A/N: My sequel to 'The Best Friend' is now here. I know I said I was going to wait until it came out to DVD, but I want to start it now, mostly because you guys are so dedicated and amazing. Please review!
P.S. In this whole series, anything romantic between Damon and Elena is immediately turned into a form of friendship. There is no romance, AT ALL!
Disclaimer: I don't own TVD. Only Cassandra Anne Miller is mine.
Previously in 'The Best Friend':
"Why do you assume he's alone?" said an all to familiar voice from the window. I turned slowly only to find the one thing that could possibly make the situation any worse. Cassandra Miller. Cassandra is Damon's Best Friend, from when we were alive to now.
"I'm sorry, about Katherine, I can see she must have been a friend to you Cassie, you both lost her to," Elena said.
No matter how mad I was at Stefan, we were going to get Katherine back. I was going to get my sister back. But now that I really thought about it, I wasn't sure that's what I wanted.
"Because he's in love with Cassie," Isobel answered simply. I turned my stare to Elena who looked a tiny bit smug despite the situation. It was silent and I looked around awkwardly. Then it hit me. She was right.
I can't believe I kissed Damon. I got up and walked to my closet, but stopped and looked back at the sleeping man in my bed. His hair was all messy and he looked peaceful. I knew I was in love with him.
Our lips never left one another's as we continued to make our way towards his room. The door was open and he made quick work of my small shirt before I heard the door slam shut, and I was lost to the passion.
Cassie POV
I sighed in content as Damon's hand traveled from my bare hip to my shoulder and back in a soft, rhythmic pattern. I was laying curled up on his chest while he was on his back. My own hand was absent mindedly moving along his stomach, tracing his abs with my finger.
I couldn't believe what happened tonight. It was about 1:00 am by now and we hadn't slept at all since we, you know, slept together. I couldn't form words, it had been perfect. My love for him swelled. If someone had told me 6 months ago that I would be here right now, I would have laughed in their face.
Damon hadn't said anything either, but I didn't mind. I think any words at this point would have ruined everything.
I felt his lips on the top of my head and bit my lip from laughing in happiness. I moved my head up to meet his soft, blue eyes and melted right there. My mouth pressed to his for the thousandth time and my eyes fluttered shut. This kiss was different from the others, it was slow but passionate. Soft but hard. Our lips moved together almost as if trying to prove how we felt, instead of just raw need like previously tonight. He moaned quietly as I bit down on his lower lip softly and I giggled.
Suddenly D's phone began ringing. We totally ignored it though and continued to kiss as if the annoying and intruding noise hadn't interrupted us. The ringing eventually stopped and I smiled against his mouth. But our happiness was short lived as it started again. Damon broke the kiss.
"Don't you dare answer that," I spoke for the first time in over an hour. He smirked in a sexy way and moved over to get it. I huffed in annoyance as he answered it.
"Hello?" I smirked as I got an idea. As he was listening to whoever was on the other end of the phone call, I kissed his free ear that was on my side. He stiffened for a second and I grinned. I bit down lightly and he stuttered, "wh-what? I didn't catch that."
I hummed in triumph. "Okay thank you," he muttered as he hung up. I sat back and wrapped the sheet around me properly.
"What was so important, huh?" I asked.
"It was one of the people on the council, Caroline's in hospital. She was in a car accident."
I fell silent and growled. He wrapped his arms around my waist and whispered in my ear, "She'll be fine."
"What if she's not?" I asked, truly worried for my friend.
"She will be," he insisted and he began to kiss my neck.
"Well Liz is probably in hysterics. We're going down to the hospital."
"Okay," he mumbled into my throat, but neither of us made to move so he continued to kiss me. I rolled my eyes and leaned over him to grab his long sleeve, button down shirt from on top of the lamp. How did it get there? I slipped it over my head and got out of his bead. As I walked away from him he made a strange whining noise. I rolled my eyes and turned to face him but was suddenly pressed up against the wall by him.
"What do you think you're doing?" he asked as his mouth hovered over mine and his blue eyes searched my hazel/green ones.
"Looking for my underwear," I replied tauntingly.
"You mean these?" he held up the black lacy underwear I had been wearing with a smirk.
