Story: My Saving Grace
Chapter: Fair Game
Disclaimer: I don't own The Vampire Diaries or it's characters, just this plot
"Elena!"
Elena sighed as she grabbed the comforter and raised it higher above her head to block out the annoying call of her name from down the hall. Though, that didn't stop the voice from getting louder and clearer as it came closer and closer to her and found itself in Elena's room. Elena lifted the comforter off of her eyes and saw the time on the clock; great, it was time to get ready for school.
"Elena, don't you hear me calling you?"
Elena rolled her eyes, "Yes, I heard you. What do you want?" she asked. Elena lifted the comforter off of her body and stood at the side of her bed staring at the girl in front of her.
"Dad said to get ready, we have school in two hours," the feminine voice demanded.
"Katherine, we have two hours before school starts. I'm sure I can get ready by then," Elena said, her fingertips massaging into her temples to block out the annoying voice of her twin sister. Katherine huffed and walked away without another word to her own room.
Elena walked over to her room door and closed it upon her sister's departure and grabbed her thin sweater off of the coat rack behind her door. Elena retrieved her journal and pen from under her bed before she walked over to the opposite side of the room where her balcony doors were and opened them, breathing in the cool September air. She sat on her outdoor loveseat and closed her eyes, feeling of the air tousling her hair.
She wrote in her journal, a refreshing exercise for her mind that she did every morning. It helped her organize her thoughts without leaving them into the disheveled mess they usually were in before she thought them through, not to mention it helped her gain some insight on other perspectives as well. It was like reading about a person in a book; you learn about that person and you see the mistakes that they can't because you are analyzing it in print right in front of you, whereas they are just living life day to day without a book to compare and make notes about.
Just as she was going to close up her last sentence in her journal, there was a knock on her balcony door. It was her brother Jeremy who looked at his big sister with a small sympathetic smile. Elena looked up at him and smiled, "Yes?" she asked.
"I just wanted to know if I could get a ride with you to school and back today," Jeremy asked, his arms leaning against the doorway.
Elena smiled at her little brother and cocked her head to the side a bit, "Yeah, of course you can, but why don't you want to go with Katherine? I'm sure she's taking Isobel with her."
"I'd rather not hang around those bitches. Dad's taking his car to the mechanics today so he can't drive me and I really don't want to walk because the school is about a forty minute walk from here," Jeremy explained.
It was nice when her brother asked her for drives to school because they bonded nicely. "It's no problem, but I'm picking up Bonnie and Caroline today because it's like a first day of school ritual thing. Do you mind?" Elena asked.
"No, it's fine. I'd rather that than Katherine, Isobel and Sage" Jeremy said with much distaste.
Elena laughed with her brother; it was the truth being bluntly spoken through a tenth grader's mouth. Katherine was Elena's twin sister and Isobel was their annoyingly rude and obnoxious eleventh grade sister; they bond over their rude attitudes and everything else similar to that. Sage was Katherine's best friend and lives three houses down.
As Jeremy left, Elena ascended into her room and went into her ensuite bathroom. She showered, shaved her legs and washed her body before stepping out of the shower and drying herself off. Wrapped in her towel, she blow dried her hair. Her hair was silky straight and thin, it was long and it was cascading down her back. She walked into her walk-in closet and settled on an outfit.
She wore a plain short sleeved white summer dress with white lace, a small dark brown belt that went around her waist loosely, matching dark brown ankle boots with a thick but small heel and a thin beige cardigan to go over her arms.
Elena applied light and natural make-up and cleaned her room of all the mess she left behind while getting ready for school, leaving her room spotless. Her phone chimed and she opened the text to see a message from Caroline.
You better be awake and on your way or Bonnie and I will kill you
Just as she was laughing at the text, Jeremy was knocking at her opened room door again. She looked up at him and smiled, his hair was a little spiked up and he was wearing a brown graphic tee with dark blue jeans and black shoes.
