What Lies Beneath

Chapter 41: Be The Overflow

Being with Damon meant compromising on many things but Bonnie never assumed she would have to go to such great lengths to keep her relationship with him. It was odd however because a father hating their daughter's boyfriend was possibly one of the most normal things in the world. In some cases the guy was perfectly fine and yet the dad didn't like him because he was a boy. In her situation it just felt like another large load onto the one she was already carrying on her tiny shoulders.

Evil vampire ex girlfriends? No problem.

Boyfriend has feelings for your best friend? Eh, who cares?

Boyfriend occasionally wants to kill people? Whose doesn't?

Dad doesn't like said boyfriend… It's the end of the world.

Ugh.

She'd really had no choice but to let Damon compel him. She wasn't proud about it but there was no other way—he wasn't going to let her continue to date him unless she modified certain thoughts. It wasn't an easy choice by any means and the guilt weighed heavily on her heart. Now that her Grams was gone her dad was all she had. Playing with his mind was horrible but just like she needed him, she also needed Damon. For one to exist with the other they had to get along. And until things calmed down where they could have more dinners and Damon could be charming, this would have to do.

The pain that bloomed behind her eyes was a headache she'd been getting off and on since leaving her Aunt's a few days ago. All anyone seemed to be focused on was getting Stefan back and she was exhausting herself looking for spells that would kill Klaus or send him to another dimension. But so far she couldn't seem to find anything. Time was of the essence however now that they knew Klaus wanted to make more of his kind.

That would be horrible on a global scale. Thank God they all burned out.

Sighing deeply, she pushed back the heavy curtains and gazed out of the window into the openness of the Salvatore front yard. At one point she'd been very righteous about vampires and their place in the world—her world—to the point where Caroline's turning had made her slightly squeamish. Everything had been happily black and white. Now it was a muddy shade of gray and she was smack dab in the middle of serious drama.

Klaus was making Stefan kill for him because he was a coward or maybe just that much of a sadistic bastard, no one really knew for sure. But Andy was dead like so many others and at Stefan's hand. He was out of control and she was scared that one day she would have to stop him. Honestly she wasn't sure Damon would let her, and if he didn't what that would mean for them? She knew she couldn't kill Damon; that was out of the cards because of her love for him but she could incapacitate him if push came to shove.

Maybe for his own good. In any case she would destroy Stefan to save Damon if it came to that.

It sucked because she loved Elena like a sister but there was a bigger picture. Naturally she wouldn't just stake him—she would do whatever she had to do to save him but things weren't looking good.

Elena was doing stupid things, dangerous things in the name of love. Like trekking out into the woods to hunt down a bunch of werewolves in the hopes of finding her boyfriend or running off to Chicago on the off chance that she would be able to talk him into coming home. Neither of which had went well for any of the parties involved, herself included. It was probably sheer luck some rabid hybrid hadn't bit Damon or ripped all of them in half or that Klaus hadn't realized they were so near. Her shielding spell had covered that angle but it hadn't stopped her from getting a sprained ankle when they were attacked.

Pretty soon though their luck was going to run out and then where would they be?

But she understood where her friend was coming from. Sometimes the people you cared about needed saving and you couldn't just stop when things got too harsh or too complicated. You also had to read between the lines; naturally Stefan would say whatever he had to in regards to keeping Elena safe even if that meant breaking her heart.