The Vampire Diaries

masquerade

vol. 1: grasped

----PeytonAnneEllie

(4)

October 23rd, 2009 (more like October 24th, 2009 since its three in the morning)

Dear Diary,

Many things have happened in the past hours. Like for one, Damon came back. And right now I'm pretty mad about it. He wants Elena, and I can't let that happen! Elena is with Bonnie and Meredith at the moment, I'm writing this on a piece of notebook paper I swiped off of Elena's desk, along with a black pen. I will add this later with the rest of my entries I have on my book shelf at home. Damon said he wants Elena. He needs to decide right now to either suck her dry or make her his. If I could, I would take Elena way from Fells Church, but I know that's not what she wants. We discussed this conversation a few minutes ago. She said that she doesn't wanna run from Damon, and she doesn't know what Damon had said (yet!), but she does know that she doesn't wanna run. Cause usually the good guys who are afraid of losing do, and then they end up getting caught and in an life-or-death scenario and we don't wanna go through that. So Elena and I have decided to stay here, along with Damon. But the reason why I'm writing this entry, it because earlier this morning when Damon and I were talking, he said "us" in one of his sentences. I questioned him about it, but he didn't hear me and continued! He says that he needs Elena, to kill me, and then go on to the others. But I just don't know who the others are. Let alone "us". I want to know what Damon's up to, but that would involve operation-duck-and-cover and I don't think Elena, or I, would approve. Right now the girls are downstairs giggling to each other. While I'm "using the restroom" so I've got to hurry. All that I know is that Damon Salvatore, also known as my brother or the evil twin or the other Salvatore...well to me anyways, has a plan that is growing newer and newer by the second...and all we can do, is wait.

~Stefan

Stefan Salvatore put the pen back on Elena Gilbert's desk, and folded the sheet of notebook paper he had swiped off of Elena's desk into a tiny square, and then pocketed it away into his back pocket. Stefan took a look around the room, glancing at her digital clock, seeing it was 3: 00 a.m. Stefan got up, and walked out of Elena's room, turning off the light behind him, and went to the bathroom to flush the empty toilet and turn on the faucet. That way it would seem as if he had used the restroom and was now washing his hands.

I walked back out of the bathroom and down the steps to be greeted by Bonnie.

"Hey, Stefan," Bonnie waved.

"Hey, have u seen Elena by any chance?" I asked, and then felt foolish after hearing Bonnie's next words.

"Stefan," She put her hands together and laughed. "You're at her house, she's bound to be here somewhere! Just call her." Bonnie then walked away, shaking her head in amusement.

"Right," I said and walked into the kitchen. "Elena?"

"No," Meredith's voice said and then she appeared from behind a cabinet. "She's in her room."

"What?" I turned and walked back up the stairs to Elena's room.

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October 23rd, 2009 (It's three a.m. so more like October 24th, 2009)

Dear Diary,

Stefan is probably downstairs looking for me, or just still in the bathroom so I'm gonna make this entry short. I've never given much thought to how my life would be. Though if I had given any thought to it, I'd make it exactly just like this, but minus the challenges and the complications standing in the way of the love between Stefan and I. I don't know how to explain our love, or my feelings towards him....Hopefully you just already get it by the fact of my previous entries! I'm glad I have Stefan in my life, and I'm glad he's mine. Oh my god, I gotta go, someone's coming down the hall. Write to you later.

~Elena

Elena Gilbert closed her diary, and put it on her book shelf just across the room from where she once sat.

I put the diary behind a picture of Bonnie, Meredith, Margaret and I on the bookshelf, and placed a plush teddy bear that my ex-boyfriend Matt gave me a couple years back. I loved him, and still do. But my love for him now is way different then what it was before.

"Elena?" Stefan's voice sounded from the hall.

I turned quickly to see Stefan appearing in my room.

"There you are," He said.

"Here I am, all alone," I answered and walked towards the window, peering outside with a yawn.

"Elena, I," I turned to see that Stefan had closed and locked the door, and was wearing a face of sincerity. I walked to him and we sat on my bed.

"Yeah?" I replied and he smiled, pulling me into him.

"I just wanna' let you know, that I love you," He said and I closed my eyes.

"I love you too," I sat up then, needing to look into his eyes. "But why do I feel like this is goodbye?"

