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The best enemies to friends to lovers Bamon (Bonnie Bennett/Damon Salvatore) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. By refusing to skip from hatred straight to kissing, this trope earns its ending twice over, giving readers both a friendship worth rooting for and the ache of risking it.

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Friends With Benefits

Enemies to Friends to Lovers

by MidnightStorm6593

"Don't tell me you said what I think you just said." "Oh, come on," he says, rolling his eyes. "Don't tell me you've never thought of it."Okay, so maybe she had. Once. Or twice. Or maybe a few times. But that had been back when he was just Older Sexy Danger Guy™ and not a crazy, sometimes homicidal

1,237 kudos 15,671 words 10/10 chapters Explicit
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love bites & recompense (i'll be with you until the end)

Enemies to Friends to Lovers

by sarcastic_fina

While stuck in the prison world, Bonnie and Damon strike up a physical relationship. It's not cheating if you're dead, right? Bonnie tells herself she can let him go in the end, but she's never been much of a liar. [3-Parts]

953 kudos 34,328 words 3/4 chapters Explicit
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you know I will adore you ('til eternity)

by sarcastic_fina

"Run all you want, but it won't change anything, Bonnie. It doesn't matter what world we're in, you'll always be my wife."  After being sucked up into what they assumed would be oblivion, Damon and Bonnie soon find themselves in an idyllic little town where they're free to find peace. Which is exac

3,155 kudos 221,899 words 20/? chapters Explicit
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Chaotic Solutions

by 10ellie10

"Being reborn into a fictional universe is dope. If you can cause a little chaos, of course." A doppelganger self-insert written by someone who is sick of the same stories and would just like to mess around a bit. Written completely for myself. Might not follow any plot, probably have plenty of inco

2,195 kudos 148,478 words 55/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Now My Life Is Changing (It's Always Rearranging)

by cactusfinch

“Bonnie, did I just take a history exam for you?”“Yeah, I mean what’s the point of having this link thing if I can’t use you for cheating on history tests?”Pre-Canon!AU: Bonnie starts a summer by speaking to a vampire three states away, by accident. Grams is not amused. Also, Damon makes a friend.

2,127 kudos 6,128 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
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hold me (like I was born to be held)

by sarcastic_fina

His heart was written off in 1864, when he fell in love with a face and a dream that only took 145 years to come true. She can't compete with that, so she doesn't try. She just takes.

1,627 kudos 3,628 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Until the End of Time

by MellifluousMagpie

To save him, to get her life back, she would do whatever it took. Even if that meant traveling through time and space. Even if that meant having to relive the past. But the burden of knowledge is a heavy one, and things prove difficult when she’s drawn to her future husband like a moth to a flame...

1,372 kudos 116,777 words 23/? chapters Mature
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Spellbound

by LadyLoec

An AU of Bonnie and Damon in the Prison World, without Kai, but with a problematic blood shortage that leads to our favourite judgy witch and snarky vampire getting closer than anyone anticipated. Lots of fun and cathartic Bonnie/Damon moments, leading to some very raunchy sex (Fair warning: There a

1,313 kudos 52,707 words 31/31 chapters Explicit
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it's all worth the fight (when it's you, dear)

by sarcastic_fina

A 50-chapter story of unconnected Bonnie/Damon oneshots based on various sentence prompts. [24] "What if I say 'no'?[25] "I had to see you again."[26] “Oh! You’re jealous!”[27] “I’m begging you.”

1,301 kudos 60,257 words 27/50 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Fifty-Five Years

by turningofflights

Elena wakes up from her coma fifty-five years later only to discover a future far from the one she expected. She devours Bonnie's diaries to piece together what happened while she was asleep, and reads the tales of her best friend's long life with Damon Salvatore. AU where Bonnie wasn't able to brea

1,196 kudos 45,458 words 7/7 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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to be the man who walked 1000 miles (to fall down at your door)

by sarcastic_fina

After Bonnie sacrifices her life for his, a grieving Damon is offered the chance to save his favorite witch. Time travel. Thrown back to 2009, he has a fresh start ahead of him and only one goal; keep Bonnie Bennett safe and happy. Falling in love with her wasn't on the to-do list, but he was alread

1,150 kudos 34,727 words 5/? chapters Mature
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if you love me (don't let go)

by sarcastic_fina

"You think victims are born? No. Victims are made. And you? You're the perfect victim. Always willing to throw herself on the fire. A martyr. Because at least if you die saving them, they'll remember you."

