"Safe and Sound" by Taylor Swift is the soundtrack for this.

You'll see why X

It had been ten minutes and they'd yet to let one another go. Damon was content just standing there feeling the echo of Bonnie's heartbeat run through his dormant bones. Bonnie was simply relishing in the fact that Damon had cared and that he had been waiting for her to come and that he'd needed to get to her as desperately as she'd needed to get to him. That much was obvious. Enzo huffed, rolled his neck, clicking everything back in place as he stood to his feet and approached them. As he opened his mouth to comment on their reunion being considerably more than platonic Damon pulled away just enough to look at her and he burst into a wide grin. Enzo froze in place.

"I'm exhausted." Bonnie said in a small voice and Damon nodded.

"Me too, I don't know when the last time was that I actually slept through the night," they both laughed softly at what was clearly a shared sentiment or inside joke, "I feel awful. Let's go to bed?" Damon's brows lifted and he pleaded with his face but Bonnie was already nodding as she swayed in his hold, her feet yet to touch the ground.

"Yes, let's." She said and buried her face in the crook of his neck, like she could fall asleep then and there. Enzo moved to speak again, even raised his hand a little this time to interject politely but the duo promptly vanished into thin air.

"I suppose I'll drive both cars back then?" Enzo quipped to the space they'd just been before heading back to Lucy's car, digging around for either his phone or Damon's to call Caroline and make sense of what the hell had just happened.

Bonnie and Damon reappeared at Stefan's house and she frowned as Damon set her on her feet in front of the door.

"Where are we?" She asked, craning her neck to look the building up and down. She'd spelled them to what she assumed would be the closest thing to home, her magic must have latched onto Damon and taken them somewhere he knew they'd be safe.

"Stefan's new house. We can't get into Mystic Falls remember? Well, me." Bonnie nodded as she hugged her frame. She looked over at Damon who it seemed was debating on digging around for wherever the spare key was or just ripping the door open. Bonnie rolled her eyes and held her palm out, opening the door in seconds. Damon twisted his torso to grin at her and then he grabbed onto his wrist as he led her inside. Bonnie looked around. It was so …empty.

"Where is he?" She asked, allowing herself to be led straight to the guest bedroom that Damon had spent the last while screaming and writhing in guilt from her memory.

"I'm assuming Stefan's gone somewhere to irritate someone and we left everyone else in the middle of nowhere or in Mystic Falls." Bonnie yawned as she nodded and followed him as he flopped with the least of amount of grace she'd ever seen him employ with a low moan of satisfaction as he landed on the mattress. She smiled as she curled up into a small ball. Like before, he frowned at her and pulled her closer until she was nestled warmly to his side. "I hope this isn't weird for you." Damon said with a face stretching yawn following his words.

"I hope it isn't weird for you when I say that this is all I want right now." Bonnie admitted, resting her cheek against his chest and wrapping her fingers into the pooling material of his shirt as it rose a little from his stomach. Damon hummed in the back of his throat and as Bonnie closed her eyes she tried to edge closer to the sensation of the vibrations that ran through him.

"Since I came back without you this is all I've wanted, believe me. I've been driving everyone insane missing you." Damon said softly, inching closer and closer to sleep.

Just close your eyes,

The sun is going down.

You'll be alright,

No one can hurt you now.

Come morning light,

You and I'll be safe and sound

"You were the only thing that kept me sane while I figured out a way to get home." Bonnie didn't know it, but a smile moved Damon's mouth then, glad he was able to have helped her even a little…even if it was through their mutual insanity. As she readied herself to succumb to sleep she felt Damon's cool hand cover hers where she gripped his shirt and his other hand wound around her waist with a firmness that made her feel instantly safe and protected. For Damon, Bonnie's heartbeat and her breathing were slowly winding the shattered parts of his soul back together. He could feel sleep coming to find him, and for the first time since Bonnie saved his miserable ass, he was actually looking forward to it.

That night when Lucy, Caroline, Enzo and a still comatose Liv arrived at Stefan's Caroline flashed to the location where she heard a steady heartbeat coming from. She shoved Stefan's guest bedroom open, not caring when it slammed against the wall loudly in response as she took in the sight before her. Her mouth was still hanging open when Lucy and Enzo, who still had Liv slung over his shoulder, came to stand with her by the threshold. Damon and Bonnie were in bed asleep. Both their heads and bodies were turned to face one another. Bonnie's one leg was flung over Damon's jutting hip bone as he lay on his side, his legs curled at the space underneath her, her other leg caught in between. His one hand held one of hers while the other had become a makeshift pillow, propping his head up as Bonnie snuggled into his chest. There were a tangle of bodies and the three watching supernaturals felt suddenly awkward, as though they were intruding on a very personal moment between Bonnie and Damon. Caroline felt too many things all at once. First and foremost, that her best friend was alive and breathing and …sleeping…but alive and she was back. For that, tears began to fall, even as confusion settled into her chest as Caroline took in the intimacy with which the two of them were sleeping next to each other.

"Come on," Lucy said, "I remember you saying something about a magical dome over all of Mystic Falls that needs to be taken down?" Caroline nodded but didn't take her eyes off of Bonnie. "Caroline, she's back, she's obviously exhausted…I mean we know Damon has been beside himself with insomnia, so how about we let them rest while we figure out what the next plan is." Caroline sighed as she watched Bonnie's chest rise and fall.

