Pretty Persuasion

By: Tracy Cook

Disclaimer: I own nothing. These characters belong to the creators of Vampire Diaries.

Couple: Bonnie/Damon

Rating: M

Author's Note : This will be the final chapter for this fic! I have loved writing it and I am so thankful to all of you for your wonderful support! :)) Hopefully this ending will make everyone happy!

All I Ever Needed

'Let's Take A Look Back, So We Can See,

What It Took To Bring Us Here.'

Five Years Later...

The faint Christmas music floated through the air of the manor, echoing off of the walls. There was the scent of peppermint and pine needles in the air, and a fire blazing in the fireplace. The tree was set up beside the fireplace and decorated with ornaments, presents splayed beneath it, star balancing atop. He smiled as he looked at it.

Damon wasn't one for Christmas. He had never really decorated.

Not before he started dating her.

She had changed every aspect of his life without even trying. Bonnie never had to try to change him. He wanted to change when she was around. He wanted to be a better person. He wanted to be a person worth starting a future with. The strange part was she never tried to change him like Elena had. She accepted him for who he was. When he was with her, he was the one that chose to change.

It came naturally for him.

Damon turned to look at her. His blue eyes examining her beautiful face as the fire flickered in her eyes. She was the most beautiful woman that he had ever met. Every night he went to bed with her wrapped up tightly in his arms and he watched her sleep. He loved to watch her sleep. And he loved to watch her wake in the morning, her hair a mess and her green eyes filled with sleep.

She was the only one that had ever made him feel this way. So completely content with spending every hour of the day with her. Never growing tired or bored, or annoyed. Surprisingly, they didn't even fight much.

They balanced each other out.

The only concern that Damon had about their relationship was the fact that Bonnie was still aging. She had refused to allow him to turn her into a vampire and he had accepted her wishes. She was a witch, so she did not age as quickly as normal humans, but she was still aging. And one day she would be dead. He couldn't handle the thought of that.

'Maybe one day she will let me turn her...' He hoped.

He would never wish vampirism on anyone. But, he wanted to spend the rest of eternity with her by his side.

Leaning down he delivered a delicate kiss to the exposed skin of her shoulder. She shivered and smiled gently when she felt the warmth of his lips against her skin. His touch still ignited a fire in her, regardless of the years that had passed. Every time he kissed her was just like the first time. "Merry Christmas, Bon-Bon." He whispered against her ear.

Bonnie's heart jumped when she felt his heated breath rush against her ear. Her smile stretched and she said, "Merry Christmas."

A comfortable silence filled the air between the two of them as they watched the fire.

Her mind was consumed with memories of the last five years. Honestly, every day she was baffled with how their relationship had come about and how important it had become to both of them. She could still remember her days in high school when Elena was jumping between both Salvatore brothers and she was fighting to stay alive. She could still remember the way that she had died and Damon had brought her back from the dead. It seemed like it was all a figment of their imaginations.

Everything had changed so much since that day. Everything had changed so much since the day that Damon asked her to be his girlfriend.

"I still can't believe we've been together for five years." Bonnie said with a small laugh. It was crazy to think about. The last five years had gone by so quickly. She had never been so happy in her entire life.

She turned and caught blue eyes with green as she asked, "Do you remember our first date?"

"I remember the sex." Damon said with a smirk and a playful waggle of his brow.

He was only teasing and she knew that, but she still rolled her eyes at him. "Shut up, Damon."

He lent down and kissed her exposed shoulder once more before saying, "Of course I remember."

'The bed was still smoking where Bonnie had caught it on fire. She had managed to rescue her phone and now she was sending an urgent text to Damon. She needed to tell him that she had somehow got her powers back. She had no idea how it had happened, but she had a sinking feeling in her stomach that he had something to do with it.

Suddenly, her phone started to ring and she jumped and let out a startled squeak.

She had been in the middle of a text and now he was calling her. His name popped up on her phone and she let out a sigh of relief as she clicked send and held it up to her ear. "Damon?"

