47. The Way I love You

"Has anything happened today?" Elena asked me.

"Well, apart from Caroline and Jeremy leaving to go back to Mystic Falls. And Damon being out all day and leaving me to cure this hangover on my own...not really. I tried calling Elijah but he's all pissed because I called him while he was trying to have sex and...yeah."

"Damon's stupid for leaving you alone." She muttered. "It's dangerous!"

"It's fine." I assured her. "Besides, he only left at lunch and it's now...9 pm."

"He's stupid."

"He's my boyfriend."

"I know, I'm sorry." She sighed. "I've gotta go. Bonnie's gonna put a protection spell over the boarding house and my place and she needs help to make sure she doesn't pass out with exhaustion."

"Is it hard for her to do spells?" I asked.

"A little. Look, I've really gotta go so-"

"You love me and you'll see me later?"

Elena laughed. "I love you and I'll see you later."

About a half hour later, I heard the front door opening. I would have gotten up, but I was too busy lying on the couch with my eyes closed, attempting to sleep.

I felt Damon's fingers trace against my cheek.

"You are so beautiful." He whispered.

"And you are so late."

Damon pulled my legs up, dropped down on the couch and then placed my legs back on his knees. I rolled over onto my side and took Damon's hand.

"Where've you been?"

"Trying to find out what Klaus' next move is." He explained. "I'm sorry for leaving you all day without calling. It was stupid, anything could have happened."

"Mmm." I nodded in agreement.

"Am I forgiven?"

"Mmm."

"Are you tired?"

"Mmm."

"Want me to put you in bed?"

"That would be nice."

Damon placed his arms under my arms and legs and carefully picked me up, holding me close to his chest. I kept my eyes closed, and Damon sighed lightly as he gently positioned my body on the bed. I'd changed into my pajamas earlier, so I didn't need to get changed.

Instead of wrapping the blankets around me, Damon got down next to me and pulled me up into a sitting position, holding my shoulders. I blinked my eyes open and stared at Damon for the first time in several hours. He seemed more....I dunno.

Upset?

"Are you ok?" I asked him.

"I'm fine." He said, taking both of my hands in his. He kissed them tightly and breathed into them. "I just...I want you to know how much I love you. Because I feel like sometimes our relationship isn't as serious as it should be and sometimes I don't make you feel like you should be feeling."

"Damon, you make me feel like I never have before." I murmured. "I don't care how cheesy it sounds, you make me feel special."

Damon took hold my my waist and gently pulled me closer so that I was on my knees. He got on his knees as well and placed one hand at the side of my face whilst the other wrapped around my waist and back.

"You know what you make me feel?" He whispered, pulling me so close that his lips almost bounced of mine.

"What?"

He moved his lips down to my neck and pressed them against my skin. I took his shoulders and rested the tip of my head on them as he moaned into my skin.

"You make me feel human."

That was it. I knew that I wanted Damon in every way possible and I wanted to hold on and never physically or mentally let go.

I lifted Damon's face up and stared at his face.

"God, I love you so much."

He slammed his lips against my own.

The kiss was rushed into power in the first 10 seconds and without question, Damon was running his hands over my body. I loosely ruffed my hands through his strands of black hair and tilted my head as he pressed his mouth against my neck.

"I want you." He murmured, gently pushing my back down on the bed. His knees placed on either side of my thighs, and his hands took my waist.

"I'm yours." I promised.

Damon moved his hands down to my pajama shorts, and looked me in the eye before continuing.

"Are you sure?"

I nodded. "I'm sure."

Damon touched his lips against my own.

"I love you."

I woke up in Damon's arms, just as I'd fallen asleep. The night...it had been perfect. I know I was young, I was 16...and Damon was...so much older. But it felt right. It felt perfect.

Damon kissed my cheek. "Morning."

Another groan like 'flufferson' came out of my mouth and Damon chuckled, pulling me closer to him. I burried my face into his chest and sighed.

"Last night was amazing." He murmured.

"It was." I agreed, taking his hands.

"You were amazing."

I blushed crazily. "Really?"

