Accident, Love & Confession

Elena was pacing in the Sheriff's office trying to figure out how to make the sheriff to stop hunting down Damon. She stopped in the middle of the room when she saw the sheriff walking in and stopped in front of her, "What did you do to him? Where's Damon?"

"Why do you even care? You know what they are and what they do, Elena!" she said with discust and hatred in her voice.

They both got interrupted by one of the officers, "Damon Salvatore had just been spotted going into the Grill!"

"No, wait! Let me come with you. He's sick and he's just not himself, let me talk to him!" Elena begged but was ignored as Liz went out.

"Keep her here."

Elena was about to follow but was stopped again when the officer stood in front of her and quickly shut the door in her face.

Elena paced and leaned on a chair, heavy breathing. She stopped and looked at the window that was behind her. She opened the shutters and grabbed the chair that she was leaning on and flung the chair out the window with a smash. She quickly jumped out and went to find a not very well sick Damon.

Damon was walking around and was looking for Elena. He stopped in front of a statue as he was hellucinating Katherine standing there, "Katherine?" He whispered.

"Damon!" Damon turned to see who had called out for him. Jeremy ran up to him and stood still.

Damon looked back at the statue where he saw Katherine and looked back at Jeremy's confused face, "Where's Elena? I need to see Elena now."

"Hey we need you out of here first. Come on." Jeremy grabbed Damon's arm and flung it behind his shoulder so that Damon was half carried to the Grill. Jeremy grabbed his phone out and dialled Ric's number, "Hey it's me. Yeah I'm with Damon at the Grill."

Damon turned around and saw Liz with her gun. He quickly moved away and Liz pulled the trigger and hit Jeremy in the chest where his heart was.

Elena was running across the square and looked for Damon. She ran behind the screen and looked closely but couldn't find him, but she heard him from behind her.

"Elena." Damon whispered as his condition was getting worse. He looked very pale, sweating like a river and lost in thought.

Elena gasped at the sight of him. She quickly ran to him supporting his weight, "Oh god, Damon! Come on, we need to get you out of here. We need to hide you."

"Where are we going?" Damon asked dazed as he had a flashback of him and Katherine running in the woods.

Flashback

"Everywhere!" Katherine giggled as she was getting chased by Damon.

"Wait for me. I want to come with you!" Damon tripped.

Present

Damon tripped the same way he did in the past. He groaned and Elena grabbed him in time, "Hey, hey."

Flashback

Damon got up and pinned Katherine at a tree. Katherine giggled and let him take control.

Present

Damon looked at Elena in confusion, "Relax. We need to get out of here."

Damon pinned Elena to a lamp post like he did with Katherine to a tree in the hellucination.

Flashback

"You're faster than I thought." Katherine said as she and Damon both panting to catch their breath.

"Why must you always run away from me?" Damon questioned with a small smile on his charming features.

"Cause I knew that you would chase." Katherine answered.

"Then let me chase you forever. Would you feed me your blood?"

"I will not feed you Damon. If you want it, take it." She grabbed a hair pin and sliced her throat for Damon to take it willingly. Damon eyed it with wide eyes, "It is your choice to make."

Present

"I choose you, Katherine." Damon said as he was still in the hellucination. He was dazed.

Elena tried to reason with him, "Hey, look at me. Hey, it's Elena. It's Elena."

Flashback and Present

"Promise me you won't tell my brother?"

"I promise. It'll be our little secret." said Katherine.

Damon bent down to take both of their necks to drink the blood.

"No Damon, no." Elena tried to push Damon away but his strength was no match to hers.

"I have to. For us to be together forever." He bit into Elena's neck and started drawing blood from her.

Elena groaned and moaned as the pain went through her. She tried again to push him away, "Damon, stop. You're hurting me. Damon, you don't have to do this. Please stop! You're hurting me!"

Damon backed off and was absolutely confused, dazed and guilty as he looked at Elena, "Elena?" He backed off a bit and fell to his knees.

Elena grabbed her neck and knelt in front of him and hugged him, "Damon? Damon?" She whispered as she looked around trying to see anyone who could help her, or she was looking to see if anyone had witnessed what had just happened.

She took him back to the boarding house and entered with him. They both went to Damon's bedroom and she placed him on his bed whilst she went into his wetroom to clean herself up. She got a wet cloth and soaked it with cold water and went to sit beside Damon. She dabbed the wet cloth on his forehead and started to sooth him. She heard him whisper her name, "Elena?"

"It's okay Damon, I'm right here."

"Elena get out of here. I could hurt you."

Elena grabbed his hand, "No, you won't. I'm right here until the very end. I'm not leaving you." She said firmly as Damon looked up at her.

"Get out of here!" He cried in pain and lift his hand up to his chest and Elena climbed on the bed trying to soothe him.

"It's okay, it's okay. Shh."

"It's not okay, it's not okay. All those years I've blamed Stefan. No one forced me to love her. It was my choice. I've made the wrong choice." He looked up at Elena, "Tell Stefan I'm sorry, okay?"

Elena nodded, "I will."

"This is more pitiful than I thought." Damon whispered.

Elena had tears in her eyes as she replied, "There's still hope."

"I've made a lot of choices that had gotten me here. I deserve this. I deserve to die."

Elena looked down at him and lowered herself so that she was eye level with him. "No." She shook her head, "You don't."

Damon's eyes were half closed, "I do Elena, it's okay. Cause if I have chosen differently I wouldn't have met you. I'm so sorry. I did so many things to hurt you."

Elena looked straight into his eyes with a small smile, "It's okay, I forgive you."

"I know you love Stefan, and it'll always be Stefan. But I love you. You should know that."

Elena lent down till her head was resting on his shoulder. She held his hand and felt his chin resting on top of her head. She cried and whispered, "I do."

Damon twitched his mouth to a small smile, "You should have met me in 1864. You would've liked me."

Elena looked up, "I like you now. Just the way you are."

Damon twitched his mouth again and shut his eyes completely. Elena looked from his eyes to his mouth. She lent down so that she placed her mouth softly against his. She pulled away and saw his eyes open a little.

"Thank you." he whispered.

Elena smiled and whispered back, "You're welcome."

"It's me that you should be thanking." Elena turned around to the doorway and saw Katherine leaning on the doorframe, "I mean, I'm the one who brought the cure." Elena jumped off the bed feeling embarrassed. Katherine walked up to her and Damon. She looked at Elena, "I thought you were dead?"

Elena looked down and replied, "I was."

Katherine sat at the edge of the bed next to Damon.

"You got free?" said Damon.

"Yep. Finally." She offered the blood to Damon and he drank it.

"And yet you still came here?"

Katherine smiled and placed her hand on his cheek, "I owed you one." Tapping her hand lightly. She got up and stood there.

"Where's Stefan?" Elena questioned.

Katherine turned to face her doppleganger and smirked, "Are you sure you care?"

Elena stepped forward and questioned seriously again, "Where is he?"

Katherine sighed and held up the vile, "He's paying for this. He gave himself over to Klaus. I wouldn't expect him anytime soon."

"What do you mean 'he gave himself over'?"

"He just sacrificed everything to save his brother, including you. It's a good thing you have Damon here to keep you company. Goodbye Elena." She started to walk back to the door but stopped and turned to face Elena again, "Oh! And it's okay to love them both. I did." She tossed the vile to Elena who caught it easily and blurred in less than a second.

Elena looked up with her mouth hanging open and heard Damon groan. She looked at him as he started to sit up now. Damon met her gaze with wide eyes and both of them didn't say anything.

Note: Hey just having a little experiment. please review. - Shelbi