Bonnie smiled widely, getting out of the car, seeing him walk up to her. She threw herself at him and started kissing him deeply as his hands traveled. "I missed you," she talked against his lips.

"I missed you more," he kisses her again then rolls his bag more towards the car, following after her. He smiled as she took his suitcase and placed it in the backseat then shook his head as she leaned forward, pacing her palms in the seat so her ass was pressed against his crotch. She bounced slightly on her toes and he slapped her ass once she called him daddy. Bonnie stood and faced him again, biting on her lower lip as he squeezed her fat in his hands. He leaned in and met their lips again, kissing her deeply until they were practically out of breath.

"Daddy, let's go home, I have a surprise for you," she kissed along his neck.

"Baby, I kind of offered that we drive one of my castmate's home, but then I'm all yours I swear."

"What?"

"I know, daddy's sorry," he kisses her mouth once then goes on to explain as Bonnie started kissing along his neck about how they ended up on the same flight together, sitting across from one another, and explained that instead of her paying for a ride back, that they give her one since she lived close by.

"Fine,"

"Okay, I'll be back I told her to give us ten minutes to reconnect." He kisses her then heads back into the airport.

Bonnie sighed then walked over to the driver's side and gets into the car before she realized that Stefan was referring to this coworker as a 'she'. Before she could process more, the passenger side door opens and Stefan gets in and she looks in the back to see a woman who has curly hair, clear chocolate skin, and white teeth. "Hi, I'm Jasmine," and a London accent.

"Bonnie, nice to meet you," she reached her hand back for Jasmine to shake which she did.

"Nice to meet you as well, thank you for taking me home,"

"No problem," Bonnie faced forward and started the car. Stefan plugged in her address into the GPS as she made her way out of the airport. "So how did shooting go guys?"

Stefan moves his hand to her thigh, "Pretty great actually, I think there's a great chance that we could get picked up,"

"Yeah and I know we probably won't have the same crew, but everyone was super nice so I'm keeping my fingers crossed."

"Yeah me too."

"So if you do get picked up, are you planning to move to LA?" Bonnie asked, glancing at Jasmine in the rearview mirror.

"Just because I can't afford two places, yes, and if things don't work out, I'm thinking about staying there at least for a few extra months and see how things go."

"Nice, I lived in LA before I moved here with Stefan and at first I was really missing it but then New York basically became my home. Did you want to stop to get something to eat?"

"Oh no, I'm fine, I'm gonna order takeout, and while I'm waiting it'll force me to stay up and unpack instead of eating and going right to bed leaving my clothes in this suitcase for a month."

Bonnie chuckled. Minutes later, they were in front of Jasmine's apartment complex. Stefan helped her with her bags to the door then they hugged goodbye. He exhaled making his way down the stairs then paused as he got a text alert. It was from Mason who sent him a link and by the preview of it, he knew exactly what he'd be clicking. He started making his way back towards the car looking at the paparazzi photos a blog site posted of him and Bonnie's "PDA Filled Airport Reunion". He opened the passenger side door, "Babe, they— damn," his eyes trailed her body dressed in a lace very revealing one piece. "Get in the back, come on,"

She smiled, "What?"

"Get your fine ass in this backseat so I can fuck you, come on," he closed the door then opened the back one getting inside.

She laughed. "Babe, I have a surprise for you at our place first."

"Second,"

"Babe."

"What did you expect for me to do once I saw you then?"

"Something similar to what you're doing now, but I just want you to look. You can admire, but I don't want to perspire in this car," she chuckled as he laughed then started the car up again.

Stefan got out to sit beside her and kept his eyes on her the entire time. And occasionally his hand. "You have something to cover you up, babe?"

"What's wrong with what I have on?"

"There's no way in hell," he reached inside his suitcase and pulled out one of his shirts before helping her put it on.

Bonnie opened their door then locked it once they stepped through. Stefan smiled looking in their dining room to see the table set for a romantic dinner.

"Go unpack and by the time you finish, everything should be heated up again,"

"Let me unpack you first. Raise your arms." She wanted to protest but she couldn't deny her urgent need for him so she lifted her arms as he pulled the shirt up her body. Stefan lifted her in his arms and took them into their room.

Stefan took a video of the table once their plates were made and the candles were lit. "I have the best wife ever, what a welcome home," he pointed the camera at her and he chuckled as she smiled then moved in to kiss her several times. "I love you."

