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Chapter Ten

I Don't Remember

Elena lay in her bed, as she picked the lint off the blanket covering her.

Four years? How can I not remember four years? She wondered to herself.

Bonnie and Matt walked into her room. Her eyes lit up at the sight of her friends. She extended her arms out for hugs; she had a small cast on her left wrist. Bonnie hugged her gently and so did Matt.

"You guys look different... older." She says. Bonnie notices that Elena's face has lost all its worry lines and she looks as young and beautiful as she did in high school. Matt laughs.

"Well, unfortunately we are older."

"What has happened over the past four years?" She asks casually.

"Elena, you know we can't tell you. The doctor told us you have to come by your memories on your own." Elena smiles.

"Well, I had to try, didn't I? Where's Stefan?" She asks, changing topics. Bonnie and Matt look at each other nervously.

"We don't know. We haven't seen him since he informed us about you and Damon."

"Damon?" she asks. Bonnie elbows Matt for his slip up.

"Yeah, you both got beaten up pretty badly." Elena looks at them quizzically.

"Yeah, but he's a vampire. He can heal." Bonnie shakes her head. She needed to tell Elena this part of the present; there was no way around it.

"Elena, don't freak out, but Damon's been a human for the past three years." Elena tries to keep a straight face but ends out bursting out laughing.

"Damon? A human? God, I wish I could remember his reaction to that!" She exclaims.

Bonnie and Matt remember the morning Damon had been freaking out, insisting that he couldn't breathe, hear or see. They also burst out laughing.

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After hunting and fighting his inner demons Stefan had finally decided he would go to the hospital. He couldn't bear to see his brother just yet so he found the room that Elena was staying in. To his surprise he heard laughter coming out of her room. She was awake! He rushed into the room to find the trio trying to catch their breath.

"What is all this?" He asks with a smile on his face. Everyone looks over at him, Elena's face lights up. Bonnie is the one that answers him.

"We were just talking about when Damon became a human." Stefan nods.

"Yes, well, when everyone was bursting out in laughter, I was furious. He stole my humanity!" Elena looks up in surprise.

"He stole your humanity? How did he do that?" Stefan furrows his brows.

"She has amnesia." Matt states. "She can't remember the last four years."

"Miranda?" He whispers questioningly. Matt shakes his head sadly.

Stefan answers Elena's question, telling her the story about how Damon stole his humanity. To her and the other humans it had been hilarious, but to the vampire, it was not. He had wanted so desperately to be human. Elena extends her arms to him and he hugs her. She pushes him slightly away and kisses him. Stefan is taken by surprise. Elena looks curiously at Stefan when he doesn't respond.

"What's wrong?" she questions him.

"Um… uh… I need to go." He says, rushing out of the room. He knew that if he told Elena the truth in her state that it wouldn't be good for her psyche. Back in the room, Elena looks at the empty doorway dejectedly.

"Uh… He's just stressed, you know." Matt tries lamely at hiding the truth.

"Yeah." Elena says unconvinced.

Stefan was still reeling over the kiss. He hadn't felt her lips on his in over four years. He had wanted to kiss her back, but he couldn't; he couldn't betray his brother like that. He walked to the room the doctor had said was Damon's room. He was caught by surprise at the sight before him. The little girl he had quickly met the night before was asleep next to Damon. He had seen the resemblance between the two before, but seeing there faces side by side was shocking. They looked so alike. He left the room to leave father and daughter to there slumber. He walked into the waiting room to find Meredith sitting in a chair. He sat in the vacant chair next to her.

"Hey." She says.

"Elena's up." He says casually.

"I know." She says. "Only two visitors at a time." She explains. He nods slowly.

"Well, I'll stay here with you until Bonnie and Matt come back." She looks into his eyes.

"Thank you." She says sincerely.

Damon woke up when he felt something move next to him. His eyes snapped open as he found a pair of blue eyes staring back at him. She sits up and says: "Hi, daddy." Damon is taken aback. He had only met her the previous night and she was comfortable enough to call him daddy. Or, maybe, he thought, it was because children were so innocent and trusting.

"Hello." He says, trying to stretch and then groans in pain. She gently touches his nose.

"A booboo." She says.

"Yeah. It's broken." He says matter-of-factly.

"Mommy kisses booboos better." She says leaning down to gently kiss his nose. It took all his will power not to yell out in pain as she kissed him on the nose.

"Better?" She asks. He only nods as he clenches his teeth.

"Want down." She says.

"I can't get you down, I'm hurt." He says. She looks at him frustrated.

"I hungwy."

"Me too. Nurse!" He calls out as he sees a nurse walk by. She halts and then walks into his room.

"Mister Salvatore." She says, recognizing him from the previous night. "Is there anything you need?"

"Uh, yeah." He says. "When's lunch?"

"In a half hour." She informs him.

"Okay. Uh… one other thing. Could you find Meredith Sulez for me? Miranda wants down and probably wants to play around. I can't really do anything right now." She smiles at him and then down at the little girl.

"Your daughter?" she asks. For the first time in his life he said: "Yes, this is my daughter." She smiles at the little family and leaves the room to find his friend.

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