Thank you again for all being amazingly supportive during this writing experience. This chapter is going to be a bit slow. It's Sunday morning, but it will lead to better things!

Radical Times – Chapter 5

The summer breeze moved the while voile panels' that covered the open windows. The scent of the summer garden came in on the cooling breeze. It was going to be a beautiful warm balmy summer day. Bonnie began to stir from the deep restful sleep, to feel the cool arm around her waist tighten and a small smile graced her lips remembering where she was. It was Sunday morning a sunny Sunday morning and Bonnie was wrapped in the arms of the vampire that she loved.

Damon had snuck out whilst Bonnie slept to feed, now he laid in bed looking at his little bird start to stir from her sleep. Damon had spent nearly all night watching her sleep now he snuggled tighter to her resting his face in the crook of her neck. Holding her tighter and linking his fingers with Bonnie's. They lay like that for 15 minutes just enjoying the feel of their body's being so close together. Bonnie's tummy made a loud rumbling sound and they broke in to fits of laughter.

"Morning cara" said Damon. Bonnie turned over to face Damon. "Hi yourself, sexy"

"See I knew I was right!" Damon said with a laugh and kissed the tip of her nose.

"Breakfast for you Cara, I can't have you wasting away"

" Damon I can't believe that I am hungry after all you feed me last night" Damon leaned forward and wound a red curl around his fingers and kept planting small kisses on Bonnie's neck. Bonnie's tummy made another loud rumble.

"Right Breakfast" stated Damon.

" you cara are to stay in bed, you are my guest and have given me the best wake up in 500 years, I am not letting you out of that bed just yet."

Damon went down the stairs at full vampire speed and prepared a breakfast tray in record speed for Bonnie; his main delay was the water taking so long to boil for the coffee. Damon took the tray upstairs and placed it on the bed. Bonnie sat up and puffed her pillows up. She looked stunning with her red curls in disarray, porcelain skin and Damon's black shirt on against the snowy white of the Egyptian cotton sheets. Damon lounged on the top of the bed watching her. He poured her a cup of coffee and handed it over to her. Damon then started feeding Bonnie fresh fruit. Some strawberry juice escaped and started to run down her chin Damon lent forward and kissed the juice of her chin. Never had a strawberry tasted so sweet.

"So" Damon said. "Do you have any plans for today?"

"You mean apart from spending the day in a man's shirt lounging in bed?" Bonnie asked and raised her eyebrow.

Damon smirked "no you can do that all day"

"I would love to, but I have a history essay due in tomorrow and it is too nice a day to be sitting inside. Beside's I have nothing to wear "

Damon's smile fell from his face. He had waited 500 years to fall in love; he didn't want her out of his slight. Besides tomorrow she was back in school for the week and he wouldn't be able to see her during the day. Bonnie hated to lose the smile of his beautiful face. She leaned forward and kissed him.

"There is a solution" said Bonnie

"And that is?"

"You drive me home and I change into something suitable and we come back here and I write my essay. I can always bring something over so I can head straight to school tomorrow morning. Then I could spend the night here again." Bonnie gently chewed on her bottom lip at the last part of her suggestion. Would Damon want her to spend the night again?

"On one condition" stated Damon. Bonnie worried what the condition could be.

"You sleep in my shirt and in my arms"

"Deal" Bonnie said and they sealed the deal with a kiss. Damon cleared the breakfast things away and came back up. They sat in bed in each other's arm's just enjoying being together. After a short while Bonnie disentangled herself from Damon's arms. Damon went to make a grab for her.

"The sooner we go and get my stuff the sooner we can come back" Bonnie told him. Then Damon showed Bonnie the ultimate sign of trust. As she was slipping on her jeans and top from yesterday Damon dangled the keys to his Ferrari in front of her.

"You take the car and get your things and I will tidy up here so we can do your history essay and I can organise us some lunch"

Bonnie's mouth fell open. Damon had just handed her the keys to his baby, his car! Damon leaned forward over Bonnie and with a long cool finger closed her lower jaw.

"It is just a car Bonnie, but it is a very safe car and I want you to be safe" Bonnie was stunned she was going to be driving a Ferrari!

"If you're sure Damon"

"I'm sure cara"

Bonnie threw her arms around him and he picked her up and spun her around as he kissed her.

Bonnie headed out to the car and the short drive home. Bonnie was glad that her parents were on their second honeymoon and that because of Mary's shifts at the clinic. Nobody was keeping close tabs on her at the moment. So Bonnie ran in the house and looked at the note Mary had left on the fridge. Bonnie wrote a hasty reply saying that she was going to be staying the night with friends. Bonnie then raced upstairs into the shower washing her hair and leaving it to dry in natural red curls. She quickly picked up her laptop and some clothes to wear for school on Monday. She got herself dress in some cute denim shorts, some flat slip on sandals and she put a bikini top on under her vest top. She also remembered to pick up her memory stick to load he essay on to. There she hand everything she slicked on some of her new lip gloss and headed for the door.

Damon was waiting at the front door for Bonnie. He had heard her coming up the drive way the purr of the engine alerting him to her coming home. He opened the driver's door for her and helped her out of the car, he took her book bag and her lap top bag and he then pinned her against the car and kissed her very thoughly. Bonnie responded with as much passion. Damon backed off and Bonnie was breathing very heavily. "I missed you" Damon said.

"I guessed"

They walked into the boarding house hand in hand, Damon let go only long enough to transport Bonnie's bag in his bedroom, he ran back downstairs and pulled Bonnie into the back garden. Damon had spread a blanket under the large chestnut tree in the garden, piled high with pillows. They sat down. Bonnie doing her essay and Damon reading a book, 3 hours later and several glasses of Ice tea later Bonnie had finished her essay.

Elena and Stefan pulled up outside the boarding house. They walked in. Stefan could sense that Damon was in the back garden. Elena and Stefan put their bags away and headed to the garden. They had decided to come back early as the weather had been so bad. The slight that meet them in the back garden stopped them in their tracks. Bonnie was in the back garden in shorts and bikini top, barefoot leaning against the tree with Damon's head in Bonnie's lap. Bonnie was running her hands through his hair. Leaning down occasionally to kiss Damon.

Damon suddenly sat up he had sensed Stefan and Elena.

"Hello little brother"

"BONNIE" Elena shouted. "What are you thinking, has he compelled you?"

"Elena, everything is fine, I'm not compelled to be here. Damon and I have been dating"

Bonnie didn't want to clarify any more than that.

"No, I didn't compel her. I made sure that I couldn't. I wanted her to fall in love with me for myself." Damon stated as he moved close to Bonnie.

Bonnie smiled up at Stefan and Elena. "Why don't you join us and tell us about your trip?" Bonnie asked and Damon resumed his position with his head on Bonnie's lap. Stefan noticed the necklace that Bonnie was wearing and realised that it was something his mother had worn. He realised how much Damon must care for Bonnie. He hadn't seen the necklace in over 500 years and hadn't realised that Damon had kept the necklace.

They sat down and started to talk about the trip as the sun started to set.