This is my first one-shot with a TVD fanfic and my first time writing Bonnie and Damon (I LOVE Bamon!) Just my version of how "Our Town'' could have happened. No Copyright Infringement Intended.

"Hey. Sorry I'm late, I uh, got held up." I say running to meet Elena at Caroline's locker.

"It's okay. I just got here too. Will you pass me the balloons? Thanks" She says as I hand them to her. "What got you running late?"

Oh, crap. "I was working on some new spells. You?" I ask, hoping she wouldn't ask me anything else about it.

"Working out with Alaric" I hold up the sign reading 'Happy Birthday Caroline!', when I see Elena give me a tense smile. No telling what's happened now. "So, uh ,I have something I need to tell you…and you're not gonna like it." She finishes timidly.

"What happened?" I ask, automatically expecting the worst.

"Jeremy's gonna be leaving town for a while. He'll be staying with some old family friends in Denver, until this whole Klaus thing blows over." She says.

"Jeremy wouldn't just leave you to deal with Klaus on your own..." I reply confused. There's had to be another explanation.

"I know" Elena starts to say hesitantly "I asked Damon to compel him."

"You what?" I ask on the verge of tears.

"I know Bonnie, but it's not safe for him here anymore. Leaving will give him a better life" She says, desperately trying to get me to understand her reasoning. "The only reason I'm telling you is, because I know you two haven't really worked out your stuff. And I thought maybe you want to…say goodbye."

Huh. Somehow when I prepared myself for the worst, I didn't expect it to be this bad.

How I got to the Salvatore Boarding House was beyond me; I remembered talking to Jeremy, and being so pissed at Elena that I couldn't think straight and just wanting to get as far away has possible from the problem. To bad I had came straight to the source.

"Can't say I'm surprised." I don't even jump at the sound of Damon's voice. What are you taking about Bonnie? At the end of the day, the problem somehow always comes back to Damon. Damon's the one I should be pissed at!

Before I can think, I'm already opening my car door and running up on Damon. "You had no right, Damon! None at all!" I yell at the top of my lungs, with tears in my eyes that won't fall out.

"I did what I had to do, Witch. If you have a problem with that, take it up with Elena. Not me." He says, widening his eyes menacingly.

"Elena's not the one compelling her brother, just so she can get into his pants! How many times are you gonna compel him, huh? You know better than anyone a human mind can only take so much!" I yell louder.

"You're right; a human. Better for me to compel him, than to have to see everyone he knows crying over his coffin. Unless you like burying people you care about?" He looks me up and down. "Black does seem to suit you nowadays." He replies back snarkily.

I laugh humorlessly. "You're taking away his choice, Damon."

At this point, me and Damon were in each other faces and neither one of us was backing down.

"Look, I didn't wake up this morning just so I could hear you and your judgmental crap. Go write this in your diary or whatever it is that you do." He turns to walk back into the house.

"The only reason you compelled him, is because you knew he wouldn't leave without a fight." I say, not backing down.

He turns to face me. "I'm not some naive little girl. Of course I knew he'd fight back-"

"And with good reason! That's what you do for family. You fight" I say exasperatedly, cutting him off. "She needs, him. And you know it."

"Well right now, Bon, she needs him alive." He says, towering over me. I just stand there glaring at him, knowing that in the end he's right. Not that I'd ever tell him. Jeremy was the only family Elena had left. It's no surprise that'd she go this far to protect him.

I turn away from Damon and start to make my way back to the car. I stop and turn back to face Damon. "You caught him off guard while he didn't have any vervain in his system. You may be doing this to keep him alive, but you're no better than Tyler." I make my way back to the car, turn over the engine, and leave Damon and his thoughts alone.