Somebody to you
Category: TV Shows » Vampire Diaries
Author: JustLola
Language: English, Rating: Rated: M
Genre: Romance/Humour
Chapter 31: Chapter 31
Disclaim: I do not own Vampire Dairies. Or any songs, movies or artists or phones or phone applications I refer to in this fanfiction.
Chapter 31
I was beyond tired, tired really didn't even described how I felt at the moment, I don't even know how I was keeping my eyes open at this rate but I think it's thanks to the two coffees Ric had me down after he picked me up this morning. We were sitting next to Damon's bed at the current moment waiting for him to wake up, he's been sleeping since we arrived this morning and I envy him for sleeping so peacefully, the nurse said that he might even be a little loopy due to the medication that was given to him after his surgery. I just wanted to see those blue eyes I love so much open and look at me.
Ric offered to pick me up this morning and take me to the hospital but I wasn't even sure if he would be able to see the road because of his still swollen eye, my father was called to attend a work meeting, and I don't even know who arranges meetings on a Saturday morning because it was just strange but then again I was becoming more and more aware of how strange my life could get. I look over Damon's sleeping form and he looks just as peaceful as he does when I sleep next to him, his slow intakes of breath, his chest rising and falling from every breath. I just wish that he would wake up already. I miss him.
"You think he's going to be okay? Make a full recovery?" I hear Ric ask and I look to him, he's at the foot of the bed looking up at Damon, slightly poking at Damon's toes every now and again to see if he could get a response out of Damon, Damon stirs again and I want to swat Ric's hand away because he should not be messing with Damon right now, the man was seriously injured.
"I hope so." I say as I lightly stroke his handsome face my finger brushing over his jaw, I didn't anticipate that his eyes would fly open and him to look up at the ceiling, blinking a few times before his eyes move to me. It takes a while before he registers me and that I am the one that had been touching him. I retract my hand from his face and bring it to his hand instantly grasping it. "Hey." I say softly and Ric instantly rises to his feet walking closer.
"Hey buddy," Ric says as he now stands on the other side of Damon and he has that stupid smile on his face that we have grown to love. Damon looks from me to Ric and then he frowns, I don't think he knows where he currently is or why we were here while he was sleeping but I guess there are a few things running through his mind at the moment.
"What are you guys doing here?" Damon voice is groggy and raspy. He doesn't normally sound like this if he wakes up but I guess it has something to do with the medication that they had given him. He turns back to me and he softly smiles to me, but it's not the same smile that I usually love, it is laced with pain. But I do understand that he had surgery a few hours prior and he was surely in pain at the moment.
"Checking up on you silly." I say squeezing his hand tightly and he closes his eyes, flinching and I guess that it might have hurt even if it was the other arm that he broke, I instantly loosen my grip on his hand but he doesn't loosen his grip at all grasping my hand tightly, I didn't want to put him in anymore pain then he already was.
"Yeah, making sure that you're still alive." Ric says in all seriousness and I shake my head from side to side, give it to Ric to be overly dramatic about this whole situation, sometimes I think that he and Caroline came from the same parents with the way they sometimes act over dramatically.
"Funny, ha, ha." Damon chokes and then twists as he tries to get comfortable. He takes a deep breath releasing it as he tries to move but he has no success. I move forward and I try to fluff up his pillow in an attempt to help him get comfortable.
"Hey you need to be still." I say as I look over him but he rolls his eyes at me. Cheeky much?
"Yeah Dr Gilbert." Damon indicated in a mocking tone and then he's settled and he's eyes are back on me, todays his eyes is a faded blue but it might even be the lights in this room. "Did you guys sleep here or what?" Damon asks and I shake my head from side to side because my father would never allow that even if Damon was my boyfriend, Ric on the other hand was a different story.
"Nope, my dad took us home last night after your surgery. Ric was king enough to pick me up this morning." I say and I look to Ric and he has a wide grin on his face, his tooth still missing in action, he should actually see a dentist about that as soon as possible or it could be permanent damage. Damon looks to Ric and I can see the questionable look he gives his best friend. I think he might be wondering what the hell happened to Ric.
