Sorry for the late update but school has started and I really need to concentrate on it. So, here's the update.
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Ashley got up from her bed and her head was still hurting. She opened her bedroom door just to see her uncle taking some weapons and grenades.
"What are you doing with them?" She asked holding her head.
"How much did you drink?" Alaric changed the subject.
"I wish I remembered. My head is still hurting." By the looks of her face she seemed like she still needed sleep. "Now, answer my question."
"Going to train." Alaric told her but something about his words didn't assure Ashley.
"Why the hell do you need to bomb?" She went to reach it but Alaric slapped her hand.
"You still don't know how to use this and it's dangerous." Ashley rolled her eyes at him and Alaric sighed. "And you need to sleep because you like crap."
"Thanks Ric." Ashley started to walk towards her bedroom. She could feel something fishy about Alaric's answers. She wanted to follow him but she was too sleepy. She ignored the feeling and went to sleep in her bed. She slowly closed her eyes and she fell asleep quickly.
"Rise and shine, little Saltzman." Ashley heard the older Salvatore's cocky voice and groaned. She opened her eyes just to find Damon laying in her bed with his arms under his head. She gave him a look.
"What are you doing here?" She asked sitting on her bed.
"It's time for another road trip between us." Damon said and got up from her bed.
"No thanks." Ashley cover her face with her blankets. Damon sighed and pulled her sheets.
"Ric just called me and he told me that he and Elena went to Smoky Mountains to look for Stefan. And let's not forget that tonight is a full moon." Ashley got up from her bed with a start.
"What the hell is wrong with Elena?! How can that little bitch take my uncle to a dangerous place?!" Damon rolled his eyes.
"Don't be dramatic now." Damon told her.
"It's not your uncle that it's in risk." Ashley shot back at him and moved to her closet.
"No, it's my best friend and Elena." Ashley grabbed a white tank-top and some blue shorts. Damon crossed his arms and tilted his head.
"What are you waiting for? Get out of the room!" Damon didn't move at all.
"I rather stay here and look at you." Ashley rolled her eyes.
"Damon, we don't have time for your never going to happen dreams." Damon smirked at her.
"You never know what the future hold." Damon moved to her bedroom door.
"Not me and you." Damon ept smirking and closed the door. Ashley rolled her eyes and started to dress up.
Damon and Ashley were driving to the Smoky Mountains and Ashley was rambling.
"I knew that something was fishy but stupid me let it go. I was too tired to even think but still why am I so stupid? And thanks for bringing me home last night." Damon just nodded his head.
"You're welcome." He said in a cocky tone.
Ashley looked at him. "And I thought I was cocky and all proud but then I met you." Damon snorted at her comment.
You know that you're a bitch." Ashley placed her hand on her chest.
"Oh My God, thanks. That;s the most heartwarming thing somebody ever said to me." Damon narrowed his eyes at her.
"Now tell me why you are a bitch?" Ashley scowled at him but she decided.
"Because i this world if a girl tells the truth and speaks her mind is a bitch. Well then, I'm a straight-up bitch."
"Bravo." Damon said to her and she shot him a proud smile.
"Now, your turn. Why the hell do you act 'I'm so cool' when you're really trying to hide your love for sweet innocent wannabe that Katherine chick Elena?" Ashley asked looking at the road.
"Elena isn't Katherine." Damon tried to assure her.
"Yeah, and you're not a vampire." Ashley retorted.
"What's your problem with Elena?" Damon asked and Ashley gave him a look. Literally no one could see what Elena was. They were so blinded by her and the only one who could see it was Ashley.
"In my opinion, she's too much self-righteous and self-absorbed but you guys are blind. And I don't hate Elena yet but I don't like her either." Ashley admitted without even regretting her words.
"What happened to you that made you like this?" Damon asked looking at her directly for the first time. Ashley's eyes met his and she felt hypnotized by his blue eyes that were trying to read her. She found herself lost for a moment but then she came back to her senses.
"Eyes on the road, idiot. I don't have healing powers like yours." Damon chuckled at her but his eyes moved to the road. "Because life is hard and that's my way to cope with it. Now, you answer my question?"
