Baiscally a TVD story that carrys on after the last episode of Season 2. Delena Themed.

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Damon's alive. He's going to be okay. He's alive!

It hit her as soon as Katherine walked out of the door, she had looked over to him and he had been slowly rising from the bed he had been dying in only moments earlier. Katherine had brought him the cure, it had worked and she wouldn't lose him. There was no thought for anyone else, not Stefan who had gone to save him or Jeremy or who had been injured just hours earlier. All there was for her in that moment was the over-whelming love and relief she felt for Damon.

He gazed at her, mouth slightly open as he took in the facts before him. He was alive because of a woman he hated, and now he was staring at the only woman he would ever really love as she stared back at him. The same beautiful face upon them both, and yet such difference in their being. He took a moment to remember everything that had happened in those last moments, when she had thought he was dying. The forgiveness, the small delicate touch of her mouth against his. If only for a second, it was there and she was his. In the small second he had everything he had ever wanted since coming back here to Mystic Falls. Nothing else in the world mattered to him than that beautiful, delicate human before him who gazed back at him in amazement.

'Damon..'

Elena didn't know what to say, but she saw the understanding on his face. He knew everything she wanted to say to him in that moment. He slowly moved across the room towards her, still not trusting his legs to hold him in his new found life. She seemed a lifetime away and yet so close. The scent of her blood pumping below her thin blue veins, giving off an irresistible heat that made his mouth water, and yet he did not want to bite her. That was the last thing he wanted. All he wanted from her at that very moment was to feel her small, oh so human body pressed against his once again, to feel that same love he had felt in what he thought were his true dying moments.

'I know Elena,' he whispered, 'you don't need to say it, I know. Stefan has risked everything tonight, and we will find him I promise, but please just for tonight let it just be about us, and life, being alive. Just for tonight'.

A shaky breath escaped him as he finished speaking, he glanced down at her and saw her eyes glitter with tears as she raised a hand to his face. Laying it tentatively against him, testing to make sure he was really there and really alive before her. The feel of his cold, real skin under her fingertips secured it for her and the first of the quiet tears spilled down her cheeks. Damon's quick fingers rushed to brush them away, and when they wouldn't stop he took to just trying to comfort her instead. Wrapping his hand around the side of her face, he whispered to her.

'I'm okay Elena, I'm alive, I'm really here'

Elena gasped at his sweet voice, the care and love in his words made her push her face into the palm of his protective hand. She could feel it growing inside her, a feeling that she had repressed until now. Katherine had been right, that it was okay to love them both. Love was all she could feel right now, and it was for Damon. Oh she knew she loved Stefan too, but right now, everything was Damon for her and she raised herself up onto her tip-toes to meet her eyes with his. She didn't need to say anything, they both felt the same. They seemed connected at the very core in that moment, and Damon slowly moved his mouth across her face. Laying soft, barely touching kisses on her forehead, each cheek, the tip of her nose and then finally laying a soft lingering one onto her waiting lips. Her eyes closed as he did it and she let out a breath he didn't know she'd been holding. Quickly she kissed him back, harder than he has kissed her. Holding onto the moment. There was fire building in every place he touched her, feelings she didn't realise could be so intense. She dropped back down to her feet and he leaned down a little, resting his forehead against hers so their eyes were still meeting.

'I love you, Damon'

'I love you too' He whispered back to her, laying another gentle kiss against the end of her nose.