It turned out that Damon had predicted things right. The young witch did end up having a bit of a hangover and it came in form of a headache. Waking up Bonnie could only be grateful that she had not drunk anymore or she would have ended up feeling worse. But the headache was enough where she could tolerate. Getting out of bed she took two over the counter pain pills and hoped that the combination of pain pills, food and coffee would help ease her headache.
But first she wanted to take a shower. Going into her bathroom she stripped naked and jumped into the shower long enough to get all of her parts clean. After getting out she dried off, putting on her bra and panties followed by some sweat pants and a matching hoodie sweatshirt.
She went downstairs when the intention of making herself some breakfast but saw that someone else was already doing that for her. Damon stood over the stove with a towel over his shower. Bonnie good smell Bacon and eggs cooking and the wonderful aroma of coffee. And she could have hugged him at the moment.
Damon peered over his shoulder. "Morning Bon-Bon."
"Morning." Bonnie returned. "You stayed over?"
"Yeah. I slept on the couch." Damon answered. "If you don't mind."
She shook her head. "I don't mind at all."
He returned his attention back to the stove.
Bonnie grabbed a mug and went over to the coffee maker pouring herself some of the hot caffeine filled liquid.
"Headache?" Damon muttered knowingly.
Mixing some cream and sugar in her coffee Bonnie replied. "Yes but I took some pills and it's already starting to feel better."
"Nice to hear." Damon returned.
Taking her coffee over to the breakfast table Bonnie sat down and watched him as he prepared the rest of breakfast.
Minutes later Damon finished up and plated her breakfast. He took the plate over and placed it in front of her. "Eat up."
Bonnie looked down at the plate. There was bacon, over easy eggs and toast. "What, no pancakes?" She joked.
Damon chuckled. "Next time perhaps."
"Looks good though. Thanks for taking the time to make it." Bonnie told him.
"You're welcome it's no problem." Damon said to her.
Testing on the eggs she concluded that he knew how to fry the perfect egg which not everyone knew how to do.
He poured himself his own mug of coffee and grabbed one of his blood bags that he had brought over the day before and joined her at the table.
Bonnie looked across the table at him. "So how are you feeling?"
"I'm fine." Damon sipped his coffee. "And you?"
"I'm good." Bonnie answered. "Still not sad over the break up."
He went. "I'm not over mine either. No regrets for being Gilbert free."
Bonnie agreed. "No regrets!"
Damon sampled some of his blood. "Slept good last night?"
"Yeah I slept good." Bonnie nodded.
"What did you dream about?" Damon wondered.
She spread strawberry jam on her toast. "The usual, random, weird out of this world sort of things."
He eyed her with amusement. "Anything specific?"
"Not really." Bonnie furrowed her brows. "Why do you ask?"
"Would have figured that you be dreaming about me." Damon hinted.
"What? Huh?" She nearly laughed. "Why would I be dreaming about you?"
Damon fluttered his eyelashes. "Don't know. Maybe because you said that I had pretty blue eyes."
Bonnie suddenly remembered her comment from the night before. "Oh yeah that."
"Yeah that." Damon confirmed.
"So you think that because I said you had pretty eyes that I would have fantasies about you?" Bonnie questioned.
"Well you wouldn't have made a comment like that unless you were some what attracted to me." Damon teased.
She playfully rolled her eyes. "Please don't flatter yourself."
He added. "You also said that you could drown in them."
Bonnie waved a hand. "Guess that I was drunk and didn't know what I was saying."
"You weren't that drunk." Damon returned. "You're just physically attracted to me."
Knowing that he was just teasing her Bonnie leaned forward. "Why would I be physically attracted to you?"
Damon wiggled his eyebrows. "Look at me, I'm like sex on legs!"
Looking him over she wrinkled her nose in that adorable way. "Eh you're okay."
"Just okay?" Damon blinked.
"Just okay." Bonnie said teasing him. "I mean there's a lot of guys out there who are better looking than you."
"Like who?" Damon asked.
Bonnie gestured. "What me to write down a list because that could take me all day."
Damon playfully narrowed his eyes. "Ha! Ha!"
She responded with a laugh.
"So you're not going to admit that you find me attractive?" Damon said
She clucked her tongue. "Nope."
"Alright then I guess that the witch must be in denial." Damon joked.
"Shut up, Damon." Bonnie said laughing once more.
He just grinned at her in return.
