, cousin and maybe you want to stop staring down the visitors before they realize that you have been watching them for the last couple of hours and get weirded out by it." Ren pointed out.

"What were you watching me, watching them?" Kai rolled his eyes.

Ren gestured with the nearly empty bottle of wine he carried with him. "Basically."

Kai grumbled. "Not like they would notice me watching them anyway, so I wouldn't have to worry about getting caught."

Ren observed. "They do seem to be really invested in each other at the time, like the surroundings around them don't matter."

Kai downed the remainder of the wine he had in his glass. "Obviously."

"Is there a particular reason why you have been staring at them all night." Ren pressed.

"Duh, it has everything to do with her, I've been watching them because of her." Kai confessed.

"So the Bonnie woman has drawn your interest, huh." Ren connected.

Kai keep looking across and the duo, as Damon slung his arm over Bonnie's shoulder. "She's drew my interest since I have first saw her, can you blame me."

Ren blinked. "She is quite the eye candy."

Kai leered. "More than eye candy that woman right there is the finest specimen I have ever seen."

"You just think that because you've haven't seen a girl unrelated to us in a while." Ren deadpanned.

"Not true, I've seen unrelated females around here." Kai returned.

"You know what I mean." Ren muttered.

Kai deadpanned. "I know what you mean."

Ren clutched at his wine bottle. "What are you going to do about it, just stare like some weirdo."

Kai scowled. "I'm not a weirdo."

This time Ren rolled his eyes. "I bet she would think of you as one if she knew you were watching her and that Damon fellow."

"Wrong, I feel like she would be into me." Kai puffed out.

"You're a riot, Cousin." Ren hawked out.

"I'm a riot, why do you say that." Kai said back.

"Because you think that the woman over there would be into you." Ren returned.

Kai finally removed his eyes from Bonnie and Damon to look at his cousin. "Bonnie would be into me, I know that she would. Is is as a matter of fact."

Ren moved his hands. "How so?"

Kai motioned. "She has been nice to me so far."

"Just because a girl is nice to you, doesn't mean she wants to get into your pants." Ren shook his head.

" I could drawn Bonnie's interest to me in such a manner, she'd be attracted to me and want into my pants, if I had the time to convince her, she and I would be perfect together." Kai's tone was filled with arrogance.

"You don't have time, she's leaving in a day or two with Damon." Ren stated.

Kai flexed his fingers. "This is the reason I tried to convince them on staying around a while longer, if I could have talked them into living here, then I have the opportunity to win her over to my side."

Ren grunted. "She's pretty set on leaving, so how will you get that opportunity."

An expression entered onto Kai's face. "Guess I will have to change tactics or getting her to stay in the village long enough for me to have a chance with her. There is still time to get her to stay before they leave."

"Fine, let's say you get her to stay. There is still not a guarantee that you'll win her over. If you hadn't notice her and Damon are attached at the hip. And I doubt he would want to leave her behind, so it means he will stay too." Ren commented.

"I've taken notice of it." Kai pouted.

"Perhaps you should always notice how entranced Bonnie seems to be by Damon. They seem super close and more than just in a friendly way. Which means your chances of winning her over are in less, when she has eyes for another man and it happens to be him, I hate to break it to you, but she won't give you the time of day as long as he is around." Ren mentioned.

Kai tried sarcastically. "Thanks for the vote of confidence, Ren."

Ren pointed out. "I'm just telling you the truth, cousin. Damon throws a major wrench in your desires to have her."

Kai admitted. "He does, I'll have to find a way to convince him to leave and part separate ways from her."

"And if you can't convince him to part ways with her?" Ren forwarded.

"Then I will have to find a way to get him out of the picture and away from her." Kai narrowed his eyes maliciously.

Ren gave him a questioning look, wondering what he meant exactly by that.

"We will have to find a way to deal with Damon." Kai added.

"Did you just say we." Ren blinked away.

