Title- Insecure talent
Main ship – Delena
Side ships- Klaroline, Beremy & Stabekah
Main characters – Elena, Damon, Klaus, Stefan, Caroline, Bonnie, Jeremy, Alaric, Elijah & Rebekah
Summary- Damon is the main vocalist and guitarist in his small rock and roll band; Poisoned Minds. Accompanied by - Stefan his younger brother and also lead guitarist, Klaus his long-time best friend and bassist and also Klaus's older brother Elijah, the band's drummer. Elena Gilbert is also a singer but plays solo and has no securities about herself, both in talent and physical appearances. Her two best friends; Caroline and Bonnie try their best to try and get Elena to open up with her talents and go for the gold but Elena just can't bring herself to let her insecurities not get the better of her. Caroline and Bonnie both have musical singing talents in return they try to boost Elena's confidence by opening there selves up for her but it never works.
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"What about her?"
"Nope."
"Her?"
"No way."
Damon Salvatore and Klaus Mikaelson were both lounging back against a brick a wall with a straight-cut cigarette in each hand and two very smug smiles. Damon was well known for sleeping around and the tabloids always associated him as 'Virginia's local playboy.'
Klaus was casually pointing out a various women through a bunch of groupies who were all desperately scrambling to get towards the band who had just played a very successful gig. Damon kept shaking his head as Klaus was pointing out more women, Damon was in a more brunette mood tonight and all he could see was herds and herds of bleached blondes.
Klaus shrugged "well what about Jeremy Gilbert's sister? She's sat over there on the stereo boom box." True to his word, Elena was sat on the stereo furiously writing into a small blue notepad her brown hair was gently flowing over her broad shoulders and settling on her blood-red top.
The band knew Jeremy Gilbert and his sister through parental connections, Damon and Stefan had practically grew up with Elena and Jeremy, always having to go to founders events together and also their parents were friends. Jeremy having only a one year age difference with Stefan would often run off and play with him leading Elena left with the grumpy teenage Damon.
Both the Salvatore and Gilbert siblings had lost their parents to a crash over Wickery bridge, Giuseppe Salvatore the brothers' father wasn't in the car and was refusing to give Elizabeth his wife a lift back, which to this day nor Stefan or Damon can understand why, so she car pooled with the Gilbert's.
Giuseppe had died about five years ago and had never liked Damon but always favoured Stefan, when he passed the brothers directed their feelings into music, not to mention Klaus Mikaelson Damon's best friend since they were ten helped the brothers into a music career with his own brother Elijah and they all formed the very successful band they now are; Poisoned Minds.
The Gilberts had lived with their aunt and when Damon was about 17 he stopped hanging around the little girl known as Elena and took more of an interest into the bigger more busty girls his age. Damon stayed friends with Klaus but often 'played' with him without Elena so that they could do 'guy stuff' that Elena couldn't because she was girl.
Since the passing of Giuseppe, Stefan had begun to talk to Jeremy and try to rekindle their once friendship bringing the Salvatore's and Gilbert's back together.
"Actually scratch that, the Gilbert girl is probably going to be a tough nut to crack just go for an easy one tonight" Klaus said suddenly having changed his mind.
"I don't know Klaus, I always like a challenge" Damon trails off as he tilts his head and watches Elena still scribbling into her little book, often wondering to himself what she is always writing about.
Klaus shakes his head "do whatever you want bro, although you'll probably be hearing from Stefan about it" Klaus says as he claps Damon on the back and walks behind the stage.
Damon adjusts his leather jacket and pushes through the blonde flurry so he can get to Elena, although that doesn't stop the desperate girls from trailing after him. Damon leans down and pushes Elena's book down slightly which makes her jump, she looks up to be met by cerulean blue eyes "Damon, what do you want?"
Damon pouts, his soft rosy lips jutting out "I want to show you something back stage" he extends his slender hand out to Elena which she reluctantly takes.
"Okay, but whatever you're going to show me can't take long because Jer and I need to get back" Elena replies as she stands up and follows him out to the back of the stage.
Once they get to the back stage Damon leads Elena to his dressing room in which she wonders why they are here "Damon, I thought you said we were going to the back, not your dressing room."
