Okay guys, as it's the last chapter it's a long one.

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The day after she arrived in Florence, Bonnie went out and started exploring Florence. She noticed that the sky was overcast and took it to be a good sign that Damon was still in town.

Bonnie had phoned Stefan before she left and told him that she was going after Damon. Stefan had given her the address of the apartment that they had last stayed in at her insistence, but warned her that it was very unlikely Damon wouldn't be staying there. He also told her that Damon had been hunting in the bars and clubs that tourists went to so Bonnie had made sure that she packed some of the designer clothes she had taken with her from America to Scotland.

Bonnie soon discovered that there were a lot of dark haired, gorgeous Italian men that drove black Ferraris in Florence, so she would have to rely on her psychic powers to find him. Bonnie was feeling pretty miserable; in a city of this size she didn't know how she would find him in two weeks, so she decided to try a spell to help her. Later that day she went to the Boboli Gardens with the ingredients and found a quiet place in the meadow of columns. She had written a letter to Damon and in it had explained everything to him and had told him of her feelings for him.

Dear Damon,

Matt's suicide was such a shock to me, I felt so guilty and so shocked by it that I wasn't in my right mind when I said those things to you.

I've had some time to think and you were right about everything, it wasn't my fault that he died, he'd been taking anti-depressants but I didn't know. He hid them from me so that I wouldn't worry and I guess me running off to Edinburgh pushed him over the edge. He said in his suicide note that he wanted me to be happy with whatever I chose.

I chose you Damon and I do love you. I just needed some time to grieve for Matt, I hope you understand. I'm here in the Boboli Gardens in the meadow of columns waiting for you; if you don't come in the next hour then I'll scour the bars of Florence for the next two weeks for you. If you don't come to me by then I'll presume that you don't love me anymore and I'll go back home.

Please come if you can forgive me.

Love

Bonnie.

She burnt the letter in the flame of the blue candle, letting the ashes scatter on the wind, and then she burnt some Thyme and let that scatter. All she had to now was to wait and see.

Bonnie waited for 2 hours and nothing happened, no one appeared. Her heart sank. She got up and left, not looking anyone in the eyes in case she started to cry.

On the way back to her hotel she grabbed a slice of pizza and started to walk over the Ponte-Vechio, looking at the souvenir shops to keep her mind off things. Soon the shops gave way to open bridge and then she saw a bronze bust surrounded by railings and a young couple giggling while they put padlocks around the railings.

Bonnie nearly cried. She'd gone from two men to none, why was she so cursed?

She stood next to the statue and looked out sadly over the bridge, suddenly she wasn't hungry anymore. She threw the pizza in the bin and walked a fast walk back to her hotel, once safely inside her room she laid on the bed and started to cry, eventually falling asleep.

She slept fitfully, dreaming of Damon standing outside her hotel, but when she ran out to meet him and tried to hug him, he pushed her away and flew away as a crow.

When she woke up it was dark. She had a quick shower, got dressed in a dress she bought from Fells' Church and then went out to explore Florence by night.

She went into bar after bar, spending half an hour in each and trying to use her psychic senses to find him, but by 1am she was tired, a bit drunk and had almost given up all hope of finding him.

For the rest of the time she was in Florence, Bonnie tried lots of different spells but he didn't come. She went every night and stayed out until the last bar in Florence shut, but although there were loads of guys trying to pick her up, she didn't find the one she was looking for. The days were spent trying to cover every inch of Florence trying to find him, but she never did.

Soon it was her last day and Bonnie decided to have one last stab at finding Damon. She had been telling the bartenders that she'd had an argument with her Florentine boyfriend who had moved back and she was trying to find him to say sorry, but she couldn't find him. She gave them a description of him and told them where she was staying in case they happened to see him and then last night she heard some American tourists discussing the bloke with the coal black eyes who had been chatting up one of their girlfriends and how he had invited her back to his apartment in the same building as the Uffizi Gallery. It seemed that the boyfriend had come running from the other end of the bar and tried to start a fight with Damon, but had found himself flying through the air.

Bonnie had rushed out of the bar and down the road to the Uffizi, sure enough there was black Ferrari sitting outside, her heart leapt. She buzzed every buzzer hoping to hear his voice, but it was only women that answered. She sat on the step; he had to come out sometime. But at 1 am she had given up and gone home.

Today she went back to the same place and put a copy of the letter that she had burnt on his windscreen, she was just about to walk away when she heard his voice.

"Ah, piccolina, I'm surprised it took you long to find me." Bonnie turned around and Damon was standing on the doorstep leaning casually against the wall, his eyes as black as coal and an expression of amusement on his face.

