Damon was annoyed and irritated. How dare she reject him like she did? What made it worse was that she had used her powers to do it and he hated when Bonnie Bennett used her powers against him. She had the nerve to reject his kiss, she would be lucky to feel his lips on hers Damon thought. He had many women who threw themselves at him and he didn't even have to lift a finger. He just got any woman that he wanted easily. Yet the witch was being so damn difficult. She treated him like he was dog crap that she discovered on the bottom of his shoe. Like kissing him was the worst thing that could ever happen to her.

He had lived over one hundred years on this earth yet he never made a woman as irritating and frustrating as Bonnie Bennett. Oh how he hated how the witch judged him and hated on him. He was Damon Salvatore after all and no woman rejected him, well besides the little witch. But if she thought that he was just going to go away she had another thing coming. Damon was going to stick around whether she liked it or not.

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A couple of days later Bonnie was again in Professor Finley's class. This time a movie was being watched for discussion and educational purposes related to the classes subject. Students sat quietly in the darkened room watching the Odyssey. Bonnie tried her best to pay attention to the movie, but Damon Salvatore sitting next to her and working her last nerve didn't make it an easy task. Yet she tried her best to ignore him.

The class watched as the ship pulled up to an island and out walked Vanessa William's character. She told Odysseus character to come as an invitation but leave it to Damon Salvatore to turn the comment into something dirty.

"Oh baby I'll 'come' " Damon hinted suggestively wiggling his dark eye brows. This caused a few snickers from near by male students. Professor Finley sent Damon an annoyed look and Bonnie just rolled her Green eyes he was so damn immature for a person who had lived for over one hundred years.

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Later Damon walked into the Campus Café. It was around lunch time and the Café was filled with Students and Staff ordering and eating lunch. Damon's eyes scanned the crowd and he spotted her sitting alone eating a salad with a bottle of spring water. Damon whistled and approached the table. He pulled out a chair and sat right next to her despite her warning glare.

He leaned in and inhaled through his nose taking in her scent she smelled like flowers and citrus and that made him groan inwardly with desire and need. But on the outside he put on a cool mask.

"What the hell are you doing?" Bonnie asked noticing his actions.

Damon sneered. "Good afternoon Miss. Bennett."

Bonnie twisted the cap back on her water bottle. "What have I told you about staying away from me?"

"Why are you always so cranky Witch?" Damon asked

"I'm only cranky when you come around." Bonnie rolled her eyes.

Damon watched her. "You need to relax and have some fun, instead of acting like you have a stick up your ass all of the damn time."

Bonnie gritted her teeth. "Just step away from me."

"Relax Sabrina." Damon smirked.

"Don't call me that." Bonnie snapped

Damon's smirk grew wider. "All you need to do is get a black cat and call him Salem."

Bonnie let out a frustrated sigh. "What do you want from me"

"Let's talk about the other day." Damon started

"What about the other day?" Bonnie shrugged a shoulder.

Damon leaned in closer to her. "We almost kissed."

Bonnie thought back to the moment where desire and need almost over came her hatred for the man before her and how her lips almost touched his. "We didn't almost kiss." She lied

"Oh baby yes we did." Damon retorted.

Bonnie shook her head. "You were going to kiss me."

"You wanted that kiss as much as I did." Damon was cocky.

"I didn't." Bonnie denied "Or did you not get he hint when I tossed your ass across the room?"

Damon smirked. "That's because you were afraid."

Bonnie scoffed. "Afraid of what?"

"Afraid that if I kissed you that you would like it." Damon's voice was full of arrogance.

He had seen right through her, part of her had been worried that she might have enjoyed a kiss from the man that she hated but she wasn't going to admit that to him. "Not in a million years the thought of your lips makes me want to lose my lunch seriously." Bonnie spat out she pushed her chair back and got up taking the remainder of the salad and throwing it away. Her meal was ruined so she was leaving the Café.

Damon watched her leave she wasn't getting away so easily.

Bonnie exited the Café to the outside and started her way down the path she was trying to get away from Damon but to no avail he caught up to her and blocked her path. She glared up at him. "Are you stalking me now?"

Annoyance was clear on Damon's face. "I wasn't done talking to you."

"But I am done talking to you." Bonnie said and made a move to go around him but he shifted and blocked her path again. "Damn you."

"I do like getting under that skin of yours little witch." Damon sounded like he wanted to laugh.

Bonnie huffed. "I could kill you."

