Thank you for the reviews and thank you to all of the other Bonenzo writers on this site as you all entertained and motivated me with your wonderful stories. Bonnie and Enzo's relationship is so inspiring and I'm trying to keep them as close to their characters on TVD as possible so I appreciate any feedback on that. It's the first time I've written in years and I'm new to putting my work on the website so please bear with me. This fic was meant to be just a few scenes but let's see what happens. This part has a little more angst, but I've tried to keep the flirtation and humour. Enjoy!

Part 3: Confession

Bonnie was on the phone in tears of laughter listening to the story that Caroline was telling her about her night, one of the few nights out she'd had in a long time since having the twins.

"I swear Bon. It was so embarrassing. I felt like compelling everyone there to forget the whole night." Caroline told her.

"How does a vampire even get drunk?" Bonnie asked still laughing.

"I have no idea. We can't get hangovers and that drunk feeling only last for a short amount of time. I guess when you spend the night drinking shots of Tequila after years of rarely having a glass of wine at dinner once a week for a few years it takes your body time to adjust." Caroline replied. "All I wanted was to celebrate my promotion, bond with some females over the age of 2 and instead I end up accidently flashing a bar full of people and getting carried out of the place by security. My boss is gonna lose her shit when she finds out."

"I think you're gonna have to compel her to get out of this one." Bonnie suggested.

"Yeah, I think you're right. I was trying to avoid having to go down that route for any reason since the girls were born but I guess sometimes it's necessary for survival. Well for my career in this case. I really love my job, Bon."

"Well, I'm really happy for you with the promotion and everything. You deserve it." Bonnie congratulated her friend. Although admittedly she felt a little sad about the fact that any plans that she could have made for her own career were currently ruined because of the Armory trying to hunt her down like she was some magical bounty and not a human being with actual thoughts and feelings. Bonnie was contemplating psychology or counselling as a career route while she was in college. She was always helping everyone around her in some way, shape or form anyway, so at the time she thought why not get paid to help people's minds. Still, when (or if) she finally escaped whatever plans the Armory had for her she could still pursue her dreams.

"How are things with Enzo? He doesn't seem to have done anything to piss you off in a while." Caroline asked.

Bonnie smiled to herself. "Fine." She replied nonchalantly. "We're getting along ok." If only Caroline knew just how well they were getting along.

"Mmmhmm." Caroline responded. "Well, at least he's able to keep you company sometimes. And as long as he's keeping you safe that's all that matters."

Bonnie had a feeling Caroline suspected her and Enzo were closer than Bonnie wanted to admit and Bonnie really wanted to spill all the details but she wasn't quite ready. She just wanted to enjoy the honeymoon period for the time being. Suddenly the sound of a toddler screaming in the background on Caroline's end of the line pierced Bonnie's ears.

"Ok Bon. I have to go. Looks like my little angels are fighting over a doll." Caroline explained.

"Ok, bye Care. Kiss the girls for me."

"Will do. See ya."

Angels, Bonnie laughed to herself. The twins were adorable, but they had Caroline and Alaric wrapped around their little fingers. Bonnie admired the way Caroline had adapted to motherhood so easily. What kind of mother would she herself be? Better than her own mother that's for sure. If it wasn't for her Gram's God knows how Bonnie would have turned out. She had no idea how her parents even ended up together and what the hell ever possessed them to bring a child into the world. Her mother was a free spirit , always on some adventure with the maternal instincts of a piece of wood. Her dad was a workaholic, hardly ever there. Grams was Bonnie's saviour and protector. She missed her so much.

Bonnie walked over to stand and look out of the window at the side of the fireplace. She felt down. Enzo hadn't been back in 3 days. She missed him, she missed her friends and she missed Grams more than anything. She missed her parents too. Despite the fact that they were hardly ever around they had still been her family at one point, she still had some good memories of them. It's more than Enzo ever had. She really felt it for him. Crazy how a man who was abandoned by everyone and had no love in his life, could treat her like a queen. Neither of them had said those three little words yet but the feeling was there between them constantly. They'd only gotten together three weeks ago. It was too soon to say it Bonnie thought. She sighed. She didn't know how long she stood there gazing out of that window when she felt a warm drop of liquid fall down her cheek, then another. Tears. Her tears. She didn't want to break down but in this moment she felt alone and a little bit lost. She couldn't make plans for her future. Not yet. All she wanted was for Enzo to come back and make her forget all the bullshit in her life. As if some divine being was answering her prayers Enzo walked through the door.

