AN: First update of the new year, I hope everyone enjoyed their holidays!

After finally convincing Bonnie and Caroline to let him in, Stefan and Caroline both immediately started with what Bonnie referred to as a pop quiz. She answered the questions correctly for the most part, but it wasn't lost on him that the role he and Damon played in some of those arguably most memorable and unpleasant events were erased and reworked as if they were never there.

Getting tired of the questions and looks from Caroline and her weird friend, Bonnie went upstairs to take a shower and change.

Stefan pulled Caroline to the side "What do you think happened?"

Caroline pulled her arm out of his grasp "What do you think happened, Stefan? Her memories were erased."

Stefan leveled Caroline with a look "Obviously, but since she's not a witch anymore she couldn't have done this by herself. That is if she didn't find another witch to help her."

"I don't understand why she would do this? I mean I understand why she would do this, but it's unlike Bonnie to be a coward."

"You think she took the cowards way out?" he asked for some reason thinking about when Elena erased her memories.

Caroline rolled her eyes "Of course I do. Bonnie faces things head on, she never runs away from anything or anyone" Caroline paused as if something occurred to her "That's how bad things were for her. Why didn't she just come to me?" she said thoughtfully sitting down.

"What was?"

"Remember when we tried to help Sarah before Damon and Sybil got to her?"

Not really thrown off by the change of subject Stefan crossed his arms over his chest "Yea, I thought I could save her." he whispered, still not over his niece's death and the fact that he couldn't save her life.

"We all did," Caroline stopped herself from grabbing Stefan's hand "but I sort of blamed Bonnie."

Stefan furrowed his brows "Why?"

"I didn't blame her per say. But I did accuse her of being jealous of our engagement. We were happy during a time when she lost both Damon and Enzo at the same time, so I thought that was the reason she went rouge on us."

Stefan didn't know what to say. Well, that was a lie. But he decided it was best to keep this particular comment to himself.

"But then she told me how happy she was for me, for us. At the same time when she use to see us together it reminded her of how alone she was and she felt like dying."

Stefan eyes widen after hearing that. He remembered Damon telling him about the time Bonnie almost committed suicide on her birthday after being left in the prison world alone. Being stuck in the prison world alone was one of the reasons why Bonnie hated being alone, so either Damon or Caroline took turns spending the night with her. It wasn't until Damon started insisting he be the one to stay with Bonnie and he did, he practically moved in.

Stefan stood up to go upstairs to talk to Bonnie but Caroline grabbed his arm "As much as I appreciate this faux concern. Do I need to remind you, that you, Enzo and Damon are the reason she died in the first place?"

Stefan and Caroline stared at each other for a while but Stefan was the one to break eye contact first "You and Bonnie may never believe this, but I only went along with Damon's plan because I thought this was what you both needed. It would have killed you if you would have lost Bonnie. You didn't deserve to lose anyone else you loved."

Caroline nodded "I know you think you did the right thing. But you agreed to end Bonnie's life, Stefan. She's my sister. You and Damon fight all the time, but you would never agree to anything that would harm or end his life even though we all knew he deserved it."

Stefan couldn't argue with that so he kept quiet and watched somberly as tears fell from Caroline's eyes.

"Bonnie was the spirit of the group and by simply being okay with ending her life, you killed it and us."

Stefan nodded in understanding he knew now more than ever that there was no way Caroline would ever forgive him for this "I'm sorry."

Caroline reached in her pocket and handing him her engagement ring "Me too."

"Caroline, I was thinking instead of going straight home after the club maybe we should probably grab something to—"

Caroline quickly wiped her eyes.

Bonnie looked between Caroline and her weird friend and almost rolled her eyes. She tried to tune out Caroline's conversation with Stefan but Grams always said she was too nosey for her own good.

"I know you guys were talking about me, but I want you to know that I'm fine and I'm happy. So, if you're breaking up because of me, don't."

Stefan cleared his throat "I think it's more complicated than that and it's probably for the best Bonnie."

Bonnie looked at Caroline "I don't think so. She's crying and Caroline doesn't cry over small things. So, this thing that she obviously didn't tell me about" she glared at her blonde friend "must have been huge."

Caroline sighed "Bonnie, this is all too much right now and I think you need to get some sleep—"

"Are you kidding me? We're vampires. We don't need sleep."

Stefan raised a brow "You say that like being a vampire is a good thing."

