Damon Salvatore keeps it in the family since 1864 (mystic_damon) wrote,
Damon had left Elena after he'd compelled her to forget what he'd said. When he'd seen her on top of the staircase, the relief and the joy at seeing Stefan there, it was enough to break him. Especially because for one fleeting moment, he had thought she had had those feelings for him,. Joy and relief that he was there. Of course it was foolish of him to think that.
But afterward he'd been filled with his need to tell her how he felt, despite knowing that there was really nothing that he could say that would change the way she felt about him, or the fact that she wanted Stefan and not him.
But it had hurt him to say it too, to admit to her that he didn't deserve her, despite how true it was. Elena was all goodness and he was a monster. Monsters didn't deserve to get the girl.
He went back to the boardinghouse and instantly into the parlor to get himself a scotch. He poured one and then he sunk into the couch, staring at the fireplace as he became lost in thought about the brunette that he couldn't seem to rid from his mind. It was like she was haunting him, despite being alive.