"We as in you and some other Parker men will help me get what I want, what I want in Bonnie." Kai determined.

Running a hand through his long, greasy hair, Ren was perplexed. "If you're the one who wants her, then why do we have to help you?"

An vicious thought ran through Kai's mind. "Because she is the one."

Ren instantly knew what Kai was talking about, it was something that only the Parker family would get as they had discussed matters among themselves. "You really believe she is the one."

Kai established. "She is the one, the one who've I've been seeking out, the one who will strength the Parker family and our cause, so getting her is not just important for me, but for all of us as well."

"If you believe she is the one who will benefit our family goals, then I will help you get what you want." Ren toned.

"Good, you now our slogan." Kai darkly said.

"Parkers before everyone." Ren hinted.

"And we must get Damon out of our way for the families sake." Kai pressed.

"So how do we get rid of him." Ren had to know.

Kai stared ahead. "Gather Liv. Jo, Luke the rest of our siblings and some of the others. Tell them to meet us before the night is over with and we'll go over the details of getting rid of our Damon problem and how to make sure that his traveling partner remains in our village for good."

Ren moved away to do just what Kai had told him to do.

Kai returned his attention to Bonnie and Damon. He watched again as Bonnie mouthed something to him. Kai was too far away to hear her words, but with reading her lips, she told Damon had she was tired now and was ready to go to bed. Damon then mouthed back how he was pooped out as well.

Then they stood from there benches and Bonnie took Damon by his hand, and she lead Damon away from the Common's square and slipped into the darkness with him which was on the edge of the light that the torches omitted.

Kai assumed the two of them were returning to the house which Jo had set up for them and was filled with envy at how Damon got to share a space with her alone. But, then Kai made himself feel better, telling himself he would soon have her once Damon was out of the way.

So, while Damon and Bonnie slept unaware in their cots, Kai gathered his siblings, along with Ren and some other Parkers and they spent the night scheming on how to tear them apart.

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The following day was overcast, grey and very cloudy, with heavy signs that it was going to rain sometime within that day. Damon and Bonnie had woken up in their cots, shared more of the deer meat they had for breakfast and drunk some water.

Then Damon opened the door, viewing the sky. "Check this out."

"What?" Bonnie sat on the cot putting on her shoes.

"The weather, I think it's going to rain soon." Damon made the statement.

She got up from the cot and joined him next to the doorway, inspected the sky along with him. "I believe you are right, it does look like rain."

He said. "Hopefully if it starts to rain soon then it won't mess with our plans to travel tomorrow."

She declared lightheartedly. "Eh, afraid of getting wet, Salvatore."

"No, I'm not afraid of getting wet, I was just saying." Damon gave her a goofy expression to playfully mock her.

"Very funny." Bonnie slapped him on his shoulder in high spirits.

They rested in the doorway having small talk conversation with each other.

Then Luke approached them. "Hi, welcome to this fine new day."

"Uh, Hi there." Bonnie returned.

"How's the hangover?" Damon questioned as he could smell the wine coming from Luke's breath.

"It's tolerable." Luke lied even though his head was pounding from the wine he had. The scheme he had discussed with Kai and his family members from the night before made him have to get up to get their plan started. He set out to play his part even when he wanted to just sleep his hangover off.

Bonnie and Damon just looked at each other in amusement, remembering how Luke had stumbled around last night, barely being able to stand on his feet. They knew that the hangover had to be more serious than Luke was letting go.

Luke slurred his words slightly. "Damon, I really need to see you for a minute."

Damon raised a brow. "Why?"

"You two are leaving tomorrow." Luke mentioned.

"We are." Damon nodded.

"Well, after discussing matters with Kai, he,,,,we don't want our guests to live empty handed. We have supplies which will help you on your travels." Luke told him.

"Wow, that's a generous offer." Said Bonnie.

Damon put in. "Yeah, we will appreciate those supplies depending on what they are."

