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Say you'll love me again

"Elena..." Damon slowly opened his eyes, revealing the immensity of blue. "Elenaa…" He repeated one more time his voice too weak to be louder than a whisper.

He tried to sit up straight, but it was like he didn't have any power over his body.

"Sir, you need to remain still." A nurse appeared on his side, pushing him against the mattress. The woman should be in her early thirties, with red hair and brown eyes and was looking at him like he was some kid who had just made a bad thing.

"Where's Elena?" Damon whispered one more time, ignoring the woman's efforts to keep him in place. "Where am I?"

The woman looked at him with a sad expression on her face.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Salvatore." She said as she grabbed his chart from the bed and started to check it.

"Sorry for what?" He stopped moving and let his head rest against the pillows.

The woman's brown eyes found his blue ones for the first time, and he couldn't help but to think about Elena. Where was she? The last thing he remembered was the talk they had had before the flight… The talk before the war...

"Don't go Damon, please…" Her teary brown eyes found his ocean blue ones and her hands travelled to his neck, like they used to be all the time. "Don't go." She repeated as she buried her face in his chest, feeling safe when she felt his arms surrounding her back.

"I have to." He said softly as he kissed the top of her head and pulled her closer to him. "You know I have to."

She looked up, finding his eyes instantly. "It's not fair." The tears started streaming down her face, and she tried to wipe them away with her hand. "What am I going to do without you? I can't live without you!" She talked louder this time, tired of pretending to be calm when she just wanted to scream and cry and run away from all her problems.

"And you think I can?" Damon yelled in frustration, not caring about the people who were staring at them. "Don't you think I'm going to be thinking about you every second, of every minute ,of every day? Don't you think I'll be dying to have you safe in my arms again? Don't you think I'm going to wake up missing you, and falling asleep missing you even more?" He approached her and wiped one of the tears that were falling down her cheek, with his thumb." "I love you Elena, and there is no distance or war that can change that."

The tears were now turning into sobs but Elena couldn't help but to smile at his words.

"See?" She asked as she managed to control herself. "How am I going to handle six months without hearing you say those beautiful things?"

His smile turned into his signature smirk, and for some sort of reason that gesture comforted Elena. She usually hated when that smirk appeared on his beautiful face, but today she couldn't help but to love it. She had to admit that he was a bad boy, but he was her bad boy. She loved his darkest side as much as she loved his soft side. She loved when he whispered soothing words to her, she loved when he curled up with her in the sofa watching a cheesy movie and eating a bowl of popcorn, and she loved it when he just held her in silence… When he knew that she was needing some time to think without anyone messing with her head. He KNEW her, and that was the thing she was going to miss the most. No one in the world could understand her the way he did.

"You're going to handle six months without me because you are the strongest woman I ever knew." He said as he locked his gaze with hers, making her shiver with the intense connection. "And you're going to handle six months because you know you're going to be here all the time." He said as he put her hand above his heart.

"Just like you're going to be here all the time." She said as she pulled his hand to rest above her heart.

"Salvatore, it's time." Mason Lockwood approached the young couple.

He looked at Elena and smiled.

"Come here girl…" He said as he opened his arms. "I'm going to miss my little sister."

Elena laughed and hugged him. Mason and Damon were like brothers, what made Mason see Elena like a sister too.

"Take care of him." Elena whispered to him, making sure Damon couldn't hear her.

Mason broke the hug and smiled at her.

"Always."

"Hey! Enough with the secrets." Damon said as he put an arm around Elena. "I'm feeling left out." He said pouting.

Mason and Elena laughed with his sulkiness.

"Oh the baby is jealous." Mason said as he punched him on the shoulder. "Come on we gotta go."

"Go ahead I'll catch you." Damon said as he looked at Elena.

Mason nodded, knowing that it was an hint to leave them alone.

"Bye Elena." Mason said as he turned around and started walking to the group of soldiers.

Elena smiled and turned her attention to Damon.

"I guess it's time." She said as she tried to fight the tears that were filling her piercing brown eyes.

"Don't cry…" Damon whispered with a pleading voice. "Please don't cry…"

She rubbed her eyes and gave him her best smile.

"I'm not crying."

He smiled too knowing that she was the toughest girl he had ever met. She could be dying on the inside but she wouldn't show it just to make him feel better. Just to be sure the last image he kept from her was happy and smiley.

He grabbed her face in his hands and kissed with all the passion he had. He tried to savor the moment as much as possible, because he knew that the war wasn't easy and that he wasn't so safe as he tried to make Elena believe. Their tongues found each other and it was like a dance. A dance that they both knew so well.

