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The continuous beeping from a sound on the right of her, filled her eyes and her eyes flew open in surprise at the noise. Her arm ached and she turned to the pain in her vein. There was a needle stuck in it and she followed the tube all the way up to the monitor that beeped alongside her heart. She was in a hospital. The events before she blacked out suddenly hit her and she gasped at what made her body close in on itself. The hospital room is as devoid of beauty as she was of hope. She had been caught. There was no more running from it as much as she wanted too. Its walls are simply cream, not peeling or dirty, just cream. The room as an undertone of bleach and the floor is simply grey. There are stands for intravenous drips and monitors. At the door are dispensers for rubber gloves, hand sanitizer and soap. These items only reinforce my fear of germs, they are so ubiquitous here that cleaning is mandatory every time a doorway is passed or a patient is touched.
She had just sat up when the door suddenly flew open and Bonnie appeared in the doorway with the doctor beside her.
"Elena," Bonnie sighed in relief at the sight of her awake. She came over with the doctor and hugged her silently. The doctor stood at the end of the bed and smile, holding a brown clipboard waiting for the women to stop hugging. They pulled away and turned to the doctor.
"Hello, Elena. I'm doctor Fell" She said, smiling happily. "How are you feeling?"
Elena looked around at her body and shrugged. "I feel fine" The doctor nodded and wrote on the clipboard before looking back up.
"Do you remember what happened when you blacked out?"
She nodded. "Yeah, I was talking with Bonnie when I saw someone and then my body start to like... overheat and then everything went black. That's never happened to me before. It kind of scares me. I know that I passed out, obviously. I just don't know why" The doctor glanced over the papers before looking back at Elena.
"Well you fainted because your body kind of went into overdrive from something... It can be from emotional stress, anxiety, pain, hunger, alcohol or drugs or fear. It can also cause you to have a seizure if your body gets too worked up. Did you experience any of these symptoms before you passed out? Maybe from things at home, your job, family members?"
Elena bit down on her lip, nodding silently.
"Do you have any medical problems about fainting before? Have you experienced any of this before and the same result?"
She shook her head. "I've had those things but never to the point where my body completely shuts down on me and my goes hot and then black out. That has never happened. And, no, I don't have any medical problems about fainting or seizures. In fact, I actually don't have any problems with anything. I just sneeze and me eyes get red when I'm around dogs, cats and birds. That about it. I'm just allergic to their feathers and fur. But, that's it"
"Okay, just making sure because there are some antibiotics or medicine to at least reduce seizures or fainting but you don't need it..." She said, writing on the papers on the clipboard. "I'll go and get your papers and you can leave. Try not to stress much or get so worked up or it could happen again"
"Thank you" Elena said as she turned and left the room. She rubbed her eyes and turned to Bonnie. She suddenly gasped, her mouth wide open.
"Did you all call Matt? He has to know where I am so he doesn't freak out. What about my daughter?" She said in a rush, moving around on the bed in a frenzy. Bonnie grabbed her arms and looked her in the eyes.
"Elena, calm down. Remember what the doctor said. Don't stress. I'll call Matt and tell him what happened. I guess they didn't call him because he wasn't an emergency contact. Only your parents are listed but they said they had passed. I'm so sorry, Elena. How did they pass" Bonnie said, hugging the brunette once more. Elena smiled and sighed before returning it and pulling away.
"It was a car accident when I was 18. I was still in high school at the time and it was before I met my ex-husband" She said, tucking a piece of hair behind her ear, sadly. She bit her lip before changing the subject. "Would you call Matt for me and let him know I'm okay? Just call him from my cell" She pulled out her phone from her jean pocket and handed it to her as Bonnie nodded and stepped out of the room.
Elena huffed and laid her head back against the stiff pillow. She couldn't wait to leave and get out of this hospital. The bed was hard, the noises were loud, the blanket was ruff like sandpaper and she didn't think she could take one more time if she heard another hospital bed bang into the wall. It was very irritating and she couldn't wait to get home to her baby girl. Matt was probably losing his mind. She looked around the room to find a clock and sighed in disappointment when there wasn't anything that could tell her the time of day. She licked her lips and stared at the ceiling when the door reopened and someone had walked through silently. She spoke and sat up.
