the smut is back this chapter and hope you all like it. As always let me know how you feel about that chapter. there are only a couple more left 3 or 4. Thanks for reading. enjoy!

PS i own nothing. Except my character Tom.

Elena stood at the door stunned that he just slammed the door in her face. She knew he was hurt and knew he was angry but she never thought he'd just shut her out like that. She knew she had two options she could declare that at that moment it was over for eternity or she could barge in and make him listen to her. Option 1 left her feeling like she couldn't breath and option 2 scared the hell out of her. She knew that she should face her fears but the scared part of her longed to get back in her car and return to Atlanta and Tom. Tom her good friend who actually believed in love. The kind of love that she could have with Damon if they were able to open up. She barged in the house and seen Damon in the midst of three scantily clad women who was trying to cheer him up.

"I would suggest you get the hell out of this house." Elena snarled to the girls.

"And I would suggest they stay just where they are." Damon intervened.

"Is this some sort of revenge Damon? You come to me and tell me that you love me and that you would be anything for me, but then I make the biggest mistake of my existence and deny you. So you feel like you have to have an orgy with whatever sluts you could find on the street?" she demanded.

"I think its my right, you turned me down and said you couldn't be with me. You gave up on us." he shouted.

"I gave up on us? If I gave up on us then why am I here?" she demanded, angry tears rolling down her cheeks.

"It's too late." he said as he stood up and slipped through the girls.

"Damon, where are you going?" one of the girls asked.

"Elena's right. You should leave. And she can leave with you." he said as he began the journey upstairs. The girls decided not to argue with him and grabbed their things before walking out the front door. If he thought getting rid of her was going to be that easy he had another thing coming. She followed him up the stairs and into his bedroom.

"Cant you take a hint?" he demanded.

"No. You are going to talk to me or fight with me whichever works. You are not going to tell me to leave and that's its over. It's not over at least its not for me. I take it back you don't have to talk, you just have to listen to what I'm about to tell you. If you still hate me then I can leave and go back to Atlanta or someplace else. But its not over and it will never be. There will never be and could never be someone who could take your place in my dead unbeating heart. I made a massive mistake when I walked away from you the day you asked me to marry you. I should never have ran away to Atlanta. That was a mistake. And I should have ran into your arms and held you tight when you came to get me, instead I told you I loved you and that we could never be together because it was over. That was a lie. Tom made me see that. I was afraid of what you made me feel, and I know I've been searching for an excuse to run for a while now. After 145 years without you I grew accustomed to ignoring and fearing the feelings within my heart. But the way I feel about you now and for the past 145 years is not a lie. I love you Damon Salvatore. And if I have to sacrifice my own feelings for you to understand how I feel about you then I will. If you truly don't want me anymore then I'll leave and you'll never see me again. But I love you Damon and I want to be anything you need. If you want to get married I will happily marry you. It's all up to you." she said. She took a step forward and kissed his cheek before stepping back and taking an unnecessary deep breath. He stared at her like he was searching for the right answer in her eyes.

"I'll leave now." she said. Before she could bring herself to take a single step back he grasped her hand tightly in his and pulled her forward.

"It was never over for me Elena, and it still isn't." he said pulling her in and kissing her. The kiss started out slow and tender but it quickly grew more passionate. His tongue teased the seam of her lips and she let him in. His hand still held hers and her arms her stiffly at her sides not sure what to do with them. He let go of her hand and pulled her in to his body and wrapped his arms around her. Her hands rested on the side of his face now and pulled him even closer to her.

"Did you mean all of that?" he asked between kisses to every exposed piece of skin on her body.

"I meant all of that." she said in response.

"Good. I cant live without you Elena." he said.

"I cant live without you either Damon." she told him before going back to kissing his lips. His lips trailed down her cheek and down her neck. She dropped her head back so he had better access. Neither heard the door open downstairs and the human walk in.

