This starts after the phone call between Damon and Elena on the finale of season 3
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' Hey, where are you?' Damon asks through the phone.

' Matt is bringing me home.' Elena answers while she looks to Matt.

This is her choice, she's going back to Mystic Falls, to Stefan, to the rest of her loved ones.

' To Stefan?' Damon asks, although he didn't need to ask it, he already knows.

' Not just to Stefan, Damon.' Elena sighs, fighting the lump that's forming in her throat. ' To Tyler, to Caroline…'

' No, I know, I get it.' Damon answers.

Elena doesn't reply, the lump in her throat has won it from her and she is fighting the tears that are trying to come out.

' Now, since I'm possibly a dead man, can I ask you a question?' Damon asks.

' Yeah off course.' Elena replies nodding.

' If it was just down to him and me… and you had to make a choice, who got the goodbye?' Damon asks before he lets a sigh out. ' Who would it be?'

' I love him, Damon.' Elena answers with a broken voice, still trying to hold back the tears. ' He came into my life when I needed someone and I fell for him instantly. No matter what I feel for you, I'll never unfall for him.'

' Yeah I get it, Stefan.' Damon replies. ' It's always going to be Stefan.

' I can't think about always, all I can think about is right now.' Elena says while the tears start rolling down out of her eyes. ' And I care about you, Damon. That's just why I have to let you go.'

She needs a moment to clear her throat before she can continue.

' I mean, maybe if you and I would have met first.' She sobs.

' Yeah maybe.' Damon mumbles.

' You are going to be fine, do you hear me?' Elena says. ' You are going to be ok and I'm going to see you soon.'

' Real soon.' Damon answers, but he gets distracted by Alaric who showed up behind him. ' Goodbye Elena.'

Elena just wants to break the connection when she hears Alaric laugh.

' Damon? Is Ric there?' She asks, suddenly feeling afraid.

But she's too late, Damon already broke down the phone call and she's pretty sure that it was alter-ego Alaric who was laughing.

' Turn around the car.' Elena says to Matt who is already driving back to Mystic Falls.

' I thought you wanted to go back to Mystic Falls?' Matt asks, not knowing what he has to do. ' Are you sure?'

' Turn around the car, Matt!' Elena yells. ' Damon's in danger, Alaric's there!'

' Thank you.' She says when Matt makes an u-turn in the middle of the road. ' Now hit the gas, I don't think we have much time.'

She sighs relieved when Matt speeds up, she needs to get to Damon as soon as possible and she doesn't care how many speeding fines they get, she'd pay them all if it's necessary.

Elena knows that Damon's in danger, she can feel it in every fiber of her body and she can only hope that they make it there in time.

It would kill her if Damon would die before she'd get there and she only realized it a few minutes ago, but Damon's the man that she's in love with, Damon's the man that she wants.

In the deepest of her heart she already knew, but it's just now that everything gets crystal clear, she's in love with Damon.

' How sad is it that the girl you are in love with always will choose your brother?' Alaric says while he is clapping his hands. ' Especially now that you are on the edge of getting killed.'

' You never had a good sense for humor, Ric.' Damon smirks, while he leans against his car, following every move that Alaric makes. ' If Elena chooses my brother than I hope that she becomes happy with him. Besides, it doesn't even matter anymore, you killed Klaus, we probably all will be dead in a hour.'

' Where's the blond one?' Alaric asks, looking around, trying to find Rebecca. ' I need to finish the task that I was created for. I can't let Esther down.'

' She's gone, Rick.' Damon replies. ' After you killed her brother she took off, she didn't want to die with him.'

Damon swears, he hates alter-ego Rick and his wish to free the world from vampires.

That damned Esther never should have turned him, the stupid which even bound Alaric to Elena, what made it impossible to kill him.

The only option to get rid of Ric was killing Elena, then he would die too, but Damon couldn't do that, he couldn't kill the woman he's in love with and he knows it selfish.

If Esther would have bound Alaric's life to the life of someone else, that person would be long dead by now, he doesn't care who it was, but not Elena, not his Elena.

' Where did she go?' Ric asks, while he twirls the indestructible stake round in his hand.

' I don't know.' Damon answers. ' And I don't care either.'

' Seems like I have you to play with then, since the blond is gone.' Alaric smirks. ' Now I have something to occupy me in my spare time.'

' Just kill me now, Ric.' Damon replies. ' What does it even matter, I probably will be dead in a hour, you can just as well stake me right now.'

