Here is Chapter two for you guys. I wanted to get this up quickly because some stuff is beginning to happen around here, like the fact that I'm moving and I have to devote most of my time in these next few weeks to packing and all that wonderfully non-stressful stuff (Please note the sarcasm.)
I'll tell you what though; writing in the Adele/Damon fluff is seriously awesome. I love writing it. Lolz. And just a random thought here but there is something about Damon's hair in this season that makes him seem just that much sexier. I mean don't get me wrong, the long hair is amazing to but I don't know, he's just such a sexy guy no matter what. Even my completely straight and engaged brother thinks so, considering he hates the fact that his fiancé is in love with Ian Somerhalder too, says the he's way to pretty and he makes him feel insecure. Lmao! Whatever Little John, I'll make sure to be telling that to Jack when he's older. Lolz.
Anyways, I'm still going to be writing while I'm moving but I'm not going to be able to focus as much on it. I'll do my best though.
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Chapter 2: The Hybrid
Adele traces a soft pattern on his exposed chest, her head rested in the crook of his neck and a leg thrown over his, as he traces the same pattern along her spine. She was content lying there, happy, happier then she's been in a while and though she knows Damon is happy as well, she knows something is bothering him, something happened to him that he's not telling her.
Despite the long day she's endured with her trip to Tennessee, the party and Damon attacking her, Adele couldn't bring herself to feel even the slightest bit tired. She was wide awake with questions she wants to ask.
The curtains are drawn the only light coming from one of the small lamps on the right bedside table. "Andie's dead." Her finger stops moving and she shifts her position in a way that allows her to look at him. "Stefan killed her."
"What?" Adele pushes herself to sit up, holding the sheet to her chest. "You saw Stefan?"
"Yep. He gave me far warning to stop looking for him. He compelled Andie to walk off a rafter and stopped me when I tried to save her. He's gone Kitten. He's not coming back." His voice is emotionless, his lips pulled into a thin line.
"Damon…" She swallows. "I'm sorry." He blinks surprise echoed on his face as he looks up at her. "I know you cared about her."
"You hated her." He reminds her and she scoffs.
"I didn't hate her, I hated that she had what I wanted, had what I thought belonged to me. I'm possessive; it's one of my worst qualities." She explains and he sends her a smile that doesn't completely reach his eyes.
"One more thing we have in common." He mutters before his smile falls and he sighs. "It doesn't matter anymore. Andie's gone and so is Stefan."
"We…can't just give up on him Damon." She whispers.
"That's the thing Adele. He wants us to. He wants us to say goodbye and to move on. So that's what I'm going to do. He wants to be the bad guy, fine let him." She shakes her head, bending down to place a kiss to the corner of his lips.
"You say that now." She mummers before standing from the bed dragging the sheet with her, she disappears into the closet and emerges 2 minutes later in a pair of tight black yoga shorts and a loose white tank top. "I'm going to go and clean up the mess that is now Stefan's room. You can sit in here and sulk." She leaves the room, blowing him a kiss before closing the door and heading down the hall to Stefan's room.
When Damon enters 10 minutes later in a pair of black sweat pants and a white V-neck t-shirt Adele is sitting in the center of the room having cleared the area enough for her to sit and is stacking books around her. She sends him a small grin that he rolls his eyes at. "What? You thought I was going to let you do this alone? Who'd move all the heavy broken furniture for you?"
"I think I could manage." She laughs and he shrugs a shoulder sending her a smirk.
"Okay, if you don't need me…" He begins to back track out of the room.
"No! Wait, come back!" She calls.
"Nope, it's too late." He yells and she hops to her feet dashing out of the room after him.
"Wait! No! I'm sorry!" She catches up with him grabbing his arm but he continues walking, pretending to pay her no mind. "Come on!" She huffs trying hard to dig her heels into the wooden floors but being as strong as he is, he just keeps walking dragging her with him. She lets him go finally, stomping her foot like a small child.
"Damon!" She whines.
"Kitten." He mocks throwing her a smirk over his shoulder as he enters the bedroom. She narrows her eyes chasing after him once more but instead of grabbing his arm, she jumps on his back. Not expecting the sudden attack he loses his balance and they topple to the floor, Damon landing with a grunt on his stomach and Adele landing on top of him, her legs straddling his waist and her arms wrapped around his neck.
"I should scream rape." He laughs, a laugh reserved only for her and sometimes if there drunk enough, Alaric and she giggles because it's such an amazing sound.
