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

13. Chapter 13

This upcoming scene with Bonnie has been taking place at the exact same time as Damon's scene is playing out with Luke and the other Parkers. Discovering that they are cannibals, what their intention with Bonnie is and having to fight his way out etc…..

Shortly after Damon went off with Luke to get those supplies, Bonnie decided to pass the time until he got back and since she wanted a little fresh air, she decided to pass the time by going on a mini walk.

After stopping by and using the outhouse to do her business. She santized her hands with the small bottle of hand sanitizer she had with her, then she began to go on her planned walk around the village. She walked around for close to fifthteen minutes, then noticed how chilly it seemed to be getting the temperature appeared to be dropping lower. Then the overcast skies started to release a light cool drizzle.

Bonnie took this as her cue to go back to the shelter of the room she had been sharing with Damon, just it case it started to rain heavier. There she would wait for his return to see what supplies he had gotten from Luke and how helpful it would be on their continued journey once they had left the village tomorrow.

Halfway back to where she was trying to get, a voice called out for her.

"Bonnie, there you are." Jo was the voice who had called out.

Because Jo had called out from behind her, Bonnie stopped and looked over her shoulder. "Uh, hey, Jo."

"I've been looking all over for you." Jo stopped next to her.

"Really, why?" Bonnie wanted to know.

"I just really need to see you." Jo replied.

Bonnie fully faced her now. "What it is,Jo?"

Jo acted like she was frantic about something. "We have an emergency."

Bonnie was brought to attention. "Emergency, what it is?"

"I can't explain it to you here, but I do need your help or our village could be in trouble." Jo added.

"Sure, I'll help however I can." Bonnie was somewhat alarmed, wondering what kind of trouble it was. And if the trouble meant that the village was in some type of danger.

"Follow me to the town hall." Jo directed towards Bonnie.

Worried about the source of trouble, Bonnie followed Jo to discover was. Jo lead her down blocks, until they came up upon the building in which the Parker family held their town halls. Bonnie was on Jo's heels as they entered into the town hall building.

Once they entered the building Jo turned to an unsuspecting Bonnie, who had no clue about her family's true intentions or what was really about to happen. Jo herself wasn't as on board with what Kai wanted to do with Bonnie or Damon for that matter.

But, Jo was also family first before everything, she didn't agree with Kai's schemes completely, but still was in on the plan because she had to do what she had to do for the betterment of the Parkers. It was sort of a shame, since Jo thought that Bonnie appeared to be a nice woman.

Bonnie looked around the large room, there were a bunch of stair chairs all in a row and a speaker stand at the front of the room. But, there wasn't another person in the room besides her and Jo. The room was empty and she didn't see anything.

"Where is the trouble?" Bonnie questioned.

"Just over this way." Jo muttered and lead Bonnie over to a smaller room.

The smaller room had a desk, with one big desk chair behind it and was some kind of office, but again Bonnie saw nothing. She was about to question Jo once more.

"Please wait right here." Jo told her.

"Why did you bring me here for saying that there is trouble? I don't get it." Bonnie was perplexed.

"Wait here and you'll soon see." Jo started with a strange expression appearing on her face.

Bonnie eyed the brunette Parker woman with confusion.

Jo quickly left the room without saying another word.

Placing the hands on her hips, Bonnie thought that Jo was behaving oddly during the last couple of minutes, but just put it off on Jo having her mind on whatever trouble that there was suppose to be.

A minute or so passed by and Bonnie stood in the room alone for Jo to return. Just as she was about to exit to see what the hold up was the door to the room opened again. Bonnie was expecting Jo to come back with an explanation.

But, the person who entered into the room with her wasn't Jo, it was Kai instead. Upon seeing her standing there in the room alone, Kai primed himself up, he had her where he wanted her, a chance to win her over to his side without Damon being immediately around her.

"Bonnie?" Kai acted like he was surprised to see her there.

"Kai?" Bonnie returned since she thought it would be Jo.

"What are you doing in here?" Kai pretended like he wasn't expecting to be here in this room at all.

Looking around the office, Bonnie replied. "I was lead here."

Kai asked. "Really, by who?"

Bonnie answered, "Jo, she told me to follow her here, then she told me to wait here for her."

Kai stood by the door. "Interesting, don't know why Jo would what you in here."

"There's an emergency." Bonnie spoke up.

"An emergency you say." Kai went.

"Aren't you guys dealing with some sort of emergency right now?" Bonnie inquired.

Kai made it like he was none the wiser. "Not that I know of."

The Bennett shook her head. "You don't know, there is some sort of trouble happening, at least according to Jo."

Kai scratched the top of his head. "Have no clue why Jo mentioned there was trouble, because there is no trouble, neither is there an emergency."

"You're sure about that." Bonnie frowned.

""Very sure, all is fine and well in the Parker Village." Kai said.

"Then why would Jo say that there is trouble." Bonnie furrowed her brow, even more confused.

Kai made a motion with his hands. "You know, I'm going to be honest with you here."

She wondered what Kai was preferring to.

"Jo is very mentally ill." Kai claimed.

"She is?" Bonnie was taken aback.

"I know when you first meet her, it may not seem obvious to people who first meet her. But, it's well known in the Parker family that Jo has a mental illness, some days you wouldn't know that she has one. Then there are other times where the symptoms of her mental illness comes out in the clear." Kai put a sad look on his face.

Bonnie responded. "Oh, I'm sorry to hear of Jo struggling with mental illness, I guess it can't be easy to see someone you are close to with those issues."

Working on the fib he just told, Kai kept on, hoping to get Bonnie to feel sorry for Jo, then playing like he was so sad over Jo's mental illness, that she would feel sorry for him in return and he would be able to use it to his advantage by getting her to go along with his plans.

"It's really tough to see my sister go through it. Her mind wreaks havoc on her sometimes and it's heartbreaking for me, her brother to see. And there is no psychiatrist around to help her through her problems, so she goes untreated through her illness." Kai put a tone in his voice like he wanted to cry, even though he really didn't."

"Sounds difficult for Jo, you and your family. I never had known anyone to suffer with mental illness." Bonnie said as she pitied Jo. "But, at least she has the support system of your family to help her through it."

"Yes, she has to lean on me the most, I'm always there for her because she's my blood you know." Kai pressed a hand to his chest.

"You must be a really great brother then." Bonnie guessed,

Kai went on dramatically. "We Parkers always fight for family, especially me."

Even while she felt bad for Jo going through this mental illness, she was also relieved because…"I'm glad there is no real trouble going on, Jo had me very concerned for a moment."

Kai let out a breath. "We've all faced our fair share of trouble."

"Yeah,,well. If all is fine and well, then I guess I'll be heading back." Bonnie adjusted the wool beanie on her head.

"Why the rush?" Kai saw how she was about to leave the room.

"No rush, really I just figured that I ought to go back to the small house I've been staying at during my visit here." Bonnie shrugged.

This was when Kai saw his opprounity to make his move. "You wouldn't made staying here and chatting with me for a while would you."

"Chatting about?" Bonnie wanted to know.

"A topic which for me which I find interesting and you could find interesting to, if you'd give me this moment to listen to something I need to say to you." Kai started.

"Okay….I can't think of a topic of discussion which would interest both you and me." Bonnie deadpanned.

"Stick around to give me a chance to tell you and I think you'll agree with me." A certain gleam of a hopeful man entered Kai's eyes.

Bonnie sighed, she figured that it couldn't hurt. "Sure, I can chat with you for a few minutes I guess."

Kai smiled, believing his path to victory was now opened. "A few minutes is all I need."

Placing her hands in the pockets of her jacket, she waited for Kai to go on with whatever he wanted to chat about.

Licking his lips, Kai began. "My topic of discussion is loneliness."

",,,,,,,,,,Loneliness." Bonnie repeated the word after a pause.

"Yep, you heard me right." Kai nodded.

"Alright, how would you think that this topic would be a interest to me?" Bonnie didn't quite get it.

"It will be of interest to you, after you listen to what I have to say." Kai was so sure about this.

Bonnie just eyed him, she had only agreed to stick around and chat with him as a way not to be rude, but still had no clue where he was going with this thing. "If you say so."

Kai added. "As much as I love my family, enjoy spending time with them, there is just times where I feel lonely. Have you ever had times where you felt lonely, Bonnie?"

Bonnie deflected in a civil manner. "That's the kind of thing I wouldn't feel comfortable revealing to you. No offense, it's just I don't share personal information about myself unless I am very familiar with that person."

Kai shifted, "No offense taken, I'll just share with you again how I feel lonely at times."

She wasn't sure why he was sharing this type of information about himself with her, but played along with it. "Shocking with you having all of this family around here."

"I know it must be shocking for anyone to hear me say this, after all I have seventy family members around here, and one might think that it's impossible for me to feel lonely. But, there is still a type of love family just can't provide."

"For years now I've this feelings inside of me, this need to find something and someone more. Something that the Parkers can't provide me. Because I've wanted to find a romantic type of love. The woman who could be my one, my one which I could form a romantic relationship with. Build a future with and eventually have a family with and I've been waiting for years in hopes of finding such a woman." Kai finished wistfully.

"Oh, wow, well I'm sure you'll luck out and find her one day if you look hard enough." Bonnie commented to be nice.

"You believe so?" Kai smiled as he felt arrogance that she was appealing in favor of him.

Bonnie mentioned. "I mean some folks think that there is a person out there to match up with everyone, even in a world like this one. So if they are correct,then you can find a woman one day if you look hard enough."

Kai edged slightly closer to her. "Thing is I've already find her."

Bonnie gave him a gaze. "You have, is she somewhere else, because I haven't seen anyone else besides Parkers around here in relation to you."

"Boy, are you modest." Kai let out a laugh.

"Huh?" Bonnie blinked.

"I really wish you decided to stay in our village on a permanent basis, I think that it would be best for you." Kai pressed.

Bonnie's head nearly spun at his redirection. "I can't stay here and I have no desire to, although your family has built quite the establishment, it's just that staying here isn't to the benefit of either Damon or me."

Kai insisted in a low tone. "I'm just trying to look out for your here, I wish you would change your mind, again me and my family would welcome you if you wanted to live here for good."

Bonnie returned respectfully. "Sorry, I'm grateful that your family opened your homes up to us, and so is Damon. But, it just is not meant for either of us of to stay here, him and me just have to move on."

"I'm just trying to understand, you have the guarantees of shelter and a daily source of food if you lived here. Out there is a harsh, and if you travel, then food sources and finding shelter isn't as guaranteed." Kai pressed making sure to keep his tone friendly as if he cared.

"Yeah, it's a rough earth to navigate through on foot, then having to survive. Yet, Damon and I have manage to be doing well at it so far, so I think we'll be fine from here on out." Said Bonnie.

Kai disliked Damon's name being mentioned by her, but he didn't let it show on the outside. "The offer is still always open for the both of you to stay, think about that before you make a final decision to leave."

"Why are you so insisted on me staying here?" Bonnie was wondering why he kept pushing the issue, even though both her and Damon had told him several times that neither of them wanted to stay.

"To be honest with you, it's because you intrigue me. I happen to find you a loyal, smart, and kind woman." Kai tried with a flirt.

"Um…..alright." Bonnie reacted awkward, because Kai seemed to have just did a pick up line on him, but she wasn't feeling him in that way. So, him telling her what he just did just made her feel awkward and not flattered like he may have expected her to be.

Kai voiced with his best charming impression. "Which brings me back to the subject of being lonely. I was having trouble finding that one woman before, but I think my problems have been solved now, because I have found such a woman and the woman is you."

Bonnie's mouth dropped open, as she was caught off of her guard by what Kai had just told her. "Pardon me."

Kai hinted. "I said that the woman is you, you're the one I've been looking for, you are my one."

Bonnie moved her head from side to side in a negative fashion. "Kai,not sure where you are coming out of the blue with this bu…."

Kai interrupted her. "Not out of the blue, I've had a feeling that you were my one since I first saw you standing there with your gun drawn. When I came across you, everything told me that my search was over. And I admit, I want you to stay because I don't want to lose out on a potential chance with you."

Bonnie cleared her throat. "Seems like you're in a bit of a rush there, I'm not sure what you feel like you felt when you saw me, but it can't be possible you feel like you are saying, I mean you don't even really know me."

"Who says two people have to know each other a long time always, sometimes love happens at first sight and I know that it happened for me the first time I saw you." Kai pronounced in his classic cunning way.

"You must be mistaken." Bonnie felt nothing as he attempted to reveal this things to her, except for weirded out some, because he was someone who didn't know her on a personal level and vice versa.

"I'm not mistaken, I can tell you with a certainty that you are the woman I can see myself having the romantic relationship with in which I sought out for so long, I just know it deep down because I can see it inside of you and it matches what is inside of me. I hope you can see it too." Kai leered at her.

