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"Damon," Elena repeated once more softly, but he still didn't listen. Then she placed her small hand on his back hesitantly and rubbed it soothingly. "Damon I think you should stop." Damon turned around swiftly at her soft voice. He couldn't believe it that she was actually asking him to stop punishing a guy who could have ruined her life. He stared at her flabbergasted then blinked a few times. Her forgiving behavior made him even angrier, and he started bashing the man again.

Seeing what Damon continued, Elena abruptly stepped away and covered her eyes. She couldn't take the scene in front of her anymore, blood and violence scared her and experiencing it in reality; was much worse than expected. She turned around and covered her ears to block the sounds of hits, it felt horrible. Each time she heard a hit she cringed and unbeknownst to her, tears started leaking through her eyes and her sobs got louder.

She never imagined her Damon to be this way, to be this barbaric. It was as if he was a whole different person, one she could never recognize. And she hated to admit it, but this person scared her.

Not even daring to look back she mumbled helplessly, "Damon please stop…" It didn't make a difference because all she heard were more hits. Elena fell on her knees and continued crying, all the while mumbling the same thing repeatedly, "Stop it Damon, please stop….

Damon could see from his peripheral vision the state Elena was in. He knew it was because of him, he also knew he was scaring her but he didn't care, all he wanted was to teach the asshole a lesson before his inevitable death.

Elena kept on crying until she heard something snap loudly. Stunned; she turned around in time to see the lifeless body of the man, slowly slipping out of Damon's hand and falling to the ground. She got stuck there, she couldn't believe her eyes. She slightly raised her head and stared at Damon, he was glaring at the body as if he wanted to bring him back to life and beat him to death again.

Elena was baffled by his behavior. Not only did Damon beat him to a pulp, he killed him as well by his bare hands; the last snap that was heard, was that of his neck. It was unbelievable. With shaking legs Elena stood up and moved towards Damon. She stopped a few steps away from him and whispered, "H-how could you do that Damon?"

Damon looked up simply and stared her straight in the eyes, "He deserved it."

Elena shook her head and said, "Nobody deserves such treatment, Damon and you know it, even then you acted like a monster and-"

Damon cut her short and roared, "I can't believe that you're actually saying that! Miss Gilbert, are you out of your mind! Don't you know what could have happened!"

"Could have happened Damon, but it didn't!" Elena shrieked back.

"It was only a matter of minutes." Damon said through clenched teeth and moved towards her.

Elena glared at him, probably for the first time ever, "Then you could have simply-"

"Simply what! Let him go? Or beat him up and then let him go? Huh? Tell me Elena, would that have been right if I would have let him go and he would have tried this on any other helpless girl!"

Listening to his outburst Elena gasped which caused Damon to stare at her sternly, "What happened now?" Damon questioned.

"You…you," Elena stuttered.

"I what?"

"You said my name." Elena said in astonishment and then she shrieked all of a sudden as she noticed something else for the first time, "Oh my God Damon, your arm is bleeding!"

To be continued