"Yes those," I answered him, ripping them out of his hands and pulling them on.
"No fair," he moaned.
"What now?" I breathed.
"You're wearing so much clothing, yet I'm wearing nothing," he pouted. I rolled my eyes, choosing to ignore his nakedness no matter how tempting it was.
"Well you better change that unless you plan on going into a hospital naked," I quipped. He sighed in defeat as he realised we really were going.
"But we're having so much fun," he added.
"And so we will again, and again, and again, and again. Later."
"You're such a tease," he groaned as he pulled me close.
"Hmm," I hummed in response. "But you love it."
I quickly kissed him again but broke away quickly, while I was still in control.
"Can we at least have a shower?" he asked.
"No," I rolled my eyes. "We're going now. As in now. Get dressed."
I was in my room seconds later, smiling as I heard Damon huff. I walked over to my walk in closet and pulled on some dark skinny jeans and replacing D's shirt for a black shirt and my leather jacket. I added some black high tops, sprayed on a lot of the strongest perfume I had and brushed my hair, making sure it looked normal, not like sex-hair.
"Ready?" he asked me as he leaned in my doorway now fully clothed in his usual all black attire.
"Yep," I replied as I grabbed my bag. I went to step through the door but he grabbed my arm and swung me back around, giving me a chaste kiss lasting about 5 seconds. "What was that for?"
"Nothing," he grinned cheekily. "I just love being able to do that now."
I blushed slightly and grabbed his hand, leading him down to his car. I got in the drivers seat and for once he let me drive without complaint. I pulled out of the driveway with such speed that the tyres screeched, making me grin. Damon held my hand as we drove.
"Are we going to tell anyone?" I asked.
"Tell anyone what?" he countered, confused.
"About whatever it is that's now going on between you and me," I replied.
"Oh, I don't think so."
"Neither do I," I told him.
"Really?" he seemed surprised.
"Yeah, I think they would freak, besides it seems heaps is going on right now. We don't need to add this to the pile."
"You're right," he admitted. "So this is real?"
"What are you on about now?" I asked him, confused by his question.
"Whatever it is we now have. Are we going to keep it up?"
"You sound so girly," I grinned.
"Oh shut up Cass," he smirked. "Seriously."
"Of course Damon," I smiled softly at him.
"Good," he tightened his hand around mine and leant in to kiss my cheek and whisper in my ear. "I'm glad."
XxX
"Liz," I called out as I finally spotted her. I pulled Damon over.
"We came as soon as we got the message," D told her. I rolled my eyes.
"Is she okay?" I asked. "Please tell me she is."
"She in surgery," she replied softly. "They're doing everything they can. I need your help Damon, Cassie."
"Sure," he answered immediately.
"Absolutely, whatever you need," I added. We led her over to a more secluded part of the hospital so we wouldn't be overheard.
"Mayor Lockwood is dead," she told us. We, of course, already knew this put we put on shocked faces anyway. "They thought he was a vampire. They put him on the basement."
D's hand snaked around my waist as we listened. I was used to it by now, we had done it since we were little. But now the action had new meaning. To anyone who knew us it looked like usual. But to us it now held a new intensity, a new need.
"Mayor Lockwood is a vampire?" D asked, though we both knew that to be false.
"No," she replied fiercely. "A mistake was made. They said he dropped like the others when John's device went off, but he couldn't have been a vampire. I've known the man my whole life. Carol Lockwood is going to want answers and all I can think about right now is Caroline. I-"
She cut of sobbing. I snapped into action, pulling her to me in a hug. She sobbed into my chest as I wrapped my arms around her and Damon patted her back, both of us whispering words of comfort.
When Liz finally felt better she went off to see a nurse about Care. Damon wrapped his arms around me again and I leant my head on his chest, sighing deeply.
"Come on, let's find the others," he said softly as he put an arm over my shoulders. Mine went around his waist and we walked towards Care's room. As we rounded the corner we saw Bonnie and Elena talking intensely.
"Is there a spell you can do or something?" Elena asked her desperately. Before Bonnie could reply, D made our presence known.
"She doesn't know how," he informed her. "Do you?"
"No," she admitted. "I don't."
