Bonnie was in a very foul mood as she woke up in that room the next morning and she was pissed off, after finding out that Enzo was the leader and the reason why she was kidnapped and that he had faked her death so that Damon would think that she was dead and wouldn't look for her. It made her so angry that Enzo would make Damon falsely believe something like that and made her very concerned and worried about Damon's emotional state, she knew that he would lose his mind if anything ever happened to her, which was way she was so angry that Enzo would do such a thing, also beyond pissed that she was being held against her will.
The door to the room opened and in stepped Enzo carrying a tray of food. He looked at Bonnie and smiled almost acting like nothing was going on, like he hadn't kidnapped her.
"Morning, love." He carried the tray over to her. "Natalie has prepared a nice breakfast for you, so eat up."
In response she glared at him with a like of loathing, and at that moment she wanted to hurt Enzo Saint John, Damon Salvatore style, head detached from his body and all.
Enzo sighed when he saw how she was eyeing him. "Come on, Bonnie don't give me that look."
"You won't get away with this." Bonnie said in a deadly tone.
"I already have." Enzo returned.
"You're going to pay for doing this sooner or later, Enzo. One way or another I'm going to get out of here or Damon's going to find out the truth, and that's when there will be hell to pay for you." Bonnie warned.
Enzo looked at her. "Keep your hopeful thoughts to yourself, at this moment Damon still thinks that you are dead and as I said before you're not going anywhere, so you might as make yourself comfortable around me."
Bonnie spat back. "You fucking jackass."
Enzo tapped on the tray. "Whatever, eat your breakfast will you, before it gets cold."
"I don't want any food from you." Bonnie told him.
"Maybe you don't want, but you need it don't you, since you are eight months along. You need to make sure that you eat." Enzo smirked.
She keep looking at him with hate.
Enzo went on feeling smug. "As a matter of fact I know that you'll eat, because no matter what you feel about me, you won't let that spawn inside of you go hungry or deprive it of food."
As much as Bonnie hated to admit it, he was right on that part. If it was just her by herself in this situation she would have no problems showing him defiance by refusing to eat. But, the fact was that it wasn't just her, she was pregnant with her and Damon's baby. And she wouldn't do a hunger strike and risk harming her baby in anyway. At least not right now when she wasn't sure of how long it would be before she was able to escape Enzo's clutches.
So, for her unborn child sake and because she needed to but not wanted to, she began to reluctantly eat the breakfast that was in front of her.
Satisfied Enzo went on. "I'm sure that you want to know how exactly I pulled by genius plan off."
Bonnie just gave him the silent treatment and ate her breakfast.
"I'll entertain you with it anyway." Enzo ignored her silence. "This took months of meticulous planning and then getting the timing down right. Knowing that I would have to set up your 'death' by car accident, I needed someone to help that along, such as a drunk driver made to look like he has crashed into your car. Even when it really wouldn't be this drunk driver's fault after all."
"You just got someone to volunteer to set themselves up with the police, get drunk and lie on themselves to say that they killed me, when they really didn't?" Bonnie scoffed. "Who would be that stupid to put themselves on the line for you, and go to jail for a crime that they didn't commit, especially a crime as serious as killing someone accident or not."
"I did in fact get this person in a way to volunteer to be my drunk driver, just not exactly of his own free will." Enzo hinted.
Then Bonnie got it. "You compelled the person to pretend to be the drunk driver."
The British vampire's lips curved. "One of the perks of being a vampire darling."
Bonnie shook her head. "And just how in the hell would you compel someone to be a drunk driver, who killed another person in a car crash?"
"Glad that you want to know. First there was the matter of needing him to actually be drunk, you know compelling him to say that he was wasn't enough, when they do tests to see if someone is over the limit. Knew that they would test his blood alcohol level. So, I compelled him to drink until I knew that he was drunk enough." Enzo commented.
"That's so wrong, it's no different from you physically forcing someone to drink by shoving alcohol down their throats." She snipped out.
Enzo dismissed her with a wave of his hand. "You do what you have to do in order to get what you want. And me being a man backed into a corner I was willing to do whatever I had to in order to achieve getting what I want. As I was saying, I needed a drunk driver and I found the poor lad to play that part."