"Life is hard and that's my way to cope with it." Damon repeated her words, making Ashley smack him in the arm. "Okay, okay. Because like yours my life is a living hell and I'm pretend that everything is okay." Ashley looked at him but Damon's face didn't show any emotions.
"Give it a few more years, it will be better." Ashley gave him an advice and Damon rolled her eyes.
"Thank you, ." Those words made Ashley chuckle. She had to admit that Damon was funny.
Damon and Ashley had arrived in the mountains and they were trying to find Elena and Alaric.
"I wanted to stay home and watch re-runs of Supernatural." Ashley admitted as they walked. Damon turned to look at her. "You know that I'm getting a few great tips from the Winchesters brothers. I wish they came to Mystic Falls and taught you cocky vampires to be defeated."
"You really watch that show?" Damon asked and Ashley nodded her head.
"The brothers are hot and it's really badass and kickass like me." Ashley leaned down trying not to get hit by a tree branch.
"Since when are you kickass and badass?" Damon asked her.
"Since forever." Ashley sing-sang and Damon rolled his eyes at the girl. He stopped walking making the Saltzman girl stop walking too. "What's going on?"
"Come with me." Damon grabbed her and they vamp-sped away. Ashley could feel that she was going to puke. She closed her eyes tight. After a few seconds, they stopped. Ashley opened her eyes just to see her uncle and Elena a few feet away from them.
"I don't know why you think that you're a lost cause." Elena began to say to Ric but Damon moved to her and pushed her to the water. Elena screamed and fell in the water.
"Going training, huh?" Ashley asked Alaric from behind and Alaric turned to Damon.
"Why the hell did you brought her with you?" Alaric asked Damon but Ashley was the one to reply.
"Because you're dumb enough to come with Elena here and risk your life."
"Damon! How are you even here?" Elena asked Damon as soon as she got out of the water.
"Thanks for the tip, brother." Damon thanked Alaric, indicating that Ric called him. Elena looked at Alarc, disappointed.
"You sold me out!" Elena whined and Ashley rolled her eyes.
"Of course he did you idiot, he doesn't want to risk his life to find your one true love for the hour." Ashley snapped back at Elena.
"No need to be rude, Ashley." Alaric told her.
"I'm being honest, not rude." Ashley pointed out placing her hand on her hips. Elena still was in the water looking up to the other three. "Now guys, come on. We have a long journey ahead of us."
"No." Elena shouted and Ashley curled up her mouth in a snarl. Elena was getting on her nerves.
"Get out of the water, Elena." Damon told her.
"If I get out of the water, you're gonna make me go home." Elena pointed out.
"Idiots." Ashley mumbled under her breath.
"Yes, because I'm not an idiot like you." Damon shot back at Elena.
"Right now, you're both acting like idiots." Alaric said and Ashley nodded her head.
"You gave up on him Damon." Elena reminded him and Damon looked down for split moment.
"I didn't give up on him, Elena. I faced reality. Now get out of the water." Damon told her.
"No!" Elena shouted.
"What's your big plan, Elena? Huh? You gonna walk through a campsite full of werewolves, roast a marshmallow, and wait for Stefan to stop by?" damon jumped down and walked into the water. Ashley couldn't hear what they were saying and really she didn't want to hear but in the end she was the only one who wanted to leave seeing as Damon agreed to look for Stefan too.
"I'm surrounded by idiots." Ashley said bitterly and walked away the first one, the others trailing behind her.
They were still walking and both Elena and Ashley were tired of walking.
"How you doing?" Damon asked Elena.
"Fine." Elena replied clearly angry at him. Ashley started to hum a song as she walked. She zoned out of the conversation between Elena and Damon. She was too concentrated to keep bugs out of her mouth and nose and not to trip. She was interrupted by Damon who said something to her.
"Do you need a lift?" Damon asked her and Ashley looked up at him.
"I can't talk I'm trying to keep the bugs out of my mouth." Ashley informed Damon. She paused for a moment and looked at Damon. "I'm jumping in your back because girls like shouldn't touch the ground." Elena snorted at Ashley's words but Ashley ignored her. Ashley hopped in Damon's back.
