"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it."

-Helen Keller

I was sitting on my bed. I just got off the phone with Stefan and I didn't know what to do with myself. I couldn't go to bed after what just happened. I needed to tell Damon the truth. I needed him to stay with me and never leave. I needed him to know how much I wanted him around. I need him to know how much I was willing to love him. I jumped off my bed and started pacing. I was busy thinking but a white owl was hooting outside my window. I was amazed at its beauty and walked to it. I was staring at it and was mesmerized by how close it let me get.

" Elena." I turned around to see Katherine standing there in my room, with her usual grace.

" What do you want Katherine? " I said while stepping away from my window.

" I'm here to help you. Surprisingly. Damon is leaving tonight. I heard him talking to Stefan. Stefan just lied to you." She said not even phased by it.

" Why are you helping me?" I said confused. I looked back to my window to see there was no more owl and then back at Katherine. " Was that.. Was that you? "

" Whenever you see a snow white owl in any bad or good situation, just know I had something to do with it. Maybe every selfish thing I do, isn't as selfish as you think. I want Stefan. I did my best to prove to you that you want Damon more then you want Stefan. Now its all in your hands to see how the real world will play out. You wont wake up in till you actually realize it, that's the whole part of the spell. But just so you know Stefan will be mine. Goodbye Elena. I suggest you go after Damon now. He should be leaving anytime and if you don't make it...you'll never wake up. " And with that I was alone. I was a little struck by her words but right now all I was focused on was racing down stairs and getting to my car fast enough. I drove as fast as I could to the boarding house. I came to a stop at the corner when I saw Damon walking to his car. I jumped out and ran to him. It was slightly raining but I didn't care if I got wet. Damon saw me and rolled his eyes and walked faster to his car door. I ran up to him.

" Damon wait! I need the chance to say the things I should of said but just couldn't." He stopped and turned around looking annoyed. His nostrils flared and he took a deep breath waiting for me. "I never loved somebody fully, not even Stefan. I couldn't do that. After my parents died I couldn't give it all away like that, because one day they wont be around. They'll die or leave me. I couldn't go through losing somebody again so I always kept my heart at arms reach and the thought that I didn't care if you closed that gap petrified me." I was choking up now and my voice was becoming hoarse. His position was now relaxed a little waiting for me to go on." Before I told a thousand lies to you. I said I could never love, you must of known I was lying! You know I lie! But you still believed it and that made me realize your just like me. All the things you do are for the same reasons I'm so scared and I'd give it all, just have you stay here with me. It's worth all that may hurt me in the future. It's worth all the pain I've gone just so worth it." The rain started to pick up blurring my vision a little. I was soaking wet trying to read his expression. "I never really told the truth so honestly. Damon I love you. Your drive me so crazy sometimes and all it does is make me want you more and more." He didn't say anything just looked at me with wide eyes.

" You know Elena. Everything about you, makes me want to hate you." He said loud enough so I could hear over the rain. "Everything you just told me is what I so desperately needed to hear... before. Your just a little too late." He said while turning back to his car and walking to it.

"It's a shame you don't know what your running from! You know this will be your biggest mistake! Just fight for once! I know all your hope is not gone! I hate the way I never listen to myself! But this time I have to and if you leave then your not the man I thought you were." I yelled back. I had to fight for him.

He got in not even giving me a second look. My heart just dropped out of my chest. I was standing in the rain on the edge of the drive way watching the car start. He pulled out of the drive way and turned onto the street. I was frozen. The rejection was hitting me hard. It felt like I couldn't breathe. I slowly started running after his car, trying to see it through the rain. I stopped when I saw his break lights flash. I watched as the car came to a sudden halt. Before I knew it his door was wide open and he was running to me leaving his car still on behind him.

" I'm such an idiot. " He said while grabbing my face and kissing me hard. I kissed him back just as eagerly trying my best to show him just how much I loved him. It felt like he was doing the same. I didn't want this moment to slip away. I needed to hold onto this forever, in case it wasn't real all along. He broke the kiss and looked into my eyes with so much passion I've never seen in a man before. " Elena Gilbert. I need you. All I did was hurt myself In the process of falling for you. And the worst part is I can't even blame you for it." He said with a chuckle. "Well if this is love then it's hard to say, but I want it all from you. I want you in every way possible. You'll be my everything if you will just be mine. For real this time. "

" Damon I was yours all along." I said while kissing him again and then everything went black.