"No, you don't," D began.
"Because it took Emily years to learn a spell like that," I said.
"Yeah? Well I can take down a vampire," she snapped. "That spell was easy to learn."
We gave her an annoyed look and turned to Elena. "I can give Caroline some blood," Damon offered. She was taken back by the suggestion. I have to admit, so was I.
"No, no way," she said.
"No, no, no. Listen, just enough to heal her, she'll be safe in the hospital. It will be out of her system in a day, she'll be better Elena."
I had to agree, it was definitely a good idea. My arms tightened around his waist.
"It's to risky, I can't agree to that," she said heatedly.
"But Elena," I tried to reason with her.
"Do it," Bonnie cut me off. We all turned to look at her in confusion, I would have thought she would be against it the most. "This is Caroline, okay? We can't let her die. Do it."
"Cass?" he asked me. I bit back a smile at how concerned he was about my opinion.
"Absolutely," I nodded. He turned to Bonnie.
"If I do this, you and me?" He gestured between them, I elbowed him. "I mean you and us, call a truce?"
"No," she deadpanned. My eyebrows rose. "But you'll do it anyway. If not for Elena, then definitely for Cassie."
Then she just walked off. I sighed and shook my head, my long, curly hair shaking with me.
"Look I know this is probably the last thing you want to do right now but we should talk about what happened," he said to Elena. I rose an eyebrow in question.
"Yeah, one of the tomb vampires got into the house and nearly killed John," she explained.
"Oh my God," I hissed. "Awesome."
She gave me a slight glare. "I mean, oh!" I tried to sound sad, but failed miserably.
"Wait what?" D asked. "When, what are you talking about. After I left?"
"You were there?" she asked.
"What the hell is going on?" I questioned them both. I was ignored.
"Oh come on Elena, you know I was. You gave me the advice, remember. I just wanna say thank you," D explained.
"When were you at the house? What advice?" she asked him, totally confused.
"Really? Earlier on the porch, we were talking, I asked you a question, you laughed and told me to, you know..." he trailed of, glancing at me.
"What the hell are you talking about? I don't have time for this."
"Why don't you remember?" he grabbed her arm, stopping her from leaving.
"What?" Elena cried, exasperated.
"Elena," Jenna called. "I came as soon as I got your 's John?"
"Where have you been?" Elena answered her question with a question.
"At the fire department, I had to fill out a report. I told you earlier," she explained.
"No you didn't," she replied.
"I am so confused," I sighed, rubbing my head. D's hand started rubbing along my back soothingly. Suddenly he froze as if finally understanding something.
"Yes I did," Jenna continued as I looked at Damon curiously.
"No Jenna, you didn't," Elena insisted.
"Yes I did," she said again. I rolled my eyes. Then Damon made a weird noise. Sort of like an unpleasant grunt.
"Oh my God, you gotta be kidding me!" he exclaimed. We all looked at him like he was insane and he grabbed my hand pulling my the other direction suddenly, causing me give a yelp of surprise. After a few corridors of being dragged we ended up in an almost deserted corridor so I finally used vampire strength and planted my feet, making Damon get pulled back.
"What's going on D?" I asked carefully.
"Katherine," he hissed.
"Excuse me?" I asked, beginning to question his sanity.
"Katherine's here. It all makes sense. That bitch," he growled, causing a passing nurse to glare at us.
"Are you kidding. Crap, Damon seriously..." at his look my eyes widened. He was serious. "Katherine's here."
XxX
We entered Elena's house silently. Well until we saw Stefan growling in pain on the floor. I stepped forward and helped him up.
"Stefan?" Elena asked from where her and Damon were still in the doorway.
"Elena," he breathed heavily.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Katherine happened," Damon answered. He was beside me in the next second, looking around protectively. I rolled my eyes, it's not like Katherine would hurt me. Would she?
We explained everything to Elena and needless to say she was pissed and worried.
"Did she say what she wanted?" Damon asked Stefan after Elena had gone to check on Jeremy.
"No," he deadpanned. Stefan was pacing and D was leaning against the back of the couch I was sitting on.
"She said she fooled one of us at least. What does that mean?" Stefan asked us. I shook my head but D sighed, causing my to twist in the chair and look at him curiously.
