So, here it the start I have made on the sequel to Nothing Compares to you.

Let me know your thoughts ;o)

I don't own the characters, I just borrow them, to bring out to play once in a while!

EPOV

Leap of Faith

The Mystic Grill seemed to loom above us as we stood outside on the sidewalk. I gently held Damon back from entering, needing just a moment to compose myself. Anxiety was threatening to get the best of me, all I wanted to do was get back to the car and drive as fast as I could to the boarding house. Maybe this was all to soon, being here just reminded me of all the people I had recently lost from my life. Did I really need to lose anyone else? I felt certain that going in there with Damon was going to cost me those friendships I had valued all my life.

Bonnie, Caroline well they just about tolerated the friendship I had formed with him already. Never completely understanding why I was so hell bent on saving the life of a vampire who's impulsiveness & recklessness had cost all of us so much in the past.

How would they ever understand we were together now?

If only they could see the depth of his humanity, how it had been buried under a century's worth of hurt, pain and torment? The humanity he had needed to repress in order to play the role he had become so accustomed to? Underneath the rigid vampire exterior and the sarcastic nature was the man I had seen glimpses of all along. A man who truly was compassionate and caring but, most of all who loved blindly and fearlessly at the same time. He had fought for me, when I couldn't find it in my heart to fight back for him myself. He had stayed resilient in his efforts to remain loyal, no matter how many times I had denied the tension that lay between us.

I knew ordinarily in Damon's first instincts he would of marched us straight into the grill without a moments hesitation, he would not of cared of any disproval shown towards him. His first and only thought would be to protect me, he would not be tolerant of anyone who dared to upset me in any way.

And as I returned from my thoughts I noticed he had done as I had asked, he had respected that I needed a moment to gather myself together and he had remained by my side. Reassuringly he squeezed my hand, giving me the encouragement I needed to move forward.

It was in that instance I realised with him by my side it would not matter what the outcome would be, as long as he was here, I could get through anything.

He would not leave me.