Here is part four from Damon's point of view.
Some of the chapters will from now on have flashbacks. Just to tie the story together.
Hope you like it!
Chapter 4 - The Reunion
Damon is nervous when he shows Elena to the kitchen. No one makes him nervous. Except for his dad and this girl. The girl that dated his brother back in the day. He always had when he shows Elena to the kitchen. He isn't used to be nervous. No one makes him nervous. Ea hard time accepting that Stefan got the girl. But then again, Damon started to like her when she already was together with him so it's not like she could have chosen differently.
When Stefan found out Damon was in love with his girl was he pissed at him for months. Not before Damon said that he was moving to Italy for real did Stefan forgive him. What Stefan didn't know were that Damon had kissed Elena the night before, and that she had turned him down and that Damon now was running from all the consequences. Not only Elena, his brother's girl that he had kissed, but even Katherine that played him and Caroline that he knew that he had treated unfairly.
He wasn't up to stand and take the following events. The Salvatore's was known for running away after all. Even though Damon had worked his butt off to actually stay, and he did it more often than Stefan.
Elena turns to him and looks at him with her big brown eyes and Damon feels his inside twist in forbidden feelings. But he ignores it as good as he can and smirks his casual smirk at her. The shy smile she gives back is enough to tell him that he still isn't over her. Not that he thought that he was but it would have been nice with a surprise. At least of that sort. In his experience do love means pain, betrayal, and fragmentation so he doesn't want to have those feelings for this girl. But he did.
"So, what do you want me to do?" Elena asks. Damon has so many good answers on that question but he pushes them to the back of his head.
"I haven't finished the menu yet" he starts, unsure of what to do. The only one that sometimes helped him in the kitchen was Priscilla and she is pretty good with keeping herself to her corner so Damon isn't used to sharing the kitchen with anyone. Absolutely not Elena, the girl that had been in his thoughts for the last three years.
"Then we start with that" Elena says and makes herself ready to sit down at the little table in the kitchen.
"What? No!" Damon bursts out before he can stop himself. The menu is his job and not even Elena will have the privilege to work together with him there. He needs his space and his menus, or 'plans' as he likes to call them, are all him. If Stefan wants to put the others in this mix he can deal with that but they won't touch his menu.
"Aww, was that a sensitive question?" Elena banter with him and Damon chuckle against his better knowledge.
"We can cook the dinner for tonight, I don't think anyone else will and I get a chance to check how good you are at cooking" he says and Elena laughs at his words. He loves it, her laugh is carefree and beautiful and he wants to spend the rest of his life making her laugh like that all as often as e can.
"I am pretty good at putting fast food in bowls" Damon thinks that the blush on her cheeks is adorable and he smiles, knowing that he shows all his dimples. She gives him a shy little glance in return.
"Well, then I teach you. I can't have someone how can't cook in my kitchen" he says and throws a kitchen towel over his shoulder and pulls his sleeves up. Elena mimics him and he smirks confidently towards her. She wrinkles her nose in an answer and then laughs again. "We start with something simple, homemade noisettes with pasta will do for now" he continues and walks over to the fridge to get some mince. "Can you get the bowls, the third door to your left" he teases her and she wrinkles her nose adorably again before she does as he asks her.
On his way back to the countertop he bumps his shoulder against hers, he hides his smirk by starting to fix with the meat but she doesn't get fooled.
"Don't, do that" Damon can't help but notice the little pause in her words, she is hesitating.
"Do what?" he asks innocently, giving her a sly smirk. She rolls her eyes before she turns to him, her arms crossed over her chest.
"You know what, that move what, that move was deliberate" she states, eyes stuck on his.
"Yes! I was deliberately trying to take me to the, sink" he halfhearted trying to explain, knowing she won't believe him.
Elena's eyes get stuck on the doorway and Damon immediately turns his head that way. He remembers that look, it is just a little surprising that it hasn't changed since he saw it last. Elena looks at Stefan with the same guilty expression as she did three years back when they still were dating and he walked in on Elena and Damon talking.
