An Ode to Damon & Elena
She's My Ride Home
Song by Blue October
We talked Now here we are I'll be reaching for the stars with you, honey
Together sharpening the knife
Like killing partners for a life
Hey, we can hide the bodies on the ride home
We're licking skin to wipe us clean
Strike a match, pour gasoline
Ditch the scene and watch this city burn
Asleep, my life will be a pillow steering wheel turn
Who cares cause no one else believes
so I set fire to everyone around, but you
-I told you
I told you we'd do it
The town was alive with the hustle of graduation day. Graduation robes splashed color throughout the whole campus. I stood with Jenna, Jeremy and a few relatives from further north out in front of the school taking pictures.
"Your parents would be so proud of you Elena." Jenna chirped with tears in her eyes. I smiled as we hugged. "I know I am so very proud of you." She said.
"Thank you Jenna." I said sincerely.
We mingled for a bit until I spotted the dark haired beauty across the campus leaning against the wall with undoubtedly the sexiest grin I had ever seen and it was reserved just for me. I said my thank you's to the family and made my way to him.
"Congrats graduate. What are you wearing up under this robe?" He said sliding his arms around my waist and meeting me with a sincere kiss.
"Excuse me." Two freshman girls giggled and pushed their way through us. They both looked back up to Damon and back at each other engaging in a secretive giggle again.
Damon stood and smiled at me and then nodded towards them. I nodded and we made our way in after them. Right inside the gym it was empty and dark in a room off to the side. That's were we led them. Damon crooned them into standing still with almost no effort from his liquid voice. There eyes went into a trance. Together we fed.
4 days later...
I stood out on the balcony facing the ocean. The waves crashed sending flares of sunlight sparkling. I watched my former class mates party on the beach. It was our senior trip and the beach seemed like the perfect place.
"You put the ocean to shame with beauty." Damon purred in my ear. He wrapped his arms around me. I smiled and laid my head back on his chest. I was in absolute paradise with him here. We found it difficult to actually leave the hotel room and judging by the way he slid his hands across my stomach I doubt we would be leaving anytime soon.
"I wish this could be forever." I said.
"We can have anything we want, Elena. Anything...for as long as you want it." He assured me.
"So we're sticking to our plan?" I asked.
"Yes." He said. The plan I was referring to was the plan we were to set in motion in only a few days from now. We we're going to spend a few lazy perfect days in this beautiful place and then we were heading north. To Kill Katherine. I was looking forward to it.
Later on I decided to join everyone on the beach.
"Go on without me, I'll meet you down there in just a few." Damon said. "I'm booking flights for when we leave. New York bound." He smiled flashing his eyes brilliantly. I kissed his shoulder and grabbed a towel and left.
BONNIE
Bonnie saw Elena making her way across the lobby to go to the beach. She was about to call to her but then she realized Damon wasn't with her. She decided this would be the perfect time to have the discussion with Damon that she's been needing to have. She waited until Elena was out of sight and then quickly dashed to the elevator. She made it to the third floor and found room 305. She knocked. Damon opened the door.
"Well, what a pleasant surprise." Damon smiled snapping his phone shut.
"Hey Damon." She smiled back.
"You know it's not nice to hang around in hotel rooms with your best friends boyfriend." Damon winked.
"Shut up, I need to talk to you while Elena and you aren't fused together." She laughed lightly.
"Fair enough,you may enter" He said holding the door open as she walked in.
She walked in and sat down in a chair by the balcony doors.
"You guys got the better room." She said looking around.
"I might have paid a little extra." Damon shrugged, sitting on the bed. "What's going on?" He asked wanting to get to the point of her visit.
"To be honest Damon...I'm worried about Elena." She said growing very serious.
Damon's brows pulled together in question. "And why is that?" He asked.
"I know you and Elena have been feeding on people at home and I'm sure since you have been here." She said gesturing around her.
"Mmkay, and the part that is concerning?" Damon asked growing slightly annoyed.
"Just that Damon! This is Elena we're talking about. She would never in her right mind do those kinds of things. Honestly I'm afraid of who she's becoming." She sat forward trying to plead with her eyes to make him understand how much this bothered her.
"We do what we want Bonnie." He said.
"No, YOU do what you want Damon...not Elena. I thought you were different now anyways. I thought being a human had...changed you." She said.
"Bonnie let me explain something to you. First of all...yes...I am different. I'm finally warming up to the feeling something for the first time in centuries." He said patting his chest. "And what I feel is love. I'm painfully in love with Elena and you know it. Yes, were doing a few things against the rules but no body is dying and it won't be too long from now that we'll have to leave Mystic Falls. Elena isn't getting any older, neither am I." He got off the bed and kneeled down in front of Bonnie. "Bonnie please hear me. I know your afraid that she's just another Katherine but your wrong. Katherine is a cold monster who wouldn't know love if it staked her in the heart. Elena is nothing but love. Yes...her character is a little bent but she's a vampire now and those kind of things happen. I promise you Bonnie. She's still a good girl and I will spend the rest of eternity making sure she stays that way." He said in the most sincere tone Bonnie had ever seen.
"Thank you." Bonnie smiled tears brimming the bottom of her lashes. "So...the rest of eternity huh?"
"Maybe...maybe not." Damon said.
"What does that mean?" Bonnie asked.
"It means...we'll see how it goes. I want whatever Elena wants. We want to see the world. Live a little. But when she starts missing you, Caroline, Jenna and Jeremy and even Mystic Falls maybe we will come back. When you guys start getting married and having babies..she might want that. And I'll do that too Bonnie. I'll take humanity any day and spend the rest of my life with her and our children, growing old together." Damon said.
Bonnie jumped of the chair and wrapped her arms around Damon's neck. "Oh thank you, Damon!" She cried. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"
He laughed lightly. They stood up.
"I might even get a jump start on one of them." Damon grinned.
"Huh?" Bonnie tilted her head.
Damon reached into his pocket and showed Bonnie what he had.
"Oh my god." She said bringing her hands to her mouth.
Elena
I waited on the beach, watching the sun hit the horizon filling the sky with an amazing pink and orange hue. The ground rumbled with the waves crashing and turning. I looked over at everyone playing in the water and sitting on the beach. Everyone was happy, and ready to begin their lives. Some in Mystic Falls, others, who knew. I knew I was happy, truly. For whatever may come. I looked down at the white sundress I had on and watched it flutter and dance at my ankles in the wind.
"I love you." I heard Damon say. I turned to meet his gaze, noticing how the sunset reflected perfectly in the deep blue of his eyes.
"I love you." I said. I reached out and rested my hand on his chest. Noticing his loose black collard button down was open a little on the top, and his jeans hung perfect all the way down to his bare feet.
He had a strange look on his face. Something like nervousness but more.
"Are you okay?" I asked. Suddenly he hugged me tight to him with a sense of urgency.
"I love you so much, Elena." He said again.
"Damon." I said pulling back. "I love you to, but what's going on?" I asked.
"Everything's perfect." He smiled. "Look at that sunset." He said nodding towards the ocean. I turned and looked out over the vast waters. The blue in the water reminded me of his eyes. It reminded me of him. Beautiful, eternal. I turned back around and found him down on one knee. I gasped and took a step back.
"Elena. I've been waiting a very, very long time for you. I've been through hell and back and I'd do it again a million times if it always came down to you. You've saved my life. You've hated me, you've loved me. But unless I can have you for the rest of my existence ...I'd rather never see another day. Marry me. Elena."
"Yes. Yes..."