»Living hell: Day One«

"Bonnie? Bonnie wake up!"

I flinched and woke up abruptly, fully alert.

"Hey! Calm down it's just me"

That was clearly Meredith's voice, she sounded worried.

I sat up from the floor and turned my gaze at her, and regret it instantly because she gasped and brought a hand to her mouth.

"What happened to you?" She exclaimed.

"Nothing" I mumbled covering my cheek with my hand and gasped in pain.

It hasn't healed yet?

"Nothing? What do you mean by nothing? That obviously is something Bon! Did he do this to you?"

I just stared at the floor silently, trying hard not to burst in tears. This was so humiliating.

She sighed and said "Come on Bon let's get out of here"

"What? Whe-where are we going? I can't get out of the penthouse if he is not here, Meredith, you know that" I whispered fearing someone could hear us.

She rolled her dark eyes and helped me get up.

"After what he have done to you, he probably won't care if you're here or not"

I sighed, she was right, but I didn't know why it hurt to hear it.

We headed straight for my dad's studio.

"Your majesty, excuse me but I can't help see what he had done to Bonnie! I know I shouldn't and I'm not allowed to interfere, but I ain't just going to sat down and watch how he hurts her with no apparent reason" Meredith exclaimed, pacing back and forth around the large office.

My dad just sat quietly across from my seat.

He didn't look up at Meredith while she was talking; he was just staring at me the whole time.

Neither of us said anything for the next passing seconds, until Meredith tried to say something more but my dad interrupted her.

"Thanks Meredith, for caring so much for my daughter, I really appreciate it but you are right, you are not allowed to interfere"

He said glancing at Meredith for the first time; she seemed like she wanted to say something else but he beat her up, again.

"Now if you could let me talk in private with my daughter..."

"Uh sure, I'll wait for you in the hall Bonnie" I nodded at her before she exited the office.

I turned to my dad, who was staring at my still reddish cheek.

Thank god my other wounds had healed, if they were still on my skin I'm afraid I've must have looked like I'd had a fight with several werewolf's.

"It hasn't healed yet? Let me check it" He said in an emotionless tone as he came close to where I was sitting and started examining my face.

"Does it hurt?" He asked as pressed his finger softly on my cheek and I gasped. Well it didn't hurt as much as last night...

"Sorry" He rapidly dropped his hand and went back to sit down.

He didn't say anything again.

"Aren't you going to say anything else?" I asked unable of keeping my mouth shut, "Don't you want to know why he slapped me?"

"No"

I stared at him with incredulity.

"You simply don't care?"

"I do care Bon, but there's nothing I can do"

"Yes there is! You can stop the wedding! You know neither Damon nor I want to get married, I don't even know why you want me to marry him, he won't ever love me, he is still in love with his dead girlfriend! Why do you insist so much in engaging us?" I exploded letting everything I was trying hard not to say out loud.

"Be careful with what you say Bonnie" He warned me.

"Be careful? Dad, are you listening to what you're saying? How could you possibly don't care if he, a stranger hurts me without reason? I can't believe you're not doing anything about it. After we get married my life will turn into a living hell!" I turned my back on him and headed for the door, "I hope you don't regret doing this to me" I shut the door after me not waiting for him to reply.

"What happened? Is he going to stop the wedding?" Meredith approached me as soon as I exited the room.

I shook my head beating back the tears, "He isn't going to do anything about it, he doesn't care"

"What?" She shouted but then lowered her voice, "Ok let's head to my quarters so we can talk better"

"I just can't figure out why my dad is so willing to get us married? There has to be a hidden reason we might be leaving out" I whined clutching my face with my hands in frustration.

"Calm down Bonnie, you can sleep here tonight if you want until we figure it out together"

We were sitting on the living room of her quarters, watching through the front window. Although it was smaller than my penthouse, it had a great view of the castle's garden. The moon had settled by know.

I sighed already shaking my head, "I can't Mere, and I donotwant to give him more reasons to hate me, besides I should get going he might be on his way back... From wherever he went-and it's pretty late, though"

"So you're just going to forgive him that easily? He doesn't worth it"

"It doesn't matter if he is worthy or not, I don't have an option Meredith. Soon we will be married and there is nothing I can do to stop it; that's why I can't allow myself to fight back, it would make it worse for me keep things on calm between us"

She sighed; we both knew I was right, if I was going to be married to him for an eternity I should better avoid problems.

