A/N: This is going to be the last chapter with happy Damon/Elena moments. I'm sorry some of you weren't happy with the last chapter, but you have to deal with the bad before you get to the good. (;

Once again, I do not own these characters, just the story. (;

Elena headed downstairs to answer the door. She smiled softly when she opened it, "Hey Stefan."

Stefan nodded, "Can we talk?"

"Sure" she shrugged as she turned to head back up the stairs. Stefan followed behind her.

She sat down on the end of her bed and Stefan closed her bedroom door behind him.

"So talk." Elena said as she crossed her legs.

Stefan looked down and sighed, "Elana, I can't do this."

"Do...what?" Elena asked as she furrowed her eye brows, looking at him confused.

"I can't sit back and watch you get hurt, I won't let it happen." He walked up to her and kneeled down in front of her. "Damon is not a good person, he never has been, and he never will. You know you're just going to end up being another notch in his bedpost. You've seen him do it to plenty of girls."

"What I do is none of your business Stefan." she whispered as she stood up and headed towards her door. "If you're here to try and tell me what I should and shouldn't do, don't waste your time, I'm going to do what I want to do."

"I know that." Stefan stood up and turned to face her.

The look in his eyes brought a pain to her chest. He was practically begging Elena to stay away from Damon.

"Look...Elena...I just...I don't want to see you get hurt, I couldn't handle that.." his eyes never left hers.

"Why do you say that?" she questioned him, searching his eyes for an answer. But she knew. She's always known, for years now. Hell, everyone knew!

Stefan swallowed as he walked up right before her, "because I love you Elena...it kills me to see you hurt."

Elena stood there, almost froze. Yeah, she had known this already, but she honestly never expect it to come out, especially like this. "Stefan..I-"

Before she could even get out anything else, Stefan had his lips pressed against hers. He pulled back after a few, long seconds. He searched her eyes, looking for reassurance that she felt the same. But she didn't say a word, she just leaned up and kissed him this time. Within seconds Stefan moved her against the wall and their hands were searching each other's body as their tongues swirled around each other.

"Elena." Stefan called her name out.

"Elena," she heard her name again, only this time it was a different person's voice.

"Elenaaaaaa," this time she felt her eyes open. She looked to her left and saw Damon looking at her smiling. She looked around the room and sighed.

"It was a dream...just a dream" she thought to herself as she sighed and blinked slowly.

"Good morning." she smiled over to Damon.

He nodded, "What were you dreaming about?"

"Nothing," she immediatly answered, "I mean...I don't know. I don't really remember." she smiled, silently cursing at herself.

Damon stood up and started dressing. "Didn't sound like nothing," he laughed as he headed towards the bathroom with his shirt in hand.

Elena exhaled heavily as she closed her eyes and rubbed her forhead.

"I love you Elena." She couldn't get those words out of her head. She closed her eyes and tilted her head back as the hot water from her shower wet her hair.

Why couldn't she stop thinking about it. It was just a dream. It wasn't real. So why was it tormenting her?

She hurried and rinsed the shampoo out of her hair as she heard her phone start ringing. She turned the water off and wrapped herself in a towel as she opened the shower door and picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Elena! I've been trying to get in touch with you since last night!" Bonnie practically yelled on the other end.

Elena smiled, "I'm sorry, I was..busy."

Bonnie sighed, "Yeah, I heard."

Elena looked down.

"Anyways, do you want to grab some lunch at th Grill and catch up?" Bonnie asked.

"Sure, I'd like that. I'll meet you in about 30 minutes."

She hung up the call and looked up at the mirror. She wiped away the fog and attempted to smile at herself. She laughed at herself a little as she started to dry off and got ready to meet Bonnie.

"So, what happened last night?" Bonnie asked, poking at her salad.

"What do you think?" Elena said, taking a sip of her drink.

Bonnie put her fork down. "Elena..."

"I know, I know, you don't want to see me get hurt." Elena rolled her eyes.

Bonnie sighed, "and I know you're going to do what you want to do. But he's bad Elena. When have you ever seen Damon have a decent relationship?"

Elena tucked her hair behind her ear as she chewed her food, her eyes never leaving her plate.

"People change, Bonnie."

"No, Elena, they don't. Not people like Damon."

Elena was about to speak before she saw Stefan walk into the Grill. She sat up straight and cleared her throat.

"Hey Stefan." Elena smiled as he walked passed their table.

"Hey." Stefan responded coldly, not stopping until he sat down at the bar.

Elena's smiled fadded as she looked back down to her plate, sloutching her body again.

Bonnie looked at Stefan then back to Elena.

"Do you think he knows?" Elena asked quietly as she looked up at Bonnie.

"Well...no one could get in touch with either of you and Damon never went home last night...so my guess is yes."

Elena laughed and shook her head, "Why would he care anyway?"