"Please don't tell me this is the beginning of a being a vampire is awesome speech, because if it is I may have to strangle you." Caroline tacked on.

Bonnie shrugged "It's not, but it has its good moments."

"Such as?" Caroline and Stefan asked at the same time.

Bonnie grinned saucily putting on her leather jacket.

It wasn't until now that Stefan and Caroline noticed that Bonnie was dressed in a pair of black worn ripped jeans, a white tank top with 2Pacs face on it and a pair of black Michael Kors ankle booties. Her hair was in a messy bun resting at the top of her head.

"Where did you get that 2pac tank top from?"

Bonnie laughed "Remember when I went to see Lucy in ATL the summer of sophomore year in college?" she watched as Caroline nodded before continuing "She bought it for me as a gift. She thought it was time I stopped dressing like the Sanderson sisters. I have a Snoop Dogg, Bob Marley and a Biggie Smalls t-shirt just like it."

Stefan wanted to laugh but he didn't so he watched as Bonnie placed a black scarf around her neck and sped out of the house after mumbling to Caroline to lock up when she was done. But he didn't think Caroline heard her because she was too busy looking dumbfounded

"What are you going to do about Bonnie?"

"For now, she's happy. I hate what she did, but she hasn't been herself in months." She shrugged helplessly.

"I'm sorry Caroline."

"Don't apologize to me, apologize to Bonnie. But since she doesn't remember what you did or who you are it doesn't really matter." Caroline said getting up to toss her left over grapes in the garbage.

"Just because she doesn't remember Damon and I and everything we've done, it doesn't mean we don't and shouldn't be held—"

Stefan's eyes widen.

"What?"

He sighed tiredly "Damon."

"Bonnie doesn't remember who he is. I'm sure he's going to love that."

Stefan shook his head "Damon was hurt when Elena erased her memories of him but he understood why she had to do it. Bonnie on the other hand—"

"Are you telling me he can't seem to understand why Bonnie would do the same? Besides Bonnie was just his friend, he'll get over it."

Stefan knew how Caroline felt about Damon and his growing attachment to Bonnie, but even if she didn't like it she still had to hear the truth.

"He won't. Even when Bonnie was at her angriest with him, Damon always held on to the fact that Bonnie loved him. He can't hold onto something that no longer exists."

Caroline shrugged "He can't hold onto something he never had either." She said and walked out of the house looking for Bonnie.

Damon hadn't seen or spoken to Elena or Bonnie in days. He knew without having to be told that Elena was trying to avoid him, especially after their little argument a few days ago. Elena wanted him to tell her that he didn't love Bonnie, but he couldn't do that.

He did love Bonnie, he just wasn't sure it was only in the way Elena wanted him too.

"Can I buy you a drink?"

Damon froze at hearing the shy voice behind him. He turned his head slowly to look at her "Why? Think you'll have enough time to poison it?"

He did a quick scan of her tiny frame getting his full of her. It's been a few days since he saw her and he was tired of not having immediate access of her. After doing his thorough sweep of her once again Damon had to admit he liked what he saw.

Bonnie laughed nervously shaking her head "No, I usually hold off on the attempted murder until after the third date."

"Is that why there was never a third date?"

Bonnie raised a brow, not at the blatant insult but at the way the question was framed "Excuse me?"

Damon shook his head "Don't bother threatening to turn my balls into earrings, I was just kidding."

Bonnie blinked "Ok, maybe you're drunk already so I guess offering to buy you another drink was a bad idea. But I saw you sitting here all by yourself and I thought you were kind of cute and since I'm trying this new thing where—"

Damon held up a hand cutting off her rambling "Did you just call me cute?"

Bonnie bit down on her bottom lip, that shamelessly got Damon's attention "Yea, I would have said sexy but I figured that's a little to direct."

Damon just stared at Bonnie for a while not really saying much, his blue eyes again scanning her from head to toe "Are you ok?"

From the way he kept looking at her she was starting to think she wasn't and that this whole thing was a bad idea "I think so. Well, at least I was."

Yea, it was time for her to leave especially since she was sure she succeeded in making a complete damn fool of herself thanks to her rambling.

"You know what? I'm sorry to bother you but this whole thing was a bad idea, so I'm just going to go. It was nice meeting you." She said before turning to leave.

Damon grabbed her arm causing Bonnie to tense "What did you say?"

Bonnie looked down at Damon's hold on her arm "I said I'm leaving. But if you don't take your hands off of me we're going to have a serious problem."