"Nobody would hear you, we're alone and your all mine to do with as I please."
"That sounds extremely promising." He breathes moving to his knees. She squeaks wrapping her legs fully around his waist and tightening her arms around his neck as he begins to crawl his way towards the bed.
"You're going the wrong way." She states and he stops. "You have to help me clean Stefan's room or you get nothing. That is the deal." He turns crawling towards the door. "That's what I thought." She mummers with a grin.
*VD*
Adele opens the apartment door expecting to be greeted by a snorting bulldog and a smiling witch but is surprised when she's greeted by neither. The apartment is deadly silent though she knows everyone is there if Michael's bike in the parking lot is anything to go by.
She closes the door swinging her keys around her finger as she ventures further in. "Okay…" She calls out. "I know you guys are here. What the hell…" She trails off, stopping in the entrance to the living room. She blinks slowly a few time before shifting her eyes to meet Nate's who is leaning against the far wall, tense and on guard.
"Adele!" Adele grunts with the impact of the small body ramming into hers, two thin arms wrapping tightly around her midsection. Adele gazes down at the small blonde girl in wonder, surprise and horror. "Jackie." She breathes out wrapping an arm around the girls shoulders as her gaze lifts to meet Nate's once more. He shakes his head, telling her that he has no idea.
Jackie Landon pulls away from Adele beaming up at her excitedly. "I've missed you so much Adele! I've missed you and Michael!"
~x~
Adele pushes her Aviators into her hair as the waitress brings their drinks setting the three sweet teas on to the table. Adele glances sideways at Michael who has yet to lift his own Aviators as he rips the straw open and brings his glass towards him. Though his expression is calm, Adele can feel the frustration rolling off him.
"So Jackie…" Adele turns her attention to the 12 year old blonde across from them. She beams up at Adele her black eyes shining brightly making her uneasy feeling melt away. "How is everything?"
"Good! Well, not really. I mean it's okay but the kids at school don't really like me very much expect for Brad, he's like the only friend that I have and Aunt Martha is never really around so I'm on my own most of the time and when she is around she's usually past out on the couch, she actually is the one who sent me here. She told me to pack my bags yesterday morning that I was coming here." She answers in the span of 10 seconds. Adele had forgotten how much of a talker Jackie Landon was; at the age 7 she had mastered the art of fast talking. She was a sweet girl despite the talking, shy at times which was the only times she was ever really quiet.
"So Aunt Martha just put you on a plane? No explanation?" Michael speaks up for the first time since arriving and Jackie nods brightly before she seems to remember something. She pulls a piece of folded up paper from the front pocket of her jean shorts and slides it across the table to them. Adele picks it up first to see that it's a typed message made out to Michael. She reads it out loud.
Dear Michael,
If you're reading this then your sister has arrived safely. I'm sorry for the short notice but I had to send her to stay with you, my boyfriend has booked us a cruise that shall last the rest of the summer and I couldn't leave her home alone.
She has everything she'll need along with a few hundred dollars for expenses that you may not be able to cover. I know how hard you work for so little. I'll be in touch.
Love,
Aunt Martha
Adele places the note carefully in front of Michael who barely spares it a glance before crumbling it up and tossing it into the trash a few feet away. He rips a hand through his blonde hair as a response letting out a huff of air before finally pulling off his Aviators and placing them on the table. "So…Who's Brad?"
Adele leans forward to lean an elbow on the table as she rest her mouth against her open hand hiding a smile as Jackie jumps into a long speech about how Brad is 13 and a grade a head of her, how he sticks up for her and hangs out with her.
Adele jumps, spinning around in her seat as much as she could, almost topple over as a hand lands on her shoulder. With her heart beating hard against her rip cage she lets out a breath of relief when she sees it's only Damon. "Hey. Oh my god, you scared me." Jackie has since stopped talking and is staring up at Damon with wide black eyes along with Michael who is looking up with the same black eyes but narrowed into silts. Since his change and getting back his memory from the fair, he had a tiny bit of resentment towards Adele's new boyfriend. The guy seemed like a real prick but he obviously cared for Adele and as long as he treated her right, that was all that mattered to him.
"I can see that." The guys smirk is smug and Adele reaches out smacking him in the gut, he grunts more for show then anything as he presses a hand to the area. "You wound me Kitten." He sarcastically says and Adele rolls her eyes turning back around.
"Damon, you know Michael." She says crossing her arms; Damon places his hands on her shoulder rubbing softly.