"C'mon, we have a half an hour to get Bonnie and Caroline, and get to the school. Plus, I have to meet April at the school because I'm going to ask her to take my shift at the Grill tonight," Jeremy said.
Elena walked over to her desk chair and grabbed her sunglasses, over the shoulder school bag and her car keys. "I've got everything, go get your bag and stuff while I grab something for breakfast really quickly," Elena said.
She walked downstairs and as she made her way down, she heard the three annoying voices of Isobel, Katherine and Sage in the kitchen. She walked over to kitchen to grab a couple of granola bars from the cupboard when the voices just stopped abruptly, but Elena didn't pay any attention to it. Her back was turned to them and she wouldn't let her sisters bug her on the first day of school.
Elena stuffed a couple of granola bars into her bag then walked over to the table to grab the two ten dollar bills Grayson left on the table for Elena and Jeremy's lunch. Just as she was going to grab some orange juice from the fridge, Katherine was the first to speak.
"So, what's your schedule look like?" Katherine asked.
Elena rolled her eyes and put down her drink, "I have first period AP American History, second period AP Calculus, third period AP Biology, and fourth period AP English Lit," she said.
"Sage and I have first period with you," Katherine smirked, tugging at her long luscious curls feigning innocence.
Elena put on a fake smiled but inside her head was spinning, she could not last a whole semester with her condescending sister and annoying best friend in her first period class. Mornings weren't great to begin with, now she has to share an hour of it with the people she disliked the most.
"That's great, maybe I can help you with your homework when you get stuck," Elena smirked back; two could play at this game.
Katherine may have her father's luscious curls and a smoking hot body but she didn't have class and she was extremely promiscuous, she was also a lot less smart than Elena. Whenever things got bad between them, usually because Katherine couldn't shut her mouth and always had to be the superior one, Katherine would throw vicious remarks at Elena in the hopes of dragging down her self-esteem and Elena would always throw her marks in Katherine's face.
Katherine's turned into a frown for a split second before her face was back to its usual smirking habit, "Of course, what's the use of having a nerdy twin sister if she can't help you with your homework one in a while," she played along.
Elena ignored Katherine and looked on over to Isobel. She was great when she was alone with Jeremy and or Elena, but when she was around Katherine she became a totally different person. Elena smiled at Isobel, "Have a good day at school," she said.
Isobel rolled her eyes at Elena and bit into her apple. Inside, she knew that Elena meant it to tell her not to let John Green, her ex-boyfriend, get to her. Isobel told her that when she was alone with Elena one night and Elena being the good big sister that she is tried to mentally tell her that she'd be okay.
"Oh please, she'll be fine, mom," Katherine said sarcastically.
"Katherine, no one needs any of your shit in the morning," Jeremy sighed. He was standing in the doorway, having heard only a little of his sisters' banter and he was already mentally exhausted.
"Shut up, find your own ride to school today then," Katherine quipped, her eyes narrowing into slits at Jeremy's amused face.
"He's already got one. C'mon Jer, we don't want to be late for school like some people," Elena sang.
They laughed together as they left the kitchen and made their way to the front door and outside the house. Elena and Jeremy hopped into the driver and passenger seats of Elena's SUV and rolled down the windows because the heat was somewhat unbearable. While Elena started driving down to Caroline's to pick up the girls, she noticed people had begun to occupy the Salvatore mansion.
"Hey Jer," she said while driving past the house slowly.
Jeremy leaned over a little to see the house through Elena's side window and looked a little stunned, "Isn't that the Salvatore mansion? Like Stefan's old house? I thought Giuseppe and Maria left it to Stefan's Uncle Zac to take care of?"
"They did, but I think they're back now. That's Stefan over there talking to that guy," Elena said.
Stefan was a family friend and he was also one of the guys that were a part of Elena's clique. He lived here in Mystic Falls since he was born just like everyone else but two years ago his family got a job offer in New York and they left the house to Uncle Zac, yet here they were and back like nothing happened. There were no moving trucks and the house looked very pieced together so they couldn't have just moved in.
