For Eternity
Disclaimer: TVD isn't mine, I just have a thing for dead guys.
Summary: Damon steals Elena's heart.
A/N: Haven't written in a long while, so I thought I'd drop a little something by. I'm working on getting some TVD and DA ideas on paper, but I'd been lazy. I hope you like this.
It's slightly out of rhythm at the thought of you.
My hands shake–they never shake.
I take in the beauty of you in bits and pieces, like looking through a viewfinder of a camera. I pan from the thick curls of your hair, the dark shadow of the scruff of your jaw. My eyes trace the collarbone all the way to the simple sculpted V where the muscle of your shoulder joins your bicep. I focus on the veins just beneath your skin, cording around your arms, disappearing as my eyes slowly find your fingers wrapped tightly over my wrist.
It's thundering.
You can feel it, can't you? The pulse just beneath the paper thin stretch of skin pounding against your fingertips.
You smile at me; I smile back as you slowly release my wrist and thread your fingers with mine. Then you pull me against you and we watch the sun rise, turning shadows into light, clearing the fog over the ocean.
You lean in and kiss the pulse just beneath my jaw.
"This is crazy." You steal the words right out of me.
Yes, I know. Can't you hear the beating of my heart?
The sun breaks through the gray of fog and the water is impossibly blue.
Blue. Impossibly blue. Like the belly of the ocean. I could fall into them and never find my damn way out. You know what I'm talking about.
You laugh suddenly, and I don't know why, but now I'm laughing, too.
Because this is too damn crazy. I look down at your arms wrapped around me and I marvel at the way the muscles move beneath the pale of your skin. It's the delicate balance of porcelain over steel. I trace my fingers along your arm and carefully rest them over the thin skin of your wrist.
My fingers search and find nothing.
I feel your smile over my shoulder; your lips across my neck, teeth like blades sinking ever deeper into me. All I hear is the roaring in my ears, like a thunder.
Beneath my fingers, your pulse races to the beat inside of me.
And this is the sound of my heart beating.
And this is how you took my heart into you for eternity.