"What the fuck happened to you?" Damon asks and at this both myself and Ric chuckles. Clearly he was in too much pain last night to notice the brawl that broke out after he was tackled to the ground, I mean I was ducking and diving a few punches just to get to him. But then again he had a broken arm to worry about and I doubt a brawl would be on his priority list then.
"I got into a fight with the guys who tackled you." Ric says as a matter of fact, like this should be common knowledge to Damon and he seems pretty proud of the fact that he started a fight.
"You did?" Damon asks in disbelief as he continues to stare at the gap in Ric's teeth and you couldn't really help but stare at it because it's right there in your face, and it's pretty hard not to miss when you look at him. But he looks funny as hell.
"Yeah, they did that shit intentionally. So I placed them in the hospital intentionally, with the help of the team of course." Ric says I look to him and he looks worse than he did last night, his left eye was still swollen shut but it was now more of a blackish midnight blue colour and his lip with the cut was swollen. A face only a mother could currently love.
"With the way you look, you should be in the bed next to me." Damon exclaims and I chuckle at that but I sit back as I watch the boys banter, I wasn't sure if they told him the grave news about his aspiring football career. I mean it was going to be a pretty bitter pill to swallow once they told him. And I knew how much football meant to Damon, it almost meant as much to him as I did. Almost.
"This?" Ric asks as he points to his face and it's hard to read any of Ric's expressions because of his face that was currently swollen so I am not sure if he is being serious, or funny or whatever. "This is nothing compared to what you are going through and besides girls dig scars and ruffed up guys, right Elena?" Ric says as both men now look at me, I wasn't sure that I fully agreed with what Ric was saying so I raise a brow. But then again Damon was going to have a scar from the surgery that he had, and I would love that scar like I love him because ultimately it's now part of him.
"Whatever floats your boat?" I say as I roll my eyes because Ric is being ridiculous again, personally I didn't like it if guys fought but they did and that's it, it's not something that I could personally change. Damon chuckles at that and squeezes my hand tightly as he looks to Ric again.
"So I'm going to missing the season?" Damon asks and my eyes go wide but I compose myself before he and Ric has a chance to look over to me to see my reaction. So he knew about that? I guess it was kind of obvious now that he was injured. But did he know what it truly meant? I mean he's going to say goodbye to his scholarship for sure.
"I spoke to your dad, you're going to be out of commission for some time. But it all depends on how fast you recover anyway." Ric says with a sad smile on his face, I can see that he feels bad about this whole situation. I mean he and Damon played football together, Ric was Damon's partner in crime. They always did everything together so this would be just strange not seeing Damon on the field with Ric.
"That sucks thou. I wouldn't be playing with the guys anymore as well." Damon says as he looks down to the foot of the bed and then he looks back to Ric. "But I mean you get to be Captain now so I'm sure that it's going to be okay, just don't be too hard on them, that was my job." Damon is speaking like this doesn't matter to him one bit, like it's just another day in his normal life, like it doesn't even affect him one bit. He seems so indifferent to what is going on that I might be worried the medication that he's taking is doing this.
"I have been given a red card and won't be in the next three games. I have been banded." Ric states and I frown, what? Was he serious?
"What?" Damon asks repeating the question that I had asked in my head because when the hell did this happened and who decided this? I mean Ric was just standing up for Damon after the other team showed inappropriate sportsmanship, they should be the ones that receive a red card and taken out for the next few games if not for the whole season.
"The school board phoned my parents this morning. But I told them if that is the case I'm going to quit." Wow! Today was just full of surprises. I look to Ric in disbelief and he just gives us a smile like it doesn't even matter one bit that he quit the football team, and I know how much it meant to Ric and to Damon for the matter. "I mean if you're not playing, why would I?" Ric said in all earnest and I just look at him. Did he really mean that?
"You don't have to quit on my accord." Damon says and he has a worried expression on his face as he looks to his best friend. So Ric quieting the team was a big deal but when he does it then nothing bother anyone.