"Yes." He replies. "I do. How's the…situation going?" He asks as politely as he can master, seeing as the guy is the first guy Adele ever loved. Michael turns back around as well placing his Aviators back on.
"It's going." He answers flatly. After a small conversion on the phone with Jasmine that Damon happened to catch half of, Adele was forced to tell him what was happening to Michael which in return led to the reveal of James and everything he's been putting her through since Tony. To say he was pissed would be an understatement but after explaining that she'd taken care of it –which was only partly true, he laid off taking her word for it, trusting her and for that she feels horrible but she wasn't about to tell him the truth not yet anyways.
"Well this is Michael's sister, Jackie." Adele mentions over to the cowering blonde. She glances up at Damon throw her hair which has magically appeared over her face. He sends her the friendliest smile he can, easing the girls unease slightly. "It's nice to meet you." She mumbles a response that he catches as "Y-you too." Before turning back to Adele.
"We have a small problem." He says and Adele frowns leaning her head back to look up at him.
"What kind of small problem?" She asks.
"A small…Elena problem." He shoves his phone into her face and she takes it reading the text from Alaric twice before handing it back.
"Well this was nice." She smiles. "But it looks like something has come up. Jackie, I'll drive you back to the apartment and Michael can follow us again. Damon you follow him." She stands from the table giving the two Landon's no time to say a word; they just follow behind her silently.
Elena and I are going to the Smoky Mountains. I told her what I knew and Tyler informed her that there was a pack of werewolves down there and she's convinced we'll find Stefan if we go. Just thought you and Adele should know. ~Alaric
~x~
"Where are you going?" Elena jumps spinning around with a hand to her chest. Adele raises an eyebrow at her sister who seeing that it's her begins to shift from foot to foot nervously.
"Alaric is driving me to the grill to meet up with Caroline." She answers smoothly and Adele smiles, a tight smile.
"Wearing that?" Adele is referring to Elena's back pack slung over her shoulder. "I don't think so. It looks to me like your getting ready for a hike, maybe through the Smoky Mountains." Elena's expression drops as she turns to look at Alaric who comes around to the side of the SUV that they are standing on.
"You told her." She accuses and Alaric doesn't even have the decency to look guilty.
"Yes I told her. I figured someone should know where we are, in case this plan of yours gets us killed." He says.
"Which is a very high possibility; do you have any idea what you're walking into? I've seen a fully shifted werewolf okay? There not exactly pleasant creatures." Adele takes a step forward.
"I have to go Adele. I have to see if he's up there, if he's been there. This could be it. We could find him." Elena argues.
"Did you not hear what happened to Andie Elena? Stefan doesn't want to be found!"
"He called me last night!" Elena exclaims causing Adele to shut her mouth as she was about to say something. Damon didn't tell her this. "So I have to believe that's not true." Elena goes on.
"Okay." Adele nods snatching the keys to Alaric's SUV from Elena. "Then it looks like we're hiking through the Smoky Mountains today."
~x~
"In a couple hours, the full moon's going to rise just above that Ridge. If Tyler's right, that's where the pack will be." Alaric explains to them pointing off to something in the distance.
"You we're a boy scout once upon a time weren't you?" Adele teases lightly to the history teacher who tells her to shut up and she laughs. "A boy scout slash vampire hunter." She says.
"Slash whiskey drinking all around lost cause." He calls back and Adele rolls her eyes. He can continue to say he's a lost cause but she knows better. He's just got himself into a bit of a slump at the moment. He'll bounce back, she knows he will.
They stop walking as Alaric bends down to one knee placing his backpack onto the ground to open it. Adele and Elena peers over his shoulder as he does, gazing at the amount of weapons he's come prepared with. "Wow. You come stocked." Elena says.
"Well we aren't exactly bird watching." Alaric reaches into a side pocket pulling out a homemade grenade filled with some kind of greenish liquid.
"Vervain grenade?" Elena asks.
"Wolfs bane." Alaric corrects as he holds one out to Adele who declines.
"I have a fully loaded gun along with a stake, I think I'm okay." She says and he shrugs placing the grenade back in the backpack before standing up. "But since we're exchanging gifts." She reaches into her pocket pulling out a large tacky looking ring and holding it up to Alaric who looks at it with narrowed eyes.
"That's John Gilbert's ring." Adele visibly flinches at the mention of her biological father who just recently died giving his life for Elena's during Klaus sacrifice to become the all-powerful vampire werewolf hybrid.
