Chapter One ; He's Gone

Elena skipped up the staircase,hearing the noise of her continuously ringing cellphone. Looking around she noticed it, she picked it up, and put it to her ear. As a voise spoke on the other end of the line, Elena's heart dropped, and her eyes began to water. "What?...' she asked with a trailing, fading voice. She could feel the phone slipping from her grip, and she let it. "Damon..." she trailed, immediately leaving for the boarding house. Caroline frowned "wait...Damon?...Elena?" she asked, before sighing and hanging up the phone.

Stefan and Damon sat in the living room of the boarding house in complete silence. Neither saying anything, what was there to say? "Damon...we should..." Stefan began, before noticing Damon's head arch towards Stefan. "What,Stefan?...we should what,talk? Well, Save it. We lost our sister, full stop" Damon sculled the bur born down his dry throat before vamp speeding upstairs, leaving Stefan standing there alone. Head down, he sighed. He was right, there was nothing he could say or do to make everything better, but he did know one person that could get through to his older brother,he hated it, but he needed to... Elena.

Elena sat in her car, just watching. Watching Damon's bedroom, waiting the light to turn on when her phone went off. Taking her eyes off his room, she felt like such a stalker, she noticed the person calling was Stefan. She hadn't even considered him, how much worse could it get? Not picking up her phone, she lt it go to answering machine, listening to the obvious message Stefan was about to send. "Elena, Damon needs you. He won't admit it, but he does, please..come over when you get this" Elena's attention was taken back when she heard what he was saying, almost immediately leaving her car and walking into the boarding house. "Elena..." Stefan trailed. "I got your message' Elena spoke, skipping up the stairs, stopping for only a second, giving Stefan a glance. The fact, she was more worried about Damon than Stefan meant something...something she'd been denying a while. As she reached Damon's bedroom, she took a deep breath, hand on the handle, ready for him to push her away and prepared to not let him, not this time...not again.

Opening Damon's bedroom door, she was shocked in the sight in front of her. Side table on the other side of the room, smashed glass, mattress up side down, everything was everywhere. Damon knees trembled before they hit the ground. Elena's head tilted, as she knelled next to him, putting her arm around him, holding him in her embrace , surprise surprise, he didn't push her away, immediately deny feeling anything, he just let her hold him. Hours past, and they just sat there, before Damon finally looked up to Elena, meeting her gaze, she smiled sweetly. Damon stood, and looked around. "Elena, get out" he spoke determined. "No" she said standing in front of him. Damon grabbed a hold of Elena's arm, as her eyes trailed to where Damon had a hold of her. "Elena, i don't want to hurt you... and i could" Shoving his hand off, she stood in front of him. "No you wont. I know you, Damon. Your not like that, not anymore, you've changed." Damon shook his head, vamp speeding around the room, almost immediately the room was spotless. Until, she noticed a bag, packed and almost ready to leave. Shaking her head, she locked eyes with Damon. "No..your not leaving...please" she holds onto Damon's arm, and with this action, Damon's blue eyes, gazes. "i came here for Katherine and Nicole. Now, one either doesn't care if i live and die, and the other is dead... this town has no use for me anymore". Elena could feel the tears begin to form. "pl...ease, Damon...you have people who need you here, i need you here" Damon picked up his bag, and looked to Elena . "you'll survive" he speaks, kissing her forehead softly before vamp speeding out to his car. Elena wiped her falling tear, and walked to the window. "Goodbye Damon" . From the car, Damon sighed. "Goodbye Elena"

Elena walked downstairs, watching Stefan. "wheres Damon?" he asked her, she looked to him with a shrug "hes gone" Stefan frowned,walking up to her. 'what do you mean, hes gone?" he quiestened as Elena looked to him. "just that" she said, as Stefan took her in his arms. "i'm sorry" he spoke softly, Elena shrugged in his shoulders. "what's to be sorry about? He made his decision to leave,i can't stop him." Elena took Stefan's hand, and led him to the couch. Sitting down, Stefan kissed her rougly. Elena frowned, and pulled away "Stefan...what are you doing?" she asked wiping her lips. "i'm just.." Stefan trailed and Elena stood "save it, okay Stefan? like that's gonna make me feel better" Elena scoffed under her breath walking out.

Caroline and Tyler were sitting alone in her living room talking about the past full moon. "Tyler,it wasn't your fault" she sat stroking his arm, which he just shoved off. Caroline sighed when she heard the doorbell ring. Standing she went to the door, seeing Elena. "hey" she smiled and Elena saw Tyler and stepped back. "Oh, Care, am i..." Shaking his head, Tyler walks from Caroline's door. "No...your not,Elena...I'll see you guys later" and with that Tyler walked away. Frowning, Elena looked towards Caroline. "What was..." she questioned as Caroline rolled her eyes, and shook her head she stepped aside for Elena to walk in. Sighing for a moment, Caroline shook it off, looking to Elena who was on the verge of crying. "Elena, what's wrong?" she asked, and with a shrug tears fell down Elena's eyes. "he's gone" she said, once again Caroline sighed pulling Elena in hugging her tight, she didn't even have to ask who she was talking about, because she knew, and she also knew what Damon leaving would do to Elena.

Stefan was in a rage, throwing every book on the shelf's in the library over the floor. "i'll kill him" he spoke aloud, pacing back and forth grunting throwing shelf's this time. Bonnie frowned, looking around and up to Stefan. "what the hell are you doing?" Bonnie asked as Stefan looked up "you wanna know what I'm doing? I'm on a hunt...the bastard just left..and i'm gonna kill him" Bonnie's lips curled into a smirk "i'll help"

Damon drove, drove until his hands hurt, he drove until he couldn't drive anymore, so finally he stopped and sat there looking to his passengers seat, swearing to God, he could see Nicole, but she wasn't there, no matter how much he wanted her to be...

Damon's eyes widened, and his jaw dropped. "you'll pay for that" he spoke, as Nicole smirked and turned, before she could start running, Damon was in front of her. "hey! no fair ! you promised no speeding, literally" Damon chuckled and shook his hands. "alright, that was the last time I'll give you a head start. 10 seconds" Damon began to count and Nicole rolled her eyes. "yeah, like i need the head start your like 100" Damon scoffed "i heard that" he shouted, and Nicole ran laughing "that was the whole point" she giggled as he began to chase her, Nicole laughed, as Damon began to catch up to her. "i am 100 you know lots of practice of ruining without any vamp speeding" Damon said as he grabbed her from behind and twirled her as they fell both Damon and Nicole fell. "Damon...please, promise me you'll tell Elena how you feel" Damon rolled his eyes "i already did, remember?" Nicole shook her head. "i mean without compulsion...you may not see it, but she feels for you. More than you think" she looked to her older brother pushing him "promise me" Chuckling Damon nodding "okay okay... i promise" he smiled

"Sorry sis" Damon simply said, continuing to drive.