Elena POV
To play on ones words was definitely one of Damon's forte's among others.. many others.
Obviously I was referring to my hunger, that and my stomach made itself known to his acute hearing. He already knew that, but of course Damon being Damon just simply had to make some kind of inappropriate remark. That was a habit of his, a rather annoying one to me anyways. In fact half the time I wondered if Damon took things seriously because of his varies responses.
With my hands clasped on top of my stomach as if to suppress anymore growling and grumbling from it, my eyes shifted over to Damon's briefly only to frown with scoff at his smirk. I really hated that. The guy was so arrogant and cocky, a little overly confident that it showed in his smiles which simply adjitaited the hell out of me. He knew just how to get a rise out of me from doing such a thing.. it was rather annoying.
However despite Damon's many annoying trademarks, my thoughts drifted back to feeding and how one needed to feed to live, which brought me to vampires.
It was interesting the way vampires ate. Okay.. it was downright creepy and all around made me want to vomit if Damon ever directly fed off someone in front of me but blood wasn't what I was thinking about. In fact, I was thinking of that gourmet burger and fries he seemed to eat no problem.
Rather odd considering vampires were dead which I thought meant their digestive system was well.. Dead. Apparently not though.
Back in Bree's Bar, I watched as Damon picked at his fries and ate my pickles before taking a bite of his burger... He really could eat human food.
In fact, he told me as long as he kept a "healthy dose" of blood in his system that a vampire's body functioned normally. Well, as normal as a vampires would anyways.
But it was a rather interesting fact that I didn't know about. I mean Stefan cooked me dinner but we never got around to eating it once I sliced open my finger by accident. Though there were a lot of things I didn't know considering I based all my vampire information off folklore, myths, legends and the internet along with movies.
But come on, vampires weren't supposed to be real! That right there was a lie considering I was in the car next to one.
According to Stefan, garlic was tolerable, holy water was drinkable, mirrors and crosses were a myth. The only things that were true were decapitation, a stake through the heart and the sun. Though of course with a special ring like Stefan and Damon wore, they could walk out in the sunlight no problem.
Where was the fun in taking things seriously? Really? If people took life too seriously then they need to unwind and well the just bloody were deserved to get bitten if they were going to be like that. Damon knew when an open joke was needed and when it was not.
Even if he just said it anyway and talking about 'eating habits' with Elena Gilbert was not going to happen. One because there's no way he could see her having the stomach for it and the second was there was no way Damon would either. The subject was non existent but that didn't mean he couldn't play about with it like it was there after all.
he side ways smiled at her for a moment watching her features
"Relax"
Damon couldn't help but smile a little bit more he knew she was hungry that much he could hear but there seemed something else to be bothering her and right now when he had her out here all by himself that was something he did not enjoy.
Why was he worrying about her so much? This whole trip was about Katherine and finding a way to get Katherine out of the tomb but right now the last thing he seemed to be thinking about was Katherine. all his attention was draw to the young Gilbert who was residing with him in the car and asking him to take his time in the trip home.
She had found out that she looked like Katherine and obviously that didn't tone to well with her. She had driven off and her car had flipped before he snatched her away to Georgia but now it was different. Now Damon was actually enjoying her company more than he should have. He wasn't thinking about what he should have been thinking about.
He was going completely off those thoughts in fact. There was no other way to go about it. Katherine was his main item of concern or she had been for the last of his years but no the object of his affection seemed to be switching.
Dangerously switching.
In fact it was what he always thought about. Damon wanted Katherine back, he was ready to do whatever it took to get her back out of that tomb to be with him, alone this time. He didn't want to share things with his brother and he never did.
But his thoughts kept returning to Elena. She was beautiful, not in the over powering way Katherine was parse but in her own way that had Damon completely captured all the same. For some reason it made me trust her, and not Damon wasn't the person to start trusting anybody in the slightest part so trusting someone. Human like Elena for one was a completely big unexplainable deal to him.
He could joke to his brother all he wanted about how the past could always repeat itself even if it wasn't really want he wanted. Damon never wanted the past to repeat itself because he never wanted to relive it like that again. He wished it had gone different. He had always wanted the girl for himself
But that was something he never got. Something he never seemed to get.
But he shouldn't have even being thinking about her like that it was stupid, and selfish and actually pretty enjoyable even if he wasn't supposed to be doing it. But then again when had Damon Salvatore ever done what he was supposed to do in this life.
We had been out here for a day and he hadn't stolen blood, compelled her, Damon hadn't done a lot of things he could have done didn't that mean he deserved to have at least some thoughts that were dangerous. After all no one was in his mind, and for god knows how long he hoped no one would ever be in his mind.
Stefan the do-gooder can go back to being all brooding because Elena won't talk to him and Damon could go back to his search for Katherine after all this nonsense was over. Of course he can't help but follow up on his promise to Stefan while he wait.