"I know." She answers. "He gave it to me in a letter and I figured it was yours once so take it."
"He gave it to you." Alaric argues and Adele huffs.
"You know damn well I'm not going to wear something this tacky. If I'm going to die, I'm going to die looking good, that's just the way it's going to be." She says and it's Alaric's turn to flinch. He's not in the right frame of mind to think about Adele dying, he'd never be in the right frame of mind to think about that.
"Adele…"
"Alaric, take it. Please. I'd feel bad if this got you killed before happy hour." She remarks with a smirk and he can't help but smile at the blonde as he reaches out to slowly take the ring. "John knew I was going to give it back to you anyways." She informs as he slips it on. "His only wish was that you give it back when you're done with it."
"Of course." He whispers and Adele sends him a small smile.
"I have no idea why you think you're a lost cause." She says after a second of silence and he's about to respond when Elena's shrill scream has them whipping around, Alaric with a raised cross bow and Adele with her hand on her gun at the waistband of her jeans. They sigh in relief when it's only Damon leaning against a tree as he watches Elena flop around in the water below them having pushed her off the cliff she was previously standing on. She surfaces staring up at him with wide brown eyes.
"Damon!" She shirks. "How are you even here?" Alaric and Adele walk up, standing beside Damon.
"Thanks for the tip, brother." Damon directs to Alaric.
"You sold me out! Again!" Adele shakes her head.
"No. He sold you out once. I was sent first to see if I could convince you to abort your mission and since I failed, Damon is here to forcefully drag you home." Adele explains and Elena's turns her eyes back to Alaric who merely shrugs, not at all apologetic.
"Get out of the water Elena." Damon calls down to her.
"If I get out of the water, you're going to make me go home." She says.
"Yes because I'm not an idiot like you." He snaps.
"Right now you're both acting like idiots." Alaric says as he walks away from them and Adele snorts a laugh.
"You gave up on him Damon." She looks at Adele. "You both did." Adele rolls her eyes, if she'd given up she wouldn't have spent the rest of her night cleaning up his room, though she agrees that this, this is not the way to do it. Elena was putting herself and the ones around her –that being her, Alaric and now Damon, in more danger then she seems to realize or care about. If anything this was boarding on selfish and careless and if anything happened to anyone of them Adele wasn't sure what she'd do, she was already annoyed with Elena.
"I didn't give up on him, Elena. I faced reality. Now get out of the water."
"No!"
He walks forward. "What's your big plan Elena?" Jumping down from the small ledge he begins his way into the water having every intention to drag her out. "Huh? You going to walk through a campsite full of werewolves, roast a marshmallow, and wait for Stefan to stop by?" He stops in front of her.
"My plan is to find him and help him. Damon this is the closet we've been to him since he left, I'm not going home."
"Klaus thinks you died when he broke the curse that makes you safe, this," He waves his arms around mentioning to where they we're currently standing. "This is not safe."
"I'm not leaving before we find him." She insists.
"It's a full moon tonight Elena."
"Then we'll find him before then." She says with pleading brown eyes but Damon isn't budging. "Please Damon." He turns around, looking up at Adele who is standing along the ledge looking even more frustrated than he feels as she throws her arms up turning away from them.
"Fine!" He snaps looking back towards Elena. "But we're out of here before the moon is full and I'm werewolf bait."
"I promise." Elena agrees eagerly.
~x~
"How are you doing?" Damon says after they've been walking for a while, well after Alaric, Damon and Elena have been walking for a while, Adele had taken the first chance she got to jump on Damon's back telling him that this wasn't her idea, that her boots can't afford the kind of punishment that hiking well give them. He has easily carried her along for an hour now.
"Fine." Elena responds.
"You know I could help you." He says tightening his grip on Adele's legs. "Just one little whoosh."
"Yeah, with my luck you'd drop me." Elena remarks.
"I haven't dropped your sister, though the idea is tempting." He teases and Adele bites his neck hard enough to almost draw blood and he hisses. "Ow. I'm kidding. Jeez, so abusive."
"What are you guys? 12?" Alaric calls from behind them.
The four are completely unaware of Stefan, watching them from the trees.
~x~
They weave through trees, dodging fallen branches and roots as they go, Adele trails behind Damon, in front of Elena having jumped off his back a while back, the sun was slowly sinking if the fading light was anything to go by.
"We got about a mile left." Alaric tells them.
"The sun's about to set." Damon sings, the comment directed at Elena.
"I can see that Damon." She snaps.
"I'm just saying."
