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Damon Salvatore just seemed to pop up out of nowhere to the surprise of his unsuspecting neighbors who woke up one morning to find a line of trucks driving up their residential street headed to the boarding house. It took the balls of one nosey ass neighbor to march onto the property to see for herself what the hell was going on. She actually walked inside the home where she encountered the new owner, a Mr. Damon Salvatore, the nephew of the prior owner, Zach Salvatore.
And the vampire having read the woman's mind and knew of her intentions supplied her with enough juicy gossip to spread all over town to save him the trouble of having to repeat his lies.
And it went like this.
He told her that he'd inherited the property from his uncle and that's why the house was never put on the market after the older man's death. Damon told her that he'd just graduated from grad school and wanted to take some time off before deciding what he wanted to do next, so he thought what better time than now to move to the small town and fix up the long neglected boarding house that his dear departed favorite uncle had left to him.
The older woman didn't know what came over her as she stared at the unbelievably attractive young man that stood in front of her with his amazing blue eyes. He poured on the charm telling the woman how he was going to try to make the renovation of the house as painless as possible for everyone in the neighborhood. He promised that no work would begin before ten o'clock in the morning.
She just laughed, tossing her hair like she was a young girl and stopped herself when she realized that she was flirting with him. Luckily a contractor interrupted their conversation so she didn't make too much of a fool out of herself.
She was old enough to be his mother for heaven's sake! He'd said that he just graduated from grad school, so that would make him what 23 or 24? Damn, she felt old.
The woman had not left the boarding house more than ten minutes and already the whole town knew his name and who he was and why he was there.
Damon's neighbors openly stood in front of his house and watched as Victorian looking furniture was being carried out whether to be thrown away or donated, no one knew but one thing was for sure everything that came out of that house looked hella expensive.
And when they got their first look at Damon as he walked outside to talk to one of the contractors about the side paneling on the house, the women all of a sudden began to fan themselves being overcome by 'the heat'.
It was barely ten o'clock in the morning.
So news spread fast of how unbelievably gorgeous Damon Salvatore was with his jet black hair and piercing blue eyes…so unbelievably fuckable that it wasn't even funny.
Women who'd never stepped foot inside their kitchens were suddenly firing up their ovens and bringing over baked goods to their new neighbor to welcome him to Mystic Falls.
Damon accepted the sweet treats with no intention of eating them, but the workmen enjoyed the fruits of their labor and towards mid-afternoon the gorgeous hunk took off his shirt and began to pitch in with the heavy lifting and the women who stood in the stifling heat began to swoon.
Lawd have mercy!
The man was cut from marble. Just muscles every fucking where, shoulders, chest, arms, and abs. He looked fucking air brushed, his body was so perfect.
One girl went down for real. She couldn't take the flawlessness.
Her friends reluctantly picked her ass up and carried her into the house where it was nice and cool and the only person left standing watching the movers carry out the furniture was Jamie Bennett who was obsessed by that house and had to come see for himself when news hit that someone was moving in.
The fourteen year old boy wiped the sweat from his brow, licking his dry lips.
Damon had just finished loading a heavy piece of furniture onto the truck when he noticed the boy. He walked over to the large red cooler that sat on the side of the porch and grabbed two bottles of water.
When Jamie realized that the man was walking over to him the teenager lowered his eyes to the ground, thinking that he was going to be told to get off the property.
"Man, it's burning hot out here." Damon said, squinting up at the sun.
Jamie lifted his eyes somewhat stunned that the guy was talking to him. "The weatherman said that with the humidity it was going to feel like a hundred and five degrees today."
There were three channels on television that Jamie watched religiously; the weather channel, food network, and HGTV.
"Is that so?" Damon asked.
The boy nodded his head.
"By the way, I'm Damon." He introduced himself, holding out his hand.
Jamie took it. "My name is Jamie."
"Well, hello Jamie it's nice to meet you. Would you like some water?"
The boy smiled. "Yes thank you."
Damon gave him one of the bottles and watched as the boy opened it and guzzled it down thirstily.
"That was really good, thank you." He said, wiping his mouth with the back on his hand, his eyes darting past Damon to look at the house.
The vampire read the boy's mind. He was dying to go inside the house and have a look around.