"I love you too,"

He kissed her again then ended the video. "I hope you know you're sitting on my lap, right?"

She chuckled and he grabbed her plate to move it next to his. He flipped his phone face down once he sat and welcomed her into his lap. "You really had a nice time in LA, babe?"

"Yeah, it was OK, I just wish you were there with me though,"

"Next time," she kisses him. "I missed you too."

"You missed me?"

"Of course,"

"Is that why you only called me once?"

She frowned. "Babe."

"I called you all the time and you only called me once. When you miss someone you want to hear their voice, texting is not the same."

"I just didn't want to bother you, I didn't know your filming schedule or—"

"You could've easily asked me and I of course would have told you."

"Where is all of this coming from? We were having such a nice reunion then all of a sudden you're mad at me out of thin air."

"That's really your response?"

"I'm just trying to figure out what the fuck happened between you calling me the best wife ever to now. I'm sorry I didn't call you but as you said, you called me all the time so I didn't exactly see the need. There's not a lot more that I can add from when we spoke at one o'clock then if I would call you again at two. So I would wait for a little and you'd always just beat me to the punch. I missed you, Stefan, a lot and I was hoping that doing all this would show that." She watched his eyes. "Babe, what's really wrong?"

He took a while before responding. "Nothing. I'm just tired."

Bonnie stood and blew out the candles then pulled on his arm so she could lead them back into their room. She opened her arms to him after lying on her back then held him close to her once his head met her chest. She kisses his head several times as she caresses the side of his face. She smiles as he snuggles into her before exhaling telling her that he's inching closer to sleep and his arms wrapped around her tightly before he fell asleep.

Stefan woke up hearing the thumping of her calm heart and sighed. He messed everything up. He shifted his head to look up seeing her still asleep then calmly got out of bed and decided to make breakfast. Scrambled eggs, toast, fried bacon, and pancakes, and as he was setting the table, he saw her walking towards him and he smiled standing straight. "I'm sorry that I ruined last night. I was upset then I saw you at the airport and all that shit went away because I had you again and I missed you so fucking much. Then at dinner, the high kind of faded and I said what I didn't mean to say."

"What did you mean to say then?"

He sighed then took her hand so they could sit down at the table. She watched him almost struggle coming out with words and she was going to encourage him that he could tell her anything, but he started. "I really wanted you to be there for me. I wanted you to come, I begged you to come more than once but you didn't. I know what we talked about but this was a very special moment in time for me, a once in a lifetime chance, my first television pilot ever and I wanted to celebrate with my wife. I wanted to come to the hotel room to you after a long day and tell you how things went and how I felt as you were in my arms taking all the shit that I beat myself up for that day away. I wanted you to be there for me but you wanted to stay here more."

"I'm so sorry, I didn't even look at things that way. I should've been there with you, you're right. I just wish you would've told me."

"I tried. I just- I just didn't want to come right out and say it because I wanted you to make that decision for yourself, I wanted you to come because you wanted to support me not because I wanted you to want to support me."

She closed her eyes for a moment. "I'm sorry. I should've realized. I think I was just too distracted with other things, I should've gone with you. I'm sorry, Stefan."

"It's fine."

"Baby," she moved to sit on his lap and hugged him close to her body. "How can I make it up to you? I feel so horrible."

"I don't know honestly."

Bonnie frowned and held him tighter. "I love you more than anything, I'm s- baby," she kisses his head multiple times feeling the worst she's felt in a very long while. She wished that she noticed the signs, the look in his eyes as he begged her to come the day she dropped him off at the airport. Here she was thinking he was being a little too clingy but all he wanted was her full support. She held his face in her hands so their eyes could lock. "I'll do anything you want, I swear, just name it. Anything." She met their foreheads then kissed his lips several times.

"I want us to have a baby. I feel like every time I bring it up you always push it to the side."

"I just want to start my career off a little more and it's hard doing that with a baby. I want to live out my dreams too. I want to have kids with you, I promise I do, but just not completely right now."

He closed his eyes then exhaled before opening them. "Okay."

"Are you mad?"

"No."

She frowned. He was mad. She cursed in her head over and over then met their foreheads again. "I'm sorry."

Stefan looked up from the couch and smiled at her as she walked through the door. He closes his eyes as she kisses him then joins him, sitting beside him. "How did it go?"

