Elena
It had been six months since I turned into a vampire. Damon still hadn't shown up and Bonnie, well Bonnie still wasn't talking to me. I didn't really care anymore. If Bonnie wanted to be my friend then she could be but right now it didn't really matter to me. I was almost happy. Jeremy was doing really well in school and finally seemed semi happy. Caroline was still mourning the death of Tyler but who could blame her; he was the love of her life. I was okay. I loved Stefan but ever since I remembered those two times Damon compelled me to forget I always felt a void in my chest. I missed him. I was sleeping in Stefan's bed and I began to dream a dream that I had, had almost everyday since I remembered.
"Elena" Damon whispered lying in his bed. He was sweating, he was in pain, and he was dying. Tyler bit him and now Damon was going to dye.
"It's okay Damon I'm here," I said looking at him
"Elena get out of here" Damon said with pain in his voice, " I could hurt you"
"No you wont," I said shaking my head and he panted, "I'm here until the very end, I'm not leaving you"
"Get… out… of… here…." He said and then screamed and groaned in pain, putting his hand on his chest.
"Hey, hey, hey, shhhh, its okay" I said getting into his bed and holding him while he groaned and panted in pain. "Its okay" I repeated
"Its not okay, Its not okay" he said taking deep painful breaths, "All those years I blamed Stefan… but no one forced me to love her… it was my own choice"
"Shhh" I said while he continued to pant in pain.
"I made the wrong choice," he said, I looked down at him and he looked at me taking wheezing breaths, "Tell Stefan, I'm sorry… okay?" I took a deep breath to calm myself and try and stop the tears that were falling.
"Okay" I said nodding; "I will" we sat in silence for a while. I listened to his breathing that seemed to get worse every minuet that I was with him. I wondered where Stefan was, if there was a way to save Damon, or was I going to have to say my goodbyes to someone who had become a friend. After a while I thought Damon had fallen asleep because he had been silent for a long time but he was still breathing. I was wrong.
"This is even more pitiful than I thought" he said his voice getting weaker.
"There's still hope," I said and he was silent for a minuet
"I've made a lot of choices that have gotten me here…. I deserve this… I deserve to die," he said
"No" I said shaking my head and moving to look at him, "You don't"
"I do Elena, its okay" he said opening his eyes, he looked at me and smiled weekly I looked away not wanting him to see me cry, "Cause if I have chosen differently I wouldn't have met you" I looked back at him and he just stared into my eyes, "I'm so sorry, I've done so many things to hurt you" I shook my head and smiled,
"Its okay" I said, "I forgive you" he closed his eyes.
"I know you love Stefan" he said opening his eyes, "and it will always be Stefan" I rested my head on his shoulder holding his hand, "But I love you… you should know that" we stayed quiet for a minuet while I tried to steady my voice and I nodded,
"I do," I whispered
"You should have met me in 1864… you would've liked me" I looked up at him,
"I like you now," I said and he leaned his head toward me, "Just the way you are," he whined slightly and took a breath I new he was going to die and I decided to give him something he deserved. I leaned into him and kissed him gently.
"Thank you," he whispered hardly able to open his eyes
"Your welcome" I whispered and he closed his eyes and smiled weekly. I looked at him with tears in my eyes.
"Well its me you should be thanking" A voice said and I turned around and saw Katherine, I got of the bed, "I'm the one that brought the cure," she said walking over to Damon.
"I thought you were dead," she said to me
"I was" I replied
"You got free" Damon said weekly
"Yep" she replied feeding him the cure, "Finally"
"And you still came here" he said
"I owed you one," she said patting his cheek,
"Where's Stefan?" I asked
"Are you sure you care?" she replied
"Where is he?" I said walking over to her
"He's paying for this," she said holding up the bottle, "He gave himself over to Klaus, I wouldn't expect him anytime soon"
"What do you mean gave himself over?" I said
"He just sacrificed everything to save his brother… including you" she said shrugging, "It's a good thing you have Damon to keep you company…. Goodbye Elena" she said walking away, "Oh… its okay to love them both, I did" she said throwing me the bottle and speeding away. I looked at Damon who grunted and propped himself up looking at me like what are we going to do know?
I woke up sweating like I did every night I had this dream. I looked at Stefan, who was still sleeping soundly. I got up slowly not wanting to wake him and walked to the bathroom and took a shower. Then I got dressed and went downstairs.
"Bad dream?" Jeremy said looking up at me from the couch
"What are you doing up?" I said going to sit with him on the couch and he just shrugged handing me his drink, "Thanks" I said taking a sip
"You okay?" he said and I shrugged,
"Am I?" I said smiling slightly looking down at my hands, "You tell me" Jeremy slid closer to me and let me lay my head on his shoulder
"I think that there is something your not telling me" he said and I took a deep breath, "I also know that if you ever want to talk, I will listen" and I nodded.
