A/N; This is Part 1 of 2. Both will be posted tonight. Enjoy! The chapter got way long so I split up the finale. There are still a few more chapters yet and we will go back to the people on the mainland and on the air craft carrier after these two parts.
"DAMON!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Kai had just thrown me in the helicopter and I fell hard against the back seat. My fingers gripped a metal handle on the wall and I pulled myself up to sitting. "Damon!" I cried again as the roar of the chopper blades nearly drowned out my voice. Tears matted my face as I glared at Kai standing in front of me.
He looked furious. More so than I had seen him yet. More than even when he saw the bite on my thigh Damon gave me. Oh God and that fury was directed at me now…
"Are you happy bitch?!" he snarled at me and I bent lower as his tall frame towered over me. "Your boyfriends little hero display just cost me my escape plan his secret agent brother was going to give me! I'm out millions because of him!"
Good at least the day wasn't a total waste.
Was I happy? Was he insane? Oh course he was. Why else would he brand me like an animal and then laugh and show off how damaged I was now to the man I loved?
I ran my finger over my bite and caressed it, treasured it. It right now was the only thing I had left of Damon. In this moment I was so glad he had been willing to do it, even when I could see he hated that he was hurting me. He didn't want to cause me anymore pain.
But he wasn't doing that at all. What he did was helped me feel more in control. More calm. Kai could not take this away from me like everything else he was taking.
Shifting my gaze more to the open doors of the helicopter I saw we were simply hovering high up and had not gone away from the island at all yet. What was he waiting for?
Kai was just staring at me like he actually expected me to answer him. I turned my head away, refusing to even acknowledge him. "Answer me!" he roared at me. He didn't sound all that in control as he had been acting before.
My heart was in my throat right now how I was feeling. I had seen Damon fighting like hell to escape the con guarding us and then in amidst the standoff with the marines I could see him being attacked by Julian too before he took off down the beach after me.
I had fought and gone limp as much as I could as Kai pulled me along. The helicopter was in view and I couldn't see Damon anymore. Where was he? More tears stung my eyes as I looked at how high we were and how far away Damon would be.
Kai was taking me away...forever, to be his property and I shuddered to know what that all meant. It felt unreal that we had gotten away and I was trapped here with him.
I let out a cry of pain as I felt Kai slap me across the face and turned back to him, my cheek flaming red hot as I snapped my eyes up to his.
"I'm glad your damn plan didn't work! And no I'm not happy, you ass! You are a monster! And I will never be yours. I would rather die!" I hissed at him. It felt good to say it but I didn't think it would do any good. He was taking me away from Damon and my heart was aching so much I could barely breathe.
Then I saw my answer...we were high up over the island…
I shut my eyes and tried to gather my strength. I needed to be strong and just do it. I couldn't let him take me away. I knew what he wanted from me, what he had loved threatening me with the whole time he had me prisoner.
But Damon had begged me to wait for him. He wanted me to believe he was coming and that he would rescue me. But rescue me from what? I already felt so broken and I did not know how I could possibly take more.
Kai would force himself on me. He would take me whenever he wanted to. He had already damaged me physically, so much so that his name was engraved on my body.
And now he planned to take me emotionally...and sexually too. I could not think of a way I could survive that and still be anything close to the person that Damon would love. I already felt so dead inside.
I wanted to just end it. But I couldn't do it with him so close. The psycho was hovering over me as I curled as far back into the seat as I could away from him. I dared to open my eyes to just slits and saw Kai starting to pull his hoodie; Damon's hoodie, up and off his body. I had barely glanced at him before I slammed my eyes closed again.
He was so pale, and had likely lost a lot of blood. His shoulder looked like death; torn, damaged skin with jagged black lines running in trails in his bloodstream from the wound indicating blood poisoning. He would die if he didn't get to a hospital soon and get proper treatment.
Kai didn't deserve anything...it was Damon that needed a hospital. I cringed at knowing how many times he had been strangled or punched or his head hitting the ground. I was so scared for him and yet it was me up here with Kai.
