Jeremy and Damon were nose to nose at this point. Stefan continued to try and defuse the situation, While Bonnie hovered in the background, refusing to get involved with their vampire drama.
"I was a bit skeptical at first, but Hey I thought.. why not let my little bro try and handle things by himself for a change.. and now I see exactly why I've always had to interfere. I'm the one who gets stuck cleaning up the charity he couldn't help." Damon snapped, nudging Jeremy on the shoulder.
"I won't fight you, Damon." Jeremy retaliated.
"Why won't you?" Damon asked, Nudging him harder. "You can't just shrug me off, That's not in your nature.." Damon stated, giving him one final push, which sent Jeremy crashing into the trees behind.
Jeremy slowly stood and brushed the dirt from his back. He wasn't going to give Damon what he wanted, even if that meant getting himself killed. Damon glared at Jeremy and smirked in his direction.
"Damon, I'm not giving up on him. I owe it to Elena and I owe it to myself." Stefan declared, putting himself in the line of fire.
"He almost killed your girlfriend.. does that mean nothing to you. Do you honestly believe you would be standing where you are right now.. if Jeremy would have finished what he started?" Damon asked, raising his right eyebrow.
"Do you, for one second, actually think that, I don't feel horrible for what I did?" Jeremy demanded, pushing Stefan out of the way now.
"I get it okay.." Jeremy quickly fumed, "You love Elena and for a moment you thought the one person who gave you chance, after chance, was gone. That thought alone killed you, which is why you're here taking out your fear on me."
"You think this is fear?" Damon chuckled, gesturing to himself. "..and you think I love Elena?"
"Awful lot of effort for someone who pretends not to care about her." Stefan mumbled.
Jeremy's shoulders slumped and he shook his head in disbelief, before holding out his hand. Stefan watched nervously as Damon cocked his head in Jeremy's direction.
"If you feel this strongly about killing me, then take the ring off of my finger and watch me burn to my death." Jeremy suggested, starring motionlessly back at him.
Time seemed to have stood still for that long minute of exchanging glances, before Damon darted for His hand and gripped his wrist as hard as he could. Jeremy clenched his jaw and forced himself to stay quiet.
Damon lightly tapped the ring, and Jeremy squeezed his eyes shut, preparing for his death.
"Stop!" A voice screamed, Elena stood breathlessly a few feet infront of them.
"Damon, don't do it." Elena begged, carefully inching closer.
"Why are you here?" Stefan quietly asked.
"Bonnie called me." Elena answered, keeping her eyes on Damon and her brother.
In the midst of all the chaos, no one noticed Bonnie's empty presence. A shift of emotions began to pass between the four of them and two pairs of worrying eyes fell on Damon.
"Do it, Just do it!" Jeremy yelled.
"What? No, don't do it!" Elena begged, starring confusingly at Jeremy. "Why would you want to die?" She asked.
"I can't live with myself if I hurt you again Elena." Jeremy Confessed, refusing to look at her.
"Jeremy, You won't. We're going to help you so you won't do that to anyone, ever again." Elena smiled, reaching out her hand.
"Jeremy.. look at me." Elena urged.
"I can't.." Jeremy cried, barring his face into Damon's shoulder, This took everyone by surprise.
"Why?" she asked, watching as Damon let go of Jeremy's wrist and hold his arms out, as if he was trying not to touch him now.
"Because every time I do, I want to kill you." Jeremy snapped, His words were cold.
Elena was angered by his response, and determined to prove him wrong. She bravely stood in front of him and Grabbed his face. Both, Damon and Stefan watched cautiously as Jeremy Slowly turned, his eyes were transforming and his fangs began to appear.
"Jeremy, Look at me. You won't hurt me, just relax. I trust you.." Elena whispered, cupping his face more firmly.
Jeremy peered into Her dark brown eyes, They held so much confidence and Hope, He just couldn't see disappointment in her eyes again. He wouldn't allow himself or anyone else to put such sadness in them. Jeremy inhaled deeply and began to feel his facial features return to normal. He watched Elena smile in response, and quickly wrapped her into his arms.
"I'm so sorry." He cried, A feeling of relief entered his body.
"It's okay, everything is going to be okay." She promised, shyly looking at Damon, Who, for the first time, had a concerned expression across his face.
No one spoke of the events that played out that morning, and as the moon was now hovering over the Salvatore house, Damon and Elena sat awkwardly by the fire place.
"I'm sorry about Jeremy." Damon said, taking a sip of whiskey.
"Lets not talk about it, and just move on from here." Elena suggested, ripping her eyes from his icy blue ones, and focused them on Stefan entering the room.
"How is he?" she asked, now jumping to her feet.
"He's fine, he's sleeping now. We talked about mood swings, cravings, and controlling his senses. He grasped them pretty fast, I don't think we're going to have to many problems." Stefan told her.
"Because it's just that easy.." Damon snapped.
"Why are you so against him helping Jeremy?" Elena asked, her hand on her hip.
"I'm not against it, I'm just not convinced anything good is going to come from this." He corrected, placing his empty glass on the book shelf.
".. and why is that? Stefan helped Caroline and she's doing fine." Elena reminded.
"Jeremy's different.." Damon stated.
"You just want him to be different, because that would give you the reason to have no faith in him." Stefan objected.
"He has such a sad soul, Which is partially the reason why I didn't kill him when I had the chance. That would be me, giving him what he wants, and I don't do that. At least Caroline had other emotions, She went from, Bitch, To Angel, To Seductive vixen, and back to possessed cannibal in a matter of two seconds flat ." Damon chuckled, ignoring the tension in the air.
"Damon, That's my little brother. He needs me and I won't let him down. I don't care if you believe in him or in Stefan or if you have no faith in all of this, But Jeremy Looks up to you. He needs you and he wants you to accept him and if that means faking it, then so be it.. But if you try to kill him again, I will make sure YOUR eternity on this planet is the most miserable time you've ever experienced." Elena threatened, before stomping out of the room.
"By the looks of it, it smells as if it's that time of the month." Damon winked, as Stefan rolled his eyes and followed Elena's lead.
"How dare him!" Elena yelled, running her fingers through her hair, as she made it into Stefans room.
"Baby, you know how Damon is. It takes some time to get him to come around." Stefan told her, tucking a piee of brown hair behind her ear.
"He was going to kill Jeremy." Elena breathed.
"..But he didn't. Damon hesitated, which means he actually feels for him." Stefan explained, pulling Elena into his arms.
Jeremy was abruptly awaken by Damon dragging him out of the guest bed, the cold hard woods floor felt more soft then hard now.
"What's going on?" Jeremy tiredly asked, finding his way back to his feet.
"I'm going to teach you how to have fun, seeing how You're stuck on this boring earth for eternity." Damon told him, opening up the window.
"..and your definition of fun would be?" Jeremy questioned, slipping on his shirt.
"The kind in which there are no rules, now lets go." Damon urged, jumping out of the window, Jeremy quickly following.