"The moon doesn't reach its apex for a while." Adele speaks up. "We have time."
A twig snaps from somewhere around them causing the four to slow down, eventually coming to a stop as another twig snaps. Alaric lifts his bow as Adele reaches for her gun as a man appears from within the trees, looking dazed and confused. Adele scrunches her nose at the massive amount of blood this guy has on him, all of which seems to belong to him. Some of it looks to be coming from his eyes. "Stay where you are." Alaric calls and the guy stops, looking up at them.
"Vampire." He growls out and Adele glances up at Damon who tilts his head with hard eyes as the man comes at him, he throws his hands up stopping his movements and holding him at arm's length, with the speed of a vampire the guy whips them around throwing Damon's back against a tree as he snaps his jaws at him.
Adele pulls her gun, firing off three bullets that all hit the guy in the back but he doesn't budge, she's about to fire the rest when Elena calls out his name, pulling the clip from the grenade and throwing it to him. He catches it and it explodes spraying the wolf bane liquid along the man's face and down the front of his body. He screams backing away and falling to his knees scratching at his face. Damon sends swift kick to his gut and the guy falls to the side unconscious.
"Let me guess…" Alaric speaks up. "Hybrid."
~x~
"These ropes aren't going to hold him much longer. What else do we have?" Damon asks never taking his eyes from the Hybrid.
Adele snatches Elena's water bottle from her hand as she grabs the last rope from the pile. She pours the remaining water along the rope. "Ric, take this." Damon reaches back to take the rope but cries out when it burn his skin. "I said Ric."
Ric ties the last rope around the tree and the guy who is still unconscious. "All right, that's the last of the vervain. We don't have enough stuff to hold him. I don't think we're going to make that Ridge before the full moon."
"If we can get him to talk," Elena walks forward examining him closely. "We don't have to." She's about to touch him when he picks his head up, his eyes shooting open as he takes a deep breath causing her to jump back.
His neck cracks, the bones under the skin beginning break only to reform causing Elena to step back further. "He's turning." Adele observes, having seen the transformation happen before.
"That's impossible. It's still day light." Elena says.
"Tell him that." Alaric replies as Damon jumps forward pushing the guy's shoulders into the tree.
"There aren't supposed to be werewolves out here until the moon is full." Elena exclaims, panic clear in her voice.
"Well I guess that's not the case, now is it?" Adele snaps.
"Those ropes aren't going to hold a wolf." Alaric informs them and Adele makes a quick decision.
"Damon, we've got to get out of here." She calls over the man's screaming.
"Adele…" Elena says, looking ready to protest.
"Shut up Elena! Can you not see the position you've put us in? We have to go!" She snaps before turning back to Damon. "We have to get out of these mountains now!" When Damon doesn't move, Adele grabs the back of his t-shirt trying to pull him off. "Damon, now!" He finally let's go, backing up and spinning around, they take off running, as quickly and carefully as they can.
~x~
They don't make it far before Elena trips, falling hard to her knees and elbows and they skid to a stop turning back only to hold their breath. "Don't move." Damon calls out and Elena freezes in pushing herself up, her head down. She lifts her head slowly, coming face to face with a grey wolf. She gasps jerking back before freezing again.
The wolf looks in Damon's direction snarling before jerking back to look at Elena. Damon meets Adele's wide blue eyes and she can see his intentions clear. "Here doggie, doggie." He turns around and takes off just as she's moving forward his name on the tip of her tongue but Alaric reaches out grabbing her elbow. The wolf takes off after him and Elena pushes herself up.
"Come on, let's keep moving." Alaric says holding out his free hand for Elena to take. She looks between the area where Damon disappeared and Alaric before taking Alaric's hand as Adele breaks free moving away from them.
"We can't leave Damon." She insists.
"He can handle himself, let's move." Alaric urges reaching for her but she moves further away.
"If he gets bit, he'll be dead." She tells them, her heart pounding and her head spinning. The thought of Damon dying made her feel sick. "I can't leave him out here. I'm sorry." She bends down, pulling something from her boot.
"What is that?" Elena asks as Adele pulls her gun from her waistband.
"It's a fully loaded magazine." She answers as she lets the old one fall into her hand and she pushes the new one in. She turns to them. "When I find him, we'll meet you at the car." And she's gone before Alaric can stop her.
~x~
She's not sure exactly where she is, as she ducks under a low hanging branch, her gun half raised in case she has any unwanted attention her way not that the gun would really stop anything that would come at her, she'd been so worried about Damon that she'd run off before thinking her plan completely through.