"Why wouldn't he or his family tell everyone that they were back in town," Elena asked and began to focus back on the route to Caroline's.
"Maybe they wanted it to be a surprise for when he gets back to school today, so he could surprise his friends with his return," Jeremy suggested. Elena shrugged but she couldn't get over the guy he was talking to. He looked about Stefan's age or so, his black hair and pale complexion was stunning from a far.
She pulled into the driveway where Caroline and Bonnie were waiting patiently for Elena on the porch. The girls got into the back seat because Jeremy was there and all said their hellos while Elena began driving towards the school. They were having a heated discussion about how great their senior year was going to be and Elena was debating telling the girls that Stefan was back and decided it was better to tell them.
"You'll never guess who we saw today," Elena said while looking between Caroline and Bonnie in the back seat. They pulled into the parking space facing the school and just as if it was on cue, Caroline screamed.
"What?" Bonnie asked frantically while Jeremy and Elena turned to look at Caroline with wide eyes.
Caroline was grinning like a Cheshire cat and climbed out of the car quickly. Lucky for Elena's windows being rolled down, she heard her best friend screaming clearly.
"Stefan!" Caroline half giggled half yelled before crushing Stefan in a bear hug.
Everyone smiled as they saw Stefan lounging at their outside lunch table they used to sit at all the time, knowing that they'd all group up there before school starts to look at everyone's schedule and know who has what. They all got out of the car and walked over to Stefan and gave him longing embraces. Soon enough, Matt and Tyler joined the group and Jeremy left to go find April.
"Damn Stefan, when did you get back?" Tyler chuckled, throwing Stefan into a manly back-slapping embrace.
Stefan chuckled, "I got back last week. My dad's company transferred him back to Mystic Falls because this way he can work from home and give my mom her life back. She was really unhappy not being able to see her friends and family, she's not a city girl," he explained as everyone nodded.
"I'm so happy you're back, Stefan. Mystic Falls hasn't been the same," Bonnie joked and playfully punched his shoulder.
They all went over their schedules and noticed they all had the same first period class, AP American History. Elena groaned, "I hope you can all handle being in a class with Katherine and Sage," she said.
Caroline's eyes blazed at Elena with anger, "Katherine and Sage are in our class? Man, no offense Elena, but I really hate your sister," she said with such distaste in her voice.
Stefan rolled his eyes before stuffing his schedule in his pocket, "Katherine isn't that bad, Caroline," he said. Stefan always had some sort of soft spot for Katherine that everyone in the group hated. She was Stefan's first, sex wise, and while he didn't impose on his friends' hatred for her, he did defend her sometimes.
"You only say that because you've been caught into her web of lies. She's evil, Stefan. Don't let her female-gigolo nature change your mind," Caroline huffed. Everyone laughed at Caroline's theatrics and made their way to their lockers and first period class where half the class was already in it.
They all disbursed into different seats all around the same areas of the class when the teacher started taking attendance and, as usual, Katherine was either skipping or just very late for class, her posse as well. The teacher, or known by the football players in his class as coach, started giving out overviews of what they were going to be learning in class and classroom rules, expectations, and consequences when Katherine and a couple of her friends walked into class.
"Sorry Mr. Tanner, I forgot to put gas in my car this morning so there was this whole dilemma about getting to class on time," Katherine said. She smirked at Elena who was rolling her eyes in the middle of the class; Elena had put a full tank of gas in Katherine's car last night so there would have been enough to get to school, ergo Katherine was lying.
"Just have a seat and pay attention, get the notes off of someone in the class later," Mr. Tanner scoffed.
Elena couldn't take her eyes off of one of the guys Katherine and her friends were with, he had a pale complexion and jet black hair, and his eyes were a piercing blue that sent cold chills through Elena's skin. He sat in the seat in front of her, directly to Stefan's left side. Elena looked over to Katherine and pointed her pencil questioningly to the mystery guy's head as Katherine just shrugged her shoulders, not caring at all about the person who was hanging out with her group.