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After they finished up breakfast Damon helped clean up the dishes and left Bonnie's house to go back to his own. When he entered into the foyer he saw Elena approaching him holding a box in her hands.
"What are you doing here still?" Damon questioned irritated.
Elena just gave him the most evil eye that she could muster.
Damon eyed her coolly. "Thought that I told you to have all of your shit out of here by last night."
"I couldn't pack all of the stuff that I had and move it all out within 24 hours." Elena snapped back.
"Well anything else that you have left I'll have it ship it out to you." Damon retorted. "But don't show your fucking face back in my house ever again."
She glared at him. "Go to hell, Damon." Elena took her box with her and stormed out of the house.
He would have made a snarky comeback but she was already gone.
Damon moved further into the house and turned into a hallway where Stefan stood. "Hey brother."
Stefan arched a brow. "You and Elena broke up?"
"How did you ever guess." Damon mumbled.
"Figured that something must have went wrong yesterday when Elena was packing all of her stuff and looking like she wanted to murder someone while she did so." Stefan explained. "But the exchange that I overheard just confirms what I figured."
"Yep, the doppelganger and I are no longer together." Damon said "And there is no going back."
Stefan folded his arms over his chest. "Are you sure about that? It's not like you haven't let Elena go before."
Damon shrugged. "This time is different, brother."
"Really?" Stefan was curious. "What is so different this time?"
"Long story short. Elena is jealous over my friendship with Bonnie. She let me know about it. We fought more than once." Damon went on. "And I couldn't deal with it any longer and I broke it off."
"In that case it would seem like you made the best choice." Stefan mumbled.
Damon nodded. "Yeah."
Stefan started to walk away, "Well I'll see you later I have to run."
"Wait I need to talk to you first." Damon stated.
"Can it wait?" Stefan wondered.
"No it's important." Damon replied.
Shifting on his feet Stefan went. "Alright what is so important?"
Pausing Damon sighed. "You know I'm a very prideful guy."
Stefan amused. "Yes that is a well known fact."
"So what I'm about to do is not easy." Damon looked at this brother. "But I want to apologize."
Shocked Stefan's green eyes widened.
Damon went on. "With everything that happened in 1994 my eyes opened to a lot of things. Even more so now that Elena and I are on the rocks. And looking back I can see how my actions with her were selfish. And how wrong it was but I didn't care at the time because I was all about getting what I wanted."
"...But now I regret some of the choices that I made in regards to Elena. How I was about getting what I wanted no matter who it hurt. I know that I hurt you brother and for that I'm sorry. For whatever I did with Elena that caused you heartbreak I apologize. I'm fortunate that you choose to still stand by me despite all of the crap that I pulled."
At first Stefan said nothing he just stood there as his brothers words registered in his mind. Then he took his brother by the arm and pulled him into a tight brotherly like hug. "That's all that I've ever really wanted to hear from you."
Stepping back Damon pats Stefan on his shoulders. "So, Stefan are we good?"
Stefan smiles. "Yes, Damon we're good!"
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Matt entered the house to find trash everywhere. Trash like several empty beer bottles and an empty pizza box that someone hadn't bothered to throw away. Matt wasn't a clean freak but he wasn't fond of the idea of having trash scattered all throughout his house.
He went into the living room where he saw Jeremy sprawled out in a chair playing video games with another beer bottle in his hand.
"What the hell." Matt started irritated. "I go away for one night and this place looks like a pig pin.
Jeremy looked over at his friend. "Oh hey."
Matt could see that his friend was drunk. "Look at this mess. You need to clean it all up unless you want Bonnie to come over and notice how sloppy you are."
"Bonnie broke up with me." Jeremy slightly slurred.
"She did?" Matt questioned.
Jeremy took a gulp from his beer bottle. "Yep. She paid me a surprise visit the night before and caught me in the car banging another chick."
Matt was taken aback. "Tell me you are serious."
"I could tell you." Jeremy returned. "But it wouldn't be the truth."
"You cheated on Bonnie." Matt raised his voice. "Again."
"Not so loud." Jeremy spoke. "I have a mean hangover."
Matt placed his hands on his hips. "How in the hell could you do that to her? What's wrong with you man?"
Jeremy dismissed Matt with a wave of his hand. "Don't go there lecturing me. I already received a verbal beating from Bonnie."
"Sure that you deserved everything she said to you." Matt grumbled. "After you hurt her again."
"You don't have to say anything else." Jeremy interrupted. "I already know I screwed up."
