Author's Note:

Thanks for reading!

This chapter is Damon's POV, read and review :D


Chapter 4: "Damon"

Things fall apart in the blink of an eye,
Better keep yours open wide
Things fall apart in the blink of an eye,
No they cant be satisfied

I see tons of people looking lost and lethal,
And I know we're all the same
But now its gone forever,
And there's nothing to keep
But I still cant scratch the stain,

From my soul
It burns so cold
Oh watch it go,
Through my soul

Damon entered the bar, this night will be no different from the others, the past week was hell for him, first he had to work late and deal with his father again,

but tonight, hopefully with the help of alcohol and women, he will be able to forget, he smirked at the sight of Stefan who was clearly waiting for his

girlfriend, he walked at Stefan "Hey Stef"

"Damon! You made it" Stefan looked happily at his big brother, Damon hugged him "Of course I made it! Am I suppose to miss my baby brother's birthday?

Happy birthday by the way"

"Thanks, I would have killed you if you didn't show up tonight" Stefan joked, but a worried look appeared on his features "I called Dad this

morning, are you ok?"

"Can we not talk about this guy for a night?" Damon groaned.

"You two had a fight, I want to make sure everything is ok" Stefan said with concern.

"Well, everything is not ok Stefan, can't we just drop it?" Damon appeared annoyed by Stefan's question.

"Nice try, but it won't work with me"

Damon rolled his eyes "Ok, why won't you leave this for me, and go see your girlfriend?"

Stefan seemed to forget about everything they just talked about at the mention of Caroline "She's not here yet"

"Blondie has a problem with committing to dates?" Damon said playfully.

"Shut up Damon, and would you please stop calling her that?"

"But it's much more fun!"

Stefan gave him a warning look "Just be nice to her tonight, besides she's bringing a friend with her."

" A female friend I hope?"

"Don't you ever get tired of it?"

"Nope" Damon said popping the 'P'

"Wherever I will go to see if she's here, help yourself"

"Like always.."

Stefan went through the crowd looking for Caroline, Damon made his way to the bar.

"Damon!" a voice called him, Damon turned to see his best friend "Ric, hey".

"What's up buddy?" Damon smiled at him, Alaric Saltzman has been his friend since collage, he's the only friend who sees real him behind his

bullshit, he never figured out why.

"Same old same old, teaching is still a pain, do u know what my students call me now?"

"What? An alien?" Damon joked imagining Alaric with horns and green skin.

Alaric laughed "Not exactly, but apparently I am the history teacher from 'Hell'"

"Haha, that definitely suits you, but it's better than first-class jackass"

"Who calls you that?"

"Almost everyone, except for you buddy"

"Like it ever harms you to hear it"

Damon raised his hand to his chest and tried to appear hurt "I am officially hurt right now" but Alaric rolled his eyes and ordered a drink for himself.

"So, how you doing these days? How's work going?"

Damon gave him a suspicious look "you never cared about my work…ha let me guess, you talked to Stefan, didn't you?"

"He's just looking out for you, you know that right?"

"Yes, my baby bro always the protector" Damon mumbled beneath his teeth.

"So you want to tell me what happened?"

"there's nothing much to tell, Giuseppe and I had a fight, he was being a dick like always and I may have yelled at him saying that "I quit" that's all!"

"YOU DID WHAT?"

"You heard me, I am done working for this guy, I should have done it 4 years ago"

"Because of Katherine?"

"Ok, if you are going to keep talking about these two, I am out of here" he jumped of the barstool but Alaric grabbed his arm "No no wait Damon, I am sorry,

I shouldn't have brought her up"

"Whatever, I need some air" Alaric let go of his arm, and Damon made his way to the door when he suddenly collides with a girl, and she was

about to fall but he grabbed her and held her tightly, the girl apologized immediately "I am so sorry".

She was so beautiful, Damon thought, with her big duo eyes and her beautiful hair hanging from behind her…she was just perfect.

"No harm done" He said, giving her one of his beautiful smiles, she was blushing, is there any girls left in this dirty world who's actually do this 'blush' thing?

Maybe not everything was screwed like he thought.

