Hello all...so here is the sequel to Just A Dream. I have 2 avenues that I am thinking about taking this fic...let me know what you think of this one and whether it should continue.
Disclaimer: I own nothing...not the characters or the ideas...
Prologue
Six months after the events of Just A Dream…
Her Dreams
Damon laced his hands through Bonnie's as they laid in bed at the boarding house. She was dressed in one of his favorite outfits for her, one of his black t-shirts and some itty bitty boy shorts. "So graduation is tomorrow and your father is allowing you to stay out all night?" Damon asked looking at their hands joined.
"Well he figures that I won't get too crazy now…besides, he believes that I am staying at Caroline's".
"Uh, huh…so you are still lying to Daddy Dear about us…"
"My dad knows about you Damon, he just doesn't want to know about me sleeping here…with you…and doing other things".
"I see…and how long is he staying in town?"
"He's leaving after graduation, he has an important meeting in Hong Kong on Monday and he needs to prepare".
Damon rolled his eyes. He always listened to Bonnie tack on a nice excuse as to why her father couldn't be bothered to spend more than 2 days in town and he always hated Robert Bennett for it. While Bonnie had learned to accept it or at the very least, hide her disappointment…he could always feel that she was hurting that her father wasn't around to see the important things that happened in her life.
"What's wrong?" Bonnie asked removing her hand and sitting up.
"Doesn't it annoy you that your father would rather spend time with a bunch of strangers than with you?" Damon challenged.
Bonnie shrugged, "I'm use to it…but I guess I got pretty good at just missing people. Damon, my mom walked out when I was 3 years old…my Grams died…my dad has never been around…I think it got easier for me just to shrug it off or bury it down deep…it happens".
"It can't be buried that deep".
"You know what…my parents…they're not the type of parent I want to be…when I have kids, I want to be the best mom…you know…I could never imagine leaving them and not seeing them daily…I don't know if that's how my dad and my mom felt…but that's how I will feel…I just know it", Bonnie smiled wistfully.
Damon watched her as she smiled down at him. He had no answers for her. He wasn't sure if she realized it or not, but he could never be the one to help her with that dream that she had. So instead of telling her that as long as she was with him, her dream of having children would cease to exist…he kissed her softly and lowered her down to the bed.
His Nightmare
Tyler Lockwood invited most of the town to his graduation party in the woods. Damon had declined, hoping that Bonnie would take him up on it. She refused…so he sat at home, drinking a beer, and waiting for her to come in with Stefan and Elena. If he was really lucky, she would be a little tipsy. He always loved Tipsy Bonnie. He loved Sober Bonnie as well, but Tipsy Bonnie always had a way of putting a bigger smile on his face.
"Maybe you should go and hurry along this process", Damon grinned as he stood up and headed out of the boarding house.
Damon parked his car near the edge of the woods and began walking towards the laughter that he heard coming from behind the trees. As he made his way through the trees, he found that the laughter quickly turned to screaming and he was almost knocked down by a group of recent high school graduates fleeing the woods. He wasn't sure what was going on, but something inside told him that he had to get to Bonnie. He sped to the clearing where the party had been going on and when he reached the clearing, he saw that there was a gang of vampires surrounding the people who were left and that included Bonnie. He could see that Caroline and Stefan were vamped out, Elena was clutching what appeared to be a tree branch and Jeremy was right behind her…making better use of his tree branch, which resembled a stake.
"Somehow…I don't think that this is fair", Damon announced as he moved through the clearing.
He watched as Bonnie looked at him for a moment with a slight smile on her face, but then that smile turned to horror as she took off running towards him. Damon looked at Bonnie and then turned around to see a vampire coming towards him with a stake. There was no way that he could react fast enough and he braced himself for the impact of the stake going through his chest, when suddenly he found himself flying through the air.
He opened his eyes as he hit the ground to see the stake go into Bonnie's chest and her fall to the ground as she gasped and he could see blood start to drip out of her mouth. He wanted to get up and go to her, but he was paralyzed…she had paralyzed him up against the tree. He looked around and noticed that Stefan, Caroline, Jeremy and Elena were all paralyzed in place as Bonnie held out her hand. He could see her mouth moving, but couldn't hear what she was saying. Suddenly he heard breaking of tree branches and saw them flying into the vampires that had attacked the party sending every single one of them falling to the ground. It was only then that Bonnie's arm dropped and she dropped to the ground. Damon rushed over to her along with everyone else. He saw that the life was slowly draining from her, her skin was becoming paler by the minute and he suddenly was frozen. That morning before graduation, they had made love…he had given her his blood…she still had her blood in him…if she died now…
"Damon! Help her!" Elena pleaded.
He stood there motionless…if he just gave it a couple more moments…
"Damon...what is wrong with you!" Stefan barked as he dropped down next to Bonnie who was spitting up blood.
Damon could hear her heartbeat slowing down…he could hear her breathing start to become more labored…
He watched as Stefan bit into his own wrist and placed it over Bonnie's mouth forcing her to drink.
"Her color's coming back!" Caroline squealed as she dropped down, "and her pulse is getting stronger".
Elena looked at Bonnie on the ground and then at Damon, "What is wrong with you!" she snapped as she walked away from him.
SSSSS
Late that night, Elena had taken Bonnie back to her house where she and Caroline planned to watch her and make sure she was ok. Damon stood in the parlor at the boarding house drinking bourbon and staring out of the window.
