After he heard the officer tell him this, it felt like an invisible dagger pierced through Damon's heart, as he couldn't quite understand what he was hearing. "What in the hell do you mean by my fiancee was in a car crash?"
The officer explained keeping the tone sober. "A witness drove up upon a two car accident. The witness didn't see how the actual accident happened. But, it was clear that it was a head on collision. And one of the cars involved was that of your fiancee's. An ambulance and fire truck were called to the scene but she appeared to have died already at the scene of the accident."
The other officer added. "We're sorry for your loss again, sir."
But, Damon frantically shook his head not wanting to believe. "No, that can't be true."
"We're afraid that it is, sir." The officer said.
"You must be mistaken." Damon began to get very upset.
The first officer returned. "From what we were able to make of the license plate on the vehicle, it matched with the license plate number of the car registered to Bonnie Bennett when we put it into our system."
Damon still wanted to deny, his heart and mind just didn't want to go there with the thought that the woman that he loved was dead. "You're sure that it's her and that it couldn't be someone else?"
"We're sure. We hate to tell you this news. But, we would never reveal a death to a loved one unless we were sure that we identified the right person." The first officer told him.
He swallowed down the large sense of emotional dread that was raising up inside of him. "Why did the accident happen…...how did it happen?"
"A drink driver." The other officer answered,
"What?" Damon asked.
"The other person in the other car was drunk." The other officer explained. "He crossed lanes and ran head on into Bonnie Bennett's car and the impact was devastating."
Damon was being overtaken by emotions now, both the state of grief, where a person was in still fresh denial and some anger mixing into it. "A damn drunk driver ran into her?"
The other officer went on. "It appears that way from what we can tell and from the condition that the other driver was in. We could smell the alcohol on him."
"This other driver, did he die in the accident too?" Damon needed to know.
"No, the other driver didn't die in the accident. It appears that he got thrown from his car somehow, most likely from not wearing a seatbelt and he received some bruises and lacerations, a broken arm and a concussion." The first officer explained. "But, somehow managed to escape any life threatening injuries. We will hold him in the hospital in custody until he is ready to be transferred to the county prison."
Now rage was mixing in with the anger and grief that he was feeling. "So, this fucking guy was irresponsible enough to get behind the wheel drunk and it's his fault for the accident. He runs into the love of my lifes car and causes her, her life and gets to walk away with his? That's bullshit."
The first officer told Damon. "You can be assured that as soon as he is cleared by doctors enough to be released from the hospital that he'll be taken down to the police station, where he will be charged for DUI and the killing of your fiancee."
Even as the grief and reality of the moment was hitting him he still didn't want to believe. "I just…..I need to see proof that she is actually dead."
"The license plate…" The first officer started.
"That's not enough evidence from you telling me this, the police screw up all of the time. I need to see more proof." Damon interrupted.
The two officers glanced at each other in sad gazes, it was never easy to break it to someone that a loved one or a family member had died.
Damon gulped down hard. "I need to see her, take me to her body."
"Sir, we know that this is difficult news for you to take in right now, but we would advise you to not see her body right now….the fire trucks…...her body is not in a condition for you to see right now." The second officer stated to Damon.
"Take me to her." Damon repeated with little patience.
"But…." The officer started to insist against it.
Damon grabbed the first officer by the collar and compelled. "Let me see her right now."
The first officer blinked as the compulsion took over. "Yes, we will take you to her."
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They took him to the scene of the accident, which had yet to be cleared by the authorities. There were many police cars there, with their blue and red lights flashing, along with a couple of firetrucks. Which explained why the officers had brought up firetrucks because one of the cars had caught on fire. As he got out of the back of the cop car and approached the scene he could smell, the smell of burnt rubber and metal.
Policemen and firemen surrounded the scene, investigating what had happened and putting together the evidence that had happened at the scene. Damon ignored them all as he walked closer to where the cars were. A few policemen tried to stop him from getting closer, but the officers that he compelled told them to let him through and from there it was like some slow motion horror film to Damon.
As he got even closer, he could see two cars wrecked, bent, destroyed, and mangled beyond prepare, telling him that the crash had happened at a high rate of speed. There was broken glass and twisted metal everywhere from the two cars and one of the cars he didn't recognize, he guessed that it was the car of the drunk driver. And the other car was a burnt, black core of what it used to be. It smoked and smoldered, showing that it had been caught in a nasty fire upon or not that long after impact. Water soaked the ground around the car, the water that the firemen had used to put the fire out,
Damon felt a lump in his throat as his eyes scanned the terrible scene. He spotted something on the ground, something that had detached from the burnt car in the crash and impact. Slowly he bent down and put it up, the lump in his throat grew even bigger as he saw through the flashing lights that it was a California plate and that the numbers on it matched to Bonnie's, just like the officers told him that it had.
