AN: I may have been blaring 'Hunger' and this 'Say Something/Give Me Love' mashup into my ears while writing the second part of this chapter. I don't know about anyone else, but I loved DE's dance in the finale. I dunno why, but it sure as hell made me cry. It was awesome and I love that song.

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Chapter 10 (Elena POV)

I lent up, shocked.

How in the hell was Damon's heart beating like a humans, or, like mine?

I looked over at him again. He hadn't moved at all, which was weird. Even though I hadn't moved around a lot, it was enough that Damon regularly would've woken up by now. Another thing about vampires was that they didn't sleep very deeply. I don't know why, but they just didn't. It didn't take much for them to wake up, mostly because there was always apart of them that was awake and aware of their surroundings. The only exception to that was if they passed out.

Damon was breathing and he seemed perfectly fine.

The only possible way his heart could be beating normally would be if he'd taken the cure. Unless I was having a memory lapse, I was pretty certain that he hadn't. I'm sure I'd remember being bitten. I wasn't.

I moved the sheets off of me and got off the bed. I walked over and found Damon's discarded shirt on the floor and slipped it on. I was now chewing on my lip and looking for where my clothes had been thrown. I finally spotted my underwear over by the doorway and walked over and put them on. I glanced at Damon again.

I wasn't sure of whether to wake him or not. I could be wrong. I could just be hearing things, quite literally. I was human. Humans don't have as great of hearing as vampires do.

Then I really thought about it. It was odd that the little amount had turned Damon human, but it obviously had. Apparently, Damon had managed to take the cure without really meaning to. He'd kissed me almost right after I'd bit my tongue for the second time and I knew that I'd had blood in my mouth, just not very much. I hadn't thought much about it and I doubt that Damon had even noticed, but it obviously had been enough to turn Damon human.

I decided to walk over to Damon's side of the bed.

"Damon, wake up." I nudged his shoulder. He didn't wake up.

"Damon!" I put both of my arms on his side and pushed him.

He groaned and rolled over, pulling the sheets up over his head.

I huffed and clinched my teeth together.

"You're going to make this difficult, aren't you?"

One of the things I'd never had to deal with having to make Damon wake up. He was an early riser, most of the time. I was the night owl that hated mornings. Usually, if you made coffee and stuck it under my nose, I woke right up. That had been the case for the many mornings I'd had to leave Mystic Falls to get to Witmore on time or when I'd still been in High School.

I really didn't have any ideas on how to get him to wake up..

I remembered that when Jeremy was still in High School, Jenna or I would occasionally have to forcefully wake him up. My way of doing so was always to find one of our biggest bowls and fill it with ice cold water to drench him with. Jenna had usually just ripped the covers off of him and banged around his room until he got up.

So, I walked over to the bottom corner of the bed and grabbed a hold of the sheets. I used all of my strength to rip them out of his grip and it actually worked, for the most part. The sheet was still covering him up to about his belly button.

I could tell Damon had finally realized I wanted him up because his shoulders tensed up. I moved over to where the middle of the bottom of the bed was after dropping the sheet.

He sat up and glared at me.

The glaring and trying to look mad didn't work, mainly because his hair was sticking in every direction. Plus, he was butt naked with the sheet barely covering him.

I crossed my arms and looked at him, giving him an amused look.

He stopped glaring, "What?"

"Notice anything different about yourself?"

He blinked and looked at me like I'd grown a second head.

"No…" He said slowly, "Why?"

I couldn't decide to tell Damon what I'd figured out or wait for him to figure it out on his own. I decided to let him figure it out on his own, it'd probably be a bit more entertaining.

It'd been a few hours and Damon had yet to notice anything was different. We'd eventually decided on dropping my things off and whatever few things Damon wanted from the Boarding House at Stefan and Caroline's in North Carolina. Then, we were planning to head off to Illinois to pack up Damon's things from the loft. He was going to leave the furniture there to be sold with the loft. After we'd loaded up my clothes into the Camaro, I went over to Matt's to say goodbye. By the time I'd gotten back, Damon had been walking throughout the house and turning all the lights off. He was coming back down the stairs as I was walking through the door.

