Hey, here is chapter three. Again everyone, thank you so much for the support and encouragement, it helps me write soooo much better knowing people are interested and care. :) So everyone enjoy! This chapter is dedicated to every single person who ever reviewed, alerted, or favorited. :) This is in Elena's POV and takes place directly after where chapter one left off. -I Own Nothing

-Lioness002

"Well isn't this sweet." A sarcastic voice interrupted from the doorway of Damon's room. I snapped my head to the side and ground my teeth together slightly as I saw Katherine in the doorway with an evil smirk. My smile had died the second I saw her. I pulled my hand away from Damon and made my lips a tight line as I glared at Katherine. "Oh don't give me that look." Katherine glowered at me.

"I thought I told you to leave." Damon said venomously as he glared at her angrily. I did not want her around and I knew Damon did not, he was actually feeling good for a moment with me in his company, just us talking as friends. Katherine lightly took her robe tie and started to spin it lazily as she looked at me with distaste. She then turned to look at Damon with a small pout before replying.

"You did, but I got bored, and you two are the only ones here so I thought I might as well stick around. Stefan for some reason seems to be gone." She said with an evil glint in her eye.

"I wonder why." I mumbled sarcastically under my breath. Katherine rolled her eyes and looked between the both of us quizzically. She took a few steps into the room as she surveyed us with the smallest of smirks.

"I've been listening in on you two; you seem awfully close for just friends. When are you going to break it to Stefan that you two are in love?" She said bluntly with a giant smirk. I felt my body lock in shock as my eyes flicked to Damon and back to Katherine.

"What?" I gasped out.

"You heard me, it's beyond obvious. Stefan isn't a fool; he can see that Damon is in love with you…and that you feel the same way."

"We're friends." I said glaring at Katherine feeling a knot in the pit of my stomach. How would she know what Stefan thought?

"Right." Katherine drawled out. "That's why you put up with Damon's antics and you tell him you care and how you were so worried about him? Why do you waste your time trying to make him feel better? I would think that having Stefan would be enough, he is the better choice after all."

"You are such a bitch!" I yelled hopping off the bed as if I were going to attack Katherine. "And this coming from you Katherine really doesn't have much of an impact." I snapped crossing my arms and glaring at her.

"Oh please, if you're talking about 1864 you don't know what you're talking about. I never loved Damon it was always Stefan. Damon was just for when I was bored." Katherine said evenly as if Damon was not even here, she did not care about his feelings. I could not help a twinge of pain that passed through my body as I glared threateningly at Katherine, every time she had anything to do with Damon; she metaphorically stabbed him in the heart. I let my eyes glide over to see Damon's reaction; his face was blank of emotion but his head was turned slightly away from Katherine. I quickly looked around the room for something that I could use to hurt her, vervain dart, stake, anything.

"You should leave." I finally managed to say after I concluded there was no form a weapon anywhere in sight. I was so angry with her for making Damon feel this way, for hurting him in ways she could never understand.

"Why? Because I'm hurting Damon's feelings?" Katherine hissed with a smirk.

"Yes!" I practically screamed walking right up to Katherine without an ounce of fear inside me, I had a bubbling hate within me for how much pain she caused Damon, he did not deserve it.

"Are you really going to try and fight with me Elena? I could rip you in half without blinking, and if Damon tried to help I would kill him too." She threatened with slit eyes as she brought her hand across my face. Before I knew what was happening I was all the way across the room in Damon's protective arms. Katherine smirked and put a hand on her hip as she stared at us with cold eyes.

"Are you okay?" Damon asked worriedly as he leaned down slightly so he could see where she slapped me. I brought a hand up to my cheek and nodded.

"I'm fine." I assured staring right into Damon's eyes. I could see his eyes and body tension soften when he heard I hadn't been hurt from Katherine's slap.

"You know that you should be the one asking him that." Katherine said from the other side of the room as she reclined on the bed where Damon and I had been seconds before. "You will do him more damage than me." She said pulling up a journal and tossing it into the bathroom.

"What?" I questioned taking a step closer to Katherine before Damon pulled me back. I looked up at him in confusion and he shook his head.

"Oh please Elena you seriously can't be that dull, you are in love with Stefan, not Damon." Katherine said. "When you reject him he's going to crumble just like when I rejected him."

"Who said I was going to reject him." I hissed to her, she had just turned her argument backwards. What was her angle?

"I know you are going to reject him. You should just tell him the truth that you only hang around him because you pity him. That you feel bad for him and want to take care of him like a pet."

"Do not!" I yelled closing my eyes to keep tears from entering my eyes. I turned to Damon and he was staring at Katherine with hatred. I just wanted to find a stake and drive it through Katherine's black and un-beating heart. "Damon." I whispered reaching up to place a hand on his shoulder.

"I'm fine. I know her, her games are meant to separate and confuse friends and family." He said lightly removing my hand from his shoulder. "I'm fine." He said again with the smallest amount of a smile.

"But Damon I don't thin-"

"Tell him, tell him that you only pretend to be his friend because you know no one loves him and no one ever will." Katherine said interrupting me and jeering me further as she stepped off the bed. "Tell him you think he's a waist of no good space and doesn't deserve a place in the world. That he could die and no one would care."

"Shut up Katherine, you don't know anything!" I screamed stepping over to her. "You say no could love him and that he's a waste. Well I don't think so! I think he is a wonderful person and that anyone could love him!"

"Who? Tell me a name, give me a person and I'll give into your crazy thoughts." Katherine laughed.

"Me!" I screamed. "I love him!"

There was silence as Katherine's face pulled into an evil smile. I froze and replayed what I just said in my mind, did I really love Damon? Katherine pulled her face closer to mine and let her lips hover just next to my ear. I let out a loud breath and fought the urge to hit her or cause her some sort of physical pain.

"I only wanted Stefan and you just guaranteed I'll get him." She said stepping away from me and walking out of the room right by a stunned Stefan.

Wow! So much drama! I am amazed this is actually turning into a full story; it was supposed to be a one-shot. Lolz. People wanted me to continue though, so I obliged. What is Stefan going to think about Elena's confession? What is Damon? I guess Katherine's plan worked out afterall. I guess now all you have to do is wait until the next chapter to see the reaction and outcome. :) So thank you so much for reading and please leave me a review so I know how I'm doing! :)

-Lioness002