Bonnie snuggled into Damon's warmth, curled her head into the curve of his neck. There was something wondrous about lying on his hard body while cocooned in the softness of his ridiculously expensive sheets. He looked luscious with his porcelain skin set off by clouds of black silk bedding slung low over his hip.
As if it had a mind of its own her hand made some lazy glides from chest to stomach. She took a moment to admire the skin contrast before her lips latched on to give a fierce tug where his neck met his collar.
"Jeeze woman, it's been almost six months, you have to let me rest sometime." His normally velvety chocolate voice was more whisky due to sleep and the lecherous yet playful underline.
She gave his chest a reprimanding swat. He grabbed the offending weapon and held it over his heart while he gave a raspy chuckle.
"I wasn't starting anything. Care and I have a date." She offered before trying to crawl away from him. A restraining arm pinned her to his side. With a pressing hand to her back, his free hand smoothed the loose tresses from her eyes and his thumb brushed over one of her high cheek bones. Blue eyes caressed her in quiet for a moment before they opened comically wide.
"Date?! Trading me in for a new model already? This is the quickest I've been dumped. It's the ONLY time I've been dumped. What does Blondie have that I don't?" There was heavy mocking humor in his tone and in the sensual curve of his smile. Bonnie had a Herculean of a time pushing down the 'I love you' that fought and teeter on her lips. It always rushed to come out when he showed his silly relaxed side.
"Mmm better yet," in a flash he rolled her underneath him, fitting his hips between her legs with only a sheet with separation. He gave a quick tug of the silk to get it out of the way. "let me show you what I have and exactly how good I am at using it." He slid home inside her, strangling whichever sassy denial she could drum up because she arched up to meet him. Neither moved for several heartbeats. Bonnie cupped his face with one hand while she ran her fingers through the long bangs falling over his brow. It was the whole reason he let his hair get a little shaggy in the front. She looked lovingly up at him and it took everything Damon had not to confess how she owned every single inch of him, good and bad, body and soul.
The lovemaking that followed was just that – a culmination of everything they felt, that they kept buried, placed on display expressed through action.
-/-
It happens two days shy of Bonnie and Damon's six month anniversary mark.
They were all gathered around the kitchen table, it was a usual Saturday morning in the Salvatore Manor. Caroline was glued tight to Stefan while they shared a breakfast plate. Bonnie was perched on Damon's lap picking food off her own plate but snipping what she desired off of Damon's. The conversation flowed smoothly. Caroline was commenting on the new pajama set Bonnie had on. Everyone wore their nightclothes to the breakfast table. At some point it had become an unwritten rule once Caroline has spotted Damon in only his black satin sleeper pants and demanded he put a shirt on. There was an underline of friendship between the four where they secretly loved being comfortable enough to share the morning meal together while draped in leisure clothes. It was the rare moment of calm and harmony amidst that esoteric life of being a supernatural in Mystic Falls.
Bonnie plucked a strawberry of Damon's plate despite having three left on her own.
"I see the only reason you love me is because I let you take the best stuff off my plate." He derided cheekily, a small teasing grin fixed prominently on his mouth.
Instead of stiffening in his lap or snapping at him like he expected, she turned to face him with the sweetest most beautiful yet bashful smile to ever bend over her lips and spoke loud and clear, "Not exactly."
Every atom inside Damon seized before firing all at once. The teasing smirk slid off his face. In a flicker he had her straddling him. "Is that your way of saying you love me?" The smile on the elder Salvatore brother was not cocky; it was a mix of disbelief, relief and hope. His eyes searched her face looking for traces of sarcasm or forbid her change of heart and a desire to take it back.
Stefan's phone went off. Caroline punched him in the leg under the table. Damon turned from soft to vicious and scornful in a blink.
"Really Stefan you can't go one day without your phone being on? I'm having a VERY important conversation here." He grouched as Stefan rose from the table to take the call.
Stefan only stumbled a few steps away as he notice just who was calling.
Bonnie giggled which brought burning blues back to her. "This is far from over." Damon warningly promised. Before he could say more the snippets of Stefan's conversation pulled everyone's attention.
The demeanor of everyone in the room changed as the impact of the topic seeped in.
-/-
Two separate cars were taken. Bonnie volunteered to ride with Caroline, the brothers rode together.
"You know this doesn't change anything Bon." Caroline began.
"No Care, it changes everything." Bonnie uttered. Silence prevailed in the cab of the car. Caroline drove with one hand the other clinched comfortingly around Bonnie's wrist.
Things were very much the same in the blue Camaro. It hurt Damon that Bonnie chose to ride with Caroline and not him. It was their job to comfort each other. They had experience and were damn good at it. At the same time he understood she needed to be inside her own head at the moment. With Elena awake things were sliding into place. Everyone expected him to make a choice, but Damon knew there had always been one choice, just as he knew everyone one understood what that answer was.
Stefan wisely kept his silence.
-/-
It took Bonnie nothing to open the barrier that once placed to protect Elena. They crowed around her casket.
The brunet beauty was just as lovely as always. Stefan checked his watch. Minuets passed by before dark lashes fluttered open. Brown eyes singled out each person before moving on to the next and lastly landing on Damon who looked back on her with a teasing smile. "Hey. Made us wait long enough didn't you?"
Inside Bonnie a heart locked up before releasing a sluggish beat.
Elena sat up and gave a long greeting to Caroline before turning to Bonnie and gushing how she was happy to see her because she had thought she never would again. She was already crying when she tuned to Stefan, who helped her out of the casket amidst the group's joyous laughter over the comment of how she would just like to stand for a while.
Caroline slipped a subtle comforting arm around Bonnie's waist and the walked out of the crypt. The two girls stood outside hugging, laughing and crying. The emotional gambit of a roller coaster ride. Soon Stefan joined. No one commented on the absence of the reunited couple. Matt pulled up before long.
"Ill walk you down." Bone stated.
"No ones asking you to be so strong Bon." Whispered her best friend.
The little witch shot her a watery smile as if to say 'I've faced worse' before grabbing Matt's arm and escorting him.
She was brave, she could face anything. Had face death time and time again, others and her own.
"I love you Elena. I'll always love you." Was all Bonnie had to hear before she fractured and bolted out of the crypt leaving Matt behind who rushed to catch up with her. She walked as fast as her stiff legs would carry her. Matt took one glace at her stricken wan face and offered to take her home. Bonnie hugged Caroline in a rushed manner and whispered that she promised to call her. "I promise. Don't worry." She was walking away before distractedly whispering to herself. "I'll call her when I get there. I'll call after I unpack."
That shot a spark of foreboding up Caroline's spine. "What do you mean?" Bonnie kept walking. "Bonnie!" The witch didn't turn around. Not once did she look back at the crypt or Caroline. When the fem vamp went to follow, Stefan put a preventive hand on her shoulder.
"He hurt her. I warned him. I'm going to kill your brother Stefan." Two sad vampires watched Bonnie drive away.
"I know Damon is better than that. But if he did what you think he did I'll help you."
-/-
At the Bennett house Bonnie shut Matt out as quickly as possible without hurting his feelings and began packing and making arrangements. She shot Caroline a text message that said she would call Caroline at some point then turned off her phone.
**Sorry about the delay. Truth is I have already hand written the end of the story, I just haven't had the time to type it up. I know some of you are disappointed that Elena has come back. I will explain my why next chapter. I believe next chapter will be the last, there may be an epilog. Sorry about all the cliffhangers, I promise they are now at an end. Hope you enjoyed the read.