Meredith Fell waited for Damon and Elena in her office, anxiously. She had figured out what the problem with Elena was. It wasn't a miscarriage; it was the fact Elena was human and too internally damaged from her battle with anorexia and bulimia to carry on with her life, never mind carrying a baby.
If She continued with the pregnancy as a human, the child would only cause her to meet her end. Breaking Elena's insides, crushing her bones one by one, until it eventually broke her spine, ended her life.. Until she was gone. The only way for her to possibly survive this was to become a vampire, if she actually wanted to go through with it.
Meredith knew the answer already; it would be a yes. Damon Salvatore would always put Elena before everyone else, no matter what. If becoming a vampire meant it would save Elena, it would be done, no questions asked. She admired the undying love and need to protect Damon felt for the girl. He went from being an unfeeling, cold, sadistic vampire to almost human.
She was surprised that Elena had been able to penetrate through his icy demeanor and melt it away. That was love. Hearing the door click open, Meredith spun around to see distressed Damon and a gaunt and barely-showing pregnant Elena in front of her. She pointed to the leather chairs in front of her desk. "Sit," She said simply. Elena took Damon's hand in hers and sat down in one of the chairs, him in the other. Meredith strode over to take her seat in front of them and spoke.
"Elena, i have researched answers to the predicament you're currently in, and i have found them." Elena nodded, urging her to go on. "You see, as a human you're physically incapable of carrying this child. Before you even give birth to it, it will kill you. The only alternative to evade that is for one thing." She looked at Damon meaningfully. "That is for Damon to turn you into a vampire." Elena looked up at Meredith, eyes widened in disbelief. She turned to Damon, astonished. "Damon..would you?" Elena's tone wobbled with fear of rejection.
Damon turned his head up towards the ceiling, gazing at nothing in particular. He closed his eyes, running his hands through his hair before turning to Elena. "I don't really have a choice. If this is the only way i won't lose you, then i'll have to follow through, won't i?" Elena cast her eyes down towards her feet, feeling guilty even though it wasn't her fault. A single tear nudged its way out from the corner of her eye, trailing down her pale, depressed face.
Damon's eyebrows furrowed in frustration, he didn't mean for it to come out that way; He was just so angry that this was the only way to save Elena. She didn't deserve to live life as a vampire, she deserved the human life she was born with. She didn't deserve life as a monster. Hope shattered inside Damon as he touched base with reality; he was going to have to kill the love of his life, because he sure as hell wasn't going to let anyone else do it. This destroyed him inside.
He grabbed Elena's hand in his and his eyes locked on hers. "Elena," He struggled to find the words to go on. "I just don't want to lose you, i'm torn inside because to save you, I'm going to have to kill you, Elena. You won't be human anymore, and i don't want to take that from you."
A tear of his own wedged out of his agonized eyes, and Elena rose up from her chair and wrapped her arms around Damon. She repeated her words from a few nights before. "I'm sorry you have to keep saving me, Damon."
More tears spilled out of her eyes and she buried her face into his chest, her misery soaking his shirt. Damon rested his chin on the top of Elena's head, before he gathered the strength to face her despair. He looked into her eyes saying sincerely, "No, Elena. I'm sorry you had to be dragged into situations that you can't face alone. I will never get tired of saving you. I will just get worried that if anything else were to happen, I would be...-"
He swallowed, forlornly. "I would get worried that it would be too late for me to save you, that i would lose you, forever." Elena reached up to stroke his cheek lovingly. "I love you, Damon." She murmured, struggling to stop the tears from spilling out of her eyes. "I will never, ever stop loving you, Elena Gilbert. Don't you forget that, you hear me, Princess?"
They stayed like that for some time, before Meredith cleared her throat, and finally spoke. "Okay, i know this may be bad timing, but what's it going to be?" Elena stared determinedly into Meredith's eyes before Damon's. "Turn me," She said simply. Damon nodded reluctantly, as Elena made a tiny cut in her neck, provoking his primal instincts. She saw Damon's eyes go black with hunger, and the animalistic growl he made before she felt fangs dig into her neck, and her whole world went black, again.
Several hours later, Elena woke up with strange feelings overcoming her. She found herself not in the office of Meredith Fell, but in the parlor of the Salvatore house. Damon had pulled up a chair next to the couch she was lying on, and was waiting for her to wake up. His eyes met hers and the signs of stress and worry immediately left his face.
"Elena, i'm so glad that you're awake.." He trailed off, looking into her confused eyes. "Damon, what's wrong with me?" Her lip quivered in anticipation and Damon sighed. He took her hand in his before speaking. "Elena, you're in transition. You have to complete it by drinking human blood." Fear showed itself greatly on her face. "I-i have to kill someone, Damon? I can't d-" Damon put a finger to her lips, giving him a chance to explain.
"You don't have to kill anybody, princess. You could just drink it from a blood bag, all it is-" He paused as Elena's expression changed from fear to a sullen one. "What if i'm not ready?" She asked in a tiny voice, waiting for the rage. All hope left Damon as he looked at the girl he loved. "Elena, You only have twenty-four hours to complete the transition...if you don't, you die." Elena's tone became desperate.
