I sank into his kiss, feeling my knees go weak. I felt his arms wrap around me. My heart was pounding, my head was swimming but all the anger and anxiety and sadness I had been feeling melted away like a distant memory.
"Tyler better kiss ME like that when I see him." I heard Caroline say. I jumped back to find Caroline and Bonnie standing there with their jaws dropped, smiling wide.
"Oh I just..." I stuttered over my words. I had no idea what to say.
"Yeah, got ya." Bonnie winked as she walked off with Caroline. I watched them walk away until they were out of sight. Then I looked back up at Damon who was studying me closely. His eyes...how were they so blue? I reached up and ran my fingers through the midnight hair that was hanging in his eyes. He reached up and took my hand and kissed my palm.
I felt like I was in a dream. I would be lying to myself if I didn't say I had thought about this before. Kissing Damon had run through my mind. Curiosity of what he would be like as a love and not an overly sarcastic, dark humored vampire. Damon had a way of making me want to pull my own hair out, but for a long time he also had a way of making me think, of making me wonder what it would be like to be Damon's. He might have driven me crazy but there were times he looked at me, or smiled at me, or even showed some kind of tenderness. It was in those times that he hit me directly in the heart.
"We should probably get to the party." Damon said grinning. I felt my face burn with shyness and nodded.
"There they are!" I heard Caroline squeal. I looked over and saw her, Tyler, Jeremy and Bonnie heading our way. Of course I saw the secretive glances from Bonnie and Caroline. The ones that say 'were going to talk about this soon'.
I felt butterflies crash around in my stomach when I felt Damon's hand rest on my back. We all grouped together around the fire.
"Damon, what's up man!" Tyler put his hand up to high five Damon.
Damon brows pulled together in annoyance at Tyler.
"Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and pass on that high five there Tyler. By the way...how have you been ever since you went hybrid?" Damon asked.
I noticed a flash of worry on Caroline's face as she stared into the fire.
"I've been great! Never felt better!" Tyler nearly yelled. He looked like he was literally bouncing with energy.
Damon's eyes narrowed and he nodded.
The student body was buzzing around the fire. I looked around at all the students, laughing, telling secrets, running around. A bunch of guys throwing a football around in the field. I looked at all the normal around me. Then I looked around at my group. Tyler the hybrid, Caroline the vampire, Bonnie the witch, and Damon. I turned to look at him but noticed him looking out from the fire with a strange look on his face. I followed his gaze to Alaric who was standing there staring at Damon. Alaric looked angry but the look he was giving looked more like a warning of some sort.
"What's wrong?" I asked Damon.
"Oh nothing." He said turning back with a grin on his face.
"Hi guys. This looks fun. I didn't get an invite?" We turned and to our horror there was Stefan. Standing there in all his beautiful glory. His eyes were empty and careless. Just the same smug smile stretched across his face.
"What are you doing here?" Damon hissed.
"I just came for Elena. I have a blood order to fill." Stefan said casually. I stepped back behind Damon. Bonnie, Caroline, Tyler and Jeremy all looked on with horror.
"You know that's not going to happen brother so you better just leave." Damon said reaching behind him and grabbing my wrist.
Stefan smiled wider. He was enjoying this because it was a chase. I remember being told that Stefan "the Ripper" loved the cat and mouse game. Seeing him like this sent chills down my spine that actually made my body shudder. Stefan took a few slow deliberate steps towards Damon.
"Damon, you know me. You might as well just let her come quietly with me. I'll take some blood mostly for Klaus...maybe a little for me." Stefan smiled darkly and glanced at me over Damon's shoulder. I took a step back. I felt Damon's body tense up in anger.
"Oh come on little brother, were getting bored with this act. Next!" Damon called sarcastically. I lowered my head and looked at the ground. This wasn't going to go well. Damon is short tempered and full of sarcasm. Now that Stefan was like this we were all screwed.
"You keep on Damon. You're just going to cause some major trouble for yourself and Elena if you don't want to play along." Stefan warned. He looked over Damon's shoulder at me.
"Elena. Come with me." He demanded.
"Don't look at him Elena." Damon nearly yelled. I looked away.
Finally Stefan began to look around and realized people were starting to notice our commotion.
"Fine...we'll play it your way then." Stefan smiled, looking somewhat excited. He turned and was gone in seconds.
We turned back towards the fire and Damon leaned into my ear. "Everything's going to be fine. Don't worry." He said quietly.
