Chapter Three

"What!"

Alisha yelled at Elena

"Ya. Damon fed me his blood before Klaus took me, so ya. That's about it. Stefan tried to get Klaus to make a deal with him. A trade. Him for me. He didn't take the deal, when I died, Klaus left me there and when I woke up they were all gone but Bonnie and Stefan. Stefan left shortly after and Bonine is trying to find a way out of this. You knew Damon! You knew I didn't want this!"

Elena calmed down, when she saw he was in pain and dying.

"I assume this is where I come in?" Chimed in Katherine

"Here. A gift from Klaus. It's the cure to your bite Damon. Use it, whatever. I don't care. But I wouldn't expect Stefan anytime soon. He made a deal for this."

She started to leave the room then stopped for a second, not bothering to turn around. She just said

"He gave himself over to Klaus for this."

And then she was gone.

Alisha tried to help Damon sit up, while Elena opened the vile and handed it to him to drink.

"How do you feel!"Alisha and Elena said in unison. He just stayed there for a moment, leaning on his elbow, still in the same position as when he tried to sit up but couldn't. He smacked his lips together a few times, then started to sit up. "Ok, enough waiting. Time to go get my baby bro." He jumped off the bed and bounced to the door. "I just have to put on my hero hair and then we can...""Damon!"Elena interrupted "We don't even know where he is. And Klaus can't know I'm alive! Besides, until Bonnie fixes this, the last thing I need to do is be around humans. Like, at all!"

"Well, what do you expect me to do... just sit here and waste these muscles on reading books to figure this out?"He said while flexing his left bicep and giving it a gentle kiss. "Ew, that's just gross. Can you, like... not... ever do that again, please?"Alisha spoke in a teasingly disgusted tone. "Well then, where is the little Bonbon. Can't she just do some of her 'Witchy-woo-woo' and fix this? I mean, she does come from a long line of powerful witches. This shouldn't be too hard for her."

They all just stared at him, wondering how he just assumed everything could always be fixed.

"Not everything works that way Damon." Elena said, looking down toward her lap."I just have to keep hoping. If I lose hope, then I have nothing. I can't stay like this Damon. I just can't. "

"Why not! You'd be better like this Elena! Can't you see that? No one could hurt you anymore. No more 'almost' deaths... can't kill sumthin's already dead. Think about it before you make any drastic decisions. Please?"

He stood in the doorway, his shirt off and his body just sagging against the doorway... hoping she wanted to stay this way. With him. He knew she'd be better this way. She's less breakable. But she still loved Stefan too, and he didn't want her to be this way if she didn't want this and he knew it. As long as she didn't want this, Stefan was sure to help her get what she wanted. Even though Damon knew better for her.

Atleast, he thought he knew better.