"If i-If i complete the transition and have this baby, will there be any way for me to become human again?" Only a glimmer of hope remained inside her, as she had never heard anything about a cure for vampirism, yet. Damon gazed down at her, determined to not let himself show weakness in front of her, as he felt tears wanting to escape his eyes.
"Is that really what you want, Elena?" He was hoping that she would get used to being a vampire, that she would want to be with him forever. Elena choked on a sob as her eyes begged Damon to understand. "I wouldn't be able to handle being a vampire. To not be human, again. I don't want to be..a monster." She shut her eyes in regret as she saw Damon flinch at the word. He became enraged, inside and out, and he couldn't control the anger that escaped him.
"Damnit, Elena! Then why the hell would you ask me to change you, if you weren't going to go through with it? Why would you give me the hope that i was going to spend the rest of my life with you? We have a life together, Elena! Not to mention a child on the way, my child, our child! This is exactly what Katherine did to Stefan and I! You're becoming just like her, and i can't, won't handle getting my heart broken again. So if you're going to leave me, just do it now!" He sped out of the room, willing himself not to let the tears fall until he knew he was alone, and left Elena filled with guilt and regret. But Damon was right.
She should've thought about her actions before enacting on them. God, she was an idiot. Now she broke the heart of the one person she actually loved, and lost them. She was becoming like Katherine. Elena buried her face in her hands and her body wracked with sobs. Wiping her eyes, she gathered up her jacket and purse and walked out of Damon's house, defeated.
If it would truly make him happy, then Elena would disappear. As she walked up the steps to her house, Elena felt like nothing. Just a waste of space. She opened the door and entered the hallway, only to be confronted by Jeremy. "Whoa, Elena. What's wrong?" His eyes stared full of concern at her. Elena shook her head, and attempted to pass him.
Jeremy wouldn't budge, though. "Elena. I'm your brother. Talk to me, please." Elena bit her lip, trying not to cry as she spoke. "Tonight's my last night, Jer." Jeremy grabbed Elena by the shoulders, urging her to explain as he was confused. "Elena, what the hell are you talking about?" She shook her head again, and the next sentence she spoke was barely louder than a whisper. "I was turned into a vampire, but i'm not going through with the transition."
Jeremy's eyes widened with surprise as he let go of Elena. "Why?" he almost sobbed. "I can't go through with it, i don't want to spend forever living off blood..i want to be human, normal." Jeremy's eyes lit flashed with anger and disgust. "How could you do that, Elena? How could you leave all of us, and Damon behind, when you weren't even going to tell us?" Sadness consumed her but she found the strength to continue.
"Everything happens because of me, Klaus came here and went on a rampage because of me, Bonnie's Gramms died because Bonnie asked her to help me. Mom and Dad died because they wanted me to be saved.I'm too much trouble as a human, i can only imagine how much i'd be as a vampire. I can't, Jeremy. I'm sorry, but i will always love you." The anger didn't leave Jeremy, but despair kept it company.
"Elena, did you ever stop to think that maybe nobody minds having to save you, because people love you? Do you think that if we did mind, we would keep doing it? What you're doing is so selfish, and i hope you realize it before it's too late. I don't want to lose my sister." Tears left his eyes, but he walked away from her, too upset to continue. Elena hung her head in sorrow as she walked up to her room. She didn't know what to do. Now that everyone she loved was done with her, she felt she had no other choice but to go through with her plans.
She curled up on her bed, waiting for her life to end. She dreamt of Damon, and his beautiful, iced ocean irises. He was not the only one in her dreams. She dreamt of a little girl, with impossibly blue eyes, and chocolate hair. She looked like Damon, but no...it couldn't be. Was it their child? Elena smiled in her sleep as realization hit her. She couldn't leave Damon. wouldn't leave him.
Her love for him was so strong it caused her heart to leap with passion and joy. She looked for her phone, searching until she found it under her pillow. Dialingc Damon's number, she waited for him to pick up. She hoped he would. As it was about to end the last ring, he picked up. "What is it, Elena? I don't have time to be hurt again." Even though his voice sounded cold, Elena spoke. "Damon, i've been thinking..and i want to go through with the transition. I want to be with you. Forever."
Damon found his heart mending its broken pieces as hope found him again. "Really?" He asked, skeptical. "Yes, Damon. Really." Damon smiled and said, "I'll come to you. I'll be there soo-" He stopped when he heard a familiar voice on the other end. "Hello, my lovely. I hope you don't mind if i steal you away for some time. Right now, you have something i need, and i won't stop until i get it."
Klaus. Damon growled ferociously, as he strained to hear Elena. He heard her scream, "Damon!" Then the line went dead. There was no way Klaus was going to touch a hair on his elena's head, and there was no way in hell that Klaus was going to do anything to harm his unborn child, not if Damon was still alive. And he very much was. Damon Salvatore was infuriated, and scared. Klaus would have hell to pay.