Chapter Nine

"Is he?" she asked Klaus when he walked into the room and slowly he nodded and made her heart explode in her chest.

"I'm sorry Bonnie" he said as he sat down next to her and took the drink from Freya. "Drink this"

She didn't know if it was shook that had made her drink the fowl smelling liquid or if it was the need to be with Damon again. But she took it and tipping it to her lips, drank it down.

"What was it?" she asked him and shaking his head she fell into him and she felt Klaus cradle her in his arms, stroking her hair just like Damon used to do and if she scrunched her eyes up tightly enough, maybe she could feel Damon again and so she did.

"Looks like she is already going" she heard Freya say as if from a great distance away. "You can put her in the room next to mine so I can keep an eye on her throughout the night"

Bonnie was weightless now and she was having trouble remembering where she was or why her heart was aching. She felt herself being lifted and carried off somewhere as the darkness pulled her deeper within it and when she sunk further, the closer to peace she become.

"Bon" she heard his voice calling out softly to her and opening his eyes she looked up into bright blue ones, her heart started to sing out in a tune that only his own could answer.

"Damon" she threw her arms around his neck, hanging onto his like he was her one and only life-support. "I thought you were dead"

He sat back a little and lifted her face up to his own and looked down at her with sombre eyes. "Here, no one will ever be dead" he placed his hand on her chest and smiled down at her faintly. "You are going to need to remember that I will always be here. Deep inside you, don't ever let go"

"I promise" she nodded to him, her heart breaking all over again. "Please don't leave me" she begged him and pulling her into his arms he laid back against the wall, cradling her close to him.

"I told you" he kissed the side of her face, never wanting to let her go. "I'm not going anywhere" she heard the promise in his tone and started to feel a little better. "Close your eyes and try and sleep and I promise I won't leave you"

She settled back against his chest and he felt so soft and so warm that she had trouble keeping her eyes open and she felt herself drifting peacefully off to sleep wrapped in his warm embrace.

"What did you give her" Klaus frowned at Bonnie as Freya entered the room.

"Just a little sleeping concoction laced with a safe hallucinogen" he nodded and they both walked out of the room, closing the door softly behind them.

"Keep an eye on her" Klaus told his sister, still in shock himself at the impulsive Salvatore's death. "She is carrying precious cargo. I'm going to need to call Stefan" Freya's eyes flew open. "Damon is his older brother. And I need a drink" and with that he walked off to make that one phone call he would never have thought he would ever have to make.

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Opening his eyes he groaned. He had no idea how much he had had to drink the night before. But it must have been a hell of a lot more than him at his most drunk. Shaking his head he groaned again when the light spilling in from the curtains burned his eyes. He needed some coffee, water and a blood bag. Rubbing at his face he swung his feet over the side of the bed and looked around the room with a frown, but shaking off his confusion he made his way to the door and out onto the landing. He had no idea what had happened last night. Everything was still all a blur and he prayed that he hadn't done anything stupid for the reason he had woken up alone and he knew that if he had, then he would be prepared to grovel for forgiveness for the next century.

Opening the fridge he found a blood bag and closing it behind him he tore off the little tab with his teeth and drank it down in one as he gazed around the kitchen, spying the coffee maker. He pushed himself off the counter and started to rummage through cupboards for a mug.

"Coffee" he said to the pot as he picked it up and started to pour himself a mug of strong black coffee. "The one substance that makes a vampire warm inside. "Good morning" he said with a smile as he heard someone walk into the kitchen and turning his face fell. "Who the hell are you?"

"Damon" the blonde girl smiled at him, pulling a mug down from the cupboard above his head. "You made it"

"Made it?" he asked her frowning, watching her every move.

"Yeah, after they brought you in I gave you a special concoction that helped speed up my brother's blood" she looked at him, shaking her head with a smile "And it worked"

"Who are they?" he asked her with a little smirk. "And who is your brother"

"Klaus to both, and Bonnie" she replied as his face fell. "You died" she told him just as Klaus walked into the room with a little grin.

"So the big badass vampire is alive" he grabbed the mug from Freya and took a sip. "She will be pleased when she wakes up"

"Where is she?" he demanded of him, wanting to see her to make sure that she was ok.

"Down the corridor and second door from the left" he replied as Damon slammed his mug down onto the counter and flew towards the room and barging in he found her sleeping in bed and he ran to her side and climbed up onto the bed with her, wrapping his arms around her and she started to stir.

"Damon" she whispered to him, clinging onto his hand that lay on her stomach. "Don't leave me"

He heard the pain in her tone and his heart stopped beating and wrapping his arms around her tightly, he nuzzled into her neck. "Never, ever" he promised her, closing his eyes. "I am never leaving you"

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She opened her eyes and looked up at him lying behind her, his arms still wrapped around her. "You're alive" she cried out in joy as she turned over and threw her arms around his neck.

"Of course I am" he laughed, holding her back as tightly as she held him. "Or rather, one of the undead" he winked at her and she sat up slowly and shook her head and that was when it hit him. "I died" he said to himself, unsure what to make of it all. "You gave me some blood in the back of the car and I died. I remember dying. I'm a vampire again. But"

"No buts" she kissed him hard, never wanting to let go for fear of losing him again. "You are here now and that is all that matters to me"

"But I'm a vampire again" he shook his own head now, wishing that he could be human with her again.

