Chapter Six
He tapped on the bathroom door and walked in with a huge smile on his face. "Is there any room for one more" he raised his eyebrows and she smiled back at him nodding.
"Always room for you"
Damon untied the robe and let it drop to the floor, stepping into the round tub with her and sunk down into the hot water and it flowed like silk over his stressed out shoulders. "How do you feel?" he asked her.
"Good" she handed him the shampoo and shifting her body round she was now sat in front of him.
"About being a vampire" Damon started to wash her hair and she closed her eyes, loving the feeling of his fingers massaging her head. "I am sorry" he leant forward and kissed her on her shoulder. "I would have done anything to have stopped it if I could have" she nodded, looking back at him over her shoulder.
"It really is ok" she closed her eyes, his fingers moving in circles now and she couldn't help move closer to him until her back hit his front and she laid back against him.
"I never wanted this life for you" he told her as he lifted her off him and turning her round to face him, he gave her sorrowful eyes. "Bonnie I want you to drink the cure from Elena"
She sat there in front of him in shock and she had no idea how to respond. She opened her mouth to speak, but no words came to her.
"But it is for you Bonnie and I don't want you having to live the rest of your life hating me for what you have become" she went to open her mouth to speak, but he silenced her with a kiss. "You are a witch and you love being a witch and I will always love you, no matter what you are or what you become. But I don't think you are going to like this life you have now" he closed his eyes, pulling her down onto his chest and he hugged her until he thought he was going to break them both in half. "I want you to be who you want to be and if being a vampire is what you want now, then I will say no more on it. But I know you, you know me and so I am willing to drink the cure with you and become human" she gasped in shock and he opened his eyes and found her sitting up staring at him. "Bon" he sat up, his hands holding onto her face. "I want everything that I can begin to imagine having, with you. I want you and me to live one epic life together. I want you to have my babies. I want you to grow old with me and watch our own children and grandchildren growing up" he kissed her on her forehead with such vigour that it scared him a little. "I want us to grow old together, Bon. I want to live one human life with you that will outshine a million vampire lives without you" he stared into her green eyes. "Will you spend one human life with me?"
She sat there looking at him, opening and closing her mouth like a fish. She couldn't think to speak and if she could think, she had no idea if her words would flow out of her mouth right or even if they would be in an order that he or even she for that matter would be able to understand.
"I was going to drink it from her when I thought that she was the one I wanted to be with. But I never really wanted to be human. The part of me that had thought I wanted to spend my life with her was afraid of losing her. But I am petrified of losing you. And I want nothing more right now than to be human with you. Will you be human with me?" he could feel his heart beating way too fast again, his fear clung to him that she would say no.
Bonnie's grin widened and she flung her arms around his neck and leapt into his arms and he just about caught her before she slipped out of his arms. "I would love too"
"I love you so much" his face creased in pain by the depth of his love for her and hungrily he kissed her breathless.
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Lying on the bed he watched her move around the bedroom, getting ready. His eyes never left her once while she sat in her bathrobe doing her hair and makeup.
"Do you know what, Bon?" he asked her and turning she looked back over her shoulder and shook her head, putting the brush back down on the dresser. "You are the most beautiful woman that I have ever seen in my whole hundred and seventy odd years of life"
Bonnie laughed. "I doubt that very much" she smiled at him. "And I love you too" she got up and removed the bathrobe and Damon's heart beat faster as he gazed at her in her underwear.
He flew off the bed, wrapping his arms around her, pulling her into him he nuzzled into the nape of her neck. "And who are you going to believe?" he asked her, pulling her face up to meet his own and lightly he kissed her on the lips. "Are you going to believe a photograph? A mirror or the eyes of the man who loves you and only sees beauty in you" he kissed her again. "Bonnie Salvatore, I love you beyond anything in my own life. Beyond actual words. I love you with so much conviction that I fear it killing me by the strength of it and when I tell you that you are the most beautiful woman in the world to me, you had better believe it baby"
"I believe you" she smiled at him, taking a hold of both his hands in her own.
"Can't we tell them that we are tired and need to have an early night?" he raised his eyebrows and she fell against him, burying her face in his chest.
"No" she replied with a glum look written all over her face and it was his turn to laugh. "We told them that we would join them for dinner and so we are. Now get into that bathroom and get ready or I am going to take you in there myself"
He grinned and picking her up, threw her over his shoulder. "Now that is what I do like to hear"
"Damon" she squealed just as the door knocked and reluctantly he put back down on the floor outside the bathroom door and handed her, her bathroom and tapping her lightly on the bum he flew across the room to answer the door.
