Gluttony

Gluttony- an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires

I had said that! I had said that to my best friend who did nothing but worry about me! This was a new low even for me, the shallow self-absorbed bitch.

For the first time in my life I truly felt sorry.

After apologizing to Elena everything went back to normal or at least as normal as they could get. That was until now; I now sat on some old couch in some deserted mansion with two very creepy vampires. Not to mention my arm was bleeding at an alarming rate.

"Just one taste" the voice of a man said as he neared me causing a scream to rise from my very chest.

"Stop it, you mustn't" came an English accent from somewhere around the room. "Elijah wouldn't want the doppelganger dead before Klaus can get his hands on her"

"Please let me go, I won't tell anyone—"

"Shut up!" responded a woman now appeared her English accent starting to really piss me off. That bitch!

Damon

It didn't take that long to figure out that Blondie was missing especially when she missed her now usual routine of missing classes and spending the afternoons at the boarding house annoying me to a point of murder.

But what was stranger was that she hadn't gotten home. Blondie wasn't stupid; no matter how shallow of a person she was she wasn't stupid.

She would have called already knowing that a very old and powerful vampire is after her. You're worried an annoying voice in the back of my mind chanted merrily.

"You can't go alone—"

"He won't go alone" I responded slamming the door open to face Stefan, Jeremy and a worried Bonnie.

"Are you sure?" Stefan asked me his expression questioning.

"It's Elena" I responded turning away.

"Why are you really here Damon? I doubt it's to help your little brother save his girlfriends best friend." Stefan asked already annoying the shit out of me.

"As a matter of fact baby bro, I happen to have taken a liking to Blondie. She's less annoying when she compelled and under me moaning" I lied seeing how his stare immediately hardened. It was after all Elena's body.

"I was joking" I responded laughing at his enraged expression. In truth, I really had no idea why I was helping out. Maybe it was because Caroline was in Elena's body, yup that's it. Elena's body, that's what I want to save.

Liar

Another voice countered, it was the little voice that told me what was right and wrong. The thing I had ignored for the last one hundred and fifty years.

"I'm here to save Elena's body" I responded ignoring him and raising the volume of the song playing on the radio much louder.

It was Bury Me Alive by We are the Fallen, I wasn't much of a fan but I had heard Caroline say something about this song.

If only I could remember . . .

You bury me alive

And everybody's got to breathe somehow

Don't leave me to die

Too consumed by your own emptiness and lies

Played as I tried to remember what seemed to want to be forgotten.

"Damon please, don't do this" Caroline whispered her face tear stained. "I don't want to die"

It was pathetic and disgusting watching her like this. At the Founders Ball, Caroline Forbes, the shallow of the shallowest was crying in front of him. Him, of all people and a part of him felt amused.

I grabbed hold of her from behind in fake comfort and she fell for it as she leaned against me her breathing calming and her heart rate calming itself.

And before she could ever move my fangs were inside her

"Don't leave me to die!" she whispered before she fell to the ground with me in tow.

I didn't like remembering, and worst of all a part of me didn't like, better yet hating knowing I had and probably still caused her to feel like this. What the hell was going on? Was I going soft?

A mansion. It was the only thing for miles on, it was in ruins and it reminded me of those haunted houses you visit on Halloween just to a good scare and feed.

Caroline

"Please, let me go" I whispered to the handsome vampire in front of me as he got closer. So close he could have kissed me and that made the crazy hormonal girl inside me crazy and my heart rate increased at an alarming rate.

He grabbed hold of my necklace, the necklace that was supposed to protect me from them and stated "Lets take this nasty little thing off" before his eyes compelled me.

"Where is the moonstone?" he asked me and I could help the information coming out of my mind.

"In the well on the old Lockwood estate" I responded trying my best to close my mouth yet it wouldn't bulge. I was completely under his control.

"Well it seems Blondie had gotten herself in a pickle" Damon's voice said from somewhere which caused a burst of excitement and hope to cascade around me. So much that I actually forgot about the killer in front of me and followed his sexy voice, a smirk do doubt of his features.

"Who else is here?" the stranger hissed angrily only to have the woman, Rose responds with fear "No one, I swear"

And before I could register what was happening arms were around me and I was no longer in the large room but crushed against a wall protected by Damon's body.

He held his pointer figure to his lips to quiet me and a smile lit up my features. I was saved even if it was by Damon! My Damon, wait when did he become my Damon; I thought it was bastard or jackass or dumbass maybe?

Ignoring the voice that told me I was wrong I wrapped my arms around him as tight as I could before I saw the handsome man from before stand behind him.

"Step aside Mr. Salvatore" he stated nonchalantly as if stating it was Wednesday.

Damon turned away from me as Stefan took hold of me and rushed me away from the staircase and to the front door but before we could get there the vampire from before grabbed hold of me and easily pulled me away from Stefan's grasp.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk" he said tightening his hold on me until I couldn't breathe anymore. "Please stop!" I tried to scream but it only came out as a whisper. My lungs were on fire and my head felt worse then it did when I woke up in Elena's body.

On god I hope Elena's not worrying too much, wait aren't I the one who's being suffocated? What happened to me being selfish? What happened to self preservation?

Then Damon appeared, and he looked angrier then he had been when I had teased me before he had stabbed me. Angrier then when he found out I had let Bonnie take the necklace away from me.

Holding a large wooden thingy in his hand he charged forward and with the impact I was thrown against the nearest wall but before the old wood could splinter me Stefan caught a hold of me and gently lowered me to the ground.

I saw how Damon stabbed the evil vampire through the heart, I saw how angry he was but a part of me wished it was because he wanted to save me, not Elena's body but me from harm!

"Oh god" I breathed told grabbing hold of Stefan and holding him as tight as I could.

"Thank you" I mouthed towards Damon, who just smirked hiding behind a façade of unreadable emotions.

I laid in the boarding house, everyone had refused I leave the protection of the Salvatore brothers and I was already bored to death!

"No knock?" I asked raising an eyebrow as Damon sat down next to me on the comfy bed in one of the many gust rooms in the boarding house.

"I brought you this" he simply stated holding up my heart shaped necklace.

"I thought it was lost!" I explained feeling a smile tug at my lips until I couldn't hold it in.

My protector—the necklace not him. Cough, cough!

"But before I give you this I have to do something" he stated looking at me with a serious expression and then it was fear that consumed me.

"Why do you need my necklace?" I asked trying my best to hide the fear within me.

"Because I'm about to do possibly the most selfish thing I have ever done"

"Damon" I warned.

"I'm selfish, I'm a bastard. I hate you, I want you, and I need you. I can't say I love you but its close too close yet I don't deserve you. I manipulated you, I drank from you. I almost killed you but I still can't help but want you" he stated grazing the skin of my cheek with a tenderness that made my heart ache.

Before I could say anything he compelled me his beautiful blue eyes dilating. "You won't remember what I just told you"

"Remember what?" I asked myself in the empty room. "What was I supposed to remember?"

I sat back on the bed trying to remember yet it was pointless, it was a memory I wasn't allowed to reach and worst of all I knew it was an important one.

I think Behind Theses Hazel Eyes (because Kelly is blonde and the other girl is brunette)

And Bury Me Alive are great songs to hear while reading the chapter.

Thanks for all the reviews!

Mary