When you're around me,
Life's like a movie scene,
I wasn't happy,
Until you became my queen,
I finally found you,
My missing puzzle piece,
I'm complete.
Teenage Dream by Boyce Avenue
Disclaimer: I don't own The Vampire Diaries, I just like playing with the characters :]
Plot: Damon knows that he's falling for Elena. Elena keeps lying to herself that she doesn't love Damon. She convinces herself that Damon loves Katherine still. But soon, she can't hide it from herself anymore, and she finds herself slipping up occasionally, letting her walls come down around him, even after everything that's happened. She tries to project her feelings for Damon on Stefan but it doesn't work. And no matter how hard Damon tries, Elena is still always in the back of his mind, and he knows nothing can change that. So will Damon and Elena give into each other, or fight what comes naturally to them? Pretty much set after 2x01 and somewhat following the series after that, but not so much :P
A/N: Okay, so I have no idea if this story is going to be just a short story, like maybe ten chapters or something, or a regular story that's a little longer than that, but the inspiration for it just hit me while I was listening to Boyce Avenue's version of Teenage Dream and I just thought it kinda sounded like a really sweet and cute Damon POV kinda thing :] You'll know what I mean if you listen to the song xP They changed the words a little and I loved it and it inspired me to write this so I hope you guys like it :] xoxo, Avril
Chapter One: Dreams and Nightmares
Damon was sitting outside Elena's bedroom window, just watching her sleep. They hadn't talked much since the night he kissed her and killed Jeremy, but he was still alive thanks to that huge ring on his finger. Elena used to keep her window open, usually for Stefan, but sometimes Damon would sneak in too. And Damon could easily open the window to get in there, but usually when the window was shut, that meant no visitors, but he knew she was keeping it shut to keep him out. She knew Stefan was occupied most nights now, taking Caroline and teaching her hunting, fighting, and controlling herself around people, so the window was definitely shut to keep him out. But, he could still watch her sleep peacefully from outside the window, watch her every breath and watch her move around and roll over in her sleep. He knew that she didn't know this, but he caught her sometimes in her sleep saying his name, lately it had some anger in her voice, probably because or the whole killing Jeremy thing…actually, he knew it was because of that, but sometimes, and it's very rare, but he catches her saying his name in her sleep with a small smile on her lips, and that's the part that warms up Damon's non-beating heart. She didn't say anything tonight, she was just sleeping and occasionally moving. And he just sat there and watched her, it was enough for him for now.
He had been there for almost an hour and was getting ready to go home and drink himself into a blackout, but then Elena started moving around violently in her sleep. He faintly heard her mumbling something in a panicked voice.
"Damon…Damon" She kept mumbling and moving around
That mumbling turned into her practically screaming. Damon opened up the window and flew in there and sat down next to her in her bed and pulled her close to him and he tried to calm her down. Her eyes faintly fluttered open to his cold touch, but they closed again and she was at peace. He didn't know if he was the cause of that nightmare or she was yelling for his help, but she was calm now and she was fast asleep. She had him wrapped around her finger even without saying a word. Damon wanted to hold her there forever, but he knew he had to go, he knew Stefan checked up on her in the middle of the night still, though the window usually where he was most of the night. Damon gently set Elena back down on her pillow and kissed her on her forehead goodnight. He walked over to her window and hopped out and shut the window behind him. After one last glance back at Elena, he jumped down from her roof and started walking back towards the Boarding House.
Damon walked into the quiet Boarding House and right into the living room and poured himself a glass of scotch. He sat there in front of the fire place, glass after glass of scotch until the sun was getting ready to rise and Stefan was walking through the front door.
"Where were you all night?" Stefan asked "I went out there looking for you"
"I was…around" Damon said and took another sip of his drink
"How drunk are you?" Stefan asked
"This is my…12th drink" Damon sighed
"You better get some sleep" Stefan sighed
"You don't need to pretend to care about me Stefan" Damon said
"I do care. You are my brother, weather I like it or not" Stefan said
"Yeah, whatever" Damon sighed and stood up, finished his drink, and handed the empty glass to Stefan "Goodnight brother" Damon said and walked upstairs and towards his room
Elena slowly woke up in her bed, the sunlight shinning into her room and waking her up. She tried to roll over and block out the sun, but her attempts were useless and she sat up in bed. She threw her legs over the side of the bed and finally stood up. She didn't even bother going downstairs and threw herself right into the shower. She knew it must have been early because she didn't even hear Jeremy moving around his room clumsily yet.
