Mystic Falls

Jeremy paced the hall of Tyler's place. He couldn't stay at the boarding house with the others. He didn't understand why Bonnie would want to stay in a world where she and Damon were dating and had a child. He felt cheated in a lot of ways. He and Bonnie were by all means far from starting a relationship up again, but he felt there was still a chance for them.

There were a few moments where Damon's concern for Bonnie's wellbeing seemed to reflect deeper feelings. However, Jeremy knew that was due to Bonnie's witch status and her utility to Damon. There was no way Damon had legitimate feelings for Bonnie.

Jeremy looked down at his phone. He'd been spending his summer calling Bonnie's voicemail and leaving drunken messages. It was hard to accept that Bonnie was really gone. There was always a way out for her. She was virtually invincible. He threw his phone at the wall. If Bonnie didn't want to comeback… fuck her.


Enzo helped Lucy and Liv carry their ingredients into the parlor. "Do you ladies have everything you need?" he asked as he sat the bags he was carrying by the coffee table.

"Yes, we have everything. I'm going to start by building a connection to Abby since we share a bloodline. That would build a bridge between our worlds," Lucy informed them.

"Those things work best with only direct descendants around. What am I supposed to do?" Liv asked.

"Studying the spell might work out nicely for you," Lucy smiled.

"I know the spell."

"The second stanza is?" Lucy asked.

"I don't have it memorized."

"Then you should start," Lucy informed her.

"I guess being a huge bitch runs in the family," Liv said as she walked out of the room.

Lucy smirked to herself and continued to place her stones in a small circle. She took out a lighter. "Since you insist on standing here, why don't you light these," Lucy said as she gave Lorenzo the lighter.

"You aren't going to make me cry?"

"I didn't say that, but I wouldn't say you're out of the woods just yet," she said.


Afterlife Mystic Falls two years ago

Damon walked into his new home and noticed it was just as he left it…empty. It stung a bit that Bonnie hadn't taken him up on his offer to stay in the house while he was gone. Their communication had been getting better lately and he honestly felt like things between them were on the right track. He knew their living arrangement would change with time.

Damon loosen his tie and rummaged through the mail. There was a huge envelope addressed to Bonnie from a performing arts school. He smirked. She was getting mail there and it seemed important. That was a step. And leverage for dinner.

Damon's phone buzzed in his pocket with a call from his mother. "Hello mother," Damon greeted her.

"Did you get in yet?" she asked.

"Um yeah I just got in."

"So you'll be at Zach's birthday dinner tonight with Bonnie?"

"Mom, I think that's too much right now. I'm really busy with work and Bonnie hasn't been feeling well," he lied.

"If you don't want to come to your cousin's birthday party that's fine, you don't have to lie about it, and you most certainly don't have to bring Bonnie into your mess," she yelled and ended the call.

Damon let out a jagged breath and rubbed his temples. He picked up his briefcase and took it to his office. It was still cluttered with moving boxes he hadn't had time to unpack. "No time like the present," he said to himself as he got to work on his office.

Once his office was semi-complete a heavy knock sounded at his door. Damon walked to the front of the house and saw his father seething through the blinds. "Father what a pleasure," Damon said as he opened the door.

"Your mother has spent months planning this dinner for Zach," Giuseppe yelled.

"I know that," Damon yelled back.

"Then why are you acting like you're not on broad and lying saying Bonnie isn't coming too."

"I'm sure the Salvatore Boarding House is the last place Bonnie wants to be. Especially given our circumstance," Damon said.

"She didn't express the same concerns at dinner last night," Giuseppe informed him.

"What are you talking about?" Damon asked his father.

"After Stefan took Bonnie to her appointment she stayed over and had dinner with us," Giuseppe informed his son. He noted the outrage seething behind Damon's eyes. "It seems Bonnie's only problem with a Salvatore remains with you son.

"That dinner reminded me of when we first moved to Mystic Falls. Right after Zach's parents passed. Stefan and Bonnie were two peas in a pod again. Stayed up all night talking-fell asleep in the study by the fire. If Bonnie hadn't got knocked-up by you I'd tell Stefan to give it ago. Lord knows that Gilbert girl you two are fighting over isn't worth it."

"I'm not interested in Elena, and Bonnie isn't interested in Stefan."

"So her not telling you she invited your brother to her doctor's appointment and spending the night with him must be a clear sign of that," Giuseppe smiled as Damon stood speechless.

"Do not disappoint my wife. This dream house your building will be this lonely for the rest of your life," Giuseppe warned. "And FYI you moved in two months ago unpack or hire someone to do it. This isn't the proper environment for the woman carrying my grandchild."