Matt shook his head. "Just make sure that you clean all of this mess up before the day is over with."
Pressing buttons on his controller Jeremy mentioned. "Oh right Elena is moving in."
"What? When?" Matt wondered. "When is Elena moving in?"
Jeremy answered. "She started to move in yesterday."
Matt eyed his friend. "And when were you going to let me know about this?"
"Just did." Jeremy pointed out. "Besides it was sudden because Damon kicked her out of his place."
"Damon, kicked Elena out." Matt frowned.
"Right." Jeremy laughed without the humor behind it. "The jerk just decided to break up with my sister. Isn't that something else both of us dumped on the same night."
Matt face palmed himself. Somehow he knew that he was going to have to deal with two bitter and angry Gilbert siblings for the next few days and he was not looking forward to that.
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Next day
The break ups have no doubt left both of the Gilbert siblings angry and bitter. And Matt was not in much a mood to hear their complaining they had to settle with each other to vent their feelings. One of the ways that they decided to do that was go out to the park for some brother and sister time.
But when they arrived they soon found out that they had come to the wrong place to deal with their feelings about their break ups.
"Look at them will you." Jeremy started bitterly.
Elena sneered. "I see them, I see them."
But half way across the park Damon and Bonnie had not spotted the siblings and didn't know that they were currently being watched. They had their backs turned towards them and they were sitting on a blanket close to each talking and laughing it up like they didn't have a care in the world.
"He doesn't even seem sad or all that upset about the break up." Elena huffed as she watched Damon around Bonnie.
"Why would he act upset?" Jeremy questioned "The jerk basically dumped you for Bonnie."
Elena casted an annoyed glance at her brother. "And Bonnie dumped you because you were fool enough to screw some random chick in your driveway."
Jeremy held up his hands. "Hey don't take it out on me. I was just telling the truth about Damon. The both of them screwed us over so we are on the same boat."
"Yes and now every time that I see Damon I have to be reminded that he choose Bonnie over me." Elena spat.
"It's not easy for me either." Jeremy whined. "Going around town everywhere and seeing Bonnie with him of all guys."
Elena continued to watch the two friends together who still had no idea that they were being watched. Even from where she stood Elena could over hear what they were talking about because of her vampire hearing.
Damon. "Admit it Judgey."
Bonnie. "Nope."
"Don't be like that." Damon told her.
"I'm not being like anything." Bonnie returned. "I don't find you attractive."
Damon chuckled. "Liar."
Bonnie laughed back. "You have an ego twice the size of Texas. If I say that you are attractive than your head might explode."
"Funny. you have jokes huh." Damon returned.
"Sure do." Bonnie confirmed.
He leaned into her. "What if I told you that I think that you have gorgeous green eyes?"
She tells him. "I would say that's a sweet and charming compliment but I'm still not going to say that I find you attractive."
"Say it Bon-Bon." Damon sang.
"No way." Bonnie said
Damon inched closer to her. "If you don't say it, I'm going to eat you."
She patted him on the cheek. "Go ahead I'm not afraid of you."
"This is your last chance to say that you find me hot." Damon playfully warned.
"Not going to happen." Bonnie returned.
"Fine you asked for it!" Damon exclaimed.
From across the way the Gilberts watched as Damon grabbed Bonnie and gently rolled her on the ground until he was on top of her proceeded to put his lips to her neck. Pretending like he was biting her.
The interaction between the two wasn't at all sexual in nature. But Elena still felt envy in watching the pair. It was that they were silly, playful, and affectionate all rolled into one. She could hear the giggles erupt from Bonnie and could see the joy and expression on Damon's face and her gut twisted realizing that he had never been that way with her.
Watching the scene before him had Jeremy steaming mad. He could not stand the thought of seeing Damon Salvatore all over his Ex like that.
Jeremy stepped forward.
Elena placed a hand on his arm to prevent him from going further. "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to punch that asshole." Jeremy replied with anger.
"No Jeremy." Elena shook her head. "Why would you do that?"
Jeremy gestured. "He's all over her and everything."
Elena removed her eyes from the playful pair towards her brother. "You can't."
"Why not?" Jeremy huffed.
"Do you want to go over there and make yourself look bad in front of Bonnie?" Elena questioned. "Let's just find somewhere else to go."
Jeremy rolled his eyes. "Whatever." But he followed his sister out of the park.