"Well, not as good as me of course but-"

I playfully budged his shoulder and he laughed again.

"I'm kidding. You were...phonomonal."

"Well...thanks." Blushing, again. "You too."

"Get dressed, I wanna take you out for breakfast."

"It's morning though!" I groaned. "Can't we have breakfast at dinner?"

Damon kissed my cheek. "Come on, up!"

"You're having chips for breakfast?" Damon asked me, staring at the big plate of chips on the table booth we sat at.

I grinned. "Pass the mayonaise?"

Damon tossed the mayonaise over to me and I squirted it all over the chips. Chips weren't chips without mayonaise.

"Hmm, you two look cosy."

Now that was a voice that I definitley did not want to hear.

At first I thought that it was Elena, but she wasn't so snappy with her tone. And it wasn't me so that only left one more option...

"Katherine?" Damon asked, looking up.

I followed his gaze and looked at my lookalike who was dressed in a pair of black skinny jeans, heals and a tight black vest top.

Did she always have to dress so seductivley?

"Missed me?" She smirked.

"Not exactly." I admitted.

"Not really." Damon added. "I'd tell you to get the hell out of here but you look as if you're about to sit down so-"

"So don't waste your breath." She raised an eye-brow, before sitting down next to me and stealing a chip of my plate. I was going to scream at her for taking it, but shrugged it off.

The chip was evil anyway.

"What do you want Pierce?" Damon glared.

"Oooh, we're on a last name basis now, Salvatore?" She grinned.

"Katherine." I pressed.

"Fine. I'm just here on a little mission type thing...."

"Which is?"

"Klaus sent me." She explained. "You know it's a full moon tomorrow?"

"I'm aware." I said.

"Well, he's coming for you tomorrow night. He's planning on sacrificing you and me but I'm sure that he wont do anything to hurt me. It's just you that will die."

"Nina's not going to die." Damon snapped. "Now, is that all that you needed to tell us? Because I'd like to finish enjoying breakfast with my girlfriend."

"Aw, can't I stay?" She asked.

"We're going to Mystic Falls today so nope." Damon replied.

"We are?" I asked.

"Full moon's tomorrow. Elena's gonna need some help plus we might be safer with the witch."

"I should come with you?" Katherine suggested.

"That's not gonna happen." Damon said.

"Come on Salvatore, please?"

Damon grabbed my hand and hoisted me up.

"My chips!"

"I'll buy you some when we pass the grill."

"You had meat!" Bonnie screamed as me and Damon enterred Elena's house. "And you had sex!"

Ok, I recognized the Friends quote immediatley but the 'you had sex' but did kind of scare the crap out of me.

"Thanks for the info Phoebe Buffay." I smirked, pulling her in for a little hug. "Where's Elena?"

"Making lunch with Jenna."

"I'm gonna go see her." I told Damon, kissing his cheek quickly.

"I've gotta go out. I'll be back soon."

"Ok." I sighed. "I love you."

"Love you too."

I hurried off into the kitchen and practically dived on Elena. She laughed and wrapped her arms around me.

"It's been like 2 days but I've missed your English hair!" I screamed.

"I have no single strand of English hair but I've missde you to Nina!"

"No hug for your kind of, Aunt Jenna?"

"Jenna!" I squealed, running over to where she stood next to a big pile of salad. She returned the hug and then I stole a slice of cucumber off the breadboard.

"Have a nice time in...earth?" She asked me.

"It was fun." I replied, before grabbing Elena's hand. "I need to talk to you!"

We ran upstairs, locked the door to her bedroom and then collapsed on her bed. Since there where no other vampires in the house, we were safe. Bonnie and Jenna were now making lunch, so it gave me and Elena some sister talking time.

"So...what is it?" She asked me.

"Ok, please don't judge me?" I begged.

She grabbed my hands. "I would never judge you."

"I slept with Damon last night."

Elena was silent for a minute.

"Please tell me you mean cuddled?"

I shook my head sheepishly.

"Nina!"

"Eeeeek, you promised no judging!"

"I'm not judging!" She promised. "I'm just...a little shocked. He's so old!"

