Endless Souls

A Mistake

"You will sleep with me. You're going to forget that I said this but next time I come to the house we'll sleep together." I blink a couple times then I look around.

"Damon Ember and I are heading out!"

"Okay." I reply. Everyone leaves, leaving me in the house alone. After about an hour, there's a knock at the door. Rebekah stands there. She kisses me and I can't push her away.

After about 3 hours, a door opens somewhere.

"Damon?" The bedroom door opens and Elena gasps. Tears fill her eyes. She storms downstairs and I put my clothes on and follow her.

"Elena!" I feel a kick from behind me and I'm sent flying down the stairs.

"YOU SELF-CENTERED BASTARD!" Elena has me pinned on the floor by my throat.

"Am I just not good enough anymore? You needed someone new to play with?"

"Elena." She walks off and I go after her.

"Elena wait!"

"I thought you were in love with me. I was dumb enough to think that because we're married and we have not one, not two, but three children that you were devoted to me and only me." She turns and goes upstairs.

"Elena where are you going?"

"I'm leaving Damon."

"No please Elena." She goes into my room and kicks Rebekah.

"Hey slut. You can have him. I'm done." She stuffs some clothes in a bag.

"Now you're not tied down." She takes off her wedding ring and sets it down.

"And you can have that back." She walks out the door.

"Elena please wait." She keeps going and Wendy looks at us.

"Mom where are you going?"

"I'm leaving for a while. I don't know when or if I'll be back."

"No mom please don't go."

"I'll see you around Wendy." Elena turns back to me.

"I won't see you."

"Please Elena don't go. I can't do this on my own."

"Mom? Dad? What's going on?"

"I'm leaving, Ember."

"What? What happened?"

"Ask your father." She goes out to the car and gets in.

"NO!" Falling on my knees sobbing, Wendy, Damien and Ember run out after me.

"Dad when is she gonna be back?"

"I guess this makes me your new mommy." Rebekah stands there with a satisfied smile on her face.

"ROT IN HELL YOU BITCH!" I flash toward her and I pin her down, repeatedly hitting her head on the concrete.

"Alaric!" He comes out.

"Give it to me." He hands it to me, the only weapon to kill her. The one who took not only one but 2 people away from me. My Elena.

"Now you really can rot in hell." I shove the stake in her heart and I revel in the look in her eyes. Klaus and Caroline come out.

"What the hell happened?"

"Rebekah compelled me to sleep with her. Elena thought it was real and she left me. I'm sorry Klaus. But Rebekah took away one of my daughters, and my wife."

"I know why you did it and I forgive you."

"Yeah. But Elena'll never forgive me."

"I'm going after her. She can't shut off her humanity." Caroline flashes after her. Klaus buries Rebekah and I go back inside and start drinking.

"Dad you can't start spiraling. If Mom-"

"Your mother isn't here anymore. She'll never forgive me."

"You don't know that!"

"Ember-"

"You know what? Go ahead. Drink. Spiral out of control. Turn off your humanity what do I care. But do you know what that makes you?" I stay silent.

"That makes you a coward. And the guy that went to a remote island to save his daughter and her mother, that's my father. And right now, I am disappointed to call you my father. Because even when Mom was dead you still took care of me. When I was a stupid idiot and got pregnant at 16 you never turned your back on me. That's the man who is my father. Not this coward sitting and drinking his worries away."

"Do not patronize me Ember Rose. I am not your mother."

"Even when Mom lost Uncle Stefan Grandpa Ric told me that she somehow found the strength to keep going. I am not afraid of you. I never have and never will be as much as you'd like that. Until you figure out what you're doing is wrong I'm not in your life either. I can't believe you'd do this to us." She storms upstairs. I can't handle this. No. Damon don't do it. Ember's right. You need to be here for your kids. Elena. Where's my Elena? Klaus comes in and I sit there on the couch. Who gives a damn what my daughter says? I'll spiral all the way into oblivion whether she likes it or not. I take a swig out of the bottle and I drink until I pass out.