Just then a leggy brunette opened the front door and went straight over to Damon. She pushed her body against his and kissed him on the mouth passionately.

Bonnie gasped, and ran off with tears in her eyes. How could she have been so stupid think that he loved silly little Bonnie? He must have been playing with her all along.

Suddenly she ran into someone and but as she looked up to apologise she found herself in Damon's arms.

"Let me go!" Bonnie struggled to get away, but Damon held her tight.

"No." he said with a smirk on his face. "I rarely make mistakes Bonnie and when I do I never make the same one twice." Bonnie opened her mouth in astonishment but the words never came, as Damon's lips covered hers in a surprisingly passion kiss.

"I'm sorry," she said when she finally came up for air. Damon just smiled a dazzling smile at her, but she noticed that his eyes were full of lights.

"I'm ready Damon; if being with you means becoming a Vampire then I'll do it. I'll do anything for you." Damon's face became serious as he stroked her cheek with his hand.

"In a few years perhaps, not just yet and besides, there's something I want to show you before we fly." Bonnies' face lit up.

"Oh Damon!" she threw her arms around his neck, almost catching him off guard.

A couple of days later, they arrived back in Fells' Church, Bonnie went back home to her parent's house and slept while Damon paid Elena a visit.

Stefan had gone out hunting and Elena was alone in the boarding house. He used the conventional entrance for once and when he opened the door to her room Elena was so surprised that she dropped the book she was reading.

"What are you doing here? Get out!" she spat.

"I came to have a little chat with you Elena, about Bonnie." Damon perched on the window watching her reaction.

"What about her?" she asked, quietly.

"She's mine Elena and I'm not going to give her up so you had better get used to the idea, just like Bonnie and Meredith did when you told them what my brother was." He smiled cruelly when she swallowed.

"I seem to remember that you broke up with Matt and started going out with my brother a couple of weeks later. Yet you have the audacity to critisce Bonnie for choosing me over Matt." Elena's mouth dropped open.

"Matt was a fool who had been depressed for a long time and he didn't tell anyone. He knew there was a chance that she wouldn't be his and it was her decision alone. I didn't influence her."

Elena opened her mouth to speak but Damon held up an elegant finger to shush her. "You had your chance to choose me Elena and but you chose Stefan. It's too late now." Damon grinned at her and jumped from the window before Elena could throw anything at him.

Stefan was waiting for him below the window. "That was a bit harsh Damon." Damon raised an eyebrow, "she needed to see the truth. I have no time for little hypocrite's brother, especially one like her." Stefans' eyes widened in shock and then narrowed. "Don't talk to my fiancée like that ever again!" he snarled. Damon got hold of Stefan's jacket and shoved him into the wall of the boarding house.

"Then don't let your fiancée talk to my …. Talk to Bonnie like she did ever again. Otherwise I'll make both your lives a living hell!" Damon dropped Stefan and flew away.

Elena came rushing out the door, guessing what all the noise was about. "Stefan! Are you okay?" Stefan grinned at her.

"I think my brother's fallen in love." Elena looked shocked as Stefan put his arm around her as they walked back inside.

Elena called Bonnie later that night to apologise and Bonnie accepted. "Oh Elena I'm so happy! I'm moving to Florence after Christmas and Damon proposed to me before we left Florence!" Bonnies' words rushed out of her mouth so quickly that Elena barely understood.

"Bonnie McCullough! You get yourself round here right now! I want to see the ring and hear every little detail! I can't believe you were just going to tell me over the phone!" Elena yelled. Stefan had been trying to read on the bed and not listen to their conversation, but at the word ring his head shot up from his book.

Elena hung up on Bonnie and turned to Stefan, neither of them knowing what to say, Elena dialled Meredith's number to tell her the news. Meredith had been trying to come to terms with Matt's death herself, but after Bonnie went away, she and Alaric had been over the boarding house a lot.

Soon the now familiar Ferrari engine roared up to the boarding house and Meredith, Elena and Stefan were waiting for Bonnie who practically flew out of the car and straight into Meredith and Elena.

Stefan laughed and stepped back as the girls hugged each other warmly and then practically ripped her hand off to look at the ring.

The ring was a 24 carat gold Giorsal ring that had a huge Ruby heart with two hands holding it; the crown was silver with each of the three points made from a diamond.

Bonnie wore it so the heart pointed towards the tip of her finger and the crown towards her knuckle.

"Congratulations Bonnie, may I see the ring?" asked Stefan as he gently took Bonnies' hand and looked at the ring. "It's a Scottish version of the Claddagh" she explained to Stefan. Stefan smiled at her, "it's as beautiful as you are Bonnie. My brother had better look after you" Bonnie flushed bright red and thanked him, glancing sideways at Damon who was leaning against the Ferrari grinning like a Cheshire cat.