Damon slammed the door behind his father and paced his living room. One, Bonnie had a doctor's appointment she never told him about. If she had he would have never spent the week in Port Richman. Two, Stefan knew about this and instead of being a good brother, he lied to him. Three, they spent the night together. "WHAT THE FUCK!" Damon yelled at the top of his lungs. He went back into his study and pulled his bottle of bourbon out of its box.

He downed the glass in one quick sip. He had a birthday dinner to attend.


Bonnie looked at her body in the full length mirror of her Gram's spear room. She looked like a fat pumpkin in the orange dress she brought with Anna and Caroline. Bonnie sighed and sunk on to the bed. "You're beautiful. The belly is only for another five months. Hopefully less," she said.

Someone knocked on the door frame of the room. She looked up at the smiling brunette and stood taking a few steps towards her then stopping in disbelief. "I used the spare key to get in," Elena informed her. "I just want to talk."

"I'm not ready to talk to you Elena. I know you want us to be friends again, but I can't do that. Not feeling how I do about Damon. I love him."

"You don't act like it," she deadpanned.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Is that baby Damon's or Stefan's?" she yelled.

Bonnie took a step back; she was floored. "What kind of stupid question is that?"

"I introduce my supervisor to my boyfriend today only to find out he was there being super flirty with another brunette-last name Bennett. And when I talked to said boyfriend about it I found out more, like you spending basically the whole night together. Like old times. The time you were in love with my boyfriend."

"Elena you know that is bullshit. I set you two up, knowing that Caroline was obsessed with Stefan. It was never a thought in my mind. He was never an option for me, and you know that," Bonnie said with a tear in her eye. "I'd never go after someone I knew you liked. But you, you're not like that, are you?"

"You never said"-

"But you knew. Hell Matt knew how I felt about Damon. You were my best friend don't you lie to my face and say you never saw it too."

"Obviously, you have me confused with Anna, the one you confess everything to."

"Are you serious? Are you going to turn this into a contest?" Bonnie laughed. "I wasn't being as closed to you anymore, because I decided to spend time away from you and Stefan. Everything is about you and one of the Salvatores. I'm sorry I found someone interested in what I have to say and things I like to do. Do you even recall the last conversation we had that wasn't about a relationship you were fucking up? First it was Matt, and Stefan, and once Damon came around to you, you had to have him to."

"I love Damon, and he loves me. You weren't supposed to get knocked-up. He was mad I went with Stefan and you were," Elena paused and looked Bonnie up and down. "just there. And oh so willing. Couldn't even use a condom."

"Fuck you. Get out now!" Bonnie yelled as the house shook.

"Did I make the sad witch angry. Image how Damon's going to feel after I tell him what you did while he was out making a living for you and the child that not his," Elena yelled and walked out.

Bonnie screeched like a banshee at the top of her lungs. After a while she sat on the floor panting. She had no idea Elena was a giant bitch. If Bonnie didn't get control of her emotions she would kill someone.


Damon walked through the house and saw no sign of his…girlfriend. Bonnie hadn't shown and he was starting to feel like shit for thinking about humiliating her in front of the whole town again. "Hey where's Bonnie?" Stefan asked.

"From what I hear I should be asking you that?" he said before he took a long sip of his drink.

"I didn't think she was going to tell you," he laughed.

"She didn't, father did," he smiled at his younger brother.

"It was snowing and she was going into the clinic alone. You wanted me to just leave her?" he asked.

"I wanted you to be my brother and call me."

"So you'd drive all the way home seething about how Bonnie kept that from you, and run into the clinic and make a fool of yourself?" Stefan asked.

"I flew to Port Richman," he said.

"Damon, I was trying to help you. She doesn't need your erratic brand of concern. She needs you to be patient and to trust that she's doing everything she can for your baby."

"You mean the baby she didn't want to keep?"

"What?"

"She goes to the general hospital for appointments, not the clinic. If you would have told me that she was at the clinic I would have dragged her ass out of there in a heartbeat. She isn't as in love with this situation as you think. The baby is the problem. And her lack of feeling for it."

"She wants the baby. She may not want you to know it, but she wants it."

"How do you know that?"

"She thought something was wrong. And I saw how happy she was when the doctor told her, your daughter is perfectly healthy," Stefan smiled.

"It's a girl," Damon said getting teary eyed.

"Seem reaction she had to that news. Now go make your toast for Zach. And go home to your girls."


Damon walked in to the manor making another call to Bonnie. "It's me leave a message."

"I need to talk to you. Please call me." Damon walked up to his bedroom and noticed the light to the hall bathroom was on. He slowly walked towards the light. He opened the door slowly and there was nothing.

Defeated by the day, Damon undressed and crawled into bed. He couldn't stop thinking about Bonnie and their little girl. He was really going to be a father. Exhaustion instantly took a hold of Damon and he was on his way to sleep. Until he felt the foot of the bed dip a little. He turned to see long curls advancing towards him.

