Damon is my salvation

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Chapter 1: The Island

Klaus's POV: I can't believe that Damon will be my salvation after all this, why can't it be Stefan he is so much easier to control and manipulate. Just flick the switch and he's mine, but no it has to be Damon who was in the hospital when that Fell bitch took his blood and Elena had to fall for him. Just a pack of dominos leading to this… what's Damon's weaknesses I wonder…of course its Elena, there might be something in that! Come on Klaus with 1000 years of life experience you must be able to think about a way out of this one.

12 hours earlier…

Elena's POV

There's sand everywhere I am so sick of sand and how come Damon is all the way over there? While I'm guarded by my two so called knights Stefan and Jeremy. Deep down passed the sire bond I know this is wrong. Stefan tried to erase all memory of me only a few weeks ago and Jeremy deep down wants to kill me thanks to his innate feelings as a hunter. The only one I feel safe with is Damon and everyone is protecting him from me…something isn't right here. "Here we are", "where the hell are we? We have been going round in circles Jeremy for the past 6 hours" Damon shouts, his gorgeous crystal blue eyes blazing. How come I never noticed those eyes for years until now, was it the sire bond, or did I just not have my eyes open properly? Whatever the reason when I look at them I get lost in them now and see everything about the person/vampire who is MY Damon.

"Ok we are officially lost and we need…" Damon snatches the sword from Jeremy at vampire speed "direction, right the line goes north, why the hell Jeremy have we been going south!". Jeremy grabs Damon's arm directing it towards his and shrugs his shoulders slowly. "By this rate you'll be a skeleton before Elena gets to be a human again". "Are you threatening me Damon" Jeremy gives Damon a fierce glare, his hunter coming to the surface. "No it's fact you idiot, a vampire hunter you may be, but Indiana Jones you are not and I am not going through one more booby trap because you had a crap Geography teacher!, we are going this way, all agreed, good!"

I can't believe we are on this wild goose chase on an inhabited island trying to find a cure to make me human when this man is starting to make me feel comfortable in my own cold skin. I am a vampire and I have chosen to accept this, everyone else on the other hand, has not!

"Watch out for that step". "What step". Bonnie just misses stepping on a stone in the middle of a pile of sand that would have been the end of us all. "Bonnie come on you read the damn map as well, remember the prophecy, sand is living, stone is dying!", "I know, I know, I am sorry Stefan it won't happen again". I sneak over to Bonnie leaving my two protectors behind "Were you thinking about the love triangle going on back at home?" "Yeah, I can't believe Caroline would sleep with that evil bastard!". "I know Bonnie, but everyone has their own sins, look at me and Damon, everyone has to make their own decision". "Yeah but you're sired that's the difference, Caroline has no excuse, none", "I just hope she's safe" I whispered, bloody vampire hearing, wish the rest of them wouldn't make it so blatantly obvious they were listening, but Bonnie didn't care! "Fucking stupid cow" she shouted, "deserves everything she gets for betraying Tyler like that, all for what an original with false promises".

I am so sick of the sire thing being an excuse. I love Damon that's the end of it. Stefan already found that out when Rebekah compelled me, and I had to tell the truth. I remember that day so clearly, how heartbroken Stefan was and how my heart raced when Damon told me to get in my car and go to him when I finally confessed I loved him. That's it! I have had enough!

At vampire speed I went round the corner where Damon was inspecting yet another booby trap. This one was linked to a large stone door that was blocking our journey. I knew the others would get here soon, I had to hurry. I slammed into him and kissed him on those amazing lips, shivers went through me and I knew this wasn't just the sire bond this was true love! "Let's do the blood let, I want to prove I want you always and forever!"

Damon's POV

I didn't know what had hit me until her body slammed into me, kissing me for all she was worth. I knew this body well, it was MY Elena, not sired Elena, but MY Elena. She pulls away and I miss her body until… "Lets do the blood let, I want to prove I want you always and forever" Elena whispering that in my ear makes my body still, I can't move I am totally in shock. I look down into her beautiful, reassuring brown eyes. "Are you sure, you couldn't last time, not after you learned what it meant!". "I know now what it means Damon, if you and I share blood at exactly the same time we are bound together in whatever form we are in, but I can't think of a forever without you in it". I swallow, my god, I have thought about this especially after coming so close last time but it is "so permanent". "I know" she says as twists and lowers her neck revealing her pale smooth skin. I can hear her blood running through her neck and I remember how sweet it tasted the last time. She grabs my hair and gently pushes my head to one side, exposing my neck. My god she is serious! "Elena you are my forever whether we do this or not". "Damon" she growlingly whispers in my ear, that's pushed me over and I grab her neck and bite down.

The blood tastes amazing and then I feel a pinch as she bites down on mine. It is euphoria, in that moment I can see everything that Elena is and she can see everything I am. Every darkest emotion is on show and I love it! I lost track of time of how long we were in the most deepest of embraces… suddenly I could hear the others coming and I reluctantly pull away and a drop of blood on Elena neck's drops onto the sandy floor. "Damon have you worked out how to open the door yet? This is the last bit on the map the cure must be through there Damon…" Stefan's words trailed off. "Damon did you sodding well compel her again! You bastard, you said you would let her go and repeatedly try and pull her back!" My brother grabs my arm and pulls it away from her slender waist where it was previously and grabs my throat. Elena's face went red as she screamed "Back off Stefan, I am sick and tired of defending myself, I love Damon and always will, whether human or vampire, but believe me I am comfortable in both skins". I pulled her back and felt nothing but pride. I love this woman and she is not getting taken away from me again!

"Elena he's no good for you" Bonnie slowly walks up and puts a hand on Stefan's shoulder trying to calm him down. Stefan's grip on my neck starts to release. "Bonnie we blood let its over". "That's right we are each others for ever more". "Damon, why?" Stefan backs off from me and his face drops, he has finally given up! "Stefan it was her idea and I wanted to so much". "But now the cure won't work" bellowed Jeremy "What was the point in all this if you go and do that Elena?". "We don't know that the cure won't work Jer just because of that, we don't know because we don't have all the information…." then Elena's body started to shake and so was mine, no it was the ground that was shaking. Everyone moved away from the door quickly and I grabbed Elena vowing that whatever was coming would have to take me first. Then the stone door slides open…