Even while she was starting to feel a little uncomfortable with the direction that Kai was taking the conversation, Bonnie decided to turn him down with a easy manner. "Look, Kai you seem like a decent man, but whatever you thought you have found when you saw me, I'm not feeling the same way about you and I hope you can find what you are looking for elsewhere but it's not with me."

Kai gestured between the two of them. "No need for me to look elsewhere, because after you whichever woman I ran across next will come up vastly short compared to you."

Bonnie vocalized. "Come on, how can you say that if I'm the first non-related woman you seen in a while, but whatever the case the woman you are looking for isn't me. But, I'm sure if you search hard enough you'll find a woman who would equally feel the same way about you as you do about her."

"I wish you could see how you were the one for me." Kai told her.

"But, I'm telling you I'm not." Bonnie tried to remain nice as she turned him away once more.

"Maybe I could prove differently to you." Kai kept on with his advances.

"There is nothing you can do to prove differently to me, because I mean it when I say I'm not interested." Bonnie told him seriously.

Still believing that he could have his way, Kai went with another tactic. "You feel like you aren't interested now, but I know you could feel the other way, if you would just give me a chance to change your mind. I really do like you a lot and I guarantee you would feel the same about me, if you give me the time of day to prove myself to you. I could show you an incredible time and give you an incredible life."

"Stay here, with me and you won't regret it. I'll see it is the best decision you could make for both of our lives. You are just the type of woman who would match up perfectly with me and I'll be your perfect match. Be with me, give me a chance. And you and I can build a future together in this world like no other couple did before us. Be with me and together we can be the one." Kai ended sure of himself.

However, Bonnie wasn't convinced by his speech. "I don't wish or want to be with you, I just don't picture myself ever seeing you in such a manner. Now I'm going to try to ask you as nice a possible to back up and drop the subject."

The grey-bluish eyed Parker didn't want to give up just yet. "If you were with me, then you would be treated like royalty around here by my family and me. You'd be treated like a queen. And us two would make for an unstoppable duo. I would treat you so well if you'd just became my woman, stay here and build a future with me, starting from this day let me provide you with a chance to be your man, because I really do think that you are intriguing woman and my one, I want a chance to start something with you."

Bonnie was losing her patience with him. "I don't want you, Kai. Nor will I ever want to be with you. I don't know how you figured you have these so called feelings towards me. But, they're not ones that I return towards you. I've only met you just a couple of days ago, so there is zero chance of me seeing you in such a way. Again, I'm letting you know I'm not interested. I'm telling you to stop and back off, if you were a decent man you would respect my decision. Because your pressing is starting to make me feel uncomfortable."

Kai disregarded her with yet another attempt to pick her up. "So, you don't have to get with me exactly on today, just stay here in this village, you don't have to travel or leave tomorrow. Prove to yourself you really don't want me and give me a shot to prove how wrong you are and I can be the man for you. You would become a huge part of the Parker family if you are with me. I can be your guy, the one for you, I want to be your one, so what do you say."

"No, I say No, No to being with you, no to staying here. No to any idea of a romantic relationship with you, just no. How many times do I have to say no before you get it." Bonnie snipped out.

"Please, don't be like this, Bonnie, don't do this to me or pass this opportunity up for yourself. You're breaking my heart here, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I let you just walk away." Kai begged, adding in a guilt trip to manipulate her for his gains.

"No means, fucking No. I've had to tell you multiple times in this conversation how I'm not interested in you, yet you keep pressing the damn subject. You and me will never happen in a million years. And now you are violating my boundaries. Get it into your head that I don't want you and leave me the hell alone." Bonnie huffed out losing her last shred of patience.

The arrogant and cocky smile fell from Kai's face. "Hey. relax I was just asking you for a chance."

She rolled her eyes. "And I gave you my damn answer, now stop begging me you look pathetic."

Seeing how his scheme of trying to sweet talk her had failed, Kai's ego was bruised and he became angry at her rejection. "This is the appreciation you show me for what I've done for you."

"Excuse you." Bonnie folded her arms across her chest.

"I opened up my village for a place for you to stop and rest, and you're being ungrateful for it. I deserve something back from you for my generous action." Kai turned on her with a blink of the eye, as his mood was now sour towards her.

"Seriously, I already thanked you for letting me stay here. Otherwise than that I don't owe you anything in return, certainly not the hook up between us you harassed me for. Just because it was helpful for a few days of rest here, doesn't mean I have to give you want you want." Bonnie said to him with a icy tone, she was no longer trying to be nice or respectful towards him.

"All I did was ask you out, you answered like some snob, stuck up woman with a stick up your ass, to me who was just paying you a compliment." Kai nastily blamed her.

Bonnie retorted with attitude. "Unbelievable the sense of entitlement you have to try and make it seem like I'm in the wrong, because I rejected you. When I have a right to refuse your advances. I try to turn you down nicely at first, but you made me have to be blunt with you. You are behaving like as ass at the moment by faulting me because I don't want you."

Kai said to her. "Really, you don't want me? I don't believe it, you were giving me signals all along which told me the opposite."

Bonnie scoffed. "How asinine, I never gave you signals to tell you I was interested in you."

Kai responded with rudeness. "Come on, you been giving it away, sending me looks and signals to make me believe I could win you over. Now you want to pretend otherwise but I know what I saw from you."

"Oh my God, you're cleary are delusional. You take me being civil with you and completely misread by intentions, then try to act like I lead you on or some bullshit. You are just the type of man who takes any sort of positive attention from a woman and assume she was to be with you or believe you being decent means that a woman should jump in the bed with you. As I said you have a sense of entitlement, you are wrong on so many accounts. It's not my fault your ego misinterpreted me."

"You're behaving in a bitchy way right now, losing out on the best experience I could provide you in your entire life time." Kai bitterly told her.

"First of all, you don't know me like that. Second calling me 'bitchy', ha you have a over inflated self worth, if you truly believe the bullshit coming out of your mouth. And now I recognize your nice guy act was just a facade for you to try to get me to stay here and join your side. However, I refused your advances and you, because of this you can't handle it and are showing your true colors, behaving like a total, immature manchild." Bonnie callously lashed him.

Kai thumbed his chest. "Shut up, you don't know how many women would jump at the chance to be with me, I'm the greatest, finest looking man they could lay eyes on."

She laughed without the humor. "Try not to flatter yourself, you're average at best and not all of that. Your jackass behavior is a real turn off, and any woman worth her smarts would run in the opposite direction when she saw you for what you are, just like I'm about to do."

Something entered into Kai's eyes. "Not accepting me is the biggest mistake you could ever make in your life."

"Whatever, I've had enough of this conversation with you. You have ruined by mood, and I no longer desire to stay in this village anywhere around you, so I'm going." Bonnie firmly told him.

"Just where do you think you are going?" Kai asked with a sneer.

"Going away from here, most importantly away from you, over staying this welcome, I think it's about time I leave here." Bonnie eyed him with what was going into intense dislike.

"You're not going anywhere just yet." Kai returned.

Bonnie narrowed her eyes. "Indeed, I am going somewhere."

Kai denied. "I'm not done with you, yet"

Bonnie sneered. "Could care less how you feel, I'm finished with you, I'm getting the hell out of here."

Moving to block her path to the door Kai put in. "I don't think so."

"Get the hell out of my way, Kai and allow me to leave." Bonnie warned.

"No, I won't allow you to leave me." Kai didn't budge.

"Try to stop me from doing so." Bonnie challenged with deadiness.

Kai gave her a condescending expression.

"Move, you can't prevent me from leaving, I'm going to go and get Damon." Bonnie stated her irritation growing by the minute.

More bitterness filled Kai at the her bringing up Damon's name. "Him."

Bonnie emphasis. "Yes, Damon. I'm finding him, then he and I are going to leave this place together and never look back."

Kai mocked. "You sound so sure how Damon and you will leave together, like it's nothing."

She gave The Parker male before her a fierce glare. "Of course I'm sure he'll leave with me, especially after I tell him about your behavior towards me, which I know he isn't going to be happy about. So, I suggest you cut your losses, let me leave with Damon, before you get on his bad side like you're doing with me."

Kai's lips turned downward as he felt an irrational amount of hate towards Damon. "What makes you believe I worry about getting on his bad side."

"Giving you a heads up on proceeding with caution, it's best for you if we avoid more conflict in this situation, because whatever more conflict you cause with me and him, it won't end well for you. So, I strongly suggest that you let us get out of here, part our different directions, because Damon and me are a duo many along the way have regretted challenging." Bonnie commented in a matter of fact way.

"Of course, Damon, a man who you freely go along with." Kai felt great bitterness.

"I go along with him because I have known him for an extended period of time, which has enabled me to have a close bond with him. So, yeah I'm gladly going along with him." Bonnie mentioned.

"And you are willing to give him a chance to be close to you, but can't give me the same chance. Not playing fair." Kai accused.

"Because he earned his way into a relationship with me and is worthy of my time and attention, you aren't, it's the difference between you and him." Bonnie declared.

Kai boosted himself up. "If I were in the same position he were in as far as you were concerned, then you would know I am the better man over Damon and if you'd only had taken me up on my proposal, you would never go back to him again."

She snickered sarcastically. "You are very full of yourself, aren't you."

Kai pressed his lips together indignantly. "I am the better man over him."

A smirk in which Damon would be proud of crossed Bonnie's face. "You aren't even the same ballpark, hell even the same state as Damon is. He is a far superior person than you ever could imagine being. And he is ten times the man you wish to be. He is a gentlemen often and actually has the common courtesy and decency to respect my boundaries and backup with I tell him no, unlike you. You pale compared to the man he is." Bonnie conveyed with honesty.

"Not fair to me.," Kai responded like a spoiled child who wasn't getting his way.

"Get a hold of yourself, I'm beginning to be embarrassed for you." Bonnie shook her head.

"You speak so highly of him." Kai squinted.

This man before her was grating her last nerves, yet still she spoke her mind. "Every word I said about him is one hundred percent accurate and I say them because Damon means a lot to me and I care about him."

"Is that all, you're only speaking this way because you just care about him?" Kai questioned.

Bonnie confirmed. "Is is what I said isn't it."

Kai went on. "I doubt it's the only reason why you are standing up for Damon and claim to be so close to him."

Bonnie showed annoyance. "I claim what is the truth."

Kai spat out. "Why don't you just admit it, you two are fucking each other."

"What." Said Bonnie.

"No need to deny it, I've been watching the two of you and I can see with my eyes have you been fucking Damon." Kai throw at her with envy in his tone.

"You really have all of the nerve to make judgments on me and Damon when you know neither of us." Bonnie featured coolly.

"Is that a denial? I've seen the way you two look at each other and how you interact with him, if you aren't fucking him than you certainly want to." Kai accused.

She observed Kai and how he seemed to be obviously envy filled towards Damon and her relationship with Damon. Kai was able to see how something more was going on between her and Damon, and even though he was actually right, she was too pissed and irritated with Kai, to confess or admit his suspicions.

Bonnie scoffed. "Doesn't matter what you figured that you saw between Damon and me, it's none of your fucking business nor is it your concern."

Kai waved his hands wildly. "You deny and refuse me then you are willing to spread your legs for him, I shouldn't stand for this mistreatment towards me."

Bonnie snarled. "Had enough of you and your distasteful behavior, you have pressed me for long enough and no longer deserve my attention, now I'm going to find Damon and getting the fuck out of here with him."

"I told you, I'm not ready for you to leave yet." Kai stomped his foot petuntaley.

"I'm leaving with Damon whether you like it or not, you have already manage to piss me off, it's only a matter of time before Damon comes back with those supplies and sees that I'm missing. Then he'll come looking for me, you don't want him discovering you here with me, harassing me, because it wouldn't end well for you. It's in your best interest to let me alone." Bonnie threatened seriously.

"I'm not worried about Damon, he is busy at the moment and won't be seeing you anytime soon." Kai told her.

"He won't be so busy when he discovers what is really going on, he'll drop all to find me." Bonnie stated.

Kai stood near the door, where he hardly had moved since he entered into the room with her. "You have confidence he would care enough about you to find you."

Bonnie proclaimed with full faith. "Yeah, I do."

Kai snickered crudely. "Your confidence in him his misplaced. You'll be disappointed if you think he is coming for you. My brothers have him preoccupied at this very moment, if he tries something stupid then they will take care of him."

"And just explain how they will take care of him." Her jaw clenched.

"He's going to have a choice or whether or not he wants to leave you here, and travel by himself from now on." Kai told her.

"You're being absurd, Damon would never in a million years leave me behind, nor would I leave you behind. So, whatever startgery you have thought up to break apart him and I it will fail." She lifted up her chin.

Kai humped his shoulders upward in a shrug. "And I have already planned out a solution, just in case he is stubborn and rejects the offer I'm sure my brothers have made him by now, either way let's just say how my brothers and the rest of the Parker klan will guarantee you'll never see Damon again."