Elena felt the tingle of her cellphone in her pocket and pulled it out; she saw a text message from Bonnie who was sitting diagonally behind her on the right side.
Stefan told me that guy in front of you is his cousin
Then her phone vibrated again in her hands and it was a text from Caroline.
Woah hot bad boy in front of you
Elena chuckled softly and sent them both a group text.
He's not my type, more like Katherine's type
Her phone vibrated as she got a text back from Caroline.
Everyone is Katherine's type, she's a whore
Elena rolled her eyes at her friends' hatred for her twin sister and pushed her phone into her pocket. She took down the rest of the notes that Mr. Tanner was saying and before long, first period was now over. Elena went the whole day without seeing her sister or her friends again in her classes but she did have Tyler in Biology and, surprisingly again, she had Stefan's cousin in her English Lit class. She had arrived late from lunch so she didn't get to hear his name during attendance.
On her way to her car, she was met up with Stefan who was leaning against her car. She approached him and looked at him questioningly, "Are you looking for a ride home? You'll have to squeeze in the back with Bonnie and Caroline because I have Jeremy to drive home today too," she said.
Stefan chuckled, "No, Damon's driving me home. I just got back to town so I don't have a car yet and in New York it was easier to have my driver take me places or take a taxi. Though, that's not what I am for. I wanted to ask you something, about Katherine" he said, looking apprehensive.
"Yeah, sure, anything," Elena said, stunned that Stefan would come to her to talk about Katherine of all people.
He cleared his throat before speaking, "I'm going to be blunt, if I may," he asked. Elena nodded curiously before he started again, "Is she seeing anyone?" he asked.
Elena laughed before rolling her eyes, "If you know Katherine then you know she doesn't date, she just has flings and casual sex," she said. Though her answer gave him no insight to his problem so she answered him clearly again, "No, she's not seeing anyone. Though, if I may warn you, she is currently having casual sex with her boy toy Mason," she told him.
Stefan nodded at her; his expression was an unreadable one. She didn't know whether to feel bad because it sounded like Stefan wanted to take a chance with her or something, or feel happy that her horrible sister could get her friends into her nasty and sticky webs. She smiled at him and was about to speak before a husky voice from behind her spoke first.
"Stefan, c'mon man we have to go. I have work in half an hour."
She turned around and saw the mystery boy from her first and last period classes, Stefan's cousin. She put piece and piece together and realized his name was Damon. He looked down at Elena without any expression on his face and then back up at Stefan.
"Yeah, just a second, I need to ask Elena one more thing," Stefan said.
"Ah, so your name is Elena. I was wondering when we were going to officially introduce ourselves, sitting by a pretty girl like you in two out of four of my classes and not knowing your name is agonizing," Damon said amusedly, his eyebrows rose seductively.
And just like that, Elena could already feel her burning passion inside of her. She couldn't tell if her feelings were positive or negative yet, but from the looks of it, it looked a bit negative. He seemed like an ordinary bad boy, only wanting one thing from a girl. She rolled her eyes at him and thought about it some more, if he hangs out with Katherine's group then she can be damn sure that's not a person she wants to get to know. Although, she couldn't control the butterflies in her stomach as he spoke.
"Nice to meet you too, Damon," she said curtly.
He smirked at her and cocked his head to the side slightly, "Have you been doing your research on me already? I didn't tell you my name and you already knew, damn girl, you get around fast," he joked.
Elena's cheeks burned a small shade of pink while her eyes burned with fury, "Get over yourself, Stefan just told me a couple of seconds ago," she said, her demeanor was hard but her cheeks were blushing profusely as Damon's smirk only got wider.
Suddenly, the piercing sound of Katherine's voice was heard not too far away. Before Katherine got to the car, Elena closed her eyes and hit her forehead on the car door lightly a couple of times. Stefan laughed and Damon chuckled, he didn't understand.
