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A/N: This takes place after the season premiere, "The Return" and was a request from Terapsina! :)
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Bonnie had gotten used to the strange dreams she had almost every night since she discovered she was a witch. She always expected, but today she hoped she would have one of those rare, dreamless nights. It had been a long day and she had the feeling that it would be the first of many long days thanks to Katherine.
Unfortunately, she didn't get her wish. Tonight she was dreaming about Damon. That alone was strange enough, considering she didn't like to think about him, look at him, say his name, etc., etc., but this dream...it was different from all her other dreams. Not because of the subject even. It was different because she could feel everything Damon was feeling. That had never happened before, no matter who she dreamt about.
It appeared that she was going through Damon's life, well, unlife. Actually, it appeared to be both his life and unlife. Upon realizing this, her initial thought was Oh, dear god, I'm going to be asleep for the next hundred and fifty years or so just to watch his life.
Thankfully, that didn't appear to be the case. For whatever reason, she was only going through certain parts, most of which centered around Katherine or Elena.
She felt his immense love for Katherine. Bonnie didn't even realize that Damon could feel love. She had always assumed that he just felt love.
He felt his heartbreak when he lost Katherine. He had lost his will to live even. He didn't want to become a vampire at first, either.
The more Bonnie saw, the more she found it unbelievable. Damon felt emotions that she thought he had long forgotten or had never even cared about in the first place. She even found some of her judgments to be wrong. It still doesn't excuse everything he's done, she told herself vehemently.
She felt his heart chip away after Emily had destroyed the crystal that would allow him into the tomb. She felt his small twinge of hope when he discovered that it was still possible to get inside the tomb, to get to Katherine. She felt his heart chip even more when he learned that Katherine had been free all along and never bothered to look for him.
She kept trying to force herself to wake up, but the visions wouldn't let her. For whatever reason, she was meant to see all this. Bonnie didn't want to see this, though. She didn't want to admit Damon was actually a person. Not after all he's done.
Then she had really, really wanted to wake up when she saw Damon's heated make-out session with Katherine. This dream had already been voyeuristic enough without having to see…that.
She could feel Damon's hope and trepidation as he was about to ask the one question he had been dying to know ever since he found out Katherine wasn't even in the tomb.
"I need the truth just once."
"Stop. I already know your question and it's answered. The truth is…I've never loved you. It was always Stefan."
His heart completely shattered. Then, he went to Elena to find solace.
"No, Damon. It's Stefan. It's always been Stefan."
That had been the final straw that swept away any small shred of humanity Damon had gained and he had snapped Jeremy's neck just to prove that.
Bonnie's green eyes suddenly snapped awake. Incoherent thoughts racing through her brain, she grabbed her car keys and left the house, not taking a moment to think of what her father would do if he discovered her leaving the house this late. She wasn't even sure what she was going to do, but when she ended up at the Salvatore boarding house, she knew that there was no turning back then.
She entered without knocking, figuring that only Damon would be there.
The place was a mess with books thrown all over and shattered glass scattering the floor, making it hazardous to walk across without a fairly strong pair of shoes.
Damon stood in the center of the room, glaring at the burning fireplace.
"You know, technically I should kill you for what you did to Jeremy."
He didn't even answer or acknowledge her presence. She found it a bit frightening.
A/N: This is going to be a fairly short fic that I am splitting into small parts. They aren't really intended to be drabbles or one-shots, but they are kind of turning into ones that inter-connect. I am planning on having this fic done by the time the next episode comes out!
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