"Hey, do you want to come inside and have a look at what I'm doing to the house?"
Jamie's green eyes widened and he began to get excited. But then he thought about his sister and he shook his head.
"I can't, my sister wouldn't like it. She said that I could get into trouble for trespassing."
Damon smiled. He placed his hand on the boy's shoulder. "I own this house Jamie and I'm inviting you inside, so come on." He said, letting him go and walking backwards towards the house to see if he followed.
Jamie only paused for a split second before breaking out into a huge smile. "Okay thank you."
Bonnie was about to have a nervous breakdown because she couldn't find her little brother anywhere. She never should have let him walk to the library by himself. How could she have been so stupid? Oh god, if anything happened to him it would be her fault.
Because it was so hot outside she thought that maybe he went to the lake for a swim but she'd always told him to never go to the lake without her and Jamie always did what she told him but she went there anyway just in case.
He wasn't there.
She looked everywhere for him. Where was he?
Bonnie saw workmen standing around the boarding house and she walked up to them. "Excuse me, have you seen a fourteen year old boy walking around here. He has green eyes and my coloring."
When both guys nodded their heads she could have kissed them. "Yeah darling, he's inside the house looking around."
Bonnie didn't waste any time as she ran across the grass to the front of the house and walked through the open door.
She searched the downstairs not taking the time to absorb what she was seeing because she was too preoccupied with finding her brother. Bonnie looked through almost every room on the first floor and was about to retrace her steps when she heard him laugh and followed the sound. She turned a corner and found Jamie helping one of the workers take down the wallpaper in the large room.
Her racing heart immediately began to slow down to normal. He was alright.
"Oh my god Jamie I've been looking all over town for you!" She said hugging him tightly.
He hugged her back. "I've been here with my new friend helping out."
Bonnie didn't even bother to look at the guy standing on the ladder.
"Jamie didn't I tell you to never step foot inside this place…you can't just walk into people's homes like this…you can get into a lot of trouble."
"But my friend said it was okay…tell her Damon."
Bonnie finally took her eyes off of Jamie long enough to look over at the guy and her skin prickled all over her body. No man should be that good looking. There were no words to describe how exceptionally beautiful he was, with his thick black hair that set off the most startling blue eyes. His eyes were so arresting that they pierced her like a hot knife as he stared back at her.
Not once did he release her from his gaze as he closed the short distance between them. The closer her came to her the more Bonnie felt like backing away but she didn't, instead she placed her hand in the crook of Jamie's elbow, squeezing it.
"Bonnie is it?"
She swallowed hard, nodding her head, her hazel eyes wide as saucers.
He held out his hand. "I'm Damon Salvatore...this is my home." He waited a moment for that to sink in as they shook hands. "Your brother was standing outside in the hot sun watching us work, so I invited him inside to get him out of the heat. I hope that was okay?"
"No. I mean yes." Bonnie hated how flustered she sounded. She took a breath. "That was really nice of you to let him come inside. He's been dying to have a look around for the longest time."
Bonnie slightly gasped when his hand tightened around hers for a small second before letting go.
It pulsated from the brief contact and she flexed her fingers before holding onto Jamie's arm once again because she needed something to steady her as his eyes refused to free her from his gaze.
Damon heard how her heart began to beat just a little bit faster.
Jamie cut into the conversation, breaking the spell of Damon's eyes. "And Bonnie guess what, Damon says I can come over anytime I want…isn't that great?"
Damon tried to read the girl's mind but he couldn't. Interesting.
Bonnie chanced a look at Damon her Spidey sense activating and overriding her teenage girl hormones.
Gorgeous or not this man was a complete stranger.
They didn't know anything about him and vice versa and yet he'd invited Jamie into his home with an open invitation to return anytime?
Bonnie Bennett didn't see the world through rose colored glasses; her parents didn't raise her that way. She knew the potential dangers out there. For all she knew this guy was one of those perverts that liked to fuck young boys and he probably saw Jamie as an easy target because he was mentally handicapped.
Damon watched in fascination as Bonnie's whole demeanor changed, she even placed herself in front of her brother, blocking the boy with her small body.
Jamie placed his hand on her delicate shoulder to calm her. "It's okay Bonnie…he's nice."
