A/N: I love you all. Sorry for the wait ;)

-4GMK

The CW owns The Vampire Diaries. I, regrettably, do not. They'd better thank the Good Lord for that.

A Vampires Warmth

Chapter 5:

For my Beloved Mother.

He woke up.

There was chattering going on, well actually more like bickering. Blinking slowly, Kai adjusted himself in his… seat? Yeah, seat. He was tied down to a dining room chair. Clearly they thought the living room chairs were above him. They were cushy after all.

Ah the Salvatore Boarding House, home to the current Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore, who were presently arguing about whether or not to kill him, how quaint.

"You know," he said by way of gathering their attention "you bicker a lot, but I guess that's just how you show your love."

"Listen up you little buttcrack" said Damon, poking him with the fire poker, "you only speak when spoken to, got it?"

"Got it"

Kai turned his gaze from the miffed vampire to his lovely wife, and biting his lip, gave her a slow once over. She lifted her chin at him and scowled.

"Spicy, I like it."

"Hey Major Creep, keep your eyes on me."

"Somehow I don't think of you that way."

Damon was about ready to end their little interrogation before it was even started when he felt her hand on his arm, immediately his anger fled from him. He still hadn't fully apologized to her about before, so he was careful to follow her lead.

"Good boy" Kai said, whistling appreciatively at his 'master'.

"Why have you been watching us?"

Damon stared at his wife. Watching them? For how long? How did she know? He was brimming over with unasked questions, but what was even more disconcerting was the fact that Kai only smiled.

"I see, right to business then?" He kept his eyes on Bonnie but she only stared back at him.

"Well for starters, you two are quite the frisky pair," he said, eyes flashing and teeth bared in a predatory grin.

Damon thought he his eyes would pop out of his head. He had been watching watching them?

Bonnie only continued to watch him silently, while her husband's eyes ping ponged back and forth between them. He was missing something, but the hard line Bonnies lips were pressed into told him she needed to keep her cards up her sleeve. Kai continued to leer at her, like he was caught up in some sick fantasy.

Suddenly, she leaned forward and brought her hand down, slapping him clear across his face. It was a move that neither of the men in the room expected, and both recoiled with a certain shock.

Looking directly into Kai's face Bonnie spoke calmly and quietly even as her eyes darkened to a shade of green Damon had never before witnessed in his wife's eyes.

"You will tell me exactly what you came here for or I will end your existence on this plane and the next."

Stunned into silence both Kai and Damon watched, mouths agape and eye's bulging. Kai was the first to recover, as Bonnie leaned back and crossed her arms over her chest looking like she was ready to deliver on her threat.

"I think I may have a way to get us out of this time trap."

He had surprised himself with his honesty. He had intended to drag this out some more, maybe lead some kind of psycho chase on but he hadn't expected things to be like this with her. She was supposed to be the nice one.

Bonnie was tired. She was not going to be playing these games with him. She had spent far too long going through the process of keeping hope alive, watching it die, and dealing with its aftermath to mess around with this guy. She had a gut feeling from the moment she saw that fake rock marked with the letters NMO that their time here was almost up.

She supposed now, in hindsight, that the Holy Spirit had been giving her some sort of premonition. She should have known better than to ignore those signs back then, but things between her and Damon had been going so well.

Come to think of it, she had been having thoughts of Jeremy in the past few weeks, almost exactly the amount of time she now knew Damon had been thinking of Elena. These two events coincided with the sighting of the blue rock, and now she knew the reason. But she had to make sure of it.

"So how do we fit into this?"

There was something about the way she held herself now that made Damon remember why he fell in love with her, rather, he grew to love her but… you get the idea. She was always so strong, so calm in the face of danger. Any lesser man would have been feeling inferior right about now, and would have taken over the interrogation to save his ego. But watching her rip this guy a new frame made him flush with male pride. Bonnie was his soulmate, vampire or not.

Kai mumbled so mystic mumbo jumbo about some family heirloom he needed to find, and how he needed a descendent of the Bennett bloodline (who were some sort of priesthood apparently, not witches like she was led to believe) to operate it. They could use the eclipse to time their return, because they needed the cosmic event to smooth the transition back into the regular flow of time that this plane somehow managed to operate outside of.

She agreed that they would extend his lease on life another day in order to determine if his words were true.

"Now sleep," she said turning her hand toward him "until I tell you to wake up".

Suddenly Kai slumped in his seat and began snoring as the bindings fell from his wrists.

"He'll be more comfortable like that" she said in response to the look her husband was giving her.

"What?"

"What? What do you mean what? What just happened?"

"I put him to sleep, he can't hear us or see us or move from that spot until I say so. It's actually a type of paralysis"

"Okay, 1. Very cool. But 2, how did you know he was watching us? How did you know he had something he could use to help us get out of here?"

"I can see now, Damon. It happened when I first got this Power. I think God is helping us"

"Wait, what? God? Babe, c'mon, I'm a vampire."

"Yes, and a very mortal one if you ask any tree around here." She smirked at him.

He looked at her for a moment. She looked so confident, like she knew every word she was saying was true, and then he remembered Kai's words. That Bonnie and her family were some sort of sacred priesthood.

"Okay, I'll bite. If you are some sort of sacred priest…ess, then… what now?"

"We don't trust Kai, he may be telling the truth, but his motives are impure. It's like he's dark around the edges, like he's hiding something. I want to know more. Something's not right about him."

"Well maybe it's because he's some sort of voyeuristic psychopath who goes around skipping dimensions."

"Whatever he is, we'll need to be on our guard from now on Damon."

"Right on! Team Damon-Bonnie here I come!"

"Ha-ha, very funny. But I'm serious Damon, he's the manipulative kind. He'll…make you see things that aren't real. We'll need to stick together, on everything Damon. I need you on my side this time."

The smile on his lips died as she finished her words.

"Baby," he said, honesty written all over his handsome features "I love you. I'm sorry for being an idiot about" he swallowed hard and decided to bite the bullet and tell the truth "thinking about Elena. I shouldn't have. And I am behind you a hundred and seventy plus years percent"

This comment made her lips curve into a small smile. Taking that as a nod to move forward, he stepped closer to her.

"And, I will always be on your side. Consider me your knight in shining vampire armor, because I will eternally be fighting for you"

She closed the distance between them now, wrapping her arms around her dopey, but honest husband.

"Seriously, that was corny" she said, smiling up into his eyes.

"Well, yeah, but I meant it" he dipped his head to kiss her as he wrapped his arms around her.

It had been a long day.