So, a Delena story I just started working on. But I wanted to publish it today. Well, I got inspired to do this and here it is, give the first chapter a chance. ;P I don't wanna say much. ;DD Just read.

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~Flashback~

A pale and paining light shot into Elena's eyes, everything was really cloudy and she felt dizzy, but she still noticed someone walking around her, she rose her hand in attempt to get the woman's attention, but her hand feel again when she felt another hand on it, she shifted her eyes over to her other side and saw Jeremy sitting beside the bed she was laying in, through the small slit of her eyes that was opened. He looked damaged, not physical but psychic, his head was resting on her bed and he seemed to be asleep. Elena then noticed that the woman was a nurse and she was laying in a hospital bed.

"It's okay." the nurse told her and smiled down at Elena before she put her back into a deep sleep with a injection.

It was a few days later that she found out that she had been involved in a car accident, with her parents, Jeremy was home and so he didn't get any harm, but her parents had passed away and that information sent Elena into a depression, until she met him. He came in on the same night as Elena did, it was something with his brain, he told her he fell down the stairs in his house and hit his head very badly. A brain concussion was the consequence.

He made her laugh, showed her what it was to live again, he made her life worth the living again. And when she finally was ready to start a new chapter of her life, and felt like falling in love with Damon, he shut her out. But Elena wouldn't give up that easily and fought for him.

And now it's been over four years since then, and she had married Damon Salvatore, a rich but complex business man, it had been quiet difficult to get through all of the walls he had built up around himself, but Elena had managed to break into his heart, bringing out the best in him.

Their marriage had been a wonderful dream since then, everything was perfect, and it didn't just seem to be perfect to the outside so that even the neighbors were jealous on the couple, no, it was perfect, in every way. He came home and dinner was on the table, she got a kiss once he was home from work and mind blowing sex in the nights.

Elena had to admit it weren't normal how they had met, but it brought them together, and it as real love, so why complain.

But there was this day, when she was looking for 'Gone With The Wind', their favorite book, and she thought it could be in Damon's office in their house, but instead of finding the book, she found a notice book, with numbers and stuff that didn't match his work at all.

The first thing she could think of was calling a team of specialists on this; Bonnie, her friend since kindergarten. Caroline, the smartest girl she could think of and her best friend. And Katherine, because she was definitively a professional when it came to cheating.

Half an hour later they were all sitting in the living room of the boarding house, tea and cake on the table and a little 4 year old girl siting on Caroline's lap.

Katherine shot Caroline an annoyed look. "Did you really have to bring her with you?"

"She's my daughter, of course I did." Caroline hissed back, rocking the little girl up and down on her legs.

"Elena said it's an emergency, you don't bring a baby to something like this." Katherine stated and wiggled her index finger at Caroline.

"Hey, you two, it's fine." Elena broke through them. She sat down on the couch beside Katherine and rested her hands in her lap. "I have a problem..." she murmured.

"And what's that?" Bonnie asked.

The three of them starred at Elena, though Katherine was making her nails by the way. Caroline's daughter bubbled happily to herself, she was just too cute and Elena was proud to be her godmother, she spoiled the little princess way to much, but no one really cared.

Elena sighed deeply. "I think Damon's cheating on me." And once the sentence had left her lips, it was like a fire had started burning, Bonnie started swearing and cursing on Damon, Katherine shoot her head quickly, arguing with everything Bonnie said, telling her to shut up and look at Damon, she said he would be like a love sick puppy around Elena, and that he wouldn't even think of cheating on her, and Caroline, she just watched them, keeping her little girl close to her afraid she could get in between the two of them.

Until Elena ended the fuss. "Stop!" she yelled, getting them finally quiet.

And as everything had just went down, suddenly the little girl broke out, into soft whimpers. "Mommy." she muttered, tears running down her cheeks as she made grabby hands for Caroline. It had all been too much for that small human being and she was so sleepy anyways because Caroline had ripped her out of her nap to take her with her to Elena.

Caroline hugged her gently. "She's just tired, Elena, could she sleep in your bed?" Caroline rose an eyebrow at her and she nodded, understanding.

Katherine didn't wait long to continue. "Damon is completely in love with you, head over heels, what makes you thing he'd betray you?"

"I found weird stuff in his office.." Elena shrugged and fumbled with the hem of her blue dress.

She was so glad that she had Katherine in this. She had cheated many times on Klaus, that's just how their relationship worked, she always said. Elena didn't want to have such an relationship, though, she didn't want to be cheated on.

Klaus and Katherine must have been one of the most diabolic couples Elena had ever seen, but Klaus was Damon's boss, somehow. And his oldest and best friend. And so Elena managed to get friends with Katherine.

"Weird stuff?" Katherine questioned and Elena nodded. "Come on, it's just work, and nothing else, I don't want you to think about it ever again! Kay?" she waved a hand around in the room as if she shoved the topic out of a window, and so it was gone. Because Katherine was probably right, it must have been nothing.

"Mhm.." Elena agreed quietly.