"After I had him drunk, I needed him drunk enough just so that he couldn't quite remember what happened on the night I planned to set up the car crash, him being drunk and me compelling him helped with that. I compelled him just enough so that he would question to himself whether or not he actually killed someone while driving drunk."
"Wait, so you have this man that you forced to get drunk doubting himself and letting him think that he may have killed me by accident. You would would put that false guilt into his mind and mess with his feelings like that, pulling in someone who has nothing to do with your issues over Damon and I, that's how far that you will go." Bonnie shook her head.
Enzo told her. "I'm going as far as it takes and the best thing is that my plan has worked to perfection so far, right now the police think that this guy was actually responsible for your death."
Bonnie was angry. "So, you're framing an innocent man to face prison time for something that he didn't do and serious prison that at that. It's a shame that this poor man has been caught up in your selfishness and self pity."
Enzo snorted. "He'll be an ever poorer man if Damon manages to kill him for believing that he killed you. How amusing if Damon went out and killed an innocent man under false pretenses."
The tone of his voice and the way that he was joking about it made her furious, especially because he was messing with Damon's feelings and emotions. "That's not funny, it's awful that you would play with people's lives like that."
"Hey, it wouldn't be my fault if Damon is impulsive and erratic the type to react off of his emotions before he thinks. If he takes the life of that man because of his angry over your 'death' then the blood would be on his hands."
"I'm not for Damon killing anyone over a car accident or something that wasn't intentional. But, he would never consider killing in a situation like this if he didn't believe that I had died in a tragic way right now. That is what you made him believe and you intentionally put him in a spot where he is grieving. You're the one who framed an innocent man and put his life on the line, if not physically then by the fact that he has to spend time in prison for something that he didn't do." Bonnie pointed out with temper.
Enzo stated. "There's no limits that I won't go to for my love for you."
Bonnie sneered. "This isn't love, no person who truly loves another would do something like this to the person that they claim to love. If you loved me you wouldn't have taken me away from the man that is the love of my life in Damon. Damon is the man who truly loves me and he shows it in how selfless that he is, unlike you."
Enzo's jaw clinched in jealously as Bonnie talked about her and Damon's love. "One of these days, you'll eventually understand. And since I do love you, I'll be open with all that I have done…."
So, he went on telling her about more of how he set up her kidnapping and fake death.
On the night of the car crash.
Enzo drove Dave Hill's car down the two lane road, with Dave in the passenger's seat tipsy and drunk, after he had compelled Dave to drink.
"Where are we going?" Dave slurred.
"You'll see, Dave." Enzo returned.
"Where are you taking me? I don't feel too well, I had too much to drink." Dave slurred more.
"You just hang tight, Dave." Enzo kept his eyes on the road.
In the passenger's seat, Dave groaned like a person who went over their limit in alcohol and regretted it.
Enzo checked his phone with one hand. "Just a matter of timing and making sure that her car comes along at the right time."
Dave was confused. "Timing? Who comes along at the right time?"
Enzo didn't answer Dave, instead he put his foot on the gas and sped up the car.
Even in his drunken haze Dave knew that Enzo was going over the speed limit. "Whoa, man slow down."
"Relax, Dave." Enzo sped up the car a little more.
"Stop before you cause us to wreck." Dave was alarmed.
The British vampire didn't listen and kept pushing the car over the speed limit.
Dave let out an uneasy sound. "You're going to kill us or someone else if you keep going like this."
Enzo spotted headlights coming from the other direction, in the other lane. "There she is." He suddenly and sharply turned his steering wheel and jerked the car into the other lane. Heading towards what was Bonnie's car at a high rate of speed and it looked like for the moment that he was going to run right into the other car.
"Shit, watch out." Dave grabbed at the dashboard, eyes wide as he thought that they were about to have a head on crash.
But, at the last second the other car swerved over to the shoulder of the road and they went by it missing it by inches.
Dave looked over at Enzo like he was nuts. "What the hell, man you almost killed us and that person in the other car."
"Relax, Dave." Enzo's voice was calm. "I know what I am doing."
