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I'm so sorry to keep you waiting! Thank you all so much for your reviews! you're all so supportive. Anyways here's chapter 7. Also I'm thinking of doing a chapter from Damon's pov. What do you think?

The sound of voices coming from inside my room woke me up. I tried to sit up but my head was pounding and my body ached.

"Is she going to be ok?" I heard someone say. I was pretty sure it was Damon, but my vision wasn't clear enough to be ok.

"She has a concussion and multiple bruises but no broken bones," a woman, at least I think it was a woman, said to the man.

"What the hell were they doing to her?" the man sounded angry. My vision cleared and I knew it was Damon. He was talking to Julia, but how did she know so much about my medical condition?

"You're lucky you got there when you did…or else it could have been much worse. We all know how Klaus can get," she didn't bother to lower her voice at all because they both thought I was still sleeping.

"I'm going to kill them!" he shouted in a fit of rage. I could tell he was pissed, but I didn't know why. Why did he care what happened to me?

"Damon," I mumbled trying to sit up in bed again. He immediately ran over to my bedside and knelt down.

"Elena, how are you feeling," I could hear he was trying to cover up the fact that he actually cared. With those simple words, I could see his cold-hearted reputation falling apart.

"Klaus…he was..." I tried to piece together everything that happened. I remember being in the library and Klaus came in. He was so angry and they were throwing me around, but the rest is a blur.

"Do you remember what happened?" he asked me.

"I remember pieces of it. Klaus was attacking me and he…oh my god did he..." I started crying expecting the worst.

"No I got there before they could put their filthy hands on you," he reassured me.

"Thank you," I whispered looking away from him.

"Don't mention it," he said almost as quietly. There was a long period of silence in which neither of us knew what to say. This was the most intimate moment we had shared together so far, but I was about to make it worse.

"Why?" I asked him.

"Why what?" he knew exactly what I was talking about, but at least this way he could avoid the answer for a little longer.

"Why did you save me?"

"I couldn't have my property damaged now could I?" there he goes again. He was so close to breaking down the wall, but he built it up again.

"You could always get yourself new property," I played along with his little game.

"Maybe I don't want any new property," he said it in a joking way, but I knew there was some truth to it, but I didn't know what to make of it.

I stared into his deep blue eyes for the longest time, just taking them in. I finally felt like I was seeing Damon in a completely new light. I saw the man behind the curtain who did indeed have a heart. His eyes showed both the pain and happiness battling each other to win control. He was so conflicted inside. How could I not see this before? More importantly, why didn't he let me see this before? He made me think he was a monster and I fell for it. Sure he still was a bad guy, but definitely not a monster. I didn't realize I was crying again until I tasted the salty taste of my tears in my mouth. I guess all the emotions expressed themselves in the tears running down my cheeks.

Our beautiful moment was interrupted by Julia running through the door with a worried look on her face.

"Damon we have a problem," she told him.

Without saying a word, Damon got up and ran out of the room. I expected Julia to go with him, but she stayed with me.

"Are you doing ok?" she asked me sitting down beside me on the bed.

"Is that even a question?"

"Ok so maybe that was a stupid question," she scolded herself.

"How did you know so much about my condition?" I asked her.

"What? Do you think I'm stupid?"

"No I didn't mean it like that…" I started to panic thinking I'd said the wrong thing.

"Nah I'm just kidding. I went to nursing school for a while, but I had to leave to take care of my sister," she told me.

"Oh, thank you," I feel like I've been thanking people since I woke up.

"Don't mention it," she told me.

"Wow you and Damon are a lot alike," I didn't mean to say it out loud, but once I said it there was no taking it back.

"What do you mean?"

"Well he said the exact same thing…never mind it was a stupid thing to say," I mentally kicked myself for saying it.

"No it's fine. I guess you become similar to a person when you've known them you're entire life."

"Oh yeah, childhood best friends. Speaking of Damon where did he go?" I asked her.

"There were some…issues with Klaus," she tried to explain.

"What kind of issues?" I knew she didn't want to tell me but I kept pushing for information anyways.

"Just some problems. Klaus was causing some final trouble before he leaves the group I guess."

"Wait he's leaving? Why?"

"Well it's more like Damon kicked him out," her words completely took me by surprise.

"He kicked him out?" I nearly shouted out of shock.

"Yeah what he did was completely awful. Treating you like an object and humiliating you, I would have done more than thrown him out."

"I get that, but I didn't think Damon would throw him out over…. over me," I said quietly.

"Why wouldn't he?" I could tell she thought what Damon did was totally normal for him. Maybe she knew him better than I did, but the Damon that I know, that he let me see, wouldn't be that nice.

"It's just, he sees me as his property…" I mumbled slightly embarrassed that I was referring to myself as property.

"You really buy that crap? That's just an act," she told me.

"I don't know…"

"Trust me Elena, I know. That's the benefit of knowing someone your whole life. I can tell when he likes someone and he definitely likes you Elena."

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