"It's okay, I mean I need to focus on school work in any case. And besides none of the colleges I want to apply for has great football teams. It would be a waste." Ric says, he looks up to me and I'm not sure what I am currently feeling, but I know the only expression I can manage at the moment is shock.
"That's a lame excuse Saltzman." Damon says with a smile before he turns to me, but I am way too focused on their conversation to even notice, I just stare at Ric, trying to figure out what the hell was going on because it felt like my whole world was flipped upside down. "Tell him." Damon says and I momentarily look to Damon, he has a lazy smile on his beautiful lips that are somewhat swollen, he still has a busted lip.
"You know if you're not going to play either then no scouts are going to see you." I say to Damon our eyes meeting and for a moment he gives me a dumbfound look like he has no idea what the hell I am talking about, but slowly he realizes and that lazy smile returns to his lips in full force. "You're not going to get that football scholarship." I softly say and I can see Ric is trying to understand what I am getting at. Clearly he was lost in translation.
"It's okay. I mean I don't need to get a scholarship. Maybe I can focus on some local universities or colleges now." Damon says and I furrow my brows. A few days ago he was so excited about going to Texas, to be made as a NFL player and now he was settling for something closer to home.
"What about Texas…" I wanted to finish my sentence but Damon shakes his head from side to side silencing me.
"Nah, I'd rather be close to you, I mean I'm going to miss you way too much if I have to move to Texas, and then our relationship won't really work." Damon says and I think my eyes just watered up a little bit. That was such an aww moment right there. I give Damon a small smile.
"Damon…" I choke out as I move closer to him, leaning in to place a soft kiss to his bruised lips. When I pull back he's smiling brightly like he doesn't have a care in the world. "That's so sweet. But I wouldn't want you to give up your future for me." I say softly and I might have completely forgotten that Ric was in the room with us. But what the hell he's seen worse than me just pecking Damon on the lips.
"Richmond actually offers a very great English Lit course that I would enjoy, I can still work on my fall back like I told you the other day." Damon says and I just continue to smile at him as my eyes water because hell, this man was so sweet and I was the luckiest girl on earth to have him be mine. Our moment is interrupted when Ric's phone starts to ring. I never pegged Ric for a Tyler Swift kind of guy as Style starts to play and both I and Damon look towards him in surprise.
'You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye, And I got that red lip classic thing that you like, And when we go crashing down, we come back every time, 'Cause we never go out of style.' Ric pulls out his phone and he has this wide smile on his face, I haven't seen it before and that makes me suspicious.
"Hey there." He greets poking his hand in the air to motion to us that he's taking the call. "I'm good and you?" he asks and I wonder who could be making Ric smile this wide, I mean it wouldn't be Jenna, Jenna has been a buzz kill since ever, she rarely even phoned anyone, and I doubt she would be phoning Ric. "We still on for our date later today?" At this I frown to Damon but he only has a smile on his lips as he shakes his head towards me.
"Did I miss something?" I ask in a low tone as I look back to Ric and he continues to speak on the phone.
"He asked Hailey out yesterday." Damon says as a matter of fact and I frown, why did I not know about this? I mean Hailey was one of my best friends, well it could be that I haven't checked my phone since yesterday, I was a social media disgrace for totally neglected all the applications that linger on my phone.
"Seriously?" I ask my eyes wide as I look back to Damon. He gives me a grin nodding his head but flinching somewhat, maybe that was a bit too much movement for him.
"Yeah. He's been building up courage to ask her out since last weekend, seems like last Friday they had some time to get to know each other." Damon says squeezing my hand a bit, he looks so uncomfortable, I wonder if his pain medication is dying down because he looks like he is currently in pain.
"You okay?" ask more serious now as I look to his shoulder and back to his faded blue eyes.
