We Always Survive ♥ (A Damon and Elena Fanfic)

Chapter 7 - So What's The Plan??

Caroline POV 2/6 4:00pm-5:00pm

“God, can you just steal from him or something? I don’t know how we’re supposed to get him to just hand it over.” Stefan rolls his eyes at my complaining.

      “Care, Bonnie called us 40 minutes ago, do you expect us to have a plan already? We’ll figure something out.” He tries to calm me down, but I’m just so frustrated. I can’t stand to see Elena like this. It doesn’t help that I feel guilty about Damon’s death as well. I never really gave him a second chance; I just never got over what he did to me. I couldn’t accept that he changed, but his little martyr move kind of proved he has. I kind of already knew that he had changed, but I didn’t want to accept that I was wrong.

      “I know, I know. I just want to get this over with,” I release a big sigh and calm down a bit, “She can’t be like this, Stefan. Elena needs this. And so do you.” Stefan lets out a weak laugh and looks away, but I scold him, “Don’t. Don’t do that.”

      “Do what?” He asks defensively.

      “Pretend you’re okay. He was your brother, Stefan. You guys saved each other more times than I can count and I know you. Elena shut off her humanity and I’m afraid you’re not too far behind.” He looks down and swallows hard, obviously trying to hide the pain. I feel sort of guilty for bringing that up, but he needs to accept it. “Look,” I start off, “I’m sorry. But can you honestly tell me you haven’t thought about it.” I look to him, hoping he’ll deny it, say I’m wrong and he would never do that again. But he doesn’t and his green eyes are full of the obvious pain.

I slowly walk over and embrace him in a hug. After a few seconds, he slowly wraps his arms around me as well, squeezing tight to my waist. I feel a tear roll down my cheek. What?! This was Damon. I didn’t like Damon, why am I crying? But the more I thought about it, the more I realize - If it wasn’t for Damon, we would almost all be dead. And he was Stefan’s brother, and no matter what he said, he didn’t hate him. He loved Elena and made her happy, too. Life was so different without Damon. I hear Stefan exhale and as he pulls away.

      “Alright. So the plan.”