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"Damon, I know what you're thinking-But don't, we'll find another way!" Bonnie said, putting her arm on Damon's shoulder. "Do you think she'll be able to live with herself if she wakes up and finds out that she lived because you died? Do you think she would want that? Damon, I know that you want to save her but…"

"What about me?" Damon interrupted her. "Do you think that I can live without her? Bonnie, without her I'm just that drunk vampire who eats humans for lunch. I can't survive without her. Please, call the spirits," He begged, trying to get her to understand. "I can't do this without her. You out of all people should know how important she is to me."

With tears in her eyes, Bonnie nodded weakly.

"No, Bonnie! Don't." Stefan's voice pleaded. "No, not like this-Please, Damon…"

"Do you really care about me, brother?" Damon asked, turning to face his younger brother.

"Damn it, of course I do!" Stefan yelled, "I've been around you all these years, Damon! I was there when Elena died! I was the one who took you home, we cried together, I took care of you…" He stopped for a moment trying to conjure up the right words. "I was there when you begged me to kill you because you loved that little girl so much that you considered her a daughter. Those were your exact words, Damon… "I lost my daughter."

"What?" Damon hissed.

That was Stefan's queue to continue on with the story. Damon may as well know it. "And then, one day I returned like usual and I saw you draining five girls. All at once. When I tried to stop you, you just mentioned that I took Katherine away from you, that Katherine's alive…I couldn't understand. Katherine was dead and we were way over it. Then I mentioned Elena and you seemed like you forgot everything…You told me to get out of your life and I never understood why, until now."

He cleared his throat. "I've been helping Bonnie practice magic. The thing is, that our memories were somehow taken from us…Each day, I started to forget…And so did Bonnie. My memories, however, returned the day I saw Elena, when you brought her in the house. I had the feeling one gets when he thinks he saw a dead person. I instantly recalled, and when I told Bonnie this, she said that she had been having dreams about it. What we couldn't understand, though, why you seemed clueless. We only learned the truth recently."

"What truth?" Damon whispered.

"The spirits erased Bonnie's memories to allow her to let her magic back in. Apparently, after Elena's death, Bonnie's magic was blocked due to grief and pain. They erased mine too. But you…It was a different story. Bonnie realized now, that Klaus compelled you to forget, to block Elena out…" Stefan sighed, not liking the ending of this. "He wanted you to become a strong vampire so in the future you can join him. To turn you against me, he made you believe that Katherine's alive and that I took her away from you. It was all planned, Damon…That's why you couldn't remember. He didn't want you to remember."

"Oh my God," Damon gasped, falling on his knees, his hands holding his head as the words sunk in. He had become a puppet; his life had been controlled by Klaus. And now that he knew the truth, now that he found something worth living for…He was going to lose it. He was going to lose her.

"I have to help her, Bonnie, I don't care," He said, begging for her understanding. "I can't live without her."

"Damon please," Stefan begged. "Think of what this could mean! I can't lose my brother again!"

"You would lose me if I lost Elena, Stefan. Don't you realize that? Please, if you care about me LET me do this!" His brother begged back. And it was true. If Elena died, he would most probably take off his daylight ring and burn to ashes.

Bonnie turned to Stefan half-heartedly. "It's his choice, Stefan."

Stefan nodded, knowing that it was no use.

An hour later, they were sitting by Elena's bed, surrounded by candles. The poor girl was obviously in pain, somehow. Sometimes she was hotter than fire, and other times she was so cold that Damon had to bring more quilts to cover her tiny shaking frame.

"Take my hand," Bonnie instructed, "I need to use your energy, and your will, to meet the spirits."

The chanting started, and Damon could feel the energy radiating off the witch and something in his heart-maybe courage? He couldn't tell for sure.

The candles started to feel hotter and brighter, and it was then that Bonnie stopped chanting.

"They're here," She announced, "They are invisible to you, but I am willing to speak in your name."

"Tell them that I want to give my life in exchange for Elena's," He urged looking around for any sign of supernatural life, despite what Bonnie had just said. But no such luck did he find anything.

"They don't want to," Bonnie said, her eyes still close, her lips moving but no sound was coming. Telepathy, Damon thought. She was communicating with them using her mind.

"They have to! Tell them to suck it; she's just a girl, a kid!" Damon screamed, and then begged, "Please! Take me instead! They have to understand how much she means to me, Bonnie. I love her!"

"They are not willing to take your life," Bonnie said, "It was her mission to save it."

"Please, tell me what I can give to let her live," Damon pleaded, "I will do it without second thought. You know she's innocent, she has barely lived."

There was silence, but both Stefan and Damon saw Bonnie nod her head, her eyebrows twitching as she continued to concentrate.

"I understand," She mumbled.

"What? What's going on?" Damon demanded.

"They are willing to negotiate," Bonnie whispered in shock. "They're giving you two options."

"Tell me," He urged, his patience running thin.

