"A Moment In Time"
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters; those belong to their original creators. The way it's all stringed together is of my making. No profit is being made out of this (*sigh* unfortunately).
Fandom(s): Vampire Diaries & Supernatural
Character(s): Damon Salvatore, Bonnie Bennett, Dean Winchester & Benny Lafitte
Pairing: established Damon/Elena
Rating: T
Words: ~1,672 words
Requested By: none
Challenge/Summary: [Tag on to 5x22] After the destruction of the Other Side, Damon and Bonnie are surprised to learn where they ended up and who they meet.
Inspiration: I refuse to believe that Damon/Bonnie are gone after that ending so I came up with this.
Spoiler(s): everything up to ep. 5x22 ("Home") for Vampire Diaries and up to season 8 for Supernatural
Time Frame: After the white light consumes Damon/Bonnie.
A/N: At the end to avoid additional spoilers. This is not beta-ed and it's roughly written.
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"Beyond Oblivion"
All they remembered was a white light consuming them before they could see again, only to find themselves in a wooded area. They only knew that they were somewhere else when they couldn't find the old crypt they were just standing near before the light consumed them.
"What happened?" The woman asked as she looked around. All she could see were trees.
"I have no clue." The man replied as he, too, looked around. "I'm assuming that the Other Side doesn't exist anymore since you're with me."
"Thank you Captain Obvious." She mumbled to herself.
"But that doesn't explain why we are in the woods…again." He continued as if he didn't hear her and yet his vampire hearing could pick up on it.
Wait a minute.
His vampire hearing picked up on her mumblings.
The man frowned at the thought. During his short stay on the Other Side, he found that he didn't have any of his vampire abilities.
"What's wrong?" She asked after noticing his silence.
The man didn't answer; instead his hearing was picking up rapid footsteps that were heading towards them.
"We're about to have company." He quickly told her before he placed himself between her and the direction the steps were coming from.
"Damon what are you talking about? No one is here." She questioned after noticing his stance change into a defensive one.
The man, Damon, didn't answer her. Instead he braced himself as the footsteps were fast approaching.
Before he realized it, a dirty looking man covered in blood came running past them. If Damon hadn't heard the second whoosh of air shortly afterwards, he would have gotten an axe to the chest because moments after the man ran passed him with abnormal speed, Damon pushed himself and the woman to the ground seconds after Damon heard the second whoosh, a whoosh that was caused by the flying axe.
So instead of hitting Damon, the axe hit the running man in the back. The man shouted before a second blur tackled the injured man to the ground.
On the floor, Damon and his companion quickly turned and saw the second man restraining the first man by sitting on his back as the second man applied pressure to the axe that was still in the first man's back.
Before either Damon or the woman could figure out what was happening, a third man ran up to them.
"Are either of you with him?" The third man asked, causing the two on the floor to look up at him only to see another man covered in mud, old blood and with his own makeshift weapon in hand.
The woman shook her head while Damon just stared at the man.
The man grunted, "Then stay out of it." He walked over to the other men, "You good?"
"The wolf won't talk." The second man with a slight southern accent told the third, "And he won't stop squirming either."
The third man crouched down to look at the first man, the wolf. "Where's the angel?" He growled, completely ignoring how the interest of Damon and his companion had peaked the moment wolves and angels were mentioned.
"I don't know any angel." The wolf grunted.
The third man looked to the second before he nodded.
The second man pushed the axe further into the wolf-man's back. The first man shouted. The woman winced at the sound.
"I'll ask again, where is the angel?" The third man demanded with a more menacing tone.
"Like I'd tell you," The wolf scoffed, "None of us are going to tell the very human that put most of us here."
The third man, the human, gave a dark chuckle, "Then tell the vampire that's sitting on your ass."
The human looked to the second man, the vampire, and he gave another nod.
The vampire ripped the axe out of the wolf and grabbed its neck from behind. The vampire twisted himself so that his face was right in the wolf's line of sight. "I suggest you answer the human before I rip you to shreds, wolf."
The wolf glared, "Do your worst."
The human rolled his eyes and turned around, now facing the two figures that remained on the ground. "I suggest you don't look."
Before they could take his advice, the vampire punched through the wolf's body and pulled upward, taking part of the wolf's spinal cord with him. The vampire stood with ease before he threw away the spinal cord as far as he could.
The vampire turned to the human. "That'll keep him down for a while, long enough for us to get out of here before he wakes up."
"Wakes up?" The woman questioned frantically, "You just ripped out part of his spine, he's not going to wake up!"
"Welcome to Purgatory sweetheart, where no supernatural death lasts very long." The human greeted before he sobered up, "You two new?" He asked after taking note of their cleanliness, which he hadn't noticed earlier.
Damon cleared his throat, "You could say that."
"What do you mean by Purgatory?" The woman quickly asked with a scared look.
"It's where monsters go after they die. You know, the afterlife for the supernatural, those who aren't human. Instead of going to Heaven or Hell, they end up here." The vampire explained with a shrug with his arms outstretched, as if he was gesturing to the area around him.