"I think it went pretty well, it was a tough room to read."

Since Bonnie opened up about how she felt of their expending offspring, she decided to get the ball rolling by starting auditioning again. Over the past month, she's been to twenty and it was exhausting but knew it would be worth it in the end. She moved her hand to the side of his face, gently moving it a few inches forward and backward. "I love you."

"I love you more." He sat the magazine to the side as she straddled his lap and opened his mouth to hers.

She's been so busy and tired lately that they've been barely having sex and hoped that the stretch would end soon, not wanting to become one of those married couples. He held her hips and stood, carrying her back into their bedroom.

"Baby?"

"Yeah?"

"I'll possibly be going to Mystic Falls soon to see my mom try on wedding dresses, I wanted to know if you could come?"

"Sure. Why do you say possibly though?"

"Because if I get the part to one or few of these auditions, I may not be able to physically be there so we'll do it over FaceTime."

"Oh, I see. Will they both be wearing dresses?"

"I think Karen will wear a white suit, I'm envisioning something with bell-bottom pants that graze the floor with high heels." He chuckled. "But I think she may try on some dresses just to see."

"Come here,"

She smiled, scooting closer to him before their lips met for a few moments. Bonnie pulled away hearing her phone ring and reached her hand back to get it. Her eyes widened seeing who it was from knowing that it could be either really good news or bad news. "Hello?"

"I have some good news for you, girl."

"Tell me, tell me, tell me."

"You got the three movies you auditioned for last week."

"Are you serious?"

"One hundred percent. You got them. Now, the first two are somewhat back to back, you have a week break between, but the last one you have a month."

"Wow."

"You think you can handle it?"

"I don't know, I mean do you think they're worth the time?"

"I think so. I mean one is an indie film so it probably won't amount to much but the script is beautiful and I know it will do well in the festivals, but if you're feeling overwhelmed I can give them the no-go to that."

"How long do I have to decide?"

"The sooner the better."

"I'll talk to Stefan and see what he thinks."

"Aren't you glad I set that up?"

"I guess I should thank you, huh?"

"I mean at least invite me to the wedding this time."

"You'll be one of the firsts, I promise."

"Alright, girl, I'll be waiting for your answer tomorrow."

"Alright, bye."

"Bye." Bonnie needed the call then looked at him with wide eyes.

"Conflicting news?" Stefan questioned.

"Conflicting good-ish news. I got three movie roles I auditioned for last week but two of them are basically back to back and I don't really know if I'm ready for that yet."

"Why not?"

"Because I… I don't know."

He chuckled. "Babe, you got this. I'll help you whenever you need me. I think you should go for it, you have a lot more muscle memory than you think."

She smiled and kissed him several times. "I love you."

"I love you more. I'm proud of you, babe."

Bonnie texts Kelly that she's agreeing to all three. "I know I was a bad wife and wasn't there for you, but can you be on set with me?"

He chuckled, shaking his head. "Of course, babe."

"Are you still mad at me because of that?"

"I was never really mad, only sad. But I'm partly to blame here because I should've told you how I felt straight up instead of having you guess."

"I swear once the show gets picked up, I'll be there all I can."

"I know," he combed her hair behind her ear then sat up to kiss her. "I'll never get tired of these lips,"

She smiled as he kissed her again. "I wonder how we would've met if Mason never set us up."

"We both would've been cast in some movie role or met at some party. Possibly a friendship first especially if you would've been engaged and I probably would've been dating Elena or someone or single but then our feelings towards one another would've been just too much to ignore. I definitely would've made a move on you." He smiled as she chuckled. "I wouldn't be able to help myself." He watched her eyes then shifted down to her lips as she bit the bottom one between her teeth, before meeting her eyes again.

Bonnie pushes her body in his direction and kisses him deeply. He holds and squeezes her, kissing her back until they are out of breath.

Bonnie decided to no longer hide by ignoring social media and actually see what people had to say about her. She knew that she wanted to document her being on set and capturing her experiences, so she reloaded Instagram and Twitter on her phone and let the notifications roll in. She's sure all the news had died down by now but was still very curious. She realized that this would be nearly impossible for her to see everything which prompted her to make a Q and A announcement on her stories, somewhat mimicking what Stefan did around the time they first moved in together. She tweeted out what was going down in five minutes on her Instagram and took several breaths preparing herself for what's about to come. On the four-minute mark, she decided to post an introduction

"Hello everyone, to be honest, I offloaded social media from my phone for the past three months mainly because of Elena's book and I was… trying to basically shield myself from any possible backlash. With that being said, I do have some exciting news that I want to share the second I'm allowed to and I want to move on so I decided that this was best and I'm ready to answer your questions. I'm going to be randomly choosing just because I don't want to purposely skip a question so I'll scroll while my eyes are and pick and answer whatever."