Damon put a fake scared expression on his face. "Oh No you can't kill little old me."

Bonnie arched an eyebrow. "Wanna Bet?"

"If you killed me, you'd miss me." Damon put his hands on his chest. "Your heart would shatter into one million pieces and you'd mourn me."

"Please. Having you die would be like a celebration for me. Like my favorite NFL team winning the Super bowl, me winning the lottery, and getting a brand new car all rolled into one. In other words I would be thrilled and excited to have you gone." Bonnie snipped at him she really didn't mean it but he was making her so angry that she couldn't help what came out of her mouth.

Deep inside those words hurt him, would she really be happy if he ended up dead. Damon covered up his hurt with a smirk and a scowl. "Too bad for you that I am a Vampire and immortal I was on this earth long before you and will be long after you grow old and pass away."

Bonnie counted to ten inside of her head. "Out of my way asshole." She ,made a move to walk past him.

Damon grabbed her arm. "We're still not done."

Bonnie turned and glared at him mumbled some words under her breath.

Seconds later Damon felt a burnings sensation start at his hand and go up his arm and soon hi whole arm felt like it was on fire like it got sunburned. Damon gritted his teeth against the pain and released her. "Damn witch."

"That's just a warning I can cause far more damage than that if you don't live you alone." Bonnie said tone icy, she walked off away from him.

Damon rubbed his arm and could feel his skin healing the first degree sun burn like spell she had put on his hand and arm. He watched her walk away. He so hated when she used her powers on him.

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The next night Bonnie was walking towards the small apartment just off campus that she had been sharing with Jerry. Because it was so close to the campus the apartment building was residence to a number of James Madison students who didn't wish to stay in the dorms. Bonnie didn't mind sharing the apartment with Jerry since all she felt for him was sweet friendship and didn't have any romantic or sexual feelings for him at all. The rent was manageable with two people and it had two bedrooms, one bathroom, a small kitchen, and a small living room area. SO everything worked out.

Bonnie walked through the chilly, cool, and crisp early October Virginia air, fall was hear and winter was on it's way. She was about five minutes away from the apartment building when she heard some people behind her. She turned and saw four men would seemed to be college students walking a few yards behind her. They appeared to be buddies from the way that they were interacting with each other and they also appeared rowdy and drunk. Bonnie turned back and faced the direction that she was walking hoping that they'd leave her alone.

But the men had other ideas. "Hey you come back here and talk to us." One of them hollered out after her.

Bonnie ignored them and picked up her pace.

The four men jogged up to her and caught up to her blocking her path and surrounding her. "Hey where you rushing off to?" Guy One asked.

All of them were at least 6'0 or taller and were huge men so Bonnie felt uncomfortable being surrounded my them. "Move out of the way please." She said as politely as she could.

"Why where do you have to get to?" Guy one asked

"What's a pretty thing like you out where walking alone at night?" Guy two slurred clearly drunk.

Bonnie felt a bad vibe coming from this men. "I have somewhere that I need to be."

Guy two leaned into her personal space. "Want to show me and my buddies a good time."

"Not interest." Bonnie said wishing that she could escape but they had her surrounded and wouldn't let her go.

"That wasn't a question." Guy two said grabbing at her arm.

Bonnie cringed back. "Don't fucking touch me."

"Oh she mad." Guy three mocked.

Guy four chuckled.

Bonnie felt fear come over her she could tell that these men were up to no good. "Get out of my face."

"Don't think so." Guy one coldly stated "You see me and my buddies want to get laid and we're going to take our turns on you."

Bonnie felt fear and panic start to turn inside of her, there was no question now that this guys meant her harm. "Get away from me or I'll scream."

"Go ahead and scream then." Guy three said

Bonnie opened her mouth to do just that.

Guy four clamped his hand over her mouth to prevent it. "That would be a really dumb thing to do." He said voice threatening.

Bonnie bit down on his hand hard, causing him to drop his hand from her mouth as he howled out in pain.

"Fucking Cunt." Guy four said grabbing his hand.

Overwhelmed with fear and terror Bonnie tried to push her way past the men, but it was like pushing into a brick wall. "Let me go please." She pleaded.

They didn't let her go. "You just made the biggest mistake of your life bitch." Guy two said

Desperate now Bonnie tried to close her eyes and come up with a spell to get rid of them, but her mind was too clouded in panic and fear to focus. Plus her powers came and went and this time was a bad time for it to go. Nothing happened when she tried to spell them, so she got her cell phone out of her purse and pushed the number nine.