Enzo made a U-turn with Dave's car and pulled up behind Bonnie's car which was stopped on the shoulder of the road.
"We should check on that driver that you almost ran over." Dave suggested showing concern even if drunk.
"Wait right here, I'm going to be needing you." Enzo compelled the man through the darkness of the car.
He then grabbed an hard object and got out of Dave's car walking towards Bonnie's car. A couple of minutes later he had knocked Bonnie out and she was slumped over into his arms, passed out.
That was when two other vehicles pulled up to join them, and the people in them worked for him. Enzo lifted the pregnant, unconscious Bonnie into his arms and walked towards the vehicles that had just pulled up. One of them was an SUV and the other one was a truck.
Two men stepped out of the truck, two men that he was paying cash to help him along with his plans. Their names were Lee and Eric.
"Good of you to show up boys, perfect timing." Enzo greeted.
"Is that the girl you've been talking about?" Lee gestured to the one in his arms.
"This is the girl and I need you to go along with Natalie to make sure that she gets inside of the building that I picked out to take her to." Enzo stated.
"Okay." Lee said. "Will do."
Enzo carried Bonnie over to the SUV, where Natalie was waiting in the driver's seat.
Natalie looked over as Enzo carried Bonnie. "You want me to take her to our facility?"
He paused to put Bonnie into the back seat. "Yes and once you get there, Lee here is going to go with you, to help you get her inside and lock her in that room. I have to stay behind for a bit to make sure that everything goes like it should, but once I'm done I will join you there."
"Alright, Enzo." Natalie said
"Go with her now." Enzo ordered to Lee as he shut the SUV door.
Nodding, Lee walked over to the passenger's side and got into the SUV.
Enzo waved a hand and Natalie drove off and Enzo felt a lot more secure now that they had Bonnie.
Eric stepped up. "What do you want me to do, Boss?"
"We need to hurry and set this area up for that car crash before someone else comes along down this road." Enzo commanded.
"Right, I'll help you in making sure that this looks like the most devastating car accident ever." Eric agreed.
"That's the whole plan." Enzo walked back over to Dave's car and opened the door on the side that Dave was sitting in.
Dave might have been drunk but he had witnessed what had happened from where he was sitting and it bothered him and made him upset. "Why did you do that pregnant lady like that?"
Enzo simply said. "That's none of your concern, Dave."
Dave glanced back and forth. "But, you hit her and knocked her out, then you put her into that SUV, something's not right about this…...I'm going to call the cops to let them know what you just did."
Reaching in Enzo grabbed Dave by the collar. "You won't be calling the cops, because you're not going to remember what you just saw or me."
"And how do you think that I'm going to forget this?" Dave challenged.
"Because I have a skill that you don't know about called compulsion. Now step out of the car, Dave and await further instructions."
Bonnie was done with eating, even though there was still food left on the plate. The more that Enzo talked and explained how he executed his sick and twisted plan, the less appetite that she had to eat. She figured that she had eaten enough for now for the baby inside of her.
Enzo went on. "Now do you want to know how I came up with a dead body, since you're here and the dead body obviously couldn't have been you."
"Not really, but I'm sure that your ego will tell me how." Bonnie's tone was filled with dread to know.
"Some random girl was just found on the streets, who was petite and matched your size and was also pregnant." Enzo admitted.
"You killed an innocent pregnant woman?" Bonnie was taken aback by how far that he was willing to go in this.
"More like one of the men who worked for me killed her when he found her sleeping on the streets." Enzo confessed.
Bonnie snapped back. "Under your orders I'm sure. I never thought that you could be so vicious and cold hearted."
Enzo defended. "The girl was homeless and out on the streets, she was struggling to take care of herself. Could you imagine if her baby had been born and having to live homeless on those streets."
Bonnie threw her hands up in frustration. "Are you really trying to twist this into doing some good deed for that pregnant girl that you had murdered."
Enzo rationalized. "I needed a pregnant body, one that could be burned enough where it couldn't be identified with sight."
At this point Bonnie aimed daggers at him and if looks could kill then Enzo would have been beyond dead.