His heart started to break even more as the realization that she actually could be gone started to hit him. There was only one more way to know for sure and that was to look towards the car for any signs of a body. He hesitated to do that at first because he just didn't want to find out the truth, but knew that he had to see for himself.
So, he raised his icy blue eyes towards the car, then stumbled back at what he saw. In the driver's seat there was a charred remains of a body, a body that had been burnt from all features and recognition. Yet not enough to cover up from the fact that it had been a female body, a female body of petite from and one that had been pregnant.
Right then, Damon felt his stomach hurl and nearly threw up the blood that he had, had earlier from the sight and the scent of the body. Not because of the fact that it was just a dead body, he had seen many dead bodies in his years, in many nasty shapes and disgusting forms. He almost got sick because of who it was, and the fact that it was his fiancee and his unborn child that was in such shape and now the both of them were gone and dead.
And at that moment his entire world and life fell apart and broke into a million pieces. Damon Salvatore collapsed to his knees with a strangled car of no coming from his lips, some of the firemen and police looked on with sympathy towards him as they watched him start to mourn the ones that he lost. Damon felt his heart break in two as the pain and the grief hit him like a ton of bricks. And all he could do was stare out in pain and agony, voice his anguish at the loss of his fiancee and his unborn baby.
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He didn't catch one second, one wink of sleep that night. After he had realized that there wasn't much of anything else that he could do because of the state of the accident scene, he went back home as they had began to clear the scene of the cars. Damon didn't get a single second of sleep. Instead of had to do the awful task of calling everyone since as Abby, Lucy and Stefan,Caroline to let them know that Bonnie had died in an accident.
He had called Abby and Lucy first, to tell them that he was so sorry that it had happened, but he had to let them know. Of course Abby was beside herself with grief in learning that her daughter had passed away, especially because of how her relationship with Bonnie had improved recently and they had grown closer, Abby had been very excited about becoming a grandmother, so she also grieved for the loss of her grandchild.
Then, Damon broke the news to Stefan. Damon's voice had cracked in pain as he revealed to Stefan that Bonnie had died in a fiery car crash. Stefan was immediately bothered and deeply saddened by this. And Caroline was devastated and started to cry and mourn as soon as she learned the fate of her best friend. Stefan could hear his brother about to fall apart on the phone and vowed that he and Caroline would take the very first flight that they could get over to the West Coast, even if they had to compel some people to do it.
After he got off of the phone with his brother Damon spent the rest of the night alone, lost in his grief. And he just mourned and grieved for that entire night. The next morning, Trevor and Bailey had somehow gotten the news of Bonnie's passing even though Damon himself hadn't called them to let them know. As soon as they found out they came over to his house and tried to comfort him and give him their condolences . They were impacted and saddened by her death as well.
Damon's mind was like a haze as he acknowledged them and thanked them for coming over. Then they left, because it seemed like to them that he needed some time alone to mourn. And while he was alone that anger came back up. The anger over the fact that the woman that he loved and his unborn baby had been killed by some drunk. The more that he thought about it the more that his rage grew and in his cloud of grief he find himself wanting to confront the drunk driver for breaking his world.
The fact that the moron got drunk and decided to get behind the wheel of his car and drive. And Bonnie was the one who had to pay the biggest price, when she had been obeying traffic laws and driving the speed limit, it had made Damon's anger grow to the point where he had to do something about it. And being fresh in his grief that's what he intended to do. He learned from getting information from the cops that the drunk driver who had crashed into Bonnie name was Dave Hill, and from what Damon could understand Dave Hill had yet to be released from the hospital as he was still there from the injuries that he got from the accident the night before.
Damon drove over to the hospital and found the floor that Dave was on. He made his way towards the room that Dave was being held in and paused down the hallway from the room, when his vampire ears picked up a conversation that was going on in Dave's room. It was a conversation starting between the Detective that was now in charge of investigating the accident and putting the case together and Dave himself.
"We're glad that you woke up earlier this morning, Dave and now I have some questions for you about last night." The Detective started.
"I have a concussion the doctor told me, my head hurts a little." Dave grumbled.
"The doctor said that it would be okay to question you now. Lucky you that you didn't end up with any life threatening injuries." The Detective said.
Dave asked. "What happened? How did I get here?"
The Detective questioned. "You don't remember what happened last night?"
"No." Dave replied. "At least not how I got hurt and in here."
"Maybe it's the concussion that's having an effect on your memories or maybe it was all that you drunk." The Detective commented. "But, you were in a car crash last night."
"I was?" Dave questioned.
"You were and it was a very bad one." The detective confirmed.
Dave asked more. "But, how?"
The Detective told him. "How? You were drunk out of your mind and you caused the accident."
