So, I realize Damon and Stefan aren't like this in the show but based on one of the episodes they were when they were human, so since this is an all-human fic…
DPOV
"Damon! Stefan!" These were the first things we heard getting home.
We looked at each other. "Yes, mom?" Stefan said sweetly.
"Did you two make your beds this morning?"
"Well…" Stef searched for an excuse, "we'd been discussing how we should, but then we were late and we wanted to make our best first impression." Before I was able to catch myself I let out a snort and he elbowed me. We did make an impression…
"Yes. We'd been discussing how we should," I parroted.
"I don't believe you," our mother announced.
"No…" I stated, shaking my head. Stefan rubbed the back of his neck and followed with, "yeah…"
She merely sighed and that, more than any words, prompted us to make our beds.
"You know," I shouted across the hall. "In the 1860s they had maids to do this shit." A laugh from
Stefan's room, and then from downstairs another voice shouted, "Language!"
Though chastised, it was nice to see she was telling us what to do, being a real parent and taking charge, like we had hoped she would. I pounded down the steps, so she wouldn't be surprised when I sat down. She still scared easily. She turned and smiled at me. "How was your day?"
"It was fantastic, actually. Stef and I met some really cool people."
Her eyebrows went up, "You actually made friends?"
"Well, I have no reason not to. I'm going to make a concerted effort to keep my nose clean." She hugged me and though I was temporarily stunned, I responded.
"I'm glad." She whispered, tightening the hug before letting go of me. I was, too. I despised getting into fights. Other than one person in the world, I didn't like punching anybody, but sometimes we have to do things we don't like.
So I did.
EPOV
I sat on the couch downstairs the next afternoon and sighed. I'd known the guy for one day-twoclass periods!- when I'd been talking to Kat about marriage and children (brats just seemed so mean) and growing old with him. I was a freaking soap opera. I was…I was…so…well, I was a soap opera. Although, technically today had made four class periods.
Then again Rebekah was no better. She had her eye on Stefan already, too. I remembered she had even jumped to his defense earlier today, during study hall. We had purposely arranged to have the same study hall. Stefan and Damon were assigned that room by coincidence. I didn't want to bother them, as they seemed to be having an in depth conversation but Rebekah dragged me by the arm.
"No, no, no." Stefan insisted. "Gibbs thinks of her as a daughter!"
"Little brother, the sexual tension could be cut with a knife. Watching it makes me wish I had a girlfriend or someone to call up or some damn thing."
I cleared my throat. Caught in the middle of discussing the love-lives of two characters on a television show, both were utterly aghast at our presence (not to mention Damon had just admitted to having no sex life). "Maybe it's just complicated," I shrugged and they both blushed crimson, forcing me to contain a laugh.
"Now, there's no need to tease Stefan, Elena!" Rebekah scolded.
Desperate to change the subject somehow, Stefan blurted out, "The walls are a really nice color!"
This time I couldn't hold back my laughter. I clamped my hands over my mouth in attempt to at least quiet, but gave up upon doubling over and running out of breath. "Elena! I said there's no need to tease him!"
Stefan hit his head against the desk. He and Damon seemed to confer for a moment. Damon stifled his own laugh.
Stefan hit his head on the desk a second time. Damon caved on it and let out a laugh, a laugh that came from way down in his stomach. It was not a hollow laugh like Matt's or a gruff bark like Klaus and Rebekah's kid brother's laugh was.
Kol. The kid had stalked Elena, even using Jeremy as an excuse to see her. When Jeremy learned he was a chess piece, he freaked the fuck out and broke Kol's nose. As far as Elena was concerned that was perfectly fine. Kol's siblings didn't take his side. ("He had it coming." Rebekah had confided.) Shaking her head, she drew herself back to the moment and that perfect laugh.