I don't own anything or the characters just the story line! This story will be picking up where Moonsong left off. Enjoy!
It was cool outside, the sticky Virginia days slowly dying down, but the chill Damon felt had nothing to do with the temperature outside. He stood on the balcony of Stefan's room. He could smell a mouse rustling in the brush below, he could hear a couple of college boys drinking and yelling at a television to loudly, he could see a single green leaf fall from a tree ahead. The same shade of green as Stefan's eyes. His brother's eyes. And then he could feel. Feel the aching in his dead heart. A dead heart that had seemed more alive in the past year that Elena and her friends came into his life. Elena. He yearned for her. For her touch, for her presence, for her acceptance to be his dark princess in the life he had promised her if she ever chose him. Just him.
"What are you doing out here brother?" Stefan asked as he came to lean on the same rail as Damon was.
Stefan watched his brother intently. Something wasn't right. But when was Damon ever fully ok? But this was different. It was almost as if he could hear what Damon was thinking. The decisions the ancient vampire was making in his mind.
"Im going away for awhile.." Damon began but was cut short when Stefan opened his mouth to speak.
"No, Damon you don't have to go. We'll work it out, everything will be okay in the end!.." Stefan's words tumbled over one another. Eyes wide as he turned to fully face Damon. He tried eagerly to get his brother to stay. But as Damon just stared out onto the haunted campus. Never turning to face or even look at Stefan. And Stefan knew his brother's descion was made. Nothing he said could change it, even if Damon had changed, he would always be stubborn.
"No, she's happy..I see that now, no matter how much happier I think I could make her this is where she wants to be, where she belongs..here..with you." And with those last two words Damon finally turned to look at his wide eyed brother. He squeezed his shoulder & turned to walk through the door. Which was strange for Damon, he never touched Stefan unless they were fighting, and he usually turned into a a crow and just flew away.
"But Damon..I just got you back." Stefan said to the back of his brother, his voice almost cracking.
Damon just stood there for a moment, back still to his brother but his head turned and facing down.
"Goodbye brother."
And with that last breath Damon was gone.
She was sleeping. Her Golden hair spilled out all around her on her pillow. The moonlight catching in certain strands making it more gorgeous than he thought it could be. He just watched her for a moment. The rise and fall of her chest, the little purple and blue veins in her shut eye lids. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in all his years. She was alone. The little redbird must be at her new pup's dog house, and the hunter was most likely on a nightly run.
Elena's eye lids fluttered slightly & opened just the slightest. She said his name in a half awake half asleep. Not questionably just acknowledging his presence.
"I'm here princess."
She reached for him and he sat on the edge of her bed, holding her one hand in both of his, stroking her fingers and palm with a feather light touch.
"I'm going away for a little while princess."
She started to object but he silenced her with one of his slender fingers to her lips.
"I'll be back before you know it darling."
"Okay Damon."
She was barely awake, probably thought she was dreaming he thought to himself. She usually awoke with his arrival on late nights but she's had a long day..a long year.
"Goodbye my Princess of Darkn.."
And then he stopped himself. She wasn't his princess of darkness. She wasn't his anything.
"Goodbye Elena."
And with that he stroked her golden hair one more time, and was gone.
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