"What did he say, Bonnie-"
She froze. All the muscles in her face relaxed and her mouth opened. She didn't move or flinch when the man came closer to the bed, his expression hard. The sweat drenched on her skin and the throbbing of her eyes made her body go into a frenzy as if it was hyped on sugar and the thumping of her heart beat into her chest with every second that passed. Her fingers were curled into a fist, nails digging into her palm as he came closer to the bed. She blinked once and there he was in front of her. He wordlessly sat down, his jaw clenched and his eyebrows arched at the sight of her.
"Elena," He spat with venom as if the very sound of her name disgusted him. Elena subconiously pulled her legs closer to her chest and further away from him.
"What do you want, Stefan?" She demanded in a quivering voice. He lifted his hands up in the air and pointed to himself.
"I don't want anything. But, my brother on the other hand, wants something..." Stefan trailed off, tilting his head at the brunette. Elena immediately started to shake her head and she held her hand out as if to stop Stefan's words from getting to her. Apparently, she could blame evolutionary biology for the painful memories. She wished she could put them in the garbage can where they belong and forget that ever existed. Or better yet bury them deep underground in a coffin and finally move on.
"No, Stefan, please. Don't tell Damon. I can't afford or handle him waltzing back into my life" She begged, her eyes widening at the mention of her first love.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't tell him? You're a complete bitch, Elena. You left him and left his heart shattered" He spat, his fists clenching at the thought. She shook her head, the painful stab in her heart returning once again. Her sadness and pain was hollow. Sometimes the hollowness is a shell, holding in a thousand oceans of tears, pressing all the little broken pieces of her back together even if only for the moment.
Sometimes though, it holds a thousand pieces of glass that are wedged in between her soul and body. That's the pain. That's the scariest thing. Sometimes she was somebody, somebody in pain and sadness. But sometimes she was nobody, and she don't seem to feel at times. And, that mean not existing at all. There were days Elena awoke and her memories weighed heavy. The morning radio came to her through a haze and the smiles of others were no more real than the pixelated icons on her phone with an illusion of happiness. It was temporary of course, but in that permanent way; however high she rose and how long she stayed away this was the base-line she always returned to. Stefan seemed to not notice her turmoil, or he had just decided to look past it and ignore it. He turned closer on the edge of the bed, his lips pressed into a thin line. Elena hung her head in shame at his comments.
"It's not like I just randomly left him, Stefan. It was for a reason" Elena said, her voice small, trying to fire back to somehow make this better. She raised her head back up. He just had an eyebrow cocked, unimpressed.
"Yeah, I know the reason" He said, causing Elena's head to snap up. Her eyebrows furrowed in anger and her eyes squinted.
"Then, why are you trying to drag me down because of this? He told me to leave when I said I was pregnant, Stefan. He didn't want our baby. There's no reason for you to tell Damon. It's not like he would care anyway" She huffed, her eyes darkening at the thought.
"Because, he told you to leave, Elena. He didn't say disappear and never come back. You made that decision and decided not to return and completely extract yourself from your lives together..." Stefan's rigid face suddenly turned amused and he smirked, mirroring Damon's. "Does your boyfriend know you're still married?" He said, a teasing, evil tone in his voice. "I'm sure he'd love to know, Elena"
Elena turned her head away from Stefan's word. She never wanted this to come out. Legally, her and Damon were still married but she would like to forget that their past ever existed. It was easier to pretend like she wasn't still married.
"And, if you want a divorce to marry this new guy, you'd still have to see Damon at least once. Or, be in contact. You can't keep running Elena. He won't let you"
Elena sighed, her mind running wild with thoughts of meeting Damon once again, even to finalize their divorce. She shook her head, huffing at Stefan.
"Look, Stefan," She said in a stern voice, her anger starting to rise. "I don't want contact with Damon at al. He better stay away from my child, and don't act like you didn't know that i had the baby. Because a. you'd be stupid to think that and b. because you've already started to snoop around. There's no other way you could have known I had a boyfriend otherwise"
The smirk returned to Stefan's face, making Elena's anger and confidence disappear with the way his green eyes twinkled when she finished.
"I actually only knew about the boyfriend because of the woman outside. I had guessed you had the baby but i wasn't sure. I mean, you did leave Damon for no good reason-"
"No good reason?" Elena interrupted. "No good reason? He told me he didn't want a baby and said to leave! What else was I supposed to do? Stay there as he yelled for me to get out before he finally snapped? I Mean, what would you rather have seen me done, Stefan, since you're so angry at me leaving your brother."