The shower woke her up and she was also remembering her nightmare from last night now. There was this…dark thing staring at her in the middle of the forest. Just these eyes the followed her every move, and suddenly it lurched for her. It wasn't an animal, but it was fast and powerful and after Elena. She saw it's face barely when it had her pinned down, and she saw her own face hovering above her, but she saw that smirk, and she knew it was Katherine. She screamed and screamed but it seemed like no one heard her and Katherine laughed. No one heard her when she called out for Stefan, Jeremy, Alaric, Bonnie, anybody. No one answered her call…until she called for Damon, the last name she called out too. And he came, he was there the instant his name left her lips and he knocked Katherine down off of Elena and drove a stake through her heart and Katherine's body was motionless next to hers. She saw Damon's face, those eyes and the fangs were out in full attack mode, but when he looked at her, while she was in hysterics crying, his face changed back to normal and Elena felt safe with those ice blue eyes on her. He picked her up off the dirt ground and held her in his arms and calmed her down. But it was…so real. She didn't know if it was a dream or really happening until she just woke up.
No Elena, bad, you don't think of Damon as anything but a monster anymore; Elena yelled at herself mentally and started at the mirror and kept repeating Damon is a monster in her head as she started at herself. It wasn't working though, she still felt that tiny flutter when she though of his blue eyes and feeling safe in his arms. She pushed that image of him snapping Jeremy's neck into her head and that seemed to make the flutter go away. She kept that moment on replay in her mind until the flutter was completely gone. Satisfied with making that feeling go away, she finally walked out of the bathroom and downstairs to see a very sleepy Jenna making herself some coffee.
"Your up early" Jenna yawned and took a sip of her coffee
"Yeah, I guess I am…what time is it?" Elena asked
"8:00" Jenna said
"Wow, that is early for me" Elena sighed
"What woke you up?" Jenna asked
"…Bad dream" Elena said
"Oh…"Jenna said "Coffee?"
"No, I'm good" Elena said and walked into the kitchen and made herself a bowl full of cereal
"Carnival's tonight" Jenna said "You and Bonnie still working on it?"
"Yeah, I have to go down there later with her. Since Caroline's still in the hospital, we've had to take over" Elena said
"Caroline getting any better?" Jenna asked
"Yeah, I went and saw her yesterday, she's doing really good, should be out tomorrow" Elena said
"That's good" Jenna said
"Yep" Elena sighed "Jenna…have you ever had a dream that was just…so real that it couldn't be just a dream?"
"Plenty of times" Jenna sighed "Just…don't let this one get to you, okay? It was just a bad dream"
"Yeah…just a bad dream" Elena sighed
"Did you bring the stuffed animals over to-"
"Elena, yes" Bonnie laughed "Stop stressing, your turning into Caroline Jr. on me"
"Sorry, it's just I want to make sure everything's done" Elena sighed
"Elena calm down, everything is taken care of" Bonnie said "Relax"
Elena took a deep breath and let it go and tried to clear her head.
"What has you so wound up today?" Bonnie asked
"…Too real of a bad dream" Elena sighed
"That bad?" Bonnie asked
Elena gently shook her head and took another deep breath.
"What was it about?" Bonnie asked curiously
"…Katherine." Elena said "She…attacked me, had me pinned down with no escape in the woods. I called out for everyone, even you, but…only one person came"
"…Who?" Bonnie asked
"…I don't wanna talk about" Elena sighed
"Elena" Bonnie protested and grabbed onto Elena's arm and she was thrown into a vision
"Bonnie" Elena said worriedly and grabbed her best friend
"Damon" Bonnie said after blink a few times "…Damon was the only one that came to you…in your dream"
Elena slowly nodded again and looked away from Bonnie, not wanting to look at her or anyone really for that matter. She felt guilty from that dream. That her mind only let Damon come to her and not Stefan, Jeremy, or Bonnie.
"…I wouldn't worry about it Elena" Bonnie sighed "It was just a dream"
"Right" Elena said "A bad dream"
"Yes" Bonnie said "Now, relax. Nothing bad is going to happen today. There's no Damon Salvatore in sight. Everything at this carnival is done. Now your only job tonight is to have fun with Stefan and at least try to be normal, just a little bit"
"Right, normal" Elena said "Plain old normal Elena"
"There you go" Bonnie smiled "Now, how about we go get an early cotton candy?"
"…Fine" Elena smiled and followed Bonnie over to the cotton candy cart and they both got some
While her and Bonnie were laughing and talking about the carnival tonight and how fun it would be, Elena couldn't help but feel watched. Specifically by a pair of ice blue eyes. But whenever she tried to casually look up, nothing, no one was around. She tried to drop it, she felt the eyes watching her again. Eventually, she just ignored it and tried to keep having a normal conversation with Bonnie. No one was watching her. It was just her, Bonnie, and the people working at the Carnival. No Damon Salvatore. No ice blue eyes following her every move…No safe arms to fall into. She pushed that image of Jeremy's neck snapping back into her head and cleared her thoughts. He's not good, he's not a good person. He's evil, he's a monster; Elena kept thinking in her mind.