The Salvatore Home

"Mom? Aunt Caroline is here, are you done?" Dylan said and knocked softly on his parents bedroom door.

Bonnie opened the door. A towel wrapped around her.

"You can't go like that mom." Dylan said wide eye.

Bonnie smiled and said. "You guys can go. Your dad and I will meet you there okay?"

"Let's go guys. I'm taking my car mom." Alex said.

"Drive safe. See you in a bit." She closed the door behind her again.

The house was quiet after the kids left. Fully dressed and brushing her hair. The bedroom door open and her heart almost jumped out of her chest. Damon walked in. He close the door behind him and walked to Bonnie. He put his arms around her from behind.

"Cut me all you want Bonnie. I will suffer you wrath. I deserve it. I saw you with Stephen and it took everything in me not to march over there and kill my brother with my bare hands."

The front door bell ring. It must be them Bonnie thought to herself.

"You know I was thinking, just you, me and the kids going away for a while. Just us. I think we need that. Get away from this place and find ourselves again." Damon said.

"I need to go see who that is." Bonnie said when the door bell ringed again.

Damon reluctantly let her go.

With a fast beating heart Bonnie raced down stairs. Stephen and four men with him were standing on her doorstep.

"Is he here?" Stephen asked.

Bonnie just nodded. She moved aside for them to enter and locked the door behind them. In that moment Damon came down the stairs. A questioningly look on his face.

"What is going on? Stephen who are these men with you?"

"You can come willingly or they can take you Damon. You dont have to make this hard on anyone." Stephen said.

Damon laughed. "Seriously brother? Take your fools from the nuthouse and leave my home."

Stephen briefly look at Bonnie. Damon saw this.

"So this is how the wind blows. Wow. Didn't see this coming. Does Caroline know about you two fucking each other?" Damon said in anger.

The four men moved cautiously closer to Damon.

"Come any closer and I'll rip your fucking throats out." Damon seethed.

"Damon ...You need help." Bonnie said softly.

Damon glared at her and said. "Help? I need help? You want to lock me up in a nuthouse so that you can whore around all over Mystique Lake! Is this your fucking payback?"

"Enough Damon! Can't you see what you have become?" Stephen said to him.

"So the two of you conspire against me. The two people I trust and love the most." Damon said and shook his head in disbelieve.

"How can you still stand there and blame us for fucking up your life and mine? Do you want to be out there on the streets with your whores. Maybe they will put up with your shit but not me Damon. Its either you go or you stay the hell away from me and the kids." Bonnie yelled at him.

Damon laughed bitterly. "Do they take turns on you. Stephen and Halstead? You can't support the kids even if you spend the rest of your life on your knees and back." Damon snapped at her.

Tears rolled down her cheeks. "Please take him away."

Damon back handed Bonnie hard across the face. Stephen and the four men jumped into action. They struggled to restrain Damon. They had to use brute force to restrain him. "You will never have another man Bonnie! I will fucking kill you before that ever happens! Do you hear me!? Let me go! My wife needs me!" Damon yelled.

It took all the men to pin Damon down on the floor. One of the men injected Damon with a needle. When he looked calm they let him go, mindful of standing protectively in front of Bonnie.

Damon got up to his feet and leaned heavily against the wall. He looked at her with dazed eyes. "There is nothing wrong with me, babe. ...why are your nose bleeding? Please look at me. Let's just go away for a while with the kids." He felt his eyelids getting heavy. His tongue felt thick in his mouth. He had trouble forming his words in his mouth and mind. On weak legs he stumbled to Bonnie and collapsed in front of her.

...

It was around ten the next day when Lee and West came back to ML. They did found the girl and she had a lot to say now that Edward is dead. She told them he loved to take photos of her in her underwear or in a bikini and he would jerk himself off in front of her. Sometimes he would use a red marker and draw lines and stuff on her naked body where he would cut her. That turned him on.

"What a sick perv." Lee said. She pulled down her window for some fresh air.

"Now we know why he got killed. I think Stella killed him and the others help cover it up, but then again it could have been Bonnie who pulled the trigger. She looks like someone who can cut your throat with a smile if you piss her off." West said.

"I would have killed him too." Lee said in a serious voice.

"And end up in jail? You and me are people that live on the right side of the law. Catch the monster and let him rot in jail that's what needs to be done. Not by taking matters into your own hands." West said.

"So what happens now?" Lee asked.

"Well now we watch our backs while watching them closely." West said in a serious voice.

Lee laughed and said. "What do you mean watch our backs?"

West pulled off the road and shut the car down. With serious eyes he looked at Lee. "These women. Bonnie, Caroline, Kate and Olivia are very, very dangerous Lee... and dont leave Stella out. She's unstable wreck. She will kill just as quickly if she is seeing you as a threat. If this comes out they've got everything to lose. Right about now they know about you, about us. So your life at this moment means nothing just as mine. They will make our deaths look like accidents."

Lee visibly flinched.

"Just be careful and mindful of what you say infront of them or to them and do not trust them. I know Mrs Pope have a professional hitman to do her dirty work so that her white gloves can't get dirty. They will use him to come for us. We just need to strike first."

Lee sigh loudly and said. "I'm still saying we need to go to the police with this. At least give sheriff Mitchell the recording."

"That sheriff is an idiot. He will declare them innocent even with all the evidence in his face and from what I have heard his on Damon Salvatore's paylist. Some unknown officer bragged how they got paid to plant drugs on some kid. Mr Salvatore's orders. Looks like this Bonnie and Damon were made for each other. Both evil as sin and don't get me started on sweet face Caroline and the boring housewife Kate. Don't let their appearances deceive you. There is a killer lurking in all of us." West said. He had a far away look on his face.

Lee was listening and taking it all in with a fast beating heart. "I did the story on the kid. Antwone Smith. He is dating Damon and Bonnie's daughter, McKenzie." She said in shock.

"See how fucked up things really are and yet you still advertise Mystique Lake as a picture perfect civilised place. Where you can get rest for your tired soul. Yeah right. Come here. Die. Rest forever in heavenly peace. That's what it should say on the brochure." West said bitterly.

Lee chuckled nervously and said. "Can you give me a gun. I want to be prepared."

West smirked and said. "I have a whole arsenal. You need to be ready for when they come for you.

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