Damon's phone tumbled onto the wooden floorboards. You got me, witchy. Now we're even.

'Is that a new spell you whipped up from the grimoire?', he chuckled to himself, taking another swig from his bottle. 'Cos if it is, it's pretty damn low, even for you.'

Someone knocked on the door. Bon-bon, he smirked to himself.

'A little early for April Fools, Bon-'

But finishing his sentence off would have been an insult to her, as someone as else was stood in her place. Someone who wasn't Bonnie.

'Hey, stranger.'

Her white dress hugged her petite figure. She was quite literally an angel at his door. But the angst in the air felt anything but heavenly.

'Elena,' uttered Damon, like he had no other words in his vocabulary.

His mouth went dry. His eyes dilated. His limbs stopped working. The same limbs which were supposed to pull his girlfriend into a long overdue embrace.

'I'm here,' she announced proudly with her head held high. Her chest heaved as she let out a sigh, groomed eyebrows furrowing in frustration. 'Damon?'

'You're here, which means- Bonnie- it happened- fuck.'

She's not dead. She can't be dead.

The denial washed over him in crashing waves. So much so that he was completely oblivious to what was supposed to matter- his dead girlfriend being not-so-dead on his doorstep.

'What are you talking about? What happened to Bonnie?' asked Elena softly, her words like wind chimes tinkling in the air.

'I'm dead. Again.'

Bonnie stood in between the two lovers, examining each of their faces as if they were frozen in time. They couldn't see her, hear her or touch her.

Elena was an open book. Bonnie could sense her disappointment, like a jilted bride at the altar. Her aura was bright pink slowly growing darker.

Damon on the other hand, was harder to read. The glow around him was an icy blue, like he wanted to submerge every part of his soul in arctic waters and never surface again.

'Relationship Advice 101, Damon. Smile when you see the love of your life.'

But he didn't smile. He just frowned. And his frown turned into a glare.