"Anything but leave and never come back, Elena! You could have just left for a few hours while he cooled off and then came back. But, instead, you gave up the first time you all had a big argument!" Stefan scolded at her with disgust before standing up. "Whatever, Elena. Continue to be the coward you are and running from all your problems" He spat before going closer to the hospital room door.
"Just please, Stefan..." Elena pleaded, desperation in her voice. "Don't tell Damon you saw me, please. I'm begging you as the sister you once called me. Do this one thing for me..."
After minutes of silence and Stefan still stood there at the door, not leaving but just froze, his hand on the door handle. Her heart rate began to pick up as more silence passed and her brain flooded with different scenarios of Damon coming to her house and meeting her face to face again after years. Her palms became sweaty and she begged silently for Stefan to agree and promise he wouldn't say a word and froze of the spot when he tilted his head back over his shoulder, his face softer and showed more emotion that than in the last few minutes of them talking.
"I won't" He said softly before leaving the room without another word or glance. Elena's eyes blurred with tears, her chest heavy with memories and laid her head back against the pillow as the door once again reopened.
"Matt's on his way with Emily. He kind of freaked out when I told him you passed out but once I explained everything, he was okay, but still rushed to say he was on his way" Bonnie rambled, walking in the room, handing the phone back to Elena. She smiled lightly, taking away the tension she felt moments ago as Bonnie pulled one of the chairs against the wall and up to the bed.
"Was that the guy that scared you at work in here? Is he the ex-husband?" Bonnie asked suddenly, her face serious. Elena's mouth dropped in surprise at the question but definitely respected Bonnie more that she cut to the chase instead of beating around the bush. She shook her head, solemnly.
"No, that's his brother, Stefan. I just had a panic attack when I saw him because I didn't think I ever would see either of them again, I hadn't planned too anyway. So, it surprised and scared me when he was there. I didn't even think about asking him what he was doing there. Silly me" Elena sighed, smacking her forehead, shaking her head at herself. Sometimes she could be so brainless and too caught up in her emotions to really know or ask what's really going on. Bonnie just smiled at the sight.
"It's completely normal, Elena. Sometimes things scare you and things unexpected catch you off guard. Your body just overreacted. It happens to a lot of people" Bonnie leaned closer to the bed, her eyes wide. "Is he going to tell your ex-husband that he saw you?" Elena shook her head.
"I begged him not too and he said he wouldn't. I'm putting my faith and trust into him because we've known each other for so long. Of course, I wouldn't mind if Damon came into Emily's life and be the father she has always deserved but... I feel like he doesn't deserve to her father. He didn't want her and he would have to earn my trust so I can know that he won't just take off in the middle of the night because he changed his mind and leave my daughter heartbroken. Plus, there's too much baggage between us. I don't think it would ever work. I think we would always fight co-parenting and that wouldn't be good for Emil to see. So, I think it's good Damon hasn't come back, even if my baby girl deserves her father. He doesn't deserve her..." Elena said, rubbing her temples at the thought.
Damon coming back into her life and Emily's would only cause trouble and damage for everyone. If he wanted to be a father then he would have gone a completely different way than what he said and how he acted that day. Nothing can be reversed or set back. She didn't know why Stefan was throwing such a hissy fit over the fact she had left Damon when he told her to leave. It didn't make sense. Damon had probably screwed the next piece of ass that walked by the moment she left or drunk himself into a stupor. She rolled her eyes. It had to have been the brother bond they had. She loved and hated it. They protected each other form everyone but God forbid if you were on the end of the backlash from them. Or, the intended target. And, she had a feeling she was just that.
If Damon wanted to be Emily's father and really be the father figure she had always deserved, then she had no problem with that, but for now, he was just a deadbeat to her and as a father.
"Well, if he does end up coming back for whatever reason, don't let him around Emily until he earns the right to come back and be a father. But, until you can trust him, he's just going to have to understand from your point of view why it's hard. Emily, would be the one hurt from this and it would cause so much pain at such a young age and she just doesn't need that. She should be worried about what cartoon she wants to watch or what she wants for lunch not whether or not her father is going to leave, never to be seen again. Don't feel bad about that. Any other mother would do that, unless they just don't care about their child. And, you do, Elena. Don't stress about it" Bonnie said as the door flew open.
"Elena!" Matt called from the doorway, Emily in his arms.
