"Bamon, glorious Bamon, WHY try and DENY it"

*sings along to the melody of food glorious food*

Landing in Cape Town was surreal. Bonnie had only just returned to the land of the living and now she'd landed in one of the most energetic cities in the world. She could see the infamous mountain, smiling people everywhere – like the whole city was brimming with life. Following Stefan's direction the car stopped outside of a large white beach house that stood three floors high. Bonnie, Lucy and Caroline got out and quickly moved out of the way for the second car to pull up that had Damon and Enzo inside. Once their bags were taken out and the drivers were paid the five of them grouped together at the foot of the stairs, wondering what they were walking into. Damon looked down at Bonnie, trying to ascertain her current mood or an idea of what she was thinking about. The entire flight over they'd hardly spoken and she'd been on edge ever since she'd ended things with Jeremy – something Damon wouldn't have believed if he hadn't seen it himself. The wide double doors that were made of frosted glass with wooden framing, swung open and a man, nearing two metres tall came bounding down the stairs with a wide grin in place. He had light grey eyes and wonderful olive skin with a well-muscled frame and long wavy midnight coloured hair. He walked right up to Bonnie and bent his knees a little to look her in the eye as he winked.

"You must be Bonnie Bennett." He said standing upright and holding out a hand to her which she timidly took. He shook it firmly, "I'm Imran, it's lovely to meet you. Welcome to Cape Town!" Bonnie smiled then, finding his enthusiasm endearing.

"Thank you, it's lovely to meet you as well." He nodded happily before redirecting his eyes to Damon who was still in the process of eyeing the host out.

"Damon Salvatore?" Imran said, also leaning in to look at Damon's eyes, "How curious." Damon nodded with a slight frown on his features. Imran turned to Lucy then and inclined his head respectfully before casting curious eyes at Enzo. "…You are?"

"Wait, wait, how do you know who she is," Enzo wondered jerking a thumb at Lucy, "But you don't know who I am?"

"You're surprised Stefan didn't mention you? How strange, from what I heard you two don't even try to get along." Imran said with a cheeky smile. Enzo shook his head and pressed his lips together. "You must be Caroline Forbes." Imran said, holding a hand out to the blonde vampire, "Hello." They shook hands.

"Hi." Caroline said cheerfully, "So, are they inside? How are we doing this?" Imran folded his hands behind his back and turned serious for a moment.

"To be entirely honest what you do, within in reason during your stay here is your concern, outside of Damon and Bonnie there isn't much to be done, but you're in a beautiful city, I'm sure you'll figure something out." Caroline nodded and smiled. "Come, come, I'm sure you'd like to see Stefan and Elena." He looked to Damon and Bonnie when he said that and both of them bristled a little at whatever gleam shone in his eyes for a split second before he turned and ascended the stairs to his home.

"Bonnie!" Elena squealed, flashing until she had the startled witch in her hold. Bonnie's arms wound around her best friend's waist as Elena dropped her head to the crook of Bonnie's shoulder, "I missed you Bon." She whispered and Bonnie nodded, still unsure why she was so apprehensive to return the sentiment. Bonnie locked eyes with Stefan who looked especially grim as he took in her eye colours. Elena pulled away and gasped, finally get a proper look at Bonnie. "Bonnie your eyes."

"Yeah, hence the trip to Cape Town." Damon interrupted with a tight smile and Elena's eyes flitted to him and away again, something akin to guilt crossing her features. As he stepped to stand closer to Bonnie, Elena took a step back and folded her arms. Bonnie looked between the two of them and then at Stefan and then her cousin before her eyes landed on a woman who'd quietly entered the room. Both Bonnie and Lucy had felt Amelia's power when she stepped into the room, their bodies reacting to it almost immediately. Bonnie blinked and smiled tentatively as Amelia stepped towards.

"Bonnie?" Amelia asked and the girl nodded. Amelia's face broke into a gorgeous smile then. "I am Amelia, that must be your cousin Lucy," another nod, "Welcome to my home."

"Thank you." Bonnie said and Amelia patted her cheek.

"I need you and Damon to come with me," She said, her eyes sweeping the room, "Fahada will show the rest of you to your rooms and help you with whatever you need." Fahada sighed softly but everyone in the room save for Amelia and Lucy heard her. Though, Amelia, being accustomed to Fahada's ways, lifted a brow at the sullen girl who rolled her eyes in response.

"I'll be nice." Fahada said defensively, "Go make sense of whatever that is." The vampire girl said, waving a hand at Bonnie and Damon who were looking at each other strangely. Amelia nodded, having noticed their exchange as well and motioned for them to follow her to her office where Imran was already waiting.

Caroline had been roomed in between Elena and Stefan's rooms, with Lucy across from her in between where Damon and Enzo were to be sleeping. Bonnie had the room furthest down the hall, next to Damon and Caroline actively resisted the urge to comment.

"Do you wish to go to the beach?" Fahada asked after she'd knocked on the door and peeked a head into the room. Caroline smiled and nodded.

"Sounds great!" The blonde vampire said, her thoughts twisting around her words causing them to come out a little strained, something Fahada picked up on instantly. Chewing on her bottom lip Fahada walked into the room and sat down next to Caroline on the King Sized bed.

