A/N I don't own anything except for my writing, all of the characters from tvd belong to the writers and directors of tvd as well as the cw, there is also some mature themes so it I am rating it M for that reason This is also my first fanfic I have ever published so please review and let me know what you think. Thanks
Chapter One
Damon stood at Elena's hospital bedside nearly losing his mind, hearing the constant beeping of all machines hooked up to his girl, he held her hand with both of his and looked down at her worryingly, realizing that that love of his life was in a sleeping beauty coma-like spell until Bonnie died, he took a deep breath. "I love you Elena" Damon said hoping she could hear him, wherever she was. Suddenly Bonnie's mom Abby came in the room, "Damon, I know I am the last person you want to see right now, but I think I may have found an answer that will break the spell and Bonnie will get to live too." Abby told him. "Nothing can reverse it." Damon frowned choking on his words. Abby handed him a piece of paper torn from a grimoire with the instructions to breaking the spell. "Abby this cant be right?" Damon asked in disbelief "Oh its right, Kai thought he knew what he was doing but every spell has a loophole and this one is it. They don't call it the sleeping beauty spell for nothing." Abby told him. So Damon read the paper and did what it said he leaned down to Elena's lips and pressed a tender kiss to hers filled with so much love a single tear fell from his eyes and landed on her cheek. As he stood back up he suddenly saw Elena's eyes flicker open and she inhaled deeply. Damon looked at Abby in shock. "Damon? What happened?" Elena said confused. "Don't worry about that right now baby I'm getting you out of here." Damon said lifting her from the bed.
"Hold on Damon you can't just walk out with her." Abby protested. "Like hell I can't. I'm taking her to see Ric, he could use something good right now." Damon insisted. "Fine but your gonna have to get through Caroline and Stefan first. They haven't left the waiting room since you got here. They were worried about you Damon." Abby told him. "Okay well send them in, I'll compel the doctors to discharge Elena just as soon as Stefan and Caroline come in." Damon explained. Little did he know they were just outside the door and heard everything, Caroline ran in with tears flooding her eyes. "Oh my god it worked, Bonnie was right, I thought it was silly, but she was right." Caroline said. The nurse came in, with a confused look on her face and Caroline turned to her and began to compel her "You are going to discharge Elena Gilbert into our care, she is completely healthy and safe to go home, you will give us Elena's medical records from her accident and not ask any questions about it. Do you understand?" Caroline said. The woman repeated everything Caroline told her to do as she was in a compelled trance and then let them leave.
Finally once they were back at the boarding house Damon had to explain what happened, and when he did, first Elena got angry, but then mostly sad for Alaric who lost his chance at a family. She had known what that had felt like when she became a vampire but then she had realized she could deal with it because she would get to spend eternity with Damon. But then everything changed when Lily planted the cure by candle light in a ring box, almost making Elena think think that Damon was gonna propose. "I can't believe that Jo is just gone and the twins oh my god!" Elena's stopped when she thought about how those sweet babies and how they didnt even have a chance at life. Suddenly she got a murderous look in her eye that only damon understood, "Oh boy... Elena why do you have murdery look on your face?" "Because Kai is dead, but so is Jo and her unborn babies, and the whole Gemini coven, Tyler is a werewolf again and I'm just really pissed off." She said clenching her fists. "It sucks I know, believe me I know, but we will survive, we always survive." Damon said in a comforting tone wrapping his arms around her to hug her warmly. Elena took a deep breath and calmed down.
As Caroline walked in from the kitchen with a blood bag in hand, she pulled out her phone and made a call as she went upstairs to Stefan's room. Damon and Elena looked at her curiously, "What? Don't give me that look you two... today has been a very stressful day for everyone involved I needed a drink." Damon and Elena looked at each other and both smiled "It's fine Care, we're not judging I just want to make sure that you are okay after what Stefan said in the hospital earlier" Elena asked "Elena I didn't know you were able to hear that, but I'm fine, I just need to call someone right now okay." Caroline said frantically as she went upstairs in a blur. And as soon as she was gone Alaric walked through the door, his eyes were stained red from the amount of tears he had shed. He stopped in his tracks and saw Damon standing by fireplace with Elena talking.Elena turned to see him standing at the entrance to the living room and walked over to give him a hug. "Damon are you in my head right now? Are you making me see Elena?" Alaric asked in disbelief "Ric I'm really here. Bonnie found out how to break the spell. It's a silly story we can talk about later. But I'm here Ric, Kai is gone Damon killed him nobody can hurt us anymore." Elena said contently.
