Delena: Time Together

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I hopped in my blue honda and started down the road toward the boarding house. It had been roughly 5 minutes since I hung up on Bonnie. I didn't take time to knock on the front door. I wasn't even sure if Damon was home. As soon as I got the door open I sped to the basement. The only thing on my mind, at this point, was blood. I didn't know the urge to feed could be this intense. I had hoped I would be able to control it but right now I couldn't. My brain was spinning by the time I reached the freezer that held all the blood. The veins under my eyes appeared and my fangs protruded my gums. I grabbed a bag and bit into the side of it, not wasting any time on neatness. After I drank one bag I grabbed another, and another. I couldn't stop myself. My hunger was insatiable.
When I was on my fifth bag I heard a familiar voice come from behind.
"Elena?"
I turned around to see the one person I never expected to see. I dropped the blood bag I was holding and stared at him, I wasn't sure it was really him.
"Stefan?" My fangs started to disappear and my face went back to normal again, except for the blood that now covered it.
"What...what...happened?" He asked I could see how hard he was trying to hold back tears.
"Klaus didn't really kill me. I mean he did but I had Damon's blood in me." He nodded but he still looked utterly confused.
"Did Klaus just let you leave?" I asked.
"He said he didn't need me anymore."
A few tears slipped out of my eye and I realized what a mess I probably looked like.
"I didn't think you'd ever come back." I said with a choked voice. Stefan walked over to me and pulled me into a hug, letting me cry on his chest. I wrapped my hands around his waist, trying to hug him tighter.
We stayed like that until a someone knocked on the door. I quickly tried to compose myself. My face was still covered with blood and trying to rub it off only made it worse. I kept my eyes glued on the ground.
"What the hell happened down here?" Damon asked with a worried voice.
"I...I" I didn't know how to answer him. I had just become exactly what I never wanted to be. A ripper. How could I tell Damon that I had lost control when he was so good at composing his hunger. Embarrassment began to cloud my brain. I looked up at the two brothers and without another word I raced upstairs to Damon's bathroom. I turned on the sink water and began splashing my face. I grabbed a towel and scrubbed my face to get the blood off. I kept scrubbing my face. Even after most of the blood was off. My crying just got worse and worse the more I thought about it. I was too embarrassed to be around Damon, of all people. He had seen every side of me, but this. I was a monster.

I broke down crying and let all my frustrations out as I fell to the bathroom floor. I hugging my knees to my chest when I heard someone clear there throat. I looked up to see Damon. I wiped my eyes with the back of my hands. He sat next to me in the cold tile floor.
"Elena, what happened?" He asked so gently that I would've told him anything he ever wanted to know.
"I don't know." I sniffled and kept explaining " one minute I was okay but after you left, I got the craving for blood. I rushed straight over here without thinking and I... I" I couldn't find the words to explain why I was bawling my eyes out in his bathroom.
"You didn't hurt anyone though."
I looked into his eyes and felt my heart speed up.
"But I could've. I'm afraid I'll hurt someone if you aren't there. I need you." I needed him to know much I depended on him. I lost control and I needed to know he would keep me in check. Before he could answer Stefan walked in. His face twisted with concern. The guilt started to wash over me as I looked up at his worried eyes. As much as I wanted to I didn't Burt myself in my knees. Instead I stood up.
"Are you okay?" Stefan asked.
"I'll be okay." I nodded to convince him. He gaze traveled to the floor as Damon began to clean up my mess. I offered to help but he just told me to go change. I grabbed a t-shirt of Damon's and a pair of comfy shorts out of Stefan's room. I walked downstairs and settled down on the couch to read a book, but I only got through one page before I fell asleep.