"Mommy!" Emily called happily, her arms already reaching out to touch her mother. A bright smile graced Elena's lips at her daughter and reached out to her as Matt came closer, sitting her on the bed. Emily jumped from his arms and onto her mother as Elena gasped from the motion.
"Hi, my baby" Elena cooed and kissed Emily's cheek as her cheeks turned red. Emily pocked out her red lips and kissed her mother's cheek, smacking her lips as she did so. Emily sat down, smiling so hard, she closed her eyes before turning to Bonnie.
"Hello, " She said in a sweet voice, waving her hand at the woman inches away from her. Bonnie smiled and waved back.
"Hi, Emily. I'm Bonnie, one of your mom's friends. We work together" Bonnie stated proudly as Emily gasped.
"Really?" She said her eyes wide.
"Really" Bonnie repeated.
"That's so cool" Emily said in amazement as the adults giggled at her response. Matt pulled a chair to the other side of Elena and sat down, laying his hand on Elena's leg. Elena smiled at him and she saw Bonnie from the corner of her eye stand up. She turned her head at the action and gave a questioning look to the brunette.
"Why are you leaving Bonnie?"
Bonnie wiped off her pants and shirt and shrugged. "Well, I don't want to impose on your family time and because I have to get back to work anyway" She said before turning to Emily. "It was nice meeting you, Emily" She then turned to Matt. "You're Matt?" He nodded silently, smiling. "I really approve. You're perfect for Elena. I've heard some great things about you..." She trailed off before turning back to Elena. "Mason said you don't have to come back for a few days to get better. He said just come back in two days unless you're sick again" Elena smiled at Bonnie's words.
"He so nice. Tell him I said thank you and I really appreciate it, Bonnie. Bye"
"Bye, call me if you need something!" She said before walking out of the room, closing the door behind her. She turned back to Matt and gasped when he stood up and kissed her lips before burying his face into her neck.
"You have no idea how worried I was about you... I was losing my mind when Bonnie called and said you passed out at work..." Elena smiled and kissed his cheek. "What even caused this?"
Elena froze once again. She didn't know what to say. What was she supposed to say? 'oh, it's just my current husband's brother scared me while I was at work and it caused me to pass out. He was also here too, angry at me. And, yeah, I'm still married. I lied to you about being divorced. Want to get some food?' Like that conversation would go well. She mentally sighed at herself She was just digging the hole deeper and deeper but the lies came easier and they came faster. She had already been lying to him. Why stop now?
"I guess my body just started to get really hot. The doctor said it could be stress and you know i've been stressing over my book. She said to take it easy" She said, smiling, happily. Emily curled up to her mother. Matt chuckled and nodded.
"Yeah, you have been stressing too much about it. Relax and let ideas come to you. It will feel a lot better, trust me"
Elena nodded and he sat back down into the seat next to her. She huffed after a second. "Where is Dr. Fell with those release papers? It feels like I've been here for hours"
Matt chuckled. "You have kind of. I've called thirty times in the last hour then Bonnie called so it might have added up to an hour since you fainted around your lunch break"
"Oh" Elena said as the door opened. Dr. Fell appeared in the doorway with papers and handed them to Elena.
"Just sign here and you're free to go. Sorry, it took so long, there was an emergency surgery that I had to deal with but luckily, another surgeon took over at the last minute"
Elena nodded and signed the papers before handing them back to Dr. Fell. She nodded before holding a finger up at Elena.
"Remember, don't stress or get scared too much. Or, it could cause another panic attack and cause you to blackout. Okay?"
"Okay" Elena responded before the doctor left the room. Elena and Matt smiled when she sat up and Emily had fallen asleep on her chest. They stared at her before Elena lightly laid her down on the bed before crawling out of it and picking her back up not to wake her. Matt rounded the bed and laid his hand on her lower back as they left the room.
Elena yawned, resting her head on her hand, her elbow pressing into the wood of the desk. She heard the ringing of a phone and jumped at hers but rolled her eyes when it was just Mason's phone that could be heard through the walls blocking her desk off from his office. She brought the warm coffee to her lips and almost moaned at the taste and she blinked to keep her eyes open. She yawned again and clenched her jaw at the events of the night before that kept her awake until three hours before she had to get up. Of course, she could have called off claiming she was sick but that wasn't her. She could handle being tired at her job.
