The new information that Elena had gathered made it difficult to drive home. Her head was swimming with a hundred million questions. Damon. She kept replaying his name in her head. The memories came flooding back one by one until she got home. She remembered being with him almost every day playing with him and having fun. She remembered him leaving and how hurt she was knowing that he wasn't going to be with her. She got home and rushed in through the door and heading straight for her room. She got past Jenna, but unfortunately Jeremy was practically waiting for her at the top of the stairs.
"Elena, hi," He pulled her into a warm hug but pulled out of it seeing her state of being. "Is everything alright? You seem a little troubled?" Elena avoided eye contact because she felt like she was about to burst into tears.
"I'm fine Jer, I'm just really tired and need to get some rest," It was still pretty early in the day, but he seemed to buy and she threw herself at the bed. The emotion she was feeling the most right now was confusion. She didn't know how to process all this information that was flooding back to her mind and she wasn't sure how she felt about Damon. Of course they had some sort of relationship when she was little, but she was 17 now and had her feelings changed at all? At the age of 4 a person wasn't really capable of loving someone like a man loves a woman was it? She didn't think so. She loved Damon like a brother or a father at the time. Now that she had grown up and spent a weekend with him there was no denying her feelings. Then there was Stefan, who was her current boyfriend who was also Damon's brother and she wasn't sure if she loved him or not. When Elena compared her feelings between Damon and Stefan, her heart seemed to pump the blood faster when she thought of Damon than Stefan. Did that necessarily mean that she loved Damon more? Elena banged her head on her pillow in frustration and tried to get some form of sleep.
Over at the Salvatore Boarding House, there were some issue's going on between Damon and Stefan.
"How long have you been home Damon?" They were sitting in the living room now attempting to have a normal conversation when clearly Stefan was on the edge of yelling if Damon happened to say something that Stefan didn't agree with.
"I haven't been home too long," On the other end of things, Damon was as cool as a cucumber. He had everything planned out and it was going the way he wanted. The thing that he wanted to do now was get to Elena and try and explain these memories that she was probably having thrown at her face right now.
"Tell me how long Damon?" Stefan growled at his brother, anger clearly present on that grumpy face of his.
"I got here the night you left Elena," Stefan was at his brothers throat thinking that he had already done something.
"Get off of me!" Damon shoved his brother across the room into the opposite wall.
"What did you do to Elena?" Stefan was already baring his teeth ready for a fight.
"Would you first calm down and go back to sitting and let me explain what went on before you start throwing fists," Damon was usually one to want to fight or he was the one who started the fight, but right now his top priority was getting to Elena. Stefan sat down slowly keeping his eyes on his brother.
"First of all, I did absolutely nothing to Elena. The only one who has a right to be angry is me right now," Stefan flinched away from his brothers words. "You know what happened, you at the time were off the deep end killing every human being in sight,"
(FLASH BACK)
"Elena love, please stay right here, I promise I will be right back, I need to take care of some things," He kissed the top her little head and proceeded out the door. He found his brother in the living room, dead body's were all over the room, blood staining almost all the furniture.
"What in God's name have you done?" Damon almost couldn't stand the sight of the mass murder that had happened in the room. Stefan threw another body to the floor.
"I'm sorry, I grew hungry and this was the only place I could think of to bring them," Stefan hadn't been home in weeks. He picked the perfect time to come home when Elena was with him.
"You know you don't belong here," Damon growled at his brother. Stefan was in his face in a matter of seconds.
"And what are you going to do to stop me brother," Blood had stained his clothes and mouth. Damon pushed his brother off of him.
"You need to leave before you cause any more trouble, what if Elena see's you like this?" At the time, Stefan didn't care for Elena. She was an orphan child that meant nothing to him.
"Then she see's me as a monster. Do you think I honestly care," Damon shoved his brother once more making him fall to the floor.
"You promised you would help look after her. You are the reason she is here. If you don't recall a few months ago you are the one who took their lives," Damon spat. He was talking about her parents. Stefan had taken the lives of Elena's parents. He almost to Elena's as well, if it wasn't for Damon she would be dead right now.
"Have you had a taste of her yet?" Stefan was drunk on blood. It was the only thing he ever wanted anymore. It was the only thing that he cared about.
"Of course not, are you mad? I would never hurt Elena. Get out of this house before I call the police and report all these death's Stefan. I will not have Elena exposed to all of this,"
(END OF FLASH BACK)
"If Elena ever found out what you did to her family, she would never forgive you. She wouldn't be with you right now," Damon spoke the truth right out there. If Stefan hadn't changed his ways there would probably be a chance that Damon would be with Elena and that none of this memory loss would have ever happened.
