Damon

I walked in front of the boarding house. I felt weak I needed to feed, but I needed to make sure she was okay. I missed her; I left her for six months. No matter how hard I tried to forget her, she always came back to me; her soft hair, her brown eyes, and her beautiful skin. I tried so hard to be the old me but it was long gone. I entered the house quietly; I didn't want to make a sound in case she was sleeping. I saw her walk in and I stood still, she went to the couch and sat down holding a glass of blood. I walked over to her and decided to make my presence announced by taking her drink. I took the drink out of her hand finished it hungrily, which only sparked my hunger more and gave it back to her.

"Really?" she said looking up at me and I smirked at her. "Damon?" she whispered her eyes wide she got up and hugged me fiercely. I was surprised that she hugged me, surprised that she even cared that I was here; finally I hugged her back.

"Hey Elena miss me?" I said breaking our embrace so I could look at her beautiful face. She looked at me for a while and then all of a sudden tears began to fall from her eyes. I looked at her in concern. She was crying. Why was she crying? "Why are you crying… are you okay?" I asked grabbing her shoulders and sitting her on the couch. I ignored the raging hunger inside me and I paid attention to her. I cleaned my thumbs and she took a deep shaky breath. I left my hand on her cheek and she closed her eyes smiling gently. Suddenly she opened her eyes and I saw her face change, her veins darkening, her eyes turning black. Quickly she pushed my hand away grabbed my neck and pushed me into the wall.

"YOU LEFT ME!" she screamed slamming me against the wall, "I NEEDED YOU AND YOU LEFT ME ALONE!" she slammed me again. I looked at her in shock, part of me was surprised that she had this in her and the other part of me was in pain. I was weak and she was hurting me.

"Elena" I croaked, I felt the last of my air supply and I started to get dizzy. "I… was… dealing…with… the council" I managed to get out before she let me go. I fell on the floor coughing trying to catch my breath. She turned away from me and I the guilt began eating me again. I heard her start to cry.

"Elena?" I asked getting up and walking over to her.

"How Could You?" She yelled through the tears that were falling down her face. She turned to look at me. "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" she stopped and then she whispered, "You promised you would never leave me again," I didn't know what to say. She was right I was a monster. I left her even though I said I would never do that again. Part of me wondered why it mattered to her that I had left her. I mean she had Stefan, the love of her life. She was happy right? At that moment I didn't care I wanted to make her pain go away. I hugged her, pulled away, took her hand, and we walked outside slowly. Then I hugged her again.

"Elena" I said pulling away from her and looking her in the eyes so that she could know that I was being sincere, "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?" she asked softly and I sighed, I didn't know how to answer that,

"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," I 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…" she then started to cry again and I hugged her.t

"Shhh" I said trying to console her, "I'm here now, and I wont leave you again." She nodded and started to calm down, and then she took deep breaths until he was completely calm. She wiped her tears away and smiled at me. Then she took a good look at me, and her face turned to worry.

"Damon" she said, "When the last time you fed?" I closed his eyes and took a deep breath,

"Not for a while actually," I said honestly, "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," she said, I still had my eyes closed, loving the sound of her voice ad I chuckled slightly at the thought. "Come on, I'll heat some up for you" she said and I sat on the couch. I watched her walk to the kitchen. I smiled at her that I didn't listen to Stefan come in.

"Damon" Stefan said taking a chair leg and stabbing into my stomach. I hissed in pain, knowing this was coming. Every time I came home, Stefan and I always had a fight. Usually I won but this time; I was to weak to fight.

"Nice to see you to, brother" I groaned. Elena ran into the living room and looked at me, then at Stefan. She flashed in between us and put her hands up.

"STOP!" she yelled. I looked at her, "I will not have fighting in this house, not now! Stefan go get your brother a blood bag," she said turning to Stefan. He didn't move and then she growled. "Now"

"Nice work mom," I said groaning again, being a vampire who hasn't fed in a while and being stabbed was not the prettiest situation.

"Shut up Damon," she said to me, she grabbed the stake in my stomach and pulled it out quickly. I groaned and she helped me stand, my legs felt week and my stomach was killing me, I didn't want her to see how much pain I was in so I held it in. She led me to the couch and sat me down. I took deep breaths trying to calm the pain, she looked at my wound and her expression turned to one of worry. I followed her gaze and saw that my wound wasn't heeling. Then, Stefan came back into the room with two cups of blood. He walked over to the couch and handed one cup of blood to me, and then one to Elena.

"Thanks" Elena said softly. I drank the blood greedily loving how I felt to have blood in my veins again. Even when I was done with my drink, I was still starving. I needed more blood and I looked at Elena who hadn't touched her drink.

