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Family Ties

Elizabeth

He grabs me by my hips and pulls me closer to his body. I feel his warmth and begin to melt as he begins to kiss me. Exploring my mouth with his tongue not leaving any part of my mouth untouched. My hands reach up to his hair and his mouth continues to claim me. I moan into his mouth and he smiles as he hears me respond to his touch. One of his hands works its way towards my hair and pulls my head back as we continue to kiss exploring each others mouth, savagely.

He walks backwards toward my bed and gently lowers me onto it, following me down so that he's lying by my side. He stops kissing me and runs his nose gently and slowly along my jaw line as my hands continues to grasp his hair tightly. He lowers his nose along my neck and begins to leave small and gently kisses and he runs down and touches every inch of my body with his hands.

He pulls me back into his arms, kissing me, twisting his hairs into my hair. Our tongues entwined. His hands continue to roam my body and I melt as touches me and explores my body. His mouth goes back down to kissing my neck and then I feel his teeth sinking on to my neck.


Stefan

I wake with a sudden jolt. I take a deep breath slowly remembering my terrible nightmare of Damon killing both Elena and Elizabeth.

I look up and notice Damon is sitting very close to my bed smiling. He must have had something to do with this.

"Bad dream? Do you know how easy it was to get inside your head just now?" I look at him in anger.

"You really need some human blood." He continues talking. Taunting me. I would never let him kill Elena or Elizabeth. I would never allow him for him to do any harm.

Quickly in my vampire speed I run over towards the desk and throw Damon a knife aiming for his heart but I missed. Damon looks down at his chest as he's unaffected by the knife stabbing him.

"Alright I deserve that but I just wanted to let you know they caught the animal responsible for killing coach tanner and all those people." He speaks once more.

"What are talking about?" I ask in return while standing in front of him. He's the killer. He's the monster.

"The mountain lion. Big one it attacked this morning. It's all over the news, 'deadly beast captured. All is well in mystic falls.'" He finishes and gets up from his chair and starts to work his way towards the door.

"Why would you cover your tracks?" I ask. Damon is never the one to be so careful. He's ruthless. He always kills and leaves the bodies unattended, not giving a care in the world by whoever finds their dead bodies.

"I decided to stay a while and I'm having way too much fun here with you and the Gilbert twins," He adds. My hands quickly turn into fist as I hear him talk about Elena and Elizabeth like they're some kind of prize.

"You can't touch them now," I reply.

"Well the vervain can only keep me out of her head. Maybe that's not my target. Believe it or not Stefan, some girls don't need my persuasion. Some girls just can't resist my good looks, my style, my charms and my flinging ability to listen Taylor Swift." He continues taunting me with his words with that he walks over to me and stabs me with the same knife I previously threw at him.

I fall to the ground and cry in pain as I take the knife out of my chest.

I take a deep breath and think to myself I won't let Damon hurt Elizabeth.

The real animal is still out there, waiting for me. Challenging me to fight back to stop him but, do I stop a monster without becoming one myself?


Elizabeth

I wake with a jolt. I cannot believe I just had a dream about Damon. A good dream but at the same time it was weird. The way he sunk his teeth into my neck and suck my blood, a little twilight for me.

Still the dream was good. I've never had such a sexual dream about a guy before. Usually I would love these kind of dreams if they were about another guy but Damon is currently the enemy I can't be attracted to him like this but at the same time it's so easy to fall for his amazingly good looks.

I've got to give the man his props he's gorgeous. You can't say that about every guy you meet.

I go to the bathroom to shower and get ready for another day. Today was the founder's party and I was being forced by my every woman in this house to attend.

At this point I wish I was Jeremy who's not forced on going but then here I stand and I'm forced to go.

I need to find a dress to wear. Hopefully I can find one in my closet I don't have enough time to buy a dress.

I go downstairs to eat some breakfast only to hear Aunt Jenna talking to the TV. What is up with everyone talking to themselves recently? First Bonnie and now Jenna.

I look at Jenna and she's sipping on her coffee while constantly repeating "Scum bag, scum bucket."

"Who are you talking to, I'm starting to get worried?" I ask her. She really needs to stop talking to herself.

