Fire without the Flame
Chapter 1
Damon P.O.V.
"Always have a backup… backup witch, backup werewolf… backup vampire." Then everything went black. All I was trying to do was save Elena, I know what I did was wrong, and this is me trying to fix it. Instead, Klaus is going to use me in his stupid ritual. Wonderful.
I wake up feeling dizzy, with a sharp pain in my head. I'm lying on cold hard grass, surrounded by intense heat. Fire. I gather enough strength to sit up and look around at my surroundings. I was in a clearing, in the Old Wood, the stars shining bright. There was definitely fire. Around me was a circular ring of fire, there are two identical ones on each side of me as well. One holding Jules, wincing in pain at the start of her transformation, and the other held Elena. Elena. The brown haired beauty I fell in love with. Her warm brown eyes, rosy cheeks, and a smile that would make your heart melt. She looks in my direction, her eyes that are you usually filled with love and understanding now filled with worry and concern.
She sees I'm awake, and tries to shift closer to me without burning herself. "Damon you have to get out of here. You could die Damon! I can't have that happen. I wouldn't be able to live with myself." She says sadly.
"I'll leave once I know you're okay," I replied.
"Damon don't you understand you could die!" She said, raising her voice in the slightest, a lone tear rolled down her cheek.
"Well, that's a risk I'm willing to take," I told her sternly, yet it came out only in a whisper. It was true, I would do anything for her, and I would die for her. When I fed her my blood it was because I don't think I would be able to live with myself when she died, I would feel responsible for not protecting her. She looks at me straight in the eye she has a new emotion mixed in with the others… pain. She wants to say something but she is stopped, by a scream of pain erupting out of Jules.
The fire recedes around her and Klaus steps forward and kills her, with no emotion whatsoever on his face. Afterwards, he walks over in our direction with a smirk planted on his face, man do I want to kill him.
"Well look who's finally awake." He says looking at me. I wish I could tear out his throat right here, and end everything.
"Why me? Why not Katherine?" I asked him and I stood up as I said this.
"Because I don't like you. You always try to ruin my plans just to save your precious doppelganger here," he said gesturing to Elena, "and Katherine is well Katherine." The witch starts to finish the Latin spell that means I am to die soon. "Say your last words Damon Salvatore, and make them count if you know what I mean." He said looking straight at Elena; yeah I knew what he meant. He wants me to confess my love to her. He walks away and tells something to the witch, and then the circles merge together. I take a deep breath and walk to her in one long stride. She's scared, not for herself but for… me.
"Elena, there's something I have to tell you." I say I can't believe im going to tell her, I told her once but then compelled her to forget. Even if I don't die tonight she should know…