Katherine approached Elena with a cat like grace, purposely ignoring Damon and Stefan's stares. Elena's fury began boiling inside of her, she was so conflicted. She didn't want Stefan to fall for Katherine because that was one of her best friends and she didn't want her associating with Damon, though she couldn't understand why. It was probably because he was a cousin of Stefan's and didn't want him hurt either.
"I need you to drive Isobel home because I'm going out," Katherine smirked, her eyes drifting upward to Damon's as she bat her eyelashes at her. This didn't go unnoticed by Stefan and Elena.
"No, Katherine. She's your responsibility. I have to drive Jeremy, Bonnie, Caroline and Tyler home; I don't have any space to drive her. You brought her to school, you bring her home," Elena seethed. She didn't have to drive Tyler home, but that made an excuse for not having to drive Isobel home. It also wouldn't have been a problem to bring her home because she's good when she's away from Katherine but she couldn't trust Isobel not to tell Katherine anything they said in the car.
Katherine pouted but her eyes were burning with an anger only Elena could recognize, "Please Elena, just this once," she pleaded. Elena could see right through it though, she was probably going over to Mason's for some fun. Though, something told Elena that Katherine was probably going with someone new today because Mason would have waited for Katherine to drop off Isobel at home.
"No Katherine, drop her off at home then go about your day after. It's only a 7 minute drive anyway," Elena sighed.
Katherine huffed and walked away without another word and Stefan's head hung low for a second. He stalked off to Damon's car and for a brief second Elena could see a flash of care in Damon's eyes as his eyes trailed Stefan's back. He looked over at Elena and smiled slightly and Elena felt compelled to smile back.
"Hey, what are your plans for tonight?" Damon asked.
Elena was taken aback by his forwardness but decided not to comment on it, "It's the first day of school so Tyler Lockwood usually holds a party at his house to celebrate the start of a new year. It's supposed to be a big thing because we're seniors now, so I'm going to that. Why?" She said.
Damon nodded at her and leaned against the car door slightly, "I was invited to that, so after my shift at work I was going to stop by. Guess I'll see you there?" he asked.
Elena smiled warmly at him, any negative thoughts about him dispelled, "Yeah, I'll see you there," she said.
He nodded at her with a smirk and stalked off to his car to meet up with Stefan. Just as he left, Jeremy, Caroline and Bonnie were all approaching the car talking about Tyler's party. They all got into the car and drove out of the student parking lot when Caroline asked the inevitable question.
"So are we all going to talk about how Katherine was basically all over new boy toy Damon today during lunch? That bitch can't even see new meat without somehow clawing her way into it and claiming it," Caroline huffed.
Bonnie and Jeremy laughed, completely oblivious to Elena's menacing grip on the steering wheel. "I thought she was fucking Mason?" Jeremy asked.
Elena gaped at her brother for putting it so bluntly and he shrugged, "Hey, I stopped denying she was a whore the moment she fucked Stefan then left him to rot. She may be my sister but she's the biggest bitch in the world," Jeremy said, earning props from Caroline and chuckles from Bonnie.
Elena couldn't help but feel jealous of Katherine. She and Elena were identical twins for heaven's sake, why did everyone have to be attracted to Katherine and not Elena. She was tired of everything revolving around Katherine, not everything had to go her way and Elena would be damned if she let Damon slip into Katherine's hands. She's basically had a fling with every boy in this town; Elena would be damned if she let the only guy left in this town get to Katherine.
"Whatever, she won't get him," Elena murmured, though Caroline heard it.
"Ou, twin fight over a guy?" Caroline egged her on.
"There won't be a fight, unlike Katherine I have class," Elena reminded the group.
Everyone chuckled and Caroline sat up a little straighter, "does little 'Lena have a crush on Damy?" Caroline joked. Elena blushed really hard and didn't say anything, giving Caroline the cue to continue. "You so like him, don't you! I can totally see the whole Delena thing happening, mark my words. Though, don't let Katherine get to him first," Caroline said.
