Gravity

Disclaimer: I don't own anything or anyone from The Vampire Diaries.

So originally this chapter was going to be longer but I ended up cutting out some other scenes because I want this chapter to be DE only.

Here we go...hope you like this one...see you at the end!


July 1st 2017

Saturday 7.30pm

Charlotte, North Carolina

No matter how hard I try, Damon refuses to give anything away for what he has planned tonight.

When we walked to the restaurant Damon had booked, I had asked what the big fuss was about this place to travel so far away just for dinner.

Damon laughed and proved my silent theory that the surprise would be coming later on in the night. Apparently the restaurant he had booked was just an added bonus.

I catch his eye from across the table and I see the amusement flashing in his blue orbs.

He is so annoying.

I finish off my glass of wine, my mind completely blank when I try to think of what it is Damon has planned for us. It's not like Charlotte even has any meaning or significance to me. I don't even think I've been here before.

Damon won't even give me a single clue either. He's just sure that I'll enjoy it. I mean, I trust him on that, if there's one person who knows how to show me a good time it's Damon Salvatore.

In more ways than one.

I blush at the thought, my mind briefly drifting back to a couple of hours earlier in the hotel bar. I can't believe I said that, but boy am I glad that I did. Honestly when I found out he had booked us a hotel room I did have a little freak out. Not because I didn't want anything to happen…but because I didn't want to assume anything and get the wrong idea.

Damon said he only booked the room so we could freshen up, shower and change our clothes. I shouldn't have expected us to stay the night and I was too scared to suggest otherwise.

However seeing him sat alone at the hotel bar, looking a little guilty, I realized that he took my silence and awkwardness of the afternoon as something that it wasn't.

Which is how I ended up coming out with such a bold statement.

I mean…it's not necessarily that I am planning anything to happen between us, but I want Damon to have just as much fun as I do tonight and to save him from driving home…we may as well as make the most of the room…right?

"Did you enjoy that?" Damon motions to my empty plate in front of me.

I smile. "It was delicious, thank you, Damon."

His smile widens. "You're very welcome, Elena. Only the best for you."

I blink surprised, my cheeks heating up and my heart pounding fast. I bite on my bottom lip nervously before clearing my throat. "Are you going to tell me where we're going yet?"

He laughs loudly, drawing the attention of the table next to us but neither of us seems to care. "No." he looks down at his watch. "Come on, you have lasted this long. What's another twenty minutes or so?"

"I literally have no idea." I confess in annoyance with an exasperated smile.

"Good." He winks at me before waving over the waiter to ask for the bill. Damon of course declines my offer to split the bill 50/50, instead slapping my hand away and not even letting me see the total price.

He pays on his card and then makes a move to stand up. I quickly excuse myself to go to the bathroom and tell Damon to wait for me outside.

As I redo my makeup and make sure my hair looks how it first did when we left the hotel, my stomach starts to get in a knot with nerves. I wasn't lying when I told him that I literally have no idea what this surprise is going to be.

I'm completely clueless.

When I leave the restaurant, I see Damon standing just outside of the doorway and I make my way over there with a smile. I try to push back the nerves, an excitement feeling starting to take over.

"Hey," he smiles softly at me and takes my hand straight away. "We still have some time before we need to be where…we need to be." He smirks at me amused as I roll my eyes. "So I figured we could walk? Make the most of this nice night."

"Whatever you say, master."

He laughs and it sends a mushy feeling inside of me at the sound. "Come on," he tugs on my hand and starts to walk. "I promise you, you will enjoy it."

"Okay," I have no other choice but to follow him into the crowded streets. I can't resist asking him if we're nearly there yet every five minutes and each time Damon replies with a swift 'nearly'.

After another fifteen minutes of walking through the city with light banter and teasing back and forth between us, Damon squeezes my hand tightly as we round a corner.

I look around with curious eyes as I see a long queue of people outside a venue. I glance up at Damon and he smirks, motioning to the building in front of us.

He leans closer against me. "We're here." He murmurs into my ear before pressing a kiss to the side of my head.

I don't exactly know where here is and I look back at Damon with a puzzled smile.

He chuckles and murmurs something about the queue of people blocking my view. He lets go of my hand and pulls out his wallet and opens it up, pulling out two tickets and handing them over to me.

My eyes widen in surprise when I see that they are tickets for a concert. I scan my eyes over the font confused when I see the title of the band. "The Monkeys?" I smile amused and look back up at Damon.

