Chapter 21,

Dear Magenta,

Oh, it's you, I know
You're the one I dream of
Looks into my eyes
Take me to the clouds above

Oh, I lose control
Can't seem to get enough
When I wake from dream
Tell me is it really love?

-Whitney Houston

So Bonnie seems to think that writing down everything one last time will help the deep misery I'm apparently feeling after MJ's timely departure.

Yes, MJ has left or rather I took her to Australia, or had her taken to Australia.

She wasn't here long after I had confessed the whole story to her. That night when she fell asleep on the couch, I stood outside on the porch drinking a strong scotch. I heard Bonnie's door open. She walked with an extra blanket and covered MJ with it. I watched as she gently smiled at MJ, almost motherly. Her green eyes shining with concern. She looked at the door that was open ajar and the bottle of scotch that sitting on the kitchen counter. I watched she got herself a glass and poured herself a little. She's starting to mature a palate for the good stuff.

She peeped her head out the door and looked at me, "Can I join you?"

"As long as you're not wearing those hideous bloody sweat pants." I smirked at her.

"Hate to break it to you," She says and comes outside showing her full aprearance. Posing in her sweatpants and thick jacket, "But I did stay in bed all day."

"That ideology actually sounds tempting." I smirk at her.

"You should join me next time." She winks at me. Which allures me even more than I already am. Here's the thing about Bonnie Bennet that no one can seem to explain. Even when she appears to be an open book, her thought process is completely and utterly questionable…if not alluring. She was mesmerizing and she had a spark that I couldn't quite put into perspective. She looks down and smiles and then looks at me.

I shake my head, "Perhaps it's best I don't."

"Perhaps," She whispers and then takes a sip of her scotch but then frowns causing me to laugh, "This is disgusting. How do you drink it." scratch that mature palate comment.

"You like bourbon," I point out, "But not that?"

"I'm not old and quite mature like you I guess." She says sarcastically which causes me to laugh even more.

"Not to mention extremely sophisticated." I smirk at her.

"Oh my," She rolls her eyes and says sarcastically, "Any woman would be lucky to have you."

"That you should remember love," I smile at her.

"Why?" She smirks at me. Before we even realize it, there's an intense silence between us, something I can't seem to explain. She puts her glass down by the window and continues to gaze at me as she moves closer to me. I am very aware of the fact both of us are holding our breathes. Our faces are inches apart and I watch as she slowly closes her eyes and leans in.

No! This is wrong!

"I can't do this!" I push her back slightly which causes her to gasp slightly. I move past her and look through the window to see that the fire is still roaring and the MJ is still sleeping. I listen as the fast thud that is Bonnie's heart slows and she turns to face me.

"You have to get back at some point," She looks down, "Alex will notice."

I look at her and see utter and deep disappointment, "I told her I was travelling for a bit…which is almost true."

"How?"

"I'm taking MJ to the airport, she leave for Australia tomorrow," I say to her, "She'll be safe there…and far from Maria."

"Good idea." Bonnie looks at me and then walks to the door.

Stop her Enzo…I said to myself. Here is a girl that wants to show you love, love she knows you've never received from anyone. So stop her and let her love you. And while you're at it, love her bloody back.

"Bonnie," I stop her and she just looks at me with eyes full of tears and stops me from anything I'm about to say, "Don't worry about it. I'm the girl that has never been fought over before remember?" She tries to force a smile but I have lived with her long enough to now know the difference.

I couldn't stop her after she said that, I had nearly forgotten I had said that. She clearly hadn't. She walked in the cabin and rushed to her bedroom.

Four hours later, Bonnie had said goodbye to MJ and we were on the road. The first half an hour was quiet until MJ tried to turn the radio on.

"No." I switched it swiftly off straight after she put it on.

"Someone's in a grumpy mood." MJ said rolling her eyes, "Well I guess that would be warranted."

"Why would it be?" I asked her but she ignored by question.

"So if you don't want to listen to listen to music..." She began to say.

"MJ." I sighed trying to interrupt her but you know your great granddaughter…she still pressed.

"Why didn't you just kiss her." MJ said shaking her head. I looked at her with a shocked expression, "Oh please, don't act surprised. The door was wide open-"

"Ajar." I try to argue.

"...and I'm a creepy person at the best of time."

"I won't argue with the last part of that point." I scowled at her.

"Enzo," She sighs, "I don't get it…you told me a story about you being inlove with Magenta but you never laid the moves on her when she clearly was keen…then when I first met you, you told me about a Maggie, is that right, her name was Maggie?" I sigh heavily in deep and utter frustration but she continues, "Oh and then there was the milf with two boys-"

"One of which you sometimes remind me of." I grit my teeth.

"Bonnie is hot."

"Thank you MJ." I said trying to drown her out.

"She's seems super smart."

I guess she was going to continue.

"She's also got a wickedly fierce personality," MJ says, "Which I hear guys are into."

"Are you done antagonizing me?" I look at her.

"What's antagonizing you?" She points out, "The fact that she sounds amazing and you love her or the fact that you love and haven't made a move on her."

"MJ!" I look at the road and sigh, "This is a very adult conversation…"

"Not really," She interrupts me, "Adult implies you two have…you know," I glare at her, "And judging from that look you haven't but really want to."

"When was the last time you were in a relationship?"

