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Chapter 24

"Is it true?" Mason asked Bonnie as he stormed into her house, roaming her living room like a lethal animal ready to attack.

Bonnie swallowed hard as she closed her front door and turned to him. Mason looked so untamed and fierce. She had never seen him like this before. She didn't step further into the room, but stayed by the door. Bonnie was a smart girl, and this was a loaded question because he could have been asking about anything. Common sense and self-preservation kicked in, so she played stupid.

"Is what true?" she asked quietly.

Mason stalked over to her, standing mere inches away. Bonnie could feel his anger…his fury and it scared her. She backed away from him, pinning herself to the door. Mason saw her fear and swore. He forced himself to calm down.

He intentionally moved away from her, giving her some space. He didn't even realize that he was towering over her until he smelled her fear.

He walked across the room and stood in front of the fire place. When he turned back to look at her, he could see that she had pulled herself together. His blue green eyes bore into her, and for a moment he looked like Damon…his eyes were that intense and penetrating. "Why did you break up with Damon?" he asked suddenly.

Bonnie lightly shook her head in confusion by the sudden change of topics, not realizing that Mason was going somewhere with his questions. She cleared her throat and walked to the sofa, straightening up the pillows. "Why?" she asked him, not looking up.

"Because Bonnie, you never really went into detail about what happened. Did he cheat on you?" Mason asked her, his eyes following her every move.

"No, he didn't Mason…and honestly I don't want to discuss this…it is none of your business." She snapped at him.

He could see the anger rising up in her. Good. He wanted to make her angry. He'd take her anger over fear any day.

"That is where you are wrong Sunshine because the minute I fell in love with you, everything about you became my business."

Bonnie looked away from him, hugging herself, but Mason refused to let her off the hook. He went to her and lightly touched her face, turning it to look at him. She was a coward and closed her eyes, afraid to see his feeling for her shining in his eyes. "Bonnie, I'm in love with you." He said again.

She opened her green eyes and tears spilled down her face. "No, please don't say that, you can't be." She said, moving away from his touch, but not him.

"Oh, but I am. And, when someone hurts you, it's my business." He said calmly, but Bonnie could feel the steel behind his words.

She inhaled sharply as her green eyes became bigger. "W-What are you talking about Mason?"

"I'm talking about Damon hurting you. It's true isn't it Bonnie; that's why you broke up with him…isn't it?"

Bonnie wiped her tears away, indignation filling her entire being. "Caroline had no right to tell you." She said furiously.

"She didn't tell me…she told Tyler, and I overheard her."

Bonnie scoffed. "Caroline isn't the ditsy blonde that everyone makes her out to be. She can be very calculating when she wants to be, and she knew that you would be listening."

"I don't give a fuck what her motives were, the point is that I know and Salvatore is going to pay for what he did to you."

Bonnie frantically shook her head. "No, Mason, you have to stay out of this, what happened is over and done with, we have made up…I have forgiven him."

Mason visibly tensed as he regarded her. "You've made up?" He shook his head in confusion, not wanting to accept what his ears were hearing. "You're taking him back?" he asked in disbelief.

Bonnie gulped. She could see the look of utter betrayal on his face. "Yes, I'm going to give us a second chance."

He couldn't mask the shock on his face. This girl standing in front of him wasn't his Bonnie. His Bonnie would never be so stupid. "Bonnie, what the fuck is going on here. You spend one afternoon with Salvatore and you're acting like a completely different person. You don't know what you're doing. He has clouded your mind, making it hard for you to think rationally."

"Why does everyone around me think I don't know my own mind? Damon is not influencing me…he doesn't have some sort of fucking hold over me…I love him Mason and I'm sorry if that hurts you but I want to be with him…I am choosing to be with him."

Mason couldn't deny that hearing her say those things were hurting him more than anything else had in his whole life, but he had to put aside what he was feeling because he had to fight for her or lose her forever. He had to make her see that this wasn't what she wanted. "And, what about me Bonnie…I know that you have feelings for me, and I'm not fucking imagining it."

Her eyes softened. She didn't want to hurt him because she did care about him, but she loved Damon. "You're not imagining it because I do have feelings for you. But, Mason I love Damon and I can't turn off what I feel for him. Yes, he hurt me but what happened is between us, and I am choosing to forgive him. This is my life and no one else can decide what is or isn't good for me."

Mason felt his heart break. His eyes softened as he looked at her. "And, Bonnie, I love you and I just can't switch off my feelings either." Mason kissed her forehead and walked out of her house, shutting the front door quietly behind him.

