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Bonnie's POV.

I was walking to my car when I noticed Damon stop walking. I looked around the clearing and I realized his car wasn't any where.

"Damon, do you want a ride home?" I asked. I don't know why I bothered. He has super human speed but I didn't want to be rude.

"Are you sure? I can walk." he replied.

"Yea. Why would I ask if I wasn't sure?" I couldn't help but be sarcastic to him. He was always that way to me. I saw in his eyes that he thought my attempt was funny.

"Bennett, don't try being sarcastic to me. I'm the master at it." he says while we walked to my car. I couldn't help but laugh.

"Salvatore, you know I can throw back everything you throw at me." I say to him with a smile on my face.

Since when do Damon and I have a decent conversation? We've been having them a lot lately it seemed.

"You're right. You can, which is why I love our bantering." Damon says. I look at him for a moment realizing what he just said.

"You love our bantering?" I asked. He looked away not meeting my eyes. I guess he didn't noticed he actually admitted that out loud.

"Well it's the only entertainment around here aside from the Klaus stuff." he explained. He kind of looked embarrassed from admitting it to me. I don't know why, because he's usually so cocky and sure of himself.

By now we were in front of his house. He looked out the window, just starring at the setting sun. I turned to him wondering what he was thinking.

"Damon, are you ok?" I felt weird asking him that. I mean we never really cared about each other until recently. But it was unnerving to me, seeing the far off look on his face. He seemed fine a little while ago. I wonder what changed.

"Huh? Oh. Yea I'm fine." he answers. If I didn't know better I would say he didn't want to get out of my car.

"Ok. Well I kind of need to get going. Elena's waiting for me remember?" I didn't want to push it. If he wanted to tell me he would.

"Yea." he says still not moving.

"What's going on Damon?" I asked getting worried.

Damon's POV.

I'm sitting here in Bonnie's car just staring out the window. I just can't believe I admitted that I love our bantering to her face. I swore I would never admit that to anyone. But the truth is I do love it. Its fun and I enjoy it. She's the only one that throws everything back at me. Everyone else just takes it.

I know she needs to get going to Elena's but I just feel like I need to be by her. I don't want her to leave. Why am I thinking like this? We couldn't stand each other not too long ago.

"What's going on Damon? I hear her ask with a little worry in her voice. Why would she be worried? Is she worried about me? I couldn't help but ask myself.

I look at her eyes. She has really beautiful eyes. Stop Damon. This is Bonnie. You don't think about her like that. Well you never did before. Yea because you were hung up on Elena. I heard a small voice in the back of my head.

"Um. Nothing. So you're going to Elena's now then?" I try changing the subject. Also stalling her departure. I see something flicker in her eyes. She looks away, out the front window. Oh, she thinks I want her to tell Elena to talk to me.

"Yea. We need to look through the files." she mumbles.

"Bonnie, I'm not going to ask you to tell Elena to talk to me. You already did. She'll talk to me when she's ready."

"I wish she could talk to Stefan. He's miserable even though it's his fault since he's acting the way he is." I mutter more to myself.

"Damon, you know he's doing it for her. They will work everything out when the times right." she says defending my brother.

"I know. Honestly, I just hate seeing him like this. I know everyone thinks I hated him but I didn't. I tried but I just couldn't." I admitted. Dang why do I keep talking. I just need to shut up, especially around the little witch.

She looks at me again. I see sympathy in her eyes. I hate when people look at me like that. So I evaded the situation before she could talk.

"Ok Judgy. I'll see you later. Don't want to make Elena wait any longer." I get out of the car and into the house as fast as I can. No doubt she's going to tell everyone what I revealed today.

Bonnie's POV.

Sitting there in my car watching him go into the house I felt like an idiot. I didn't know what to say but he didn't give me the opportunity. He left so fast. So I just pulled out of his yard and headed to Elena's.

I get there and walk up to the door. Knocking, I stood there still thinking about Damon's weird behavior. Elena then answered the door with tears in her eyes.

"Elena? What happened?" I asked walking in, grabbing her into a hug.

"Stefan just left." she says. Her voice cracking.

"Really? Why was he here?" that's weird because he said he couldn't be around her until the Klaus deal was over. He didn't want to ruin the act he was putting on.

"He said he wanted to talk. He found out about the kiss between Damon and I. I thought he would be mad but he wasn't." Elena explains sniffling.

I still don't understand why he would come over here. It didn't make sense to me.

"Are you ok? He didn't hurt you?" I asked even though I knew the answer. Stefan would never hurt her willingly.

"Not physically no. But he said he understood what happened between Damon and I." she seemed lost.

I see why he came now. He wanted her to know he was ok with the kiss because he knew Damon wasn't in love with her. He also knew she didn't kiss him back. So he did understand it.

