Chapter-6

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In this chapter, Damon's plans of sleeping it off until Elena awakens were ruined as he needed to be there for Stefan when his mark opens up again. Damon, Bonnie and Enzo are tracking down the escaped Vampires and Damon decides to catch up Elena on his activities.

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(This chapter takes place after Stefan woke up Damon after 3 years of his starvation in the coffin beside Elena)

Dear Elena,

So, hey baby, remember how the last time I was being this big person and trying to do right by the world and saving our friends of me? Ya! That didn't work out so well!

Instead of waking up to your beautiful face, I had to wake up to a very stinky, exhausted Stefan who was once again on the run from the huntress!

Just when I was beginning to think that things are starting to look up, I am back to the land of hell, a world without you, but right now, no time to entertain my self-pity, Bonnie needs me.

Breaking news Elena, she's with Enzo, as in not because Enzo is holding her as leverage or that she is with him because she might have hit her head somewhere, she is with him, out of her own volition, because she's, get this, in love!

I mean, I could've adapted to a world where man has gone back to the jungle, I mean, it'd be easier that way, but to think that the very, sane, self-righteous, loyal to the last bone Bonnie-the witch, would go ahead and fall in love with Enzo of all people? Uh-uh, not happening!

Turns out I don't get to have a say in who our best-friend dates because I abandoned her! Man has she gotten dramatic over the past three years! I mean given the person I call the love of my life, shouldn't she be taking notes on what I have to say about her love-life? Unbelievable right?

If I am to be honest, Enzo does seem different with Bon. They are being all goofy and cuddly and it is hard not to constantly gag in front of them. No need to piss off the witch some more so I tolerate them!

Bon's happy with Enzo, live and die for each other kinda love, but she's dying baby. If we don't help Rayna trap all her lost souls back, she won't help us trade her life for Bon, so turns out, your man's on a mission!

We've been out and about USA hunting those very wicked vampires and even after a lot of blood-bath and all that gore, we still, aren't nowhere close!

Who would've thought that trapping Vampires for a ruthless huntress on the prowl for over two centuries could be a strenuous activity? No one right? But don't worry, I plan on going on a reconciliation retreat and I am not backing down.

I will earn my apology and then… well, once again, I have no clue… I stay? I starve? I don't know!

We are knackered out at this moment but there's hell of a lot of work to do, so no time to sit and chat, well, with me, of course, she's giving me the silent treatment. Little does she know, I have been trained in enduring it for decades, strained relationship with baby brother and all!

The coffin idea was a bust, as you can see, I barely saved Stefan once again. He's talking to me but makes sure to not go with more than one word answers and Ric, well, Ric has moved on, couldn't have expected less but did that sting? Hell yes!

I have a sneaking suspicion he's more pissed than ever that I dragged him into all of this again. He wants to have a quiet life, white-picket fence and stuff and he's got it, but he's deluding himself in thinking that he and Blondie can work out!

Rayna's writing more names by the second and man do we need more Vampire muscle to get into this but we are massively short-handed. But don't you worry, I am sure we'll work something out, we always survive! You remember when you said that to me. God I wanted to kiss you so bad that time and I am pretty sure you'd have kissed me back then but of course, Katherine!

I still can't believe that I asked you to take a step back that day and do nothing and for once, your stubborn-ass agreed.

You stayed back but it back-fired. I asked you to trust me and I failed you that day. I have failed you countless times after but I just, I can't fail this time.

So I am gonna be the anti-hero that I am and I'm gonna lay down the Huntress in the ground for good and hope, that I get Bonnie back, trust me, right this moment, I'd take anything from monosyllables and babbles to anatomically impossible expletives, anything she wants to throw at me!

So, addressing the elephant in the room, I am just glad, that, you won't be feeling time in there. Now that I got to know what that is, well, of course it was a tad different for me, given it took me a while, and a long while at that to completely shut down, I am glad, that you are at peace.

No, that just sounds so wrong but I am hoping that when you wake up, it'll be like you just went to sleep the previous night and hopefully, I will be there to hold you, while you try to make sense of the world.

These ungrateful fucks didn't even greet me with so much as a hand-shake! What does a guy have to do to get a hug around here! But of course no one would've pegged me for a hugger and I didn't ask for one, you know, I have a reputation to uphold.

I think the only reputation that our friends uphold of me is that of a dick and there isn't anything I can do about it. To be honest, I did abandon them! A colossal dick move!

While I was shutting down and holding on to any consciousness whatsoever, I didn't think about the worldly debates that I was so keen on closing, but instead, I thought about you, us and that damn sleeping beauty spell!

There were times when I actually considered waking you up with a kiss, hoping that somehow there was a silly loophole around there and a true-love's kiss would in fact, wake you up.

That's when I realized, how delusional I was and how desperately I should not be holding onto consciousness and slip away. But hope's a bitch and I carried on for a few days thinking about it.

It would've been awesome to wake you up like that and to be woken up like that! I mean, a kiss by the man himself, you should be so lucky! Okay don't pout, I know you kiss better than me and trust me, it's not a fact I like to publicize so shh when you read this.

As much fun it would be to have you back that way, I was terrified all the same… I couldn't have taken that rejection! I mean I get it, it's a spell and not to be messed with but to think my love wasn't enough to wake you up, God that would bum me out for hours all together, at least, I thought those were hours.

I haven't see you since I woke up and I think it's better this way, not trying to hurt you, but, Tesoro, I really have a job to finish and just fantasizing about us takes up a lot of my time, I couldn't look at you and have you not, look at me. Also, I miss your eyes, I don't think I ever appreciated them enough. Well, that's it for now, the huntress is making her way here with new lists, gotta go!

Love you forever,

Damon.

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