1,123 kudos 76,135 words 6/6 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Game On

by LadyLoec

It's May 10th 1994 for the thousandth time. Damon is bored, and when Damon is bored, he's intolerable. Bonnie has had enough of him cheating whenever they play a game, so they agree to play something he can't cheat at: Truth or Dare. It's juvenile, but it passes the time, and what harm can it do?WEL

1,086 kudos 18,633 words 3/3 chapters Explicit
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Magic, madness (heaven, sin)

by sarcastic_fina

Collection of prompt fills for Bonnie/Damon, often with a side pairing of Stefan/Caroline.[34] cheating[35] "Promise me you won’t let anything happen to him."[36] fake dating[37] petrichor

1,061 kudos 58,179 words 37/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Bloodstone

by cactusfinch

A post-S1 AU. Guilt-ridden and in shock over causing Caroline's accident, without any magical way to heal her friend, Bonnie turns to magic for another solution. She finds it: time travel. But why jump back one night, when she could go back a couple of months and save everyone-including her Grams? B

1,018 kudos 123,736 words 27/27 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Futures Past

by WhiteWolf14

They won the war but lost so much in the process. The Saltzman twins go back to change the outcome of the battle against The Necromancer. They have only one goal: to save the lives of their parents, and friends. However, unexpected complications arise and the twins are forced to make a choice...Go b

917 kudos 76,488 words 22/? chapters General Audiences
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Back to You

by wavesketcher

A series of Bamon one-shots + ficlets including, but not limited to: fake dating, unrequited love, humanity switches, funerals, angst (lots), comedy (I try), canon, definitely not canon, and a five year old girl who changes Damon's life.

907 kudos 70,032 words 43/43 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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nine lives (and a tenth for good behavior)

by sarcastic_fina

Three years ago, Bonnie Bennett died. After waking up in an unmarked grave, she returns to the land of the living with a whole lot of questions. Like how did she die? Who brought her back? Where is Damon? And how long until the cruel grip of Death comes for her again?

900 kudos 44,755 words 4/4 chapters Mature
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Queen of the Highway

by sevensistersofsussex

A father's love is complicated and sometimes it isn't enough, but even so, John Gilbert knows his own daughter. So, when Katherine Pierce slinks into the family kitchen, he knows she isn't his daughter. With Katherine out of the way, the Gilberts leave Mystic Falls forever to run from the threat of

891 kudos 227,317 words 81/81 chapters Explicit
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All Warfare Is Based On Deception

by CarlyCo

Bonnie Bennett has been in love with unrepentant playboy Damon Salvatore for as long as she can remember. On the worst day of her life, the young woman learned that she was going to be his wife. At first, it felt like a dream come true. The merger of their powerful families increased their wealth an

846 kudos 416,432 words 79/? chapters Mature

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Why Enemies to Friends to Lovers Bamon Fanfiction Works So Well

Bonnie Bennett/Damon Salvatore — Enemies for five seasons, Bonnie and Damon got trapped alone in a 1994 prison world and came back genuinely transformed — the witch and the vampire who hated each other became each other's person. The show kept them platonic; an enormous fandom disagreed.

Enemies to Friends to Lovers — The long road taken in full: open hostility softens into reluctant truce, truce grows into real friendship, and friendship finally tips into romance. The middle stage is the point — these fics insist the characters actually like each other before they love each other.

The found intimacy of two people who fought their way from loathing to 'I'd die for you' — fans finish the arc canon abandoned. By refusing to skip from hatred straight to kissing, this trope earns its ending twice over, giving readers both a friendship worth rooting for and the ache of risking it. That's why enemies to friends to lovers Bamon fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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