"She pretended to be Elena to when I showed up earlier tonight," he explained.
"I told Jeremy," Elena sighed as she came into the room. "I can't lie to him anymore."
I nodded in approval, "Good idea, he deserves to know."
She nodded also. "Are you alright?" Stefan asked her.
"No, I'm not alright," she told us. "I thought that with all the tomb vampires gone, things would get better."
"I know," Stefan admitted. "We all did."
"Katherine was in this house which means that she's been invited in. What are we going to do?" Elena asked us.
"Move," Damon suggested. I began laughing but Stefan and Elena's looks quickly silenced me. D came around and sat next to me, taking my hand.
"Very helpful," she snapped.
"It's an idea," I shrugged.
"Katherine wants you dead," Damon informed her. "There's zero you can do about it."
"You will be dead," I added darkly. Then I brightened, "But you're not."
"Which means she has other plans."
"Right, and we need to find out what these other plans are and not provoke her in the process," Stefan said. "What happened tonight when you thought she was Elena?"
"Nothing much, we just talked. I asked her some things, she gave me some advice and here we are," he smirked, glancing at me.
"Advice about what?" she asked.
"Nothing," he stated, giving her a look that clearly said let it go.
"John obviously knew something, that's why she tried to kill him," Elena deduced.
"She's Katherine, she loves to play games," D said as he released my hand and moved his arm around me, allowing me to move closer to him.
"You're an idiot if you think you're actually going to find out what she's up to before she wants you to," I said to them with an eye roll.
"Actually Elena's right, John could know something through Isobel," he then went off quietly to Elena about her Mother. I sighed and rested my head against Damon's shoulder and his hand moved up and down my arm lightly, giving me tingles as it reminded me of this morning.
"I've got a better idea," Damon told them. Apparently he had been listening, unlike me.
"What's that?" Elena asked.
"We're just gunna ignore the bitch," he explained as if it was obvious. I grinned and had the urge to kiss him, but I held back. Barely.
"Is that smart?" she countered worriedly.
"If Katherine thinks she's being ignored," he began.
"It will lure her out," I finished with a grin as he nodded. "She'll make a move."
"Yeah, then what?" Stefan asked.
"Stake her, rip her head off," he suggested. "Something poetic."
"I guess we'll have to wait and see," I smirked and with that Damon pulled me out and to the car.
XxX
"I want to know exactly who's responsible for killing my husband," Carol hissed as she, Liz, Damon and I walked with her.
"We're looking into it, but you have to be straight with me," Liz explained. "Is there any reason Richard was effected by the Vampire device?"
"What are you implying," Carol sounded horrified and looked about ready to punch Liz. "That he was one of them?"
"Nobodies implying that Carol," I tried to stop the fight brewing, but I was ignored.
"Your deputies screwed up. Plain and simple, which makes you responsible."
"Carol," Damon tried to intervene.
"Your husband is the one that helped John Gilbert execute his idiot plan in the first place," Liz hissed back.
"Liz," Damon sighed. He was ignored.
"Someone got my husband killed," Carol declared.
"Guys," I said louder. They both finally turned to look at D and I.
"Look, we're all on edge here," he reasoned. "You suffered a great loss. The whole town has. We have to stick together. Okay, trust each other. We'll get through this."
I bit my lip hard to keep from laughing. He was so cheesy when he was acting human. They nodded and we smiled at them before heading over to the bar.
"Okay, let it out," he sighed. I began giggling, and once I started I couldn't stop. He stared at me for a full minute before huffing and pulling me into an empty room. I was still laughing when I felt a pair of lips on my own, effectively stopping my laughing fit. He kissed my roughly for a few seconds before pulling away. "Shut up Cassie."
Then he was kissing me again. I smiled into it and he walked forwards, causing me to head backwards and meet a wall. His hands went down to my sides and this kiss slowed down a bit. But not too much. We broke away for a moment.
"We should stop before someone sees," I gasped. He nodded but continued to make-out with me in the small room where anyone could walk in at any time. Finally we gathered the self control to stop and after fixing ourselves up we headed back out to the party.
