Author's Note: Thank you all for the messages, favorites, and alerts. I always get so happy when I see the messages in my inbox. For this chapter I was all over the place and so were the characters. Elena is going to be acting so crazy and like she can't make up her mind, but Damon also. Hope I didn't spoil anything too much, this chapter is very interesting. Ok, enough from me…


"I said I still love you. I still love you like the days when we were crazing about each other." She admitted to herself and Damon had to know. He deserved to know.

"Oh God Elena, I- I still love you too."

The words had been spoken. Everything was wrong in a perfect situation. She wasn't supposed to say it, but it just slipped out. Why? Why did she have to tell him? That was her secret and no one else should know.

Hell yeah she still loved him. She still loved him even though he left her for five years- five long years. It hurted her heart to think about it, but she had to admit to herself. The man standing in front of her is who owned her heart. She could have tried again, but her heart and body wouldn't let her. She belonged with Damon.

Elena froze after the words left Damon's lips. He still loved her. They didn't know what to say. What possibly could have been spoken? Elena just looked into his eyes, but her teary ones. After all this weeks with him back, she finally let herself go. She just let everything out and wanted to enjoy it, but something was bothering her.

"God Damon, what went wrong? What could have torn us apart? We were so strong and powerful, but now we're here. It took me hating and avoiding you to say we still love each other." She continued to look into his eyes and let the tears pour. She just didn't care. This was Damon and she could do anything in front of him.

"Everything, but I just couldn't trust you anymore. You became a different person." He hated to admit it, but it needed to be said and she asked what went wrong. He knew what her reaction would be …

"Oh really Damon...me...I'm to blame for this relationship falling apart. I just came here and poured my heart out to you and here you go disrespecting me and making me the bad person again. Five years really don't change a person, do they?

Truly Elena was hurt by his comment. It was hard enough to keeping fighting feeling that she had for him, but now she was ready to give them another try. To at least try to get back to 'crazy in love' stage they had years ago, but not with Damon asking like that again. She's so sensitive because she's opening her heart to the guy who hurt her so badly, but she was trying. Trying to rekindle their flame and fall deeply back in love. It was just that simple.

"Elena, I – I didn't mean to say it like that. My brain is just overwhelmed and trying to process the words you just said to me." He looked up from the girl on the ground and looked away from her teary eyes. One thing Elena needed to understand that he was still the same person and hadn't changed in any way. Still that cocky and sometimes arrogant person that she deep down loved so much. How could she have let him go so easy?

"No. No Damon yes you did. I let my heart take over for a second and that was the only thing you can say?" She stood up and cleaned you pants off.

"Did you hear the part where I said that I love you, too? My heart still only beats for you. It was really stupid to say and it just slipped out." God was she really going to get on him about that?

"You know Damon, my plan was to come down here and curse you the hell out, but I wouldn't let that happen. My brain was telling me to hurt you really bad, but my heart just told me to let go for a second and just relax. Maybe it was just a sign that I need to get going." She needed to get out of there because he was simply making her mad again and she just didn't need stress.

"You're just the same as always Elena. You let go then put a guard up again. Why? We just told each other that we're still in love and you ruin it. Ruin it because some stupid shit I just said. It doesn't matter. Elena I've missed you so much. Please don't walk out again." He was strong begging her not to leave and just stay with him for a second even though it was a public place. Thank God no one had walked in yet.

"Oh don't you just know me so well. Gosh, Damon why do you have to ruin everything good that happens to you. I was not asking for a relationship, but I felt like you needed to know. Damon you needed to know that even though you hurt me to the lowest point in my life, I still think about life would have been for us." Her heart was aching for him, but she knew to keep her distance. Saying that she loved him was just to get something huge off her chest. She didn't know how things were going to be after she said it, but it was either say that she still cared for and loved him or tell him about Amelia.

