Okay, I really shouldnt have written this, but after watching the new episode I had to. the ending was so perfect and so beautiful I didnt want to change it at all. So instead i wrote a continuation of that, and what could possibly happen. As of right now its a one shot but if enough people want it to continue i will. As always let me know what you think. and let me know if you want it to continue. Enjoy.
PS I dont own anything. all the characters are owned by LJ Smith and the CW.
It was all falling apart. Jeremy was being compelled to leave Mystic Falls, possibly forever. Klaus was willing to attack and kill everyone she knows. Stefan was on some obscure mission and apparently he wasn't entirely evil again. Alaric had almost died. Jeremy had decapitated a hybrid on the front porch. Klaus had Rebecca. Yes, everything was definitely falling apart. But then something amazing happened, Damon had been rambling on about feeling guilty and then he had turned to leave. But then he turned back and mentioned something about feeling guilty and then he kissed her. It was soft but passionate, and she couldn't believe how good his lips felt on hers. Even the first time she had kissed him it didn't feel like this. Maybe that was because at that point he was dying and he never reciprocated the kiss and she hadn't wanted him too. When he pulled away he turned and walked off the porch, murmuring a "good night" as he went. She stood there for a couple moments as she thought about what just happened. That kiss had everything in it, but at the moment she couldn't even think about a relationship with anybody. But that one kiss told Elena that everything he had been saying for the past year or so had been true. She did feel for him, and she was just too afraid to confront that. She watched his car drive away, and then she finally walked inside.
"You talked with Damon for quite a while out there." Alaric noted.
"Yeah." she said not wanting to divulge details.
"What did you talk about?" Alaric asked, still not entirely trusting the vampire.
"Just stuff, and then something funny happened." she admitted.
"Let me guess you discovered something that you felt about him?" he asked.
"Kind of." she said.
"Elena what happened? If he took advantage of you, I swear to God..." he said trailing off.
"He didn't take advantage of me. He kissed me but it awoke feelings inside me. Feeling that I didn't know I had." she said.
"Are you going to tell him?" Ric asked.
"Not yet. I want to see what he plans to make of this. If he chooses to ignore this like it never happened, then I will too." she said trying to convince herself more than Ric.
"Good luck with that." he said as Jeremy came down the stairs with his suitcase in hand.
"I'll be going now. I'm staying with some friends out of town for a while. They enrolled me in school and all. I just need to get away." he said.
"Alright. I'm going to miss you Jer." she said hugging her brother.
"I'll miss you too. But you know, I need a fresh start. This will be good for me." he said.
"I know it will. Good luck Jer." she said.
"Thanks you to." he said before shaking Ric's hand and walking out of the house.
"I said I was going to help you Stefan. You actually have to tell me what your plan is." Damon said throwing his hands up in the air in exasperation while he was talking to Stefan a couple days after "the kiss." Elena hadn't brought it up, so he opted not to either.
"I will tell you when I have a plan Damon. By the way, how's Elena?" he asked.
"Why do you care?" he asked.
"I'll always care for her Damon. Is she safe?" he asked.
"Yeah, she's safe. As safe as she can get with a maniacal hybrid after her. Now back to the topic at hand, what is your plan? I don't think you're being entirely honest with me." he said.
"You keep your part of the bargain and keep Elena out of this, and I'll do mine." he said.
"Oh yeah, because your plans always work out so well." he said sarcastically.
"Maybe they don't, but this time I have the leverage. Not Klaus." he said. Damon ran a hand through his hair in frustration, working with Stefan was far more difficult than he imagined. And that frustration on top of the frustration of Elena avoiding the kiss, was turning into a bad combination.
"Damon, are you here?" both vampires heard a human girl call out.
"I thought you said she didn't know." Stefan hissed.
"I don't know how she found out." Damon replied.
"Damon. Bonnie told me you were working with Stefan. Where are you?" she called.
"I'm down here." he said. A few seconds later she emerged.
"Hello Stefan. Damon we need to talk." she said.
"And now is a good time for whatever this discussion has to do with?" he questioned.
"This talk has been a few days coming. We need to talk about what happened on my porch the other night." she said vaguely.
"And what exactly happened on Elena's porch the other night?" Stefan asked curiously.
"Can we talk about this somewhere else? Like outside?" she asked not wanting to discuss the kiss in front of Stefan.
"Yeah." he said. "I'll be right back Stef." he said before following Elena up the stairs in the old house.
"You want to talk about this now?" he demanded once they were outside.
"Why didn't you mention it? You initiated it, and yet you ignore what happened. Was it meant to make me want more? Make me want more? I've waited for two days for you to do something, or even say something. But nothing. What am I supposed to do with that?" she demanded, angry tears forming in her eyes.
