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Silence was the only thing that struck them afterwards almost like a bolt of lightning. It laid like a down-filled duvet over the area, muffling the slightest sound and creating an atmosphere of total tranquillity. The quietness at first was almost tangible, no rustle of clothing, breathing slow and barely audible, even the once windy air was still as though to order.

With her lips trembling due to the cold, frosty air, Bonnie slowly fluttered her eyes open. She looked up at Damon to see him staring back down at her with a puzzled look plastered across his face. The last thing they remembered was a flash of light blinding their faces and now there they were. They were so sure that that was going to be it and they were going to die but that seemingly wasn't the case. Bonnie shifted her eyes from Damon to quickly glance up at the sky. Its tone was a dusky shade of purple, the twinkling stars began shimmering and soon the sky was beckoned with minuscule glittering stars.

"Are... are we still in the other side?" Damon spoke, loosening his hand with Bonnie's and pulling it back. He turned his head to look around. They were stood at the same place before the flash of light had blinded them, but it felt different. It felt hollow and empty, like if they screamed no one would be able to hear them from miles away.

"I don't think so... not anymore" Bonnie replied, looking around the dark and misty atmosphere. She rubbed her hands together and let out a deep breath to keep warm before walking off, leaving Damon on his lonesome.

"Hey, where are you going?" he asked, following after her.

"To find out where we are... I have a bad feeling about this" Bonnie shivered as she continued to look around in dismay.

The two hurried out the mystic falls cemetery and towards the main part in town. They looked around, noticing that no one was in sight. There wasn't any noise or cars passing by, it was as if the whole place was completely deserted which left them feeling more bewildered than ever. They continued to walk down the sidewalk seeing if they could spot anyone or anything perhaps, but disappointment overwhelmed them as each second passed and it didn't take long for them to realise that they were all alone with nobody in sight.

"I'm pretty sure that I just blew that up like an hour ago" Damon exhaled, pointing over at the mystic grill with his eyes parted. "Did we really die and arrive in hell? where is everybody and where the hell are we, Bonnie?" he hissed, turning to face her.

"If I knew then I wouldn't be asking myself that, Damon!" she snapped, feeling irritated by the second. "When the other side was falling apart I thought that we would fall apart with it... I-I don't know where we are".

Damon looked around once more and rolled his eyes away. He turned around to walk towards the mystic grill leaving Bonnie to slowly follow from behind him. "So let me get this straight... we're not dead, but we are in some strange alternate place where we seem to be the only two people around... and to think I held your hand all for nothing" he scoffed, as she bluntly rolled her eyes away at his comment. "Great! there's nobody here too" he said, strolling inside the mystic grill.

Bonnie crossed her arms together as Damon made his way to the bar to pour himself a drink. "Do you seriously have time to drink when we're stuck in a place with nobody around?" she nagged, storming over to him.

"Hey I'm not the one who was the anchor to the side, just use your withcy-woo magic and get us the hell out of wherever this is" Damon glanced back at her, before downing his glass of bourbon and going to pour in some more.

"When I became the anchor I lost all my magic remember, it was a consequence I paid from bringing Jeremy back from the dead" Bonnie breathed out, taking a seat beside him.

"So you're saying that we're stuck here?!" Damon groaned, slamming his glass down on the table, before rubbing his eyes together frustratingly. "Bonnie I don't know if you know this but I have a girlfriend back home who I love very much, and I can't leave my brother too and make him think that I'm gone together, so find a way to get us back home!" he picked up the bottle of bourbon before getting up from the stool and walking off.

"I said that I don't have my magic! even if I did I wouldn't know which spell to cast considering I have no clue where we've been sent to, Damon-

"And I don't care, Bonnie! we can't stay here so find a way" he hissed, rolling his eyes at her before turning back around to head out the grill.

Bonnie clenched her fists tightly to contain her anger. She pressed her lips together before storming out of the grill to confront Damon. "Hey, do you think I'm thrilled about this? the two people I love the most; Elena and Caroline probably think I'm dead again and there isn't a way that I could talk to them. You're not the only one confused here and the worse part about all this is that I'm stuck here with you" she groaned loudly, before pushing past him to storm off into the cold.

"Likewise Bon-Bon" Damon fired back. "Even Matt; the most annoying person to ever exist would've been better to be stuck with than you... this really is my own personal hell" he growled under his breath. He threw the almost empty bottle of bourbon to the side, before pushing his head back to glance up at the sky. "What the hell do we do now?".

"You know you don't have to be a dick as usual, especially now that I'm stuck here with you!" Bonnie hissed, as she began to shiver rapidly.

Damon furrowed his eyes and took a step towards her before speaking up. "Are you cold?" he asked. She peered her eyes up at him and rolled her eyes away before slowly nodding. He smirked his usual smirk about to take of his leather jacket, but stopped halfway. "Good... the sooner you can get your magic back and get us out of here then the better for both of us" he tapped her shoulders and gaped down at her nonchalantly before walking past her.

