The title of this story is French for 'You Have My Whole Heart For My Whole Life'. The other chapters will be longer!
"Lenaaa. Wake up babe. We're going to be late."
"Five more minutes Damon."
"Don't make me have to get back in that bed and rip off those covers."
"Come and get me Salvatore."
"Far be it for me to deny the lady."
"Elena you have to get up."
"Five more minutes."
"I already have the U-haul packed up."
I pull down the covers and sneak a peek out of one eye the clock. Ugh.
"It's only eight o'clock!"
"It's a five hour trip. I'd like to make it by dinner. Mom is cooking."
"Stefan…"
"Please don't. You said going back there wasn't going to be an issue."
Stefan lets out a sigh and sits down on the bed and I quickly move the covers away and slide onto his lap, wrapping my arms around him. I bury my face in his neck kissing him, and he wastes no time in holding onto me.
"It won't be. I just need some time to get use to it."
"My brother and Rose will be there."
"I figured as much."
"We'll stay with mom until we find a place; I promise it won't take long."
"Actually I was thinking I'd stay with Aunt Jenna."
"Because of Damon."
Yes, I scream internally.
"No. Because I've only seen her on holidays these past three years, and Jer is there. It's my parents' house Stefan."
"Right, I'm sorry. Of course. Maybe I can sneak in one night." He smiles so brightly at me and I don't have the heart to tell him no. Even to this day I can still hear my mothers voice.
"I know very well that boy sneaks in your window the nights your Dad is at the hospital."
"He doesn't, Mom I..."
"Hush, what Dad doesn't know won't hurt him. The last thing Damon would ever do is disrespect you. I trust him."
"Me too Mom."
How wrong we'd both been.
"Maybe. I'll shower quick and we can get going."
"I'll grab a snack and coffee for the road."
"Perfect."
I turn the water as hot as my body can take. If only it could wash away my sins. Hell, I had plenty of them. Most of them came from the most sinful person she'd ever met in her life. Damon Salvatore. I knew it the first time I laid my eyes on him that he was the beginning of something, turns out he was almost my end too. Until Stefan that is. The boy with the hero hair saved the day. I knew I had to get out of that town, and he was not letting me go alone. I had always known Stefan had a crush on me since we were younger, but I always belonged to Damon. There wasn't one person in Mystic Falls that didn't know it. And I was always his, until that day that I had enough and drove away with the other brother.
Stefan Salvatore was the best man I'd ever met and I would never deserve him.
As much as I'd changed and as much that changed there were a few certain things that never would. I'm reminded of it every time I'm in front of a mirror and I see the small letter D in manuscript on my rib cage.
Sometimes I swear I can still feel his fingertips tracing it over and over, never getting tired of the non-existent feel of it.
"I can't believe you did this."
"Should I not have done it?"
"No! Elena never in my life have I thought I could be loved the way you love me."
"You have my whole heart for my whole life Salvatore."
"You've had mine since the first time you slapped me."
"I'm going to need you to stop talking and finish getting naked."
"You always say the right things."
Stefan sets our apartment keys on the counter as finish checking to see if we left anything anywhere. There's nothing, and that's when it hits me that this is real and we are leaving.
"Ready?" He asks me reaching for my hand. I take it the same way I did that day.
"Let's do this."
We hop into the truck and make our way back to the past.
