Hello again readers. I know that it has been forever but you only have yourself to blame. I just asked for two reviews but only got one. Sorry to rant at you. I feel better now. I hope you enjoy this chapter. The next one will be on the way at some point, hopefully soon. Disclaimer: I do not own Damon or Stefan sadly. Please R&R.
Chapter 4: Winter Wonderland
Two weeks later not much had happened. Darcy still avoided Stefan while Damon and Ali got to know each other even better. The significance of the day was that it was Winter Formal. Darcy came over to Ali's house to get ready and Ali had a surprise in store. They had their make-up, jewelry and dresses on when the doorbell rang.
Ali's mom opened the door to find Damon standing there in a black vest, dark blue dress shirt and black slacks. His hair had been combed down so that it was neater and he wore a gorgeous smile.
"Hello Mrs. Baldwin. Hey Ali, Darcy. You look strikingly beautiful tonight. Are you ready to go?"
"Wait, what?" Darcy asked.
"We are going to Damon's house for dinner. Let's go finish getting ready."
"Wha-at? But, but,-"
"Stefan is out of town. He won't be there." Damon said sitting on the couch. "Don't worry your pretty little head about." He looked up the stairs and gave her a cheeky smile and gave Ali an amused look.
There was a knock on the living room window making everyone jerk their head in that direction. Ali was the first to recover and she ran downstairs opening the window.
"Hello Annie. What are you doing at my house?" She asked completely surprised.
"Oh I thought that I would come over. Can I come in?"
"Yeah sure" Ali laughed a little.
Instead of walking towards the front door she closed her eyes, turned to mist, came through the window screen then solidified inside Ali's house.
Darcy just stared wide eyes with a gaping mouth but Ali just smiled.
"Wow Annie. Really must you use your witch powers in front of my oblivious sister? I think you just blew her mind like when she found out who the Aerosmith main singer's daughter is."
"Oh right. I forgot she didn't know about that. You know because of him after all." She said as she gave Damon the ritual glare.
"I feel so out of the loop! I'm gonna go die in a hole now!" Darcy ran up the rest of the stairs and into Ali's bathroom.
"You know it's not nice to run out on your guests," Annie said, teleporting herself and Ali upstairs.
"I'm the last to know everything! I think it counts."
"Well you were freaking out about Stefan so we decided not to bother you with anything else," said Ali in a quiet calming voice.
"True. But it would be nice to know that one of my friends is a supernatural persuasion."
"Geez. You make it sound like someone came out."
Darcy only stuck out her tongue and stuck her hat on her head.
"Darcy dearest, we still have to do our hair."
"Meh."
"I have to get dressed anyway." Annie flicked her shirt and changed immediately into a short shimmering black dress.
She then snapped her fingers twice and Ali's and Darcy's hair were curled and pinned up.
"Hat Ali."
"I know." She put on a hat matching Darcy's and they walked downstairs.
Damon drove the girls over to his house and once at his house he had the girls sit at a table he had set up with four chairs.
"Oh you did know that Annie was coming" said Darcy.
"Yeah of course" Damon said as he gave Ali a pointed glace asking her to come with him for a second. Once they were alone he was no longer smiling. "Now what? Stefan's suppose to come in any minute. I decided to be nice and gentlemanly and help him out. Now I'm screwed!"
"I have an idea but it might not work out perfectly."
"Yeah what? I am open to just about anything."
"When Stefan shows up we excuse ourselves from the table and go eat at the kitchen table. They might not like it but that seems like the best idea."
Annie snapped her fingers and added a fifth place setting appeared with another chair.
"Who's the fifth plate for?" Darcy asked.
Damon and Ali turned around.
"Umm….."
"It's for me Darcy." Stefan said as he walked into the house.
"Holy Crap! Hey! Damon! You lied! You meany butt!" She hung her head and glanced at Stefan. He wasn't looking at her, but her glance made him look at her. He was wearing a dark maroon dress shirt, black slacks, shiny shoes, and a black vest. His hair was combed back and he stood with one hand tucked behind his back.
Darcy couldn't stop staring. Stefan was eye candy and she was fanaticizing what he would look like without his shirt.
-Darcy! Stop Staring!-
-Oh snap, thanks Ali-
Darcy turned bright red and just sat down at the table.
"So did you hear that they changed the theme of the dance to costume party?" Annie stated.
"Really Annie?"
"Yeah, just last week."
Darcy perked up hearing that.
"So that way, you take off your hats and put on a head band and let your tails through your dresses and no one thinks it's abnormal."