"Thank you" she heard Damon say to someone and closing the door he turned and held out a box to her and slowly she walked across the room and took it from him, frowning. "Open it" he urged her and watching her lay the huge box on the bed, she opened it and gasped.
"The dress" she smiled up at him standing behind her with his arms wrapped around her middle, hugging her to him.
"I love you in that dress and since it got damaged when Caleb destroyed my grandparents' home, I figured that I would get you another" he looked down at the dark green silk wrap dress. "And the dress is special to us" he kissed her on the shoulder. "We both confused our love while you were in that dress. I know it isn't the same as the actual one you wore, but I thought that" he didn't get to finish his train of thought when she spun around in his arms and throwing her arms around his neck, she pulled him into her and kissed him breathless.
"I love it and I love you" she smiled up at him before patting his bum. "Now we both need to get dressed"
"Are you wearing the dress?" he asked her raising his eyebrows and she nodded up at him with a beaming smile. "Then this is going to be the quickest dinner in known history" he kissed her again before heading into the bathroom. "And the second we come back, that dress is coming off" he headed into the bathroom and left her standing there holding the dress to her, and holding it close she closed her eyes and smiled.
(new part)
"You do know that you are meant to bring wine to dinner" she giggled falling into his side.
"Why have wine when you can have bourbon" he grinned back down at her, knocking the door.
"Come in" they both turned and looked at Stefan in shock. "Food has already arrived and I am starving" he stepped back to allow them both into the room and Damon turned and looked down at Bonnie at his side. "I know you can spot it a mile away" Stefan chuckled a little as he took the bottle from Damon. "But we thought that since you and Bonnie are now married and both vampires" he put the bottle down on the table and turned back to face them. "That you wouldn't want it anymore and so when Elena suggested that I drank the cure from her, I didn't even have to think about it"
Both Damon and Bonnie's mouths fell open in shock and Elena laughed at them. "Stefan wanted to be human more than anyone I have ever met and so I thought, well we both thought" Elena corrected herself. "That he could now have that chance" she looked at Bonnie with a huge smile. "Bonnie, you look amazing" she gushed. "Doesn't she, Damon"
Damon pulled a face at her. "You don't need to tell me what my wife looks like Nancy Drew" he sat down reluctantly when Stefan nodded for them both to sit.
"Isn't this nice" Damon spoke in a sickly sweet tone, pricking Bonnie's ears to him about to kick off and she put her hand on his thigh. "All of us together having Dinner. The ex" he glanced at Elena before looking at his brother. "The thief and my beautiful wife" he took Bonnie's hand into his and kissed it. "So" he asked them both, leaning his arms on the table. "How long did it take you both before you bumped uglies?" his eyes widened and Stefan was about to open his mouth in protest.
"Damon" Elena snapped while Bonnie covered her hand over her eyes.
"What, Elena?" his head snapped towards her. "Are you going to sit there and tell me that I am wrong and you are little miss whiter than white. After all, it didn't take you too long to jump into my bed after my brothers now, did it?"
"None of your business" she snapped back at him and he sat back in his seat and laughed at her.
"I will take that as not very long" he wrinkled his nose at her before turning back to Stefan. "Screw this" Damon snarled low, looking across the table at his brother before turning to look at Bonnie. "I'm going to hold him down while you take the cure from him and then I will take it from you"
Elena gasped and he turned and glared at her. "If she does that, then Stefan will die" she couldn't believe what Damon was actually saying now and he simply shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm going to end up losing him one day" he said as a matter of fact. "So why not now" he got to his feet and stared menacingly down at his only brother. "You should never have taken the cure as your own. You knew it was mine" he almost flipped the table over and tore out his newly human brother's throat and if it hadn't been for Bonnie's hand on his arm, he would have.
"You are with Bonnie now" Stefan sat there and stared up into his irate brother's eyes.
"I know" Damon spat each word out at him like he was mentally retarded. "And I want to live a human life with her and have children. But now thanks to you, that is never going to happen" Damon picked up the table and threw it across the room over Stefan's shoulder and he ducked just in time. "So tell me" Damon sat down on the edge of his seat. "How does your vampire girlfriend, Caroline, fit into all this?" he watched his brother's face fall, realisation setting in. "You know the bossy control freak of a blonde that you have been sharing your bed with for months now" he smirked at him openly, cocking his head slightly to the side. "What do you think she is going to make of you jumping into bed with her" he nodded towards Elena still sitting there in shock. "Do you think she is going to take it well? Because I know that she isn't Stef"
"Damon" Bonnie scolded him and he looked at her and gave her a bright smile.
