It was dinner time and both of them were eating in silence, funny how they went back to their little routine so easily. They hadn't spoken about what happened, none of their minds could understand Kai's motives for leaving them there when he was so determined to destroy the spell.
"What of Elena now? Why did he even need her?" Bonnie asked between bites.
"Dunno. I suppose since he left us here, he'll return her?" Damon answered.
Bonnie couldn't help but to be surprised about his carefree attitude. "How are you so calm?"
Damon looked at her like she was crazy "Well Bon-Bon it's not like I can do anything now anyways… I'm here….with you"
Bonnie let a little smile escape her lips, she couldn't lie it was good to have him back, even if they'd just been fooled by the latest baddie in their lives. The time she spent alone wasn't easy, she felt despair, she felt powerless. She missed her friends, she missed Damon, she never expected to build such a bond with him, it felt so weird to be back in the Boarding House by herself, now it was like he had never left. "I missed you" she admitted.
Damon's eyes widened, he had missed her, he even confessed it to her phone that one time, with the same smile he gave her at the cave, he reciprocated her feelings and it didn't get awkward.
Bonnie had spent the first night in 1994 in her house but after that she settled for a little room in the Boarding House where currently she and Damon were having one of their long talks. Damon's eyes were getting heavy with sleep, Bonnie nudged him "hey, vampire sleeping beauty wake up, do you even need sleep?"
Damon stretched his arms "I told you not to nickname and of course I need sleep or don't you think I do it just for sport?"
"It's you, one can never know" Bonnie sighed. She was getting sleepy too but she was happy to hear news about the ones she cared about. She didn't insist on news about Jeremy, and Damon didn't include much on his speech, he told her about their brief encounter at her dorm room, she had mixed feelings about Jeremy paying her phone bill, she thought it was sweet but also pretty pointless and a waste of money. She was too tired to think right about it at the moment. They fell asleep, Bonnie went under the covers and Damon remain on top of the blankets.
In the morning, after pancakes and bickering, they were on full battle mode. Trying to figure out what to do next, Kai's plans and analyzing Emily's grimoire they had found the day before.
Damon looked through the window and sighed "I definitely didn't miss this damn eclipse every single day"
Bonnie laughed. She was in a good humor, Emily's little grimoire was a collection of very intricate (and weird but interesting) spells, true she hadn't find anything that could help them but this grimoire was pure gold to any witch.
"If Kai returned here maybe he needed to get something, he spent so many years here" Damon offered.
Bonnie shrugged "Nah he was all prepared, backpack full of things". "You said he wanted to destroy the spell and needed me, maybe he settled for having me trapped here, it makes me worried for Lucy, she's the other Bennett witch alive"
Damon smirked "Little witch, your cousin in our brief encounter where, may I add, she insulted me, was properly warned about Kai, I'm sure she arranged something to protect herself"
Bonnie hoped Damon was right, she didn't want Lucy to suffer because of Kai. She would deal with Kai herself, he had hurt enough people. A thought came to her, she sat straight on the couch looking at Damon, he waited for her to speak.
"Before Kai and the ascendant, I told you that if magic brought us here it should be able to get us out". Damon nodded, remembering the conversation. "While you were gone, I studied my grams grimoire over and over, the spell used to trap Kai here used a Bennett's spell, with the amulets from Emily we found and some objects I can get from my Grams house, I might harvest enough power to get us out"
Damon smiled proudly at her "Oh my, I think you might be on to something, witch's relics accumulate power over time." "I know a lot about witches" he added quickly and winked at her.
Bonnie considered giving him an aneurism but Ms. Cuddles remained in hiding so she didn't have her powers, instead she smacked him in the head.
"Ouch! That hurts"
Bonnie rolled her eyes.
When Bonnie suggested they should go for a drive, she didn't expect Damon to let her drive but she didn't argue, actually she had grown fond of the car.
They circled around Mystic Falls and stopped at the Grille as Damon suggested. He liked that the bar was still as he remembered, he was pouring the drinks for him and Bonnie and they were laughing and dancing silly.
They sat together on the counter, tired but happy. "Damon can I ask you something?"
"Shoot"
"Have you really accepted Elena's decision, that she won't remember your relationship? I mean, I could try to reverse it but if Alaric modified so many memories, they really might be forever lost" Bonnie eyed him, curious.
Damon thought for a moment, furrowing his brows, sometimes he wasn't certain about it himself "It hurt Bonnie, I tried to let her go but then we teamed up to get you back, I don't know what to feel"
Bonnie became aware of how close their hands were, her pinky finger brushed his, Damon looked down and then grabbed her hand, entwining their fingers. They looked at each other, they sat like this for some time, the feeling made both feel warm and cozy.