"Him," she replies while pointing at the guy at the TV. At that point Elena enters the room.

"The news guy?" Elena adds to the conversation.

"Also known as Logan Scum Fell. Did your mom ever tell you both why I left Mystic Falls?" She continues. Jenna must really hate this guy.

"No way," I add.

"You and him?" Elena asks while laughing at Jenna's disgusted face while watching the TV.

"He's cute, really hot," I taunt her.

"He is not cute. There's nothing cute about him." Jenna adds while turning off the TV.

Elena laughs as she sits down at the dinning room table and opening up a golden box filled with old family artifacts.

"What are you doing?" Jenna asks while turning away from the TV towards the table.

"I went to the save deposit box. Mom had told Mrs. Lockwood that she would loan all this stuff for the founders council for the heritage display." Elena replies.

"Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that." I speak as looking at all the weird stuff my family has collected over the years. Elena begins to pick up certain pieces and starts to clean them and polish them.

"That's stuff in mom's and dad's you can't be giving it away." Jeremy adds as he walks inside the kitchen and takes a drink from the refrigerator.

"I'm not giving it away. It's called a loan Jer." Elena replies.

"Yes Jer bear, there's a difference." I add as I watch him.

"Whatever," he finishes as he leaves the room.

With that we hear the doorbell ring and Elena gets up to answer the door.

"Can you finish this Eli?" She asks as she leaves the room giving me no time to reply.

"Yeah sure because I have nothing else to do with my morning," I yell back and Aunt Jenna laughs at me.

I continue polish all the pieces and hear the phone ring, Jenna leaves the table to answer and I continue to concentrate on the box.

"It's for you, Eli." Jenna says as walking back towards the kitchen and passing me the phone.

"Hello?" I speak up.

"Eli! I tried calling your cell but you didn't answer, want to go to the grill to have lunch with Caroline?" Bonnie says.

I sigh, "I wish but Lena left me on polishing old junk for the display tonight, evil twin I tell you." I add and Bonnie laughs on the other end.

"Do come over though. We can all get ready for the party, besides you are my lovely date right? You're not going to ditch me?"

"Of course not. I think Caroline is going with Damon so it'll be just us two." I cringe as Bonnie says the devils name on the phone.

Every time I hear his name I will just think about last nights dream and that cannot happen. He's dating my best friend.

"Awesome, I'll see you after you eat with Caroline," I add and hang up the phone and keep cleaning.


After finishing box duty I leave the table to go to my closet to find a dress but I stop as I hear the doorbell ring. It must be Tyler, Mrs. Lockwood say he's going to be picking up the box for tonight.

Jeremy runs downstairs and gets the door and tries to slam the door on Tyler.

"I'm here for my mom. Supposed to pick up a box," Tyler tells Jer. I turn to get the box from the dinning room table and go to the door.

"Right here." I say as I approach Tyler and Jeremy. "Please be careful." I add while handing him the box.

"Yeah be careful with it dick," Jeremy yells at him. Not this again.

"Hey! Not now okay you guys. Please?" I say while looking between both of them.

"I'm fine he's just being a punk." Tyler replies and Jeremy leaves the door.

"Can I talk to you for a second?" Tyler continues.

"Yeah, sure." I step out the house and close the door not wanting Jeremy to come back and do something stupid.

What's up?" I ask him while closing the door and looking up at him.

"I didn't know you were moving back to Mystic Falls?" He says. I watch him and notice he's actually nervous while trying to talk to me.

"Yeah, not many people knew. Just Jenna, Elena, and Jeremy. Jenna went to school and made sure everything was set for me to start classes the day I got back home and no one else knew really," I explain. Again why am I explaining myself to guys recently?

Maybe because they're seriously hot guys. Could be. Tyler has grown to a good-looking guy but he's with Vicky.

"Oh, okay. We'll I was wondering if after the entire Founder parties are done with we could go out or something. Maybe eat at the grill or some where else if you like?" he continues.

Woah! Tyler was asking me out? I look at him again and smile.

"What about Vicky?" I ask curious as to see what he's going to say.

"I don't think it'll work out with Vicky," he replies and takes a hold of my hand.