We spent a little more time around the fire. We all managed to get into a relatively normal conversation about our upcoming senior year. After a while, I grew a little weary and was ready to go home. Damon drove me back and walked me up to my room to make sure everything was safe.
Alaric and Jeremy were still out so it made me feel better not to walk into the house alone.
"Damon, do you mind staying while I take a shower? Just to keep a look out?" I asked. I always had a fear of being attacked while I was in the shower. Maybe I watched too many movies, I don't know.
"Of course." He smiled. He went over and plopped down on my bed and picked up a magazine I had laying by the bed.
"Thanks Damon." I smiled back. I grabbed a towel and headed towards the shower.
"Hey, Elena?" He called.
"Yeah?" I peeked back around the door.
"Did you know that lavender is a wardrobe color MUST this fall?" He grinned. I couldn't help but to laugh as I shook my head and went into the bathroom.
A little later I walked back into the room. He was still reading the magazine but actually looked intrigued by whatever he was reading. That is, until he looked up and saw me in a towel. I felt my heart begin to hammer. Damon's eyes on me was almost to much to handle but I was little tired of being afraid, and playing it safe. So when Damon forced himself to look back to the magazine with a grin playing around his lips I did something I couldn't believe. I let the towel fall to the floor. Damon accidentally ripped the magazine when he heard the towel hit the floor. I laughed lightly. He looked down at the mutilated magazine in his hands.
"Elena, you're going to have to tell me if your doing this on purpose or if your just doing this to me on accident." Damon said, sounding a bit strained.
I'm doing it on purpose." I laughed.
In a move quicker than lightning Damon swooped me up off my feet and laid me on the bed, then slowly moved his body over me, his eyes locked on mine like a predator. There was nothing more I wanted in the world, more than I wanted Damon in that moment.
He kissed my neck, across my jaw and then finally met my lips with his. I pulled his dark blue shirt off and all the cloths began to hit the floor. His mouth crashed into mine, the smooth planes of his body up against mine. It was probably the most alive I'd ever felt. I reached behind me and grabbed the bars to my head board, I felt weightless and I was afraid I was going to fly away. He moved like perfect machinery, nothing had ever felt this good. I gripped the bed in absolute pleasure I couldn't hardly believe. I would never know anything better than this. So there we were, that night in my room, making love, soaked in sweat and nothing sounded more perfect than the quiet moan that came form Damon up against my ear. I loved him and now there was no turning back.
I woke up in the pale light of dawn, wrapped in the cream color sheets. Alone. I looked around frantically until I heard the door open and Damon came in with a glass of water for me. I got up without saying a word and slipped on the pale pink pajama pants and a black tank top. I felt a certain shyness and I couldn't help but to smile at Damon in the little light I could see him in. He smiled back, a deep tender smile that only read love for me. He leaned back in the bed, wearing his jeans and dark blue shirt that fit perfectly to his chest and opened his arm for me to snuggle in next to him. I got back in the bed and nestled in next to him. We laid there in the quiet dawn and he played with my hair. I had almost sunken back into a peaceful sleep when suddenly my head fell into the pillow when Damon jumped up quickly.
"Well, isn't this just adorable." Stefan said suddenly standing in the room. I jumped up too, completely forgetting that Stefan had access to the house.
"What are you doing here?" Damon growled, his eyes darting from Stefan to me on the other side of the bed. I know he was waiting for Stefan to make a move. He was waiting for Stefan to try to grab me and run.
"I told you Damon, we would do this the hard way if you didn't want to cooperate. So Elena...I see you finally calmed that curiosity you have always had for Damon." Stefan grinned at me.
"What are you talking about?" I asked, growing angry.
"Oh come on Elena, I might have been nice and weak...but I wasn't stupid." He laughed.
"Leave her alone Stefan." Damon warned walking closer.
"What do you plan to do about it? Luckily I got Jeremy to help me out with my own plan. I brought some friends along." Stefan said. Suddenly two more vampires I didn't recognize showed up in the room. The had compelled Jeremy to invite them in. I jumped onto the bed attempting to get to Damon, but just as I got to the other side Damon reach for me and then suddenly one of vampires crossed the room and shoved a stake straight through Damon's stomach. I gasped in horror and turned and looked at Stefan. Damon fell to his knees.
"Well, so far so good. This is going to be a fun morning." Stefan smiled.
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