Here I am again, with the next chapter. This one picks up exactly where the last one left off, I hope you enjoy it :)

Elena didn't wait for an invitation. She stepped inside and moved towards him, cupping his face in her hands. Damon was so shocked that he was just standing there, in a complete and utter shock, watching as she leaned closer to him and kissed him softly. It wasn't like their usual kisses, hungry and demanding, this one was sweeter, Elena brushed her lips gently on his, but he pushed her away, regaining his focus.

„What are you doing, Elena?" He whispered, his voice was low and weak. She knew how much it was costing him to say this, because if he was following his usual principles by now he would have thrown her on the bed, and she would be screaming his name frantically. But he couldn't do that with Elena, he couldn't do that to Elena.

„Damon, please, I need you." Tears started falling off her eyes, making the black lines on her face even more visible. „I need you." She said, emphasising on every word, not breaking eye contact. Damon couldn't bare seeing her like that, all he wanted was to see that amazing smile of hers lightening up her face again. He wasn't much of the self-control type, and he decided that if he could make her happy, he would, if he could erase that sadness off her face, he would do it. He forgot his wounded pride in a matter of seconds, and took her in his arms, pressing her tightly against him. Their lips found each other and he kissed her again. Their kiss started off as a sweet one, but he got more demanding, kissing her hungrily. He could feel the tears on her face, when she pressed her face to his.

She wrapped her long legs around his waist and he carried her to his bedroom, pushing her onto the bed, and laying on top of her. He felt how the little droplets of blood kept on falling from his arm. Elena noticed it as well, and she gave him a worried look.

„Damon, what has happened?"

„Nothing you have to worry about." He said seductively, whipping his hand off the sheet, he barely felt the pain now. He took her blouse off, and started kissing her belly, and she giggled a little. He undid her bra in one swift movement and cupped her breasts, playing with her hard nipples. She moaned in pleasure, took his shirt off, and started kissing every piece of skin she could get to, after that she moved her hands to his pants, unzipping them quickly, and sliding them off his legs. He kissed her again, while ripping her underwear from her legs in two.

„Damon!" She protested, but he couldn't miss the little smile on her face.

„I will buy you new ones." He replied, and she slid her hands in his boxers taking his hard member in her hand, while taking off his boxers with her free hand. He smirked a little and bit her nipple playfully, while his hand moved to her clit, rubbing it with his thumb, making her whole body arch, in pleasure. He added one finger inside of her, then two, and three, increasing his pace gradually as he kept on thrusting and rubbing restlessly against her. Not long after that he felt how her walls tightened around his fingers and her small body collapsed, indicating she had met her release.

He didn't wait for an invitation, he just looked at her, and seeing the look on her face, he positioned himself on top of her, his whole body pulsating with desire to be inside of her again. He thrusted slowly into her, feeling her walls adjusting perfectly around him. They both felt like coming home, remembering the feeling of being with each other. There was nothing that could be compared to that. They hadn't been together for around 24 hours, but both their bodies had been craving each other like crazy since then. These 24 hours had seemed like years, Elena realized. She hadn't completely understood how much she had needed him - with her, next to her, inside of her.

„Damn it, Elena, you feel so fucking good." He swore, and kept on thrusting in and out of her restlessly. She just smiled at him, and kissed him again, wanting him, needing him more than air. In these past few weeks, he had been her rock, her friend and her lover. He had become very important to her in a very short time, and now, she couldn't imagine her life without him.

Her hands grabbed the sheets, as she felt her second orgasm coming up, she arched her back even more, while Damon's thrusts were becoming deeper and more powerful. Every time he slammed himself into her, she felt the waves of pleasure crashing into her body, making her scream his name desperately wanting more and more of him.

„Oh my... Damon, please don't stop!" She begged him, through her screams of pleasure, and after a few moments her whole body tensed up, and she met her release, followed by Damon, who came inside of her.

She felt dizzy and trembling, and she couldn't get her body under control, not to mention her mind. She knew Damon was pretty shaken as well, she just smiled warmly at him, curling up in bed next to him, and putting her hand on his chest. He pressed her tightly against him and asked:

„What was all that about, Elena?" He was afraid of the answer he would get. He had given up to his needs without even thinking and if she decided to reject him now he didn't know how he would cope with it.

„I lied." Elena admitted.

„About what?" Damon rose her brow to her, surprised.

„I knew exactly what I was doing back there, Damon. And if I had the chance I would do it all over again." His heart skipped a beat, hearing her confession. „I was just afraid that... If I let myself do this with you, what kind of a person does that make me?"