"Never," MJ scoffed, "I've been jumping from foster home to foster home remember…and now I'll probably be running for my life."

My irritation fades for a moment and turns to one of sadness, "MJ-"

"Look," And the irritation returns. It's like having a little sibling I never had the chance to have, "I don't know what your problem is, I actually really don't care because you need to get over it. It's pretty clear that you do have feelings for her and she for you."

"How do you know she has feeling for me?"

"Because she wouldn't be so upset with you for last night if she didn't." MJ said and looked out the window for a second, "And I have a feeling that my great grandmother would have slapped you a long time ago for not going for this one…considering your very disappointing record."

"MJ…she has a life line." I sigh and look away, "I don't. She needs to go into the world, meet someone that can give her everything that she'll want."

"Want?"

"Marriage."

"You can give her that." MJ shrugs.

"A nice little house in a meadow."

"She's shacking up in a cabin with you right now so close enough."

"Happiness." I point out.

"You've literally pointed everything that you can or have already given her." MJ holds her hands out.

"And children?" I look at her and realized that the thought of Bonnie having off spring with someone else kind scared me. If not anger me.

"Ah," MJ nods like she understands, "This isn't about your past or your present….this is about her future. A future you haven't bothered to ask her about."

I frown at MJ as she says that.

"And also your guilt is getting the better of you." She says, "Which is preventing you from asking the right questions…All you have to do is ask her what she wants…judging from your past relationships, you tend to fail to ask that very important question...I mean next to popping the big question."

I thought about it for a minute…I never got the chance to ask you what you want. I assumed Lily loved me the same way I thought I did and Maggie, she never got the chance to hear what I even wanted let alone tell me what she wanted. Bonnie was and should be different. I look at MJ and smile.

"When did you get so smart?"

"Round about the same time you saved me…the first time." She chuckled and then realized what was coming after her.

"She will never touch you MJ." I said to her with a fierce undertone, "As long as I'm still around…you're fine."

"Well I didn't take your dumb pills by the way."

"What?" I look at her.

"Are you out of your mind," MJ looks at me, "I cloaked myself…those pills could go against nature, I don't like the idea of taking a risk with my magic."

This little girl frustrated me which made me sigh and just smile, "The cloak spell is full proof."

"Pretty much." She says, "Where I'm going in Australia will protect me though right?"

"Yeah," I smile at her, "It's a place where a hunter love to go and just wait for a vampire to antagonize him. You will travel with him for a while."

"Hunter?" MJ looks put off, "Why would he want to protect me."

"Actually he was more than happy to help when I told him that I would tell everybody that he wasn't where he should be." I drive into the airport where our private jet is waiting.

"What do you mean everyone thinks he's where he isn't." MJ frowns, "He sounds dodgy."

Her door is opened by someone with slick hair and in a gear that is meant for hiking. He smiles at MJ, "I prefer the term risky. It suits me better."

"Thanks for doing this such short notice mate." I got out of the car and just look at him.

"I'm not doing this for you," He said, "I care about Bonnie and I don't want her to worry about me…she's been through a lot."

"And is still going through a lot it seems." MJ pips up and then scowls me, "Enzo, you can't just leave me with a complete stranger."

"He's not a stranger." I shrugged, "He knows Bonnie. You like Bonnie don't you."

"And haven't you been to like a gazillion different foster homes?" He looked at MJ.

"He's rude, I hate him." MJ looks at me.

"Relax MJ," I take a duffel bag out the trunk, "This is not to make you uncomfortable."

"Really I'm feeling pretty uncomfortable!" MJ spat at me exactly the way you would've.

"We've met Maria." He looks at MJ. MJ turns to face him, "She's relentless and is pretty much just after blood. You're the blood and because I just want to kill her, I can protect you."

MJ looks at him like she is considering it for the moment.

"And he's not working alone." I smile at her, "He's got a hefty nice wolf with him…Maria is as good as dead."

MJ nodes slightly. I place my hands on her shoulders, "They are going to take you through Australia, through Europe and Africa and then South America. I will be patrolling North America…she needs to die MJ."

MJ nodes once more and then hugs me suddenly. The warm feeling I feel inside comes instinctually, "I think I'm going to miss you."

I laugh slightly as she tries to tough it out, "I think I'm going to miss you too." I then look at her, "I promise I will make you safe and happy again!"

She hugs me again and then whispers in my ear, "Can you first make sure you do that for someone else."

I look at her with wide eyes and then she says, "Promise me…you will make her safe and happy so that you can be happy." I look down at my shoes until she lifts my head and looks at me, she has the same brown eyes you did, "Promise me Enzo."

"I swear it." I said without even thinking about it.

She smiles at me and takes the duffel bag from me. She walks to Jeremy and says, "I didn't catch your name?" She says.

"Jeremy." He smiles holding his hand out for her shake. MJ rolls her eyes and places the duffel bag in that arm and walks past him.

"Try and keep up and you and I will be fine." She walks into the plane.

Jeremy sighs in frustration and looks at me, "Tyler is gonna love her." He says sarcastically. He walks to the plane and I can't help but laugh.

I did not return back to the cabin immediately. Instead I went to the Armory, only to find a waiting and agitated Alex.

"Where have you been?" She says and rolls her eyes, "Never mind, catch your breath and get back in your car."

"Why?"

"I think I found Bonnie Bennet." She sighs as my heart stops, "In Canada."

Enzo

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