Luke gestured. "There's too many supplies to list what exactly they are, but they are helpful when traveling, I hope that you take some with you."

Damon asked. "Where are these supplies?"

"They're in the storage cellar next to the cafeteria, if you would like to come with me, I'll show you and you can select which supplies to take with you." Luke told him.

"Alright." Damon said

"Follow me." Luke kept his face expressionless.

"Just a minute." Damon pivoted towards Bonnie. "I'll go see if there is something useful we can take with us."

"Okay, I'll just roam around to pass the time until you're done." Said Bonnie.

Reaching out he brushed his fingertips lightly against her fingertips in a affectionate way, and she responded with a tender smile directed at him.

Damon then winked at her. "I'll be back."

She gave him a nod.

"Show me those supplies." Damon redirected at Luke.

"This way." Luke went as he was gleaming on the inside, Damon had no idea what was about to come to him.

As Damon followed Luke, he walked several blocks and streets away from where he had last left Bonnie. He followed Luke for a block more and they stopped next to a buildings where Damon assumed was the cafeteria.

Next to the building there was an two doors that he figured was the celler.

Luke opened the door to the cellar and moved to the side. "As our guest, you should go first."

"Sure." Damon moved to the entrance of the celler, looked down and saw darkness. He patted the pockets of his coat. "Darn."

"Something wrong?" Luke asked.

"I, uh forgot my flashlight in my duffle bag and left by duffle bag back in the room where the cot I slept on is. I use to to see in dark places, I should go back and get it." Damon mumbled.

However, Luke stopped him. "No, No there is no need for you to have to go all of the way back, we have torches to see our way through the dark." Luke went and retrieved a fire light torch and handed it to Damon.

Taking the torch Damon gave gratitude to Luke.

Luke told Damon. "After you."

So, Damon took the stairs down to the inside of the cellar. Once he feet hit the cellar used the torch to try to see what supplies was in the darkened place.

Luke soon stepped in after him.

Walking in a little further, Damon scanned the area with his torch, expecting to see the supplies that the Parkers said they wanted to give to him and Bonnie. But, what he saw was anything but those supplies. He was in such disbelief at what he saw at first that he had to do a double take.

But, once his mind had caught up with what his eyes spotted, Damon was absolutely horrified. There were corpses, naked human corpses hanging from the low ceiling of the cellar. They were hanging from ropes and chains, with their arms, legs and head chopped off, so that only their torsos were hanging. They were hanging in the way that butchers would hang raw cattle meat in their fridges but this was human corpses.

On a table in the corner there were the dismembered legs, arms hands, and feet of humans. Then on another table there was a bunch of axes covered in blood, which was no doubt human blood and it was clear that the axes were used to chopped the human bodies up.

"The fuck is this shit." Damon was sickened at the sight. Then he connected the dots, this cellar was next to the cafeteria, the cafeteria where the Parkers gathered to eat their so called meals.

"You're cannibals." Damon's tone was shocked and he was grossed out.

"Congratulations, you've discovered our secret of our food source." Luke spoke from behind Damon.

"Your family sustain themselves through eating humans." Damon twirled around to face Luke.

Luke shrugged. "Yes, we do."

Damon made a face. "That's is disgusting."

Luke was nonchalant about it. "The Parkers eat what we have to in order to survive in this world."

This was when it hit Damon. "Wait, you never intended to show me supplies, you just lead me down here because you wanted me to see these corpses and discover that you all are cannibals."

"You figure out things fast." Luke clapped.

"Now why in the fuck would you intend on showing me your repulsive diet habits." Damon sneered.

"Because we all decided to give you an ultimatum." Luke's eyes went wild.

"Who is we and what ultimatum do you speak of?" Damon snapped out.

The blonde haired Parker twin explained gleefully. "The we I speak of is my family….well all of my siblings and some of my cousins. And the ultimatum is that you either do as we say or end up like one of those corpses."