"Yep, It's me." Bonnie could hear his smile. "Come outside, I have a little surprise for you."

"I have a surprise for you too." She responded. Still in awe of what just happened. "I just lit the bed on fire somehow." She spoke quickly. "I think I somehow have my powers back!"

"That's great." Damon sounded excited to hear it.

She was excited too. Just extremely confused about how it had happened.

As Bonnie started down the stairs of the dormitory, she continued to talk to him. "Yeah I guess." She opened the door and started out into the front of the building where the parking lot was. "Except I have no idea how it happened..." Her voice trailed off when she saw what was waiting for her outside. Her heart jumped and her breath caught in her throat.

Damon was standing in front of a horse drawn carriage. He was wearing a suit and he looked like he was straight out of a fairy-tale. She nearly dropped her phone she was so shocked.

This didn't seem like something he would do.

He had never really seemed like the romantic type. Was this what had taken him so long to respond to her calls? Was this what he had to take care of? Her heart was pounding loudly in her chest, her stomach was twisting with excitement, and her hands were shaking as she approached him.

Bonnie had never had anyone take her out on a date like this. Jeremy usually just took her to the Grill to grab a bite, or out to a movie if he was really feeling romantic. This was definitely a change of pace that she liked. Hanging up her phone, she stuffed it into the back pocket of her jeans and she started to approach him.

Damon could see her excitement painted across her beautiful face and he was happy to have been the one to put it there.

He waggled his fingers playfully at her as she approached him.

Once she was close enough to talk to him, she asked, "So this is what you had to take care of?"

"Is that really so hard to believe?" Damon asked with a knowing smile on his lips and a mischievous glint in his eyes.

"Yes, it is." Bonnie stated in a serious tone. His smirk only made her doubt his intentions even more. She wondered if this was all that he had been up to, or if he had something to do with how she got her powers back. But, she didn't ask. She didn't want to ruin the moment.

"Stefan's not the only Salvatore brother with a romantic bone in his body, Bon-Bon." He said, holding out his hand for her. She reached out and took his hand and he helped her step onto the carriage. The truth was, she had never expected Damon to be the romantic type, but maybe that was judging a man she hardly knew. She only knew who he was when he was with Elena. She didn't know who he was the last 200 years. She didn't know who he was before he died.

She didn't know who he was with her.

Either way, she was seeing him in a completely different light now, and she liked it.'

"Speaking of which." Bonnie started, her brow furrowed in thought as she remembered that day. "I still have no idea how I got my powers back." She had some idea. She knew that it was him, she just didn't know how he had done it or why he felt the need to hide it from her. Still, she never asked. It wasn't worth it to her. She was happy to have her powers back and she didn't want to feel bad about it.

"I know." Damon stretched the words playfully. "Crazy, right?"

She laughed and shook her head at his obviousness. "Yeah, crazy."

Tugging her bottom lip between her teeth she stared down at her stomach and she smiled. She didn't know how she got her powers back, but she knew that she was grateful every day that she had. "Either way." She started. "I am so happy that I did get my powers back. Without them we couldn't have had this little miracle."

Bonnie reached out and placed a hand gently on her stomach. She was carrying a precious baby girl and it was all because of her powers. She had found a spell that made it possible for Damon and her to have a child. Damon looked down at her cute baby-bump and he smiled reaching out and placing a hand over hers on top of her stomach. His daughter was growing inside of her and he already loved her so much. He loved them both so much.

A few times he had thought that he made the wrong decision getting Bonnie's powers back.

The guilt had stayed with him. He had struggled with telling her he was the one who had done it for four long years. But, the minute that she told him she wanted to have a child with him and she knew a spell that could work, he had been thankful.

He wouldn't change a thing.

'Knock, Knock, Knock.'

A knocking sound dragged them out of their thoughts and Bonnie immediately started to stand to her feet. She had invited their friends over to share Christmas with them and she was excited to see them. All of their wounds had mended with time and they were all on better terms now.