"Okay thank you Klaus, we will see you soon." Caroline said in a rather chipper tone even for her as she walked back into the room. "What the hell was that about blondie?" Damon asked. "Well lets just say Klaus doesn't like the idea of crazy witchipires running around ripping people's heads off and he was not okay with what Kai did at the wedding, so he's coming here to compel Lily." Caroline explained "Compel her to think what exactly?" Damon asked "He gonna make her forget, he's gonna make her forget about the ascendant and her so called family of crazy loons, he's gonna make her believe that you Elena and Bonnie came to rescue her from the prison world she was in, and she got put there simply because of being a ripper, he's going to compel her to believe that when you rescued her you needed her to help get Stefan to flip his switch, dont worry it will be fine. Oh, also he's gonna compel her out of being a ripper." Caroline explained with a smile. Stefan and Damon exchanged a looked when she mention Klaus compelling the ripper out of their monster of a mother.
And just when Damon was gonna say something to Caroline her phone rang and of course she answered it as it rang once more. "Hey Bonnie are you okay? Where are you?" Caroline asked concerned. "I was at the airport, I had to pick someone up and now we are just pulling up outside Damon's house." Bonnie explained over the phone. Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Damon vamp sped defensively to go answer the door. He opened the door, "Surprise, Im home. Sorry I missed the wedding." Jeremy said from the front step. Damon smiled and gave Jeremy a brotherly hug. "It's alright man, I'm glad you did." Damon said paternally, Elena heard the familiar voice from the front door "Jeremy?" Elena ran to her brother, "Oh my god Elena, I was so ready to come here to say goodbye to you, but your here and alive, and judging by the normal speed that you ran over here, I would guess that my big sister is human."Jeremy said with a beaming smile.
Damon patted Jeremy on the back and smiled hesitantly "So little Gilbert if it was alright with you I was wondering if your I could borrow the lake house for a couple of days," Damon started "It's fine Damon but if you are gonna do what I think you are going to do,well I shouldn't say this in front of Elena." Jeremy confessed "This better be good kid," Damon said walking Jeremy into the kitchen. "Damon you might as well know I wasn't away at art school, I was hunting vampires, but while I was hunting something happened, I came back to Mystic Falls for one night nobody knew about it, it was the anniversary of my parents death, I couldn't bring myself to go to the cemetery so I drove to Wickery Bridge and stood there talking to them." Jeremy explained. "Okay so other than you lying what's the big deal?" Damon asked. "The big deal is my parents found peace and so did Jenna and John right?" Jeremy asked "That's what I would like to believe for your sake and Elena." Damon said. "Well that night I was thinking about all the people I had lost my mom and dad, Jenna and John, and just like in the motel in Denver when we tried to contact Rose, suddenly there they all were standing with me on the bridge, but it made no sense to me because my parents were not supernatural and the other side is gone, and Elena had told me that Jenna found peace, so then why did I see all of them.But then I thought about what Anna told me about the other side about the push and pull effect and also what Ric told me before he went to the other side, about how he would always look out for us. I think that's what they where doing, and now I'm worried that with all this with Elena nearly dying she is gonna wanna see our parents the way I did." Jeremy said worried
"Well Jer, I'm glad you were honest with me, because I need to ask you something." Damon wasn't sure how to do this. "Oh god, what now." Jeremy sighed. "Relax, by now you must have realized that your sister took the cure, well we had this grand plan that after Ric's wedding I would take the cure took and become human with her and we would begin our human lives. But there was a kink in the plan due to, well let's not go there because thinking about it just gets me too mad and I can't stand thinking about it. However I wanted to get your thoughts on me proposing to Elena, of course I still have make sure Ric is okay with it but since you are her brother and you could kill me if you want to I would figure I would get the hardest part done first." Damon asked cautiously "Dude I know we have had our differences in the past put you have always been there for my sister when it counted. And you saved my ass a few time too, I suppose you wouldn't be the worst brother in law in the world." Jeremy smiled.
