Chapter 4: 'Crush'

Bonnie had her head in her hands, "You have lost your mind, Elena. How can you even think of that!"

"Because I have had enough of him demeaning my muggle heritage," Elena said as she brushed her hair swiftly, while Caroline put on her lip gloss. "He needs to be taught a lesson."

"I'm going to make him fall for me and then embarrass him in front of the whole school just like he did," Elena said wickedly. "It's just an added bonus that Stefan would be crazy jealous if he ever saw me with Damon."

"And what if he finds out? What if Damon finds out that you never cared for him and that you wanted to toy with him, all along." Bonnie tried to knock sense into her. "I don't think this is a good idea, Elena."

"He wouldn't find out and when he does, the whole school is going to find that along him, they'll be glad I played him like that. He's so full of himself, I'm going to crush that pride of his." Elena had never hated anyone so much, with all her heart. "I'll show him."

Caroline smirked. She was so into the plan. She always thought he had too much pride in him, that only Elena could crush, because somehow she had a feeling that somehow Damon had a soft spot for Elena.

"So, Elena, going through the plan, you're going to get his attention first." She said.

"yes, I know but how are we going to make Stefan witness this?" Bonnie asked.

"Quidditch."

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Quidditch season was approaching. All the teams were practicing hard. Slytherins players were on their broomsticks in the air, practicing while Gryffindors were on the ground, getting briefed by their captain Woods, on how to counter the attack.

Stefan was talking with the captain, regarding his post. He was the chaser, but not a very good one, which annoyed Woods, a lot, and hence the reason he was getting lectured about how Stefan needed to follow what Captain says and not do what he wills.

Good, all the players were here. Elena thought as she looked at Damon, flying at a distance, waiting for the snitch to appear.

She gave a signal to Caroline, and with that nudged Bonnie. Bonnie murmured a spell, and the snitch escaped from the coach's box and zoomed upward.

Damon dashed after it, reaching to catch but the snitch fluttered further.

Damon made a 360 flip and jumped from the broom to catch the golden bird. Caroline flicked her wand, which accidently unbalanced him and before he knew it, he was falling toward the ground.

"Shit." Caroline hissed, that wasn't planned.

"Elena." Bonnie yelped.

"Oh no." Elena said, as she picked up her broom, sat on it and zoomed toward Damon, she caught his hand in mid air before he could fall farther.

"Salvatore, hold on." Elena said, as she grasped his hand tightly.

"Really. I thought letting go and falling to my death was a better idea. Gee, thanks." He couldn't control the sarcastic comment.

Elena huffed, but decided to counter after they've escaped the situation.

"Hold on, Elena. I'm coming." Woods shouted but Elena couldn't hold on for much longer. Damon was quite heavy.

She slipped from the broom, and they both fell fast toward the ground.

Madam Hooch moved her wand, which slowed down their speed but they still fell pretty hard against the ground.

"Oh, fuck. My hand." Elena said as she held her bleeding hand.

Damon was pretty hurt too, he had a gash on his arm, and his leg was bleeding.

All the Slytherins and Gryffindor players ran to them.

"Damon."

"Elena."

"you guys, okay?" Madam Hooch asked.

"Yeah, just a scratch." Elena said, looking at her arm.

"And you Salvatore?"

"Not much, Coach."

"You should thank Elena for that." Madam Hooch said. "If it wasn't for her, you'd have hurt bad. Fractured for sure."

Damon looked up at the frail girl at a distance. She was still holding her arm, talking to her friends, telling them she was fine.

"I think you both should go see Madam Pomfrey. She'll fix these up in no time." Madam Hooch instructed.

"Really Elena, didn't knew you had it in you, although, it would have been better if their seeker was injured, but we would have to change strategy." Damon could hear Woods talking.

"Salvatore, take Miss Gilbert too." Madam Hooch ordered.

"Yes, Ma'am."

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There was an awkward silence as they walked toward the hospital wing. He remembered that he'd treated her like garbage just a few days ago and she still had the heart to save him. Why? Why would she help him, after what he did to her? He wanted to ask her that.

He also wanted to thank her. But he couldn't find the words to say so. He felt extremely ashamed of what he did. He owed her an apology now for sure.

They arrived at the hospital wing. He opened the door, and gestured her to enter first.

"Ohh. What do we have here?" Madam Pomfrey said as she looked at them. "Oh dear, what happened?" she said as she held Elena's hand and examined it.

"Quidditch accident." Elena muttered. She looked up at Damon and found him staring at her, there was something different about the way he looked. She looked away, her cheeks warming up.

Now that Damon looked at her, he remembered how much he liked her when he had first saw her, there was just something about her, that whenever he looked long enough at her, she'd take his breath away.

"Wait. I'll get some bandages." Madam Pomfrey said as she rushed outside the room.

Silence filled the room once again.

"Gilbert." Damon finally spoke.

"Huh."

"Thank you." He spoke.

"For what?"

"you know what." He said, feigning annoyance.

She looked away. "Yeah, whatever."

He bit his lip, nervously, stepping closer to her. "Elena."

She turned to look at him and found him standing, closer. What was he doing?

He reached his hand for her shoulder and held it. "I owe you one."

Elena nodded, surprised by his honesty and the gratitude that reflected in his eyes. "So if there is anything ever… I could help you with… don't hesitate."

