"Talking to Kol?" She looked up at him, "I am not talking to Kol." She denied it right away, Damon chuckled humourlessly, "I checked your phone a week before our vacation, he was calling you."
Elena shook her head, she couldn't believe what she was hearing, "you checked my phone, don't you trust me?."
He looked away from the wheel for a second, "He was calling and I wanted to hand you the phone, then I saw his name- felt like I shouldn't trust you."
"Oh God!" Elena palmed her forehead and then cupped her mouth, "Is that the reason you were not even talking to me the whole weekend."
"Lena I-"
"You wanna know what we were talking about?" she asked a bit furiously. He bit his lip, he sure wanted to know because it was bugging him and it would continue to do so till he drops dead, he kept quiet though and Elena took it as a yes. "We bought an apartment in Manhattan back when we were dating and it was up for sale now for an year and we finally got a good offer- he was just checking with me for it." She said a bit quietly, "My realtor said we should talk and then decide to sell it."
There was silence in the car now, they reached their house and Elena looked at him as he killed the engine, "Say it- what do you have to say." She asked above a whisper. He shook his head, "I cannot believe I didn't ask you- just kept letting it burn me. It's just I am afraid I'll make a move and lose you."
She licked her lower lip and reached forward wrapping her arms around his body, she rested her head against his shoulder and sighed, "I love you and I haven't loved anyone like I love you. You have to believe that."
"Okay." He breathed as he cupped the back of her head to pull her a bit away so he could look at her, "I am sorry."
She pecked him softly before pulling away, "It's fine, let's go inside and run a bath okay? Should we-"
He smirked, "Oh yeah, have I ever said no to that?"
"You do when it's your turn to get it ready." She reminded him, he nodded, "Hey I had a very long day that time."
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Elena was pacing around the house when he came back from work, he didn't know what was up with her, she didn't look her usual cheery self lately, "Hey hon, saw you on TV at lunch today." He said trying to lighten her mood as he took off his coat and tossed it on the couch, she stopped moving around, her hand on her hips as she gestured towards the discarded coat, he rolled his eyes picking it up, "So what's up."
"I am waiting for a call back. It's a very important film I auditioned for."
He raised a brow, "Wait- you auditioned? I thought you didn't have to audition anymore-" she interrupted, "I know, I know- things are never steady. You know what happened?"
She said sitting on the couch, clearly indicating that he should sit as well, "What?" he said sitting down, "Caroline is also one of the girls that can get a call back- I can't believe she auditioned, my agent told me about this- she didn't even know-"
"So who told her?" he raised a brow, "Maybe Stefan- he just messes things up for me-" Elena muttered, "I always wanted to work with This director."
He huffed and got ahead wrapping his arm around her, "Okay you need to calm down- Caroline is your friend, you can't just be mad at her for wanting the best for her career."
"I know- I know, I feel so shitty for feeling this way." She said resting her head on his shoulder for a moment, when the phone buzzed, she instantly jumped up and went to get the phone, "I think it might be Stefan, he would have heard if I got it." She held the phone and turned back to him, he crossed his fingers in an encouraging way, she smiled and picked up the phone, "Hey- yeah what did they say?"
Damon watched as her expressions changed a tad bit, she looked a bit more serious now, she did an 'Emm hmm' before hanging up. Damon got up the couch, waiting for her to say something, "It wasn't Stef, it was my agent- They want to do another audition."
"Isn't that good?" he asked a brow arched, she sighed, "Caroline and I are auditioning, how can they make me audition again? They made me feel like they were going to hire me." She ranted, Damon huffed, "Well you said that-"
She interrupted, "I know what I said. Caroline is sabotaging this for sure." Elena said and held up the phone again, dialling a number, he moved forward holding the phone, "What are you doing? Are you crazy- are you gonna call her?"
"Yes I have to ask- she can't just take something this huge from me, Damon, she knew I had my eyes on this." Elena argued taking the phone from him, he snatched it back, "No-No. Baby stop- if they like you, you'll get it." He tried to calm her down, she shook her head, "Not if Caroline is sleeping with the producer I won't."
His eyes widened at her accusation and he left the cell phone, "You can't just say that about your best friend."
Elena shook her head as she took a step back, "Whose side are you on?"
"No one- what is wrong with you?" he said a bit surprised by Elena's harsh comments about Caroline, it might have knocked some sense into her because she sighed keeping the phone back on the table, "You know what- you're right- I just don't know why I am being so anxious about this."
He nodded, "Exactly- I know you'll get it, but you have to stop this- you don't want to lose your best friend over this." He reminded her, she admitted, "Yeah- my agent was saying so much shit about her and I just jumped the bandwagon."
Damon sighed of relief at her surrender, he didn't want to see his forgiving and loving wife to take a 180 and become this raging greedy woman over some film, seeing that she valued her relationships more than anything reassured him in a way and he loved how that made him feel.
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As much as he loved his wife, he hated when he had to go with her to her events, not that he wouldn't go because that would make her extremely upset and he couldn't handle that, one of those things he did to make her happy. He hated how a thousand paparazzi would take their pictures from every possible angle and how he would have to laugh at every stupid thing he heard whether it was a joke or not. The after parties were a bit relaxed since not many photographers were allowed there and they could just sit and talk till it was over, he found his brother in the sea of small and big celebrities, walking towards his wife and him.
"How's it going, we didn't see you guys out front." He said over the loud noise in the party. Elena was busy talking to a co-actress. His brunette wife dressed in a dark blue figure hugging dress adorned with diamonds on its neckline and her hair were in curls.
"Yeah me neither." He looked back at Elena before asking, "How's she doing?"
"Not too good, she thinks Elena pulled some strings to get the role." Stefan said just as quiet, Damon palmed his face, "She didn't- Elena was just as upset before, please tell Caroline to talk to her, Elena hasn't slept in three days." He requested. Stefan shook his head and sat down on the empty chair next to them, "I've tried, she's just miserable right now- she even told me to not talk to her."
Damon thought it was ridiculous of both of them to cut ties over the stupid role but he knew his opinion really didn't matter here. Before he could say anything, Elena leaned down and asked him, "Are you guys talking about Care?"
"No honey-"
"It's okay Damon, I am gonna go talk to her, it's not like she's going to be mad at me forever." Elena looked at him and Stefan and then leaned against their table, "Look I know I over reacted when I heard she too auditioned for the role but I didn't do anything about it. I went in and did a second audition." She shrugged. Stefan nodded and reached for her , holding her hand, "I know- you deserved the part and you got it, she's just unable to process that information."
"I'll go talk to her." Elena said calmly and patted Stefan's shoulder as she got up and went to find Caroline. Damon huffed as he got up too, "Let's get a drink, anymore of these girls and I might just lose my balls."
Stefan chuckled getting up, "Me too."
"Oh come on- you auctioned off yours in second grade when you became friends with them." He said sarcastically but earned a punch from Stefan on his arm.
Elena made her way through the crowd and finally found Caroline, her heard broke when she saw her blonde friend in a silver mermaid style dress downing drinks alone, she looked like a mess, this couldn't be good for her reputation. She slowly walked there and sighed, "Hey Care."