"She's gonna be here if I come back in five minutes right?" Caroline asked, her blue eyes wide as she finally looked at Lucy. Lucy's face softened as she took in the sight of Caroline showing her vulnerability. Lucy rested her hands on the vampire's shoulders.

"Somehow, Bonnie made it back to us and from what I've seen over the last while she's safest next to Damon, trust me. She'll be here. She's home." Caroline looked over at Enzo who simply nodded before adjusted the weight of Liv on his shoulder. Caroline laughed, a watery sound and Lucy pulled her in for a quick hug and a pat on the cheek before walking away. Caroline and Enzo locked eyes.

"She's back?" Caroline said, disbelief still in her tone. Enzo smiled then, a real smile, small but warm and stepped into her space.

"She's back." He said and gave Damon and Bonnie one last glance before following in Lucy's footsteps to get back to the living room.

Bonnie found herself in a dream soon after she'd fallen asleep. The sun was out and she was in a bright yellow sundress as she sat out back in the garden at her father's house. She hadn't allowed herself to imagine home for so long that finally dreaming about it felt alien. As she made to throw herself back onto the bright checked picnic blanket she heard feet padding towards her. Raising her head as she lay on her back she locked eyes with Damon.

"Didn't I just fall asleep next to you?" she asked and he chuckled as he settled down next to her and looked down at her as he held his head up, resting the weight of it on his elbow.

"I was about to ask you the same thing." Damon admitted with a playful frown on his face.

"So I am back then?" Bonnie asked as she nestled more comfortably in the blanket and stared up at the moving fluffy clouds. Damon mimicked her position and hummed in acknowledgment.

"You are and I think we're currently passed out on my baby brother's spare bed."

"Interesting choice to have what is possibly our most intimate moment ever." Bonnie mused as she lifted a hand to trail an imaginary pattern in the sky.

"Indeed," he agreed, moving to hold her hand that was resting between them with his own; intertwining their fingers. She didn't even react to it. "You have no idea how close I was to losing it, Bon." Damon said after a few moments of peace. She turned to him then.

"I didn't want you to suffer because of what I did –"

"I know that," he said cutting her off while their heterochromic eyes locked together, "You'd never hurt me, I mean…not unless I asked for it." They shared a brief smile at that, "But Bonnie, you sending me back wasn't right…I am thankful, yes, incredibly so, but I am also so mad at you…you should have saved yourself, you were the only one worth saving." He wanted her to know how much he meant those words… how grateful he was for her, for finding him worthy enough to be saved instead of herself. Bonnie, for her part was taken aback, she knew that when she'd hallucinated Damon that he'd told her they loved one another, but here, where their minds were linked in a much needed slumber – she'd been shown how true it was. Her eyes widened a little and her lips parted in soft shock.

"You're worth saving Damon, you're worth the sacrifice, you have to know that." Damon's breathing hitched at her words but he shook his head all the same.

"You're worth saving, you're worth the sacrifice…When I first got back," he said, taking in a deep breath and breaking their eye contact as he looked up at the sky, "I couldn't make sense of anything, I couldn't understand why you weren't next to me when you were all I dreamt about, all I saw wherever I went when my eyes were open…you haunted me Bonnie and rightfully so…you reminded me of my worth when we were together and then when I was back on earth I welcomed the hallucinations because they reminded me of your worth and what you should have always meant to me…" he looked over to Bonnie to see tears falling quietly down the sides of her face as she listened to him.

"I…" he shushed her then and switched the hand that was holding hers allowing him to pull her arm around his neck so that he could snuggle up to her for a change and he felt laughter move her small frame as he wriggled into a comfortable position.

"Let's just stay here for however long we need. The world can wait…I have you back." Damon said his low and peaceful and Bonnie's heart galumphed at that, making him smile. Neither of them was thinking further than each other right now, and blissfully so.

"Stefan…"Caroline started when the voicemail tone sounded, "I just wanted to let you know that Bonnie's back…her and Damon are asleep or whatever, they're both exhausted…Look, I don't really know how to explain anything that's going on right now but those hallucinations Damon was having, well I think there's a lot more to them than a guilty conscience. So…when you get the chance, call me." She ended the call and sighed as shook out her thoughts, her golden curls bouncing lightly in protest. Enzo handed her a mug of blood wordlessly as he passed her and handed a plate of food to a surprised Lucy as she sat in front of a pile of notes.

"…Thank you." Lucy said as he handed her a fork as well. Enzo shrugged and walked away from the table and Lucy looked at Caroline.

"You think he'd be a little more chipper now that everything's starting to fall back into what it was." Lucy said after the front door had clicked shut upon Enzo's exit.

"That's the thing," Caroline said, only realising the truth of her words as she spoke them, "I don't think that's what he wants out of this…any of us for that matter."

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OH. Someone asked about Bonnie's spells, she 'casts' in Latin :)

Also: Wonderful people I hate to say this but I won't in any way be following what happens in the season anymore, I haven't really since the first chapter save for a few plot points (Elena erasing her memory, Saremy, etc… Lol, Saremy…) which means no Kai. If you were looking for him to be a prevalent part in this then …then I feel like a total asshole because I don't think that's happening :/ Sorry…

ALSO: Thank you so much for your responses to this, they make me smile and laugh and roll around happily and all that great stuff. I'm sorry this note was so long. I'm gonna go and fix-up the next chapter. You guys ready?

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