In Withmore, Jo read the Grimoire, learning the truth about her and Kai's hybrid gene.
"The merge will not kill us...but...OMG!!"- she said astonished as she finished the chapter reading the last sentence once again.
In Mystic Falls, Liv spoke to Kai with the magic barrier between them.
"What do you know about grandfather?"- Liv asked.
"What? Now you want to talk family?!"- Kai smirked.
"Oh, come on! With us it is all about family, but not in a fuzzy way."- Liv said.
"You turned out to be a real tough chick!"
"It's called survival"- Liv replied-"so, you surviving depends on what you know about grandfather"
"I tell you about grandfather- what do I get out of it?"
"Me not setting Damon on you."- Liv said.
"Oh, like he can do me any harm, seriously. You have to do better than that."
"Don't test me. Once upon a time you were the big bad warlock of the family, but, times have changed and little girls grow up!"- Liv said- "I knew you wouldn't talk."
"So you came her to gloat and tell me how badass you've become."
"Pretty much!"- Liv said and walked away.
As she got out she smiled cheekily as she had the answer she was looking for. Kai had Bonnie's magic on him.
"Then Jo has all of his magic- or...father has hidden it somewhere"- she concluded her thought.
*******
In Damon's apartment, Bonnie went to change and Damon ordered some food.
"Choose whatever room you like."- he said.
"There are only two rooms."- Bonnie said.
"I know this is not the Boarding House, but., whatever room suits you best, I will get the other. You know me, I like watching old movie till five in the morning."
"So, you will be spending time on the couch anyway."- Bonnie concluded, then she added- "You got this apartment for me?!"
Damon nodded. It was clear like a perfect sunny day that all he had done lately was for her.
"Thank you."- she uttered looking at him poignantly and then looked at the food that was delivered.
"Wow, all my favourites are here. Now, seriously...this has to stop!"
"Why? You've been through hell and now you deserve the best of the best. Being with that lunatic Kai asks for a royal ...something."- Damon explained.
He got out a couple of plates and they sat down to eat.
It felt like home, and for Damon that was a first. He had not experienced anything like it before. He was filled with happiness.
"I've not really been in love before"-he remembered Bonnie saying -"the kind that makes your heart want to explode, that you can't eat or sleep and constantly think about that person...that you know he is the one and you can't explain it-you just know"
"Do you want that rib? It's a bit bloody still"-Bonnie offered.
"Ha?"-Damon snapped out of his thoughts.
"The rib"-Bonnie repeated-"where were you?"
"Nowhere. The rib- fine, yeah, although I need more of something with a bit more red"
He went to the fridge and poured some of the blood in the wine.
"More?"-he offered to pour some more wine in her glass.
"Yes."-Bonnie raised the glass for the refill it.
"I don't want to spoil this but what is the plan of action?"
"We stalk them"-Bonnie said.
"Lurk"-Damon corrected her-best way to get info...they are too secretive. I can't make out whether Jo is a good or a bad one"
"What makes you say that?"-Bonnie said.
"She is strange. She just gives out a weird vibe. My gut never failed me so far. We should watch out for her!"
"Grams probably shared some of her magic with them too- why would they need me or my magic"
"Something must have happened. Sheila wouldn't do something to jeoperdize you?!"-Damon said.
"No, but you know what I am thinking...maybe my mum had something to do with it!"-Bonnie uttered.
"Well, let's track Abby down then"-Damon said resolved.
Bonnie's phone rang and she picked it up reluctantly.
"Hey, Caroline?!"- she muttered- "no...yes...then I met Damon...and...he helped me get an apartment- so...yes...no...ok..."- Bonnie now shared the address of the apartment.
"They are coming here!"- Damon said somewhat pissed off.
"I couldn't tell them no. You heard her."- Bonnie kind of apologized.
"Don't worry. I know how tight you are."- Damon stood up.
It was obvious that both of them wished that the phone call didn't happen.
"I'll see you later."- Damon said as he was about to leave.
