All Elena wanted to do was to sort out her emotions, so that she didn't feel like some emotional wreck. But truth be told she was an emotional wreck, her and Matt were just in a car crash in the same place her and her parents were, when she should have died. But instead she died tonight, in the car crash with Matt. That sounded so strange to her, she died. She is dead right now, and she will be dead for eternity.

What will she do for eternity? She had no plans for her future anymore. And right now her future was not as important as this moment. She couldn't even tell how she was feeling. Because it was too many emotions to pick apart.

"Elena, I know this may seem unimportant. But this whole thing will be a lot easier if you tell me what you're feeling." Stefan was standing in front of Elena holding her shoulders and staring into her eyes. He was trying to figure out what she was feeling so he could help her.

"I don't know. All of my emotions are blurring together I can't figure any of them out."

"Focus on them. Don't think about anything other than your emotions. They will start to become a little clearer. It's almost like a fuzzy camera, when you focus it, it becomes sharp again. Just try to focus on your emotions and put words to how you're feeling."

She turned around to face away from everyone so that she couldn't see their faces. And she tried to focus in on her emotions. She got a few clear; she was feeling scared, and disgusted at herself. But she was also feeling almost grateful that she wasn't dead right now. But she couldn't figure out any other emotions, but it didn't matter because those were the big ones.

"I got them sorted out." Elena said as she was turning to face everyone again.

"Okay so how do you feel right now?" Damon was the one to speak up and ask the question. Elena forgot Damon was in the room because he wasn't talking, but he had pure concern for Elena.

"I feel disgusted at myself because I became what I never wanted to become. I'm also feeling scared of what will happen. And I also feel almost grateful because I could have died but I'm still standing here. And I know I am technically dead anyway right now, but I could have been completely dead. And I also feel strangely alive."

"It's normal to be scared of what's going to happen I know I was when I first turned. But you didn't change purposely, you were in a car crash and you didn't know you had vampire blood in your system." Stefan was sitting on the arm of the couch that Jeremy and Matt were on.

Matt had a bandage on his wrist from the spot he cut himself so Elena could have blood. He was looking at the floor though and not at Elena like everyone else is.

"But Elena I never said thank you." Matt was the one speaking now. He was still looking at the floor.

"Why would you say thank you?" Elena was completely confused, she'd drank his blood to turn into a vampire why is he saying thank you?

"You risked your life to save me. Stefan came into the water and was going to save you first but you kept saying no and pointing to me. And you had no idea that you would come back as a vampire. So you truly risked your life for me. So thank-you." Matt was staring right into Elena's eyes with his bright blue eyes. He was on the verge of crying, and he was smiling.

"That's because Stefan already saved my life many times, I thought you deserved it more than me. And I didn't know I had vampire blood in my system. But I knew that if I died Alaric would too. I love Alaric but he had to die with his new intentions."

Elena was crying again at the memory that seemed like it was years ago, but however it just happened hours ago.

"Elena why are you crying? You did the right thing. And you saved a life in the process." Stefan was standing up to get her a tissue but she told him to sit back down.

"I was just thinking of everyone. My parents. Jenna. And Alaric. And I can't afford to lose anyone else."

Elena was relaxing a little bit but, the sight of Damon standing against the wall smiling at her like this sent chills down her spine. She talked with everyone about how grateful she was that they were here. But when she didn't find a face she was looking for she got worried and she felt a little sad.

"Where's Bonnie?" Elena asked not knowing if she wanted to hear the answer to her own question.

"When she heard that you died and came back as a vampire, she lost it. She went a little crazy knowing that all her friends except Matt were immortal somehow. She said she needed time to think before she came to visit you. But she said she would come tomorrow night. And she's already working on your daylight ring." Stefan was being her savior, he was calming down her nerves and making her feel safe. Just the way her mom used to make her feel. But without the girl to girl chit chat an advice.

"Oh. Alright, thank you guys for visiting but can I talk to Damon alone please?"

Everyone gave Elena a worried look but obeyed they all gave her a kiss on the cheek and a hug and told her that they would be visiting again whenever she wanted them. And Stefan came to give her a special one, he kissed her forehead and whispered in her ear that he would be waiting up stairs love. Hoping that she was telling Damon she was choosing Stefan and she would come upstairs telling him that she loved him.

When Elena saw that Stefan was all the way up the stairs she asked Damon to sit down on the couch. And then she sat next to him.

She grabbed Damon's hand and looked at him like she never thought she would look at him.

"Damon-"

But Damon cut her off by saying "Elena I know what you're about to say, it's Stefan. It's always going to be Stefan. And I know I understand he got to you first. It's only fair."

"But that's just it Damon, I remember. Everything. He didn't meet me first. You did. And you compelled me to get everything I want, and to forget meeting you. Why did you do that?"

"I didn't want anyone to know I was in town yet, and if I didn't compel you, you would've known."

"Okay but I also remember you compelling me when we were in my bedroom. You told me you loved me Damon. Why did you make me forget that?"

"Because I was too afraid of what you would do if I told you I love you without making you forget."

"I love you Damon."

He expected something completely different to come out of Elena's mouth.

"What?"

"You heard me, I said I love you."

"But I thought you chose Stefan?"

"Damon. I. Love. You. And that is why I need to set you free. You don't deserve what I've done to you."

"You? What have you done to me? I have done a lot worse to you."

"But I strung you along. I played with your head and emotions. I was just like Katherine."

"You can never be anything like Katherine, Katherine was a bitch."

Elena told Damon how her choosing Stefan was not the same as Katherine choosing Stefan because she did love Damon, but it was a different love. It was the kind of love you get just because you know you can't. She gave him one last kiss and started to head up stairs to be with her true love, Stefan.

When she reached the top of the stairs, Stefan was sitting on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands. She hoped he wasn't listening to her conversation and she came and sat down next to him.

"He compelled you? I can understand the first time because you didn't have the necklace yet, but the second time? Where was your necklace?" Stefan was crying, he was crying. It takes a lot to make him cry.

"Stefan. It was because Rose kidnapped me. They ripped it off. And Damon had it in his hand and he told me I had to forget and left. I had no idea. Of any of it. It was the weirdest thing to have those memories come flooding back to me."

"Do you love him Elena?"

"Yes. I do."

"Okay. Then it's him?"

"No. Stefan it's you. It will always be you."