"A bit of pain, but nothing I can't handle." Damon says, he slightly diverts his eye contact back to Ric, he stares at him for a few seconds, he doesn't look back to me, I know he's lying and that he's in serious pain. I sigh because I know that there is nothing that I can do to take his pain away from him. "Elena, thank you." I hear Damon say and I frown, why on earth was he thanking me, what had I done?
"Why would you thank me?" I ask.
"For everything. If you only knew how much these little moments with you mattered to me." Damon says as he finally turns back to me his eyes meeting mine. "For all the things my hands have held the best by far is you." Damon says giving another squeeze to my hand and I can't help but smile at him. Oh how I loved this man.
I promised to go back and see Damon later today, my father promises to take me. But I can't help but feel lonely now as I sit in my room blankly looking at my computer screen. I look up to the ceiling but it's the same ceiling every few minutes, maybe I was just bored and I wished the time away just to see Damon again, he melted my heart earlier today, and in a good way, if only everyone knew this Damon that I knew, but then again he was just that, he was my Damon, and no one else needed to know him like I knew him.
I reach out for my cell phone and look to the screen I haven't really looked at for the past hours, there are a few messages that I have yet to read and attend to, but I know that there would not be one from Damon, his phone was at home, I pull it closer and move to my Whatsapp, opening the application. I look at the names that adored my screen and smiled, all of them were my friends and they were worried sick about my boyfriend. Seeing that Hailey was on top I opened her conversation first, there are quite a few messages since yesterday.
'Hey Lena, so guess who asked me out? I mean I never expected it.' This text was sent by Hailey early yesterday morning. 'Ric asked me on a date. I said yes.' Was sent a few hours later, maybe she noticed that I wasn't even active on my Whatsapp messenger so that might be why she was spilling the beans. 'Hey Elena is Damon okay? Let me know if you guys need anything.' Was the last message followed by a sad face. I take a deep breath and I smile.
'Hey Hailey, congrats on the date hope you enjoy it, and Damon's going to be fine, he has a broken arm and a concussion but they said he was going to be fine. I need details after your date.' I sent the message and smile as soon as she is online and she reads the message instantly typing her reply.
'Oh my gosh! Is it really that serious, I hope he has a fast recovery? Yeah I'm waiting for Ric now to pick me up right now.' Hailey replies and then I have a picture that it sent to me, I wait for the picture to load and then I open it, it's a pre date selfie, I smile as I look at the picture of my friend, she's sporting some black skinny jeans, with a beautiful purple top and a small necklace, her hair is wavy and pulled from her face. She looked amazing, I never knew Hailey could clean up this well, Ric must really be a lucky guy.
'You look beautiful!' I send my reply and watch as she sends me a smiley face and a blush face and I just giggle. 'Nock him dead, honey.' I send and then move to the next conversation, Caroline is up next and she has sent more messages then I would like to read, I sigh but I guess she seemed worried as well.
'Lena! Is Damon okay?', and that was followed by 'I saw they took him away with an ambulance, is everything fine? Is he okay?' I stare at the screen for a few moments, she was actually worried about Damon, all this felt so strange and untrue.
'Hey Care, Damon's gonna be okay.' I send but she hasn't been online for the past few hours do I guess that she would get this message a but later and when she does she will bombard me with her question on what happened and if this was a life or death situation and all that drama, I chuckle because I know how she can get, everything is always over the top when it came to my blonde friend.
'Is Damon okay?' that was Bonnie, and it's not the only one. 'Are you okay?' 'Why'd they take him away in the ambulance?' 'Let me know if you or Damon need anything?' I smile at my dark haired friend, always so worried about others, it was so sweet.
'Hey Bonnie, Damon is okay, I am okay, his injuries were a bit more serious than we thought and I will let you know if we need anything.' I type my message and send it, she like Hailey is instantly on her phone and she is online within a second as she reads my message. As expected my phone starts to ring and I look to the screen, Bonnies number flashing bring brightly as the ringtone starts up.
"Hey Bonnie." I greet as I place my phone to my ear and I look to my computer screen, reaching for the mouse as I open up my internet explorer. I move to my favourites and wait for my long-time friend to reply on the other line.