"With that said, what are you?" The human asked.
The woman frowned, "Don't you mean who are we?"
"That would be my second question." The human explained as he waited, "well?"
"You first," Damon said instead, "I know that you're the vampire-" he pointed to the second one before trailing to the third (as the first was temporarily dead) "-and you're the human. Though after you explained where we are, I don't get how you could be here."
The human shrugged, "I'm just awesome like that."
"It sounds like you have awful luck to me." Damon countered.
The human chuckled, "I guess I have that too. I'm Dean, that's Benny."
"I'm Damon the vampire," Damon turned to look at the woman, "that's Bonnie, the former witch and anchor."
"Witch? Witches don't end up here." Dean countered as he looked at the woman. "And the anchor for what exactly?"
"To the Other Side. We thought that was Purgatory." Bonnie explained shyly. She didn't like the idea of being in this Purgatory...it looked violent already.
"Ah, you've just come from the magical version of Purgatory then," Benny commented but when all he got was confused looks, he sighed. "This Purgatory was created by God himself to first imprison the Leviathans but then it became a way to imprison the creatures that terrorized his beloved human race. Then you have the Other Side, which was created by magic as a way to stop magically-created creatures from ending up here after they died." Benny finished before he turned to Damon, "If you came from the Other Side then you're the vampire type that was created from magic, not by Eve."
Damon's brow furrowed, "Eve?"
"The Mother of all Monsters," Dean answered before Benny could.
Damon scoffed, "Naturally."
Dean smirked before he turned to his vampire friend, "If what you say is true, then how is a witch here? Don't they go to Hell afterwards?"
Bonnie squeaked, "Hell?"
"Yes and no." Benny answered as if he hadn't heard Bonnie, "Witches who've got their magic from demons end up going to Hell after they die because they basically traded their soul for magic. But then there are witches that are born with the ability to channel magic. They could go to either Heaven or Hell depending on how they use that magic. Aside from being born with the ability to use magic, these witches are still considered humans."
"That's good to know." Bonnie mumbled to herself. She never knew that there were other types of witches in the world. She should have figured after discovering what the Travelers were.
Dean continued to remain thoughtful after Benny's explanation, which the vampire noticed. "What are you thinking?"
"Well, is she human enough that she'll pass through the portal without trouble?" Dean questioned Benny. The hunter couldn't help it when he started to see Bonnie as someone like him, someone who ended up where they weren't supposed to be. And if what Benny said was true about Bonnie's type of witch and with what he observed so far from Bonnie's mannerisms (because she was nothing like the witches he's dealt with before), then she was a girl that tried to do good instead of inflicting evil on others.
Damon looked between the battle-torn men, "Portal, what portal?"
Benny sighed, "There is a human-only exit portal in here just in case a human ended up here accidentally." He then pointed to Dean, "Like this one."
Bonnie perked up at this piece of news.
It was Dean's turn to point at Benny, "And this one knows where it's located but in order for him to take me, I had to promise to bring him along."
Damon frowned, "How if he's a vampire?" If it was all possible, Damon wanted in on this return trip plan.
Benny smirked, "I know a spell."
"And you think it'll work for me?" Bonnie asked with obvious hope tinged in her voice. She then turned to Damon, "For us?"
Benny shrugged, "It's worth a shot otherwise ya'll are stuck here for eternity fighting for your life. It's not pleasant, especially with the Levis back." When Damon and Bonnie blinked, a show of confusion for them, Benny sighed, "Levis are the creatures that bleed black goo. They are God's first monsters. The Leviathans."
"They are also why I ended up here in the first place." Dean grumbled to himself before he perked up, "Are we done with the chit chat? We need to find someone before we head to the portal."
"The angel?" Damon asked, causing the other two men to stare at him. Damon rolled his eyes, "So I eavesdropped, sue me."
Bonnie sighed, "Not helping Damon."
Damon slapped his hands together, ignoring the witch, and started rubbing them together, "Well I, for one, want to get out of here and get back to my girl and my brother so let's get to it."
Dean smirked, "Well, we just need to find another creature to interrogate."
With that said, the group said off to find another creature that could lead them to the missing angel.
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A/N #1: And there you have it! What'd you think? I just couldn't accept that Damon/Bonnie were gone (and this was written before I read about how the white light was Damon/Bonnie finding peace together) so I just had to do this and have them end up in Purgatory when Dean was trapped there. Anyways, what did you think of this added scene? Please leave a review!
A/N #2: What did you guys think of the VD finale? Personally it had me in tears when all these goodbyes were being said. And I've come to realize that if Elena cries, there is a good chance that I will too (Nina is just fantastic in those scenes). I'm definitely more likely to cry if something happens to Damon.
A/N #3: Lastly, thank you to everyone who took the time to read my latest snippet/challenge on SPN/Arrow, it means the world to me! I do hope to hear more of your thoughts on my snippets or on the situations I bring up in them. Reviews always bring a smile to my face!
Coming Up Next: TBA
Originally Published: May 16, 2014