He leaned closer and I felt his hand wrench my jaw up to look at him. He squeezed it hard. "Open your damn eyes Elena. You did this to me. You and Pretty." I refused to open until he squeezed harder and I cried out in pain and my eyes flew open as I glared at him.
"If you can't save me Doc...then I will take you with me, with orders to mail you back to him piece by piece."
I felt a shudder race through me and I pulled my head back from his iron grip. How the hell would I save him? I wanted him to die.
He moved in closer and pulled on my hair, running the gun along my head and I could feel his breath on my face as I felt his body flush against mine. I could see the bruises and poisoned skin right under my nose as he held me tight.
Then the sound of the radio crackling to life startled me and I felt Kai move away from me, shrug back into his hoodie as I let out a shaky breath I didn't realize I was holding. I thought I could hear Stefan's voice. I could barely make out the words but I heard my name...
"Elena, hang on! We are...to get you…there. Damon's..."
But Kai snatched the radio away from the pilot before I could hear more. Damon's what? I strained to hear but the voice was too muffled by Kai's hand now on the receiver, plus the loud droning sound of the blades above us.
He turned to the pilot with his gun up and waved it at him. "Turn that off!" he screamed at him and the pilot hit a button and Stefan's voice was gone. "Get us out of here! Now!" Kai ordered and pushed the gun against the pilots skull. The man just froze and didn't move.
Kai growled at him when he didn't move fast enough, while holding the head set to his ear screamed again. "Now!" I saw the gun to his leg and Kai shot him as he screamed.
I nearly jumped out of my skin at the sound of the shot but still pushed off the seat and slid up the wall till I was standing and stepped closer to the door of the helicopter.
Now was my chance. Just a few feet further and it would all be over...
"What part of NOW..isn't making sense?" Kai yelled pointing the gun to his other leg. The pilot was nodding wildly now as it looked like Kai was threatening to shoot him again. I looked back again at the open door and the clouds that were now zipping by in a blur as he had turned us fast and jerked the controls forward.
We were leaving.
I could see the island from the opposite open door and it was fading fast. I gripped the wall and was feeling shaky as I glanced back to Kai who was talking angrily into the headset, his body turned toward the front of the chopper.
Just a few more steps…
Holding onto the handles on the wall I slid along it toward the door. Could I really do it? I was a doctor for gods sake. I took an oath to save lives and do everything in my power to honor that...and now I was considering taking my own?
Shaking my head to jar my brain to push past the fear, I reached the edge and was almost able to hang out the door. Kai had not looked back at all in the last minute and I knew if I got enough courage to jump now, he would not be able to stop me...
What the hell was I doing?! This was now officially the craziest stunt I had ever pulled and I had been spontaneous before on missions. I had parachuted off a cliff once. But this...this was crazier by far. I only now was processing what I did. I just jumped, injured and bleeding up onto the skid of a moving helicopter and now we were so high up in the sky I could feel the clouds around me!
I could hear yelling and Elena was crying. Kai was screaming at her but I couldn't make out the words. I held on, my eyes closed as I struggled to control my breathing as I felt the chopper keep going higher. I started slipping off the side of the skid and scrambled for a better way to hold on as my legs were flailing in mid air!
My arms were weak and I almost lost my grip, slipping as it stopped suddenly at a high altitude hovering there, as I tried to pull myself back up on the skid. Gritting my teeth I hung on with everything in me and felt my stitches tearing again and saw more blood seeping from my shoulder, soaking more into the bloody t shirt. Damn it!
My one leg already almost felt numb from where Julian had stabbed me and I couldn't get the damn thing to cooperate with my brain to pull myself back up. I focused harder on my stronger leg, managing to finally loop it up and over a bar between the skid and the hull of the chopper.
"Elena," I breathed out as I heard a sharper cry from her followed by more sobbing. God damn it! I needed to get up there! She was screaming now too at Kai and I could hear her voice was choked with more tears.