Bonnie gave her a half hearted smile as she went back to eating her lunch.

Elena's smile fadded quickly as she looked outside through the window.

"What?" Bonnie asked as she turned to see what Elena was seeing.

Elena's heart sunk as she saw Damon talking to the blonde haired girl.

Rebekah.

"Who is that?" Bonnie asked.

"Some skank who's utterly obsessed with Damon." Elena scoffed.

"Well, geez." Bonnie laughed but quickly stopped when she realized Elena wasn't amused.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom." Elena said quickly as she got up and headed that way.

Bonnie turned back around as Elena spoke. When she entered the bathroom she looked to her left.

Stefan raised his eyebrows to her as he nodded back to the window. Bonnie turned around to see Damon and the blonde girl kissing. She quickly turned back to see Stefan, but instead she saw Elena standing there. She saw them. Bonnie hadn't seen so much pain in her eyes since her mom and dad had split up back when she was 10 years old.

"I...uh...I'm gonna go...Could you get the check this time and I'll ow-"

"Elena, it's fine, just go." Bonnie interruped.

Elena grabbed her keys off the table and went out the side door of the Grill. She was trying to wait until she got home before she broke down, but when her key didn't go into the door the first time, reality hit her. That really did just happen. After the amazing night she had with Damon, he was indeed kissing another girl. When she got the door open she dropped all of her weight onto the seat. She closed the door and imediatly her head fell onto her steering wheel and she cried. She probably sat there for an hour, or at least it seemed that way, before she drove away.

Elena had been driving around aimlessly for hours, it was dark now, when he phone rang she lowered volume on her radio and grabbed her phone. Damon. She sighed and hit the decline button. She threw her phone down onto the passenger seat and turned the volume back up as she hit the next button for a new song.

She was still crying, after hours of crying, she still managed to have tears left. She swallowed and took a deep breath as she sang along with the chorus.

"I swear I always fall for your type, yeah.
tell me why I always fall for your type."

Her phone started ringing again. This time she completely ignored it and didn't even bother to pick it up, she just turned the volume on the radio up even louder.

Elena turned down her radio as she turned into the boarding house drive way. She turned her car off and pulled the keys out the ignition. She took a deep breath as she opened her car door and got out. She closed the door and started walking towards the door. She took another deep breath before ringing the door bell.

Damon let out a sigh of relief when he opened the door and saw Elena.

"Where have you been? Why have you been ignoring my calls? No one knew where you were!" he yelled at her.

"I...I saw you with Rebekah.." she said quickly and looked down.

"Wha..." Damon closed his eyes as he brought his hands to his face.

"It's fine Damon...we aren't together, it's not like I have any right to be angry. And I'm not, I'm fine. Really." She forced a smile as she looked up at him.

"Elena.." he pleaded as he grabbed her hand and looked into her eyes.

"She means nothing to me...she's just obsessed with me or something, it's the only way I can keep her from going phsyco on me." he laughed.

"Right." Elena replied.

Damon pulled her hand, making her go into the house. He shut the door behind her.

"Damon, I-"

She was cut off by Damon's lips on hers. She wanted to pull away, but she couldn't. She pushed away the thought of Rebekah kissing the same lips she was now kissing. She wrapped her hands around his neck as their kiss deepened and Damon responded by putting his arms around her waist and pulling her closer.

Before she knew it, they were in his bedroom. Practically tearing each other's clothes off while kissing furiously.

Damon pushed her onto the bed and got ontop of her. He leaned in and kissed her shoulder and trailed kisses up back to her lips and kissed her again. He wasted no time and thrusted into her. Elena tore her lips from his as she threw her head back and moaned loudly.

He sat up on his knees and placed his hands on her hips pulling her down to meet his thrusts. Making her moan uncontrollably. Her hands gripped his silk sheets as she felt herself getting closer to losing it. Damon responded to this by quickening his pace.

"Damon!" she pratically screamed his name as she came and not a second later he came as well.

He collapsed on the side of her. They were both breathing heavily. Damon tured over to grab a ciggartte and a lighter. He sat up with his back against the headboard and lit the cigarrette.

Elena watched him for a minute before speaking. "Can I have one of those?"

Damon smirked as he grabbed one for her and lit it. She grabbed it from him and took a long hit from it.

"Now I know why people in movies always smoke after sex." she laughed as she flicked the cigg's ashes into the nearby ashtray.

Damon laughed as well as he leaned over and kissed her lips then returned to his nicotien.

It had been a few days since Elena had seen or even spoke to Damon. The three day weekend had passed and she had to get back to work.

She threw her hair into a ponytail and took one last look in her rearview mirror before she got out of her car.

"Morning Elena!" Caroline called out from her behind her register. She handed the lady her change and receipt and stepped away to get to Elena.

Elena continued walking to the back room and opened up her locker. She pulled out her name tag and pinned it to her shirt.