As soon as he saw her Enzo got the same feeling of peace, 'home' and desire he always got when he saw her. She had her back turned to him standing at the window. Bonnie's curly hair was up in a ponytail and in her light blue jeans and cream coloured, off the shoulder, short sleeved crop top she looked ethereal. He walked up behind her to wrap his arms around her waist.

"Hello, Beautiful. Did you miss me?" Enzo asked Bonnie.

"Yeah." She said in a broken voice.

He walked around to face her. He could see she'd been crying. He stroked the tracks of her tears with his thumbs. "What's wrong?" He asked.

She shook her head and shrugged. "Just one of those days I guess."

He took her by the hand and led her towards the couch then took off his jacket and sat down pulling her into his lap sideways. He wrapped his arms around her tightly as she put her feet up on the couch.

"Talk to me." He said.

"I just miss everyone. And I feel… I feel lost. I mean you know I'm happy I have you right now but… what the hell am I gonna do with my life?" Bonnie told him about her conversation with Caroline.

"How does a vampire get drunk?" He asked as she did at that part of the story.

"I know right." She went on to explain how she felt about her parents and career plans.

"I just figured by now I'd at least be on the verge of starting a career, maybe getting ready to settle down, planning to have children. Not like my parents set the best example but still… is that too much ask… to have a normal life?" She said to him.

He felt for her. She deserved everything she wanted.

"Look, firstly I'm sure your parents loved you, even if they didn't always show it…" He started.

"I'm sorry, I know you didn't have your parents…"

"Don't worry about that…" He interrupted. "You deserve to have it all love." What she said worried him a little since he couldn't necessarily give her everything she wanted. She must have sensed it because she turned the subject of conversation to him.

She interlinked her fingers with his then turned to look at him and smiled. "What did you want… before you turned?"

"Same as you. You know I've always wanted a family and since I didn't have one to start with I'd have to create my own." He replied lifting one of his hands to stroke her hair.

"What career did you want?" She asked.

"Maybe a musical instrument maker or a musician." He replied.

"Yeah, I could see that."

"What do you want now?" Bonnie asked him.

"Right now?" He said, stroking her thigh and raising his eyebrows at her.

"Trust you to turn it into something rude." She laughed.

He laughed with her before answering. "Just you."

They stared at each other before moving in for a soft, slow kiss. It started out innocently but their chemistry was too potent for it to stay that way. Enzo started fidgeting underneath Bonnie.

"What are you… ? Ughhh." She said with a smile feeling the bulge against her butt and thighs.

"We missed you." Enzo said with a saucy smile.

"Who is we?" Bonnie asked him.

He looked down in the vicinity of his nether regions.

"There is something seriously wrong with you." She mocked.

"This coming from the person who cuts off someone's hand." He mocked in return.

"Yeah, sorry about that. To be honest though, you deserved it. You were acting like a dick at the time. And now you know not to mess with me!" She said proudly.

It wasn't the first time that incident had been mentioned in jest between the two of them. On one occasion Enzo bought Bonnie the wrong brand of Cranberry juice. She was having a bad day and blew up at him about it, so in jest he said, "Sorry, I won't make the same mistake again, you might cut off my hand or something!" To which they both burst out laughing. The morbid joke cheered her mood up for the rest of the day.

"You're right love… must be something seriously wrong with me to still want you after you dismember me with no remorse and threaten to do it again if I piss you off." He said.

"I guess you love it." She joked.

"Right, cause how can you not fall for a girl who cuts off uour hand to save her best friend." He said before he could stop himself. The cat was out of the bag, he hadn't meant to verbalise exactly how he felt for her so soon. Maybe she wouldn't realise exactly what he meant.

"Did you just confess that you love me?" Bonnie teased him with a coy smile.