Damon's demeanor turned cold. "Did you just threaten my life."

A nasty smile crossed Luke's face. "I would call if more of a warning and again an ultimatum."

The Salvatore man clenched his fists at his sides. "What warning is that?"

"Leave….." Luke replied.

"I'll gladly leave right away, with Bonnie after I learned about your families disgusting cannibalism." Damon cut Luke off.

Luke held up a finger. "I wasn't finished, you leave here and continue on with your travels, but you'll have to leave alone and leave Bonnie behind."

Damon snorted without the humor. "There's no way I'm leaving Bonnie with you sick freaks."

Luke wagged that same finger. "I think you would want to reconsider that."

"What in the world makes you believe that I would ever leave her behind." Damon flexed his hands.

"You would do so if you value your own life and want to remain alive." Said Luke.

"I don't get it, why does it matter to you if she stays or not?" Damon was confused on this matter.

"Because Bonnie is the one." Luke grumbled.

Lifting his fingers in air quotes, Damon went. "The one, what in the hell is that suppose to mean."

That wild eyed look returned to Luke's eyes. "The one, the chosen mate that each of us will choose for the destiny and the future of the Parker family."

Damon squinted like Luke had lost his mind. "Right now you're just speaking a bunch of nonsense that I don't get."

"Let me explain it to you more slowly then." Luke paused as a couple of other men came down to the cellar to join him.

They were the other two Parker brothers Jason and Morgan, as they stood at the side of Luke, Damon's alertness raised up.

"You see, we haven't had a newborn Parker in sixteen years, which may not seem like a big deal at the moment, but further down the line it will become a problem as the older Parker's will start to age and eventually die. Then the rest of us would eventually age and die which would mean no more Parker family around if all of us die out."

"For the future of the Parker family we have to ensure that we go on for generations more and the only way we can do that is if new babies are born, raised and grow as Parkers. But, because of the circumstances of the world not just any person can carry the Parker genes. We made a pact between us that we would only pick the finest of mates." Luke slowly told Damon.

"A pact?" Damon was weary of what this meant.

"A pact between me and my siblings, you see my brothers, sisters, and me were put in charge as the leaders the ones to make sure that the Parker family lives on by each of us creating children with the mate of our choosing. Each of us taking turns to pick that one, the one for every single one of us. But, so far none of us has been able to find that mate, will until now that is." Luke finished.

Suspicion entered into Damon's tone. "Let me guess Kai thinks that it's his turn."

Luke tsked. "Kai claims he knew that she was the one when he very first spotted her with you, he found his one before the rest of us could and intends on making Bonnie his mate."

"You bunch are lunatics with all of this one talk, I don't give a damn about the future of the Parker Klan and Bonnie won't either. You are a bunch of morons if you think she'll be a mate to your brother." Damon glared.

"Maybe you're wrong, right at this moment as we speak, Kai is about to work on convincing Bonnie to pair up with him and be his one." Luke confessed.

"This whole getting me over here for supplies was just a distraction to get me away from her, so that Kai could have a talk with her." The red flags raised up in Damon.

Luke conceded. "Yes, he'll be alone with her to appeal her to his side."

Damon realized that this was all a trick the whole time, the Parkers never invited him and Bonnie out of the kindness of their heart, but because Kai had some sort of obsession towards Bonnie the moment he saw her.

Damon snarled in disapproval at figuring this out. "Doesn't matter what he says to her to try and appeal to her, she'll never go for it. Once Bonnie hears about Kai's crazy idea about her being his mate. She'll reject him, and think that he is nuts and won't want to have anything to do with him."

Luke's lips curved downward. "How do you know what she will do?"

"Because I know Bonnie, she reject Kai and promptly tell him to fuck off." Damon smirked.

"What makes you think that Bonnie would have a real choice in the matter?" Luke retorted.