She let the videos load before doing as she said.

"Question one, are Stefan and I still together, that answer is yes. Still happily married." She smiled and flashed her ring.

"Question two, 'did you sleep with Mason?' No, I never slept with Mason."

Do you regret kissing Mason? "I do, but I'm also glad that it happened because I'll only speak for myself when I say that I in the very very beginning, I had feelings fluttering around for him and Stefan and I weren't officially boyfriend-girlfriend at this point but shortly after we became official then the kiss happened and I felt complete remorse because Stefan is such a great guy and I betrayed him and I learned from my mistake and it's never happened since. It truly taught me that I truly only felt deeply for Stefan and with Mason, it was more of a friendship type attractiveness if that makes any sense."

What did you think about Elena's book? "Well I only read Mister and Goldfish and Emerald's chapter, and regretted it a bit later because Stefan and I, we have our own sides to these stories and we lived them and we moved past them but then we read the chapters and it brought up past trauma and put a little strain on our marriage that we've thankfully have been able to work through."

Hi I don't have a question but I just want to say that I love you. "Aww, thank you, that means so much to me. I love you too."

Can you show us your house? "Well in case ya didn't know, I moved into Stefan's NYC apartment and I think there were talks once upon a time on getting a house but I feel like with everything going on, it's best if not. And by that I mean if and when Stefan's pilot gets picked up we may move to LA, but to answer your question, I won't show everything but I'll show you our kitchen which is my favorite place." She posted different sets of photos.

Stefan and Elena belong together! "I beg to differ, but thank you for sharing your opinion."

What's one lesson you've learned from all of this drama? "Wow, that's a good question, I feel like what I've learned is that I need to put what is most important to me first as in my marriage and my family and friends close and not care about what people who aren't in those groups negatively affect me and just to keep on moving."

Are you pregnant? "No, I'm not pregnant... yet."

Any new projects? "Yes, but that's all I can say for now. In the meantime please get crazy loud for Stefan's pilot, let's get it picked up!"

Where's Stefan? "He's actually napping, but I'll show you," she stood and walked back into their room then turned the camera onto him for a few seconds.

How did you and Stefan meet? "We met through my manager Kelly because she and Mason knew each other and they hooked us up."

When is your next wedding with Stefan gonna be? "We haven't really discussed it much but my mom has a wedding coming up and I just got some exciting news so I don't think it'll be anytime too soon. Maybe either late this year or early next."

How did the book affect your marriage? "I sort of answered this one already, but it just bought up things that we have chosen to move on from but then we read them on the page and Elena made an accusation that I cheated big time on Stefan and it's not true but hearing it or in this case reading it from someone else made it a little more believable because it just wasn't in his head and Elena and I were pretty close at that time so maybe she knew something that he didn't. Or it's like when you tell yourself something that you're unsure if it's true or not then you hear someone else say it and it triggers you to start believing in whatever it was more. But communication is key."

Are you and Mason still friends? "We are friends, although we both made a not so great decision, in the beginning, he really is a great guy."

"Alright everyone, thank you for your questions, I'm getting hungry now so I'll be making some lunch and bothering Stefan until he wakes up. Sending you all love," she waved then posted the video.

She decided to bother Stefan first just in case he was hungry once he woke up. She crawled on their bed and once she was behind him, she kissed his ear softly, causing him to shift. She kissed his cheek then the side of his neck before meeting their lips.

"Baby," he mummers.

She smiles then kisses his Cupid's bow and nose, straddling him as he shifts to his back. She met their lips again and he kissed her back, holding her face as their kiss deepened. Bonnie pulled away for air and his lips moved to her neck, flipping them over. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing,"

"You never wake me up,"

"I missed you."

He softly smiles then kisses her a few times. "I was dreaming about you, us." He moves his hand to caress the side of her face.

"Yeah?"

"We had a house in LA, a dog, and a baby. A boy."