He chuckles slightly and rolls his eyes. "They're a tribute band to The Arctic Monkeys." He explains with a nervous smile. My mouth gapes open in shock as I glance back down at the tickets. "I know it's not exactly the real deal or nearly as good but I figured since we didn't actually make it to go and see them all of those years ago for your Christmas gift to me, I could at least somewhat make it up for you for your birthday." He sounds nervous but I am too speechless right now to comment. "And I hope they don't suck, but I promise I did my research before I booked the tickets and read lots of different reviews on different websites and apparently they are really really good and the closest to the real band as it get." He rambles on nervously. He lets out a nervous breath and looks down at me. "Shit, are you disappointed?"

I blink and look back up at him with wide eyes.

I leap forward into his arms and kiss him.

Damon stumbles back for a second before his arms quickly come to wrap around my waist tightly.

"Thank you," I murmur against his lips, slowly pulling back with my hands holding his face between my fingers. "Thank you," I kiss him hard on the lips again. "Thank you," I kiss him again. "Thank you."

He laughs softly, and pulls away again and I giggle when I see his lips covered in my lip gloss. "So you like it?"

I nod, beaming. "Yes!" I wrap my arms around his neck and squeeze him tightly. "You're amazing, you know that?"

"If I knew I was going to get this reaction from you I would have taken you to see tribute bands more often." He smirks and I roll my eyes, slapping him lightly on the shoulder because just like always he makes a joke to avoid a compliment.

"Shut up…you know this is different." I can't help but brush my lips against his again in a slow sensual kiss. "Thank you," I whisper again quietly.

Damon smiles softly before kissing me once more and stepping back. "Come on, we better join this queue if we want to find a good place to stand."

I nod in agreement and let Damon take my hand, joining the hundreds of other concert-goers waiting to get inside. Wow, they must be popular if they can get this much of a crowd – especially since they are a tribute band.

I can't hide my excitement the closer and closer we get, a beaming smile glued to my face. Once we get inside I quickly escape to the bathroom while Damon heads to the bar to get us some drinks. When we walk inside the main room, we manage to find ourselves a good spot near the front but at the side so we can lean against the wall behind us and place our drinks down onto a tall table pressed against the wall.

I smile when Damon wraps his arms around me from behind, my body instinctively leaning back against his.

We watch a support band take their place and I have to admit they are pretty good. Damon murmurs into my ear something about getting us another drink before The Monkeys come on and I smile and hold tight until he comes back.

I try to hold back my glee when Damon returns, handing me my drink with a kiss. This night is the best night I've had in the last four years and it hasn't even really started yet.

Damon retakes his spot behind me, his muscular arms wrapping back around my waist just in time for the lights to dim and the crowd to start screaming.

I practically squeal with giddiness as I hear the opening guitar chords for 'Do I Wanna Know' kick in and I turn back to face Damon with an excited smile to see him gleaming back at me. I can't resist it; I press my lips against his in a hard kiss, my spare hand landing on his cheek as he kisses me back.

"You're the best." I murmur against his lips happily before turning back around to watch the band. Wow, one sing in and already I can see how amazing they are! They sound almost as good as the real deal. In fact, the lead singer even looks a bit like Alex Turner himself, but I suppose that is kind of the whole point of a tribute band, right?

Damon keeps me wrapped up tightly in his arms for the whole gig. We sway along to each song; we even dance a little, much to Damon's dismay. We laugh and sing along.

It's been perfect.

After the band finish their encore, I am still feeling pretty high from the buzz and atmosphere. Damon clutches my hand as we make our way through the heavy crowds towards the exit and I can't stop smiling.

I turn to face Damon happily. Feeling brave, I take his other hand in mine so I am holding both and step closer to him. I stand up on my tip toes and brush my lips against his softly.

"Best birthday ever." I tell him honestly and my stomach flutters happily at his beaming smile.

I love you.

I love you.

I love you.

"Do you want to go find a bar or something?" He asks me while his hands squeeze mine tightly.

I smile and shake my head.

"No."


I pour out the hotel bourbon into two glasses, knowing that I will probably get charged a whole week's wage of this hotel liquor but I really don't give a damn.

I hand Elena her glass with a smile and she takes it from me as she sits on the edge of the bed. I join her comfortably. The room is silent but it's not awkward at all. I take a sip from my bourbon with a loud sigh and take off my shoes, and pull off my socks.