"She never go along with what the Parker's what from her, trust me you all would find out the hard way if you try to cross the line with her, because she isn't the one." Damon went on, chilled by how Luke had just said those words.

A harsh sound came into Luke's voice. "Too bad you figure she could get her way out of this. Our plans are set and there is no way of changing them, if Bonnie doesn't choose to join my brother after he asks her to, then there are other ways to get her to be his mate."

Damon became very irritated. "Are you implying that your brother will try to force Bonnie into being with him."

Luke humped a shoulder. "If she tries to fight or resist him, than Kai will have to force her to be his mate and his one through any means necessary for the sake of the family. It makes that if he'll have to physically be with her to make babies, he'll do what it takes whether she likes or or not. She has no choice really."

Damon's irritation grew into anger. "He would force her to be with him against her will, even if she doesn't want him, he'll try to make her have sex with him without her consent. That's damn rape."

Luke dismissed. "You're going by old world standards of morals, I see. But, the world has long ago changed. Crimes and the rule of law, in what it used to be no longer exists. It doesn't matter if you think that it's wrong, what does matter if the survival of future generations, especially ours, And we need men and women to create children in order for that to happen."

"If Kai attempts to force himself physically on Bonnie or hurt her in any way, shape or form, I'll will make him pay a dear price. And he will suffer a great deal for even touching a single hair on her head. So, will any of you who attempts to hurt her." Damon warned in an aggressive manner.

"You shouldn't worry about her well being, I think you should be concerned more with your well being." Luke tsked.

"I'll show you who should be concerned about who's well being, if you don't change your course and leave Bonnie alone, you'd better let her go now." Damon stated in a deadly tone.

"Are you threatening us." A smug expression returned to Luke's face.

Damon tightened his hold on the torch he was holding. "I'm promising you that I will kill your brother, you and everyone of your family members who tries to cause physical harm to Bonnie, I'm telling you, you'd better let her go, it would be smart if you let us walk out of here."

The Parker twin mocked the Salvatore man before him. "You are in no position to make threats, with both you and her outnumbered. You seriously believe that you could take all of my family members down and make it out of here alive. Don't try to be a hero, you'll fail and your friend will be Bonnie's mate no matter what you try to do to save her."

Not afraid or intimidated by Luke's words, nor Jason and Morgan also being in the cellar, Damon stepped up to Luke. "I do have a background in murdering many people and while I do have my regrets on some of the murders from my past. I will have zero about taking out you and your family. Now I suggest you get the hell out of my way, let me get Bonnie and alive us to get out of here unharmed."

Luke frowned. "Poor guy, we're giving you a last chance to walk away. You are lucky we let you be alive for this long, because most of the time we hunt, kill and eat whoever wanders into or near our village. If you want your luck to continue you would walk away right this moment."

"Now you have a choice to make, you either leave Bonnie behind and walk out here alive. Or you'll do the stupid thing and decide to go against us, which will result in your death." Luke gave the ultimatum.

Damon spat out without hesitation. "Screw you, I'm not going nowhere without Bonnie."

Luke signaled to his brothers. "Kai was afraid you might refuse our warning, don't say we didn't give you as chance. Now we will have to kill you."

Jason and Morgan lunged at Damon, grabbing him which caused the torch Damon was holding to fall to the cement floor of the cellar. Jason grabbed one side of Damon, and Morgan the other. Immediately Damon started to struggle to get out of their grasp.

Then Luke went and got one of the axes, and stood in front of Damon. "Hold him done so I can chop him up." Luke demanded of his brothers.

Cursing, Damon fought with all of his strength in a attempt to get away from the demented trio of Parker brothers.

"Hold him still." Luke ordered with a nasty grin on his face. He waved the axe, almost hitting Damon several times. However, all of the wine he had drunk the next before was still in his system, which caused him to lose some coordination and not be on target with his hits.