"Have you slept with Stefan?" I asked, raising an eye-brow.

"That's different..."

"Is not! You're one year older than me and I'm legal so..."

"It's just the thought of my little sister with such an older man..."

"Stefan's over 100 as well, Elena!"

"Yeah but Stefan's physically 17. Damon's what? Way passed 20!"

"Oh shush." I muttered. "Do you think I'm...slutty?"

"No, of course not." She assured me. "I think that you're young but hey, I was too. Way younger than you..."

"What?! Who?!"

"Matt." She admitted. "We were...15? His Mom and my parents had all gone out so we took the oppertunity and...kaboom."

"Kinky." I winked. "And why is everyone stealing kaboom? It's my word. Even Elijah's said it."

"Are you serious about calling Elijah whilst he was about to have sex?"

"100 % serious! She was all laughing and seducey."

"Seducey?"

"Seducey goosey."

"Ah."

"Elena?" I asked.

"Yes?"

"Tomorrow...do you need any help?"

She looked down. "Help?"

"With the whole werewolf thing." I explained. "I mean...I used to help Tyler. So I'm educated in wolfy stuff."

"I do need some help with the whole chaining and stuff." She admitted.

"Then I'll be there."

"Promise?"

"I promise."

Most of the day, me, Bonnie, Elena and Jenna sat on the couch watching chick flicks and horrors. We started with The Notebook, then Titanic, and were now watching Paranormal Activity 3.

My phone buzzed and I opened up a message from Damon.

Come to the founders court now. Need to talk to you x

Sighing, I stuffed my phone in my pocket and jumped up from the couch.

"I've gotta go meet Damon." I told them all. "Elena can you give me a ride to the founders court?"

"Sure." She said, jumping up with me. "We'll be back soon guys!"

We got into Elena's red truck, and she began driving the 10 minute drive to the Founders Court. I wondered why Damon needed to see me, but I shook it off.

I'd be finding out soon.

Once we parked, I thanked Elena and sprinted off towards the town square which was opposite the court.

I finally saw Damon, but he was standing in front of someone else.

Katherine.

She held his phone up and smirked.

"When did you get my phone?" He demanded, not noticing me as I was behind him.

"I just wanted to send Nina a little text." Katherine grinned. "Told her to come meet me. She'll be here soon."

Damon risked a glance at the floor, and Katherine used the oppertunity to look at me and pressed a finger to her lips. When Damon looked back up, she dropped her gaze.

"I know what you want." He hissed. "And you're never going to get it."

"Damon, I already have you." She whispered. "You just need to admit it."

"Admit what?!"

"That you still love me!"

"What?!"

"Admit it, Damon. Or you know what will really happen!"

A few seconds of silence came and I held my breath incase Damon realized that I was here. I was still wondering how he hadn't noticed my scent...

But I didn't care about that any more when I heard new words escape Damon's lips.

"I love you Katherine."

Katherine's lips twitched up into a smirk. "And?"

"I never loved Nina. She's nothing to me. I just wanted a replacement for you. I couldn't live without you...but I had to. So I convinced myself I loved Nina to spare me the pain. She means nothing to me. But...you do."

I swear, my whole world literally just kind of stopped spinning. My head throbbed, my legs felt heavy, and tears dramatically welled up in my eyes.

"Great. Now go tell Nina that." Katherine said, pointing over to me.

Damon turned around, and his eyes became wide.

"Nina, I didn't-"

"Is is true?" I demanded, not remotley interested in anything else.

Damon used his speed to get close to me and grabbed my shoulders but I flinched a few steps back.

"Nina I didn't mean-"

"Is it true?" I asked again. "Because if it isn't, and you were just lying, just saying that for her benefit, then that's fine. We can move on from this. But if you think for one second that you can lie to me about this, then you can go to hell."

No reply.

"Well?"

Damon took my hand. "I never meant to hurt you."

My chest felt heavy.

"Oh my God..."

"Nina, just let me explain?!"

"You already did." I snapped, turning away.

Damon grabbed my wrist and hoisted me back.

