A/N: Hi all! It's been awhile. My muse of course has been lacking in the writing department. I have fics on my computer that I have been working on that need a serious update, but thanks to the pesky writers block, after a sentence or two I put it away. I am hoping I can complete another chapter of into your gravity, metamorphosis, addiction, it's like a best friend but more, and even another new fic I've been thinking about.
Until then, I hope you enjoy my new Bamon & Klonnie fic.
His eyes never left her as she walked up the steps of his home. He watched as she disappeared from his line of view, no doubt entering a room they were both more than familiar with. His first instinct was to follow her, but the excuse she gave of using the restroom, probably wouldn't sound right if he said he would join her.
Especially when his girlfriend had been hanging onto his arm the whole night. Although, with as many shots as she was inhaling with blondie and the quarter back, she probably wouldn't notice.
He should be right along there with her, but his mind was elsewhere, and he could tell by the look on his baby brother's face, so was his.
"Damon….Drink morreeee." Elena slurred.
Her lack of tolerance would have surprised him, due to her being a vampire, but she and Caroline asked Bonnie to slip a few magical herbs in their drinks for them to feel a greater effect.
As soon as those words escaped her mouth, he became the last person on her radar, so he took that opportunity to head upstairs.
"I'll be back."
The only person who gave him a look was Stefan, but he chose to ignore him.
Damon was upstairs in the doorway of his room in no time. And just like he assumed, there she was, staring outside of the window.
In the prison world, his room was one of her favorite places…even if that meant she kicked him out. Even though it had been years since they were stuck in that place, the times she did come to the boarding house, she would end up right in his bedroom.
"I thought I'd find you here."
She turned around and gave a soft smile. It was something about the way Bonnie Bennett always looked at him. Whether it was gratifying like now or if she glared at him; it always made him feel….
"Don't worry," She interrupted his thoughts. "I plan to get ghost when you and Elena come up here together for extracurricular activities."
He smirked, but that was only because she expected him too. If he were being completely honest, doing anything with Elena tonight was the furthest thing from his mind. Actually, the only person on his mind was the woman standing right in front of him, and he would never admit it out loud that she had been on it for quite some time.
"I'm not opposed to having two women in my bed."
She rolled her eyes playfully. "I'm itching to make sure my aneurysms are top notch for tomorrow."
He laughed, and went to his mini bar. "Always with the jokes Bon Bon. If I didn't know any better, I would think you despised me."
"I think we both know that's not true."
Good thing he wasn't facing her right now, because his smile got just a little brighter.
After he poured them both a glass of bourbon, he sat on the corner of his bed and handed her one.
"So, what brings you up here to my room while your friends are drinking enough alcohol to put me to shame."
Bonnie sat down beside him and took a sip of her drink. "I guess with everything happening tomorrow, I can't really focus on having fun." She paused for a moment. "Even if it may be my last."
"Well, I'm going to stop you right there. How many times have you died?" he asked. "I think death is tired of you. So, out of all of us, it won't be your last."
"But with that being said it may be someone's." She took another sip. "And I couldn't bare if anything happened to you…"
His heart lurched a bit.
"Or Caroline and Elena, Stefan….Matt… Tyler…"
Okay she was dragging it out now, and Damon didn't like that he had to share that sentence with anyone else.
"The last two are disposable anyways."
She playfully pushed him. "I'm serious, Damon. Not only that, we had to call in help for this. Klaus will be here tomorrow. And you already know how he is."
"Well, now that the big bad hybrid has offspring, maybe he won't blow our house down in the process."
Bonnie giggled at his metaphor, because really that's all she could do.
Somewhere in the midst of their conversation, they began taking swigs from the bottle.
"Can I confess something to you?" Bonnie's speech was now just a little slurred.
"When have you ever had to ask?"
"Well, since you have Elena back and all is right with the world on your end, our telling secrets and being close has faltered a bit."
She didn't see the effect her revelation had on him. It was true, as much as he hated to admit. When they brought Elena out of the sleep spell with the knowledge that Bonnie too would live, as long as Elena came back a vampire, Bonnie and Damon's time together became few and far between.
But that had to do more with being near his little witch, then him and Elena.
"What's on your mind, Bennett?"
She sighed and handed him the bottle. "I have all this power. It's clear, but I just…something doesn't feel right. I am worried…and I shouldn't be."
