Saving Damon

Confrontation

Previously on Saving Damon

Stefan: Damon, is everything OK?

Damon: Yeah, everything is gonna be fine Stef

Stefan: You're lying, what really happened Damon?

Damon: Look I'll explain everything when I come back home I promise. Just take care of Bonnie, please

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I was frozen to my place being crippled with all that guilt for what seemed like hours but after a glance at the phone it was only twenty minutes since I hung up with Stefan and I needed to go and stop the doctor before he contacted Bonnie to inform her of her grandmother's death. Rubbing my face with both hands and sighing deeply I was about to move when a familiar face came my way from the other end of the corridor, it was Elijah.

He came to a stop in front of me and gave me a curious look "Stefan came back to the boarding house with an unconscious Bonnie and kept rambling that you were hiding something after you hung up on him so I figured that I should come to the source and find out myself" He said putting his hands in his pockets and gave me a questioning look and I sighed "He also said you were using magic at the Bennett's house and it did not work for Sheila, so what really happened Damon?" He asked giving me a - you should tell the truth and don't even think about lying because I can tell when you lie - look.

"Why were you even at the boarding house Elijah?" I asked and he shrugged "I was dropping Rebekah off at your place and wanted to say hello before driving off and you were not there so we waited," He said ushering me to walk back into the waiting room instead of standing aimlessly in the corridors, so I followed him inside and we sat down there saying nothing for a while before I felt all the stress bubbling up inside me. I put my head in my hands with my arms resting over my knees and sighed.

Elijah sat there silently watching me not trying to push me to talk knowing that I'll do it without much probing on his end and I caved in eventually because I needed to share this with someone who will not judge my actions who will just listen and understand and that was always Elijah. I considered him a big brother for how understanding and reliable he was and that's how I found myself opening up and sharing everything with him.

"She was gonna die Elijah, I couldn't let that happen. I had to think over my feet, there was no other way. I know she's gonna hate me for what I did... she's gonna... she" I ranted out loud and suddenly his hand was over my shoulder "What did you do Damon? tell me" he asked calmly "I had to let her die Elijah.... Silas hexed her with the vipera hex and even if I tried to siphon the damn hex it would've killed her either way" I said agitated getting up and pacing around the room.

"She was getting old and her body was getting weaker with every passing day and I couldn't let her go Elijah... I traveled her soul into one of the nurses that work here... she's an orphan, no one will notice anything.... I couldn't take any chances of the new host dying so I turned her first" I was talking fast, my voice quivering with anxiousness and he was just sitting there watching me rant.

"I killed that nurse Elijah... I never wanted to kill anyone but I had to make a choice... it was either let Sheila go or kill someone that no one cares about. I made a choice to take her life and I will have to live with that choice for the rest of my life but if the guilt I feel is the price to have Sheila around forever then I'm willing to pay that price" I said waving my hands around in agitation and he had to call my name to get my attention that he wanted to interrupt me and start talking.