This chapter is mostly told in Elena's point of view. I know that my chapters have been pretty short, so I tried to make this one longer. Baby steps, baby steps.
Damon's POV
"Stefan it has been 3 days since she's turned it back on, and I'm worried about her." I said on the verge of tears. "You know how pure she is at heart, feeling that all this grief from all the killing and everything else she's done. I'm sure she'll be fine." "I don't know I mean, I've never seen her like this." "Please down talk about me like I'm not here." I turn around to see Elena on the stairs.
Elena's POV
"I don't know I mean, I've never seen her like this." I heard Stefan say. "Please don't talk about me like I'm not here." I say immediately as I gracefully descend the staircase. I walk over behind the couch and pour myself a glass of bourbon. I found myself doing that a lot lately. I walked over and sat on the couch with my glass of bourbon and a book I was currently reading, The Host. "Whatcha reading?" I hear Damon say as he sat down next to me on the couch. "Umm The Host , you know excited I was about seeing the movie." I said, I found myself smiling as I said that, for the first time in days, weeks maybe. "Yeah I remember, that was supposed to be our date night movie." Damon said. We both laughed until I said "Well, look how that turned out." I didn't even realize Stefan was standing right there until he said "I'm sorry, but exactly are we planning to do?" I looked at him with a confused look "Do about what exactly?" I asked. "You know what Elena." I looked down when I realized what he was talking about, Damon looked over at me with his beautiful blue eyes. He put his hand on mine and caressed it, trying to sooth me I guess. "Stefan we shouldn't talk about this now." I hear Damon say in his protective voice. He usually only brought that out whenever he was with me. "Come on Elena lets take you upstairs." He says as he takes my hand to start guiding me up the stairs. I could hear Stefan still standing in the library, he let out a huge sigh that I could tell he'd been holding in for quite a while. Damon led me to his room, I'd been staying with him ever since I'd been living in the boarding house. "Elena, are you going to be ok?" Damon asks as I sit on the bed and get under the sheets. "I'll live, somehow I always do." I say as Damon sits next to me and tries to tuck me in like a father would do his young daughter. "You told me that once, the night after I kissed you on the porch." I chuckle. "That was a great night." "The night where we kissed or the night when Stefan nearly killed you?" I smile "I don't know that kiss was pretty good." We both laugh. "I haven't heard that laugh in a while." Damon says to me, I look up and his eyes match mine. "Look I'm sorry about everything, I just don't know who I am anymore." "But, I do. I know exactly who you are. You're Elena Gilbert, you're stubborn, selfless, and you love people so much it consumes you." The whole time I look at him, into those big blue eyes, while holding his hand. I've done this so many times before but this time it felt…different. Before I even knew what I was doing I leaned over and I kissed him, I put my hands on the side of his face and deepened the kiss. When we broke free I said "I love you so much it consumes me." We smile and kiss again.