If These Wings Could Fly
By: Tracy Cook
Disclaimer: I own nothing. These characters belong to the creators of Vampire Diaries.
Couple: Bonnie/Damon
Rating: M
Chapter One
'Oh Lights Go Down,
In The Moment, We're Lost And Found.'
'She was encompassed by a pale blue light. Standing on the edge of the other side. Staring through the trees. Wind tossing her hair in every direction and chilling her exposed skin. In that moment she felt alone. She knew that she was the only one left that hadn't been taken. She was the only one left in a dimension that was collapsing all around her.
But, she wasn't alone.
He was there. She could feel his presence behind her as he approached her slowly. Damon hadn't made it back to Elena. He was stuck in the dimension with her and it was crumbling right before their very eyes.
In a few minutes nothing would be left.
Damon was now standing next to her. The ground shaking beneath his feet, the wind tussling his hair, his brow furrowed as he stared over the edge with Bonnie. He hadn't made it. "This place is going down, isn't it?" As he asked the words the entire dimension shook as if answering him.
"It is." She said, simply. She had accepted her death long ago.
Bonnie cast her eyes in his direction and she was grateful that he was with her in that moment. She was grateful that she wasn't alone. Damon had saved her. He had been the one to bring her back from the dead. He had been the one to give her a second chance. "I'm sure there are a million people we'd both rather be with right now." As she said the words she knew that she was saying it more out of insecurity then certainty. Damon didn't want to be with her. He wanted to make it back to Elena.
"But..." She left the sentence open and glanced down to Damon's hand, gently interlacing their fingers together and squeezing his hand tightly with her own. Showing him that he wasn't alone. Showing him that she was happy he was there with her.
Damon looked down at their hands. Bonnie's eyes followed. They both couldn't believe that they were holding hands. They couldn't believe how right it felt. How safe they felt holding onto each other. It shouldn't feel this right facing the unknown. Facing uncertainty. Facing possible death.
"Couple thousand at most." He teased with a small twist of his lips.
This earned a smile and a small laugh from her. That was what he wanted. He wanted her to smile in her final moments.
Both of them returned their attention to the edge as the ground shook beneath them. All that they had to hold onto in that moment was each other. Their grip tightened and their hearts raced as they faced the end. "Do you think it'll hurt?" She asked.
"I don't Kn-" His voice died out and they were engulfed in light.'
Green eyes snapped open.
Her heart was pounding loudly in her chest as she stared at her surroundings. She hadn't ever expected to open her eyes again. Once she was engulfed in the light she expected her life to be over. She expected everything to be gone.
Bonnie curled her fingers in the sand that she was laying on and she slowly pushed herself up into a seated position. Wiping the dry sand from her skin as she looked around. She had expected the other side to be dark and demented. She had expected there to be other souls wandering around, lost forever. She hadn't expected this.
There was a gentle breeze that tossed her hair around. She could smell the scent of salt-water from the waves that were rushing against the shore. There was a long expanse of sand and trees, with all different types of colorful fruits. This was the opposite of what she had expected. If she wasn't alone, this could be paradise. It was beautiful.
'How did I end up on a beach?' She wondered as she pushed herself up into a standing position. Wiping the sand from her clothes. 'Am I dead? Is this the other side? How? The other side was destroyed...'
Bonnie took a few steps toward the water that was rushing against the shore. She was on an island. It was isolated from everything else. She looked across the ocean and she could see a large black abyss surrounding the island. The island was protected by what appeared to be a large invisible dome. The darkness couldn't get in. She could see souls smashing against the shield, attempting to break into her paradise, but they couldn't break through. They were trapped in the abyss.
'What about Damon!? He was with me!? Is he in here or is he trapped in the abyss!?' She wondered, frantically looking around for him. He had been holding her hand when they were engulfed in light, but she didn't know if that mattered. She didn't know if that meant he was safe or not.
Grams had told her before she sacrificed herself that she had made sure that she would be safe.
'Is this what she meant?' Bonnie questioned internally. 'Does that mean Damon isn't here? Does that mean he isn't safe?'
The thought of being trapped alone, even in paradise, caused her stomach to tangle in knots. She didn't want to be alone for the rest of eternity.
"Damon!" She screamed. "Damon! Where are you!?" She started to move along the island, looking around for any sign of the man. She needed to know that he was there with her. She needed to know that she wasn't alone. "Please! Damon! Answer me!"
Bonnie climbed on top of some rocks and she glanced around the island. Her hair flying in the wind and her eyes shimmering with tears. She needed to find him, she needed to find someone. "Damon! Damon, are you out there!?"
"You looking for me?"
His voice nearly caused her to trip over her own feet and fall off of the rock as she turned around to see him. He was standing in the sand with his arms outstretched and a devious smirk twisted on his lips. His dark hair was twisting wildly in the breeze and she couldn't help but recognize just how handsome he was in that moment. Perhaps she was just happy to not be alone.
Bonnie jumped down from the rock and she ran toward him. Wide smile on her face, green eyes shimmering with happiness. She was happy he was still there with her and not lost in the dark abyss outside of the island.
"Thank god you're okay!" She said, wrapping him up in a tight embrace.