Bonnie just stood there feeling like nothing had been resolved.

Stefan spent the night at Elena's house. He strolled into the boarding house a little after two in the afternoon the following day. He paused when he walked into the living room. It was like a tornado had swept through. The large window was broken, tables and chairs were overturned and broken glass was everywhere. What the hell did Damon do last night? He called out to his brother.

"Damon, get down here…I am not cleaning up your mess!" He yelled.

When he didn't get a response or hear in movement, Stefan sped upstairs to Damon's room. He walked through the open door. Stefan gasped as his eyes widen at the sight before him. Damon lay in his bed drenched in sweat with his skin sickly and pasty white. Stefan went to the bed, shaking his brother, trying to get him to wake up. Damon groaned in pain as his arm slipped from under the covers revealing a nasty, infected wolf bite.

"Daddy!" a little high pitched voice screamed when Damon opened the front door to the boarding house. Damon stopped in his tracks and dropped the packages he was holding, squatting down as the little four year old girl threw herself into his arms. Damon smiled burying his face into her soft black curls. The little girl pulled back with a pout forming on her little cupid bow shaped mouth. He knew that pout very well. He kissed her little mouth, unable to resist the tiny pink protruding lips.

"Mommy said I'm not allowed to go outside today." The little girl informed him as she hugged his neck.

"Now, why is that honey?" he cooed as she pulled back, her little beautiful face serious.

"Because I compelled Max to play with my dolls." She said innocently.

Damon tried not to laugh. "Sweetie, mommy and I told you that it is not nice to compel people."

"But, daddy, Max would have never done it unless I compelled him…he said that boys didn't play with dolls."

Damon sternly looked into her eyes. It was still somewhat jarring to see his crystal blue eyes staring back at him in his little girl's face. "Emily, you can't compel people…it is not right." Damon couldn't believe that these words were actually coming out of his mouth.

"But, what's so wrong about it…it's not like I was hurting him?" she asked, genuinely confused.

Damon sighed. He was not sure how to explain this to a four year old. He picked her up and carried her into the living room. He sat down on the sofa, placing her small form on his lap. "Sweetie, you know that Max is human…he doesn't have special gifts like you, me and mommy." Emily nodded her little head. "…so when you make him do something that he doesn't want to do…in a way you are hurting him." Emily's little mouth formed an O as it dawned on her.

"I didn't see it like that. I'm sorry daddy…I won't do it again." She said.

Damon pulled her to his chest and smothered her little upturned face with kisses. "Emily, you have no idea how much I love you."

Stefan frantically shook Damon, trying to get his brother to wake up.

"I love you so much Emily." Damon whispered softly, but Stefan heard him.

Stefan stopped shaking his brother, his eyes widening. It looked like Damon was finally coming around. Stefan stood over him and waited for his eyes to open. Damon was fighting his way back to consciousness, but the pain was excruciating. Damon groaned; he could feel the liquid fire coursing through his veins, burning his insides. Damon tried to open his eyes, but they felt so heavy. He battled within himself trying to force his eyes to open, at last winning when they popped open, but quickly closed again due to the blinding sunlight.

"Light…the light…it hurts my eyes." He groaned in pain.

Stefan quickly jumped up and closed the heavy curtains, immediately darkening the room. "Okay, the curtains are closed…you can open your eyes now."

Damon slowly opened his eyes as Stefan sat back down on the bed. "Damon, what happened?"

Damon tried to smirk, but it came out as a grimace as the pain shot through him. "Isn't it obvious little brother…I lost a fight to a very pissed off wolf."

"Who…Mason?"

Damon tried to laugh, but even that hurt. "Who else, little brother…though, I'm sure that he's not the only wolf that has it in for me, but I'm sure that it was him."

"But, why…what did you do?"

Even in his weakened state, Damon rolled his eyes and fuck, did that hurt too. "What makes you think that I did something?" He looked at Stefan accusingly, but when he only raised his eyebrow in response, Damon sighed. "Maybe he might have been a little upset with me because I stole Bonnie away from him for the second time." He chuckled.

Stefan couldn't stop the surprise from registering on his face. "Bonnie forgave you?" Stefan couldn't believe it; he knew that Bonnie was a good person, but forgiving what Damon did to her was bordering on saintly.

"I don't know if forgive is the right word, but she loves me and wants to give us a second try."