"Would you like to tell me what happened to you out there?" Stefan asked walking over and standing next to Damon.
"Nothing", Damon snapped.
"Oh no…it was something. Look, I know that you love Bonnie…but what you did…or didn't do out there…I can't explain it to anyone, because I don't understand it…Bonnie was dying in front of your eyes and you did nothing!"
"There were 2 other vampires standing there…you two are just as capable as I am".
Stefan's eyes widened, "You can not be serious".
"Oh but I am serious little brother…why must I always come to the rescue?"
Stefan narrowed his eyes, "You don't mean that…you love Bonnie…I saw you when you entered that clearing, you looked for her first…I can't believe that you would just stand by and watch her die knowing that you would lose her forev…", Stefan began, but immediately stopped and that's when he realized, "because you wouldn't lose her forever…would you?"
"I don't know what you are talking about", Damon replied walking away from the window.
"Yes…yes you do!" Stefan said grabbing Damon by the arm, "you gave Bonnie some of your blood…or at least…you know that your blood had to be in her somehow and if she died tonight, she would have turned and that's what you wanted…Damon…", Stefan sighed.
"What!" Damon barked, "I'm sorry…don't you ever think about the day that Elena will die…that she will leave you forever and you will have to go on forever without her by your side?"
"Yes, I think about it and that's why I cherish every day with her".
"Well I'm not like you…I don't want to lose Bonnie ever!"
"But watching her die…turning her into one of us…"
"She wants a lot of things that I can't give her…children…she wants the picket fence…and I'm selfish ok…I'm selfish…I want her and only her…forever", Damon confessed.
"But watching her die…"
"She may be a witch…but she can die and I can't be with her knowing that I could lose her one day just out of the blue".
"So what are you saying?" Stefan asked.
"I'm ending things with Bonnie…", Damon replied.
"What…why would you do that?"
"Because neither one of us will get what we want from this relationship and tonight…I didn't want to save her…and I don't want that happen again, so its best to end it now".
"I can't believe you're doing this…Damon, you're happy with Bonnie?"
"But for how long?" Damon asked.
"Does it matter?" Stefan asked.
"Yes it does".
"I think you're making a mistake".
"Thank you for your opinion…but keep this little talk between you and I…do not mention it to Bonnie".
"Ok…fine…tell me this…you break up with Bonnie, you break her heart into a million pieces and then she starts to repair that heart with another guy, how will you deal with that?" Stefan asked folding his arms.
"I will deal", Damon answered.
Their Reality
Bonnie opened the door dressed in sweats and a t-shirt. Since the event in the woods, she hadn't felt exactly her best. She was healed for the most part, but there was still a part of her that felt weak. She attributed it to the fact that she was already weak when she killed all of those vampires and the fact that she was as close to death as she had ever been after that. In addition, Damon had been pretty scarce. He had told her that he was spending all his time tracking down who sent those vampires after them and that's why he couldn't spend much time with her. She believed that he was lying, but she couldn't figure out why and seeing him on the other side of her door today, made her happy.
"Hey", she grinned as she leaned up to kiss him on the lips and he hugged her avoiding her kiss causing her to frown.
"How are you doing?" he asked walking in and sitting down on the couch.
"I'm ok…I still feel a little weak, I haven't tried any big spells since the night in the woods", Bonnie replied sitting next to Damon on the couch watching as he moved away.
"Well that's good".
"Damon…is something wrong?" Bonnie asked narrowing her eyes.
"Actually…there is…I've been thinking about the night in the woods".
"Ooook".
"And I think that we need to just take some time away from each other", he replied not looking at her.
"What…what do you mean?" Bonnie asked turning his head with her hand, "what do you mean we need to take some time away from each other…what happened…what's wrong?"
"Bonnie…I just…I have lived over 100 years and that's because I never cared about anyone else around me…I didn't care about protecting them".
"Oook".
"And being with you…I almost got killed in the woods because of you".
"Because of me…I saved you and got staked…but I did that because I love you…you risk your life for those you love".
"Well maybe I don't love you as much as I thought", Damon replied turning to him and he could see her crumble before his eyes. He wanted to take that back, but he had to press on, "I mean…I want to live for another 100 years and its bad enough I have to watch my back…but also watching yours…it's becoming tiresome Bonnie".
"What…I can take care of myself".
"Oh really…you almost died out there in the woods, you're still feeling the effects of it…you can not take care of yourself".
"Where is this coming from…I don't understand…we are good together, you've said that a lot".
"I said it…because I thought we could work, but the truth is…we can't work Bonnie…in the end…I would probably end up dead defending you and I'm not ready to sacrifice myself for you".
Bonnie felt like she had been punched in the stomach. She was ready to sacrifice herself for him…but he didn't feel the same. She blinked back her tears, "So…so what happens now?" she asked in a voice she almost didn't recognize as hers.
"Well nothing…we just end things here…but we look back on our time together and just chalk it up to momentary insanity".
"Momentary insanity", Bonnie replied nodding, "that's all it was to you?"
"I'm sorry Bonnie, I don't know what else to say".
"Get out", she replied as he noticed her struggling to keep the tears pooling in her eyes from falling.
"I will see you around Bonnie Bennett", Damon said quietly as he stood up and headed towards the door.
Bonnie looked towards the door as the tears that she had been fighting to control finally left her eyes. Damon never looked back as he stepped outside and closed the door behind him.
Yay or Nay? ;-p