365 Gay Sharks
Day 164, Word Count: 531
Theme: No More Sad Songs
All the Right Moves 1/1
Fandom: TVD
Pairing: Bonnie/Damon
Summary: She falls in love with him, so she's an idiot.
She knows the exact moment she falls in love with him. It's between the moment he calls her a wuss, and the moment he give her a magical dagger--one of a kind--for her birthday. Why? She has no idea.
She hates him most of the time, but somehow it's all so much more complicated than she'd ever thought it would be.
"I love you," she could say. But she won't. She'd be foolish to announce her love of a guy in love with her best friend.
She's such an idiot. She and Jeremy are over, so at least there's that. Except--it's never that easy, because sometimes she thinks she catches him watching her watching him. She thinks he might know.
She loves him.
She wonders if it's the fact that she knows how much he misses being human, or the fact that she knows now what it feels like to be in love with someone you can never have. She wonders if it's because she'd once seen him break down over how much everything hurt. He remembers them--the people he's killed.
She'd wonder if she'd be okay around someone like that--except she already is. She tries to hate him--despite the fact that it was circumstance, it wasn't really his fault that her Grams died, or that she's all alone, or that she hates him.
She hates the fact that despite the lack of anything real in common, she loves him.
She loves the fact that despite the fact that he's a douche sometimes, he has a kindness inside of him. It sucks for Elena that he loves her--because he's scarily protective of her. But Damon respects her.
She loves him for that--the fact that they've worked together--like at the dance, times before, and times after. She doesn't actually want him to love her back, at least not in the stupid way he loves Elena. It's scary.
It isn't that he loves her so much, but that that brand of love is horrible.
She wishes Elena would just let Damon go.
Not just because Bonnie feels like a selfish bitch for wanting him, but because it isn't fair. She doesn't love him.
And there's a part of Bonnie that thinks Damon is just drawn to the magical being that is Elena, not because she's his soulmate, but because she's Elena(and she does look like Katherine). She's just--she's attractive to most people. They just want her. Bonnie doesn't know how that feels, and she's never been jealous. Not until now. Not until Damon.
She wishes things could be different. She wishes she weren't in love with the one person she shouldn't be.
It shouldn't be love, you know? At first it was easy to pretend it wasn't, but then they'd gone on so many little roadtrips to find Klaus and Stefan that things had changed. They bantered, they argued, and occasionally got deep long after Elena fell asleep--whether she was shotgun or in the backseat.
Bonnie wishes for anything but this. It's like Damon is seducing her, using all the right moves--but they're affecting the wrong person.
It's breaking her down, piece by piece--until the moment he kisses her and everything changes.