This is just a plot that suddenly came into my mind. Please let me know what you think.

I don't own TVD tv series or the series of books

Background information: Klaus has been defeated (Bonnie killed him), Damon never got bit by Tyler so Stefan was never taken by Klaus, Katherine is never released from the tomb.

Prolouge:

If Damon's heart could beat anymore it would be about to jump out of his chest right now.

"I love you….I just needed to tell you, because I can't pretend like this is a game or just a fling anymore.."

Bonnie's words rang in his ear and formed a blanket around his form that he wished could warm his body. Those words meant everything in the world to him. But he knew he couldn't let this happen. He had taken her body (many times) but he couldn't take her soul. He was darkness and destruction…..she was light, truth, and everything that he couldn't be.

After Bonnie helped with Mason Lockwood, Damon began to see how strong Bonnie really was. So he offered to help her with spells and even training in fighting vamps. She was apprehensive at first but agreed.

Damon was actually more help than Bonnie thought he would be, because he'd spent time with many witches he understood the physical burden magic could put a witch through. He told her about meditation spells he'd seen other witch's do. Eventually this led to an unlikely friendship.

Stefan and Elena were actually happy that they were getting along, and encouraged it because when Damon was around Bonnie, Stefan saw Damon, the real Damon that was his big brother not this disastrous monster he'd turn into on a daily basis.

One day Damon is teaching Bonnie the art of dodging vampire attacks and concentrating on spells in her mind to help her fight in the backyard of the boarding house when it happens. Damon pushes Bonnie into a tree and she uses a spell to repel him in the air and across the yard. She then runs toward him with a stake in hand kneeling over him and smiling. "Dead" she simply says with a bright smile on her face as she pretends to point the stake to his chest. She stares at those beautiful blue eyes that look so peaceful and calm, meanwhile he is doing the same staring into those soft green orbs that have seen and did more than any 18 year old should.

He caresses her cheek and she bends down and they kiss. Surprisingly to Damon its one of those sweet romantic kisses that you only see on t.v.

They sneak around not telling anyone…because they think that everyone will judge and call Bonnie crazy for ever allowing him to touch her and they will call him sick for corrupting the precious innocence that is Bonnie Bennett.

They enjoy their time together with one agreement. They wont label it or each other, because even with immortality all around them they realize that life is too short, Bonnie needs an escape and Damon needs peace, that is what they give to each other.

But the others aren't that wrapped up in their own personal lives to where they can't see that Bonnie and Damon are acting….strange.

Elena is the first to notice. One day when she was sitting in the living room of the boarding house waiting on Stefan to return from hunting she hears a slight shriek come from outside. Knowing that Bonnie and Damon are outside training she goes to make sure everything is ok, but she hates that Bonnie is pushing herself so hard to protect everyone especially her. She goes through the kitchen and stops at the window. Bonnie is sitting on the ground one leg in Indian style and the other leg is bent up and Damon is examining her knee, with a slight smirk on his face. "Your fine it's just a little bite mark….I told you I fought dirty".

Elena doesn't pay much attention to his words, but to both of their body languages. Bonnie seems so comfortable letting Damon touch her and even arches as his cool hands run up and down her leg. Elena notices how Damon's eyes drift from Bonnie's face to her wounded knee and how his hands slide up and down her leg until Bonnie is giggling and Damon's smirk grows into a full blown smile. Elena's eyes widened at the exchange. Different emotions fill her at once. The most prominent one being happiness. Because maybe…just maybe if they make it through this Damon can find love…love in the form of her sister Bonnie. Because Elena knows that Damon has began to understand his feelings for Elena and realize that she is more valuable to him as a friend. Elena believes that Damon knows he isn't in love with her because he doesn't fully understand what love is. All Damon knows is complete devotion, he doesn't understand that the other person is supposed to devote themselves to him as well and is supposed to give as much as they get from him. Then amusement because who would've ever seen this coming, then the last one is suspicion because as happy and content as Damon seems she hopes that he does not hurt Bonnie. Elena isn't sure what their relationship is but it is very clear that Damon and Bonnie are crushing on each other.

Stefan doesn't exactly notice…more like he catches them. After taking Elena home one night Stefan is walking down the hall and he hears breathy moans coming from the library. Stefan isn't surprised that Damon has a female over but always wanting to burst Damon's bubble he walks by the library and peaks through the door and takes an unneeded breath.

Damon is naked on the floor only the wool blanket that usually covers the grand couch in the library to barely cover his waist. Underneath him Bonnie's naked form is arching her back towards Damon with her legs wrapped around his waist and her eyes closed as she makes these little gasps as if she is mindful that there could be other people in the house…other people with supernatural hearing. Both their hands are above Bonnie's head with their fingers intertwined as Damon moves his head from Bonnie's breasts to her collarbone to her neck. When Damon reaches up to kiss her lips, Stefan notices that Damon is vamped out showing his true face to her, and he notices that Bonnie is kind of glowing. Witch's naturally have a glow about them when they perform magic, but Bonnie's is not the usual glows he has seemed before. It's as if for the first time Stefan realizes that Bonnie is also part of this supernatural world and with Damon she too shows her true form. Bonnie's eyes open when his lips touch hers she whispers so soft that Stefan can barely hear her "your beautiful". Damon hisses and kisses her more fiercely like this is the last time he'll ever get to.