Irritation flashed into outrage, as Bonnie didn't like the vibe in which he had delivered those words about her best friend. "Look I have no idea about the shit you're attempting to pull here, but I do know that if you or your brothers hurt or harm Damon in any form, I'll make you pay and regret the day you ever saw my face."

Nearly amused by the outrage his threat towards Damon had caused out of her, Kai clapped his hands together and whistled. "Whoa, fascinating the passion you have when I said what I did about your boy toy."

Bonnie clenched her fists at her side. "I damn well mean it, harm a single hair on his head and I'll melt your face off of your skull."

"Not in the position to threaten me." Kai directed with a snap on his fingers.

"Not a threat, it's a promise, so I suggest you stop testing me." Bonnie was deadly sincere and not in the mood to play around.

"Doesn't matter, you're not in control, he's not in control, me and my family are the ones who are in control. And if either of you or him try anything, then you'll just have to learn the hard way of what the Parkers are capable of." Kai said to her, his grey bluish eyes turning wild.

"You're wrong he'll fight his way out if your brothers try to attack him, you aren't in as much control as you think you are." Bonnie responded furious.

Kai tsked. "I know I'm right, just as I know that Damon is most likely already dead at the hands of my brother."

Bonnie raised her voice. "No, he isn't, I would feel it inside if he was, but I'm so connected with him I know he is still alive."

Kai wiggled his fingers. "Well, if he isn't dead already, he soon we be. All because he may have refused to do what me and my family told him to do."

She shook her head frantically, she couldn't bare it if she had ever lost Damon, knew she would fall into a pit of panic and despair if she ever did. So she declined to believe what Kai wanted her to believe.

Seeing her reaction and how the thought of Damon being dead clearly bothered her, Kai enjoyed it. As it was sort of his payback to her for turning him down.

"Oh, Bonnie don't worry once Damon is dead, I'll be sure no part of him goes to waste." Kai showed his teeth cruelty.

"No part of him goes to waste." She repeated, how Kai had said those words didn't set well with her.

"We all will delightfully consume him just as we have done with other people." Kai cheerfully revealed.

Bonnie's vocalized with abruptness. "We, consume?"

Kai explained to her as something glinted in his eyes. "Duh, we as in my family and you know consume, like how people say they use every part of the pig or cow. It's the same with us, except for with people."

When Bonnie connected the dots, dread entered the pit of her stomach. "You…."

The Parker man eagerly cut her off. "I was going to try and ease you into this slowly, but I might as well confess this to you since you were going to learn eventually. We Parkers consume people."

"Cannibals, you and your entire family are cannibals. " Bonnie featured shock.

"You've just discovered the secret to how me and all of my family are so well feed." Kai boasted.

"Eating human beings is appalling, disgusting, and creepy." Bonnie voiced repulsed by the notion.

"When the world almost ended, all of the food sources were extremely diminished. All of us had to find a way to adjust to the how scarce food was. My family adjusted by eating people, not such a big deal." Kai dismissed nonchalantly.

She eyed him as if he was the grossest creature she had ever laid eyes on. "Every last one of you is sick for deciding to hunt down humans like they are animals, then eating them."

Kai expressed wickedly. "We all have to eat. We all have to do what we need to do in order to get food into our bellies."

Bonnie noted firmly. "I'd rather starve to death then to ever sink so low as to do something so unimaginable as eating people."

Kai sighed. "Right, you are one of those moral types who look down on cannibals. To us cannibals, however we see ourselves as the same as any other person who eats things like cows,pigs, chickens, whatever you name. Plus, my belly stays full in most meals, I prefer that to going hungry."

"There's nothing good about eating a person, there is no way you can try to make your family's diet practices okay. It's one of the most heinous actions people can commit on this planet and in the condition that this planet is in, it says a lot." Bonnie made a face.

"No shame in what I do or what I eat, I put myself living first, and if I have to eat human flesh to do so, then so be it." Kai shrugged off.

"Wait you're actually proud of how you choose to eat." Bonnie observed in disbelief.

"Why wouldn't I be?" Kai questioned.

Bonnie replied. "Perhaps because people with human dignity would at least be in conflict with themselves for making such a choice."

Kai retorted. "Conflict, conflict does me zero good. Should I be expected to feel bad, feel remorse for where my food source comes from, that does me no good either. When you consider how many thousands of people have died, lost their life because of lack of food. I do all I can to avoid their tragic fate. I eat to live, the Parkers discovered cannibalism years ago and we have since then mastered and became experts at it. I'm proud of that."

"Takes an awful person to be proud of such, a disgusting act." Bonnie put in flatly.

"You are very quick to pass judgment, are you telling me that you or Damon never killed another human being in your whole lives? Because I find it hard to believe how someone could get by in today's era and not manage to kill for survival." Kai inclined his head.

"There is no comparison between the two, I kill in self defense, only out of necessity, when I don't have a choice. You murdering people in cold blood and eating them is something else entirely, there are choices of other food sources and you choose to go with the cruelest one." Snapped Bonnie.

"Hmmm. I noticed you left out Damon there, does that mean he has killed some people when it wasn't in self defense or when he didn't have a choice." Kai caught on.

Defensiveness entered into Bonnie's voice. "Whatever Damon has done in his past, he never once murdered people for inhumane cannibalism, he took no thrill in killing and certainly wasn't proud of it."

Responding with cockiness Kai returned. "Hey, there is no point in life if I can't have the joy the life I live. Besides it's still about living and surviving through any means necessary, there isn't shame in that."

She eyed the atrocious man before her. "To think you tried to manipulate me into living here in this village for good with you, what in the world makes you believe I would be alright with your families diet practices? You're absolutely insane if you believe I would be okay with cannibalism."

"Well, I was hoping to ease you into it. I mean, it's sort of an acquired taste, then again once you get used to the human flesh, it's actually quite delicious." Kai gloated.

"Wait when you offered Damon and me food, you were actually offering us human meat." It suddenly dawned on Bonnie as she remembered the time Kai had offered them breakfast, but her and Damon had chosen to eat the deer meat they had instead.

"Indeed, I offered you both human meat without actually letting you know that you are going to eat that, I thought it would be amusing myself, to see you taste it without actually knowing what you were consuming. It would have been something else if either of you had turned out liking the taste. Was disappointed when you didn't." Kai frowned.

Bonnie's stomach churned sickly, as she thought of how her and Damon could have had eaten human without either of them knowing they had do so.

Kai teased once he saw her reaction. "You are bothered by what I just told you."

She sent him a steely glare. "Yeah, I'm offended as a normal person who be about being fed something so gross. The thought of eating another human being makes me want to throw up."

Said Kai devilishly. "Cannibalism isn't for all people, I get that. Still it's a eat or be eaten world though and I prefer to do the eating. At least when you and Damon turned down my offer for breakfast, it provided more for me just to eat. The woman I had was so tasty."

"The woman….." Bonnie paused as it came back to her. "...The lady who tried to kill Damon and I the other day, she is the one you are talking about."

"The lady was the one who I ate." Kai confirmed.

"You lied when you told Damon and I she was the bad guy, who attacked your village for no reason. You and your family weren't defending yourselves, you were chasing her and hunting her down to eventually have her for food." Bonnie realized.

"We were holding her prisoner to keep her alive and fresh, until we were ready to kill her for eating. Then she escaped and tried to get away from us. It was just a matter of timing when she ran into you and Damon. I did tell you the truth about how she got her fatal injuries from attempting to fight us back." Kai confessed.

It made sense to Bonnie now. "No wonder it looked like that lady had lost her mind, she knew what you and your family wanted to do. And therefore tried defending and escaping from this twisted place."

Kai tapped his chin in consideration. "We did keep her prisoner for days, I guess knowing she was going to die to feed me and my family made her go mad in the mind."

Bonnie pointed out. "She told Damon and I she was going to kill us, because she mistaken us a part of your family and thought me and him wanted to do her harm as well."

"A misunderstanding." Kai waved off.

"You committed reprehensible crimes against the poor lady." Bonnie added harshly.

"At least she got put to good use, rather than just rotting away buried in the ground, which by the way we never did. I just told the others to bury her body, as a cover while you and Damon were around, but once the body was out of sight of you, it got put to good use."

"As I said, having her for breakfast on the morning I offered you and Damon food, was delightful for me, there's something about eating human flesh when the body is just a couple of days old." Kai finished.

She wanted to hurl as he explained to her about his eating habits.

Kai reveled as he described further. "I like all parts of the human body and by no means am I a picky eater. But, you know my favorite part is the heart. There's just something so delicate about the heart, the texture of it as it goes into my mouth and down by throat."

Bonnie cringed. "You're a freak and an abomination."

Kai checked out his nails. "I would prefer being called a sociopath, feelings can be hard, but being a sociopath fits me so well."

Bonnie knew now more than ever how Kai wasn't going to ever be willing to let her go. And she also knew that his family intended to do great harm to Damon. She had no idea what predicament Damon was in at the moment, she just felt a strong urgency hitting her at once to get to him and to get the two of them out of there. Problem was that Kai was blocking her way.

So she looked at the door which Kai was standing in front of to try and get her brain to think of a plan on how to get herself out and to get to Damon.

"You wouldn't want to do that." Kai inched his way closer to her.

Her instinct told her this was a situation she and Damon would both have to fight their way out of and she was prepared to fight. Her hands balled into fists at her sides, as she gave Kai another icy stare.

"No need of you trying to escape, even if you somehow manage to make it past me then Ren is guarding the other side of the door, so you want make it far, I suggest you give up, because I always win." Kai stated.

"Never." Bonnie defied him, she wouldn't allow herself to be held a false prisoner inside of this room for any longer. She moved forward and attempted to shove herself past Kai to get to the door and get out.

"Where do you think you're going to." Kai grabbed roughly onto her arm to stop her.

"Get your damn hands off of me." Bonnie snatched her arm out on his grip.

Grabbing onto her arm again, Kai did it with more force to hold her into place. "If you think you're just going to him then you have another thing coming. I told you before, Damon isn't going to be living for much longer, if he isn't dead already."

Cursing herself for leaving her handguns back near her back pack, which was all the way across the village in the room she and Damon had slept in. "I swear, if you dare to hurt him, you'll be….."

Kai became unhinged. "I'll be what sorry? You have such deep feeling for him, you would threaten me at the thought of him being in danger. While you choose to leave with him over staying here with me. I won't take getting rejected for men like him. Women such as yourself will learn a lesson about dare rejecting me. You're the one who is going to be sorry."

As he dugged his fingers into her arm as hard as he could, Bonnie grimace in pain as she tried to wiggle her way free of him.

"And I'll teach Damon a lesson too, He's going to die and then I'm going to cut his heart out of his chest and watch the emotional agony come across your face as I consume it piece by piece." Kai ranted demently into her ear.

"No." Bonnie reared back on a yell, disturbed, triggered, anguished at the idea of such a terrible thing being done to Damon. Not a lot of things could get to her emotionally, yet the thought of Damon murdered, and become a victim of cannibalism caused her great heartache.

"Then I'm going to tie you down to a chair, cut Damon's corpse into tiny little pieces and force feed him to you, make you eat the man you're so bonded to." Kai screamed feeding off of her distress she was currently in.

It registered with her during this very moment, she was dealing with a man she had never dealt with before. Although she had ran into many bad people in her life time, there was something different about Kai than all of those other people. Kai Parker was truly a sick, horrid, twisted, depraved man. His demeanor now showed her a type of evil in which she had never seen before. He was the demonized version of a human being and most of all seemed to enjoy it. Just like he admitted to embrace being a sociopath.

The friendly, nice guy he had showed when he first met her and Damon was all just pretend. A front put on to lure them into a sense of comfort and trust around him. So, that he could con them into a trap to pull the very thing that he was pulling currently. And her and Damon had fallen for it. But, now seeing the real Kai Parker had Bonnie shaken to her very core.

"You are a fucking monster." Bonnie told her both in anger and horror at this last words.

"I'm a monster, If you see me as a monster than I'll show you what a monster is. I'll teach you a thing or two about a thing or two." Kai barked.

"Let go of me." Bonnie gritted her teeth.

This made Kai only tighten his already painful hold on her arm.

Bonnie yelp out in pain. "Quit, it you're hurting me."

Yanking her roughly by her arm, Kai's face contorted into a sinister, crazed way. "I'll do more than just hurt you. You're going to remain here with me for the rest of your life and there is nothing you can do about it. I always get what I want and what I want is you. You will be my mate, my one, and you'll be the mother to by seed. And I'm going to have my way with you one way or another."

Seeing the intention in those cold, evil grey bluish eyes filled her with terror, made her now afraid of having him force himself on her in an unwanted manner. "No, I said I don't want you."

