Bonnie wakes up to a jolt in the back of her neck that signals she's in the presence of another supernatural. Without giving it a second thought she sits raising her hand ready immobilize them just in case they have plans to attack only to drop it when she sees Lucy staring back at her looking as if it's taking everything in her to not blow the roof off of the place
"Lucy, you scared the hell out of me." Bonnie says letting herself fall back down onto her bed, raising her hands to her face to rub the sleep out of her eyes.
"Hm, maybe I should be in Silas' place then." Lucy remarks deciding to just get to the point of her visit. Afterall, she was never one to stay in one place longer than necessary unless her visit was one in which she decided to take instead of one where she was requested for a job or a favor.
Bonnie's eyes pop open and she shifts into a sitting position "How-"
"How?" Lucy narrows her eyes, watching as the young witch looks away.
"I'll give you one guess."
Bonnie frowns coming up blank, she'd only gone into details with Damon but she knows that he wouldn't say anything. Finding the cure was the latest way to save Elena and he would never jeopardize anything when it came to Elena.
"I don't know." She whispers sounding like a child.
"Wow, you really are on a suicide mission." Lucy criticizes not believing what's going on.
Bonnie frowns remembering those same words being directed at her a few days ago.
"He told you?" Bonnie questions staring at her older cousin.
Lucy looks at her in disbelief "That's all you have to say?"
Bonnie opens and closes her mouth several times, before giving up on trying to find something to say, still not being able to wrap her mind around the fact that Damon called and told on her.
"This is just...wow." Lucy whispers genuinely stunned.
Bonnie watches as her cousin starts to pace back and forth in front of her bed with a stunned expression on her face, and she feels as though she's slipped into an alternate universe. She's never seen Lucy taken back by anything, especially anything that's in relation to anything supernatural. Though considering that she was friends with Katherine and apparently is an acquaintance of Rebekah, Bonnie supposes that she would be just as hard to shock as well after being around them. But that didn't explain why she was still silently pacing five minutes later.
"Luce...you're scaring me."
"I'm scaring you?" Lucy looks at her "I guess he actually knows how to get through to you then."
Bonnie frowns "What?"
"I can't believe this." Lucy smiles.
"Elena-"
"Screw Elena, Bonnie!"
Bonnie blinks taken back by her outburst.
"Honestly, what has this girl done for you for you to literally be willing to die for her?"
"She's my family."
"No she's not." Lucy snaps "Because if that were true there is no way in hell that she would be okay with you doing something like this. Or did she not know?" She asks deciding to give the doppelganger the benefit of the doubt.
"I told him not to tell anyone."
Lucy looks unimpressed by her excuse.
"Elena is as old as you are, you are not her mother, she is not your child. If you feel the need to have to pretend otherwise then something is wrong." Lucy pauses to let that sink in before continuing "Elena is not a human anymore and she does not need to be treated like she's made of glass. She's not the first person to be turned that didn't want to be a vampire and she won't be the last. Hell, if anything Elena needs to be a vampire. Unless you've been over exaggerating." Lucy adds when she sees the hurt look on Bonnie's face "I get that you want to save her and protect her because she's your 'family' but to be honest the blonde one is more of a friend to you than she is. Out of your friends...Stefan, Elena and Caroline, Caroline was the one who's hurt I felt the most when Damon told me about your suicide mission. Your boyfriend was just…" Lucy blinks "you would've thought that someone had told him his little empire was about to come crashing down. And you've been together for what? Two minutes?"
Bonnie looks at her.
"As much as I want to put a ward on this house so you can never leave again. I'm not. You're not a child. You're a grown woman free to make your own choices and you need to make your own mistakes. But what I will do is this. If I find out that you lost your life for Elena, I will take that cure and destroy it. She loses her chance to be human just like her best friend lost her life. And she'll have to live with that guilt for the rest of her immortal life. And before you even think about resurrecting yourself, don't count on that. As soon as I have to put flowers on your grave, I'll find a way to either keep your ass on the Other Side until you find peace or you'll be reincarnated, in a life that is nothing like this one and you'll have no memory of anyone in this one. No spark, no scratch at the brain if you somehow cross paths with them. Nothing. Not even me. Not that it will matter anyway. So if you want to continue with this for Elena. By all means go. By the way the spirits are talking this is something that you need to do, learn your lesson the hard way. So I'm staying out of this one but I'll leave you with this."
Bonnie tenses when Lucy sits down on the foot of her bed.
"The fact that Damon Salvatore of all people has more concern for your life than you do and apparently values it over getting what his little girlfriend craves more than anything," Lucy chuckles "says more than I can even put into words. I wouldn't even know where to start." She states getting up from the bed.
"Lucy…" Bonnie sighs, watching as she stops at threshold but doesn't turn to face her "I'm not doing this for Elena."
Lucy raises an eyebrow.
"I'm doing this for Abby. I know that that may not be much better. It's probably even worse, considering what a piss poor mother she's been to me. But I feel like I owe it to her. She wouldn't even need it if it weren't for me."
