I hope you all enjoy this edited and updated version of How Bamon Came To Be.
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How do you tell someone that you're in love with their best friend? How do you tell the girl you once loved, the girl you fought so hard to get, that you've fallen head over heels in love with her best friend? Damon sure didn't know the answer to that very difficult question. The moment he made it back home, back to the real time, he's been trying to figure that out.
He ran his fingers through his hair while hot water ran down his body like a silk blanket. Flashes of that night with Bonnie, the first night she slept in his bed with him, flooded his mind. She'd been crying because she missed everyone and she needed someone to talk to, someone to tell her that things were going to be alright. So, she, in the middle of the night, left her room and went to his. She slowly climbed into bed with him and buried her head in his chest. Damon, of course, was shocked but he understood what was going on with her. He understood and let her cry in his arms.
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That was the night he realized just how deep his feelings for Bonnie Bennett went.
They'd been stuck on the other side for about three years and they had finally adapted to a life without their friends and family - which was not easy. Damon, unknowingly to him, had begun to enjoy spending his time with Bonnie. He cooked her breakfast, lunch and dinner, and vice versa. They started going out on walks around the neighborhood for some fresh air and to just talk. Damon even found himself kissing her hair, cheek or forehead every morning before they sat down to eat. As the time had gone by, he and Bonnie decided that the only way they could make it in the world that they were stuck in was to act as normal as they could. So, they would try and be as normal as they could. Damon had found himself in a routine with the witch. Wake up, cook, kiss her, go walking, come home, cook and eat dinner then off to bed. He enjoyed the life they'd built together. It wasn't perfect but it was their new life.
A frown etched its way onto Damons lips as he thought about the life they'd shared together, a life he no longer shared with her because of the sacrifice she made. Here he was, back home with his friends and Stefan, while she was stuck on the other side, alone. She sacrificed her way home to send him home, a home he didn't want to return to without her. What reason did he have to even return back home? Elena? The moment he set eyes on the older Gilbert nothing happened. The emotions, the feelings, he thought he would feel as soon as he saw her again, didn't resurface. He felt nothing. He no longer loved her but he did love Bonnie. She was the woman he loved, the woman he wanted in his arms, in his bed, and in his life. He wanted Bonnie in more ways he never even wanted Elena. But as much as he loved her, he couldn't have her because she was stuck on the other side....because of him. But as he stood in the shower, he vowed to bring her home, he vowed to bring the woman he loves home so he could tell her how he feels.
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LATER that day everyone had come together at the Salvatore Manor to talk about Bonnie. When Damon had come back to their time, everyone was given hope, after realizing that Bonnie wasn't with him, that they could find a way to bring her back. They didn't know how they were going to do it but they would surely find a way.