"I'm not that person anymore Damon and you know it. I've been off the human blood for years. What about you?" Damon was always on the human stuff, but he knew how to control himself unlike his brother.
"I have been on it for my entire vampire existence. You know that but of course I'm better at controlling it than you," Damon was just about done here. He needed to see Elena.
"Does she remember?" Stefan broke the silence knowing of Elena's past and what happened to her.
"What do you think Stefan? Of course she remembers. She's been with me the whole weekend. I've done nothing more than try and get her to remember," Damon headed for the front door.
"She's not yours Damon, you know that right," Of course Elena was his right now, but that was up to Elena to make that choice.
"I know that, but it's not up to you Stefan, once she remembers why I left her in the first place, you will no longer be the brother that she loves," With that Damon was out the door and on the way to Elena's.
Elena's cell phone buzzed and it was a number she was unfamiliar with. It read
"I'm on my way, let me in please I need to talk to you,"
Elena knew right away that it was Damon's number. She rushed down stairs and of course was stopped by Jenna.
"Elena, when did you get home? I didn't hear you come in," With Damon's vampire speed he was probably already here.
"I got home a little while ago, I'm sorry I'll talk later but I have a few things that I need to do," The door bell rang just then and she opened the door to Damon. She felt relaxed and at ease instantly.
"Damon, please come in," He walked in and took her hand as if it was casual.
"Wait a minute, Elena who is this?" Aunt Jenna asked looking rather confused.
'This is Damon Salvatore, he's Stefan's brother and we spent the weekend together and we're really good friends now so I have to have a word with him, if you don't mind Jenna," Elena averted her eyes to her bedroom. Jenna looked confused but let it go. She couldn't help but look Damon up and down as well.
As soon as they got to her bedroom they came together hugging forcefully.
"I'm so glad your back, I was worried you were going to leave," He held her face in his hands and wanted to bring her forward for a kiss, but knew there would be time for that later.
"I wasn't leaving you, never would I leave you again Elena," She guided him over to the bed and they laid down together.
"Tell me what you've seen Elena. What do you remember?" He asked not sure if he wanted to go through her past again. The past was the past and that's were it should stay, but for her sake it must be brought back up in the present.
"Well, I remember a lot of times that we had together. It was like you were taking care of me Damon, like there was no one else in my life to take care of me and you were there," He nodded staring at her wondering if she remembered what had happened to her actual parents. Damon wasn't sure if he was ready to tell her what actually happened.
"I think you loved me," He watched her cheeks light up as she caught his gaze. "I mean you never left my side Damon, you were always there for me, it must have been love," She snuggled up closer to his side feeling his warmth. She wasn't going to ask though if he did love her, she didn't need to because he didn't have to say it. She knew already that he loved her.
"What else do you remember Elena?" He moved on to the next memory of hers. Her brow furrowed. It must not have been a good memory.
"I remember the night you left," That made the room grow quiet. Elena felt Damon tense beside her.
(FLASH BACK)
"Elena Honey, you need to stay quiet for me," Elena nodded her head worried as Damon shuffled around the room quickly throwing things into a bag. There was something going on downstairs. Something that Damon wanted to keep from her. He came back to her side and picked her up quickly and dashed her out of her room and outside before she was able to see anything. There was crashing going on inside.
"What is Stefan doing, why does he want to hurt me?" Elena asked tears already running down her face. Damon was on the verge of tears himself.
"He doesn't want to hurt you love, Stefan is sick and he doesn't know what's going on," In reality Stefan wanted to hurt both of them. He was crazy with rage and blood lust. It wasn't a place for a little girl, they both needed to get out of that house. If anything Stefan would hunt them both down. That's why they needed to be separated. Damon took her to the only place where he knew she would be safe. He took her to her father's brothers house. It wasn't far from the Boarding house. She would be safe there, but he couldn't let her remember.
"You don't know how much I love you," He kissed her on the top of the head and made her forget until they met again.
(END OF FLASH BACK)
Tears were running down Elena's cheeks. It was Stefan that made them be torn apart.
"I'm so sorry Elena, he was out of control and there was nothing more that I could have done to protect you," She quieted him with her lips. She needed to taste his mouth on hers. It was a desperate kiss that had the blood pumping in her veins once more.
"I understand Damon, you don't have to explain. I'm just so happy that I remember now, I was fooled by him all this time and I had no idea," She cried into his chest and he simply held her. He knew this part would be hard for her, but after this, everything else would be simple. He would have her, she would belong to him once again. Just like old times.
A/N: I really liked this chapter because it gave a lot of information about her past and just the raw emotion between Damon and Elena was lovely. Please review and tell me what you thought! Hope you liked it :D