His face in what some might consider attractive, twisted into a depraved glee. "If you won't give yourself up willing, then I'll have to take you by force then."

"No, Stop, I don't want this." She tried punching him hard in his chest to get him to let her go, but it did no good.

"Resisting, will only make this hurt more." Kai told her loudly.

He began by trying to kiss her on her lips, against her will. Disgusted and afraid, she held him at arms, length which prevented him from kissing her. Her holding him back from doing this made him try to force himself on her sexually more. Bonnie tried with all of her physical might to fight him off and resist him. To get out of the hold he had her in.

Kai pawed at her heavy jacket, which shielded her body. Trying to force it off of her with his free hand, while the other still had a bruisin grip on her arm. He kept trying to kiss her unwanted, press his body against hers, and getting the jacket off of her. Bonnie continued fighting him tooth and nail.

The more she fought him, the angerier that Kai got and the rougher with her he became. Bonnie screamed out with tears streaming down her face. Fear, rage, and the need to defend herself all consumed her at the same time. She had visions of rape on her mind and it was the last thing she wanted to happen to herself. She went into a fight or flight mood, her mind searching for how to get herself out of this situation.

That was when she remembered her knife strapped to her ankle. She didn't have her guns but she had her knife which was always strapped to her ankle.

Out of desperation she stuck her thumb in his left eye and dug in as hard as she could, making sure to use her finger nail as she did so. She dug it deep into his socket until she could feel her thumb hit his eyeball.

Immediately Kai released her from his grasp and his attack on her briefly came to a halt, as Kai stumbled back howling in pain.

While he was off his keyter she reached down, quickly grabbing the knife which was strapped to her leg.

"You cunt." Kai hollered as his left eye was shut, with juices from it running down his face as it was severely injured. "You're going to pay for hurting me."

With her heart pounding in her chest, she raised the knife by its handle and got into a defensive stance.

Kai then lunged at her, only being able to see out of his other eye now, inches away from presuming his assault on her.

Like an animal caged, trapped into a corner and legitimately afraid she was going to get raped or worse, she roared. "I said NO." Then proceeded to slash the blade of the knife across his jugular, which immediately stopped Kai in his tracks. Shock, then something like fear entered into his eyes as he realized he had just been injured in a severe way.

His throat was gashed open in a wide and deep cut from the blade of Bonnie's knife. Blood squirted out on the gash in his throat and onto Bonnie. He opened his mouth to say something, but only gurgling sounds came out. Kai stumbled back, grasping at his throat, trying to stop the bleeding, but it was of no use, as the blow was already fatal with how deep the cut was and the amount of blood he was losing.

Still lost in the emotions of all that had just went down, with all of the threats Kai had made, including to Damon's life, how he said he was going to eat Damon, then make her eat him. That combined with how Kai had just endangered her life, well being and had attempted to rape her, it was what caused Bonnie to do what she did next.

Staggering forward she let out another roar and stab him in the chest, with the blade of the knife penetrating deep into Kai's heart. Then she pulled the knife out which caused more of Kai's blood to spatter onto her hands and face.

The two knife wounds to his throat and chest was severe and too much for Kai's body to overcome, his eyes rolled into the back of his head, she he collapsed backwards onto the ground. Where he took a few for gasps of air, before he died.

Blood fastly drained from Kai's wounds and pooled beneath him on the floor. She stood there in frozen shock, breathing heavily, emerald green eyes wide. Her adrenaline pumping, the fear and rage of what had just happened coursing through her as she stared down at Kai's fresh dead body. The knife dripping with his blood in her hand.

However, before she could even recover from what had just gone down. The door to the room slammed open.

Ren who had stepped away for some time to go and take a smoke off of a cigarette outside of the town hall building. Had just come back inside, when he heard the commotion going down in the room. He then barged in to see what was causing it.

"Kai?" Ren called out in question. "Why…" He stopped when he saw his cousin on the floor, laying in his own pool of blood, dead. "Kai.." Ren called out again this time in grief.

Swallowing with the bloody knife still in her hand, Bonnie's wide green eyes shifted to Ren.

Followed by Ren turning his attention to her, he saw her holding the bloody knife in her hand, saw that her hands was covered with Kai's blood and that the saw was spattered in patterns across her face and connected she was the reason his cousin was now dead with stab wounds.

"What have you done." Ren yelled out in anger.

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Footsteps where in pursuit of him, quickly approaching as Damon took cover behind a house. Hiding away his exact location from the group of Parker men and women who had two goals in mind. Intending to kill him and prevent him from getting to Bonnie and foiling the plans in which Kai had in mind for her.

Their voices could be heard communicating with each other about finding him and ending his life, as well as murmurs about Kai's schemes towards Bonnie. Then when they got closer still, they spoke out to him demanding that he surrender, that he was outnumbered and there was no use in fighting back. Repeating some of the same things Luke had told him, like they were a psycho pathetic family cult.

His mind swam with thoughts and feelings as the group was about to surround him. Then Damon thought about how little time he had to get to Bonnie before harm was done to her at the hands of Kai. When he pictured her well being and life being in danger. Along with her being physically harmed, hurt he became filled with rage. When it hit him how Kai would try to sexually abuse the woman he loved, he got filled with an anger in which he had never felt before. There was no way in hell he was going to let this happen to her if he had anything to do with it.

Fueled by the fury of Bonnie being severely harmed, Damon threw all caution to the wind and secured the assault rifle he had gotten from the man he had killed. Securing the assault rifle in both of his hands, Damon popped out from the cover he had been hiding behind. Saying with determination and grit. "Want a piece of me, here I am fuckers."

Then he automatically started to let out a spray of bullets among the group of Parker family members which were advancing on him. Instantly several of them went down as they were shot by him.

Those who were still standing, returned fire on Damon. Bullets whizzed by his head and body, barely missing him as he ducked behind cover again to avoid getting shot. Bullets ricocheted and bounced off of the house in which he was taking cover behind. Damon let out a stream of curses and thanked his lucky stars at the same time he had managed to avoid getting shot. They shot towards him for a full minute non stop.

When there was a pause in their gunfire, this was when Damon ducked out and began shooting at them again. Once more his bullets had hit its mark as even more of his enemies went down in a hail of his gun power. What he was doing might be considered insane by some. Taking on a bunch of people with guns aiming to try in kill him, when he was all on his own, the odds against him. Putting himself in grave danger of getting shot but he was willing to fight to the death if it meant that he could save Bonnie's life and her well being.

The armed members of those intending to kill him kept trying to advance on him, yet stay back behind their own cover at the same time since they knew he was armed with heavy firepower as well. They shouted at him repeating their threats of wishing to kill him over and over again, communicating with each other about how deadly Damon was since he had taken out a good number of them already and how they needed to take him out.

Instead of being intimidated by the bullets zooming past him, Damon become even more enraged and determined to fight his way out of this. Damon growled out loudly making sure all within listening distance could hear him.

"You all want to take her away from me, huh. I'll slaughter every single one of you and have all of your lives." To back up his words and show how serious he was, Damon again leap out from his cover and shot bullets off in the general direction of the group. Hundreds of rounds of ammo going off per minute. Even more of them went down from the bullets he had fired off at them.

Seeing so many on their side going down by Damon's bullets caused some of them to retreat and others to run away once they saw how skilled Damon was with a gun and how their side was losing despite having the numbers to their advantage.

Continuing to make his way across the village to where Bonnie was being held captive, Damon relentlessly and efficiently mowed down all of those who stood in his trying to shoot him. A bunch of them had decided to abandon the mission of stopping him. Yet there were some left who still tried to fight against him. Damon shot them, causing them to go down dead or severely wounded from the bullets he shot off. Making his way through exchanging gunfire with them, taking cover when he needed to.

When he got a couple of blocks away from the town hall building, he had ran out of bullets from the assault rifle, but the enemies against him had thinned considerably. Since he didn't have more powerful gunfire on him enough to take out multiple people at one time, he switched his tactics to going into stealth mode. Using the distraction of the gun fight, which had no doubt had whoever was left in the Parkers disoriented. He moved behind a thick row of bushes, as a group of unarmed Parkers ran passed him, not seeing him there as they ran around like chickens with their heads cut off.

After a few seconds, he kept moving forward closer to where Bonnie was with Kai. Walking quietly as to not give away his exact location, yet keeping his pace urgent and quick. Using his stealth he got a few yards away from the back of the town hall building, and because of his stealth didn't meet up with any more resistance. He had to get himself and Bonnie out of his hell hole just in case the Parkers decided to gather themselves and come after him again.

Carefully, Damon made his way to down the side of the building, once he got near the front, he peeped around the corner and saw a man there lurking around the front door of the building. Obviously there to guard it and to keep him out of there or to keep Bonnie from trying to escape of she got free of Kai.

The man was facing in the other direction with his back facing towards Damon, looking out in the other way as if he had heard the gunfire, yet didn't want to leave the door unguarded. From the angle he was at, Damon could tell the man couldn't see him and wasn't aware he was so close and right there.

So Damon moved, silently taking slow steps as he sneaked up behind the man. Once he was directly behind the unknown Parker relative he wrapped his arms around the male's neck from behind. The male relative had no idea what had come up upon him, by the time he did it was too late for him.

With brutality Damon choked out the male relative, until he lost was knocked out cold, then let the male relative fall to the guard unconscious. With his path now clear, Damon opened the front door to the town hall building just in time to hear the threatening voice of a man. And that man sounded like Ren. He knew that the person who Ren was yelling at was Bonnie. Hearing the words 'What have you done'.

His eyes scanned the large room he was in until it landed on an open door which Ren's voice was coming from. Damon mouthed. "Bonnie."

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After Ren had yelled at her Bonnie took a few steps backward as her fight or flight mode had to go back up.

Ren moved his eyes from his bloody dead cousin to her. "You murdered Kai."

"I was not murder, I had to kill him in self defense." Bonnie said with a raised voice.

"Liar." Ren yelled again.

"He physically attacked me, tried force himself on me sexually. He left me no choice, I was defending myself." Bonnie returned angrily through clenched teeth.

"Kai only wanted you to be his mate, he was trying to be nice to you. Should have just given him what he wanted, for whatever reason you claimed he attacked you, I'm sure you made it do it." Ren accused her.

This reved her rage up again to the point where she had stopped crying temporarily to aim cold, icy daggers in Ren's direction. "I had every right to refuse him, he threatened me and provoked me. You and your whole family are insane cannibals."

Ren pointed at her. "It's your fault my cousin is now dead."

She told Ren not feeling an ounce of remorse or regret that she had killed Kai. "Your cousin had it coming to him and I'm glad that I killed him."

"You're going to be punished for doing this, me and the rest of my family will slowly make you suffer for murdering one of our most important members." Ren ranted like a lunatic.

"Keep away from me or I'll do the same to you what I just did to your cousin." Bonnie warned with a dangerous look appearing in her eyes.

"You think you will do the same to me, my weapon is bigger than yours." Ren boosted.

Bonnie held her knife in front of her, preparing herself for Ren to try and attack her.

To prove how he had a bigger weapon, Ren pulled out a machete, which had a huge handle and a very long and large blade. It dwarfed many knives including the one she had.

Seeing the machete caused her already pounding heart to pick up a couple of paces, the knife she had was smaller than his. Which made her afraid of how she was going to be able to out maneuver him, avoid getting slashed by the machete and managing to stab Ren at the same time to defend herself.

Believing he had the clear advantage over her, Ren wielded his machete through the air. "Let's see if you can kill me as easily as you killed my cousin."

"Bring it on." Her tone had a boldness to it despite the situation, she was willing to kill again if it meant saving her own life.

Just as Ren took a step towards her, there was a loud sound of footsteps rushing from the entrance of the room. Both Bonnie and Ren looked towards sound. There Damon was standing at the doorway ready to call out Bonnie's name.

She stood there eyeing Damon through wide green eyes which was filled with a mixture of the emotions she was feeling at the moment, relieved to see he was still alive and not dead my Kai's brothers, like Kai said he was going to be. Yet, was stunned in silence for a minute due to all which had played out with Kai and had almost played out with Ren.

Damon's eyes observed the sight, the scene before him. Bonnie was there with her hands coated in blood, with blood spattered on her face and smeared on her jacket. Emotionally she had anger, but even more than anger, fear, terror and horror on her face. A look of someone who was very distressed over their life ending.

Her appearance of the blood all over her, plus the look on her face, and seeing Ren about to go at her with the machete filled Damon with intense anger and fury. "You get the hell away from her."

"Try something against me and I'll slice the head from her neck in front of you." Ren directed at Damon when he saw how Damon didn't have a weapon at first.

"Fucking bastard." Damon retrieved the revolver out of his coat aiming it at Ren.

"Okay, man wait." Ren quickly changed his tune once he saw the gun Damon had.

"Drop your weapon now." Damon demanded.

