It's Time To Wake Up, Elena

Chapter 7

Damon's POV 

I got stuck paying for the drinks, sometimes Jackson acts too much like Matt, but I've gotten use to it. I headed towards the boarding house to find out that Stefan got back and Blondie was gone, so that's good. I don't know why I can't stand Blondie, I mean we both had our fair share of the bad but still. I think it's because when I look at Caroline I see Elena standing next to her. I parked the Camaro and walked inside.

"Jeez that was quick. I just got the text that you passed the grill-" Stefan yelled from across the house. What the hell was he talking about?

"Stef?" I questioned. Stefan ran down the stairs.

"Damon?!" he looked nervous.

"Hello to you to-" I walked towards to the living room. Stefan chased me to the bourbon.

"I didn't know you would be home s early." He seemed to calm down. He kept looking through the window towards the driveway.

"You okay?" I took a sip of my bourbon then studied Stefan trying to figure out why he was acting so jumpy.

"Yeah I'm better than okay." He had this huge smile on his face.

"Okay." I trailed off. I walked towards the front door.

"Where are you going?" He asked and looked out the window again. He tensed up as if whatever he was looking for he found. I kept staring at him then I finally walked slowly up to the window... my heart got heavy. I just stared at the sight that was before me. No. That's not her. No way.

"El- Elena?" I barely was able to get a word out. Caroline was walking with her with tons of shopping bags and opened the door, she was the first one in. When Caroline made eye contact with me she smiled and stepped aside so Elena can get in. The most unbelievable sight walked in so, beautiful. When Elena walked inside she was facing the other direction, but I knew that someone with gorgeous silky brown hair like that... was Elena.

"Elena."

Elena's POV

"Elena."

I knew that voice in a heartbeat, which was weird because I'm pretty sure my heart skipped a few. My face went white as I dropped the shopping bags. I can't breathe. How do I breathe? I think I forgot how to breathe. I blinked a few times before I got the courage to turn around. There he was. He had a mixture of lust, confusion, and amaze on his face. He looked at me dead in the eye, and I looked back into his ocean blue eyes that looked like they were about to cry. He studied my face and my body on last time before he took a step slowly towards me. I just looked at him with my mouth parted and disbelief in my eyes.

"Damon." I whispered.

He looked up into my eyes once he heard my voice. I tear fell from his left eye.  He took a deep breath  then lunged into my arms with the most passionate hug I've ever seen. He grab held of me so tightly I let out a yelp. He just laughed a tightened his grip. I started balling into his shoulder and kept whispering things like oh my god, and I can't believe it's you. He started crying with me, I never really seen Damon cry before, it broke my heart to witness.

"I'm here." I stuttered. "I'm here." He ended the hug and grabbed both my hands with his. I looked into his eyes once more but this time they were they really looked like an ocean from all the crying.

I started to cry again but once a tear left my eye he wiped it away, "Yes you are." He just stared at me with eyes of full of emotion. I didn't even notice that Stefan and Caroline left once we started to hug. 

This was better than any of the dreams I had about this moment, because this one...was real.