She looked up at Elena before rolling her eyes, "You don't get a hint do you? I don't want to talk to you Elena- leave me alone." She spat as she got up and started walking away almost stomping every step. Elena followed her to the bathroom and watched as an anxious Caroline was rubbing a tissue paper on the corner of her eyes standing in front of the sink almost shaking. "Care I-"
"Oh my god! Leave me alone!" Caroline shrieked backing away from Elena. Elena bit her lip from the loud sound and swallowed thick, "Look I was pissed at the start, I thought some bullshit stuff about you but I didn't do anything to get it- your friendship means everything to me."
Caroline chuckled humourlessly, she was stumbling, Elena figured she was drunk so she moved ahead to help her, the blonde pushed at her, "Don't- of course you got it on your own- you bitch, you think the world revolves around you."
"Look if you're going to behave this way, I can just back away from the part." Elena said cupping the side of her face, Caroline flinched, "I don't need your pity- you took this from me, at least own it, own that you are a bitch who always took from me."
"Me?" Elena asked surprised, "I am ready to give up the thing that can mean big for my career because of you and I am taking away from you?" she was a bit angry now. The blonde nodded, "You took away everything and then you act like the petite victim whore that you are."
"If you don't shut up-" Elena warned. Caroline scoffed, "I won't, you don't deserve this. You don't deserve the part and you sure as hell don't deserve Damon." She shouted, "If only he could look past charity fucking you, he'd know what real love is." That did it, Elena frowned taking a moment to process whatever her 'childhood best friend' was saying.
"God he loves you and you're meeting that abusive son of a bitch ex-boyfriend of yours because he wanted to 'apologize'? You make me fucking sick-" she spat. Elena blinked, she had told Caroline that she met with her ex boyfriend when Kol had been in a car accident a few days ago and she was still his primary contact, he wanted to 'apologize' as well, she could never tell that to Damon, he would go insane. To think Caroline would bring that up.
"He'll find out how much of a narcissist you are-" the blonde pointed at her while she felt her blood had started rushing at dangerously high speed through her veins and her body was slowly getting out of her conscious control. The blonde was poking her finger into Elena's chest, her mascara smudged as she spoke, "And he'll dump your whore ass- and I will be there Elena, I'll put him back together and he won't even remember you exist after he sees how much I love him."
Its like a light went off in her head and she launched forward, throwing Caroline against the wall as she kneed her stomach while shouting, "What'd you say? Tell me!" . Caroline was quick to respond as she pushed her slapping her across her face, Elena fell on the ground and Caroline straddled her just in time, clutching her throat tightly in both her hands"I really want to kill you right now." The blonde said. Elena coughed kicking her feet due to the loss of air, she needed to release herself from her grip, freeing one hand she hit her in the face and the blonde screamed falling back, Elena got on top of her- feeling completely out of control, "I called you my best fucking friend- you snake!" she spat hitting Caroline, "My husband isn't some stupid part that you and I are shortlisted for- he chose me! He loves me!" she said hitting her.
The voices attracted attention and several people showed up, pushing her back, Caroline was very drunk so she was being helped up while Elena still screamed at her, "Don't ever show me your fucking face- If I see you even within fifty miles of my husband- you're dead!"
"Elena!" she heard Damon from the crowd behind- he made his way and held her by her arms, Stefan too showed up and looked surprised at their condition, both of them bruised, clothes torn and shaking. Damon gestured Stefan to take care of Caroline as he dragged Elena out of there. He took it his coat and covered her with it as he took her out of there, she was still hyperventilating as he sat her down in the car.
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"What the fuck was that?" he said as soon as they closed the door to their house, Elena took off her coat and turned to him, "She was trying to kill me- if I hadn't hit her she would have choked me to death." Elena said angrily as she walked towards the stairs, he followed her, "What? Are you sure you're talking about Caroline?" he couldn't believe it. She gave him a glare before walking to the store on the end of the corridor, "What are you doing?" he asked confused.
"I hate her, I hate her so much- I don't want to see her face- I have to get rid of every picture of her." She said as she paced around, "Lena stop-" he said holding her by the shoulders and making her stand in front of him, "You don't hate her, stop this- God, you look hurt." He said stroking her cheek. She slightly pushed him, "I do hate her, she wanted to kill me."
"For the part?" he asked as if it was impossible, Caroline would never do that, Elena shook her head, "No. For you."
He frowned, "For what?"
"She's been in love with you this whole time- she wants me gone and today she proved it, she was choking me to death and-"
He interrupted, "Are you listening to yourself, this is Caroline you're talking about, baby- you need to stop."
She closed her eyes in frustration before she opened them and glared, "You think I am imagining this, she confessed to me! She threatened me!" Elena screamed, "You have to believe me."
"Elena, you think everyone wants to kill you?stop accusing people and calm down for a fucking second, next thing you know you think I want to-" he said a bit annoyed, she shook her head, "I am not imagining this for god sakes, this explains everything, her giving me all that stupid advice about not getting married too soon or that time I was getting cold feet about the baby and she didn't even say anything knowing you were there!"
He just watched as she went completely deranged, his heart was breaking- was Elena losing it? He was doing everything he could to make her feel safe and yet she was becoming crazier and sicker each day. "Damon just- we have to stay away from her."
"But Elena-" he tried to calm her down but she shrieked, "Why do you care so much? Unless there is something Damon, on your end?" she raised a brow, "Are you both-"
"She's like a sister to me damn it." Damon said unable to take more of this, "you know what- I am going to fetch you your medicine now." He said turning back, she swallowed thick, "Damon please- you have to believe me." Her voice was trembling now, she stepped forward and wrapped her arms around his torso resting her head on his back, "This is what she wants, for us to fight, she wants to take you away from me- she can have the part, she can have everything, but I am not ready to lose you." She said as her voice broke. He sighed and turned back to cup her face, her eyes were pooling in tears as she looked up at him, like every time, she wanted him to 'agree' that someone was trying to 'hurt' her, in this case Caroline, if he didn't she would surely push him away as well.
"Fine, we don't have to know her anymore, I don't care- you are what means to me above anyone. If you don't feel safe around her then I don't want to be around her either." He said wiping away her tears, she gulped and trapped his hand that was on her cheek with her own hand, "I am scared-"
"Look-"
She interrupted, "I've never been so scared- please make me feel safe. Don't ever go." She pleaded. He could actually see the yearning in her eyes, her eyes had so much love and hurt all together and while he loved her eyes, he didn't want to see her this injured inside out. "Yeah, I am right here." He assured her as he leaned down and softly kissed her. When he parted after a moment from her soft lips , he pulled away the hair from her face behind her ears, he really wished he could believe her because she wanted to hear that but she wasn't just his wife, she was a mental patient who often hallucinated these situations, he took her to their bedroom and made her lie down on the bed, taking off her heels and putting her hair back. She held his wrist when he was about to move away, "Can I sleep close to you?"