He didn't answer but looked down shyly. He was flustered. Not a good look on a confident, sometimes cocky grown man. He hadn't felt this way since Lily's party when Bonnie 'fixed' his tie, or New Year's Eve when he pulled her back up from the dip during their dance. Suddenly his confidence returned and he realised there was no point in playing games.

"Yeah. I did. I do." He said, basically admitting that he was 'whipped'.

Bonnie said nothing. Now she looked as flustered as he did. She looked anywhere but at him.

"You wanted an answer and now you have it you go all shy?" Enzo said to her.

"I kinda didn't expect you to admit it." She responded.

"Well look, I don't expect you to say it back right now…"

"I do too." She told him before he could finish his sentence.

He looked at her waiting for more. "You 'do too' what?" He wanted to punish her a little for getting him flustered.

"You're gonna make me say it aren't you?" She said embarrassed.

"It's my revenge for your constant teasing."

"I feel the same way." She finally admitted.

"Are you confessing that you love me Bonnie Bennett?" She said nothing, so he tickled her.

"I just said I did didn't I!" She replied while fidgeting as he tickled her. "God, you guys and your egos!"

"Come here." He said holding her face in his hands and kissing her with complete confidence. Ending the kiss he leaned his forehead against hers and brushed her nose with his while still looking into her eyes. He used his thumbs to stroke her cheeks and his gaze became a little melancholy.

"What?" Bonnie asked him concerned.

"What you said about wanting children." Enzo replied.

"There are plenty of children in the world who need adopting."

"You wouldn't want to have your own children?" He queried.

"Yeah. But I would've considered adoption even if I could have my own children. Making a child doesn't make someone a good parent. Trust me, I know that and so do you. Children need to be loved and nurtured. If I didn't have Grams who knows where I'd be. Look at Caroline and the girls…" Enzo admired Bonnie for thinking the way she did, but a part of him still felt guilty that he couldn't 'make' children with her and that she'd be willing to sacrifice that for him. He loved her even more though for even suggesting the option of adopting a child with him. How the hell that would work with him being a vampire and her being a witch he didn't know, but he allowed himself to indulge in the fantasy for now.

"See, this exactly why I love you. " Enzo told her. "And if we could 'make' our own children we'd have a football team." He added.

"Are you crazy!" She said shocked.

"I think we've already established that I am."

"Can you imagine us going to an adoption agency?" Imitating a Social Worker Bonnie said, "So what skills do you have that would make you good parents?" Providing the answer she would give she said, "He's a vampire so he can compel them to always be on their best behaviour and I'm a witch so I can use protection spells to keep them safe for life." They laughed together." Well, that's if I have my magic back at that point." Bonnie added.

In a serious tone Enzo said, "That's the other elephant in the room…immortal vampire… mortal witch…"

"Not that I'm trying to avoid that conversation all together, but how about for now we just enjoy where we are and what we have . We've only just admitted that we've fallen for each other so I think we can save the mortality discussion for another time." Bonnie told him.

"Good idea." He agreed.

Without a doubt if Enzo could take the cure for vampirism he would. He'd already lived one lifetime plus, which had provided him with nothing but emptiness. Now he had the chance at a second lifetime with Bonnie. She was feeling more and more like his family every day and regardless of the obstacles of aging and conceiving children he already loved her so much that just the two of them for the next 60 years or so would be enough for him. He'd try to keep her happy and fulfilled in any way that he could. And when she was gone, not a thought he liked to dwell on, he believed he'd be able to say he'd done all he needed to do on this earth too. Immortality wasn't necessarily the gift people thought it was. There was something much more meaningful and fulfilling to him about living one 80 year or so lifetime then resting in peace, rather than wandering the earth indefinitely, constantly having to move on and losing people along the way.