"You won't like it, Damon…You have to let her go, it's for-" She began.

"Just tell me!" Damon hissed, getting very fed up with Bonnie.

"They want you to give up your vampirism." And there it was. The bomb had finally been dropped. Damon froze. Of all the things he expected, that was not one of them. He knew that he would give it up for her, hell he was ready to give up his entire existence for her, but the sentence still shocked him. He didn't remember a single thing about being human. He was a creature of the night; he had been like that for over a hundred years. Would he really be able to go back to being weak and fragile and emotional after all this time? Would his heart allow it? Would he even survive?

"What's option two?" He heard himself asking.

"A human can't have powers like Elena has," Bonnie explained, "Her power, determination…It all came because she's simply not a natural human. Your other option is to kill her…and turn her into a vampire. During this process, her traits will all be lost."

Those words were like a stake through his heart. First of all, he did not like the term 'kill her' at all. He couldn't do it, even knowing that she would wake up. And after all, he didn't have the nerve to kill her in her sleep, without talking to her, without asking her if she wants to be a creature of the night. No, he couldn't do it-not when she was so fragile. And he did not want to damn a pure, white soul…He couldn't, she was pure, she was an angel. She was the perfect human, it would be almost impossible to condemn her life. Turning her into a vampire was not only stealing her life and decisions but it would also steal her purity, her genuine nature and innocence.

"Elena has five more hours to live. You have till then to make a decision." Bonnie said, filling him in on everything there was. She tried to sound hopeful but her words came out harsher than anything. It wasn't only Damon losing someone, she was too. She had loved Elena. She still loved Elena. Stefan cared for her; everybody cared for her because of who she was. Elena Gilbert drew you in.

"I don't have to decide anything," Damon said, determined. "I am more than willing to become human if it means saving Elena's life. Just tell me what I have to do."

"Damon, you…" Bonnie tried to reason with him but it was no use.

"I want to do it. Now." The older vampire demanded, not wanting to waste any more time. He needed Elena to be well, and right away.

Bonnie nodded. "The process is a bit long, so I'll explain everything to you. Of course, every spell has its consequences. You know perfectly well that you are dead, and we can't just bring you back as a human who is over one hundred years old. Therefore, Elena will have to give you some of her life force."

"Life force? Meaning soul?" He questioned.

"It is mostly what defines a human being, so yes," She nodded.

"But is it dangerous to Elena?" He said, stroking the unconscious girl's cheek.

"No." Bonnie replied. "However, joining of life-forces means that you two are bonded together. You're soulmates. You can't be free of her and she won't be free of you. Basically, you have to love her till death do you part."

"What happens if one of us dies before the other?" Damon once again asked. He felt like this was one hundred and one questioned but he needed the answers.

"It can't happen. As soulmates, you'll both die at the same place, same time. But, if you…be unfaithful in the future, Elena will die. If she'll be unfaithful, then you die." She explained, watching his expression.

"There is no woman for me except Elena," He continued, "I'll wait for her. She's still a girl. What worries me is what she wants…"

"You don't have to worry about that. The spell will work if you're really fated to be together…romantically." Bonnie explained.

"I'm ready for this," Damon said, standing up. "Tell me what I have to do."

"You have to drink her blood," She said, "And then, you must feed her yours, so that's apart of you is inside her and vice versa."

He winced. He had never bitten Elena before, and he expected it to be under different circumstances. But seeing it's the only way, he moved closer to Elena, and he could've sworn his heart jumped when he heard her murmur his name, her eyes half open, smiling at him and saying "Thank you". She was still weak, but she acknowledged him. And when he placed his mouth on her neck, she still whispered soothing things in his ear.

He started by kissing the area first, and taking a long breath he let his fangs elongate. Then, gently, more gentle than he had ever been, he let them sink in her neck, swallowing her blood and devouring the taste of his soulmate. This was not just feeding, this was a symbol of their love, of their life. Despite her young age, he knew he loved her. He would wait for her now, to get older. To be able to finally be with him. It was finally happening, Damon was going to be happy. That was a huge change in his life and he liked it. It was almost like someone had given him a second chance.

He closed the wounds he had just made by licking them, and then he gently grabbed her and after making a cut in his own neck, he helped her feed from him, allowing her to replace the blood she had just lost.

"What now?" He asked, stroking Elena's neck.

"Just lay next to her," Bonnie instructed, "I'll take care of the rest."

Pleasure.

Pain.

Excitement.

Warmness.

Both of them, suddenly feeling weak, were experiencing all those emotions as Bonnie chanted the spell, taking Damon's vampire part and officially cleaning his soul. He felt dizzy, and his head had started to hurt, but he heard Bonnie say, "Sleep. You'll wake up as a human and with Elena next to you."

Her voice was full of promise so Damon obeyed her. As he drifted off into the deep slumber that over willed to take him, he thought about him and Elena as humans and he smiled knowing they would always have each other.

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