Well that was certainly a first, Damon thought drily to himself unable to look away from the girl and not really wanting to.
She was now very alert, like she'd just realized the danger of the situation.
Smart girl, Damon thought, but a little too late in the game.
She'd foolishly walked into his home and the monster inside of him knew that if he wanted to he could compel her brother and the other workmen to forget that they'd seen her enter the house and she would be at his complete mercy.
The sound of a telephone ringing broke Damon from his sinister thoughts and he watched as the girl pulled a phone from her pocket and answered it.
"It's okay…I found him. He was at the Salvatore boarding house…we're leaving now. Thanks for everything Matt. I appreciate your help. I'll talk to you later."
Well, there went that evil idea.
Bonnie ended the call and placed the phone back into her pocket. "Come on Jamie, we have to get going." She said, giving Damon a dirty look before pulling the boy towards the pocket door she'd entered through just minutes ago.
Jamie protested. "But wait…I didn't say goodbye to Damon."
"Don't worry about it…he's good." She said, not looking back.
Bonnie was so thankful when they got outside that her whole body shagged relief.
With his vampire hearing Damon heard her tell Jamie in a firm tone to stay away from him and the boarding house that it wasn't safe to be there.
Damon growled, kicking over the ladder.
Laughter echoed throughout the large room. Damon turned around with a snarl on his face to see his own little brother leaning back with his foot against the wall and arms crossed over his chest.
"She thinks you're a possible child molester." The caramel haired Salvatore said in amusement.
So Stefan was able to read her thoughts. At least one of them could.
The younger vampire pushed himself from off the wall. "I don't blame her really…it was rather odd of you to invite the kid in like that. We're living in very different times, brother. People are aware of predators. She just mistook you for the wrong kind." He chuckled.
Damon's jaw tensed.
Stefan looked at his brother and all amusement left him. "Damon why are you doing this? She's not Emily. Yes the girl's the spitting image of her but that's all."
"Don't you think I know that?!" Damon bellowed.
"Then why are we here brother?" Stefan asked calmly.
Damon turned away from his brother's insightful eyes. "I promised Emily that I would protect her descendants... I owe her this!"
"Damon the only thing that girl has to worry about are those horny little teenage boys sniffing after her…and that's every pretty girl. She doesn't need you to protect her. The only real danger to this girl is you."
When his older brother didn't refute this Stefan thought that maybe he was finally getting through to Damon. Heaven knew that he was desperate to get the fuck out of this sleepy little backwoods town where nothing exciting ever happened.
"You've seen with your own eyes that she and her brother are okay, so let's just go and you can come back in another ten years to checkup on them."
Damon shook his head. "I can't do that." Not now.
"Why because that was the original plan, to come here and check in on the Bennett's and then leave…what changed?"
Damon walked across the room and stood in front of the window, folding his arms across his chest. "I like it here…it's peaceful... and I need a little break from all the carousing I've been doing for the last few years and renovating this old house is just the thing I need."
Stefan shook his head. Yeah right.
He knew without a shadow of a doubt that the moment Damon saw with his eyes that Bonnie Bennett had grown into a carbon copy of his beloved Emily, everything changed.
Emily was a slave on their father's plantation and she and Damon had fell in love. Of course because of the times they had to keep their relationship a secret but eventually their father found out and he sold Emily to punish Damon for disgracing the family.
It wasn't until a couple of years later after he'd been turned into a vampire that Damon found Emily but by then she'd married another slave and had children by him. But Damon didn't care and he selfishly took Emily from her family. He'd forced her into an impossible situation. Yes, Emily still loved him but she also loved her two babies and begged him to get them as well, but Damon refused to share her with anyone, including her children and Emily couldn't bear to live without them, so one night she tried to escape Damon to go back to her family and he went crazy. He vamp out and bit her, draining her until she was almost dead and then turned her.
When she awoke, Emily was deathly afraid of Damon and cowered every time he tried to touch her. But it wasn't until she realized that he'd turned her into a monster just like him that Emily began to lose her mind. She could never go back to her babies now. What if she tried to kill them? She couldn't take that chance, so in an act of desperation for the sake of her children, Emily killed herself by walking out into the sun.
