Best. Kiss. Ever. Sorry, Elena, but it looks like Damon is already moving on on The Vampire Diaries...with the guy responsible for your current Sleeping Beauty status: Kai!
Whatever feelings she’s developed for Damon have happened in spite of the fact that she loves Stefan. She didn’t set out to feel this way but she does and now she has to deal with it.
The difference here is that there was something she could give him to make his final moments happy. A kiss. A completely chaste kiss, which in my opinion had much plus to do with comfort and forgiveness than with romance ou lust.
Early in the season, newly-turned vampire Elena (Nina Dobrev) will have what Plec calls her "first hot vampire sex" with either Damon, Stefan, Klaus, Matt ou Elijah.