"Don't touch her in the back." Alaric warned Damon.
"Even if he tried, I would have cut him." Ashley pointed out and they kept walking. "You know, all this time I've been wondering something." Ashley randomly said.
"What is that, princess?" Damon asked and Ashley hit him in the back. "What was that for?"
"If I was something royal, I would have been a Queen. 2. Never interrupt me. 3. I forgot what was I going to tell you guys."
"Classic Ashley." Alaric muttered and Ashley shot him a glare.
"I heard that!" Ashley told him.
"You were supposed to heard that." Damon pointed out.
"And you were supposed that mouth for a second." Ashley snapped at him, making Elena and Alaric roll their eyes.
"Nobody told me to do that." Damon shot back at her.
"Well, now is the time for you to shut up. Or you can just flatter me and boost my ego."
"Okay, then. Ashley Saltzman is a smart girl." Damon finished his sentence.
"And?" Ashley asked him.
"That was it." Damon replied to her and Ashley gaped at him.
"You forgot my other incredibly awesome traits."
"Like?"
"And I thought Elena and Damon were acting like kids." Alaric mumbled as the other three followed him behind. None of them knew that from a far distance Stefan Salvatore was hearing them.
It had been a while. None of them didn't talk, the only sound was Ashley humming a song of Beyonce. By now the sun was setting. Ashley got off Damon's back and now she was walking like the others.
"We got about a mile left." Alaric informed the other three.
"The sun's about to set." Damon pointed the words to Elena, trying to tell he that they should go.
"I can see that." Elena retorted back at Damon.
"You know if Alaric wasn't here, I wouldn't even come. Who is that stupid to go in a mountain full of werewolves. I don't know Stefan personally but hearing about him from you Elena most of the time, he wouldn't be happy for us to risk our precious lives-" Ashley stopped herself when she heard some twigs snapping and she wasn't the only one to hear. Just then a blonde man came out of the bushes towards them, Alaric fastly pointed the weapon to the guy.
"Stay where you are!" Alaric told the man sternly. The man noticed something strange and immediately shouted.
"Vampire!" He lunged over Damon and they started to fight. Suddenly the man had Damon up against a tree. Alaric shot an arrow at him but the man was to distracted trying to bite Damon. Elena took a wolfsbane grenade from her bag and threw it to Damon.
"Damon!" After she said that Damon caught the grenade and threw it to the man's face. Ashley squinted her eyes in disgust. She was still getting used to the supernatural world disgusting side. The man fell in the floor as the wolfsbane burned his face. Damon kicked him in the stomach leaving him unconscious.
"Let me guess. Hybrid." Alaric guessed earning a nod from Damon. Ashley moved closer to the hybrid before her. She pursued her lips for a minute.
"That was awesome!" She exclaimed earning an eye roll from the others. "My first encounter with a hybrid."
"Come on Raven-Haired Buffy." Damon nudged her a little away. Ashley turned to him with a raised eyebrow.
"Really Raven-Haired Buffy?" Damon smirked at her.
"It's that or Little Saltzman?" Ashley sighed but she had to choose one. She scoffed.
"Okay, go with the Buffy one. She's a badass." Ashley walked to her uncle and Elena to help while Damon watched her walk. He smirked and shook his head.
Ashley and the others by now we're trying to tie the hybrid against a tree. Ashley got some ropes and spiked them with vervain.
"These ropes aren't gonna hold him much longer. What else do we have?" Damon asked the girls.
"Ric, here. Take these." Ashley was about to give Alaric the ropes but Damon reached for them instead. After he touched them, his skin started to burn.
"Ahh! Ow!" Damon screamed a little and turned to look at Ashley.
"I said Ric." She pointed out defensively. Alaric reached for the ropes and started to tie Ray.
"All right, that's the last of the vervain. We don't have enough stuff to hold him. I don't think we're gonna make that Ridge before the full moon." Alaric explained to them and Ashley just nodded her head.
"We can run." She head to leave the place but Elena wasn't going anywhere.