Playing with her ponytail Enzo moved in for another kiss. He rubbed Bonnie's thigh with his free hand and she wrapped her hands around his neck. She started doing that thing he liked with her tongue in his mouth again. He used the hand that had been playing with her hair to stroke her shoulders and her back. Lifting the back of her top he moved his fingers underneath it making small circles on the bare skin of her back. He moved the hand that was on her thigh up to her belly where he stroked her bare skin with his knuckles. He moved his hand further upwards over her top onto her breast. She moaned adding to his arousal. She turned to straddle him on the couch feeling his manhood bulging against her core. He held her thighs while she pushed her hands up and under the bottom of his t-shirt. She pushed the t-shirt up, removing it with his help. She ran her fingers down from his chest to his abs, causing him to shiver. Enzo took the hem of Bonnie's top between his fingers. He brushed her skin with his knuckles as he lifted the top up and off over her head. She looked at him like she was going to devour him, which he found deeply satisfying since he felt as if he could devour her most of the time. They kissed again and repositioned themselves so that they lay stretched out on the couch with Bonnie on top of Enzo. Their chests and thighs were pressed together firmly. They kissed again and Enzo pushed his hands into the back of her jeans cupping her butt.

Pulling away from her mouth he said, "What did we discuss about you wearing underwear when it's just the two of us?"

Bonnie rolled her eyes with a smile. "I didn't know you were coming. You better not rip my underwear off today though or…"

"Yeah, I know…you'll cut off my hand." He finished for her although that's not exactly how she was planning to end her sentence.

She laughed then got back to kissing him. He massaged her butt with his hands still in her jeans while pressing his hips up into hers. Then he removed his hands from her jeans to pull her thighs up so that she was straddling him. The groin to groin contact caused them to moan simultaneously. Bonnie leaned down and they kissed again while Bonnie unbuttoned his jeans and began to unzip them. Enzo's phone started to ring in his jacket which was at the other end of the couch.

"Ignore it." He told Bonnie, which she did, returning her focus to his mouth.

The phone stopped ringing but started again seconds later. They ignored it again. But soon after it stopped the ringing began again. They both sighed and Bonnie grunted with frustration. Sitting up abruptly Bonnie grabbed Enzo's jacket and shoved it towards him so he could answer the phone.

Pissed as hell at seeing Alex's name on the screen he pressed the answer button, answering as rudely as possible. "Yeah."

("What's with the attitude?") Bonnie heard Alex's voice through the speaker of the phone.

"Maybe I could just do with a day off." Enzo told her in an aggravated tone.

("Well considering your presence here at the Armory has been sporadic over the past few weeks I don't see what you're complaining about.")

"Working for the Armory is not the sole purpose of my existence Alex."

("We made a deal Lorenzo and I suggest you keep up your end of the deal if you still want answers about where you come from.")

"I'll be there as soon as I can." Enzo told Alex cutting off the call before she could say anything else.

At this point he couldn't give two shits about getting answers from the Armory. So far he'd been provided with very little information anyway, he'd do better looking for answers elsewhere. The only reason he had anything to do with them was to keep tabs on their search for Bonnie and keeping them as far away from her as possible.

Bonnie was beyond pissed off at the interruption. "That woman is a cock-blocker who needs to spend less time obsessing over collecting magical artifacts and controlling everyone's movements! Maybe then she could get laid and chill the fuck out for once!"

Enzo looked at her surprised by the obscenities but seeing the funny side of what she was saying. He couldn't help but find it arousing that Bonnie was so pissed off about their intimate moment being disrupted. Bonnie pissed off was a turn on period.

"Someone's frustrated." He said to her with a smile.

"Aren't you? And I'm not just talking about sex." She said still fuming.

"Look Bonnie, I know we can't spend as much time together as we'd like and you can't just go out and do normal things like shopping whenever you feel like it, but we have to do what we have to do for now. I can't let anything happen to you. Once we figure out exactly what it is that Alex wants from you and get you your freedom back I'll spend so much time making it up to you you'll get sick of me."

Bonnie smiled and kissed him. "I'm gonna hold you to that." She said.

"And I'll deliver." He promised her. "I have to go." He said with disappointment.

They stood up and walked to the door together as he put his jacket on. He wrapped her up in his arms tightly then kissed her long enough to last him until he could come back to her. He opened the door as he held one of her hands as she stood behind him, then he turned around and just looked at her as though he still couldn't believe he finally had her. He leaned down to kiss her again then made his way out of the door. Bonnie folded her arms and looked away from him. They both hated when he had to leave.

"Bonnie?" He said turning back he before reached his car.

She looked towards him from the doorway.

"When I come back you're gonna find out just how much I love you." He said with a wink.

She smiled at him and he continued to the car.

"Love you too." She said as he drove away.