Chapter 10
Elena's eyes opened, she moved her neck around as if trying to get the kink out of it. She groaned with a stretch, "Damon?" She questioned looking down at him. He was sleeping. His head was on her bed and as he promised, he didn't let go of her hand. She rubbed her hand through his luscious black hair, and looked over at Bonnie. Of course she's asleep. Bonnie must have had a rough night, she looked completely exhausted. Her curls fell in front of her face as she held up her head with her hand. Elena scratched the top of Damon's head very lightly, "Damon…" She whispered.
A nurse walked in and over to Elena's bed, "They finally fell asleep, that's really good." She tilted her head in a 'how so' motion with one eye brow rose. "They were both up, watching you for a very long time. Both very worried. More so this one…" he motioned towards Damon, "Than the woman." She looked down at the sleeping, gorgeous man beside her and smiled slightly. "How are you feeling, Miss? Sore? Discomfort? Anything?" He listed a few things someone would feel in her situation. She pressed her lips together and shook her head and mouthed no. "Really? That's….unusual. Must have been a lucky one." He smiled and escorted himself out of her room.
Must have been a lucky one. Those words repeated in her mind over and over again. What could he possibly mean by 'lucky'? Did others go through this and feel worse than she does? Would she feel worse in the future? A few list of questions ran through her mind to ask, but she won't. She doesn't want to freak herself out more then she already was.
Damon's eyes opened slowly and blinked a few, "Elena?" His voice was very tired and drained. He leaned back in the chair with a yawn and cracked his back, "Everything okay? How are you feeling?"
She looked over at him and her whole body tightened at the sound of his back cracking. "Well, I feel better…just confused." He tilted his head, "Confused, how?" She started motioning towards the door with her hands, "That nurse that came in before you woke up, said it's unusual for me not to have any pain. I feel better like really better. I feel like I'm already healed… and he said 'must have been a lucky one.' Am I not supposed to feel good? Am I supposed to feel sore?"
"Whoa, whoa. Elena calm down. You're feeling food because you took someone's advice. Mainly mine." He smiled and pointed towards himself. "You slept. You didn't over-do anything. You are lucky. You've been through far too much; it's finally about time that something comes easy for you, Elena."
A doctor made his way into her room, "Miss, how are you feeling?"
"Good…" She wanted to say 'horrible' so people would stop giving her those awkward stares. It's like she's been hit by a Mac-truck and walking away with barely any scratches.
"Well…maybe the week and a half stay won't be necessary then." He began to examine her. "Sit up, miss." He pulled out his stethoscope and tapped on it as she obeyed his orders, "Now, breathe in." She did so with no struggles, "Now out." Yet again, no struggles. "Well, very good. If you weren't healing properly, which your body is miraculously healing itself since you got out of surgery; you'd have difficulties breathing in and out." He put his stethoscope around his neck, "we're just going to keep an eye on you…make sure you're not having any difficulties just for a little while. After that, you're free to go home." He smiled at Elena and then Damon as he left the room.
Bonnie's eyes fluttered open slowly, "h...huh? What happened? Everything okay?" A flood of twenty-one questions began to surface.
"I'm concluding that Elena's a magical being. Her body is healing rapidly, more rapidly than most. Which I honestly think is amazing." He was talking to Bonnie, but was looking directly at the brown eyed beauty in the hospital bed with a smirk. A rose color blush began to appear across her cheeks, a deep rose color. She was blushing immensely. Why must you be so cute? She looked down and back at him, brushing the hair out of her face. "Would you like something to eat other then this nasty hospital food? I wouldn't even feed it to my dog…" Damon chuckled.
Elena did a half smile, pounding in though, "uhhh… hm." She tapped her index finger against her lips motioning she was unsure. "How about… anything fast food?"
"That completely narrows it down, Elena." The sarcasm was completely obvious.
"How about subway? Ham and American cheese on Italian bread with a coke on the side?" She suggested and he nodded.
"Right away, Miss. Gilbert." He smiled, standing up. "If anything goes differently, Bonnie…" He turned looking around at her; she was still waking up from her slumber. "…Call me. Please. You have my number, it's in Elena's phone." Bonnie nodded slowly.
"Right…gotcha'." She put a thumb up, wearily. Damon exited the room.
Elena sighed and looked at Bonnie. Her tired eyes were fixated on Elena. "What did you and him talk about while I was 'gone' ?" She put two fingers up on each hand motioning quotation marks.
"Feelings…" She sighed in relaxing gesture, "Honestly, Bon… I know this sounds crazy. I feel crazy for thinking it much-less speaking it, but I think I'm starting to actually develop something for Damon." That does sound crazy to a degree. She shrugged, "I don't know whether it's a friend feeling, more than a friend feeling, or what… but I know there's something there. Just something tells me it's right. It feels right. For the first time, I don't worry about what to say and how to act or what to dress like when it comes to a man…" Bonnie nodded.
"I see it, Elena. I see where you're coming from. A big change from your parents passing to moving in with dick Tyler to being with someone like Damon. He seems to genuinely care for you, it's like he'd take a bullet for you…" She thought back on how he reacted when he heard Elena was in the hospital. "…He heard from me that you were in the hospital and Elena, he was actually scared. You could tell by the tone in his voice. He's protective of you. He doesn't like Tyler particularly, not his 'cup of tea' per say."
