This is my FIRST EVER shot at fanfiction so let me know what you think. I'll be doing short chapters like this which are Damon/Elena focused. Thanks for reading!
Where is she? WHERE IS SHE? Words and sounds start to fill my ears again as I come back to reality. My throat burns so intensely, as if someone is choking me. I have no strength or relocation of what has happened. The burning in my throat continues down my chest and burns like fire in my heart. Ready to let the pain sweep over me and finish me off, I think back to the words I heard in the hallway. Where is she? I know that voice. I start to panic, feeling trapped in my own body. I want to scream at him that I'm in here and I'm dying. I want to say that I'm sorry. Instead I lay here, eyes closed, dead to everyone around me. Just as the pain in my chest wears off, it becomes a hundred times worse. Engulfing me in invisible flames. The pain is so terrible that my eyes fly open and I gasp for air. The air feels like razor blades cutting its way down my throat but I continue to swallow. Beside me, Stefan stands up with glazed eyes. He mouths I'm sorry just as Damon bursts through the door.
What did you do? Damon yells. You killed her! You let her make her own decisions and where did that get her? Damon runs towards Stefan and knocks him out of his chair, punching him repeatably. Meredith stands in the doorway yelling at them to stop, her eyes glancing at me. Is she sorry for turning me into a vampire or happy she saved my life?
I stand up quickly and hold my throat as the burning continues throughout my body. Stefan isn't putting up a fight against Damon. He lays there, taking each hit.
Stop! I yell. Damon's hand instantly retracts from Stefan's bloody face and he turns to look at me. A tear barely slips out of Damon's eye as he stares at me in pain. He knows what I'm feeling, he's done this before. I need to be here. For Jeremy. He doesn't have anyone in his life and if I leave too, I don't know what will happen to him. I pause, looking at Stefan slowly stand up. I'm completing the transition. Damon's eyes move to Stefan's as they give each other a look I can't explain. The pain in my throat becomes so unbearable that I drop to my knees, gasping for air. Damon quickly leaves the room and comes back with a blood bag. Without thinking, I grab it from his hands and drink as it clears my throat from pain. And with each swallow comes new understanding.
Memories flow into my head as I piece together the times Damon compelled me to forget. Meeting him first, the night my parents died and the night he confessed he loved me in my bedroom. These memories fill me with mixed emotions, strong mixed emotions as I look to Damon. He knows I'm going to remember it all. Stefan looks down at the ground, as if he can't watch me turn into a vampire. I know he'll blame himself for not saving me but after all Matt's been through, he needed to be saved. I finish the blood bag and wipe my mouth clean as I smell the blood from throughout the hospital. Damon walks over and grabs my hand.
Let's get you out of here, he says to me before turning to Stefan. They say nothing to each other and Damon carries me out of the hospital without anyone noticing.