Brave (Damon Salvatore x OC)

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A/N: The next two chapters are on the long side which is scary considering how much I cut out. ALSO! This story just hit 100k reads! WHAT?!
Thanks for coming on Damon and Ember's journey with me! Happy reading!!!

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Elena gasps for air and wakes up with a start. It's morning and she is in her room, Stefan is sitting on the end of her bed, watching her. She looks around confused. "Stefan?"

"Hey. I'm right here. You've been in and out for hours." He explains.

"Wh-what happened?" She asks.

"You were in an accident..." He begins.

"Oh my God. Ember is she...?"

Ember interrupts. She is sitting on the window seat next to Damon. She has a vivid bruise on her temple and cheek from Matt and a line of neat stitches on the forehead from the wreak. "I'm fine El! Stefan got me out of the truck!" She moves as if to stand but Damon puts a restraining hand on her arm. "Damon, she won't hurt me." She pleads.

"Hurt? Why would you be afraid I would hurt Em?" Elena demands and looks back and forth between him and Stefan.

"When Jeremy and Ember brought you to the hospital before all this happened, your injuries were worse than anyone knew." Stefan begins.

"Meredith Fell, she gave me a choice, she used Damon's blood to heal you." Ember tells her.

"And when Rebekah ran Matt's truck off the road, you had vampire blood in your system." Stefan finishes.

Elena starts to panic. "Oh my God... Does... does that mean that I... am I dead?"

Ember, Stefan and Damon can't answer.

"No, no, no, no! That wasn't supposed to happen!" Elena is openly panicking and crying.

"Maybe it doesn't have to. I talked to Bonnie, she says she's stronger than ever, there might be something that she can do to help you." Stefan suggests.

"I can help her! Even without my magic I can research! I'll start going over grim..."

Damon interrupts. "No! The only thing that's going to help is for her to feed and complete the transition."

"We have all day before she has to feed, Damon." Stefan points out. "That's a day to exhaust every possible way out of this."

Damon looks at them all in exasperation.
"There is no way out of it. We all know the drill. You feed or you die. There is no door number three."

Elena sobs. "I was ready to die. I was supposed to die. As long as Em was safe and here to take care of Jeremy I was ok with it! I don't... I don't want to be... I can't be a vampire! If there's something that Bonnie can do we have to try."

Ember wiggles out from under Damon's hand and run to Elena's side. "We will. We'll try everything." She promises and hugs her twin.

Damon scoffs and rolls his eyes. "Your choice, Elena. As always." Damon gets up and leaves.

Stefan looks at Ember and she nods and follows him while Stefan stay with Elena. In the kitchen, Damon grabs a bottle of bourbon from a cupboard and pours himself a drink as Ember enters the kitchens.

"Way to get her hopes up for something that's never happened in the history of vampirism." He comments with a attitude Ember isn't used to being directed at her.

"You don't know her Damon. You weren't there the day she looked at Stefan and I and told us she absolutely never wanted to be a vampire."

Damon drinks the whole drink in a single gulp.