A/N: So here it is. Finally. The last chapter of "I just want you to know who I am". Yes, I know and I am terribly sorry it has taken this long, but finally I had the time to sit down and write. I've got spring break right now, which allows me to write, but when I am in school it is nearly impossible to write anything. Well, I don't really know if I like the chapter. It isn't what I planned, but somehow I don't know...


And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am

I stared down at the little witch, feelings over flooding my mind as she looked at me with honesty and care in her eyes. She cared for me.

"Bonnie, I am dead. I died the day my own father shot me down…" "But…" "I died, but yes, somehow I am still alive." I whispered. "I know I could be human, I know I could stop this whole thing and let down this mask. I know, but I don't want to."

"Why?" she asked, her eyes glistering as she looked up at me. "Why would you stop living, although you got a second chance to do so? Maybe it isn't a life like the one you used to have, but you got another chance."

"Maybe I would be more willing to take that chance if I had seen that life held anything positive for me." I trailed off. Images of my past as human came flooding to my mind, each one more painful than the other one. The hurt in my chest seemed to expand as more and more pictures flashed up in front of my eyes.

"I can't stop the pain, but I can be there for you and try to ease it." The young witch whispered. "I can be here for you and listen."

"My human life was everything but easy." The words came off my lips hastily and indistinct. "Tell me." she whispered. "I was different. I soon learned to keep up a mask as my real face was considered inappropriate for those times. I was always second best to Stefan, never able to be good at anything."

"So that's why you are like this? You are afraid that everybody will prefer Stefan if you show your true self?" The young witch asked. "At least persons start to notice you when you are a monster." I whispered.

"Oh Damon." she sighed before hugging me again. "Have you ever thought that maybe you weren't born to live in those times? That maybe you were destined to meet Katherine so you could live on until the times came where your character would fit into the world better? Maybe you weren't supposed to live then, but to find someone that would choose you over Stefan?"

Her words sounded in my ears as I gazed at the petite girl. "Maybe…" I answered; my voice hoarse as I pulled her closer. Both of us grew silent for some minutes until I finally admitted, both to her and to myself. "I am afraid, afraid to be myself, because I don't think that they will understand me."

"Have you ever wondered if this is a mistake?" She asked me. "Life is vulnerable, even for you. It can be over in any second, life is made to be ended sometime and somehow and wouldn't it be wrong if nobody would ever know the true you?" And with those words she pulled out of our embrace and walked out of the room, leaving me behind on her bed.

The thoughts were racing in my head, maybe she was right. Anything around us was breakable and would eventually break. I may be dead and immortal, but a stake could end my existence easily. And Bonnie, she was even more vulnerable; her life could be over in seconds. She could vanish from this earth; her death could be caused by so many things, so maybe what she was saying was true after all.

Maybe, after all this year the time had come for me to live again and to be me again. Maybe after all this time I should try again, try to be who I am and try to let persons know who exactly I was.

"Bonnie!" I rushed out of her room and down the stairs into the living room, where I could hear her breathing. She was sitting on the couch as she looked up at me. "Yes?" "You are right." I admitted. "I never wanted to be who I am, because I was afraid that they would never understand me. I know now that it was wrong to shut off the humanity because I was afraid and I want to change it. You are right, life is vulnerable and precious and I don't think I am ready to let the whole world know what the real me is, but I'll try to find the one that won't chose Stefan over me."

She smiled slightly at me. "Try it, Damon. You will be happy someday. I promise." She whispered and pulled me close to her. We hugged again and this time I wasn't only listening to her heartbeat, but to two of them as they mingled together in a steady rhythm.

Finally I understood, and so I kept her close to me as I whispered the words, knowing I found the person that would chose me.

"I just want you to know who I am"


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