A/N Yes people that's right… it's an update! I'm one exam down this January… still four more to go I'm sorry it always takes me so long to update but my life is just so hectic, like always and school always comes first. Anyway yeah I still have four more exams this January and then I have three university interviews in February but I will keep trying to update! OMG I know this is late but I'm STILL not over the Elena and Damon kiss This season is gonna be so great for them! This chapter is quite intense and not at all like I had planned it to be but Elena and Damon just decide what they want to do, I swear I have no control even though I'm writing it!

Elena and Damon strolled into the Grill and occupied a booth towards the back. The waitress promptly came over to take their orders before moving on to another booth. Although Elena was not looking directly at him she could feel Damon's demanding stare on her.

"So how does the rest of the story go?" Elena asked.

"It's not a story that puts us in a great light," Damon warned. Elena nodded in understanding. "We could no longer fight the attraction and we started sneaking around together. I was unhappy with the arrangement after a month because I wanted to be your boyfriend and knowing that Stefan and you were still spending time alone together was driving me up the wall. You agreed that it was time to tell Stefan, but before you could Stefan kind of caught us in a compromising position that clearly showed we weren't just friends. We were both feeling guilty about what we did to Stefan but with time things got better and we could talk civilly to him." Elena felt tears clouding her vision. 'How could I hurt Stefan so badly?' She blinked her tears away; what's done is done.

"We then got married seven months after that," Damon continued.

"Whoa we were only together for eight months before getting married?" Elena questioned. Damon nodded his head in conformation. "But I was with Stefan for like…" Elena did some quick Maths in her head before continuing, "eight months as well and we were nowhere near marriage. Plus I must have been just 19! Eight months is kind of fast isn't it?"

"We're kind of..." Damon dwindled off, and Elena could see that he was searching for a word, "Intense," he finished.

'By intense, does he mean madly in love, the kind where you can't keep your hands off each other, can't stop thinking about the other? But that only lasts for so long...'

"So any chance we've been married for nearly two years and everything's going perfectly fine and we're just living boring lives?" Elena questioned as their food arrived. Elena grabbed a chip eagerly and popped it in her mouth.

"That's never going to be possible when one of us is a vampire and the other is the doppelganger of a vampire."

"A girl can wish!" Elena joked. "Have we as a couple run into any problems?"

"We have our tiffs if that's what you're asking but I mean with your stubborn nature they're bound to happen."

"Oi! I am not stubborn! If anything we're probably arguing because of your arrogant, i-know-everything nature!" Elena playfully argued.

Damon held his hands up in defeat. "Fine, I can be arrogant sometimes and that may lead to a few disagreements but you have to admit that you're stubborn!"

Elena rolled her eyes and gave a small smile. "Fine! I'm stubborn… I admit it."

"What was that? Did I hear that right?" Damon moved his right hand behind his ear playfully joking with Elena. "Did Elena Gilbert just admit that she is the most insufferable stubborn person to live?"

Elena laughed at Damon's fake indignation. "No she did not. Elena Salvatore admitted that she was a stubborn person. Speaking in third person is really weird!" Elena smiled looking at Damon. She had seen how his eyes had lit up and how a big smile had spread across his face as she referred to herself as a Salvatore. She was glad that she had made him smile, having treated him badly during the initial shock of finding out she had lost four years of her life. Damon deserved to smile more often; the look suited him, even though she had to admit that she missed his smirk.

"No supernatural enemies then in these four years?" Elena asked munching on chips.

"A lot… I'm afraid to tell you," Damon responded truthfully.

"Why?"

"Because it took you a while to forgive me for some of the things that have happened."

Elena's eyebrows scrunched in confusion. 'Why do I have to forgive him for other supernatural events that have occurred in my life?"

"Okay here goes. Your birth mother Isobel came to town right after we discovered Katherine wasn't in the tomb. She was someone that I turned a few years before meeting you."

"Turned? As in turned into a vampire?" Elena asked overwhelmed by all that she was learning. She knew her birth mum?

"Yes, but I swear that she came to me and asked me to turn her!" Damon tried to explain quickly.

"Did you sleep with her?" Elena asked angrily.

Damon didn't reply and that was all the confirmation Elena needed to know. She got up from her seat angrily, her appetite disappearing altogether. As Damon watched Elena storm out the Grill his senses kicked in. He wasn't about to just let her leave and form more distance between them both emotionally and physically.

As Elena walked out and made a few strides down the road Damon grabbed her wrist and twisted her around.

"Elena don't be mad."

"How the hell am I supposed to not be mad? My husband has slept with my biological mother, not to mention he's fucked my great great great great great great whatever!" Elena shouted.

"Elena you got over it once before, you can get over it again."

Elena scoffed, "great comforting words Damon. Bravo." Elena clapped her hands in sarcasm.

Damon brought his right hand up to pinch the bridge of his nose in frustration. "I didn't mean it like that. I just meant that I don't want to have this argument again. I know you don't remember us arguing about it before, but I can't take you being angry at me and upset about something that took us a while to get over the first time."

"Well you can't expect that from me Damon. It's like I'm learning these things for the first time. It feels like you've only just told me that my birthmother is a fucking vampire and that you've had sex with her." Elena explained as a silent tear rolled down her left cheek.