Emily refused to sleep last night. She had so much energy and even when Elena gave her melatonin gummies that she sometimes needed to sleep, even that didn't work. So, she stayed up with her daughter all night watching SpongeBob, letting Matt sleep, knowing he had work as well. At least Emily would finally wear herself out at daycare.
"Mommy! Mommy! I don't want to go to bed! I want to watch Spongybob! And, I hungy" Emily pouted, stomping into the kitchen behind her mother. Elena sighed and handed her the juice she made.
"Emily, please, baby, not tonight. Go to bed. Mommy needs to sleep. If you lay still and drink your juice, you'll get tired and fall asleep"
But, I can't mommy!"
"And, why is that?" Elena replied, yawning.
"Because I not tired!" Emily stated proudly, smiling. She sipped on the juice, sucking it down before going into the living room and turning on the TV. Elena sighed, knowing it was useless and followed the child into the room and sat down.
"Elena," A voice said from behind her, making her jump from fear. She turned and rested a hand on her chest, telling her body to calm because it was just Mason.
"Yes, Mason?" She asked. He peaked around the corner and rested his back against the wall.
"I need some documents that has just been sent from downstairs. Would you mind, going to get them for me? It's Liv, the receptionist by the door that has them. Just tell her that I need them and she'll give them to you. Do you mind? If you don't want too, I could get one of the guards..."
Elena shook her head. "No, no. I'll do it. It'll give me something to do and wake me up. My daughter kept me awake last night. She just wouldn't go to sleep" Elena laughed. "But, I'll go get them"
"Thank you" He said, smiling, before disappearing back into his office. Elena stood up and traveled down the elevator to the receptionist.
"Hello, are you Live?" Elena asked, coming up to the desk. The woman looked up at her, smiling, her bright green eyes shining from the lights above them.
"Yes and I'm guessing you're Elena?"
Elena nodded. "Yep. Mason wanted me to come and get some documents down here" Liv nodded and turned to grab a folder and handed it to Elena.
"This is it"
"Thank you" Elena said, before turning around and stopping dead in her tracks when she saw Stefan and Damon enter the building. She gasped, all the muscles in her body frozen and her blood suddenly ran cold at the sight of her husband. Fear ran up her spine in a blink and it kept rising as more time passed. She turned and ran into one of the restrooms before Damon or Stefan could see her. She sat in one of the stalls, her head in her hands, her breathing picking up. The thoughts were accelerating inside her head. She wanted them to slow so she can breathe but they wouldn't. Her heart is hammering inside her chest like it belongs to a rabbit running for its skin. The room spins and she tried to make everything slow to something my brain and body can cope with.
She took a sudden breath. Calm down. She would faint at this rate. She was overthinking, overstressing again. She stopped and stood up, leaving the stall, thankful no other women were in the restroom. She walked over to the sink, her face still hot and rubbed cold water on it before taking, slow deep breaths, calming her body. She was happy she hadn't worn makeup or she would look like Carrie. Her body started to calm, her heart still beat erratically from the thought of Damon but her body calmed. It wasn't as hot as it was before and she sighed in relief. She left the restroom and walked right into someone's back. She whispered a sorry before noticing who it was. She pulled his arm and made him enter the restroom with her.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? You told me you wouldn't tell him!" Elena screeched. Stefan snatched his arm out of her grasp and wiggled a finger at her.
"I said I wouldn't tell Damon and I didn't. We had this meeting scheduled with Mason way before I knew you worked here. So, calm down. It looks like you'll be facing your fears a lot sooner than you thought, Elena. Damon doesn't know you work here. He'll be pleased to see his wife he's been searching for..." He smirked before leaving the restroom, leaving her dumbfounded.
Sorry, I couldn't help the cliffhanger. It was a huge urge so I gave in. Like an addiction. Delena next chapter, though.
I loved all the success this story has had so far. I'm super excited about it. And, to all my readers demanding that I make a story out of "A Rose for Elena" I will be doing it! I've decided that I wanted too. But, it wouldn't be too many chapters. It will take some time to write and come up with a title. So, when I finally do, I will add it into my author's note on here and let you know it has been posted or when it will be posted.
The second and final part of "Promise" will be coming soon. I'm still writing it. And, I'm currently writing another one shot called, "The Nightmare" I think you all will enjoy it! It will either be out later today or tomorrow at the latest. So look out for that. I'm trying to hurry with the next chapter of "Love Me Again" as well but with a court case takes time to write and what the prosecutors will ask and things like that. So, be patient with me.
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