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Bonnie couldn’t get to sleep after Damon’s words to her

She wanted to talk to Meredith, but there was an unseeing, unhearing lu she could think of was to go down to the kitchen and huddle up with a cup of cocoa in the den, alone with heralone with herself

But as it turned out, when she got to the bottom floor, she didn’t head for the kitchen after alShe went straight to the den Everything was dark and strange-looking in the silent di else even darker But she ers, to twist the switch of the standing lamp beside the couch Now if only she could find a book or so on to her pil ow as if it were a teddy bear, when Damon’s voice beside her said, "Poor little redbird

You shouldn’t be up so late, you know"

Bonnie started and bit her lip

"I hope you’re not stil hurting,"she said coldly, very nity, which she suspected was not very convincing

But as she supposed to do?

The truth was that Bonnie had absolutely no chance of winning a duel of ith Da? To a vampire, a human fleabite like that was"

But unfortunately he was a hu, he proht you never wanted to seeIt almost seemed too cruel to make use of a vulnerable little redbird But what choice did he have?

I’l ht And at least I can make it pleasant now

"That wasn’t what I said,"he replied, hoping that Bonnie wouldn’t remember exactly what he had said If he could just Influence the tre woman-child before himbut he couldn’t He was a human now

"You told me you would kil me"

"Look, I’d just been knocked down by a human I don’t suppose you knohat that means, but it hasn’t happened to inal hu, but the tears had stopped You are bravest when you’re scared, Daht

"I’m more worried about the others,"he said

"Others?"Bonnie blinked

"In five hundred years of life, one tends to make a remarkable amount of enemies I don’t know; maybe it’s justa vampire"

"Oh Oh, no!"Bonnie cried

"What does itor short, life seems al too brief"