Damon never forgave himself and made a vow to watch over her children as long as he lived.
"Who do you think you're fooling brother?" Stefan asked softly.
Damon turned glaring eyes on him. "I don't have to explain myself to you Stefan!"
"What about her?"
Damon turned away.
"She's sixteen years old Damon…her life is just beginning. She's got nothing to do with what happened between you and Emily all those years ago. It's not fair of you to barge into her life and turn it upside. Let the past stay dead along with her. You can't recreate history."
Damon didn't say anything.
Stefan dropped his eyes from his brother, having come to a decision. "Well I'm not going to stay here and watch you tear this girl's life apart because we both know that's exactly what's going to happen…so let me know when you've grown bored of living the simple life and we'll go do some damage on some unsuspecting town."
By the time Damon turned around, Stefan was gone.
Bonnie and Matt sat on her front porch and watched as the sun was finally setting on the hot day. Jamie sat stretched out on the porch swing enjoying a bowl of butter pecan ice cream.
"I can't believe the summer's almost over and in three weeks school will be starting." The sixteen year old boy complained.
Bonnie nudged his shoulder playfully with hers. "I thought you of all people would be excited for the new school year to begin Mr. Varsity Football Player." She teased.
Matt blushed, ducking his blonde head in modesty. He was the only junior playing on the Varsity team this year.
He gently nudged Bonnie back. "I am…it's just…I don't know. It sucks that Kol is the team captain, you know. I hate that guy."
Bonnie laid her head against his arm. "I know…everybody does…even his so called friends."
Her and Matt Donovan had been best friends since elementary school. A day didn't go by that they didn't see each other.
Matty was the ultimate good guy, but that wasn't to say that he was a wuss because he wasn't; the teenage boy had handed down a few ass whoopings over the years, and they mainly were because he was taking up for Bonnie and Jamie.
She was always jumping to defend her brother and this was fine a few years ago when they were children but they weren't little kids anymore and Bonnie could really get hurt now if one of those guys decided to really put their hands on her, but so far no one had crossed that line and who was to say that it would never happen.
"Hey you know what…" Bonnie said changing the subject and impulsively reached for Matt's hand.
He winced and she let him go.
"What's the matter?"
"Nothing." He said, dropping his hand between his legs, out of her sight.
Bonnie looked at him for a long moment before reaching over him and grabbing his wrist. She lifted up his arm and gasped when she saw how red and raw looking his knuckles were.
"Oh my god Matt what happened to your hand?"
He yanked away from her grasp. "Nothing."
Bonnie shook her head. "Don't do that Matt…please tell me what happened."
He stood up from the porch and walked down the few steps until he was standing on the walkway.
Bonnie got up as well.
He sighed, rolling his eyes and then pulled Bonnie to the side onto the grass so that Jamie couldn't hear them.
"I got into a fight with Kol."
"What? Why?"
"He was telling lies."
She frowned for a moment. "What kind of lies?"
"Lies about you."
Her head jerked back. "Me? What did he say about me?"
Matt dropped his eyes from hers. "He said that last Saturday while everyone was at the softball game you and him fucked in the woods."
Bonnie was rendered speechless. After a moment she found her voice. "He said what?" She asked incredulously.
Matt took hold of her delicate shoulders. "Hey, no one believed him okay."
Guys spreading lies about their sexual conquests happened all the time but this was the first time that she was the subject of said lie and the fact that it was probably floating all around town by now made her feel soiled. And it didn't make a difference that she knew the truth because that one lie had the power to make people think differently of her.
Bonnie was no fool. "Of course they did Matt and many more will when they hear about it. I wasn't at the game on Saturday so that only makes his lie even more believable."
She pulled away out of Matt's reach. "I can't believe this." She said, shaking her head. "I swear when I see that bastard am going to…"
"Hey." Matt said, cutting her off and forcing her to look at him. "It's been handled." He said softly. "Come here." He pulled Bonnie into his arms, hugging her.
"Hey momma." They heard Jamie say from the porch.
Bonnie pulled away from Matt to find her mother standing on the walkway looking at her.
"Bonnie get inside, I need to have a talk with you." Abby said, her tone strict.
Bonnie swallowed hard before looking at Matt. "I'll see you tomorrow okay."
