Chapter 2: A visit before school.

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After a restless night of rolling and tugging at the sheets, Damon woke up and went into the living room, he sat down at the couch and looked at the now ashes of wood that were left in the fireplace after it was turned out. He couldn't sort out a reason for his lack of compulsion on Elena. He never encountered anything like it before in his 146 years; he still had control over other humans but why not Elena?

He couldn't wait any longer he grabbed his phone and dialed Alaric's number, "hello?" he asked in a grouchy voice. Damon knew he was still asleep at 5 in the morning but he couldn't wait any longer it was eating him inside, "hey Ric, it's Damon. I need you to help me with something" he said, he heard a yawn then groaning from the other line, and "what would you really want at 5 in the morning, Damon? Are you in some kind of trouble again?" he asked. Damon smirked, he was always the trouble one, "no, not really" he sighed. "Then why would you wake me up so early? I have school in couple of hours" he groaned, "Oh come on sleepy head. It's very important, it's about Elena" he said. He knew that by this time Ric is widely awake, every time that something about Elena is brought everyone would want to help.

"What happened to her? Is she alright?" he asked full of concerned, Damon smiled, "yeah she's alright. It's just… would you get your lazy ass up here and try to sort this out with me? It's really important Alaric and I need to solve this sooner or later." He said and shut the phone without giving the chance to Alaric to answer.

After half an hour, he heard a car pull over their driveway, he went to the door and opened it, Alaric looked still groggy, "I hope this is important that you had to wake me up so early" he narrowed his eyes at Damon. He nodded and motioned his head to the cellar, "why on earth are we going in the cellar?" Alaric asked Damon placed a hand over his mouth to let Alaric know that Stefan was still sleeping. They went down to the cellar and Damon rested at the wall, Alaric crossed his hand waiting for an explanation.

The cellar was soundproof so Stefan couldn't hear anything, "I told her that I loved her" Damon just said bluntly. Alaric groaned, "That's all? You must be kidding me?" he asked as was ready to head upstairs to go back home. Damon went in front of him in a blur, "I compelled her but it didn't work" he said looking serious with his eyes wide. Alaric groaned, "Maybe because she had her necklace on" he said, Damon shook his head, "no I snatched it from her neck and compelled her but after a moment she herself told me that it isn't working" he said scratching the back of his head. Alaric looked at Damon, he knew that he was serious, "is she drinking Vervain?" he asked once again, and yet again Damon shook his head. Alaric furrowed his eyebrows in confusion, "you sure she was Elena and not Katherine?" he asked. Damon smiled, "Katherine is in the tomb Ric, and she can't get out. And secondly her heart was pumping, I can smell her blood Ric" he pointed to his nose, "vampire senses." Alaric chuckled, "oh like when she fooled you on the porch thinking she was Elena?" he said. Damon's eyes widened, "it was Elena, I'm positive" he said dead serious. Alaric nodded, "okay."

Alaric didn't know what to say, this was new to him too. He thought about the damage it could cause if Elijah knew that the doppelganger can't be compelled. They will be more interested and would want to kill her even more if it brought them to risk. "We need to find out more about this it could bring her to risk." He said.

Elena couldn't sleep all night, she wasn't sure what was happening to her, and with all the confessions Damon shared she felt her head burst. His humanity was showing at last and it was something that scared her, he was so emotional and vulnerable it was something she couldn't picture in demon. Stefan humanity is soft and caring but Damon was different he was… Damon.

As 6 in the morning approached, she sat up in bed feeling hopeless as she lost the battle she had been fighting all night long with her mind begging for sleep to overcome. She grabbed her cell phone and called bonnie, she would know what is happening she was a witch after all.

"Hello" answered Bonnie's sleepy voice, "hey; bonnie it's me, Elena. I need your help on something, it is very important" she said making it seem serious although it really was. Bonnie yawned from the other line, "I'll be there in a few minutes" she said without hesitating.

As promised in a few minute, Elena heard a car parking in their driveway; she went down stair as quiet as possible not to wake up Jenna and Jeremy. She opened the door and bonnie came in with the grimoire, they went directly upstairs to Elena's room and closed the door behind them. "What's going on Elena?" bonnie asked, Elena sat down on the bed and bonnie followed, "I can't be compelled. Not because I have the necklace or because of Vervain" she said, bonnie looked confused. "When we had our first encounter with Elijah, when I was kidnapped… later that night Damon came and confessed that he's in love with me. As I lost the necklace he found but he didn't give to me immediately, first he told me how he felt then compelled me and placed the necklace back and left in a blur." She sighed and took a deep breath, "but it didn't work, I still remember, what he told me. Yesterday he was emotional over what happened to Rose, as a friend I tried to comfort him and again he started blurting out about his emotions, he snatched the necklace from my neck. As he did that night he tried to compel me to forget but I told him it wasn't working. He was confused and he didn't know what was happening" she said trying to keep the story short as possible and not getting into details.