Elena kicks off her heels before resting her head on my shoulder. "This is nice."

"This is nice." I agree with a smile, my arm stretching to wrap around her waist and Elena lets out a soft sigh of content as my hand lands on her hip.

"I think I missed this the most while you were gone." She speaks quietly and I can hear the sadness in her voice but it's different to all of the other times. "Just being with you…like this…"

I close my eyes for the briefest of moments because there was so many nights when I lay in my uncomfortable metal bed alone and just dreamed about Elena sitting next to me.

So many times I wished to see her smile again. I wished to hold her hand and wrap my arm around her waist. I wished to hear her laugh and press my lips against hers.

I got it all tonight.

"I know." I whisper quietly, swallowing the growing lump in my throat. She stares at me for a moment, her eyes big and brown and beautiful.

God is she beautiful.

"Damon?" She slowly stands to her feet and I frown a little confused when she takes my glass from my hands and places both of our drinks on the cabinet. "Will you dance with me?"

I smile slightly bemused. "But we don't have any music…"

"I know." She reaches out her hand towards me with a smile. "Dance with me." She repeats, a little more firmly this time and I smile.

I nod slowly, taking her hand and moving towards the slightly more spacious area of the hotel room. I take Elena's hand, my other hand resting on her waist while hers lands on my shoulder, our noses lightly touching as we sway along to imaginary music.

Elena closes her eyes with the tiniest of smiles on her face and I let out a content sigh as I pull her slightly closer to me.

We move around the tiny hotel room in perfect harmony. We don't even need music. This moment is so much better without it.

I spin Elena out and honestly, I'm not even surprised this time when she crashes back towards me with a kiss.

I don't waste a second in kissing her back, Elena's arms wrapping around my neck tightly, her fingers clutching my hair.

Before I know what is happening, my feet are moving and I am pushing Elena back onto the bed. She moans, breaking away from the kiss for a split second to start unbuttoning my shirt. In the end she gets impatient and ends up ripping it off. I smirk and toss it across the room and climbing on top of her, my lips quickly finding hers again.

Elena arches her back into me as I move my mouth from her lips across her cheek and to her neck as I re-familiarize myself with her soft skin. I hear her suck in a breath as I scrape my teeth against her skin and that's all it takes for me to need to feel her lips again.

I kiss her hard and deep, hot open mouthed kisses and her heavy moaning and gasps are making my dick hard. "God," I pull back and look down at Elena panting breathlessly below me. "This needs to go. This needs to go right now." I quickly remove her dress in super speed and Elena giggles as I throw it across the room. Now I'm the one who lets out a shaky breath when I note her lacy black matching underwear.

I lick my lips and don't waste any time, I trail slowly hot wet kisses down her neck and along her chest until I reach her breasts.

Elena moans loudly, her hand squeezing my ass as deliberately graze her nipples with my teeth through the material of her bra before continuing my journey along her toned stomach. Elena's hands trail up my spine and towards my neck the lower and lower I get.

My eyes roll into the back of my head as I slide my fingers into her panties and feel how wet she is for me already.

"God Damon," she shudders.

"You're so wet baby," I breathe out, my dick twitching as I slide a single finger inside of her. Elena's body shakes under mine. One hand clutches my hair tightly while the other grips the bed sheets beside her as I pull her right leg over my shoulder and finally get to taste her.

"Oh God," I hear Elena moan loudly but I don't stop. My tongue circles her clit while I slip in a second finger. "Damon…Damon…" Elena pants loudly above me. "Oh God…Damon…I'm…Oh…."

I suck harder, my fingers pumping in and out of her faster and harder. She's close, I can tell.

Elena never did last very long when I went down on her.

"I'm gonna…I'm gonna…" she reaches her climax but I don't remove my mouth as she orgasms. I smirk slightly, my other hand squeezing her thigh tightly as I make sure to catch all her juices.

After a few more moments, I feel Elena's leg over my shoulder flap lazily and I slowly raise my head to see her sprawled out on the bed above me, her hair a tangled mess on the white bed sheets.

I grin, edging my way up and Elena somehow manages to raise her hands to my face and kisses me softly. She sighs against my lips as I kiss her back.

"That was…" she pulls back, her eyes glistening. "Wow." I chuckle and press another kiss to her lips. Elena's hands trail back down my back and I groan when I feel her fiddling with my zipper. I lean up back up onto my knees and unbutton my jeans, sliding them off and moving them aside.