"Are you going to drink that?" I asked her. She looked at me, then at her glass, she took a large sip and then handed the rest to me I quickly gulfed it down.

"Thanks" I said and I lifted my shirt and saw that my wound started heeling slowly. I took a deep breath and relaxed into the couch. My eyes never left Elena and I saw her walk to the bar and she poured me a glass of bourbon and gave it to me.

"Rest" she said to me and she stood up taking Stefan's hand and walking outside. I watched her walk outside and I relaxed deeper into the couch. I closed my eyes thinking about Elena. I had my eyes closed until I heard the door open.

"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." Stefan said looking at me. I looked in his face trying to find a reason for his apology. Then I looked at Elena and found my answer. Then I looked back and Stefan and smirked.

"Elena is making you do this isn't she" I said to my brother

"Yes she is" Stefan said chuckling.

"Your forgiven" I said, "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" Then we both started to laugh. Elena crossed her arms and growled witch made us laugh more. I ignored the pain it caused me to laugh. I didn't want anyone to know how my stomach was killing me.

"I swear," she muttered throwing her hands in the air and walking into Jeremy's room. I chuckled at her temper and turned back to my brother.

"I truly am sorry" Stefan said and I nodded,

"I'll be fine" I said, he looked at me and nodded. I wouldn't have to explain why I was so weak to my brother. I had told him what I was going to do and he knew what it would take of me. Then his phone buzzed. He checked it and grimaced.

"I have to go meet Caroline at the Grill something is up with Bonnie" and I nodded,

"Have fun" I said sarcastically and he half smiled at me. After he left Elena walked down the stairs.

"Where's Stefan?" she asked looking around the room.

"He said he was going to meet Blondie at the Grill" I said shrugging, "Something about Bonnie"

"Oh," she said sitting down at my feet

"Go ahead" I said smiling at her, "Kick, yell, scream, I'm sure you've been planning your rant for a long time"

"Damon" she said looking at me, "I want to know why you compelled me to forget that we met first and that you told me you loved me." I sighed knowing this question was coming and sat up.

"You know why I did it." I said, "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" she said then she smiled sheepishly and looked down at her 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"

"You went and almost killed humans?" I said pretending that her killing someone was the most surprising thing in the world

"Shut up" she said smiling. God I loved her smile, and then I realized that I probably looked like a mess. I needed to shower.

"Yes mom" I said and stood up slowly. "I need to go freshen up" she nodded slightly and I slowly began to walk to the stairs. The pain was almost gone but I still felt very weak. She flashed over to me and put her hand on my arm.

"Hey you okay" she asked, I looked at her and I smiled, I loved how big her heart was.

"Yea I am" I said, "A couple of more blood bags and I'll be just fine," She me in the eyes and I saw disbelief in them. "You don't believe me," I said and she shook her head and looked down, I took her face in my hands and made her look at me again, "Elena I'm fine." I said firmly trying to get her to believe me, "Its just going to take a little longer because I have been kind of starving for a while but I'll be okay."

"Okay" she whispered smiling and relief crossed her features, "Go shower and change I'll serve you something to eat" I nodded and went upstairs. I went to my room and opened the door. It was clean like someone had been making sure it was perfect. Everything was the way I left it. I chuckled at the thought of Elena cleaning my room. I took my clothes of and, went into the shower. I took a quick one and I put on clean clothes. I felt weak but a lot better. When I went downstairs, Elena was nowhere to be found. On the coffee table I saw a large cup of blood and a note.

Damon,

Sorry I had to leave but Caroline needed me at the Grill. I warmed some blood up for you and when I get back I expect that glass to be completely empty. If you still feel to week afterwards I want you to go hunt someone. Fresh blood may be the best remedy at the moment. Go out of town though I don't want the council back on out backs. Be nice to my brother. If you can please talk to him, I think he's seeing Ric's ghost, but he wont talk to me. Maybe he will talk to you. Don't fight…please. I will be home soon.

-Elena

I smiled at the note and drank the blood. I didn't want to go hunt someone especially with the council off out backs. I finished the entire glass and I felt a lot better. I didn't feel like my old self but I would be okay. I poured myself another glass and went to talk to baby gilbert.

"Hey" I said walking into his room, and he nodded at me. "So, Elena said that she thought you were seeing Ric's ghost… is it true" Jeremy looked at me and looked down again. "Is it true?" I said again.

"Yes" he said, "I've been seeing him ever since he died, he said he was going to watch over me and I would never be alone."

"Is he here now?" I asked and he nodded, I nodded as well and took a sip of blood. "I want to talk to him" and Jeremy nodded.

Here is the Damon POV that i promised. Hope you liked it. Review! THANKS LOVE YOU!