"Let's do it," I add. He looks into my eyes to see if I'm being sincere and after a couple seconds his face lights up and he smiles at me in return.

"Great, I have to go back home. See you tonight?" He adds with a sudden excitement in his voice.

"Definitely," I reply and smile back. This could be a good thing maybe it will get Damon out of my mind.

He reaches down and kisses my cheek before leaving to go back home.

I turn around and go back upstairs to finally go in the search of a dress and start to get excited about something at Mystic Falls.

Maybe Tyler and I can really be good together I mean I had the longest crush on him when I was living here.

I hear the doorbell ring once again. It's most likely Bonnie I start heading down stairs and hear Bonnie talking to Elena.

"Delicate flower or naughty vixen?" she asks while holding two nail polish bottles. Elena is in the kitchen washing her hand.

"Naughty vixen," I reply as I enter the room and sit next to Bonnie.

"You would," Bonnie adds while looking at me and laughing.

"Tough call. Can we mix them?" Elena adds while she joins us around the dinning table.

We place napkins on top of the table and start to open the bottles of nail polish to paint our nails.

"Look at you getting all pretty for your date." Bonnie adds. "You seem happy-ish," she continues.

"I am ish. Tonight's going to be a good night but don't let that stop you from telling me whatever it is you wanted to tell me as soon as you walked in the door." Elena replies and looks straight at Bonnie seriously.

"Mmm gossip, spill Bennett," I add and laugh.

"What if I tell you in the morning. I don't want to ruin the night." Bonnie replies to the both of us.

"Oh this is going to be good, sounds really serious." I continue to taunt her.

"Bonnie out with it." Elena adds. She picks up one of the nail polishes and starts to paint her thumbnail.

"Okay but, it has to go in the vault because Caroline would kill me if it gets back to Damon that she squealed. Apparently Stefan has an interesting back-story. Do you know what happened with his ex-girlfriend Katherine?" Bonnie says.

Oh no not more Stefan and Damon drama. That's not what I was hoping for but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

"I know that they both dated her and that's why they have issues." Elena replies.

"Who does that?" I whisper making sure no one hears me but I was wrong and Bonnie nudges me under the table.

"Yeah, they both dated her only she choose Damon and it drove Stefan mad so he did horrible things to try and break them up. He manipulated Katherine he filled her head with all these lies until finally it worked and she turned on Damon." Bonnie adds to the conversation.

"That sounds like one persons part of the story meaning Damon's," Elena, adds clearly not happy with what she heard.

"Sounds like Damon's really good at building up drama. I mean why does he constantly have to bring something that is obviously in the past just because his brother is now dating a girl," I add.

I mean I don't think I would ever do something like that with Elena.

"I just wanted you to know," Bonnie replies.

"Anyways he's past relationships are none of my business." Elena adds with a deep sigh.

"It wasn't until they kept bringing it up." I add.

"Unless he's a calculating manipulative liar. That is your business." Bonnie says while painting her thumbnail.

"Stefan is none of those things." Elena continues.

"Yeah, how do you know?" Bonnie asks.

"Come on, let's stop all this gossip. Let's do our nails and get ready for this amazing party. Besides I need to get pretty for my date," I finish while looking at Bonnie and we both begin to laugh and paint our nails.

I've missed girl time.


I'm wearing a simple white lace dress with a small brown belt under my breast. I left my hair in my natural soft curls and wore white wedges to the party.

Once arriving Bonnie and I decided to go look at the artifacts inside the room. Stefan and Elena decided to come with us.

"Oh look it's the original cast registry. Look at all these familiar names, Sheriff William Forbes, mayor Benjamin Lookwood… Is that Damon Salvatore and Stefan Salvatore?" Elena says and she immediately stops when seeing Damon and Stefan's name on the registry.

I quickly stop and walk over to see if the list actually has Stefan and Damon's name on it. This has got to be the weirdest coincidence I've seen.

I look over to Stefan and he's like a statue just watching Elena's reaction.

"The original Salvatore brothers," Damon speaks as he walks in the room with Caroline.

It's about to get a heck a lot more awkward in here. I've noticed having both Salvatore brothers in one room is not a good idea.

"Our ancestors, tragic story actually." Damon continues when he notices no one else is talking.