"Caroline is here with me." I hear Bonnie says and I smile, I should have known that these two would be together. But due to other commitments and my boyfriend being in the hospital I would not have joined them even if I wanted to. I open my Facebook page and patiently wait for it to load, Jeremy must be on the internet downloading music again.
"Hey Lena!" I hear Caroline and I am sure that where ever those two are at the moment that I am on speaker phone. I sigh, no mentioning personnel shit because people could hear.
"Hey Care, what are you two up to?" I ask as I look to the top right corner and I am bombarded with notifications, that happened when you do not go on Social Media for a whole flippen week, I know it's pretty insane if you ask me. But before I entertain all the notifications, I see a picture that Hailey just uploaded of her and Ric, and I know Ric currently looks like shit but they look so cute together. I open the picture and read the caption.
Hailey Marshal feeling silly with Alaric Saltzman… 'And so the first date of many starts… #Beautyandthebeast' I almost laugh at the caption because he did look like a well-dressed beast. I like the picture and move to the comments. "Enjoy kids." I post my comment and more back to my homepage.
"We are at the grill, catching lunch, what are you up to?" I hear Bonnie replies and then I hear some shuffling and movement before I hear Caroline.
"So is Damon okay?" Caroline asks and still I find this strange that she cares enough to ask me how my boyfriend is doing, I mean she hates the living shit out of him, she still disapproved our relationship but she kept her snarky remarks to herself.
"Damon is doing okay, I visited him this morning." I say as I open my notifications and some are pictures from last week's party and some are Caroline that posted some old photographs, I did notice how nostalgic she was feeling earlier this week, I move and start to look at the picture that Tyler has uploaded. One by one I save them to my files because you never know when they might remove these pictures and then they are lost forever. "And as for me I am at home checking up on my Facebook." I say and it sounds so sad that I am confined to my room checking up on my Facebook account, but hell I would rather be here then with Caroline and Bonnie.
"That sucks!" I hear Caroline say and I roll my eyes because my lack of social live was always her first priority. "So Elena, there is a new student starting on Monday." I go completely silent as I listen to my blond friend. A new student as our school? In the middle of the semester? Very noteworthy indeed of my blonde friend who almost knows everything or every one.
"Oh okay from?" I ask as I finish looking at Tyler pictures, nothing to scandalous in the. I move to the other people who had uploaded pictures and it looks like myself and Damon missed a good party, well we were having a rather great time in the bathroom, I smile at that but my smile falls from my lips because hell, since he is injured I doubt that we would be getting intimately involved for a few weeks. I thought of every curse word I could think of because sometimes that physical past of our relationship is required because it not only enjoyable but it's needed.
"New Orleans I think, he's a senior as well and I hear he is beyond dreamy." I hear my blonde friend gush and I instantly want to smack her, but I hear an 'ow' and then I smile brightly because that would have been Bonnie hitting her.
"Need we remind you Caroline that you are dating Matt?" I hear Bonnie say in a stern voice and I chuckle shaking my head from side to side.
"I'm just saying, and besides I may look, just no touching." I hear Caroline say, well with Damon I didn't need to look around he was more than I could handle and I know that other girls were looking but they wouldn't get him because he was mine and he was only mine. "About that… So I was just wondering, Elena have you and Damon gone like the whole way?" I blush the instant the words leave my friends mouth and my eyes go wide.
"Caroline!" I yell into the phone unable to believe that she is at it again, trying to figure out is I and Damon have done it yet.
"Nothing like that, I just… Matt and I were talking and we are a bit unsure how to take the next level." Caroline says and my eyes go wide because hell I have never heard Caroline Forbes this flustered. I mean she really sounds out of it.
"What have you guys done?" I hear Bonnie asks and she seems amused about the whole subject, damn Bonnie and her single status at the moment.
"Everything but all the way." It's hard to even hear Caroline on the phone but hell I think she's shy, I mean she just admitted that they were close to having sex but haven't had sex yet because they don't know how to move on, well I guess I never really experienced the other things so intimately, I mean there was no fore play before we had sex and with that I mean weeks and weeks of foreplay where we both could have been satisfied with only oral and our hands. We never did that phase, it was straight to before sex foreplay and sex. No in between.