This night could get very interesting after all, he smirked.

"You are standing in my way"

"Right sorry" he realized he was staring at her for long, and he moved from her way.

She made her way to the bar without giving him a single look..who was this girl? He followed her and his curiosity almost kills him.

"Make them two" he sat next to her, she blushed again, cool, maybe she was recognizing him after all.

Five minutes later he received a slap across his face, he groaned in pain, that was a good one.

Angrily the girl stood up and said "How the hell do you any right to talk to me about sleeping with you? I don't even know you! I thought you were a decent

man, but it turns out you are nothing but an asshole"

"Elena! there you are" Caroline came to greet the girl, so her name was Elena then? Pretty name suits her well, Caroline gave him an annoyed look.

Stefan was here too, he's greeting Elena, does that mean she is the 'female friend' that his brother talked about?

"I see you already met my brother..Elena this is Damon my big brother and please don't hold a grudge on me I didn't have a choice in the matter, Damon

this is our friend Elena Gilbert"

Damon put one of his special smiles on his lips, taking her hand in his and kisses it genuinely "Hey Elena" then he replace it with his usual smirk "It's a

pleasure to meet you".

"You two know each other?" Caroline questioned suspiciously.

"Nope, we just met right Elena?" Damon moved his gaze to Elena's face.

"Yes Mr. Salvatore" Elena answered him nervously.

"There's no need for all this formalities Elena, it's Damon".

"I don't recall giving you the permission to call me Elena" Elena mumbled.

"Yet." he smirked at her, but she still didn't give him a single look, why is that?

Stefan stepped between them "Ok Damon? You promised to behave this night, right?"

"I did…and that's why.." He took Elena's arms and linked it with his "I will take care of this beautiful lady tonight" he could feel Elena tense at his touch.

"What do you mean take care of her?" Caroline said with worried look on her face.

"Relax Blondie, I am being the perfect gentleman ok? So why don't you two love sick idiots go to dance or something while I buy Elena a drink here?"

"It's alright Caroline, go with Stefan, I will be fine" Elena assured her with a small smile, maybe she's planning on slapping him again once they leave.

Stefan dragged Caroline to the dance floor "I thought this song was your favorite" Stefan flirted.

Caroline smiled at him and turned to Elena "It won't be long Elena"

Then she took Stefan's hand in hers and left to the dance floor.

"Blondie is a terrible liar, I am sure you won't see her tonight with all these flirty comments"

Elena ripped her arm from his "What the hell do you think you are doing?"

"I am not doing anything"

"Aren't you? Too bad they arrived after I slapped you"

"Look I am sorry ok? I didn't know who you were!"

"so you act this way with every girl you lay an eye on?" she shot back.

"Not all, but the pretties like you" he teased her.

"You are impossible" she rolled her eyes.

He looked at her, then sighed heavily, he didn't know what was wrong with him right now, but he needed to make peace with her "Look, I am

sorry Elena, I know we started things in the wrong way but I believe that we can start over, what do you say?"

She looked at him then she sighed too "Ok"

"Alright then, I am Damon Salvatore, what's your name hottie?"

She raised her eyebrow at his note, but he gathered himself quickly "I mean what's your name?"

She smiled at him "It's Elena Gilbert, it's a pleasure to meet you Damon"

"The pleasure is all mine, can I buy you a drink Elena?" her smile was so warm, but it turned to a nervous one now.

"Whatever you take, I'll take it too"

"That's a very dangerous choice, but don't worry I am not planning on getting you drunk" he motioned to the waiter "2 glasses of bourbon"

Damon turned to her again "or maybe I will get you drunk to tell me why you never gave me a look"

"It's not like that…Listen Damon I….." She started hesitantly, with her hands moving nervously in her lap.

"What is it?" He turned to her, she looked very uncomfortable, he felt this strange need to calm her down, and take away whatever pisses her off.

"You asked me earlier about why I don't look at you, it's because I can't"

"Can't? can't what?"

