Elena's POV:
Hello drop dead gorgeous guy I "dated" against my will in 1864. Nice 145 years! I love your hair! He could never know that Katherine had starved me, and tortured me to be her while she chased Stefan around.
"Hey Damon..." I've missed you every day since Katherine almost got me killed. I've missed your love. But you want Katherine. The one, who changed you while I cried, chained up in a werewolf holding cage. A figure stepped between us: Tyler, he bent down to kiss me but I avoided it quickly without being noticed "Um, Damon so pick me up at seven?" Damon nodded, and then I noticed Stefan was behind him. "It's nice to meet you" Because I'd barely gotten the chance to really meet you.
"Oh hey" Tyler said to Stefan and Stefan only. I saw Damon's determined gleam in his eyes as he looked at Tyler. I liked that gleam for some reason even though it meant that my heart was about to be a battle field, not that I loved Tyler he was just good company. "Katherine's boys" Tyler laughed a little at them both. "I've heard a lot about you two" Katherine may of had Stefan, but Damon had always been mine for what he really was. Hell, I had taught him to hunt the way he does.
"From Katherine" I said to the boys, and then said my goodbyes to them and left them at that. I had to think about what I was going to do. Damon loved Katherine, I loved him. Tyler is my boyfriend but I'm totally cheating in my mind.
"Obviously, you're a boy magnet" My friend Bonnie laughed at me as I joined her, and then she froze as my hand swiped past her arm. "Two lives, one heart." She was so talking about me "The dark side will return tonight" Katherine. Elena swallowed hard and looked and Damon who was looking at her.
"We have to leave" I told Bonnie "I have to, She can't be coming back!" Of course she was coming to ruin my life again, not that Katherine's as bad as a person as people say she is. She's very nice, but she wanted Stefan and I had managed so many times to protect Damon from that want for Stefan. It was very rare that both brothers united for something and that happened to be Katherine, and now Katherine wanted Stefan to be with her for the rest of their lives.
And I would be Damon's distraction.
Something hit me in those few seconds, it was like I was standing there looking at someone I wasn't. Where was the Elena I was before this all happened? In 1946 I wiped out an entire town beside Katherine and in 2002 I destroyed people's lives by going on killing sprees because I was angry. I was designed inside and out to never have to care completely about someone, so why did Damon matter right now to me? It was 1864! A long effin' time ago and yes, he is suffering because of my absence but I needed (Just like he needed) to move on and be the monster I was created to be.
"Never mind" I whispered and turned to Bonnie "I'm going to throw a party welcoming Katherine back tonight." I paused "You know what she and I like and I just remembered that today is our birthday" With that, I walked out the school feeling a whip of hot sun on me and then got in my car and drove to the nearest expensive dress shop. I had in mind what I wanted to wear tonight, my hair straight but pulled back in like a bump look along with that blood red lipstick. I would wear something sexy but simple with a little bit of cleavage showing power. It was deep in the back in the "Mystic Falls girls never wear this kind of stuff" section and the teenage boy I went to school with looked at me with puppy dog eyes when I brought it up to him.
"A party tonight" He asked eyes brightening at the idea of me wearing that dress at a party.
"You can come if you like" I said the words because Katherine would be thirsty if she didn't take out the town next to us, and he had some calling blood. By the time I had cleaned up and gotten ready, and gone to that secret house in the deep woods with beautiful wooden furniture (it was in my name, on the outskirts of town) Katherine would be able to sniff me out, she knew that I had my place and then I had my home. My home was this house; my place was where I went as a human at night.
I cleaned up the house, and looked around until I found a mirror "Who are you Elena?" I asked myself touching my face "Are you Katherine deep inside, or are you someone else who's bad but has a good heart" The question lingered. I heard Bonnie knock on my door, I called for her to come inside. She started setting up as soon as she got in, and I started helping her with that question still on my mind. Of course I'm not like her. I answered not really sure. The next person to show up was Tyler who kissed me sweetly when he walked in. The next people to follow in were Jer and I few other people, I could smell the breath of each child and it stunk.
It didn't matter tonight, no one did.
The red lights were spinning around the room; the couches were pushed back to the wall by all of us stronger folks and a floor made for dancing was now permitted to every guest. They were now pouring into the house with sly smiles and some beers of their own. I had hidden my collection in the bottom cellar; I had made sure to keep all that strong stuff away from them. Tyler and I were dancing in harmony, I felt eyes on me and I smelt stronger booze on someone's breath. "Damon" I sent it over to him in my thoughts, "Come dance with me"
"Oh look your friend" Tyler mumbled trying kissing my neck; I pushed him away making him suffer for me to dance with Damon. I knew it was almost time, I could feel my muscles tensing for the moment she walked in. I didn't know what to expect, should I run while I still have time? I thought it but knew I would never run from Katherine again. Right now, I was Katherine. I was dancing like she would, I was acting like she would but I was being Elena all the same because that bad part in me was worse than Katherine's.
"Elena" I heard it only in my head, and a wide smile spread across my face as I excused myself from Damon. His arms wrapped around my waist but I pulled away with a flirtatious smile, I knew I gave him a little bit of hurt but he loved Katherine... He saw Katherine not me.
I walked outside and reached the woods to hear Katherine's footsteps fall behind me, "Oh dearest cousin" She sung "What a party you've thrown"
"Indeed" I laughed, but then got serious "I'm assuming you're here for Stefan?"
"You know me too well" She said leaning on a rock "You want Damon"
I loved the way she stated the obvious "No I'm happy with Tyler"
"You lie" She giggled "I know you better than any of these people Elena and I know what you want and what you don't want. Now let's talk about what I want"
"What do you want Katherine?" I asked, I was amused by her insight on my life.
"I want you to come back with me. Forget this little town and we'll do some new damage" What about Bonnie? Jer? My family- "You and I could take the Salvatore brothers and just have life at our hands"
"Who are you running from?" I pinned her against the rock "You love small towns and you stay for awhile to watch them go to hell Who are you running from KATHERINE?"
"Klaus" The words dropped between us and I backed up, I was scared.
"What have you done?" I asked. "You've damned us" You damned us over a 400 years ago Katherine.
"Don't look at me that way Elena" She begged but I turned my head hiding the tears that were about to pour out of my eyes "I didn't know, You've got to help me or we have to go soon"
"I have a life here!" I snapped "I've been asking myself if I'm like you for a long time, and I'm not and I know I'm more of a little sister to you but I am scared for my life and the life of my family. You've destroyed lives of innocent people i.e. the Salvatore brothers to protect yourself and now you want to protect me"
"I've always protected you Elena" She said, "And I will always protect you, You know I changed Damon for you! You loved him and I know I forced you to be me but you loved Damon with everything you had and I loved Stefan"
"I loved Damon, true. But he loved you"
"Elena!" It was my brother, I looked back at Katherine who followed after me as I walked up the hill.
"Will you keep me safe?"
"I promise" Even though I was angry, I loved Katherine because she was my other half in this dark world and if I had no one I had here. That was my blood family.