"Get the hell off me!"

I shrugged away from Damon's hold and ran. I just ran. By the time I got back to Elena's car my face was soaking wet with tears.

"Baby, what happened?!"

I couldn't reply though.

My tears had gotten rid of my voice entirely.

That night, Damon had called exactly 27 times and each time, he'd left a 10 minute long message. I didn't listen to them though. And eventually, Elena had taken my phone and put it in the coffee jar.

For dinner, we'd ordered take out and I'd stuffed my face with so much crap that I was definitley going to get fat when the night was over. I started on the ice cream, and Elena helped me finish my 3rd.

I'd given Damon everything...literally.

He had my love, my virginity...and now my hate.

I hated him.

But love didn't go away just like that.

I hated him.

But I was still deeply in love with him.

At around 10, Bonnie had gone home and me and Elena had gone up to her room. I'd jumped into her bed, and when she got in beside me, I honestly thought she was Damon.

Just made me cry harder.

"It's gonna be okay." She assured me.

"No." I refused. "No, it's not."

And that night, I cried myself to sleep with my sister.

                                                                ***Damon's P.O.V***

"Well, look what the cat dragged in." Klaus smirked as fell to the floor at his feet. "Vervain is a tricky subject for vampires, isn't it? Oh well, you're here now. Thanks Katherine."

Katherine smiled from where she stood at the door. "My pleasure, Klaus."

I groaned. "Whatever you want you Brittish dick, make it quick so I can go and talk to my girlfriend."

"Oooh, are things bad between you two?" He asked, grinning.

I glared. "Thanks to little Miss bitch over here."

"You shouldn't have said it if you didn't mean it." Katherine winked.

"Shut the hell up!" I snapped before looking back to Klaus. "What do you want?"

"Not much. I'm just going to kill you and your girlfriend later on tonight. It will be such a fun experiance, don't you think?"

"If you dare touch her, I swear to you that I'll rip your frigging heart out!"

"Funny." Klaus smirked. "Because tonight, that is exactly what I am going to do to you."

                                                                     ***Nina's P.O.V***

"So..."

"So..." I said, sitting down on the floor.

I looked a Elena and sighed in sympathy. We were in the Lockwood dungeon place thing where Tyler had kept himself locked up when was about to turn. Elena was chained up and I had the key in my pocket so there was no chance of her escaping.

"Does it hurt?" I asked.

Stupid.

I knew it hurt. I'd seen Tyler change. And if it made him scream, then it was probably like hell for Elena. For anyone.

"You can leave if you want..." she murmured.

"No, I'm staying with you." I promised. "You're my sister and I'm not going to leave you."

"Isn't that sweet?" A voice behind me cooed. I turned around and yes, you guessed it.

Katherine again.

"Sweetie, you're going to need to come with me." She said, grabbing my arm.

"Get the hell away from me Katherine!" I hissed, prying away from her. Katherine just held on tighter and glared harder.

"Listen Nina, I'm compelled by Klaus to bring you back to him so it's going to happen either way. It'd just be easier if you came without struggle."

"No, I'm staying with my sister!"

Katherine pulled me close to her chest and in a matter of seconds, we were out from underneath the ground. "As you can see..." she whispered. "We're doing this my way."

I was standing outside Fells Church with Katherine. She'd taken my vervain necklace, stupid bitch. And compelled me not to move. Stupid bitch.

I was leaning against a tree, thinking of ways that I could eat Katherine when this was over. But nothing was really coming to mind. All that I could actually think about, was that Damon loved this manipulative bitch.

I wanted to rip her heart out.

"Nina."

I turned to my side and saw Klaus, standing at the edge of the tree, a smirk on his face. Brittish twat. Why couldn't he just die?

"Hi." I muttered.

"You're aware of what's happening, aren't you?" He asked.

"Course I am." I said. "You're about to sacrifice me and Katherine so that you can make your stupid hybrid babies."

Katherine and Klaus laughed....together...weird?

"What?" I demanded.

"I'm not using Katherine." Klaus explained. "I already have another vampire waiting in the wings. Well, not exactly waiting. He's with his brother at the minute."