She so badly wanted to tell him about her. That she had his eyes, personality, and smile. Lilt up a room just like he can. Make her smile even when she feels like life can't go on. Amelia was her only reason why she continued life after Damon. Her love was pure and would never leave. Something that she felt Damon couldn't have.

"Elena I've changed. I'm still that Damon that you love, but a better man. A man who can finally take care of you." He was trying his hardest to make her just simply understand where he was coming from.

"Don't you understand that I don't want you again? Me telling you that I still love you doesn't mean that I want you back. It was simply that you were honest with me when you first got back, then I should be honest with you." There was more that she wanted to tell him, but the conversation wasn't going how she planned.

Damon didn't understand though. Why did she come down to the firm and express a strong feeling that she has toward him, but don't want a relationship. There was more to it.

"When why did you come down here? To tell me you still love me? Or is it something else. You know Elena; I can always tell when something is wrong. What else is it to you?" He smirked at her which set her off.

"I came down here to tell you something that I thought you were man enough to here, but it seems like you're not. When can you finally grow up and really be a man? Till that day comes when it won't be an us." She turned away from him and entered the doorway before lastly looking at the sorrow on his face. She had hurt him. Walking out of eyesight, she just nodded to herself and realized that finally she had been the one walking away this time.


"Uncle Kol you look so silly. Why are you wearing a dress and looking like a clown?" Amelia laughed as Kol walking up and down the living room like he was a runway model. She stayed with Kol and Katherine when Elena had places to do and needed a babysitter. They loved spending time with the little one and thought of her as one of their own. Without Damon in Amelia's life she needed a father figure and no one was better than Kol.

"Well Auntie Katherine told me that I looked sexy. Which is it; sexy or silly?" The smile on the women's face truly did light up his world. He and Katherine had been together for years. On and off since high school, but more serious after the birth of Amelia. They were like the co-parents when Elena needed help.

"Both that would be. Well I think you look sexy and Amelia thinks you look silly." Katherine commented with Damon's evil smirk.

"Auntie Kitty, that's the face the man I saw in person and in my dream. Have you seen him also?" Amelia looked at Katherine with her questionable look and waited for an answer.

Katherine eyes landed on Kol"s to make sure she heard what Amelia had said. Damon saw Amelia before? Why hadn't Elena said anything? Did Damon know that she was his daughter?

"No baby girl, I just do that face sometimes. So what does that man do in your dream?" Katherine's brain was strongly wondering why was in her dreams. Amelia climbed onto the couch and placed her head on her lap.

"No nothing, just scares me sometimes then he's nice other times. I don't think he likes me." The dreams were just a way that he could see her…

"Did her tell your Mommy about them?" Elena had to know.

"Yes, but she said that she would handle that today. I guess that where she at. The dream land, right?" She was only a kid, but she knew a lot. The smartest everyone had met.

"Sweetie I don't know where she is, but I hope she going to get the bad dreams out of your head. Only princesses and unicorns!"

"I don't mean to interrupt... well yeah I did, but isn't it someone's bed time?" Elena hadn't made it back so it seemed like Amelia would be spending the night.

"NO! I will wait till Mommy gets back then I go to sleep. I'm a big girl now so I can stay up. Let's watch television." She was determined to wait up for Elena. Elena had to be the last thing she saw before her beautiful eyes closed.

"Ok we all can watch television, but only until your Mommy comes back. Deal?" Katherine asked before tucking Amelia into her chest.

"Deal Kitty. Now let's watch some SpongeBob." Amelia cheered and wrapped her arms around her aunt.


Elena silently snuck through the side door and took off her shoes and jacket. It had been a long day and sleep was her best option. She'd go check on her daughter, thank Katherine and Kol, and then to bed she went. Tomorrow would be a better day. Walking through the kitchen and heading toward the living room, she stopped in her when she saw a figure sitting at the table. Maybe it was her imagination? She had been going crazy the past couple days.