He stepped back from her, his ocean blue eyes memorizing every single trace of her face.

"I love you." He told her in a soft voice as he gave her one last kiss on the lips.

"I love you more." She said teasing him, knowing that it would piss him off.

He smiled as he understood her game and gave his group one last look, to make sure they were still there. He saw Mason waving at him and nodded looking at Elena who was with an understanding look on her face.

"Go." She said with a smile, trying to look as normal as possible.

He gave her one last kiss on the forehead and hugged her for the final time.

"I'll write you."

"I'll be waiting."

He turned around and started walking towards the group, his heart breaking into a million pieces at every step he gave. He was almost reaching the other soldiers when he heard her yell.

"Damon!" He turned immediately dropping his bags on the floor, and opening his arms for her.

She jumped to his arms, and put her legs around his waist. He held her closer to him, his arms surrounding his entire world.

"Marry me." Her voice was shaky from the tears and her hands trembling with the nerves and the expectation.

"What?" Damon asked chocked with her proposal.

Her smile grew even more and she tried to get even closer to him.

"Marry me." She repeated the words slower this time, to make sure he got the message clear. "Marry me, Damon Salvatore."

"Men are the ones who should do that, you know?" He placed her on the ground, his hands never leaving her waist.

"You don't wanna marry me." She said pouting as she turned around and tried to walk way.

"Lena…" He said as he grabbed her arm and made her focus on him.

"What?" She asked trying hard not to cry.

"If you think I don't want to marry you…" He started pulling her closer to him. "You must be crazy baby."

Her eyes became more hopeful and she wiped her tears away.

"Then you want to?"

He pulled her for a kiss, trying to end all of her questions.

"What do you think?" He asked her breathless, when it finished.

"Damon!" Mason's voice interrupted their moment for the second time that day, and Damon looked back.

"I have to go." Damon said as he kissed Elena.

Elena nodded and smiled. "Don't forget me Salvatore."

"Never."

"Mr Salvatore!" A distant voice called. "Mr Salvatore!"

"What?" Damon said as he focused on the woman.

"Can you please not do that again?" The woman asked with a worried look on her face.

Damon rolled his eyes at the woman.

"You were about to tell me why I'm here."

The woman nodded and put his chart back on the bed.

"You have been in a coma." She said with a sad look on her face. "For the past four years."

And suddenly his whole world collapsed. Four years? He had been in a coma for four years? How? The last thing he remembered was being on the plane talking to Mason and then… Then there's nothing…

"How?" He asked turning to the nurse. "How?" He repeated louder, making the nurse step back with his fury.

"You got hurt on the war. You had several concussions, and we even thought you were on brain death."

He couldn't believe the words he was listening. Coma? Concussions? Brain death?

"But you survived!" The nurse continued with a smile.

"What about Elena?" He asked, ignoring the nurse's happiness.

"Who is Elena?" She asked with a confused expression. "Only a man… Mason, I guess comes here every day."

"But…" Damon started only to be interrupted by the woman.

"Mr. Salvatore, you have been in a coma for a long time, it is normal that you're confused. I'm going to call your doctor." She left the room leaving Damon alone in the big white bedroom.

"I'm not confused!" He yelled as she closed the door.

What had happened? He couldn't believe Elena wasn't there. He knew her and he knew that she wouldn't leave him if a thing like that happened. Once, he had to spend a night in the hospital because of a flew and she hadn't moved from his side, a single minute. And now, he had been in a coma for four years, and she hadn't been there even once?

He sat up straight on the bed, and tried to find his cell phone. The doctors should had put it somewhere. He opened the night table drawer and smiled when he found it. It had still battery. Mason should have been reloading it since the accident. He was a good brother.

Damon unlocked the phone and a picture of Elena appeared on the screen. The same picture that he had on the day of the flight. He went to the contact list and stopped on Elena's number. He pressed the call button and waited. There was no sound… She should had changed the number. He ended the call and looked for Mason's number. He marked the numbers and pressed the button. Mason picked up at the second ring.

"Damon?" He asked with a chocked voice.

"Yes, Mason." He was glad to hear some known voice.

"Dude, are you okay? Oh my God, when did you wake up?"

"Jesus, Mason you're talking like a girl!" Damon said mocking him.

"Well, I can see you're fine… I'm going to the hospital right now."

Damon heard a door closing a sound of a sitting belt.

"Mason?"

"Yeah?"

"What happened to Elena?" Damon asked in a low voice.

He could only hear silence from the other side of the phone.

"Mason?"

"Yes, Damon." Mason said breaking the silence.

"What happened to her?"

What happened to Elena? You'll have to read the next chapter to find out!

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