Hey guys. I forgot to mention something on my previous chapter. IAN AND NIKKI ARE HAVING A BABY! OH MY GOD! (To all the Nian fans, please don't mind my reaction.) I'm so happy for them. They really love each other with equal passion and deserve a happy life and family. Both have done so much for the world, the environment, animals and people. Most of all they did this together like the perfect team. However that does not effect my dedication towards Damon and Elena. I always like to keep the two worlds separate. One is reality and the other one is fantasy. So I don't let my love for the couples in fantasy affect the reality.

Now on this chapter the truth will unfold in front of Damon and Elena. However they won't easily go back to the way it used to be. They have to work it, you know. A kiss doesn't change anything. Hopefully Sarah does.

Despite Elena's protest Damon found himself on the couch by her side. She's asleep so she cannot bug him anymore to leave. Tomorrow they are going to take Sarah out of her incubator and shift her to their own room. There was no way that Damon would miss a second of that.

Miraculously she was too healthy for someone who was born prematurely under stress. He was always told that the Salvatore babies are all fighters. Maybe that's the case.

The vibration of his phone brought him out of his thoughts. Ric's name flashed on the callers ID. At that moment he realized that his friends and family have no clue of what's happening. Surely this would be a huge shock to them, although not as much as it was for Damon.

"Hey Ric." He said groggily.

"Damon, where the hell did you disappear? It's like you just vanished from the party with some blond dude. Then I find out that you took off on the private jet with your new bestie. Where are you?" Ric finally decided to take a breath.

"I'm in Mystic Falls, Ric." He replied.

"So basically you took off with a childhood friend from back home without informing anyone?" Ric asked.

"No Ric." Damon sighed. Now it was the time to drop the bombshell. "I found her, Ric." He didn't understand the warmth that spread out when he said it out loud.

"Who you're High School crush?" Ric snickered even though he knew Damon was saying something serious.

"Shut up, Ric. I found Elena." now there was a dead silence on the other end. "Ric?"

"I don't know what to say. How are you not throwing a fit? All these time you were miserable. I just don't know how are you so calm?" Ric concluded.

"Oh believe me Ric if it was under a different circumstance, I would've been throwing World War 3." Damon let out a humorless scoff actually not sure if he would've done that after seeing her big doe eyes. However he would've thrown a tantrum.

"What do you mean different circumstance? Is she okay?" Damon could feel how worried he was. After all he is her Godfather.

"Nope she's fine now. Just went through the entire 8 months carrying my child with excess stress because of me and delivering her almost 24 hours ago." Damon said in his usual straightforward way and avoids as much emotions as possible.

"What the fuck?! Are you serious right now?!"

"Dead serious, Ric."

"But she wrote she got abortion and this is why she fled." Just like Caroline and Bonnie, Ric did not believe him when he told about the letter. However unlike them, he wasn't in denial. "That means she lied to you, Damon. I can't believe she would take your child away from you by saying that you're child is dead. I still don't think that she would do that."

"That adds up to another mystery actually. You see Elena didn't write the letter. Or May I say typed the letter. When I asked her whether she left me a letter or not, she didn't even know what I was talking about." Damon sighed in frustration after thinking about that mystery bitch or bastard.

"Damn, your life is a serious telenovela." Ric lightened up the atmosphere.

"Anyway I just want you to ask Travis to see if he gets anything from the tape of that night." Damon said.

"Will do." Ric said. There was a pause before Ric started again. "Did you ask her why she left you if it was not for guilt?"

"I don't think I'm ready yet, Ric." Damon said out in defeat.

"Damon I don't think you'll ever be ready for this type of conversation." Damon knew he's right. And he should get his answers as soon as possible.

Elena woke up to find Damon holding Sarah in his arms with Vicki cooing the baby.

"Hey you were supposed to wake me up." Elena said whining with sleepiness dripping from her voice.

"Sorry." They said in unison, not looking away from Sarah. "Oh my god, Elena it seems like she didn't get anything from you."

Damon scoffed. "Oh please let her grow up. She'll become just like her mother." Damon said looking towards her making her blush.

"I think it's safe to say with her fathers jet black hair and baby blue eyes she'll be a walking female version of Damon." Elena said.

"She may have my blue eyes and black hair, but I bet she'll be just like you."

"We'll pray for that." Vicki said sarcastically.

Damon rolled his eyes. "You know I was starting to like you."

"Worst decision you could've made." Vicki retorted. Elena just giggled at their bickering. However they were stopped, when Sarah started to whimper softly.

"I think she's hungry." Said Elena. Damon softly passed Sarah from his arms to her lap so she could breast-feed her. Damon was still standing on the same spot watching. Although the scene was innocent and natural, Damon was having a hard time diverting his eyes away from her breast now that he eventually laid his eyes on them. God they were much fuller than I remembered. That thought alone made his pants tighter.