Ren let the machete fall to the floor with a clatter, raising his hands up in the air because he knew he would get shot if he didn't do so. "I want no trouble from you."

With his face reddened from the anger he was feeling Damon redirected. "You just told me you were going to kill Bonnie, and you give me this sudden bull shit about not wanting trouble out of me."

Ren staggered. "It was a misunderstanding, a mistake. I changed my mind, I was just….."

A furious Damon had a murderous appearance on his face. "You are a dead man."

"I've gotten a change of heart. We can make a deal here and all three of us can walk out of here alive." Ren rambled.

"A deal." Damon's tone was menacing.

"Don't shoot me and I'll get the others to back off of you, then you and your girl over there can walk out of this village alive without any resistance. I promise my family will surrender and give up." Ren gulped. The murderous look in Damon's eyes and the menacing tone in his voice had Ren shitting a ton of bricks.

"Now you want to try and negotiated with me since the odds are turned against you, I just barged in on you threatening her life with your machete." Damon snapped out.

Ren keep his hands up in surrender, beads of sweat forming on his forehead. "As I said I made a major mistake. If you promise not to shoot me, we can be even and you two can get out of here."

Edging closer to Ren, Damon kept his revolver pointed at him to make sure Ren didn't try to grab at the machete or attack Bonnie.

Bonnie still said nothing as she watched the scene play out before her.

"Alright, I promise not to shoot you." Damon stated.

"Good, we can have a ceasefire between our sides." Ren breathed out.

"Sure a ceasefire." Damon gave a humorless laugh which would chill any person opposing him to the bone.

Ren stood believing he had convinced his life to be spared. "Okay, everything is cool right?"

Keeping his revolver in one hand Damon bent down to retrieve the machete that Ren had dropped. "No, we're not cool."

Ren frowned. "But, you said you weren't going to shoot me."

"I'm not, I'm just going to end your life in another way." Damon flatly retorted.

Wasting no more time, Damon proceeded to take the machete and dug it's large blade square in the center of Ren's gut. Ren made the sounds of a dying animal as he realized that he was a dead man. Damon stuck the blade so deep in Ren's torso causing it to go all the way through his body and the tip of the blade to come out through his back. The blade sliced through the vital organs which were in the torso and also cut through the spine.

Ren was dead before he could even hit the ground, but it didn't stop Damon from leaning in and grumbling to Ren. "You all messed with the wrong woman." He then let a deceased Ren fall to the ground.

Still even as she saw Damon take on and kill Ren before her eyes Bonnie still was silent and frozen on the spot. As if she wasn't sure or afraid of what move to make next. Overwhelmed by the confrontations with the Parker males had left in in a deep state of emotional shock to the point where she had no words to speak.

Damon gave one last sneer to Ren who had his own machete stuck in his torso before he turned his full attention towards Bonnie. When he saw the physical state she was in, the rage and fury he had fight during his own confrontation with Luke, his gun fight with the others, and taking out Ren had faded away into something else.

He saw her coated in blood and was filled with dread and fright she had somehow gotten severely hurt to the point of bleeding. "Are you alright?" He asked her with deep concern for her well being.

She didn't answer him just stared out into a space of nothingness at first.

"Bonnie are you okay, were you physically hurt?" Damon questioned louder.

Bonnie's stare moved to the bloody knife she held in her hands, then she saw her hands coated with Kai's blood. Eyeing them with horror on her face, not because she regretted killing him. But, because the blood on her hands reminded her of the fresh memory of all Kai had said and done to her in this very room.

"Bonnie, can you hear me? Tell me you're not hurt." Damon stepped closer to her, bothered by how she was standing there in silence not answering him. Bothered more so by the expression on her face.

Her hands started to shake as she let out shivering vocal sound.

He placed his hands on her shoulders to try and bring her around. Desperation was in his voice. "Bonnie, please say something, you're scaring me."

Finally Bonnie flinched at of her frozen state and had to blink several times to snap out of it. "Damon, you're alive Thank God."

"Yeah, I am, I'm more worried about you though. Are you hurt physically?" Damon needed to know.

"No, I'm not at least not seriously." Bonnie looked down at her body.

"The blood all over you." Damon pointed out.

"None, of it's mine….it's his, Kai's I had to kill him." Bonnie explained shaken.

He had tunnel vision when he had entered into the room and had been laser focused on saving Bonnie from Ren that his mind was briefly taken away from how he rushed here with the mission of saving her from Kai.

Damon's eyes now looked over and saw Kai's laying in the far corner of the room, with a gash in his throat and a deep stab wound in his chest and a large pool of cooling blood beneath his body. Then he saw the bloody knife in her hands and the blood all over her connecting the events of what went down in his mind.

Bonnie addressed showing him haunted she felt. "He came after me and attacked me, he was terrible and acted like a monster. Wouldn't let me leave, he came after me and tried to rape me."

Hearing what Kai attempted to do to her fueled more of the rage in which Damon was feeling. He eyed Kai's body glad his life had been ended by Bonnie's hands, yet wishing that he himself could make Kai Parker suffer a slow torturous death. Damon would have one hundred percent for sure have killed Kai with his own bare hands if he had rushed in to see Kai attacking her and forcing himself on her.

"I know what you had to do," Damon assured her.

"He left me no choice, Damon. I had to do it, he tried to force himself on me and I let him know I didn't want him. H-He wanted to hurt me badly and I had to kill him to protect myself." Bonnie stated like she was about to crack from how rattled she was.

"Hey, Hey, You don't have to explain it to me. I know you had a right to kill him and you gave the pig what he deserved." Damon smoothed seeing how she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Nodding Bonnie said. "You're right, I was justified in ending his life."

He returned to her in a soft tone of voice. "One hundred percent correct."

She swallowed, her emerald green eyes welling up with tears.

Damon saw how distraught and devastated she was from the situation she had just gone through. And he was upset because of it and his heartache on her behalf. But, he told himself he had to remain strong and steady for her.

Her eyes slanted over to where Kai laid dead, as if she was in fear of him popping back up alive like she heard about what had happened in those scary movies.

"Don't look at him, look at me." Damon moved to block her view from Kai with his body.

Her eyes landed back on Damon. Holding that body knife tightly in her hand like she was afraid to let it go.

"Here, give me your knife." Damon requested kindly to her as a response to hold she was gripping it.

"Alright." Bonnie placed the knife in his outstretched hand after hesitating.

"There." Taking her knife he used his a rag to wipe the blood from it.

Standing there she watched as he cleaned the blade of her knife up, then he wrapped it in the rag and placed it in one of his coat pockets to keep for her,

He then proceeded to get out his handkerchief and gently wiped away Kai's blood from her face then her hands. "There you are."

Feeling overwhelmed, Bonnie hunched over forward like she was about to faint.

Wrapping his arms around her Damon secured her and prevented her from falling forward. "Easy, I've got you."

"What do we do now?" Bonnie questioned him at a lost.

"We have to get out of this place and leave this village behind, understand." Damon replied.

"Yes, Yes, I understand." Bonnie answered, closing her eyes for a short period of time to calm herself down as her heartbeat got back to it's normal pace.

"We will go and get retrieve our shit, then we will leave." Damon assured her. He put his arm around her waist just in case she still felt faint.

Bonnie leaned her weight against him for support and let him lead her out of the town hall building.

As fast as they could the two of them made their way across the village back to where they had been staying at. Once they reached it, they discovered all of their items, which included their bags, his hunting rifle and her handguns with the holsters were still there in the room untouched. Apparently for some reason the Parker's had never thought to go through their things or take away their guns among the plans. Something in which both of them were grateful for.

Bonnie removed her jacket temporarily to put her holster on, then she put her handguns in either side of her holsters, before putting her jacket back on. Then putting the her backpack on her back. Damon slung his duffle bag over his shoulder and secured his hunting rifle on him. Then they moved with urgency as they exited the small house.

Outside it had went from drizzling to a steady light rain. As the pair started to make their way out, most of the remaining Parkers who had to have been aware of what went down by now seemed to do all that they could to avoid the deadly, powerful duo. Ducking into their houses and shutting the door, as they didn't seem as eager to attempt fate in trying to take on the pair. What was left of them seemed to be just more of those who followed along and not the ones of the family who were armed or looked for a fight.

Less than a block away from the exit of the village, the two of them ran into Jo.

"Jo, you bitch." Bonnie called out feeling immediate anger when she spotted the brunette.

"I'm." Jo jumped out of her skin like she had seen a ghost.

"You set me up." Bonnie glared towards Jo.

"She did what?" Damon asked.

Bonnie kept her eyes on Jo as she described to Damon. "Jo lured me into a trap by lying about an emergency she was facing. She lured me into the building, knowing her brother had ill intentions for me."

Damon spoke darkly to Jo. "You set her up with Kai knowing the sick and twisted things he wished to do to her."

Jo denied. "I didn't wish for her to get hurt."

Bonnie lashed out, "Bullshit, you were in own your brother's plan all along."

"He just said that he wanted to talk to you, because he fancied you. He just wanted a chance to ask you out." Jo returned.

"More bullshit, you approve of his schemes to try and make me into his mate." Bonnie hissed.

"I wasn't completely on board with it, but I did it because it was the best for the future of the Parker family. I meant nothing personally against either of you about it." Said Jo nervously.

"I don't give a shit about you or your family. You're just as bad as the rest of them, forcing a woman to be with your psychopath brother against her will makes you equally as a disgusting person as he is." Damon spat at Jo.

When she saw the scary gaze he was giving her with his eyes, Jo cowered.

Bonnie added. "Kai assaulted me and tried to do me harm. It's for that exact reason why I killed him."

Jo was taken aback, as she hadn't seen Kai after luring Bonnie into that room with him. "You, you killed him."

Bonnie confirmed. "I did, slit his throat right open."

"No, No." Jo slapped her hand against her cheek.

"Not only is Kai dead, but so is your cousin Ren. And your siblings Luke,Liv,Jason and Morgan are decreased as well, I ended their lives." Damon coldly let Jo know.

"This can't be." Jo frowned.

"It is. And you'll also find many of the others corpses and bodies all over the village a ways back. All of them members of your family who I slaughtered in their gun fight against me." Damon ruthlessly stated.

Jo gaped as the reality of the situation hit her. "Why did you have to kill them?"

Bonnie gave her a cold glare. "Because he was defending himself against your repulsive family members, I'm sure of it."

Jo cried. "I never meant for this to happen this way, I swear."

Damon put in mercilessly. "All of your dead family members brought this on themselves. They threaten our lives and well being and rightfully died because of it. You know the saying about play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The Parkers certainly won their share of 'prizes' today."

"And you are just as guilty as they are, you could have tried to put a stop to it but didn't. I'm in the mood now where I ought to kill you and have you join your family in death." Bonnie vocalized harshly.

"Please, I don't want to die, I'm not a fighter." Jo fell to her knees in a begging manner.

"I didn't wish to be attacked and assault by your brother. Or be any part of his sick plans for me to be his one. Yet, you enabled him to do what he did to me." Bonnie tossed back.

"Which would give her a right to end your life as well." Damon joined in.

The stone cold demeanor of the pair of them, as well as the holes that the both of them were burning through them with their eyes, made Jo once again cower back as she was afraid of them both and what they would do to her.

Leaning down into Jo's face Bonnie said to her. "I should kill you but I won't."

Jo opened her mouth to say something.

Bonnie interrupted her by holding up a hand. "Don't take this as an act of mercy. I choose to allow you to live, because I believe punishment in living for you is worse than death. You have to live with the fact that your siblings and a bunch of your other family members are dead and mourn them and live with it for the remainder of your life that it's your fault and theirs that they are dead."

"You are fouranate, I might not have spared you and would have had your life if she wanted me to take it, however she has a point. Having so many Parkers now deceased after we killed them will provide a longer, more painful punishment for you than death can offer. This place is littered with their bodies, going to take you a while to bury them all." Damon directed at Jo.

Jo just shook her head as the grief hit her.

"Get me the hell out of here, get me out of this hellhole, Damon." Bonnie turned her attention to him, as she couldn't stand being so near this village for any longer.

"Okay, I'll get your out of this hellhole." Damon said to her once he saw the desperation in her eyes. He equally wanted to get away from this place.

Jo was on the ground sobbing now at the realization that most of her siblings and a ton of her family members were dead.

Damon was unsympathetic towards her. "Listen to me as I make myself very clear, if your remaining family members tries to come into pursuit of Bonnie and I, I'll come back her and finish the job and kill you myself."

Jo could see how he meant every last one of his words. "They, we won't come after you or try to pursue you, I promise you that we will have enough deaths."

And that promise had better be kept, he thought to himself. But, his instinct told him they had learned a harsh lesson when they decided to try and kill him and hurt Bonnie. And they wouldn't be coming after them.

"Come on, Bonnie. Let's blow this joint." Damon switched his attention fully to her.

