Yes, I actually updated twice in one week. It's a miracle. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter! Thanks for all the reviews on the past chapter!

Love,

Alex

DISCALIMER: I don't own Vampire Dairies OR Winnie the Pooh.

Chapter 9

The next day, the pair traveled to an impulse destination. It wasn't on Elena's list of things to do, but Damon had requested that they go to Switzerland.

"Why did you want to go to Switzerland?" Elena asked as they walked around Bern.

"I've never been here before. Plus they've got great chocolate." Damon said as they looked in the store fronts.

"Where else do you want to go?" Elena asked.

"In Europe?"

"Anywhere. US, other continents. Where haven't you been that you want to go?"

"I would love to go to Australia." Damon responded.

"Me too! I want to see a baby kangaroo." Elena said.

Damon laughed, "A baby kangaroo?"

"Yeah, like on Winnie the Pooh. Kanga and Roo. They're my favorite characters." She explained.

"Mine was always Tigger." Damon said with a smirk. "The most wonderful thing about Tiggers…" He started to sing.

"…Is that I'm the only one!" Elena finished laughing and spinning around.

"You got it." He said laughing at the sight of the giddy girl in front of him. It was a beautiful sight.

While walking around they had passed many chocolatiers without stopping in any of them. This one had its doors open and the smell was too much.

"Okay, we need to stop and get some chocolate. The smell is driving me crazy." Elena said as they stopped in front of the shop.

"As you wish, darling." Damon said as they went into the decadently smelling shop.

They purchased a few truffles each, and went outside to eat their picks.

"What flavors did you get?" Damon asked.

"I got one with mint filling, one with hazelnut, and one with raspberry. What about you?"

"I want to try the mint one. I got a solid milk chocolate, one with vanilla cream filling, and one with peanut butter."

"I'll give you a bite of the mint, if you give me a bite of the vanilla." She bargained.

"Deal." Damon said as he bit into the vanilla one.

"Elena took a bite of the mint one and groaned, "Oh that is good."

"I know how to make you say that in a different context." Damon smirked. "But they are really good."

She made no comment about his first statement and simply swapped the chocolates.

"The vanilla one is good, but the mint is better." She said as she took a bite of the hazelnut.

"I like the mint better too." Damon said, taking a bite of the peanut butter.

"Which of the nuts is better?" She asked.

"The peanut butter is terrible, want the rest?"

"Not if it was terrible. The hazelnut wasn't great either." She said, leaving half of the chocolate on the plate.

After trying the other two, the consensus was that the mint filling was the best by far.

It was already fairly late in the day, so they headed off to their last place, Jungfraujoch.

"I can't pronounce this, but it's the highest train station in Europe." Elena said as she showed him the paragraph about it in the hastily bought tour book.

"Sounds good." Damon said, not even trying to pronounce it.

They took four trains to reach the top of the mountain, coming out onto the station in an ice palace. Everything was made of ice.

"I'm glad we brought jackets." Elena said as she stood closer to Damon shivering.

He put his arm around her and pulled her close to him. "This is incredible." He said as he took out his camera from his jacket pocket with one hand.

He took pictures of everything, all the while trying not to slip on the ice floor.

"Well one problem with an ice palace, is the slipping and sliding." Damon said as he straightened up again after having almost fallen.

Elena who was a couple hundred feet away, looking at sculptures let out a shriek as she spun backwards slipping in the ice.

"Gotcha." Damon said as he caught her in his arms. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah…a little shaken. But okay. I'm glad you caught me."

He put her back on her feet and gave her a kiss, "I don't want to lose you."

She smiled, "You won't."

But her smile disappeared when she realized how little time they had left together. She was falling in love with him against her better judgment.

"Hey. Where did your head go?" Damon asked, concerned.

"I'm right here." She said snapping out of her head and focused on the face in front of her.

"We'd better get you out of the cold." Damon said putting his arms around her again. "You're still shivering." He continued.

They took the train back down to the bottom of the mountain, where they caught a car back to their hotel.

"Look at the stars." Damon whispered in Elena's ear.

The sky above them whizzing by with the speed of the car was alight with million and million of stars.

"It's beautiful." Elena said in awe of the stars.

They sat in content silence watching the stars fly by until they got back to their hotel.

Once back to the hotel, they went up to their room to get ready for bed.

"You can take the first shower tonight." Elena said. "I need to e-mail my aunt, I've forgotten to do it recently and I don't want her to worry."

While writing her e-mail, she couldn't help the urge to go join him in the shower. But she stifled it, knowing it would just confuse her feelings even more.

By the time she was finished with her shower, Damon was in bed waiting for her.

"Come here." Damon said with an inviting smile.

She climbing into bed and settled down straddling his lap. He gave her a kiss that was meant to be a goodnight, but turned into something much more. Damon pushed her down onto the bed and kissed her hard.

They kept on kissing for a while before they pulled away to breathe. "Well that was quite the goodnight." Elena said, panting a little.

He leaned over again, but Elena put her hand out, "If we start that again, I'll never sleep."

"Who said anything about sleeping?" Damon smiled wolfishly.

"Oh forget it!" She said before attacking his lips with her own.

A few hours later, there were to very content and sated people in that bed. Elena nuzzled her head against his chest finding a comfortable place to rest.

"Goodnight." He whispered, running a finger down her cheek.

He could feel her smile, "Night."

"I love you." Damon said barely audible.

"I love you too." Elena sighed.

He looked down in shock, not knowing if she was asleep or not.

"I'm awake." She said as she opened her eyes part of the way.

"That's the truth." Damon said. "I do love you. I know we haven't known each other for very long…but—"

"Stop. I feel the same." Elena said raising her head, looking him in the eye. "I love you too."

Damon grinned bigger then she had ever seen before. He planted another heated kiss on her quickly. He knew that they both had to sleep.

"Goodnight my love."

"Goodnight."

They both fell asleep, half of their brains deliriously happy with love and the other half wondering how in the world they were going to survive splitting up at the end of the summer.