Damon noticed that she was standing up and he quickly stood to his feet and told her, "Let me get it." He lent down and gently kissed her lips before turning on his heels and heading toward the front door. She was late in her pregnancy and he didn't want her to feel like she had to do anything but rest. She kept insisting that she still wanted to work and do things like she normally did.

She was stubborn. That was one of the things he loved about her.

Damon made his way toward the front door and he pulled it open. Standing on the other side were Stefan and Caroline. They were both dressed up in Christmas themed outfits. He had on a knit sweater with reindeer and a cute little hat that no man should be caught dead wearing. Damon was positive that Caroline had made them, and that she had insisted upon wearing matching outfits, because she was wearing the same.

The blonde vampire had a wide toothy grin on her face as she held out a present to him and said, "Merry Christmas!"

"Thanks." He stretched sarcastically, reaching out and taking the present from her. Then he turned his attention to his brother and smirked, "Now don't you look adorable, baby brother."

Stefan rolled his eyes at Damon and walked into the house heading toward the couch where Bonnie was sitting. She was smiling up at them both as they took their seats. Caroline instantly started to talk to her best friend. She was excited because today she was supposed to find out the sex of the baby and she had been dying to know if she was going to be having a boy or a girl.

She was hoping for a girl.

"Did you find out the sex yet!?" She asked excitedly.

Bonnie laughed at her friend's enthusiasm. Sometimes it felt like Caroline was more enthusiastic about her child then she was. Then again, Caroline always seemed more excited about everything than she was. That was just a part of her personality. "Yes, we found out."

"What is it!?"

"It's a girl!"

"I knew it!" She exclaimed happily. "Oh my god, she is gonna be so cute!" She paused and glared up at Damon who was now walking back into the living room. "Regardless of who her father is." Despite the words she still had a smile on her lips. The two of them still played around and acted like they hated each other, but they had grown to really care about each other over the last few years.

"HA. HA. Very funny." Damon stated sarcastically as he started to take a seat on the couch next to Bonnie. Just before he could, there was another knock at the door, and he quickly stood back up and headed to open it.

"What about names?!" Caroline asked.

"We were thinking about Sheila." Bonnie explained. "You know, after Grams." She smiled at the memory of her Grams. She missed her every day.

"Aw! I love it!"

Damon pulled the front door open and he was met with the sight of their other friends. Elena and Tyler. They too were carrying presents and wearing smiles as they wished them a merry Christmas.

Tyler and Elena's relationship had started off rocky. It had been a rebound, and basically a whole lot of sex, but over time they had started to develop feelings for each other. They had a lot in common and they found comfort talking to each other about their love for their past lovers. After time that had turned into a comfort zone, and eventually they had fallen in love.

It was still a little awkward for Damon and Elena to be in the same room together, but they both understood now why everything had happened.

Everything had happened to lead to this point.

They had all found happiness and none of them could complain about their lives. And Elena was more than happy for Damon and Bonnie and the child that they had conceived. She was even fighting Caroline on who would get to be the godmother.

Damon took the gifts from Elena and Tyler and they headed out into the living room, taking a seat with their friends. He put the gifts under the tree as Caroline spoiled Bonnie's surprise about the sex of the baby. She had wanted to be the one to tell them both individually, but the blonde had never been very good at keeping secrets.

'You're All I Ever Needed In This Life.'

Author's Note :

I love this story SOO Much! But, I decided that I had to end it! I never meant for it to be this long, I just got really into writing it, but I have lots of other fics that I have to work on and I have to start finishing them. I really hope that y'all enjoy this ending! I wanted to give y'all a taste of their life that they had together and the way that everything turned out! Thank you all SO much for reading! You guys have been absolutely amazing and I have loved hearing all of your feedback! Please do tell me what you thought of the final chapter! :)) This won't be the last Bamon fic you see from me, that's for sure!

Thank you all so much for reading!

I love you guys!

-Tracy Cook-