"Of course." He said climbing on to the bed with her and pulling her to his arms, he moved her hair away from her neck to lean in when he saw the finger prints on her neck, his eyes widened a bit, was Caroline really fucking trying to kill his wife? "Are you okay?" he asked stroking her hair, she looked up and nodded, "Yeah, I'll be fine- please just hold me." She whispered. "Okay." He said pressing a kiss to her temple.
He didn't know but he couldn't sleep the whole night- Elena would whimper in her sleep and the fact that Caroline hurt her was really starting to bother him now. He remembered Elena went to her for making up with her and she attacked his wife?
Early in the morning he got up and got out of their room, dialling to Stefan. He picked up on the third bell luckily, "Hey, how's everything?"
"What do you think? Elena is in pain- she's scared as hell from her, and what was she thinking again? Was Caroline going to kill her or what?" Damon said annoyed, "She choked her."
"What?" Stefan said surprised, "I-uh-"
"Yeah and now Elena thinks that Caroline wants to break our marriage because she is in love with me- it's getting crazier every second." He said walking around, "Tell me you don't believe that." Stefan asked.
"Of course I don't believe that- Elena's insane remember and it keeps getting worse and worse, just seeing her lose her fucking marbles scares the crap out of me. I can't handle this." He huffed as he stood aside the wall from his room.
"Well you knew what you were getting in to." Stefan reminded him. He rolled his eyes, "Of course, I don't regret it. It's just it's hard to see someone you love so much in agony and in denial, there is this unreasonable urge inside me to shake her until she realises that she isn't in danger but then I know it's beyond useless. What if her insanity takes her away from me?" he never thought he would voice this fear but lately Elena was starting to level up in her Illness, her hallucinations were getting worse. He didn't want to lose her, she pushed her best friend away today, was he next?
"Damon." He heard her raspy voice, she was standing at the door of their bedroom, he hung up and turned to her, "Umm-"
"You don't have to lie- I know you think I am insane." She said above a breath and turned back looking a bit distant already, he knew it! The second he would confess he didn't believe her, she would push him away as well and she just started.
"Baby- look at me, hey." He held her arm and turned her to him, "I don't think you're insane okay?"
"Yes you do- I just heard you say it." Elena huffed. He shook his head, "Am I not allowed to be a bit shaken by the fact that you don't trust the girl you grew up with anymore chances are soon you won't trust me, that is the part which scares me. You have to know- I love you no matter how fucked up things get." He cupped her face making her look up at him, she pursed her lips, "I trust you- you need to believe me baby- I know you can't. This isn't something I am making up."
"You say that about everything." He sighed, "And mostly it is your mind making things up- you agree to that right?" he asked a brow raised, she nodded but he interrupted, "You can't be listening to that voice in your head all the time, you need to know some things are important enough to fight that voice." She just bit her lip, he wasn't going to listen and she sure as hell knew this was real.
Present
She woke up thinking it was still the middle of the night and yet again she was unable to sleep, no matter what her friends and family did, she couldn't be comfortable for long enough. Getting out of bed, she looked back at Damon who was deep in sleep, unaware of anything. He was taking care of her, doing extra hours at his job and Elena knew he was hell tired all the time. Thinking about getting a glass of water she started to walk out of the room and checked the clock, it was four in the morning so it wasn't mid night like the usual, she gasped when she saw her mother in the hall. Damon had wanted her to stay to make Elena feel comfortable but it did bother Elena when the woman tried to just wait for the chance and try to get in between them. "Uh Mom hey. I was just getting something to drink."
Her mother stood up from near the counter, "I'll have to go in a few days Lena, I don't think I can stay more. Besides I don't think you plan on coming back with me."
She nodded, "I don't." As she picked up a glass and filled it with water, her mother huffed to which Elena rolled her eyes, "Why is that so unbelievable that I trust him? Look at it yourself, you're going back to mystic falls to support a man who tortured me and I can't do anything about it but file a fucking damages suit."
She shook her head, "This is the story Damon fed you. Gray wouldn't do that, he loved you like his own." Elena hissed at his name, "Except he didn't. Because I remember what happened, I may not remember how I fell in love with Damon but I remember your husband making me feel like I killed my baby brother when it wasn't my fault! It was an accident." She said feeling tears coming to her eyes, "all these years I thought I deserved to be hated and haunted. I called myself a murderer in my head, when I got pregnant with my child- I thought I didn't deserve it." She said beginning to sob , everything was coming back to her and the hurt started to fill her blood, coursing through her veins, there was silence and then as if a light went off in her head , a chemical explosion which her body didn't know how to handle she started, "All I could feel was how I took that away from you. All I could hear was Jeremy telling me that he would haunt me and my child." She moved back from the island palming her head, "And I did the unthinkable- I tried to kill myself that night." She seethed at her mother, "I wasn't in control of my body, it's like he took over it." She cried. Miranda gasped and moved forward trying to hold Elena in her arms but she pushed her, "There were these voices, it was him and then me, while I did everything to talk myself out of it, to convince myself that it wasn't real- he wasn't real but he was. He was there screaming at me to do it and I did it. I downed my stupid anti-anxiety medication, the whole fucking bottle. God! I killed it- he went away and there was so much peace for one moment." She sniffled , "I knew I was dying and I was happy that it was going to be over- that I don't have to convince anyone of anything anymore. He took his revenge and killed me!" she shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Baby- stop." Miranda said holding her in her arms. Elena broke down against her crying, "I deserve to die. I should have been the one to die after I-"
"Shhh stop." Miranda said cupping her face and wiping away her tears, "You didn't Elena, it was a mistake."
"It's all mistakes Mom." She sobbed, "I am a monster. I lied to him when it was all over, I tried to save the baby after Jeremy was gone I did, I called Stefan and I tried to vomit everything out but the blood, I couldn't stop and I–" she gulped, "I uh I remember."
"What?" Miranda asked still rubbing her shoulders to calm her down, "I remember Mom, I am not suppose to remember anything about Damon, I- " she choked on a sob, "What is happening? It's just-" she pulled away from her mother holding her head, "I feel like my head is going to blow up."
"It's going to be okay baby, look at me." Miranda tried to hold her but she pulled away with a moan, "Oh God- I can't feel anything, everything around me is-"
"Elena." She heard Damon shout her name. She could feel his strong arms around her, trying to hold her, "Elena! Miranda get me some water, hurry." He said picking her up and running towards the nearest couch, he put her down on it and began rubbing her cold hands, she was trying to breath, so he lifted her head a bit , cupping the side of her face, "It's just a panic attack, look at me you're fine, hey breath in for me." He instructed. "My head is blowing up, it's blowing up" she was chanting over and over, "No it's not, it's fine- your head is fine, open your eyes." He urged.
When Miranda got her water, he made her drink it and then just put her back to lie down on the couch, she was murmuring something he couldn't understand but he knew her episode was over definitely because she wasn't hyperventilating or shaking. Her body felt limp as she curled to the side and closed her eyes, still holding his hand in a tight grip. Miranda sat down beside him, while he was Stroking the top of her head, still saying reassuring things.
"She just remembered something." Miranda said above a breath. He bit the inside of his cheek, "I know- I heard it all, I knew it all this time. I work at that place of course I knew she did it."