"I should snap your neck" Damon got back to his feet and took two steps closer to his brother sat on his chair in front of him and crouched down, not breaking eye contact. "But I won't. That would be way too easy. And such a waste of the cure that I want for my wife and I" he put his hand on Stefan's knee and grinned up at him. "Too bad your human life isn't going to last half as long as you had hoped it would" Damon's hand flew out and wrapped itself around Stefan's neck and standing up he pulled his brother up with him, holding him a few feet off his feet. "How weak and pathetic you are now, brother" he mocked him.
"Damon" Bonnie snapped, but he was far too angry to hear her now.
"You wouldn't kill me" Stefan replied, struggling to breathe under Damon's titanium grip.
"Wouldn't I" Damon threw him across the room and he hit the wall hard and made a move to run at him, but dropping onto his knees he held onto his head, looking back at an even angrier Bonnie.
"I am never speaking with you again" and with that she left the room and slammed the door behind her.
Damon fell forward on his hands, gasping for air and after a few seconds he got back to his knees, wiping the blood from his mouth and looking over at Stefan being helped back onto his feet by Elena. "This isn't over by a long shot and if you want to live then you will run and never stop running" he got back to his feet. "Because I will find you when you stop and I will take back the cure"
"It was the only way to stop Rayna coming for me" Stefan protested but Damon shook his hand at him as he walked out of the room, making his way back to his own and finding he had been locked out, he tried knocking only to be told to go away.
"Please open the door, Bonbon" he pleaded with her, only to be met with silence. "I'm sorry, I snapped. I didn't mean it. Please" he laid both hands flat against the door, hoping she would let him in. "I will be back" he whispered to the door, his chest feeling tight and for the first time in his life, he didn't threaten to kick the door down. "I'm going down to the bar if you need me baby" he called in through the locked door and waiting a few seconds for a reply, he turned and walked towards the lifts, wishing he hadn't reacted the way he did.
(new part)
"Can I get bourbon" Damon asked the bartender. "Neat" he looked around the bar and wished that she was there with him. "Make it a doubt, no a triple. Hell, just hand me the bottle" he was in pieces and he knew that it was all his own fault, but still it killed him inside that now he would never have that human life with her.
"Rough night" he turned and looked into bright blue eyes and nodded. "Would you like some company?" she asked him and he shook his head. "I can be a great listener or so I have been told" she giggled a little.
"You would never be able to understand" he filled up a glass and waved at the bartender for another glass and filling it up he slid it over to the girl at his side.
"How do you know unless you try me" she turned on her bar stool and smiled at him and shrugging he got to his feet.
"Let's find a table then" he walked off and leaping from the stool she trailed after him and sat down next to him, sipping at her drink. "So do you want to tell me what is going through your mind?"
He shook his head, knocking back his drink and slammed the empty glass back down onto the table and started to pour himself anther. "I don't want too. But I need to tell someone before I end up doing something stupid that will haunt me for the rest of my life and take it from me, which is one heck of a long life"
"I'm Cassie"
Damon looked at her, his pain etched on his face for anyone to see. "Damon" he said, knocking back his second glass. "You see the thing is this" he looked her straight in the eye and I want your honest opinion, can you do that?" she nodded and he smirked at her, refiling his glass and taking a sip before speaking again. "Seven years ago I thought that I was in love with my brother's girl. And she hated me and was so into him. Then she stopped hating me and started to fall for me and then I was thrilled, you know?" Cassie nodded as she took a long sip of her drink. "Then he went off with a friend and did some things that even I wouldn't do and she fell for me even more. Then she became a vampire and she fell completely"
"A what?" Cassie spat out her drink and Damon grabbed her face and turned her to face him.
"You will not freak out and you will listen to me just like I am having a normal human crisis" Cassie nodded at him and he let her face go. "Then we started dating and I thought it was the best thing to have ever happened to me" he picked up his glass and waved it at the girl. "Boy was I wrong. Then I ended up trapped in a nineteen nighty four prison world with my best friend Bonnie. We came back and Kai, the psycho family slayer got out of the prison world, which was his own personal hell and not mine like I had assumed. Put my girlfriend under a sleeping beauty spell and attached it to the life of my friend Bonnie. I had to save her, I could never live without Bonnie and I never knew why. You would think I would want my girl awake, wouldn't you" he asked her and she nodded. "Wrong" he made a little gong sound with his throat and laughed a little. "I wanted Bonnie. We had to leave and come here. Then I realised my love lay with Bonnie, my best friend and not with my brother's ex, Elena, my sleeping girlfriend. We were about to get married when my brother turns up with my girlfriend, who is now awake by the way" Damon knocked back his drink and refiled both his and Cassie's glasses. "Then hell broke lose. But we dealt with it and I married Bonnie. It was the best day of my life and I wouldn't mind reliving that in a constant loop for an eternity, you know" Cassie nodded as she took a sip of her drink. "Then I died and my wife died and became a vampire. I'm a vampire by the way. But before Elena was put into the sleeping spell she took the cure for vampirism"
"There is a cure?" Cassie frowned, reaching past Damon to grab the bottle and pouring them both a glass and Damon nodded.