"Because," Stefan stood up then, and I did too. "It is."

"W-what? Why?" I asked, sitting back down.

"Just for a little while and I'll be back tomorrow night okay? I just need to see Damon, and work things out inside my head." Stefan started towards the door but I jumped up, grabbing his shoulder and pulling him back that way I was in front of him and the door.

"No," I walked up to him, that way our faces were inches apart.

"Elena," He sighed. "What are you doing?" He asked and I grabbed his face, pulling his lips to mine.

Our lips departed and I could feel the tension between us. "Elena," He said, his breath starting to quicken. "I can't."

"You can," I said, and started to kiss him again. I could feel two things out of him.

1.) One half, was that he wanted to stay and kiss me.

2.) The other was that he didn't want to kiss me, and get down to business so he could kiss me without knowing something bad, evil, dark, and dangerous was lurking outside in Fell's Church.

And I could feel two things out of me as well.

1.) One half was that I wanted to stay and kiss him as well.

2.) The other was that I didn't want to kiss him either, knowing something evil (Damon to be precise) was out there, threatening to take Stefan from me, me also. I wanted to get Damon out of Fell's Church so Stefan and I, along with my friends and family, could live happily.

Stefan started to give into the seduction that was rising, but I pulled back, noticing that I had unzipped his jacket and my hand were on him. I looked at him, and he looked confused.

"Didn't you...?"

"You need to go," I said and his face became more confused. "I'm not kicking you out, I would never, ever do that, but you said earlier you needed to go....So go. I don't want the big bad out there killing off people like in the past, if you have a chance of saving them. Go." I finished and his eyes filled with understanding.

"If that's what you want..." Stefan started for the door, zipping up his jacket slowly, and I let him go, but I needed at least a promise kiss.

"Stefan, I,"

Stefan whirled around and crushed his lips to mine, and I knew that no matter what I said he wasn't going anywhere.

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"You are such a gross person!" I said and Meredith giggled.

"Why?" Meredith asked.

"Cause your listening in on Stefan and Elena," I said and pulled her down the stairs to the living room. "Stop it! Let's watch the movie, and they'll be out soon!" I said and Meredith sighed.

"You know, Bonnie," I let Meredith go at last, and she sank on the couch. "You aren't supposed to treat friends this way."

I knew she was joking, but I had to reply. "Look who's talking!" I snickered and she threw a pillow at me.

I threw the pillow back, and Meredith started throwing more pillows, staring a pillow war, ten times more fun that pillow fights, and then the doorbell rang.

"Hold on," I said, walking to the front door, wondering who could be up at three forty-five a.m. When I opened the door, something made me drop one of the pillows I was holding.

No one was there, but I saw things flash before my eyes. I saw a hand stretched out, and a mouth bending down to suck it just as a cut appeared on the wrist, and the blood rolled down the wrist's edges and some dripped to the floor. I watched as then the image changed to a large dark scenery where people were screaming, and running all over the place. It was like I was there, standing in the midst of the crowd that was going all over the place. I strained my eyes to see who they were running from, and then it was like a force pushed them all into the blackness. I saw him. Damon. Standing there with a blonde girl in his hands, eyeing me with a blood-stained mouth. He then dropped the girl, ands her face was visible now.

I dropped the other pillow, seeing that it was Elena, and then I saw as Damon walked towards me. I then saw nothing. Nothing but the illuminated darkness the porch light gave off, and just as I was about to close the door I saw a card with something scrawled on it. I picked it up off the porch and saw that it had one word on it with a smiley face for the dot on the exclamation point. It said

Read!

I turned the card over, kicked the pillows back into the living room and shutting the door. I then saw there was a little paragraph in black ink. I then saw one word that stood out the most, and re read the paragraph, this time taking it in with each word.

It read

I'm coming for you! I will find you if you try to run away...I will kill your boy toy and I will drink the blood from your veins. Unless I want to make you mine that is! See you soon — Damon

I gasped, and ran up the stairs, seeing Meredith running after me out of the corner of my eyes. Not caring I started to push Elena's bedroom door open, but it was locked. I started knocking but no one answered.

"ELENA!" I yelled and no one came. Meredith took the card from me, and gasped too when done reading and she joined in on the banging and yelling.

"ELENA!" Meredith yelled, but it was probably too late.