„A person like everybody else." He told her soothingly. „So, you don't think that this was a mistake?

„I wouldn't have come here if I thought this was a mistake." She told him reaching for his lips.

„What about Stefan?"

„I can't, and I don't want to think about Stefan right now. We'll just think about it later." She responded, knowing that she would just try to avoid the Stefan subject after that. „If something makes me happy, I should go for it, right? We only live once, and I don't know how much time I have left."

He quickly got what she was talking about and his face changed instantly.

„I don't want to hear you talking like that again. Do you hear me? Never!" He told her fiercely, fire dancing in his eyes. „I wouldn't let anything happen to you."

„I know you're doing everything in your power, Damon, but if something does happen, I really don't want you to feel guilty." She tried, but he just wouldn't listen,

„No, enough, nothing bad is happening to you!" For some reason he just couldn't think about it without feeling physical pain in his chest.

After a couple of minutes in silence Elena pluck up the courage to ask something.

„Damon?"

„Yes." He said, drawing circles on her back with his finger.

„Do I suck in bed?" She asked and covered her head with the sheet to hide how embarrassed she was.

„What?" He couldn't help but laugh. „Where did that come from?"

„Just tell me, please." She demanded, from under the sheet.

„Of course not! If you sucked in bed, we wouldn't even be having this conversation right now." He chuckled at her expression. „Now, where did you get that hideous idea?"

„Well, me and Stefan... things were never... good in that department, and I thought it was my fault, I don't know." She kept on speaking from under the sheet.

She heard Damon's giggling, and he uncovered her face, looking straight into her eyes.

„You're adorable, do you know that?" He said. „If you and Stefan had problems in bed, I can assure you, it's not your fault." He said, emphasising on the word „assure". „Now I don't want to see you like that, ever again." He told her whipping what had left from her make up with his hand.

He leaned down and kissed her, feeling how she instantly smiled against his lips.

„Much better." He murmured.

When Elena woke up on the next morning, the usual feeling of happiness filled her body when she thought about Damon, who was sleeping peacefully next to her. She looked at his expression and smiled warmly, he looked like an angel while he was sleeping. She wrapped her hands around him, when she felt how she started to move next to her.

„Damon... I have to go." She told him in a soft voice.

„Noo.." He protested sleepily.

„Yes." She laughed at his little protest, and got out of bed quickly, picking up her clothes off the floor. When she saw her panties, ripped in half, she just shook her hand and laughed. „I will text you later." She told him and gave him one last kiss, but he trapped her with his hands, deepening their kiss. She tried to protest, but her body surrendered to his way too fast. She fell on top of him.

„Damon, seriously, I am so gonna be late, I need to stop at home before going to wor-." She tried.

„Whatever it is, it can wait." He cut her off, and with that, she gave in completely.

An hour later she got out of Damon's apartment, knowing she was incredibly late, but she didn't care. Morning sex was definitely her thing, she decided, while driving home. She quickly got in, took a shower and changed her clothes. Moments later she heard Stefan's footsteps and turned to find him standing behind her.

„You decided to finally come home, huh?" He asked her coldly. „I tried to call."

„Yes, I know, I forgot my phone, I'm sorry." It was true.

„Where were you all night, anyway?"

„I stayed over Caroline. She got engaged and we decided to have our own little party." She lied quickly. It was really amazing to her how she could think of such a lie in such a short time. She had become first class liar in no time.

„If I call her, will she tell me the same?" Elena was feeling like she was being interrogated now.

„Yes." She said firmly, going deeper and deeper into her lies. She knew Caroline would have her back if Stefan really decided to call her.

Stefan's expression softened, and he moved closer to her.

„I am sorry. I don't know what got into me, I guess I am having one of those days." He confessed.

„It's okay."

„About yesterday. I overreacted and I think I owe you an apology, but this doesn't change the fact the you should have told me." He admitted, looking straight into her doe eyes.

Shit, Elena thought, if he was a bad guy, it would have been so much easier to just leave him, but he was actually being nice too her. She knew that telling him wasn't an option for her right now. She just nodded and forced a smile.

„How about I make it up to you?" He said, getting closer to her, his hands wandering all over Elena's body, and stopping at her ass. He was so close, she could feel his hard member pressed against her.

„I am sorry, I can't right now, I am terribly late for work." She excused herself, and got out of his grip quickly, leaving him in an utter shock. She left the house as soon as she could. Sleeping with Stefan was out of the question. How ironic, she thought, she was feeling guilty for sleeping with her own husband, because she didn't want to cheat on the person she had an affair with. Her life had become a freaking soap opera.