"This is all his fault, Elena loved her brother, she wanted to stay with us because of him, before he was born Elena wanted to live with John but then when she heard she was having a baby brother, she wanted to stay." Miranda sighed, "She would never hurt him but he made her believe she did."
He nodded, "He won't hurt her again. Nothing will hurt her now." Damon said in a firm tone leaning down to kiss the top of her head, "I'll protect her."
"I always knew you would- but then when she came back home after her marriage, it was like something shattered, maybe it was the trust I had in you at the back of my mind." Miranda said as she took Elena's hand from his, he pursed his lips, he wouldn't blame Miranda either for not trusting him after what he had done once.
Past
Eventhough Stefan was trying his best to make the girls 'talk it out' , Elena wasn't up for the idea, Caroline had tried to call her and left her texts about how she was drunk and emotional but it just wasn't sitting right with her. Was her friend gaslighting her? What in the actual world was going on. Her make up artist put the rollers out if her hair and patted her back, "All ready for your set."
Elena forced a smile standing up, when she turned around she gasped seeing Kol at her vanity door, "What are you doing here? Who let you in?" honestly she was a little creeped out. He stepped inside and Elena backed up into the dresser looking at her crew, "Who let him-"
"Just a moment Elena- I won't bother you again please." He begged. She could see how desperate he was getting every other day, as if it was hard to believe that she was married. She didn't want a scene so she dismissed everyone and sat against the counter, "What do you want?"
"I can't believe you came to the hospital and called my brother for me- I'll always be thankful-" he started but Elena raised a hand as if stopped him, "No Kol , you put me as your primary contact making everyone think I am still your girlfriend when I am not."
"In my heart you'll always be mine." He confessed, she hissed, "For god sakes I am married, I love my husband, I've always loved him and you need to understand this."
"I do- I do." He said getting up from the seat and walking towards her but she put her hand ahead of her trying to make him stop, as he went on, "I know when you love someone you love selflessly, but he doesn't deserve you Ele. Look at what he did to you."
Despite her reservations, he cupped the side of her face and she was so scared she felt numb, as he whispered, "You look so weak and sad."
"I love him." Elena bit the words out now getting angry.
"You lost a baby- he shouted at you. He didn't care." He said wrapping a curl around his finger, her mouth fell open, before she could ask he nodded, "Yeah I know, I know what you've been through because I am closer than your heart. He isn't, you know where he is?" he didn't wait for her to answer as he pulled out a phone out if his pants, she looked down at the screen and frowned when she saw Damon with a girl, the same girl whose birthday they attended, Krystal- God this girl annoyed her. The duo locked in an embrace. Elena gulped, "This is Damon's friend from Australia." She said with shaking confidence, not her best in your face voice. Kol chuckled, "Damon hasn't told you- they were friends with benefits, casually putting it, fuck buddies." His words sliced her heart open, Damon hadn't mentioned that, "That's not true- he would have told me."
"you love living a lie Elena, truth is that no one loves you like me, you know it." He said firmly, she shook her head, "You don't love me, stop saying that." Her eyes were pooling in angry tears as she pushed at him, "You hit me all the time- is that love?"
"The fact that I couldn't stand you selling yourself on national television? I know I am possessive, but you know I love you, he doesn't, that's why the minute you lost the baby- he called his slut from Australia and has been fucking her behind your back while you were mourning the death of your unborn child." He spat.
Elena hit her fists against his chest, "Shut up, shut up! Shut up! Leave me alone- go away!" she cried.
"let me prove I love you." He moved back and raised hands in surrender, "I can end your misery Elena, your nightmares- No one believes you, I do." He said which made her stop, she swallowed thick, "What?"
"I know someone wants to hurt you and I can find that person out for you." He proposed. She actually thought about it, for the first time someone said they believed her, though her friends and her husband said that but never in a way in which they believed her, just to calm her down, Kol was saying there was a person and not a figment of her imagination. She raised a brow as if asking for explanation, he cleared his throat as he put his hands down and took a step closer, "I've figured it out. All this time you were right Ele, someone does plan on killing you and I can help you find out who, but for my help you'd have to promise me something."
"You said you loved me, love doesn't ask for things Kol." She spat.
"I just want you to forgive me because I know Damon isn't it for you and I need your genuine forgiveness to ask for a second chance." He pleaded. She looked at him suspiciously but for the first time ever someone was telling her that she wasn't crazy and she needed that for herself.
The next day Kol was at her place, luckily for her Damon was out on a conference out of town and ever since her falling out with Caroline, Stefan wasn't visiting much either, she was alone. God what was she doing, she asked herself a million times. Kol bought some books with him and kept them on the table, "here's your answer."
Elena sat down on the couch and peeked, "Hypnotism- what has that got to do with me?" she asked, Kol slipped beside her and a little close for comfort, "It has everything to do with you, I initially didn't think it was possible, see Ele, hypnosis is mainly used to induce relaxation in someone, you'd say someone who gets panic attacks or has severe anxiety, it takes you to a place of focus so you can be intuitively present." He explained, "But a certain event, some PTSD- is a very convenient time to make a trigger and form a story that you believe no matter what"
She huffed, "So you still think it's a story? And here I thought-" Kol interrupted, "A story that didn't happen but someone made you believe it, tell me what happened, when they started. Trust me, I am the one who can help." He encouraged.
She knew what happened, a few months before her eighth birthday, she wanted to go to her father and celebrate her birthday with him, that's all she wanted to go to the lake house with John and play hide and seek, eat a big chocolate cake and come back to play with Jeremy. She proposed the idea to her mother, Grayson didn't approve, yeah when her mother was out of sight he shoved her forward into the wall and pulled at her pigtail harshly, telling her to 'not be a cunt and rot in a corner.'
She was really sad and angry that day because her mother didn't even notice how Grayson had bruised her arm, she was busy with Jeremy, she would never care about her again- Elena picked him up in her small arms and ran around the house with him. She found a space behind the couch and hid with him there, "Shh don't make noise – Mommy is going to look for us." Her tactic to get attention was stupid but that's all she knew, all she loved here was spending time with Jeremy. She stayed behind the couch and laid him across her lap, playing with his hands and letting him play with her hair, when suddenly he started crying Elena felt like game was over now, because he was making noise, she got up and shrieked when his head hit against the couch, it was a small noise but the baby started to yell almost, Elena was petrified, if Grayson found out about this he would punish her for hurting the baby he really loved. She was shushing him continuously, she needed a place where they wouldn't hear her so she hopped to the balcony of the second floor and started shaking him, "Pretty Please calm down! I'll give you my hard candy-" she bribed. Then in an attempt to quiet him she did what her mother use to do and rose the baby high above her head not realising she wasn't doing it right, he was in the air one second and gone the other.
"You hated him, because you hated me, you wanted your mom so you killed that little baby." Grayson not only said those words but continued to rephrase and say them over the next few weeks repeatedly.
"Elena." Kol's voice brought her back to reality, "We have to find the trigger, all we have to do is repeat the process and go inside your head."
'They'll find out I hid him for an hour behind the couch before I murdered him.' A voice inside her spoke.