"Damon?" Zack asked walking into the bedroom to see Damon and Elena tangled together kissing.

"Never mind. I'll talk to you tomorrow." he whispered. Somehow neither vampire heard him come in and leave both were far too caught up in their own little bubble to worry about anything. The world could come to and end and they wouldn't even notice.

Zack walked downstairs smiling and cleaned up the mess Damon left. Empty bottles of whiskey and bourbon littered the main floor of the house. While he was doing so he picked up the phone and called Alaric.

"Hello?" he vampire hunter asked instantly wary. Anytime Zack called recently it was because he needed help with Damon.

"Alaric. It's Zack. I just called to tell you that Elena is here. She and Damon are upstairs working through their issues." he said happily.

"Elena is home. Can I tell Jenna and Jeremy?" he asked.

"I don't see why not. But tell them to forget she's here until they come to you. I want Damon healed." he said.

"I want the same thing. Thanks for letting me know." he said.

"No problem. You're one of the only people Damon can call a friend." Zack said before hanging up happier than he's been since Damon returned from Atlanta earlier in the day.

Elena's hands went to the buttons on Damon's shirt as she slowly started unbuttoning it. When she got through the shirt with nimble fingers she pushed it to the floor and began working on the belt to his low slung jeans. His hands slid under her t shirt and cupped her bra covered breasts while moving his lips back up to hers. They broke apart long enough for Damon to pull her shirt from her body and toss it to the floor not caring in the slightest where it landed. He reached behind her so he could unclasp her bra and toss that somewhere on the floor as well. He didn't want to think of anything other than having this woman in his bed again. She finally got his belt undone and the button and zipper on his jeans undone. He started working on her jeans and he fared better and had them down her legs in record time. She pushed his down and he stepped out of them while she did the same. He broke away from her and took a step back so he could look at her. She was so beautiful, so perfect and she was his. Just as he was hers. He had always been hers and vice versa. He could see her chest rising and falling and loved how perfect she was. He pushed his black boxer briefs to the floor needing to be free of them and watched as she pushed her panties down her legs and stepped out of them. The silence was deafening, so much was said without saying a word. They stepped back together and wrapped each other up in their arms kissing insistently. There was so much desperation in the way they moved together. He picked her up and laid her down in the centre of his kind sized bed and he climbed up after her. He laid down the length of her body as he continued to kiss ever piece of skin he could reach.

"Damon I need you." she begged. He reached up and kissed her once more before raising off of her just enough so he could position his penis at her entrance. He laced their hands together as he slid home. They started rocking together slowly just needing the intimacy. The desperation had went away the second they were joined. He moved within her slowly and steadily. They kissed and their lower bodies never missed a beat.

"I love you, so much." she said as they moved together.

"I love you too." he said as he could feel his climax building. He could tell she was close to by the way her hips started moving more insistently against his. After a few more slow, deep thrusts she came apart under him and he spilled inside her at the exact same time. He collapsed against her and kissed her neck while they recovered. He stayed there for a while just loving being close to her again. The spell was broken when her cell phone started ringing from her purse that she had dropped the minute she walked into the bedroom.

"I better answer that." she said.

"I'll go grab it." he told her. He seen Tom's name on the caller ID and wasn't sure whether he should be jealous or not. He still wasn't sure whether he trusted this little inconsequential human.

"Hey Tom." she greeted into the phone when she answered it. He got back into the bed and she slid over to lay her head on his chest and he felt instantly relieved.

"Elena, so how's it going?" he asked.

"Wonderful. But I've got to call you back later. I need to be with just Damon at the moment." she said.

"Sounds good. Call me whenever you come back up for air." he said laughing. He was so happy his friend sounded so happy. And he hoped that it would all work out for them this time around.

Elena put the phone on the end table and snuggled into Damon's chest.

"Did you mean what you said earlier?" he asked.

"What part?" she asked.

"About being whatever I need you to be." he asked.