"I just want another chance to be with you, my actions in getting their may be questionable, but it's no different from you overlooking all of the terrible things that Damon has done to be with him." Enzo pouted.
"And you think that by kidnapping me, that I'll give you a second chance at another romantic relationship with you?" Bonnie voiced in disbelief.
"Something similar worked before, when I took you because the Armory was after you and then we were together at the cabin and fell for each other over the time. I'm hoping to recreate that." Enzo commented.
Bonnie rolled her eyes. "That happened under the certain condition and circumstance me coming from a broken heart of Damon's desiccation and plus feeling all alone and like I had no one else. There's no way that, that's going to happen again. It's been over with you and it's never going to start again."
Enzo insisted. "You could change your mind."
Bonnie blinked. "So, you're just thinking that we are going to start over and that you can get a second chance with me. You think that we're going to be a happily ever after couple? Soon enough I'm going to be giving birth to this baby, this baby that I made with Damon. You think that it's going to be me, you and Damon's child being a happy family together."
Enzo peered down at her pregnant form. "Actually, I have no intentions of that baby coming along with us. It's just going to be you and me with no baby in sight."
"What?" Bonnie scoffed.
"I certainly don't want to have to raise another man's child, especially not Damon Salvatore's and a baby would slow me down too much, that's why I plan on getting rid of it." Enzo hinted.
Bonnie's heart dropped. "There's no way that I'm going to let you harm my baby just because of this war path that you are on. You must be out of your mind, I'll hurt you before you ever lay a harmful hand on my baby."
"Chill, Bonnie, I may have gone so far, but I wouldn't go as far as to harm a newborn." Enzo frowned.
"You just said that you were going to get rid of it." Bonnie interrupted.
"Yes, I did. But, I still plan on keeping it alive. As a matter of fact that is where Natalie comes in." Enzo said
"And what does that strange woman have to do with my pregnancy?" Bonnie questioned.
Enzo replied. "Natalie has wanted to be a mom, but has had trouble being able to get pregnant herself, In exchange of her helping me watch over you I offered her to be able to adopt a child."
Bonnie placed a protective hand over her belly. "There's no way that you're going to separate me from my baby and hand him or her over to that crazy woman, no way that's going to happen. And you're crazy yourself if you think that it would be allowed by Damon or I."
Enzo returned. "Bonnie, Natalie would be sure to love your baby as if it's her own, I know that she would. I just can't be burdened down with it. It's out of my love for you that I'm at least making sure that your baby will be raised in a loving him. It's better off without Damon Salvatore as it's father, considering that, that child's life will most likely be corrupted by him."
"You have no right to decide that and you're being selfish, Thinking about placing my baby in the hands of a stranger that I don't know, because you have this delusional vision that we will be able to live this life together after you kidnapped me and are holding me against my will." Bonnie's temper rose.
"I'm making sure that the baby will be taken care of, at least be grateful for that." Enzo retorted. "Weeks from now you'll give birth and Natalie will take the baby as her own and you and I can began our life together."
"This is not going to work, you will fail." Bonnie stated through gritted teeth.
"I'm thinking that we should move to Europe, to a nice country side town with just the two of us. And I promise that I would treat you right and give you the life that you deserve, much better than Damon ever could. I know that you have your objections to me now, but I'm hoping that with the time alone with me, that you can fall in love with me and see that I am right for you." Enzo ignored how she felt to focus on his dream of them together.
"So, your hopes lies in kidnapping me and taking me across seas and hoping that I get Stockholm syndrome towards you." It was so asinine that Bonnie had to let a humorless laugh.
Enzo looked at her. "Call it what you may, but I'm doing this for us."
Bonnie eyed him with disgust. "There is no us, why can't you get that and just let me go. You're a piece of shit and one pathetic man Enzo Saint John."
Enzo shrugged. "Then it's a good thing that I'll have plenty of time to change your mind on that."
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Damon was roaming around in his house, lost in his thoughts when he found Caroline sorting through a box of Bonnie's belongings.
She looked up from what she was doing as he entered into the room. "I'm just looking through her things, it's helps me cope right now." Caroline let him know.
Damon softly returned. "That's fine, we all do what we need to do in order to mourn her."