Before she could push the number one, Guy one snatched the cell phone away from her. "You ain't calling the cops on us."

"Give that back to me." Bonnie said with anger. She reached for her cell phone.

Guy one held it over his head out of her reach. "What you going to do if I don't?"

Bonnie reached across and slapped Guy one hard across his face.

Guy one used his free hand and grabbed her arm and snatched her roughly towards him. "Big mistake." He yanked her arm again hard.

Bonnie felt a sickening crack next to her shoulder, he had pulled her with so much force that it caused her arm to be ripped out of it's socket. She screamed out in pain as she felt her arm snap.

Guy four put his hand over her mouth to silence her screams of pain.

Guy one slipped her phone into his pocket. "Hurry up get her into the alley."

They dragged her into the near by alley and Bonnie could see horrific visions of rape. She tried to struggle and fight.

"Go ahead and fight it's no use." Guy three said.

Bonnie spat in his face.

In anger Guy three punched her in her ribs several times as hard as he could manage while the others held her back.

Bonnie weazed out as her ribs exploded her pain, she struggled to catch her breath.

Guy one slammed her head into the brick wall near by. "Play along or we'll kill you."

Bonnie lost focus, her vision got blurry as her head erupted in the worst headache she ever felt, she could feel the warm blood trickle from her head and down her face.

Guy two snatched her back and slammed her on the ground.

"I go first." Guy one said reaching his belt buckle,

Helpless on the ground and in a extreme amount of pain because of her injuries caused by the men, Bonnie watched in fear as Guy one began to unzip his pants.

Guy three began to tear at her clothes.

"No." Bonnie said frantically. Then she felt a flash and saw a gust of wind.

Damon appeared behind the men a look of dark fury on his face. "Leave the girl alone and walk away and you'll get away in one piece."

Guy one looked at Damon. "This is none of your business."

Damon looked at him with cold blue eyes. "Wrong she is my business."

"This your woman or something?" Guy four asked.

"No but if you try to do what I think you're going to do, then you won't live past this night." Damon warned

Guy three chuckled. "Get out of here unless you want to end up in a hospital."

Damon took a step towards the men. "Last warning, walk away or else."

"Fuck you." Guy one said

"Don't say I didn't warn you." Damon rushed the men. He took Guy four and grabbed him by the collar and threw her violently across the wall knocking the guy out cold. Guy three he tossed her in the air like the man was a rag doll, tossing him about six feet in the air he landed with a sickening thud on the ground. With Guy two he took both arms and twisted them snapping both in two, Guy two collapsed to the ground yelling in pain. He took Guy One by the neck and slammed him against the near by brick wall bearing his fangs.

Guy One's eyes widened in fear. "What the fuck?"

"Touch this her again and I'll kill you and all of your buddies understand." Damon's voice was calm but deadly.

"Yeah, Yeah. " Guy one stated frantically.

Damon took Bennie's cell phone out of the men's pocket and put it in his own. He gave the guy a vicious upper cut cracking the man's jaw in two and knocking him out cold. Damon turned her attention to Bonnie was on the ground bloody, beaten, and physically broken. He felt a pain in his unbeating heart seeing her this way. He knelled down next to her.

"Bonnie?" He questioned worry and concern in his voice

Bonnie tried to stay focused on his face but her vision was getting blurrier with her headache pounding, she felt like she could pass out at any minute. "Damon?" She called out voice weak.

"Yes it's me." Damon told her softly.

"Oh God." Bonnie cried out.

Damon saw the blood pouring from her head wound, he could tell that she had a serious head injury. "Hold on I'm going to help you."

"It hurts so much." Bonnie complained.

Seeing her in so much physical and emotional pain hurt Damon to the core. "I know that it does." He saw her arm twisted at an awkward angle and hanging loosely by her side. "Sorry I have to do this." He grabbed her arm and popped it back into it

S socket.

On the ground Bonnie yelled out in pain.

Damon felt another pang to his heart. "Sorry." He repeated and meant it.

Bonnie felt the tears run down her face. "I'm going to die."

Fear and Panic clutched at Damon's throat. "No you're not , not on my watch."

Bennie's eyes started to roll into the back of her head.

Damon saw her fading away. "Oh No you don't witch you won't die on me." He gathered her up in his arms and got to her feet. Her petite frame hardly felt like anything in his Vampire strength arms. He used his vampire speed to get to her apartment.