"If we can get him to talk, we don't have to." Elena moved towards Ray. She touched his face making Ashley look at her in confused way. Suddenly Ray opened his eyes and Elena took a step back. Ray started to scream and they something crack.
"Are his bones breaking?" Ashley asked backing way. She was freaked out by the situation.
"Is he turning?" Damon asked and Ashley started to get more confused by the moment.
"I thought werewolves were supposed to turn in night." Ashley stated dumbfounded by the situation.
"Tell him that." Alaric told them. Damon moved closer to the hybrid and held his shoulders but it wasn't working at all. Ashley bit her lip nervous.
"There aren't supposed to be werewolves out here until the moon is full." Elena spoke up and Ashley started to panic.
"Why are we stupid to come in a place full of werewolves?" Ashley mumbled to herself. She was clearly worried, nervous and angry.
"You know, those ropes aren't gonna hold the wolf." Alaric reminded them. Ray started to scream and to snarl as his bones were breaking. Ashley flinched as she heard the noise of the bones starting to break.
"Damon, we've got to get out of here. We gotta get out of these mountains now! Damon, now!" Elena protested and the four them began to run. Ashley began to curse as she ran. She always hated to run.
It was night by now and the full moon was up in the sky. It was too dark and they could barely see. But none of them stopped to run, suddenly Elena tripped. The other three stopped and looked behind her just to be left shocked by the sight of what they were seeing.
"Don't move." Damon told Elena and she raised her head just to meet eyes with a wolf. Ashley stared at the creature in fear but with interest too. Elena gasped a little but she didn't move. "Here, doggie, doggie." Damon said to earn the wolf's attention which he got. Damon ran with vamp-speed and was followed by the wolf.
"Come on. Let's keep moving." Alaric instructed the girls but Elena didn't move at all.
"We can't leave Damon." Elena protested earning an eye roll from Ashley.
"Elena, we may risk our own life." Ashley pointed out and began walking but Elena still didn't move.
"No. If he gets bit, he'll be dead. I'm the reason he's out here." Elena pointed out and Ashley turned to look at her.
"And when you get Stefan, you can remind him that you're the reason his brother is dead." Ashley snapped without thinking hurting Elena but she clearly didn't care.
"In fact, it's my fault-" Alaric began to say but Ashley cut him off.
"Don't take the blame." Ashley told him and turned to look at Elena. "Differently from Damon, I didn't came to save you ass. I came here to be sure that my uncle is safe. And me and him will walk away and you'll be better follow us. It's your choice." Ashley began to walk and she was followed by Alaric. Elena stood there for a couple of seconds but she chose to follow them too. Ashley smiled in triumph as she lead them out of the woods. But little did she know, that deep down she cared if Damon was okay not or as much Elena and Alaric did but she still didn't know it. They kept walking until they arrived at Alaric's car which they waited for Damon to come. They were inside of it. Elena and Alaric were sitting on the front while Ashley was resting on the back of the car.
"Stefan's out there somewhere and now Damon, and we're just sitting in this car?" Elena asked again and Ashley bit her lip to hold her anger. Luckily, Alaric was the one to talk first.
"Let the vampires fight the hybrid zombie mountain man. I'll take care of keeping the humans safe." Alaric replied to Elena.
"I thought you were checked out of taking care of people. Expect Ashley." Elena pointed out earning Ashley's full attention of the other two attention.
"I know what you're doing. Don't. There doesn't need to be a lesson here." Alaric told Elena.
"You're better at it than you think, you know?" Ashley for the first time agreed to Elena's words. In fact, it was the first time she agreed to Elena.
"Oh, boy, are you a sucker for a lost cause or what?" Alaric asked and it kinda sound it like a joke. Ashley decided to speak up.
"You're not a lost cause, Ric. You are lost, just like we all are." Alaric turned to look at his niece. "I think that Elena and Jeremy need you because you are the closest thing that they have to a family. They need you... In fact, them and me need you. We are all good for each-other. Plus, caring for the other people runs into Satzman genes but it got lost to me." Alaric smiled at her.
"I'm keeping the ring, then." Alaric informed Elena but before anyone could say something, they saw Damon walking towards the car.
