Author's note: Guess what? This is becoming a thing after all lol. This chapter is still more like the first one (short of a prologue) but I hope you like what I have in mind ;) Thank you so much for reading and any comment or suggestion will be very welcomed!

Your Skin My Skin

Two

Damon woke up first.

He didn't intend to fall asleep there in the first place, but after all the sobbing and the crying and once he heard Bonnie's steady breathing next to him, he was afraid to move away and wake her up. With all the pain she was suffering, she did need some rest and hell if he didn't need to take a break too. So he became drowsy before realizing it, and there he was a couple of hours later or maybe more, lying in Bonnie's bed and still holding Bonnie in his arms.

It took him a moment to be fully conscious of his own body. His chin was resting on her shoulder and her curls were tickling his cheek. His left arm was embracing her exhausted body and her fingers were interlaced thought his own.

Everything was so peaceful and calm at that very moment and it felt so right, that the warm feeling that it was growing inside Damon's chest make him feel suddenly awkward. Even their breaths were kind of synchronized. It had been a long time since he had felt something like that, resting next to Elena.

Elena.

Damon moved abruptly away from Bonnie to the other side of the bed, and then he felt like an idiot when Bonnie's body reacted to the earthquake he caused as a result, and she started to turn around.

She was about to face him when the urge of searching for an explanation of why he was still there left his throat dry. However, when he saw her face, Damon realized that Bonnie was still sleeping. His muscles relaxed a little with a sense of relief as he stayed as still as possible for a moment.

Bonnie was sleeping but clearly she wasn't resting. Her eyes were moving underneath her lids and she kept mumbling words from time to time that Damon couldn't understand but pretty much had to do with Enzo.

Bonnie and Enzo. He would have never imagined it, not in a million years, and he surely didn't like it. He didn't like to be left aside from her life that way, but Bonnie made crystal clear when his brother brought him back, that she was still mad at him and that Enzo was her first priority at the moment. Truth be told, he knew he deserved all the blaming from her part, and now that he had finally earn her forgiveness and Bonnie seemed to be happy, Stefan had killed the man she loved. Damon snorted quietly when the last words crossed his mind, and that time it was enough to wake up Bonnie. She looked confused at him for a moment.

"Hey."

"What are you doing here?"

Damon didn't have an answer so he just said the obvious.

"You shouldn't be alone."

"What are you doing in here?"

He was an intruder and he knew it. Bonnie was seeing him that way at the moment. He got out of bed while Bonnie was sitting up.

"Just trying to be helpful."

"You can leave now."

She didn't sound angry or upset, she just sounded cold. Damon just nodded as a response because he knew her well enough to not insist. He didn't blame his brother for killing Enzo because he knew more than anyone the side effects of being a non-human vampire, but the wound was too deep for Bonnie and time was the only way to make it heal.

As he was leaving the room, Damon wondered how much time it will take for that, and then he decided that it didn't really matter. He will be there. He was determined to not failing her this time.