A/N: Haha, I'm glad y'all liked it so much that you wanted a sequel....and I provided, I'm thinking that I really need to stop being such a pushover, :P

Disclaimer: I don't own The Vampire Diaries...:[


Elena's eyes opened slowly and she couldn't help the small smile that started spreading itself across her lips when the first thing she saw was that Damon was sleeping soundly, his chest rising evenly under her palm.

She vaguely recognized that the digital clock on his bedside table indicated that it was 2:17 a.m. She had only slept for two and a half hours, and although her eyelids felt heavier than ever, Damon's image made her want to battle against the sleep that was trying to overcome her.

Elena reached out, her hand gently caressing his cheek, and she had to restrain the giggle that was threatening to burst from behind her lips when, as she was pulling her hand away, his lips slightly jutted out in an adorable pout.

His eyes started to open and she bit her lip, anxiously awaiting his reaction. When he turned and fixed his sly cobalt gaze on her, she relaxed a bit more, because there was no hint of regret or hesitation in the depth of his orbs. She sighed and leaned back into his embrace once more, relishing in the feel of his skin against hers.

"Elena."

She smiled, even though she knew he couldn't see it. "Hmm?"

"What were you doing in the woods anyway?" he asked inquisitively.

Trying to fight her way through the hazy fog of sleep deprivation, she thought back to what took her to the woods, thus leading her to find Damon and Alaric arguing.

Thus leading her to save his life.

"I had just found out that Alaric might be my father, and I needed some time alone," she answered truthfully. She faintly heard him gulp, and when she looked up at him, his eyebrows were furrowed as if he were deep in thought. She really wanted to wipe that look off his face, and though she knew it was selfish, she wanted to be Damon's center of attention. Letting out a chuckle, she continued. "Did you know that it was Matt and Caroline's one-year anniversary yesterday?"

He raised an eyebrow in mild interest. "Is that so?" he inquired, the self-satisfied smirk she'd grown accustomed to appearing on his face once more.

She nodded.

"Well, I guess that's good for our resident blondies," he teased, and Elena rolled her eyes, thinking that with anyone else, she would defend her friends' characters, but this was Damon. And, as she saw it, if Damon offended someone, it was his own way of expressing the affinity with said person. The realization that she was the only person he was sweet to made her grin like an idiot, and he gave her a questioning look before shaking his head and chuckling.

"Do you miss it?"

He cocked his head to the side. "What exactly are you referring to?"

She shrugged her shoulder against his ribcage. "You know...the feeling of being in a relationship, I mean."

Elena watched as his eyes grew slightly more glassy, as if they were in some far away land, but then they warmed by a fraction and he smirked. But there was more to it. She knew that smirk. It wasn't his I'm-Damon-and-I'm-immortal-which-makes-me-better-than-you smirk, it was his I'm-trying-to-cover-up-what-I-truly-feel smirk. She then inwardly scoffed at the fact that she seemed to know how to differ his facial expressions from one another so precisely.

"Can't miss what was never really yours," he answered, and her heart just about shattered at his broken confession, or that's what she was taking it as anyways, because with Damon, a true broken confession was pushing the limit.

Shaking her head slightly, she muttered, "I'm sorry."

He leaned in closer to her, their faces now mere inches apart, and her lips parted a bit in anticipation.

"You're not to blame, Elena," he assured her, leaning in even more. All she could think about was how she wanted to be able to give Damon happiness, because she honestly believed he deserved it. His lips quirked at the corners. She wanted to give him all the love she could and all the love she couldn't. Their lips were a hairsbreadth apart. She wanted to make him feel happy in a relationship like she used to feel with Stefan...

Stefan.

She turned suddenly, reminding herself fiercely that she was still in a relationship with Stefan, and here she was, about to kiss his older brother. Damon's lips caught her cheek, and instead of questioning her like she expected, he pulled away, getting up with a sigh.

"St. Stefan cross your mind?"

Immediately Elena's hand went to her cheek, where she tried to commit the feel of his lips on her skin as a memory, already missing him beside her. She nodded as a response to his question, and he just quirked an eyebrow, not amused, not understanding.

"I can't."

Grabbing his leather jacket, and muttering an "Of course you can. Your car's in the front, please try not to crash" Damon exited the Salvatore boarding house, leaving a gaping Elena in his wake.

And wondering when the hell someone wouldn't think of Stefan when they were around him.

Elena wiped furiously at the traitor tears that were starting to spill quickly down her cheeks, cursing herself for letting the moment go, but praising herself for stopping the progression in what she was sure was the 1864 2.0 situation by turning away from Damon's affection. She wouldn't be Katherine.

She wouldn't.

But even though she would never be anything like Katherine, she couldn't help but notice that history was repeating itself and she had to restrain the urge to scream.

She was stuck.

Stuck between believing she was meant to be with Stefan and wanting to try things out with Damon. Stuck between wanting Damon and needing Stefan. Stuck between wanting Stefan and needing Damon.

Stuck between loving both.


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But then she remembered something else, just a flash: looking up at Damon's face in the woods and feeling such—such excitement, such affinity with him. As if he understood the flame that burned inside her as nobody else ever could. As if together they could do anything they liked, conquer the world or destroy it; as if they were better than anyone else who had ever lived.


A/N: So I have officially mapped out the storyline for 'Look After You', and I can officially say that there will be four more chappies after this one, (and yes, all of them will include some DE-related book-quote at the end :])so I hope all you awesome readers stick around and leave me tons of reviews, because they motivate me so much more.

Chappie 1 name is based off of the song by Boys Like Girls, and Chappie 2 name is based off the song by Anberlin.

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