My leg was throbbing with pain and I waited, willing to give myself a half a minute to get control of the it before I spun myself up and around, using all my arm strength to lean against the outside of the helicopter. I had hardly felt any pain yet at all and now it was coming in waves as I kept my good leg wrapped tight around the bar and used both arms to pull my weak leg up and onto the skid. The blood was still running from it and I had to stop it if I was going to have any chance to save her.
Then I realized it was quiet, far too quiet. I could vaguely hear Kai sounding like he was closer to the front of the helicopter and I thought I heard my brother's voice too. Was he on the radio? Would he somehow find a way to get Kai to come back? I didn't even know how far away from the island we were already. More yelling and then I nearly jumped out of my skin when I heard a gunshot loud and clear and scrambled to hang on tighter as my mind raced with if he had actually shot her?
There was more yelling from Kai and then I nearly lost my balance again as the chopper suddenly veered left and was headed away from the island.
I grabbed my t shirt, pulled it over my head and wrapped it around my leg, tying it as tight as I could like a tourniquet above the wound. I bit my lip trying to stifle a moan as my hand held tight to the metal cross bar on the skid.
Pulling myself up and hanging onto more on the undercarriage of the chopper I finally saw her. Thank God she looked unhurt. But my mouth gaped open in terror as she was literally hanging almost outside the opposite open door!
My eyes darted over to see Kai leaning over the front seats and talking into the headset radio. I want to scream for her but I couldn't risk Kai hearing!
It felt like time was standing still as I saw fear all over her face and I knew, I fucking knew what she was doing...My Beauty was going to jump! And from this altitude she would die for sure!
"Elena! No!" I hissed out as sharply and as quietly as I can. Shit, I couldn't have him hear me but I couldn't lose her either! I was far too far from the other skid to even try to catch her from here!
Please Baby hear me, I prayed as I fought to pull my body up more…
Tears streaming down my face, my eyes were swollen from crying, I felt the wind on my face, and rushing up around my bare legs. My fingers were still clinging to the last metal handle at the edge of the door. I swallowed hard once more and prepared to let go. I didn't care anymore if I looked weak from crying. I felt broken inside, like there was nothing left and all I could do was mourn that loss.
Kai was still leaning over the pilot and I was completely surprised he had not even glanced back at me. I shut my eyes and steadied my breathing, ready to let go and just let the wind take me away...
Elena! No!
My eyes opened fast, as I grasped harder on the handle.
I heard him! I was sure of it…Damon?
I felt flooded with hope in that split second of hearing his voice and frantically searched for him. Had I imagined it?
But then I saw him; his dark head near the floor on the other side of the helicopter!
He was really there! I was ready to cry out for him when I felt pain on my neck and felt my body slammed back against the wall right beside the open door!
Kai's face was all I could see in front of me as he glared fire at me.
"Oh no...you aren't taking the easy way out! You don't get to die till I'm done with you..." he snarled in my face, his hand around my throat. I felt myself struggling for that next breath of air. "It's time you have a taste of what's to come Doc!"
I was shaking my head back and forth terrified of what he meant. His body was pressed so tight to mine as I couldn't even kick him to fight to get out of his grip.
Then I felt something hard between us and I remembered the empty syringe! I had totally forgotten Damon gave it to me and I slipped it into my bra.
Fighting his weight on me I struggled to try to reach it but he had his arm across my chest keeping my hands tight. Barely breathing I gasped again, my thighs pressed against the sides of the door like he knew what I was going to do in trying to kick him in the groin again. And the next second I felt a metal cuff tight around my wrist as he yanked my arm up and looped it around a higher metal handle. When the hell did he get handcuffs?
My eyes were barely focusing now as I felt so dizzy from the lack of oxygen but I forced them open to see Damon climbing up over the edge of the floor. He looked like he was dragging his one leg…
Kai snapped the cuff around my other wrist and I sagged against the wall feeling my strength fading and couldn't keep my legs under me. The metal handle slid down with my weight on it like it was on a track and snapped back tight lower down as I lay slumped against the wall, but I was so weak I couldn't pull myself any higher.