Caroline stared at one of Bonnie's spellbooks. "Is there a way that we can bring her back, like we did all of those things before?"
Damon put his hands in his pocket. "If there was a way to bring her back to life and I knew of it, she would be back with us already."
"Right, and I know that." Caroline said. "It's just hard to accept that her death is so final this time."
"I know what you mean. Through all of the times that she has survived before. Dying to bring Jeremy back to life, becoming the anchor, blowing up with the other side. Surviving that psychopath Kai and the ptsd that he put her through, all of those times that she has died and suffered, she has managed to come back, but not this time." Damon finished sadly.
"And all of those times were supernatural related, but the thing that takes her out permanently, is a human mistake as common as drunk driving. It's just unreal." Caroline sighed.
"Some human made an error and it cost her, her life. I'm still so pissed at that, it's beyond unfair." Damon shook his head.
Caroline held up a shirt that was owned by Bonnie. "It's times like this where I really loathe the human race, I mean I know that the guy didn't kill her on purpose and deciding to drive drunk is such a selfish decision, that puts everyone on the road at risk."
Damon stated. "We can only hope that, that drunk driver spends a long time behind bars to make sure that he pays for what he did."
Caroline let out a long breath. "I just wish that she would come here and tell us that this is all one huge mistake and that she never died in that damn accident."
Damon agreed. "Me too."
"What makes it so hard to accept that she is gone forever is not just the fact that I loved her like a sister and the fact that I feel like I lost a sister. But. it's also how forward she looked to being a new mother and how she will never get that chance to be that mom." Caroline's ton was filled with sorrow.
Damon's tone was that of a depressed and broken man. "What makes it so hard for me to accept, is that I not only lost the woman that I loved, but our unborn baby as well. I lost the most greatest woman in the world. And I'm going to miss everything and all that she should for her kindness, compassion, and loving her. Having her around, in her presence and her laughter and beautiful smile."
Caroline looked at him. "I wasn't always a fan of yours for my own reasons, but one thing that I was a fan of was how much that you loved her. Your love for her was obvious."
"I did love her, I do love her even through her death. And I will love her, months, years after she has passed away." Damon softly commented.
The blonde vampire nodded showing that she believed him.
"I have planned anything for her." Damon ran a hand through his hair.
Caroline looked at him with some sympathy.
Damon explained. "She has been gone for five days now and I haven't even started to come up with a service for her. I should plan something, even if her body can't be used."
"Yes, Bonnie deserves a service, for us to be able to honor and pay respects to her death." Caroline agreed.
"That's what I'll do then, I'll have a memorial service for her. Even if it's a small one, just so that everyone that she was close to and who loved her can come and get some closure and honor the life that she lived. I have to do that for her, even if I'm not in the mood to." Damon muttered.
"You won't have to do it alone, I'll help you with planning the service and with whatever is needed for that service." Caroline suggested.
"Thanks, you can help as much as you want to, since you've lost your closest friend." Damon nodded.
She took in his appearance and how tired that he looked and how pale that he was. "You've been skipping out on meals in these recent days."
He eyed his brother's girlfriend. "It's that obvious, huh."
Caroline said. "You look like you are a few days from starving yourself to the point of desiccation."
Damon ran a shaky hand over his face. "I haven't been able to sleep or eat much since I found out that she is gone."
Caroline returned. "I know that you are in pain and that you are hurting over her death, but you should eat before you do any more damage to your body."
Damon sighed. "Yeah, I guess."
"As Bonnie's friend and knowing how much she loved you, I know that she wouldn't want you to starve yourself not even over her, so I'm asking you to get some blood into your system, if not for you then at least for her sake." Caroline suggested.
"You're right, she wouldn't want me to do this to myself, I'll go down and have myself a couple of blood bags to keep up my strength for her." Damon commented.
Caroline nodded. "Good."
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Eight days later.
With the help of Caroline, Damon planned the memorial service for his fiancee and their unborn child. They set up the service to be held at a medium sized church, in the California town of which he lived in. The memorial service was small in attendance compared to some others. Which was fine with Damon, because he wasn't sure that he could deal with the type where hundreds attended at that point. Enough attended to give him the comfort and the knowledge that Bonnie Bennett had been a well loved and respected woman.
