"Don't you dare walk away from me Bonnie." Damon said.

"I'm tired Damon." Bonnie said softly.

"You weren't tired when you were in his arms just moments ago. Answer me! Do you love him!?" Damon screamed in her face.

"You know what. I used to blame myself for your mistakes. Oh Damon is under a lot of pressure from work. I need to watch what I'm saying, doing. I don't want to upset him. He loves my body that's why he fucks me like this. He will make up when he comes back, but no more. Looking at you. What you have become? Do you even recognize yourself? Do you even take time and say to yourself, what I'm doing is wrong. I'm not myself. I better do something before I lose everything? Do you? I don't think so. You just go on and on. Hurting and destroying the only beautiful thing left in your miserable life, and that's me Damon. ME!" Bonnie stepped into his face and looked him up and down with fuming eyes. "Giuseppe would be proud of you. What you've become."

"No I'm not him."

"Yes you are Damon."

Damon softly cupped Bonnie's face. He put his forehead against hers and said. "I'm not him babe. I'm not him. I can't lose you Bonnie. Its you and me, till the end."

"No, Damon. I can't deal with you like this anymore. What about me?" Bonnie sobbed.

"I'm sorry babe. Please forgive me." Damon begged.

"I might go to jail Damon. Be there for the kids if that happens." Bonnie said and took his arms away from her.

Damon's eyes went wide from shock. In a shaky voice he asked Bonnie if she's fucking with his mind or what.

"No, I'm not." ... and in a cold voice Bonnie started to tell him. "The night of Stella's gala. We found Edward .. the sick fucker was getting himself of to pics of Kenzie and other teenage girls, even his own daughter. He wanted to kill us and we fought back. Hard. If it wasn't for Stella I wouldn't be alive today." Bonnie said and looked up at the silver moon.

Damon was rendered speechless.

"We covered it up and I'm not regretting it for one minute because he deserved it." Bonnie said and looked back at a shock looking Damon.

"Your not going to jail. I'll do everything in my power to stop that babe." Damon said. He took out his phone. "I'm calling our lawyer we need to be prepared."

"No. I don't want to drag anymore people into this."

Damon looked at his wife with a stunned expression on his face. "The hell if you think I'm going to stand by and watched you go down for defending yourself against that monster."

"Liv is handling it." Bonnie said softly.

"Jesus Bonnie. You and who else?" Damon asked. His mind working overtime on how to get Bonnie out of this.

"It doesn't matter. Stella is having a polygraph test tomorrow morning."

"Babe its not too late. What I'm going to say now, don't take it the wrong way. Stella shot her husband not you. What if he after finding out she cant get away with it she killed herself. Why go down with her. Yes she saved your life but at what price? Don't you think she's better off dead then to live with this shame for the rest of her life?" Damon asked.

Bonnie looked at Damon in disbelieve. "Damon? She's a mother with a teenage daughter. Why should she die for Edward's sins?"

"Babe, right now Stella is on top of the suspect list. Think of our kids." Damon ran his hand through his hair in frustration. If something can happen to Stella before the polygraph test then this whole macabre sick show will come to an end. Damon thought to himself.

There was silence between the two before Bonnie said this. "Damon I want you out of the house." In a voice Damon never heard before.

Now he was the one looking at her in disbelieve. He shook his head. "No, you don't mean it." Damon wrapped his arms around her. Looking at her with tears in his eyes. "Fuck what I just said. Just the thought of losing you Bonnie, and the kids. Don't do this please."

"I .. I want you out. Or you go or I take the kids Damon. This situation between us is not healthy Damon and neither is for the kids. Your not the man I used to know. Our kids needs to grow up in a healthy loving environment." Bonnie briefly closed her eyes and said. "Take me home."

"I have nowhere to go Bonnie." Damon said in a soft lost voice.

Bonnie walked back to the car.

Damon looked at his wife with tears in his eyes as she's walking away from him.

...

The Salvatore Home

Damon parked the car in the garage.