"You are unhappy." Fahada said evenly, "Would you like to talk to someone about it?" Caroline looked at the girl then, really looked at her and wondered if she was as composed as she came across. Fahada tilted her head to the side. "I assure you I am not." Fahada said with a small smile, "You're wondering if I am as I seem are you not?" She asked when Caroline's brows furrowed. "People are easy to read when you've dedicated as much time to reading them as I have. Your thoughts may as well be scripted on your skin if someone paid enough attention, so, do you wish to confide in someone of what troubles you?"

"It would help if I could string a sentence together that came close to describing how I feel right now." Caroline said, looking up at the bright pale blue walls of the room before turning back to Fahada, "But nothing comes to mind."

"It will, when the time for words come," Fahada said with an assured nod as she stood to her feet, "Until then, how about I take you and your friends to the ocean and we can pretend for a few hours that that is what our normal lives are like." Caroline nodded, standing as well.

"That sounds perfect."

"I'll fetch the others." Fahada smiled and flashed out of the room.

"So your eyes are usually green and his are usually blue?" Imran asked as he jotted things down on a pad of paper while Amelia scoured around in the archives of books in her office for any information that related to magical reactions in the human (and supernatural) body. Bonnie nodded while Damon slouched in the chair next to her looking annoyed for whatever reason.

"Yes," Bonnie said, "I think it happened when we somehow managed to meet each other halfway –"

"Halfway between where?" Amelia piped up, twisting her frame to lock eyes with Bonnie from where she stood.

"From wherever I was and Earth." Bonnie said and Amelia let go of the book she'd been pulling out and walked over to stand beside her husband.

"Impossible." She breathed. "Even with this fifth element."

"That's the thing I think my Grams used it to send me there in the first place," Bonnie went on, "And I used it to get myself back."

"And the condemned warlock?" Imran inquired.

"He had an 'ascension' device that I used to send Damon home." Bonnie said with an easy shrug. The couple nodded and Imran's eyes flitted to Damon and he sighed.

"Your brother said you were plagued with hallucinations when you returned –"

"When Bonnie sent me back," Damon corrected and Bonnie swatted his forearm and he looked at her with a question in his eyes before he continued, "I hallucinated her while I was conscious, or whatever the hell I was and I dreamt of her when I slept, recurring nightmares of her sacrificing herself for me and my minds manifestations of that and what Kai could have been doing to her without me there to keep her safe." Bonnie's eyes widened and her features settled into a soft sadness, her mouth turning down at the corners as she listened to him recount his days back on Earth, "I was miserable and barely lucid at any given moment and I'm sure Stefan took it upon himself to burden his forehead with yet another thing to brood over…he thought it was guilt or a glitch in my brain as a result of inter-dimensional travelling but deep down I knew it was Bonnie…pieces of her came back with me, and I'd left pieces of myself with her…magically speaking of course."

"Of course." Amelia and Imran agreed automatically. Bonnie pulled her focus from Damon's profile as she looked to Amelia.

"I hallucinated him as well but they weren't… unpleasant or anything, though I suppose with time I would have lost my mind anyway stuck in that place." She could feel Damon's heated gaze on her face but she forged on, "We think that Lucy strengthened and stretched the bond between us when she tapped into his subconscious to try and find a way to get me home and that's how we were able to make contact prior to me casting the spell that brought me home." Amelia nodded thoughtfully.

"This is unlike anything we've encountered," the woman admitted, "I want you to know that." Bonnie swallowed, "But that doesn't mean we won't figure it out."

"I also think I've adopted some of Damon's vampirism." Bonnie muttered, her eyes downcast. The room fell silent then and her eyes snapped up to lock with Imran who was staring at Damon.

"Lucy tried to use a spell against me and it didn't work." Damon said after a few moments. Imran and Amelia exchanged glances then, worried and fascinated ones before he cleared his throat.

"I just have one more question," Imran said, leaning forward to rest his elbows on his wife's desk to look between Bonnie and Damon who nodded for him to continue, "How do you two feel about one another?"

"Feel about each other?" Bonnie squeaked, wanting to kick herself for the horror that leaked into her voice.

"Yes," Imran said, "Stefan described your relationship to us but it wasn't adding up and now we're almost certain that he was wrong."

"Why, what did he say?" Damon asked, leaning forward, his voice suddenly angry. Bonnie's eyes narrowed at that but she looked back to Amelia who already had her eyes on her.

"Well," Imran said, leaning back into the high back plush chair, "He obviously didn't know that the two of you love one another." Damon spluttered stupidly at the quickly rising tension in the room as two complete strangers dissected their newfound relationship and Bonnie's mouth fell open while her skin heated up. "Please don't bother deny it," Imran went on as if the two supernaturals in front of him didn't look set to flee the room, "You should instead dedicate your efforts to uncovering how deep this love goes because I am sure it had everything to do with whatever's going on here. Dimensional magic, being as uncontrollable as it is coupled with a witches love? Who knows what could come into being." Damon and Bonnie slowly turned to look at one another, both their expressions tensed for whatever was about to come out of the other's mouth.

*laughs wickedly*