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Damon stopped in front of her apartment door with a fading Bonnie in his arms. "Invite me in." He told her.

"Come in." Bonnie croaked weakly and then blacked out.

Damon kicked open the door and stepped inside.

Hearing the loud noise brought Jerry from the other room. "Bonnie what the….." He saw Damon the man that he knew was a vampire standing there with Bonnie in his arms, bleeding and beaten black and blue. "What in the hell did do to her?"

"I didn't do this to her." Damon defended cradling Bonnie in his arms.

"You did this to her." Jerry accused.

Damon eyed Jerry through cold blue eyes. "Not going to say it again, I didn't do this four punks did."

Jerry stalked up to them. "Give her to me." He said reaching for unconscious Bonnie.

Damon drew her protectively against his body. "Back off Jerrah I'm here to help."

Jerry's eyes scanned over Bonnie. "She looks seriously hurt."

"That's because she is." Damon said and began carrying Bonnie to where the bedrooms were.

"What are you doing with her?" Jerry followed behind.

Damon looked around and saw the bedroom that he saw was hers. He carried her in. "I'm going to make her feel all better."

Jerry watched as Damon lowered her to the bed. "What do you mean?"

Damon's eyes shot up towards Jerry. "You'll see."

"Shouldn't we call the cops on those men who did this to her?" Jerry snipped.

"I already handed them justice and they won't ever attack Bonnie again for any other woman for that matter." Damon said

Jerry put his hands on his hips. "What did you do kill them?"

"You're asking too many damn questions chunky." Damon returned his attention to Bonnie. Her breathing was getting shallow and she was still bleeding from the head. He lifted up her shirt and saw nasty black and blue bruises covering her ribs. He knew that a couple had to be broken.

"We need to call 911." Jerry snapped out a Damon.

Damon shook his head. "Not going to do that."

"She needs medical attention." Jerry said

"I know and I'll give it to her." Damon opened his mouth and extended his fangs.

Jerry quickly rushed over and grabbed Damon by his shoulder. "I'm not going to let you bit her."

Damon shrugged off Jerry's hand. "I don't intend to, I'm giving her some of my blood." Damon brought up his wrists to his teeth.

Disgusted Jerry grabbed onto Damon's wrist. "You're not giving her your blood."

"I suggest that you let me go Ginger." Damon said patience with Jerry wearing thin.

"She doesn't need your blood." Jerry nearly yelled.

Damon glanced at Jerry with his Icy blues. "It will heal her."

"She can go to the hospital for that." Jerry retorted

"It will take her weeks to heal if she goes to a hospital , she'll heal much faster with my blood end of discussion." Damon snapped out.

Jerry folded his arms over his chest, glaring at the vampire.

Damon bit into his wrist opened up Bennie's mouth and let his blood flow into hr throat.

After a few moments the blood stirred Bonnie she opened her eyes half way and began to freely swallow his blood.. Even when almost completely out of it, she could register how thick, rich, and sweet that it tasted.

Watching this scene made Jerry look like he wanted to hurl.

"There you go drink." Damon told her ignoring Jerry's presence in the room. After she had enough he pulled his arm away and it healed quickly. "She should be healed by the morning."

Jerry cringed. "Can't believe that you did that."

Damon ignored Jerry walking passed him , out of the bedroom and down the hall to where the bathroom was. He came back with a couple of towels and a warmed wet wash cloth. Jerry was looking at him through hate filled eyes and if it weren't for Bonnie being in physical danger he would have kicked the red heads ass.

"Get out." Damon told Jerry.

Jerry's eyes bucked out. "What did you say?"

Damon shoved Jerry out into the hall way. "If you don't want to watch me help her then leave." He slammed the door in Jerry's face and locked it. He took off his leather jacket and tossed it on the chair and took the towels and wet wash cloth over to where Bonnie laid.

Damon's blood had brought her back around but she still was in a lot of physical pain. She felt a warm wash cloth across her face as he gently started to wipe away the blood. She opened her eyes fully to see Damon sitting on the bed next to her and saw a kind of compassion and sympathy in his eyes that she never saw from him at least when it came to her.

Damon saw that her head wound had stopped bleeding and keep wiping the blood away from her face. He saw her watching him through tired and pain filled green eyes. "You'll heal by the morning." He told her.

"Those guys who attacked me…." Bonnie started to say.

"I took care of them." Damon assured her.