Besides him being at the service, there was of course Caroline and Stefan there. Along with Abby and Lucy. Matt, Jeremy and Tyler has also made the time to come to the West Coast for her service, Alaric had wanted to come as well, but something came up with this twins that required him to stay behind. But, Alaric did send a ton of condolences Damon's way.
Along with her closest family and friends, some of Bonnie's neighbors and co-workers had also come along to make their respects to her death and the life that she has lived. And it turned out to be a beautiful service, where everyone honored Bonnie's life and who she was.
It touched Damon's heart to see how many people that she had truly impacted. It was a difficult service to go through for him emotionally and he mourned and grieved for her, but at the same time on the outside he tried to remain as strong as possible to get through the service for her. And ended up giving a lovely speech about the wonderful woman that Bonnie was and how much that he loved her.
Later, that night Damon was in a down mood and he felt emotionally drained from the memorial service earlier, as well as the past days that he had spent mourning for Bonnie and planning her service. He told Stefan and Caroline good night and that he was turning into bed early.
In his bedroom, he shut the door to give himself some privacy and took a moment to look around, her presence and the things that she owned was still all around in the bedroom that he has shared with her. Shaking his head, he got ready for bed, kicking off his shoes and socks and then taking off his shirt and changing into more comfortable pants. He went into the master bathroom and brushed his teeth and came out and pulled back the sheets on the bed.
Then he just stood there and stared at the bed that he had once shared with Bonnie, and stared at her spot of the bed and the side that she had slept on. Wondered if he should consider sleeping on her side of the bed to comfort himself in her absence or wondered if that was too much. And for a good minute he debated to himself on which side of the bed that he should sleep on his or hers.
When he shifted where he stood, his feet brushed against something that was under the bed. Bending down Damon looked to see what it was and he could see that it was Bonnie's pajama shirt, she had worn it the last time that she has slept in this bed and Damon could remember back to that morning in which she has taken in off in a rush to get into the shower, because she didn't want to be late to where she had to go. That was the last morning that he would ever see her here, because that night would end up being the night of the car crash and the night that she had died.
Reaching, he grabbed her pajama top and stood up right. Took a moment to run his hands over the soft material of it, then he brought the clothing item to his nose. Closing his eyes he breathed in deep and discovered that the pajama top still held onto the strong scent of her and that it smelled so much like her.
For some reason all of the strength that he had managed to hold to at the memorial service earlier that day went away. Smelling her scent got to him emotionally and he broke. Clutching her pajama top in his hands, Damon collapsed to the bed and let out a heartbroken sob and cry, like he never had before for the loss of the love of his life in Bonnie Bennett.
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Meanwhile, back in her prison of a room Bonnie was in her own emotional distress.
She was trying to keep up the hope that Damon would found out the truth and that she was really alive and that he would come to get her. But, it had now been slightly over a week and there was no sign that he knew that she was really alive. Which meant that she was caught and stuck in this hellhole with Enzo and that crazy Natalie. She wanted to see Damon so badly and she had missed him. But, part of her feared that he would never find out and that she would be stuck with Enzo for a long time.
Still she tried to keep up the hope, telling herself that her fiance was smart and savvy and that someone would come up to clue him in on what was really going on.
Enzo came into the room, breaking into her thoughts. She gave him a cold look. "What do you want?"
Enzo replied. "I came in to show you something."
Bonnie rolled her eyes. "Go away, I was about to go to sleep." She wasn't really but she just wanted him to leave the room and leave her alone.
"Not until I show you want I need to show you, then you can go to sleep." Enzo told her.
"What is it." Bonnie snapped out with little patience.
"Proof in why you should let go and give up on Damon ever finding you and accept that your life is with me now." Enzo stepped forward with something in his hand.
She eyed him with distrust as he moved closer towards her.
Enzo went on. "A memorial service was held in your name earlier today."
Bonnie's heart dropped. "How do you know this?"
Enzo answered. "Because one of the men who is working for me, Eric has been keeping quiet taps on Damon and what's going on with him at my request."
