A/N: Why is no one reviewing me? Did I say something wrong? If so, I'm sorry. But for now, I'm giving you a peace offering. I'm giving you another update where something good happens. Enjoy!

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Cailee rolled over onto her side and stared out at the window. "Damon, have you ever thought about where our relationship was going?"

"What are you talking about?" Damon asked, running his hand down her arm. "Our relationship is heading towards greatness."

"Have you even thought about asking me to marry you after I graduate from high school?" Cailee questioned. "Because we're doing a lot of things that married couples do."

"Then I don't see why we have to waste our money on a ceremony that will make our relationship legal. I prefer to think of a seventeen year old and a…God, how old am I again?" He shrugged. "It doesn't matter. I like us the way we are without the fussy legal workings."

"But I've always wanted a big wedding," Cailee muttered, closing her eyes when she saw something she didn't want to. "A wedding that I could celebrate with all of my friends and family. To prove to them that I can find my happily ever after."

Damon was silent for a moment. "If you want a wedding, you'll get one. After you graduate from high school."

"But you don't want one…"

"I want what you want." Damon kissed her shoulder. "I want to make you happy."

"Then tell me what your plans are for the future. Our future."

"When you turn twenty, I'm going to give you a choice. A choice that I never had." He sat up beside her and looked down at her. "It will give you something to seriously consider, something that I have contemplated over hours and hours."

"What is it?" Cailee asked, opening her eyes when she thought it was safe.

"I'm going to give you the choice of becoming a vampire or staying a human," Damon announced. "You can stay human and grow old while I remain eternally youthful and you will die of old age. I'll follow shortly after you. Or I can change you into a very simple process -."

"Where you have to kill me," Cailee whispered, watching a cloud drift in front of the moon.

"That's part of it, but it's not something that I will enjoy. Your blood, yes. But not killing you." Damon sighed. "And then you'll become a vampire and live for an eternity with me if we're lucky."

"Damon, you want to turn me into a vampire?"

"If you want to become one, yes."

Cailee rolled over and looked at him. "Damon, aren't I dangerous enough as it is?"

"What?"

She sat up and looked him dead in the eye. "I've hurt people. I've hurt you."

"Accidentally."

"It doesn't matter if it was an 'accident'. I've done horrible things to people. I'm a monster as it is. Why would you want to make me a monster to everyone?"

"Is that what you think a vampire is? A monster?" Damon stared at her. "Do you think I'm a monster?"

"No…but I'm a monster. If you make me a vampire, who's going to stop me from becoming even worse than I am now?"

Damon grabbed her hand and held it tightly in his. "You are not a monster. You are a sick person. And if you were a monster, you'd be my beautiful monster and I'd love you forever. But if I didn't think that turning you into a vampire would help cure your…problems, I wouldn't turn you. I have faith that vampirism can cure anything."

"Have you ever heard of a mentally ill person becoming a vampire and getting cured?"

Damon shook his head and smirked. "You'll be the first one, babe."

Cailee shook her head furiously and threw her pillow across the room. "Damon, maybe no one has tried because they know that it won't work."

"You don't even want to try."

"For you, I would, but I have little faith. I don't think that I can get cured."

Damon took both of her hands in his and pulled her closer to him. "Cailee, it will work. It has to work. It's all I have."

Cailee shook her head again. "No. You had me." She closed her eyes against her tears. "But Damon, I think you have to leave now."

"What?"

Cailee reached under her mattress and pulled out a stake. "Get out now. Please. I can feel them coming. You have to leave now. Don't come back."

"Cailee, watch where you point that." Damon ordered, backing out of the bed. "You'll poke someone's eye out…or kill them."

"Get out." Cailee snapped, her eyes unfocused and glassy. "Get out now! Go away and never come back! Never!"

Damon backed away, scooping his shirt off the floor. "I'll come back for you…" he promised before vanishing.

Cailee stood there for a moment, holding the stake and then came to. She frowned when she saw that he was gone and then realized what she had just done. Tears came and fell from her eyes as she sank back down onto her bed with no end in sight.

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Damon stopped at the side of a hole and looked up when Stefan appeared next to him. "She's down there," he said, looking down at the black hole once more. "I'm going in after her. Catch her when I pass her up."