Bonnie just gave Damon a nod in response.

Taking her by the hand, Damon started to run as they left a sobbing Jo behind. Together with their hands joined they fled the village.

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They walked and walked and kept walking. The pair of them walked for miles non-stop without resting or stopping. Bonnie had the intense need to get as much distance between her and the village as possible. Needing to get away as far as she could from where those terrible confrontations had gone down between her and Kai. Even with Kai dead she just had to get away from him as far as she could.

Damon could tell how emotionally and mentally devastated she was. So, he kept walking with her, understanding her enough to know how she needed to put as much distance between them and the village as possible. He could tell how emotionally damaged she was in the way she was acting. When he asked her how she was doing a couple of times, she was silent or gave non-verbal answers while not making eye contact with him. They had walked for a good while without her saying as much as a word to him.

It was only when the PTSD in which Bonnie was currently was going through did they stop for a brief period of time. And them stopping briefly was due to Bonnie getting physically ill as her brain remembered how Kai had tried to force a kiss on her.

The thought of him eating human flesh with his lips and mouth and him trying to kiss her on the lips was too much for Bonnie to handle. The vision of it and imagining how Kai had consumed humans and his lips touching her skin grossed her out and disgusted her. It did so, so severely she had to stop as she physically got very ill and vomited. She vomited for a couple of minutes in a row. Emptied out the contents of the last meal she had eaten.

Damon just held her hair as she bent over throw up. Feeling kind of helpless as he watched her get violently ill. By the time she was through with getting sick Bonnie felt a little weak in her knees, yet she kept pressing on still wanting to get as far away from the village as she could.

As the hours went by of them walking non-stop, the light rain had now turned into a heavy downpour, with the wind picking up some. After hours of walking, combined with the current emotional weight she was feeling, Bonnie became tired where she barely could walk much further without resting herself.

Once he made the connection of how tired she was, Damon lifted her into his arms to ease the physical burden in which walking for so long had caused her. He carried her bridal style through the rain. He carried her for about an hour longer but he was starting to feel tired himself. And he figured they had gotten far enough from the village, now they needed somewhere they could stop and rest for the remainder of the day. As Bonnie wasn't in any condition, mentally or emotionally for them to travel for much longer. She needed rest and so did he.

There was also the fact of it being so cold and chilly outside and how it was raining so hard. It was a cold, bone chilling rain and they were soaked because of it. He was becoming very cold and he knew she had to be as well. Decided what the both of them needed as some shelter from the cold and rain.

It was mid evening time when he had the shelter for them they needed. It was an abandoned two story house. He escorted her inside of the house and once inside he placed her on her feet.

"We'll stay here for the tonight and rest here." Damon told her.

She didn't speak just gave him a look of agreement.

He placed his duffle bag down and looked around the house. There were was a couch and a couple of chairs in what looked like to be the living room area. He also noticed a fireplace. Although they were now inside and sheltered away from the cold rain. It was still chilly in the house due to how cold the weather was.

Hoping to find a way to warm up the house, Damon jogged over to the fireplace and discovered the wood box was piled high with firewood. He lifted his eyes heavenward grateful for the discovery.

Not wasting any time he put some of the wood into the fireplace, along with some kindling and used a match to light a fire. Once he had the fire in the living room area lit, he searched through other area of the house. Found two more fireplaces, another one which was downstairs in a different room. And a large one upstairs where the master bedroom was. He transferred firewood to those fireplaces and lit them both.

Within thirty minutes of him lighting all three fireplaces, the whole house had heated up and warmed to a considerate amount. Enough where the chill and coldness had been taken off and it was now comfortable from the cold outside.

He approached Bonnie who hadn't moved or said much since they entered into the house. "I've get the fireplaces going."

She just looked down at the floor as if in a trance.

"Are you warm now?" Damon questioned.

Bonnie mumbled 'yes' under her breath while avoiding eye contact with him.

"Why don't you sit and rest for a while, we have been walking for a long time." Damon suggested to her.

Bonnie removed her jacket which was damp from the rain, took off her wool beanie and moved over to the couch.

Observing her demeanor Damon noticed how she was obviously going through the affects of PTSD. She was being uncharistically silent and still hadn't said much to him since they had escaped from the village. She wasn't her usual high spirited self. What Kai and the Parkers put her through had no doubt overwhelmingly traumatized her. And she was struggling through trying to progress through it. He wanted just to reach out to her and comfort her.

A few moments later, Damon recognized how it was getting later in the evening and how she hadn't eaten since that morning which was hours ago. He wondered if she was hungry, he put his hands in the pockets of his coat and soon found out that he had lost the bag of their deer meat sometime during the battle back at the village.

Because they didn't have any other food on them, he went into the kitchen area in hopes to find some. He food a few pots and pans. Rifled explored the cabinets and with luck found some food. It wasn't a ton of food. But, enough to feed him and Bonnie for a hand full of days. He made eight packs of ramen noodles and a box of chicken broth,along with a small bag of rice.

He approached her. "Are you hungry? I found some food in the kitchen I could fix up."

"No, I don't have much of an appetite to eat anything right now." Bonnie muttered. Her stomach still churned from her getting sick earlier. And she was still too emotionally distraught to be in the mode to eat. She wasn't hungry at all and didn't think she would be able to keep food down without picturing Kai eating human flesh and trying to force a kiss on her.

"Alright, well once you get hungry I'll fix something for you." Damon told her. And since she wasn't going to eat he wouldn't either, he would wait until she was ready to do so, in order to share the food with her.

"Okay." Bonnie responded somewhat distantly.

"If you need something just let me know." Damon offered.

She mumbled something to herself under her breath as she rubbed at her arms.

Damon took note of how she was acting distant and closed off. But, didn't take it personally. Told himself that it was just her way of coping. As everyone had different reactions to dealing with going through tragic events. He just had to do everything to let her know he was there to help her.

He was about to turn and walk away to check on other parts of the house, to see if there was anything else of use with could assist them. And also to make sure that the house was secured and locked down.

He knew they were safe from the Parker Klan now. However, it such a world one had to always be on their guard, as he had constantly learned. Never knew when there was a person with ill intent seeking around somewhere near.

"I….I need to get clean." Bonnie blurted out.

"You need to get clean?" Damon came back to her.

"He put his hands on me, his disgusting, dirty hands. It makes me feel filthy and I can't stand it. I have to wash that feeling away." Bonnie rushed out the words.

She was feeling the mental and emotional aftershocks of what many sexual assault victims felt, Damon knew this, He wished to tell her how she shouldn't have felt filthy because it wasn't her fault.

It made him angry towards Kai and feel pity for her. But, he would do whatever he could to help her, because again she seemed like she could be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

"I'll see what I can do." Damon said instead.

After going through his mind to find a solution for the problem. He thought of a way to solve it. It was still raining heavily outside. So he got a couple of large, deep pots from the kitchen and found a bucket. With his coat still on he took them outside and placed them down. And waited for the bucket and the pots to be filled up. Which thankfully didn't take very long due to how it was raining cats and dogs out.

Then he carried the pots and bucket filled with rainwater back inside. There wasn't running water in the house of course, but it didn't mean that a bath couldn't have been taken here. After shutting the door behind him and making sure that it was secure, he hefted the pots and bucket one by one, carrying each of them up the stairs.

From where she sat on the couch Bonnie watched him as she wondered what he was doing.

When he was upstairs with, he carried the pots over to the fireplace which was lit in the master room. And used a metal rack he found to place over the flames of the fireplace. He then placed the pots on the metal rack, they barely fit, but did so enough to where his solution was working out. And his solution was to heat some water so that Bonnie would be able to have her request of wanting to get clean.

He timed his watch for fifthteen minutes and after fifthteen minutes checked the water in the pots. Both of them were heated to a hot temperature. He then carefully carried the pots of hot water over to the upstairs bathroom and emptied both pots of nearly boiling hot water into the bathtub, where both pots combined to fill up the tub almost halfway.

Since the water was too hot for a person to get into, he used the cold rain water from the bucket and mixed it in with the water he had in the tub to slightly cool it down and to even out the temperature.

Downstairs, Bonnie sat on the couch not having moved an inch since she had sat down. With her mind a jumble of chaotic and depressing thoughts. She turned when she heard the footsteps of Damon coming back down the stairs.

"You can head upstairs." Damon let her know.

"Upstairs?" Her mind was in a fuzz.

"I, um. You said you needed to get clean, so I made a bath for you." Damon gestured.

"Oh." Bonnie returned.

Damon added. "Made the water as comfortable that I could for you."

She was holding in her emotions, like she looked like she might explode if they all came out at once. She wasn't saying much to him, he wanted her to let it out and tell him how she was feeling, because her holding those types of feeling inside of her wasn't healthy for her mental well being.

But, he also didn't want to push her before she was ready to let those emotions out and gave her the time to let them out when and where she was ready to do so.

Bonnie said to him. "Yeah, Thanks."

Damon put in. "There's a master bedroom up there with a fireplace, you can use it if you need to."

She then got up from the couch, taking her backpack with her and went up the stairs. She found the bathroom. Which had no windows, but Damon had lit a large candle in it for her to be able to see. Shutting the bathroom door, she laid down her back pack on the floor, took off her shoes and socks. Removed her pants, and underwear, followed by her sweatshirt. When she had to lift her arms to take it off, she winced out as her arm flared up in pain.

It was the arm in which Kai had grabbed onto violently. She looked at the arm and saw in the dim candlelight how as large bruise had formed on it. Which was a sign of how roughly Kai had squeezed her arm, since she was wearing a jacket and the long sleeved shirt. Yet her arm still got bruised through the layers of her outerwear. Letting out a shaky breath, she touched a finger to the sore bruised spot on her arm. Had a vivid flashback to her encounter with Kai.

She forced those images from her mind, not wanting to remember it or live through it again. Naked she went over to the tub, tested it with her toes and established how it was safe, not to hot. She stepped into the tub, sitting down in it and the water came up to her chest area. Instantly she took notice of how warm, smoothing and relaxing the water felt. It wasn't often she was able to take truly hot baths or washes up. When she bathed she just made due with whatever water source her and Damon had came across which allowed her to do so. Which often wasn't even warm or sometimes even cold.

But, she did used the sources to bathe herself without complaints, because keeping her hygiene maintained was what was important. Especially when they would go days between bathing on their traveling. Nonetheless it had been awhile since she had a bath this warm. And she was grateful to Damon for coming up with this idea for a bath and how quickly he had put it together after she told him she had to get clean. Gave him credit for being creative.

In the bathroom alone, she used soap and scrubbed all over her body, with the strong urge to get rid of the filthy feeling she had gotten from the thought of Kai's hands on her. She kept scrubbing and wiping until the urge lessened and she didn't feel as filthy. Then she just sat in the warm water, staring out at the candle which was lit on the sink.

She wasn't sure how much time passed by, but when the water started to cool she stepped out of the tub. Grabbed a towel and dried herself. And wrapped the towel around her. She picked up her clothes and her backpack and headed for the master bedroom.

There she saw the large fireplace lit just as Damon has said it would be. And there was a big king sized bed, with a dresser. It was obvious the owners of this house had left it a long time ago, perhaps in a rush to evacuate or to go somewhere else. In their rush they had left some things behind which was why Damon had found the food. Bonnie wondered if there was some clothes also left behind. The ones she had on were dirty from wearing them for weeks in a row.

She scoured through the dressers drawers and found a red sweater and black drawstring cotton pants that was her size. And an unopened pack of underwear. She sighed, grateful for the new clothes and dropped her towel to put them on.

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While she was upstairs taking her bath, Damon had taken off his coat and hung it up to dry. He taken off his boots. And went around the house to make sure everything was secure. As the hours passed into the night he added wood to the fireplaces downstairs to keep them going. As it was very warm and toasty inside of the house by now, He wanted to keep it up since night time only meant the temperatures were dropping outside.

It was the time of night where he and Bonnie usually went to sleep. Which was around mid night, it had been a long terrible day and he was tired. But, he wanted to needed to tend to the fire upstairs first, as well as Bonnie before he went to sleep.

He carried some of the firewood up the stairs and into the master bedroom. He spotted Bonnie in the bed, she wasn't sleep but was sitting up in the bed wide awake, with her back pressed against the headboard. She had changed her clothes from what he could tell.

Damon added more of the firewood to the fireplace.

From where she sat up in the bed she watched as he moved the wood around with the fireplace poker until the wood caught ablaze.

Once he was finished doing that he swiveled to face her. "How was your bath?"

"It helped, I feel cleaner." Bonnie let him know.

"Glad to hear it." Damon mumbled.

"I have to give you credit, I wouldn't have thought about heating up the rainwater and using it to bath. Very innovative of you especially to come up with it on the spot once I told you what I needed." Bonnie voiced.

"We have to improvise as lot don't we. I'm just glad it helped you. And may use the same method to bathe myself later on." Damon communicated.