"Elena, he probably does understand. He knows you guys got close while he was gone and now that he may never be himself again he wants you to be happy." I hated lying to her. So I pulled out my cell phone and told her I needed to call my dad ( I was really calling Stefan) because I didn't call him earlier due to homework and such.

Walking back outside while Elena fixed us some dinner I dialed Stefan's number.

"Hello?" he answered.

"Hey. I can't believe you came over here. I thought you were staying away from her for now?" I nearly yelled getting to the point. He shouldn't have put her through this.

"Bonnie I just needed to see her. She saw me walking up and I said the first thing that came to mind." he tries to explain.

"But now she thinks your ok with the kiss. She's devastated. Stefan, I think you need to cut the act. It's making both of you miserable. Please?" I try to reason with him.

"I don't know if I can. She's still in danger. I don't anything to happen to her." he says desperately.

"Stefan none of us are going to let anything happen to her. Right now we're the only ones hurting her. You, acting this way and Damon and I keeping it from her. I know her. She knows I'm hiding something from her. She's just to nice not to push it. So please. She deserves to have you back. You deserve it too." I plead.

"You're right Bonnie. Can you bring her to the boarding house please? That's where I'm at." he answers. Wow he must really miss her, to give in so easily. Damon and I've been trying to talk him into it for a while now.

"Yea. I'll have to tell her Damon needs to talk to me about the plan or something." I tell him.

"Thanks Bonnie. For everything. You're a great friend."

"You're welcome. Um Stefan. How's Damon?" I asked hesitantly.

"Damon? What do you mean how is he?" he asked confused. So Damon didn't tell him about our conversation. Typical.

"Oh. Never mind. I'll see you in a little bit. We still need to go over the files."

"Uhh. Ok. You can bring the files here. Damon and I can help."

"Ok. We'll be there in a little bit. Just going to eat dinner then head over." I say.

"See you then. Thank you again Bonnie." Stefan tells me.

"No problem. See you soon." I say before hanging up.

I walk into the house. The smell of pasta hitting my nostrils. I haven't had pasta in a while so I was looking forward to this dinner. I walk to the kitchen and see Elena still sniffling.

"Elena relax. I'm sure Stefan didn't mean anything wrong by what he said." I assure her.

"It's not about Stefan this time. This is the first night after Jeremy left. I just miss him already. I know sending him away was for his own good but he's my little brother." she says wiping her nose with a tissue.

"I'm sorry El. I didn't really think about that. I'm going to miss him too." I tell her with sadness in my voice.

"Anyways dinners done." she changes the subject.

"Ok. Um Elena do you mind if we go to the boarding house afterward? Damon called saying he needs to talk to us about the plan. He promised not to bring up the kiss situation."i say hoping my lie will work.

"Yea sure. I need a distraction from Jeremy leaving and what Stefan said." good it work. I smile to myself thinking she will be happier than she's been in a while after tonight, hoepfully.

"Elena can I ask you something?"

"Yes. Of course Bon."

"You still want to be with Stefan, right?"

"Definitely. But I don't know if that will ever happen after tonight. I feel like he really has giving up on us. Especially if he's ok with my kiss with Damon." she tells me.

I still feel that odd spark when the kiss is brought up. Come to think of it I get an odd feeling every time I think or talk about Damon all of a sudden. Not too long ago I couldn't stop thinking about Jeremy but now my thoughts were consumed with Damon and his behavior lately.

"Well you shouldn't give up. You're love may save him. Plus you're Elena. You don't give up so easily." I say with a smile.

"Is that your nice way of saying I'm stubborn?" she asks smiling.

"Of course." I answer. We start laughing. It's nice to just talk about boys and normal stuff.

We grab the files and head out to my car. I start driving to the Salvatore house. Pulling up in the drive way I couldn't help but wonder how Damon is. Why am I thinking about him? I feel like I want to be near him all the time. I don't know why. It's really irritating. We walk up to the door and ring the bell.

Stefan's POV.

I hang up the phone after saying bye to Bonnie. Elena's coming over here. What am I going to say? I know I'm panicking for no reason. I love her so much. I'm tired of being without her. I knew when I went over there today it would hurt her after I said I understood about the kiss. She most definitely thinks I gave up on us. Well I guess I'm about prove her wrong. I couldn't help but smile. I was excited but nervous at the same time.

Damon's POV.

I walk down the stairs after my shower. I tried to clear my head. The little witch was in my mind non stop today. Walking into the living room, I see my baby brother standing near the fireplace. He was smiling. I haven't seen him smile in a really long time.

"What are you smiling at brother? The fireplace isn't that interesting." I said smiling. It was nice to see him smile.

"I just got off the phone with Bonnie. She's bringing Elena over so I can talk to her. I decided that I'm going to drop the act. It's just hurting the both of us and I miss her too much. I kind of hurt her today and I've regretted it since I've been here." he said the last part in such sadness.