Now Dave sounded confused. "I was at fault?"
"Yes." The Detective answered.
"But, all I can remember is having a few glasses of wine." Dave went on.
"A few?" The Detective scoffed. "Mr. Hill you were three times over the legal limit with all of alchol in your system."
"I don't understand, Sometimes I get drunk, but then I always am careful with driving and I call a cab." Dave sounded disbelieved.
The Detective let him know. "You didn't this time, you decided to drive and it cost someone her life."
Dave's voice raised an octave. "Huh? Someone died?"
The Detective explained. "A young woman, when you caused the accident you ran into her head on and caused her, her life."
"No, No, that can't be." Dave denied.
The Detective assured. "That is what happened. Someone no longer is alive because you made the decision to be irresponsible and drove under the influence."
Dave insisted. "I don't remember that, I don't know what happened."
"Not only did you take a woman's life, but she happened to be pregnant, you also caused the life of that baby that was inside of her." The Detective added.
"Oh no, that's awful. I didn't intend to kill anybody." Dave sounded horrified.
"You did kill someone, because of that you are in some very serious legal trouble Mr. Hill. You are at least facing charges of DUI, reckless driving, manslaughter and perhaps vehicular homicide." The Detective's voice was firm.
Dave wondered in a panicked tone. "What in the hell do I do now?"
The Detective told him. "They'll keep you here for a few hours longer and once you are released you'll be released into police custody. We will take you down to the station where you will be under arrest for the accident that you caused and the person that you killed. Hang tight Mr. Hill you won't be going home anytime soon and will be spending at least the next few days in jail until a court appearance."
Dave grumbled out something.
"I have to go and update a report, but I'll be right back so that we can discuss what to do on this matter further." The detective said before leaving the room.
Damon heard the conversation end and heard the sounds of the detective leaving the room. He listened in but there appeared to be no one else in the room with Dave Hill and no one else entering at the time. He looked around the corner and even though the person was in legal trouble, there was no officer or anything guarding the door. Damon took that as his opportunity to confront the driver. He looked around before making his way down the hall and entering into the room of Dave Hill.
He saw that Dave Hill was alone in the hospital bed, with his arm in a cast and a bandage over his head. There was no other person in the room at the time, so Damon shut and locked the door behind him to make sure that he wasn't interrupted. Dave Hill currently had his face covered by his other hand, shaking his head from side to side, and talking to himself under his breath.
Damon cleared his throat. "Mr. Hill."
Startled because he didn't know that someone else had come into the room after the detective left, Dave looked up and saw a dark haired, blue eyed man eyeing him with a mask of rage and anger over his face.
"Who are you?" Dave asked tone slightly shaky.
"I'm the fiance of the woman that you killed driving drunk last night." Damon answered.
"Oh well….I" Dave paused not knowing what quite to say, the rage that he saw on Damon's face nearly made him cringe back in the hospital bed.
Damon gave him a dark look.
"I'm sorry…..I didn't mean for it to happen. I apologize for your loss." Dave frowned.
Damon sneered. "Apologize? It's your fault that she is gone."
Dave shook his head. "It was an accident. I feel awful about it right now. I'm hating this moment right now."
"Your recklessness and carelessness caused an innocent, sweet woman her life." Damon took a step closer to the hospital bed.
"I, I don't have the words. You…..You're upset and you have every right to be in losing the woman that you were engaged to. I….I just don't know." Dave stuttered.
"A good woman's life was ended because of you." Damon went on growing more upset.
Dave licked at his dry lips. "I know and….."
Damon cut him off. "She would still be alive, if you never decided to get behind that fucking wheel."
Dave gave Damon a guilty expression. "Don't know what came over me or how this happened, I usually wouldn't drive drunk, I still don't even remember what happened."
"You also killed a baby that will never be able to be born or live life on this earth." Damon's voice cracked and pain mixed in with the anger.
"Please.." Dave briefly closed his eyes.
Reaching out Damon wrapped his hand around the man's throat causing Dave's eyes to pop back open, and in his fit over the emotion of losing Bonnie thought about for a good long second of snapping the man's neck in two.
Damon said through the rage that was threatening to boil over. "You took the love of my life away from me, and because of you I will never get to be a father to my child and see him or her grow. You took away from me what I loved the most and ruined my life. I should really make you pay for that."
Dave's eyes bugged out and his voice was dripping with guilt and remorse. "I tell you again that I am so very, very sorry. I didn't mean for it to happen, I didn't want it to happen. I should have never gotten behind that wheel. I hate that you lost the woman that you loved and your child because of me, I would turn back the clock and take it back if I could."
He squeezed Dave's throat and thought about for one long minute of just ending the man's life.
Dave choked out as his air supply was cut off.
