Jump than Fall, into Love
Chapter four
Memories
7 Years ago
"10...9...8," Jeremy counted from the porch as Elena went to hide. She ran into the forest and hid behind one of the bigger trees. "Ready or not here I come!" Jeremy yelled searching for his sister.
When ever Jeremy got close to her hiding spot, Elena held her breath. She didn't make any noise so he didn't find her. Eventually Jeremy got tired of looking for her so he gave up. He just went down the street to play video games with so of his friends.
Elena laughed and ran deeper into the woods. She went so far into the woods that she couldn't remember which way she came from. She wandered in circles for at least 20 minutes. She started to run North and tripped. She got a nasty, deep cut on her right knee.
"Help!" she yelled starting to cry when she saw blood running down her leg. "Help!" she yelled again. "Is anyone out there?" she began to sob when she didn't get an answer.
She sat there for what felt like hours and it was. She crawled to a tree and laid against it, and waited. When it was getting dark she began to get scared. She's never be in the woods in the dark. The only time she has was with her parents and brother. But that was when they went camping. Elena was just sitting there waiting for something for happen. All of a sudden a dark figure approached her. "Hello?" she asked.
"Hey. Are you hurt?" the figure asked walking closer to her. She noticed that it was a man. A man with black hair and blue eyes.
"Yeah." she whimpered. "And I'm lost. Can you held me?" she asked with tears in her eyes.
"Of course i will," he said taking a bandanna from his pocket. "My name is Damon Salvatore," he told her squatting down in front of her and putting the bandanna around her cut. "What's your name?"
"Elena." she said looking at him.
"Elena what?" he asked taking off his jacket and giving it to her to put it on.
"Gilbert. My last names Gilbert." she said wincing as he pushed a little on her wound.
"Its a pleasure to meet you." he said. helping her stand up on one foot. "Can i have permission to carry you?" he asked her as she tried to balance on one foot but had to hold onto Damon and the tree.
"Yes. If you carry me home." she said trying to steady herself. "Ooof." she said as her back hit the tree.
Damon picked Elena up in his arms and told her to hang on. She held on and he started to walk. Damon didn't want to run because he'd get there to quickly. He didn't want to let this human know what he was. He didn't even know why he was helping her. She's bleeding, he should have drained her and left her there. But she looked like Katherine and she was a child. Even he had some humanity left in him. You may never know it but he did.
"Here we go." he said coming onto a street. "Is this your street, Miss Gilbert?"
"Yes." she said looking around. "That's my house down there." She pointed to a beautiful 2 story house. They started walking again. "That you for helping me."
"Oh your welcome." he smirked at her.
Present Day
Elena just stood there Damon's hand. Elena thought he looked familiar in some way but she could quite place where she'd see him from. She just ignored it. What she couldn't ignore was that he was gorgeous. She couldn't stop looking at him. They were still shaking hands when Caleb walked by.
"Lets get these bags to the house so we can go surfing." He said walking by them carrying Aunt Jenna's stuff. "Shall we?" Caleb was being his usual self to day. He was also excited to have his cousins finally here. It was a bit weird to have Aunt Jenna here though. She'd never really came to visit them. Mostly cause Jenna was was his moms sister and she wasn't a Gilbert, she's a Summers.
Damon noticed something on Elena's left wrist. It was a black bandanna. He smiled and ran his hand over it. "I like your bandanna," he said. "Where did you get it?"
Elena put a hand over it and looked a way remembering the man that gave it to her. The one she's been in love with ans destined to meet again. "A stranger." she said. The sad thing was she didn't realize that the man she loved was standing right in front of her.
"Didn't your parents tell you not to talk to strangers?" he smirked at her taking her bags over to the truck and hoping into the back. "Are you going to sit in the front or on the back?"
"I'll sit back here with you and Stefan is it?" she said looking over at Stefan. he nodded.
"I'm sitting back here too." Bonnie said as she hopped up next to Stefan and sitting down and started talking to him.
Damon held out his hands and caught Elena's hands and helped her up. "Thanks," she said sitting down.
"No problem." he said sitting next to her. "do you guys have a jacket?" he asked Bonnie and Elena. they both nodded.
"You might want to put it on." Stefan said. "It gets pretty cold when you ride in the bed of the truck." When he said that Bonnie and Elena opened their bags and got out their jackets. Bonnie pulled out a red one and Elena pulled out the one she got 7 years ago from the stranger.
When Damon saw her jacket he smiled again. I don't think she realizes its me yet. I hope she remembers soon. He thought to himself. Maybe if i ask her about the jacket and the bandanna again she'll remember. "I like your jacket. Where'd you get it?" he asked her after she put it on.
"The same person that gave me this," she said pointing to the bandanna on her wrist. "I got them a long time ago. When my parents were a live." she looked off into the distance trying to remember that night.
7 Years ago
"Will i ever see you again?" She looked into his eyes.
"I'm sure you will." he said. "When you do, and you know for sure its me, put this bandanna on and wear my jacket. Okay?" he looked down into her brown eyes as they turned into her drive way.
"Okay." she said. "Can i give you something too?"
"Sure." he said as they walked onto the porch. He put her down and she took of her belt. It was one with silver spikes on it. Every one in a while you'd see a purple or a pink one.
She handed it to him, "Here." she said. "I'll be able to identify you if you wear this."
"I'll wear it every day." he said. "Now, lets tell your mommy and daddy your hurt so they can clean that out." she put on the belt as she rang the door bell. "I have to go okay?" he looked down at her.
"Okay." she said. "Bye she said." She watched him walk down the stairs and down the street. then her mom opened the door. From that point on Elena couldn't wait to see this Damon Salvatore again. A 10 year old girl fell in love with a 163 year old vampire.
Present day
"Why'd you keep something that you got from a stranger?" He asked, but before he could reply Caleb came around to the back.
"You guys ready?" he asked. When they all nodded he went on. "They're staying at the hotel so we have to go there to drop off the bags before we can go surfing." He walked back around to the front and hopped in. A minute later they were off.
"So.." Damon said turning to look at Elena head on. "About the stranger." Elena was just as beautiful as she was when she was younger. Well, she looks more grown up. He looked at her right knee. She had a scar there from that night when he helped her.
"Oh well," she began. Stefan and Bonnie where also looking at her. "I was playing hide on go seek with Jer and i went really far into the woods and i got lost. I tripped and was stuck where i was for what seamed like hours before someone came. I had a huge cut on my knee." she paused and ran a finger over her scare as she remembered. "Then there was a man that came to my rescue. He had black hair and blue eyes." She looked up at Damon and stared into his eyes. "They looked like your actually." she smiled. "Well he put this bandanna around my leg and gave me his jacket. He said that when we meet again he'll remember me if i wear this jacket and the bandanna." she looked away into the scenery.
"And how will you remember him?" Bonnie asked before Damon could ask.
"I gave him a belt. It has silver spikes. And every once in a while you can find some purple ones and pick ones." Elena laughed.
"Thats so cute." Bonnie said. "I can't believe you kept them. How long ago was it?"
"7 years ago."
Stefan laughed. He just figured it out. Damon was telling the truth. But he wanted to know if she remembered that it was Damon. "Do you remember his name?" Stefan asked.
"Its.." she thought about it a while trying to remember than she got it. "Damon Salvatore." she whispered to her self. She looked at him in wide eyes. "It was you." she said out loud. She smiled back at her. Not a sarcastic one. but a sincere one. "I can't believe it. I found you."
Bonnie was looking at them wide eyed. "What?" she asked.
Damon just leaned in and kissed her.