Damon scanned Bonnie for what seemed to be the umpteenth time "What the hell is going on with you? Threats are nothing new but there's something different about you."

"I don't see how you would know, since you don't know a damn thing about me."

Damon eyes narrowed "Are we doing that again?" he stepped closer to Bonnie tugging her to him "Is this the part where you tell me how well Enzo knows you? Is that it Bonnie."

Damon didn't know why he was getting mad, Bonnie was just his friend. But that still didn't mean he wanted to listen to her wax poetic about her ex-boyfriend in his face either.

Green eyes widen "How do you know my name?"

Damon frowned and dropped her arm "What do you mean?"

"I mean I never told you my name" Bonnie said before looking around the bar, using her vampire speed Bonnie and Damon were now standing outside. She walked over to Damon, looked into his eyes and tried compelling him "Who the hell are you?"

Damon laughed "Are you drunk?"

Bonnie blinked taking a step back "That should have worked" she looked down at Damon's finger noticing the lapis ring for the first time "You're a vampire." She whispered taking a few steps back.

Damon saw the confusion on Bonnie's face when her compulsion didn't work, even now she was standing here shocked like she thought it would. His first instinct was to ask if she hit her head and then to check to see if she had any head injuries himself, but he remembered she was a vampire.

"Of course I'm a vampire. What the hell has gotten into you Bonnie?"

"You never told me how you know my name."

The scene at the bar, her attempt at compulsion and the fact that she was kept asking him questions like she didn't— than everything started to click "Bonnie, what did you do?" he asked closing his eyes.

Silence.

Damon closed the gap between him and Bonnie, he gently cupped her face in his cold hands "What have you done Bonnie?" he whispered when she didn't respond he pressed "What you have done baby?"

Bonnie's eyes widen at the endearment, she found herself again asking "Who are you?"

Damon's eyes turned cold after hearing that. He felt a gush of wind separate him and Bonnie and when he looked up he saw Stefan looking back at him and Caroline blocking his view of Bonnie.

"Damon" Stefan said quietly as if he was trying to coach a lion away from mauling a gazelle and in a way he kind of was.

"Someone better start talking, now. Why can't she remember who I am?" He glared looking at both Stefan and Caroline.

Caroline rolled her eyes and turned to grab Bonnie's hand to gain her attention "Are you ok?"

Bonnie finally looked at Caroline and nodded "I'm fine, he's a vampire."

"A lot has happened Damon and even though it's pointless to suggest it, maybe we should go somewhere else to talk."

"I'm not a fucking child Stefan," he said ignoring the snort that came from Caroline "Whatever the fuck happened better get fixed or—"

"Or what?" Stefan challenged "She doesn't know who you are Damon. Accept it and move on."

Bonnie had no idea what the hell everyone was talking about and why they were talking about her as if she wasn't standing right there. But either way she was tired of this whole damn thing "This is insane, I came here to have a drink and possibly get laid. If I knew this guy was crazy I wouldn't have approached him."

All eyes turned to Bonnie after hearing that. But it was Caroline who said "You were trying to sleep with Damon?"

"Is that his name?"

Damon would have laughed if he wasn't pissed off. Bonnie had no idea who he was and no one was willing to give him an answer as to why that was.

Caroline shook her head, this night was officially over as far as she was concerned "Bonnie, it's time to leave. We can discuss this tomorrow."

Bonnie held up a hand "Don't bother, these two obviously know me but I don't have a single clue as to who the hell they are and maybe there's a good reason for it."

"The hell it is." That was Damon.

Bonnie stepped around Caroline "Are you sure about that? Because I'm pretty sure if there was something worth remembering I wouldn't have forgotten in the first place."

The surprising innuendo wasn't lost on anyone.

Damon smirked and shrugged "When cowards can't handle the truth, they hide. But in your case you erase memories."

"I never erased anything."

Damon nodded "You don't remember me or Stefan because you erased me from your life. But you underestimated one thing."

"What's that?"

Damon flashed in front of Bonnie grabbing her around the waist and pulling her against his chest "I always get what I want."

Before Stefan and Caroline could remove Bonnie from Damon's arms, they were gone.

Caroline cursed.

Stefan merely blinked wondering how they were going to explain to Elena that her boyfriend ran off with her best friend.

AN: Bamon alone time in the next chapter? Yes indeed. Thanks for reading and as usual drop me a line and let me know what you think about the update.