She got to her office and closed the doors behind her, telling Anna to call her before she let anyone in there. Her morning went with doing paperwork, but her mind was occupied with Damon. His hands, his touch, his mouth showering her body with kisses, she could feel his lips on her all the time, and this was seriously preventing her from doing her job, but somehow she managed to catch up, and went to lunch break, searching for Caroline. She found her sitting on one of the tables in the corner and headed right in her direction.

„Hey." She greeted, but she saw her worried expression and asked. „What's going on?"

„They found a bug in my office, Elena." She told her best friend and turned her face to look at her.

„What?" Elena gasped, breaking down in the chair below her.

„This morning, it's just... I've been bugged for god knows how much time, and I haven't noticed anything. They could have heard so much, Elena. They knew everything I was doing all the time." Her gaze was blank, and Elena felt how the fear took over her again.

„Care, I don't know what to tell you, I just..."

„Tell me something, anything to take my mind off this, please Elena." She pleaded.

Elena hesitated for a minute, before saying:

„I was with Damon last night... and this morning. Again." She confessed quickly, waiting for her friend's reaction.

It seemed to have worked, because Caroline snapped her hand in Elena's direction the minute she heard Damon's name.

„How was it?" She simply asked, she was not going to judge her or teach her morality.

„Mind-blowing as always." Elena said, and her face got the same goofy expression it always had when she was thinking about him. „He makes me so happy, Care." She smiled.

„Then, I am glad for you, honey." Her friend commented. „What are you going to tell Stefan."

„For now – nothing. I am going to wait until this whole murder thing blows over and then I am going to tell him, plus until then I will know how things between me and Damon would have worked out."

„You'll just lie to him until then?" Caroline asked, and quickly added. „No judging!"

„I have to." She let out a big sight.

„Whatever you think is right, I am right behind you." She gave her an encouraging look and it was all Elena needed to hear.

"I don't think this is right, I don't know what is right anymore." She quickly looked away to hide the tears that appeared in her eyes. "But this is what makes me happy."

When Elena got to her office she found Jeremy there, waiting for her.

„Hey, Jer." She greeted her brother, a huge smile appearing on her face, as she gave him a big hug.

„What happened to you, I thought you had died." He joked, and a shiver ran through Elena's body, imagining how true this can be.

„I was just buried in work." She smiled again.

„As always." Jeremy told her. „You really need to blow off the steam from time to time." He told her, a worried note in his voice.

„I'm fine, Jer. You know, that's how I roll." She joked, and he laughed at her poor attempt.

„Don't say that. Like ever again." He told her, still laughing.

„What is bringing you here, please tell you have decided to give the family business a shot?" She asked hopefully.

„Ha-ha, no, I am actually here, to tell you that, I've met someone." He said, blushing a little.

„You did? Jer, really? I am so happy for you!" She exclaimed, she had expect that after Bonnie it would take him a little more time, but if he was happy she was happy too. „What's her name?"

„Actually..." Jeremy said, still a little embarrassed, and in that moment, the doors to Elena's office opened and Anna came inside, looking a little nervous as well.

„What is it, Anna? Me and Jer, we are having a moment." Elena told her, but then she saw how she hesitantly moved closer to Jeremy, and their fingers entangled, looking at Elena in anticipation. „So, you, ooo..." She wasn't sure what to say.

„I met Anna a couple of weeks in a bar, when I was out with Alaric and Damon. At first we both thought that nothing can come out of this, but to our great surprise it did. I really like her, Lena." He told her quickly.

„Well... If someone was to be your next girlfriend, Anna would be my first choice as well." She smiled at them, and saw both of them letting out a sigh of relief. „You know, Jer, you don't have to ask my blessing or my permission or whatever, you can date whoever you want."

„I know, but still it feels good to know you're okay with it, after all you're all the family I have left." He told her, and she moved closer to him and hugged him as tight as she could. She couldn't describe how much she loved him.

„I'm very happy for you, both of you." She said, her eyes moving from one happy face to the other.

„Thank you." Anna mumbled, her cheeks flushing red.

They both left her office, giggling and laughing, hand in hand. Elena stared after them for a little, thinking how good it was that her brother had found such an amazing girl. Things are looking good for everyone, she thought, except for me.