"No, you shouldn't." He said matter-of-factly. He put the bottle down and grabbed her hand in his. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you. Because if anything ever did…. I'd lose my mind. I won't…no, I can't lose you Bonnie."
She would blame it on the alcohol for his words and the fact that she was beginning to tear up.
"We're in this together."
Their eyes remained on each other for quite some time, before Bonnie cleared her throat.
"And what about you? What about Stefan? Are you both ready for what you may have to do?" What they would probably have to do. "She is your mother."
"Lily's had it coming for a long time. I've put her to rest over 200 years ago. Stefan's probably the loose cannon that may hesitate."
They both shared the same thought. Stefan couldn't be near Lily through all of this. Tomorrow, they would not only take down Lily, but Kai and the rest of the heretics. It was time to put a stop to all of them and save their town.
"So, I was thinking." It was time to change the subject. All the doom and gloom could be discussed tomorrow. "Since I'm sure the little Scooby gang don't notice we're gone, do you want watch The Bodyguard with me?"
Bonnie's eyes widened. "Do my ears deceive me?"
He shrugged, "Only because we might die tomorrow."
"Sure…" She made herself comfortable on his bed. "Excuses, excuses."
The movie hadn't been playing for ten minutes before Bonnie fell sound asleep; which was good because she hadn't slept well in a few weeks.
The only reason Damon may have known that little fact could have possibly been because he would check on her some nights while she was unaware.
When he placed a soft kiss on her forehead, the only thing on his mind was that he would not let Bonnie Bennett fall tomorrow.
When Damon woke up the next morning, he was not as enthusiastic as he should be to the woman kissing the side of his neck. It felt like a lifetime ago that he would have been; that he would have given everything to have her next to him.
He wasn't exactly sure when Bonnie made her way out and Elena made her way in, but it was clear that the two best friends did not cross paths.
"Good Morning…. Well, Good Afternoon sleepyhead." She placed a kiss on his lips. "Sorry about last night. I had every intention of coming up here with you, but I think the herbs Bonnie gave me had an expiration date, because the next thing I knew I was waking up to the sun in my face."
"Where is everybody else?" Yet, there was only one person he was concerned about.
"Well, Stefan and Caroline are trying to be somewhat decent hosts to Klaus who got here like an hour ago, and Bonnie and Matt went to her house to get something. But, they should be back shortly."
Well that dampened his mood a little bit. And Elena noticed. "Hey, Klaus said he would be on his best behavior."
He didn't care about that at all. "Yeah, right. Like his word is valid."
"Well, since we have some time before we all need to meet," She straddled his waist. "I thought that maybe we could…"
He really wasn't in the mood, but this was his girlfriend, and with the way his thoughts have been drifting lately, he owed her this.
"Well, look who decided to join us." It was Klaus who pulled his attention first as he and Elena walked downstairs. "Now that you kids are done with your shenanigans, can we begin this insufferable task so I can put Mystic Falls behind me?"
"Trust me; we're all ready for that." Caroline snapped.
Damon ignored his dramatics, as he looked at Bonnie who was staring intently at one of her grimoires. She didn't even look up when he entered the room.
Alaric was the last person to walk in, which prompted Bonnie to close her spell book and look around. "Now that everyone is here, we can go over the plan in more detail."
And that's what they did… for hours.
Damon thought his plan was pretty simple. Catch them all off guard, dab them with a little werewolf venom and kill them all.
But, Bonnie wanted to go over every detail. Which was smart, he couldn't deny. Probably what made them a solid team. They were dealing with a ripper, four heretics… one, which was a very powerful sociopath. Plus, however many vampire lackeys they had on their side.
Damon didn't really have much more to say until Bonnie began picking teams, and he couldn't keep quiet through that.
"Stefan and I will stay on Kai. Damon, you and Alaric will have Lily Duty. Elena and Klaus you will stay on the three heretics, and Tyler and Caroline you'll have the extra vampires. Once everyone is done, go over and make sure all the other vampires are dead. Tyler and Klaus this is where your venom is going to come in handy a lot."
"Um, Bon Bon? These teams need another opinion." His voice betrayed annoyance. "You and I do better together."
Elena did not miss that comment.
Bonnie stood her ground. "The teams stay and that's final."
Matt spoke up before anything else was said. "And what team am I on?"
"You're not in this fight." Damon noticed the way Bonnie's demeanor grew soft when her eyes connected with Matt.
"Like hell! Bonnie we talked about this."