Just then Alaric walked in with tears in his eyes "Hey man, you okay?" Damon asked concerned, " Yeah I thought that I lost everything, but I didn't" Alaric said with a sheepish smile. "Damon you might as well ask him now before my sister figures out you are missing" Jeremy insisted "Ask me what?" Alaric asked both of them, suddenly Damon felt himself get nervous as he was about to ask Alaric if he could have Elena's hand, in was something very old fashioned but it was something he had to do. He took a deep breath before he spoke, "Okay so here's the thing you know about how Elena and I had our big grand plan for us to become human and live our long and happy lives together..." Damon started "Yeah I'm aware." Alaric stated "Well Jeremy is letting me take her up to the lake house this weekend and I was going to propose, but before I did I wanted to get your thoughts on it." "Damon are you asking me for Elena's hand? How very not Damon of you." Alaric said smiling at the last part, "I'm just joking, of course you should marry her, she makes you better Damon and she loves you so much that there is no way she could say no." Alaric said approvingly
"Well my next question is..."Damon asked as he reached back into a cabinet he knew Elena couldn't reach. "Do you think she will like it?" Damon said opening a black cherry wood ring box, Jeremy looked at the stone almost confused "Damon that almost looks like the moonstone that Tyler had at his house." Damon smirked at Jeremy's comment. "Well lets just say when Bonnie and I were stuck in 1994, the cure wasn't the only thing I wanted to bring back, so one day I made a trip over to the Lockwoods house and grabbed the moonstone, I had kept it with me until I came back and then I had found out that she had forgotten about me. So I put it away, but once she decided to try again I found someone who could carve the stone into the ring, and now here it is." Damon explained showing them the round cut moonstone with small diamonds outlining it. " Damon she will love it" Alaric told him proudly. What Damon didn't realize was that his brother was listening in from the other room and couldn't have been more proud of his big brother in that very moment.
Back in the other room Caroline noticed Stefan's beaming smile and in true Caroline Forbes style had to make a comment "Stefan why do you look so happy?" "Don't worry about it, you will find out soon enough." He said smiling, Elena laughed at his remark "That almost sounded like something the big bad Damon Salvatore would say when he is up to no good." Elena said with an amused smile, suddenly without warning Damon whooshed in behind her and wrapped his arms around her "That's right I am big and bad, and there is no one else like me." Damon said almost cockily, Elena shook her head and giggled at cockiness. Everyone could tell that the reunited couple could use some time together. As they all left Bonnie and Caroline looked at each other confused as to why why all the men had stupid grins on their faces. And once they were outside Jeremy broke the news to the girls, suddenly squealing and cheering was heard from just beyond the front door. Damon smiled knowing what they were for. "Damon Salvatore, what are you up to?" Elena asked now facing him still wrapped in his arms "Don't you worry about princess, the big bad Damon Salvatore has everything covered." Damon said pecking her lips.
"So I was thinking maybe we could go to the lake house this weekend, have a romantic picnic by the lake, maybe toast marshmallows." Damon suggested "I would love that, it would make up for the time you tried to teach Rebekah how to toast marshmallows and I was really jealous but I didn't tell you." Elena confessed "Baby I knew you were, that same night, before Ric came in and bursted our little bubble that we were in while I was applying first aid I really wanted to kiss you, I wanted you to know how I felt, I wanted to tell you that no matter what ever happened I was never going away." Damon said almost getting choked up, Elena cupped his face and kissed him softly "I love you Damon and I would love to spend the weekend at the lake house with you." Damon smiled "Why don't you start packing and I will call Jeremy to make sure he drops the keys by later so we can actually get in," Damon explained, and then Elena realized "Hey Damon you don't think I will have to invite you in do you?" "I don't think so, but it would be awfully adorable if you wanted to try." Damon said with a smirk and a wink.
A little while later while Elena was packing Damon had called Jeremy as planned, "Jeremy I need all hands on deck I plan on asking her the first night we get there, I have this all planned out in my head. But I need some help distracting her so I can get everything ready." And like always, there to help plan any major event Caroline yelled out from the other end of the phone "Can I help, I know just how to distract her." "How is that Care Bear?" Damon sighed but also smiled "Shopping of course!" Caroline said cheerfully "Of course, well maybe you guys could rotate distracting her, but I gotta go I just heard her walk out of the bedroom, so my guess is she is wondering what I'm up to." Damon said hanging up. Elena walked up behind him and covered his eyes "Guess who?" "Oh I don't know could it be the completely gorgeous Elena Gilbert" Damon said pulling her hands down and kissing them. "Mhmm you guessed right." "You're damn right I did." He said cockily turning around to see she was only wearing one of his T-shirts and a pair of her black lace panties. He knew what she wanted she wanted him to take the cure with her, he knew that she knew the only way he could never truly hurt her when he bit her was if he bit her while they made love. And that's just what he intended to do just not tonight.
