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Chapter 15

"But you can gain control back, can't you?" Damon asked sitting beside her.

"I honestly don't know Damon, when this happened last time it was all Silas, and he had brainwashed me, it took almost dying before I even came back to reality. I don't think it will go that far, but I don't know," she told him, her voice a little worried.

"Bonnie, we won't let it that far, promise" Jeremy said sitting on the other side of her. She gave them both tired smiles but nodded and grabbed Damon's hand.

"Thank you" she told him sincerely as Damon nodded. "I'm hungry, maybe we should go out, get some pizza" she told them as she stood, adjusted herself and headed off. "I'm going use the bathroom, I'll be back" she said before disappearing up the stairs.

"Well, are you gonna say it?" Jeremy asked once Bonnie was gone.

"What's that?" Damon asked looking over at Jeremy.

"I don't know, some snarky comment about you and Bonnie, some dumb remark about how she paid no attention to me" Jeremy suggested as Damon studied his face.

"Nah, it's not fun when you know it's coming" he said standing up, taking the glass with him. "But, thanks, you know, for just being her friend. I'm sure it can't be easy" he said.

"Wow, that must have took a lot" Jeremy half teased as he turned to head upstairs. Damon made a face at him behind his back but continued into the kitchen anyway. After disposing of the cup he made his way upstairs but paused upon hearing the whispers.

"We just got done talking" Bonnie was saying. Slowly, as quietly as he could, Damon peeked down the hall when he reached the top of the stairs, Bonnie was in the room Elena was staying in, the door half closed. "I know I shouldn't have told him but I couldn't help it, he was so worried Stefan…" she said quietly as Damon froze. Stefan? What was she doing talking to Stefan? "Yeah, Jer was there was too, he didn't say anything" she said as Damon looked around, Jeremy wasn't anywhere beside him, maybe he was in the room with Bonnie. "No, I told you, he saw her, I don't know, just, hurry up and get home, I don't like hiding this from him" Bonnie continued, her voice sounding a little sad. Well, they were definitely talking about him, and clearly they had been talking for a while now. Bonnie had been playing with her a phone a bit on the way back, but he seemed it to be simple messages to Elena. Not a secret conversation with Stefan. "Okay, is my dad alright?" she said a few more things and then the call must have ended.

"I know you hate keeping this from him, but like you said, it's for his own safety, we don't know what he would do to protect you…" Jeremy's voice said, coming from another unseen area in the room. Anything.

"Anything" Bonnie said as the same time he said it in his mind. "Which is what I'm afraid of. If he gets hurt because of me, if Stefan loses his brother…." Damon could her let out a loud sigh as the bed creaked.

"It will be okay Bonnie, it will always be okay, you have all of us in this. We're not going to give up and we're sure as hell not going to give in" Jeremy said quietly. Damon felt himself anger, he should've known there was a reason Jeremy seemed to take his snarky comments so well.

"I wanted to tell him, but then after he saw grams, Jeremy, that can't be good, that's not a good sign" she said as Damon breathed out heavily through his nose as he turned around to go back downstairs. He had hoped this wouldn't happen, hoped that there wasn't anything being kept from him, but in a way, he expected as much, he should've know he was too much for his own good, let alone other people. But Bonnie? Bonnie protecting him? That wasn't how this was supposed to go. He was supposed to protect her. Always. Granted the problem now seemed to be he was going at it too quick. They wanted to plan, he wanted to kill people, get the cure made and go back to his fairy tale. Gritting his teeth he slumped on the couch, that's exactly what it was, a fairy tale. But he was determined to not let her get hurt. Maybe he could talk to Shelia again. Assuming she'd want to listen.

"Hey, I'm going to get some pizza" Jeremy said as he came down the stairs, two at a time. Damon mumbled something but kept his eyes glued to a book. "Bonnie's lying down, she'll probably take a shower, but she said she's too tired to out. I'm gonna check on Matt too while I'm out. Do you need anything?" Jeremy asked. Yeah, I would like you to back the fuck off. Damon though, his jealousy hitting the roof. "Do you wanna come?" Jeremy ventured to ask.

"I think we've had enough bromance time for today little Gilbert" Damon said sarcastically as he still kept his eyes on the book. Jeremy nodded, and Damon listened until he heard the car start and zoom away. Then he turned his attention upstairs, waiting until he heard the shower. Then, with his super sped he went upstairs, quickly checking that Bonnie was in the shower and then moving into the bedroom. There, her cell phone was lying on the dresser. It was wrong to go through it, of course he knew that, but his brother and girlfriend were keeping something from him. He had a right to know. What if something happened to them and they got hurt and the blame went to him? What if they got lost or kidnapped and people asked him but he didn't have any idea? No, he needed to find out what was going on.

Stefan: Bonnie, are you okay? Where are you?

Bonnie: Don't worry about me, I'm fine. Is Damon okay? I was so terrified when I saw him.

Stefan: No, it's fine, we're okay. Where are you?

Bonnie: I just need a little time. Something is happening to me and I need to figure out what.

Stefan: What do you mean? Are you hurt?

Bonnie: No, it's like I can't control myself because someone else is

Stefan: Have you told Damon?

Bonnie: No, and please don't.

Stefan. O.K. I'll call you in a few minutes.

Damon clenched his jaw; that was from the night of Rudy's death. He scrolled through the phone log, she had been in contact Stefan more than him, their phone calls ranging from two minutes to two hours. What were they talking about for two hours? He wondered as he scrolled back to the text messages, the most recent from an hour after they left the abandoned house.

Stefan: Glad you guys are O.K. Haven't heard anything else but it sounds like you marking yourself did a little good if Shelia went to Damon. Your dad is fine, he knows you're trying anything. Don't worry too much about Damon, we'll explain everything when the time is right.

Bonnie: Thank you Stefan. I don't know what I'd do without you. I don't know what Damon would do without you (regardless what he says).

Stefan: Bonnie, don't even mention it, anything you for. You know that.

All Damon could do was stare at the phone, they'd been communicating in what seemed like a more than friends manner. At least that's how it appeared. Before he could think anything more the phone beeped, a text popping up on the screen, it was from Stefan. We're here.