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CHAPTER TEN-Loving You Is Endless
Elena's P.O.V.
I can see his lips moving, his eyes darting towards his clipboard when he says "He's not doing well and to be perfectly honest. He has extensive damage to his heart and we'll have to schedule an emergency surgery in the morning to repair the damage. We got a heart for him this evening. However, he's too weak right now for us to open him up and do the hours long surgery. It'll have to wait." The doctor tells us in an informative tone, looking up to see Damon and I standing there, stealing worried glances from the small distance that separates us.
"Can I see him? Please." I ask, watching as the doctor nods, looking over at Damon when he speaks. "Only one person at a time." He clarifies when I glance up at Damon and he smiles a weakened, exhausted looking smile.
"Come get me when you're done." He says, taking a step back away from us and watching as I disappear down the corridor right beside the doctor.
Stefan's P.O.V.
Pain. It's like I'm dying all over again when I roll over in the hospital bed and cry out in pain. But, just as I'm about to push the morphine drip that seems to be going too slow and just when my trembling hands reach for it, the door to my room opens and Elena pops her head in.
"Oh Thank God! You're alive." She says, slipping into the room and closing the door behind her before she makes her way towards me, eyes full of tears when she pulls up a chair, leaning forward and leaving a quick kiss on my cheek, her thumbs caressing my face as she looks down at me in wonder.
"Any sudden movements can trigger it again. But, I like that." I tell her, watching as she pushes a strand of her hair behind her ears and laughs a little.
"Trigger what?" She asks, confusion on her face as she takes a step back from me and sits down in a chair near the bed.
"Another heart attack. The doctor said that I need to take it really easy for the next few days. Oh and that they might have a heart for me." I tell her, my voice becoming raspy and full of sleepiness as I feel Elena place her hand onto mine, lacing our fingers together when she exhales a breath.
"I know and I'm not leaving your side until you have the surgery or after it. I'm not leaving, Stefan. Not this time." She says with a confidence in her tone, eyes locked on my face when she takes my hand and brings it up to her warm and soft lips, kissing my knuckles gently.
"Elena. What about Berlin? Your job? Tyler?" I ask her, watching when she shakes her head, letting go of my hand and running her hands through her long straight brown hair.
"Well, Berlin was supposed to happen tonight and I had Caroline go instead. My job isn't as important as you and neither is Tyler. Stefan, I broke it off with Tyler because I'm still in love with you. I know, you're high on morphine and none of this will really matter once you start feeling normal again. So, I really have no idea why I'm even saying this at all. But-" She starts to say as I look over at her, clearing my throat and blinking my sleep filled, heavy eyes in her direction.
"You're in love with me? After everything I did to you. After the way that I yelled at you when you came to see me in Arizona, after everything I did to hurt you. You still love me. Wait, are you sure that this isn't a dream. Like, I'm not dreaming this..." I tell her, my voice trailing off as I hear her laugh and watch when she shakes her head.
"No. You're not dreaming, I promise." She states in a firm tone, leaning towards the bed again. This time, hovering over my face when she places her hands onto each side of my cheeks and leans forward, capturing my lips against her own as she leaves a soft and tender kiss against them.
Elena smiles down at me. Her eyes glossed over with tears as she sniffles and says "You can't die on me, Stefan. You're my best friend and no matter what you do to push me away from you. It's never going to work because I'm going to keep coming back. You need me, Stefan and I need you. I love you, okay. I love you so much and I know that I've messed up in the past. But, we both did." She says, swallowing hard as she leans into me once more and leaves another kiss on my cheek. The smell of her floral perfume filling my senses as I close my eyes and inhale deeply, for a brief moment forgetting that I'm stuck in the hospital bed.
"I want you to live. If not for me, than for yourself. Stefan, you have a whole life ahead of you. You're too young to die and I won't sit around watching you give up! I'm not going to let you give up. Do you hear me?" She asks, sitting back down in the chair, legs crossed over one another as I clear my throat and speak in soft, raspy tone.
"Elena..." My voice trails off as I hear her sniffle, wiping away the falling tears on her cheeks.
"I love you. I always have and I will never stop loving you. I know that I hurt you and that we were apart for so long. But, this is our second chance...It has to be. You're going to be okay. You are going to survive this." She says, her voice shaking when she watches me try to lift myself up from the bed, repositioning my body so that I'm turned a little bit more towards her.
"Elena, listen to me. If anything happens to me. If I end up-" I start to tell her, hearing as she scoffs and looks up at me, more tears evident when she shakes her head and argues.
"Nothing will happen to you. Stop talking like that. Okay, we're going to get married one day, like we were always supposed to. We're going to have a whole bunch of kids together and we'll live someplace nice with a huge house and maybe even a pool. I'm going to do local modeling and you'll get your life back..You'll finally be able to stop running from your past. Because, you'll have a future. We'll have a future together." She cries, rubbing her face with her hands when I bend forward a little, placing my hands onto her own, grabbing her attention almost instantly.
"I have to talk about it. Okay. I need you to know that If I don't make it out of here, alive. I want you to know something." I tell her, hearing as she inhales a shaky breath and nods.
"What's that?" She asks with a glistening in her eyes, tightening her hands around mine as I exhale a deep breath before I make my confession. "I want you to know that I love you and I never stopped loving you and if I don't make it out of that surgery. Elena, my heart will always belong to you. You're my girl, Elena Gilbert."
Elena's crying even harder now, her tears escaping into her mouth as she pushes away from the chair and hovers over me, unshed tears in her eyes as she nods when I lift my hand up, gently tracing the outline of her jaw. "Come here." I say simply, looking over to see her tilt her head to the side when I move over a little bit, making enough space in the small hospital bed for the both of us.
"Stefan..I-" Elena begins to protest as I hold onto her hand, my thumb gliding against the top of her skin when I give a weak smile.
"You're not going to hurt me. It's okay, just come here because I want to hold you in my arms and never let you go, I want to be with you..Even if this ends up being my last night on Earth. I want to hold the woman I love in my arms." I tell her, watching as she slips off her shoes and slowly slides underneath the sheets beside me, looking over at me when she says "What if someone comes in and sees us like this?"
I let out a small laugh, gently turning to my side as I pull her near me, kissing the top of her head and lacing my fingers through her hair. Leaning my head back against the pillows behind us as I mumble out. "I don't care. We can just say that we were making sure that I could keep calm and that I needed you by me to do so." I comment, feeling as Elena softly grabs a hold of my hand and places it across her waistline, snuggling up against my warm body and the sheets between us as she yawns and murmurs out. "Don't leave me, Stefan. Stay with me. Please... I wouldn't be able to live without you. I need you to live, because if you die..I won't make it. I'm not strong enough."
A/N: Ugh..These two just break my heart to be honest.. :') I love them so much. So, any theories as to if Stefan will actually get the heart he so desperately needs?
Hm...-Until Next Time!-
Thanks so much for reading. :)
