bonneibennett:

Yessss OMG my heart! Someone putting Bonnie first, someone taking care of Bonnie… it’s sad to say it, but that would be so major.

darkwingdux and I had a conversation a long time ago about a headcanon that in some deep part of Damon’s psyche, he truly feels that protecting Bonnie and fulfilling his promise to the Bennett bloodline is the one good thing he’s done. Not to say he hasn’t done any other good things, but from Damon’s POV, you understand? And that explains why it’s such a visceral, frantic, intense response when he goes into save-Bonnie mode.

And it’s so striking to me, because even though his influence on Elena was a help to her as she tried to reconcile her old self with her new identity as a vampire… he drew out the darkness in her, took her further and further from her human ideals. With Bonnie, it’s shaping up to be the opposite. She comes back from 1994, isolated, changed, and in a very dark place… and it sounds as if he could play the crucial role in “healing” her, in bringing her back to light, back to herself.

(and now the book!Bamon feels go wild, lol. The Princess of Darkness and the Last Reach Towards Light…)

see also: “This is how you OTP!!”