mystic falls | but to me it seems quite clear that it's all just a little bit of history repeating

[unbalancer]

For once, Bonnie is being included. When she hears she'd be helping out Alaric, her choice isn't a hard one to make. Convincing her mother (and how weird is it, thinking about that word, having it be relevant in her life) that she should have a longer leash proves more difficult. She ends up saying that she, Elena and Caroline are going to spend some girl time together. There's no reason to worry her and if Abby found out, she wouldn't condone Bonnie helping the local vampires. Again. She'd get a lecture about where she's ended up. How much she's been used. How much witches are always used.

But, for once, she isn't being called in to perform a spell. This favor involves research. And, it gets her out of the house for a few hours which she needs to be if she's going to stay sane. For Bonnie, it's a matter of choices. Stefan said point blank that she didn't have to say yes if she didn't want to. He knew she had Abby. And he knew what Abby would say. But, Bonnie said to leave Abby to her.

With Matt and Caroline out of town - and Matt isn't the research type in the first place - it falls on Bonnie's shoulders. She's okay with that. Whatever they can do to get to the bottom of what's happening to Alaric.

She's been here a million times. The Salvatore Boarding house.

Right minute, she's standing in front of a wall of books, journals and various primary sources and the next, she and Stefan are combing through various journals. She hasn't made much small talk. She's here for a reason. They've located the volumes dated 1912.

"There's something here about Zachariah," she says, reading into the next page. "He was murdered."