How do you choose? Between staying in whats comfortable and that exciting new love. Caroline was watching her, waiting for her to say something. She was fighting down the urge to offer advice, comfort her, do something. She mulled over her own problems, her obvious attraction to Klaus. Her love for Tyler, which had taken them so long to figure out. She pushed it aside as she heard the tears and sobs coming from her best friend. Elena sat on his bed, wearing his favorite black shirt. She watched her bury her head in his pillows and silently went to her side. She touched her back gently, Elena looked at her, eyes puffy and bloodshot.

"Care, I messed up." Her voice was thick and weak. Caroline's protective side made her want to go hunt for Damon herself and kick his ass. She shook her head to clear her thoughts, Jeremey would be able to find him with Bonnie's help. She moved to climb onto the bed next to Elena, who shot up and pulled a blanket off the end of the bed and spread it out for her. Caroline silently sat on the blanket.

"We will find him Lena. Katherine is even coming back to help us, Elijah already has others looking for him. You have to wait until after the transition is finished before we can go help find him. He will kill us if we deliver you to him in less then perfect condition."

"I lied to him, I made him think I don't love him." Caroline handed her his leather jacket. Elena buried her nose in the familiar jacket, only to growl. "Care, his blood is on this. He was hurt, he could be in trouble." She moved to get up,

"Lena, are you sure? That its his blood?"

"Yes, I would know his blood anywhere. I know he would never leave this jacket here by choice." Caroline watched her carefully, she nodded finally.

"Go shower, change your clothes. I'll call Nik...Klaus. He'll be here when you get out." She walked down the stairs and wasn't suprised to see Ric and Meredith in the living room. Meredith stood up instantly, her face worried.

"How is she?"

"She wants Damon. I shouldn't be suprised, but she smelled something off on his jacket. She says it's his blood, there is a little bit of blood underneath the back of it. She's showering, Nik should be here any minute."

Ric's silence showed how worried he was about both his surrogate daughter and best friend. He drank a sip of the bourbon in his glass. The door opened and the originals walked inside. Kol walked over to the bar and helped himself. Elijah looked around before sitting in one of the chairs. Rebekah looked at her,

"Where's Lena?" She pointed to the stairs, Rebekah nodded and waited for Elena...

She could hear them downstairs, she scrubbed her hair with aggression. Trying to clear her thoughts, she could smell him all over the house, but here in his bathroom. His very essence seemed to taunt her, she wrapped herself in a towel, and burst into tears again. This red towel was the very one she had thrown at him all those months ago, when Stefan had been gone. When things were simpler and she didn't have to pretend not to care. She slipped into her clothes and discarded her shirt in favor of one of his, she opened his closet and pulled out her favorite simple black button up. She smiled as she remembered him asking for her help with the buttons. She sensed the others enter the house and slipped on her flats, she sped downstairs. She was hugged in a blur of blonde hair,

"Elena." Rebekah said hugging her tightly.

"Bekah, did Care get you caught up? We need to find him."

"I have all my contacts on high alert, if he leaves the country I will know." Elijah said carefully, watching the affect his words had on her.

"He didn't leave on his own. I know he didn't." She felt her anger rising,

"Maybe he went to let off some steam? Drain a few girls to get his mind off your constant rejections." Kol offered, Caroline glared at him.

"No one asked you brother." Klaus scolded, Kol merely shrugged.

"I am not staying here waiting for him to come home. Something is wrong with him, I can't feel him." She felt the confused looks but was saved from answering by Bonnie's entrance. Bonnie set her Grimore on the table along with her purse.

"Elena and Damon have what you might know as a Soul Mate Bond. It dates as far back as Ancient Egypt, it means that they were made for each other. They can sense one another, they know when one of them is in danger, when one of them is near. It's why her and Stefan would never work, Stefan's soul mate is Katherine. We can use that bond to find him. Once Stefan and Katherine arrive I will need a Pentagram drawn in the front yard. Also the candles that are in my car, Elena will have to light each one. First it will need a drop of her blood, Stefan's, and Katherine's. His mate, brother, and sire's blood will strengthen this spell." She saw the disbelief on their faces,

"I'm doing this..." She started before suddenly she saw black and fell to the floor.

She felt ghost like, she saw herself on the floor. Her friends standing around her.

"Elena." She heard his voice and spun around looking for him. "Find me."

She raced towards the sound of his voice, she barely noticed herself going through walls and trees. She smelled him, her feet carried her to a basement, the stone and cement making it colder. She saw him on the ground, stakes in his legs and arms, a collar of vervain around his neck,

"Damon!" She touched his face and his eyes opened.

"Hey." He rasped out,

"Who did this to you?"

"All that matters is that you are safe. I love you Elena." He touched her face gently, "I knew you would hear me. I can let go now. thank you." He closed his eyes,

"Don't do this to me Damon!" She begged, tears streaming down her face. "I love you. Please don't leave me." She watched his eyes flicker open.

"Yes, you idiot I love you. I can't do this without you."

"You don't know how long I've waited to hear this. I lo..."

"NO!" She screamed as she was ripped away from him. She shot up,

"Why did you do that? I was with him, he is barely alive. We need to find him now." Her eyes were brimmed with tears and she looked lost.

