What Lies Beneath

Chapter 60: Anchor

Elena's heat of the moment confession about possibly being in love with Damon had drifted to the back of Bonnie's mind after hybrids kidnapped Caroline and tried to use her to intimidate Tyler; she honestly hadn't remembered it until later when the quiet finally came. Perhaps it was because of the holidays or the drama with Jeremy trying to kill his sister—either way she was surprised how not bothered she was about it. She was annoyed but she wasn't going to be throwing herself onto her bed in a dramatic tizzy anytime soon.

Knowing that Elena was sired to Damon sort of changed her perspective on things. How much was Elena and how much was this crazy link between them? Bonnie felt that she would be the biggest hypocrite on the planet not to acknowledge how powerful blood bonds could be considering that is how she and Damon were thrown together in the first place. And there was still so much they didn't understand about bonds in general; how they worked and what affect they had on ones' emotional state. She could remember quite vividly every erotic dream and every crackle of electricity that Damon's touch caused on her skin. Still caused and would probably always cause, something that made her very happy. Yet it could have gone horribly wrong had they not ended up falling for each other.

She wouldn't pretend that the whole situation didn't pluck her nerves because it did. Even if deep down she figured Elena's feelings were all chemical or magical she still coveted her boyfriend and that wasn't right. Especially since Elena didn't appear to be trying to fight what she was feeling at all. Which was just this side of funny considering how hard Bonnie had fought not to fall for Damon back in the day.

Anyway though with this new information out in the open she'd decided not to burn Elena to death, at least not just yet. Besides there was so much going on it was hard to know what to focus on. It wasn't like Damon would be falling into Elena's arms—or bed—or letting her fall into his so technically Bonnie got that she didn't have to dwell on any of that. Yes it aggravated her whenever Elena made eyes at him or sighed in that way she did, but Jeremy being a homicidal vampire Hunter kinda took precedent over that. And then there was the Tyler/hybrid crap. Both life or death situations that needed to be dealt with.

Something was up with Caroline but she didn't know what. But you didn't call someone and ask about transferring souls unless you were hatching some odd plan of your own. Bonnie knew that Stefan probably had Caroline's back but she was still worried about her friend. When it came to guys Caroline tended to have tunnel vision especially if they needed help. It was clear she'd do anything for Tyler. And since he would do anything for the other hybrids that put both of them in Klaus' cross hairs. It only took one mistake to screw everything up. Seeing as how she hadn't heard from the blonde since her weird call she kind of hoped things were going okay.

So she had decided to help with the Jeremy thing before he lost his damn mind and tried to kill his sister again or went after Damon. It was an strange burst of luck that Professor Shane knew of a way to curb his Hunter urges but she wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth. She also wasn't going to put a lot of stock into the fact that Jeremy had used her to keep his murderous rage feelings tampered down. Though it was cute that Damon had suggested it because usually he did whatever he could to keep her in some sort of bubble away from others that might want her. Not that Jeremy did.

Sitting at the end of the wooden dock and wrapped in a colorful blanket, Bonnie shivered and rubbed at her cold cheeks. After taking Elena back to Mystic Falls she'd turned right around and driven back to the Gilbert family cabin so that she could spend some quality time with Damon. He'd decided to hang behind and train Jeremy for, well, for some fight that everyone appeared to think was coming. Normally she would have been surprised by his selflessness but she knew that deep down Damon liked to help people every now and then. Not to mention she got the feeling there was guilt swarming around in his pretty head because of the sire stuff and his blood being the blood that turned Elena and her doing what he said—even offhandedly—and that leading up to Connor's death which of course had led to Jeremy being called.