But just two hours later, a few loud knocks on the door ripped Elena out of the nap she had been doing on the couch, and when she opened it, Damon stood in front of her covered in mud and there was a hole in his jeans on his knee. He looked grumpy and exhausted in one. It was a rainy night and the water was dripping from his hair.

"What happened?" Elena asked quickly, pulling into the house and getting him rid of his soaked wet jacket. "You look like hell."

Damon struggled out of his wet jeans, started to unbutton his dress shirt and huffed. "I dropped on the parked of the company." he grunt out and there was something in his voice that was familiar to Elena, that she had noticed a few times before when he was angry with himself. But she didn't think about it much more. "Join me in the shower?" Damon asked, now looking up at Elena with a playful smirk.

Elena laughed. "Um, yeah sure.." she nodded. "I'll just bring that to the washer." she said, grabbed the wet clothes and made her way into the basement.

When she went back upstairs, she could already hear the water from the shower. She walked up into the bathroom and stripped her clothes off on her way to the shower, Damon was already in and enjoying the hot water run over his shoulders, his eyes were closed and Elena could see that something was bothering him.

She went up behind him and planted a kiss on his wet shoulder, letting her lips linger there for a moment before she mumbled against his skin. "What's wrong?"

"Just a hard day in the office.." Damon sighed, leaning slightly back as Elena's hands start to massage his shoulder blades.

"God, you are tensed.." Elena frowned to herself while she kneaded his muscles.

Damon nodded, enjoying the massage. It was very welcome to him, he really had had a hard time today. "I'm done with today. A useless man. I just want my bed.." he murmured, running a hand through his hair in frustration.

Elena pouted from behind him. "But..." she trailed off and let her hand's run down his back and then around his waist. She didn't want him to be that exhausted, she hadn't got any bed action in a while, he was always at work.

But Damon stopped her hands before they reached their goal. "Not today, darling, sorry."

Elena's lower lips plugged out some more and she turned her husband around to see her pouty lips. But it didn't really seem to change Damon's mind. "Oh come on! Just a quick round?" she asked him, she hated to be that needy, but she didn't have a chance with him lately.

"No.." Damon smiled at her, clearly amused at her cute pouting. "But we can cuddle." he laughed.

Damon Salvatore wasn't in for sex, something was definitively wrong with him. Maybe he wasn't cheating, but something wasn't right here. Since she had met him, he had always been one for a quicky, even when his leg was broken, he let her sit on top and it was all good.


A few days later, Elena and Damon spent their dinner with Katherine and Klaus. They had done it so many times because Klaus was a great friend of Damon, his best even, and they were working together, and they all had become good friends.

"Damon! Pull your pants on, they'll be here every second." Elena yelled from the dinner room as she set the plates with the food down on the table. Candle light was the last thing that was still missing. But Elena just couldn't find a lighter, she had looked everywhere but now it was too later, it knocked on their door.

"Shit.." Elena cursed and peeked into the living room to see if her husband was finally wearing his jeans. And yes, he was. So Elena made her way to the door and greeted Katherine and Klaus.

"Hey hun." she hugged Katherine. Before she went over to Klaus and wrapped her arms slightly around him, squeezing him in a quick hug. "Klaus."

Damon came up from the living room and had a bright smile on his face. "Klaus, man!" he said and let his hand hit in Klaus' in a soft manner to welcome him. Katherine hugged him as well, before they all went into the living room and Damon passed Klaus a bourbon.

"Do you need any help in the kitchen." Katherine asked Elena.

"Always." she laughed and took Katherine with her. "You know me.."

"Yep, I do, and I bet your ordered food again?!" she asked, raising an eyebrow at her friend. And both of them had to laugh out loud, of course she had ordered the food, because who were they kidding. Elena couldn't cook. Katherine knew her so well.

They wandered over into the kitchen of the Boarding House and Katherine pulled Elena to her side, "And what about the cheating thing? Any more news?" she asked eagerly.

"Nope.." Elena shook her head. "Not at all.." she shrugged and had to think of yesterday evening in the shower. "Well, he didn't want any.. huh-huh.. yesterday." Elena said, raising her eyebrow at Katherine, waiting for Katherine to calm her worries.

"Huh-huh? Elena, the word you're searching for is sex!" Katherine stated amused, letting the word roll off her tongue loudly. And Elena had to wince.

"Yeah yeah, whatever.." she murmured.

Katherine let out a quiet laugh at her friend but then decided to calm her down. "Don't worry. It was probably just work, he and Klaus were both very tensed and over stressed lately. It's gonna be fine." she winked and walked over to the oven.

After they were done with dinner, Damon invited Klaus in for a drink in his office, they wanted to talk about something private, something about the firm and working stuff.

Elena and Katherine cleaned the table and the kitchen, well, mostly Elena, because Katherine was too busy with finishing her last glass of wine for this evening. After that, Elena and Damon brought them to the door and waved off until they disappeared from their view.

"And? Did you tell her everything is alright with Damon?" Klaus asked Katherine as they sat in his black Audi. His Audi R8 Spyder was his heart and his soul and his private car. He would have rather sold Katherine then give away this car. The cars of the company were all Mercedes and Katherine drove another Audi, but a red one.

"I told her what you told me to say." Katherine nodded at him, and got comfortable in her seat.