"No- um I don't really think it's a good idea, this doesn't seem to be it." She turned it down, "Come on Elena- you can't do this, you have to give it a try."
She gritted her teeth getting up, "I don't want to, you have to try harder to get into my pants Kol." She said angrily, he got up a bit furious, "I am trying to help you because I love you."
"I fucking don't care Kol, I don't care if you love me or not- I don't love you, you wanna hear what you were? You were my rebound which a got a bit extended." She said cruelly, "I don't love you, I was with you because I hated myself and now I don't, I am accomplished and independent."
He nodded, "So this was you using me." He asked. She nodded, "Whatever you think it was."
"Fine- give me the promise ring I gave you, you still keep that? It means something to you doesn't it?" he challenged, she rolled her eyes, "No it doesn't, it's in a locked box of things I loathe."
"Then give it." He spat.
Elena pushed him and went towards her storeroom. Kol looked around and huffed, "Oh what could have been Elena. So long." He said throwing something in the trash and walking out of there.
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Elena was having a few bad days and Damon thought it was a good idea if he gave her a surprise, he took a huge bouquet of roses home back from his flight, a day early and even booked in her favourite restaurant. He rung the bell waiting for her to open the door when his phone buzzed with an unknown number, 'I won.' Was all the person had wrote with a bunch of pictures. He clicked the email and opened to see pictures of his house, right this place, Elena standing at the doorstep opening a door for someone, at first he thought it was some creepy celebrity stalker but then he saw close-ups. Elena and Kol. Seated in his living room on his fucking couch, there wasn't even a centimetre space between them. Another photo of Elena on her recent set, he was cupping her face, in the next photo, rolling her hair around his fingers. Damon was disgusted. When the door opened, Elena gasped seeing him, "Oh God- you brought me flowers-" she took them from him and took his luggage bag giving him way to come inside, "You're early."
"Yeah." He was still in shock, he closed the door behind him and stood there, "Did we get any visitors."
She turned around but there was no shift in her expression as she shrugged, "The sushi delivery guy." She said as a joke. He nodded, God she was a phenomenal actress after all and now he was thinking about everything, did she lie this easy when she said she loved him.
He had even gotten them tickets to watch grease, he rolled them up and threw them in the trash near the couch when he saw it- God his heart started beating fast, in no fucking way was it what he thought it was. Empty condom packs. It disgusted him.
When she came back from keeping his luggage she raised her brows at him, "I made some Tacos for lunch, want some?"
"Elena-" he felt like he couldn't speak, "What the fuck has been going on?"
"What do you mean?" she asked taking a step towards him, "I need the truth." He shouted at her which made her shiver, "Stop shouting baby."
"Don't fucking call me that!" he growled and held her by the elbows, "Was or was not Kol Michelson here?"
Her face went pale, it was all the answer he needed, "I swear to God Damon nothing happened, he just wanted me to forgive him but I threw him out- I met him once."
"lies! Lies!" he shouted and pushed her slightly, taking out his phone and showing her the pictures, "That's you, that's you again- God you are such a big liar." He seethed, "And on top of that you are a cheating whore-"
"Stop it and calm down, I didn't cheat on you." She said trying to touch him but he moved back as if burned, "You are still meeting with him, you haven't forgotten him, there are empty condom packets in the trash can." He accused. She frowned when she looked, "What? I didn't know how that got there, I –"
"Oh I'd believe you but you are such a fucking convincing liar, you're so fucked up Elena, I am done." He announced and tried to go back, she held his wrist, "No, No, No, No- Damon hey look at me, there is some misunderstanding going on- he showed me pictures of you with that girl too, he's just trying to fuck up our relationship."
"Well it's working isn't it." He said removing her hand from his arm, "Just take your lying cheating fucked up ass back to him, I can't fix you, how could I ever? What the fuck was I thinking when I thought you were worth anything." He spat. Her mouth fell open. He didn't talk to her and went towards their room, he picked up her phone and started going through her texts, "He should come when I am not here? Huh, what the fuck is this?"
"Please, I know but I can explain?"
"Then fucking explain? Or I swear I'll drag that Kol of yours here and kill him right in front of you, and I'll kill you! And then I'll kill myself because I can't fucking live without you." He shouted at her at an almost ear shattering voice. She shuddered but still went closer, for the first time not afraid of his anger but afraid that she'd lose him, "He was here but I told him to go, I told him that I love you over and over." She cupped his face still shaking and sobbing, "I swear-"
"Get away from me- before I do something I regret, leave me alone, go away." He said with gritted teeth, "I don't want to hurt you, go!" he seethed.
She shook her head, "No, No baby please don't send me away from you- look at me please look at me." She said as he moved away but she held his elbow. "I can't live without you, Damon, please. I have no one."
"Let go of my arm Elena." He said holding back his anger for a moment.
"No." She pleaded, "Please you have to believe me."
"Let go!" he growled this time. "Elena I swear if you fucked him tell me now, I swear I am so done with your lies you fucking-"
she shrieked, "Why can't you stop being fucking insecure for a second Damon and trust me-"
"Fuck you." He growled and pulled away his arm from her so roughly that she fell back from the force and hit the dresser hard, he was already out of the room not noticing that she was lying unconscious on the ground.
Present
"You okay?" he said as he waved his hand in front of her, she was often lost in thought, he was waiting for the day she would be herself again, after coming back she was a new person, so quiet, so miserable it ate him, she nodded and forced a little smile- maybe the first smile he saw in weeks, he wanted to kiss her so badly right now but he couldn't, he held her hand as he sat by her side, "What else?" he was referring to her memory. she shrugged, "Seems like everything and nothing, things are in half Damon." She said in a raspy voice.
He nodded understandably, "Okay, do you remember the day we got married?"
She shook her head, "Just something about you losing your tie, I was freaking out about it."
"Oh so the entire wedding." He joked to relax her but she looked up more tensed, "I remember somethings and somethings are a blur, I remember you taking me to the carnival and that one night you spent in my room, I made you watch chick flicks." She chuckled, "I remember you asking me to come back home with you." She said above a breath
Past
He went to a bar after the chaos that took place at the hellhole he called home,drinking till he could actually feel whiskey and not blood in his system, he hated today- he just wanted this to be a nightmare that his insecure mind generated. When he'd close his eyes he'd see her beaming face, her porcelain skin, her soft chocolate brown hair, her silhouette, her antics- the way she tucked her hair back behind her ear when she was nervous, or the way she did detailed cleaning on weekends. The time they'd just make a makeshift fort in bed with their blanket on top and just stayed inside talking and making love for hours.
Tears started to form in his eyes but he lowered his head and sucked them back up. When his phone rang once he ignored it, then it rung like a million times and he was ready to throw it away but he picked it up instead, "Leave me alone!" he bit out each word.
"You have to get home, I just stopped by your place-"
"I will throw up if I see her face again, I don't want to see her and hear more of her lies anymore." He said in a cut throat tone, "What? What happened? I am taking her to the hospital, get there and we can talk about this." Stefan said in a hurry. That shook him, the hospital? What happened, did something happen to her?