Bonnie looked at her in a way that gave her the creeps, she opened her grimoire trying to find something about this new piece of information given. She turned over the pages searching about something that regarded compulsion. She shook her head and then she stopped at a page, "well, it says here that 'compulsion is a power that can only work when the victim is not under the herb Vervain. This will not work on the victim as long as the Vervain is still in the system or wore as some kind of jewelry. Compulsion is one of the most dangerous power about vampires, they can lead to memory loss...' it's basically all the things that we already know but there's nothing mentioned about our problem" she said closing the grimoire yet again.

Elena looked at bonnie, "do you think that maybe he's not as strong as he used to be?" she asked uncertain on her question. Bonnie shook her head, "even Stefan can do some kind of compulsion even though he's on animal blood, he's weak and may not work completely but nonetheless something changes in the victims mood" she said, "I don't think that's the case Elena, Damon still drinks human blood and he's stronger than Stefan. Maybe he didn't try enough?" she asked wincing knowing that was no way near the truth. Elena shook her head; "I doubt that, he wouldn't do it again if he would have known that the first time didn't work" she shrugged.

"Why didn't you tell anyone about it?" she asked, Elena shrugged, "I guess I was too afraid about Stefan, I was still in shock about the whole kidnapping thing. But the second time it happened I was really confused" she said. Bonnie sighed, "Well, I'll try to find out more about this, I'll look at some of my granny's books and call if I'll find anything. Will you be alright?" she asked before leaving. Elena nodded, "yeah, I'll see you at school in a few" she said.

As bonnie left she led her way to the bathroom and took a shower, pleased with the hot water she closed her eyes and enjoyed the moment while it lasted. She got out dried herself ands put on her bathrobe, as she went into her room she shrieked as a hand covered her mouth. "Shh, don't scream or you'll wake up the neighbors. Nice robe by the way" he said. He uncovered her mouth and she turned around glaring at her intruder, "you scared the shit out of me. Stop showing up unnoticed and scaring me," she said tears in her eyes with the shock. At first she thought it was Elijah but then as she recognized his voice she relaxed a little although she didn't like when he showed up in her room without her permission.

He placed a hand on her cheek, "hey, it's just me. I just came before you went to school. I talked to Alaric about the whole compulsion thing" he said. She swatted his arm away, she didn't like his advances on her, "Damon, please stop that" she said. "Stop what?" he asked confused, she turned around and went to her vanity picking her brush and used it on her hair. "Stop touching me in that way, Damon I love Stefan. You shouldn't make advances on an already taken woman" she said still brushing her hair. Suddenly Damon was right behind her, his head nearly touching her shoulder; she looked at him trough the mirror, "I make advances on whoever I want. Don't tell me what I should and shouldn't do" he said caressing her cheek once again, while closing his eyes and breathing her scent. She felt butterflies in her stomach flying widely. Her heart started racing like a lunatic, he didn't know what he did to her when he touched her. She just pushed him away, because although she liked his touches she also loved Stefan and he'll always be her first choice. He was making her swoon; his eyes opened back again and looked in her eyes through the mirror. His eyes were full of love and lust altogether, she turned not wanting to see him touching her trough the other mirror. Her feet were feeling weak, while he cupped her face in his hands and kissed her forehead keeping his lips lingering a bit. He looked into her eyes with their foreheads touching; he was feeling already better after looking in her beautiful eyes. God he loved this women, he wanted her so badly and yet she loved his stupid brother. Why does Stefan always get the best? Why does he always get the dumb and the whores?

He pulled away but took her hand in his, he walked backwards and sat on the bed while he pulled her to him, at first she hesitated but then she let him pull her. I'll keep control; he won't do anything he just wants me to sit beside him to talk. That's all. She thought all over again trying to get herself together. As she walked to the bed he pulled her in front of him and suddenly in a blink he wrapped his hands around her and burying his head in her stomach, like men do when their wife's are pregnant just to feel the baby moving. She didn't know what to do she was so caught off guard but regardless she placed one hand on his shoulder and another entwined in his hair. She felt herself getting that warm fuzzy feeling that she got when Stefan and she made love. Oh god was she confused, she didn't want to let go, she felt safe and loved but eventually she had to pull back she need to go to school she need to get away from Damon or she would do something she would regret.

"I need to get ready for school, Damon. It's getting late," she sighed and pulled away from him looking anywhere but his eyes and wrapping her hands round her waist. "Okay, and by the way me and Alaric haven't got any clue about the whole compulsion thing. We're going back to Isobel's library and search trough her research, maybe we'll find something there" he said feeling a bit hurt that she wouldn't look at him. He knew what he had to do, he would try and show his love for her and enjoy every moment he can. As soon as he'll find the reason for this compulsion problem he'll mend it and then compel her to forget whatever happened between through these days. Yes, that's what he'll do even though he was going to hurt and regret it but it is for the best.

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