Stefan was about to comment when Damon suddenly groaned as his pain intensified. Stefan leaned in closer to his brother, clutching his hand. "What can I do...how can I help you?" Stefan asked close to his brother's face.

Damon relaxed as the pain subsided. "You can come up with a cure for a wolf bite…but since there is no cure, I will settle for a bag of blood."

Stefan nodded his head and was gone and back within seconds. He gave the bag to Damon and watched as his brother tore into it with his fangs. It looked like some color was trying to come back to Damon shallow complexion when all of a sudden Damon shot up leaning to the side of the bed as he threw up the blood he just drank. Stefan reared back as a new wave of panic set in at the realization that Damon was dying.

"That is not a good sign little brother." Damon said as he fell back onto the mattress unconscious. Stefan pulled out his cell phone.

Damon stood in the door of their bedroom and watched Bonnie sitting on the edge of the bed as she put lotion on her legs. He would never get tired of watching her nightly ritual. Every night she would take a hot bubble bath and then lather of body with the fragrant smell of vanilla scented lotion. He walked up to their bed and kneeled down in front of her. He took the bottle of lotion, squirting some in his hand and took over the administration of the lotion on her silky caramel colored legs. Bonnie lay back on her elbows and watched as Damon moved further up her legs until his hands were dangerously close to her center. She crossed her legs and laughed softly when he began to pout.

"Emily isn't asleep yet." She said.

Damon listened intently, Bonnie was right. Emily was softly singing as she made her toys hover in the air. "If a certain little naughty girl isn't asleep by the time I come in there…she will not be able to go outside tomorrow either." Damon yelled. When he heard the toys suddenly drop to the floor, he and Bonnie laughed. "That is your daughter." Bonnie teased.

"I know." Damon said, full of pride.

Bonnie ran her fingers through his black hair, and Damon closed his eyes. He never imagined that he could or would ever be this happy. Everything that he could possibly want was under this roof. Damon opened his shining blue eyes as tears ran down his face. Bonnie wiped his tears, her face full of concern. "Baby, what's wrong?" she asked him.

"Nothing…absolutely nothing."

Bonnie didn't get any sleep because she tossed and turned all night. Her stomach was in knots as she got up out of her bed. Her green eyes settled on the shiny black helmet on top of her dresser as she thought about her conversation with Mason last night. She didn't want to lose him. Was it selfish that she wanted him to remain in her life as a friend? She got up and walked into her bathroom and brushed her teeth and washed her face. She went to her closet, throwing her outfit for the day on her bed before jumping in the shower. Once she was dressed, she stood before her mirror and combed her hair into a ponytail. She was just about to finish when her phone rang. She walked back into her bedroom and picked it up. It was Stefan, her forehead furrowed. But, before she could even say hello, his voice chilled her heart. "Bonnie, you need to come to the boarding house, now."

Mason woke up naked and dirty in the woods on the Lockwood property. He sat up off the ground and rubbed his eyes. His body still hummed from his transformation, a little side effect that would be gone soon. He winced when he felt the pain in his back. During the fight, Salvatore threw him across the room and he slammed hard into the wall. Salvatore fought dirty which was no surprise. When the initial shock of Mason in his wolf form crashing through the living room window wore off, Damon sprang into action and defended himself like a champ using everything around him to fight Mason off. But, his fatal mistake was when he tried to grab Mason by his fury neck to snap it that Mason leaned his head around and bit his arm. Damon dropped his hold around Mason as the pain of the bite shot through his body.

Mason spat on the ground as he remembered the taste of Damon's disgusting blood in his mouth. He got up and made his way to the tree were he stashed his clothes and got dressed. He didn't regret what he did because Salvatore had it coming. He deserved to die for what he did to Bonnie. Since Bonnie refused to protect herself from Damon, he did it for her. He loved Bonnie too much to let Damon hurt her. Many may say that what he did was wrong, but he didn't give a fuck because Bonnie was now safe even if it meant that she would hate him for the rest of her life.

Bonnie got to the boarding house and stood still at the sight that lay before her in the Salvatore living room. Fear seized her and her heart beat erratically. Stefan was in front of her in an instant. His face was etched in pain as he looked at her.

"What happened?" Bonnie asked quietly, fear taking her voice.

"Bonnie…last night…Mason bite Damon." He said gravely.

Bonnie shook her head in denial. "Where is Damon?" Bonnie asked Stefan.

"In his bedroom." When she went to move pass him, Stefan stopped her. "No Bonnie, he has passed out and he is starting to hallucinate, the poison has had all night to make it through his body...Mason got him good."

