Thank you all for your kind reviews. I kept saying it will only be another couple of chapters but this seems to be running away with me! I am off again on my travels next week. So the next chapter might take a few days.
Radical Times – Chapter 11
Damon and Bonnie sat beside one another in the car. Damon had one hand on the steering wheel and his other hand was holding Bonnie's her warm hand wrapped in his cold hand fingers intertwined. Damon thought back to the night before. He was thinking about what Bonnie had said the night before, "So I can love the part of you that will keep us together for eternity" that's what Bonnie had said. The sentence kept going around in Damon's mind. Eternity, that's what Bonnie had said. Eternity. Did she mean that? They hadn't really talked about it he just knew that he wanted her in his arms. Damon picked up there joined hands and kissed the back of Bonnie's hand.
"Cara, I don't believe that I have told you that I love you today" Bonnie smiled at Damon.
"No you haven't but I know you do"
"That doesn't mean I should stop telling you. You look beautiful as well" Damon smiled at her.
They drove through the night Bonnie napping in the passenger seat. They arrived at the hotel. Damon checked them into the Presidential suite at the Foundry Park Inn and Spa. The reception looked a little sceptical but as soon as Damon produced the black Amex. They were fine. The Salvatore's were rich 500 years ago they were ridiculously wealthy now. Bonnie and Damon got to the room and Damon tipped the bellboy and closed the door. As soon as the door had closed Bonnie had jumped on Damon's back nipping at his neck. Damon spun her around at vampire speed and dumped her in the centre of the bed. Bonnie giggled. Damon moved so that he was besides her, leaning on one elbow. Looking down at her.
"Tomorrow we have to look at those 4 properties that we agreed on. Then a day to sort out the paper work then off to Venice" Damon said and Bonnie leaned over and kissed him.
"I still want to take a gap year" Bonnie insisted.
"Fine take a gap year and remodel the house to suit us" Damon leaned over and kissed Bonnie. She couldn't believe that in such a short time she had moved in and was buying a house with her boyfriend. Well technically he was buying the house.
"Damon? How does a man who has been dead for 500 years have an Amex, drivers licence and can buy a house?"
Damon smiled at her "we have our ways, let's get changed and go for a walk around what will be our new home"
Damon showered and changed into his normal t-shirt, jeans and boots. Bonnie showered and changed into a cute mini and top with flats on for the walk, she grabbed her bag and her vampire and headed out of the door. They spent the warm evening walking about hand in hand. Damon brought Bonnie a rose from a flower seller. To anybody walking past they looked like a normal though devastatingly beautiful couple, not a witch and a vampire.
Bonnie set her alarm for early the next morning. They were meeting the estate agent at 10am. Damon growled when the alarm went off, he still wasn't a morning person. Bonnie had made allowances for this. Damon dragged Bonnie closer to him, cocooning her with his body. Bonnie loved it when Damon did this and snuggled herself further in to his embrace. 30 mins later Bonnie is nudging Damon.
"Damon, we need to get up" Damon mumbled something in to her hair and kissed the back of Bonnie's neck. This was one of her favourite spots to be kissed in and it sent shivers through her petit frame which just made Damon growl more. He was starting to come alive very quickly as his little witch rubbed certain parts of him that made it very difficult to think straight.
"Oh god Bonnie" Damon moaned "if you ever want to leave this bed you have to stop moving like that" A wicked glint came into Bonnie's eye. But before she could act on it Damon had picked her up and deposited her in the bathroom and under a cold shower. Bonnie yelped. Damon smirked Bonnie looked delicious with his shirt all wet and clinging to her curves. The cold shower had made her nipples stand to attention and Damon was finding it hard to resist, the cold shower had meant to help matters but had on turned him on more and he hadn't thought that was possible. The slight of a pale skin, black shirt and long wet red hair had him stirred up so much that his fangs lengthened and his eyes changed. Bonnie just lent forward and kissed him. Damon so needed that cold shower himself instead of Bonnie.
"We are not going to get anywhere today at this rate, Bonnie we have to stop" Damon pulled away and headed into the shower his self. Bonnie smirked Damon just kept trying to rectify the situation but kept making it worse. Now they were both stood in a cold shower Bonnie in Damon's shirt and Damon in a pair of sweat pants. Bonnie started to giggle and Damon started to laugh as well and soon they were fits of laughter. Damon stepped out of the shower and turned the water to on. "Come on McCullough or we will never get somewhere to live!" Damon kissed Bonnie and closed the door to the shower and headed out of the bathroom.
