Summary: For Megan... This is a Elena / Damon Ficlet... It takes place during the roadtrip that Elena and Damon have. Its from Elenas PoV:
Disclamer: I dont own Vampire Diaries or its Characters..
Mystic Falls, 15 miles.. Wow has I cant believe that we are so close to home! Im excited and scared all at the same time. That word seems so strange to me, HOME... Mystic Falls isnt the same place that it was before this trip... Its been a long six weeks since Damon and I have been on the road. We were trying to get t that other Vampire that has it out for the Salvatore Brothers, and me in association out of minds. Damon as you know was not always my favorite person but after the night of the accident, he has changed forever in my eyes...
Flashback: Elenas driving home after finding out what Katherine looked like. She's crying because of Stefans lies when she accidently runs over someone and her car flips over... as she regains conciousness she sees that the person she run over is fine, not only fine but heading towards her to attack! She screams, closing her eyes fearing that this would be the last thing that she will see. As the creature gets close to her she realizes that the creature is a vampire and that he is going to bite her. He gets her neck and before she can scream she feels someone pulling the vampire off of her. Her immediate thought was that it was Stefan but then she noticed that it was Damon. She was paralyzed.. Damon told her that they had to go, still unable to move Elena still didnt know what to do. How could she trust Damon? Damon picked her up mumbling something about having no time and ran away to the nearest train station so that they could leave Mystic Falls...
Elena looked at Damon as he drove ( he compelled someone to give us a car at a used car dealership), and couldnt help but smile. Damon had done a complete 180 since we first went on this adventure. He started out as the Damon we all know and hate he but after a couple of days we started to talk about why I had the accident in the first place, in doing so starting a conversation about Katherine ( the bane of both of their existences). Katherine had hurt both of them in very different ways. More so to Damon obviously, but nonetheless suffered due to her. After learning more about the relationship that Katherine had with the Salvatore brothers (Damon in particular), Elena saw that there was much more to Damon Salvatore that met the eye. They soon developed a budding friendship and are now in the beginning stages of a 'sweeping epic' romance as she calls it. She never anticipated falling for Damon, but now she cant picture her life without him. Damon had told her that he understood that it would be difficult to go back and face everyone, and that if I wanted to I could end the relationship. Elena was worried about how people would react to the news when they returned, especially Stefan, but at the same time, as she had already told Damon, she couldnt let him go. Damon grabbed her hand and kissed it as she looked on at him. Yup, things are definitely going to be different when we return to Mystic Falls...