"Stefan and Damon." I gasped.

Klaus smirked. "But which brother?"

I thought long and hard. If it was Stefan, my sister would die out of heartache. She'd cry herself to sleep every night and after losing so many people, losing Stefan would be hell.

But Damon...

That was different.

Like I said, I hated him but love didn't go away so easily.

I still loved him.

So that's why I thought.

Please God, don't let it be Damon.

"Want to know?" Klaus asked. "Because they're here now."

He pointed behind me, so I instantly turned around.

For the 2nd time in 2 todays, my heart dropped.

Stefan.

He was walking through the woods, aimlessly, as if compelled, and had a look of danger in his eyes. The bad thing? Was that I almost thought that it was Stefan who was going to be sacrificed. I almost thought that Damon was going to be ok.

But that never happened did it?

Because over Stefan's shoulders was his unconscious brother.

"DAMON?!"

I tried to run over but Klaus grabbed hold of my wrist, pulling me close to his chest. I struggled immediatley, but I didn't seem to be moving.

Stefan came closer, and then dumped Damon's body onto the ground.

I pulled out of Klaus' grip instantly and dropped down to him. His eyes were open but barely. And his skin was paler than usual if that were even possible. His eyes were more white than blue, and his lips crumbled.

But he still smiled weakly when he saw me.

"Nina?"

I took his face in my hands. "Damon..."

"Vervain." He explained, his voice cracking.

"You'll be ok." I assured him. "Bonnie or Elijah or...anyone, they'll come for us."

"Nina..." he murmured, trying to reach for my hand. I removed one hand from his face and slipped it throug his fingers. "Yesterday...I didn't mean any of it. Katherine was...threatening you. I just told her...what she...wanted to hear."

"Shhh, it's ok." I promised, kissing his forehead. "It's ok."

"I bet you don't love me now."

I heard Elena scream violently, obviously the full moon had rose.

"Damon I love you." I vowed. "I love you."

He smiled. "It's nice to hear that."

"I love you."

I could feel Klaus behind me, knealing down but I didn't pay attention.

"Damon, I love you. Never let that go."

"Nina, I-"

He screamed. Violently. As if someone had reached through his chest and ripped his heart out.

That's the thing though.

Because Klaus was doing just that.

"NO!" I screamed, trying to hit Klaus' hand away. "GET OFF HIM! GET THE FUCK OFF HIM YOU HYBRID BASTARD!"

Damon's face twisted into an enourmous ammount of pain and his screams quietened, as if now he could feel nothing at all.

I looked at Klaus' hand, removed from Damon's chest, and he had physically ripped his heart out.

The heart that had loved me.

Klaus wrapped an arm around my waist. "3 seconds." He said to me.

"Damon, i love you!" I promised. "I really, really love you! You'll be ok!"

"He wont." Klaus added.

"If Caroline could come back, so can you..."

Tears spilled out of my eyes.

"I love you Damon!"

His eyes blinked a few times.

"Damon, I love you!"

His skin color faded a grey.

"Damon, I love you!"

He was a corpse.

Obviously, I lashed out at Klaus. Absolute, frigging big time. I kicked at him, and punched at him, and screamed at him, but he just smiled.

I looked over to Stefan but his face held no emotion. It was as if he really believed that someone was save us.

"Are you happy now?!" I screamed at him. "Are you happy now that youre brothers dead?!"

"Nina, don't be mean." Klaus murmured into my ear. He tilted my head back. "I'm going to make this quick, unlike last time. Because I just want this to be over and to never have to see your face again."

"Not gonna happen." Katherine pointed out.

Klaus didn't listen though.

And I didn't fight as his teeth sunk into my neck.

I couldn't feel it anyway.

I was numb with the pain of Damon.

I was too scared to look at him.

To think of him.

But yet, his face never left my mind.

I looked down to the ring on my finger.

I love you Damon.

My vision started to blur.

I love you Damon.

Klaus let go of me, I began to fall.

I love you Damon.

I closed my eyes.