An hour later they were outside the first apartment. The estate agent looked them. She thought that they looked a bit young but she had received a letter of guarantee from the bank and she who was she to turn down a sale, besides they had turned up in Ferrari. She smiled at the young man. He was good looking. Maybe he would do better with an older woman she thought to herself. She fluffed up her blond hair and smiled. Damon had heard her thoughts and glared at the woman. He then took hold of Bonnie's hand and kissed it. They walked around the first 3 flats that Bonnie had picked out. They made the right ohhhs and ahhhhs. But Damon wasn't really paying attention. The last place they had to see was the place that Damon had chosen. They decided to go for lunch first and meet the estate agent in the afternoon. Damon had listened to enough of the estate agents thoughts about him and what she would like with him! All he wanted was time alone with his precious Bonnie.
They sat outside a cafe and Damon held Bonnie's hand all the time, they talked about the three flats that they saw in the morning. They ate lunch and collected the car and drove to meet the estate agent at the last property.
They pulled up a short drive way and parked in front of the double garage. Bonnie looked at Damon. "Damon it's beautiful, but so big" Bonnie's eyes were wide open and the look of surprise and wonder at the house made Damon smile.
The house was white with a large wraparound porch and a swing. There were roses growing up the outside and were in full bloom. There was a large front garden. Bonnie just couldn't keep the smile off her face. Damon leant over and gave her a quick kiss before he got out of the car and opened the door for her. The estate agent watched the exchange and realised that these two people were very much in love. She sighed and went to meet them as they walked across the front lawn. She explained the details of the house and left them to have a look around. As they opened the door into a large open plan living space that was bright and light, Bonnie loved it. She soon started walking through h picturing the furniture that would look good. Bonnie walked into the kitchen a gasped. It was the perfect kitchen with large French doors on to a beautiful back garden with a swimming pool and barbeque area. Bonnie smiled as Damon came up behind her and put his arms around her,
"What do you think cara?"
"Oh sweetheart it's perfect and so far there is nothing to do but furnish it. But it's going to be so big and expensive"
"If you like it Bonnie, it's yours. Let's look upstairs to see what bedroom will be ours and what will be your study"
Bonnie smiled at the thought of their bedroom. Not hers where they squeezed into her bed or the boarding house. There bedroom that they could decorate themselves and spend all day in their own bed. Bonnie started to blush at the thought. Damon knew what thoughts were going through her mind. He smiled and grabbed her hand and dragged her upstairs. The master bedroom was at the back of the house and the en-suite was opulent. Bonnie couldn't stop bouncing about. After they went outside Damon didn't even discuss it with Bonnie he knew from the look on her face that this was the right house.
"We'll take this one. Have all the paper work ready and completed by tomorrow as we will be travelling. We need to have the keys within 3 weeks."
Bonnie looked at him. He gently squeezed her hand and smiled. He knew that they wouldn't be back from Venice but the estate agent didn't need to know that. And besides he could get Stefan and Elena to be here when everything arrived and they could bring his and Bonnie's thing with them. The estate agent just nodded and agreed to have paper work couriered over to the hotel tomorrow. They got in the car and went back to the Hotel.
"I can't believe that you just brought a house!" exclaimed Bonnie.
"No cara, I didn't buy a house today. We brought a house today. Your name will be on it as well."
Bonnie kissed Damon smiled and headed to the bathroom to get changed for dinner. Bonnie came out wearing a short long sleeved navy dress. The bottom of the dress barely skimmed her bottom. Damon was starting at the beautiful shapely legs that emerged from the hem line. The delicate feet were encased in a pair of sliver sandals. The dress was very sixty's inspired and she looked breath taking. Damon headed into the bathroom and came out a few minutes later dressed for Dinner his hair still damp from the shower. They headed to the small restaurant that Damon had found on the internet. It was a small family run place that had the reputation of serving good homemade food. Damon and Bonnie ordered and sat and talked about the new house. Bonnie gently told Damon off "No Damon it's not our new house it's our new home" then she leaned in and kissed him.
"You do realise cara that we are never going to be able to stay anywhere to long. I never age. We have to move so people don't get suspicious."
"I had thought about that" sighed Bonnie.
Damon slid a small box across the table to Bonnie.
"What this? Damon you have to stop spending money on me, we have a home to furnish!" Bonnie opened the box and found a diamante shoe key ring
"Thank you Damon" She leant over and kissed him
"There is something else in the box"
Bonnie looked in and saw a small piece of paper. Opened it up
"Damon, you can't do that"
"All ready done, it will be in the garage when we get home" Bonnie was holding the delivery note for a brand new Porsche SUV.
Damon paid the bill and then walked back to the hotel hand in hand, when they got back to the room
"Cara something has been playing on my mind, a comment you made the other day"
"Damon sweetheart, what did I say to upset you?"
Damon smiled at Bonnie "that's the second time today that you have called me sweetheart Cara "he was quick to add before Bonnie could get upset "and I like it" He smiled.
"That's not what I was talking about. The other night you said "So I can love the part of you that will keep us together for eternity" when you saw my fangs. What did you mean by that?"
"I meant that they are going to turn me"
"Bonnie are you sure about that"
"Yes I want to be with you forever." Bonnie kissed Damon and leaned back. "Forever"