Chapter 1. The History
^ Mystic Falls 1864 ^
"C'mon Kat are we there soon?" Elena asked her twin sister Katherine.
"Yes, we are there in three minutes". She answered.
Elena and Katherine are identical down to the slightest shift in their smooth olive tanned skin.
Chocolate brown hair, and brown doe eyes, even their voices are the same.
But they couldn't have more different personalities, Elena is caring, kind hearted and warm, when she loves someone she loves them with all her heart.
Katherine is the opposite, she is selfish and treat guys like garbage.
But they both loves fashion, Katherine is wearing a dress in cream colour and a light green colour, her hair is up and she is wearing a hat and white gloves.
Elena is wearing a sky blue dress with patterns off white, her hair is also up and she is wearing a blue hat, the same colour as her dress, she was wearing gloves made of lace, with a golden bracelet on top of the fabric.
Both of them was wearing a necklace with a Lapis Lazuli, that a witch had done to protect them from the sun.
As they round a corner they saw the giant Salvatore estate in white marble.
A guy was standing on the porch, he had brown hair and green eyes, he had a cream coloured suit and white gloves, his hands were placed behind his back.
Elena saw how Katherine's gaze stayed at the guy.
When the carriage stopped, their handmaiden Emily opened the door and the chauffeur helped them down.
"You must be miss Pierce," he said when Katherine reached the ground that was slightly muddy, probably from a light rain earlier.
"Please," Kat said, "Call me Katherine," she said and took his hand and bowed still keeping eye contact.
"I'm Stefan." he said.
Then his eyes traveled to behind her, Elena had now reached the ground, her hair that hung loose from the up doing, was slightly blowing over her face in the light wind, she bowed with a grace Katherine didn't quite had.
"And you must also be miss Pierce." the guy said,
"That's my sister Elena," Katherine said and looked at her sister.
"Welcome to Salvatore estate, let me show you around." he said and walked into the house. "Please, come in." he said and unconsciously invited them in.
Katherine fell back to walk beside Elena, while Emily went behind them.
"What a hottie."'she whispered so low that only a vampire could hear and Elena chuckled.
The sisters was introduced to Stefan's father, that gave them a warm welcome.
"Mistresses," he said, "Welcome to my home, I hope Stefan gave you a warm welcome."
Elena spoke quickly before Katherine could open her mouth, knowing her sister she knew that Katherine wouldn't say anything good, even if the welcome had been great.
"He did a good job, sir. He showed us the whole estate, I must say it's a impressive house." she said and Giuseppe chuckled.
"Good, good." he said and patted Stefan on the back.
"Now son, show the ladies to their rooms." he said before returning to his paper.
Elena was in her room, pulling the pins from her hair, letting it fall over her shoulders and back, in delicious curls, before brushing it out.
Then she looked in the mirror, and sighed.
She was beautiful she knew that, but boys always fell for Katherine's dominant side, they liked rough girls. But Elena liked it gentle, but intimate and real, passionate and filled with true love.
She flipped her hair over one shoulder and made her way downstairs and out the door, and walked through the beautiful garden.
Filled with roses in different colours, and low labyrinths with bushes that reached her just below her knees.
Then she sat down on a bench beneath a apple tree.
She just sat there letting herself enjoy the delicious smells of the flowers and the sounds the birds made.
But there was a sound disturbing the peace, and she looked up and made a noise of surprise when she saw a guy sitting up in the tree.
Then he met her eyes and took she breath away, which had never happened with a guy before.
His eyes was startling blue, in a colour Elena had never seen before, but she had never seen more beautiful eyes in her life.
He had raven black hair, high cheekbones and sharp face lines.
"Sir, may I ask why you are up in the tree?" she called up to him, and he smirked, a smirk that made her legs turn to jelly, luckily she was sitting on a bench.
"I'm getting the best apples, no one reach." he answered, his voice gentle and soft.
Then suddenly he was sitting beside her, holding a apple.
"To you miss," he said holding it gracefully out to her, Elena blushed and took the apple from him, their hands touching lightly, his were warm and soft.
"I´m miss Elena Pierce." she said the guy bowed his head.
"I'm Damon Salvatore." he said, "nice to meet you miss Pierce."
"Please call me Elena, Mr. Salvatore." she said and Damon smirked at her again.
"Please call me Damon." he said and Elena looked down a chuckled.
Then the wind caught her hair and blowed it across her face, brushing lightly against Damon's face, and Elena immediately pulled it down.
