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Chapter 4 Heading Home

I knocked on the door once I'd found it, and Katherine opened, not looking happy in the least bit.

"Why?" She said angrily. "Why the hell did you not tell me?"

"I'm sorry." I said and walked over to the bed to sit. "I don't know. I guess I just didn't want you to feel bad for bringing them back."

"Bull. Shit." She said making each word it's own. "You knew I wanted you to get them back, but you lied, and I want an honest answer, right now."

"I don't know." I said quietly and looked up to see Caroline coming out of the bathroom in sweats, tying her wet hair up.

"Do you want to get a shower?" She asked sitting beside me. "I have clothes for you too."

"Thanks, that sounds great." I said standing up and grabbing the remaining clothes on the bed.

"You can't dodge me." Katherine said.

"But I'm just loving trying." I sneered.

"Elena!" She yelled.

"I don't know, Katherine! I don't know." I yelled back, turning to face her. "Maybe because it was easier to say I was me and not someone else that I had to think about every second of every day than to say I was a slave and a peasant and that I was beat profusely and starved on numerous occasions, or maybe it was because I didn't feel like it, you can choose, but for right now, I want to take a shower and go to sleep because I had a long day, one which I am not yet sure wasn't induced by you, so goodnight Katherine." I said and slammed the bathroom door behind me seconds before the tears came.

I turned the shower on high so they wouldn't hear my sobs and striped off my dress.

I pulled out my phone and dialed Damon's number.

"Hey babe." He said when he answered. "You awake already?" I noticed how tired his own voice sounded.

"Um, can you come get me?" I said as I started to cry harder, completely ignoring his question. "I don't want to stay here all night."

"Yeah, of course." he said and I heard him getting dressed.

"If you're asleep, you don't have to." I said, feeling bad.

"I'm on my way. Are you okay?"

"Yeah, but we have some talking to do."

"Uh-oh. You're not breaking with me are you?" He asked sarcastically, and I could hear him smiling in the background.

"No, but we need to talk. And you might not be to happy with me." I said as I sat on the edge of the tub to take off my heels.

"I'll be there as soon as I can." He said, completely serious this time. "I love you, Elena."

"I love you too, Damon."

After explaining to him where our hotel was, I hung up and climbed in the shower to watch the grim off of me, as well as Stevon's smell. When I was finished, I took my time getting dresseded and brushing my hair.

"Damon's on his way to pick me up." I said putting my dress on Caroline's bed.

"What? Why?" Caroline said.

"I just want to go home. And we need to talk."

"So do we." Katherine said from under her blankets.

"I know. And we will, but not tonight. I want to go home and talk to Damon and then crash in his big comfy bed with him, so hopefully, that will be what happens." I said and lay down.

"You kissed Stevon." Caroline said quietly.

"Yeah, I know I did. And I feel terrible about it. I don't know how I can explain to him that it was a mistake without hurting him." I said and rain my hands through my hair.

"Everything will work out." Katherine whispered. "You and Damon are meant to be together."

Caroline gave her a look and I looked between them confused.

"Is there something I'm missing?" I asked, not really caring at the moment.

"No." Katherine answered. "Nothing. We'll be home tomorrow probably around noon. That sound good?"

"Yeah."

"Oh, we lied to Damon and Jenna just so you know. Don't go home tonight." Caroline said

"I wasn't planning on it. Remember? Big Comfy bed?" I said

"Right."

"What did you tell Damon?" I asked, curious, even though he would find out it was a lie.

"That you were already asleep, but he talked to Katherine, doing a wonderful performance of you, might I add." Caroline said and smiled at Katherine.

"Thanks guys." I murmured. I was so tired I wanted to pass out right then but knew that I couldn't. I had a big night ahead of me.

"I'm going to go grab my charger out of my car. I'll be right back." Caroline said jumping up and slipping her heels back on.

Once she was out the door Katherine looked at me.

"I'm sorry that I never saw things like that. I should have thought about how you would feel more thoroughly, but you are supposed to tell me things. You're supposed to want to tell me things." She said.

"I know. But I didn't want to think about it. I don't want to know either, but I'm going to have to." I yawned and frowned. "I'm sorry that I didn't tell you, but it really isn't the easiest thing, ya know?"

"No, I don't know to be honest. I'll never know because I didn't live lives like you. I can't feel how you feel. I can't imagine how conflicted your emotions must be right now." She looked at me seriously.

I nodded. "You never tell me anything about your life." I said.

"What?" She asked

"Well, you said I should want to tell you things, but you never tell me about your life. Or your lives."

"Oh, Maybe someday I will." She said softly. "We could talk now, but-"

"but I have to go with Damon. The sooner we talk, the better." I said to add reason.

