Originally posted by: StarshineHues
And that's why I'll ship them forever and ever-they don't need to be "together" and say "I love you" to prove what they mean to each other. They are just who they are. She's his light, his life, he's her friend, her laughter. They can make each other angrier than anyone else can, and in the throes of that fury, they can make each other laugh. They hurt each other, fight with each other, but most importantly, they fight for each other. He'd do anything to protect her, and she knows that. She found in him something worth saving when nobody else did, when he himself didn't. She's the only one who can hurt him in the ways she does, but she's the only one standing in between him and his pain and darkness when it really counts. Because even when she says "You have lost me forever" and tries her very best to shut him out of her life-she can't. Because their something is real, and as Elena says, when its real you can't walk away. She hits him, even when she can't cause him any physical pain-because she's Elena and he's Damon and it hurts him in other ways. She hurts him because she sees what he's capable of being-who he was before Katherine, before all the pain. Because she knows the real Damon, because in front of her he can't pretend that he doesn't care.
Because he'll always choose her, and she knows that. He chooses her over even himself-because he loves her enough to walk away from her, because he doesn't "deserve" her, because her happiness lies with someone else. Not everyone has the strength to do that-not everyone has the capacity to walk away from the one they love knowing that it would be good for them. He may have stopped fighting for her, because her happiness lies with Stefan, but he'll never stop fighting for her life, even when she's told him that "its always gonna be Stefan". He accepts that, and he'd still rip his heart out for her in an instant, he'd choose her over everybody, over himself in an instant, even when he knows that she'll never love him back. And that's why his love for her is selfless and beautiful.
What they have together may not be epic, but its real and beautiful and genuine. And it can only strengthen over time-till they time they won't be able to deny it anymore. Which is why they're meant to be together. But even if they never get together, its alright. What they share without being together is more than enough. That's their beauty, their understanding, their "something"-their unspoken connection that doesn't need words or a definition or togetherness.
-Aditi
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