"It was just a kiss Elena." he said trying to protect himself from the crushing hurt he would go through when she let him down.
"Just a kiss? Damon that was anything but just a kiss. Tell me you didn't feel it too?" she demanded.
"I didn't feel anything." he lied, knowing that on some level she was still hung up on Stefan.
"So when you told me you loved me, you were lying? All those times I could see your love in your eyes, you were lying? Everything that we've had for the past few weeks have all been lies?" she asked the anger turning to sadness.
"I guess so. I better get back to Stefan. Go home Elena." he said. She looked at him with tear filled eyes and he felt his undead heart clench. He hated lying to her, but on some tangible, deep level she still belonged to Stefan. She waited around until she was sure he wasn't going to turn back before returning to her car and driving home.
"So you kissed Elena? And it meant nothing to you?" Stefan questioned disbelieving.
"I kissed Elena and it meant everything to me." he corrected.
"So why did you tell her it meant nothing. That everything you've been through together, meant nothing." he asked genuinely confused why his brother seemed to be giving up the girl.
"Because she still belongs to you. She is yours Stefan. You weren't here for the first little while you were gone. She was so desperate to save YOU. She was so convinced that you were still you that we did everything to save you." Damon said angrily.
"She belongs to me? Damon how blind are you? I thought you were the brother that actually understands women. She hates me. And I heard that conversation that you had with her. It wasn't just a kiss to her. She said that a couple times. She loved the Stefan that was controlled and on human blood. The Stefan that hid his true nature from her. She cant love this one. She wont love me. You've been nothing but honest with her from the very beginning. Ever think that unlike Katherine, she made a choice and this time it wasn't me?" he lectured.
"Why are you lecturing me? Don't you want her?" he asked incredulously.
"No. I don't want her anymore. And I don't love her. And most of all she doesn't love me." he said honestly.
"If this is another one of those "Stefan must save Damon" moments you have, you can shove it right now. I wont go through life being the second choice. Let's just get back to work." he said.
"One more question then we can forget this conversation. Do you truly love her?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah, but she cant know that." he said.
"Why the hell not? Damon, Elena chose you, maybe you should have faith in that. That's what will keep you alive this time. Her love has kept you alive for quite a while now. I could see it, why cant you?" he asked.
"Let's just get to work." Damon said ready for this conversation to end.
Elena drove home with tears streaming down her face. She couldn't believe that once she fell for him, he didn't care anymore. Or maybe he never cared. She didn't know. When she successfully parked the car she finally let the sobs come out and even more tears to fall. She banged on the steering wheel trying to release some of the hurt and anger she had inside her. She heard a soft knock on her passenger side window and looked up to see the concerned face of Alaric. She wiped her eyes and got out.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"I went to confront Damon about the kiss today. And he just brushed it off. I told him that it wasn't just a kiss to me. That it meant something. That he meant something. And he said the kiss meant nothing to him and that everything we've been through meant nothing. It hurts so bad. Why is it that I realize what I want when I cant have it anymore?" she asked.
"Come inside." Alaric said wrapping a comforting arm around her shoulder and leading her inside.
"What's wrong with me? Why doesn't he want me anymore?" she asked.
"There is nothing wrong with you. And I've never understood Damon. Everything he does always has a reason, but no one else ever understands said reasons." he explained.
"I'm going upstairs to lie down. I just want this day to end. I'm hurt. I'm humiliated. And I kind of think my heart is broken." she said.
"Go rest." he said. She nodded and walked upstairs to her room where she picked up her phone and deleted Damon's number from it. She vowed that she wouldn't call him, that she didn't want to see him. She hated that she was acting like almost every other brokenhearted girl, deleting the guys number from her phone. She glanced at the phone and wondered if there was anyone she could call to talk to. She could call Bonnie but she was busy, she was hurt because of the end of her relationship with Jeremy and Elena didn't want to dump her problems on her too. She could call Caroline, but she had her own relationship drama to worry about. In short the only one she wanted to talk to was the one that broke her heart. She was going to have to deal with this one on her own.
"So the plan is that you're just going to continue living your life the way you are, and I am going to continue trying to get this coffin open with Bonnie's help." Stefan said.
"Sounds crafty. What am I supposed to do in the meantime?" he demanded.
"Protect Elena." he suggested.
"Well yeah. But there is a small chance that she may not want to speak to me." he said.
"Maybe you should talk to her. Tell her that you lied and that the kiss meant something." Stefan offered, speaking to him as if he was stupid.
"The kiss didn't mean something. It meant everything Stefan." he said.
"What kiss?" Bonnie asked coming down the stairs armed with a pile of grimoires.
