A/n- Here is the first chapter of the rewrite of without end. Instead of posting a new chapter to Revenge I worked on this one. Some things stayed the same and other changed. This is going to be a long one but it's going to be fun. Thank you in advance for anyone that reads, reviews or favorites. If there are any questions, comments or concerns please do not hesitate to ask. Until next time happy reading.

Chapter 1

"Did you have to invite her?" Katherine pierce questioned, picking at her fingernails- bitching as usual, about Elena Gilbert, the woman that I had fallen in love with and let get away from me five year earlier. Chuckling I licked my lips playing with the piercing at the corner of them as I continued to rub the straight edged razor over my jaw.

"Of course she was invited," Turning my head to glace over her in the mirror I struggled to keep the cowl off of my face, "Jenna is her aunt. There family so of course she would be coming." Katherine scoffed, hopping up onto the counter next to me, her blood red fingernails training over the black material of my button down.

"You know, just because she agree to come doesn't mean that you're magically gonna get back together." The corner of her lips curled up into a cruel smile before her nails were digging into the side of my freshly shaved jaw, forcing me to look at her, "You are mine Damon. You always have been and you are always going to be mine." Cocking an eyebrow at her I shook my head, "I got rid of her once and I can get rid of her again."

"If you say so Kat," I dolled. Katherine opened her mouth, no doubt to continue bitching about her "Ownership of me" but thankfully Ric cracked open the door and kept her from continuing.

"Elena just pulled up," He warned. When she had first left me, Ric was the first person of the family to find out everything that was happening between the two of us and while he didn't exactly approve of our entire relationship he understood that I loved her, that I still loved her. Nodding I wiped down my face and stepped away from the counter, silently begging Ric to detain Katherine as I slipped out the door past him.

It was as I walked up the steps into the foyer that the front door opened and there she was. Elena had barely changed in the five years since I had last seen her, sure she looked a little older but she was still her, still my Elena, still the woman that I loved. Time seemed to freeze as the door slid shut behind her and the bags in her hands fell to the floor.

"Damon," She whispered and before I knew it I was closing the space between us to stand closer to her. Swallowing I tried to find the voice that had managed to disappear on me. Shaking my head I repeated over and over to myself that she was really there, that I wasn't imagining it. "Damon?" She questioned softly, shifting foot to foot uneasily. Licking my lips I realized that I was probably making her uncomfortable with the way that I was looking at her. "Don't look at me like that." She squeaked, folding her arms across her chest but I couldn't help it, she was even more beautiful than I had remembered. Swallowing I scanned my eyes down her body, settling briefly on her hands to make sure that there were no rings of any kind before I was stepping forward and tangling my fingers in her hair. No conscious decision was made, my lips crashing down on hers, hard and hot, tongue thrusting past them as I dragged her forward, my body demanding that reacquaint myself with the woman who hadn't left my mind for a single moment since she had walked out of my life. Elena froze in my arms before she started to respond, tongue meeting mine stroke for stroke, her hands clutching at the material of my shirt. Tightening my fingers in her hair I tilted her head to the side so I could push my tongue harder against hers, the familiar taste of her settling in the pit of my stomach and hardening my cock. Groaning I pressed my body harder into hers, determined to show her how much I wanted her. Elena's answering moan told me everything that I needed to know, she wanted me too.

Elena gasped, her lips wrapping around my tongue, sucking harshly at the flesh, her teeth tugging at my tongue ring. Pulling back slightly to take her bottom lip into my mouth, I sucked hard, my hands sliding down to settled on her ass, pulling her body up into mine. Trailing my lips down along the column of her throat in teasing nips, Elena's fingers reached up to grasp at my hair. She gasped, tugging at the strands, my hips snapping forward to grind roughly into her. This was familiar territory for us- hard, hot and heavy, let your passions control everything that you do. Her back hit the wall of the foyer, my hands pulling her leg up to hook around my hips. It had been an eternity since I had had her in my arms and I wasn't going to stop until I knew each and every inch of her body as well as I used too.

"Damon." She whimpered, her fingers tugging harder at my hair, "Give me a- "She moaned out as I nipped her collar bone, drawing my teeth along the skin before sucking hard at it. I had been in hell since she had left- too stubborn, too prideful to go after her when I had been hurt so many times. She was mine and I would be damned if I didn't show everyone that she was. "I need to tell you-"She let out another breathy little whimper and that shot straight to my cock, my hips grinding harder into hers. Sliding one of my hands onto her hip I tugged at the collar of her shirt with my free hand, lips sliding along the upper swell of her breast. I ignored the sound of footsteps behind us, Ric had seen enough already to not expect anything different from me.

"Momma?" It was like dumping a bucket of ice water over my head. Elena gasped, dropping her leg away from my hip, her hands going to my shoulder to push me away. Licking my lips, I turned to look back towards the sound and there holding a little girl with black hair and blue eyes was my younger brother.

"Stefan?" My brother smirked, shifting the young girl on his hip.

"Hello Damon."

The bastard had the nerve to stand there smiling at me as Elena stepped completely away, a blush staining her cheeks. Stefan leaned down setting the little girl on her feet before folding his arms across his chest.

"Long time no see." He chuckled softly, his gaze traveling around the room, "you haven't changed much around here have you." I was puzzled struggling to come up with a sentence when the little girl darted past me and into Elena's arms, her small lips moving a mile a minute as she told Elena about some bug that she had seen in the gravel of the driveway. Torn between staring at my brother and the little girl that had run into Elena's arms calling her mommy I almost felt half relieved when I heard someone clearing their throat. I turned and swore- someone must really hate me- because there standing at the corner of the foyer one foot still on the stairs was Katherine, her customary "I'm a bitch" smile still in place.