"You know Elena, it would be nice to call and check on your child once while you're out doing God knows what." The voice appeared to be angry, but calm. Her mother had been asleep hours ago so it could only Katherine.

"God Katherine, you scared the fuck out of me. Why are you even up?" Elena gasped trying to get her breath back.

"Elena that's not the question. Where the hell have you been?" Katherine asked with a questionable tone in her voice.

"I've been really busy today. Meet with someone which caused a hell of drama so I just went to the beach to relieve myself. I'm sorry I didn't call, but so much is just happening and calling to check on her was the last thing on my mind."

"Tsk tsk Elena. You're making it so obvious. Let me guess; you went to talk to Damon and him being the great asshole that he is, he said something that pissed you off and you went off. Am I right?" Katherine knew her sister a little too much. "Please tell me that you finally told that man that he has a child. Don't you feel that he deserve to know?"

"Katherine I went to tell him. I went to tell him everything, but my head was all over the place. He's everywhere. In my and Amelia's dreams. Everywhere I turn something reminds him of me. I've gone crazy! Day and night, the only thing I can do is think about him and it's driving me fucking crazy. It's hard trying not to think about something when it's always there." It seemed like no one understand where she coming from.

"Well Elena, maybe if you actually had a civil conversation with him, maybe you could get everything out and stop going mind crazy. You're acting like a two year old with a crush. Get over the past and work with the present. It could let to a better future.

"But Katherine he hurt me. He hurt so bad…"

"Elena, you've said that a million times and that hasn't got you anywhere. Stop complaining about him to me and talk to him your damn self. Stop beating around the bush and be that strong woman that I know you are. You need to get all your feelings out and then you'll feel better." Katherine prayed that she was getting something into her sister's head because after five years it was time for the old strong Elena to resurface.

"Every time I go around him I become this crazy person. That's not me and he knows it. I don't think it's healthy for me to be anywhere close to him. Are there any other chooses?" She absolutely knew she could be around him anymore after what happens earlier that day.

"Elena you know that there isn't any or chose. Stand up to him and don't let him get your back against the wall. I don't care how long it takes, the true must come out and then you'll be satisfied."

"Kat I feel like you're demanding me or something. It doesn't even involve you." Why was she so worried about what happened between her and Damon?

"It doesn't involve me Elena? You and Damon's relationship doesn't, but anything that involves that precious little girl up there involved everyone. She doesn't have a man to call her father and that's just wrong. You don't have to say, but you know Damon would be an amazing father. He's protective and caring. You could put her father in her life if you stop being so selfish. Think about her too in this situation."

"I want to so bad Kat, but what if something goes wrong."

"Stop thinking about the 'what if's' and start thinking about the possibilities. You need to do this you, but also for your daughter. This deserves this too." Katherine got up from the chair and simply hugged her. Being hard on Elena was the only way to get to her head. She hates to do it, but she was tired of how the way she was acting. Their talk needed to happen and she was sure that after the conversation, she would finally talk to Damon and get things better.

"I'll do it." She breathed out heavily and wrapped her arms around Katherine's waist. "I'll do it for her."


A/N: Phew! This chapter took a lot of coffee and a little bit on an all-nighter, but the chapter is finally done. I really hope you enjoyed the chapter because I think it was my best so far. So I did warn you that Elena is all over the place in the conversation with Damon. In that scene I had a bad case of writer's block so it was really hard. The conversation she had with Katherine was my favorite because I feel that Katherine is a DE fan and wants them to be together. Also, she's the only one who can get Elena to do something when she acting really selfish. She's kind of the present-day past Damon if that makes since.

Next chapter is all DE baby! They are going to talk and one thing may let to another *wink wink*, but that will happen slowly- don't want to rush things like I did back a few chapters ago.

REVIEW THE CHAPTER PLEASE SO I CAN KNOW HOW YOU ALL LIKE IT! ANYTHING I'M DOING RIGHT OR WRONG?