Bonnie got up out the bed to a Knock on her door in the middle of the night she opened the door to see a drunk Damon with Red and puffy eyes from crying.

"What happened?" She asked dragging him into the apartment by his wrist.

"Where's Ari."

"She's asleep."

"Let me see her."

"No Damon, you're drunk. I don't want her seeing you like this."

"Please Bonnie. I need to see my daughter." Tears streamed down his cheek.

"What's wrong?" she asked concerned. She had never seen Damon like this before. So broken.

"Just let me see her" He begged.

She nodded okay. She led him to the bedroom where their daughter slept. A small room with that was decorated with Doc Mcstuffins products. He leaned over her in the bed and kissed her forehead and touched her curly little head She stirred a little bit before opening her eyes. "Daddy." She muttered

"Shhh. Go back to sleep. Daddy just wanted to see you." She smiled at him and then closed her eyes and drifted back to sleep. Damon kissed her one last time before joining Bonnie out in the hallway.

"Damon what's wrong." She asked concerned

"I love you Bonnie." he said sadly and pulled her close and hugging her she rubbed his back.

They walked over to the couch and sat down.

"Did you talk to Stefan." he asked

"No. Why? What happened?"

"Nonno Angelo died." He said sadly

"What." Bonnie voice broke" What happened."

"He had a stroke."

"I'm sorry Damon, I know you two were close." Damon kissed her stomach and laid his head on her lap.

"Why Bonnie?" He started to cry again.

Damon never cried, at least not in front of people. He had times when he was vulnerable but he never cried in front of anybody but Bonnie and his mother. Damon and His Nonno Angelo were very close. Every summer when they were children Damon and Stefan visited Italy to see their Nonno Angelo and Nonna Maria who were Isabella's parents and there only living Grandparents. When Bonnie wasn't visiting her father's family over the summer she went with them.

"I don't know." A tear ran down her cheek. She started to stroke the hair on the back of his neck.

"I miss him Bon."

"I know. How is Nonna?"

"She's grieving. Did you know they were married for 65 years."

"Really."

"They met when they were teenagers he says she was the best thing that ever happened to him."

"I bet she was your Nonna is great."

"Yeah, I use to watch them together and saw how in love they were and wished I could one day have what they had."

"Me too." She whispered.

"The last time I visited was the summer before I went to college." he said.

"I remember that. You left me alone for 6 weeks. I missed you so much that summer. My dad took away my cell phone because my bill was so high."

"It would be night time here and morning there."

"You would wake up early and call me before I went to sleep because..."

"You said you wanted my voice to be the last one you heard before you went to sleep and I wanted..."

"My voice to be the first one you hered when you woke up."

"We were so in love," She sniled as she remembered the past.

"Do you know what my Nonno said when he found out we started dating."

"What?"

He cleared his throat "He said Damon why in the hell did you steal Stefan's girl." Bonnie giggled. That was when everybody thought Stefan was going to be the Salvatore she fell in love with.

"What did you say?"

"I said Nonno, she isn't Stefan's girl she's the woman who I intend to spend the rest of my life with." she smiled at his story. "And then he said, If that's true you should spend every day making her happy, treat her like the queen she is and never let her go to bed angry with you. Bonnie is a very special girl and I can see she makes you a better person, don't break her heart. God how I wished I would have listened to him." he cried

"It's okay Damon everything is okay."

"It's not okay Bonnie. My grandfather is dead, the only person in this word besides you that I could tell anything to is dead and I lost the only woman I ever loved because I was too drunk to know the woman I love, the woman whose body I made a priority to learn, from another woman."

"Its okay." she repeated running her hands through his ebony hair like she did when they were younger. They would lie on his bed and talk about everything and nothing at all.

He sat up and looked her in her water filled eyes. "I love you Bon, I love Ari, I love our son and I promise you that I will spend every day for the rest of my life trying to be man you want me to be."

"You can't try to be the man I want you to be Damon."

"I will because I love you." She reached up and touched his face.

"You can't try because you already are. I love you Damon, I never stopped. No matter how how angry I was with you I still loved you." She smiled as the tears escaped from her eyes.

He caressed her face "Why didn't you tell me."

"I wanted to tell you sooner but I was scared, I am scared. I'm afraid to open my heart up to you because I don't want you to break my heart again. If I let you in Damon you have to Promise me that you won't break my heart because I don't think I can handle it again." By the end of her speech she was balling

"I promise." He pulled her into his chest and kissed her/

Bonnie woke up the next morning to the sun pouring in through the living room window and Damon holding on to her like his life depended on it. She nudged him in the side to wake him.

He opened his eyes and looked at the small woman in his arms who was looking up at him with her beautiful green eyes that he loved so much. "I don't want to." he murmmered

"If you don't let go of me I'll pee up myself."

"Fine." He let go of her and she ran to the rest room while he waited on the couch for her to come back.

"How you feeling." she asked him taking a seat on the couch beside him.

"Sad, it's hard to believe he's not going to be there to call for advice."

"I'm sorry."

"I talked to him last week he sounded perfectly healthy. I told him about you, Ari, and Baby boy. He wanted us to come visit after the baby was born."

"Do you want me to get you anything?"

"I just want you to talk to me. I want you to kiss me." He pulled her on his lap and placed a chaste kiss on her lips. "I want you to tell me you love me because I'll never get tired of hearing it."

"I love you Damon and I meant what I said, don't break my heart."

"I won't."

"So what' next." She asked

"You marry me and we have many more kids."

"Was that your marrige proposal because I don't except."

"When I propose you'll know and can't help but accept."

"You sound pretty sure of yourself. I could say no."

"You won't because you love me." He smirked.

"You're okay." she teased. He rolled his eyes and tried to kiss her again but she turned her head. "How many more kids do you want because I contempt with just two."

"I don't know lets give the Duggars a run for their money."

"You'll be lucky if you get one more after Baby boy."

"We could at least try." She giggled as he left a trail of kisses from her neck chin and then finally her lips. 10 minutes into their make out session Bonnie was laying on the couch and Damon hovered over her being careful not to put any pressure on her stomach.

"What the hell did I just walk in on?" Stefan said walking into the apartment. Damon looked up at Stefan and smirked.

"All those nights you spend with Lexi I thought you would know." Damon said but Stefan ignored him.

"Did you hear what happened?" Stefan asked

"Yeah." Damon said sadly and sat up straight in the chair.

"Have you talked to Mamma?"

"No but Giuseppe says she's taking it pretty hard."

"Yeah they were close."

"How about you."

"I'm getting through it." He grabbed Bonnie's hand and squeezed it.

"The funeral is next week in Italy; Papa is getting the private jet ready for us to leave in a few hours."

"I guess I better get packed then."

"Yeah me to." Bonnie said

"I'll see you guys later." Damon said and walked to the door followed by Bonnie. "I don't want to leave you." He pulled her body to his and she wrapped her hand around his neck.

"I'll be right here when you get back in a few hours and then we'll be together in Italy."

"I know, but now that I know you love me I don't ever want to leave your side." Bonnie gave him a peck on the lips.

"I'll see you in a few hours." She shut the door behind him and walked back into the living room smiling.

"So you told him how you felt." Stefan asked.

"Yeah."

"He's a different person then he was 5 years ago, He's a better person."

"I know, and as much as I would like to take credit for it, It's all because of Ari."

"It shocked the hell out of me." he said

"Me too." she agreed

"I know that he'll do better this time around because if he hurts you, munchkin, or my little nephew I'll rip his heart out."

"I don't doubt it for a second."