"My apologies Damon, it gets in the way sometimes." Elena said with a slight blush on her cheeks. God, she thought, where had her self control gone? She was a vampire and a human guy made her blush, that hadn't happened since she was human five hundred years ago.
"It's okay, I like your hair." he said and Elena looked at the apple he had given her it was as red as blood.
"Neither Stefan nor your father mentioned you." Elena said and saw how Damon's lips pressed into a tight line, and realised she must've hit a nerve. "I'm sorry that's none of my business." she quickly said.
"You're right it's not." Damon said sternly, and Elena looked down.
"I have to get back, or Kat is going to wonder where I am." she said and stood up, she had started walking when he grabbed her arm.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound so harsh, it's just that I've never met someone like you, that sounded so caring and gentle," he apologised, his blue eyes begged her to forgive him.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring it up." Elena said, and noticed he was still holding her arm, she didn't want him to let go.
"Miss Elena, Mr, Salvatore says it's lunch time." Emily says as she comes towards them.
"Well then, let's go." Damon says, and lays a hand on the small of Elena back, the tips of Elena's hair brushing against his hand, then he lead her towards the manor, Emily hurrying in front of them.
"Do you enjoy your room?" Damon whispered in her ear, and she jumped, god! What's wrong with her, she thought.
"Yes, I do. It has an amazing view," Elena said and fought to keep her voice steady, she had just met Damon and already couldn't control her feelings around him.
When they came into the dining room, Stefan and Katherine was seated beside each other Giuseppe at the head of the table.
Damon pulled out Elena's chair so she could sit down, before taking a seat beside her.
"Elena why are you holding a apple?" Katherine asked, and Elena realised she was still holding the apple she got from Damon.
"Damon gave it to me." she said and Damon smirked.
"To eat it, not to keep it as decoration." he said with emphasis on 'Eat.'
Elena chuckled and didn't really know what to do with the fruit that looked delicious, but Damon took care of that for her.
"Here give me that." he said and took it from her hands, before he threw it through an open window.
And from below Kat and Elena could hear a faint "Ouch!" from someone who probably got hit by the apple in the head.
Elena gasped her eyes wide as she looked at him.
"Why did you do that, you didn't know if I wanted it." she said.
"Did you want it?" Damon asked with a crocked eyebrow, and Elena smiled.
"No, but it was a reminder of our first meeting," she said.
"Then you'll remember me as a apple boy," Damon said teasingly and Elena gave him a soft glare, and he chuckled, and smiled, a gentle quirk at one side of his mouth and that Elena found adorable.
"Ahem," a voice said and they snapped out of the trance they were in, and looked away.
"I'm Katherine, Elena's sister." Kat said and Damon almost didn't spare her glance, he just let his eyes wander towards her quickly before looking at Elena again.
The lunch was filled with talking, Elena and Katherine told the Salvatore's about their home in Bulgaria. The Salvatore's was very interested in hearing their history.
"Where are your parents?" Giuseppe asked.
"They're dead." Elena said shortly.
"I'm sorry," Damon said, and sounded genuine.
"We are too," Kat said, and gently gripped Stefan's hand.
"How?" Damon whispered, and Elena saw the scene in front of her, when she and Katherine had fled from Klaus 1364 and he had killed their whole family for escaping, the sight of their father against the wall with a sword through his chest forever burned into their retinas.
"Fire . . Fire." Elena said weakly, and Damon gently touched her arm, his eyes sad and understanding.
"I really am sorry," Damon said and Elena smiled.
"I believe you." she said.
"Now to something more happy." Stefan said, "What do you like to do?" Stefan asked, and Elena beamed.
"I love to ride, and to draw." she said.
"She absolutely loves to ride, she had her horse home before a black mare, a real beauty, fast as the wind, Elena called her Black Willow. Then our parents wanted to sell the Willow, and Elena is very stubborn so she said to our parents, that if they wanted to sell the Willow, she was going with her, since our parents didn't want to lose Elena they kept Black Willow, and Elena stayed in the stables for two weeks to make sure they didn't sell her when she didn't knew about it." Kat said, and took a deep breath, "and after that Elena always took Black Willow on a ride in the sunrise and dawn."
Damon smiled, "Where is Black Willow now?" he asked.
"She's home," Elena answered, Black Willow wasn't dead, she had gotten her only a couple of years ago, and the ones that had threatened to sell her has been a family she and Kat had been living with.
"I could take you on a ride tomorrow if you want, show you around Mystic Falls." Damon offered, and Elena turned to him her deep brown eyes shining.