"We'll talk to the kids in the morning. After that I want you out Damon." Bonnie said. She got out of the car and went inside. Leaving a stunned hurt Damon behind.

...

The male rooster cock-a- doodle-doo announcing a new day. As they say, morning has broken. A beautiful Saturday for the inhabitants of ML..

Bonnie was already up waiting for the kids. She knew they will be devastating and full of questions, but her decision right now is for the best.

Damon came in. Looking like he haven't slept the whole night. He was still in his clothes from yesterday.

Bonnie pour him a cup of coffee and placed it in front of him on the table. "Good morning Damon." She said softly. Avoiding the hurt in his eyes.

Damon cleared his throat and said. "Good morning Bonnie." He picked up his cup with hands trembling lightly.

Zoe and Dylan came down cheery and full of laughs. They greeted their parents with hugs and kisses. Oblivious to the tense atmosphere in the kitchen.

"Princess can you go wake up your brother and sister. There is something your father and I need to talk to you about." Bonnie said and took a seat opposite Damon.

"This sounds serious. Is someone dead?" Dylan asked and looked at his mom and dad.

Zoe quietly left the kitchen.

"Dad?" Dylan asked in a soft voice.

Damon tried to smile. "No, buddy. No ones dead." Damon felt like dying when he looked into his sons sad eyes.

Zoe came down, with Kenzie and Alex in tow.

"This better be good. Who wakes up early on a Saturday morning." Kenzie said and yawned.

Alex noticed the strain looks on his parents faces and he felt uneasy.

The kids each took a seat at the kitchen table waiting for their parents to speak.

"I just want you guys to know how much I love your father and you and this decision is not easy for me because I have been hoping for it to never come to this." Bonnie said as tears welled up in her eyes.

"Mom?" Zoe whispered with unshed tears.

"Your father and I decided to have time out. Things between us are not good and before ...

"Wait! What? Is this you guys telling us that your getting a divorce? What about us?" Kenzie screamed out. Tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Calm down kiddo. Let your mom finish." Damon said. It took everything in him to stay strong in front of the kids.

"Let her finish telling us how everything is going to change? Did you ever take our feelings in consideration? How this will affect us?" Kenzie asked and glared at her parents.

Zoe was sobbing softly. Alex was staring into space. So many thoughts running rampantly through his mind. Dylan looked down at his hands. Trying hard not to cry like his sisters. He felt his father's hand resting on his shoulder and that's when he let the tears flow.

"We are not getting divorced kiddo. When two people need to clear out their differences its best to take a step back and look at the situation from a different angle. Its only then when you see how wrong you were. What you can do to fix things. Your mother and I promised each other that we will take care of you to the best of our abilities. This is hard for all of us. I need you guys to be strong." Damon said and got up from his chair.

"Why? At least tell us why our lives are getting turned upside down. Is adultery involve here? Is this over money? What's the major fuck up for this?" Alex asked hard and banged his fist hard on the table. "At least you owe us this much!"

"Alex." Bonnie said softly.

"Mom don't just sit there and drop this bomb on us and its fucking nothing." Alex said in anger.

"Alex don't speak to your mother like this and don't raise your voice in front of your younger brother and sisters. This is not easy for any of us." Damon said to his oldest son.

"Your a nice one to talk dad." Alex said and stormed out of the kitchen.

Kenzie was next to storm out, but not before glaring at her parents with big blue hurtful eyes. Zoe and Dylan got up quietly and left the kitchen.

"I hope you will find the peace and happiness you so desperately seek at the cost of destroying our children Bonnie. I'll send for my stuff later." Damon said before also leaving the kitchen.

Mystique Lake Police Station

Stella walked out of the police station. Once outside she took a deep breath and smiled. Huck's tutoring paid of well. She passed the polygraph test and boy the satisfactory feeling that came over when she told the detectives in her most sarcastic voice she hopes they find her husband's killer soon. She needs a drink. Her chauffeur opened the car door for her and with a light heart she got in.

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