And Damon kept thinking about it, but no matter how much anger that he feeling, he just couldn't bring himself to snap the man's neck.
The doorknob to the room rattled and then there was a knock. "Why is this locked?" A nurse on the other side asked. "Mr. HIll what are you doing, are you okay in there?"
"Forget why I was ever in here." Damon quickly compelled Dave.
The doorknob rattled again. "Mr. Hill, do I need to call for help?"
Leaving Dave blinking in the hospital bed, Damon turned and walked towards the door unlocking it and opening it, he ran into the nurse.
The nurse looked at him in question. "Is everything alright? Why was the door locked?"
Damon told the nurse. "No, worries ma'am I was just paying a friend a visit to check on him after I heard about the accident that he got in last night."
"Okay, that's fine." The nurse said. "But, I need to check up on him right now."
"You go ahead and do that, I'm leaving anyway." Damon waved a hand towards the room.
The nurse went past him into the room.
In a pit of despair he left the hospital.
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In an unknown location Bonnie slowly opened her eyes, waking up from what she felt like was one longer than usual sleep. She opened her eyes and came around, feeling groggy and drowsy with a slight headache. Things with her body felt off and she felt dizzy. As she kept coming around her vision cleared and she find herself in some room that she didn't recognize. Confusion overtook her as she wondered where in the hell she was, as her body felt like it was without it's magic or in a weakened state of magic.
Groaning from her dizziness and slight headache she sat up and looked around, trying to figure out where she was.
"Hello?" She called out with the voice of someone who had just came around from unconsciousness.
Just then a woman that was about in her early thirties entered into the room. Upon seeing Bonnie the woman's eyes widened, she approached Bonnie. "Good, you've finally woken up, was concerned for a while as you've been out every since last night."
Bonnie looked at the woman. "Who are you, where am I?"
The woman gave Bonnie a strange smile. "No, need to worry about where you are, you're safe dear."
Something about the woman's smile was off putting to Bonnie. "Why am I here? What happened to me?"
The woman went on with her strange smile. "You took a bump on the head, nothing too serious."
This alarmed Bonnie. " A bump on the head and I passed out." She reached for her stomach. "Did I fall? My baby."
"Your baby and pregnancy are just fine, I checked and there is no need for you to worry." The woman told her.
"Can you tell me what's going on, how did I get this bump on my head?" Bonnie squinted her eyes at the women perplexed.
"Just relax and you and your baby will be taken care of." The woman casted her gaze down at Bonnie's fully round and pregnant belly.
How the woman was smiling and looking at her made Bonnie feel uncomfortable, like something wasn't right with this woman. "I don't know where I am, can you help me out? I need to call someone that I know."
"As I said there is no need for you to worry, you'll be well taken care of. For the sake of you and your pregnancy you need to relax as you've just come around." The woman returned.
The more minutes that past the more that Bonnie was set on edge, something wasn't just right about this situation. "But…"
The woman cut her off. "I know that you are confused, but I assure you that all questions of what happened to you will be answered. Everything is going to be fine Bonnie, you are safe here."
Bonnie stared at her with an uneasy expression.
"I'll be right back to get you something for that bump on your head." The woman quickly left the room.
"Wait.." Bonnie made an attempt to get up and go after the woman for some answers but a big wave of dizziness came over her making her set back down, in fears that she would fall and hurt her baby and miscarry.
She tried closing her eyes, willing the dizziness to pass, pressing her hand to the sore spot on her head. She wondered if she had gotten hurt someone and received a bump to the head, that why wasn't she in a hospital. The strange woman had acted like she was helping and treating Bonnie from getting hurt, but this place that she was in clearly wasn't a hospital. Why was this woman avoiding questions, why wouldn't she reveal to Bonnie where she was, where was Damon and what in the hell was going on?
Then Bonnie suddenly remembered what has happened the night before.
That car was crossing lanes and heading towards her at a high rate of speed about to crash head on into her. Bonnie clutched at her steering wheel with a scream caught in her throat as she thought that she was seconds away from being involved in a terrible car crash. For one awful second her life had flashed before her eyes, before she took her steering wheel and jerked it over to the side to try and avoid the other car from hitting her, her car went over to the shoulder of the road and this last second maneuver allowed her car to thankfully avoid the other that had crossed into her lane. The other car went by hers in the other direction, barely missing her still coming away inches from hitting her, slamming on brakes, her car came to a stop on the shoulder of the road.
She sat in her car, shaking at the near collision, knowing that she had come inches and seconds away from her life ending. Letting out a string of curses as her hands clutched at the steering wheel so tightly that her knuckles nearly turned white. Her heart was pounding at what had almost happened and she wondered what in the world had happened to that other driver for that person to have almost hit her like that. Looking in her rearview mirror she saw the car that had almost hit her slow down and make a U-turn with the screech of it's tires. The car was turning around and approaching hers from behind. Maybe the driver was about to check on the person that he or she had almost hit, Bonnie thought. She was caught between wanting to make sure that the other driver was okay and cursing him or her out for driving so recklessly and almost hitting her.