No…that's not possible…Mason came to me last night and I told him to stay out of it…he wouldn't do this…we talked."

Stefan grabbed her shoulders and forced her to look at him. "Listen, to me…Damon says that it was Mason."

Tears ran down Bonnie's face. How could Mason do this to her…to Damon after she told him how she felt about Damon. Why would Mason then go behind her back and bite Damon, knowing that a wolf bite was fatal to a vampire. Because you idiot, he wanted to kill Damon, a voice said in her head. Bonnie's blood ran cold in her body.

"There has got to be a cure." Bonnie said desperately.

Stefan shook his head. "There isn't one Bonnie…Damon is going to die." He said his voice deceivingly calm.

"No…I refuse to accept that….Klaus….he is an Original vampire and a hybrid…I'm sure he knows a cure…he has to?" Bonnie said clinging to Stefan's arms.

"Even if he did, Bonnie, we don't know where he his." Stefan said defeated.

Bonnie looked up at him. "I can find him Stefan…I know a spell, but you need to leave the room and don't come in here until I call you."

Stefan nodded his head and left the living room. Bonnie stood in the middle of the room and tried to calm her breathing. As her breathing became even and her mind cleared, she focused all of her energy on Klaus and whispered the spell. The room spun and Bonnie collapsed to the floor. She could feel her essence leave her body and in seconds she was in a hotel room watching Klaus drain the life out of a pretty young blonde. She spotted the name of the hotel on a menu lying on the table. Bonnie pulled herself out of the spell as her essence traveled back to her body. She laid there on the floor for a couple of minutes waiting for the dizziness to cease.

She called Stefan back into the room. "I know where he is?" Bonnie said weakly.

Stefan eyes widen as blood started to run from her nose. He started to back away from her as Bonnie wiped her nose. "I know where he is Stefan… you go to him and I'll stay here with Damon."

Stefan made himself stop breathing in as the smell of her blood became too intoxicating. "Bonnie…I don't think that's a good idea. Damon goes in and out of consciousness and sometimes he is not in his right mind."

"Stefan, go because if I do, it will take too long. Damon doesn't have much time." Stefan nodded his head, seeing her point.

"Bonnie, please be careful." He told her once she told him where Klaus was and he sped out of the door.

Bonnie tried to pull herself together before checking on Damon, but she was still weakened by the spell. She slowly went up the stairs to Damon's room. She braced herself before walking into the room. The room smelled like death as she walked to his bed. Damon lay there with his skin so pale and sweaty. She went into his bathroom and soaked a small towel in cold water and went back to his bed and wiped his face. Damon moaned slightly as his eyes slowly opened up. He smiled when he saw her.

"Bonnie." He said hoarsely. He reached up to touch her face and Bonnie saw that the wolf bite had been wrapped in a clean bandage.

Tears ran down her face. "Yeah, it's me." She kissed his hand and tried to smile.

"I'm dying Bonnie." He said weakly.

Bonnie shook her head vehemently. "No you are not…Stefan went to see Klaus…I'm sure he knows a cure."

Damon tried to scoff, but it turned into a coughing fit. "Even if he does…Klaus won't save me."

"We can't think like that, fate isn't that cruel to bring us together only for me to lose you so soon…it doesn't work like that." She said, struggling to keep her voice level.

Damon wiped her face. "Aww…my Bonnie…my sweet and innocent girl…I'm going to miss you so much."

"Don't talk like that…we are not saying goodbye." She said desperately.

Damon shook his head. "I saw our daughter Bonnie." He took a ragged breath. "Bonnie, she was so beautiful…and we were so happy."

Bonnie nodded her head. Stefan had told her that at times he was hallucinating. "What was her name?"

"Emily."

Bonnie laughed softly. "And, what was she like?"

Damon smiled as he pictured their little girl's face. "She had my eyes and hair color, but everything else was all you…and Bonnie…she was so smart."

Bonnie cried and Damon pulled her down to rest her head on his chest, and they fell asleep.

Bonnie woke up some time later, alone in the bed. She sat up and called out to Damon. She got off the bed and checked the bathroom, but he wasn't there.

She went down the stairs and found him standing by the large window in the living room.

"Why didn't you answer me when I called you?" She asked as she walked up behind him, wrapping her arms around his waist.

She felt his body tense in her arms and she pulled away. Damon turned around and his blue eyes were feverish. She touched his face. "Damon, come back to bed, you need to lie down."