"Wa-wait, why are you taking her to the hospital?" he said slightly getting up from the stool in front of the bar and keeping his empty glass on it, he hated how he cared so much right now when she had stomped on his heart, "She's bleeding from her head." That's all he said and hung up, Damon hurried out of the bar towards his car, though he'd definitely get in trouble for driving after drinking so much, he didn't care as he raced across town like a mad man till he reached the hospital and ran up to find Stefan. "She hit her head, they're giving her stitches." He said when he saw his brother there, Damon asked out of breath, "Is she okay? Where is she?"
"Inside." He said following Damon to the room. He let out a sigh of relief seeing her lying in bed, her wound was dressed but she looked pale. When he saw Meredith there he released a sigh and ran up to her, "Is she okay? Don't tell me there is some cranial damage-"
"She's okay, we checked for damage, thankfully no signs of extreme TBI just an open injury, we've stitched it up and given her a pain killer, she's going to be sleeping for a few hours now." She said with a sigh, "Don't worry she'll be fine." She patted his arm, Damon swallowed thick, "Yeah." He made his way to her bed and sat on the chair near it, still a bit out of breath. How could he still love her? When she ripped his heart out and stomped on it. How could he be so powerless in front of her. She hurt him, she made his worst fear come true. He was doubting every moment between them. Did she say the same sweet words to Kol too? Did she sleep soundly in his arms like she did in his? It was all his fault, he shouldn't have ever went away. Kol took everything from him, his wife , his best friend, his Elena. Everything he looked forward to in life was shattered and he was left to pick up the pieces with no idea what to do with them. Elena couldn't do this to him, he was in denial but then when had he ever been so lucky? In his mind she had always been too good for him, he always thought he was going to lose her and he did. Kol took away the best thing that ever happened to him.
He got up from his seat, determined to kill the motherfucker, Stefan asked him as he ws rushing out, "Where are you going?"
"I am going to kill Kol." He said firmly, "What?" Stefan frowned and got ahead , "What is going on."
"Both of them destroyed me and I still fucking love her so the only thing left for me is-"
"Woah, Damon – can you stop and tell me what is going on?" he asked not ready to let him take a dangerous step but Damon pushed him out if the way going outside.
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It still hadn't been enough, beating the shit out of him still wasn't enough, killing him wasn't tempting either, he wanted the man to suffer. He picked him up and threw him up against the wall, "You made a very big mistake coming back into her life." He hissed as he punched Kol, he snickered coughing out red spit, "If I can't have her neither can you."
"Oh yeah? You think she loves you? She begged me to stay- whatever the fuck was going through her head, she doesn't fucking love you." He said as if reassuring himself as he hit him again, Kol laughed, "You're so predictable it's pathetic." He snarled, "I knew just what you were when she first told me about you when she broke her arm years ago- stupid baby love, I knew you had the chances to get her back and you did but guess what I took her right back."
Damon growled punching his ribs this time, "I'll be dead before she is yours."
He laughed louder rolling his eyes, "Watch the fucking news Damon, Elena is in the hospital, all her little fans are mad at you because an alleged tip says you hit her, you're a famous domestic abuser now. " He grinned, Damon understood that Kol had slipped a rumour to the media, he didn't hit Elena ever, not even when they were explosively fighting a few hours ago. "Who knew that a few empty condom packs I planted would kick you off your fucking rocker." He snickered. Damon's entire world crashed, it had all been a set up. Everyone thought he hit his wife? But Elena knew the truth right? She was okay when he got out of there, "You hurt her again? You're a dead man!" he warned gripping his throat.
"Yes kill me- so you spend the rest of your life in jail and never see her again." He coughed. Damon pressed harder not caring for his manipulation but her pleads and begs were coming back to him, echoing in his head, how could he not have believed her, he loved her, he should have. He threw Kol on the floor, spitting on him before he took off.
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Present
Damon zipped up there bags and checked for everything again in his file, he looked at her sitting on the couch, lost in her thought and walked towards her. When he touched her shoulder, her body shook, "Oh- it's you."
He nodded and leaned down, wrapping his arms around her, "We're going away, you need to loosen up now." He said and kissed her cheek, she looked over her shoulder at him and sighed, "I promise as soon as we get settled in our new house, I'll be fine."
"Hey I didn't give you any deadline." He chuckled, "Take your time, seeing your face, seeing you alive and okay right in front of me is enough for me, I thought I wouldn't ever be able to tell you how much I love you." He said and held her hands in his, sitting on his knees in front of her, "Even though I've told you it a million times that I love you, it didn't seem enough." He brought her hand close to his lips and kissed it tenderly, her heart fluttered from the sensation and she held a breath in and moved closer to him making him sit on the couch, she moved to straddle his lap, "I know."
"Not enough and if I know anything more about myself after all this time without you is that- I don't want to live in a world where there is no you." He said cupping her face in his hands and brushing his lips ever so slightly over hers, she kissed him back capturing his lower lip between both hers, he pulled away for a second, "If you can't remember it all, even if you can't be like you used to be- even if everything goes to hell, doesn't matter as long as you are okay."
She smiled wide this time and circled her arms around his neck, "I love you, maybe more than you love me." She arched a brow , he chuckled, "Like hell you do, no one can love anyone the way I love you baby, if only you could see yourself through my eyes."
She shook her head and leaned forward to kiss him again this time intensely, she pressed her body against him as he kissed her back hungrily, she could tell he needed her, she knew she needed him as well, he always ignited a fire in her and made her insatiable for himself which got her out of control but he knew it wasn't a good idea right now, when she was so unsure of her safety and on the brink of a breakdown, he pulled back and kissed her hard before holding her shoulders as if to stop her, "This was second in plan today."
"Hotel room? Really?" She asked a brow arched. He chuckled, "Could wait till we move into our new house."
"Hotel room it is!" she said and gave him a searing kiss before holding his hand and pulling him up from the couch, "I just want one day- we don't talk about it."
"You have it. Whatever you want." He said following her out of there.
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Past
"She was in your arms- it felt like you had lied to me." Elena said almost choking on a sob, "I thought I was being betrayed, he made me feel like he'd help me, I know I shouldn't have, but I felt alone." She confessed to him. Her mother was standing by their side while he was sitting on his knees in front of her holding both her hands clasped in his, resting on her lap, seeing the news Miranda had filed a domestic abuse report on him, Elena had taken it back later but flew to her mothers. The next morning Damon was there asking her for forgiveness. He gulped, "I swear I didn't know I pushed you, I wouldn't imagine hurting you, baby- I hate myself for causing you this." He leant forward and kissed her forehead, she nodded, "I know, I know you didn't look."
"I am so sorry." He murmured as he cupped her face and peppered kisses over her cheeks and her nose, "Come back home with me. He was getting in our head, I haven't even met Krystal in so long, the last time I did, she was flying back home and we just ran into eachother, her Dad passed away and she started crying, you know how I get nervous around crying women." He pursed his lips, "I just comforted her as a friend."
