Shell of the Past

7. 7 Years ago he left his hometown Mystic Falls. But now he's back, successful then ever before. Coming back with a mission: fixing things with Elena Gilbert, the girl who is not only his best friends since he was 3, but also the girl he fell in love with, the moment he met her.

Before he left to go to New York, to taking over the company of his father, Elena and he got into a fight. It was his farewell celebration, two weeks before he left and he celebrate with all his friends, including Elena, who organized the party. He showed up a little late, because he visited the girl from Elena's highschool, Sydney. That bitch was threating Elena again. Sydney have always been jealous of Elena's popularity, but most of all she was jealous of Elena being the Captain of the Cheerleader Team.

So she threatend Elena, if she didn't become the Cheerleader Captain, she would make Elena's life a living hell. As soon as Damon confronted Sydney about the accusations, she started crying hysterical and told him that she just wanted to be as popular as Elena and that she would never hurt her and this went on for almost 20 minutes.

When she looked at him with the smeared mascara on her face, he pitied her and invited her to the Party. Of course later when he arrived at the party with Elena's enemy, Elena wasn't exactly happy about it. And when she later found Sydney and him making up, she lost it and left the house furious.

He tried the last two weeks to make it up to her, but it wasn't easy since she ignored him and when he left she never called him. Or visited. Not that he was any better. He wasn't even able to visit her five years ago when her parents died. He remember how he cried for days, since her parents was more family then his ever was. When he still lived in Mystic Falls he always visited The Gilbert Family with Stefan, his brother, who was the same age like Elena and they hang up with her and her older brother Jeremy, who is the same age like Damon. And when he heard that Grayson and Miranda died, he broke down and he wanted to be there for Elena. And for Jeremy. But his father Gisueppe didn't allowed him to go to the Funeral, since he had to stay at the company.

„Selfish Bastard", murmured Damon at the memory, while he entered the Salvatore Mansion, where Stefan and his Mother lived.

„This is how you greet your little brother?"

Damon turned arount to see Stefan smirking at him and walked forward to give him a brotherly hug.

„I missed you", Stefan said after they broke away from the hug.

Damon smirked at Stefan and shook his head.

„Well let's not get all emotional here, brother."

He walked over to the big living room and poured himself a bit Bourbon in the glass. As soon as the bitter liquor slid down his throat, he felt way much better.

„So what are you planning to do first in good old mystic falls?"

He took the last sip of his glass and put it on the table in front of him.

„I'm going to visit Elena.", Damon said and smiled at the thought of seeing her again.

Stefans eyes widen and he looked nervous to the ground and fumbled at the hem of hisT-Shirt, a annoying habit he have everytime he hides something.

Damon take a step forwards Stefan and frowned.

„What are you hiding from me, Stefan?"

„Since her parents died she.. changed. At first we didn't saw her for almost two months. Jeremy said he would handle it.", Stefan took a deep breath and closed his eyes. „But he didn't handled it. She was a lost cause. Elena didn't want to feed anymore or to talk. After a year everyone thought she would get her life back together again. But we've been wrong. She went to Partys everyday and hooked up every night with another guy. Now she's hiding again and we haven't seen her for three months."

Silence. He didn't know how many time left by until he realized what Stefan was saying. This couldn't be true. It was a joke. The things Stefan said didn't sound like his Elena.

„I need to go.", whispered Damon, more to himself then to Stefan and left the room as fast as possible.

It didn't took long for him to find the Gilbert house. He was walking towards the big white house without knowing what was expecting him. Before he could think about his actions, he slammed his fist against the door.

It felt like hours until the door was slammed open. „I said you should lea-" Jeremy stood in the door furious and when he realized it was me, his eyes widden. „Oh, i thought you were someone else. What the hell are you doing here?", he asked shocked.

Damon scoffed and looked at how much Jeremy changed. He was pale and he had dark rings under his eyes. He looked freaking tired.

„Nice to see you too, Jer."

Jeremy sighed and stepped aside. „I'm sorry. Come in."

Without another word he led the way to the kitchen, which barely changed.

They both sat down at the round table, they always used to eat at.

„I'm sorry I've been gone for so long. I wanted to visit. I really did. But you know my father..", he carefully tried to explain. Jeremy nodded, but never looked him in the eyes.

„Yeah I figured it out."

They sat in silence for a while until a stunning brunette entered the room.

„Jer, where did you hide my-", she stopped talking when she saw that Jeremy wasn't alone.

When she looked at the another men at the table her eyes widden and she gasped audible.

„Elena." , he breathed out while he stood up.

Hey Guys. This is my first fanfiction, ever. I hope you like the first Chapter and you're looking forward to read more of it.

Have a good day! :)