Bonnie felt tears well up in her eyes. "What if they come after me again?"

"They won't unless they want to end up dead." Damon told her.

"Oh God Damon." Bonnie cried

Damon tossed the wash cloth stained her blood aside. He gathered her close up against his body and comforted her as she broke down and sobbed in his arms. "I've got you." He whispered and held her until she fell asleep.

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Bonnie woke up the next morning the sun was shining in her bedroom. She opened her eyes and realized that her body was completely pain free. The blood that Damon had given her had healed her body completely over night. She looked over at Damon who was now sitting in a chair, fast asleep as if he had been there watching over her all night.

Bonnie studied his handsome face. Now she was confused about Damon Salvatore he had always acted like a complete, arrogant, cocky, jerk around her. So she didn't know what to think of the side that she saw the night before. The protective savior side when he came to her rescue. The kind, gentle, and compassionate side he showed when he took care of her. Who was Damon Salvatore.

Damon opened his eyes and they landed on her. He saw that she was awake relieved. "Morning Beau…" He caught himself "How are you feeling?"

"Much better thanks to you." Bonnie answered

Raising room his seat Damon walked over to her bed. He put his hands on either side of her face and tilted it so that he could see her eyes.

Bonnie felt her heart beat pick up at the way that his blue eyes studied hers.

"Yep your head injury has cleared and you don't have concussion any more." Damon said. "How's your arm?"

Bonnie moved her arm around the one that the punks had broken the night before. It moved freely without pain. "As Good new."

Damon nodded her head and grabbed the bottom of her shirt. He started to lift it when Bonnie smacked away his hand. "What do you think you're doing?"

Damon smiled on the inside he knew that she was better. "Relax witch just checking to make sure that your ribs are okay."

"Oh fine." Bonnie said relaxing.

Damon lifted her shirt just far enough for her rib area to show. He saw that all of the bruises from the night before were gone. He brushed his finger tips lightly over her ribs. "You seem to be all healed up, can you breath alright?"

Although the move was innocent on Damon's part, feeling his cool fingers on her skin sparked something inside of Bonnie. "I can breath just fine."

Letting her shirt fall Damon took a step back. "Glad to see you all better."

Bonnie got out of the bed and stood. "Why did you do it?"

Damon arched a brow at the question. "Excuse me?"

"Why did you save me?" Bonnie asked

Damon shrugged a shoulder. "It was the right thing to do."

Bonnie looked at him. "So that's why you did because it's the right thing."

The truth was that he had sensed she needed his help and was in danger and tracked her down. That he was filled with a high amount of rage and anger at seeing the guys attack her. That it pained him to see her so hurt and that he was scared shitless that she could die. But he wouldn't admit the truth to her because that meant the he would admit to having feeling for her.

"I can't let you get killed can I, the people at Mystic Falls would be hurt to lose you." Damon told her. "Stephan, Elena, not to mention Caroline would all be hurt if you got killed."

Bonnie narrowed her eyes. "So you saved me for them and them only?"

Damon looked at her. "Maybe for me I mean who would I have to annoy and irritate if you died?"

Bonnie shook her head at his joke. "Thank you Damon for last night."

He was caught off guard and didn't expect to hear that from her. "Yeah sure." Damon said

"I mean it." Bonnie told him. "You saved my life last night and preventing me from getting raped and saved me from a whole of suffering and I really do Thank you for that."

Damon studied her. She looked so small, innocent, like a stunning angel at the moment. "You're welcome." He said sincerely.

For a while they stood in silence staring into each others eyes a number of unsaid feelings passing between them. Then were was a loud knock on the door.

Bonnie tore her eyes away from his breaking the moment.

"Bonnie open up." Yelled Jerry.

Bonnie walked over to her bedroom door and opened it unlocking it. "Jerry?"

Jerry walked into the room. "Are you alright, last night…"

"I'm better Jerry." Bonnie said

"I told you that my blood would heal her." Damon put in.

Jerry snapped his eyes towards Damon. "This freak is still here."

Damon rolled his eyes. "Is that the way to talk to someone who save your friends life."

Jerry glared at Damon. "Maybe you should go."

"Jerry…" Bonnie was about to say.

"That's alright I have some where that I have to be." Damon went over to retrieved his jacket. "Relax Chunky her company is all yours."

Bonnie frowned. "See you later Damon."

Damon reached into his pocket and put her cell phone on the stand. "Later witch." With that he was gone.