There you go. Another chapter of this story. Damn it's almost 1 year. I just realized that what a lazy writer I am? 1 year, and still only 21 chapters. Now I finally get why some writers take so much time.

Okay enough chatting. Enjoy the story.

"How long does it take to wake up?" Damon muttered under his breath.

"If you have something else to do, nobody's stopping you." Vicki said from the other side of the room, poking holes in his skull with her gaze.

"I wasn't talking to you." Damon said dismissively. Elena has been moved to another room to get some rest. And their baby girl was taken away to the nursery where they are grooming her. Ever since then he was growing impatient and concerned about it. Even though only two hours passed it felt like 2 days.

"Just saying. You don't look like you want to be here." Vick was planning on playing with him for a while. God, she missed this hobby of hers. Her ability to tease, taunt and make fun of people.

"Oh believe me, sweetheart. I wouldn't have travelled all the way from New York to not be here." Damon gave a tight smile, mocking her.

"Or maybe you were too worried about your precious private jet to let Matt come alone on it." She gave the same fake smile.

"Yeah. That's exactly why I was in the delivery room and now sitting on this room with her and unfortunately you." Damon fired back. He knew she was playing with him. Little did she now that he was the master of this course. Although he tried to keep it to the minimum.

"Ouch I'm hurt." She made hurt face. "Maybe you should learn how to respect women more. They can get hurt very badly if you are not careful." Some how it felt like she was trying to indicate the other women. That got Damon thinking. Did he do something he was not aware of that had hurt her? The only answer was locked up inside the still unconscious beauty.

Damon clearly chose to ignore Vicki and just stared at Elena. God how much he wanted to just take her in his arms and never let go? But it was his life after all. So that's obviously not going to happen.

"Why are you so impatient now?" Damon put his head on his hands due to utter disturbance of peace.

"Am I not allowed to be impatient?" He raised his voice, lacing it with annoyance.

"Yes you are. But why now?" Her face wasn't showing any sign of amusement. She was pretty serious this time, and it confused him.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, you weren't impatient enough to come look for her?" Vicki knew she hit a nerve, but she wasn't trying to taunt him. She was curious about why he didn't come looking for Elena, when it was written in his face, all the time, how much he loved her. The panic when he first came through the door like he saw a ghost. The pain and desperation in his eyes when he tried to prove Matt how much he needed to be with her. Also the way he was looking at her from time to time for any indication that she will wake up. She can bet on $1000 that he was holding her hand the whole C-section. Also she noticed the desperation of having his daughter back in his arms. Everything seemed like it would've been perfect for them, but why did it turn upside down?

"Maybe some people don't want to be found." He said looking down in his lap.

"You sure about that?" Vicki raised her eyebrows, because she knew how much Elena wanted him to find her, even if she doesn't show it.

"Her note made it clear." The pained look crossed his eyes as he remembered how empty he felt after reading that letter.

"Elena wrote a note? Now that's pathetic." Vicki scoffed. She knew Elena enough to understand that she wasn't the type of girl who wrote a goodbye/break up letter.

"You don't believe me, do you?"

"Well I do know that Elena is not that pathetic to leave a note justifying herself. She may be excellent in literature, but never vulnerable enough to write it down to someone instead of telling him or her herself." Vicki said confident about what she was telling.

"She didn't confront me or come face to face to justify herself anyway." Damon sighed, but Vicki's words were making him think.

"Or she just didn't want to see you. And was too hormonal while carrying your baby, who you also didn't consider looking for, to think straight." He was getting on her nerves now. This man was so confusing all at the same time. No wonder Elena left him. Ok maybe I'm thinking too harshly.

Damon stood up from his chair in frustration and walked close to Vicki. "Did that ever occur to you that maybe I did not know about my baby girl until yesterday? Don't you really think that I would've whip through the whole world to find Elena if I knew that she was actually alive?" He was red with anger and looked as if he was breathing out fire.

"Did not know she was alive?" Vicki asked raising her eyebrows.

"In the note she told me that she got abortion." Damon spoke softly looking at the wall.

"I don't think in a million years Elena would ever lie like this." Vicki also stood up and went towards Damon. "Especially about taking her own child's life."
"I guess I was too drunk in sorrow to understand anything. It was all rage, loneliness and abandonment by the only person I thought would never do that." His gaze shifted to the angelic figure lying on the bed.

"What was written on the note?" Vicki asked softly.

"I killed our baby. I wasn't ready for it so I did the unthinkable. But now I can't handle the guilt. So I'm leaving. Away from everyone. And most of all away from you. Because looking at you or remembering you will bring everything back.

This is a goodbye letter from me, Damon. Don't try to find me after what I just did. Move on. You don't deserve me." He looked off in a distance while telling every words on the note, which he read almost every night.

Vicki was awestruck when he recited the entire note. But it soon subsided when she registered what was written. "Wow. All I can say now is that even my doubt about Elena writing it faded away." Damon looked at her confused. "I think there is more to the story than you have let yourself into."

"I can see that." Damon said sarcastically. "Maybe she thought that I wasn't capable enough, so she left the note full of lie."

"Oh believe me Damon. You don't know how wrong you are. She prayed everyday that you would come for her. That you would find her. That you would actually witness everything she went through while carrying your child. All of it made her so stressed out that she's lying here now." Vicki defended her friend with all the belief she had for her.

"Then why did she leave me?" Damon muttered with a pained expression.

"She's the only one who can answer that question." Vicki looked at Elena who was still motionless. Suddenly she remembered something. "Oh Damon, Elena wanted me to tell you something." Damon looked at her still remaining silent. "Before she passed out she told me to tell you that she loves you." She watched Damon take in a shaky breathe after hearing it. He nodded trying to keep his tears at bay.

Vicki left the room thinking it was probably right to let them by themselves.

Two more hours passed, but Elena was still in dreamland. Every nerve in his body was ticking. So in order to calm them down he went towards the room where the bundle of life was. His daughter. Her current name around the ward was baby blue-eyed angel. Even if their baby was a girl, she won over almost every nurse with her big baby blue doe eyes. Damon didn't want to name their daughter. That responsibility is given to the woman who carried her. So when he told that to the nurse, all of them decided to give her this name. Damon would've thought it was silly if her beauty too didn't take him aback.

"There she is Mr. Salvatore." The nurse took her from the crib, to hold her in her arms.

"C-can I hold her? He said timidly.

"Of course." The nurse handed the baby gently in his arms. "Support her head."

Damon at first thought he wasn't doing it right. However when the baby snuggled more into his arms and a toothless smile came on her lips he knew it was the most beautiful moment of his life.

"Looks like the baby loves her father." The nurse said softly.

Damon leaned to kiss her forehead softly.

"He loves her too. And he would do anything when it would come to her and her mother." Damon said and softly kissed her cheeks.

Suddenly the door to the ward opened revealing a panting Vicki.

"Damon, Elena's about to wake up." In that moment millions of emotions swirled in him.

Damn I'm sick AF. God I hate to get sick. The only advantage of it is that I don't have to go to school. But still the fever, headache and muscle cramps are so not worth it.

Anyway did you enjoy the story so far? Please tell me that some of you figured out the mystery of the letter. I know that some of you are kind of pissed that I wrote the entire chapter about Damon and Vicki. But this chapter reveals some traits about Damon and Elena and also Vicki. She may be the first major character to die in TVD, but she's quite important here. Every character actually is. And how do you feel about baby blue-eyed angel? Write it all by clicking the review button.

Spoiler's for the next chapter is the confrontation. Damon needs answer and Elena would give him. and it may not be pretty.

The song used is 'Faded' by Alan Walker