There was a pause in their conversation.

"You could have this room for sleeping in, since it was the bed and the only upstairs fireplace. I'll be in the room adjacent from this one, across the corridor It has a mattress in it I can sleep on." Damon jerked his thumb.

"Generous of you even though I don't think I can fall to sleep tonight." Bonnie shook her head.

He studied her from where he stood. "Why not, you aren't tired."

She sighed deeply. "Actually I'm exhausted, I just don't think I can feel asleep, don't know if I really want to."

He immediately comprehended why she was saying this. "Because of what happened earlier…...back at the village."

Bonnie admitted. "I'm afraid of falling asleep, I'm afraid if I do that I'll have nightmares of him attacking me and trying to force himself on me sexually."

Damon resonated with her. "Nightmares are difficult, nasty creatures when you have the memories of going through something horrible which happened to you in your mind."

"They are." Bonnie agreed.

"If you don't think you can sleep, I can in here and stay up with you." Damon suggested.

"You really would?" Bonnie questioned.

"If you believe my company here would help you then I would." Damon confirmed.

"Your company would help." Said Bonnie.

"Then I'll stay up the entire night with you if I have too." Damon stated.

Bonnie muttered. "Gratitude."

Damon walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge of it on the same side where she sat.

Bonnie eyed him. "I've been silent and distant with you for much of the day, since we have left the village. It was nothing against you."

He looked towards her. "No need for you to explain, Bonnie I never took how you reacted personally."

She fidgeted with her fingers. "I've been suppressing the emotions that I'm feeling inside of myself for the last hours. Because I found it hard to bring it up and didn't wish to talk about it right afterwards."

"Hey, I understand you completely. What you dealt with today is a very sensitive and difficult subject matter for anyone to handle. Lots of people put in your situation have trouble discussing what they went through. Suppressing memories of being abused, physically, sexually is often the brain's way of protecting that person from the trauma which has happened to them. I know your brain was doing the same to you." Damon's mood was very serious.

"Yeah, I guess it was what my brain was trying to do hold it all inside as a way to self protect me. To tell you the truth, I was on the verge of a panic attack several times today. But, I don't want to hold what was done against me inside for a prolonged time." Bonnie commented.

"Whenever you are ready to discuss the terrible events of today and how it impacted you, I'm here to support you in all ways possible. You just talk about it when you're comfortable with it." Damon said to her.

"After processing through it for hours, I feel like I'm ready to open up to you about it." Bonnie mentioned.

"Are you positive about that?" Damon asked to make sure.

"Yes, I want to get it off of my chest, if I hold it in then I think I will explode." Bonnie returned.

Damon directed. "Let out as much as you need to."

Bonnie released a extended breath and swallowed.

Damon added in a soft tone. "Tell me feelings you felt."

Bonnie detailed. "Irritated, enraged, angry, pissed off, I felt all of these during my confrontation with Kai. The more and more he talked the angrier I became."

Damon nodded for her to go on.

"I also felt terror and an incredible amount of fear once I saw what he was capable of and what his intentions were for me. I still feel all of those things when I think about what happened in the Town Hall building with Kai earlier today. I feel enraged, but more so I especially feel the fear and terror, the after affects of it from his physically attacking me." Bonnie confessed.

Reaching over, he laid a supportive hand on her.

"He figured that he could just talk his way into my good graces at first. He tried to go with the 'I'm just a lonely man looking for love' routine to get me to connect to him. Tried going with the appealing, charming, nice guy approach. And used this to try and sweet talk me into going out with him." Bonnie began.

"But, you weren't feeling it." Damon knew her well enough to know how she would react to a man like Kai.

"Not at all, I guess he was a man who some women might have found attractive, perhaps it's why he assumed that I would be if he could just sweet talk me. But, I told him I wasn't interested in him. He wouldn't listen to me or accept no for an answer. He kept trying to convince me to be in a romantic relationship with me." Bonnie described.

'Entitled bastard.' Damon thought to himself.

"After multiple times and hints of me letting him know I wasn't isn't in him, and me having to turn him down, reject him over and over again. I became very irritated and annoyed. Place my foot down and told him to back off, that I didn't want him and wasn't ever going to no matter how he spun his words or no matter how many times he asked me to." Bonnie mentioned.

Damon grumbled. "As is your right to choose whether or not you want to be with a man. Any man worth his weight would respect a woman's choice and leave her alone if she told him she wasn't interested."

Bonnie continued. "Well, Kai certainly wasn't that type of man. He was the type of believes he is entitled to having a woman, if he wants a woman. And reacts in an aggressive, angry manner if a woman doesn't give him what he demands. And he didn't leave me alone. After I made it clear once and for all how I wasn't going to be with him, things turned for the worse."

Listening he allowed her to take her time tell him what she needed to as she opened up and got it all off of her chest.

Her forehead creases in distress. "Once he got the hint that I wouldn't voluntarily be with him of my own free will, he completely turned against me and showed me his true colors. Blamed me and told me it was my fault because I lead him on."

He scowled. "Bullshit, you did no such thing. And no matter what asshole Kai told you, it isn't your fault for him physically attacking you or trying to force himself on you."

"I know it isn't my fault, still he made it up in his mind that it was and used it to justify his aggressive words directed at me and the violence which would attack me with later on. The look in his eyes, it was like seeing into the eyes of the devil himself." Bonnie glowered.

Damon shifted slightly closer to her as she continued.

"Kai Parker was the devil, I've seen my fair share of bad, cruel people in my lifetime. You know Alaric,Greg and while they caused great pain to me in my life, there was something different about Kai. Something about him which made him worse than the people I went up against and faced before. He was the worst person which I ever had seen. The way he carried himself, like a demon out of hell and the aura about him. Today I looked in the face of evil and the was Kai." A shiver went down her spine as she finished.

"Of course Kai is evil, he's depraved. And so is the rest of the Parker family. They would have to be in order to be cannibals and to do a thing so immoral as eating human meat. What they do there is no excuse for it. It makes them all reprehensible psychopaths, especially him." Damon ahorrence aimed at the Parkers and mostly Kai.

"Them being all cannibals is revolting, repulsive and stomach churning, I won't rather starve than to resort to what The Parkers do." Bonnie proclaimed.

"I'm with you completely on that." Damon agreed with her.

Bonnie enunciated. "Kai being a cannibal just acts to the demon like person that he is, was. He wasn't just a psychopath, he was a sociopath and embraced being one and let me know it. Like he was proud of what he was and was going to make me join him whatever I liked it or not. Once he made his intentions clear against me he came after me."

Witnessing the pain he heard in her voice and the terror, fear he saw in her eyes darkened Damon's mood and made him feel pity towards her.

"He wouldn't let me go, he tried to keep me trapped there in the room with him and what he did next forced my hand." Bonnie pressed on.

"When you defended yourself." Damon muttered.

"He came after me like a demented demon. Trying to relentlessly tear my jacket, clothes away from my body. It was like having a nightmare, expect for knowing that the nightmare was real and I couldn't wake up from it. He was a total psychopath and he was going to force himself on me without my consent. I screamed,cried and told him no and I didn't want him. But, he didn't care. He wanted to rape me and almost did." Bonnie's bottom lip trembled.

"I'm so sorry, Bonnie. I hate you had to suffer through such a horrible experience. And I wish I had the power to prevent you going through it." Damon expressed somberly.

Bonnie nearly shook as she detailed what happened next. "I don't think I've ever felt fear or terror as much as I did in the instant in that room, where he was putting his hands on me and trying to kiss me. Perhaps because being raped is one of my biggest fears. But, in that time it was the most panicked and in fear I have ever been. The more I fought him, the angerier and more violent he became with me."

Damon clinched a hand in anger.

Bonnie opened up to him more. "He just wouldn't stop, wasn't going to until he succeeded in raping me. He provoked me and gave me no choice. So, I did what I had to do in order to protect myself from unwanted sex. I got my knife and slashed it across his fucking throat. That was what finally got him to stop. Even when I knew that the gash to his throat was already going to be fatal for him. I stabbed him in the chest as deep as I could for good measure. Because I just wanted him dead."

Damon returned to her. "Hearing the heinous acts that Kai did, tried to do to you makes be loathe that lunatic, it makes be wish that I could make him suffer a slow, ruthless death at my hands. But, you know what."

"What, Damon?" She questioned eying him.

"You saved yourself." Damon stated,

"I did what I had to do." Bonnie looked down at her hands.

Damon repeated. "You saved yourself and stood up in the face of evil at the moment of one of your worst fears almost happening to you. You found a way to fight back against someone who had pushed you over the edge and had threatened you with great bodily harm. You fought back just like the fighter person you are and it's what makes you the bravest person I have ever known."

Bonnie breathed out. "I was so afraid in that moment."

He emphasised. "I can only imagine how afraid you must have been, but it takes true courage for you to stand up for yourself when you were most afraid."

Bonnie rubbed at her forehead with anxiety. "I just can't wrap my head around it. We were only around Kai for a few days, yet he just developed this sudden obsession with me out of nowhere. And became creepily possessive of me. He just became consumed with having me at all cost. I cannot comprehend nothing if what I did or how I behave around him which would give him the idea that I was interested in him. And why he would be so hellbent on raping me."

"The reason why you can't understand it is because you are actually a human being with a good heart. You are kind, good willed, and have empathy for others. You have it all on the inside that makes a person a true quality human being." Damon announced with compassion.

"And Kai Parker is a sick man. Not the mentally ill type of sick when a person can't control the way that their brain works and therefore can't control their actions. But, he is a lunatic and sick in the head in the since that he knows right from wrong and chooses to embrace being a person who is repulsive and evil enough to hunt people for food. And shows no remorse for killing. So, him being capable of being a rapist fits right along with his immoral, twisted compassed." Damon added.

"I'm glad he is dead, I'm glad I was the one to take his life." Bonnie spat spitefully.

"I'm glad Kai is dead too, no doubt he is burning in hell." Damon sneered.

A troubled Bonnie continued. "I've faced countless people who have tried to kill me or harm my well being. Most of the time after I take care of them, I'm able to brush it off and move on to the next thing quickly. What happened to be today is so traumatizing, burdening, and disturbing I just can't shake it. So, distressing where I can't get passed it. Now I'm worried about if I'll always have flashbacks of the attacks on me today."

Damon explained to her gently. "You suffered a cruel assault at the hands of a vile, psycho path. Went through a extremely violent and terrifying situation. The sort of situation which can stay with a person for a while. You're feeling the after effects of PTSD, and you won't get over it or night or even a few days. You'll have to give yourself some time to recover from it."

Bonnie moved her head up and down. "I figured I was going through ptsd and you telling this to me let's be know just how correct you were. And how hard it maybe for me to recover from the events of the day."

Said Damon. "No matter how long your recovery takes, I'll be by your side every step of the way, assisting you in your recovery the best way I know how."

"I have full faith you will be there, Damon." Bonnie returned.

He gave her a half smile of acknowledgment.

"There wasn't just the deeds he did against me, but it was also you and what he said about you to get to me. A part of his scheme was also to separate the two of us." Bonnie confessed.

"Yeah, I know. Luke told me all about it and gave me an ultimatum." Damon grumbled.

"And it was exactly….." Bonnie paused in question.

""Luke let me in on his brother's demented plans relating to you and they wanted be out of the way for those plans to succeed. Gave me the option of either leaving their village by myself and leave you behind with Kai. Or if I refused to leave without you, then they would proceed to kill me." Damon remembered.

"But, you wouldn't give them the ultimatum they demanded from you." Bonnie guessed.

Damon signaled through a gesture. "Hell no, of course I wouldn't give those freaks what they demanded. I would never, ever leave you."

Bonnie pointed out. "Not even when they threatened your life in exchange for me."

Damon stated with firm meaning. "I couldn't go on without having you in my life, Bonnie. Plus, hey traveling on and sustaining this journey without you would be empty for me. Getting to the settlement in Virginia would feel hollow and purposeless if you weren't there with me every step of the way."

Reaching over she laid her hand on his supportive one, that was still rested on her. "I have one hundred percent trust and faith in you, Damon. I know you would never voluntarily leave me behind. Neither of us would voluntarily leave the other."

"Our motto, or one of our many motto is where you go I go." Damon quietly asserted.

Despite how currently she was feeling due to the horrors of this day, those words for him made her smile a little, even if it was for a very short period of time. "Or I'll go wherever you will go."

"Yep, those are some of our mottos." Damon confirmed.

"Once Kai learned and figured out you wouldn't leave me behind and how connected I was with you, he used you against me as I said. He was so jealous and envious of you, then wanted you out of the picture because of it." Bonnie mentioned.

"They made a threat to my life and attempted to keep us apart, both the biggest mistakes of their lives." Damon commented.