Matt nodded his head.
When he walked by Abby he politely said hello, but once he was out of her line of vision he threw up the call me hand gesture to Bonnie. She nodded her head.
"Jamie go to your room so that I can talk to your sister." Abby said once they got inside the house.
The boy bit his lip, his worried eyes going to Bonnie.
Bonnie gave him a closed mouth smile to try to put him at ease. He went upstairs.
She sat down at the end of the sofa and waited.
Bonnie didn't have to wait long. "What's this I hear of you having sex in the woods with Kol Mikaelson?"
Damn.
Bonnie closed her eyes. "It's a lie, momma. He's just trying to get back at me because I won't have anything to do with him."
"But why say it was you Bonnie?"
"I just told you…because I'm not interested in him…and when I told him that in the woods he got mad and attacked me…"
Abby shook her head in confusion, cutting her off. "So you're saying that he raped you?"
"Wait, what? No, no. He didn't rape me…"
"Bonnie, you just said that the boy attacked you!"
"He did…he pushed me up against the tree and kissed me…I tried to fight him off but he was too strong and all of a sudden he was pulled off me and the next thing I knew he was lying on the ground and I ran away!"
Abby looked at her daughter like she was crazy. "He was pulled from you?...by who?"
Bonnie lowered her eyes. "I-I don't know…I didn't see anyone else around."
Abby had heard enough. "That's it. Tomorrow I'm taking you to the doctor and getting you put on birth control because I'll be damned if you come up pregnant and I'm stuck raising your bastard!"
Bonnie stood up. "What?!"
"You heard what I said!"
"Momma, I'm still a virgin…I've never done anything with anyone…I swear!"
"Stop lying to me!"
"I'm not lying…all I've ever done is kiss and that's all!"
"You lie…just tonight I caught Matt all over you!"
"What's wrong with you…he was just hugging me!"
Abby lost it and slapped the girl across her face. "Girl, you done lost your mind? Don't you ever talk to me that way!"
Bonnie held the side of her burning face, crying. She shook her head. "Why do you hate me so much? I don't understand, what did I do to make you turn against me?" She sobbed. "Daddy would have never let you treat me this way!" She shouted as she ran up the stairs to her bedroom.
Bonnie closed the door to her bedroom, locking it and then threw herself on top of the bed and cried her eyes out.
Jamie softly knocked on her door begging her to let him in, but she didn't.
After a while he stopped knocking and just slid to floor with his head pressed against the door and listened to her cry, his own tears falling down his face.
The next day Bonnie was given her first gynecological exam. The whole experience left her feeling violated and even when it was confirmed that her hymen was still intact Bonnie didn't feel vindicated.
Bonnie didn't feel much of anything. She was numb.
She was quiet for the rest of the day and so was Jamie, who sat with her and held her hand the entire time. And every now and then he'd lean his head against hers and say, please feel better Bonnie, while rubbing her back.
A couple of days passed and Bonnie found herself needing to get out of the house, so she and Jamie walked to the local convenience store to buy some ice cream to go with the brownies that they were going to be making later on.
It was hot outside as they walked. So when they finally entered the air conditioned store it felt like heaven.
Bonnie stopped at the magazine rack and picked up the weekly edition of People and began to flip through the pages because she was in no hurry to get back out there in the heat. Jamie stood right beside her looking at all the covers of the magazines until something caught his eyes. It was a car magazine with a beautiful blonde woman draped over the hood of a Ferrari.
They stood there for a good ten minutes before Bonnie decided that it was time to go. So they went and got the ice cream and paid for it and was walking out the store at the exact moment Kol pulled up his car.
"Hey Bonnie." He called out to her.
She didn't acknowledge him and kept on walking.
They heard his car door open and then slam shut behind them.
Bonnie took hold of Jamie's hand.
In no time they were surrounded by Kol and his friends.
"Now is that any way to treat the guy that you lost your virginity to?" He taunted.
Bonnie glared up at him and saw the remnants of a black eye. It seemed that Matt had gotten him good.
"I wish I could have seen that shiner when it was brand new. I bet it was lovely…that's what you get for telling lies." She said with sugar in her voice. "Now move out the way." She sneered.