"Just let it flow Care." I hear Bonnie say and I am too shy to even make a comment and I think that they have noticed my silence in this regard.
"I don't know!" I yell into the phone unsure of anything else that I could say. I still didn't want them to know that myself and Damon had gone all the way, it would be the talk of the town and I really didn't need that because in some twisted way my father would end up hearing the stories and then there will be no more seeing Damon because he stole my innocence, I blush at that thought.
"Elena, haven't you guys just fooled around?" I hear Caroline ask and I just shut my eyes as I take a deep breath.
"Nope, nothing beyond some kissing and making out." I rush out and I think that they are onto me and that they know I am lying but I would not give up my façade until I was pushed into a corner. "And now he's out of commission for like weeks so we have six more weeks to stick to the kissing part." I say. I look to my screen as I am finally finished downloading all the pictures of the parties and the ones that Caroline had uploaded. I move to my profile and look to my wall because it's cluttered with messages from my friends.
"Wow, I didn't know Damon had it in him. But still Elena Damon is still a guy and you better take care of him, because if you don't he might look for it with someone else." I hear Caroline say and I shake my head because Damon would never do that. But then again I needed to be nicer to him, he's been very giving in that department always making sure that my needs are met, maybe it was time I repay the favour.
"I am so over this convo you guys. Bye." I say as I end the call because I wasn't going to sit here and listen to that. It was on full blast and aimed at me. Hell my friends could be so weird. I continue to look over my Facebook wall and see that Damon had posted something on my wall, I scroll down, it was yesterday before the game.
'I'll throw my voice into the stars and maybe the echo of my words will be written for you in the clouds by sunrise. All I am trying to say is: I will love you through the darkness.' I almost melt at his words and this would be the second time that this was happening today, damn Damon for being so sweet. I instantly like it and comment on it.
'When I look into your eyes I don't see just you, I see my today, my tomorrow, and my future for the rest of my life.' I hit the comment button and wait patiently for it to appear. I just smile as I see the words. Damon was one amazing person and I was so happy to have him in my life. I move the cursor over his name and it sends me to his profile. I look at the picture of us on his cover photo and on his profile picture and I just smile.
I move down his profile and see his fellow school mates that wishes him a speedy recovery and I smile as I look over the names of his team mates. I click on the post a picture and move to my 'random' file before I upload a little Tatty Teddy that says get well soon, XOXO.
I move back to my profile and look around as I start to upload some of the picture that has been taken last week my by camera, I haven't yet gone through the pictures I just downloaded them onto my computer with the other scattered pictures of me and Damon.
Hey guys! So as promises here is another chapter! Hope you guys will like it, and it's a tragedy that Damon lost his future but sometimes you need to take a step back and assess things, I think that was why Damon had a back-up plan. I think that was rather smart of him. So Thank you to everyone that read and reviewed! You guys are great thank you! Remember to be kind and leave me your thoughts!
Shout outs!
NinasGirlxo – They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. The reason why the tackle happened will be more clear in the next chapter! I will try to work at the angst, it's a bit hard to work it in with teenage lovers, I think that's why Sweet Serial Killer is on the other side. But thank you for your review and for reading the re-write!
Guest – Thanks for the feedback! I hope this is somewhat better than the first one I wrote. Thank you for reading it again!
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XxDreamForeverxX – No memory loss, that would just be cruel, but would make an interesting twist of events! I am glad that you likes the updates fir STO and SSK! And thank you for your review! Hey if I didn't go through that think about how dull the story would have been and besides it made me stronger!
She Made Him Good – His future seems bleak but he has a backup plan! So don't worry, every dark cloud has a silver lining. You should be worried about the new guy.
Melissa D – I love that you love my story! Nursing maybe, other stuff definitely! XD Thanks, we need more brave woman in our lives even if it's just fictional!