Damon rolls his eyes "just sit down and listen." Damon pulls his acoustic guitar out from behind his outfit rail and starts to tune the strings "I want you to tell me what you think about this song I wrote, solo" Damon adds as he strums the guitar until he is satisfied with the tune.
Elena nods and watches Damon as he tweaks with the guitar and then watches as he sits himself down on a stool, the chesire wooden guitar resting on his knee and lap.
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's only me, and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one, and I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk alone
I walk alone and I walk a
[Chorus]
My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone
Ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah
I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And where I walk alone
Read between the lines
What's fucked up and every thing's all right
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk alone
I walk alone and I walk a
[Chorus]
Ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah
I walk alone, I walk a
I walk this empty street
On the boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one, and I walk alone
I listened slowly to Damon sing away and smiled as he slowly came to an end "that was beautiful Damon, really."
Damon smiled and put his guitar down before sitting next to Elena "It's not quite done yet but you know it's a work in a progress."
Elena smiled and took a deep a breath as Damon leaned in closer and caressed her cheek slowly "you're really beautiful Elena" Damon said as he leaned in closer.
Elena smirked and put her hand on Damon's and gently pulled it away "no matter how many times you try Damon I'm not caving in."
Damon rolled his eyes "you will eventually Elena."
"Not yet Damon, look I have to go and get my ride with Jeremy before he leaves without me, but seriously it was a good song" Elena leans in and places a chaste kiss to Damon's cheek.
As Elena leaves Damon's dressing room he shakes his head "one day Miss Gilbert, one day."
~DE~DE~DE~DE~DE~DE
"So did you score then mate?" Klaus asked Damon the next day as they were all lounging on Stefan's new tour bus; Rouge Amour* which he had brought last weekend at a car sale for a great price.
Damon shook his head as he took back another swig from his beer bottle "Elena really is a challenge" Damon said as he was somewhat looking at something that wasn't even there.
Elijah clicked his fingers bringing Damon out of his haze "you've been after this Gilbert girl for months now and she still hasn't succumbed to your 'charms' do you perhaps think that maybe you feel you want something more with her than just a one night stand?"
Damon contemplated Elijah's deep statement and was about to answer when Klaus cut in "I don't think so brother, Damon said he likes challenges so obviously he is just trying to crack Elena" Klaus said with a smug smile.
Damon smiled and shrugged his shoulders "whatever, I'm just getting a bit bored of all the fake blondes that so easily throw themselves at me."
"I don't know Damon, I just think that if you really crave a brunette there probably is a few strewn amongst the sea of blonde" Elijah added again, taking a sip from his beer.
Just at that moment Stefan walked in with a couple more beer crates and lodged them into the fridge "Damon can't you just give up on Elena already? She obviously doesn't want you and I'm surprised that you can't see she's worth more than just to be mixed up with all your other one-night-stands."
"I don't know brother, it sounds as if you feel something for the Gilbert girl" Damon quipped as he bumped a fist with Klaus.
"Whatever Damon, just don't mess her up because Elena is the only family Jeremy has left and if you go screwing with her mind there's not gonna be much left" Stefan says seriously.
"That's deep brother, but worry not Elena is not at the front of my list of things to accomplish right now" Damon stands up walks towards the fridge to get another beer "speaking of my to-do list Alaric called, he said that we have a seven month tour planned starting next month."
All three men turned towards Damon at the mention of the deal that their manager had cut them "why didn't you tell us sooner?" Stefan asked.
"Because I only found out the night before last, also Alaric wants us to come up with at least three more unreleased songs he thinks it will get us higher up the charts."
Klaus stood up and also approached the fridge "well goody for us then, anybody have any good-byes to make before we leave?" Klaus asks the group.
They all shake their heads apart from Damon "actually I do, so I will see you guys later" Damon quips as he grabs his leather jacket and leaves the tour bus leaving the other three guys wondering what Damon is up to.
As Damon walks away from the tour bus he hops onto his motorbike and revs up the engine making his black beauty purr like a kitten, he kicks up the bike stand and rides away into the dark star-lit night passing by Stefan's Rouge Amour and the three rock stars who are sitting inside.
A/N – So yes this is a short chapter but it mostly explains the root of our story and the main plot, I'm going to enjoy adding in songs where I can because after all this is a music-inspired fic.
Song that Damon played to Elena: Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Greenday.
*= Red love
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