The New BFF

Summary: If someone told her before the prison world that Damon Salvatore would become her BFF, she would have laughed in their face. Now she just might blush!

An: I don't own The Vampire Diaries

Bonnie Bennett was waiting impatiently for Damon Salvatore on a bench in the college quad. He was doing it purposely. He knew she didn't like to wait for him and he knew it would get under her skin and he still decided to make her wait. Even when she lay dying because of Kai, he had the nerve to walk away and make her wait while he killed Kai. He had since apologized profusely for that but she still enjoyed making him suffer a bit.

"Bon Bon!" Damon said appearing on the bench next to her with a cup of coffee. He had finally gotten her preference right.

"Damon," she glared at him.

"Oh don't get those witchy panties in a twist," he said with a cocky smirk as he looked around the area.

"We're alone," Bonnie replied rolling her eyes.

"Really," he said cocking his head to the side, "because I see plenty of college students around to feed on?"

"You know what I mean. Your psycho mom nor any of the heretics are here," she said also glancing around to ensure she was correct.

"For now," he responded.

Bonnie's head snapped towards him, "Damon, what did you do?" she asked through clenched teeth.

He gave her the innocent look that he knew did not work on her. She knew him so well now that he was an open book to her. She had first started getting an idea of who Damon really was when they were stuck in that prison world. At first it had been hell. She wished she was stuck with someone else but after a month she was glad that she was stuck with Damon. His tenacity to never give up was what helped her survive the rest of the months by herself. At one point she had been ready to give up, but when she saw the map leading to Silas, it reminded her not to give up. Even before Kai had appeared Damon already had been forming a pretty good plan to get out of there.

Even now, Damon still hadn't given up on Elena. That was why they were on this college campus. Bonnie had come to interview a Professor who was quite knowledgeable on the history of the heretics and Damon was hoping to manipulate one of them into coming up with a way to break the linking spell between Bonnie and Elena.

It had been two years since Elena was put to sleep and in all honesty, Bonnie wasn't sure Damon deserved Elena. Not that she was saying that Elena was better than him, now that she knew who Damon truly was, she didn't think that they could work and have that happy ending. Damon's infatuation with Elena stemmed from Katherine and the fact that Elena was closer to the person he thought Katherine was. Elena had always been intrigued by Damon but the sire bond caused those feelings to grow. Even after Elena took the cure and reiterated that she really did truly love Damon, Bonnie still wasn't completely convinced they would work. She was sure somewhere along the way, Damon would do something very Damon like and it would piss Elena off. They would never be able to get around that part of Damon because Elena would never be able to embrace that side of him.

"So let me guess, you grew tired of waiting for answers, and decided to attack one of the heretics, maybe the one that your mom is quite fond of?" Bonnie asked with a shrug.

He gave her a brilliant smile, "You know me so well,"

"You do remember that the last time you pissed one of them off, they destroyed a good portion of Mystic Falls?"

"How could I forget? Matty boy keeps reminding me every time I set foot in Mystic Falls, which apparently he now considers his town. If I wasn't such good friends with Sheriff Forbes, I would be asking who died and left him in charge?" Damon said looking around again.

He gently placed his hand on her arm and pulled her to stand with him. "We should get going. Stefan and Caroline are on their way back from New Orleans. We'll meet them at the house and it's a long drive to Mystic Falls."

She nodded, glancing around to check the area again. She absentmindly fiddled with the vile of Damon's blood she carried around her neck. One year ago, he had decided that she got into too many dangerous situations, mind you that was always Damon's fault, so he decided to give her the vile so that she could drink it in case of emergencies and he wasn't around to save her. She abhorred the idea at first and they had bickered about it, each raising their own points before he reminded her she had nothing to lose by wearing it. Of course, 3 hours after the argument, Lilly had run a stake through her stomach. She had never been more grateful for Damon's thoughtfulness till then.

"Did the Professor give you anything useful?" Damon asked hopefully.

"He said some things. I'll have to talk to Alaric. I think he has a book that might be useful." Bonnie said.

Damon stopped walking and looked at Bonnie, "Wait, Alaric has a book that might be useful and we haven't used it all this time?"

Bonnie sighed. It was just like Damon to point that out. "I didn't know it was useful until 20 minutes ago."

"Oh," he said linking arms as he guided her towards his car. They looked like a normal couple on campus. He looked at her, his blue eyes twinkling, "The sun is setting, let's do that cheesy romance thing where the hero rides off into the sunset with the heroine."

Bonnie scoffed loudly, "Except Mystic Falls is due East and the sun is setting in the West," she pointed out.

"Always the critic Bon Bon," Damon said shaking his head.

Bonnie laughed. No matter the situation, he always managed to get her to laugh. He always had a unique way of looking at things and finding a solution to the problem. If only there was a solution to the fact that Bonnie had now fallen completely and utterly in love with Damon Salvatore. She really wondered how she was going to get herself out of this mess with both her heart and friendship with Damon still intact. At least she would always have him in her dreams.