"But I don't understand why he's so protective of me. I just don't get it. I mean I know he lost his Dad, I mean I lost mine too…But I'm not protecting some guy I just met, or girl I just met for that matter."
"You are though, you just don't see it. Your body reacts to him differently when he's around. Like you're not so full of tension and fear. You let loose. Your whole entire facial reaction is completely different then the 'now Elena'. You're back to the old you, I just hope the old you is here to stay…" She trailed off.
"I am, Bon. I never left, ever. I just somehow managed to get lost within the mist of Tyler and his crap of abuse and my job. I can't afford to lose my job…" She sighed, "And Rebekah doesn't exactly make it easy for me there, you know." She threw herself back on the hospital bed, her hair all on each side of the pillow. "I just feel safe, Bonnie. I feel safe and secure and…" Her voice trailed off as she sat up to look at her, "I don't know what I feel, all I know is I never felt this with Tyler and I like it. Hell, I love it! I'll do anything to make sure that it doesn't leave."
"Honestly, the look in his eyes, just judging off of that it looks like he'll never leave until you command him to do so…" She added her thought in as Elena smiled.
"I sure hope he doesn't go…I mean I know it seems completely rushed and whatever else anyone wants to throw out there that relates to that issue…but I don't want him to leave my life." She's pretty sure she sounds absolutely, positively, crazy. "Sometimes I wonder if I do one wrong thing will he run. You seemed to be the only one that stuck around…" She sighed at the memory of the blonde that was once in her life, Caroline. "I make one wrong move with Matt and BAM it's 'Bye-bye, Elena'. I don't know what else to do but constantly ponder in thought if he's going to go and put the wall up that only one person has made it over…" She pointed to Bonnie, "You."
"Take it day by day, that's all you can do…" She suggested just as Damon was walking through.
"I didn't exactly know what you wanted, Bonnie…but I got you the same thing Elena wanted." He handed her the sandwich with a Coke, "I'm sorry I completely forgot to ask."
"No, no don't be! I appreciate you thought enough of me to get me something too."
"You are Lena's friend, a friend of hers is definitely a friend of mine." His smile seemed so genuine and honest.
Lena? I like the sound of that name… I don't usually do pet names but that one… I'll make an exception to.
"And for yours," He handed her the sub she requested.
She smiled a little, "Thank you…" She said softly. She began to unwrap her sub as another doctor came in, she looked up.
"Ah, the hospital foods gross, I know." He joked with her, "It looks like you're all healed up. From the x-rays we did once you got out… its healing remarkably." He smiled, "Usually it takes weeks to see progress like that. What's your secret, my dear? Subway? I'll tell the other patients that." He laughed as Elena did. "I'll make sure they rapidly put your discharge papers together, but we do ask you stay with someone tonight, not by yourself… just in case something goes wrong and we didn't pick it up."
Damon took that as him being voluntold to do it, but he didn't mind it. Any way to spend time with this precious woman, he'd do it. "I'll take care of that, Doc. I'm all on it."
The doctor escorted himself out and made a note to the nurse to get her discharge papers ready.
"They don't feel it's too soon to let me go?" She questioned as she finished unwrapping her sub and she took a bite out of it.
"Obviously not! Don't argue though! It's good to get out of this place…" Bonnie looked around, "It's depressing." She did as Elena did and unwrapped her sub and began eating it as she unscrewed the bottle lid to her drink and took a sip.
"My dear, that is absolutely fabulous of you to think. I second that opinion of hers." He smirked.
The nurse came in with her discharge papers, "Ah, Elena Gilbert that's what I smell…" She smiled, "It smells delicious." She handed her the paper and circled the doctors number, "If anything goes wrong, you don't feel something is right, please contact him. He'll tell you exactly where to go from here. Periodically check in with us, let us know you're okay and safe." Elena nodded. "And sign this line right here…" She marked an 'X' on the line, "… and you can go on your way once I removed the IV." Elena took the pen and signed 'Elena Gilbert' on the line and handed it back. The nurse grabbed a pair of gloves, some gauze and a band aid. She started removing the tape as she flinched, "I know, the tape is the worst! I'm sorry, honey! I'll just count and rip the rest off okay?" She made sure what she was going to grab wouldn't rip the needle completely out of her, just the tape. "One…Two…Three!" As she said three she ripped the rest off and took out her IV. She patched it up with gauze and a band aid. "Well, you're clear to go!" She left the room leaving a copy of her discharge papers on the bed.
Elena looked over at Damon, "I'm staying with you?" She questioned standing up as she finished her sub.
"Yes! You don't think I'm letting you go back to compulsive abuser, do you?"
Elena tilted her head, "I didn't want to, Damon." He can be such an ass sometimes with that sarcasm.
"Well hurry up, Lena the faster you leave, the faster you're out of this place!" Damon pointed out. Elena and Bonnie followed behind Damon as he began to leave the hospital and back to his place.
Ahhh, I'm so sorry guys I left you hanging! I've been in and out of the hospital for a while. Hope this is something for you guys! 3
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