I am so sorry that this has taken so long. Not that this excuse but I had to go and visit the outlaws who don't like me and then a week with my own mother then shock horrors! I had to work. I have got chapter 11 started I hope that it will be ready over the weekend. By the way I have also been enjoying everybody else's fics that have me gripped! Hope you enjoy. Sorry it's so short.

Radical Times – Chapter 10

Later that night after Bonnie's parents had gone to bed and Bonnie had changed into a very cute silk PJ's set (That she hoped Damon would like), Bonnie opened the bedroom window. She had hated to miss her evenings cuddling in the ostentatious bed that Damon had at the boarding house. Wrapped in each other's arms but it was only for another 2 nights and there was something to be said for how close they had to get in a single bed. Bonnie smiled at the memory last night when Damon held onto her tightly so both of them didn't fall out of the bed.

Damon entered the room silently and watched how the purple silk clung to Bonnie's body as she moved around the room to a silent beat playing in her head. Damon wanted her so badly, he wondered why he didn't just take her now but he knew he wanted her first time to be out of the world but that purple silk bottom wiggling like that was just, Damon place his cool hands on Bonnie's bottom and she jumped and whirled around, soft red curls whipping his face. Damon took a step back and Bonnie smiled at the sight before her. Dressed in his regulation black he was just so hot.

"Hi" Bonnie breathed and before she could say anything else she was up against the wall with her legs around Damon's waist being kissed forcefully. Damon delved his hands into Bonnie's curls and Bonnie in return did the same. Damon realised that he needed to let Bonnie breath and pulled back slightly resting there foreheads together. Bonnie smiled "I take by that you might have missed me a little bit?"

"I hate being apart from you, I know that we can't spend every waking minute together, but I worry"

Damon kissed her again and said "Come on cara, we better get you to bed"

Bonnie raised an eyebrow "Really"

" cara, we are going to wait until the time is right and then I promise after that we never have to get out of bed again unless you want to" Damon punctuated the sentence with kisses along the way. He carried Bonnie over to the bed and they climbed in wrapped around one another, Damon fell asleep to the sound of Bonnie's rhythmic breathing and he didn't know if he had ever heard a sweeter sound.

The next two day followed the same pattern though Damon was now only parking a street away and he was putting his clothes away to stop any more near misses with Mr McCullough. Friday night Bonnie and Mary went out for dinner with their parents. They were both told that Damon and Tony were not welcome and this was a moving on dinner for the family. Mr McCullough booked Pierre's as a special treat. As the waiter came over he had recognised Bonnie from the week before. The waiter said hello and then turned to Bonnie

"Miss Salvatore, what a pleasure to see you again so soon. Is Mr Salvatore joining you this evening?"

"Hello Francis, and it is Miss McCullough but you can call me Bonnie. Mr Salvatore is at home this evening"

"Sorry Miss McCullough, do pass on my best and I hope to see you both again soon."

Bonnie smiled "Thank you, I will let him know"

Mr McCullough coughed and Francis turned to him. He was glaring at Bonnie with a look that told Bonnie as soon as the waiter left they would be talking. Francis took the wine order and left the table

"Before you say anything dad, Damon and I came for dinner the other week. I guess the waiter remembers because Damon tips well" Bonnie got it all out in one breath and before he dad could answer the wine and Bonnie's mineral water had arrived. The rest of the dinner went without a hitch and they left the restaurant. In the mean time Tony and Damon had decided to have a few drinks together until they could get the girls. They left the bar and chatted as they walked to the McCullough house hold. Damon had already asked Tony about his relationship with Bonnie and about Tony doing Bonnie's tattoo. Tony offered to do a tattoo for Damon if he wanted it. Damon had never thought about it but now he thought about how much he loved Bonnie's one and how much he loved Bonnie. The love that Damon had for Bonnie was eternal. He knew that now and wanted the rest of the world to know as well.

As Mr McCullough pulled up the drive he saw the two men sitting on the porch. Bonnie and Mary were out of the car and into their respective men's arm before Mr McCullough could blink. He sat back in the seat and looked at his wife. He took hold of his wife's hand smiled and kissed her wedding ring. "I suppose the girls could of done worse, they have both found men that adore them, what more could a father ask for." Mr and Mrs McCullough walked past the two couples embracing and shut the front door feeling the loss in there now empty house. Mr and Mrs McCullough walked upstairs together and went to bed and fell asleep in each other's arms as they had done their whole lives together and dreaming of this love for their daughters.

Damon and Bonnie said good bye to Mary and Tony and headed to the boarding house. Damon picked Bonnie up and held her close and carried her to the car. Bonnie kissed him as he put her in the car. Damon sped around to his side and slipped into the driver's side and headed to the boarding house. Before Bonnie could blink Damon had her upstairs and thrown on to the bed with its crisp fine Egyptian cotton sheets and deep velvet throw and satin pillows. Damon slowly moved up the bed kissing Bonnie every where he could reach soft silky skin. Bonnie was glad that she had worn the short dress. Bonnie's smell over took him. It over took the whole room. Damon felt his canines extend and his eye's change, Bonnie had not seen it before as Damon had always resisted that part of him. He didn't want her to reject him. How were they going to take there relationship any further is she was repulsed by him. Damon stopped and pulled away from Bonnie, not before she had seen what had happened. Bonnie sat up and reached for Damon.

"Damon, I knew what would happen, it's not a surprise, and the only surprise is that you have kept this part of you from me for so long" Damon got of the bed and started to walk towards the window. He stood at the open window. Smelling the air from outside hoping that it would calm him down. Bonnie walked up behind him and put her arms around him. Damon placed his arms over hers neither of them said anything for a while. For the first time in 500 years Damon hated what he was.

"Bonnie, I hate this"

"Damon. I love it; it is part of you the same as my being a witch is being part of me. Do you hate that part of me?"

Damon turned around his face normal now. "Bonnie, I can't hate any part of you. I love you more than anything"

Bonnie smiled "please show me?"

"Why"

"So I can love the part of you that will keep us together for eternity" Bonnie smiled at him and cupped his cheek with her hand. Damon nuzzled his face into her palm as he took in the scent of her blood from her wrist and his face changed and his canines extended again, Bonnie looked at him straight on she placed her forehead to his and smiled. "soo beautiful" she whispered as she leant forward to kiss him. She kissed him gently on the mouth, parting his lips and gently running her tongue over his canines whilst her fingers were gently tracing the lines protruding around his eye. Damon moaned. How could he be this lucky? He drew back and looked at Bonnie and the thing he remembered most about that night was the look of complete love. Later that night as they lay in each other's arms Damon couldn't believe that she loved him and that her love for him was so pure, he had never felt like this in 500 years.

The next morning Bonnie had packed her new clothes that Damon had brought her and had snuck in a few surprises that he didn't know about. They were going to be away for 5 nights before they flew to Venice. Damon and Bonnie stopped off to say they goodbyes to the McCullough's and then took off for the drive.