4. New reasons

There was a moment of silence. Damon tilted his head to one side as Sam continued talking.

"She has finally decided who she loves, Damon, and it is you."

"You're lying" Damon refused the information shaking his head.

"Why should I?"

"Because you love her!" he shouted "and you wouldn't have come to tell me."

"So why am I telling you if it is just a lie? Which benefit do I get from this?" Sam continued with his calm tone of voice.

"Why should I know?" Damon felt rage inside of him, a deep rage. "Why didn't she herself come, then? Why didn't she come and tell it to me herself? Why did she send you?" He didn't wait to get an answer to his questions. "Alright, maybe it's true, maybe you're not lying. And in that case I want you to go back to the place you came from and tell Katherine that I don't have anything to do with her anymore. You tell her that she's had enough time to come looking for me; that she's had a hundred and forty five years. But that she has come too late. I don't want her. I'm over her."

Sam stared at him, he was clearly surprised. "I suppose that means you're in love with the little new one."

"I suggest you leave now. Your visit hasn't any sense any more. Don't worry, I will explain it to Stefan."

"I don't feel like leaving yet." Sam replied half innocently half defiantly. Damon's smile disappeared and he looked at his visitor, rage in his eyes.

"Okay, let me explain it to you in a way you can understand it. You can leave now or otherwise I'll rip your throat out."

When Stefan arrived some time later he was surprised that Sam wasn't there. He looked for his friend all around the house until he got back to the living room where Damon was sitting on the couch with a glass in his hand.

"Don't bother looking for him." Damon said grimly. "He has left."

"What did you tell him?" Stefan looked angry, he was pretty sure that if his friend had left much of the blame was to be put on Damon.

"I just told him what YOU should have told him in the first place." He got up and took a step towards his brother. "What you should have said when he insulted Elena the way he did. You may not care because Sam is your friend but I personally didn't like at all what he was suggesting." Somehow his words reflected that his own pride had been hurt because of the way Elena had been treated.

"It was just an innocent question, Damon. And anyway why should you care? You heard her words, she was clear, I don't think that I have to explain it to you again. She is with me." He was now very close to Damon, with that menacing air and that was something that he didn't like at all. Damon hit his brother so strong that Stefan was projected against the wall. He was in shock and it took him a moment to get up again.

"Don't get on my nerves, brother." Damon said. "I know it."