"And you had him go to my memorial service." Shivers went up her spine as she said this, at the thought of a funeral service being held for her when she was very much breathing and alive.
"Once I heard from him that they were planning a memorial service for you, I asked Eric to go there and see if he could spy on Damon." Enzo admitted.
"And you did it why, so that you could rub it in my face." Bonnie accused.
"Just because you need some closure and there's no bigger one than a service being held in your name." Enzo mumbled. "That's why you need to see a few pictures that Eric managed to sneak in at the service."
"I don't want to see them." Bonnie denied.
Enzo once again ignored her feelings. "You need to see them." He pressed the pictures into her face.
She grabbed onto the pictures and studied them. She saw a church filled with the mourners who had come to her service. Saw most of the people that she had gotten close to in life there in their various stages of grief.
Then she saw the pictures taken of Damon, dressed in his dark suit and tie. On the outside it looked like he was holding it together well considering the situation. But, Bonnie saw the expression of grief and sadness on his face and in his eyes and knew that he was being torn apart inside. She wanted to reach out to him but was helpless to do so. She ran a stroked a tender finger over the spot on the photo where his face was.
"What did I tell you." Enzo said in a told you so type of tone.
She wiped away the single tear that had fallen down her cheek as her heart broke for Damon.
Enzo added smugly, nearly gloating. "I guess Damon isn't feeling so arrogant and sure of himself now."
Bonnie whipped her head up in his direction. "You pig bastard, you're enjoying his grief, aren't you."
Enzo's lips curved like he almost wanted to grin. "I'm just glad that my plan worked so well and that Damon has no idea."
"It doesn't matter what problems or issues that you have with Damon, to falsely put him through this type of heartbreak is cruel and cold hearted on your part." Bonnie spat out.
"Too bad that you're upset, but I won't feel sorry for any pain that Damon is feeling. Did he feel for me when I lost you." Enzo returned.
"A break up with your girlfriend and thinking that the love of your life is dead are completely different and not on the same level. Plus I broke up with you a long time ago of my own will, Damon didn't force me to do that. You're holding me here against my will and are keeping me apart from Damon, and letting him believe something happened that really didn't" Bonnie retorted.
And she added. "And it's not just Damon, you know. There are the others, the rest of my friends and family. My Mom, my cousin Lucy, Caroline and all of my other friends, you're messing with their emotions too. Tricking them into believing that I am dead and making them mourn me for no real reason. What about them."
"Collateral damage." Enzo shrugged. "I have no qualms with the others, but they have to believe that you are dead too in order for this plan to work."
"You're one heartless and selfish bastard." Bonnie glared at him.
The British vampire just looked at her because he had no real retort to that.
"I wish that I would have succeeded a while ago when I was a huntress and that I would have succeeded in plunging that stake into your damn chest, if I knew what I know about you know." Bonnie told him.
Enzo tensed at those words from her and the venom behind them. That hurt both his ego and his feelings.
Bonnie nearly screamed. "I hate you for doing this, Enzo and I'll always hate you for doing this, do you understand."
Her words bruised him even more. "Yes, I understand." Enzo started to make a move towards the door. "Good night, Bonnie." He walked out of the room and locked her inside.
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Three days later, Damon sat on the beach alone, trying to get a handle on his emotions and some kind of peace of mind. Looking out onto the ocean, he quietly thought about the times that he had spent with Bonnie on this beach, since they had moved here.
His smartphone rang, breaking into the quietness and his mediation. Lifting it out of his pocket he saw that it was Alaric calling him.
Damon pressed the button on the phone. "Hello, Ric."
Alaric greeted Damon with some hesitation to his voice. "Uh, yeah hi Damon."
Damon picked up on it. "Is there something specific that you are calling me for?"
"Actually there is." Alaric answered.
"What's the reason?" Damon wanted to know.
"I didn't want to burden or bother you with this, knowing that Bonnie's memorial service was just a few days ago, but something very important came up." Alaric stated.
"Go ahead and tell me." Damon insisted.
Alaric paused. "It's about Elena."
Damon was caught off guard. "Elena?"
