Summary: Set in S4 during the senior prom. What if things had gone differently? Read to find out what happens.621Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYkwr42tyn9
It was a dark night as Silas, looking like Stefan, stabbed Damon in the gut with a dagger.
"Where's my brother, Silas?" Damon asked through the pain.
"In the woods in pain," he answered, before he let go of the dagger and watched him fall on his side in pain, the dagger still in his gut.
Damon watched him walk away, as he layed on his side on the walkway in pain. Then everything went black.
Bonnie and vampiress Elena stood behind bead curtains on stage where they weren't seen or heard.
Elena put a hand on her shoulder and vamped out, ready to bite her. Then pain went through her, like a huge migraine, and she fell to her knees, as she cried out in pain with hands on either side of her head.
Matt and April walked in.
"What's going on?" April asked.
Bonnie looked at her.
"She tried to bite me."
She looked at Matt.
"She said she wanted me to 'stop being the problem.'"
She stopped her magic and left them there.
Elena watched her go, before she got to her feet, the pain gone.
"I have to go," Elena told them, before she left.
"Why would Elena do that?" April asked.
"She shut her humanity off. She's not the old Elena anymore," Matt answered.
Bonnie went out the back, when she left to cool off and be alone. She had control of her magic for now, but she had to be calm. She knew she had to, or she would lose control. So she stopped and took a breath to calm down after Elena's attack.
Elena left through the front door and saw him. Damon was out cold on his side and she could smell blood.
She was instantly at his side on her knees.
"Damon?" she called gently.
She gently got him on his back.
When she saw the dagger, she grabbed the handle, but let go. It was vervained and it pained her and made her hand smoke. So she took his jacket off and used it to get the dagger out. She then tossed both to the ground and took her hand in his.
She had been fighting to keep her humanity off, but she didn't want to lose the ones closest to her. She had tried to kill Caroline and Bonnie, but that was revenge and tactic. She couldn't lose Damon and Stefan, because they were her life just as Jeremy had been. She had told Damon that she didn't love him, but what she was doing was lying to herself. Damon had told her to shut her humanity off to help her, and he had always been there for her. It had seemed so little, but he had been there one step at a time, day after day, no matter what she had said or done to him. Now he was still there to help her get her humanity back. She had said she didn't want it, but she was lying to herself. She wanted it so much, because she felt hollow and cold inside. And alongside Damon was always the passionate Stefan. There was hope in him that he could get her humanity and love back. She felt it, but knew he would be hopeless when he found that she didn't love him anymore.
She rested her free hand gently on the side of his face.
"Damon, wake up," she said gently.
She sighed and took both hands away, before she gently pulled him into her arms. She positioned his head gently back, bit her wrist, and put it to his lips to make her blood go down his throat.
After a few minutes, she took her wrist away and it instantly healed. She then gently layed him back down and watched as his wound healed.
"Damon?" she called gently.
She held his hand, as she worriedly looked down at him.
Damon didn't know how long he had been out, but when he came to he saw Elena.
"Elena?"
He slowly sat up and she helped him.
"What happened, Damon?"
"I was vervained by Silas. He made me think he was Stefan."
"Then where are they?" she asked.
"He said Stefan's in the woods. He hurt him, too. I don't know where Silas went."
He started to his feet and she helped him, as she got to hers.
"Then we should find him," she said, as she headed for the woods.
He followed her.
Stefan pulled the rebar out of his gut and got to his feet.
"Are you okay?" Elena asked, as his wound healed.
"Yes," he answered her.
"Good. We should head back," she replied, before she vanished from sight.
They looked at one another, before the two brothers headed back. They realized with relief that them in danger had brought her one step towards her humanity.
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