So he finally decided to do the right thing. I'm proud of him, though I wont admit that to anyone. Wait he just said Bonnie's coming over. She's going to want to talk about earlier. I can't tell her that I was thinking about her and didn't want her to leave. I don't fully understand it. She'll think I'm crazy. Which I probably am.

"Damon are you ok? You just started starring off into space." I hear Stefan ask.

"Yea. I'm happy your finally going to talk to Elena. I've been trying to get you to talk to her for a couple days now." and it was true. I tried getting him to talk to her before I kissed her. I know it sounds wrong but I felt like I needed to kiss her and it all turned out ok. Stefan and I are closer now because I'm not fighting for his girl anymore. Soon him and Elena will be back together and happier then ever. The only person not gaining something from all of it was me. And Bonnie says the small voice in the back of my head. She lost Jeremy now. That was true. Even though they weren't on talking terms she still lost him.

We sat there talking about random stuff. He looked at me and I could see how nervous he was. I couldn't help but smile at that.

"Stef. Stop being nervous. She loves you trust me. It may take time but just explain everything to her. She'll understand." I try to ease his nerves. It's nice being the good big brother again. I've missed this. We use to be so close before Katherine. I'm glad we're getting back to that.

I then started thinking about my conversation with Bonnie. I admitted that I cared about my brother this whole time to her. I shake my head trying to get her out of my head again.

"Damon, I'm not nervous about her not loving me. I know she does. I'm nervous about what I'm going to say." he explains to me. He looks at me then. I see curiosity in his green eyes. He must have seen that I was thinking about something.

"Damon when I was talking to Bonnie she asked how you were. Is there something wrong? You can talk to me." I hear the concern in his voice. I looked at him wondering if I could really explain everything to him.

Right when I was about to answer him there was a knock at the door. We both looked in the direction of the door. I was suddenly nervous because I knew who it was.

"Damon you have to answer it. Elena thinks they came here to talk to you about something to do with the plan. You also can't bring up the kiss." Stefan tells me walking into the kitchen, out of sight.

"Damn him." I say under my breath, walking toward the door. Just stay cool Damon. You don't have anything to be nervous about. I kept telling myself.

I open door to see Bonnie and Elena. Bonnie seemed a little concerned about something. Whether it was me or the Stefan and Elena problem about to happen I wasn't sure.

"Ladies. Glad you could make it. Come in." I say ushering them inside. We walk to the living room.

"We brought the files so we could go through them here." Bonnie says. I can tell she's wondering where Stefan was.

"Ok. I'll be right back. I need a blood bag." I excuse myself from them. I was going to the kitchen to get Stefan though.

"Hey. Get out there and talk to her." I say to him. He gets up and walks with me out of the kitchen.

We enter the living room and it seems like time stops when Elena looks at him. She looks like she's fighting the tears that want to fall.

"Damon why don't we go upstairs. Give them some privacy." Bonnie tells me. I nod to her to follow me. We enter my room. I realize she's never been in my room. When we were in I turned to her. She looked stunned.

Bonnie's POV.

We walked into a large room that I realized was Damon's bedroom. I looked around a little stunned that it was so neat and so Damon. I don't know what I was expecting his room to look like but it wasn't this. He had a huge bed with white sheets and black comforter set. A decent size walk in closet and a pretty big adjoining bathroom.

"Nice room." I didn't know what else to say.

"Thanks." he replies. It became a little awkward due to the silence that fell upon us. So I walk around his room just looking at stuff. I go to his closest and see how many leather jackets and black shirts he has. To say a lot would be an understatement. I turn to him to see him just starring at me.

"What?" I asked a little cautious. He's never stared at me like that before.

"Nothing. It's just there's something that's been on my mind. I'm just trying to figure out why it's on my mind." he tells me, now looking away. He goes and sits on his bed.

"Damon are you sure you're ok? Earlier you seemed pretty out of it. And don't tell me it's because of Stefan." I try to get him to tell me what's going on. He's been acting weirder than usual.

He looks at me when I approach him. His eyes bore into mine. Gosh his eyes are so beautiful. The perfect shade of blue. Ok bad thoughts. Go away. But it's now use. Those thoughts stay. His been in my mind so much today.

"Yes I'm fine."

"I know we aren't that close, heck we aren't even friends really but you can talk to me if you need to." I don't know why I'm trying so hard to figure out what's wrong with him. He says he's fine so he probably is.

"Bonnie I'm fine."

"Ok." I say sitting down on his bed. I take the folder I was holding and opened it.

"Are those the Abby Bennett files?" Damon asks.

"Yea. There are a lot of them. Stefan said to bring them over here so we could all look through them." I explained. He looked at me curiously. Why did he keep looking at me like that?

"So do you really think your mom's one of these?" he asked pointing to the pile I laid out.