"Yes we did, and I gave you the opportunity to think smart. Matt you're human, we're not losing you."
"Alaric's human too."
"Yeah, but he's spent the majority of his life hunting vampires."
He held up his finger. "I have the Gilbert ring."
"Matt…please don't make this hard." She walked up to him and grabbed his hand gently.
Damon's eyes remained glued to the scene before him. Was he missing something?
The next thing Bonnie did shocked the hell out of the group and left Damon seething.
She placed a soft kiss on Matt's lips, and the veins around Damon's eyes were itching to come out and he knew his fangs would follow right afterwards.
When Matt fell back unconscious on the couch, Bonnie turned to look at everyone. She expected their awkward stares, but still shrugged none-the-less.
"He won't wake up until tomorrow."
She didn't miss Caroline's grin.
"What? It was the spell I used on Jeremy all those years ago."
Bonnie ended up in Damon's car as they drove to the woods. If she wasn't going to be on his team, then she sure as hell was going to ride in his car. He practically yanked her arm out of her socket when she was about to get in Elena's vehicle.
"You're riding with me."
He didn't even think about his girlfriend in the whole scenario; didn't event wonder if her eyes were on them the whole time as Bonnie got in his car and he slammed the door behind her, and as soon as he got in the drivers side he sped off.
He didn't think once how that would affect her.
No, when his mind was on something, he blocked out everything else. Well, that should be rephrased. When his mind was on a certain Bennett witch, he blocked out everything else.
"What the hell is your problem, Damon? You've been acting weird all day."
"Me acting weird? When does locking lips with quarterback constitute as normal?"
He didn't miss her eye roll out of his peripheral.
"It was a spell. I told you that." She paused for a moment, but his eyes remained on the road." Why does it even matter?"
"It doesn't." He said a little too quickly. And that proved he was lying. "And why the hell aren't we teammates?"
"Damon are you twelve?"
He decided to roll his eyes this time. "I'm just saying, we do better as a team."
"We do fine just as well on our own."
"Bull shit. Besides, you could have taken Barbie with you. Why would you choose Stefan over me?" Someone else that thought Stefan was better than him. Bonnie was supposed to be his.
"I can't work with you!" That made him glance from the road for a second. "If you're fighting with someone and they get the upper hand… even for a split second, it will distract me. I'll move heaven and earth to make sure your safe, which may put me in a vulnerable position. I worry too much about you Damon, and I know you. We both may get ourselves killed trying to protect each other." She paused for a moment. "Same reason I didn't put you with Elena. We need a clear head."
Well, she had rendered Damon Salvatore speechless. And, he didn't miss the way she added in Elena to make everything less awkward.
It was safe to say the rest of the way, they both remained silent.
When they made it to their destination, right before she got out of the car, he grabbed her hand.
"Don't do anything crazy like die on me or anything."
She looked down at their intertwined hands and then provided him a smile.
"You do the same."
That was both of them saying I love you without actually saying the words.
"You and Damon were worried I wouldn't be able to kill Lily."
Bonnie's eyes connected with Stefan's as they walked through the woods.
"We think there would have been some hesitation, and I can't blame you for that. That's your mother."
"Not anymore."
"She'll always be your mom. It's just that now she wants to kill both of her sons and take over Mystic Falls."
"You think it will be easy for Damon?"
"Honestly, no it won't. But, he won't hesitate. His grief will come afterwards. He'll realize what he's done and it'll tear him apart for a little while."
Yes, she knew Damon that well.
"Well, lookey lookey who it is."
It was Kai's voice that caught Bonnie and Stefan's attention.
"This is different. New love birds perhaps? Taking a stroll on a quiet summer night." He gave a sinister smile. "Or are they here to fight the big bad wolf."
The same thought was both running through Bonnie and Stefan's mind. Kai was so lame.
"You know meeting out in the woods, all my guys… all your guys. It's quite twilight-ish don't you think?"
Stefan spoke up. "Wasn't it you that orchestrated this whole thing?"
"Oh, right." Kai then snapped his fingers, broke Stefan's neck, and flung him against a tree. "I'd rather dance with you alone Bonster."
Bonnie flung him back with the snap of her fingers, forming a branch to hold him tightly against a tree. "Trust me there won't be any dancing."
It took Kai no time to disappear and reappear right in front of her.
"You wound me, Bon Bon. I thought we were closer." He then whispered in her ear. "When I'm done with you, you're going to wish you had joined me. And then I'm going to kill all of your little friends."