"You're right." Lucy agrees turning to face her "It doesn't make it any better but what I said about Elena still stands "And a little heads up about the cure" she pauses waiting until she feels as though she has Bonnie's undivided attention "you might want to look into that a bit more before you start rationing it off."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that you need to do more research before you go after it." Lucy answers over her shoulder as she walks away. Smiling when Bonnie doesn't bother to call after her.
Bonnie sighs and allows herself to fall back down to her bed, staring up at her ceiling lost in thought until she nearly falls out of her bed when her phone screams at her from her nightstand. Rolling her eyes already knowing from the ringtone who it is.
"..."
"You're going to answer your phone and give me the silent treatment?"
Bonnie frowns hearing the smile in his voice.
"What? Did Lucy ward you in your own house?"
Despite knowing that he's joking going by the amusement in his voice, Bonnie wonders just how much Damon has inserted himself into her family's lives over the years for him to have guessed that that was Lucy's first solution but still remains silent.
"Okay, well when you're done throwing your little hissy fit-"
"Why did you tell Lucy?" Bonnie interrupts him.
"..."
Bonnie sighs "Damon."
"Did it work?"
"She doesn't want me to look for it."
"That doesn't answer my question."
"Was it supposed to work?"
"No, I just tracked down the most flighty witch in the world just because I felt like it. Of course it was supposed to work." he snaps "The thing is; I don't like talking to Lucy as much as Lucy doesn't like talking to me."
"I doubt that." Bonnie smiles "Lucy genuinely hates you. What happened between you two by the way?"
"Lucy adores me." He states ignoring her question.
"You've literally known her for her whole life and you still don't have her direct number."
"I have your's."
"I'm not Lucy."
"Clearly."
"Excuse me?"
"Lucy knows self preservation."
"Damon we both know that you don't want me to be like Lucy. If I was, you wouldn't still be here. You'd be watching over Stefan from the Other Side screaming your head off because he flipped his switch and abandoned Elena as result."
"..."
Bonnie smiles at his silence taking it as a victory.
"So, what happened between you and Lucy?"
"I killed her first boyfriend."
Bonnie closes her eyes letting out a long breath.
"She was sixteen and he was a vampire, Bonnie. An old one. Like older than me old."
Bonnie grimaces "You mean by vampire years...right?"
"How old do you think I am?" He asks and she can picture the pinched look on his face.
"Too old to have my number and act the way you do." She snarks.
"Ha, ha." He replies dryly.
"I don't know" she answers, her eyes going towards the ceiling as she tries to come up with an age, eventually she comes to twenty four but stops, deciding to go for an answer that she knows will get a reaction from him "thirty?" She makes her answer sound like a question.
Click.
Bonnie blinks and takes the phone away from her ear, laughing when she sees that he actually hung up on her.
"Hey Care," Bonnie finally greets the vampire lingering in the hallway, tossing her phone to the side.
Caroline frowns emerging from the shadows and walks into the bedroom closing the door behind her before flopping down on the bed. Not bothering to ask how she knew it was her.
"What the hell was that?"
"What was what?" Bonnie shifts so she's lying down on her side facing the vampire.
"It sounded like you were laughing...and not at Damon. And before that it almost sounded like you were flirting."
"I don't flirt with Damon," Bonnie denies "I say something to him and he manages to find a sexual innuendo in my words and it turns into a fight from there."
"So what's this I hear about a suicide mission?" She asks deciding to abandon the subject, Bonnie had a point.
Bonnie sighs "Care…"
"Don't 'Care…' me."
Bonnie raises an eyebrow "You've gotten better at imitating my voice."
"Bonnie,"
"What do you want me to say Caroline?"
"I want you to tell me that Damon was just messing with Lucy. I want you to tell me that you didn't know that this would end up with me having to bury you." She shrieks losing control of her emotions for a bit.
Bonnie looks at her for a moment, feeling her heart clench when she sees a single tear roll down Caroline's face dropping onto her pillow.
"Why are you so willing to die?" Caroline asks, her voice barely above a whisper.
"I'm not going to live forever Caroline. You know that, right?"
"And I'm not going to bury you until your one hundred and ten years old with great-great-great grandchildren to keep me busy."
Bonnie grins, laughing when she sees that Caroline is completely serious.
"One problem with that."
Caroline frowns.
"Vampires can't procreate, remember?"
"Well if anyone around here actually has a magical vagina it's you so I'm sure you can figure something out."
"You just have an answer for everything don't you?" Bonnie retorts through a grimace.
"Is that a real question?"
Bonnie relents,
"To answer your question, it's not a suicide mission. Everyone is just over exaggerating. You know the Professor?"
Caroline nods.
"Full of shit."
Caroline smiles despite not wanting to.
"Because of him everyone is led to believe that you have to jump threw hoops and do all this extra crap when in reality all I had to do was flip through Qetsiyah's Grimoire and do the spell to find the hunter's mark. Which as you know is on Jeremy. So that's handled."