Damon's eyes softened. "I understand Elena. But you have to understand that that isn't me anymore. I know you find it hard to separate me from the vampire I was four years afo and I'm not saying that I'm not that person because I still am, the difference is that now I have you. You make me a better person. I promise that there is no one for me ever again. It's you always. I've made a lot of mistakes Elena but I don't want to make anymore. The way I feel about Katherine pales in comparison to how much I feel for you and don't even get me started on my non-existent feelings for Isobel." Damon lifted his right hand and wiped her tears with his thumb. He stepped closer to Elena and cupped her face with her hands. "But Elena I need to know if you can understand that. I need to know if I'm fighting a losing battle. Do I stand a chance? Can you forgive me for my sins and look past it to see what you've seen in me before?" Damon asked desperately. He knew that he could never win Elena's love if she was never willing to put herself out there for him. They were spending the day together which was a step forwards but he could still feel Elena holding back.

The tears escaped Elena's eyes as she listened to Damon. The topic had somehow changed drastically towards the elephant in the room that they were trying to pretend didn't exist. Something inside her shifted seeing how vulnerable the man in front of her was. She could feel his sadness, longing… love. She swallowed her tears knowing what she had to do. She nodded her head frantically, "I can Damon." Elena smiled seeing Damon drop his head in relief. She felt guilty for being so self-absorbed. Damon had lost the girl he loved and he didn't deserve it. This Damon that he was now, didn't deserve it. "I promise to be better." Elena whispered. With that promise, she decided to forgive Damon for what happened between him and her birth mother. The rational side of her knew that he didn't know her at the time he met Isobel and it was just a cruel twist of fate that that woman had to be her mother. It was only the irrational side that just cringed at the knowledge that her husband had slept and turned her biological mother.

Damon chuckled at her promise. "There's no way for you to be better Elena. You're perfect."

"Damon I'm scared," Elena confessed.

Damon's eyebrows scrunched together at her revelation. "Why?"

"You love me so much. You love the old me. I'm scared that you won't love me," Elena chuckled, "okay that made no sense. What I'm trying to say is that I'm scared that I'm too different to who I was before. I'm lost and I don't know who I am anymore. I'm scared that you'll wake up realise that you don't love this person and that you'll miss your Elena. You're wife Elena."

Damon listened to Elena carefully, absorbing what she was saying before he pulled her close into a tight hug. Elena wrapped her hands around Damon's waist and dug her head into the crook of his neck. She held on tightly breathing his scent in. Damon stroked Elena's back, trying to comfort her and dispel her fears. He rested his chin on the top of her head and breathed her in. He sighed before speaking softly.

"You don't need to worry about those things Elena. You're honestly not very different to who you were from what I can tell. I know it's a lot to deal with and you only woke up yesterday but like you said, I love you. I love the way you scrunch your nose in disgust; I love the way you laugh heartily, I love the way you smell, I love the way you make me smile and feel so happy in ways that no-one else could ever do or even imagine feeling. You might not know who you are Elena, but I do and I want to help you rediscover who you are."

Damon hugged Elena more tightly and could feel Elena's body shaking as she sobbed. He ran his hands through her hair, waiting patiently for her to let out all the pent up confusion, sadness and sense of loss. Slowly, Elena's crying subsided but she didn't let go of Damon. Damon leant forward placed a chaste kiss on the top of her head and Elena sighed at the contact. She turned her head to the side and realisation kicked in that they were standing in the middle of the road just outside The Grill.

"Err Damon," Elena spoke softly.

"Mmm," Damon replied with his eyes looking hazy as though his mind had drifted far away. Elena slowly pulled away from his comforting embrace.

"People are kind of staring at us." Elena quickly dabbed the tears away from her eyes as embarrassment filled her as she realised that a small crowd had formed around them watching them curiously as though they were monkeys in a zoo.

"They're just amazed at how a beautiful such a beautiful woman could exist," Damon quipped. A slight blush covered Elena's cheeks as she looked away.

"Come on, let's go home," Elena said, grabbing Damon's hand and heading off in the direction of the boarding house. Elena was surprised to realise how natural it felt to be calling the boarding house home. It suddenly started feeling more like her home. Damon smiled, they'd made so much progress today and he felt relieved. He and Elena had a chance.

As Damon and Elena walked through the front door of the Boarding House, Damon asked Elena if she wanted anything to drink. She nodded and asked for some water. Elena entered the living room and inspected the room to look for differences from what it was like four years ago. From what she could tell, nothing had really changed.

As Elena looked at the mantle she noticed a large frame picture. She walked closer to it and saw that it was another one of her and Damon during their wedding but this time she was looking at the camera apparently giggling as Damon was kissing her cheek. It was a really cute photo.

Elena's eyes glance wandered towards the date written in flowing script on the matte surrounding the picture. 'Oh no'

Elena could feel that Damon's presence was still in the kitchen and hadn't quite returned yet.

Elena remembered how Damon had said yesterday was the 28th February and seeing as 2010 is not a leap year, that made today March 1st.

"Hey Damon?" Elena called out. Damon appeared immediately clearly having used his vampire abilities.

"Yeah?"

As Elena looked at the photo she was unsure whether she should mention what caught her attention, unsure whether it would upset Damon or not. 'Well I might as well just do it.'

"Happy Anniversary," Elena told him quietly, and his face settled into a warm genuine smile.

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