I'm sorry it took me so long to post another chapter. But I hope it's worth the wait :3


"Stefan, please. Just listen to us! We need to find a way to break the sire bond. We have to!"

Stefan, Damon and Elena were sitting in front of the fireplace, discussing about the further plans concerning the sire bond. But Stefan didn't agree with their plan. He could not allow anything to happen neither to Elena, nor between her and Damon.

"Yes Elena, I get that. I just don't understand why you don't want me to come. You and Damon will go all the way to New Orléans, all alone? I just don't like it..."

"Brother, you know that the whole trip will be totally awkward if you join. It would be awful and you know it. Just stay and handle the hunter problem, we'll go and handle the sire bond problem. Everybody's happy."

The younger brother frowned. "Well I won't be happy."

"Stefan, listen to me. I want to go with Damon. I trust him to keep me safe and like he said, it would be weird if both of you'd join. Please, just trust us!"

Oh right... Trust me, brother. Trust me to not sleep with your ex girlfriend, knowing about the sire bond. Trust me, to keep her out of trouble, like my presents isn't trouble enough to her.

"Stefan. You always let me make my own decisions, you always respected them. This is my decision!"

"Fine. If that's what you want Elena, then I'll just stay here."

Knowing that something had happened between his brother and his ex girlfriend, Stefan stood up and left without seeing the happy grins on Elena's and Damon's faces.

Later on, Elena was in her room packing for her trip. She'd just put her sexy underwear in her bag, when Stefan walked in.

"Is this really what you want, or did Damon tell you to? You know, you can trust me. I'll always be on your side."

Hearing this, Elena turned around and faced her ex boyfriend with a very upset look.

"How dare you talk like this about your brother? You are family, no matter what happened between the two of you. He is a good man, a good brother and a good friend. And YES, I want to go with Damon. It was my decision. And you must know, Damon didn't want me to come at first and it was me who persuaded him. Not the other way around." Her anger shrunk and all that was left was sadness; Sadness for Stefan and the broken relationships between him, his brother and her. "Look, Stefan I'm sorry. I never wanted things to turn out like this. I never expected anything of it to happen. But it did and now we have to arrange ourselves with it. I am truly sorry."

She was done packing so she grabbed all her stuff, kissed the cheek of a very speechless Stefan and walked out of the room.

After 30 minutes in the car, Elena's phone rang. It was Caroline and she was very upset.

"Oh my gosh, Elena! What are you thinking? You can't just leave town with Damon. You have to work things out with Stefan and forget about Damon! And yes, I am aware that he hears every word; I intended him to-"

"Caroline, stop it right there. I want to go with Damon. It's my choice and I choose this. You can go and visit Stefan if you are so worried about him. But I'm leaving town with Damon. Talk to you soon, bye!"

"But-", Caroline was starting to protest, but Elena simply hung up on her.

"You should listen to her, you know. She's right. All of them are right. You should be with Stefan and not with me." He looked sad but he went on, "We can still turn around, you know."

He studied her reaction to this proposal but she didn't bite.

"Nope. I wanted to leave with you. Not with him. And you didn't tell me to, so I guess this is me speaking, not the bond." She put her hand on his and looked directly in his eyes: "You really need to work on your trust issues."

He gave her his cute, sexy grin and she knew that her little joke broke the tension in the car.

"I can't believe that she just left with Damon! How could she? You and her, you are perfect and she knows it. How could she just throw all this away? Damon is not good for her, he always causes problems and he just uses her like he uses everyone else." Caroline wanted to go on all about Damon's faults, but Stefan interrupted her: "Caroline, stop. You know that I love her. But I know my brother and I am completely sure that he loves her just as much as I do. She told me herself, Damon didn't want her to go but she insisted and he gave in. He would never do anything to hurt her, never would be selfish with her. . . What's that look on your face? What happened? Caroline, tell me!"

Caroline pressed her lips together. She couldn't tell Stefan that his brother slept with his ex girlfriend. And besides, she promised it to Elena. . .

"I can't tell you Stefan. I promised", but the look on her face already gave it away.

"Caroline! How together are they?"

The blonde didn't answer, she just pressed her lips together harder.

"Tell me, Caroline! Tell me! HOW TOGETHER ARE THEY?!"

When the girl still didn't answer, Stefan could tell what had happened. He was too angry to say anything.

How could she do this to him? How could he do this to him? He's his brother for god's sake!

Stefan couldn't think clearly anymore. He took the table and threw it at the wall. All that was left in his head was the hate he felt towards the two people he loved the most and his lust for human blood.

Elena and Damon were still on the highway late in the evening when they passed a sign for a motel on the side of the road.

"Damon, let's just sleep there for the night. I'm really tired and I can't sleep in the car. Pretty please?" She looked at him with big, sad, pleading eyes.

"Fine, but we'll have to get up early tomorrow. We have to keep going."

After they found their room, Damon took off his shoes, tucked out his shirt and got out his bottle of Bourbon while Elena disappeared in the restroom to take care of lady business or what ever. Damon didn't know what to do. He loved Elena, but he also loved his brother. They've been trough so much and still managed to have an acceptable brotherhood. He'd been trough hell when Elena chose Stefan over him multiple times but he stayed for his brother – and for her, of course. But that was different, his brother deserved her, deserved to be happy. But he didn't deserve Elena. And now that she chose him, it made things a thousand times more difficult. His thoughts were abruptly interrupted when Elena stepped out of the bathroom; with nothing more than some negligees on her body. He almost choked on his Bourbon. How could it be that he deserved such an amazing woman with both, beauty and brain?

"Well who do we have here?" Her voice was hoarse with passion as she walked slowly towards him, swaying her hips erotically.

Damon nearly forgot how to breathe; he'd never been seduced so successfully.

She sat down on his lap and leaned in until her lips touched his earlobe. "I bought this underwear just for you, so you can rip it off of my body", she whispered and her hot breath gave him goose bumps.

He tried to resist her: "Elena, we really shouldn't do this-"

But she simply closed his mouth with her lips and within seconds he lay on the bed on his back, Elena sitting on top of his hip, putting just the right amount of pressure on a fast growing part of his body there.

Their plans to get up early didn't work out and they stayed in bed till long after noon.