Elena moved back from him, feeling jealous still, "Was she- did you guys, back then-" she couldn't even say it. He shook his head, "No- No, you think I'd take you to her party if that had been the case? Baby, I am not that much of a dick." He said a bit furious, "God- how can you even believe this? She has absolutely nothing on you." He cupped her face, He heard Miranda scoff.
"I wouldn't give up our love and our journey for sleeping with a woman I feel nothing about. When I first kissed you in camp, Elena- I knew that very second that you were what they made those fairy tales about, I needed nothing more than you for me, you were it that very moment. And I maybe have screwed up my life many times but I knew for sure that I wouldn't love anyone like I loved you." He ended his confession by cupping her face, the sounds of her crying had stopped but the tears still present in her eyes, "Take me home."
"What?, Elena he is manipulating you, that's what abusers do!" her mother spat, Elena stood up, holding Damon's hand firmly in hers, "He didn't abuse me- we were fighting and he was hurt, he didn't even know." She reasoned, "You had no right to accuse him of that, Mom. I can't believe you'd go this far." She hissed.
Her mother frowned looking at him and then her, "Great- he sets a trap and you step right in."
"Well be it!" she said firmly walking out of there with him.
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"How long?" he asked her over the phone, "You should have taken me with you." He said showing concern. Elena rolled her eyes, Damon was maybe guilty that he hurt her still because he was treating her like a baby, he already got into trouble at the hospital because of the negative public attention but that didn't even matter to him, he was annoyingly around her all the time. "No way, you crossed your limits when you gave me that pedicure last night." She chuckled holding the phone close to her mouth as she drove with her other hand, "Oh come on, you loved it, I am pretty good at it, scared that you'd have to fire another professional?"
"I am not firing Ana." She said a bit serious, "She tells me all the gossip."
"I tell you all the gossip." He brought up in his defence, Elena was driving back from her shoot, as much as she loved his company, she was a bit relieved she was going to her magazine launch alone so he can have some time to himself not slaving for her. "Yeah I really really appreciate it baby, but I don't really know the doctor that Meredith did it in the supply room with so-"
"It's so easy- you remember that guy who tells a lot of Dad jokes- emm- Sebastian, that one." He added, "We call him Derek because of-"
Elena interrupted, "Yes because Grey's anatomy."
"And get this, not only does he like Dad jokes- but he is into the whole 'daddy' thing, freak show." Damon huffed. Elena chuckled, "Oh yeah? That's weird but it's kinky."
"Was that a supportive 'oh yeah'? I mean I can do kinky." He said after a cough, Elena shook her head and laughed, "I am sure you can- okay I gotta go, I am almost there, I'll talk to you when I get home, I even have to Snapchat for my sponsor."
"Yeah don't do it while you're driving love." He said, "I am going to make dinner so don't get too full and bring some antacid on the way back."
She chuckled and hung up. When she looked ahead someone was standing in the middle of the road, she had to press full breaks to stop the car and that almost scared the crap out of her, getting out of the car, she yelled, "What in the world is wrong with you?"
Present
They were at the airport, waiting for their plane to board, her head resting against his shoulder while she was reading her book and he was looking at some apartments and houses they could buy on his phone.
"I just realized, I don't know any Italian." Elena murmured.
He grinned as she looked up at him, "You realize you can speak English right?"
"Yeah but I want to be able to live like I belong." She said holding his other arm and squeezing it, "Hey, Can I ask you something?"
"Ahuh." He said stroking her hair.
"I want to have a baby with you." She said a bit scared of what he would say at her request, he bit his lip and sighed, "I think we have too much on our plate right now."
"I know- it's just, life is too short, when I was away from you all those months, the thing that kept me going was that- I'd imagine us, in a house and we had two little kids, while you and I attempted to cook something for them." She giggled, "And I really want that, there's always going to be danger but I want to live the way I wanted to live."
He stayed quiet for a second picturing what she just said, "I uh- I don't know if you're ready for this."
"I am ready- I am, I will figure it all out, you will help me, I want a baby more than anything, I want to love our baby, I want to watch it grow up and I want to get old with you watching our grand kids, I want to see you bore them with your medical miracle stories."
He interrupted, "Hey-"
She chuckled, "And I want to be able to make one batch of cookies that doesn't taste like crap with too much baking soda for them, please-"
"okay." He blurted out and then took a deep breath, "I want that- I want that too you know."
She brightened up immediately and leaned forward kissing him on his lips without tongue with force, when she pulled away she wrapped her arms around him resting against his chest, "God, I fucking love you so much." She whispered, he pressed a kiss to the top of her head, "I love you too." They sat there and looked at each other in silent excitement when a couple with a baby passed them, she sat up and looked at him, seeing the guy from the couple humouring the baby with silly faces. She looked back at Damon and sighed , squeezing his arm, he laughed at her cute antics leaning forward to tuck her under his arm, "If you keep looking at me like that I'll just go steal that one for you."
Elena shook her head and punched his arm playfully, "No I want mine- I mean ours." He held her arm, "Ouch."
"Hey I gotta go the bathroom, okay?" she said and handed him her handbag. He nodded busy looking at the interesting five bedroom house he found for a very good deal. This would be perfect, it even had a good view, it was two floors and an open basement.
Elena was on her way to the restroom when she saw a familiar face, her brows furrowed, as if a memory was running at her from a distance, Oh no.
Past
"Hey what are you doing here, in the middle of nowhere?" she asked as she stepped forward from the car once she recognised the stranger on the road, "By the way Damon and I had such an amazing session with you- after what happened, it really helped to just speak and get it out if the way." She said.
"I know." His voice was dark and deadly not his usual robotic, "I love clearing misunderstandings between people- I used to appreciate love so much and now it's like I hate what I do for a living, love nauseates me." He said walking around Elena in a circle, "It reminds me of how I loved her, how I lost her."
Elena knew what he was talking about, Klaus had just lost his wife about an year ago. "I am so sorry- were you here to harm yourself? You can't do that Doctor Connor please, come with me. Are you drunk?" she asked.
He shook his head, "How lovely of you to offer a broken man some help- especially the one who is about to kill you." He said in such a calm voice that it made shivers run down her spine, "What?" she asked backing a step away.
Before she could run, he held her arm and swung her back to him, hitting his elbow hard against her temple, she screamed before falling in front of her car, not unconscious she couldn't yet move as he picked up an iron bar he had hidden near the sidewalk before and hit her head with it pretty hard, her body jerked as she tried to get away as he shouted, "I hate your stupid head for ruining my life- you had to fuck it up the night she needed help? Hailey was the mother of my baby! She was the love of my life, unlike you- she wanted a baby-" he hit her again, "Damon left my wife and my baby to die the night you decided to kill yours! And he was fucking stupid enough to think I understood? Fuck you!" he hit her again but when she didn't move this time he stopped and threw the rod down, "you should have died at summer camp Elena, but you didn't, you'll die now and he'll know how much it fucking sucks!" he said picking her body up and putting her in the passenger seat, then got in the driver's seat, "Good bye Elena." He said as he drove full speed into a tree on the side, he got out of the car shaking and dizzy and dragged her to the driver's seat.
