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Chapter 7: The end?

Elena couldn't believe what was happening. All she could do was scream for Damon to help her. All he did was stand there and stare at her. She then realized she was I Stefan's arms, and didn't know what to think or expect. Then she felt Stefan tilt he head to the side, exposing her neck. She knew she was gone. She squeezed her eyes shut tight as she felt his fangs rip into her skin, and let out a blood curdling scream. He stopped and she suddenly felt his lips at her ear, and swore she heard him whisper 'I'm sorry' to her, and then ripped back into her neck. Her eyes locked with Damon's as she was screaming and noticed something was different, like he was fighting the compulsion. She then heard the loudest growls she's ever heard coming and she looked around for who is was and realized it was Damon. He then lunged after Stefan, but was blocked by Klaus. Elena's eyes started to close as she watched as Damon fought for her life, even if it were too late. At least he tried. Stefan felt her body go limp and he laid her down on the ground and within seconds he was shoving 2 vevain darts into Klaus's sides. Klaus turned around looking at Stefan shocked. Damon ran to Elena just as Ric ran past him and plunged the dagger into Klaus's heart.

From the woods Katherine, Caroline, and Bonnie walked out and wrapped vervain laced ropes around Klaus's body. Stefan and Ric walked over to Damon holding Elena's limp body in his arms.

"I had to Damon." Stefan said

"Bullshit you did! All she did was try to save you and you repay her by killing her!" Damon growled at him as he cradled Elena in his arms rocking them back and forth.

"I didn't kill her Damon. I just drank enough for her to pass out. At least I thought so." Stefan said running his hands threw his hair and over his face.

"I can't hear a heartbeat Stefan! She's dead!" Damon screamed as he looked up at Stefan and realized Bonnie, Caroline, Tyler, Katherine, and Ric staring at them.

"What the fuck is going on?" Damon yelled.

"Katherine and I planned it out. We both were ingesting vervain and just playing along with the compulsion so the plan would work. It wouldn't work if any of you knew."

"Damon, there's a chance, it's very faint but I can hear a very faint pulse." Katherine said softly.

With that Damon ripped his wrist open with his fangs and brought his wrist to her lips. He held it there for a few minutes desperately trying to get his blood into her mouth. But she was gulping, sucking and any kind of response to it. He tilted her head back to see if he could get the blood to run down the back of her throat. He sat there holding his wrist to her mouth for what felt for hours in reality was just a few minutes. He then pulled his wrist away and picked her up.

"I'm taking her home." He said fighting back tears and with that he was gone leaving every one standing where they were.

"I really didn't mean to take that much.." Stefan whispered as everyone started to head back to the boarding house.

"She's with Damon, Stefan there's she'll be fine." Katherine said "Now help me clean up." And with that Stefan and Katherine set to destroying Klaus's body and cleaning up the area before they took off to meet everyone at the boarding house.

~~~3 hours later~~~

Everyone was gathered in the living room while Damon was still in his room with Elena. Nothing has changed. They didn't know If the blood was taking longer to work, or if it really was too late and she'd either be dead or undead. Damon hadn't left her side. He brought her home cleaned her up and had put her in her pajamas and just sat there in the chair next to the bed staring at her. All he could think was that he had failed her. He hated himself for the last thought she would have was Damon giving her away and just standing there. It took everything in him to break the compulsion, and he still had no clue how it happened. Of course it was too late; he wasn't able to protect her in time. All he could do was sit there and wait…hope... and even pray that she would wake up.

~~ Salvatore living room

All they could do was sit around and wait. All you could hear was the clock ticking, and breathing. Damon would only allow Jeremy to go in the room and check on Elena. Once everyone bothered him by trying to get him to leave he refused to let anyone else in. Jeremy was sitting on the floor in front of Damon's door; Caroline and Bonnie were sitting on the couch, Alaric standing by them with a glass of scotch while Katherine stood by the fire place watching Stefan pace back and forth. Bonnie had tried several spells to no avail. Nothing was working, and Elena's heartbeat was still so low it was even hard for vampire hearing to pick it up. Nobody could figure out what was taking so long, or why there was no response. All of sudden there was a loud crack and everyone's head snapped to the stairs hearing things crash and a string of profanities coming from Damon's room. Everyone bolted when they heard Jeremy bagging on Damon's door yelling for him to let him in. Caroline was the first to reach the door, and she kicked it open running into the room to see Damon loosing it. She never thought she'd ever see the day where Damon would lose it, but here he is throwing chairs and books anything he could get his hands on glass was all over the floor. She had to do something; she decided to bite the bullet.

"Damon!" She yelled but he didn't respond. "Damn it Damon!" She screamed and ran to him grabbing his arms and turning him around to face her.

"Damon, you have to calm down. I know how bad your hurting, but you can't do this. Not right now!" Caroline yelled through tears.

Damon broke down. He fell to the ground to his knees.

"Why won't she wake up?" he whispered.

"I don't know Damon, but you can't lose it now, you have to stay strong and fight for her." She whispered back

Damon looked up at her and then to everyone staring at him.

"What the hell are you guys starring at?" He screamed. Everyone took off not wanting to piss him off anymore. He looked at Caroline and nodded as if he was telling her she could stay. She sat down on the floor up against the door while Damon went back over Elenaand grabbed her hand.

"It's been almost 5 hours now. She should have woken up. Maybe I didn't give her enough blood."He said softly stroking Elena's cheek. Caroline walked over to the other side of the bed and grabbed Elena's other hand and sat there in silence with Damon.