I personally didn't like this chapter...idk why though. well it helps set the mood for the next chapter with how Damon feels about Bonnie so i hope you like it! the next one is posted too :)

Damon made sure Bonnie made it home safe before they parted ways.

She walked onto the porch with Damon following close behind. Turning around, Bonnie gave a small smile. "Thank you."

He looked confused, "For what?"

"If you weren't there, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have woken up . . . probably not at all." She shrugged nonchalantly.

"Why couldn't you wake up anyways?"

She stared at him thinking of a way out of telling him but he practically confessed his care for her just a half hour ago. She could not deny him the truth. "I had a dream but it was noth-"

"What about?"

"My Grams." She did not lie. She simply evaded the complete truth.

He opened his mouth to say speak but he could not. He stared at her with apologetic eyes. "I'm really s-"

"Stop. No more apologizing." She gave him a genuine smile and laid a hand on his shoulder. "I forgive you and we can move past everything that happened between us." She gave him a peck on the cheek. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight Bonnie."

She unlocked the door and walked in. "Bonnie."

"Yeah?"

"I hope you don't tell anyone about our moment because I have a reputation to uphold." He smirked and wiggled his eyebrows.

"Of course I won't." She laughed and closed the door.

Damon touched his cheek with glazed eyes. He never felt so light and feathery in all his existence until now. He walked off the porch with a giant weight lifted off his shoulders and hope she was sincere in forgiving him.

"Why are you wet?" Stefan asked Damon before Damon could close the door.

"Well hello to you too." His signature smirk crossed his face.

"Why are you wet?" He repeated.

"Well if you must know 'daddy' I decided to run around and feel all majestic and like a vampire." Damon sneered.

"Liar."

"What?"

"I can smell Bonnie all over you. I told you that if you hurt her again that I would hurt you. Now, tell me what you did." Stefan's voice was low and deadly.

"She was stuck on the side of the road. Her car had a dent in it so I'm assuming that she was an unfortunate victim of hit and run. I stopped and made sure she was okay. Then, I followed her home to make sure that she was safe." Damon stomped off in the opposite direction. "And by the way," He turned back to a shocked Stefan, "I would really appreciate it if you, Miss Elena, and Caroline would get off my back about Bonnie because I don't want to hurt her anymore than I already have. So could you for once give me the benefit of the doubt and know that I'm not a total screw up that goes around screwing women and killing best friends for the hell of it." He gave a devious smile, went up to his room, and shut the door.

Damon was beyond pissed and wanted to kill something.

Bonnie went to sleep that night with Damon constantly invading her thoughts.

She never could have dreamed that Damon cared for her so strongly. Maybe he always had cared for her but he just covered it up to keep up his reputation of being a major douche who was obsessed with Katherine. Or maybe he never realized it until now. The way he held her made her heart quicken at the mere thought. It was the most loving embrace she had ever gotten; even Elena never hugged her like that. She hoped and prayed that he meant everything he said to her on the car and that he would not deny what the two of them shared.

The mere thought of Damon returning to his old self sent her into an immediate frenzy. Bonnie was strong when she needed to be. But, with Damon, she felt helpless and powerless because she knew that if Damon hurt her again, she may not come back from it.

No, no. Calm down Bonnie. He wouldn't do that to you. He can't do that to you.

"Damon, I'm sorry. I just don't want anyone to get hurt that's all." Stefan said quietly against Damon's door. "I'm going over to Elena's for a while so I guess I'll see you soon." Damon did not answer. "I'm sorry." With that Stefan walked away.

Damon stayed in his room for the rest of the day sulking, yes sulking, in all of the day's events:

First, Bonnie and I get into another one of our infamous fights, then I make her cry, then Elena blows up at me for making Bonnie cry, then St. Stefan threatens me. Oh yeah, did I mention that I practically broke down in front of Bonnie and basically admitting that I'm the weak pathetic vampire that I try so hard not to be? Oh and don't let me forget that Stefan accuses me, that's right me, of hurting Bonnie! I mean, how could he think that? I mean yeah I've had my fair share of ups and downs with Bonnie, but I still wouldn't physically hurt. Not again at least. I just wish Stefan and everyone else for that matter would get off my back and let me handle this.

Damon smiled a genuine smile at the thought of Bonnie forgiving him for everything. The mere thought of Bonnie made Damon figure that he did not have to kill anyone just yet.

She doesn't hate me so I guess that's a step in the right direction. All I have to do now is show her that she can trust me to not be such an ass to her all the time. Then maybe, just maybe we could be friends and the "Scooby-Doo gang" will live happily ever after.

He smirked at the thought of them being friends. Well maybe it won't bet that easy. But it's worth it.