After one busy day, she finally left her office, happy to be out of there, which was really weird because she usually loved being there, it used to take her mind off the stuff she didn't want to think about. But today, Damon kept on creeping up on her, and she caught herself a couple of times thinking about him, and smiling stupidly at the wall.

When she got to the parking lot, she saw Damon, standing there, in his car, looking like a god, and smiling at her.

„What are you doing, here?" She gaped at him in surprise.

„I felt like seeing you. And you should know from now, I am not the type to wait." He smirked.

Elena rolled her eyes at him, and got in the car, without protesting. The truth was she felt like seeing him as well, she wanted to see him, to be with him, every minute of every day, but she wouldn't tell him that.

„Where are we going?" She asked, when she saw that he was taking them further away from the canter of the city.

„I want to show you something." He replied.

After a couple of minutes, he hit the brakes and they both got out of the car. They got into a building and Damon pressed the elevator button to the last floor. Elena just watched what he was doing and waited to see what he had in mind. When the elevator stopped, they got out of it and he moved to the ladder that was leading to the roof. Elena hesitated for a moment, looking at him suspiciously.

„Damon, you from all people should know how terrified of heights I am."

„I know, just come, please." He told her and she obeyed, ignoring her racing heart.

When they got to the roof, Elena calmed down a little. When she wasn't looking down it wasn't that bad.

„What do you want to show me, Damon?" She asked, a little confused.

„Look ahead." He simply told her.

Elena lifted her head a little so that she could see what he was talking about, and she gaped in surprise. She could see the most part of New York from up here, the big buildings were standing out from the smaller one, everything was glowing like a big disco ball, and this wasn't even the most amazing thing. The sun was about to set, and this was giving the whole view, a slight orange shade. When she looked up to the sky, she saw how the colors were changing, from slight pink to yellow to orange.

„Oh my god, Damon, what is this?" She gasped, shocked.

„It's the place where I go when I want a little privacy, my little escape so to call it. Do you see the sky? You know how that happens? The sunset and the lights from the city mash up together, and this is the result. It's most beautiful during the sunset and I wanted to show it you."

She just kept smiling, and looking at the amazing view before her. After a moment she turned to Damon and said cockily:

„Who would know that Damon Salvatore is the romantic type?" She teased him.

„Shh, don't tell anyone, I have a reputation to keep." He joked, and moved closer to kiss her. Elena felt like she was in some of those movies, where the leading actor and actress were having their „Hollywood kiss." At this moment a genitor passed by them, and Damon broke the kiss and asked him:

„Sir, sir, would you please take a picture?"

„What?" Elena laughed at him.

„We should follow the romance, right?" He chuckled a little.

The guy looked at them, and seeing how happy they looked, smiled warmly and took Damon's phone.

Damon and Elena stood like that, smiling at the camera, until in the last moment, Damon pulled her closer to him, making her face him, and crashed her lips, lifting her off the ground. Elena was startled at first, but then she went with it, and wrapped her hands around his neck, returning his kiss with the same enthusiasm.

When they finally moved away from each other, the guy handed them the phone and said:

„I think you'll like the result." He hesitated for a while, but then added. „I hope we can all find what you have some day." And then he left.

Damon and Elena looked at each other, neither of them knowing what to say. Instead Damon just looked at his phone and his whole face lit up.

„What?" Elena asked.

„Come and take a look." He told her and wrapped his hands around her waist.

Elena took a look at his phone, and what she saw in it surprised her. Before her eyes were staying two people, who looked incredibly happy. The man had lifted the woman off ground, her legs were in the air, her hands wrapped around his neck, and if she looked closely she could see the little smile on her own face. And behind them was the city, in all its glory.

„Wow..." Elena murmured.

„We look pretty good, don't we?"

„It's an understatement." She told him, and gave him another kiss, feeling how he smiled against her lips.

„Damon?" She said after a few minutes.

„Yes?"

„Can you promise me something?"

„Anything."

„Don't lie to me, ever, please. I..." She started, but didn't know how to put what she wanted to say into words. „I want this between us to work, and this can't happen if we keep secrets."

He just nodded, his thoughts moved to Stefan, for a minute, but he didn't want to ruin the moment, so he decided not to mention, that while she was still with Stefan, they had no real shot together. He decided that they would talk about it some other time. But she was right, there shouldn't be any secrets between them, so he tried to smile, and swallowed heavily before saying the next words:

„Then it's time you know what happened between me and Katherine."

This chapter and the next will be a little lighter, because after that I am starting to uncover the murders little by little and, well, let's just say it won't be pretty for anybody. Feedback will be loved :)