Seeing that Luke was still very much hungover, Damon decided to use his sloppy, off target movements to his advantage. As it had brought him some time by avoiding getting hit with the ax. With all of his might, Damon kicked his booted foot out as hard as he could. It hit Luke square in his mid section.

Caught off guard, Luke stumbled back, as the kick had forced the air briefly out of his lungs. At the same time, Luke landed back on his butt hard, making him lose grip on his axe.

Using his training to his advantage, Damon managed to maneuver his arm free from the grasp of Morgan. Quickly, he flipped Jason off of him before either of them could recover. Then Morgan lunged at him once more, trying to grab a hold of him again. But, Damon was fast and he countered Morgan with a vicious uppercut, landing right underneath Morgan's chin.

The hit was so hard that it caused Morgan's top and bottom teeth to slam together, and his jaw instantly to break. Morgan fell backwards, causing his head to hit the cement floor with a brutal crack. This made Morgan's lights go out, and he was knocked out and worse, as blood leaked out of his head and onto the floor.

Jason charged at Damon and at the same time, Damon scrambled for the axe which Luke had dropped. Just as Jason took a swing at him with his fist, Damon ducked, proceeding to fling out the blade side of the axe towards Jason. The axe sliced through Jason's face, cutting through the flesh like hot butter, Jason made a loud sound of pain as he fell to his knees. He held half of his face in his hands, with the skin, blood and flesh being torn away from his face due to the axe. Jason wallowed around on the ground, with a freshly disfigured face, dying a slow and painful death.

"You bitch, those were my brothers, you ruined everything." Luke cried loudly.

"You'll join them too, you all messed with the wrong duo." An outraged Damon held up the bloody blade of the axe.

Desperately, Luke tried to run for the table where the axes were, to get another axe to weaponize himself against Damon. But, Damon knew what he was about to do and threw the axe towards Luke as he was running. Luke was stopped in his tracks as the axe blade hit him dead in the center of his spine. The blade hitting his back with such speed and force that it dug in all the way to the handle of the axe.

Luke fell front forward to the ground, as the axe had immediately cut through his spine and killed him. Just like that Damon had taken out three Parker brothers within minutes. But, he knew that it wasn't over, Kai was somewhere in the village alone with Bonnie and Damon knew that Bonnie wouldn't go along with Kai's plan of her being his mate. Which meant that Kai would physically hurt and harm her if he wanted to. He had to stop lunatic Kai before Bonnie was put in the position to get hurt by the psychopath or his family of cannibals.

Damon ran for the stairs, which would lead him out of the cellar, he had a serious need to get to Bonnie and get the both of them out of this horrid place. But, just as he reached the bottom of the stairs he heard footsteps from near the top of the stairs. Then he heard voices.

"He's in there, don't let him get out." One of the male voices said.

"Keep him away, so that Kai can see his plan through," Came Liv's voice.

From where he was, Damon couldn't exactly see the people who were at the top of the stairs. But, he could tell there were multiple men and women there from the Parker klan, who were no doubt both trying to kill him and keep him apart from Bonnie so that Kai's sick plan could succeed. He also could tell they had guns and knew he couldn't just go running out there, unless he wanted to be shot. Plus, added to the fact that he was outnumbered.

"Hey, Damon we're going to chopped you all up and eat you for dinner." The first male who had spoke called out to him.

"Twisted, disgusting motherfuckers." Damon mumbled in response.

"Come out here and surrender yourself, we have you trapped down there." The male voice of the unknown Parker relative added.

Damon searched around for an item to defend himself with, none of the Parker brothers he had just killed had guns on them. He did have his revolver concealed underneath his coat, but it wasn't going to be enough for the group of foes crowded just outside of the doors if the cellar, waiting for him to come out so that they could kill him. And his hunting rifle was back attached to his duffle bag in the small village house which he and Bonnie had spent the last couple of nights it. He didn't carry it around with him, because he didn't feel like he needed to.

