Pairing: Bonnie & Liv

Rating: T

Summary: Liv needs to say goodbye before she leaves for good

Word Count: 1,386

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"Liv, come on," Luke ushered his twin who was taking her sweet time getting her crap into the car. "We got to get out of here before they come after us."

Liv was dragging her feet with what was supposed to be their quick getaway, there was something stopping her from joining her brother in the car and getting the hell out of town before the vampire's came to them for more help. The traveller's spell had failed which means one of the doppelganger's were dead, it was only a matter of time before the other one came after them to fix their mess.

"Liv!" Luke called from the front of the car.

Liv let out a silent curse when her face popped into her mind. God, ever since the night she helped her when Enzo took a chunk out of her neck she couldn't erase the girl from her damn mind.

The blonde witch pulled her phone from her pocket and opened up a new message, adding in the number she hated herself for memorising.

I need to see you. Campus park. Alone. Now.

She chewed the inside of her cheek as she hesitated to press send. Liv knew as soon as Bonnie got that text she would assume that she had some kind of way to help her and the last thing Liv wanted to do was get her hopes up. She just really needed to see her one last time so she sent the message and let out a heavy breath and put her phone back in her pocket. She knew Bonnie wouldn't text her back but she did know she'd meet her.

"Seriously, Liv!" Luke called out again and Liv groaned. "You're the one who was pushing for us to get the hell out of here and now you want to drag your feet?"

"Luke, shut the hell up! There's something I need to do before we go," she growled. "And besides with you driving it's not like it'll make much difference," she added in an annoyed murmur. Her brother drove like an old nanna. A threat on their life still wouldn't make him break the speed limit.

Liv stalked away from the car and from her brother and headed towards the park. They were all here, that's why Luke was so desperate to get the hell away from here. She ran a hand through her stray curls and kept a look out for any of the vampires and for her.

By the time Liv got there, she was already there.

She let out another curse when her heart started beating fast at the sight of her and what Liv was going to say. She hadn't exactly thought this through before she sent the text to Bonnie but she was right about what the other girl would assume.

Liv almost cringed at the hopeful look that crossed Bonnie's face when she saw her approaching.

"Get that thought out of your head, Bonnie, I already told you there is no spell," Liv snapped, being harsher than she intended and she instantly regrated it at the look that fell upon Bonnie's face. Liv sighed and stopped walking when she was less than two feet away from the Anchor. "I'm sorry," she apologised and wanted nothing more than to reach out and comfort the other girl. To keep herself from doing so she stuffed her hands in the pocket of her jacket. "But it's true."

Bonnie shook her head. "Why'd you want to see me?"

Again, Liv bit down on the inside of her cheek. Why did she want to see her?

"I never got the chance to tell you goodbye," Liv started softly, her heart nearly breaking when she noticed Bonnie's eyes. Those green eyes used to be filled with kindness and fierceness now showed nothing but a broken girl, one done fighting. Liv only wished she got the chance to meet Bonnie when she was a witch. "I'll be honest, I don't know why I wanted to see you but I know that I needed to see you one last time."

Bonnie remained silent and Liv realised that it probably wasn't a good idea to talk about her impending death.

"I wish things could have been different for us, Bonnie," she confessed. "If we had met when you were still a witch things would have gone very differently."

"You mean you wouldn't have deceived me by pretending to be a newbie witch?" Bonnie questioned with annoyance and folded her arms across her chest. "You made me out to be a fool then mocked me at every chance you got."

Liv felt the corner of her mouth tug up in a half smile. "It would have gone the opposite, actually," she told her. "I would have taught you. You had only been practicing magic for a short while compared to me, I've been doing it since I was a child and while you come from a stronger bloodline, there is still so much you could have learnt that I could have taught you."

The Bennett bloodline was infamous among the witches, both Luke and Liv remembered stories their coven would tell of the Bennett women but if she were honest, Bonnie was a letdown. She thought Bonnie would be stronger, even without magic Liv at least thought there'd be some kind of vibe around her that would demand respect but nothing. At first Liv found her to be rather pathetic. Then saw (and experienced) for herself how Bonnie was treated by vampires and how willing she was to let another of her kind endure what she obviously used to.

Unlike herself and Luke, Bonnie didn't have a strong witch presence in her life to teach her the way and instead all she had were vampires and a demanding vampire groupie doppelganger friend so in a way Liv understood why Bonnie was the way she was.

"You could have joined our Coven."

"It's no use dwelling on what could have been," Bonnie dismissed with a shrug. "What's done is done and I've accepted what's going to happen to me."

"So you're saying that you've never once thought what it'd be like –what you'd be like if you had done things differently?" Liv questioned her, head cocking to the side slightly.

"Of course I have but given what's happening to me right now, it's not going to do me any good to fantasise about what I could have done to give myself a better outcome," she responded. "What's done is done, I'm going to die tonight and there is nothing I can do about it."

"Well, technically you're already dead," Liv smirked.

"Then after tonight I'm really going to be dead and I don't even know what that means or how it's going to happen."

Liv's smirk slowly dropped as she felt the sympathy rising, Bonnie might have tried to hide it but Liv could see the fear in her green eyes. It was like a beacon. She was absolutely terrified.

"I wish there was something I could do to help you, Bonnie, I really do," she said softly and didn't try to stop herself when she reached for her, her hands taking Bonnie's and unfolding them and laced her fingers with hers.

"We might have a plan so…" Bonnie trailed off but there was no hope in her voice as she realised that this really was the end for her.

"A plan that will help the others," Liv finished for her. "But not one to help you."

"I've accepted it."

"Doesn't mean you have to like it."

Liv watched as Bonnie looked down at their fingers entwined together before slowly bringing her eyes back to hers.

"You should go," Bonnie told her. "Stefan's dead and no doubt they'll end up ringing you and your brother to do something about it."

Liv nodded her head, her curls falling around her face like a curtain. She pushed them back, letting go of Bonnie's hands and shoving hers back in the pocket of her jacket.

"I'm sorry that this is how it ends for you," she said honestly. "You deserved better than this."

Bonnie gave her a small but sincere smile, a sight Liv would commit to memory for the rest of her days.

"Goodbye, Liv."

"Goodbye, Bonnie."