It's been a long time. I've had sort of a writer crisis and been very busy. But I come with a long chapter to apologize AND I think you will like it (hopefully). I'll post a brief summary of what happened before so that you all remember but if you do remember, just skip to where it says Chapter ten.

Brief Summary

Damon and Elena shared a kiss and Elena told Stefan. She said that it had just been a mistake, which hurt Damon. Elena didn't know what to do, her feelings were being contradictory. But Stefan realizes that she has feelings for his brother and doesn't want her to choose him only because he was there first, but because he is the one she loves. He leaves her space and Elena sleeps with Damon, tells him that she loves her and realizes her true feelings.

The next morning she's going to choose, but before she does, they inform her that Katherine is back. Katherine kidnaps Elena and Stefan and Damon goes to look for help to Bonnie. But they fall in a trap and Katherine has all of them. She has injected vervain in Stefan and Damon and has three other vampires with her. She wants Elena to choose.

Chapter ten

"What do you care? Why do I have to choose when you never did?" Elena snapped.

"I suppose you were going to say that, that's why I brought the witch." She did a sign to the vampire next to Bonnie who threw a spell book to Bonnie's feet. "Read." Katherine said.

Bonnie looked at Elena, fear in her eyes. She wasn't really sure of what Katherine was asking her to do, but from what she had understood, she was somehow going to find out Elena's choice with a spell. And she knew that her friend didn't want that to happen. Bonnie felt sick at the idea that Elena was going to choose, was there really something to choose? Wasn't she with Stefan and that was it? She looked at the brothers who were both staring at Elena. She looked at her friend again, who shook her head.

"Why do you care so much?" Elena insisted.

"I'm just curious." She smirked but there was no happiness in her face. "Now read." There was no reaction, Bonnie remained quiet glaring. Katherine snarled and approached Stefan and Damon. "Read or I'll hurt them."

Bonnie swallowed and looked at Elena who nodded. Bonnie started reading, she didn't understand what those words meant, she didn't even know she was going to be able to read them, but for some reason her mouth kept pronouncing the words as she felt them each time lighter on her tongue as they kept going out and as she found herself in some kind of trance.

Elena had made her mind when Katherine had first told Bonnie to read. She was now thinking of all the good things of both brothers. Her times with Stefan, the way he cared about her, everything they had gone through when she had discovered what he was. And Damon, the way she had discovered he had feelings, their kiss, what came after that. She couldn't help it but smile which in the situation she found herself was pretty confusing. She tried to get as confused as she could, think of all the good and bad things of both Damon and Stefan. Katherine wasn't playing fair if she was getting into her mind. Well, she wouldn't play fair either then, Katherine could get into her mind, but she wouldn't have an answer.

Elena stared at those surrounding her who seemed to be in a short trance from which they got out almost immediately and then all the glances were for her.

"You're a pretty little liar." Katherine sentenced. "You haven't chosen."

Elena tried to avoid Damon's and Stefan's eyes, she knew they would be hurt right now but it was for the best. What did Katherine want to do with her answer? Well, she didn't want to find out.

"Well, well. You might have a very good impression of these two, but the truth is very sad." Katherine said. "Why do you think they are after you? Because you're smart? Because of your ideas? I'm sorry, sweetheart, but it's by the simple fact that you look like me. It's because you remind them of me."

"Well, if that was the only reason, I'm pretty sure they would have dropped to your feet when you came." Elena replied and felt stupid and brave all at the same time, she was defying Katherine…

"Not necessarily. Their pride prevents them from doing that, they have a bad impression of me right now because they didn't get any news from me in a hundred and forty five years. What they feel for you isn't true love, Elena. It's called delusional love. They think they have feelings for you, but the truth is that they have feelings for the part of you that reminds them of me."

"That's – that's not true." Damon managed to say weakly.

"Oh, yes, it is. Don't you see everything are comparisons? That you're better than me because you choose, because you have only one. While the truth is that you're exactly like me."

"Not true." Stefan whispered.

"Well, then." Katherine sentenced grinning. "You're all so boring. So I'm leaving, but I'll be back soon enough, you won't have time to miss me. Oh, and I'm taking the witch with me. I need her to do something else. But don't worry, I won't hurt her unless she's too annoying." She took Bonnie in her arms who started screaming.

"Let her go!" Elena shouted but even before she could get up, Katherine and her pack of vampires had disappeared with Bonnie. Elena breathed hard looking around her, frustrated, not knowing to which side they had gone. She heard a gasp and turned around to face Stefan and Damon who were trying to get up. She ran to them and knelt beside them.

"Are you okay?" She asked worried, frowning and trying to help them.

"Fine." Damon whispered trying to smile. "It's just… vervain."

Stefan remained silent, frowning while he got up with effort.

"What is she going to do with Bonnie?" Elena asked.

"I don't think she's going to kill her." Stefan replied. He looked at her. Now Elena was standing and supporting Damon. He had been the last to be injected with vervain, so it probably had more effect right now on him than on Stefan. He was leaning on Elena. "Did Katherine hurt you?"

"No, she just brought me here and made me change clothes with her so that you both believed she was me. But that was it." She frowned, narrowing her eyes. "What is it that she wants? Why did she want me to choose?"

"Let's go home." Damon said. He was obviously still weak and none of them knew what the answer to Elena's questions were.