It was a bad idea but one she'd have to live with now that she was out here looking for him, hoping to find him before it was too late. She couldn't go through the bite with him again because this time they didn't have anyone to negotiate with Klaus for his blood mostly because they weren't even sure where Klaus was. In other words, Damon would die.
She should've fought on this, she should've told Damon to drag her back to the car kicking and screaming. Elena doesn't seem to think about things, she doesn't seem to realize what could happen to those people risking their lives to protect her, like Damon. Every corner they turned it seemed like Elena was just trying to through herself into danger and someone else was paying the price for it.
Adele freezes, raising her gun completely as her blue eyes scout the area in front of her. Something was out there, watching her and she swallows back her fear as she steps forward.
She screams as sharp teeth dig painfully into her calf. She switches the gun into her left hand and uses it to hit the wolf upside the head. It snarls letting go of her leg and she drops to the ground pressing her back against the nearest tree as she lifts the gun, her hands shaking making the gun unsteady.
The wolf approaches slowly, growling lowly and sniffing the air around it, probably smelling the blood running down her calf seeping into the bottom of her jeans and dripping into her boot.
Its glowing yellow eyes meet hers as it bares its teeth at her. It lunges and Adele shoots hitting it in the chest but it doesn't seem to slow it down as Adele turns her head closing her eyes, waiting for impact.
It never comes.
She opens her eyes, turning her head back forward slowly. The wolf lays dead a few feet to the right, its heart lying next to it but that's not what has her eyes widening and her heart pounding even faster. It's the man standing in front of her, gazing down at her with a thoughtful expression. She realizes with a sickening amount of surprise and fear, that it's Klaus.
~x~
She doesn't leave her spot on the cold ground if anything she presses back harder against the tree, the rough bark digging almost painfully into the bare skin of her exposed lower back but it was nothing compared to the throbbing pain in her calf. If there was anything Elena should have told her about the deadly hybrid it was the fact that he was ridiculously good looking. The good looking bad guys always seem to be the worst.
"That looks nasty." He speaks, his British accent thick but understandable. He's mentioning down to her bite. "I could fix that right up for you, if you'd let me of course."
"It's fine." She answers a bit too quickly for her liking causing her to flinch. "It'll heal."
"It must hurt." She takes a second to look down at it, it's far too dark out and there's far too much blood for her to see the wound clearly but she figures being a wolf and all, that his night vision is a lot better then hers.
She turns her blue eyes back up to him. "I'll live." She assures.
"At least let me help you up, make sure you can walk alright." He holds out a hand that Adele stares at seeming to be weighing her options because here was the bad guy in their story and he was offering to help her. "I'm not going to hurt you, I swear." He says though she's not so sure but then again what other choice did she have? She was hurt, there was no way in hell she'd be able to out run him anyways or fight him for that matter.
She takes his out stretched hand ignoring the warmth of it as she swallows back the pain when she's standing, putting a small amount of pressure onto the leg. "Can you walk?"
"Yes." She manages to say and he lets go of her hand but stays close maybe so he can catch her if she falls?
"What are you doing out here all by yourself?" Adele runs a hand through her hair, her gaze shifting to anywhere but this handsome villain in front of her.
"I think you know." Her answer is sharp, not that she intended it to be but he catches it anyways, his eyebrows rising obviously surprised that she's snapped at him like so.
"Ah right. I killed your sister and took your boyfriend's brother."
"Yeah." She nods with a sigh and a thought pops into her head. He can't seriously be standing here just wanting to make sure she's okay. That's not what villains do. "Are you going to kill me? I mean really?"
He tilts his head his eyes narrowing as he studies her and she fidgets uncomfortable under his stare, though he'd been in Alaric's body the last time she encountered him, he had studied her with the same thoughtful and intrigued stare, like there was something about her that he couldn't quite figure out.
"No." He finally says. "I'm not going to kill you. I'm going to let you go." Surprise flashes in her eyes for a split second before it's gone. "Don't get me wrong love, normally I would but…I've always been a sucker for blue eyes." With that said he sends her an overly bright smile. "Now run along before I change my mind."
She does, turning around and going back the way she had come only to stop and turn back slightly to see he's still standing there watching her. "Um…" She turns back towards her path for a second before meeting his stare. "Thank you." She calls.
He seems slightly surprised by this. "For what love? Saving your life or letting you live?"