"Damon..."- Bonnie got up now too looking at him trying to convey that she hated that things seem to always twist themselves.
"Now that we are here again- with all of them...this is mad"-he started turning away.
"You want to be over there?!"- Bonnie uttered- "it's like we are always wishing for the craziest opposite things."
"Yeah."- Damon said- "I'll hang with Stefan. This IS your apartment!"- he said smiling a bit.
"You will come for breakfast?!"- she then slipped.
"Of course..."- he said and walked out. His heart sinking a bit.
Bonnie slumped on the chair. She was back for a day or two and everything she thought about in the 1994 prison of Mystic Falls, the way she would enjoy being back and party with her friends and forget for a long while all that had happened. That she would just throw it away. And her friends were friends, they were happy to see her, they made her welcome, but all they talked about, she wasn't interested in. And she felt bad about it. She felt guilty. She thought of Elena and the fact that she had compelled herself to feel better.
"Why??"- she said angrily, putting the dishes away and tidying the table.
Then she heard Elena and Caroline at the door, and opened it. They inspected the place and wanted to know how it came about that Damon helped her get the apartment.
"You are like real buddies now?!"- Caroline teased her.
"I spent four months with him- day in, day out."
"I thought you would kill him eventually. The way you were always bickering-you could have asked us"- Elena said.
"We...met cos we discussed Kai."- Bonnie said.
"Isn't that kind of done?!"- Caroline said.
"Not really"- Bonnie said now sharing some of the story about Kai and his sisters.
***
In a bar, Stefan walked over to where Damon was sitting.
"Want to get drunk?"- Damon suggested.
"Sorry, I am late. It was that bad,ha?"
"Nope. Actually it was. I don't know what it was."- Damon said.
Stefan sat down and poured himself a glass of bourbon.
"I am in love with her."- Damon said and he realized it was the first time he voiced it out- "I am in love with Bonnie!!"
Stefan took a sip of the drink.
"But she doesn't feel the same way!"- Stefan said.
"I don't know how she feels"- Damon said.
"How about telling her?!"
"Now there is a genius thing to say!"- Damon snarked.
"I saw you, Damon. In the ambulance- I know Bonnie. I've never seen her look at you the way she did before."
Damon poured himself another glass of the whiskey.
"Getting drunk will not make it go away."- Stefan said.
"I don't want it to go away...and I am doing it again! I actually feel good."- Damon shoved the glass away.
"Now you are not making sense."- Stefan said.
"I am going to wait till they do their girly thing and then I am going over to the apartment and I will tell her!"- Damon said.
He got up and before Stefan could say anything to it, Damon was out of the door.
"Damon and Bonnie- who would have thought!"- Stefan muttered sipping down the drink.
When he got to the apartment, none of them was there.
"What are you doing, Damon?!"- he said to himself- "yeah, she will run into your arms and kiss you and all will be...peachy!AHHHH!!"-he screamed in frustration-"dream on."
Impulsive as his nature was, he went out of the apartment in a storm. He was already half a block away when he saw her walking towards him with some shopping.
He stood still as if he was hit by an arrow and waited.
"You're back."- she said- "Stefan ditched you?!"
"It was...huh...me kinda ditching him."- Damon said and there was that clumsiness he had never felt before.
"Help me with this then."- she passed him the bag with goodies.
He followed her back to the apartment.
"Elena? Caroline?"- he said.
"They had to go back to the dorms"- Bonnie said simply.
"The college social life takes a lot of their time lately."- he said.
"I've noticed. They really got into it."- Bonnie remarked.
They got into the apartment.
"Look..."- Bonnie then said- " I know this is kind of my apartment...but you can stay. I bet there is a channel with old movies."- she could feel a strange awkwardness arising.
"I can't do this."- Damon then said.
"Why Damon, what are you afraid of?!!"- Bonnie looked at him with the look that said-I-know- how-it-feels-and-I-feel-the-same.
He closed the gap between them now and kissed her.
Take my mind and take my pain
Like an empty bottle takes the rain
And heal.