"You were always meant to be a vampire" Bonnie told him with a bright smile. "I'm also pregnant"

He sat up and looked down at her, a huge smile spreading across his face as he laid his hand softly on her stomach. "We are having a baby?" he asked her, wanting so badly to believe what his own ears was telling him now and he didn't care anymore that he was a vampire when she nodded back at him. "Thank you" he grabbed her and pulled her into his arms and kissing the top of his head he hugged her. "I love you" he smiled, pressing his face against hers. "You have given me the greatest gift anyone could ever give to me"

There was a knocking at the door and Stefan walked slowly inside, followed by Elena. "Damon" he said, his voice breaking and leaping off the bed, Damon hugged him.

"I'm here" he told his brother, holding on tightly. "And I am never going anywhere"

Stefan nodded against him, trying to hold back his tears, but they flowed fast and he had no other choice but the let them go.

"I'm going to be a father" he told Stefan, who pulled himself together and stared into Damon's face.

"I'm going to be an uncle?" he was both shocked and excited. "Congratulations" he cried out, hugging him again.

"Bon, you're pregnant" Elena gasped as she ran towards the bed and leapt on. "Oh my god, Bon, this is amazing news" she said hugging her.

"Auntie Elena" Bonnie pulled a face and both girls started to laugh in joy and turning Damon looked at Bonnie on the bed with a smile.

(new part)

He was out on the balcony leaning over the railing gazing out at the garden as he drank a glass of scotch. He shook his head, unable to believe his own life at that moment in time. But he knew that he loved and cherished every single moment of it. Taking a sip from the glass he marvelled how far his life had come in just over a year. His smiled seemed to be permanently stuck on his face and he didn't care. In fact he loved it.

"Colton is the most perfect little baby I have ever held" he turned and saw Elena standing beside him on the balcony, her arms folded as she leant and looked at him, a smile on her face and he nodded, knocking his drink back.

"I still can't believe that I had a part in making something so perfect" he admitted to her and she smiled him, her hand covering his. "Right now I am the happiest man alive and I have this fear that something is going to come and take it all away from me" he closed his eyes for a spilt second before looking back out over the garden. "And that is why we have decided that we are going to take Colton and move out into the countryside, away from all the dramas of Mystic Falls" he looked at Elena and she nodded in agreement with him.

"You were never going to be human for me, were you?" Elena suddenly asked him and he shook his head.

"No, it was always for me" Damon pulled himself away from the railing before leaning back against it and looked at her, waiting for her reaction.

"But you did want to be human for Bonnie?" she asked and he nodded again.

"I'm sorry, Elena" he told her, meaning every word.

He was sorry. Sorry for not knowing sooner that it had been Bonnie that his heart secretly cried out for. Sorry that he had to hurt her in the process. But he would never be sorry for finally admitting his true feelings and marrying his best friend. And he would never be sorry for having a son.

"Elena, I" he started to say before she interjected.

"We would never have gone the distance" she smiled at him, taking a hold of his hand again. "We were toxic and we were selfish and we were not good for each other. But you and Bonnie are none of those things" she looked back into the room and smiled at Bonnie sleeping peacefully on the bed. "You and Bonnie are so good together. You each bring things out in the other that I doubt even you both knew you had. You are good and you make each other want to be good"

"What about you?" he asked her, watching Bonnie sleeping for a few seconds before looking back at Elena with a wry smile.

She shrugged her shoulders. "I'm going to go back to school and become a doctor and fall in love with a human boy and get married and have children of my own, one day" he nodded at her with a bright smile and putting his arm around her he hugged her.

"And you will make him as happy as Bonnie makes me"

"I have always been able to see how much you loved and cared for her, Damon" she finally admitted out loud. "I just didn't want to believe it. But I couldn't be happier for you"

Damon broke out into a beaming smile as he watched her sleeping on the bed again. "I had never realised before we went to Florence. But everything for you I did, I was really doing it for her" Elena smiled up at him and nodded just as Bonnie started to stir and he flew to her side, sitting on the bed and clutching at her hand. "He is perfect" he smiled down at her, tears flowing to his eyes again as he remembered the pain that he had put her through a few hours ago. "He is so perfect. And you were amazing, Bon" he kissed her on the forehead, smiling down at her.

"Where is he?" she asked him as he helped her to sit up in bed.

"He is sleeping fast in the crib" he nodded across the room before helping her out of bed and holding onto her they walked across the room and gazed down at their son Colton sleeping and she held his hands tightly.

"I can't believe he is ours" she told him, still staring down at their son in wonder. "He is too perfect"

"He is perfect" Damon agreed before pulling her round to face him. "And we are perfect together" he kissed her softly.

Bonnie smiled at him and he believed for the first time in his whole existence that he truly deserved it all. "I love you" he whispered into her ear as they both gazed back down at their son sleeping peacefully in his crib. "My heart is over flowing for you both" her hand held onto his and he slipped his free arm around her and pulling her in, he kissed the top of her head.

"I love you both" Bonnie whispered back and Damon had never heard anything so true in his entire life.

"We leave tomorrow" he told her, his chin resting in the crock of her neck, both of them still watching their son sleeping peacefully. "And then we start the rest of our lives safe, happy and forever"

Closing her eyes she nodded against him. "I can't wait.

Infallible 2; the second part of Bamon's trilogy will be up soon