"Knowing you, I'm sure you made them regret ever crossing us." Bonnie prompted.

Damon thought to how he fought back. "Perhaps they did regret it, I hope it was their last dying thoughts. I'm sure Liv regretted it before I put a bullet into her skull."

Bonnie wondered. "So, you really did kill most if the Parker siblings. It wasn't just something you said to mess with Jo's head."

Damon responded. "Killed them all. And I'm positive Jo has discovered all of their corpses by now. Like you said having to live the rest of her life with them being dead is a punishment worse than death."

Bonnie reacted bitterly. "Then they're all burning in hell right along with Kai."

"When Luke detailed Kai's scheme was towards you, I became enraged, furious and was filled with a fury beyond measure. No one hurts you and gets to live to see the next day. I would split the earth in half just to keep you safe. And would slaughter, maim, destroy a person who is foolish enough to try and come between us. Or dare to keep you from my side. And that's exactly what I did when I killed countless Parker's today." Damon meant every last word of it.

She felt the same, she too would execute any person who dared to come between them or endanger his life. "Somehow, I had faith you would come and save me."

"You saved yourself, when you slit that rats throat and ended his life." Damon told her.

"True, however you did rescue me from Ren, not quite sure I would have been able to take him out with my knife, considering the massive machete he had." Bonnie added.

"Speaking of regret, I'm sure that Ren did as he tried to talk his way out of the situation once he saw the odds were turned against him. Too late for him to beg for his life though." Damon gave a cold smirk.

"It's just that…." Bonnie had to take a pause to gather herself.

"Just that." Damon repeated.

She was deeply troubled once more. "It wasn't just that Kai terrorized about taking your life. He gleefully gloated to me about how he would eat your dead body in front of me and how he would force me to eat your dead body. Seeing it in my head was beyond triggering, it bothered be so much."

He uttered. "Such a sadistic freak to gloat about something so gruesome to your face. But, as sadistic as his words were, they didn't come true. I'm still here alive and kicking. Kai lost in the end and here I still am breathing."

Bonnie looked him over. "Well, Thank goodness for that, I was so grateful, relieved when you came rushing through the door."

"Hey, I'm Damon Salvatore. I ain't going away, I won't be defeated, I won't lose out to any of our enemies, I ain't dying, and especially I ain't leaving you." Damon persisted.

"You swear." Bonnie choked out.

"I swear, Bonnie Bennett. I won't ever leave you in a million years." Damon insisted.

"Good, because I couldn't bare to handle you getting dead because of a certain sociopath wanting his way with me." Her voice cracked.

Damon smoothed. "I made it out today alive and that is what is most important. I appreciate you being so worried about my well being, I'm sorry that Kai used me to get to you. But, I don't want you focusing on what happened to me today. You been through enough trauma, and are dealing with what you;ve been put through,"

"I don't want to add to your stress by worrying yourself to death about what could have happened to me. I prefer you put alright of your focus on yourself and recovering, alright."

She pressed her lips together. "Alright, Damon alright."

Damon went on. "You are strong, you're a survivor. Just as you survived through all of the tragedies which happened in your life before, you'll outlast this."

"I feel a little better since I have opened up to you about today…...yet I still won't be able to sleep tonight without having nightmares about him." Bonnie swallowed.

"My offer remains the same about staying up with you all night if I have to." Damon put in.

"Yeah?" Bonnie muttered.

"Yeah." Said Damon.

Her green eyes welled up with tears. "You're such a great man, Salvatore."

He declared. "A great man who has an ever greater woman by his side."

Finally, after holding in her emotions for most of the day, the ones she had been trying to keep under tap since they had left the village, she couldn't hold them in for any longer. All of the weight of it came crashing down on her, the fear, terror, anger, rage she had felt. The the major stress on her that had been on her since then, and how it all heavily had her distraught.

Bonnie let it all out, broke down and began crying loudly.

Instantly Damon took action, reaching out as he empathized with her. He took her into his arms, cradled her into his lap. Giving her his solace and sympathy.

She cling to him as if her life depended on it and heavily wept.

"Shush, you're going to be alright, you'll make it through this. I'm with you, I'll always be with you, I'm here, I'll always be here, and I won't ever in a million years depart from or abandon your side." Damon comforted.

All she could do was cling to him, lay her head against his chest and cry some more. As the tears streamed down her face in streams.

Hearing her heartbreaking weeping got him choked up, he found his own eyes welling up with tears. He stroked her hair to comfort them both.

Neither of them got an ounce of sleep during this night, they stayed up as he had her all night long.

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When daylight broke the next day, it was when Bonnie had progressed enough to the point where she had finished her bouts of crying and where she didn't need him to constantly stay in the master bedroom with her or hold her. He made sure of it before he left her in the master bedroom with herself to recover from the emotional night she had.

All they could do now was get this day started as best as they could. While she moved to brush her teeth and worked on settling down herself. He went around the house, once again checking on everything to make sure it all was secured. He replaced the firewood in all three fireplaces, to keep those fires roaring and the house toasty and warm.

Continuous steady, heavy rain still fell outside. And it seemed like one of those rain storms which came into an area and could last for several days before stopping. The heavy rain still going and the cold outside quashed their potential to leave for travel on this day. As they would remain inside for shelter for it all.

He was able to take advantage of the constant rain by gathering more rain water in a similar way that he did the day before. He heated it up as he had done before. Filled the tub with it and used it to take his own bath and wash up before he got dressed again.

Now as early afternoon had came, he sat in front of the fireplace, on the couch in the living room. Staring into it, feeling melancholy about all of the events about the day before. And how bad it was and how tragic if could have become. More so in relation to Bonnie than what had happened with himself. He could get passed having the Parker's make threats to his life, because he came out of it alive and had killed most of those who tried to end him.

However, Bonnie she was another story. It had been brutal on her mentally and emotionally. For the many months he had spent with her, he always seen her coolly take out all those who endangered her well being and go on about her day as if nothing happened. But, what she had went through at Kai's hands, he had never seen her so shaken and shattered before. And it really had affected him, because he hated seeing her go through so much hurt.

He was so lost in his thoughts as he stared into the fire, he barely noticed Bonnie entering into the living room.

"Hi." Bonnie neared him holding two mugs. One in each hand.

"Hi." Damon turned his eyes from the fire to greet her.

"I made this for us and was wondering if you'd like some." Bonnie spoke.

"What is it?" His eyes scanned over the mugs she held.

Bonnie answered. "Tea, I found a few tea bags back in the kitchen, they looked good enough to still used. So, I heated up some off our bottled water over in a pot, over the fireplace in the other room. And I made us both some."

Damon mumbled. "Oh."

Bonnie additionized. "There isn't sugar to put in it, but it's warm and I figured it would help us both out since we didn't get sleep last night. Something to ease the nerves and to keep us warm."

Damon returned. "Sounds like a plan."

"Would you like your tea." She offered.

"Sure, I could use the tea." He accepted.

She handed him one of the teas and sat down next to him on the couch. They began sipping at their tea, it wasn't sweet but it tasted nice.

Damon studied her features. "I know you haven't fully recovered from yesterday. But, as far as today goes how are you handling yourself?"

Bonnie sighed. "Much like you said it's going to take me a while to recover from this. Letting it out through the crying I did last night assisted me in not keeping the burden of all of it locked inside of me. I am feeling the impacts of ptsd and the fall out of trauma. It's going to take time for me to heal mentally and emotionally. I'm determined to heal because I would let Kai haunt me for the rest of my life. So, I feel better today than I did yesterday."

"Relieved to hear you say you're feeling better." Damon declared.

"And you, how are you feeling. You seem to be down today." Bonnie observed.

"I am sorrowful and troubled from yesterday and the disaster it almost turned into." Damon confessed.

"Can't blame you, yesterday wasn't easy from you either. You had to psychopaths trying to kill you and make you a part of their sickening diet." Bonnie pointed out.

Damon clutched the mug of tea in his hand. "I keep going back to the feeling of how I could have avoided yesterday all together."

Bonnie tilted her head. "How so/"

He shrugged. "If I just rejected Kai's offer to stay in that hellhole of a village than he never would have gotten the chance to plan out his twisted scheme."

She furrowed her brow. "I agreed to stay there as well."

"Only after you asked me did you agree to stay there with me." Damon mentioned.

"Are you blaming yourself for that?" Bonnie questioned with a shake of her head.

"Not exactly, Just wish I could have seen through the Parkers and realize that they weren't trustworthy and how they had ill will in mind. Turn down their offer and not open us up to being vulnerable to an attack from them. I let my guard down when I felt like I shouldn't have." Damon frowned.

Bonnie sipped more of her tea before speaking. "You let your guard down, but so did I. They lured me into believing they were decent people who I didn't have to worry about. We can't be perfect and always judge how people are going to react. As much as I try to be, I'm not always correct on my first impressions about someone. Besides hindsight is twenty-twenty."

Damon presumed. "Must of the time you are a guarded person, who doesn't just trust or rely on a lot of people to be decent. And it's with the reason to keep yourself safe. When you put your faith in my judgment that the Parker's were decent people, it allowed Kai Parker and his screwed up Klan to have access to you."

Bonnie put in. "Yeah, I'm normally a guarded person, who has walls up and doesn't just trust anyone because it's a way to protect myself. But, also because I just don't open up to strangers. And I haven't had close relationships with many people for a reason of not wanting to be backstabbed."

"But, even if I'm still cautious, as well as reluctant to rely on most people. I'm also more willing to trust people. The Parkers, Kai confirmed how there are so many, cruel, evil, sick, and disgusting people in those world. But, I also know that there are fine, decent, good natured people out there, it gives me the belief that humanity isn't all bad. And it's because I met you to know that even if a person isn't perfect there is humanity and goodness in them. You opened my eyes to this, Damon." Bonnie finished with sincerity.

"Have I?" Damon questioned in a serious tone.

"You have. And you know what else, yesterday just reinforced to be how fragile life in this environment is. How it can be taken away or altered within seconds. With all the pain, heartache, and death a person can experience. Sometimes this place is so ruthless that a person can live throughout their whole life only witnessing hardships and difficult times. And that person may never get a chance to have even a moment of peace, happiness or joy." Bonnie voiced with passion.

He listened closely, caught in every word she was saying to him.

She pressed on with animation. "Which proves all the more how precious and rare it is for some people to get to witness a chance for happiness, peace, or joy in this present environment. When we do have them it's important not to let them pass by. And embrace it to the fullest. Cherish the moments you have with someone or something who can bring you happiness, friendship, affection. Even if it's just for a few minutes each day,:

Damon was entranced with her by now. "Like I cherish every moment you and I have together for the very reasons you spoke of."

"Yes and it's why I cherish the time I have with you." Bonnie agreed.

"And when there is a chance for blissful moments, you take it with jubilation, without hesitating. And I've decided now to go full speed ahead with this chance for jubilation in my life. And when you see someone you can share intimacy, fondness, and tenderness with you embrace this opportunity and it's an opportunity I want to hold onto, right here, right now."

"I've been feeling this way for a while, but have been keeping it to myself because I wasn't sure how to go about it or what our next step would be if I did what I'm about to do. I don't want to hold back and have regrets later on in life about not taking this risk. I'm ready now to go full ahead with this opportunity I have with you to say that I'm in love with you, and I've been in love with you for quite some time." Bonnie pouring out all of her heart to him, with deep feeling, meaning, and emotion in her tone. "I love you, Damon Salvatore."

Her confession sent him into an instant high, sent him into a tailspin in a spectacular way. Hearing her just tell him how she was in love with him and loved him both. His gaze fell upon her as if she had hung on the moon, the sun, and the stars all at once and like she was an angel, his precious angel which had fallen from heaven and just appeared right in front of him out of thin air. He just stared silently at her, eyeing her intensely with his cobalt eyes.

Several minutes of silence passed between them, with sexual and romantic tension so thick it could be cut with a knife. Nervously, Bonnie bit her bottom lip anticipating his response to her confession of feelings and love for him.

Damon placed his mug of tea on the stand next to him without ever taking his intense, deep gaze off of her. His heart felt like it was soaring to new heights. He was joyful, delighted, and so amazed to learn how she felt about him, how she has shared his feelings of love he had for her in return, and how he was just as in love with her.

He wanted to shout out to her gleefully how he loved her and was in love with her as well. However, he was so touched, overwhelmed, moved, awestruck and astonished that he was rendered speechless.

So, instead of saying something, his response as to gently grab her face with his hands and press a deep, tender, longing kiss to her lips.

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Here we are at last with Bonnie confessing her love for Damon and his response to it. I took the time to build them up to taking the next step in their relationship because I didn't want to rush it and set the story at a pace I was comfortable with. I hope that it was worth the wait and now we can see what happens once Bamon becomes an official romantic couple in this story!

Thanks to all of you who read, review, and support this story. It is always appreciated!

I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors I missed.