Alaric hinted. "The whole linking Bonnie to Elena deal and Elena not waking up until Bonnie dies. Remember that?"
He honestly had not remembered that or at least it hadn't crossed his mind recently. Meaning that Elena and her waking up had been nowhere near his mindset, ever since Bonnie died so tragically. It was almost like he had forgotten about Elena in Bonnie's death.
There was a time in the days following Elena's coma, where he envisioned himself there waiting next to Elena's coffin, for her to wake up and be reunited with her. But, obviously times had changed. Losing Bonnie had consumed him so much that he didn't think about the link and he had almost forgotten about Elena and that whole spell.
Part of him felt slightly guilty for not giving a thought to the Gilbert woman that he once thought was the love of his life, before he figured out that Bonnie really was. But, a bigger part of him mostly didn't, mourning Bonnie and his lost child was his number one priority and he didn't regret that. Maybe the link and Elena would eventually come to his mind, after his grief wore off some. But, the fact that rushing off to reunite with Elena never crossed his mind once Bonnie died, proved to him how much his feelings and love had grown for Bonnie. And the fact that he now felt no joy or excitement at the thought of Elena waking up, off of Bonnie's death.
Damon pinched the bridge of his nose. "Yeah, I remember."
"Well, I decided that I should go and check on Elena, since Bonnie has died." Alaric picked his words carefully, as he was balancing on a scale, knowing that Damon was still reeling from Bonnie's death. "I went to Brooklyn, just in case she needed someone there when she woke up."
"Go on." Damon moved the sand between his feet, not sure if he was ready to see Elena yet, in the current emotional state that he was in.
"And I'm here in Brooklyn, right now, standing next to her coffin, to see if she has woken up yet." Alaric commented.
Damon guessed because he still cared about Elena after all. "She's awake? Is she still in there or has she woken up and disappeared already?"
Alaric said. "Actually that's the reason why I had to call you as soon as I saw…..As soon as I saw that she is still in the coffin."
Damon was taken aback. "Are you being serious, Ric."
Alaric assured through the phone. "I'm being one hundred percent serious, Damon, I'm here right now looking at her coffin and she's here and she hasn't moved and she is still in her coma."
"Oh, wow." Damon muttered not sure how to respond.
"It's been fifteen days since Bonnie passed away, right." Alaric put as more of a comment than a question.
"Yes, it's been fifteen days." Damon mumbled.
Alaric went on. "At least that's how long it has been since Bonnie was suppose to have passed away."
Damon wondered. "Where are you going with this, Alaric?"
Alaric told him. "Where I am going with this, is that if this whole link thing with Bonnie and Elena was true, then fifteen days should be more than long enough for the spell to have to be broken after Bonnie died. And yet here I'm looking at Elena still in a coma."
"I guess that Elena should have woken up by now." Damon some what agreed.
"And yet she's not. Unless Kai lied about the spell that he set up and didn't tell us that even if Bonnie died, that Elena would still remain in her coma. As some kind of crappy joke on his part." Alaric went.
"No, that psychopath was telling the truth about the link, he really wanted me to choose between Bonnie and Elena and wanted me tormented over it. He really linked them together, to be cruel as a way to stick it to Bonnie and I, knowing that her death would really wake Elena up. Elena waking up he knew would be a constant reminder of Bonnie having to die in order for that to happen." Damon shook his head.
"Exactly, my point and since I think that, the sociopath path was telling the truth about how he linked those two, something is fishy here, Damon. Something is off. If Bonnie is really dead, then Elena should have woken up." Alaric finished.
Red flags went up in Damon's head. "When you mention it like that, it does raise suspicions in my mind."
Alaric pointed out. "This may seem far fetched, but hear me out. What if this means that it wasn't Bonnie who died in that car crash fifteen days ago, what if this somehow means…."
Gasping, Damon put together. "That Bonnie's not dead afterall….that she is very much still alive."
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I know that some of you have been asking about my other stories and I'm sorry that I haven't updated those in a while. But, at times I have this problem with writer's block and I hit this wall. I still enjoy writing when new ideas come to my mind though.
Thanks for those who have supported this story so far and I apologize for any spelling or grammar errors that I missed.