Oh my! WHAT A FINALE! (Spoilers ahead)
The big question: Keep as a one shot, or continue?
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Till the End
"You did what?" This could not be happening. Meredith was waiting for him to catch on, and cool down. Could he afford to let himself hope?
He shrugged her restraining arm off his shoulder. Brave little thing. Funny how someone he hated might be responsible for saving Elena.
"You're saying…" Damon looked at her with a guarded expression. His blood was pounding in fear and anguish. He could hear Stefan tapping his finger against a metal object in another room.
"Meredith?" He needed to find her. She would be waiting. "Thank you." Meredith wanted to laugh had the circumstances not been so dire. Damon still looked at her suspiciously.
He was helpless. The relief and love flooding back and thawing his icy heart.
Elena was coming back. Vampirism would suit her even better than it had to Caroline. He was sure.
Meredith stepped away. "Help her, Damon."
There was no worse feeling in the world. The anguish of watching the grey harbinger of death consume his best friend, then feel his soul rip into two pieces as he realized the implications. Elena was dead. "No…no you can't be dead!" He didn't know who had been speaking to.
Three nurses walked past. "Move!" Damon had a one-track mind.
He sped into the cold dark room. The room of death.
Stefan said nothing. He has the nerve to have tears in his eyes, Damon thought.
He stroked her frozen cheeks, slightly blue from the lack of oxygen. He could barely hear the blood moving slowly through her body, fighting to bring her back as a creature she wasn't ready to be.
He flashed back to the night had stayed in her room, doing the exact same thing. Marveling over the innocent human girl who would steal his heart.
He trailed a finger down her hairline. She looked eerily beautiful, like a doll.
He felt guilty. Should he be so excited?
She was coming back.
She wasn't leaving him.
Once he was composed enough to speak, Damon gave Stefan a hard, critical look.
"How the hell did you let this happen?" Damon's voice frighteningly steady. Stefan had learned many years ago that Damon's heightened emotions (even more so than for a normal vampire) intensified his power like an adrenaline rush.
And Damon was furious.
"Damon…Rebekah drove their car off the bridge, she wanted Elena to die."
"And who was it Stefan, that kept pleading for you to not listen to Elijah?"
"Dammit Damon! It wasn't Elijah! It was Rebekah! Trying to save the two brothers she had left…Elijah never knew what she doing!"
"Yet SHE IS STILL DEAD! And how the hell does Matt Donovan stay alive, and she's in a morgue? Explain that to me!"
"She asked me to save him first!" Stefan cried, standing up defensively.
"Oh right, of course, Elena asks, and you grovel." Damon growled, shaking his head.
"Damon! I-"
"Do you know what love is Stefan? Do you?"
Stefan didn't respond.
" It's not suffocating the other person, and making all of the choices for them, but it's not letting them run around doing whatever they feel is right. It's finding that perfect balance. You let the scales tip, and she ended up dead."
"She's transitioning Damon, quit saying she's dead!"
"She is dead Stefan! Vampire or not! Elena is DEAD! There is no going back for her. This is it."
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"Where's Stefan?"
Caroline walked into the room timidly. Damon was crouched against a wall, watching Elena try to come back. Painful was not the word. Caroline's heart broke, seeing the devastated and tortured expression Damon had.
He softened ever so slightly, remembering that she had lost someone too, tonight. Only Tyler wasn't coming back.
"Blondie…you don't have to be here you know. But it's right that you are. I'm sorry…about Tyler."
Damon refused to meet Caroline's eyes.
He heard Caroline take a deep breath, probably to stop the steady stream of tears. "Thanks," she whispered.
Damon's eyes followed Caroline's steps as she walked, carefully, to Elena. Caroline held Elena's hand and it brought a smile to Damon's face, imagining them as little kids comforting one another.
"Is there something else going on?"
Damon looked at her suspiciously. How was she so good? He decided that now that Ric was gone, Caroline could be his new confidant…she would love that, Damon thought, smirking.
"You know, in a couple of hours, Elena is going to wake up. She'll be in transition." Damon spoke matter of factly. "Any you know what happens after someone transition, Caroline? You of all people should know that."
His words were cruel, but had the intended effect.
Caroline's eyes widened. "Are you saying…she's going to start remembering things?"
"That's exactly what I'm saying!" Damon snapped, quickly retreating into his inner shell.
He looked so vulnerable.
"Damon…what exactly did you make her forget?" Caroline's mind was spinning. Damon really did love Elena. She could see it now. Her own prejudices were slowly fading.
"Well, this should be interesting." Damon joked.
"Damon. What is exactly is Elena going to remember?"
"Grab a chair, Blondie. We could be here a while."
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