I just re-watched the Pilot episode because I have the Vampire Diaries season 1 DVD box set. The Damon/Bonnie connection was implemented in the very first episode. There are many signs that showed me that Damon/Bonnie had a connection even though they did not meet in person yet. The truth is, Damon may have come back to Mystic Falls for Katherine but when you look at the depth of it, Damon actually really came back to MF for Bonnie. I say this because Damon knew about Bonnie and the fact that she was a witch or had witch ancestry before Elena, Stefan and even Bonnie herself found out about who she really was. I say that Damon came back for Bonnie because in order for the tomb (with Katherine inside) to be opened, he needed a witch to de-spell the tomb and release Katherine. And Bonnie happened to be the first Bennett witch that Damon met as soon as he came back to town. Also, Damon has a long history with Bonnie's family and ancestors. He has made a promise to protect Emily Bennett's ancestors over 145 years ago. This is one sign. Also, when Bonnie was driving to school with Elena in the car, Bonnie unexpectedly hits a crow after she says "I predict"...and BAM, she hits a crow. Well, we all know that Damon is the one who controls crows, not Stefan. Also, immediately after Damon comes back to town, Bonnie's powers start to become heightened and they start dramatically evolving. Bonnie's first visions are all about Damon with her seeing the crow a few times and her powers heighten immensely as she can sense a "negative presence" (the negative presence being Damon). Before Damon comes back to town, this tells me that Bonnie's powers were not strong, intense or as developed. But as soon as Damon came back into town, her powers started to dramatically evolve and Bonnie started to change immensely as an individual, triggering her individual journey. The individual journey into finding oneself does not stop with Bonnie. After Damon comes back to Mystic Falls, Damon also begins his own spiritual individual journey into finding himself. Why is it that Damon didn't begin this spiritual journey years ago BEFORE he met Bonnie? Why all of a sudden is Damon beginning to change and evolve as an individual now, when he could have done it years ago? Basically, Damon and Bonnie are evolving and changing at the same time and at the same pace. They are both misunderstood and are both on their own individual, spiritual journeys trying to find themselves and understand themselves. And also, after Bonnie sees another vision involving Damon, Bonnie says to Elena that these feelings and these visions that she is having all of a sudden are feelings that she has never felt before ever and that she was intensely frightened and overwhelmed by them. Bonnie then says to Elena, "It's just the beginning". All of these signs tell me that the D/B connection has been there from the very start but it has been severely overlooked because of the main love triangle of the series including Elena/Stefan/Damon. So many viewers don't see the connection between Damon and Bonnie. But the truth is, re-watching the Pilot and a few of the earlier episodes from season 1 has made me realize that the D/B connection has been there all along. I even remembered while watching the earlier episodes that Bonnie actually found Damon very attractive, referring to him as "older, sexy danger guy". This goes to show you that Bonnie never disliked Damon at first glance until she found out what he was, which is a vampire and what he was doing.

Also, I just want to say that in one recent episode, in "Crying Wolf", when Caroline, Jeremy and Bonnie were using Luka to try and find answers, Caroline and Bonnie have a little talk about Bonnie and her relationship with Jeremy. Caroline tells Bonnie that she is a vampire and that Bonnie is a witch and that they really have no right to be...and Bonnie says "To be picky" to Caroline but then Caroline says, "No, to...judge". To me, it was referring to the current relationship between Jeremy and Bonnie and about the fact that Bonnie is judging her relationship with Jeremy because he happens to be the younger brother of her best friend, Elena, but it also foreshadowed the future between Damon and Bonnie as well IMO. Bonnie constantly judges Damon for what he is, which is a vampire, and Damon is always calling her on it. This is why I believe that the relationship between Jeremy and Bonnie is for Bonnie's spiritual growth, nothing more and nothing less. It is a preparation for Bonnie's outlook on love and unconditional acceptance (of Damon).

What are your thoughts about this?