Bonnie went to grab his hand and fell to her knees in front of him as his hand tightly squeezed hers. She screamed out in pain. "Damon…stop…you're hurting me!"

He towered over her, his blue eyes gleaming evilly. "This is all your fault…that wolf bit me because of you…because you didn't know how to keep your fucking legs closed…you fucking slut!" he yelled down into her face.

Bonnie tried to use her powers, but she was still weak from the spell and they weren't working. "Damon…please…stop...I never slept with Mason." She begged him, tears rolling down her face.

"Liar!" he screamed at her.

The slightest more pressure and he would crush her hand. She tried to use her powers, again nothing happened. Damon finally figured out what she was trying to do. "What's wrong Bonnie, are you having an off day with your magic?" he asked scornfully.

"Damon, please don't do this…I'm telling you the truth."

"I'm dying Bonnie because of you." He squeezed his hand and broke every bone in hers. Bonnie screamed out in agony. He smiled when he heard the awful sound of her bones breaking in her small hand.

He let her go only to roughly pull her up against him. Bonnie held her crushed hand in her good one. Damon grabbed her face pulling her close to his. "I'm going to kill you." He said matter of fact and then kissed her mouth roughly.

He pulled back and she looked into his eyes and there was nothing there. "Damon…I love you…don't do this…you're not in your right mind."

He sneered. "I've been wanting to kill you for a long time now…and if I have to die then so do you." Damon vamped out, baring his fangs; he was just about to bite into her neck when his hand sizzled and burned where he touch her, causing his face to return to normal and he let her go. "You dirty bitch!" he screamed in pain.

Bonnie tried to run but in less than a second, he was in front of her. Bonnie slowly backed up. "You are going to pay for that." He said, walking slowly towards her, smiling with evil intent with every step he took.

Bonnie shook her head as she backed away. His blue eyes were devoid of any feeling for her. The Damon she knew was nowhere inside of the monster who now stalked her across the room. He was going to kill her. Bonnie tried to unleash her power, but it was only working sporadically. Damon realized what she was trying to do and he became furious and slapped her across the face. Bonnie's small body fell backwards and she missed the coffee table by mere inches. She touched her face with her good hand as a tear ran down her cheek. Damon stood over her, his face full of contempt.

"That will be the last time you ever try to use your powers against me." He said through gritted teeth.

Bonnie was breathing so heavily, her heart felt like it was going to break through her chest. She loved him so much and would have laid down her life for him, but looking at him now, there was no love in his eyes for her. She could feel the anger rolling off of him, radiating to an alarming degree. For the first time since they started their relationship, Bonnie Bennett was afraid of the love of her life because she could see her death in his soulless blue eyes.

3 MONTHS LATER

The graduating class of 2012 partied until the sun came up…that is all but five. These five had no reason to celebrate, yes they were now done with high school and three of them would be heading off to college, but partying was the furthest thing from their minds. Not a minute went by that they didn't think about Bonnie and Damon. Caroline couldn't take it and two weeks after it happened she switched off her emotions. Tyler and Matt tried to comfort her, but nothing could ease the guilt that gripped her heart. But, Caroline wasn't the only one with a guilty heart, but unfortunately for Mason, he didn't have a switch to turn off his emotions, so instead he left Mystic Falls...as well as Bonnie's father. Elena had to be hospitalized after she was the one who found Bonnie and Damon lying dead in the living room. Stefan and Klaus showed up ten minutes after her. They walked into the living room and saw Elena sitting with Bonnie in her lap, rocking her back and forth as silent tears ran down her face. Bonnie's neck had been broken. Stefan walked over to his brother who was laying not even a foot away with a make shift wooded stake in his heart that he had plunged into his own chest after he realized he had just killed Bonnie. And, Klaus had just stood there never once imagining that his little game would end so tragically.

THE END

AN: Hey guys, I'm just as shocked as you are about the ending. When I started this last chapter, this is not where I saw this little fanfic going, but this is what came out. I believe in going with the flow when I write and I never force it. But, on the bright side, most of you got what you want…Bamon as the end game, but maybe not exactly how you pictured it. But anyway, I would appreciate your reviews and comments…and please be honest with me and let me know if you think that I was successful in bringing the story together even if you didn't like the ending. I am never one to write anything out, I am a fly by the seat of your pants kind of girl when it comes to my writing and I would like to know in your opinion if the story came together…you will not hurt my feelings. I accept good, bad, confused, but not ugly review/comments. And, thank you for investing your precious time in reading my little fanfic. Until next time. :)