The other car pulled up right behind hers and stopped close behind her. The high beam headlights of the car was still on, which shined into Bonnie's car from the back and bounced off of her rearview mirror hurting and blinding her eyes temporary and making it hard to see. Covering one hand over her eyes, she tried to look back at the car behind her to see if she could see the driver, but the headlights from the car was nearly making it impossible to see from where she was sitting. The most that she could hear was the sound of a car door opening and made that out to mean that the other driver was getting out of the car to check on her or to talk about the near accident.
She figured that she should make sure that everything was alright with the other driver, and then if needed she would call 911 about the near accident. As her heartbeat returned to its normal pace, she put her hand on the handle of her driver's side door. The first thing that she would do would be to ask that driver to turn down their headlights, because it was hurting her eyes. Just as she opened her driver's side door to step out, the one who has stepped out of the other car, stopped next to hers.
Between the sounding darkness and the brightness of the headlights, Bonnie at first could only make out the outline of a figure of a person, she couldn't actually see what they looked like or the features of the person's face. She was about to open her mouth to ask the person if they were okay, when that person raised some object over their head and lobbed it towards her, the object connected with her head and she blacked out.
Remembering what had happened had Bonnie more alarmed and now she knew that things weren't right, whoever had been driving that other car had intentionally hit her with something and knocked her out, which explained the soreness to her head and why she had a hard time coming to. Then that person must have brought her here to this room while she was unconscious, wherever this room was located.
But, it was clear to her that whoever it was wished her some kind of ill will. Someone had taken her to this room, she thought about that strange woman that was in the room with her just moments ago, the woman had mentioned the bump to her head. Did she mention it because she was the one who caused it. Bonnie felt dizzy and she was very worried now about the spot that she was in. This strange woman had knocked her out, but why? Whatever the reason Bonnie now knew that she had been kidnapped and that she was in trouble.
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Four days later.
Stefan and Caroline had arrived in California on the afternoon following the word that they had gotten on Bonnie's death. Just as Stefan has said, he and Caroline would get on the very next flight over to the West Coast as soon as they could and they had. But, when they had arrived at Damon and Bonnie's house on that day, they arrived to an empty house. They saw that Damon's camaro was not in the driveway, only the motorcycle had remained there, they waited for him to come back home, after they had gotten there from the airport, but Damon never showed up.
So, Stefan found where the spare key was hidden as he and Caroline were told before where it was, during their visits with Damon and Bonnie before. Stefan let him and Caroline inside of the house, where they waited sometime more for Damon to come home. Thinking that he was out somewhere taking care of the fall out of Bonnie's death, such as taking care of her body or whatever people had to take care of right after their loved one died. But, as late evening had come and there was still a no show from Damon, Stefan and Caroline began to wonder where Damon was.
Stefan tried calling Damon, because he hadn't talked to his brother since the night before on which Damon had revealed what had happened to Bonnie. He tried calling his older brother to ask him where he was and to let him know that he and Caroline had arrived and were waiting for him at the house.
But, Damon didn't answer the phone call, nor did he answer any of the phone calls that Stefan sent to him afterwards. Stefan kept calling and Damon's phone kept going to voicemail. Stefan left messages telling Damon to call him back and talk to him, but his brother did not call back. Damon didn't come home that night and hadn't come home in the few days following after that. Damon was out somewhere and Stefan had no idea where he was, but with him not answering his phone calls and not showing up for the last few days, Stefan was concerned knowing the fragile emotional state that Damon was in at the moment.
Now currently it being the fourth day since Stefan last spoke to Damon and since Damon had been missing, Stefan was at his brother's California home trying to figure out where in the world that Damon could be so that he could go and find him. Then Stefan thought that perhaps it would be best if he would go and search for Damon himself and bring him back to the house. Just as he was going to go and about to let Caroline know that he was going to look for Damon. His brother in question walked through the door of the house.
Immediately upon setting his sights on Damon, Stefan could see that Damon looked like absolute hell. Emotionally, Damon looked like he had been put through the ringer, and he looked depressed. Physically, Damon's skin was paler than usual, like the type of pale that a vampire got when they hadn't fed or had any blood for a few days and on top of that it appeared like Damon had missed out on sleep or proper rest of a few days.
Stefan stepped forward with a expression of concern. "Damon?"
Damon spared him a glance before tossing keys on the stand. "Brother."
"We've been waiting here for you." Stefan started off, frowning at his brother's state.