"I am blind Damon..I am blind for almost a year now"

"OMG I am so sorry, how did that happen?"He moved his hand and held hers, squeezing it with sympathy, she looked questionably at his hand holding hers,

what happened to him? He just met the girl, but he has this weird feeling of wanting to protect her, he had never showed this kind of 'sympathy' towards

anyone, at least not since Katherine, at the reminder of Katherine, he felt uncomfortable immediately and removed his hand from hers.

"Sorry" he apologized.

"It's ok, it's been a while now" she gave him a sad smile.

"You want to talk about it?" again what the hell is happening to him? He never cared about anyone except for himself and his brother of Course.

"There's nothing much to share, it was raining..we were driving fast and it just happened"

"We? Who else was with you" now he had awakened his curiosity.

"My fian.. my boyfriend..ex-boyfriend now" he knew she was hiding something but he chose to ignore it.

"So..did he die?" a strange feeling filled him like he wished the other man died..ok his mind was messed up really tonight!

"No, he survived…can we just not talk about this? I thought you were gonna 'take care' of me tonight".

Damon knew she was deflecting but he changed the subject "Right, so no more sad talking then?"

"Yup, no more of it"

"Alright lady, all you have to do is ask"

Elena smiled at him and he felt his heart beating very fast, it was just attraction Damon calm down, she's so sexy too, he smirked to himself, but no one

knows what she's hiding behind this pretty face.

"So, Elena…What do u do?" Damon asked Taking a sip from his bourbon.

Elena said as she looked like she was in a different world from his "I was a writer…But after everything happened..I stopped doing it" When he didn't say

anything, she shook her head "Sorry, I thought I said no more sad talking"

"It's ok, you can tell me whatever you want"

"Maybe some other time"

"So you are planning to meet me again after tonight? I am touched!"

She slapped his hand "Shut up cocky one" but she didn't look angry or upset, her smile back again, God he loved her smile, he was drowning in his thoughts

so he didn't hear what she was saying

"Sorry..what did you say?"

"I said what do you do Damon"

"Oh right..mmm I was working for my Dad's company but I am not anymore" he remembered the fight he had with Giuseppe, dammit how much he hates

this man.

"Was? What happened?" she seemed surprised with his answer.

"We never get along…what happened to not talking about sad stuff?"

"How did I know that talking about your job is a sad thing?"

"Alright alright…ok cheers to not-being-working anymore?"

Elena laughed "Ok, cheers to that one"

He pressed his glass to hers, and they both drank it to the fullest.

"Wow…this drink is very strong" She seemed affected by the drink.

"I told you it's a dangerous choice to let me pick the drink for you" he smirked "but I didn't get you drunk yet".

"I don't get drunk that easily, I can hold my liquor thank you very much"

"Is that a challenge?"

"Yes it is a challenge"

He could see the hidden fire in her eyes, he knew she had more power and strong feelings under the surface, but he wishes he could let it all out, to see it.

The bartender appeared in front of them and Damon ordered them three rounds of tequila shots before he turns to face her again "Show

me what you got Gilbert" then he pushed one in her direction and took his in his hand.

"Bring it on!" Elena felt an excitement rising in her veins, how could he

do this to her? She kinda feels alive again.

20 minutes later…

"It was the first time Stefan tries to drive a car, we stole dad's, I was with him trying to teach him how to do it, and we hit a tree, then got our asses kicked"

taking another sip.

"OMG did he find out about it?" Elena laughed at his hilarious description.

Damon shrugged "Of course he did!, I mean I was 16 and he was 12, we almost got ourselves killed but it was fun until we were punished and grounded for

2 weeks"

Elena giggled "It had to be fun, I wish I was there to see you both"

"Yeah well, it wasn't that fun I mean I broke my arm that day, my girlfriend got so pissed and dumped my ass"

Elena was so loosened up, she wasn't exactly thinking about she was saying "At least she dumped you for a reason, unlike my fiancée Matt

who did it cuz I got blind like a bat"

Damon gasped at her words, and she realized what she was saying "Oh God" she stood up, and turned to him "That's why you got me drunk? To let me

confess about what happened?" she accused him with pain in her eyes.

"Elena no" he stood up too, "I never meant for the conversation to take this turn ok?"