"Elena Gilbert what are you doing?" Damon asked curiously, "I thought you wanted to be human with me?" Elena said with a pout "Elena Gilbert, I do, I really do, but not tonight I don't want to ruin our weekend at the lake." Damon told her. Damon secretly had his plan cultivating as he spoke. "Well then Damon..." She said getting close to him "I'm gonna just hop in the shower..." Elena said walking away swaying her hips. "Oh no you don't!" Damon said. Before she knew it Damon had grabbed her by her waist and pulled her close to him. She gasped nervously as her back hit the hard plains of toned chest. Damon smirked proudly "Elena Gilbert am I making you nervous?" Damon whispered in her ear seductively while smiling at how adorable she was when she got flustered. "Nooo..." She stammered out trying to escape is grasp as if she wasn't enjoying the slow caressing movements of his hands that he was leaving all over her perfect olive skin. "Dammit Damon!" Elena cursed at him. "What's wrong beautiful." Damon said as he began to kiss her neck, he may not be biting her tonight but he could still give her one of the most mind blowing nights of her life, and then he got lost in thought... "Oh my god what if I ask her to marry her and she says no, I can't live without her. I almost lost her, I can't lose her again. Oh my god,what if I lose my nerve, I just love her so much."
Elena noticed he was distracted "Hey. You okay?" She asked cupping his face, but he didn't answer clearly still lost in thought. So then she did one and only thing she knew that would get his mind back on her. He was still in his suit pants and tuxedo shirt from the red wedding, and she quickly unbuckled his belt and unbuttoned and unzipped his suit pants, causing them to drop around his ankles. Damon still in a world of hIs own she could see him mumbling something to himself, and just then she slid her perfectly petite hand to the hem of his silk boxers that looked so perfect on his sculpted body and pulled them down to meet his pants. She was now on her knees looking up at him and still nothing "Really Damon?" Elena thought "Well I know what I have to do" She wrapped her right hand around Damons member while she attempted to take her clothes off. Suddenly Damon's thoughts straightened out when he felt her "What if... Ohhh... oh my Lena" And then he snapped back to reality,and saw her there before him.
"Ohhhh god Lena you look sooo hot from where I'm standing." Damon couldn't help but want to 'blow her mind' in every room In the boarding house. Damon could see the need, the want, the pure lust in Elena's eyes and then damon took her hands in his standing her up, even though it was making his need for her hurt even more, he looked at and looked deep in her eyes. "Elena tell me what do you want?" Elena giggled but then was serious, "You already know that Damon, but do you wanna know a secret that I have never told anyone..." "Not even Bon Bon or Care Bear?" Damon asked wondering what secret could she have that she would tell her two best friends. "No not even Bonnie and Caroline." Elena confirmed. Damon was intrigued "Well then, do tell." Damon said smiling. " You remember not that long ago when your mother made you think that she destroyed the cure and she actually left it in the kitchen for me to find?" "Yeah how could I forget." "Well did I tell you how I found it?" Elena asked. Damon shook his head saying no. "Well she made a very romantic tablescape with candles and roses and dim lighting and a black velvet ring box on some kind of display so that I would notice it. The minute I saw the ring box I dropped my car keys and nearly fainted but I didnt, I opened the box out of curiosity and then when I saw it was the cure well you know what happened after that, but I honestly thought that you were... oh never mind forget I said it." Elena said quickly ending the sentiment
"Elena, I'm sorry, I'm sorry for everything that knowing me has put you through, but I just want you to know that through it all I never stopped loving you. Even when you were a humantiless bitch I still had hope for us." Elena smiled at Damon's confession. "The thing is Elena even though my father was a horrible person I always admired the story my mother told Stefan and I of how he asked her to marry him, but I always felt like I couldn't do as good as he did." Elena looked curious. Damon realized his lower half was still exposed he stepped out of his pants never ashamed to be bare. He went into is room and sat on the edge of his bed waving Elena over. "Will you tell me the story?" Elena asked "Okay but not right now. Right now I really want to kiss you." Damon told her, Elena blushed knowing what Damons kisses always lead to. "So do it." She said in a whisper.
A/N: Thanks for reading please leave a comment or review if you want. Chapter two is currently in the works, I will update soon.