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On the following day Bonnie had ventured over to the boarding house to watch movies and to spend some time with her friend. They each agreed to pick out and movie and that they would watch both together and they were hanging out on the couch watching Bonnie's movie first.
It wasn't Damon's type of movie at all. She had decided to watch a classic movie and that movie currently was Titanic. Which he wasn't that into but he watched it anyway. Even as he rolled his eyes at some of the parts in the movies. But he did this for their friendship and because she had agreed to watch whatever movie that he had picked out afterwards.
They had come to the part of the movie where Rose jumped back on the ship to be with Jack and the couple ran towards each other as the dramatic music played in the background.
Grabbing a tissue Bonnie dabbed at her eyes.
He glanced sideways at her. "Are you crying?"
Bonnie sniffed. "Maybe a little. I always cry at this part."
"Seriously?" Damon arched a brow.
"All fifty times that I have seen it." Bonnie admitted.
Damon was taken aback. "You saw this movie fifty times?"
Bonnie returned. "Somewhere around that."
"And you never get tired of watching the same thing over and over again in this movie." Damon wondered
"No." Bonnie said "Never. It's such a classic love story."
Blinking at the TV Damon went. "If that's what you say."
Bonnie insisted. "But it really is. It's about two people where society says they shouldn't be together but despite all of the odds they fall in love anyway."
"In two days." Damon pointed out.
"Yes in two days." Bonnie said "Then at the end when he gives up his life for hers."
Damon snorted. "Oh yeah that part where he turns into a frozen popsicle."
She narrowed her eyes. "Are you mocking Jack's death."
"Kind of funny if you ask me." Damon returned.
Bonnie pretended to be offended. "How dare you be so insensitive."
"Not insensitive." Damon corrected. "I'm just don't get all of the girls who cry their eyes out over this movie."
"Guess that you wouldn't." Bonnie playfully added.
He glanced at her. "What is that suppose to mean."
She shrugged. "Nothing."
"Come on Bon-Bon." Damon expressed. "The only good part in this movie is getting to see Kate Winslet's Ta- Tas!"
Her mouth dropped open. "You didn't just say that."
Damon smirked. "I stand by my statement. The boobs are the only part worth seeing."
"You're really something else." She said reaching over and lightly brushing her fingers over his neck.
He glanced away but it wasn't in a negative response.
Bonnie noticed his response. "Why did you just do that?"
"Do what?" Damon played clueless.
"By your reaction." Bonnie squinted her eyes. "I would say that you're ticklish."
"Ha." Damon scoffed. "Please I'm a badass vampire I'm too kickass to be ticklish."
She smirked. "I would say that you are. You reacted in the same way that I do when someone touches me in a ticklish spot."
He insisted. "But I'm not you're reading way too much into my reaction."
Bonnie rubbed her hands together. "Shall we test that theory"
Damon fought not to smile as he inched away from her. "No we shall not."
"Are you afraid to let me know that you can be tickled?" Bonnie grinned. "That's adorable."
"Stay right over there." Damon stuck out his tongue.
Bonnie inched closer. "No way you're not getting out of this. Just man up and let me tickle you some."
Damon winked at her. "I'm all man, Judgey!"
"We'll see about that!" Bonnie exclaimed.
She started to use her fingers to tickle him along his neck. And she was delighted when the dark haired actually let out a high pitched laugh.
"Quit it. Bon-Bon." Damon stated between laughs. "Before I make you pay."
Bonnie giggled. "Not unless you beg for mercy."
He attempted to move away from her on the couch but couldn't get out of reach of her fingers. "Me beg for mercy? Never."
"Guess that I will have to keep ticking you then." Bonnie returned.
Entering in upon the scene before him. Stefan cleared his throat. "Well look at this interesting development"
Stopping her tickling of Damon Bonnie turned to the younger Salvatore. "Hey there Stefan."
"Hey Bonnie." Stefan greeted.
Embarrassed that his brother had caught him in such a situation Damon played it off with a scowl. "What are you doing here?"
Stefan pointed out. "I live here."
"Oh yeah well go away and bother someone else." Damon showed.
Ignoring his brothers demand Stefan mentioned. "Over one hundred and seventy years of being your brother and this is the first time that I've known you to be ticklish as a grown man."
Bonnie snickered into her hand.
Damon playfully poked her in the side with his finger while looking at his brother. "Shut up, Stefan and go put some more gel in your hair or something."
"Now I have something to hold over your head." Stefan pointed out. "Wherever you bring up the fact that I drink animal blood like there is something wrong with it."