The cuffs bit hard into my wrists as I nearly gagged as the bastards cold, hard mouth crashed against mine and I fought to pull away from him! But his grip on my throat was too strong as I felt him plunge his tongue in my mouth!
Slamming my eyes shut, I barely had time to cry out at the violent intrusion when I felt air against my body as Kai was pulled off of me! I opened them again the second I felt him gone from where his body had been a moment before.
"Damon!" I gasped out, feeling burning in my throat as I fought the cuffs keeping me against the side of the door as the wind whipped around me. I saw my love with pure rage on his face as he ripped Kai back from me and slammed him against the back wall of the helicopter!
"Get the fuck off my girl!" he screamed at Kai and then turned his head to the front of the helicopter. "Get us back to the island!" he yelled out at the pilot, who looked to be sweating and trying to hold pressure on his leg as he nodded to him. The man looked like he was ready to faint and there was a thick puddle of blood on the floor from his leg.
Damon had a tight grip on Kai's neck with his arm and his wrist with the other, crashing his hand against the wall to release the gun. I hung onto the chain between the cuffs as I felt us shift directions fast and race back the way we came as my body moved with the change in direction and my lower half slipped out past the open door, hanging in mid air!
We were going back to Stefan and the rest of the marines. Damon knew he needed help. I needed help. I cried out at the pain in my wrists, one already nearly broken from before back in the cave.
I let out a raspy breath. Kai wasn't taking me away. Damon was here. I could hardly believe it. He must have jumped on the helicopter as it took off into the air!
The gun went off twice, startling me from my thoughts and I saw the bullets slam into the hull of the chopper, each one closer and closer to me, like Kai was trying to kill me!
I screamed as the last bullet hit the bottom part of the handle I was cuffed to the doorway with and felt the handle shift as sparks flew and the metal creaked…
It looked like Damon could hardly stand as I saw him slam Kai's wrist again on the wall and finally the gun slipped from his grip and clattered to the floor. I swung myself forward painfully and reached out my bare foot toward the gun, crying out at the tearing I felt on the skin as the cuff dug more as I stretched to reach it.
I saw Kai slam his head against Damon and tackle him to the floor. Damon was grunting and pushing hard against Kai's neck with one hand as he reached for the gun with the other.
Kai was scrambling to climb over him to reach the gun too and I stretched myself even more, feeling my wrists burning with pain to reach the gun with my toe and started to pull it back toward me so I could kick it to Damon's outstretched hand.
More dizziness overwhelmed me as I could feel the barrel of the gun with my toe as I curled it back toward me ever so slowly…
C'mon Elena! I was reaching as far as I could for the gun as I saw her pulling it back to kick it to me. I was holding Kai back off me and he pushed and tried to get closer to the gun too.
But the helicopter took a sharp turn and must have hit a pocket of air as I heard her scream out at the jolt and lose her grip on the gun as it flew across the metal floor and under the nearest seat! Fuck!
I felt the wind rushing around me as I saw Elena's head hit the metal, her nearly falling out of the open door again, held up only by her cuffed to the handle, her feet flailing in mid air. The handle shifted again at the sharp turn and I saw it slid down again another foot on the track in the door, her weight pulling her further down outside the helicopter!
No, no, no!
"Elena! Fight baby fight!" I screamed at her half closed eyes, trying to get her to focus as I fought Kai grabbing at me to reach the gun as he punched me in the stomach. I groaned and maintained my hold as I looked back at Elena and my fist slammed into him, snapping his head up and back as blood flew from his lip.
"Baby! I need you. Stay awake Elena. Don't you dare fall!" I called out again desperately as I saw her eyes fall closed again. I could see she was trying so hard to find the strength and I saw large bruises all around her neck. She needed to get her feet under her and get her balance or she could fall to her death!
I glanced up to see if that damn pilot could help her but he looked like he was barely conscious himself and his head falling forward before straightening back up again. If Elena didn't fall, he was going to kill us by crashing!
Kai was trying to climb over me again as I pulled him back away, yanking hard on his hood, spinning him under me and slamming his head to the ridged metal. His eyelashes fluttered as I saw him blink fast and force his eyes back open.
I punched him again and saw red, thinking of nothing but her pain…
Moments flashed in front of me as my hands went around his throat squeezing. I needed to save her. She had been through too much and it was all his fault...
"No! I am not leaving without that bitch!" Kai screamed out. "She is mine and I am going to fucking love tearing her apart till she is screaming and covered in blood!"
"Maybe I should just go to him Damon. He will kill you if he finds us together. I can save you."
"No! No way! I am not letting him get his filthy hands on you."
I slammed his head against the floor again and felt his grip on me loosen as I started to pull myself over him to get to my baby as my thoughts still raced with every moment. I remembered her in pain when she got shot...
"Oh God baby!" I yelled and sat up fast ignoring my own body's protest of me doing any moving. "Could you not feel that? Why didn't you tell me?"
"I uh...i didn't feel it, at first. I was just thinking of you Damon."
I saw her eyes opening as I screamed her name again. It felt like we were plunging down from our high altitude finally and as I punched him again and I felt him grow weaker. I snapped his jaw back at the same time I felt excruciating pain!
His one hand had dug into my shoulder wound and I screamed and nearly blacked out.
More flashes…
My vision blurred as I fought back more tears. Her eyes had been locked on mine since she saw me and it tore at my soul that I couldn't ease her fear. She couldn't even say anything with the damn gag in her mouth.
"I'm here Elena. I'm here," I mumbled brokenly, my voice cracking as my bottom lip trembled.
He dragged Elena up to her knees, the blue button down totally open and I could see her chest heaving, her skin slick with sweat dripping to the fabric of her lace bra as Kai kept laughing.
His laugh was going to be the star of my nightmares. I just knew it. I waited breathless, cringing as Kai's hand wandered her body and she whimpered from underneath the gag.
I forced my eyes open and saw just as Kai had snapped my own hand cuff to the bottom of the chair we were laying beside…oh no!
I pulled on it instantly, the pure horror of the realization that I couldn't reach her now as I saw the metal from the handle bend again as she barely opened her eyes again. I could see the cuts on her stomach as her tank top was riding up against the wall...
"Brother I can't," I cried out, my voice barely above a whisper, jaw clenched and my chin quivering. "I...I can't stop him. God Stef help us, please.
I cursed and yelled out at Kai as I heard another cry turn into a pain-filled whimper and saw her kicking out harder to get away. I could see Kai had her wrists trapped in his one hand as he held her down.
I pulled hard on my cuff trying to bend the metal bar on the seat. Damn! I would not be able to reach her if I couldn't get free! No! It felt like everything was going in slow motion. I couldn't move or scream and just opened my mouth soundlessly in raw panic…
Elena was walking so slowly toward me. "Damon," her soft voice whimpered and that was when I saw the blood…
Little, tiny, trails of red were snaking their way down her thighs to drip down her legs and onto the wet sand. There were more and more droplets falling to the sand as she stumbled toward me. What the hell did Kai do to her?
Kai chuckled the sound chilling me to the bone. "At least I get to watch you see her die..." He had my chin in a hard grip as he forced me to stay watching her. "Just a few more seconds and she will fall Pretty...Hell this is better than me taking her away, with you thinking you still have a chance to save her. This way you can see you will never have her again..."
I growled at him and pulled harder at the cuff.
"Elena!" I cried out and she still didn't wake up. I didn't want to watch her die, but I couldn't pull my eyes from her.
"Her time is up...and I want you to see every...fucking...second of it," Kai hissed at me, choking on blood that ran down the sides of his mouth and bathed his white teeth in the thick substance. He looked the picture of evil in that moment, laughing at me that I was trapped as I saw her swaying around the outside edge of the door again and into the air. "Even if you kill me you can't change this...I won. She'll die with my name on her broken body!"
I blinked, trying to fight his hold on me, as my heart raced at seeing her lifted up and down by the wind, like it was teasing me before it ripped her away from me forever.
"You still love this body Damon?" Elena stood in front of me half naked and slid her underwear lower to expose the full letters on her belly. "Look at me! Tell me you aren't completely repulsed by me now!" she snapped at me, her tone biting, her eyes flashing with anger.
"And I hate that I feel like I'm breaking apart in your arms right now! I hate this island and plane crashes and blood and death and I hate feeling so helpless!"
"Shut up!" I snarled out and punched Kai again and again as he lay so weak under me and I saw him fall unconscious finally, his head lolled to one side. I wanted to snap his neck right then but I needed to get to my baby. I couldn't lose her. I needed to feel her in my arms again.
"Damon I just want you to take me away from here. I want to wake up from this nightmare. Please just take me away. Please tell me its a horrible nightmare. That nothing that just happened was real?"
The last image I saws was her fighting Kai as he tackled her down on the beach to drag her away as I fought the man guarding us.
"Damon!" she screamed as I squeezed the man's throat harder.
"Damn it Elena! Wake up!" I screamed out and saw her head jolt upright, her eyes wide. She saw me and I reached again for her, as I heard more creaking as the handle bent again. "Pull yourself up Elena! You can do it!" I coaxed her, seeing panic in her beautiful eyes as she finally looked alert.
Almost her whole body was still dangling out of the open door as she struggled to pull herself up by her weight on her cuffs, blood was running down her arms from her wrists. Elena screamed louder than I think I ever had heard from her as I saw her try to pull herself back up into the helicopter.
I stretched out my good hand as far as I could, crawling nearly over Kai's unconscious body to reach her. I promised her I wasn't leaving her, so she better not leave me.
"I'm right here. I'm not leaving you," I said firmly, my eyes boring into hers. "I promised remember? Never again." She nodded at me as her eyelashes fluttered again as I heard her swallow a low moan.
"I love you Damon," my baby breathed out, her fingers clenched in my hair. I heard the worry in her voice for me, for all of us to survive this.
I looked back up at her from beneath my dark lashes, my blue eyes wide and dilated, my voice full of emotion. "I love you too Beauty."
I heard the metal crack once more and then she fell hard to the floor. But too much of her was still hanging out of the helicopter!
I reached forward and barely brushed my fingers on hers before she slipped down and out the open door, her screaming echoing in my ears. I cried her name, my forehead falling to the cool metal of the floor as my eyes shut. No! Fuck! No!
I could hardly breath and I would have ripped my arm off if it would have helped me reach her. I felt nothing and everything all at once and couldn't even move. Maybe if I kept my eyes shut long enough I would wake back up in her arms in the cave and this would have all been a bad dream. I laid still begging and pleading that I was dreaming.
I didn't even know how long I had laid there before I felt Kai moving from where I shoved him away from me to try to reach Elena. He started chuckling and spurting blood out of his mouth. The same sick laugh I heard when he held her in front of me, half naked on the rock on the beach.
"You...lost...Pretty."
He laughed again and I pulled on his arm and dragged that piece of shit closer on the floor and punched him again before wrapping my hands around his throat, feeling like he just ripped my heart from my chest.
He coughed as a paused, releasing my grip not even being able to enjoy seeing him so weak under me after everything. He sucked in a gasping breath. "You lost...your girl, just like your brother...But you can't kill me..."
My eyes blurred as kept hearing Elena's scream in my head. "The hell I can't!" I raged at him, punching him again.
Kai leaned up and spit out more blood and I looked like a few teeth before focusing on me. "I know..."
"I don't fucking care what you know!" I screamed before he could finish. "Nothing matters anymore! Nothing!"
I felt the sadness overwhelming me at just the thought of a future without Elena. I looked at my ring and bit my lip to keep the tears back as I felt a massive lump in my throat as I tried to swallow.
I wasn't even aware that the helicopter was finally landing until I felt the bump of us hitting the ground. I shut my eyes again wishing to a higher power that he take me instead and bring back Elena. She didn't deserve this, any of it.
My eyes stayed shut blocking him out as I clenched my fist ready to kill him. At least I could do that for her; end his miserable existence.
"I know who killed Lexi," he gasped out as my eyed opened and I glared death on him.
He what? I froze, with my fist above him again, as I saw Kai squinting out through his one good eye. The other eye was so swollen up from my assault as the blood caked his face and neck, running from his nose and the edge of his lip and a cut on his cheek. I didn't even recognize him anymore.
"Damon," a voice whimpered.
It couldn't be...
Turning to the sound of my name, the only way I ever wanted to hear my name said ever again... I saw her...in my brother's arms...as I saw Stefan standing on the beach just beside where we landed.
"Damon," she cried again and I blinked furiously through blurry tear-filled eyes as Stefan walked closer, lifted her up to the helicopter and she nearly ran across the floor, her hands still cuffed together and threw her arms around me, crying against my bare chest.
Shakily I wrapped my arm around her, not even believing this was real, She felt so real. I could feel her warmth around me, the smell of her hair that was in strands all around my shoulders, her lips lighting the burnt out fire inside me that I thought would never burn again.
I saw water dripping from my brother's hair, his jeans and t shirt and swat vest looked soaked. Elena's hair was soaked as well and her shirt heavy. What had happened?
Stefan dragged Kai out from beside us, cocking his gun at him as I cradled Elena in my arms.
"Stef oh my God...How?" I looked from my brother and back down to the brunette that had her still cuffed hands around my neck, burying her face against my throat.
Stefan twisted one of his arms around to stretch the muscles. "Well lets just say all those years on the swim team just cause Dad wanted me to...paid off in spades right now. I saw her as the chopper was hovering over the water near the beach and I literally ran toward the water when I heard Elena screaming and hanging out of the door. I dove in as I saw her fall and was at her side and pulling her up within seconds before she sunk under."
I watched as Stefan still talking, pulled out his own pair of cuffs and slapped them on Kai before dragging him off the floor and onto the beach as another marine held him at gunpoint, his head down, and blood still dripping from his nearly disfigured face.
I was incredulous and more grateful than I think I had ever been. I felt her lips against my skin, the warmth of her legs wrapped tight around my waist as she clung to me. "I..." I was about to say I owe you to my brother, when I realized how empty that would have sounded when I watched the woman he loved die in front of my eyes and Stefan just risked his life to save my Elena.
"Stefan, you have no idea how..." But he put up his hand nodding to me. He knew. He knew how much this meant to me.
I knew the water was so dangerous though. "There...there were sharks in that water brother...you could have died too."
"We had a team on a boat just off shore and they watched the water for me as I swam to get her. Enzo was on the boat so I knew with his aim, any shark would have been stupid to try to attack us." Stefan offered me a tired half smile. "You're okay. Elena is okay Damon. You can breath now, brother."
My breath rushed from my lungs at that confirmation. I didn't know if I remembered how to breath anymore. Were we really safe...finally?
A/N; Hope you liked all the action...let me know and head over and read part 2 of this chapter right away! Can't wait to hear what you think of my ending, this is only part of it...
Worked long and hard to get this just right and it took way longer than I thought this time so that was why I wanted to give you all of it at once. Normally I realize my chapters were around 12,000 or more words but these tow together were nearing 15,000 so that was why I felt I wanted to split them up.
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The Things She Felt While He Was Gone by JustinaKorax has been an incredible, vivid story of after season 2 VD and I can't wait for more!
Florencia7 posted a new story I need to check out and she has more previously that are incredible too and VitsAsh is updated her Stumbing Upon too.
I am so happy we have so many incredible authors to keep Delena stories alive. You ladies are amazing and I am proud to be part of this fandom.
Much love. And I wish all of you who celebrate Easter a wonderful blessed day with family and friends!