"Yay! My dress is too short anyway." Darcy jumped up and grabbed Ali's wrist. "Ali! We gotta fix our dresses!"
Annie sighed, rolled her eyes and snapped again. Their hats were gone and their tails were on the outside of their dresses.
"Oh, well that was fast. Thanks Annie" Ali said.
"No problem you two!"
"Thanketh thee!" Darcy tacked her in a hug. She tried her best not to look at Stefan through out dinner, and it worked pretty well. Until it was time to go. At that point everyone piled into the expedition. Ali drove and Damon was in the passenger seat. Annie got one window seat and Stefan got the other leaving Darcy in the middle with her ears flat against her head.
Once they got to the high school everyone got in fast because they pre-paid. Inside the gym Damon stole Ali away leaving Darcy, Stefan and Annie on the bleachers during the first slow dance.
"I'm going to find Brook and Lexy" Annie said and left Darcy all alone with Stefan.
"So would you like to dance Darcy?"
"Ummmm…." She started hyperventilating.
-Say yes dummy-
"Would you?"
She squeaked a yes and he led her out to the dance floor, took her right hand in his and gently placed his left hand on her waist. Her face was as red as a cars taillight as she put her left hand on his shoulder.
He led them in a waltz keeping his eyes on her face, but she kept her eyes fixed on the floor.
At the end of the dance she glanced up to see Stefan smiling at her and she smiled back. When he gave her a hug she pulled him closer.
A few seconds later then posse walked up and they all smiled at the cute couple.
"Nice ears and tails you too" Lexy said. "Can I poke your fluffy tails?"
"No mine!" Darcy grabbed her tail.
"Oh sad Panda!" Lexy pouted.
"Hey we should all go up on that stage. This is a good song" Ali's stated quickly before things could get out of hand.
"Yeah lets go" yelled Brook to everyone and she grabbed the others hands, pulling them to the stage near the disco ball. On the stage Brook and Lexy did the Ynnek, a.k.a, the Eunuch (an inside joke)
Damon followed their example and pulled Ali closer but did not grind into her. That is kind of hard with a fluffy tail in between their two bodies.
Darcy and Stefan just swayed from side to side about a foot away from each other because they were just putting a toe into the dating pool and just finally showing their feelings. Ali just wanted them to go splash but they had to be difficult!
-But of course I have to be difficult Ali dear. It's my job-
-So get a new fraking job-
-No. I got this in place of hurting myself. Only one job change a year-
Ali rolled her eyes.
-Sorry luv-
-No you're not-
-Nope-
-Well I'm not either-
-What would you be sorry for?-
-This-
With that thought, Ali pushed Darcy into Stefan and they both fell off the stage. Darcy squeaked, and people turned to stare at them. Some laughed. Darcy landed on top of Stefan. She almost turned purple and got up as fast as she could, running to the bleachers and hid under them.
Stefan followed her and when she finally looked up she saw that he was smiling.
"So Ali is always like that?"
"Yeah. Her goal in life is to embarrass the crap out of me."
"At least you know she cares. Come on lets go dance again."
"But-"
-Darcy get your butt back out here or I will do something evil-
-You already did smartass-
-Okay then. You call that evil. I will do worse if you don't come back-
-And I'll pull your tail-
-Stop being such a pain in the ass. You don't even have to look him in the eyes-
-You're being a pain in the ass too. I've danced with him. You and Damon lied to me, telling me Stefan was out of town- She ran under the bleachers to the bathroom with Stefan following, but he got there before her and grabbed her by the shoulders before she could get in.
"I'm going to guess you are mad at Damon and Ali for covering for me. I thought if I just surprised you and gave you a great dinner then I would get in your good graces."
"My good graces? What in the hans Christian Anderson does that mean?"
"It means I want you to be able to talk with me nicely."
"Because I haven't been doing that all night long."
"I'm just trying to explain why I made those two lie about me being in Colorado. Would you have come to the house if you knew I was there?"
"It would have depended."
"On what?"
"Are you really that blind? Have you never heard that when someone is mean to someone else, it usually means they like them?"
His face went blank.
"Geez louis."
"Or it can mean you are just being a biotch" said Ali because she knew this was going no where since Darcy was being her stubborn not listen, just react pain in the butt self. "You two get in there now." But when Darcy did not move Ali grabbed her left ear and pulled her into the gym to where the others were dancing.
"I see you got them back in here." Damon said as he pulled Ali closer. "Good job sweetheart" he whispered in her ear.