"I wanted my wife to drink the cure from my ex and then I was going to drink it from my wife so that we could live a normal human life together and have children. But my vampire brother took it and now if I take it from him, he will die a slow and painful; death. But I would give anything, do anything to be human with her and I attacked my brother and tried to kill him"
"You did" Cassie gasped in shock now and closing his eyes, Damon nodded.
"I love him, but I wanted Bonnie and I to lead a normal human life and it scares me every day that one day she is going to blame me for being a vampire and leave me"
"She would never leave you" they both looked up and Cassie grinned and Damon scowled.
"Cassie, my brother Stefan" Damon said with a bitter note to his tone. "Stefan, meet Cassie"
Stefan sat down and leant across the table. "Damon, I knew you didn't mean to attack me and that you were acting out because you were angry at me for what I had done"
"Acting out" Damon was fuming now. "If I could act then I would be in Hollywood, but I'm not. I was pissed and I am still pissed at you for taking what should have been mine. Mine and Bonnie's future you stole away and now she is going to have to be forced to live" he stopped talking and turning to Cassie. "Forget everything I have ever said to you and leave" she nodded and got to her feet and getting to his own he grabbed the bottle and looked down at Stefan. "Or maybe she won't have too" he left with Stefan calling after him and running up the stairs he knocked on the door and she answered him. "Bonnie, hear me out" he walked across the room and put the half bottle of bourbon on the table, turning back to face her. "I should never have taken my anger or frustration out on Stefan. But I know another way how you and me can be human together"
She sat down on the edge of the bed and he flew to her side and took her hands into his. "How? Taking it from Stefan will kill him and I would rather live as a vampire than kill your brother"
Damon shook his head with a small smile. "I have the key to Kai's cell in my chest back home and I want you and me to go there and get the cure from Silas" Bonnie gasped out loud and his smile grew. "We could have a little honeymoon while we are there" he raised his eyebrows. "What do you say?"
"I think you are mad, but I love it" she threw her arms around his neck and he hugged her tightly to him, closing his eyes he thanked whoever was listening that she didn't hate him, he could never live with her hating him. "So" she pulled herself back a little. "You have the ascendant?" he nodded at her, his smile the brightest it has ever been. "Then nineteen nighty four, look out" she laughed with him as she fell back into his arms and he kissed her.
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"Someone has had a little too much fun while I was gone" Damon looked around his ripped up bedroom. "They could have left the throw pillows" he sat down on the edge of the bed next to Bonnie. "Those were vintage" Bonnie started to laugh. "What?" he asked her, nudging her with his shoulder.
"You are more concerned about your throw pillows than the whole house being ravaged and torn apart" she couldn't stop laughing and slipping his arm around her shoulder he pulled her into him and kissed her on the cheek.
"They were my favourite ones" he teased her and then he jumped up onto his feet and ran across the room and flipped open the lid of the chest. "Thank god" he said in elation, sitting back on his heels and holding out the ascendant out to her. "Are you ready for the trip of a lifetime?"
"What if it is now gone away?" she asked him, getting to feet. "What if Kai was telling the truth and him dying made all the Gemini prisons go away"
He heard her pain and taking her into his arms he whispered to her. "Kai was a liar and a psycho" he reassured her. "The other side will be perfectly fine. I have the key" he held it out to her again and she took it. "We can always find out and if it is gone then we won't be able to leave, right?"
Bonnie nodded and then a thought hit her. "What if we do leave and it is gone and we end up dying"
Damon became shocked by that and shuddered a little. "Then I can't think of another single person that I would rather die with, than you, Bonnie Sheila Salvatore" he grinned down at her. "Besides, we will never know unless we try"
She didn't have to think twice about it when she took the knife from him and drew it across the palm of her hand, dripping a little onto the key and started the spell that would take them both back to Nineteen ninety four. "I love you" she whispered to him as they were once again sucked into the bright white light.