"Well isn't this a cozy little picture," she drawled slinking up the last step and into the hallway, "hmmm, and Stefan always a pleasure to see you," Her blood red lips puckered as she blew a kiss at my brother. Stefan smirked at her but Katherine had already moved on, her gaze focused on Elena and the little girl in her arms. "Well isn't this just precious." She laughed, this malicious sounding little laugh that had me wanting to protect Elena from her, "When the hell did this happen? This has to just be the cheery on top doesn't it." Katherine cocked an eyebrow at Elena and licked her lips before rounding on me, "Why the hell didn't you tell me that you had a brat." She snarled, her finger poking into my chest as she invaded my personal space. Drawing my eyebrows together I shook my head.

"I don't have a-"I began looking over at the little girl but then I started to really see her. Her jet black curls hang to her waist and her crystalline blue eyes could have been pulled from my own face. She smiled at me as I gaped at her, the dimples in the corner of her cheeks, a Salvatore family trait that had been pass on from my own mother.

Katherine licked her lips as she looked from Elena to me a moment before a bark of laughter escaped her cruel lips.

"Well that's just fucking perfect." She sneered her arms folding across her chest, the position of her arms pushing her breast up and out, "You never told him did you princess."

"Fuck." I breathed turning my eyes towards Elena. Elena refused to meet my gaze as she ran her fingers through the little girl's hair. Stalking up to her I grabbed her chin. I forced her to look at me, seeing all the answers that I needed. Taking her hand I looked at the little girl. "Your mommy and I will be right back pet, stay with Stefan." As much as I didn't want to leave my daughter with my brother and my psycho ex-fiancé, Elena and I needed to have a very serious conversation, sooner rather than later. Squeezing her hand I smiled a smile that I really wasn't feeling at our daughter before walking us back towards the back of the house. Elena followed silently, shuffling her feet behind me like she was walking to her death. Passing by Ric I asked him to keep an eye on brother and Elena's daughter before continuing up the stairs, the simple nod that he gave me and his lack of questions confirming what I was already starting to suspect- Ric had known that I had a child the entire time. Thrusting open my bedroom door I stood to the side and let her walk into the room before following her in and slamming the door behind me. Elena flinched turning to look at me as she worried the bottom lip that I had been sucking on not even thirty minutes before.

"Why didn't you tell me Elena?" I demanded, stalking forward and grabbing the tops of her arms. Elena shook her head and remained silent, her eyes bright with unshed tears. "Don't you think that I had a right to know that I fathered a chi-"for some bizarre reason I couldn't bring myself to say child, couldn't really admit that I was a father to myself, "Damn it say something!" I finally growled, when I couldn't stand her silence anymore, the tears in her eyes finally starting to spill down her cheeks.

"Damon she isn't-"Elena began wringing her hands in front of her as she tried to control her tears.

"Is she not mine then?" I questioned feeling sick to my stomach at the thought of Elena having been with anyone else much less having a family with anyone else. Shaking my head I took Elena's hands in my own to get her to stop fidgeting even if just for a second, "Is she mine?" I finally managed to breathe the words even as I felt like I was losing everything all over again. I had barely found out that I had a daughter but in that brief moment I had fantasized a lifetime, a family, a wife, Elena by my side never to lose her again and just like that it felt like it was being ripped from me…had I made an assumption too soon? Elena took a deep shaking breath and squeezed my hands, looking up at me, those damn eyes of hers locking me in as they always seemed to do.

"She's yours Damon," the words were like a hallelujah chorus and a death sentence at the same time. What kind of father would I be, what if she didn't like me, what if she did? A thousand questions flew through my mind as the thought of being responsible for someone other than myself slammed to the forefront of my mind.

"Elena…" I murmured and then it didn't matter anymore, everything just seemed to stop as I realized that not only was the woman standing in front of me that woman that I loved but she also was the mother of my child. Leaning down I tilted her head up, intent on brushing her lips with my own, needing to connect with her on that deeper level again, to do right by her, but instead of the fullness of her lips I was met but the smooth skin of her cheek.

"Damon, wait, we need to talk about everything first."

No good ever comes from that goddamned sentence being muttered. Shaking my head I pushed my fingers back through her chocolate strands.

"It doesn't matter what happened, I wanna be there for you and for her." I knew that I had slightly messed up- okay who was I kidding I had royally fucked up- but I was determined to make things up to her.

"Its great that you want to be in her life, really it is and as her father I wont deny you that but that's all that you get Damon." She whispered shaking her head sadly, like it physically hurt her to say the words, " I'm with Stefan now and I refuse to be another Katherine." Growling slightly I advanced on her a little, knowing that I was invading her privacy bubble and not really caring.

"You aren't like Katherine and you won't be like Katherine, but you and I, Elena, we are far from over." Elena shook her head again and pushed past me to walk to the door of my bedroom.

"What we had in the past Damon is all that we will ever had, as I said, I'm with Stefan now and you're just going to have to accept that."

"The hell I will." I growled out. Stalking forward and tangling my fingers into her hair, my lips connected roughly with hers. The soft gasp she released the moment that my mouth touched her was the only invite I needed before my tongue was sliding into her mouth. I had lost her before but I refused to lose her again. Stefan, Katherine and anyone else who was against us be damned.