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Damon felt Elena's body begin to convulse within his arms, looking down at her in alarm. He damned himself for not knowing what to do in a situation like this. He'd decided that moving her now, may cause more damage to her if she hit something.
Elena's body was shaking so violently against him; he couldn't help but try to hold her head still gently.
After a few minutes her body began to slow, her limps jerking outwards still but somewhat less violently. Damon began to stroke her hair, whispering sweet nothings.
"Elena, I need you to wake up… please, Elena."
He lent over her, placing a kiss to her forehead, whispering another plead. He shut his eyes tightly, trying to think of a plan. He could stay with her until she woke up and give her some more blood but even then, that hadn't worked first time round. He couldn't phone a doctor for her or take her to the emergency room, what else was there?
Damon bolted up, eyes wide. How had he not thought of it before? Elena had stopped convulsing enough for him to shift her in his lap, to dig around in his pocket. He began searching through his contracts, pressing the call button when he found the selected person.
He heard it ring several times before passing onto the voice mail.
"Caroline! For god's sake, you have this bloody thing in your hand every moment of the day, yet you can't pick up when I call you? Call me back, immediately. It's about Elena."
He exited the phone call, deciding that if he couldn't get hold of Caroline, he'd phone Jeremy. Jeremy was friends with Bonnie, maybe he could figure out what was going on. He didn't doubt that Bonnie was behind this. He looked down at Elena as he phoned Jeremy, still stroking her hair in affection and worry.
"Jeremy?" He was tapping the heel of his foot against the floor, nerves overcoming him. What if Jeremy didn't pick up? What was he meant to do then? He wished he could snap out of these human emotions, these were so amplified by being a vampire he thought he may not be able to contain them any longer. His love for Elena drove him though, drove him to save her.
Jeremy's voice crackled through the phone, causing relief to wash over Damon. "…Damon?"
"Jeremy, I need you to do something for me."
"Firstly, where's my sister?" he asked with accusation in his tone.
"In my arms, to be exact."
"Dude, what the fuck?"
Damon rolled his eyes. Elena began to writhe violently within his arms once more, making gurgling noises.
"Not like that. Actually, like that. There's something wrong with her, she keeps seizing."
"What? She's seizing? Elena doesn't seize."
"Listen, I need you to go see Bonnie. I need you to see how she is. If there's something… wrong with her."
"How is that going to help Elena?"
"Jeremy, just do it for your sister! I can't tell you anything, not yet."
Damon could imagine during the silence on Jeremy's end that he was debating with himself, if he should trust Damon or not. He didn't blame the kid, he hadn't done much in the past that would grant that trust.
"I'll do it." Jeremy said.
He thanked him, hanging up. He returned his attention to Elena.
"Elena…"
He began to plead with her, hoping that somewhere inside she would hear him. Her body began to jerk less violently, slowing down to only spasms.
"Elena, I love you. You hear me? I love you. And I need you to wake up," his voice came out in only a whisper, emotions running high through his speech.
As he went to place a kiss on her lips, hoping miraculously it'd wake her up he caught the scent of blood. A trail of blood was running from her nose, making its way to her lips. He began to caress the sides of her face, tapping her left cheek softly. Her eyes began to flutter,
"Elena?"
Her body shot upwards, gasping in a panic. Her eyes were wide, searching all around her.
"Damon? Damon?"
"I'm here."
He pulled her back against his body, whispering reassuring words into her ear. She began to calm, her breathing regulated. Her lip darted out, wondering what was running over her mouth. She didn't felt like she had been crying, it wasn't until she tasted a coppery pang in her mouth that Elena realised she was bleeding.
"Damon, what's wrong with me?" She asked, her voice breaking with worry.
Damon waited a few minutes before answering Elena.
"Honestly, I don't know."
"I'm scared."
"I know you are. But it'll all be okay in the end."
"How do you know that?"
"Because I just do. Trust me?"
"What happened to me?"
"You started to seize. Now do you trust me?" He turned her around to face her, cupping her chin.
"I trust you," she gulped.
"Good." His eyes twinkled at her, doing his 'eye thing.' It made her smile, which in turn made the corners of his mouth turn up ever so slightly.
"I don't think its best we move you, not just yet anyway. Now you're going to need to lie down for a second."
Elena's face crinkled. "Um…. Why?"
He raised an eyebrow at her. "You said you trusted me, now let's getting you laying down."
He placed a hand in the small of her back whilst the other supported her neck as he slowly lowered her to the floor. After releasing his hands from under her, he sped upstairs getting the mattress, pillows and duvet from his bed. He arrived back next to Elena, making a makeshift bed next to her. She couldn't help but grin at him for putting effort into making her comfortable whilst she was sick. He'd been so good to her, yet all this time she'd treated him so unfairly. She felt a pang of guilt go through her, her smile faltering.
