"Elena" Damon said as he made way over to where Elena was laid. Damon had been a regular visitor to Elena, for the past month since his grandma had died; truth was he had grown to like Elena more and more, the way her laugh made him laugh, the way she tilted her head when she smiled, but the one thing he always notice which always upset him was the way her eyes were always filled with sadness, even with her best efforts of covering it with a smile.

"Oh hey" Elena said, sitting up "you know Damon, you don't have to visit me

every week, you know?" "I know" Damon said sitting beside her "but I know you love my company, so it's the least I can do" Damon smirked "oh don't flatter yourself" Elena smiled "so..." Damon breathed "I hear their discharging you" "yeah, this time tomorrow I'll be out of here" Elena sighed, before looking at Damon "why do you say that like it's a bad thing?" He questioned "I don't know, I mean it's not like I don't want to leave, I do, I'm sick of this place but I... I" Elena stuttered "Elena say it" "I'm scared, no actually I'm petrified" she looked down "what?" Damon asked, a bit bewildered by what she had just said "It's just I've been coped up in this hospital for 4 weeks, and I as much as I've hated staying here, I feel safe, I feel like no one can..." Elena stopped, memories flashing in her mind "I'm sorry" Elena said, looking at Damon "I..." Damon interrupted her, "Elena, don't apologise" she smiled "look I don't know what's happened in the past, I mean I know the bare details but that's it, and I get why you're scared, I mean you have every reason to be, but you're not going to be able to live your life if you're constantly looking over your shoulder, you need to keep your head up and live your life to the fullest" Damon said grabbing Elena's hand, Elena looked down, before smiling "thank you Damon" "no problem" he replied before letting go of Elena's hand.

5 hours later, visiting hours were over and Damon was getting up to leave.

"Damon?" Elena said suddenly "Yeah" Damon said turning around before looking concerned "can you do me a favour?" Elena replied "Yeah sure" he replied before putting on his leather jacket "tomorrow when I'm, well you know discharged, can..." "can I come and support you" he smiled " well I wouldn't say support but yeah" Elena replied "sure" he replied before grabbing Elena's hand, "I'll be here" Elena looked down at Damon's hand, and in that moment she felt like nothing could hurt her "I'll see you tomorrow then, bye Elena" Damon said letting go off her hand before walking off. It may have seemed like a quick exit but Damon was slowly starting to like Elena more and more, but he knew that she had been hurt, and he knew that her heart had been broken and so had her trust and he knew it would take more than him to fix that.

A/N: So this is the next chapter, what do you think? Sorry it took so long to upload and sorry it's really short. I know I keep saying that I will upload sooner but stuff always seems to get in the way (sorry). Please review and follow the story, means the world to me. Hope everyone had a great Christmas.