Damon's POV
I felt the weight of my guilt for how I drove Elena into the arms of someone who puts his hands on her. I knew I would never forgive myself for the coward I've become. I had to do anything I could to make it right for her. I didn't have very many options other than beating the fuck out of Stefan but I knew it would make things bad for her. She wasn't going to listen to me either. I needed help. I called Caroline for advice. She was the only person left I know that Elena trusted. It was important that I don't do anything without her help. I had to do this for Elena.
"What do you want?" She said, pissed.
"It's about Elena. I'm worried about her." I said.
"That's funny coming from you." Her sarcastic tone wasn't making me feel confident on how this conversation was going to go.
I could feel her anger towards me through the phone.
"I know you're not a fan of me right now but I'm not joking around. Elena is in trouble and I need you to get over it." I was worried.
"What's going on?" She dropped the anger.
"It's Stefan." I sighed.
"What are you jealous or something?" She was annoyed again.
"Caroline. He's hurting her." I said painfully.
"He's abusing her?" She asked in shock.
"Yeah I've seen the bruises." I tried to shake the image out of my head.
"Fuck I'm so stupid. I've seen all the signs and I've ignored them all." She took a deep breath and sighed.
"It's not your fault it's Stefan's and it's mine." I felt so guilty.
"How is it yours?" She questioned.
"I'm the reason she started dating him in the first place." I groaned at the thought of them together.
"He snuck right in the second you left town. I'm pretty sure if he didn't do it now he'd do it once you graduated." She explained logically but it didn't make me feel better.
"I know he's a creep but maybe if I wasn't such a bad guy then she wouldn't have ever been in the place to accept him."
"Damon, you don't know that. I don't like what you did and I don't think you deserve her but you had no intention of dating her. You would've hurt her by rejecting her and she still could've ended up with this guy." She said sweetly even though I didn't deserve her defending me.
"How do you know that I had no intention of dating her?" I wondered.
"The way you treated her. You might've had feelings but you were never going to do anything about it." Caroline spotted something in me that I didn't even know was there.
"I guess you might have a point but I didn't mean to lead her on. I know that's what I did but my feelings were all over the place." I thought about all the things I did and how I wished I knew what I know.
"I know that you didn't." She said softly.
I felt like this was a good step to proving that I'm not going to be that guy anymore. Elena calling me out on my bullshit. Caroline seeing through me and reminding me that I wasn't always that guy. If she can see my intentions then maybe I can make Elena see it too.
"I don't know how to approach this situation. Her mom isn't going to be helpful." I reminded Caroline of the original conversation after a few seconds of silence.
"I know."
"I could talk to the school but if she doesn't tell the truth everything could go wrong."
"We could tell her brother? I do think that might end in violence as well which is probably going to trigger her." She said.
"Maybe try it all?"
"Damon, I think that the only thing we can do is talk to her. I know that she rejected your help but we need her on our side if we want him gone and in trouble for what he's done."
"I know but how do I get her to trust me again?" I asked.
"You have to build that trust."
Elena's POV
I sat on Stefan's bed watching him play video games and smoke weed. All I wanted to do was get out of here. I thought about how I ended things with Damon earlier. I ran away from my feelings and the truth I faced. It was too much to handle and I felt so pathetic for everything. I called up Stefan knowing that I shouldn't and I apologized knowing that I didn't have anything to be sorry about. Why did I react like this? I feel like I'm totally out of my mind when it comes to Stefan. I'm constantly in fear of him but I'm also in fear if I don't have him around me. Did I love him? This isn't what love is like. This is his control and I can't get out of it.
Stefan picked up his phone. "Yo." He took a hit of his joint.
He looked over at me with anger all over his face. My body tensed up. What was he hearing? He hung up. Then came over to me.
"You and Damon?"
"Nothing happened." I wondered what he knew.
"So my teammate was lying to me then? He saw you two at the park. All friendly." He sounded so mad.
"No, I was there and it wasn't like that." I was shaking and scared.
"You aren't allowed to see him." He said.
"I know and I didn't mean to. He was following me."
"I'll be having a word with him."
The way he said that was scaring me. I was shocked he didn't hit me. The anger towards Damon was so strong to him. I was scared he was going to hurt him. I knew that Stefan had no limits. I've seen him in fights before. He will do anything to make the guy give up. Damon would never let him win. There was nothing I could do.
I was laying on my bed about to go to sleep when I heard a knock on my window. I got up and opened the window. Damon was covered in blood.
"What happened?" I freaked out.
I helped him to my bed and looked at his injuries. He wasn't badly damaged but there was a cut on his head and his eye was black and he was holding his arm. He kept holding his head and that was making me scared of what he did. He didn't say a word but I knew what happened. I grabbed a wet towel from the bathroom and I came back to him with tears in his eyes.
"Please talk to me." It broke me to see him cry.
"Elena I'm so sorry." He apologized as his voice was shaking and blood was running down his neck.
"I know you are." I took the towel and gently wiped the blood off his head. "Damon, this looks really bad." I looked into his sad eyes. "I think you might need stitches. Do you want me to call your mom?"
"No, I can take myself." He said softly.
"No you're not driving in this condition Damon." I softly wiped the blood off of his neck. "I'll drive your car." I stood up and reached my hand out for him.
"You don't have a driver's license. You can't." He looked at me.
"I don't care. You're hurt, please let me take care of you." I could see the pain he was in and I didn't want anything to happen to him.
"Do you even know how?" He said skeptical.
"It can't be that hard." I looked at him with fear in my eyes that won't go away until I knew he was good.
Damon looked at me and his face softened when he saw how scared I was. He reached for my hand and I helped him up. We slowly walked downstairs and I left him on my porch while I ran to his house to get his car.
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