"Yeah, I appreciate that now if you'll excuse me." Damon walked past his brother, into the room where the bar was.
Stefan followed him, keeping a close eye on him.
Damon grabbed a bottle of bourbon, opened it and instantly took a long gulp from the bottle, not bothering with pouring it in a glass this time.
The concern grew as Stefan watched him down almost half of the bottle in one gulp.
Then when Damon was finished drinking he just stared at the bottle as if he was lost.
"You've been missing for these last days, where have you been?" Stefan cleared his throat.
"Where else, I've been out dealing with the fact that the love of my life in Bonnie is dead and gone, and that I will never get the chance to see the baby that I created with her born, because my baby is also dead and gone." Damon gestured with his bottle.
"How exactly have you been dealing with it?" Stefan wanted to know.
"What do you mean by that?" Damon questioned in return.
Stefan hinted. "I mean have well have you been holding it together or did you completely fall apart and find certain ways to deal with your pain."
Damon's head whipped around towards his brother and he snapped out. "You mean have I completely gone off of the rails and turn off my humanity or go on a killing spree, like the old Damon used to do when it came to coping with pain and heartbreak? No, I didn't do either of those things, my humanity is still on and I didn't kill anyone just in case you were waiting for me to do something wrong."
Stefan rubbed at his forehead. "I'm just worried about you Damon, that's all."
Placing the bottle down on the counter Damon shook his head. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have gone off on you like that."
Stefan insisted. "That's alright."
"No, it's not. You're here to help comfort me about what happened with Bonnie and it wasn't fair for me to lash out at you like that." Damon directed at his brother.
"I know that you didn't mean to and I know that you did it because you are in deep mourning and part of mourning includes anger, so I'll give you a pass." Stefan's tone was full of understanding.
"This past few days, ever since I find out that she was gone have been like a awful nightmare that I'm keep hoping that I wake up from and that she walks through that door alive and well. That I can hold her in my arms again, but this is real and she's really gone." Damon's voice was filled with heavy sorrow.
Stefan eyed him with empathy and sympathy. "I'm so sorry Damon, I'm sorry that his had to happen in this way. There are really no proper words that I can provide to ease your pain and make it better. But, I'm sorry for you, Bonnie, and all of you that for lucky enough to have known her as a person. The world definitely lost someone special in Bonnie Bennett, more importantly we lost someone special."
Damon added his voice filled with agony. "I was away for the last few days, spending the nights in a hotel. After I left the hospital I just couldn't bring myself to come back here, I needed some time away from this place, because I thought that coming right back and I would see reminders of Bonnie and the life here that I built with her and us getting ready for the baby to be born. And that if I saw all of this, that I would break down, so that's why I was missing."
"That's fine if you had to do that, we all mourn and grieve in our different ways and you just do it in the best way that you need to get through." Stefan reassured him.
"But, I knew that I couldn't avoid this house forever and that I had to come back and face it, no matter it hurts." Damon's expression was grim.
"You went to the hospital?" Stefan picked up on what Damon had said.
"To confront the drunk driver that is the reason for Bonnie and our unborn child being dead." Damon confessed.
Stefan nodded. "I see."
Damon admitted. "I went there to confront him and to let him know just what he had done and the precious lives that he had taken away. I saw red and was angry beyond anything and I thought for a good minute about killing him in my anger."
Stefan got it. "But, you didn't."
Damon went on. "Nope, I actually couldn't bring myself to do it. As screwed up as it was that he decided to get behind the wheel, he didn't kill her on purpose and killing him wouldn't have brought Bonnie or my baby back."
"And you knew that it wasn't what Bonnie would have wanted you to do." Stefan pointed out.
"You're right, that did pay a part in why I decided not to kill him, she wouldn't have wanted me to not for an accident. It wasn't only that though. It was the look in his eyes and how he was acting, I think that the bastard truly felt awful and guilty about playing the part in her death. And that he truly felt remorseful for it. That's part of the reason that I didn't kill him." Damon finished.
"Accident or not, he ended a life by not being responsible and Bonnie didn't deserve that. Any anger that you or the rest of us have towards that driver is well warranted." Stefan stated.
Damon flexed his fingers. "Well, just because I didn't end the driver's life, doesn't mean that I don't want him to pay. I hope that the law handles him correctly and that he will spend as much time in prison as he can for the decisions that he made leading to Bonnie dying."
Stefan put in. "And you, me and Caroline will make sure that he faces the proper punishment in the court of law and at least get some jail time for it."
Damon ran a hand over his face. "How's Caroline by the way?"
"She's upstairs right now. Of course she is taking what happened to Bonnie hard, she's taking it very hard. She has been crying on and off since we learned about what happened." Stefan looked towards the stairs.