"Thanks" I said sliding away from him and gave him a hug then I stood up
"Your welcome" he said finishing his drink and going upstairs. I walked into the kitchen to look for a blood bag and poured it into a glass. I sat on the couch and thought about everything. I was about to take a sip when someone took the glass away finished it and gave it back to me.
"Really?" I said looking up and saw Damon smirking at me. "Damon?" I whispered getting up and hugging him. At first he was stiff in my hug but then he hugged me back.
"Hey Elena miss me?" he said pulling away. I looked at him for a while and then the tears began to fall. His face turned from smirking to concern, "Why are you crying… are you okay?" he asked grabbing my shoulders and sitting me on the couch. He cleaned the tears from my eyes with his thumbs. I took a shaky breath trying to calm myself down. I closed my eyes enjoying how his hand felt on my cheek and then I got angry. I opened my eyes and I felt my fangs grow and the veins under my eyes darken. I pushed his hand away grabbed his neck and pushed him into the wall.
"YOU LEFT ME!" I screamed slamming him against the wall, "I NEEDED YOU AND YOU LEFT ME ALONE!" I slammed him again. I was surprised he didn't do anything he just looked at me in shock.
"Elena" he croaked, I was choking him, how was that possible he was older and stronger than me so how was I able to choke him. I noticed him turning blue, "I… was… dealing…with… the council" he managed to get out. I let him go and he fell on the flood coughing. I turned away from him and let my face return to normal. I started to cry.
"Elena?" he asked coming over to me,
"How Could You?" I yelled through the tears turning back to look at him, "After we fought you just left, you left for six months Damon, not telling my if you were alive or dead, you left me alone to deal with the fact that you compelled me twice, you don't know how much it hurt me that you would do that to me" then I whispered, "You promised you would never leave me again," Damon hugged me took my hand and walked me outside. When we were outside he hugged me rubbing my back. I didn't know why Damon not being here was so important to me but it was. When he was gone I felt broken. Damon promised never to leave me again and he did. He left me for six months.
"Elena" he said pulling away from me and looking me in the eye, "I am so sorry, your right I promised I would never leave you and I did. I'm so sorry"
"Why did you leave me?" I asked softly and he sighed,
"I left because I was angry, because I was hurt, because I thought that now that you picked Stefan, you would be better off without me. I wanted you to be free from me for a while. I also needed to deal with the council; I wanted to make sure you were safe. I was able to get them all of vervain and compel them to forget everything that Ric told them," he said
"But you didn't tell me where you were going or how long you were going to be gone, I was so worried that something happened to you… I…" then I started to cry. Damon hugged me
"Shhh" he said, "I'm here now, and I wont leave you again." I nodded and calmed down. I took deep breaths until I was completely calm. I wiped my tears away and smiled at him. I finally took a good look at Damon and I understood why it was so easy for me to attack him. He was pale; every one of his movements seemed to tire him out more. He was hungry.
"Damon" I said, "When the last time you fed?" he closed his eyes and took a breath,
"Not for a while actually, for the council to regain my trust they kept watch on me all the time to make sure I wouldn't feed. I only fed once in a while when the council wasn't watching me like a hawk. I think if I said I had half a blood bag a month it would be about right"
"You must be starving then, I mean I am hungry all the time, if I go a day without a little bit of blood I go crazy," I said he still had his eyes closed and he chuckled slightly. "Come on, I'll heat some up for you" I said and he sat on the couch. I went to the kitchen and was about to pour the blood when I heard a crash in the living room.
"Damon" Stefan said taking a chair leg and stabbing it into Damon's stomach,
"Nice to see you to, brother" Damon groaned. I ran into the living room and saw Damon on the floor. I flashed over to Stefan and Damon and stood in between them.
"STOP!" I yelled. Stefan looked at me with confused eyes, "I will not have fighting in this house, not now! Stefan go get your brother a blood bag," I said to Stefan. He looked at me like I was crazy, "Now" I growled.
"Nice work mom," Damon said to me his voice rough, and then groaned again.
"Shut up Damon" I said to him. I grabbed the stake and pulled it out. He groaned and I helped him stand and led him to the couch. He took heavy breaths and I saw that the wound wasn't healing. Then, Stefan came back in the room with two cups of blood. He handed one to Damon and handed one to me,
"Thanks" I said. Damon gulfed his drink down greedily.