"But Silas-"
"From what I've read in Qetsiyah's Grimoire he's more of an ass than this evil mastermind everyone is making him out to be. The real problem is just who might be on this island, protecting it. And well that's pretty much it. Except Lucy just kind of tipped me off that," she stops and decides to mouth the last part "there isn't exactly enough to go around."
Bonnie raises her fingers to her lips as soon as she sees Caroline's eyes widen.
"That's not..."
"Nope." Bonnie shakes her head.
"So basically Damon just put a hit on his own girlfriend for no reason?" Caroline questions through a small smile.
Bonnie gives Caroline a look when she starts to laugh "That's not funny Caroline." She attempts to scold her but ends up smiling.
"So you're not going to die."
"Apparently I'm under contract for at least another eighty years." Bonnie replies dryly.
"If there was a way that you could be immortal and still be a witch, would you do it?"
"Do you know something I don't know?" Bonnie dances around her question. It's not that she wanted to leave Caroline, but she didn't know if she wanted to live forever either.
"Not yet." Caroline smiles.
"Well, find it by time time we hit twenty one. One of us needs to be legal." Shrieking when she's suddenly rolling off of the edge of her bed. Blinking in surprise when she finds herself hovering over the floor before face planting.
"Ooh," Caroline winces at the loud thump, rolling over until she can look at her from the edge of the bed "you okay Bon?" Feeling the urge to run when she hears a growl in response.
-X-
Stefan nearly laughs when he walks into Damon's room and sees his brother staring at his reflection,
"You do know that she was kidding, right?"
"I would ask if you had anything better to do but based on how you've been inserting yourself into my life lately, I'm just going to go ahead and assume the answer is no."
"It's annoying, right?" Stefan asks leaning against the doorway "Having a brother that's somehow just always there. Inserting themselves into your personal life." Stefan grins when Damon looks at him "Now imagine that...except he's only doing that so he could take the girl your in love with, instead of trying to help."
Damon looks down feeling a brief twinge at the barb but then smiles.
"I don't want Elena." Stefan says when Damon opens his mouth watching as shock clouds his brother's features before shifting into one of disbelief "I just think it would be interesting to see you in a relationship with someone that has a foundation of something other than lust or revenge for something that happened over a century ago. Having my brother's girlfriend being someone that only can assume our...skill sets as opposed to actually knowing is only a pleasant bonus."
"For the last time. I am not into Bonnie."
Damon frowns when Stefan smiles in response.
"When exactly did I say I was talking about Bonnie?" Stefan raises an eyebrow, answering the unvocalized question.
Damon stares at Stefan for a full minute, fighting the urge to wipe the smirk off of the ripper's face at his continued silence.
Stefan shakes his head when Damon finally opens his mouth, tapping his ear when Damon frowns at him in response. Watching the unreadable expression he gets from his brother after Damon listens clearly picking up on the sound of the front door opening and closing. Once he's unable to decipher the look he pushes himself off of the door frame and starts to make his way down the hall to his own room, nodding out a greeting to Elena as he passes her on his way who smiles in response before turning to continue her way to Damon.
"Damon?"
Damon shakes his head in an attempt to clear his conversation with Stefan out of his head and looks up to see Elena staring back at him concern clear in her eyes before anger quickly takes its place to which he frowns.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Tell you what?"
"That this would end with me having to bury Bonnie."
Damon looks at her in confusion then comes to the conclusion that she must have been eavesdropping along with everyone else.
"Because Bonnie's not going with us."
Elena looks at him not understanding his answer.
"Lucy talked her out of it and on the one hundred percent chance that she changes her mind and decides that she's going to go with us anyway, we'll already be gone before she can even try to come with us. I already talked to Rebekah and convinced her to get Klaus or Elijah to pull one of their witch contacts and I'm going to get Lucy to do a blood donation before she leaves for her flight tommorrow morning."
After Damon's explanation registers, Elena begins to feel the fight slowly leave her body but in its place she feels an emotion that she doesn't want to put a name to when it hits her that she's not the only woman that's on Damon's mind anymore. Aside from Stefan, she was the only one that Damon actually gave a damn about when it came to their wellbeing. Despite their issues and claimed hatred for each other, they went all out to save and protect each other. Damon was tracking Stefan the whole summer without her knowing, letting her believe that he didn't care about Stefan. And claiming that he was doing it to protect her when she found out about his little secret. To which she bought after their first attempt nearly got them both killed.
But still.
All of this just hit a little too close to home.
She remembers how he kept things from her, taking away and completely disregarding her choices. Claiming that it was for her own good.
And now here he was with Bonnie. Going behind her back and keeping things from her to do the same. At the realization of what that meant she felt as if the floor was slipping from beneath her feet. Her heart plummeting to her stomach, feeling as if the air was being sucked from her lungs at the next words that come from her boyfriend's mouth.
"Bonnie is going to be fine." Damon assures her as he walks up to her holding her stare "She's not going anywhere anytime soon. So you don't have anything to worry about."
Elena closes her eyes as she feels his lips against her forehead, trying to relish in the moment but as she watches him leave the room she knows that that last part wasn't exactly true.