And so it began.
Damon didn't even have a chance to get to Lily before her vampire lackeys corned him and Alaric. He killed one after another after another, but more kept coming. He was grateful when Caroline and Tyler showed up even though they all looked like hell. But, at least they were able to still hold their own.
Klaus and Elena were next to show up. More like Klaus had Elena's body hurled over his shoulder.
"What happened to her!" Damon was able to yell out as he continued fighting.
Klaus pulled the heart out of a vampire easily and bit another before ripping his head clean off.
"One of those bleeding heretics broke her neck. I have eliminated them all though."
That was good news, but there was still a sinking feeling in his chest. Bonnie had not joined him yet, and that left him worried.
It was lights out after that.
Bonnie almost had Kai. Almost. Her hand was in his chest cavity ready to pull out his heart. The energy that was flowing through her held nothing but revitalizing strength. She felt more powerful than she ever had. She was winning and the person who caused her the most pain in her life would be dead in a matter of minutes.
She would take great victory on being the one to end his life.
"When I kill you this time, there will be no coming back." She watched as the look on his face held nothing but fear. The blood running out of his nose and mouth brought her contentment. "How does that feel?"
She didn't give him a chance to answer as she ripped his heart from his chest and watched as it and his body erupted in flames.
When Bonnie stood up, her eyes found Stefan who just finished killing his last vampire.
She took a breath of relief. "Let's join the others."
It was a matter of seconds. A matter of seconds when Bonnie watched Stefan's eyes widened and then pain exploded through her chest and neck. She could feel the blood escaping her body; the energy of her magic dissolving within her. A matter of seconds before she succumbed to darkness.
It was only a matter of seconds.
Stefan didn't remember killing Lily. All he remembered was seeing red, and when he snapped back into it, her heart was in his hands. He showed no remorse no guilt. He did what he had to do.
He immediately rushed over to Bonnie and held her in his arms. He didn't get a chance to say anything or attempt to feed her blood, because Damon appeared out of nowhere pushing Stefan out of the way.
"What the hell happened!" Damon ripped into his wrist and shoved his blood down Bonnie's throat. "Drink…" She made no movement. "Come on Bon Bon… drink… please…"
Still no movement.
"Bonnie, baby, please drink…. wake up…"
There was too much blood coming from and she wasn't ingesting his. The tears began to pierce his eyes.
Caroline appeared next, screaming at the top of her lungs. "Bonnie! What happened?!"
Damon bared his fangs when Caroline got close, causing the blonde vampire to do the same.
Stefan held onto Caroline, before she and his brother got into it.
"She drank blood right? Tell me she drank someone's blood!"
Damon didn't say anything, as he held her lifeless body in his arms; proving that he hadn't given her his blood.
"Stefan?"
He shook his head.
"Elena then?" She asked frantically. "When she wakes up we can ask her."
Bonnie was upstairs in Damon's bed as they all gathered in the living room. When Elena woke up, they found out she had not given Bonnie blood. The only thing going through Damon's mind was why had none of them thought of that before the fight? What the hell was wrong with them?
"Stefan tell me what happened again, word for word. Don't leave anything out."
Damon's sadness had been replaced with pure anger. It didn't take a rocket scientist to know that he blamed his brother for Bonnie's death.
"Bonnie had just finished killing Kai and I just got done with one of Lily's vampires, and the next thing I know Lily came out of nowhere and stabbed her….I don't know how…."
"You don't know?" He cut him off. "You were there, you were looking dead at her, how did you not know…"
"Damon back off." Elena stepped in. "This isn't going to help."
It took everything in him not to snap at the woman he would have risked it all for once upon a time. He never thought that she would become a non-factor in his life, but right now, Bonnie was the only person on his mind.
He failed her.
It was Tyler who spoke up next. "Wait, where's Alaric…?" Realizing he wasn't among the group.
"Where is Alaric?" Caroline asked, tears still streaming down her face over Bonnie. "Has he not been here the whole time?"
It was then that Damon snapped out of his state of shock on Bonnie, and realized he forgot about his friend.
"He died."
More shock and commotion filled the room. But, one voice stopped them dead in their tracks.
"Um guys… what the hell happened?"
Everyone's eyes snapped to the stairs.
Bonnie was standing before them. Alive.
Well…
A/N: Thank you for reading. Please review if you can.