Mystique Lake Hospital
A confused Bonnie opened her eyes and saw aunt May at her bedside. "Aunt May?" She said softly.
May placed her hand gently on Bonnie's hand.
"Did they find him?" Bonnie asked and waited for an answer with a fast beating heart.
"They will find him child. The Lake always give back what it took." May said softly.
"No." Bonnie breathed out.
"Sheila Bennet raised a strong good woman and you need to be that woman now more then ever.
"Aunt May. I can't." Bonnie cried out softly.
"Yes you can baby. You just need to believe in yourself again."
Bonnie suddenly stopped crying and looked at aunt May with a far away look in her eyes. "It was the day after Stephens fifteen birthday. The first day I went with Damon to their home. We were mindful of Giuseppe not finding me there. I pressed and pressed Damon to see his father's rare book collection in his father's study so he eventually took me...
Flashback ...
"For a fourteen year old girl you know a lot about ancient books and ancient mythology. Are you really fourteen?" Damon said with a smirk.
Bonnie stifled her giggle and said. "You know witches are older then they look."
"And very smart." He said and opened the door and stepped a side for her to walk in first. "Welcome to the monsters lair." He said softly in her ear and made a spooky sound.
Bonnie laughed. "Wow. If I can stay in here I will read, eat and sleep all day. In that order." She said as she looked around at the big study with beautiful rare antique furniture. Hordes of books lined the walls.
"Give me a Playboy Magazine over all this old boring lot anytime." Damon said and put his arms around her from behind. Kissing her in her neck.
"History is not boring." Bonnie said.
"Bonnie the only history that will be important is our own. So that one day we can share that with our eight children and twenty grandchildren." Damon said and smirked.
Bonnie quickly covered her mouth with her hand and laughed. "I'm fourteen years old Damon. Too young to be talking about having kids and beside I don't think I want kids."
"Believe me babe we will have kids." Damon said and peppered her neck with kisses.
Bonnie giggled and said. "Kids are a handful and they are messy and stuff."
"Don't worry babe. You will have your own cleaning staff and I will build you a big library far better and warmer then this one where you can read to your hearts desire."
Bonnie turned around in his arms and said. "You will build me a library?"
"Bonnie I will build you The Statue Of Liberty if you want me to." Damon said seriously. The two gazed into his others eyes.
"Kiss me Damon." Bonnie whispered.
He softly placed his lips on hers. His tongue running over her soft lips. They both moaned when he deepened the kiss.
Giuseppe's hard voice made the two lovers jump apart. Damon immediately took a protective stance in front of Bonnie.
"Why the hell are you doing? Making out with that little coloured girl under my roof." Giuseppe seethed. Spit flying out of his mouth.
"Her name is Bonnie and she is my girlfriend." Damon said and glared in defiance at Giuseppe.
Giuseppe laughed ugly. "You want to throw your inheritance away for her! Ruin our name and legacy? You are out of your fucking mind boy!"
Damon took Bonnie's hand and said. "Lets go babe. Now you have seen my monster."
Giuseppe's face twisted with anger. He stormed on Damon and hit him with his fist in the face. "I'll show you a fucking monster! You useless filth."
"No!" Bonnie screamed.
Damon ducked Giuseppe's next blow and pushed his father against his desk.
"How dare you raise your hand against me?" Giuseppe seethed. He made a move towards Damon but fell back against the table. His hand going to his chest. He was red in the face and having trouble to breath. "Where is my inhaler." He croaked out.
Damon just looked at him with cold eyes.
"Bring me my inhaler." Giuseppe seethed.
Damon walked to the desk drawer and took out the inhaler. With the inhaler in hand he walked to his father. Bonnie came to him and took the inhaler from him.
Giuseppe's eyes went wide. "Give it here!" He screamed.
"Not before you apologise to your son and beg for his forgiveness." Bonnie said.
"You will rot in jail you little whore." Giuseppe said with eyes bulging. Damon moved to beat Giuseppe but Bonnie stopped him. She took his hand and together they stepped back from Giuseppe.
Stephen came in and stood silently next to Damon and Bonnie.
"Stephen, Stephen help me." Giuseppe pleaded.
Stephen took the inhaler from Bonnie and looked at it. He looked back at his father and said in a cold voice. "No."
Giuseppe's eyes went wild with shock and fear.
Together the three watch as Giuseppe struggled in vain to catch his breath. Bonnie in the middle of the two Salvatore brothers. Damon's arm was protectively around her with Bonnie's hand in Stephen's hand. They watched in silence as Giuseppe released his last breath.
"Its over." Stephen said softly.
Damon kissed Bonnie on the cheek and together the three cried in silence.
End of flashback... Back to the present time
"What do you think Sheila will say now." Bonnie asked softly. "Bonnie is condemned for eternity." Bonnie said and laughed bitterly.
"We can not speak for the death. Let them rest" May said.
"And you aunt May?"
"It is not for me to judge Bonnie. Who am I to judge or condemn you?" May said and sigh. "What I'm about to tell you will be extremely hard Bonnie, but it needs to be out in the open. You need to open up the wound so that it can heal properly."
"What is it aunt May." Bonnie whispered.
"Damon confessed to me. Bonnie, He was sleeping with his assistant Sierra. She came to Mystique Lake claiming that she was pregnant with his child. He only found out later that she was indeed not pregnant at all. Well, as he told me he just snapped. He strangled her to death because she said she wanted to keep his child." May held Bonnie's trembling hand tightly.
"No. No. Why ... How can he" ... Bonnie cried "Oh Lord help me. I can't .. I can't" ... Bonnie cried out.
"Let it out child. Let it all out." May said softly.
"Damon no! Oh God! How can he!" Bonnie cried hard against May's chest. The last time she cried like this was at Sheila's funeral.
May too was in tears. "Bonnie, if you want to safe your home, your children, your husband? Baby now if you want to fight to safe them then you must be prepared to fight hard because it will be hard to forgive. Damon has so much darkness in him that the devil enjoys using him for it's wicked deeds. The devil is a liar. A deceiver and he has no power over Gods children. No he dont. For we are all Gods children. How easy it is to cast stones at each other. To curse one another. To judge. That we forgot what the word of God says, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. For all the foolish hurtful things he did to you I know he loves you. He loves you baby. He is just going the wrong way in showing you. As for anger? It will be there. Lord knows we are only humans. Just don't allow the anger to control you. It will eat you up inside and make you a bitter hurtful person. Its a hard decision baby but I know you will come out strong." May said.
Bonnie was sobbing softly.
A nurse came in and said. "Mrs Salvatore I have your brother in-law on the phone. He wants to talk with you." The nurse said softly.
May held the phone against Bonnie's ear.
Stephen: "We found him Bonnie. We found him. He is in bad shape, but alive. Their taking him to the hospital now."
Bonnie: "Stephen." Bonnie whispered in tears.
Stephen: "He is safe Bonnie.
Bonnie turned her head away and cried.
The nurse took the phone from May and told Stephen that Mrs Salvatore can't talk now she is crying. Overcome by joy and relief. If only they knew the intense pain Bonnie is suffering inside.
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