Elena rolled her eyes at Caroline's dramatics. She didn't like him, liking someone took more than a few hours. She was attracted to him, and she didn't want her sister to get to him but that is usually how it goes.
She dropped Caroline and Bonnie off at their houses and drove home with Jeremy. They talked about the party at Tyler's and they bonded over music on the radio as they drove home together. Just as they were driving up the street they saw Katherine's car in the driveway and groaned simultaneously.
"Park your car behind hers," Jeremy said with an amused tone.
"Why would I do that? Then she can't get out of the drive way," Elena said oblivious to Jeremy's plan.
"That's the point. Piss her off by parking your car behind hers so she can't get to wherever she was supposed to go tonight without you leaving first. That'll teach her to mess with your man," Jeremy joked.
Elena laughed with her brother, "He's not my man. I'm just interested in him," she said, pulling into the driveway and parking behind Katherine's car. They got out of the car when Jeremy stopped and grabbed Elena's arm, dragging her to the opposite side of the house.
"Where are we going?" Elena whispered. Truthfully, she didn't need to whisper but because she was being dragged somewhere and no words were spoken she thought it would be better if she did whisper.
"If we walked through the front door there's a 50 percent chance she could have been around the door and then she would have told us to move the car because we're outside anyway. This way if we sneak into my room she won't know we're home until she looks outside or sees us upstairs, and by then she can't make you move the car because you're already settled inside," Jeremy explained.
He climbed up on top of the gazebo and jumped up, his arms grasping the ledge of his balcony and he used his upper body strength to lift him up so he could put his leg over the bar and onto his feet on his balcony. Elena climbed up the gazebo and Jeremy lent out his hand to pull her up but she shook her head and repeated the process Jeremy had done not too long ago.
Jeremy looked at her with a stunned expression, "How'd you do that? No offense, Elena, but I always thought you were a little on the weaker side," Jeremy laughed.
"While your ass is sleeping in on weekends I'm out at the gym doing yoga or zumba," Elena chuckled and smoothed out her dress.
Jeremy had gone back to going on the computer and Elena went to her room to grab her journal when she saw Katherine sitting on her bed, waiting for her to get home. Elena rolled her eyes and stood in her doorway, her arms were crossed and she leant her back against the door.
"What do you want?" Elena asked.
"How nice of you to come home and park behind my car by the way. I want to know why you didn't take Isobel today and made me look like a fool in front of Stefan and Damon. Don't say you didn't have space because Mason told me he took Tyler home today after school," Katherine seethed.
Elena laughed at her sister before taking her cardigan off and putting it on the back of her desk chair, "I didn't do anything. You told me to take Isobel because you wanted to go to Mason's after school. Excuse me for not wanting to take on your responsibilities so you can go and fuck your boyfriend after school," Elena reprimanded.
"I wasn't going to see Mason," Katherine said.
"Oh? And what were you going to do?" Elena questioned.
"That's none of your business, but you ruined my plans none the less. You're such a bitch sometimes, I've done nothing wrong to you and you treat me like I'm the ice queen or something," Katherine pouted.
Elena gawked at her sister; the nerve this girl had to come into her room and call her a bitch. "Get out, Katherine. I don't want to deal with your shit, I've got my own life to deal with," Elena said. She was massaging her temples roughly and closing her eyes in the hopes that Katherine would see that she wasn't in the mood to deal with her. Though, sadly, she was mistaken and the so called ice queen was still there.
"I saw the way you looked at Damon today, don't think I didn't. Hmm, it's too bad. I plan on taking him first, you can have my seconds after," Katherine chuckled darkly.
Elena's eyes shot open and she gave her sister a death stare, "He's not a toy, Katherine. You can't just play with him when you want to then throw him to the side when you don't want him anymore, that's not how it works," Elena fumed.