"We don't need to bore them with stories of the past," Stefan interjects. I hope they don't start talking about Katherine again.

I don't know the chick and she's dead so I can't actually go out of my way to meet her but I don't like the girl either.

"It's not boring Stefan, I'd love to hear more about your family," Elena adds. She's fishing for information. Ever since we had the conversation with Bonnie about him and Damon she's been weird and is now being pushy trying to get Stefan to talk.

"Well I'm bored. I want to dance and Damon won't dance with me." Caroline adds to the conversation.

"No," Damon adds.

"Go dance alone then," Bonnie replies but we all know it's not going to happen so easily.

"Can I just borrow your date?" Caroline asks while looking at both Stefan and Elena.

Oh this should be fun.

"Oh umm." Elena tries to speak but clearly is unsuccessful.

"I don't really dance." Stefan adds.

"Oh sure he does you should see him." Damon continues. Here he is again, being weird and having and ulterior motive to everything.

"You wouldn't mind would you Elena?" Caroline asks.

Be good twin.

"It's up to Stefan" Elena adds. I back away going back to looking at the artifacts I've left unseen. I no longer want to be a part of the conversation currently taking place.

Bonnie comes with me as she is clearly not staying alone.

"Well sorry but I'm not going to take no for an answer." Caroline says and takes Stefan hands.

After a couple of minutes pass I turn around and I notice that everyone has left the room and it's just Damon and I.

When did this happen and where was I when it took place? My palms begin to get sweaty as I start to remember the dream I had with him last night.

"I want to apologize to you for being such a world class jerk the other night when I tried to kiss you. There's no excuse. My therapist says I'm acting out trying to punish Stefan." Damon begins to talk as he gets walks and gets closer to me.

I need to get away from him before I do some thing I might regret.

"For what?" I ask in a whisper.

"It's all in the past I don't even want to bring it up. Let's just say that the men in the Salvatore family have been cursed with sibling rivalry and it all started with the original Salvatore brothers," he explains. "The Salvatore name is practically royalty in this town until the battle here. There was a battle here…"

"The battle of willow creak. I've read about it," I stop him and he looks at me clearly impressed I know what he's talking about.

"Right," he says softly.

"I know we've been talking about it in class. Confederate soldiers fired a church with civilian inside," I explain. Again this is getting annoying.

"What the history books left out is that the people that were killed they weren't there by accident they were believed to be union sympathizer. So some of the founders in the confederacy side back then got rounded up and burned alive. Stefan and Damon had someone they both loved inside that church and when they went to rescue them they were both shot. Murder in cold blood." He finishes.

I wonder why he's telling me this.

"Who was in the church they wanted to save?" I ask.

"A woman I guess. Doesn't it always come done to the love of a woman?" He adds to the conversation. Is this what it's always been like for his family?

"Look I'm sorry that you both have this thing going on but I can't get in the middle of it Damon. I just hope you two can work it out." I say sincerely.

"I hope so too," he says with a smile.

I watch, as he wants to get closer to me again. My breathing start to get faster than it was before and my palms begin to get sweaty again. He caresses my face and gently and takes a hold of my chin and moves my head so that I'm once staring at him directly in the eyes.

I'm mesmerized by the intensity his eyes contains as he looks at me and in less than a couple of seconds he leans down and kisses my lips gently.

It's only when it's too late that I'm realizing what I'm doing. I back away and leave the room in a hurry. I cannot be kissing Damon.

I walk quickly downstairs and find Bonnie sitting by the tables alone.

"What are you doing here alone?" I ask as I sit down next to her.

"My date left me," she says while looking up at me. I smile at her.

"Well actually you left me so yeah but I'm going to let you slide since we are together again what are you doing anyways?" I ask her. The whole time I was talking to her she was staring at a candle on top of the table but she just ignores me.

"Hello? Earth to Bonnie," I continue this time waving my hand in front of her face and she finally turns to look at me.

"What?" she wonders confused.

"What are you doing? You were like having a staring contest with that candle," she looks at me in bewilderment while I speak to her.

"I'm sorry, it was weird. The fire went out and when it looked at it the candle lit up once again," she explains softly.

"What are you trying to say?" I urge her on.