They did that a lot, even back then. In the beginning, hadn't Stefan said much, but then had Katherine revealed that Damon had feelings for her and Stefan had started feeling insecure about Elena and Damon talking, or laughing. Or even saying hi.
Not that Damon blames him, he did steal many girls from Stefan back then, but only the ones he knew wouldn't be it for his brother. It wasn't his meaning to fall in love with the only one that he actually thought could be his brother eternal love. No, Damon doesn't blame Stefan for forbidding Damon to talk to Elena. But he does blame Stefan for not trusting Elena, that clearly was that in love with him that she never would choose Damon instead.
Even when Damon kissed her that night all those years ago did she pull back with the same guilty look on her face and Damon just knew that she was thinking of Stefan. When she then uttered the words:
"It's Stefan, it's always gonna be Stefan" Damon knew that he had to get out of there.
Stefan looks at them with the exact same look that he had back then. Disappointment. Damon feels his insides twist a little bit, he doesn't want to hurt his little brother by taking his girl. The next second he shakes his head, she's not Stefan's girl anymore, she's free and he can take her if he wants to. If she wants to have him there is but that's another part of the question.
So he gives his brother an ironic little wave and a smirk. Elena smiles at Stefan in the corner of his eyes and Stefan nobs at them before he leaves, probably to find his fiance. Kol gives them a suspicious look before he follows him. When Damon turns back to Elena is she still staring after Stefan, which brings him back to another time.
3 ½ years ago
Damon walks into the Maison. The first thing he sees is his kid brother, with one of the twins from their school, that he keeps hanging out with. Except for this time, they're making out, on the couch and Stefan doesn't have any shirt on.
"Wow, don't hurt my poor innocent eyes" Damon mocks as he walks up to the mini bar in the hall and pours himself a glass. The twin girl shirks and jumps back from his brother as Stefan quickly turns to glare at him. Damon holds up his hands in the air, smirking at him.
"You're early" Stefan states dryly as if it would change the fact that they were making out.
"I didn't have anything more to do" he responds and takes a sip from his glass. He works at a garage, fixing cars with smaller problems and are pretty much free to go when he is done for the day. He really likes the job actually, because he loves cars and he always fixing with his own in his free time anyway. Stefan stays quiet after that, but the girl next to him talks after a little while of pressing silence. She clearly isn't used to it, as himself and Stefan.
"I'm Elena" she says and Damon turns to him, a cute little smile on his lips.
"I know" he answers. Then he frowns and looks at Stefan. Wasn't he fucking the other twin? "Changing twin now are we Stefan? I'm almost proud" he says ironically and starts going against the kitchen. He is going to cook himself a good dinner before he heads out again for the night. He is ignoring the irritated eyes that the twin, Elena, is giving him. But in the last second he changes his mind and turns to her with something he knows is a sexy grin.
"It was a pleasure meeting you again Elena, even though it was under this circumstances" she rolls her eyes and fixes her shirt before she smiles back at him.
"The same Damon" she says and looks him in the eyes before she turns to Stefan, giving him a smile that is so much sweeter than the one that he just got. His brother smiles coyly back and Damon is suddenly struck by how much in love they seem to be. He lifts his eyebrows at it before he walks to the kitchen. But he can't help to think that she looks hotter now than he remembered her, more curves.
"He still doesn't trust me, does he?" Damon asks and Elena jerks, her eyes snapping back to his. She sighs again and starts cutting the onion that he put on the countertop. He moves to the range and puts some oil in a frying pan.
"Trust gains trust, you have to give it to get it" she says after a while, making a sweeping motion with the knife. He immediately takes it away from her and takes over the cutting.
"Are you lecturing me?" he teases with a smile. Elena puts one hand on her hip and the other takes the knife back.
"Do you need to be lectured?" she sends right back, taking back the onions. Damon stands behind her, gripping her hands, showing her how to do it properly. She laughs and bumps him with her hip, but she lets him show her without protest.
They keep going like that, teasing each other and laughing. He correcting a few things she does wrong or simply doesn't know and his heart is swelling. It just feels meant to be. And unlike all others that get that feeling, he doesn't like it. Because when things are meant to be for him he usually messes it up.
So, that was it!
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