"It's the truth." Damon snorted once more. "You like to make friends with all of your forest friends. What did you eat this time? A Squirrel, A rabbit, a possum? Some poor kids pet dog?"
Bonnie snickered ever more.
"Very funny." Stefan said. "Now if you use that joke around anyone else other than Bonnie here I'm going to mention that you got tickled."
Damon pressed a hand to his chest. "You wouldn't."
"Oh yes I would." Stefan mocked the crazy wide eyed thing that his brother sometimes did. "I will let all of Mystic Falls know that Bonnie Bennett made my brother do a high pitched laugh and that it was quite the thing to see."
Damon picked up a handful of popcorn and threw it at his brother.
Stefan nodded. "Guess that means no more animal feedings jokes from you!"
"Go away now the witch and I are finishing up on Titanic." Damon growled.
She arched a brow at Damon. "But I thought that you didn't like this movie….."
The dark haired vampire wrapped an arm around her shoulder. "Be quiet Bon-Bon we're almost at the part where Jack turns into a big human popsicle."
Laughing Bonnie gave him a playful slap on his arm.
Grinning Stefan left the two friends alone to go upstairs to his room.
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After Titanic was over Bonnie watched a movie that Damon had picked it. The movie was an action packed guy type of movie. But Bonnie enjoyed it. When evening fell the two of them had dinner together and she helped Damon clean up the kitchen.
The Damon had disappeared somewhere while she had settled down to watch more TV. When her show was over she went on the search for Damon in the massive boarding house.
Going downstairs in the basement area she turned down the hall and heard the sound of a piano playing. Stepping closer and closer towards the room where the music was coming from she noticed that whoever was playing was a very talented piano player.
She stepped into the room and was some what surprised to see who was sitting behind the piano. It was Damon. Moving further into the room she watched as his fingers effortlessly moved over the piano keys. His handsome face relaxed as he looked down at his hands. Bonnie was drawn in by the haunting tune that he made come from the piano.
Even as he played he could hear her heart beat and her footsteps as she stepped closer. He played for another minute until the song came to an end. Then he turned to Bonnie.
Bonnie smiled at him. "I didn't know that you knew how to play the piano."
"There maybe a lot of things that you don't know about me yet." Damon returned her smile.
"Well, you're very good." Bonnie complimented.
"Thanks." Damon returned.
Joining him she sat next to him on the piano seat. "How long have you been playing."
Her scent filled his senses as she was near him. She smelled like a mixture of citrus and earth with a hint of whatever feminine body wash that she had used to shower that morning.
Damon answered. "For a couple of decades now."
"You seem to enjoy playing." Bonnie commented.
"I do." Damon confessed. "How about you ever played the piano."
Bonnie shook her head. "My Grams tried to get me to take lessons when I was five but I never got into it."
He chuckled.
"But I do like to sing from time to time though." Bonnie admitted.
Damon looked over at her. "Really?"
Bonnie nodded her head. "I guess that we both still have things to learn about each other."
A thought came to Damon's mind. "Would you mind singing something if I played while you do so?"
"Sure." Bonnie replied. "Not at all."
"What song would you like for me to play for you." Damon wondered.
She shrugged. "Let's just wing it."
So Damon started to play again and soon another haunting, slow song filled up the room.
Taking a breath Bonnie started to sing.
This was the first time that he had ever heard her sing. One time in 1994 he had heard her singing to some R&B hit but that was just her goofing off and she wasn't serious about it.
Like how she was serious now. This was the first time that he had heard her truly singing. And her voice was soft and beautiful without going over the top. It was the type of singing that could stir up the emotion or feeling inside of a person.
He kept playing mesmerized by her voice. Soon he wasn't even looking at his hands but turned his eyes to her as his fingers moved over the keys. She had her eyes closed and a slight smile on her face as she sang. And she looked so stunning to him at the moment. He just stared and stared and could not stop himself from staring. Then he stopped playing.
The sudden silence in the room had her opening her eyes. She opened them looking right into the ocean blue eyes of Damon Salvatore. And he was staring at her with his piercing gaze. One of those types with so much emotion and intensity behind it that it could make a woman weak in the knees.
Her heart jump into her throat and she felt a sudden sense of longing for him that seemed to come out of nowhere. They sat there staring at each other for a few long moments. But then he diverted his eyes and the moment had been broken.
Time to move the focus on taking Bamon's relationship to the next level! Yay.
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