Ali smiled and made sure to block out Darcy because she was cussing Ali out. At the next slow dance, Damon pulled Ali away and close to him and Stefan did the same but Darcy was stiff. At the end of the dance Damon kissed Ali deeply. The rest of the dance went smoothly and the very last song was "I had the Time of My Life".
Just before the dance started, Darcy yanked on Ali's tail.
"Ow! What the hell?"
"That is what you get for pulling on my ear! And don't you dare tell me I'm being a biotch, because I'm not." –You could've just let us play it out, but you had to be your stubborn impatient pain in the butt self and almost tear my ear off-
"It's for your own good."
"I know what's good for me. You just have to let me play this one out." She turned around and walked away, leaving Ali alone with her boyfriend. Darcy started to sit down, but Stefan pulled her away from the bleachers and started to dance the final dance from Dirty Dancing without asking…..
"I would love to know that dance…" Ali said glaring at Darcy. "I didn't know she knew it."
"She doesn't but Stefan does. He learned it when the movie first came out; without me of course." Damon pulled Ali closer. "We can learn it together," he whispered making Ali giggle.
"I didn't know you knew this dance."
"I'm a guy of many surprised," Stefan said spinning Darcy out and pulling her back in, closer than before, "You know you need eye contact for this dance."
"I'm not good at the whole eye contact thing." Darcy looked away nervous. She couldn't decide on what to do…let alone if she had enough guts to do it. After a few more steps, her stomach contracted and she swallowed her heart. "Stefan!"
She let his hands go and when he looked towards her she pulled herself up and kissed him as hard as she could though her arms weren't that strong.
"Holy shit…" Ali and Damon stopped dancing and stared at Darcy and Stefan.
Stefan slowly encircled Darcy and held her up since he was a whole foot taller than her. Then she pulled away and fiddled with her hair. "I can't believe I just did that…"
Stefan bent down to look in her eyes. "Why did you?"
"You really are blind."
"Not really." Stefan smiled before kissing her again.
"Oh we better keep them out of Stefan's room tonight or something very bad might happen."
"Don't worry it is impossible for any vampires to have kids but I would like to try sometime with you."
"Yes I'm sure you do, but I am not human so maybe it would be different for me. And anyway I have only known you for a few weeks."
"But you have fallen in love with my anyway. Ever if you know my past, the things I have done when I let the blood take over and take my pain away."
"Shhs. It is the past now. Just let us dance this last dance."
Both Damon and Stefan finished the dance and pulled their girls in for another kiss and the rest of the posse when awe.
-Geez. Took you guys long enough-
-Not my….wait…well. Kind of my fault but still, he was taking forever I couldn't stand it-
They pulled apart and Darcy just barely got a glimpse of Stefan's dark eyes and elongated fangs before they changed back.
"Stefan…?"
"Darcy, I need to tell you something."
"Huh?"
He leaned in and whispered in her ear. "I'm a vampire."
She fainted.
Ali and Damon rushed over along with everyone else.
"What did you say Stefan?" Ali inquired.
"I just told her the truth. I thought that she knew but I guess I surprised her."
"Ya think? Damon can you do get a glass of ice cold water?" Ali stood there with a hand on her hip glaring at Stefan.
"Sure. I will be right back." Damon gave Ali a wink before zipping off somewhere and then came back a few seconds later with a nice glass of water with ice cubes in it.
-Oh by the way Ali, I'm too innocent to go into a guy's bedroom alone-
-You, innocent?-
-Uh, yeah?-
-You know I'm gonna splash you with water right?-
-Please don't-
-Why not?-
-Because that would be mean. What does Stefan's face look like?-
-Another reason to do it. And like this- Ali sent Darcy a mental image of Stefan with his serious face wrinkling his forehead up a lot.
-Nyaha- Ali then dumped the water on Darcy making her jump up as if she had just been startled awake. "Holy shiznits! That's cold and you're a meany butt" Darcy shot up to be standing and shook her head like a dog.
"I told you that I was going to do it oh smart one" Ali just sighed and shook her head.
"Legrrrrrrr!"
"Darcy are you okay? Did you break anything?" Stefan started fawning over her.
"I'm fine Stefan." Darcy rolled her eyes waiting for him to get this out of his system.
"You sure you're not going into shock?"
"Duh"
"But-"
"I really wanted to know what your reaction would be." She smiled and gave Ali a high five and Ali just looked smug.
"That was great!"
