The Vampire Diaries
Damon's Christmas Carol
Chapter 2 - The Present & Elena Gilbert
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"Why do I need to see this?" Damon asked looking towards the Ghost with confusion and anger in his eyes. "I really don't need to re-live my horrible child hood."
"You always were a stubborn one, weren't you Damon?" Stated the Ghost, casually leaning against the tall white house. "You never waited to enjoy life, all you did was look ahead for what you wanted. You were cursed of the sin of 'want' and 'hate;.
"I don't really see whats wrong with those two things. Ladies can't help it if they want me. But hate? Not so much." Damon said with a smirk thinking about Elena.
The Ghost chuckled simply. Then got serious for a second. "Turn around Damon."
Damon instantlly turned around, hearing the Ghost actually address him as his real name for the first time other than 'boy'.
He looked and saw a women. A women sitting against a building in the snow, rocking a baby.
Damon's heart dropped.
About 5 feet into his stomach to be exact. As the baby cried the women held it close trying to provide warmth.
When Damon and Stefan were little boys, they never gave a look to people like that. The less fortunate, lower-class. But even seeing deaths and causing them yourself, seeing this was almost like torture. Guilt built inside Damon. He almost felt like crying.
"You are a figure of the future to these people Damon. You have not been thought of yet. You don't belong in this time. You therefor no one can see you or hear you." The Ghost said. "This women would give her entire life away for that child."
Damon's eyes dropped.
"What would you give?" The white hair man paused. "What would you give? To be with the ones you loved again? To actually know how it was to love your brother again?"
Damon tilted his head up about an inch.
"To be with Elena."
Now the Ghost had Damon's attention. But how did he know all this. About Elena, about Stefan?
"You were cursed with the sins or want and hate, Damon." The Ghost said again.
"And it is that, you hate Stefan because you want Elena."
Damon didn't even need to argue about that, because..well it was true.
The Ghost out stretched his hand, and Damon took it. In a instant they were flying upward. When they stopped Damon looked into a window. They were on the 3rd floor of the house. Damon watched his mother and his father in there bedroom.
Josephine was sitting in a chair next to her mirror, taking off her jewelry while his father was looking out a window.
"You could have handled that downstairs better Giuseppe." Damon's mother said looking at him in the reflection of her mirror. Referring to Damon, of course.
Damon looked at his father through the window with hatred. Damon wished that he could see him. See the look on his face thinking his son from the future had come back to haunt him.
"Damon needs to learn discipline." Giuseppe simply said.
Josephine rolled her eyes, taking out her earrings. "He is only but seven, dear. You know Damon loves you, he just wants your attention. And who could blame? Half of the time your in your office." Josephine looked to the ground and set her earrings on the table with the rest of her jewelry.
But then got up so she was facing Giuseppe who was now sitting on the bed.
Giuseppe looked up at his wife. "You know I love him." He said.
This stunned the Damon who was looking at his father from the outside of the house. Not once...Not even once has Damon's father ever said that he had loved Damon. Well at least to his face.
"See Damon? Your father did love you, he just wanted you to learn how to be a proper man." Damon tilted his head. He had always hated his father, but never really thought about it that way.
"Come on." Said the Ghost.
"Where are we going now?" Asked Damon. But before a response, things were the way that they were before, things were spinning, knocking the breath out of Damon...until they made a forceful STOP.
Damon looked around, and saw that they were standing on a porch. Elena's porch. To Elena's house.
"Why are we at Elena Gilbert's house?" Damon asked.
"Ah, so you do recognize this place? Well go on ahead...step inside." Said the old white haired man walking right through the door. Damon looked after him with confusion, but shrugged it off and walked through the door.
Damon followed the Ghost into Elena's dinning room where everyone sat. At the ends of the table, sat Alaric Saltzman...the vampire killer and Jenna's boyfriend, and some other guy with blonde hair. 'Probably a family relative'. Thought Damon.
Sitting at the rest of the table were Jenna next to Jeremy, and Bonnie next to Bonnie's dad, and then Elena right next to Stefan.
Damon looked at his brother in frustration, but remembered what the Ghost had said before. But on the other side of Elena was a seat that was empty. Damon remembered when Elena had asked him to come, so it was probably reserved for him.
"So they can't see us, right?" Damon asked to be sure of himself.
"Yes. Not even a shadow." Replied the man. Damon shrugged and looked at the table. It was full of different kinds of meat, vegetables, deserts...you name it. Any smell of that would make a human go crazy.
Damon tried to listen to something Stefan had said in Elena's ear that made her laugh. Damon thought her smile was worth more than the world. It was so much different from Katherine's.
"If you don't excuse me, I am going to wash up and go to bed." Elena announced.
"Alright, goodnight Elena." Jenna, and Bonnie said. Alaric gave a nod and Elena got up from her chair.
"Goodnight Elena." Stefan said separately. "I enjoyed being with you tonight. Merry Christmas." He said with a warm smile.
"Thank you. And Merry Christmas also." And with that, Elena went up stairs.
Damon watched after and began to follow her. But also running after her was Bonnie. 'Ugh.' Damon thought.
When Damon opened the door Bonnie was walking over to Elena. "Hey I know you wanted to get some rest but...can we talk?" Asked the little witch.
"Oh, yeah. Sure." Said Elena not certain of Bonnie. Bonnie smiled for a second and sat on Elena's bed with her.
"Alright, well...are you okay?" Bonnie paused. "I mean- Downstairs I sensed something."
Damon's eyes got wide. Oh no. Was Bonnie talking about him? Damn that witch...Thought Damon.
"I'm not sure what it was...but, my first concern was you." Bonnie finished.
"Well thanks for being concerned, but I'm fine..." Elena said rubbing her arm.
"So I noticed Damon wasn't here this evening." Bonnie said. Elena had put Bonnie on 'Guest List' duty for the Dinner party.
"Yeah, but you know Damon. Thinks he's all that. But whatever his loss." Elena said.
But surprising to Damon, even while changing dimensions he could still read peoples minds. And Damon could certainly read Elena's. Damon smirked.
She felt guilt, Damon sensed from Elena.
"Elena...Will you be honest with me if I ask you something?" Blurted out Bonnie. Now the two had Damon's real attention.
"Um? Sure, Bonnie. What's up?"
"Well, you don't. How can I put this..." Bonnie paused.
"You don't have feelings for Damon..do you?" Bonnie finished.
Damon and Elena looked at Bonnie with wide eyes. Damon sensed the heat rinsing to Elena's face from the question.
"Of course not Bonnie. I love Stefan...you know that." Elena said. Love and Stefan and Elena were just not three things that mixed, Damon thought.
"I'm sorry. I was just asking...well goodnight." Bonnie said almost to fast and left the room.
"But you would think he could just care a little. AND on Christmas!" Elena exclaimed. "Well, I'm going to bed."
"Alright goodnight Elena." The witch said almost two fast, leaving the room.
And then there sat little Elena, with questioning looks in her eyes.
Damon looked over to one of the corners of Elena's bedroom and to Damon's surprise, there; leaning against the wall was The Ghost that had been a pain in the ass all night to Damon.
But in a matter of minutes the Ghost was by Damon's side.
Damon's gaze drifted to Elena Gilbert again. Everything about her was beautiful, inside and out. Physically and mentally. And that aura of hers!...
"You know you love her." Said the Ghost suddenly, referring to Elena. "Now what would happen if she were to tell you that she loved you back?"\
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