"Oh, no. You are NOT walking away from this conversation. I'm on break and your shift doesn't start for another 15 minutes." Caroline ordered to her and closed her locker for her.

Elena laughed, "What conversation?"

"Don't even dude, you know exactly what I want to talk about!" Caroline laughed with her.

"There's nothing to talk about, Damon and I are just friends."

"With benifits." Caroline added in. Elena slapped her arm and laughed.

"Get to work ladies." their boss Alaric called out from his office, looking at them while poking his head out from the side of the newspaper he was reading.

Elena did a soluting motion towards him and smiled, "Yes sir!"

Alaric laughed a little to himself and went back to reading his paper.

"We WILL talk later young lady." Caroline winked at her as she walked towards the employee restroom.

Elena smiled as she walked back out to the store.

Nine long hours later Elena was counting the money in her drawer for her register.

"I'm over two cents." Elena said as she handed Alaric the drawr.

"It's not nice to steal, Elena." he joked with her. "Alright, just be more careful tomorrow."

She nodded as she started to head towards the back to get her keys.

"OH! And I'm gonna need you to work Saturday night, just from seven to close though. Morgan needs to leave early."

"Gotcha." Elena smiled.

Just as Elena was pulling into her driveway her phone rang.

"Well hello, Stranger." she teased.

"Hey, sorry. Been kinda busy." Damon's voice said on the other line.

"Busy with what?" she questioned.

"Just some things that needed to be taken care of. But, we're having a little party on Saturday. You down?"

"I have to work for an hour that night, but I can stop by afterwards."

"Alright...I'll see you then."

"Oka-" before she could finish the click from the line cutting off inturrupted her.

She furrowed her eyebrows as she lowered the phone from her ear.

Weird.

Saturday night rolled around and Elena had left work and was on her way to the boarding house. She had brought a change of clothes with her so she could change before she left work. She had to ignore the look Alaric gave her as she was leaving. She couldn't blame him though with her outfit choice. She was wearing a skin tight, red, strapless dress that stopped right under her bottom, sporting almost stripper length matching heels.

She pulled her dress down a little and adjusted her clevage as she got out her car.

Stefan nearly dropped his drink when he saw Elena walk through the door. His breath caught in his throat and he nearly choked when he swallowed. He hadn't been the only one to notice, Elena smirked as she noticed quite a few people turning their heads to look her up and down.

She pushed a curl behind her ear as she walked further into the house to go get a drink.

"ELENA!" she heard Caroline's voice over the music.

She laughed as she saw Caroline pouring shots for everyone that was around the island in the kitchen. She walked up next to her.

"Have you seen Damon?" Elena asked over the loud music.

Caroline shook her head, "Last I saw him was about an hour ago, he was dancing with that girl, what's her name?"

"Rebekah."

"YEAH! That's it!" Caroline laughed.

"I need about 10 of those shots, maybe 11." Elena clentched her jaw.

"Coming right up!" Caroline practically slurred in response.

"Drop it, drop it low, girl.
Drop it, drop it low, girl."

The music blared through the house. Elena and Caroline were dancing away. There was still no sign of Damon, but Elena was able to get intoxicated enough to push the thought out of her mind after an hour.

The song ended and they both laughed. Elena saw Stefan across the room and smirked at him as a new song started. She moved her hips to the beat of the song and motioned with her hand for him to dance with her. Stefan laughed and shook his head. Elena shurgged her shoulders as she turned the other way. Stefan went to turn away for another drink until he saw Elena bend over as she proceeded to shake her move her hips sensually, her hands moving down her legs. She ran them back up her body as she stood up straight again, still moving her hips.

Stefan looked left to right before walking up to her. "What are you doing?" he asked.

She smiled as she pressed her back against him. She tilted her head back and leaned it on his shoulder, "What do you mean?"

Stefan struggled to answer as Elena rocked her hips against his to the slow rythem of the music. She grabbed his hands and placed them on her hips as she lifted her head back up.

"Can I, can I save you from you cause you know there's something missing

and that champagne you've been sippin's not supposed to make you different all the time

it's starting to feel like the wrong thing to do girl

cause with all that recognition it gets hard for you to listen to the things that I must say to make you mine

But live girl, have some fun girl, we'll be fine

trying to convince myself I've found one making the mistake I never learned from"

Stefan's head fell into her neck and Elena's eyes closed as she felt his breath on her skin. She closed her eyes as she pressed onto him as their hips moved together.

"I swear I always fall for your type, yeah.
tell me why I always fall for your type"

Elena turned to face him, his right leg was between her legs. Their eyes locked as the song went on and they continued to move to the beat. Stefan's hands ran down to her bottom and Elena's hands moved to his chest.

Just as it was getting hard to breathe, the song ended.

"SHOTS EVERYBODY!" Tyler yelled from the kitchen.