"And I even got it all on camera and it is so going on Youtube once I get home. Totally priceless" Annie said from the sidelines away from the puddle of water.
"Did I make it seem real Darcy?" Ali asked with a smirk.
"Oh yes, but did you have to splash me with water?"
"Yep. You look good wet sis and now Stefan will have to give you some kind of jacket so that you don't get cold."
-Gee thanks….-
"Here" Stefan said as he handed her his leather jacket.
"Uh…thanks." Darcy quickly put the jacket on smiling to herself.
-You know you love me!-
-Oh I don't know Ali-
"You should really stop doing that silent conversation you two" Damon said. "The dance is over with so we should probably start heading out."
"Hey Damon? What silent conversation thingy are you talking about?" Darcy asked, holding Stefan's jacket closer to her body and looking at Damon with big eyes.
"You are not innocent looking Darcy. It is very obvious when both of you start spacing out." Damon smirked looking very proud of himself for figuring everything out.
"Okay you two stop arguing" Liz said. "We all need to get home and you two acting like idiots is just prolonging the torture." Liz looked between everyone, glaring at Damon.
"I am innocent; a lot more than you Damon. Anyway, Imma walk Lexy and Brook to their car. Come on you two." Darcy grabbed Lexy's arm and pulled her along. She grabbed Brook's arm and it became a long line of people.
"I don't think she likes you." Stefan said, grinning.
"No way. I never would've guessed that. Thank you so much for informing me." Damon scowled.
"Don't scowl Damon. It ruins your looks" Ali said as she walked to the expedition. When she got there she realized the keys were in the car. She tried the number pad but it did not work. "Fraking stupid car!"
"What's wrong Ali?" Darcy said as she walked up.
"I left the keys in the car and the key pad is not working." Ali leaned her head against the door in frustration.
"How are we going to get home then?"
Instead of saying anything Ali just took a few deep breaths and then her eyes glowed gold and her nails changed to look like a wolf's nail. She shoved her nail into the lock in the door and twisted until she heard a click.
"Guess being a freak has its benefits. I don't have to call my mom now and get an earful." Ali opened her door and unlocked all the other doors.
"We aren't freaks Ali."
"Well then what do you call us?"
Darcy thought for a minute before getting in the car and answering with a smile. "Moon daughters."
"What does that mean?"
"It means that you are being grouchy and if you don't stop I will use my non existent, self proclaimed Jedi mind trick on Damon and make him kiss you." Darcy played with a strand of her hair.
Ali laughed. "Not while I'm driving. That might be bad."
"Just a little bit."
"Oh I'm Damon Salvatore and I could get you both our before you got hurt."
"I bet you could" Ali said sarcastically.
"Hey Damon, you wanna kiss Ali?"
"Sure why not?" He grinned and leaned over, kissing her gently on the lips for only a second.
Ali froze and then swerved the car to stay in her lane. "Are you INSANE?" She yelled at Darcy. The guys winced at how loud her shout was. Darcy only grinned and held up her fingers to signify a little. "Oh, a little….Okay well I'm trying to convince myself not to pull this car over and kick you out."
"She'd only wind up at your house, you know. I may be a witch but I am nice enough not to leave Darcy Dearest alone on the highway," Annie said, suddenly appearing next to the passenger side back door.
"I still have to get used to that." Stefan muttered shifting over towards Darcy a little more from his seat in the middle.
"I scared the big bad vampire. Amazing! That has made my entire night!" Annie smiled happily.
"I bet it did Annie" Ali said from the driver's seat. "Darcy if you do that again I will sick my dogs on you once we get back to my house."
"I am so afraid of your dogs. Would you really do that?"
"Yes I would" she said with an evil grin.
Darcy pouted for the rest of the ride home. When they got to Ali's house both girls gave their guy a goodbye kiss and then they got home and went to bed. Sort of. They sat in Ali's room for an hour or so talking and giggling and watching Moonlight. After a while, around 1 am, they donned their bathing suits and snuck out of the hall window, jumping down to the hot tub and took off the lid. They grabbed the tang they had stashed before the dance and hopped in, continuing their conversation from earlier.
They were talking for a few minutes when they heard someone coming up the outside stairs next to the garage. A few seconds later Damon and Stefan came into view and hopped into the hot tub with the girls. Damon sat in the deepest seat and pulled Ali onto his lap and nuzzled her neck. Stefan sat closer to Darcy but not as close as Damon and Ali. Stefan and Darcy got out first and snuck up to Ali's room.