"A boy dog or baby?"

He chuckled. "Both." He watched her smile. "I hope it all comes true one day."

"Me too." She reached to caress his face.

He leaned in to meet their foreheads and he held her, moving them to their sides. "I love you so much."

"I love you more."

He watched her eyes for a few moments before closing his and she followed suit. Stefan opened his and smiled as her eyes were closed and pulled her body closer before falling back to sleep.

Bonnie rolled to her back and moved her hands to rub her eyes before opening them. Her stomach growled and she realized that instead of napping, they actually slept through the rest of the day. She sat up seeing it was five in the morning and realized that her body was tired from all the auditions and needed to make up for it. She glanced over at Stefan surprised to see him still asleep for he slept longer than she did. His phone lit up and without really thinking she read the text he received.

When is her next audition?

She got up from the bed and walked into the kitchen, grabbing her phone from the coffee table on the way there. She checked it quickly before setting it to the side to make herself breakfast. As she was finished preparing the eggs, she smiled seeing Stefan walking down the hallway. He held her from behind and kissed her neck before sitting at one of the bar stools in front of the kitchen island, watching her work.

"You must've been really tired," Bonnie spoke.

"I guess so, I didn't notice." He ran his hands over his face and through his hair.

"Have you talked to that co-star that lives around here lately?"

"Jasmine? Not really, why?"

"I was just wondering." She turned her back to him to start cooking the eggs.

Stefan narrowed his eyes. "Babe,"

"Hm?"

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"She's not the reason why I'm tired if that's what you're getting at."

"I didn't say anything."

"Baby, come on," he stood and walked back over to her. "I love you more than—"

"Why was she asking you when my next audition is? Are you two like fucking sneaking off when I'm not here?"

"No, babe, that's—"

"And you just lied to my face saying that you haven't spoken to her so obviously you're hiding something."

He took a deep breath. "Okay fine. I talk to her, okay, but not in any romantic way. You know how I felt about you not coming to LA with me and she sensed my feelings and I confided in her. I shouldn't have lied, that was stupid because I made it seem like there's more to the story but there's not. She's my friend."

"And why does she want to know when my next audition is?"

"I honestly don't know. I didn't ask."

"Ask her." She places her hands on her hips.

He watched her eyes then sighs, getting his phone from the pocket of his sweat pants and texts her back. "Baby,"

"Do you both only talk about me? How horrible of a wife I am?"

"Stop it, no. I expressed my feelings to her and after talking about it, we moved on. I don't talk about you behind your back, I never should've in the first place. I just- I was upset and I fucking missed you like hell and you were going out with Mason and Caroline that night, I was angry." He looked down as his phone vibrated twice.

"What did she say?"

"She wants to hang out or go to lunch."

"Stefan, I don't like her and I don't want you two to be friends."

"Babe,"

"Why does she want to sneak around, why does it have to be when I'm off auditioning, why can't it be any other regular day? She's playing a game and I don't like it."

"Okay."

"Did she ever try to kiss you or have actually kissed you?"

He stepped closer to her. "No."

She watched his eyes for a few moments then let out a breath, looking away. "You wanna know the real reason why I only called you once?"

"Why?" He held her face to get her to look at him again.

"I saw the paparazzi photos of you two— you and Jasmine, always out together and laughing and smiling. Her holding your arm. I was pissed and I didn't want to talk to you. But I really did miss you like crazy, I didn't enjoy a single day without you and when I was going to call you and say that I wanted to fly to LA is when I saw the photos. It seemed like every day there were new ones and I forced myself to not think about it and distract myself with my best friend being in town and it worked. Then at the airport, you wanted us to drive her home and I wanted to fucking scream but I continued to play along. Then you told me how you felt about me not being there and I regret not making that call and I regretted ever thinking that you would cheat on me because I saw how much you meant it in your eyes, how much you love me. And today she texts you and I find all this out and I don't really know what to feel."

"I wasn't thinking, I was too busy in my own feelings that I didn't think about yours. You are the only person that I love, that I want. I love you so much." He held her face then moved in to kiss her and she kissed him back, moving her arms around his neck.

He slid out of her and met their lips some more before turning on his back.

"Stefan?"

"Baby,"

"I think it just happened."

He narrowed his eyes then looked over at her, and once their eyes locked, he knew exactly what she was talking about.

TBC