"You're right, we won't want to recall the Salvatore's rage" She replied sarcastically.

"Mere you won't believe what I had just heard-oh, hi Bonnie!" Sage greeted us as he entered the room.

He went straight for Meredith and kissed her softly.

They looked really cute together, they fitted perfectly. I couldn't help but smile at the scene in front of me neither avoid the jealousy that was haunting me.

"So what were you do-Good Lord! What happened to your face, Bonnie?" Sage exclaimed staring at my cheek.

"I-I fell" I lied feeling like an idiot. I have never been good at lying.

Sage frowned, and then as if he had figured out why I lied to him, his eyes grew big and he turned to Meredith.

"Did he...?"

Meredith simply nodded.

"Uh I think I should get going, thanks for your time Meredith" I hugged her before I went for the door.

"Wait! I'll escort you to your place"

"Ok, goodnight Sage" I waved at him.

"Take care Bonnie" He said, his words with double meaning.

Meredith shot him a look, but he didn't seem to catch it.

We got to my quarters in just matter of minutes.

I was thankful that there were no people in the halls; it is already embarrassing that Meredith, Sage and my dad had seen what Damon had done to me.

"Aren't you going to head back?" I asked to my friend with my hand on the door knob.

"I think I'll stick for a while"

"Isn't Sage going to get upset?"

"Even if he does, I don't care" She winked at me.

I couldn't help it, I laughed as I opened the door.

It was nice to laugh and forget all my issues; it was something I already started missing.

But as soon as I opened the door, the sweet feeling vanished.

Damon was sitting on the living room with a human blonde girl on his lap.

His mouth that had some blood on,-turned into a devilish smile when he saw me.

"So you finally decided to show up, Redbird" He licked the blood from his lips before speaking again. He got up as he removed the numb girl from his lap as if she was garbage.

Meredith let out a low gasp when we stepped closer into the living room and took a closer view.

There were another two girls trashed on the floor beside the couch.

"What have you done?" Meredith exclaimed and quickly went back and shut the door, "you didn't know? We're not allowed to bring any humans here unless we were command to!"

"Oh! My apologies, we were just having fun didn't we, Blondie?" He replied lifting the girl's head from the couch.

"Mmm I think she must have passed away, poor thing you were really entertaining"

Now he was talking to the dead girl, hilarious!

"Oh well... Where were we?" He asked casually as he dropped the body and turned his attention back to me, "Oh yeah, Redbird could you explain to me what is she doing here?"

"..." I didn't have the courage to even look at him.

"Redbird..." He pressed on getting near to me.

I shiver ran down my back.

"I came to visit her" Meredith stepped in grabbing my hand firmly.

I dared a look to him waiting for his reaction.

Damon didn't seem to like whatever was happening. He stood there staring at our laced hands.

"You came? Or she came to you?" He pointed at me, "with whose permission? As I was told you can only receive orders from me" He was just a few feet away from me now.

I began to tremble, but I managed to release my hand and pushed Meredith to the door.

Please leave. I sent mentally to her.

She ignored me.

"You haven't been told right" Meredith replied not even intimidated "You'll have absolutely power over her once you get married"

Stop, you're making things harder!

Damon huffed and glared at her.

"You better leave; this is none of your business"

"Of course it is! Bonnie is like a sister to me, and I won't leave her alone to you when you're blood-drunk, so if someone is going to leave, that'll be you"

"Meredith!" I warned her out loud, but she ignored me, again.

Damon's face turned wild. For a moment, he looked like he was about to attack her; but as fast as he had change of emotions, he smirked charmingly at both of us.

"Fine then..." He said and unbelievably fast he closed the space between us and whispered to my ear "Goodnight Little Bird, we shall meet soon again" and then he planted a soft kiss on my hurt cheek making me flinch and hiss in pain.

In a blink of an eye, he dedicated me a last glance before disappearing out the window-next to the door in his crow form.

My knees finally gave up and I fell to the floor helplessly staring after him.

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