Girl i don't know which tag it is but whichever one gives me more Til Eternity i want it! ;)
“How did things go with Elena?”
Damon had taken a seat on his bed and was flipping through what looked to be one Grams’ journals. He glanced up at her. “Went fine. She said her peace, I said mine. C’est la vie.”
“She wasn’t upset?” Her brow furrowed. “Maybe, when all of this is over, there’ll be more time to work things out.”
Sighing, Damon tossed the journal aside. “What about you and Jeremy?”
Bonnie paused. “What about us?”
“Have you let him down gently yet?”
“We’re complicated.” Under her breath, she muttered, “We always were.”
There was a whoosh of air before Damon appeared behind her, a stoic figure that stared down at her through the mirror. “Do you love him?” he asked, bluntly.
Bonnie blinked. “Of course I love him. He’s my first love.”
“Are you in love with him?”
“Don’t side-step the question. Just ask yourself if you’re in love with Jeremy.” He stared at her searchingly. “Should be an easy answer, right? A year has passed here, but not for you. It’s been, what, a day or two to your memory. So, are you in love with Jeremy Gilbert? Does he fan the flames of your witchy little heart? Would you cross oceans and burn buildings and destroy the world to keep him by your side?”
Bonnie whirled around to face him and found him so close that their chest were pressed together. “Is that what love is to you? Chaos and destruction?”
“In the past, yeah.” Damon nodded. “That’s exactly what love was. It was me holding on to a woman with the tips of my fingers, begging her not to let go. It was blood and fire and fighting until my last breath. And even then, hoping I might get a second wind to try a little harder, to prove a little more, that I was worthy.”
Bonnie shook her head. “That’s not what love should be. It shouldn’t be you fighting and trying and desperate. It should be equal and supportive and grounding.”
Damon swallowed tightly. “Is that what Jeremy is for you?”
She squinted, confused. “Why do you care? Why is this so important to you? Why are you being so… so kind to me? Why are you going out of your way to be…”
“To be different than how I remember you! This isn’t who you were. This you… I don’t know him. Maybe this is who you are with Elena. Maybe this is the man she fell in love with. But the you that I remember… He hated me.”
He shook his head. “I never hated you.”
She scoffed; her eyebrow raised, unconvinced.
“So, we weren’t the best of friends, and you royally pissed me off sometimes,” he admitted. “But I didn’t hate you. I hated that you held me accountable when all I wanted to do was pretend anything I’d ever done wrong had never happened. But as much as I hated that I also appreciated it, because the one thing I always knew I could get from you was honesty. You never bullshitted me, Bon. Not one day in my life. And that might’ve driven me crazy more often than not, but I needed it. I needed it then and I need it now. And so, I’m asking you…” His hands very gently folded around her shoulders and squeezed. “Are you in love with Jeremy?”
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