"Ok, I had enough drinks for a night..i have to go" her tears was threatening to fall as she turned around, but he took her hand in his "I am sorry Elena".

His voice was so sincere, Elena never thought he would be like this, is he the same guy who Caroline calls heartless asshole? Cuz he doesn't

seem like this to her.

"Ladies and Gentlemen can I have your attention please?" Stefan said as he tapped his glass with a knife.

All the people in the room turned their eyes to Stefan who was standing next to Caroline, Elena and Damon both turned with Damon's

hand still holding Elena's, Elena took this chance to wipe her tears with the other, before anyone sees her.

Stefan smiled at his brother and his friends "Thank you guys for coming tonight, I really had the best 25th birthday party".

"Things about to get really ugly" Damon smirked at his nervous brother.

Stefan cleared his throat "There's nothing more I could've ever asked for except for this beautiful lady to marry me"

Caroline gasped as Stefan took her both hands in his "I am probably not good at speeches but I am better than my brother in that department" The crowd

laughed at his words and Damon rolled his eyes but still smiling at his brother.

"Caroline from the very first day we met, I couldn't take my eyes off of you and I love nothing more than for you to be my wife, my heart choose you before I

even realize it..I love you, will you marry me?"

Caroline's tears were falling now and she smiled at Stefan "Yes I will marry you" they both held each other and Elena stopped fighting her tears..Caroline

really deserves to be happy and Stefan was the best guy for her.

"What was that for?" Damon said as he wiped her tears "it's a happy tears you idiot" she couldn't help but smile at him.

"ok ok, let's go congratulate my brother then" Damon smiled, she removed that sad look from her face, that's a good sign.

He took her where Stefan and Caroline were standing, Damon hugged Stefan happily "You finally did it!..Congratulations baby bro" he then turned to hug

Caroline "Blondie he took that courage from me" Stefan smacked him playfully "Shut up Damon".

Caroline hugged Elena "Congratulations Caroline I am really happy for you guys"

"I know Elena..OMG I am getting married!" Elena laughed at Caroline's excitement.

Stefan hugged Elena "Thank you Elena, you are the one who convinced her to go on a date with me in the first place"

"You welcome, you better take of her" Elena playfully said.

Stefan held Caroline "I am planning on it".

Caroline looked at Damon and Stefan for a moment "Elena may I have a moment please?".

"Of course".

Caroline took Elena's arms and guided her away from the brothers "Caroline I know what you are about to say" Caroline tried to talk "Elena I can't leave

you"

"Caroline..How long are you gonna take care of me? You need to live your life I can handle myself….I can take care of myself!"

"But…"

"But nothing….so tonight you are going with Stefan and you can guys celebrate together ok?

"Ok, but how will you go home then?"

"I will order a cap..I will be fine..now go", she felt Caroline hesitating, "Go Caroline!"

"Alright alright I am going", but exclaimed happily "I am getting married!" Elena laughed "Come on let's get you to Stefan then".

"There you are, what were talking about?" Damon snooped.

"Girls stuff, so Stefan…wanna another drink?" Caroline linked her arms with Stefan's and they both moved to the bar.

"Gross!" Damon exclaimed.

"Is what gross?" Elena questioned surprisingly.

"Caroline is kissing Stefan and he's about to…"

''Ok ok stop I don't want to know" Elena laughed at Damon "Thank God I am not able to see them".

"Ok, ready to go home?"

"what? Yes I am"

"Ok then let's go, come on I'll drive you home" He offered.

Elena raised an eyebrow "really? What's the catch?"

"There's no catch I…" he waited and confessed softly "I have been a complete ass to you earlier.."

Elena apologized "I was mean too".

"Elena" a voice called her name and she immediately froze in her place "Omg…" Elena whispered, that's impossible, but she was sure, she can never forget

his voice…that was Matt…how the hell he was here?

She turned to face him..although she can't see him, but she still remember how he was like.

"Matt…" Elena said slowly, she felt Damon's hand tense, and holding hers instinctively.

Matt said softly "It's been a long time Elena".


DelenaKat's Note:

Matt finally showed up! and obviously he's up to no good hehe..

Anyone liked the slap? *winks*