"I'm not sure. I hope so. We could really use her help." you could hear the little sadness in my voice. I didn't really want to see my mom but we did need her help if she wanted to help us. It's been 15 years so I was a little sad that I'd be seeing her again because all those feelings of abandonment were going to come back. I just knew they were. From the look on Damon's face he could tell what I was thinking.

"Don't start Damon. I know what your going to say. And yes I have to do this." I assure him. Why does he care?

"What? I wasn't going to say anything. I know how stubborn you are." he says a little irritated.

"I'm not stubborn. I just know we need to do this. We need to get rid of Klaus." I nearly yelled, getting annoyed.

"We could find another way."

"No Damon. We can't. It's either I suffer seeing my mom or I die with all that power. Either way I suffer but it's my choice." I was getting angry. Why was he so concerned? I didn't understand. I know we had an understanding now but this was unlike him.

"Bonnie I can't stand seeing you hurt." he blurted out. He looked like he didn't mean to say that out loud.

"What?" I was confused.

"I said I can't..."

"I heard you. I just don't understand what you mean." I interrupted him. I was still confused. He never minded if I was hurting before. It's like ever since he told me about him not being in love Elena he's been acting different. I wondered if he knew he was acting different. I have to admit it felt nice to know someone cared. I knew Stefan cared, he just didn't know any other way to get Klaus. I knew he wished we could. We became good friends again when he confessed he was acting rude for the protection of everyone. But it was nice to have someone that knew everything care.

"Just forget I said anything." he snapped before disappearing out the window.

I just sat there starring at the window in a daze. What just happened?

Elena's POV.

After Damon walked out of the room I stood by the couch feeling a little nervous. I haven't talked to him since we kissed so it's bound to be awkward. But why did he keep looking at Bonnie? My thoughts were interrupted when Damon walked back into the room followed by the last person I thought would be here. Stefan.

Uh what is he doing here? I don't know what to say to him. Just seeing him again makes my heart pound. After our little talk this afternoon I didn't think I would see him for awhile. Now here he stands looking, nervous? I vaguely hear Bonnie tell Damon to give us some privacy. So they were in on this set up? Why?

"Hi Elena." Stefan says. He sounds nervous too. Whats going on with everyone? I feel like their all hiding something from. Especially the way Bonnie's been acting.

"Stefan." I reply. I want him to know I'm still hurt from earlier. I know I shouldn't be, he just wants me to move on but it's not that easy. And to hear him say he understands that Damon and I got closer, it's like he knew we would end up kissing.

"I need to talk to you. It's rather important." his words bring me out of my thoughts. I don't say anything, just nod to let him know to continue.

"I know what I said to you earlier hurt. But I do understand. That doesn't mean I like that it happened but it did." he paused. Wait! He didn't like that it happened? That means he still cares right?

"Elena. What I'm about to tell you is probably going to make you angry which I will fully deserve." he paused again. It was like he was having trouble forming what he wanted to say.

"What Stefan? It's not like I can get any more angrier." I tell him. He looks away from me.

"Ok I deserve that. The thing is... I. I still love you. I've been acting like I don't because I knew if I went back to the way things use to be everyone would be in more danger. I never thought Klaus would go after Jeremy and for that I'm so sorry. I thought if we weren't together he would leave your family and friends alone." he was rambling now. My mind was stuck on him still loving me though. Those words made my heart soar. I've missed hearing them so much. I started walking toward him.

"I know you didn't think he would go after Jeremy. It just hurt that you said it wasn't your problem. But now your standing here telling me it was all an act and that you still love me. I'm honestly confused." I don't really know what to make of this information. I want to believe him. I really do. I just don't want to get hurt again.

"Elena I never stopped loving you. I need you in my life. I know I don't deserve you anymore. You should know I'm on my diet again, well working into it. I'm trying to make an effort. Elena I've missed..."

I didn't let him finish. I was right in front of him by then and just kissed him. This kiss was even better than our first. As soon as our lips touched there was an electric shock that ran through my body. From the way he grabbed my waist and pulled me closer I knew he felt it also. We stayed like that just kissing for what felt like forever. Then we heard Damon shout something so we broke apart.

"I love you so much. I never truly gave up on you. You have to know that. When Damon kissed me, it was right after he told me why you saved Klaus so I was still caught up in my thoughts when he kissed me. I didn't kiss him back. I promise." I knew I was rambling. I just wanted him to know I loved him and only him.

"I know Elena. Damon and I talked about everything. I love you so much too. I've missed you." he explained to me. He led me over to the couch so we could sit together and finish talking. We sat there for awhile when we seen Bonnie coming down stairs.

A/N: I know this didn't have a lot of Damon and Bonnie. But I wanted to get the whole Stefan and Elena relationship going. So now I will focus more on Bamon.