"I'm sorry I didn't know you'd go to sleep so soon." Her voice was jagged and unsure.

He knew the reason she came and he was more than happy to oblige her. He settled her core on his semi-erect penis. Her warmth was intoxicating. It wouldn't take much more to bring him to full mass and he knew that. "Lift," he directed her and slid off his briefs. He felt underneath her robe and was met with bear flesh. His eyes widened in the darkness. He allowed his hands to trail her body and not a tee-shirt, no shorts, nor bra, or panties was found.

"I want you," she insisted.

Her restraint was nonexistent at that very moment. He knew she was in desperate need the second his bare skin came in contact with the hot flesh of her thighs. Her core was steaming and he wouldn't waste another second not being inside her.

"Fuck," she cried out as she slowly sunk down on his member. She placed her hands on his shoulders to help keep her balance and she rode him hard and steady. "Fuck yes Damon," she cried.

Damon smirked and held on to her hips. He gilded her up and down meeting her thrust for thrust. "I love you," he called out to her.

"I love you baby," she said working her clit against his base.

Damon allowed his hands to trail her body while she worked herself over. He started at her ass kneading handfuls of it. Then he allowed his hands to trail up. He felt her round belly. There was a tiny pouch forming and his chest swelled with pride. His seed was growing inside her.

"I'm close," she cried.

Damon stopped what he was doing and licked the tips of his fingers. He worked her clit over with one hand while helping her ride him with the other. Soon she finally exploded on his still hard cock. She collapsed on him. "Bonnie the baby." He reminded her as he turned her on her back beside him.

She turned on her side and felt between his legs. "We can finish," she yawned.

Damon laughed. "I'm good. I just want you here."

"I'm sorry I was really upset and I've been super horny and you kept calling and I was only going to stay over and talk, but I"-

Damon was tired of her talking so he kissed her. "Goodnight Bonnie."

"Goodnight Damon."


As if born again Damon Salvatore was on an unstoppable roll. He was able to buy out several high quality flip properties, and it was barley noon. His father was going away to assess the management of several important properties and Stefan agreed to go in his place. However, the best thing about his morning was the text he got from Bonnie asking if he wanted to order out for dinner or eat in. It was small, but it was something.

"Mr. Salvatore," Anna his assistant called in.

"Yes."

"You have a Ms. Gilbert here to see you," she informed him.

"You can let her in."

"You sure," she sang.

"Yes, Anna."

"Really sure."

"Anna!" Damon yelled.

Elena came into his office and ran into his arms. She stood there crying for a good three minutes before she sobered and pulled away. "Are you okay?"

"I can't believe them. Why would they do this to us? And make us feel bad for what we did?" she said and started to cry again.

Damon grabbed more tissue. "Elena calm down. What's going on?"

Elena's big brown doe eyes widened in confusion. "That bitch didn't tell you yet?" she spat out.

"Who didn't tell me what?"

"Bonnie," She said slowly and she started to sniffle again.

A chill crept up his spine at the way Elena said Bonnie's name. There was no emotion no connection and that scared him. "What about Bonnie?"

"It's not your baby," she cried.

"Of course it is," he laughed.

"Here," Elena gave him folder with pictures in it from the mystic grill security camera. "It's from a week after the Halloween party. Stefan just told me about it. I got Jeremy to print these out."

Damon looked at the time stamp. She was right. The two looked to be having a tense conversation. That wasn't usually their vibe. Then Stefan was holding her hand and the look in Bonnie's eyes. That uncertainty. "This doesn't mean anything."

"He's leaving with her. He is going to take her out west somewhere. He's going with your asshole father to find a place."

Okay it was believable now. Giuseppe already issued that warning to Damon, but it was his child Bonnie was carrying. His little girl.

"That baby is mine Elena. I know what I did, and I'm going to take care of my responsibility."

"They got a paternity test. The results came in this morning," she cried. "They were hiding their relationship for months. It started around prom. Stefan felt guilty and left to see his friends in New Orleans. He said when he came back he tried to pretend it never happened, but she wouldn't leave his mind, like he was under a spell. And then around the end of July they were sneaking around. Meeting along the border and in Whitmore. Then they progressed to hotel exchanges, and using Qetsiyah's loft. She isn't a friend at all.

"She knew I had feeling for you when you guys first came here. And I'd tell her how adorable she looked with Stefan. Then she started to push Stefan on me. And now she's claiming that she' always had feelings for you. Bull shit."

"I think you should leave," he informed Elena.

"But she's playing you for a fool Damon. They both are."

"I SAID GET THE FUCK OUT NOW ELENA!" Damon yelled.