Damon looked into Ali's eyes once Stefan and Darcy had left and he leaned closer until there were only inches between them. "Can I drink some of your blood?" he asked in a low husky voice.
"Yes just don't get any of my blood in the hot tub."
Damon tilted her chin up and licked her neck and kissed her neck before biting down hard and began to drink her blood. She moaned from the feeling of him drinking her blood. Once he was done, he pulled away slightly and Ali sagged back into him.
"Are you willing to try something insane and not very acceptable?"
"I don't know. What are you talking about?" Ali asked quietly looking up into his eyes blinking slightly to clear her vision completely.
"Do you want to try my blood?" Damon said quietly.
She was shocked silent but she nodded her head yes so he took his pointer finger nail and made a cut at the base of his neck. She turned around and tentatively licked the cut and surprisingly it was better tasting than even the best chocolate. Damon had to finally pull her away because of how his blood did not taste like blood.
"Just be careful for a few days okay hun? If you were to die with my blood in your sister then if you are like most people you would come back as a vampire."
"Is that true?" Darcy asked Stefan, sitting on Ali's bed. They were changing into dry cloths.
"Yeah…" Stefan said, sitting next to her.
"Why is Ali drinking blood anyway? It is all gross and bleh."
"Well to humans it is. Not to us though."
"I guess vampires are just that special."
"Apparently not just vampires" he said as he looked in the direction of the hot tub.
"Eww…"
"It's not that bad."
"Only because you're a vampire."
"Okay Pippin."
"Who's Pippin?"
"You"
"Um…How'd you know that?" She had been home alone when she took the Lord of the Rings quiz that said she was Pippin.
"Uhh...Lucky guess?"
"Don't lie to me."
-He really was stalking you Darcy-
-No dip Sherlock. Go back to your boyfriend- Darcy blocked her mind from Ali. "Well?" She looked at Stefan expectantly.
He sighed reluctantly and guiltily looked away. "I followed you home the other day and watched you…I just didn't want you to be alone."
"Stalker!" She smacked him and got up.
"I'm sorry!"
"No you're not." She stalked over to the bathroom door with her ears flat and tail twitching. She tried to push it open because it was usually partially open, but it wasn't this time. All she succeeded in was hurting her hand and making it bleed. She stared at it, and then turned around. Stefan's eyes went dark. He was suddenly in the corner, but she only followed him just as quickly, cornering him. He had no escape.
"Lick it" she said as she held up her hand.
"Wha..."
"Lick. It."
"Are you sure?"
"Do I have to wear the pants in this relationship?"
"No…"
"Then take the initiative and lick it." She held her hand closer and he finally took it. First he licked the wound, and then began to suck. Darcy had to bite her lip because it kind of hurt to have someone actually suck the blood out of you. Stefan then moved and bites down on the palm of her hand and she squeaked, flinching slightly. Images started flashing through her mind. Most of them were her but then there was a girl with olive skin and brown curly hair. The name Katherine kept showing up and she was dressed in an old 1800s style dress.
Stefan's eyes snapped open and he quickly pulled away from her, wrapping his shirt around Darcy's hand. He had taken off his shirt in a flash using his vampire speed.
"Who was that?" Darcy asked dizzily.
"No one you need to worry about right now." He caught her before she could fall and set her on the bed kneeling beside her.
"But I wanna know…." Darcy tried to protest raising her head a few inches but she had no energy so it just fell back down on the bed.
"Later" he promised kissing her forehead. "You're tired so you should go to sleep now."
"Okay…" She closed her eyes and instantly fell asleep. Stefan stayed by her side until her hand healed and then got up to leave.
"What happened?" Ali demanded with her hands on her hips.
"He obviously could not help but bite her." Damon smirked. "Couldn't wait any longer, now could you brother?"
"One, I went longer than you without biting her, Damon. Two, I only bit her after she hurt herself, and three she made me."
"You pansy." Damon just smiled.
"I had no choice! She stuck her hand in my face and told me to lick it! Not my fault!" Stefan said trying to cover his ass.
"Whatever," Ali sighed, rolling her eyes. "You guys should go now though, we have to get up early."
"Okay, goodnight!" Damon moved over to her side pulling her right up against himself. He tilted her head up to his and kissed her passionately. He kept kissing her until her knees went weak and she somewhat collapsed into him. He slowly pulled away from her. "Don't kill yourself. Remember that…"
"I'll try," she said a little breathlessly.
Damon grinned and was gone. Stefan said goodnight then followed his brother out the window silently. Ali followed and closed the window behind the two of them.