"I would love to," she said.
"So what do you like to do?" Stefan asked Kat.
"I love to be with my girlfriends, and talk about boys and they love to gossip." Kat said.
It stood clear to Damon then, that Elena was the one who let people have their secrets and minded their business, and let them have their privacy.
Then she looked down while she spoke to Kat, knowing she could hear her.
"Don't break Stefan's heart, please, he doesn't deserve that." she said, she knew Kat had heard her by the glares she sent her when neither in the Salvatore family saw.
After dinner Damon escorted Elena to her room, at the door she turned around.
"I'll see you at sunrise," she said before closing the door, later that night Emily came and helped Elena with the dress, before she crawled into the giant bed.
She knew Katherine had compelled Stefan to love her, that was how Kat worked.
Later she fell asleep, her dreams filled with dazzling blue eyes, a side looped smirk and a amazing body.
Next morning she wore a cream coloured dress, with the bodice going reached a bit above her elbows, and a brown fabric vest over, her hair was pulled back and locked by a twist just above her neck, she had black boots on so she would be able to get up and down from the horse.
She met Damon at the front door, "This way miss Elena." he said and showed her out from the main house, and to the back.
There was a low house with windows, Elena guessed it was the stable. And she was right.
"You can take Pilgrim, I'll take Lightening " Damon said and Elena raised her eyebrows at the names.
"Pilgrim is mine, Stefan named Lightening when he was eleven." Damon explained while he saddles and braids Lightening, Elena does the same on Pilgrim, she felt the familiar excitement build up in her stomach like when she was younger and would ride.
They lead the horses outside and sits up, and soon they are away, and when the sun rises and hits Elena her hair sparkles in bronze and gold.
"Mr, Salvatore, this is amazing." Elena breathed, when they came up on a mountain and could see the sunrise clearly.
She could feel his eyes on her, and feel admiration roll off him in waves like water against the shore.
"Did you want to show me around?"she asked and Damon nodded, and turned his head in another direction, and she followed him on Pilgrim.
When they had done all Mystic Falls, Elena had a clear picture off that the Salvatores were very respected, and she had also heard what the girls thought about Damon, that he was incredibly handsome, and what every girl seemed so smitten by was his body and eyes, and Elena had to admit, his eyes were dazzling and his body was amazing.
She had walked past Kat´s room on her way to meet Damon and heard her talking to Stefan about turning him, so she knew that Kat had compelled him, poor boy, Elena thought, and made a mental note to ask Emily to give Damon vervain tea every day to protect him from Katherine.
Elena had met Pearl and her daughter Annabelle, who she found out were also vampires so she quickly became friends with them.
"You are lucky," Pearl had said and when Elena had looked confused she had chuckled, "I mean Damon Salvatore that´s practically every girl´s dream." Elena had looked away towards Damon who was talking with a man on the street. "It was nice to meet you Pearl," Elena had said before she'd walked back to Damon, and listened a while to the conversation he had with the man, but Elena found it boring and tuned them out and made her presence known. "And who is this beautiful lady?" The man said and Elena had to push away the feeling of throwing up which was weird since a vampire can´t throw up, but the man repulsed her.
"This is Elena Pierce." Damon said, "She and her sister is staying with us for a while." Elena reached up and whispered something in Damon´s ear, "Please say we are together, I don't like him, who is he anyway?" Elena whispered and Damon nodded. "Of course," he whispered back, and placed an arm around her waist, the man's eyes narrowed when he saw the move, "Miss Elena, this is Sheriff William Forbes." Damon said and Elena's mouth opened slightly, sheriff?she thought, but he´s flirting with me?! Elena found that thought incredible repulsive.
Damon seemed to notice her discomfort in the Sheriff´s presence and excused them. The sheriff just scoffed, his eyes glued to Elena when she and Damon sat up on Pilgrim and Lightening, and took off in the direction of the Salvatore estate.
"He did what?" Stefan asked his brother when Damon and Elena had gotten back to the house.
"He was trying to flirt with Elena, she looked like she would throw up." Damon said, "Good thing that you took her away from there, or Kat would have been furious at us for letting ´Lena get hurt." Stefan said and Damon snorted. "Like I would allow that . . ." he said and looked up when he heard Katherine and Elena walk down the stairs, Elena was in another dress, that matched Katherine´s. "I´m going to kill Forbes," Kat snarled, and Stefan and Damon chuckled. "And we will help you," Stefan said and Kat went up to Damon and gave him a quick hug. "Thank you for getting ´Lena away from there, I can't even think about what would've happened if you hadn't." she said, and Damon smirked, the side looped smile Elena had fallen for since she had first met him.
