Chapter 1: Reunion

Damon followed Enzo to some rundown motel a little bit outside of Mystic Falls. Bonnie opened the door rushing out to meet Enzo.

Bonnie: "What took you so long?"

Enzo: "If you must know it was because of Stefan and Damon. That's right Damon is among the living yet again. I think that was all Stefan's doing though. Here I have more of your herbs for the medicine that helps you to keep the side effects in check."

Bonnie: "Right the side effects from the drug that you injected into me three years ago."

Enzo: "I told you that I'm sorry about that and if I knew that it would permanently damage you or your powers than I would have never done it."

Bonnie: "It's just that you seem to keep making the wrong choices."

Enzo: "Right, just how you keep making the wrong decisions to save the Salvatores regardless of the personal cost to yourself."

Bonnie: "That's different, lives were at stake. I mean what should I have done let him die?"

Enzo: "Yes, that's what you should have bloody well done."

Bonnie: "I couldn't do that and you know it."

Enzo: "Right because your in love with him."

This is a constant argument that they have had over Damon and Bonnie always denies it with every breath she takes.

Bonnie: "That's not true, must we go through this yet again?"

Enzo: "Fine, I won't rehash old arguments as it will ultimately get us nowhere. Sit down and relax love, you know that this endless back and forth only over exhausts your energy. Now please relax and let me take care of you ok?"

She merely smiled and nodded her head in response. They were staying at the Gilbert cabin by the lake, which Damon had already been invited into. It was at that moment that Damon burst into the room.

Damon: "Were you going to at least tell her that I needed to see her?"

Enzo: "Yes but it didn't come up yet. Unlike you, I actually care about Bonnie and I didn't want her to exhaust herself out worrying about you and your brother yet again."

Damon: "Fine, since I'm here now, you can leave Enzo. Me and Bonnie need to talk in private."

Bonnie: "Yea, I don't think so besides anything that you have to say to me you can say in front of Enzo."

Damon: "Fine, since your so insistent on this. If he told you that I was awake would you agree to see me at all?"

Bonnie: "No, I probably wouldn't have wanted to see you or your brother. Regardless of what Enzo thinks I don't feel anything for either of you. He is right about one thing, all you have ever done is bring me pain. In the last three years that were Damon free there was pain but only physical pain from the anti-magic drug that was given to me three years ago. Remember, when I was helping you to save Stefan yet again. I know that it was my mistake for ever aligning myself with anyone named Salvatore. It's one of the reasons that I couldn't go home and have my life back. Do you even know what the last three years have been like for me?"

Damon: "No, I don't and I realize that it was selfish of me to just decide to decimate myself like that. I only did it because I thought that I was holding you and Stefan back from having a life. I didn't want anyone to take a bullet meant for me ever again. I thought that if I took myself out of the game that everything could be good again for you and my brother. I was wrong and I can see that now. I took the cowards way out. None of that matters now because I'm here and I'm not ever going to leave again."

Bonnie: "If you had only done that eight years ago things would be so different. None of my friends would be dead right now. In the last three years, I have been slowly dying and on the run for my life from the armory. I'm not sure why they want me but they haven't given me a moment's piece in three years. That's why I have aligned myself with Enzo to stay alive. I know what it's like to die but I'm just not ready to leave this life just yet."

Damon: "I'm so sorry Bonnie. I didn't think that would happen. I do have a question to ask, why does Enzo think that you have feelings, romantic feelings for me?"

Bonnie: "I have no idea where he got that from. I have never told him that ever because it's not true. The only feelings that I have regarding you are feelings of regret. I regret ever helping you or your brother."

Enzo had to put in his two cents, "Me thinks the lady doth protest too much."

Bonnie: "That's merely your own delusional opinion Enzo. I have told him countless ways that I do not nor have I ever harbored such feelings for any vampire let alone Damon Salvatore but he refuses to believe me."

Enzo: "Fine, deny, deny and deny it all that you want but it doesn't change how you feel about him. I just wonder is it the vampire aspect or is it the Elena aspect that has you in denial?"

Bonnie: "It's neither, we have been over this just because I won't give into you doesn't mean that I was waiting for Damon or any other man to come back into my life. Why would I condemn someone to live in this horror movie that my life's become?"

Enzo: "Wait is it because you might not have a future that has kept all men at bay?"

Bonnie: "It's my main reasoning behind not letting anyone new into my life. Even if this drug in my system wasn't a factor, I'm sorry but I've never been with a vampire like that and unfortunately I don't see that changing. I don't want to hurt you; Enzo because in these last three years only you were constant in my life. I hope that this doesn't hurt you."

Enzo: "No, I always knew that whatever this is that we were on borrowed time until Damon came back to you yet again."

Bonnie: "Enzo that's not what I'm saying-."

He didn't need to hear anymore, Enzo just wanted to get away from both of them and the situation. This left Damon and Bonnie alone together at last.