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Elena's eyes flicked up from the rug, back to Damon, where they had been before his phone rang, changing the mood of their conversation, removing it almost entirey. She wasn't exactly sure how the conversation would have continued, had it not been interrupted.

She wasn't sure if she was greatful, or upset that Katherine had interrupted, but it was over now. Elena wanted to talk to Damon, but didn't know how to continue.

Damon tossed his phone across the room gently, and brought his smoldering blue gaze to Elena's face. "We have so much to figure out. If and when we wake up Rebekah, What to do with Klaus, and Stefan-"

Elena quickly closed the distance between them and grabbed Damon's face. "Hey, I told you we are going to let him go. Listen to me, hey, look at me." She forced him to stare into her eyes. "We let him go." Elena dropped her hands from Damon's face to his shoulders. "Yeah, we have a lot to figure out, Damon. Rebekah, Klaus, Hybirds, Originals, ghosts, God or the Devil himself, whatever it is, we will face it together." Her hand reached back up to touch his face. "But nothing is so important that it can't wait until morning."

Damon just stared at Elena. "Okay. Tomorrow." Damon let go of Elena and walked over to the liquor cabinet. "But tonight, I need this." He pulled out burbon, whiskey and scotch.

"I think that is a full proof plan." Elena walked towards Damon clapping her hands infront of her gently. "Get me out a glass. I can't go home tonight."

"I'm a legendary drinker." Damon gave a weak smile, his ice blue eyes failing to catch the light, as he poured a glass of burbon for Elena.

"I don't plan on keeping up. I just want something to get my mind off of this mess." Elena grabbed the full glass and threw it back staring at Damon as he did the same. "Keep them comminig, I can't go home tonight. I just don't want to have to face Rick, knowing everything has changed now."

"Are you sure, maybe you should be with Jeremy, just in case." Damon grabbed the glass from Elena and filled it again.

"No Damon, I can't go tonight, I've had so much crushed. i just need to be here, where I feel safe." She took the glass from him again and drank it down. She shook and felt the warmth of the alchohol rush through her body. It felt almost like when you drank fresh scalding coffee or hot chocolate. With a kick of course.

"Okay." Damon already had a room layed out for Elena, it was sort of her second room, since she hadn't slept in Stefan's room in months. And they contiunued to drink silently until Elena couldn't keep her head up.

Elena had fallen asleep in the room she was used to sleeping in since Stefan had gone AWOL originaly. And for that span of time Elena had always hoped and preayed that somehow he would find his way back to his humanity, or that she could help him find his humanity. But, as that was officially a bust, she had even said so herself, she knew it was no use waiting for him.

She couldn't take being alone anymore and she finaly decided she had to see Damon. He snuck into her home, her room, her bed before. Shouldn't it be acceptable for her to do the same?

She crept to Damon's room in the same clothes she'd been in the day before. The sun wasn't yet ready to come up, the dawn on edge though. She crept into Damon's room and eyeballed him to make sure he wasn't totaly naked. His shirt was thrown aside but there was no sign that his pants had been discarded from his body. He slept on his side, face turned to the empty side of the bed. Softly she adjusted herself into the bed and between the soft sheets and thick comforter of Damon's bed.

"I hope you didn't think you were being sneaky, Elena." Damon said softly, his eyes still closed, but a slight smile played on his lips.

"No, I was just trying to be courteous." Elena said softly, sighing into te pillow as she lay on her side facing Damon.

"Thank you for the gesture," His eyes never opened. This upset Elena a little, because part of the reason she had come to see him were his blue eyes. She wanted to see the promise in them. Feeling that anything of the sort would not happen while they lay in bed, she scooted closer and turned on her other side. Elena grabbed Damon's arm and pulled it around her. Even though she was presses against his chest she did not feel strange. After all he had his pants on, and she was still fully clothed. They both knew this was plutoninc. They both sadly knew this.

"Damon?" Elena asked quietly.

"Yes." Damon smiled into Elena's hair.

"I think I know why it happened the way it did." A sudden, soft frown appeared across Damon's forehead. "Stefan was right about humanity ruining everything. ButI think it ws his own humanity that drove him to do what he did."

"Elena I don't thi-"

"No Damon," Elena rolled over to look at Damon, peering into his bottomless blue eyes. " I am not trying to make excuses for him. But how many times have we seen his humanity flicker since he has been with Klaus? And how many of them were because of me?" Damon said nothing. "None, Damon. I think he did it to save you somehow, it makes sense. It's the only thing that makes senes,because after all this I think it's been you that drove him out of his madness. Everytime, you were the one who pulled him back. For Stefan, it has always been you, and will always be you that makes him human." Elena took a deep breath and continued.

"Listen, I don't want him back , I know now that I will never be so important to him as the blood or you. Especially you. Now I know what it's like to be in your shoes. I told you it would always be Stefan, but I didn't know how much it hurt to come in after someone in a contest for love. I'm sorry I said it. You deserve it more than anyone else."

He expeceted her to cry, to scream, he hoped she would do something. He didn't want her to feel the way he felt when he remembered her telling him It will always be Stefan and everytime hes thought of it since. Part of him knew, now, that she was right. For Stefan, Damon would always be his brother, and that would always be more than anyone else could be. Elena just said, "I guess that's it, we'll think of the rest in the morning. We will make it through this, like always. We will make it through together. I lo- I trust you, Damon. I do."

Damon knew what she almost said, and what she had wanted to say, and he was gald she didn't because he had spent the entire time he knew her waiting to hear it, and if she said it, he might explode. So instead of doing any of the things he wanted so much to do, he waited until Elena spelt and just kissed the top of Elena's head. "I love you too Elena. I'm sorry."

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