Bonnie rolled her eyes away for what seemed to be the millionth time since they arrived here. "Where are you going?" she questioned, looking back at him.

"Home. I don't know about you but its been a long day and I'm pretty tired" he replied bluntly, continuing to walk forward. Although he was acting calm and like his usual self, Bonnie could tell that he was just as scared of their recent predicament as she was. After all, he was away from the two people he loved most in the world; Elena and Stefan.

Fifteen-Twenty minutes later, Bonnie and Damon arrived at the Salvatore mansion.

Bonnie continued to look around, hoping that she might spot someone, something, anything in sight, but nothing. Everything was the same in mystic falls before her and Damon had vanished into this strange world, but why did they only seem to be the only two people around? millions of questions began to race through her head, but they quickly stopped as she bumped into Damon.

"Hey, watch it!" she hissed, pushing her hair back, before looking up to see him staring down at a car.

"This can't be..." he muttered quietly to himself.

"What? its just a car" she scoffed, crossing her arms above her chest.

Damon glanced down at her and rolled his eyes away. "No shit Bonnie" he hissed. "You see I bought this car in the 60's and I had it up until 1994, till I had to burn it and get rid of it to stop somebody from finding me... its a long story" he explained, whilst slowly admiring the car. "I just don't know what its doing back here".

Bonnie gaped up at him once more, before turning her head to look around the place. She spotted a newspaper lying on the floor near the bushes and she slowly walked over to pick it up as Damon continued to ooze over his car. She dusted the dry leaves of it and skimmed through the front page, till she saw something catching her off guard.

"Damon, look" she said, walking back to him whilst holding the newspaper up in the air.

"Unless you've found a way to get us outta here, then I don't care Bon-Bon" he spoke un-interestingly, as he slowly stroked the steering wheel, not bothering to look back at her.

"Would you just look!" she hissed, grabbing hold of his arm. "Look at the date of this newspaper".

Damon threw his head back and groaned loudly. He turned back around and quickly snatched the newspaper of Bonnie, before glancing down at the date on the front left, causing his eyes to slowly widen. "May 10th 1994..." he looked back down at her dazed and confused, then looking back at the paper to make sure that he had read that right. "We're in 1994...?"

"I'm guessing" Bonnie sighed, taking the newspaper of him. "I don't know how but it says so right here... I was one years old in 1994" she muttered quietly, staring down at the date almost in disbelief.

"So you mean to tell me that we're stuck in the past on one of the worse days in my 173 years on earth... this is like my own personal hell and you're stuck here with me" he stated, running his fingers through his hair, before going to walk towards the front door of the Salvatore mansion.

"What do you mean? what happened on May 10th 1994?" Bonnie questioned, following after him.

"That's none of your business Bonnie-

"Well you're the one that brought it up, so don't get mad at me for asking" she fired back, shifting her eyes away.

Damon took a step towards her and pushed the hair out of her face. "Look Bonnie, just because we're stuck here together for the time being doesn't mean I'm going to be your new best friend" he smirked, about to stroke the back of her head, till she rapidly shoved his hand away. "Just focus on getting your magic back so I can go home to my brother and the love of my life and you can go home to... whatever, I don't care" he breathed out, before turning around to push the door open and step inside.

"I wouldn't wanna be friends with someone who turned my mom into a vampire, compelled Caroline to be his puppet, killed Matt's sister and oh tried to kill me too, etc. etc" she hissed, stepping inside the mansion and closing the door behind her.

"Hey! tried to, meaning that I didn't go along with it so you're welcome" he said, causing her to roll her eyes so far back.

Bonnie stood quietly and watched as Damon went to start a fire in the fire place. Afterwards he went to pour himself another drink before taking of his leather jacket and throwing it down on the sofa. How he wasn't a full blown alcoholic considering how much he drank each day was beyond her. After finishing his drink, Damon placed his glass down and peered over at Bonnie. As they took their time to look at each other, it then began to sink in that they were going to be stuck here with each other for a while until Bonnie found a way to get them out, and considering that they weren't each other's favourite person, it was going to be especially difficult.

"What? thinking of something rude you want to say to me again?!" she hissed, crossing her arms.

"Don't flatter yourself Bon-Bon... I'm just thinking how the hell I'm gonna be stuck here with you without killing you" he smirked over at her, before going to walk into another room.

As he disappeared out of sight, Bonnie took a deep breath that she didn't know she had been holding in till then. She turned to look around the living room, before walking over to sit down on the sofa.

She glanced down at a book placed on the stool in front of her before moving closer to it. She placed her hand out front and cleared her mind as she tried lifting the book up in the air, but nothing. After several failed attempts, she hung her head low almost in defeat as she feared she had lost her magic for good. But if she so desperately wanted to get out of here then she had to keep trying no matter what.