He eyes traveled nastily down the length of her body before going back to her eyes. "Make me, you fucking slut."
No one saw it coming and it shocked the hell out of everyone when Jamie Bennett cold cocked Kol Mikaelson.
For literally a few seconds no one moved. Kol held his jaw in disbelief and after a short moment he got his bearings and punched Jamie in his stomach.
"You fucking bastard!" Bonnie screamed.
The only thing that she had at her disposal was the ice cream in a plastic bag and she used that, swinging it at Kol's head and got him good.
"Fuck!" He yelled, grabbing his head.
Why was everyone going for his fucking face?!
One of the boys grabbed Bonnie from behind and held her while Kol and the other boy went after Jamie.
"Nooo!" Bonnie screamed. "Help…please, somebody help us!" She screamed.
Screeching tires could be heard from behind them and then moments later Bonnie heard a deep voice say. "Now this doesn't seem fair at all, two against one."
She looked and saw that it was Damon Salvatore and watched as he pulled Kol off of Jamie and roughly pushed the boy to the side like he was a rage doll. Kol hit the brick wall hard and fell to the ground.
The boy who had been holding Jamie down let him go and backed away.
Damon then turned his blue eyes on the boy who was holding Bonnie and his eyes glinted dangerously. The boy was smart enough to let Bonnie go and she wasted no time running to her brother's side.
She kneeled down beside Jamie and saw that he had a slit lip and a bloody nose and Bonnie lost her shit.
She ran over to Kol who was still trying to get oriented and began pummeling his back with her fists. He fell to back the ground and she began kicking him.
Bonnie felt someone grab her from behind to pull her away but she was able to get in one good stump to the bastard's back.
"You fuck with my brother again and I'll kill you…you hear me asshole…I'll kill you!" She screamed.
"Hush!" Damon hissed against her ear.
Seconds later, Bonnie found herself in front of a light blue Camaro. Damon opened the car door for her and when she saw her brother in the backseat, she stopped struggling and got inside. Damon slammed the car door shut and went around to the driver's side.
"Are you okay?" Bonnie asked worriedly as she leaned over the front seat.
Jamie had his head tilted back with what looked to be a balled up tee shirt pressed against his nose to stop the bleeding.
"Yes."
She touched the side of his head. "Does it hurt?" She asked stupidly.
"Of course it hurts…now sit down and buckle your seatbelt before the cops pull me over." Damon said from the driver's seat.
Bonnie did as she was told, sitting forward in the seat and Damon watched her as she bulked her seatbelt.
Bonnie caught him looking at her. "What?"
"Are you okay?" He asked.
His tone had her looking away. It sounded so intimate how he said it, like he actually cared. "I'm fine." She said, looking out the window.
"So what started the fight back there?" He asked conversationally because it was too quiet inside the car.
"Kol called Bonnie a bad word and I punched him in his face." Jamie said from the back.
Damon looked over at Bonnie who was still looking out the window.
"Damn right Jamie. Always defend your sister. That's what brothers are for." Damon said, his eyes still on Bonnie.
She turned to look at him. "Don't tell him that because he can get hurt trying to defend me... like he did today."
"And what about you?" He asked.
There was a slight pause. "I don't matter." She said turning back to the window.
Damon didn't like the sound of that. They drove in silence for the rest of the drive and a few minutes later the car was pulling up into their driveway.
Bonnie turned to look over at Damon. "Thank you…for everything."
He nodded his head.
She unbuckled the seatbelt and opened the door and got out. She then leaned down and pulled up the lever to push the front seat forward so that Jamie to get out.
"Goodbye Damon." He said, exiting the car.
"Goodbye buddy." He replied.
Bonnie and Jamie were walking to the house when suddenly the car horn blew. She looked back to see Damon holding up the bag with their ice cream inside.
His pale blue eyes that matched the color of the car were locked on her and she realized that he was expecting her to come get the bag from him.
She walked back to his car and took the ice cream. "Thanks."
"Any time."
Bonnie's eyebrows quirked and she stood there and watched as he backed out of the driveway.
It wasn't until later on that night while Bonnie was getting ready for bed that something occurred to her.
She never gave Damon directions to their house, which begged the question...how in the hell did he know where they lived?