"Damon?" Elena got out of the car and immediately went towards Damon. "Are you okay? Did you...?" Damon interrupted her.
"Fine, bite-free. Get back in the car, please." Damon started to push her against the car.
"Can you just give me a minute to appreciate that you're not dead?" Elena asked Damon and Ashley raised an eyebrow at this.
"I'll give you 10 seconds. 9, 8..." Damon began to count as Ashley smiled at him. Damon caught Elena by her shoulders and marched her over the car. "Buffy, do you remember where I let my car?" Ashley just nodded her head and got out of the car. Her eyes caught something. A man in fact. She couldn't see clearly but she saw that he had dirty blonde hair and he was looking at Elena. She figured it out it was Stefan. She didn't say anything. Elena followed her line of vision but no one was there. Stefan had disappeared. Ashley got out of the car and walked with Damon to his car.
"I saw Stefan." She stated and Damon looked at her. "He was standing in the dark looking at Elena. He still has his humanity."
"You got that in seconds?" Damon asked full of disbelief.
"I've become so paranoid that I'm thinking that I'm telepathic." Damon shook his head at her joke. "You saw him too, didn't you? You talked to him." Damon nodded his head and Ashley looked at him doubtfully. "And now?"
"He's my family. You don't give up on family." Damon walked towards to his car while Ashley just smiled at him. She then went inside of the car too.
Ashley and Alaric had arrived at Alaric's apartment and he decided to move to the Gilbert house again, seeing that the Jeremy and Elena needed him.
"Are you sure it's fine for me to go?" Alaric asked and Ashley just nodded her head. Alaric sighed and looked at her. "You have the caring genes of a Saltzman too but you've gone through too much and now you're afraid to let someone in so you act hostile and mean. That's how your father acted after we lost our father but then when he met your mother he changed and became the real him. They were so much in love with each-other." Ashley eyes teared up at the mention of her parents and Alaric walked over to her. "Hey, don't cry. I promised your dad that I won't let you cry and I already let you once." Ashley wiped her tears and sniffed. "You look so much like him that it hurts looking at you sometimes to tell you the truth." Alaric wrapped his arms around his niece and she did the same.
"Neither of them deserved to die." Ashley's voice cracked a little and Alaric pulled away from the hug.
"Many people don't deserve to die but that is life. It's the most cruel thing ever but at the same time the most valuable thing ever." Alaric sighed and walked to his back. "Are you sure?" He asked about going to the Gilbert's but yet he still got a nod from her.
"I'm going to watch Grey's Anatomy either way." Alaric smiled at her as he walked away from the room. Ashley watched as he walked away from the apartment. After he closed the door, Ashley wiped the reaming of the tears and walked to her bedroom. She stopped as she looked at a picture. It was her mom, dad and her. Her dad was holding her with one hand and his other arm was wrapped around her mother. All of them looked happy even her and she was two years old in that picture. She sighed and ran a hand through her hair. She took a deep breath to prevent herself from crying and walked to her T.V. She took her CD of Grey's Anatomy: Season Six and began to watch. She laid in her bed and watched the show. She laughed, she cried and she got angry etc. This show always made her experience all her emotions in one episode.
Here's chapter four. I know that it's been two months since I updated but school is keeping me to busy write. I hope you guys enjoy the update and thanks for all the favorites and follows.
sycoticprince19: Thank you very much and I'm glad that you like Ashley. She will be having a lot of fights with Elena and it will be something like a feud in a near future. I'm glad that she made you happy. I'm really excited to write her interactions with other characters. Many of her meeting with the other character will be funny especially with Klaus. Damon and Ashley will began to interact more and more. They will form a strong friendships in these chapters that it will turn to something more in the later chapters.
adela: Yeah, things will change and it's going to become more excited and dramatic plus funny.
NicoleR85: I'm so happy that you love Ashley. Yeah and she will be the one to probably shut everyone up and of course Elena. Here's the late update.
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XTheSecretDiaries: I'm glad that you love the story, I hope you won't lose the interest.
P.S. For the ones who read Nobody Said It Was Easy, I'm going to re-write the chapters and then I'm going to update it. It may take a while but you need to wait for it.