"I have to get something to eat and so I'll see you girls later. Have fun." said Stefan as he went over to Damon. "Coming?" Damon looked at his brother as if he had been scrapped off a shoe. "To watch you hunt animals!?"

Stefan glared at him, "not a chance boy." Stefan sighed and walked off, "but I might give you a lift if you ask nicely." Stefan turned round and got into the Ferrari, as they headed off into the night Stefan glanced curiously at Damon. "Who are and what have you done with my brother?" Damon arched his eyebrow but said nothing and Stefan found himself grinning.

Back at the house the girls had made it upstairs to where a Chinese takeaway was waiting to be eaten. After the three of them had helped themselves to a plateful of food the interrogation started. "Right, where, when, how?" Asked Meredith as they sat on the floor, Bonnie grinned.

"It took me two weeks to find him; he was ignoring my spells as he wanted me to come to him. Anyway, I didn't have long to get to the airport but he said that we would have to get a later flight as he wanted to show me the view from Fort Belvedere which was built not that long before he was born.

You can get up onto the roof through all these art galleries and when we got up there the view was amazing, you could see the whole of Florence and the hills above it. He used his power to influence everyone else to go away which I though was a bit odd, I was just about to ask him what he thought he was doing but he gave me the ring box and asked me to open it. Oh my god I nearly died when I saw the ring! And it's engraved as well, look." Bonnie took off her ring and showed the inscription inside- Gra Go Deo.

"What does it mean?" asked Meredith whose eyebrows had been raised throughout the whole story. "Love Forever in Gaelic which was the language of the Druids and they still speak it in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. How romantic is that?" Bonnie sighed heavily.

Elena choked on her noodles and Meredith shook her head. "Did he actually ask you to marry him?" asked Elena, curious at the apparently sudden change in Damon's behaviour. "He said that I was both beautiful and powerful and that he wanted me to join him forever. This is Damon Salvatore we're talking about remember."

Elena and Meredith exchanged glances; did their friend really know what she was letting herself into?

"Bonnie, when Damon says forever, he means forever," warned Elena. Bonnie frowned, "I know that Elena, I knew that before I made my choice. He wants me to wait a couple of years and then it'll happen when the time's right. Before you go on at me about eating like Stefan or Damon I haven't decided yet but I'm giving both options serious thought."

Meredith and Elena smiled at each other, "I'm pleased for you Bonnie, I really am. We were just worried that you didn't know what you were getting yourself into. But you do and you've made your choice so as your friends we'll be here for you, no matter what" Meredith said giving Bonnie a hug and a meaningful look at Elena.

The girls spent the rest of the night catching up, Meredith explained that Alaric didn't want to come because Damon scared him and he knew it was going to be a girls' night anyway. Bonnie told them of her experiences in Scotland and how Damon had saved her twice, leaving out all the biting and blood giving, and of her quest to find Damon in Florence. She told them that the leggy brunette was from another apartment that had come out the same time as Damon and that was why she thought they were together.

Elena listened intently to her friends, she didn't like what Bonnie was going to do and she knew Meredith didn't either, but then she thought of when she became a vampire and told them about Stefan and Damon

Soon it was getting on for midnight and they heard the Ferrari's engine signalling that there party had ended and it was time to go. Meredith was getting picked up by Alaric at midnight but then they all heard the sound of his car. Meredith shot a worried look over at Bonnie.

"I'll see what I can do, but if he's in one of his moods…" Meredith nodded. The three of them went downstairs together; Alaric had just gotten out of his car and nearly got back in when he saw Damon.

"Scared?" Damon asked Alaric, with an amused look on his face. Alaric nodded.

"Good, you should be." Damon gave him a toothy grin at him and then was suddenly standing next Alaric, "you still haven't encountered any of our kind except us then?"

Before Alaric could reply Bonnie ran over and grabbed Damon's arm, "I'm feeling a bit tired Damon, can we go home?" she asked sweetly.

Damon smiled as he bent to kiss Bonnies' hand. "Of course," he said softly and escorted her back to the Ferrari with her still on his arm.

Alaric meanwhile, had just begun to breathe again and Meredith was over to him like a shot, reassuring him that Damon was playing with him.

Stefan laughed softly and shook his head. "I think we've all underestimated Bonnies' powers you know," he put his arm around Elena as Bonnie and Damon drove off into the night at full speed.

"How so?" Elena asked softly.

"Because she's got my brother well and truly spellbound." he chuckled as they waved to Meredith and Alaric and walked in to the boarding house.