"I would never let anything happen to Elena, not just because she is our responsibility, but because I like her and I don't think she deserves to get her life ruined." Damon said and Elena nearly melted at his words.
Elena almost couldn't bear looking at Damon after his words, that had been filled with emotions.
"Damon . . ." She said and Damon smiled at her.
"Thank you for that I really appreciate it." She said and he was shining at her, she knew that she hadn't been forced to use compulsion to get Damon to love her, he loved her by free will.
"C'mon I'll show you back to your room." Damon said and led her up the stairs again, with a hand resting on the small of her back.
"I meant what I said, I didn't get you from William because you and your sister is our responsibility, I feel something for you, after one day of knowing you, aren't that crazy?" Damon said, Elena smiled.
"Not at all, I know the feeling." She promised, and kissed his cheek before closing the door between them, he leaned his head against it.
"Dammit," he muttered not knowing Elena heard him.
She had to admit, to have someone care so deeply for her as Damon did scared her a little, no one had ever done that before.
She heard Damon walk down the corridor while muttering for himself, but she didn't listen, she wasn't her sister, and sank down on the bed and sighed. The time she and Kat would spend on the estate would be long especially if she didn't work things out with Damon, she really liked him too, like really liked him.
That's when she came to the realization, she loved Damon.
More than she had ever loved anyone before, and she promised herself he would be hers before she and Kat left in three weeks.
She was up almost half the night, planning on how Damon would became hers.
Then she finally got it, she knew he loved her, now she just needed him to say it to her and he would be hers and she would be his, and they would be happy, and she wasn't going to use compulsion at all, that was forbidden area when it came to feelings . . .unfortunately that didn't include Katherine who already had compelled Stefan to love her.
She fell asleep with a smile on her face, and dreamed about her and Damon.
They were riding in the sunset, the sky shifted in colours, pink, orange and yellow, and slightly peachy, edging between pink and orange.
The horses ran, and seemed to be racing to see who could reach their destination first, both were laughing and Elena's hair flew behind her in the wind.
Then they slowed down, at the beach of a beautiful lake, the setting sun was reflecting in the water, Elena sat down from Pilgrim and dipped her hand in the water, sensing the temperature.
"Let's swim, it's warm enough." Elena said excitedly, to Damon who sat down from Lightening, and went to stand behind her, and brushed her hair aside over one shoulder and started kissing her neck, and Elena closed her eyes.
"Of course," he whispered against her neck, and she felt his lips move against her skin and shuddered.
"Help me with this," she said and gestured to Damon to undo the laces that kept her dress together, and she didn't have to ask twice, soon the dress was laying on the sand, and Damon threw a look on the corset.
"Just undo the laces, and when you have you'll understand how to get it off." Elena said and Damon did as asked, he kissed her shoulder as it got exposed from the fabric.
He turned around as she undressed, and went into the water, then when the water was over her shoulders she spoke.
"You can turn around now, darling." she said and Damon smirked, and started to undress, Elena's eyes widened slightly at the sight off his bare chest before regaining her composure.
She turned around as he went to work with his pants, and soon he joined her in the water.
Their bodies sliding together in the water, that was like soft silk against their naked skin.
Elena wrapped her arms around Damon's neck, drawing him in and kissed him.
Then she pulled back, looking at him, waiting for permission which he gave and she sank her fangs into his throat, he closed his eyes and leaned his head to the side for her to reach better, and moaned.
Their bodies were pressed together under the surface of the water. When she pulled back from his neck she kissed him, and wrapped her legs around his waist.
He lifted her up, keeping a grip on her and he walked them out of the lake and onto the beach, and laid her down on the sand.
He was on top of her, and started kissing down her neck and her head leaned backwards onto the sand and her body arched against him, she felt like her skin was on fire where he touched her.
Elena sat up, gasping for breath, the dream had been so real, it was like she could feel Damon's fingers on her waist and thighs, and his kisses going down her throat and on her mouth, and it made her ache with desire of being with him in the real world as she had been in the dream.
She sighed, if Kat found out about her love for Damon, she would compel him to love her instead of Elena.
She called out for Emily, who soon showed up in her room.
"Yes, miss Elena?" she asked.
"Emily, could you please give Damon tea with vervain? To keep Katherine out of his head." Elena requested and Emily nodded.
"Of course," she said and disappeared.