"But Bonnie…"

"We'll try to find her." Stefan promised.

Elena nodded, knowing that they couldn't do much more and that they needed to rest. But right now she had to trust Katherine when she had said that she wasn't going to hurt Bonnie, and trusting Katherine wasn't an easy thing to do.

They got to her house and Elena remained still on the porch, both Damon and Stefan stared at her.

"I don't want to go home."

"Elena, it's the only place where you're going to be safe." Stefan complained.

"Who cares? After what has happened tonight… Anything can happen."

"That only happened because you got out of the house." Damon reminded her.

"But now she has Bonnie. And what is she going to do to me? She just wants me to choose, even though I don't understand why. And that is exactly what I should be doing." She shut up after realizing what she had just said. It was the truth, but she didn't expect herself to just drop it that way right now. Both of the Salvatore brothers looked at her and the tension was almost physical.

The door opened, Jenna was there and the three of them tried to relax a little bit.

"Elena, it's late."

"When was the last time you saw me?" She asked and Jenna frowned.

"What do you mean? When you left to Bonnie's."

"Alright. Give me a second and I'll come in." Jenna nodded and closed the door.

There was a brief silence. "One of us stays with you and the other one goes look for Bonnie." Stefan sentenced. "But first we decide, I want to talk to you, Elena." Elena looked up at him and Damon swallowed looking elsewhere.

Bonnie was impressed by how big the house they were in was. She had already tried to get out of there once but Katherine had caught her even before she could take the second step. But to her surprise, they hadn't hurt her… yet.

"What do you want from me?" She asked again.

"I can't tell you that yet, sweetheart."

"And what do you want from Elena?"

"Alright, it's fair, I'll tell you that." Katherine grinned. "I want one of the Salvatore. And they want me, it is clear, they have chosen a human who looks exactly like me. Coincidence? I don't think so. I could never choose, and I like Elena and she is my family. So I'll let her choose and I'll have the other one. It's easy like that. No one needs to get hurt."

"And what if they don't want you anymore?"

"They do." Her voice was hard, she left no room to replies and Bonnie decided that it was the right time to shut up.

Damon had gone to Elena's bedroom by the window, waiting for them to talk. Elena thanked that he didn't try to be there. She and Stefan were on the porch and he was looking at his feet.

"We brought all of this into your life. I did." He said.

"Stop feeling guilty because of that, Stefan. I told you a long time ago. When I accepted to be with you knowing what you were I accepted all the things that came along with it."

"But you didn't know what you would see yourself involved in. And I should have known."

"Katherine is my family. She would probably have come either way. And it's not your fault that Bonnie's a witch."

"Elena, I…" He sighed and then frowned. "I know that you love him." She remained silent for awhile, she was not going to deny that, but she didn't know what she could possibly say.

"Stefan… I - " It was the right time to inform about her choice. "I wanted to tell you both together. But I suppose it's fair. I also love you Stefan… but in a different way. And I don't want to be her. I want to choose. And I've always loved you but – " She couldn't go any further, the words left her while she frowned and looked down, she knew that he had already understood. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be." He caressed her hair and she could feel that he was hurt, how could he not be? "I'm sorry too." He sighed and Elena felt the tears burning in her eyes and the pain in her cheeks while she tried not to cry. "I'll go to try to find Bonnie." He didn't say anything else, he just left. Elena got in the house as she tried to remain calm. She knew she had made the choice she wanted too, but still she couldn't help but feel bad for Stefan, after everything that had happened… but she loved Damon, that was the only truth. She got upstairs silently as she felt one of her tears going down her cheek. When she got in her bedroom she found Damon standing in front of her, frowning and looking at her. She closed the door and walked towards him as she lost control and started to sob. Damon hugged her tightly and caressed her hair while she cried on his chest.

He didn't know what had happened, and Elena felt like a fool. She moved away a little bit when she realized that his shirt was wet because of her tears. Damon grabbed her face between his hands and stared into her eyes as he wiped her tears away.

"I – I have chosen." She whispered trying to make her voice sound steady. She could see how Damon's body tensed as he gripped his teeth together. "Stefan knows." He didn't let go of her, he continued staring into her eyes but she could feel his impatience build up for the answer.

"And…?"

"I love you." After a second, when he realized that there was no "but" following that sentence, his smile began to merge. It made Elena feel better, it made her forget the pain. Damon kissed her and she found herself pulling him closer, aching for more. She just realized they had moved when she felt her back touch the wall. Damon went down kissing her neck and collarbone. She ran a hand through his hair and then pulled it up to kiss his lips again. She took his shirt off and Damon caressed her back and then took her shirt off, too. When she felt his hands going down her skirt she realized what she was wearing, she hadn't really been paying attention when Katherine had given her the clothes she had been wearing.

I hope you've liked it and that the waiting was worth it. But next update will be soon!

I have to tell you something, this chapter, when I originally wrote it, it contained some "lemons" at the end. The truth is that it wasn't planned, but it just... sort of happened. But this story is rated K+ and I know that probably many of you don't want that so I removed it. But, if you want to read them, tell me in the reviews and I'll post them, with a warning, of course.

Please, please, please, review! It's been kind of hard to get out of my crisis (lol). I love reviews and reviewers! =D