Elena lay on her bed facing her window waiting for- she turned over angry at herself for wanting him to be there. She wished that she would imagine Stefan would climb through the window. Stefan, her unimaginably perfect boyfriend. But she wasn't wishing Stefan would slide into her bedroom so swiftly her brother wouldn't hear footsteps on the carpet through the wall. She was wishing for- "Miss me?"
Elena shivered as his cool breath ran over her neck. Damon. "Always." She said smiling as she rolled over to face him.
"Well I'm sorry for getting in later than usual, but dear St. Stefan had to lecture me about something."
"Something? Well that's specific."
"I wasn't really listening." he said wrapping an arm around her waist. "I was too busy thinking about you."
"One second." she said sitting up and unclasping her vervain necklace and setting it on her bedside table before laying into him.
"Why do you always do that?" he said as she rubbed her face against the dark fabric of his shirt, feeling the lines of his muscles.
"Do what?"
"Take off the necklace when I get here." He said glancing over her shoulder at the chains pooled over the pendant.
"Well if you're here then I really don't need to worry about vampire attacks. You're all the protection I need."
"Aww, bullshit." He said smiling sarcastically down at her. "Why?"
"So if Stefan drops in I can claim compulsion." she said.
"Wow." he said pulling back to look at her.
"You asked for honesty. I haven't broken up with Stefan yet and I know he's capable of ripping me in half like a paper doll. I don't want to see that happen."
"But you don't mind if I get my ass kicked?"
"You can handle yourself." she said settling back into him. He hesitated but ultimately pulled her back into him. She looked up at him running her fingers over his shoulder. "Why haven't you?" she said.
"Gotten my ass kicked? I have, plenty of times and many times by my brother."
"No, why haven't you compelled me? I mean this is all we've done. Lay here and-" he stopped her lips by kissing her softly running a hand through her hair. "That." she said her breathing shaky. "You haven't tried anything else."
"How do you know I haven't compelled you and just made you forget it?" he said waggling his eyebrows.
"I know because I haven't had long gaps of time where I can't remember what I've done. Also I can walk straight the next day." She said smirking at his shocked expression.
"When did you develop such language ?" he said.
"Around the time you started sneaking in my window." she said closing her eyes and inhaling deeply. "What if I hadn't been wearing the vervain that time you did try to compel me?" she said. "At that football game when you first moved into town you tried to compel me to kiss you, but what if I had kissed you."
"Well at that point it was just about pissing off Stefan. I probably just would have kept kissing you until Stefan rounded the corner then stomped off in one of his hissy fits." Elena lay looking off into space clearly thinking very hard about something. "What's going on in that pretty little head of yours?"
"I want you to compel me." she said still not looking at him.
"What?" he said looking mildly shocked which Elena knew meant he must be incredibly shocked.
"I want to know what it's like..." she said sitting up on her elbows. "I trust you not to take advantage of that fact. I just want to know what it's like."
"Elena-"
"Just compel me to do the same thing you were going to do that night at the football game." She sat up crossing her legs. "Don't act like you haven't wanted to." He sat up facing her.
"Elena," he said his pupils expanding until his whole eye was dark. "I get to you. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me even when you don't want to think about me. I bet you even dreamed about me." Elena's eyes went wide and blank as she nodded blankly. "And right now... You want to kiss me." Elena leaned into him slowly just as she had that night. For a moment she thought should would reel back and slap him but instead she seemed to fall into him swallowing his mouth in hers. She gripped his face pulling him closer as she rose up on her knees pulling him up with her. His hands ran over her waist as she pressed herself into him. "God Elena you've never kissed me like this before."
"I'll kiss you however you want." she murmured into his mouth rubbing against him hungrily. "I'll do whatever you want." Her hands slid down his sides as she kissed him again as she started to pull his shirt over his head. "I want you Damon." She rolled on her back pulling him on top of her.
"Elena, stop." He said without much conviction.
"You don;t mean that she said still working at getting his shirt off. "You've wanted this don't deny it."
"True." he said gripping her hands. "But not like this."
"You're just saying that." she said writhing against him biting her lip. "You want me any way you can, every way you can." She kissed him again moaning into his mouth relishing the taste of him.
"Elena, Elena stop." he reached over her and grabbed the vervain necklace from her bedside table. He quickly fastened it around her neck and then pulled back to look at her. "Ok now that's why I didn't want to compel you. You say and do things you wouldn't normally do and then you regret-" He was interrupted by Elena kissing him again with the same hunger she had possessed under compulsion gripping his hair with one hand.
"I don't regret anything that just happened. I just needed you to see what I really felt. You just helped bring down some walls." She leaned into him but he pulled back.
"What happened to not wanting to hurt Stefan?" he said looking at her. Elena dropped her hands and looked down.
"I haven't been in love with him for a while. I think I stayed because it was safe and I didn't know how to be alone. Especially with everything going on with Isobeel and the tomb vampires I can't be alone. I couldn't- I needed to know I had you first." she looked down at her hands fiddling with the sheets. "And I understand how incredibly selfish that sounds but-"
"I can't keep doing this if you stay with Stefan." he said cutting her off coldly.
"I don't want anyone else to get hurt either-"
"I don't really give a shit about Stefan getting hurt. I just don't want-" for the first time since she had met him Elena noticed Damon was stumbling over his words. He sighed exasperatedly and fell flat on his back.
"You don't want it to be like it was with Katherine." said Elena, instantly understanding as she looked down at him. "I get it. I'll end it soon I promise." She said laying back down next to him. She laid her hand on his chest and his head on his shoulder but he still didn't look at her. "I promise." she repeated.
"When?" he said his voice cold.
"Tomorrow." she said without any hesitation.
"Well if I had known it'd be that easy I would have told you sooner." he said smirking.
"I've actually been planning this for a while." she said. "I've been dropping hints for a while so it'd be less of a blow when it hits." She settled into his chest as his arm finally wrapped around her.
"I'm going to hold you to that." he said. She felt his hand run up her back and she thought he would tangle it in her hair and pull her mouth to his but instead she felt him unclasp the vervain necklace and she heard it clink onto the table. She looked up at him confused. "Just in case Stefan does stop by. Now stop tempting me and go to sleep." She smiled and rolled over burrowing into him. "You're going to keep me sane by pressing that glorious ass of yours into me?" He wrapped an arm around her tightly. "Good luck." He kissed her ear and she sighed contentedly
"Stay until I fall asleep." she said gripping his hand.
"As long as you need." he said quietly as he watched her breath deepen and he heard her heart rate slow.
I know, I know I promised to update my other stories Make Me Feel and No Room for Baby Bumps and possibly A New Challenge, but this little scene has been banging around my head. I needed to just get it onto the page before it slipped away. I might write a second chapter on this one if people like it though. Review and tell me what you think.