I told myself this wasn't happening. There was no way that Stefan would leave me for Katherine. I loved him! He loved me, right?

I woke up sweating and shaking in my bed. It was just a dream. A too realistic dream.

All of a sudden my windows burst open and I let out a scream. A figure walked slowly towards my bed.

"Stay away from me! Please!" I begged to this shadowed figure.

"Elena?"

Wait a minute, I knew this voice. "Damon?"

"Yeah its me, are you okay?" Why was he here? Why was Damon outside my room?

"I'm fine, a better question is why are you here?"

"Stefan went to try to find out Katherine's motives. He's tracking where she went while we thought she was in the tomb. He's hoping that we will find out something that we didn't already know."

"Ok, thanks for letting me know, but that still doesn't explain why you are here."

"Oh, sorry. Stefan, being the overprotective control freak that he is, thought that while he was gone you would get yourself into some trouble, so he asked me to watch you."

"Damon, I don't need a babysitter for a few days I can manage myself."

"Mhmmmm"

There was something suspicious in his voice. Wait, no, this could not be happening. I came to a sudden realization. "This is going to be more than a few days, isn't it?"

"Just a tad" he said with much sarcasm in his voice.

I was scared to ask this question, though I knew it was necessary, "How long is that?"
"Well, I don't know exactly, it could be a few weeks, or a few months."
A few months! This was not happening; Stefan did not leave me alone with Damon for a few months! "Wait, why didn't Stefan say goodbye to me?"

"I don't know, why don't you call him?" he said as he handed me my phone. I dialed Stefan's number and it went straight to voicemail.

"Sorry kitten, he must be busy. You should go to sleep though, I have a big day planned for us tomorrow."

"First of all, Damon, I am not going to sleep when I just found out my boyfriend mysteriously left town without telling me. Second, I am not doing anything with you tomorrow. And third, I told you to not call me kitten!" I said as a grabbed my coat and walked downstairs. I walked through a few inches of snow to my car and started it.

When I sat down in the seat, I saw Damon sitting next to me just smirking. "Not so fast. You can't honestly expect to get away from a vampire that easily, can you? Now lets go back inside and get some sleep before your aunt and brother see that you're gone."

"Damon, my brother and my aunt left for California two days ago, I'm home alone."

"Ok, that doesn't mean you can't go to sleep."

I was about to shoot some random excuse back at him when I noticed he wasn't there anymore. Then, my door opened and Damon threw my over his shoulder.

"Damon! Put me down!"

"Not a chance kitten; if you don't want to sleep at your house, we will sleep at mine."