This idea came to me on a whim, so forgive me if it's slow. If you have any ideas or things you'd like to see that would help a lot!

I do not own The Vampire Diaries, but if I did there would be a lot more naked Damon.

Sing a song of forgetting
A song of the way things were not
Sing of what's lost to you
The time that you never knew
Sing of not remembering when
Of memories that go unremembered and then
Sing a song of forgetting, again

I was dreaming about him again…

The day had been so excruciatingly painful. I was tired. No, I was more than tired. I was EXHAUSTED. I walked into my bedroom to finally wind down and try to put off everything that was going on until tomorrow, but I just couldn't. Suddenly, my train of thought was interrupted. "Cute PJ's," I heard a voice say… HIS voice… I froze in place and looked up and saw him, Damon, sitting in front of my window, a sad smile on his face.

Why was he in my bedroom? For a moment I was happy, but then I remembered the time not too long ago when he was in my room, when he forced himself on me, forced me to make a choice and lashed out at Jeremy when he didn't get his way. I was definitely not in the mood for this. I broke my gaze and looked away. "I'm tired, Damon." But I couldn't help but look at him again. He stood up with an almost conflicted looking smirk on his face and held up my- or Rebekah's- necklace. "I brought you this." "I thought that was gone!" I replied. He shook his head and did his signature eye-thing… But it was different this time. It had an air of sadness in it.

"Thank you." Thank God that's all he's here for. I reached out to grab the necklace, but Damon pulls it away. Typical. I became scared. He was going to do something stupid, I just knew it. "Please give it back." He didn't. Of course he didn't. He just kept looking at me and suddenly his expression changed. "I just have to say something." I started to back away. I was scared, I was worried, and yet I still couldn't break my gaze. Something was wrong. His face gave it away. What would he need to make me forget? I was strong. I could handle anything. He knew that… "Why do you need to say it with my necklace?"

He started at the floor for a moment. He was nervous. I'd never seen this side of him before. "Because what I'm about to say is…probably the most selfish thing I've ever said in my life." There it is. That's what did it. I could barely breathe anymore. I took a deep breath and said as believably as I could, "Damon, don't go there." He stepped closer. This can't be happening. "I just need to say it once. You need to hear it." Any chance of being able to breath was long gone by now. I fell silent and just gazed up at him. What is so important that he had to come all the way here?

"I love you, Elena."

And then everything went black.