Stefan nodded, but a frown was firmly placed on his face. Damon knew why too. He could barely make out the sounds of Cailee breathing as she lay in the bottom of the hole. A soft sound of a faint heartbeat, faint ragged breaths. It tore at his heart to think that if he had arrived minutes later that he might have heard nothing at all.

Damon carefully jumped down into the hole and brushed piles of snow off of Cailee's cold body. She was so cold that she had stopped shivering. And even in the darkness, Damon could see the tinge of blue in her skin and lips. He brushed her wet hair away from her face and saw her stir a little.

"Damon…" she breathed, her voice faint to even his ears.

"Hold on Cailee," he whispered, gently slipping his arms under her body. "Hold on for a moment longer."

She didn't make another sound, but Damon could feel her heartbeat through her cold skin. He turned and looked up at Stefan. He had to toss her gently up so that Stefan to could catch her. It disturbed him to see her head swinging limply over Stefan's arm as he climbed out.

"We have to get her warm," he said, jumping out of the hole. "Give her your jacket. I'll give her mine too."

Stefan didn't move, looking down at Cailee with a frown. "Damon, she's really cold and really weak…I think it's time for her to go to the hospital."

Damon looked at him like he was crazy as he draped his jacket over Cailee's small body. "She's fine. Look at her, she's already getting some of her color back."

It was a lie. She was turning bluer. Ice was clinging to her eye lashes and frost was covering her chin and the collar of her shirt where her breath had frozen. Damon knew that if he didn't get her somewhere warm and out of those cold, wet clothes, that she wouldn't be waking up to say his name again.

"Damon," Stefan said gently, looking his brother evenly in the eye. "It's time."

Damon opened his mouth to argue, but he thought better of it. Cailee needed help and in the hospital, she'd get the help she needed right now. "Fine, but I'm not leaving her for a minute."

Stefan nodded and straightened, holding Cailee in his arms. "Very well."

He passed Cailee over to Damon so he could call Elena to tell her that they would be going to the hospital with Cailee. From where he stood, Damon could hear her saying that she had already called the ambulance and that they would be there in a matter of minutes.

"I panicked," Elena said over the phone as the two men walked out of the woods. "Bonnie and I thought we were losing her and we had to do something. Getting them there was all we could think of doing." She hesitated. "Is Damon mad?"

Stefan glanced over at Damon, who was staring down at Cailee's face with a pained expression. "No. He wants her to get help as much as we do."

There were people waiting for them as they exited the woods and Damon had to pass Cailee over to the paramedics. He watched as they piled blanket after blanket on her and placed her on a stretcher. She looked so peaceful as she laid there, ice clinging to her hair. A beautiful little snow queen, sleeping until her prince came to wake her up. If she would wake up.

Please be all right Cailee, he thought, climbing into the back of the ambulance when he was offered the chance. We'll pull through this together…we always do.

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Elena stood outside Cailee's room with Stefan, watching Damon cling to Cailee's hand like it was the only thing that was real. Like it was the only thing keeping the sleeping girl from fading away, leaving them all behind.

"I've never seen him this way," Elena whispered, looking away from Damon for a moment. "He looks so…helpless…"

"In all of the years that I've known him, I've never seen him look like this either," Stefan agreed. "Not for Katherine. Not for you. Not for anyone." The corner of his lips curved up in a slight smile. "I really think he's fallen in love with the right person."

"So he's found his soul mate after hundreds of years," Elena muttered. "Only to lose her because he didn't send her to the hospital in the first place."

"Elena when the heart calls for another and you've found your soul mate, you'll never want to let that person go. Not even if it helps them. You'll want to keep them close to you forever and see them happy." Stefan looked at Damon and Cailee. "Damon wanted to keep her happy and she was happiest away from the hospital. He may have been stupid for not seeking help when she was getting out of hand, but he was listening to his heart." He sighed. "It took a lot out of him to get Cailee here."

"But he could lose her," Elena said. "She's still blue and the doctors aren't sure if she'll wake up."

"She will," Stefan promised. "Damon has faith in her."

Elena sighed and looked back at Damon and Cailee. "For his sake, I hope so."

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A/N: It is short I know, but I'm trying to keep this story from going out of control. I think there's only going to be one or two more chapters after this one. I haven't really decided yet.

Please review because it lets me know where I've screwed up and where I've done a good job. Thanks! ~ Scarlet