Delena 4-09: Thanks for all the review and follows! This is my first story ever not just on fan fiction. The only other stories I've written were when I was in school, and I graduated college in 2004! This one shot was really hard, not much as far as motivation for Delena moments.
I do not own the rights to any of these characters.
Elena held a piece of mistletoe between herself and Damon. He had been watching Elena, Jeremy and Bonnie go through family heirloom Christmas decorations. She looked up at him through the door and she smiled. Pure happiness smiles don't come often for her anymore, But Damon makes her happy. It's not the sire bond that makes her happy; she knows she is actually happy.
"You know we can't, Elena" Damon frowns as he says the words he doesn't want to say but knows it is the right thing to do. He hates doing the right thing, but despite his bad guy reputation Damon almost always does the right thing. Especially for Elena, She is his reason for being. Every moment of everyday is lived for her, to bring him one step closer to him. Since they found out about the sire bond all he wants to do is find some other way besides the cure to stop the sire bond. Elena becoming a vampre is what made her his. Although he knew that them now being together might have only happened because of the sire bond, deep down he also knew she had feelings for him even as a human. Elena had been in denial for a long time. Since their first dance together, the first time he rescued her, sure it wasn't a life threatening situation but on that day is was the most important part of her life. They spent only a few minutes together but it was the first time she got to see Damon for who he was underneath the dark brooding eyes. She felt safe with him, which she didn't think anyone should feel safe with him. He confused her that day and made her question him and herself as well as everything Stefan had told her about Damon. In those few minutes while the music played she got to see the actual Damon Salvatore.
Damon suddenly found himself evoking the sire bond, but not because of his love for Elena, but for his brother. Stefan is the only thing Damon will have if they do find the cure and Elena does become human again and discovers that all her feelings for Damon were mostly because of the sire bond. She might even hate him for maybe taking advantage of her with the sire bond. But he hadn't actually used it yet. All the things they done together since she had become a vampire, she pretty much decided on her own. Even coming to the cabin; she had decided that without Damon even knowing she invited him because it would make her happy to have him there. Some of the choices she was making were for her, not for Damon. It seemed the more emotion that was involved the more it was coming from her; she was taking the lead on all of it. Damon couldn't take a chance though. He knew there was a chance that he'd lose her, he couldn't lose Stephen too.
"I'm setting you free Elena, this is what I want; this is what will make me happy." Damon held back any emotions he had; he didn't want to give Elena any reason to doubt it. She knew within her soul and heart that he wanted to be close to her, but that he was telling her to go because of Stefan, and she understood that. Elena would do anything for her brother, she proved that today when she put her life on the line and came to see Jeremy. The love that Elena has for her brother, Damon had the same for his own brother. Elena would never ask Damon or Stefan for that matter to put the relationship on the line for her. She would fight them on it, she had fought Stefan on it several times, Stefan always wanted to throw Damon to the wolves, telling her he was a bad guy and that he deserved whatever came to him, and he very rarely had anything nice to say of his brother. Damon who was the bad guy never threw Stephan to the wolves, he always wanted to protect him and that is exactly what he was doing now, trying to protect him. Damon knew that Stephan could be a way worse bad guy if he found out he may have lost Elena for good and that Stefan just might turn into the ripper again.
Elena turned and went into the cabin and asked Bonnie to bring her home. They all walked to the car, Elena felt like a zombie, as if she wasn't actually herself, like she was someone's puppet. She wasn't moving her legs or using her mouth to say her goodbyes. She was Damon's Puppet when he used the sire bond against her.
Then suddenly without even a thought, like it was second nature they both leaned into each other for a kiss. Damon opened the door and part of his heart broke when she got into the car and drove off with Bonnie without any arguing from her.