"Are you going to drink that?" he said his voice still rough as he looked at my glass, which I hadn't touched yet. I took a large sip and handed the rest to Damon who drank it greedily. "Thanks" he said he lifted his shirt and saw that his wound started heeling slowly. He took a breath and relaxed into the couch. I went to the bar and poured him a glass of bourbon and gave it to him.
"Rest" I said to Damon and I took Stefan's hand and walked outside far enough so Damon wouldn't hear us. I was pissed. "What the hell is wrong with you?" I said to Stefan.
"I'm sorry" he said, "I was confused, surprised, upset, my emotions where boiling up inside me and I just snapped."
"That doesn't give you the right to stab your brother!" I yelled.
"I know, I shouldn't have done that I'm sorry," he said and I sighed, I hugged him gently.
"Don't apologize to me Stefan, you need to apologize to your brother"
"I know," he said sighing. I smiled at him and grabbed his hand walking him inside. I looked at Stefan who sighed and went and sat next to his brother. "Damon, I am sorry for stabbing you in the stomach, I was confused, angry, upset and I snapped, however that is still no excuse to stab you so I apologize." Damon looked at me and then smirked at his brother.
"Elena is making you do this isn't she" he said
"Yes she is" Stefan said chuckling.
"Your forgiven but only because I know that if I don't forgive you Elena will skin me alive… and I kind of like having my skin on my body" Damon said and Stefan and Damon both laughed. I crossed my arms and growled which only made them laugh more.
"I swear," I muttered throwing my hands in the air and walking into Jeremy's room. He looked at me laughed and shook his head and went back to his drawing. "What are you drawing?" I asked him and he just shrugged, "Fine I'll look at it when you're done" he smiled slightly and I walked out of his room closing the door behind me. I walked downstairs to find Damon on the couch with a drink in his hand and Stefan nowhere to be found.
"Where's Stefan?" I asked Damon
"He said he was going to meet Blondie at the Grill" Damon said shrugging, "Something about Bonnie"
"Oh," I said sitting down
"Go ahead" he said smiling, "Kick, yell, scream, I'm sure you've been planning your rant for a long time"
"Damon" I said, "I want to know why you compelled me to forget that we met first and that you told me you loved Me." he sighed and sat up.
"You know why I did it. The first time was because I didn't want people to find out about be yet and the second time was because I didn't want to be selfish with you. My brother deserved you, I didn't."
"I know that" I said then I smiled looking down at my hands, "You know after I found out about you compelling me I got so angry that I almost killed three humans but Caroline stopped me and helped me deal with it" I didn't tell him about dreaming about him almost every night because I just couldn't. I hadn't told anyone and I wasn't planning on telling him first.
"You went and almost killed humans?" Damon said pretending that, that was the most surprising thing in the world.
"Shut up" I said
"Yes mom" he said and stood up slowly. "I need to go freshen up" and then he walked to the stairs slowly, slower than he usually would. I flashed over to him,
"Hey you okay" I asked, he looked at me and smiled,
"Yea I am" he said, "A couple of more blood bags and I'll be just fine," I looked at him not believing him. "You don't believe me," he said and I shook my head and looked down, he took my face and his hands and made me look at him, "Elena I'm fine. Its just going to take a little longer because I have been kind of starving for a while but I'll be okay."
"Okay" I whispered smiling, "Go shower and change I'll serve you something to eat" he nodded at me and went upstairs. I sighed not sure why it bothered me so much that he was hurt. My emotions felt so confused at the moment I thought I was going to go crazy, I literally felt like a nut case. I was about to go to the kitchen when my phone rang. Caroline.
"Hello" I said
"Elena, it Caroline"
"What's up Caroline?" I said
"Are you busy right now?" she said
"No not really" I said "Why?"
"Can you come to the Grill?" she said,
"Sure, Caroline what's going on?" I said
"Just come to the Grill and I'll explain," she said
"Okay" I said, "I'll be there in 10"
"Okay, see you" she said
"Bye" I said and hung up. I made Damon a drink and left him a note, and then I grabbed my jacket, went outside, got in my car and drove to the Grill. When I got to the Grill I saw Caroline and Stefan sit next to Bonnie and a man in a hoody. Tyler What was going on? I walked over to where they were sitting and none of them spoke.
"Hello Elena," The man said, and I recognized his voice "How's vampire life treating you?"
"Tyler" was all I could say,
"You see, I'm upset, I knew that eventually you were going to die but I thought I would have a little more time with the doppelganger's precious blood" he said and I realized who it really was.
"Klaus" I said and he smirked,
"Hello again love, did you miss me?"
Okay i now another Elena chapter but since Damon's back i promise the next chapter will be a Damon one. Anyway tell me what you think of this chapter so REVIEW! THANKS LOVE YOU!