Facts and Fiction, the truth from real and made up... Nothing honestly seemed normal to me anymore. I was beginning to think anything supernatural I knew about was real now.
There was a brief thought that lingered in my mind however, concerning feeding. Without my necklace, which I really wished I was wearing right now... I wondered, In fact, I had wondered for some time why Damon hadn't took my in his arms and began draining me...
He had a golden opportunity to do so and yet he wasn't?
Whether I wanted to think otherwise or not, I believed Damon's fangs would rip into my flesh for a quick meal, simply because he wasn't like his brother.
Stefan was the one with morals. He gorged himself on animal blood because he didn't want to hurt humans. That and.. he loved me. Stefan wouldn't dare hurt me that way, that much I knew, but Damon? He was the complete opposite.
I knew Damon would be itching to taste my blood simply because like the savage beast he was, human life was but a buffet to him. It not like Damon loved me the way Stefan did to not feed from me, right?
Hell no! Just.. NO! I wouldn't dare image Damon having any kind of intimate or romantic feelings towards me, simply because he still held a torch for Katherine, considering this whole road trip was about finding some information on her. I was just his extra baggage.
He didn't have to take me with him but I was out in the middle of the road with a vampire coming to me, not to mention falling unconscious. Besides... I knew if Damon were on the microscopic chance to fall for me it would be because of Katherine. I was her double, which meant when Damon looked at me, no doubt he was looking his love, Katherine. In a way, it was insulting... but I wouldn't voice this to him, it wasn't any of my business.
His relationship with Katherine was none of my business because Damon and I were just friends. He took me with him, bonded with me the way he had because one friend needed cheering up and that's just what Damon did. It's what friends did
An Eternity of hell Damon was thinking it was too long as well, but as long as he didn't have Katherine what else was there to do? Lately he had been not doing that but then again lately he was too busy with Katherine Business to be doing anything remotely to do with Stefan Salvatore. His younger brother would only get in the way and that Damon did not want him doing again.
This time he wanted things to himself there was no sharing involved and he was going to make sure he got it that way. What ever he wanted that was? Which was the first time he had ever been doubting what he really wanted after all.
Hell who really knew what he was thinking? He had been considering Elena as a friend after all and that was so unlike Damon than he had ever been before and well so much more than what he needed.
Thankfully though, before my thoughts could drift any further into this matter, something which I knew would become inappropriate, Damon's sudden voice and the rush of having my body pinned tightly against by seat had be stop.
Right at the moment when Damon's foot hit the gas petal did my back become forced into my seat as Damon took off to this place he wanted to go. Although so much for getting their slowly!
In fact, at the speed he was going at, I'd probably have a heart attack and prolong my journey by being in a damn hospital!
My eyes closed briefly where I cast them into my lap. Because I knew in looking out the window and seeing the blurs of our surroundings that I'd probably become nauseous or something. And I knew having me sick in his car wasn't something I knew Damon would take too kindly too.
"Geez! Who do you think you are, Evil Kenevil?!"
I exclaimed through my slightly panicked state.
Evil Kenevil was a well-known daredevil so to speak. A biker who jumped long distances that were basically life and death. After all, suffering a broken neck or some kind of limb was very likely.
I knew without a doubt Damon didn't give a damn about being dangerous and going over the speed limit! Heck I wanted to shout at him to slow down or drive at human speed, but I knew he wouldn't. Because Damon was a daredevil. I mean, he did take me along for the ride knowing Stefan would chew his ear out about his actions. But being with a dangerous daredevil such as Damon had me fearing for my life. And honestly, who wouldn't be afraid if they were in my position with death being a 50/50 shot?
But the thing was.. in the back of my mind, despite how fast we were going and we could get in an accident, I knew I was safe. I was a vampire after all.
Damon laughed at her remark his head shaking slightly she was joking right? She had to be and oh did he sometimes love her humour. A Daredevil really? Well his driving good have been called dangerous but he had been doing it long enough that well it was stupid to think something as silly as going fast would be such a dare devil muse.
Although he couldn't lie he did enjoy that sort of compliment after all how else was he going to get his thrills around here it wasn't likeā¦no he was going to stop right there and not think of anything really any further. He plastered a small smile on his lips and found himself side glancing Elena.
"Please he doesn't know what a daredevil is"
Damon mockingly snorted and shook his head. Well of course he was playing along although Evil Kenevil he would actually like to try in a fight. But then again he always did wonder about horror movie monsters and which ones he could beat.
I knew the beaming lights of red and blue and the sirens wouldn't be enough to make Damon slow his road, but if they were.. no doubt he'd compel the officer. Quiet the perk to getting out of a ticket.
This was all too amusing to me. But not enough for me to actually laugh out loud considering I was scared out of my damn wits! He sure knew how to get a girls heart thumping.. and I didn't mean by his stare or flirtatious comments and touches, but by a life and death experience! Although the upside to this, we did get to our destination faster. Which.. I guess I was thankful for considering I could probably faint from hunger.