"Elena, calm down." Jeremy said, touching her shoulder. She growled at him,

"I will not calm down, he's nearly dead.."

"Then, I got here just in time." Katherine said from the doorway, Stefan was behind her. Elena felt a rush of relief at her apperance, something she had never felt before.

"Thank God. Elijah is the pentagram drawn?" She saw him nod and breathed a sigh of relief. Finally they could get to work finding him. She looked at Bekah who was watching her closely. Bonnie led them outside and she saw the pentagram Elijah had drawn. She chuckled,

"It's perfectly even isn't it?" Elijah nodded, and Kol laughed at his confused expression.

"I am afraid I don't understand the joke Elena." She shook her head,

"You have always had everything just so. It is reassuring to know that hasn't changed." He smiled slightly at her,

"Of course not. I believe Bonnie will find it completed to her exact directions."

"Let's get this show on the road. Kat, Stefan she'll need your blood on each candle too." She drew the blade across her fingertip and made a circle of her blood on each candle. Katherine followed her making a triangle, and Stefan was last with a square. Bonnie handed her the match, and she lit each one before placing them in a their proper places. Bonnie stepped into the middle and started chanting in Latin. She closed her eyes and thought about him. The way he did that eye thing she loved, his smirk when he knew he was getting to her, the way he was always around when she needed him. She concentrated on his lips, the way they had kissed her, making her lose her control. His raven colored hair, that he styled to look careless, that she loved to run her hands through. His blue eyes, that shone with the love he felt for her, that she always lost herself in. She heard Bonnie gasp but kept her mind on Damon. The way he and Ric had bonded, the close relationship him and Jeremy had made. How even Caroline was alright with them being together, Bonnie had accepted it. The way he saved those she loved from whatever dangers threatened them for her.

"Elena." Caroline's panicked voice brought her eyes flying open. She looked around for a threat and saw him lying in a heap in front of her. She rushed to his side.

"Damon?" No response "DAMON! Please wake up!" Her voice cracked and she let out a heartbreaking cry that echoed into the night. The other stood in shocked silence, unable to enter the Pentagram. Bonnie tried to move towards her but an invisible force pushed her back. She laid her head on his chest, tucked herself under his arm and next to him. She cried alone, while the others looked away. She didn't care that she was ruining her clothes, the only thing that mattered was that he was gone. She would never get to kiss those lips again, stare into those deep blue eyes that consumed her, or have him look at her like she was his whole world. She heard the others talking softly to each other. She heard Caroline's tears, she had been sired by Damon, hated him and then respected him. Rebakah's sobs, after everything was done with Esther's spell, she had grown close to both Damon and her. She heard Klaus move towards Caroline to comfort her, Elijah and Kol wrap their arms around Rebekah. She heard Ric's punching of the trees around them, taking out his anguish on them, Meredith unable to calm him. Ric was his best friend, his drinking buddy, his honorary brother, and partner in crime. She heard Jeremy's anguish as he cussed out whatever higher power had taken Damon from his sister and him, he considered Damon his older brother of sorts. Bonnie was crying too, she had never like Damon but she hated that they had lost someone else and her friends heartbreak. She felt two sets of eyes on her, she knew it was Stefan and Katherine. His brother and his sire, they were in shock, their hearts breaking for the man they had lost and his love.

"Why?" Stefan's question hung in the air, filling the silence.

Katherine had pushed her humanity back many times in her five hundred years as a vampire. She felt her emotions overwhelm her as she watch Elena sob brokenly on the ground. When she had first arrived in Mystic Falls she had hated the girl who shared her face. She had been curious as she watched some of her own history be repeated with her two favorites of all the people she had turned. Jealous when Stefan had fallen in love with her, pissed when Damon had fallen out of love with her and in love with Elena. Watching them interact she had discovered she didn't have to worry about Stefan and Elena. It was Damon that Elena preferred, even if she didn't know it. When Elena had finally said goodbye to Stefan, she had told Katherine that she understood how hard it was to choose, they were both amazing guys. But, Damon had told her what she wanted when they had first met. She walked over the barrier quickly and wrapped her arms around Elena. Not sure who was more suprised at her actions, her or Elena. The younger vampire refused to let go of Damon's body. She had to make due with trying to hold onto the younger vampire's shaking body.

"Elena, I'm so sorry. I had no idea."

"He's really gone isn't he Kat?" Elena's voice broke her heart and she thought about loosing Stefan. She rubbed circles into Elena's back, in some ways Elena had taken to becoming a vampire just as quickly as she had, she had felt the loss of her human life as well.

"There might be a way Elena. I'll contact some of my witch friends and ask them what they can do." She tried to keep her voice reassuring, knowing how slim a chance the witches would have of bringing him back.

"I can't have lost him. It's not fair. There has to be another way."

Don't kill me. * hides underneath my Damon poster* ok I am typing the second chapter as I speak. Never fear Elena won't give up on Damon that quickly. I'm too in love with Ian Somerhalder/Damon Salvatore for that to happen. Also I do not own anything, however if someone is selling Ian Somerhalder...please message me with your price. I am completely serious that is all.