"Yes. I am not willing to lose you again Damon. You're the only one out there for me." she assured him.

"Alright. Will you do something for me?" he asked.

"Anything." she said.

"I'm going to try this again, but this time I'm not going down on bended knee because I couldn't survive if you turned me down again. Elena, marry me." he said. She immediately started crying, she couldn't believe that this man who she had wounded more times that she could count will still willingly put his whole heart out there for her.

"Yes." she said. He grinned and kissed her before rolling back on top of her.

"are you ready for round 2?" he asked.

"Do I get a ring to show off to people when we tell them we're getting married?" she asked.

"Right. Forgot about that part." he said rolling off of her and rummaging in a box in his closet. He gave her the box to open.

"If you don't like that one we can go buy you something more modern." he said. She opened it and gasped inside was the most beautiful ring she had ever seen.

"It's so beautiful." she said.

"You like it?" he asked.

"I love it." she corrected him.

"Good. It was my mothers and she gave it to me before she died. She said to give it to the woman I chose to marry." he said.

"She gave you lots of jewelry." she noted.

"She gave me the items that meant the most to her and told me to give them to the one who meant the most to me." he said.

"I will wear it for all of eternity." she promised. He took the ring out of the box and sliding it on her finger.

"It's fits perfectly." he noted.

"It was meant for me." she said smiling.

"Yes it was." he said grinning. He rolled back on top of her positioned his hardness back at her entrance.

"How are you hard? You just proposed to me?" she asked.

"I was hard moments after cumming inside you. Vampire stamina has its perks." he said.

"I love vampire stamina." she said and he slid home within her moments later.

The next morning Elena woke up and saw that Damon was still beside her. The fact made her smile broadly.

"Wake up. I want to go see my family." she said.

"Okay." he said rolling over and shoving his head under a blanket. "In a couple hours." he muttered.

"No Salvatore, I want to go now." she ordered. He poked his head out and glared at her before covering himself back up. She laughed and stood up yanked the blanket from his body. He sat up instantly and glared at her.

"A little sleep is all I ask, but no. You want to go see your family." he said getting out of bed and pulling a pair of pants on.

"Yeah cover yourself up Salvatore. Your physique is more than a little distracting." she muttered.

"and yours isn't?" he retaliated. She laughed and dug through her suitcase and found something that was clean. She dressed and brushed her hair while Damon dressed and they walked downstairs together.

"Have a good night?" Zack asked from the kitchen table.

"The best." Damon said.

"That's good. Good to see you Elena." he said.

"You as well. Damon proposed last night and this time I said yes." she said smiling.

"I'm happy for you. But you better go tell your family. I told Ric last night that you were home." he said.

"And how did you know Elena was here?" Damon asked.

"I may have came home to check on you and didn't see you down here. So I walked upstairs and opened your door and you two were kissing. Clothes were still on so you needn't worry." he said.

"And how did neither of us hear you?" Damon asked.

"Mainly because you were rather occupied in each other." he said.

"Right. But we better go." Damon said as he took Elena's hand and they walked out the door. He opened the door and she slid in the front seat.

"Elena is back and you tell me that we cant call her?" Jenna asked incredulously.

"Yes, she's with Damon and will come by when she's done." Alaric explained.

"She's my niece and Jeremy's sister." Jenna argued.

"What about my sister?" he asked.

"Elena is back." Alaric explained.

"That's great. Why isn't she here?" Jeremy asked.

"She's at Damon's." Alaric said.

"Oh that's good." he said as the doorbell rang. Jeremy left the room and answered the door.

"Elena. You're home." he said wrapping his arms around his vampire sister.

"I am. And I'm not leaving again."she said as she and Damon walked in.

"Elena you're home." Jenna said throwing her arms around her niece.

"Damon and I have something to tell you." she said sitting down on the couch.

"Yes?" Jenna asked.

"We're getting married." she said happily.