I gasped. I sat up in bed looking around me. I was breathing heavily and trying to put the pieces together. Just two seconds ago I was with Damon and now I'm in a bed? There was an arm around my waist. I looked down to see Stefan in a deep sleep. Whats going on? I was having a hard time discovering what was reality and what wasn't.

" Wheres Damon? " I said while shaking Stefan awake.

" Elena what are you doing? " Stefan half awake leaned up. " What's wrong are you okay? " He said while rubbing circles in my back. " Bad dream? " I looked around the room trying to figure out where I was. Dream? Was that all a dream? I could practically feel the water on my skin. I could feel Damon's kisses. I could feel everything. It couldn't of been a dream. I looked around for my phone. I now remember where I was. I was in Stefan's bed.

" Stefan why am I in your bed? " I said forgetting about the phone.

" You slept here last night. We went on a date and came home and...Do I need to refresh your memory? " He said while kissing my shoulder.

" Why would I be here? You cheated on me. Where's Damon? " Stefan stopped kissing me and looked at me.

" Cheat on you? I would never do that. Elena, you know I love you. I would never do anything as absurd as cheating on you. Damon is probably sleeping. Its only 4 in the morning."

" No!" I said as a tear fell. "You cheated on me with Katherine and Damon and I pretended to date because you were with her and I wanted you back and..." I was full on crying. I squeezed my eyes shut not wanting to believe it. It felt like my heart just broke in half. I felt naked, and exposed. It couldn't of been a dream. No it wasn't. It was not a dream I'm for sure of it. Stefan put his arms around me trying to soothe me. I wanted the comfort I just had seconds ago in my dream. I wanted Damon. I didn't want Stefan's arms around me.

" Elena, you've been really stressed lately waiting for that writing program to get back to you. I know how bad you want it. It just taking a toll on you causing you to dream crazy things." I opened my eyes to his words. Memories of biting my nails and freaking out about this letter that was coming back to me. Then memories of my dream where I got the letter and I ran over to the boarding house and Katherine and Stefan were together. I didn't know what was real and what was fake. I jumped out of the bed leaving Stefan in it. "Elena!" He yelled after me but didn't move out of the bed. I ran to Damon's room and busted open the doors. I was still crying when I found Damon. He was siting up in his bed obviously just woken up. He was gently touching his mouth looking bewildered.

" Damon it had to be real! " I said while sobbing. He looked at me surprised but still warily.

" What are you talking about Elena? " he said in a quiet detached voice.

" It couldn't of been a dream. I can feel it. I can feel you. It couldn't of been! " I jumped forward, crawling onto his lap and kissed him full on the lips. I felt the familiar way he kissed me back and I knew he remembered.

" It's like I can still feel the rain. " He said against my lips.

" What happened Damon? It was real. I swear it was. You even remember! " I said while leaning back to look at him. " I don't even know what day it is." I said while crying even harder.

" Shhh. It will be okay Elena. " Damon said while wrapping his arms around me. This is what I needed. I closed my eyes and leaned against his chest. We stayed like that for a couple of minutes and he slowly rocked us back and forth.

" I didn't know you were ever the comforting type. " I said with my eyes still shut. I heard the hooting of an owl and my eyes flashed open and I leaned off Damon. I looked out his window to see and owl perched on the tree branch. It stayed there for a second and then flew away. I smiled and looked back to Damon. I didn't hesitate and kissed him right away again. It was slowly starting to all make sense. I remembered Katherine's words 'You wont wake up in till you actually realize it, that's the whole part of the spell.' I didn't care what people would think of us. I didn't care about Stefan waiting innocently in the other room for me. I didn't care that katherine put a spell on us to realize we loved eachother. All I cared about right now was being with Damon.

" Elena you remember it too? It was months. How can... I don't understand. " He said while kissing me back in between words.

" I don't know either. All I know is, I love you Damon. And nothing will change that. Not even waking up to find out it was all a dream."

The end.

AN: Okay so you all should be very happy right now. I wasn't going to have a happy ending but I just had to have them end up together. It was going to be she woke up from it all and when she realized it was a dream that was the ending, but I couldn't do it. I had to change it and throw in the whole Katherine Scenario. So now I'm really nervous what you guys will think about the ending because I changed it at the last minute so they ended up together.

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