A small smile plays at her lips, though she knows she shouldn't be smiling, at least not smiling at him of all people. She feels like she's breaking some kind of rule here. "Both I guess." She turns around quickly disappearing from his line of sight.
~x~
"Damon!" She calls for the sixth time, limping further into the darkness surrounding her. She wasn't sure if she was going to find him or not. If he was okay she knows he'd be looking for her to but they we're in the Smoky Mountains for shits sakes. There's no telling how far away from each other they are. If they we're far enough away from each other it could take weeks to find each other though if she doesn't find him tonight and if her leg doesn't stop bleeding, she'd be half dead if not dead by morning. She realizes that she might be letting her mind run away with itself. "Damon!"
"Kitten!" She stops lifting her eyes from the ground. "Adele!" She turns to the right, running as much as she can in the direction she's heard his voice and the closer she gets the faster her heart pounds with the possibility that he could've been bit.
She breaks through a couple trees to find him walking in the other direction. "Damon!" He turns, his icy eyes flashing with relief as she half jogs half limps towards him. He meets her half way, wrapping her tightly in his arms as she bares her head in his neck. She pulls back suddenly. "Are you going?"
"Am I okay? You're the one bleeding. Are you okay?" She ignores him, reaching up to cup his cheeks.
"Damon, did you get bit?" His eyes search her face before he shakes his head.
"No. I didn't." He assures softly and she breathes a sigh of relief, before she kisses him softly. "What about you? Why are you bleeding?" She pulls away, looking down at her calf.
"Yeah," She gives off a short humorless laugh. "You might not have gotten bit but I did." She says. "It hurts like a bitch, I think it's deep. I'm not sure."
"You we're bit? By a werewolf?" He bends down to examine her leg closely but the wound is hidden behind her blood and her jeans. "One of those hybrids? How did…how did you get away?" Adele opens her mouth but quickly closes it, which probably wasn't her best idea as Damon stands. She could've gotten away with lying a second ago but now…now it wasn't going to fly. He'd know but she wasn't sure telling him was the best idea.
"Adele…How did you get away?" He knows there has to be some huge reason. She was good, he'd give her that but she wasn't good enough to face on one of those crazed hybrids without help. She'd be dead if she tried.
"Klaus." She finally breaths and he steps back as if she'd pushed him. "I looked away for a second because the thing lunged at me and when I looked up the thing was dead, it's heart ripped out and Klaus was standing in front of me."
"And he just let you go?" Damon whispers.
"Yeah, he asked why I was out here but he didn't ask about Elena, he didn't ask about anyone else, he just saved me, offered to heal me and sent me on my way telling me he's a sucker for blue eyes." She explains and a moment of raw rage flashes in his own blue eyes before its gone and Adele thinks if she'd blinked she would've missed it.
"It's always the eyes. I swear you seem to attract the world's worst company with those things. I'm going to buy you colored contacts, it's the first damn thing I'm doing when we get back and you're going to wear them whenever you're outside and not with me." He rants as he pulls her to him before biting into his wrist and pressing the bleeding wound to her lips.
After a couple seconds she pushes his wrist away choking on the horrible tasting liquid as she wipes her mouth. Her leg heals quickly, the pain subsiding in a matter of seconds. "You shouldn't have run after me."
"Are you kidding me? You know me Damon, you know how I am. How could you even think I wouldn't go running after you?" She pushes against his chest surprising him. "You shouldn't have done that! Do you realize what could have happened? If you would have gotten bit, you'd be dead! There would be no saving you this time!"
He catches her closed fist as they make contact to his chest again pulling her forward harshly and she crashes against his chest. "I'm fine." He presses his lips to hers in a rough kiss as if that would help prove his point to her. She pushes him away when air becomes essential and is left panting as she looks up at him.
"We have to stop doing this." She breathes and he tilts his head, not sure what she's talking about. "Putting ourselves in danger just to help protect someone who proven time and time again that she just doesn't care, there has to be a point where enough is enough."
"Kitten, you're talking about your sister." He reminds her and she nods closing her eyes tightly.
"I know Damon. I know and I feel horrible for thinking this, I just…I can't lose anyone else." He pulls her back into his arms holding her tightly against him.
"Adele…I know." He whispers into her hair.
~x~
After getting home to the home she was actually raised in, the one she's supposed to be living in –though now walking through the hall towards her bedroom feels slightly foreign, she'd changed out of her jeans which was another piece of clothing ruined before going down to get something to drink, preferably something along the lines of the bourbon Alaric hid around thinking they wouldn't find out.