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Present
Damon looked around the bathroom not caring he was in the ladies bathroom, "Elena-baby?"
He went outside, a sick sense of deja vu hit him- he made a fucking mistake. How could he let her out of his sight, his hands started shaking as he was looking around, he went outside to check the parking, "ELENA!" he called, it was dark and he was hoping for a little hint that she was around, he went back running to inform the security and showed them the pictures to look for his wife, he came back to the parking shouting her name, "Elena!-"
He stopped running around when he heard whimpering, his heart dropped as he followed the sound and found her lying on the ground near the tyres of a big truck, coughing- her jacket was off and she was freezing, reaching for his hand, "Oh God- Elena, look at me, hey?" he ran to her, sitting down beside her as he took off his jacket, the cold air went pass through him as he tried to cover her and pulled her up, she was struggling to speak, "He's going to kill – kill you. He's crazy- just, uhh! Go-" she said moaning, "What? What- are you talking about hey?" what's wrong?" he said checking for wounds, she looked like there were none, he sighed of relief, trying to pull her up, "Come on let's go"
"Ahh-" she moaned, "I am going to die oh my god."
He frowned as saw the jacket bulging away from her back, his eyes widened when he saw a huge knife plunged into her back, "Oh no-no no this can't be happening, no!" he said holding her tight to him, "Fuck! I am calling an ambulance- don't give up on me, don't you fucking dare."
"Klaus- he- he's going to kill you." She gulped, "What?"
She nodded, "He did it all." She cupped his face, "Please go away."
"Shut up! Shut up!" he said picking her up, making sure he didn't touch her wound, he turned around to see Klaus standing there holding a gun to him, "for a second you thought she came back to you didn't you? Just like I did when I put her life in your hands."
"Are you insane? I didn't murder her she was a risk case for god sakes get out of my way." He said begging, Klaus rolled his eyes, "Potato- potah-to" he said about to pull the trigger, Damon kicked him right before it and the shot went in the air, as he put Elena down and launched on Klaus trying to get the gun from him, "You could have hurt me-"
"I did- this was the best way to do so." He spat pulling the gun, "I don't care if I die- I won't ever let you live your happily ever after." He said punching Damon, he fell back and saw Elena running out of breath, his nerves were on fire, before Klaus would shoot him, he threw his phone at Klaus's hand, which made him drop the gun with a hiss, he jumped to hold it and so did Klaus, there was a shot heard in the distance, people that were around thought something terrible had happened, Elena could hear panicked running in the distance. Her heart was sinking surprisingly the pain worse than the one that was killing her, dying while she saw the love of her life dead.
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Maybe it had been hours or days, she didn't know, she woke up- she remembered being up before, they were treating her, reviving her to life- giving her blood. She heard then say she was out of danger, but she didn't care- her life would never be the same. Her heart was dead, even with half the memories – she still loved him. She didn't want to open her eyes and hear the words she dreaded, that he was dead, a couple of days went by, with her just sleeping twenty four hours.
She opened her eyes one day after it was all too much, after his eyes and his smile was tearing up her heart piece by piece. She saw Stefan and her mother by her bed side and her heart drowned further, they were in a whispery conversation, "I did close it up, don't worry, they won't be around here, the police won't stop though."
"Hey Mom." Elena said above a whisper, she couldn't recognise her own voice, it was hardly above the beeping equipment by her side, breathing was painful
"Elena-" Miranda moved forward and held her hand, "Baby, let me call the doctor , do you need anything?"
"Damon." She whispered. Her eyes filled in tears, "Yeah- I'll get Damon for you."
She looked at Stefan, "Stef."
"He'll be okay Lena, please just focus on getting better."
Elena felt confused, she remembered Damon didn't get up after the shot, she saw it before blacking out, were they lying to her or was he okay?
She stayed quiet, at least she could stay in denial for a while. Her heart pained every time she thought about him. She closed her eyes, the world wasn't colourful anymore. She hated everything."
Next time she was woken up by another voice, this time. More professional and a but sympathetic, "Mrs. Salvatore, we were told you are feeling a bit better, so we wanted to get your statement."
She reckoned it was a police officer, she didn't care if they locked up Klaus anymore, they could let him kill her for all she cared, "Yeah doing amazing." She said in a cruel sarcastic tone, "I don't want to talk."
"This is very important Mrs. Salvatore or we wouldn't bother you. We just need a statement from you." He said basically giving her no choice, "Get it over with."
"Can you tell me what happened sixteen days ago, Saturday night, you were at the airport." He inquired. She blinked as if nodding, "Damon and I wanted to move to Italy. I felt like I was in danger after I came back from being kidnapped for months, I was at the airport when I saw him, it was like I remembered everything, he hit me an year ago and I lost my memories, he ruined my life- he stabbed me."
"Who stabbed you? Klaus Connor or your husband." He asked
The question offended her, she hissed, "Damon was trying to save- save me, Klaus showed up with the gun and killed him." She said breaking into tears.
"he would never hurt me- God he loved me so much." She said clutching the blanket under her hands.
"Your husband is fine Mrs. Salvatore, he's in investigation for the murder of Klaus Connor and your attempted murder as his finger prints were found on both weapons."
A sense of relief came over her and she nearly sat up before pain shot up her body, "Damon's okay? Where is he?" she was shaking with excitement, her world had meaning again, she would have never thought she'd feel this alive again, she had imagined so many possibilities to save him that it was killing her all these days, "He's absolutely fine and if you help us he will come back to you soon."
"Y-y-yes of course I will." She shivered with happiness, "His fingerprints? He did hold the knife but after Klaus had already stabbed me, Klaus had gloves on, he was about to shoot Damon , Damon just did it in our defence, he's not a killer."
The officer looked at his subordinate and told him to record her statement, "Okay so are you ready to record your statement?"
"Yes." She said eagerly, she couldn't wait to see him again.
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"Try this." Elena said excited as she kept a fresh batch of cookies in front of him, he sighed, "Your five months pregnant, that gives you about- thirty years and four months exactly to bake for your grandkids, given our son can get laid soon enough." He said picking up a cookie
She hit his shoulder , "Come on, all you have to do is taste."
He huffed and took a bite of the cookie, though it was in a shape of a cookie, it nearly didn't taste as one.
"Mmm wow, that's it baby- you finally did it." He faked enthusiasm, she chuckled, "really?" she picked up a cookie and took a bite from it, immediately picking up the paper towel on the table and spitting it out, "What the-"
"Its surprising how you made devastation look like a cookie." He laughed, "Come on let's pack all these batches and take them to Stefan's."
"Baby." She whined as he helped her up, "You'll learn, you have like thirty years four months."
"Will I ?" she asked doubtful.
"Yeah I am not letting you die before you make a good batch of cookies." He said jokingly before pulling her into a searing kiss. He would give her absolutely everything she wanted, he wouldn't forget his promise
THE END
Hey guys thank you for remaining patient with the story and reviewing, this was a long due ending, I changed it a bit and it may seem rushed but I tried my best. Hope you guys enjoyed it, leave me a review please as it's not easy to write throughout the day and night. Also check out my other stories too. DE forever!