"I've already made the call to Blondie. They know were coming. If I have to listen to her squeal one more time, I'm going to find a way to deafen myself." He had a purple scrunchie in his hand that he tossed at me. "Keep a hold of that thing. I don't want to hear her complain about not getting it back."

I smiled at him and shook my head. "You know, I'm pretty sure you like Caroline more than you let on."

"Yeah. Right." He took a look around him, "Well, I think we're good. Ready to go?"

"Yeah, Let's go,"

About an hour after leaving Mystic Falls, Damon decided to find an old radio station to turn on and sang along to it. He provided a lot of entertainment for the first two hours. After that, I sort of drowned him out while thinking.

The further from Mystic Falls we'd gotten, the more changes I'd noticed. There weren't any drastic ones, but there were differences. Mystic Falls hadn't changed at all. Granted, there were a few more shops and it wasn't nearly as woodsy as it had been. That was about it, though. Cars were a bit different. Matt still had the truck Rebekah had given him and it was certainly not as cool as it had been when he'd gotten it. Damon's Camaro was even more outdated than his truck, which I found a little funny. Damon may be in the present day, but there are thing's he just resists to. New cars being one of them. The Camaro was ancient by now; it probably should have historical licenses on it.

I'd mentioned that to Damon and he looked a bit offended. He'd then proceeded to tell me that he did own a new car now. I rolled my eyes at that. I'm sure he may own one but it probably wasn't new by any means. I'm sure it's at least 30 years old.

I started texting Caroline on and off after we'd been on the road for three and a half hours. She wanted my opinion on colors and what not for the party she was planning for someone. Caroline being a part planner wasn't shocking. It was something she was very good at and enjoyed doing. Thinking about Caroline, I realized that she'd had a ring that she wore on and off on her ring finger. I hadn't thought to say anything about it but now that I was thinking about it..

"Did Stefan and Caroline ever get…married or anything?"

Damon glanced over at me then back at the road. "Not really. She refused to have a wedding without you but Stef did propose to her. I'm pretty sure they have the longest engagement ever."

"Well, she had Bonnie…"

Damon cleared his throat. "Yeah, she did. Bonnie didn't really care about weddings though. Her own wasn't very big. It was in her backyard with a few people and that was about it. Not a big deal or anything. Her lack of excitement over planning one probably was probably why Caroline's been waiting for you."

I shot off a text to Caroline about their engagement. She almost immediately answered me including that she was thinking about a wedding in July and I was going to be her Maid of Honor. I let out a small laugh and shook my head. A few seconds later, Caroline called me.

Damon groaned, "You got her started, didn't you?" He said as I picked up the phone.

"Hey, Care,"

"Okay, so what do you think about July 10th? It should be nice out and we could have it outside!" Caroline squealed, "I'm so excited! Elena, you have to help me pick out my flowers and flowers. I can't decide and Stefan refuses to help me make a decision." I could picture the glare she'd sent Stefan while saying that.

"Okay, Caroline, I will but you should probably just wait until we actually get to your house. I can even just stay with you and you can make Stefan go with Damon to get his stuff from Illinois."

I saw Damon give me a condescending look and Caroline squealed again.

"Okay, Bye!"

I sort of had an ulterior motive for having Stefan go with Damon to Illinois. I had a feeling Damon could have possibly pissed off quite a few people in Illinois with the time he'd spent there. I didn't think it was a good idea for us to go considering we were both human. That reminds me, Damon had yet to say anything about that…

"So," Damon said, keeping his eyes on the road. "How long were you gonna wait?"

"Wait for what?" I was scrolling through the Face Book feed on my phone. I hadn't even had one before, but Caroline had convinced me to make one. It was entertaining, especially for a long car ride. I'd taken a picture of Damon in the driver's seat and posted it about an hour ago. He had one hand on the steering wheel with his other leaning on the drivers door. You could tell his hair was blowing around from the window being down and he had a pair of Aviator sunglasses on.

"I figured out I was human before we'd even left Mystic Falls. I was just seeing how long it'd take you to mention it. Then I got impatient."

"So, you knew that I knew?" I questioned. "Why didn't you say anything?"

"Because you already knew. Duh."

AN: So that was a little bit less than 2,000 words, Sorry :p Hope you guys liked it! Pleeaasseee review! You know I love to hear what you guys thought!