He knew that he needed a major weapon to be able to handle such a group of people. Frantically, Damon searched around the room for something that he could use to defend himself with and something that could take out a bunch of people at the same time.

It was when he spotted a couple of bottles of drinking alcohol at the corner of the room, saw some rags, and then his eyes fell to the torch he had dropped. It was still lite with fire. Damon then came up with an impulsive idea to defend himself with.

Molotov cocktails, Damon thought to himself. He had to make molotov cocktails and make them quick before those group of people came down the stairs to try and come after him. He also realized that he needed to hurry as Bonnie was somewhere alone with Kai Parker and in real physical danger, he had to get to her before she got hurt.

He hurried towards the bottles of alcohol, pulled off the caps on them both and used the rags and proceeded to make those Molotov cocktails. Then he picked up the torch from the floor and used it to lit both from rags which were sticking out of the bottles. Damon creeped up the edge of the stairs.

"I promise you whoever tries to harm Bonnie will not live past this day." Damon yelled out the warning to make sure the group at the top of the stairs heard him.

"Just come out right now and give yourself up, before we have to come down there and get you, it will make your death easier." Liv yelled back down to him.

"Fuck this," Damon ran up the stairs with the two flaming Molotov cocktails in his hands.

Reaching near the top of the stairs, he saw just as he suspected a group of armed Parker men and women, there were about fifthteen of them in total, all grouped together, in a close bunch. Which Damon saw worked in his favor for his plan to defend himself.

When the group heard his booted steps coming up the stairs, they aimed their guns at the opening of the cellar pairing to shoot Damon at the very first sight of them. Instead they saw two flaming bottles filled with liquid launched in their direction as Damon had tossed them. Before they could react to it, the bottles fall to the ground at their fight and the glass shattered, spreading the flamable liquid, all over them. Mixed with the liquid, the flames exploded into a fire, which consumed the majority of the group.

All of them screamed out in pain as the fire lit their clothes and burned through their flesh and skin. Some of them collasped to the ground, others ran in the other direction, with their entire bodies on fire trying to put on the flames.

"Burn you fuckers." Damon vocalized as he got his revolver out of his coat to prepare to shot any remaining that didn't get taken out by the Motolov cocktails. When he exited all of the way out, he saw that there was only two people left out of the group. The cocktails had taken down most of the rest of them, since they were in such close range of each other. But, two were left standing as they stared in disbelief at their relatives being burned alive.

One of them as Liv and the other one was an male Parker, which Damon didn't know the name of.

Once Liv realized he had gotten out of the cellar, she pointed, visiably upset at witinessing what had just happen to her family at the hands of Damon.

"There he is, shot him." Liv pointed.

The male relative began to turn his body towards Damon, to shot him with the assault rifle he had. But, the distraction of him watching some of the burning people around him made his reaction time a second slower than Damon's. The second slower was enough for Damon to shoot the male relative square in the head with his revolver.

This caused the male relative's skull and brains to burst and scatter, as the bullet pierced his head. The gore from the impact of the bullet spattlered all over Liv, who squealed as she was covered by her relatives brain matter.

Then Liv saw a very pissed off looking Damon approach her with his revolver drawn.

"Where is she?" Damon snapped out the answer at Liv.

"You, you just killed some of my Uncles and cousins." Liv eyed him with wide eyes. Hinting at the ones who had gotten burned by the cocktails and who were mostly dead, or either burned so severely that they were close to dead.

"I killed your brothers too and I'm about to kill the fourth when I get to Kai." Damon's tone was icy, he could have cared less about Liv's feelings or the fact that she was bothered by how some of her family had just died.

"No, how could you…" Liv croaked.

Damon eyed her down in a deadly fashion. "You could join them as well."

Realizing that she was in major trouble, Liv looked around to try counter Damon with something, her eyes went to the assault rifle which her male relative who had gotten his brains blown out held.

Bring one step ahead of her, Damon shot her in her leg with his revolver.

