After - A Delena Story

8 - The cure -

I walk through the front door and see Damon and Stefan, sat in the lounge.

They have glasses of bourbon in their hands and are laughing about something.

"Hey." I smile and put my bag down.
"Hey! Did you have fun?" Damon asks as I sit next to him.

"Caroline made Enzo try on a tux and we were laughing for ages at him." I laugh just thinking about it.

"Oh no. The pink one? I warned him that it's
horrifying but he ignored me." Stefan says.

"I'm going to need photos." Damon chuckles.
"Don't worry. Me and Bonnie took about two hundred." I tell him.

"So?...you guys are getting along." I try to subtly ask how the talk went.

"I'm really happy for you both. And I'm very excited to bully my brother about his old age and hair loss." Stefan smiles.

"I've already told you. I'll never go bald." Damon warns him and I laugh.

"When are you going to take it?" Stefan asks.
I look at Damon for an answer because I don't even know.

"We don't know...soon I guess?" I say and Damon nods in agreement.

"I better get going. Caroline might skin me if I don't make it back in time to discuss colour palettes before looking at venues." Stefan puts his glass down and stands up.

"Kill me." He whispers and we both laugh.
"Bye." Damon says.

"Bye." Stefan replies and walks out the door.

"When do you want to actually...do this?" He asks me as soon as the door shuts.
"Whenever you want to." I say.

Truthfully, right now.
I want to start our life together right this second.

But it's a big thing for Damon.
He loves being a vampire and has been one for nearly 200 years. I don't want him to take the cure and resent me if he realises it was a mistake.

"I want you to be ready. Because I don't want you to resent me if..." He thankfully interrupts me because I didn't want to say anything more.

"Resent you? Elena I can't go longer than a day without you. I could never resent you. This is my decision, I want this, now." He says.

"Now? Right now? Are you sure?"

I want him to be certain.
He's told me so many times he's certain.
But I need to make sure he has no regrets.

"Elena." "My, Elena. Never in my life have I been more certain about something."

His words break me, they send swarms of butterflies into my stomach. And the way he called me his Elena...

Thinking about the human life we can have together makes me feel euphoric. My dream life with my true love. Something for the past few years I thought I'd never have.

"I love you." I say before kissing him passionately.

I pour every emotion I'm feeling into the kiss.
But the happiness I'm feeling takes over it all.

When I finally pull away his eyes are filled with admiration and adoration.

"Are you ready for this? To be human again...because you can't go back, you can't be a vampire again..." I remind him, tears falling from my eyes.

"Elena, I love you more than anything in this world, but please shut up and let me do this." He chuckled.

I grin and nod.

"There's one thing I'm worried about..." He says.
The grin on my face disappears and I immediately become nervous.

"I don't want to hurt you. I have to feed on you and..."