"Stop drooling Salvatore." Said a voice from the doorway.

Elena would've blushed if she weren't taken back by whose standing. "Klaus." She breathed out.

"How…?" Damon started.

"You talked to Ric. Ric told Stefan. Then Stefan filled me in. Thought I should make a visit." Klaus said shrugging.

"Quite the entry line you made." Damon said sarcastically. This time Elena did blush.

"Good to see you, mate." Klaus patted Damon on the back and Damon smiled back. "Good to see you too, Elena." He stared to look at Vicki. "Hi I'm Klaus. And you are…?"

"Vicki Donovan. Nice too meet you." She shook hand with her.

"It's my pleasure." She smiled softly. Just in time for Sarah to hiccup. It was the cutest noise Damon ever listened.

"What's her name?" Klaus asked, staring adoringly at Sarah. She was already wrapping everyone around her tiny little finger.

"Sarah Bell' Angelo Salvatore." Damon said proudly.

"Hope she does a better job than you ever did with your look." Klaus smirked.

"Oh believe me if she ever tries to do anything like me, I'll lock her up in her room until she's 30." Damon had a very adorable looking scowl and pout.

"Mate you and I both know that's not going to happen once you look at her big doe eyes." That was the only thing he agreed with Klaus. He looked at Elena and Sarah and watched them both stare at him with their eyes. Hers and her mother's eyes are always going to be his weakness.

Klaus and Vicki decided to take Sarah outside for the first time. Damon would've gone with them but Vicki insisted that he should stay here with her. He knew why she wanted him to stay with Elena. To get his answers. Therefore Damon and Elena were left alone on her ward. To say the atmosphere was thick would be an underestimate. Without the presence of anyone, a new elephant just popped in.

"So you didn't tell me you talked to Ric." Elena decided to ask, not sure if this would lead to something good.

"You were sleeping when he called me." He shrugged.

Elena stayed quiet for a while, before speaking again. "How is everyone back at New York?" Our home, she thought.

"Is this your way of asking how they reacted after you left?" He didn't mean to come off rude, but he couldn't contain it.

"Damon you don't think I know how they all reacted when I left? They were all shocked and in denial. But life goes on." She said and this made Damon scoff.

"Yeah that's what they all say. Life goes on. But why didn't my life go on after you left. Why was I drinking myself to the hospital to get my stomach pumped? Why was I drinking my pain away? Why did I cry myself to sleep every night when I thought no one was around? See Elena my life didn't go on because you were my life!" Damon was panting. Moistures were running down his cheeks. So were Elena's.

"You were my life to-" Damon cut her off.

"Then why did you leave me? Was it because you thought I didn't love you enough? Was it because you thought I didn't want this baby with you? Did you think that I won't be able to love this child?" the last part which made his heart ache the most. "Did you not love me enough?!" he shouted. That triggered the fire inside Elena, which she was trying to contain this entire time.

"Because I saw you making out with Katherine!" she shouted back. Damon was dumbfounded. That can't be possible.

"No." he whispered.

"Yes Damon I was walking by Pony's when I was coming back home to tell you about my pregnancy after I left the hospital. But then I see you kissing someone who you swore to hate. You know there was even 40% chance that I would've talked to you before taking any actions if I didn't see my pregnancy test somewhere else instead of where it was supposed to be. That was when I realized that you didn't want this baby. So you took comfort in the arms of the only other woman you loved." Elena moved her gaze to his face where continuous tears were falling. But she couldn't get distracted now. "That was when I decided to leave." She concluded. "I didn't want to be a burden on your shoulder."

"No Elena I went to the bar for getting my head wrapped around the entire situation. I don't recall doing anything with Katherine." He said so desperately that it was killing her inside. But she was also confused. He didn't recall anything but I saw it. Maybe he's lying. But I can see it in his eyes that he's not. Or maybe he got too drunk to even remember anything.

"Just answer me one thing." Elena looked at him. "When you woke up in the morning were you with her?" He was about to say no but then he recalled something. He was in Katherine's apartment with her wearing his shirt. Elena seemed to know her answer after looking at him. She was trying so hard to stay strong and not break down just in front of him. "I want you to get out." She said looking away from him.

"Elena please." He pleaded.

"Leave, Damon!" It was the he followed her command. He thought it was probably for the best to have space between them and clear their minds.

As soon as Damon got out of the room, he sat in a bench on the hospital hallway. He put his head on his hand and started to sob.

Oh god, what have I done?

Done with this chapter. I was like running away from writing it because I was having such a hard time writing quarrel. But I think I got the perfect one. Hope you guys feel the angst and would get curious about what happens next.

The song used is an oldie. 'Don't Wanna Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith.