Sidelines chapter 4

"Shhh, don't scream, Elena it's me, Stefan"

"Have you come to say sorry or invade my privacy? You know a diary is something personal whatever you read wasn't your business."

Elena said with a sharp tone in her voice.

"Why weren't you wearing your necklace?"

"What do you mean? I was"

"What did Damon threaten you or something?"

"Damon has been nothing but nice to me he saved me when you left me lying on the floor Stefan. I could have died today Damon saved my life and you can't stand the fact that he is getting the slightest bit of attention and it's not all about you."

"Elena, I know, I know that he compelled you to love him it's typical Damon he'll hurt whoever he wants and feel nothing."

"Get away from me Stefan" Elena said limping towards the door.

"No Elena, I have to protect you, protect you from Damon, you have no idea what his capable of"

"You know what you're such a hypocrite Stefan so just go."

"No Elena"

"I said GET OUT!"

"I SAID NO!"

Stefan's fist came so close to Elena's face it was a surprise she didn't have a black eye.

Elena sniffed and gasped as Damon appeared out of nowhere and pushed Stefan against the wall a stake in hand

"You touch her again and this stake won't be in my hand but plunged through your heart."

Stefan left - his hands in the air.

Damon rushed to Elena. Tears were streaming down the side of her face as she nestled her head into Damon's neck and cried her heart out.

He held her tight as she lifted her head up and touched her lips against his and pushed them together.

She could feel his warm body against hers she ran her fingers through his hair as he pushed a loose strand of hers behind her ear touching her face with the side of his finger.

Elena smiled as Damon looked up at her he got up but she pulled him back down,

"Don't leave me, Damon"

He sat back down

"Lie next to me"

She said her eyes gleaming.

He did as he was told - gladly.

Not wanting to take advantage of Elena as she was in a vulnerable state Damon didn't make a move – he just listened something Stefan had never been able to do. Elena wanted to tell Damon how she felt about him how much she loved him and how much he just 'consumed' her but she wondered what if he didn't feel the same way about her? She knew he said he loved her but did he mean it or was it all just a trick like Stefan said maybe he was just messing with her head.

She looked at Damon's innocent face and felt like a total bitch as she confronted him.

"Did you mean it, that night when you came into my room and you said all those things, when you said that you loved me, did you really mean it?"

"Yes I still mean it but I don't deserve you Elena, I'm a monster Stefan said it himself, he loves you Elena there are things that…"

Before Damon could finish his sentence Elena put her fingers to his lips

"I love you too"

Damon looked confused his eyes narrowing but his mouth told a different story as it widened into a beautiful smile as she snuggled up next to him happily holding his face and fingering the wound on his nose as she wet a flannel and mopped it staring into his eyes in the process it was perfect until something hit her – hard she looked down at the shot wound in her chest and the blood that splattered all over Damon's shirt.

Damon looked up as Elena fell to the floor.

"Hello Damon" smirked Rebekah

"It's just one accident after another isn't it little Miss Elena you are just so clumsy" whispered Rebekah

This was the last straw this time it was real Elena was dead. Cold. Stone. Dead.

Her beautiful auburbun eyes stayed open she looked like a doll her glass eyes wide open her skin like porcelain.

Rebekah had left Damon didn't bother to go after her his only concern was Elena he held her hand she was cold Damon's eyes welled up it was real Elena was really dead.

He would never feel her against him anymore.

He would never see her.

He would never be able to talk to her.

Damon couldn't stand the thought of it losing her. He decided it was time to turn her but even if she was a vampire she would still be lost is it really what Elena would want for her life her friends her family would she ever forgive him did she really want to be immortal - to be with him forever?