"I'm sorry." She said as she now lay next to Damon on the mattress, looking up at the ceiling.
He turned on his side, brows furrowed in confused.
"What're you sorry for? You can't help being ill."
'Can't help that your best friend is probably behind this, either,' He thought to himself.
"Not that. I'm sorry for leading you on. I'm sorry that all this time I treated you like crap when deep down you had the ability to do nice things like this. I guess I was a bitch."
He frowned further.
"You're not a bitch."
Elena turned her head to face him, startled at how close he was. There were only a few centimetres between the two of them. She could see amusement flash across those icy blue eyes, probably chuckling away in his head.
"But I am. I might as well just be Katherine."
"No matter what you do, Elena, you will never be like Katherine. Katherine wouldn't apologise for being a bitch, hence spiralling more into bitchiness. You however, are far from bitchiness of any kind. Unless you're around a dog, which in that case…"
She laughed. Damon loved when she laughed like that; he'd always loved in even when Stefan made her laugh like that. It was just so full of life; it would make anyone think she wasn't ill.
Her voice lowered, taking in a deep breath.
"Do you think Katherine's going to try and get with Stefan?"
"It's a possibility. I wouldn't put anything past Katherine."
Elena bit her lip, mulling over how to word her next sentence.
"Do you think Stefan will want to be with Katherine?"
"I think that Stefan loves you."
"That wasn't an answer."
"I don't know, Elena… I honestly don't know. He wasn't as broken when Katherine supposedly had died but that didn't mean he hadn't felt something for her. There was a lot of hurt and break down of trust between the both of us after it, naturally. I don't know what's been going on in his head, you've just got to know he does love you."
"And what about you?" She had a single tear fall down her face whilst he spoke, a lump in her throat. She was in dangerous territory and she knew it.
"What about me?"
"Well, how do you feel about Katherine?"
"I think we've come to the conclusion already that I think Katherine is a heartless bitch," he spoke with venom, practically hissing through his teeth.
"…And me?"
"Elena," he warned. He wasn't ready for this. He'd been fine in admitting it before, when she couldn't respond or run away. He didn't want her being stuck inside with him, angry, confused or upset.
"I have the right to know, Damon."
"Elena, if we have this discussion, it changes everything," he said seriously.
"I'm seizing and having nosebleeds, you think that doesn't change everything? At least this is something I can control."
"Are you sure?" He wanted her to say no and yes at the same time, it was a conflicting situation.
"Yes."
Damon's hand went to the side of her face that was available, stroking it lightly. His thumb stoked her cheek bone. She felt tingling goosebumps across her face at his gentle touch.
"I love you."
Damon looked intensely at her, his eyes sparkling with love, rather than lust for once.
Elena closed her eyes, taking a deep breath. She always knew, hearing it with such passion nearly broke her inside. How was it that she had got two brothers to fall in love with her, so deeply that they'd do anything for her?
"Are you okay?" He asked when she still had her eyes closed, breathing deeply for a few minutes. He had thought for a second she was going to start seizing again, it was only until her eyes fluttered open, those chocolate eyes watering.
"I didn't mean to make you cry, that wasn't my intention."
"I know," she whispered. "I just… I think I knew deep down that you did just that I didn't know that you really meant it. I thought you'd just wanted to turn Stefan's life upside down."
"I loved you even during the whole Katherine situation."
"And it's not because I look like her?" She always doubted the brothers feelings, how could you not when you looked like the woman they had loved so much that they'd been willing to die for her?
"I'll admit, at first I had thought you were Katherine. Then I heard the beating-" he placed his free hand over her heart, feeling the thump thump thump of her heart. "Of your heart and I'd thought I'd got given another chance, then I realised Stefan had you and it ripped me apart even further, fuelling me trying to find Katherine, when all I wanted was the girl with the beating heart who had the warmth and kindness that Katherine never had."
"…Wow," she was stunned for words.
He laughed, his body shaking from it. He felt a buzzing in his back pocket, knowing it'd be Caroline or more importantly Jeremy. He grabbed it out, pressing the small button to accept the call.
"Hello?"
Aww at Damon. I hope his confession was good for you guys, it was such a hard bit to write in this story, trying to get it right and rewriting it several times. I thought I'd give you a longer chapter than normal, as it's such a critical one.
We will be finding out what's up with Bonnie in the next chapter and find out what's been making Elena so ill, so quite a big chapter of questions answered next time :)
I've just started a new Delena story in human form, called 'Aren't You The Firecracker' which I'd love if you guys could pop over and read/review :) It's going to be a not quite as complex story as this but has some pretty big things to come in! It's something I'm super excited to be writing. New chapter of that is going out tonight, being a rather big busy bee with writing last few days.
Love hearing you guys' reviews, so please continue with your awesomeness, dear readers! Stay safe and have a lovely rest of the week.
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