We went over to the window and I was about to say something when I noticed an extremely hot guy come through the door with Tyler. He was, of course, no where near as hot as D, but man he was attractive.
"Hey Liz," I said as she past us.
"Yeah Cass?" she asked.
"Who's the smoking hot guy beside Tyler?" I asked, biting my lip.
"That's the Mayors younger Brother, Mason Lockwood."
"Is he on the council?" I questioned.
"Like John Gilbert was when he rolled in?" Damon added, there was a strange edge to his voice, almost like... Jealousy. I smirked slightly. Damon was jealous.
"He's nothing like John," she told us with an almost knowing smile.
"Thank god," I bit my lip to hide a grin as Damon's face dropped into one of jealousy and anger.
"For one he's not an ass," she continued. "He's not a believer either. He wants nothing to do with the council. He's to preoccupied with finding the perfect wave."
"Hm," I made a strange purring sound of approval and she rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Don't even think about it Cassie," she said as she backed away.
"Yeah, yeah," I mumbled. "Thanks Liz."
"Seems like an idiot to me," Damon growled.
"Think what you want," I smirked again. Making him jealous was fun. He growled again.
"Oh don't be so paranoid D," I laughed lightly. Then I reached up and whispered in his ear, "You know it's only you I want."
He growled again, but this time for a different reason, before pulling my into another empty room to start another heated make-out session.
XxX
I walked into the bathroom to fix my hair and check I looked okay. I was just putting on more lipgloss when Elena walked in and gave me a big smile.
"Hey Elena," I grinned. "I didn't know you were coming."
"Oh, yeah I changed my mind. Decided I should probably come and pay my condolences," she replied, looking at me really weirdly.
"What?" I asked suspiciously. Did she know I just spend the last 20 minutes in a broom closet making out with Damon?
"Nothing, I just missed you is all. I haven't seen you in forever," she smiled again.
"What are you talking about?" I asked as I turned to her. "I saw you this morning."
"Well let's just say it felt like forever, Sandy."
It took me a moment, but I finally caught on. "Katherine."
"Bingo," she smiled. All I could do was stare. It was really her. My sister, my friend, my...enemy.
"No, I can't," I backed away. Sh almost looked hurt.
"Oh come on Sandy, please don't be like that. No matter what happened with me and the boys, you're still my sister," she smiled slightly. I wanted to kill her and hug her at the same time. I didn't know what to do. She took a step forward and that was all it took for me to break down. One second I was going to run for it, the next I was in her arms, hugging my sister tightly. I realised what I was doing after a minute and turned and left, without looking back.
I ran into Damon as I turned a corner and stepped outside and he gave me a strange look.
"Are you okay?" D asked me, concerned. In that moment I decided not to tell him what just happened, so I just gave him a smile and came to stand next to him.
"I'm fine," I grinned. He gave me one of his rare, charming smiles in return.
"I've always loved the colour of your hair in the sun, it goes a beautiful copper/blood red. Simply delicious," he sighed as he held a glass of wine in one hand, the other playing with a lock of my spiral hair. I blushed slightly, causing him to grin even more.
"Hey, how are you guys doing?" Elena asked as she came up to us. Her hair was straight now, so I'm hoping it's Elena. D immediately dropped my hair and looked away from me.
"Oh you know, the usual," I responded casually.
"Walking on Sunshine," he added.
"Thanks for asking," we finished in sync, our voices creating their usual harmony.
"Damon, Cassie," she deadpanned.
"Elena," we replied together in the same tone.
"We should be able to talk about this," she sighed. "Damon, Cass, we're close enough now. I really wanna know how you guys are doing."
"We're absolutely fine Elena," D snapped. I looked at him totally confused. He shrugged.
"You don't want to talk, fine," she bit out. "I thought we were friends."
With that she turned and walked back inside but got stopped halfway by Bonnie.
"Bonnie, what?" she asked, concerned by the look in the witches face.
"It's Katherine, she's here."
XxX
"We tried to track her but she's gone," D announced as we met back up with Elena and Stefan, walking up the hill hand in hand. "Oh cover up fabio. We've got a crazy ex on the loose."
"Better look out, looks like Katherine's trying to steal your guy," I smirked at Elena. She got a look on her face that almost made me feel bad. Almost.
