A/N: Hey guys! So this is legit my second Bamon fic ever; the first being The Journey Home. I got this idea randomly last night in my kitchen. The first paragraph literally came to me and I had to have my sister write it down so that I wouldn't forget it.

I think this fic probably came about because I have a sinking feeling that getting Bonnie back from Kai's Hell is about to be a Delena plot device and our girl deserves better than that.

I hope you guys enjoy chapter one (it's rated T for now). I've already started writing chapter two.

Let me know what you think.

Happy Reading!

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DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own: The Vampire Diaries, books or television show, the characters, places, word or phrases from either.

THIS FANFICTION IS UNBETA'D BUT PROOFREAD. ALL REMAINING MISTAKES ARE UNINTENTIONAL. APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

Damon Salvatore came back from the dead, the same way he left life; so everyone thought. On the outside, he was brash, arrogant, and sexy but on the inside he was lonely, lost and wanting. For four months he spent every single day with a person he thought he despised. Who for a long time, thought despised him; but four months, twenty-fours hours day is a long time. It's an eternity.

Bonnie Bennett was a smart, beautiful and powerful, witch and woman. Damon had had ample opportunity to learn that. She rediscovered her magic in order to save him and she sacrificed her returning home so that he could. It was selfless and Damon had never known such selflessness, especially not on his behalf.

Now, now Damon was back with their friends and family and though he tried to get Elena back, the compulsion laid down by Ric was iron clad and she didn't seem to want to try to fight, except to try to kill herself by stepping over the border. Yes, being over the border would break the compulsion but it would also probably kill her. So, as Damon watched the no magic barrier begin to unwind her vampirism a few thoughts crossed his mind.

"Bonnie will be so upset when she gets back if she finds out I let Elena die trying to remember me." and "I love her, I can't let her die." Damon took Elena back to her dorm room and left. No Damon/Elena get back together; it was time to let Elena be happy and if being without him was what was going to make her happy, then so be it.

As he mourned the death of yet another relationship, drunk, he made his way to the Salvatore Crypt. He was going to drown his sorrows and maybe have a little one on one conversation with Bonnie but before he could cross the threshold there she sat. Soft, brown and wonderful. Miss Cuddles.

"Bonnie!" he said grabbing the bear and clutching it too his chest. "You're still alive," he said with a grin of the one thing she asked him to have while they were in Kai's Hell. Hope. "You're alive," he said with a chuckle. Damon took another long swig of his bourbon before heading back toward Whitmore.

Stefan Salvatore, since returning home had been living in the apartments just outside the Whitmore campus. He had a renewed since of self and family now that his brother was back.

After Stefan filled Damon in on what he's missed over the past four months, his brother filled him in on 1994, Kai and then he informed him that Bonnie the self sacrificing teenage witch sent him back while she lay there dying. Stefan felt his knees weaken at the news. The last time Bonnie died, he didn't attend her funeral because, well, he didn't remember her. Thank you Tessa; but he and Damon decided to tell everyone else that Bonnie found peace. Especially after the eldest Salvatore told his little brother what Bonnie told him her Gram's told her.

As Stefan was about to settle in for the night, there was a loud banging on his door.

"Stefan!" Damon called. "Stefan! Open up!"

"Damon, shut up," Stefan said as he wrenched the door open and pulled his brother inside. "What are you doing here? I thought you were staying with Alaric?"

"Here," Damon said handing him the bear.

"Uh, are you trying to make up for tormenting me, Damon?" he asked. "The bear's cute but..."

"Shut up Stefan. That's Miss Cuddles."

"Well, it's nice to meet her but I don't know her."

"That's Bonnie's bear. She lost her when she nine," Damon smiled wide. "She was so excited when she found her again. So, I know she sent her here to let me know she's alive."

"Well, how are we going to get her back?" Stefan smiled.

"Whatever's necessary," Damon replied as he fished around in his jean's pocket.

"Who are you calling?"

"Ric."

"It's late, Damon."

"I don't care, Stefan."

"Hello?" the groggy voice on the other end said.

"Wake up, Ric. I need you to come over to Stefan's," Damon informed him.

"Why Damon? It's...two in the morning," Ric questioned.

"It's right down the damn hall, quit complaining," the eldest Salvatore said. "Stef and me have no problem showing up at your door."

"I'm on my way," Ric said before ending the call. A few minutes later there was knock on the door.

"Come in," Damon joked as he pulled the door open.

"Ha, what do you want Damon, I was sleeping. Humans need that," Ric grinned.

"Yeah, I don't care about that. Here," he said taking Miss Cuddles from Stefan and handing it Ric.

"You stealing from kids now Damon?" he questioned.

"No. Dick. That's Miss Cuddles. Bonnie's bear," Damon said.

"But you said Bonnie..."

"I lied."

"Not the first time I suppose; but that doesn't explain why I'm here," Ric said looking Damon in the eyes.

"This is a sign. She's alive so we're gonna figure out a way to get her back," Damon informed the two of them. "You've got a witchy doctor at your beck and call and Stefan and I have...well we have Elena and all the people that she knows."

"Jo doesn't do magic anymore," Ric said, handing Damon the bear.

"She does now," Damon said as he opened the door and pushed Ric into the hallway. "I don't care what you have to do to her back into the mojo but make it quick," he said before closing the door.

"Damon, what does Elena have to do with this? She doesn't know the truth," Stefan said.

"Yet. She doesn't know the truth yet. Plus she's like a different Elena, right? She'll get why we lied," Damon said as he began to raid his brother's fridge. "Right after you tell her."

"What?"

"Get to bed brother," Damon smirked. "We've got a big day tomorrow," he said before he flung himself on to the couch and kicked off his boots. Stefan rolled his eyes, shut off the lights and went off to bed.

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