Awake- Chapter Eight
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``I am not joking guys, if we are going to do this, we will have to get started and I don't know I will have the nerves so we better get started soon.``
"Elena, if you are not sure, this isn't a little thing to do, are you really sure?" Said Damon with a look that was a mix of a deep sadness and yet a bit of hope.
"Of course she is sure Damon, it's not that big a decision when you are in this situation, its live or die." said a smiling Caroline.
"No offence Barbie but I feel like hearing the answer from Elena." responded a clearly frustrated Damon.
"Damon right Elena, are you sure this is what you want?" said a deeply concerned Stefan.
"No" responded Elena. "I am not sure and I don't know I will ever be sure. There isn't a right and a wrong here but I don't want to leave any of you. I don't know what the future brings but I want to try to stay here and see what it brings."
"Alrigth Elena, we will get started. You have blood here, we can get blood here, you will drink some and we will teach you how to control it. Don't worry, it will all be ok. Tyler, would you go get the blood from the reserve." said a suddenly very agitated Stefan. He seemed to have found a mission to complete to give his focus yet his brain seemed to be completely scattered as if his brain couldn't keep up with the speed of his thought.
"No I don't think I should do that." said Klaus posing as Tyler trying to cover that he had no idea where the blood was. Had he thought about this for more than a moment, he probably could have figured it from the spell but the words escaped his mouth almost forgetting his cleverly configured disguise.
"Sweetie, just go get it please, we need to get this over with as soon as possible." Said a annoyed Caroline. "You know where it is, it will take you to seconds."
"I guess I could."
"Wait no, Tyler, as it pains me to say may be right, we can't go get blood bags and la di la la we have a vampire Elena. First we need to get Jeremy out of here. No offence Jer, I know Elena loved you but once she turns, we are not sure what she will do. While I am pretty sure the people in this room can stop a brand spanking new vampire, you don't need the additional scaring of seeing your sister in a blood rage trying to kill you." said a clearly calmer Damon.
"No Damon I want to stay. I am sure, like you said, if Elena gets into a rage you can stop her."
"Jer, you should do what Damon said. I will be fine. It will be easier for me if you are not watching. Beside, Matt should be coming out of surgery soon and I would feel a lot better if someone would be there in case he wakes up. You can fill him in." said a clearly heartbroken Elena trying to fake a smile.
"If that is what you really want."
"Jer, you really need to go, believe me it will be best." said Damon.
" I will walk you out." Said Elena following her brother to the door.
Outside on the front step Elena is watching her brother walk away as he suddenly turn around and walk up the steps to take his sister in his arms.
"If for any reason you change your mind or anything happens, I just want you to know, I love you. You are the best sister anyone could ask for, even if you hang perhaps a bit too much with freaks like me." Said Jeremy completely unable to hold the tears.
Elena watched her brother walked away with the growing tears in her eyes. She tried to gather herself but the immense pain suddenly reached her head as well as her heart. She took a hold for the banister for support. Both the terror of having to become a vampire paired with this overwhelming pain which took over, were too much to bear at the moment. She would just take a moment, a moment to gather her thoughts before she would go join her friends inside. How would they, themselves vampires react to the pain she was going through at the thought of becoming one of them. She knew that for most of them, the transformation wasn't an easy process, but if they saw her in such a state, would they think she was disgusting by what they were, what they had been. Then another thought flashed in front of her eyes, a little different than the ones who that she had been having for the last moments. This one she remembered only a few months away when Damon and she had been on the balcony and he had kissed her, like she had never been kissed before and never had been since a night on another balcony, but not it seemed so vivid, like she had just come back to that exact moment and the pain was fading away from her. On that moment Elena simply collapses on balcony floor as if she simply fell asleep with a big smile on her face.
As Elena collapse, more thoughts raced around her head. They were images and words running through her head. Damon was lying on the ground in the middle of the road, his image was hazy. She heard the words "You want a love that consumes you, you want passion…" The next second they were in her bedroom and Damon was saying: "I love you Elena and it is because I love you that I can't be selfish with you…"
Meanwhile, the gang outside hear the thump of Elena felling on the ground and rushed outside to find her in what any other day would have appeared like a peaceful slumber but this was not any other day.
"What happened? Elena!" screamed Caroline as she stepped outside. "Stefan I think she may be dying."
"Caroline, for once I think you may be right, we need to get her blood and right away", said Damon, as Caroline is franticly shaking Elena.
"Stefan go get the blood in the basement" yelled Damon as he took Elena from a frantic Caroline who Tyler took in his arm in an attempt to calm her as she sobbed.
"Damon, we are out of blood, I guess we can just give us ours."
"Come on, Stefan, you know we can't give her vampire blood, fyi, we are dead too, it won't work but we might just be in luck." said Damon as he raised his eyes to an elder gentlemen who was giving his dog an early morning walk.
"Damon who can't just go kill a dog in the middle of the street, maybe there is some in the kitchen freezer I didn't see." said Stefan as he step in front of his brother.
"Oh I wasn't going for the dog" said Damon as he pushed his brother out of the way. "We can't just afford this to go wring because the dog wasn't enough."
"Wait, Damon, you can't do this, this isn't what Elena would want. She wouldn't want to hurt anyone"
"Sorry brother, but if you haven't noticed, there is nothing here that is what Elena would want and you only have yourself to blame for this one." Said Damon as he grabbed the elderly man and snapped his neck back killing him instantly. "Now move away and let me do this."
Damon pulled out his teeth and took off the arm of the now dead gentlemen as the blood splashed on his face which is swiftly wipe away and brought the now half arm still attached to the men to Elena's mouth.
As he held her the others looks on with a look asking if he it was working. He whispered in her ear. "Come on beautiful, you can do this and you know I can't lose you so you better open your eyes. Are you going to force me to say it? Come on, this is a bad time to play hard to get. Right, alright, I love you; now let us have this fairy tale moment before I go get Stefan to wake the sleeping beauty."
As he uttered the words Elena's eyes and she starred right in his eyes. In Elena's eyes the two visions became one, Damon up in his room telling her he loved her and that moment were all in one, the emotion became too much and she immediately passed out in Damon's arms.
"Good girl." He whispered. "She will be fine." Looking at the other's with a sign of relieved. "She passed out but she will be fine."
"We should take her inside" said Stefan still in shock over the last minutes' event.
"Yes but not here. Jer is not here to invite her, Stefan, you guys take her to the boarding house. You are the face she will want to see when she wakes up. I will handle the mess over here."
Stefan took Elena out of Damon's arms. " And Stefan, do it quickly, the sun is coming up."
Damon could swear he herd his brother say thanks as the rest of the gang disappeared into mid-air. Damon was left on the Gilbert's porch with a dead man and a barking dog. Seeing no one around he sat on the steps for a minute next to the dog: "You know you think you are having a bad day" said Damon as he looked to the dog who now had stopped barking to look at the strange man, "but believe me, mine has been much worse." Instantly it is as if all the air got sucked out of the atmosphere and Damon couldn't breathe. He tried to catch his breath, but only a scream and tears left Damon face. The days event all caught up to him in a brief moment causing him to completely loose it with the tiny dog putting his paw on the crying vampire's knee.