"I know. You didn't tell him?" She asked, already knowing the answer.

"No. I should have, but like with you, I didn't want the questions. Don't get me wrong, I love you, but. . . I couldn't." My eyes started to well up again.

"And for the record, I had no idea that Stevon owned that club. Like I told you in the basement, I didn't even know if he was still around." She said, begging me to believe her.

"You're afraid of him." I said quietly.

"I'm not going to lie to you, I'm terrified of him. I mean, you obviously know how old he is. I can't even imagine how powerful he must be." She shook her head. "I can imagine he'll want to have a word with me soon." She said.

"Should I be afraid of him?" I asked

"No. Not at all. If he did nothing to hurt you tonight, he won't. I think he's just relieved you're alive."

"I bet he never expected that." I chuckled.

"Do you have feelings for him?" She asked

"No. I know that I used to. I remember loving him so god damn much, but now, no. I don't. He means nothing to me."

"I don't believe that."

"Well, not nothing, but I no longer have any idea who he is. I'm not the same Elena from that village either. We're strangers today." I said

Katherine sighed.

"What?" I asked at seeing the look on her face.

"Just seeing the look on his face when he saw you today, it was. . . perfect. I can't even describe that. I just don't think he ever gave up on you." She said and shrugged. We could hear Caroline approaching.

"I'm going to lie down for a bit." I said and snuggled into Caroline's bed. "Wake me up when Damon comes?"

She nodded and I shut my eyes happily. I didn't dream at all.

I woke up to Damon's lips on mine.

"Hi." I said and sat up. I stretched my arms and looked at him, smilng slightly. I started to put my shoes on and Damon pulled them from my hands. "Wha-" I started to say but realized what he was doing when he slid his hands underneath me. He picked me up and started carrying me for the door. I waved goodbye to Caroline, Katherine was out cold, and she waved back.

Damon managed to get the door opened while still holding me and he slid me into the seat. He got into the driver's seat and started on the way home.

"So. . . " He said

"I lied to you about not remembering my past lives." I blurted out, instantly regretting it.

Damon hit the brake and pulled over to a shoulder of the road.

"What?"

"I don't think you're supposed to be parked here." I said not looking at him.

He turned in his seat to look at me dead on. "What do you mean you lied?"

"See? That sign says emergency stopping only?" I pointed to a sign which I knew he wouldn't glance at.

"Elena!"

"Okay, okay. I lied when I said I didn't get my memories back." I looked down at my hands.

"Why would you do that?" He asked quietly

"Because, like I told Katherine, it was easier to say that I didn't remember than actually try to remember. It was painful." I grimaced thinking of a particularly gruesome memory of a beating. "I didn't want to think about it. I didn't want anyone else to think about it. I didn't want to be bombarded with questions." I said and looked at him.

"You know if you need space with something, you can have it." He said angrily.

"I know that, but you would wonder. And eventually, you would expect me to talk, which I just didn't want to do, ever." I closed my eyes and memories ran past my eyes. Chains binding my wrists, whips hitting my back. "And you would be wondering if I was thinking about it, and eventually, I would have to tell you everything, and I just didn't want that."

"You lied to me." He said quietly.

"I'm so so sorry, Damon." I said sincerely. "I didn't do it to hurt you."

"But you lied."

"Yes."

"Why are you telling me now then?" He asked confused.

"Because the club Katherine took us to was owned by a vampire. It was full of them. The vampire that owns it," I said and looked at his face, "was Stevon."

Damon clenched his hands. "You saw him?"

"Yes."

"And that blew your cover of not remembering?"

I nodded and reached for one of his hands. "Yes, but I didn't know he was there. I didn't know he was even alive!" I said and he just looked away.

"What else happened?" He asked, holding tight on the steering wheel.

I shook my head and looked down. "I. . . I kissed him. Well, actually, he kissed me." I frowned and kept my eyes off of Damon. I saw he head whip toward me from the corner of my eye. "I was surprised when I saw him. It happened, and it meant absolutely nothing, Damon."

"Nothing." Damon said in disbelief.

"I swear, it meant nothing."

"Elena," He said sadly, "Let's just go." He put the car in drive and we drove in silence for the next hour, my heart breaking more and more every minute he went without looking my way.

A/N Hope you liked it! Have a good Thanksgiving everyone who is celebrating. :) Please, hit the review button! It won't take long! Promise. And also, I have a poll on the profile that has been up forever asking who you want Elena to end up with, so please go vote. The winner gets a story! :D

Another thing, I know a lot has happened in the show since I started Prisoner, so these really aren't anything like the show and I apologize if that bothers you, but when I first started, it was like the show.