The Tale of Two Fractured Souls

Chapter 2

Sighing in mild frustration, Damon pulled a cigarette from his pack and put it between his lips lighting it as he looked at the sun sinking in the horizon. It had been twenty minutes since Lexi had sent Damon to look for Elena and despite his multiple attempts and a few distractions along the way he had failed to find Elena or even get remotely close to it. Group would be over soon anyway and he knew Lexi would give him an earful so he wasn't even gonna bother going back. He would just sit there and enjoy the rest of the day and talk to his probation officer about the situation tomorrow. That is if he didn't just assume Damon had skipped out on purpose, but that was Alaric's perception of Damon always so he didn't even know why he bothered with it at all.

"Mind if I snag one of those?" A voice said from beside him forcing him to look over to his side.

Elena Gilbert stood before him in the flesh as his cigarette smoke blew towards her. A light breeze caught her brown hair blowing it around her making her look twice as hot as she already was. Then he snapped out of it remembering the question she just asked him. If he knew that taking a smoke break would bring her to him he would have done it a lot faster. He reached into his pocket grabbing his pack and offering her one. She smiled taking it between her lips as she tipped it out to him in a seductive way that didn't really seem to work for her.

"Got a light?" she asked.

Shrugging he jammed his hand back into his jacket pocket and grabbed his lighter lighting her cigarette for her as she looked up at him with those big brown eyes that she probably knew made boys weak.

"Thanks."

"Mind telling me what that was about?"

A deep laugh caught in Elena's throat as she put the cigarette to her mouth making sue he got that she didn;t really want to talk about it. Unfortunately for her Damon was a very persistent person.

"Come on you know you want to talk to someone about it. And who better than one of your group mates."

She gave him a snide look but continued anyway.

"I just don't like being rushed. You understand that feeling right?"

"I guess. Alright. Is there anything you would like to talk about? I've heard even talking about small things could help."

"I have a cat. Well I had a cat before moving into yet another foster home."

"And what was this cat's name?"

"You'd laugh."

"Come on. It can't be that bad."

"Oh it was pretty bad."

"Now you're just teasing me, come on what was it?"

"Sparkles."

Damon chocked back a laugh that was forming in his gut as Elena narrowed her eyes at him in frustration.

"You promised you wouldn't laugh."

"Technically I didn't, but I do apologize. Why did you decide on the name sparkles?"

Elena looked down at the ground shuffling her feet across the gravel that was in front of her.

"I didn't my foster sister did."

Damon looked down on the ground thinking that they were finally getting somewhere. Now he just had to figure out how to get more information out of her without scaring her away.

"What ever happened with the cat?"

"She's still with my foster sister. She liked her better anyway."

"I wouldn't say that."

"How would you know?"

"How would you? Do you speak cat?"

She rewarded him with a laugh that made him smile.

"No, but sometimes you just know."

"How would one know?"

"It's all apart of body language."

"Ah you're one of those people."

"One of what people?"

"The people that think they can tell everything about a person just by looking at them. You must be the hugest fan of the show Lie to Me."

"I probably would be if I had grown up with cable. I read books instead and not the fun kind that everyone else gets to read. I'm, talking reading text books over here. Sometimes college level ones."

"Sounds boring. We might need to fix that sometime."

"You make it sound like I'll be here long enough for you to fix that."

"What do you mean by that?"

"I've been through one too many foster homes to know that nothing in this life is ever permanent."

"Seems like a cynical view to have."

"Its a necessary one."

Damon opened his mouth to speak when a group full of people caught his attention. It looks like the meeting was done and he hadn't managed to get her back to it like Lexi had wanted him to. He had disappointed her yet again. It was amazing that she even trusted him to go in the first place.

"Well I guess that's my cue to leave. Wouldn't want to make the new foster mother mad."

"Will I ever see you again Elena Gilbert?"

She smiled at him stomping her cigarette out with her shoe before stepping closer to him. He swore if she didn't smoke then her scent would be intoxicating.

"I wouldn't count on it."

And with that line Elena Gilbert disappeared into the crowd making Damon wonder if he would ever see her again.