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Damon look at the sleeping angle in his arms, she had moved in the middle of the night placing her head onto his chest directly into his embrace, he couldn't believe this was happening. Elena usually would have screamed at him to get out of her bed, and he would have been forced to leave but not tonight. Maybe she was just too tired to kick him out or maybe finally she has accepted the fact that she feelings something stronger than friendship for him. "I care about you Damon, but it's Stefan, it'll always be Stefan." A lot had change since then but judging from Elena's recent struggles to help Stefan, he knows that she still loves him.

Elena stirred in his arms; he looked down at her she was shaking.

"Stop! Stop!" she started to scream in her sleep. Damon shook her awake trying not to hurt her. He hated seeing her upset or scared.

"Elena, sweetie?" He asked not caring about the fact that she would yell at him for calling her that.

"Damon?" She looked up at him with her doe eyes and started to cry, "Damon they..they…he" She said between her tears.

"shh" he said, placing a finger on her lips, "it's ok you safe I won't let anything happen to you, I promise"

"No," she replied shaking her head, "I wasn't the one hurt." He looked at her and sighed of course night he finally gets to hold her while she sleeps, she has a dream about Stefan, getting hurt.

"Elena, it was just a dream, Stefan is fine."

Elena's P.O.V

"No…."

"What do you mean no?"

I took a deep breath and stopped crying, "Stefan was hurting you." I said.

Obviously taken back by what she had said, Damon froze. "Me?"

"Yes you, are you deaf?" I joked, the dream had scared me, but also made me realize how much I really cared about Damon, not that I didn't know that. Caroline had tried to make me admit that I had feelings for him, but I couldn't, I just can't admit it because I'm scared. Not of him, but of what will happen, the fact that I may love him more than she has ever loved anyone else scares her. Wait did I just admit she loved him? Yes, I did.

"Elena?" He asked, noticing me spacing out. "What is going on in that pretty little head of yours?"

"I'm just thinking." I said.

"about me naked?" he asked teasing her.

"Don't get your hopes up" I played along, Damon would always be the one that could make her laugh right after crying, he knew how to get her. "Damon?"

"Yes 'Lena?"

I drew in a deep breath, I don't know what made me want to admit this, maybe cause I knew it was time he finally heard it. I started my speech,

"I had a dream that Stefan was hurting you, and it scared me to death. I can't handle seeing you hurt by anyone even me. I know I have hurt you so much and I'm so sorry about that. In the end though you still haven't given up on me and I don't understand why.-"

"Elena where are you going with this?" He asked cutting me off.

"Just please listen, Damon you don't understand how much I truly care about you. You make me the Elena that I am, you can make me laugh or smile in the hardest times, you push me till the edge and make me fight. You don't treat me like I'm a prize to win or a possession or a little kid. Stefan was like that, he was the perfect boyfriend, the dream boyfriend as Caroline would say, but he isn't or well wasn't what I need."

Damon looked at me astonished, as if I was speaking gibberish. I continued, "I need someone who challenges me, and pushes me to the edge but then helps me get back up. Someone that doesn't treat me like a possession but wants me all to himself. Someone that despite everything I have done loves me for who I am."

"what are you saying Elena?" He questioned me.

"I'm saying that I love you Damon." There it was.