"I-I don't…you just don't deserve to be hurt. I'm sorry," she said and she hugged him. "I understand your pain. I'm here for you." Elena walked out his office, and Anna gave her a parting dirty looked. Once she had Damon back in his place, that bitch would be fired baby and all. Once out of the building Elena laughed all the way to her car. Bonnie wasn't going to have either Salvatore if she had anything to do with it.


Damon was livid as he called it an early day and got everyone out of the office. He was going to kill someone. His blood was like melted lava coursing through his veins. His anger was building like a storm approaching the shore. He needed a release and Stefan's phone along with his father's line were busy.

They were avoiding him. Elena might have been right about them looking for a home out west. Stefan hated scouting potential real-estate. He should have known right there and then that something was off.

Damon got in and slammed the door close. He walked up stairs and saw Bonnie putting the little bit of clothing she had into a box. "What the fuck are you doing?" he asked her.

Bonnie jumped. She was startled not only by his presence, but by the base in his voice. "I'm just getting rid of some old stuff."

"Old stuff, we bought this last month," Damon said picking up a sweater.

"If you hadn't noticed I've grown a bit in the last month," she said placing one of her delicate hand on her baby bump and returning to her packing.

"Bonnie," he said looking at her and feeling like his chest was going to cave in.

Bonnie turned at the way he said her name. He looked like he was going to faint. "Are you okay?" she asked immediately rushing to his side.

"You are going to tell me the whole truth. I need to know what the hell is going on with you and my brother," he yelled.

Bonnie was taken aback by his question. "I don't understand what you're asking Damon."

"Are you fucking my brother, Bonnie?" he asked.

"Damon I'm not going to acknowledge that ridiculous question."

"Why? I know about your feeling. You guys sneaking around," he yelled as he went into his briefcase and pulled out the pictures he got from Elena. "Is the baby even mine."

Bonnie looked at the photos. "Are you having me followed?"

"Is that my fucking kid Bonnie," Damon asked as he grabbed her arms. "Don't you dare lie to me."

"Let me go Damon or so help me I'll kill you." She issued a warning, but he knew it was more, a promise. Damon released her. "Why would I lie about you being the father?"

"You didn't say it, I did. Stefan was dating your best friend, we did sleep together, so if I were going to claim it, why not."

Bonnie looked at Damon like he had seven heads. How could he rationalize something so outrageous? "I've never been intimate with your brother."

"You could have fooled me. The way he followed you around when we first got to Mystic Falls. How you'd spend the night literally every night, and you let him take you to your secret doctor's appointment at the clinic. You don't go to the clinic."

"I thought something was wrong with the baby."

"The baby you wanted to abort. Why so admit about keeping it now? You finally know they good brother's the father?"

"Damon I think we should stop this now before this goes somewhere we can't comeback from. Nothing is happening with me and Stefan. He was my best friend for a good bit of time."

"He's looking for a house for you, he wants you guys to have a beautiful life far away from me."

"Damon," she said placing a hand on his check he looked her in the eye and she spoke. "I am not going anywhere. Stefan and I are friends and that's it. He's your brother."

"It didn't stop Elena."

"Elena only loves one person and that's herself. I love you and I'm here for you."

Damon felt something in the pit of his stomach when she said she loved him. He believed her, but the evidence of foul play was too strong to let go of. "I know he always wanted you."

"Damon."

"He always wanted to be with you Bonnie. He loved you and then he was with Elena. It never made a lick of sense to me. He was like a lost puppy on your heels and then… He just wasn't."

"I-I. Damon we were kids just let it go," she yelled.

"No! Did you ever have anything with him?"

Bonnie was frustrated and reasoning with Damon was going nowhere. "I-I didn't want to be with Stefan. I never did. He knew that and he excepted it."

"But it happened anyway."

"No… I found everything I ever dreamed of," she said looking into his eyes. "I told Stefan that I wanted to be with you, and that it would be wrong of me to be in a relationship with him. And I suggested he give Elena a try."

"The pictures," Damon asked.

Bonnie laughed. "Stefan was concerned that you were using me to get Elena."

"I'd never do that," he said brushing her hair back. "You-I'm mad about you. I've always been and it killed me watching you two pal around the boarding house and not being able to tell you."

"I'm sorry if I made you feel like Stefan was ever a possibility."

"No, I'm crazy. I never should have listened to Elena."

"That bitch told you this?" Bonnie asked.

"Yeah she made me believe you and Stefan were fooling around, and that the baby wasn't mine."

"I love you, and only your crazy ass." He laughed. "Let's just promise to let Elena go. You two are all the family I need," Bonnie said as she took Damon's hand and put it on her baby bump.

"I'm so sorry Bonnie," he said as he wrapped her in his arms. "Just you and me against the world."


I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and thanks for you encouraging words. The flashback will make more sense next chapter, and im going to be focusing a little more on Bonnie, Stefan, and Damon's relationship to Elena as they decide if she should stay or go.