How do you tell someone that you're in love with their best friend? How do you tell the girl you once loved, the girl you fought so hard to get, that you've fallen head over heels in love with her best friend?

Damon ran his fingers through his now wet hair as hot water ran down his body like a silk blanket. Flashes of that nigh with Bonnie flooded his mind.

They'd been stuck on the other side for about three years now and they had finally adapted to a life without their friends and family - not to say they missed them any less than they did when they were first ripped away from them. Damon, unknowingly to him, had began to enjoy being with Bonnie. He cooked her breakfast every morning, gave her too many to count corny nicknames and began kissing her forehead, cheek or hair before leaving for work. He and Bonnie had decided that the only way they could make it in this world that they were in was to act as normal as they could - hence the job. Anyway, Damon had found himself in a routine with the ex-witch. Wake up, cook her breakfast, kiss her goodbye, go to work, come home, eat dinner then off to bed. He enjoyed the life he built with the witch.

A frown itched its way onto Damon's features. Here he was back home with his friends and family and Bonnie was still stuck where she was. She'd sacrificed herself to send him back home. A home he didn't want to return to without her. The moment he laid eyes on Elena he realized that he no longer loved her or wanted her in his arms. It was Bonnie. He'd realized that he'd fallen in love with Bonnie, that it was Bonnie he wanted in his arms, in his bed, in his life. She was the one he wanted to protect, to see happy. And it was then that he'd made it his goal to bring back the woman he loved.

Later that day everyone had come together at the Salvatore Manor to discuss Bonnie. Now that Damon was back everyone had newly found hope that Bonnie could come back too.

Everyone was talking at once in the library when Damon appeared before them with an annoyed look plastered on his face.

"Can all of you shut up for a sec. How do you expect to understand a word the other is saying if all of you are rambling on like idiots?" he states before moving towards the bar and reaching for the bourbon. Everyone watched as he went to pour himself a drink only to stop mid pour before shaking his head and setting the bottle down. He'd made Bonnie a promise that he would not drink or go on a killing spree just because he was annoyed or angry, which he was both right now. Sighing, he turned to face everyone.

"We need to discuss how to get Bonnie back."Jeremy says as he takes a step in his direction.

Damon found himself glaring at little Gilbert. He knew he promised to be a little nicer but the thought of him still pinning after the woman he loved pissed him off.

"No shit, Jeremy. Why do you care anyway? From what I've heard you've moved on with plenty of different women." he growled.

Jeremy glared back,"why do I care? We didn't break up, Damon! She was taken from me just as you were taken from Elena. I love her! And I can't stop loving her!" he snapped back.

Damon glared daggers into him the moments those three words escaped his lips,"Well you better damn well try!" he spat with much hatred as he took a threatening step in his direction only to be stopped by Elena.

"Damon, please, we all want Bonnie back."

Jeremy scoffed,"Everyone but him. He hated Bonnie. I'm sure he's glad she's stuck on the other side."

Elena could see something in Damon snap so the quickly threw herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck,"Damon, stop, please."

Stefan watched his brother. He watched as he pulled out of Elena's hold and walked over to the bar. He watched as Damon fought the monster in him that told him to kill Jeremy where he stood.

But why?

Why is Damon fighting himself so hard?

A growl erupted deep from Damon's chest as his hands gripped the counter. He need to calm down. He need to fight the monster in him that wanted to snap Jeremy's neck where he stood.

"Damn it, Bonnie!" He couldn't break his promise to Bonnie, he swore to her that he wouldn't do anything crazy. So, taking large deep breaths, Damon closed his eyes and let images of Bonnie smiling, laughing and having fun occupy his mind. The thought of her always calmed him down.

Elena took a step in his direction,"Damon?"

Turning around he met her gaze. Damon had to admit that he still cared for the beautiful woman before him he just didn't love her anymore. She moved to hug him but he stopped her,"I wouldn't do that if I were you." he says as he moved to stand by the fire place.

"What's wrong, Damon? What's going on with you? Since you've been back we've barely even spent time together." she complains.

"Well excuse me for not being in the mood to bed you when Bonnie is still stuck over there." he snapped at her.

"Since when do you care so much about Bonnie? You hated her before you two were sucked into oblivion." Tyler states.

"Since I decided to. What ever my feelings for Bonnie are and how deep they go is not any of your damn concern." he spat.

"It is when Bonnie is one of our closest friends." Tyler snapped back.

Turning to everyone, Damon glared at them with so much anger in his eyes you would swear they would burst into flames,"Look, you imbeciles, I am trying REALLY hard not to kill any of you idiots right now. So, do me a favor and shut the hell up!" he hissed.

"Damon, what is going on with you? You've changed."

I though me not drinking and going on a town killing spree was a good thing."

"It is. I just...what made you change?"

Bonnie. "Nothing."

"Nothing?"

"Yes, Elena, nothing."

"Damon -"

"Elena, you don't want to go down that road...ever." he warned her. He knew what he had to say would hurt her and shock her. He was in no mood to comfort her. He just wanted Bonnie back.

"Why not?"

He groaned,"You won't like what you find."

"Damon, what ever you did, it's okay. We can work through it."

Damon scoffed,"I highly doubt that." he says softly.

Elena appeared before him and cupped his face in her small hands,"Damon, please. I lov-" he lifted his hands and took hold of her wrist and pulled them away from his face and towards her chest.

"Don't." he growls before walking away from her.

"What?" she asked in shock.

Damon met his brothers gaze before he shrugged and decided to just use the band-aid affect in this situation. He was just going to tell her, all of them, what's changed in the three years he and Bonnie were stuck on the other side.

Turning around he looked at each and everyone of them before his eyes landed on Caroline. Despite how he felt towards her before he and Bonnie died, she was the closest to Bonnie of everyone in this room. He felt with her in the room he had a piece of Bonnie with him in a weird way.

"Before any of this goes any further there is something that all of you should know." he states as he tares his gaze from Caroline and looks around the room," what I have to say will hurt some of you and shock all of you. Now whether you like what I have to say, I don't care." he glares at Jeremy as he says this.

"What's going on, Damon?" Elena asked.

He meets her gaze and then everyone else's,"I'm in love with the witch." he states bluntly.

Stefan's eyes widened and his jaw slacked. Had he heard his brother right? He was in love with Bonnie?

"Now that this is over and done...we need to find Bonnie." he turns around to walk towards a book shelf when Elena speaks up.

"You're in love...with Bonnie?"

Oh dear god. "Yes, I am." he says turning to meet her gaze.

"Look, can we get back to finding a way to bring the woman I love back? After that you can scream and yell and curse me for breaking your heart and falling in love with your best friend," he groans,"but until then keep your complaints, distaste and rude comments to yourself because no matter what any of you have to say I'm in love with her. And there is nothing that you can say or do to make me feel differently."

After five minutes of silence and no one moving, Stefan took a deep breath and moved to his brothers side, placing a hand on his shoulder, causing Damon to glance up at him. A smile graced Stefan's lips,"Let's get the woman you love back home." he says

Damon smiled at his brother,"Thank you, brother."

Caroline sighed, as she moved to stand opposite of Damon and Stefan,"You're a dick for just dropping that bomb on us, on Elena, like that but, you're in love with Bonnie and I'm sure you want her back home just as much as we do, so" she grabs a book from his pile and sits down,"let's bring my sister home."