"That's not what's happening," Stefan denied. I scoffed.
"Isn't it?" D and I asked together.
"I'm going to go check on Jeremy and Jenna, meet up when you three are done," she sighed as she got up and left.
Damon started to yell at Stefan about Katherine and he began to yell back. I rolled my eyes and sat on the bench as Stefan stood up.
"No, I'm not going to let her destroy the part of you that is finally feeling," Stefan hissed at D.
"Feeling what?" Damon countered.
"Your love for Cassie is coming through Damon, and hers for you. You're both feeling something other than anger, and I'm glad but Katherine will try and came between us all. We need to stay strong."
"We have no idea what you're talking about Stefan," I shrugged indifferently from my spot on the bench. Damon shrugged to.
"Look, I know you guys are in love with each other. Hell everyone knows, the sooner you guys admit it already the better," he told us then left. After a minute or so, D pulled me off the bench, tugging me along with him.
"Where are we going?" I asked.
"Home," he replied.
"Why?"
I got no answer. The drive home was a silent one. All I could think about was what Stefan had said. I knew I loved Damon, that much was perfectly clear. But I was so sure there was no way Damon loved me. Sure he probably liked me a bit, considering he keeps kissing me and stuff. But love?
I sighed, guys were so complicated.
We walked inside, Damon refusing to let go of my hand. Though I have no idea why. He poured us two glasses of bourbon and we turned, I sensed a presence. Katherine.
"Very brave of you to come here," he bit out. Knowing this probably wasn't going to end well, I skulled the rest of my alcohol.
"I wanted to say goodbye."
"Leaving so soon?" he asked.
"You mean we're not going to braid each others hair and paint our nails anymore?" I asked sarcastically.
"I know where I'm not wanted," she replied 'sadly'.
"Don't pout. It's unattractive on a woman your age," he told her. I couldn't even find it in me to laugh.
"Ouch," she scoffed. He drank his bourbon and put his glass and mine down before grabbing my hand and leading me out of the room. Before we got far though, she was in front of us.
"What, no goodbye kiss?"
I let go of Damon's hand and took a few steps back.
"Why don't I kill you instead?" he suggested. "What are you doing here?"
"Curiosity, etc."
"What are you up to?" he asked her darkly.
"Trust me Damon, when I'm up to something, you'll know it. Come on, kiss me, or kill me, which will it be Damon?"
He grabbed her face in both his hands and I looked away. Just when I thought he was about to kiss her, he whispered, "Neither."
She smirked. "Oh, I see. You finally realised your hidden feelings for Sandy. I'm glad you took my advice."
"Excuse me?" he hissed.
"I never loved you Damon, it was always Stefan. You and Sandy were always meant to be, I was just playing with you for a while."
With that she gave me a little wave and smile, blew me a kiss and left. Without even looking at Damon, I stood up and walked at a human pace to my room. I changed in some shorts and a shirt, and washed my makeup off before climbing into bed and turning my light off. It was at least an hour later that I heard my bedroom door open and close. The bed dipped down, and I smelt Damon as his arms encircled my waist.
"Hey," I whispered.
"Cassie," he whispered back. I turned in his arms and through the darkness my heightened sight saw he had tears on his cheeks.
"Oh my God, Damon. What's wrong?" I asked, panicked.
"I did something really, really bad."
What's new, was my first reaction. That's what I would have said up until a few months ago.
"What?" I asked.
"I went to Elena's house, we got into a fight and I killed Jeremy," he told me hesitantly, as if worried about my reaction. I froze and his arms tightened around me.
"I am so, so sorry Cassandra," he whispered in my ear again. I relaxed, I understood he was hurting. No matter what, I would always love him. So instead of doing anything bad, I just gave him a quick, soft kiss on the lips and wiped away his tears with my thumb.
"I forgive you," I whispered back. He breathed a sigh of relief and I melted back into his arms, slowly drifting into the land of unconsciousness.
A/N: I hope you like this chapter. It's going to be an interesting season. A lot is going to change to accommodate for Cassie, but I'm sure you guys don't mind. Thanks for staying with me and make sure you REVIEW!
-Sonny13