Carolina and Tyler invite Bonnie to the Grill where (coincidently) Jeremy shows up and to any onlooker they look like young lovers on a double date. But Carolina notices how Bonnie shifts uncomfortably under Jeremy's stares and how every so often she'll receive a text from her phone and attempt to cover up a giggle. Carolina catches a quick glance at Bonnie's phone when Jeremy asks her a question and she sees the name Damon as the last person who has sent her the last text. Carolina frowns and then becomes very confused, yes Bonnie and Damon had been actually getting along, but now they were text buddies. Tyler feels sorry for Jeremy. This whole thing was for him because since those two had called a truce and since Tyler had been in need of a friend since Matt punched him in the face when he found out that he was now dating Carolina. Jeremy confides in Tyler that he's painfully in love with Bonnie and that he just needs an opportunity to prove himself worthy to her. They're playing a round of pool when a familiar form shows up at the bar. Bonnie and Carolina are terrible and Tyler and Jeremy playfully tease them. When they finish Carolina and Tyler decide to go see a movie leaving Jeremy and Bonnie alone. Before Jeremy can strike up a conversation Bonnie is hugging him telling her she had a great time and that she'd catch him later. Before he can respond she is walking towards the bar and sitting down next to Damon. He has never known Bonnie to willingly approach Damon, it must be serious business concerning Klaus he tries to tell himself, until he sees Damon whisper something in her ear and her laugh uncontrollably. She's never been that care free with him, she has never laughed that hard at one of Jeremy's jokes. Jealousy and sadness consume him.

At the final showdown when Bonnie appears out of nowhere to the dismay of Klaus she's more powerful and she's fighting with the power of a goddess he needs to be free. Klaus's death and the death of his minions is bloody and tiring. But when Bonnie delivers the last blow to Klaus she drops to her knees and the last thing she sees is Damon rushing towards her.

The scene is something that no one will ever be able to erase from their minds. Damon is holding Bonnie trying to force her to drink from his wrist. Blood oozes from Bonnie's nose, and her heartbeat can barely be heard by Damon, Stefan, and Carolina. "She's dying" is all Carolina can say before Tyler holds her fiercely against his chest. Elena is trying to get closer towards Bonnie but Stefan holds her back. She's screaming Bonnie's name and begging them to do something…begging God to do something…because it can't happen. Bonnie can not die ….not for this town….not for her. Damon picks her up and with out another word he takes off at full speed.

Stefan motions for everyone to get back to the boarding house and to get cleaned up. They all need rest.

Bonnie is a magic induced coma for three days. The most painful days of Damon's life. Stefan nor Elena argue when they find Bonnie lying in his bed that night. He has cleaned the blood off of her face and she is now wearing one of his black t-shirts. When she finally wakes up Carolina throws this ridiculous 'yay we killed Klaus and everyone is ok' party at the boarding house. Damon thinks its dum and unnecessary but seeing everyone smile for once is actually nice. But his mind is preoccupied. Even though Bonnie was in his room for the 3 days of her coma, he never got alone time with her. Elena and Carolina never left her bedside, and Tyler, Jeremy and Stefan, and Alaric were frequently checking up on her.

Those days made Damon realize that he has fallen in love with the little witch. It's a simple epiphany that motivates him to tie up these loose ends. He goes to the tomb where he finds a starving Katherine.

"Damon" she gasps. "Please…blood….please". Damon rolls his eyes and throws the rabbit he caught on the way over to her. She takes it with no argument and drinks. "I want to know why?" Damon says emotionless his face a blank sheet. Katherine wipes the blood from her mouth and tilts her head at him looking at him strangely. "What?" she says actually curious since she hasn't actually had any visitors in a month. "Why Stefan and not me. I need to know what about me was to unlovable?" Katherine doesn't roll her eyes this time because she realizes that Damon isn't here to plead his case to her to give him another chance, he is just a man wanting answers to try and piece back whatever heart and soul he has left. Katherine answers him simply.

"Because even in your human form you were a monster." Damon flinches but continues to listen to Katherine. "Stefan was pure and innocent and he fought my corruption which is why I compelled him. You were attracted to me only in my vampire form, you'd beg me to bite harder, you didn't flinch when you saw me kill your neighbors, or friends…for the first time ever I was actually afraid that maybe you'd get turned and turn into a beast that could not be tamed. You lusted for me and wanted what I had…power…immortality…and the ability to kill and not give a fuck. Even though he was compelled Stefan loved Katerina, the human I pretended to be for him, because that's the person I just wanna be….Katerina".

"I'm a monster….no one could ever love me" Damon says quietly staring at the ground. "We're all monsters Damon….we aren't capable of love, any person we fall for will eventually get destroyed and pulled under into the darkness with us". Damon leaves the tomb, he'd planned to kill Katherine and to end everything that haunted him in his past and move onto new beginnings. But Katherine's word seeped through his brain like quick sand and he realizes that he can't let this thing with Bonnie continue. He has to spare her and let her live whatever normal life she can after all this.

Which is where they are now. Bonnie and Damon are sitting under their favorite tree in the boarding house back yard while the music blares and the victory party continues.

Bonnie is looking at Damon needing him to say something. He finally turns to her and sees those soft green orbs that Damon believed his salvation could lie in. But he knows that he can't drag Bonnie down…he can't do this to her…he'd be stealing her soul.

"I'm sorry Bonnie…but I can't return your feelings…we were just fun…no pressure no strings…no emotions…." His voice trails off at the end because the lie hurts more than he thought it would.

Rejection hurts. Really hurts. Is this how Jeremy feels because of her? She stands up and Damon follows suit staring at her. "Oh…..Elena?" she asks quietly trying to avoid his piercing gaze.

Damon doesn't love Elena anymore. He's not sure he really did at all, he has come to terms with that for some time now. But he has already lied to her, saying that he is still in love with Elena will make things easier and less complicated so he simply answers "yes". Tears form in Bonnie's eyes and she nods her head like everything makes sense and she understands.

She walks away and he doesn't chase her, he just continues to stare at the spot she once stood.

A/N: Ok so this was the prologue, I just needed to get all this out to actually set up the story. I promise it actually gets good…..Please review and be totally honest I can take it!

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