"You wouldn't know that, you've never been with a guy before. Oh precious virginal Elena," Katherine mocked.
"Just because I'm a virgin doesn't mean anything, it's my choice to keep my virginity. At least I wasn't stupid enough to let my first time be in the back of my now ex-fling's mom's mini-van," Elena retorted. Right when Elena said it, she knew she had some what struck a nerve in her sister because she could feel the wrath of Katherine's death stare.
Katherine seethed in her mind and got into Elena's face, "At least I had someone who liked me enough to fuck me, you've got no one. You can't play hard to get when you're hard to want, Elena."
Katherine turned on her heel and walked away from Elena and her room.
"You're kidding me, wow what a slut. She's just upset because she regrets her slutty first time so she wanted to throw your beliefs in your face," Bonnie said.
After Elena's encounter with Katherine she'd gotten ready for the party and drove Caroline and Bonnie to Tyler's to help set up early. They put out bowls of junk food and drinks while there were also servings of teenager foods like pizza and fries. People showed up at the party and they were so into setting up that Elena forgot to tell Bonnie and Caroline what happened between her and Katherine. She mentioned it to them about half way through the party and the girls were shocked.
As Elena was grabbing herself a drink from inside, the husky voice she'd been waiting for all night had decided to speak from behind her. "Elena," he said, her name rolling off his tongue with such a slick ease.
She smiled up at him and sipped her drink quickly to give him a reply, "Hey," she said.
"This party isn't so bad, Stefan and I just got here but it seems like the party already started without us," he fake pouted.
Elena chuckled, "That's okay, you're just fashionably late," she smirked.
They started talking when Katherine made her presence known with her friend Sage and she noticed Elena right away talking to Damon. Determined to win her battle and have Damon for herself, she stalked over to where they were and began talking.
"Damon, Elena, how are you enjoying the party," Katherine smirked.
Elena rolled her eyes but put on a fake smiled that even Damon could see through, "Oh you know, it was great. Though there's only one problem with it now, you," she smiled.
Katherine laughed as if Elena were joking and turned her attention to Damon, sending him a seductive smirk, "Haven't seen you all night, where've you been?" she asked.
Damon smirked back, he could feel the tension between Katherine and Elena and he was rather annoyed that Katherine interrupted their conversation but he rather liked Elena's jealously and mean side towards Katherine so he decided to milk it for all it was worth, "Working at the Grill. I just showed up here a few minutes ago with Stefan, actually," he said. He knew how much his cousin wanted Katherine so he knew how to play his cards.
Katherine's eyes sparked a bit at the mention of Stefan's name and she asked him where she could find Stefan and Damon pointed her in the right direction. This would help Stefan try to get the girl, get Katherine away from Elena to ease her sour mood, and leave Damon alone so he could breathe and actually talk to Elena. He was fascinated with her and he wanted to learn more about her. She was fierce but had this class and calmness about her, though she was stern and knew not to take shit from anyone.
"Why'd you send her away?" Elena asked. She didn't like how Damon sent her sister right into the arms of Stefan where she could attack his feelings more than she already did.
"Because I want to get to know you and I can't exactly do that with her around," Damon said.
"But why would you want to get to know me?" Elena pushed. She didn't know what his answer would be but she was hoping she wasn't setting herself up for inevitable disappointment.
"Because you intrigue me and I like your spunk," he said with such seriousness in his voice as he took a cup and took a sip of the drink.
"And what are you going to do about it," Elena smirked.
He looked down at her with such intensity in his eyes, "We'll just have to see now won't we?" Damon purred.
The corners of Elena's lips tugged up in a small smile and she nodded, her sweet doe eyes looking content with his answer. Damon couldn't get over how fast this girl was starting to grow on him. He didn't do crushes, he didn't do feelings, but somehow whenever she spoke she gave him goose bumps and he couldn't help but want to explore whatever this could lead to and see if it could be more than this.
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