Elena's eyes widen at the large bulge in my pants and I smirk. Her wide eyes look back up at me and I see her lick her lips in anticipation.

"Elena…" I lean back down, Elena's arms immediately wrapping back around me. "If you want to tell me no…"

She shakes her head immediately. "I want this." She leans up from the bed and presses a slow open mouthed kiss to my neck before moving her lips to my ear. "I want you." She bites on my ear for a moment. "I want to feel you inside of me, Damon."

My dick hardens even more if that were possible. I nod slowly, gulping slightly as Elena leans back down onto the bed but brings me with her in a sensual kiss.

I feel her remove my boxer shorts and my suppressed dick springs free.

"Shit," I hiss out through gritted teeth as Elena's soft hand slides along my throbbing penis tightly. She smirks naughtily before slowly moving her hand up and down my shaft. "Shit, Elena…" I clench my jaw because I feel like I am about to explode. "Now is not the time for teasing…" I somehow manage to complete my sentence.

She pouts slightly "But…" I cut her off and kiss her, my teeth pulling on her lip for a moment before I pull back.

"I need to be inside of you right now." I position myself at her entrance and Elena looks up at me with eager impatient wide eyes. I slowly push myself inside of her and we both moan loudly.

Oh god.

"You're so tight." I breathe out with a gasp as I push myself all the way in. "Shit…" I finally fill her to the hilt and my eyes clench shut.

I finally feel like I'm home.

"Damon," she moans while her face is a picture of complete bliss that I don't think I will ever forget.

"I know baby," I start to slowly move and her breathing quickens. Her nails claw into my back but I don't care as I start to quicken my pace. I let out my own quick shaky pants to match her own as I thrust in and out of her.

It's been so long.

I don't think I can make this last long.

Shit.

"Shit." I freeze and Elena whines, her eyes slowly fluttering open. "Condom?"

She shakes her head and pulls me down to kiss her. "I'm on the pill." I feel my shoulders sink in relief because I don't think I would have been able to stop this. I kiss her back as I start to move again. My hands grip her hips tightly as I pull her up towards me, she moans loudly into my mouth at the change of angle but this just spurs me on even more.

I feel Elena start to tremble beneath me, her legs are wrapped around my naked waist tightly and her arms are clutched around my back.

"Damon," she breathes out in between heavy gaps. "I'm gonna…I'm gonna…SHIT. OH GOD." She screams out loudly as she cums. Her orgasm is hard-hitting and I pump into her faster and harder, my hands gripping her hips so tightly that they will probably bruise tomorrow but neither of us seem to care.

I thrust in once, twice, three more times as Elena's orgasm still hits her in full force before I can feel myself coming.

"Elena…" I pant into her ear. "Shit…this feels so good…so damn good. You are so beautiful…" I keep pounding into her hard and fast. "So fucking beautiful…shit…" my orgasm takes over me and I feel like I completely explode, my seed spurting out inside of her.

I collapse onto her body in exhaustion, my head landing into the crook of her neck.

I swallow hard and Elena's strokes my hair softly.

It takes me a while but I slowly raise my head and I'm surprised to see Elena crying silently.

"Elena?" I breathe out, my stomach in a knot while praying that she hasn't regretted this already. "Baby…" I brush away her tear. "Are you okay?"

She nods quickly, her lips pressed tightly together probably to stop her sobs. She presses her mouth against mine in a hard passionate kiss.

I kiss her back, a little relieved that she doesn't seem to have regretted what just happened. When she pulls back, her eyes are glistening with unshed tears but she seems to have stopped crying.

"Are you okay?" I ask again softly, my hand pushing back some of her sweaty hair from her face.

She nods and lets out a shaky laugh, her smile big and white.

"I've never been better, Damon. I have never been better."

I smile widely and kiss her again.

"Happy fucking birthday, Elena Gilbert."


Currently hiding behind my hands because I hate writing smut and I really hope that was okay! Seriously...I hope it wasn't rushed or boring or anything, it's one of the hardest things to write and make it seem natural because I know everyone wanted this scene to be perfect and it was so much pressure!

I hope everyone enjoyed Damon's surprize! It links back to Cannonball - if anyone can't remember - Elena got Damon tickets to go and see the Arctic Monkeys for Christmas but they never got to make it there because it was after they left on the run.

Thank you again for reading, please don't be shy in writing a review. I'm a bit nervous about this one haha

See you next time :)