Stefan and Elena both pulled away from each other simotaniously. Elena tucked a curl behind her ear and cleared her throat as she walked away towards the kitchen.

"What the hell was that?" Stefan jumped as Bonnie came up behind him.

"I...I...don't know." He studdered and looked towards the Kitchen watching Elena take a shot and chase it with a mixed drink Caroline handed her.

"Tequila makes you do...things." Bonnie sighed.

"Yeah, that's what it was." Stefan laughed but quickly stopped when he saw Damon walk up behind Elena and kiss her shoulder.

"Unbelievable..." Bonnie shook her head as she walked towards the kitchen.

xxxx

"Did you have a nice dance with my brother?" Damon asked Elena.

"Did you have a nice time with Rebekah?" Elena spit back and chugged the rest of her drink.

Damon smirked, "Was there some jealousy in that?"

"Not at all." She said as she stumbled away. "I'm going to the bathroom."

xxx

Elena exhaled deeply as she leaned onto the bathroom counter. She looked up at herself in the mirror and quickly looked away.

"What are you doing, Elena?" She whispered to herself. She pulled out a cigarette from her clutch and lit it. She sat down on the edge of the bathtub as she exhaled the smoke.

"Knock, knock." she heard Damon's voice on the other side of the door.

"Come in." She called as she took another hit.

"You're hiding."

"Am not. I just needed to breathe for a minute."

"So you come into a closed room and smoke. Right." Damon smiled.

"What do you care? I'm just another name in your little black book." she spit at him.

"My what?" He laughed.

She shot a glare at him and he stopped laughing. She looked away as he kneeled down in front of her.

"I was picking this up for you." He said as he pulled a box out of his pocket.

She rolled her eyes as she turned to face him and gaspsed. "Wha...I can't take this."

"Consider it a late birthday gift, for all the ones I missed." He smiled.

"It's beautiful.." she said as she ran her fingers over the diamonds on the necklace.

"Just like you." Damon said as he looked to her eyes.

"You accepting this gift will make everything official. No more Rebekah, no more going days without speaking to each other."

Elena smiled, "You mean that?"

"I mean I did just buy you an expensive peice of jewlery, come on, if that doesn't scream date me, I'm not sure what does."

They both laughed and shared a kiss.

"Thank you." Elena whispered as she hugged him.

"Elena" Bonnie stopped her in her tracks as well as the smile that was spread across her face.

"What's up?" She looked back to Damon and nodded to him, "I'll find you in a few."

Damon smiled at Bonnie before walking off and she gave him her middle finger.

"Bonnie!" Elena exclaimed and grabbed her hand.

"We need to talk." Bonnie crossed her arms.

"Then talk." Elena replied, this attitude Bonnie was coming at her with was totally uncalled for.

Bonnie grabbed her arm and led her outside, near her car where it was quiet.

"What are you doing, dude?" Bonnie questioned as she let go of Elena's arm.

"Nothing Bonnie, what the hell?"

"I don't know if you're in some kind of fucked up realm of your own world or something, but you need a serious reality check."

"Bonnie." Elena's jaw clentched in frustration, "What the fuck are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about the fact that Stefan obviously feels something for you. And you just screwed his brother, then proceeded to grind all up on him to some sensual song and stare into his eyes. Oh and now you're dating Damon apparently."

Elena blinked and exhaled almost laughing, "What?"

"You're seriously going to play stupid right now? You've had Stefan in the friend zone for years now and you know that."

"I can't help who I fall for Bonnie." Elena spat back almost offended at her friend going off on her.

"Whatever Elena. When everything goes bad, we'll see who's still around for you." Bonnie said as she started to walk away.

"Seriously Bonnie? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Elena yelled at her.

"It means, I warned you, twice now, and I'm only going sit around and watch you get hurt for so long." She stopped walking and turned in Elena's direction, "and I wouldn't be surprised if Stefan felt the same way." She shook her head as she looked Elena up and down before turning around and walking back into the house.

Elena swallowed the lump in her throat and kicked a rock that was nearby. She leaned against her car door and sighed.

"Why is everyone on my case so much lately? I can make my own decisions, I'm a grown ass woman." She thought to herself.

She walked back into the house and decided to drink the rest of the night away and ended up being carried up to Damon's bedroom after she puked all the alcohol up at about 3am.

Hmm...it seems things are going bad before it even starts. Do you think Elena feels the same for Stefan and is completely ignoring it/doesn't want to admit it? Why would she dance so sensually with him and stare into his eyes, or hell, even dream about him RIGHT after she had sex with Damon? & why is everyone on Elena's case so much about Damon? What could be so bad about him that Bonnie went so far as to say their friendship would be over? I guess we will see!

-Shay

- Songs used "Fall For Your Type" - Jamie Foxx / "Drop It Low" - Ester Dean