Liv fell to the ground as the bullet went through her leg, making her knee buckle out from under her, she screeched out in agony.

He went up and picked up the assault rifle, holding the assault rifle in one hand and his revolver in the other.

The remaining Parker twin tried to crawl away with her bleeding leg wound. Stopping her from getting far, Damon used his foot stepped down on the very same leg he had shot through.

"Tell me where does Kai have Bonnie?" Damon asked Liv with impatience.

"I don't know, don't shoot me." Liv squirm underneath the heel of his boot.

"Where, I know he has to have her somewhere else in the village then where I last left her." Damon raised his voice.

On the ground, Liv shook her head from side to side. "He didn't say where he was going to speak to her, just that he was going to get her to be his one."

"And physically harm her once she says no." Damon lashed out with fury.

"Don't shoot me, I'm unarmed and defenseless." Liv's eyes bugged out when she saw the dangerous look in Damon's icy blue eyes.

"I'm going to kill every last one of you who gets in ,my way of getting to Bonnie." Damon sincerely let Liv know, and he meant every word of that.

"Fine, I'll surrender, I'll tell you where he plans to see Bonnie." Liv babbled once she saw that Damon was serious about killing whoever stood in his way.

"Spill it." Damon aimed his revolver at her.

Afraid she was going to end up dead, Liv rattled off where they planned to have Kai corner Bonnie at. "...and that where she is, you have to believe me."

"Oh, I believe you." Damon lowly said.

Liv let out a breath of relief, believing she was out of the woods. "So, you'll let me live."

Damon denied her. "Nah, I'm not going to let you live."

Liv balked. "But, but I told you where she is. You can't kill me."

"Not only did you help try to hand Bonnie over to Kai like she is a piece of property, you just tried to have me killed a few minutes ago." Damon went with his mood turning darker.

"I'm sorry, okay, let me go and I'll talk my brother into letting you and Bonnie go free out of here." Liv pleaded.

"Too late, should have thought about that before you backstabbed me and her. And put her in danger for your families vindictive scheme" Damon's told her with cold rage.

"Wait…" Liv put her hands up as if trying to shield herself.

Without hesitation or regret, Damon pulled the trigger of his revolver, shooting Liv in the head at point blank range, felt zero remorse for it afterwards because Liv just like any other person who messed with him and especially Bonnie were his enemies.

And he had no problems with killing his enemies if he needed to. He was going to make sure the Parkers knew that crossing that line with him and the woman in which he had deep feelings for, was the worst mistake that they ever made in their life time.

Just moments after he had shot Liv at point blank range, he heard more voices coming in his direction. Shouting that they had heard gunshots and coming to inspect what happen. They were more armed Parkers intending to try and kill him and imprison Bonnie to a 'relationship' with Kai. Damon wasn't going to have it, not without a fight.

He was desperate to get to Bonnie, greatly concerned for her well being, knowing that she was in grave danger around Kai. He had a whole villiage to cross to get to her in order to save her and another whole bunch of Parkers in his way which would attempt to stop him, kill him, eat him. He was in the fight for both him and her life.

Damon pocketed his revolver in his coat and took a hold of the assault rifle with both hands. As he heard more of them rush for him, he took cover, preparimg to shoot himself out of this situation if he needed to. Her well being and maybe even her life was on the line and he didn't know how much time he had to get to her. But, he was willing to do all he could to assure it of happening.

Detrimination filled him. "Hold on, Bon, I'm coming to rescue you."

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This is the longest chapter that I have ever written. To those of you who took the time to read this entire update, Thank you. I know that it is very long and it takes a lot of patience to read through. So, I appreciate those who are still supporting this story.

I was going to write the confrontation between Bonnie and Kai down, but this update got longer than what I thought it would be already. So, you'll have to see what happens with Bonnie and Kai in the next chapter, and whether or not Damon will get to her in time.

I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors that I have missed.