"Damon kissed Elena and then lied to her." Stefan said conspiratorially.
"What? Tell me more." she demanded.
"She came by today to confront him about it. And she proceeded to tell him that it meant something to her. So then Damon in all his profound intelligence told her that it meant nothing. Thus Elena is sad, or mad, not sure which and I really don't care. And Damon is suffering. And he thinks Elena is a martyr." he said.
"Why would you tell her the kiss meant nothing?" Bonnie demanded glaring at Damon.
"Because she doeskin belong to me." he said tired of explaining this.
"She doesn't belong to anyone. She is more than capable of deciding who she loves. And if she chose you, you would be stupid to ignore that." Bonnie said.
"I know that. But I cant be the second choice." he said angrily. He had already explained this to Stefan, but now he was explaining it to Bonnie.
"I don't think you are. Elena gave up on Stefan. She decided that he is a lost cause and not deserving of her love. She's moved on and chose you. For some reason Elena thinks you're worth it. Maybe you should let Elena make her own choice." Bonnie said.
"So what am I supposed to do. I burned that bridge." he said frustrated, mainly because he knew they were right.
"Maybe you should start with "I'm sorry I lied to you Elena. The kiss meant everything." Stefan said.
"Oh yeah, because its so easy for me to apologize to someone." he said bitterly.
"Would you leave so we can get to work. You're distracting us." Bonnie said testily. He walked out of the house and got in his car. He decided that he was going to make the attempt. He was going to put himself on the line one last time. He drove over to her house and decided to knock on the door. He decided that if no one answered he would climb in through her bedroom window. He knew she was home, he could hear her sniffles and the odd sob coming from her room. A couple seconds after he knocked Ric answered the door.
"Oh its you." he said.
"It's me." he answered.
"You better fix that. You caused that. I've never seen her more broken. What the hell would tell you to tell her that kiss meant nothing. It meant something and you know it." he said.
"Can I go up and talk to her?" he asked.
"You better. If you leave and she's more miserable than she is now, there will be hell to pay Damon." he said sounding like the father she's desperately needed the past few years.
Instead of knocking he just walked into the room. She looked over her shoulder from where she was laying down on her side with her teddy bear cuddled up to her chest.
"What do you want? I don't want to see you." she said turning away.
"We need to talk." he said.
"I don't want to talk to you either." she said.
"Then don't. Just listen. I'm not good at this." he said.
"I can see that. What do you want Damon? Haven't you caused me enough pain for one day?" she asked.
"I don't want to cause you anymore pain. I want to fix it." he said.
"How do you plan on doing that?" she asked.
"I want to tell you that I'm sorry. And everything I said was a lie." he said.
"What was?" she asked.
"When I said the kiss meant nothing. It did mean something. It meant everything. And when I said I was lying about loving you. That was a lie too. Everything I said was a lie." he told her.
"Why would you lie to me?" she asked.
"Because in my mind you still belong to Stefan. It will always be Stefan. It was actually Stefan than persuaded me to come here, after he talked about it all day after you left. He told me that it wasn't him anymore. That he was relinquishing any hold he had over you. And that I was stupid to break your heart. And tell you that you meant nothing. He was right of course." he said.
"I do not belong to Stefan. I don't belong to you either. But I wanted to." she said.
"Wanted to?" he asked.
"You hurt me Damon. You said I meant nothing to you and that hurt. Why cant you just sit back and enjoy that fact that I chose you after you kissed me. That the kiss awoke something inside me that I never knew existed. That somehow in that one innocent kiss made me realize something I've been denying for a long time now. I'm in love with you Damon." she said.
"I love you too Elena. And I'm so sorry I hurt you again. I always do things to hurt you but yet you always come back." he said.
"Its because I care about you. And I know its not going to be easy, but I want to try this with you. You are by far the hardest person I've ever had to get close to. But I want to try." she said.
"You do?" he said aware he sounded a bit like a stuttering idiot.
"I do." she said. Not sure of what she wanted him to do, he waited to let her make the first move. She stood up from her bed and walked over to him where she wrapped her arms around his waist and burrowed her head in his chest. Her lifted her head and looked into his cobalt blue eyes.
"Kiss me Damon." she said softly. He couldn't deny her anything at this point. He just leaned in and captured her lips between his, kissing her softly but yet passionately. When they finally broke apart he smiled down at her.
"Does this mean we're dating?" he asked smirking.
"I don't know. I don't know how to categorize this. So how about we just let it go and let the chips fall where they may." she suggested.
"So we're not dating, but we're together. And we just want to see where it goes from there?" he asked.
"That sounds like the best solution." she agreed.
"Can I say "I love you"?" he asked.
"You better." she said.