"I have to remember and know that I'm not the only one in pain by this. Caroline is hurting in this too, because her and Bonnie were friends every since childhood." Damon muttered.
"This is difficult and tough for all of us, it's going to be hard but we will get through." Stefan commented.
"At this moment, I just can't see that light at the end of the tunnel. And I don't know how I'll manage to get through life without my witch, but I don't think that I'll ever get over her or the way that she died." Damon was sober.
Stefan said. "A natural way to feel when she just died. You have to take a much time as you need to mourn and don't rush yourself to get over it."
Damon returned. "I'll take all of the time that I need to mourn them." He spoke of Bonnie as well as their child. "Trust me on that."
Stefan nodded.
The blue eyed vampire swallowed. "Her body was burned and ruined in the wreck, not even representable enough for a proper burial."
"We will find a way to send her off in honor, Damon, I guarantee that." Stefan directed.
"She told me that we were going to have a little girl. Like she knew it deep down in her gut that she was pregnant with a girl and that she wanted to name her Autumn and she really made me believe that we were going to have a girl afterall." Damon smiled but the smile didn't reach his eyes.
"I'm sure that she was right about that. Bonnie was always like that when it came to these types of things, I was very curious about becoming an Uncle, I admit." Stefan was saddened.
"I was really excited and looking forward to being a dad, for Bonnie to give him so that we can start raising our child together. And I would love him or her, unlike father and Lily did with us. I would have made extra sure to love and care for my daughter or son the way that a parent should, but I'll never get that chance and it's killing me inside." Damon mumbled.
Stefan shook his head. "This entire thing is just so tragic and it's not right."
Damon's voice had a tone like he wanted to cry. "It's been just a few days since Bonnie has been gone and I already miss her so much, Stefan."
Seeing his brother so heartbroken Stefan stepped up. "I know man and again I'm so sorry. But, I'm not going anywhere and I'll be here to help you through this for as long as you need me to be." He placed a comforting hand on Damon's shoulder.
Damon gave his brother a silent nod of appreciation and thanks.
And Stefan stayed there and consoled his older brother as best as he could.
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Four days had went by since Bonnie had woken up in that room where she didn't know the location was. Four days where she had been stuck with that strange woman and with each passing day, the panic and worry in Bonnie had grown. She had been knocked out and dragged to this place without her knowledge or her permission. She knew that things weren't right, despite the woman's repeated efforts to calm her and to say that things were okay.
Her magic wasn't at it's normal strength, like something was blocking it or weakening it. She kept demanding answers from the strange woman about where she was and why she was here, but the woman still refused to let her know about that. When she insisted to the woman that she be allowed to leave or call someone the strange woman denied her. Saying that she couldn't leave and that it was best for her and her baby if she stay put. The strange woman kept trying to tell Bonnie to relax and that she was there to care for Bonnie. Bringing Bonnie food, water, and juice and telling Bonnie that she should eat since she was pregnant.
When Bonnie tried to get passed the woman to leave the room, the woman always stopped her and prevented her from leaving. When she was in the room alone and the door was closed, she had tried several times to get up and open the door to get out, only to find that she was trapped in and that the door was locked from the outside. It was becoming clear to Bonnie that the woman wouldn't listen to her and wasn't about to let her go.
The woman's demeanor had Bonnie unsettled and desperate to find a way out, she know that she might be okay if she could find a way out or to contact Damon to come and help her, she knew that he must have been worried as she hadn't shown up for four days. She knew that she had to find a way to physically overpower the strange woman in order to escape, and that she would have to find a way to do that without risking her pregnancy by hurting herself. So, so tried to think of a way to do exactly that.
That's when she heard the door to the room start to open, Bonnie embraced herself for another encounter with that strange woman. But, who it was that came through that door this time was totally unexpected.
Enzo was the one who stepped through that door and when he did, his eyes landed on Bonnie with delight. "Hello, there love, sorry about the delay in my arrival here, but I had to spend the last days making sure that everything was going as it was suppose to."
Bonnie never expected to see Enzo, she was surprised to see him there. She hadn't seen him since she had that confrontation with him. But, despite their fall out and disagreement she was actually relieved to see a face that she knew, after spending four days locked up in this room. She wasn't sure how Enzo had found this place with her in it, but she assumed that maybe he somehow caught onto the fact that she was in trouble and had been taken.
And that the reason that he was there to rescue her and get her out. She thought that he was there to put their conflict to the side for the moment and out of whatever love that he had left for her, that he was there to help her escape. That's why she was relieved to see him, she wanted to get the hell out of this place and get back to Damon and she would do anything to do that, even if it meant doing that through Enzo.
"Oh, Enzo, Thank God." Bonnie let out a long breath. "I need your help."
Enzo looked her over. "Now you're happy to see me, huh?"
