Love.

He hates that word. Love means showing emotions. Showing weakness. Yes, Damon Salvatore once was capable of loving. But now he is incapable of loving anything anymore. He did love someone, he went from hell and back to free her. She responded to his efforts with the emptiness of the tomb that she was supposed to be in. Damon was sure that he couldn't, wouldn't, love anything else now. But he didn't brake down, he didn't shed a tear. He drowned his sorrows in alcohol and woman, like he usually did, and swung back in gear.

He became Damon again. The bad ass, sarcastic, emotional rock he was. He was determined to get over Katherine. Yet, he would look at Elena Gilbert, the almost exact copy of Katherine.

Almost.

She was different, though. Loving, caring, kind. Not, manipulative, mean, evil.

Yet, he would look at Elena and feel a tiny ping of hate. That she was made to look that way just to torment him.

But, he could never hate Elena. Not Elena herself, just the Katherine shell she carried.

He actually liked Elena. The way she risked her life to save his in Atlanta. The way she hugged him after opening the tomb.

The concern for him.

And he knew she liked him in return. He knew because of the way she would look at him. When they were close enough, her eyes would stare into his, then, only for a moment, she would look at his lips.

But, she loved Stefan. His brother. The good brother. Very typical right? Of course Stefan, the white knight, the saint, would get the beauty.

And Damon, the bad boy that everybody wants to hate, gets nobody.

She loves Stefan, of course. But Damon doesn't give up. He likes challenges. He would keep chasing Elena.

He knows that he would eventually have her.

He can feel it.

All he needs is time, and being the vampire that he is, he has all the time in the world.

She, on the other hand, doesn't.

Come on, Elena, do you really want a Edward- Bella relationship with Stefan?

He know she doesn't. She's too independent for that.

And when she realizes this. Damon will be waiting.

Because he can wait.

He has all the time in the world.


This is just a short, oneshot, and is staying that way, sorry.

But what did you think?