' That would be no fun at all.' Alaric says, pouting his lips. ' It would be more fun if I'd watch you die when the hour is over, I think that would be a little more entertaining.'

' If my friend Ric was still in there he would kill me right now!' Damon snarls. ' He would have a little mercy with me, since I just got ditched by the girl that I'm in love with.'

' Maybe I'll even torture you a little bit in the upcoming hour.' Alaric continues like he didn't hear what Damon said. ' That would entertain me even more.'

Before Damon even knows it, he is being hold up in the air by Alaric, who is clearly having a good time with doing it.

A few seconds later he gets crashed into the floor with so much force that the concrete bursts at several places and a soft moan escapes from his lips.

' Why are you doing this, Ric?' Damon asks softly. ' I thought you where my friend.'

' That loser friend of yours is long gone, Damon.' Alaric replies before he kicks Damon in the stomach. ' The new me isn't your friend, but you can call me your worst nightmare if you want to.'

' Just stake me.' Damon begs. ' Please, I'm begging you. Me, Damon Salvatore is begging you to stake me.'

' I couldn't care less.' Alaric replies. ' I'm not going to stake you.'

His words are still lingering in the air when Damon finds himself in the air again, Alaric this time chooses to throw him against the car, which makes the window shatter into pieces.

Alaric is walking towards him, but he can only see it in a blur, he is losing consciousness and he thinks he's hallucinating if he sees two headlights appear out of the darkness.

But the headlights won't disappear when he blinks a few times, what makes him realize that they are really there.

' Elena.' He whispers smiling before he blacks out.

With Matt behind the wheel and the speed that they have been driving, Elena arrives to Damon in less than a half hour.

As soon that Matt stops the car behind Damon's car, she jumps out and runs towards Damon's body, scared that he is dead.

' He isn't dead yet.' She hears Alaric say. ' But I don't appreciate it that you are interrupting my fun.'

' Get out of here!' Elena snarls. ' Leave us alone.'

' I'm afraid that I can't do that.' Alaric replies while he pushes her aside, causing her to fall on the ground. ' Now that you ruined my pleasure I can just as well kill him while you are watching.'

' Don't touch him!' Elena snarls while she grabs a piece of glass from the floor and puts it at her neck. ' If you touch him, I'll kill myself.'

Alaric turns himself back to Elena, watching the girl carefully. ' You are bluffing.'

' Try me.' Elena hisses. ' I'll do it.'

' No, you won't.' Alaric replies while an evil smile lingers around his lips. ' You choose his brother, you don't love him enough to give your life for him.'

With that he turns himself back to Damon and he lifts the stake up in the air, planning on driving it straight into Damon's heart.

When Elena sees that, she doesn't think twice, she cuts her throat and falls to the ground coughing, choking in her own blood.

On the same moment alter-ego Rick gasps for air and the stake falls down on the ground, followed by a dead Alaric several seconds later.

' Elena!' Matt yells while he jumps out of the car and runs to the girl who is laying on the ground, drenched in her own blood and not breathing.

But when he sees that Alaric's dead, Matt knows that Elena's dead too.

Realizing that he sits down by her body and starts crying, not able to do anything else.

' Matt?' Damon asks softly when he finds consciousness again.

He has to blink a few times before he gets a full sight of what happened in the few minutes that he was unconscious.

Alaric is lying next to him on the floor, dead, Matt is sitting by someone else, crying and he can't ignore the smell of blood, a lot of blood.

' Elena!' Damon cries out, while he jumps up and runs to the other person that's lying on the floor, drenched in blood.

' She's dead, Damon.' Matt sobs. ' She killed herself to save you.'

' Why didn't you stop her?!' Damon snarls, while he kneels down next to the dead girl's body. ' Why didn't you keep her from doing this?!'

' I wasn't fast enough!' Matt cries out. ' She already did it before I even knew it!'

Damon closes his eyes when the tears start coming, but they escape anyway.

' Why her?' He sobs. ' For God's sake, why her?!'

The two men sit with her for a while, crying because they lost her.

When Damon finally finds the strength to close her beautiful brown orbs, he notices something peculiar.

' Matt, she isn't dead.' Damon whispers.

' She is, you did see it for yourself, didn't you?' Matt sobs.

' No, look at her, the wound is healing.' Damon says stunned. ' But how is this possible? Who did feed her vampire blood?'

' What's happening?' Matt asks when he sees that Damon's right, the wound on Elena's neck is healing and a soft heartbeat is noticeable.

' She's in transition.' Damon replies.

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