However, when I saw where we were stopping at, my jaw could have hit the floor.
In his head most of them were easy, in fact being a daredevil against that stupid kenevil was pitiful. There was no way he could even stand up in the same league as Damon Salvatore.
"Besides I think most of his jumps were rigged or something"
Damon shrugged lightly putting his head back to the road although not moving his foot until we had actually turned into the place since speed was something he enjoyed and since he was a fast vampire, it was something Damon had gotten all to use to. Not going at a certain amount of speed was almost non-enjoyable. There was no way he could take it. No way he could even handle it. Besides going slow was over rated, there was no point in it anymore, the faster the better he always thought.
Rolling his eyes at her words he found himself glancing over towards the doppelganger.
Honestly though, was he kidding? Was he freakin' kidding me?! Another goddamn bar? Did he learn nothing from the last one? All I knew was that in going to a bar and almost being set on fire I wouldn't really want to go to another one for a while.
"Seriously? There are such things as drive-ins and restaurants."
What could I say? I was beginning to think areas that weren't bars was becoming a foreign concept to this Salvatore.
But at least I knew they served food. Like actual food for a human and... Knowing Damon, a random girl to act as his blood donor.
I rolled by eyes at this before unbuckling my seatbelt and stepping out of the car once the engine was killed. I left my jacket laying in the seat where I wore my alcohol stenches cloths once more.
Everything about her was different from Katherine and yet he still seemed pulled in by her. Not just her looks just the way she kept him on his toes. The way he could never read her, just everything about her just made him more curious and that was something he did enjoy.
"Of course there are, but you don't have as much fun in any of them as you do in bars besides they do sell food quiet good food actually"
He made a point of marking that out since although he didn't eat the food people did always complement it and when he had to look human or when hell he just felt like eating he often did enjoy the food at the bars. After all most places started out as bars so where was the use in ditching them?
Did she just ask Damon Salvatore to take her out? Surely not. There was no way he could believe his ears at this point but at the same time there was no way he could pass up something like this after all wasn't this something that he wanted?
"..You should take me out to dinner tonight in a restaurant, got it Salvatore?"
Although.. I wasn't sure if I was joking or not. Oh god had I just asked out Damon Salvatore on a date?! Oh lord I hope not. I think I'd have a stroke or something to prove my shock of such a thing.
But as my eyes flashed a playful smile and a gleaming glow in my eyes as I met him around the car, I crossed my arms over my chest. Raising a brow, I challenged him to actually comply with my small demand. After all, he could eat human food so what was the harm in going to a restaurant? Well... given the way we were dressed probably wasn't the best way to go about it.
He had been wondering about Katherine for so long that with Elena she just seemed to wash away. There was no more Katherine or worse Katherine was dead and gone and there was no way to care for her. His eye brows cocked slightly in wonder before a charming almost dangerous smile graced his features.
"Of course I shall, there has to be some place around here that sells, proper food I think I knew one down the road although the detour might be much longer"
He pushed forward in wonder. How long did she really want to be away from Mystic Falls? From his brother? There were certain things he would often avoid but this invitation was definitely not one of them.
Elena Gilbert asking him to take her to Diner that was one thing he could definitely comply with. But I did hold my stare towards her wondering what she was really thinking.
Walking into some classy place, or even a family dinner smelling of booze for two days was a little... Well, it called for a shower and something clean to wear.
However, I must have lost a few brain cells last night from all that alcohol my body consumed but I actually felt myself getting a little.. Giddy? Excited even to go out to dinner with this Salvatore? It really was a strange feeling... Very strange.
In fact, I was trying to recall if Stefan and I had ever gone out together on a date while sharing a nice quiet dinner, just the two of us. Sure we did the whole dinner and a movie, at home, but going out was different, it was public. Though did I really want to make my debut to society with Damon Salvatore? One could only guess.
"Any who, I'm just glad to get something to eat right now."
I stated, nodding to him once before unfolding my arms and strolling into a bar which was foreign to me but of course not to Damon. Although this time.. I would manage my drinks.
Damon could normally work out everyone, in fact it was boring and often very annoying how easily everyone was read but her she was different. She made it interesting where other's didn't and that was very dangerous
"Of course"
He simply nodded and moved after her already smelling the drink from this side of the door although they were not suppose to be hear for drink, they were suppose to be here for food. But that didn't mean he could slip himself some drinks. In fact it didn't mean he couldn't just out right go and buy some drinks for himself
He may have been keeping to the down low because he was out of town and with Elena but it didn't mean he needed to full behave himself since he never really promised anyone that. He promised Elena was safe. He also promised that he wouldn't compel her but never about behaving. In fact that never even came into anyone's mind.
He couldn't help but wonder why. It was stupid really but still interesting to say the least.