"Great.." Klaus mumbled to himself, rested his hand on Katherine's knee, petted it lightly and turned his head to smile at her while they drove down the almost dark road. Only a few lamps kept the street from being all dark and like in a horror movie, Katherine didn't care though. She could barely see the darkness outside as she picked up her phone and started scrolling through her e-mails.

"What are we gonna do when we get home?" Katherine asked. "Are you in for some...?" Katherine trailed off, leaving the rest for Klaus' dirty mind and his imagination. That was one of the reasons they had married each other, for their bodies. And they both loved sex.

Klaus chuckled darkly and threw his head in her direction to give her a nod.


The next day, the phone was ringing downstairs while Elena was drinking coffee with Caroline. Madison, Caroline's daughter was sitting on the ground and played with her Lego.

Elena stood up and run down to the phone, picking it quickly up and answered. "Salvatore?!"

"Umm, I was loooking for a Damon Salvatore. Am I right here?" A soft, young and girly voice asked shyly through the phone.

"Yes, absolutely right." Elena nodded, even though the woman on the other side couldn't see it. "I'm his wife."

There was a moment of silence, but then the woman spoke again. "His wife? Well, never mind then. I'll call later again." And with that she hung up and all Elena heard was the beep tone.

She looked confused at the phone and frowned as she made her way back upstairs. Who would call her husband and hang up when she heard that there was his wife on that phone? Elena fell back into her previous thought about Damon betraying her, she swallowed hard, could the man she loved so much really do that to her. She didn't believe so, but he really was acting weird, lately.

"Caroline?" she asked when she arrived back in the living room.

"Hm, who was that?" Caroline looked up from her daughter and to Elena. And her jaw dropped. "God, you are pale white, have you seen a ghost?" She asked, standing up and scooting over to her friend, she wrapped her arms lightly around her and guided her to the couch, letting her sit down slowly. "What's happened?"

"It was a woman, she asked for Damon..." Elena stuttered out, she didn't feel too well anymore, since her mind and head where showing her several pictures of Damon with other woman and the woman's words rolled around in her ears. "..and when she heard that I'm his wife, she hung up."

Caroline was listening closely and shook her head. "It was nothing. I'll go and make you a tea now, and we'll call Bonnie. Alright?" Caroline said, but she had already grabbed her phone and dialed Bonnie's number in.

Half an hour later Bonnie sat on the couch with them, she starred at Elena and kept quiet after she had listened to the story. She rubbed her head thoughtfully as she suddenly yelled out loud. "I knew it! I knew he was no good." Bonnie huffed. "I knew he would hurt you."

Elena sniffled softly. And Caroline jumped in. "Are you sure? I mean.." but Bonnie gut her off.

"Of course I am. He's a dirty, man-slut." Bonnie spit out and regretted it the second Madison looked up at her with her pretty blue baby eyes. She shouldn't use such language in front of a kid. "Sorry."

Caroline was shooting death glares at her, "Bonnie!"

"I said sorry." she shrugged guiltily.

Caroline picked Madison up and frowned at her friend. "Well, now where it's official that Damon is an a.s.s" she said every letter for itself because she knew Madison was listening. "...we can start a mission. I'll call Katherine and we can make a plan how to discover his secret."

Elena just sat on her couch, between her pillows and watched Caroline and Bonnie. She couldn't take the idea of her loved husband to do something that cruel to her. She didn't want to believe it, but if her friends thought that it's true, the least she could do was listen to their ideas about how to find out the truth and see if he was really cheating on her, because she if he was, she wouldn't just sit around and let him play with her, fool around with and she wouldn't just wait until he threw her out of the house like dirty trash. No, she would get him down and let him pay. But if he wasn't cheating on her and she would call him a cheater, she could lose him, so she wanted to find it all out. Just as much as her friends wanted, but Elena kept hoping that it was all just a nightmare.

Katherine arrived a little later and now they sat in the kitchen, everyone had a coffee in their hand and the girls were fussing around again.

Katherine did still not believe that Damon could be a cheater, she was trying to convince Elena to don't do anything stupid. Bonnie was mostly fight about how naive Katherine could be to not see how bad Damon was if he even was a cheater and how they should find it out and Caroline was just trying to get the two of them quiet so they could plan it all together.

"Good, if you find one more lead for Damon being a cheater, I'll join your little Mission Impossible but if not, then no." Katherine finally gave in.

And to their surprise, Bonnie agreed. "Deal."

And as they were just about to get it all clear, Madison waddled around the corner with a something shining in her hand. "Aunt Elewna!" she yelled excitedly. "Mwe founds yours diamondww.." she failed at the last word, but it was clear what she meant.

"What?" Elena laughed and pulled the little girl up to her, taking a little sliver ring with a red stone out of the girl's hand. "That's not mine.." she stumbled.

The five girls starred on the ring as Elena laid it down on the table.

"I guess this is the last hint we need." Bonnie said, quickly pulling an eyebrow up at Katherine. She rolled her eyes.

And with that it was official. They would go on a mission, the mission to find out who the hell was screwing Damon and then they would bring down that bitch.


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