He was a little shocked by the contact, but he didn't exactly mind it. She had her head buried in his chest and she was holding onto him for dear life. Her fingers were digging into the skin of his back through the fabric of his shirt and she took in a deep breath, inhaling the scent of his cologne. Inhaling his scent to make sure that he was real. It was strange how real everything was in the other dimension.
It was like they were still alive. Only, it was just the two of them.
Slowly, he lifted his hands and placed them on her lower back, pulling her body closer to his. He found comfort in the embrace. He no longer felt like he was missing something in his life, like he needed to get back to Elena and Stefan. In this moment he found peace in her. He found peace in no longer fighting to survive.
But, he knew he had to get back to Elena.
He had made her a promise. He loved her. He couldn't hide away in the bliss of Bonnie Bennett and the strange island of paradise.
Even if he was tempted to do just that.
A blush covered her cheeks and Bonnie pulled back and smiled sheepishly up at him. "Sorry." She apologized. She hadn't meant to hold onto him so tight, she had just been happy to see him again and to know that he was there with her.
Damon's hands were still gripping onto her small hips and holding her body close to his. He wasn't ready to let her go yet. He liked the way that her body felt against his, the warmth that radiated off of her. She didn't know why he was still holding her body close, but she wasn't about to complain. She liked the contact. Probably more than she should.
He furrowed his brow and looked up into the sky. He could see the divide between the beautiful blue sky and the dark abyss on the other side and he wondered why they were on this side. He understood why Bonnie was. But, he knew, after every shitty thing he had done, he deserved to be in hell.
"This isn't exactly what I thought Hell would look like." Damon said with a playful waggle of his brow as he returned his gaze to hers.
"That's because it's not Hell." Bonnie explained. When Grams had told her that she had done something to ensure her safety, she hadn't expected this. She didn't even know how she had gone about creating the sanctum immersed in the darkness, but she knew that it had been her. "When my grams sacrificed her life, she told me that she was able to let go knowing that she had ensured my safety after I passed. I think she made this place for me, and I think because we were holding hands when the light engulfed us, you came here with me."
"I'm sure she wouldn't be so happy if she found that out." He teased. He knew that Sheila Bennett had never approved of him. There was no way that she would be happy knowing that he was in the paradise she had created for Bonnie.
"Probably not." She laughed a little. Her Grams would be furious. 'But I am happy he is here...'
"Okay." Damon pulled his hands away from her hips and she immediately missed the contact. Both of them did. "So, we are safe in here which I am grateful for, but I have one question." He started to pace in front of her.
"What's that?" Bonnie crossed her arms over her chest.
"How the hell do we get outta here?" He had to get back to Elena and Stefan like he promised he would.
"I don't think there is a way out." She breathed out, tugging her full bottom lip between her teeth and chewing on it. She hated to be the bearer of bad news, but she really didn't think there was any getting back to Mystic Falls and their friends this time. It was over. The constant battle to stay alive and be with the ones that they loved was over.
She had given up. She was ready to live out the rest of her days trapped on the island with Damon.
Sorrow flashed across his face, and then it quickly turned to anger. "There's gotta be a way out, Bonnie! There is always a way out! I need to get back to Elena and Stefan!"
"I don't think we are going to get back to them this time, Damon." Bonnie told him.
"We have to get back!" Damon shouted. He hated that the young woman had already given up. He hated that so much had happened to her to cause her to have so little faith in herself and her life. She had given up on living. "I promised her I would come back to her." His voice shook a little and she took a step toward him, offering him a sad smile.
She knew that he had promised Elena that he would come back. But, sometimes things were impossible.
"We have no way to get back, Damon." Bonnie spoke softly. "Look around, we are trapped, and if we try and escape we will end up like those souls outside. Can't you hear them screaming out in pain!? I don't have my powers any longer and there is no one else around to help, I wouldn't even know where to begin."
"There has to be a way." He insisted. "We just have to figure it out."
"If there is a way, the only ones who can figure it out are the people who are still living."
"What happened to you?" Damon asked. He knew that it was wrong of him to take out his anger on Bonnie, but he really didn't understand. She used to be so strong, so determined to live and to help people, but now she seemed broken and empty. She had given up. "Why are you so ready to give up and die!?"
"Because, Damon." Bonnie whispered sadly. "I'm tired. I'm tired of fighting to live." She shrugged her shoulders and blinked back her tears. "I just wanted to be a normal girl with a normal life and look at me! I've died so many times, I've watched so many people that I love die right before me! I think it's about time that I realize I can't save anyone! I can't even save myself!"
"So, you're just giving up?" He asked, blue eyes widening in shock and annoyance. He hated seeing her so defeated and broken. It killed him. He missed the spunky little witch that caused his brain to implode when she was mad at him. He missed the girl who fought to survive.
"Yes. I'm giving up."
'I Just Wanna Be By Your Side,
If These Wings Could Fly.'
Author's Note :
This is the first chapter to a new fic that I am writing based on that AMAZING SCENE from the TVD finale! I loved it and I really wanted to write something about them on the other side! It will take a little while to develop into a romantic relationship, there will be lots of trials, also scenes from the other side and what Elena and Stefan are doing. But this will be a Bamon romance fic! :)) Please do tell me if y'all are interested in it! I promised not to start a new fic, but I just had to! Sorry. Hope that y'all like it!
Thank you all for reading!
I love you guys!
-Tracy Cook-