Bonnie brushed off the sarcastic tone in his voice, thinking that he was just being his witty self, but that he was still there to help her. "You have to get me the hell out of here."
The British vampire just stood there giving her a curious stare.
"Don't just stand there, we may not have a lot of time." She got to her feet frantically. "This crazy woman, she kidnapped me and brought me here. Now she is holding me against my will and won't let me leave. And I don't know what she'll do to hurt me, I'll give you appreciation for coming to rescue me, as soon as we are out of here."
"You think that I came here to rescue you?" Enzo was amused.
Bonnie blinked. "Yes, of course."
Enzo returned. "By the way, you don't have to worry about Natalie hurting you, I told her not to cause you harm."
She assumed that Enzo was talking about what strange woman. "That crazy woman is working with you."
"More like working for me. I gave Natalie instructions to watch over you. She working for me because I promised some rewards being in it for her. I would have gotten here sooner, but I had to spent the last days tying up some loose ends of this situation." Enzo admitted.
"This is on you? I'm here because of you, this is your plan." Bonnie was taken aback.
Enzo gave her a humorless grin. "Finally, you've caught on."
Bonnie became upset. "You, You had me kidnapped."
Enzo confessed. "That I did, Bonnie. How's your head? I tried not to hit you that hard?"
The green eyed witch put it all together. "You were the one who hit me with that object to knock me out."
"Hey, I had to find someway to get you out. I thought about drugging you with something to get you to pass out. But, you're far along in your pregnancy and being the noble man that I am, I didn't want to give you anything to make you miscarry." Enzo shrugged.
"You bastard, It was you in that other car, the one that almost hit me head on the other night and ran me off of the road." Bonnie narrowed her eyes.
"Right, that was me too. Sorry about that but I needed to drive fast enough and get close enough to give you a scare. I never planned on actually hitting you. I just did enough where I knew that you would stop your car." Enzo acted like what he was telling her was no big deal.
Bonnie became very angry at it all hit her. "You fucking asshole, you ran me off of the road, knocked me out, and kidnapped me and are holding me here against my will, why?"
Enzo directed. "You're smart, Bonnie I'm sure that you can think of why yourself."
"Wait….." Bonnie paused. "You're doing this because you're still bitter over our break up and you can't handle it."
"I'm tired of living a life of being disrespected and overlooked and being rejected and abandoned, this is me taking control and getting what I want." Enzo gestured.
"Well, I could careless about your bruised ego and could not give a damn about what you are feeling. I suggest that you get over your lapse of judgement in deciding to do this and let me go." Bonnie snapped at him.
"Now that's not going to happen, I wouldn't go through all of that trouble of getting you here just to let you go. You're here where you belong in my presence." Enzo said.
Bonnie told him through gritted teeth. "You better release me and let me go right now. And you better get as far away from me as you can, then maybe I can convince Damon not to kill you once he's find out what you've done."
Enzo grinned coolly. "Damon, won't be doing anything darling."
Bonnie glared at him. "Come on, how could you say that knowing Damon. He knows by now that I have been missing for the last four days. He's going to be worried and concerned about where I am. He's going to be looking for me and when he finds me and figures out that you played a part in it, there's going to be hell to pay for you. That's why for your well being I suggest that you rethink what you are doing here."
Enzo retorted. "No one looks or searches for the dead, Bonnie."
"What?" Bonnie snipped.
"Guess what." Enzo hinted. "Damon's not currently looking for you because he believes that you are dead."
"Really?" Bonnie rolled her eyes. "You are so full of bullshit, Enzo. Just trying to trick me so that I don't have the hope of Damon coming to get me."
Enzo insisted. "Oh, but I'm telling you the truth, I knew that I just couldn't kidnap you because yes Damon wouldn't stop looking for you. So, I needed a way to get him off of my back and through months of detailed and careful planning I came up with the idea to fake your death and make Damon believe that you are dead."
She aimed hate filled daggers at him.
Enzo explained more. "What do you think, that the whole running you off of the road ordeal was about? I needed your car, your car in order to stage a devastating car crash."
"No, you didn't." Bonnie shook her head as the realization hit her.
"I did." Enzo let out a laugh. "I set things up perfectly and because of that at this very moment Damon believes that you have died in a fiery car accident. He indeed thinks that his 'Bon-Bon' Is dead, still don't believe me and I'll show you proof that I'm telling you the truth. But, he's not going to look for you because you're actually dead to him.
Bonnie was furious and outraged. "You sick and twisted Son of a Bitch, why would you do something so low?"
"I'm teaching Damon a unknown lesson in why he shouldn't hook up with the ex girlfriend, if a former friend. He betrayed me the very second that he jumped into a romance with you. As for you, you need to get comfortable here, you won't be going anywhere for a long while." Enzo finished off coldly.
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