"I don't know, everything has just been weird lately. I wish I understood what was going on," she continues.

I rest my hand on her shoulder and take a deep breath.

"How can I help? I hate seeing you like this, Bonnie?" I hate watching my best friend being confused. I want to find a way to help her overcome whatever is going on with her.

Obviously all the witch talk has been messing with her head and I told myself then I will no longer make fun of it.

"I need to get out of here," Bonnie finally speaks and I stay quiet as I watch her get up and leave.

I need to do something, so I do the only thing I know how I go after her.

I go out to the back thinking I'd see her outside alone but I don't. I walk further only too see Tyler sitting alone on a bench looking out to the small river.

"Hey, what are you doing here alone?" I ask while I join him on the bench.

"Staying away from her mom," he adds gently.

"Is everything okay?" I ask while looking up at him.

"It was until Vicky wanted me to ask her to come stupid party. She dresses up and comes here, which leads my mother to get angry I brought her here. Vicky gets mad cause I didn't take her inside the party and my moms pissed and called Vicky trash," he explains as he take a drink from a vodka bottle he's brought out here from the inside.

"You've had a tough night huh?"

"Tough isn't a word I would use. Anyways what are you doing out here?" he wonders and he takes a sip from his vodka bottle.

"I came out here looking for Bonnie only to find you instead," I add.

"You go back and find her. I think her problems are more interesting than mine," he says.

I get up and kiss his cheek before I leave. "I'll see you soon."

I walk away and notice his surprise expression by my gesture.

I get back to the party only to find Elena yelling at Damon.

"There is something seriously wrong with you. You stay away from Caroline or I will go straight to her mother the sheriff. Go it? Stay away from her." She finishes off what she has to say and leaves Damon's sight.

"Elena!" I yell out going after her who leaves Damon astound.

"Elena, what's going on?" I ask while I stop in front of her.

"I need to find Stefan?" she says as she goes around me and continues to walk. I go after her and we soon find Stefan by the fountain.

"I'm sorry, I take it all back you're completely right about Damon." She says to Stefan and he turns around to look at both of us.

"Elena will you please tell me what the heck is going on?" I add but like always she ignores me when she's overreacting.

"What did he do?" Stefan says in wonder. Most likely knowing Damon was going to do something bad.

"There are bruises all over Caroline's body. Bite marks and he has her all confused and messed up in the head," Elena finally says something that will help me understand why she's going crazy.

But then my mind stops and goes back to thinking about my dream. In my dream Damon was kissing my neck and then he abruptly bit my neck and sucked my blood.

Could this mean something to real life or was it just a dream that I've associated with a weird twilight twist?

I look up to Stefan and watch as he nods as Elena talks, "You don't look surprised," she continues.

"I'm handling it" Stefan replies.

"Handling it? Stefan we should be having him arrested?" Elena once again freaks out and I take that queue to leave the conversation to find Bonnie and see if she's okay.

"Okay, I'm getting out of here. I need to find Bonnie." I speak up and turn around a leave.

I don't need to be a part of Stefan and Elena's problems and drama. They just have too much going on. Elena might she need to take a break from Stefan and let Stefan deal with Damon. I mean Stefan is his brother he will know to deal with him.

Just like we should be dealing with our own brother but then we just let him run around trying to conquest Vicky and then ending up in brawls with Tyler about her.

I'd say all of this drama is not worth it. I walk back inside the house and I spot Matt.

"Matty, have you seen Bonnie?" I ask.

"Yeah, a couple minutes ago actually she was leaving though," he answers.

"Dang it," I whisper to myself.

"What's going on Eli?" he asks concern.

"I'm worried something is wrong with her I'll call her later. I think I'm going to home too. Way too much drama Matty," I add and reach up to kiss his cheek.

I turn around looking for Aunt Jenna to take me home.


Stefan

I watch, as Damon gets weaker by the vervain. He falls to the ground on the floor by the pain.

I did what I had to do to protect Elena, to protect Elizabeth to protect everyone. Yes Damon, the headlines read deadly beast captured. All is well in mystic falls.

I need to protect the people I care about. I need to be safe no one will be exposed to our secret. I will not let Damon hurt this town again.