I love you Damon.

                                                                 ***Stefan's P.O.V***

I waited with Elena for the rest of the night. Klaus didn't need me to be with him for a few months, he wanted to experiment with his new ability.

He had killed my brother and his girlfriend.

I wanted to physically rip his heart out like he had done to my brothers.

Nina thought I wanted to bring Damon to him? There's something called compulsion that you can't exactly fight off. I never wanted Damon dead.

He was my brother.

I loved him.

But Nina was right. If Caroline could come back, even if it was by no explanation. Then Damon could too. We were just going to have to look for the source to help us do just that.

I'd carried Nina's body back to Bonnie, Jeremy and Caroline. Their scents had been easy to pin down. They were at the boarding house.

I was furious with them.

They could have done something! It was all their fault! It was their fault my brother and his girlfriend were dead!

But then I realized it wasn't.

Damon had given strict orders to Bonnie. He told her not to leave the house until he called her.

I was the one to make sure that my brother didn't leave my sight.

It was my fault.

They didn't seem too sad about Nina. They just told me to put her body down on the couch. There was definitley something that they weren't telling me, so I demanded what was happening.

After swearing that I was no longer with Klaus, they still didn't tell me.

So I left and spent the rest of the night watching my girlfriend as a werewolf.

Eventually she turned back into a human and I quickly pushed the gate open. I wrapped a blanket around Elena's body and pulled her close to my chest.

"Stefan?" She whispered.

I kissed her forehead. "I'm here, Angel. It's ok, I'm here."

"What happened to Nina?"

"Klaus...he killed her." I admitted. "And Damon..."

"Damon?"

"...yes."

Tears welled up in her eyes and immediatley spilled out. I couldn't blame her. Tears had already been formed in my eyes and I'd spent most of the night in the company of my tears.

"We only saved Nina...we didn't know he was going to kill Damon."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Nina, she's not dead."

"Angel, I saw Klaus kill her." I explained. "I carried her body back to the boarding house. She had no pulse. No heartbeat. She wasn't in transition."

"She's a half witch. Her and Bonnie came up with a spell earlier this morning. She's alive."

That brought a huge weight off my chest. At least Nina was alive.

"But...Damon-"

"We thought Klaus was going to use Katherine. We had no idea."

A single tear dropped from my left eye.

"It's ok." I promised her. "Caroline came back, so Damon can too."

"You came back..." she whispered.

I kissed her lips deeply. "Because I love you."

                                                                       ***Nina's P.O.V***

I was in my room at the boarding house. In my bed. Elena in with me. Bonnie at the other side. Caroline at the edge. Jeremy lying on the couch under a blanket. Stefan knealing down at Elena, stroking her face.

Everyone was asleep apart from me and Stefan.

I turned to him.

"What happened in Las Vegas..." he began.

"Don't." I murmured. "What happens in Vegas, happens in Vegas. It doesn't matter. I've moved on."

"I'm so sorry."

"I know."

"You know, we will get Damon back." He said, staring at Elena now.

"We will." I agreed. "But..how?"

"I'm already on it." He said, a smirk coming to his face.

I was suddenly more interested.

"Stefan....?"

"In my time with Klaus, I managed to pick up a few things. 1, there is an original witch. 2, she's very, very powerful and dead. 3, This necklace" he gestured to the one around Elena's neck. "is what we use to contact her."

"And she can help bring back Damon?" I asked.

Stefan gently removed the necklace from Elena's neck and then tossed it to me.

"Definitley."

Later on that night, I closed my eyes just like I had done earlier when Klaus had dropped me to the floor. As my vision blurred, I thought to myself.

I love you Damon.

20 years later, mine and Stefan's plan had failed and I was now married to Alaric.

Only kidding, this is an A.N! ;)

I hope that you like this chapter!:D Under the circumstances of Damon dying of course. It killed me to do that but it had to be done.

Damon and Nina had sex....ew.

She's lucky.

And young.

But oh well:)!

I hope you liked this and have a good day wherever in this world you may be!:D

Remember, pretty ceilings have feelings o_0

^.^