She opens the door to her bedroom and freezes in the doorway. "Seriously?" She calls across the room. "I thought you went home." She walks into the room walking over to her dresser.
"I was wrong." He mutters never turning away from her window and she looks up from staring at the top of her dresser.
"Are you drunk?" She teases and he finally turns cracking a small smile before it falls.
"I thought Stefan was gone, but I was wrong."
Adele frowns moving closer to him. "You saw him out there, didn't you? Is he okay?"
"No." Damon shakes his head. "He's not okay. He's an insufferable martyr that needs his ass kicked... But he can be saved."
Adele decides not to point out the fact that she figured they could save him, that there was always hope. Instead she goes for, "What changed your mind?"
"I changed my mind because even in his darkest place, my brother still can't let me die. So I figure I owe him the same in return." He pauses briefly. "We've got to bring him back."
"We will. Damon there's always a way." He nods after a minute of stretched out silence before moving forward and wrapping his arms around her waist.
"That confession is not the only reason I'm here." He tells her and she raises an eyebrow. "I've come to take you home."
"I am home Damon." She tells him with little conviction.
"We both know that's not true." He turns her around and begins pushing her towards the door. "We are wasting valuable time."
"Damon." She slips from his hold and moves away from him. "Seriously. I should probably stay here tonight. Show my sister and my brother that I haven't…completely moved out."
"But you have, we know it, they know it. You've spent every night since that dreadful night with me, you used to spend half your nights with me before that. I mean you're not going to be convincing anyone of anything." She simply stares at him causing him to huff and throw up his arms. "Fine but you'll see, one night sleeping alone and you will see." He brushes past her leaving her standing alone in the bedroom.
She peeks her head out the door and sees him beginning his way down the stairs. "Well I love you to Jerk!" She calls.
"Oh please woman! You know you're my world!" He yells back and with a shake of her head she laughs closing her bedroom door softly.
~x~
"I made the wise decision to sleep in my own bed tonight. It was all me Jazzy and he wasn't too pleased with the idea but he left anyways." Adele explains to the witch who laughs in response.
"And how is that working out for you?"
"It's now almost 1 in the morning and it's proving to just a tad bit difficult to fall asleep. I'm just used to having him there, next to me but tonight made me realize that if anything we're to happen to him I'd have to learn to be without him." She explains with a sigh.
"Or you would lose your mind." Adele scoffs knowing that was the most likely scenario. "Anyways, Adele what are we going to do about Jackie? You know it's not a good idea for her to stay."
"No it's not but Jasmine what choice do we have in the matter? We can't send her off to anyone else because she doesn't have anyone else. We could always track down her dead beat parents but I'd rather she be here where Michael, Nate, you and I can make sure she stays safe. You might be with Michael now Jazzy but you have never met his father, the man was a monster and I'll be damned if she ever has to go through what Mikey did." Jasmine is silent for a minute and Adele swallows ready to start apologizing for snapping.
"Your right. I didn't meet him, I don't ever want to meet him and Jackie is so innocent, she doesn't deserve to go through that. Michael…he's worried. He won't say it but I know he is. He keeps his distance. He's afraid he's going to hurt her." Jasmine explains softly.
"He won't." Adele says and there's a small stretch of silence before Adele hears rustling from the other end and the voice who greets her next isn't Jasmines but Michael's. He sounds halfway to frantic.
"How do you know?" He tries hard to control the emotion in his voice. "Adele…how can you be so sure? I tried to attack Jasmine for shits sakes."
"Because Mikey, you'd kill yourself before you'd hurt her. You've spent your whole life protecting her. Everything you've ever done you've done with that little girl in mind. You might be a vampire Mikey but your still you."
"I really hope your right Short Stuff."
"I am. Michael, I know you. You'll be okay, Jackie will be okay. I promise." It's a promise she hopes she can keep.
Well there it is.
I hope you liked it.
And just so everybody knows in case there getting annoyed with it or will in the future, I don't mean to bash on Elena every chance I get, it's just going through these episodes, I realize how incredibly annoying she was back then and It's just almost unbearable.
I'm thinking like 10 reviews or more would be good before the next chapter comes out. Let me feel the love guys or the criticism, whichever one. (;
Next on Lose Myself:
Damon and Adele are taking another road trip, only this time Elena is tagging along.
Elena and Adele bickering while Damon aimlessly takes sides.
And
Adele runs into someone she'd really rather not run into.
