Emilia was terrified, he wasn't happy with her and the words he spoke scared her.

"I'll deal with you later"

It scared her. She wasn't clueless she knew how bad he most likely got.

It has been a few hours now and Emilia hadn't taken her eyes off the door.

She was suprised when there was a knock. She expected him to come barging in. Maybe it wasn't him?

Damon hadn't bothered speaking to his dad straight away, he had finished the washing up and then left to calm down. Unfortunately when he came back, Alesandro had gone to a meeting, the clients were in a different timezone so he had to do meetings in the evenings sometimes.

He decided he would just fill Alesandro in later and headed up to her room.

He knocked as always and waited for her to respond or open it.

"Emilia can I come in" he asked when there was no response.

Not long after she opened the door.

"May I come in" he asked.

She nodded.

"Okay" he followed her back into the room.

"What are you going to do to me" she whispered.

"You make it sound like I'm going to...." he paused when he realized.

"Emilia what do you think I'm going to do" he chose his words carefully.

"I don't know" she mumbled.

"What crossed your mind" he asked.

"You could be like Henry" she whispered so quiely that he only just picked it up.

"Then we have a problem" he sighed

"I'm sorry I didn't mean it, I'm sorry" she quickly said.

"No don't be sorry, I caused the problem. I thought you knew I would never lay a hand on you, Jesus all this time you have been thinking that haven't you. Ok we need to fix this now" he was devestated hearing she thought he would hit her.

"Why do you want to fix it" she couldn't help ask.

"Because you think I'm about to beat you up or some shit like that" he exclaimed.

"But don't you want that " she whispered.

"Emilia why the fuck would I want that" he couldnt help the dark tone.

"Because you hate me"

Damons eyes widened at what she said. Did she really believe that? He looked at her closely and saw she really did believe that.

Emilia looked at him waiting for a response, hoping he would deny it. He didn't. She couldn't help cry, what she suspected, he just confirmed.

Seeing her cry snapped him out of his disbelief.

"Emilia I do not hate you, I never have hated you. I never will hate you. Just alot has been going on and that is no excuse for my behaviour because I should have realised how it was effecting you. Come here" he said. He felt like shit knowing he had done this to her.

She hesitantly walked a few steps closer to him. She half expected him to hit her but instead he pulled her into a hug.

"I'm so sorry Emilia" he said as he tightened the hug.

"You don't hate me then"

"No never. I could never hate you and from now on I'm going to tell you that every day until you believe me"

"You believe her though don't you. I mean why wouldn't you, Im suspended from school for hitting someone, I've lashed out at you of course you would believe lexi"

Damon did not liking hearing that at all. "She pushed you into a lake, she threw you down the stairs and stabbed you. Do you honestly believe I think you are the dangerous one"

"But you looked so angry and you didn't even acknowledge me"

"I'm so sorry for that. I should have gone about things another way but I was furious, you weren't breathing at one point Emilia. When I got you back out of the water, you were all I cared about, you weren't breathing for a few seconds but they were the worst seconds of my life, and then I find out it was Lexi who caused you to be in that position. I was furious with her and angry at everyone else for not checking on you both, for leaving you alone. I should have been there. Im sorry you thought my anger was at you"

"I guess it's okay "

"No Emilia it's not okay, I'm not letting you forgive me just like that. I hurt you, I may not have realised I was doing it but I still hurt you and it's not acceptable "

"But it's okay really, just now you know and you're not being cold. I mean you're still...well you're still my favourite" she said but the last part was mumbled.

"No Emilia I can't be your favourite, I would love to be your favourite but I simply cannot accept you saying that after the way I've behaved, what I have done was disgusting and I cannot allow you to keep calling me your favourite like it's okay that I was like that. You don't deserve to think this behaviour is okay"

"Okay"

"I'll be your favourite again soon though so don't even think about permenantly replacing me"

"And if I do?"

"I'll stalk you for the rest of your life brat"

Emilia laughed "you need to get a life Damon, surely you have more interesting things to do"

"See this is why you're a brat, always bullying me"

They both laughed a little, Damon was first to stop.

"We should talk about what you called me" he said and leaded her to the bed so they could sit and talk. Both of them sat on the end of the bed.

"I'm sorry I was just frustrated "

"And it's okay to get frustrated, nothing will be done because you were right to call me those names and lash out at me but next time you have a problem talk to me about it. I will always listen "

"Ok next time I will, I'm sorry about how I acted"

"You have nothing to apologize for it was all my fault"

"Now since we are actually talking is it okay if we discuss something else " he asked.

Emilia nodded.

"Good because I think it's time we talked about your mental health "

Emilia froze up for a second "you said you didn't believe her"

"No Emilia I don't believe her but we do need to talk about your mental health in general. I tried to have this discussion way before everything came out about your anxiety but someboddddyyyy changed the topic. I know you don't want to talk about it and I'm probably the last person you want to talk to about it and that's okay if I am, I just need you to open up to someone, If it's not me, if it's not dad or the others then a doctor. If you're not ready to talk about it then that's okay too. But at some point you really do need to open up "

"Im fine, my mental health is fine"

"Okay just if you ever feel down or anything like that please do talk to one of us" he said.

"Isn't that normal "

"What? No! Oh Emilia. Come here" he didn't hesitate, he pulled her into a hug, it was a little hard considering they were sat next to each other.

"I thought it was normal " she whispered.

"No absolutely not. Please tell me how you feel"

"I just feel on edge all the time, I'm afraid I'll mess up and you guys will hate me and send me away. I feel like I'm only here because you all pity me, I'm not really wanted" tears ran down her cheeks as she said it.

"Darling, no. We want you, you are loved, you could mess up a million times and we would still love you the same. You are here because we want you here, dad could have turned round and told social services he doesn't want you and you wouldn't have known but he didn't because we all want you here. I'm glad you told me how you feel and we can work on it okay"

"Okay" she whispered.

"Please please believe me Emilia. I...we love you so much, you are never not wanted"

"Thank you Damon "

They stayed silently hugging for a good half hour.

Emilia soon fell asleep in his arms. He frowned, he had been a problem, he had caused her to think such horrible thoughts.

Damon carefully placed her in bed and tucked her in. "I love you Emilia"

"Stay. Dont go, don't leave me" she mumbled.

"Never"