Elena nodded again.

"So, I got the perfect remedy. You both will be fine in a few minutes." Madam Pomfrey said as she entered, the room.

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"He really said that?" Caroline was surprised when Elena told her what had happened.

"He seems touched by your gesture. Are you sure, you still want to go through your plan?" Bonnie said, hesitant.

"Of course, that's what we wanted. Didn't we?" Caroline said. "Also do you know, Stefan was practically fuming when you walked away with Salvatore."

"Really." Elena seemed glad. "Stefan Woods, you don't know what's coming for you."

Caroline giggled, excited.

"Okay, now to the second step."

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Damon was waiting in McGonagall's office, he couldn't stop thinking about Elena, his mind drifted to the future versions of them. He didn't think much of it, then, he thought it was non sense, he couldn't ever leave his family for Elena, he still couldn't think that, but whenever he thought of Elena, his heart would skip a beat.

The door opened and Elena entered.

Her long hair were tied in a high ponytail, she was wearing cream colored robes which complemented her sun-kissed skin. She beamed at him as she entered. "you're already here."

Damon looked away, feeling as if his heartbeat running fast as if a snitch.

"I'm never late." Damon shrugged.

"How are your injuries?" She asked.

"Fine. How's your arm?"

"Oh, that." Elena said, "It still hurts, I had never taken a fall like that before so," She pretended to be still injured because of him, Caroline thought it would be a great opening into reminding him that she was hurt because of him.

"I'm… I'm sorry for that-,"

"No, it's okay. Not your fault." Elena replied.

"Well, it is my fault. You wouldn't be hurt if I hadn't fell."

"You didn't fall deliberately." Elena countered.

He smirked, at her reasoning.

They never knew that they had drawn closer while talking. They were looking at each other, staring into each other's eyes when a loud cough interrupted them.

"As sorry as I'm for interrupting you two, I am going to have to tell you both to come to my office as professor McGonagall has assigned you two to me, today." Professor Snape said as he smirked.

"yes sir." They both replied.

"Follow me."

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Snape had assigned them to clean his lab. Damon was washing caldrons while Elena was cleaning the counter.

"Hm. Truth Potion?" Damon said as he looked at one caldron.

"What?"

"I wonder what Snape would say if we slipped some truth potion into his pumpkin juice." Damon muttered.

"He'd probably tell us the secret to his greasy hair." Elena scoffed, making Damon laugh.

"Yeah probably."

"Ever wonder why he's always sulking?" Elena asked.

"He needs sex. He needs to get laid." Damon replied, this time, making Elena laugh.

"Well, he should hook up with McGonagall, she needs to get laid too." Elena said whilst laughing.

Damon joined her, scoffing. "Na, she's probably banging Filch."

"Filch is gay." Elena commented.

"No, he is not." Damon replied.

"Yes he is."

"He was gay, he wouldn't be so homophobic."

"That's exactly why he is gay,"

"Oh. Oh, like that make sense." Damon countered, annoyed.

"There are some men who are ashamed or confused about their sexuality and express their frustration in harmful ways, like saying homophobic things," Elena replied.

"Oh. Oh." Damon seemed pleasantly surprised.

"Ohh." Elena mocked him.

"Whatever. You're not cleaning the counter, Snape would be pissed. So stop with a gossip and pay attention to your work." He said, suddenly turning to her.

"Well, you should pay attention to your own work instead of butting in with my work." She hissed back.

"Unlike you, I don't have attention problem, I can multi-task." Damon replied smugly.

"Is that the reason you failed two subjects while you were busy practicing for Quidditch match, that you lost anyway."

"Oh, is that so? Well, if you're so good at multi-tasking, couldn't you keep an eye on your boyfriend, while practicing for Quidditch."

"That's none of your damn business." Elena said furiously.

"hah. Why? Did that hurt your pride?" Damon replied.

Elena gave him a sarcastic smile before picking up a culdorn filled with sneeze potion and pouring it on Damon's face.

"What the fuck?" It was all before he could say before he started sneezing uncontrollably.

"Oh. Oh." Elena said before reaching for him.

Damon sneezed again. "You (sneeze) bitch (sneeze),"

"I'm so sorry." Elena apologized profusely.

She tried to remember the remedy to the potion. She looked around and found the antidote. She held his hand and dragged him to the corner. She picked up the potion and brought it near his nose, rubbing his back, as she held it to him.

"Inhale. It'll make it go away."

Damon struggled to inhale and finally after a couple of minutes, the sneezing went away. Elena was still holding him close to her, her arms around his waist, rubbing his back, his face buried in her neck, breathing in and out.

When he finally calmed down, he realized how close they were at that moment. He pulled back slightly, to face her. She had fear in her eyes, afraid he'd be angry at her, but he couldn't. He couldn't bring himself to be angry at her.

She tried to pull back but he held on to her.

"Wh… what are you doing?" She asked, nervously. "D… Damon. L…let go,"

He slowly let her go as she pulled back to move further away from him.

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The rest of the time, passed peacefully, as they both didn't bother each other much, except for casual discussion. Snape dismissed them when it was time for dinner. They both walked to the dinner hall together, but before Elena could go to her table, she noticed Stefan, fuming as he watched them enter the hall together.

An idea struck Elena's mind.

She held on to Damon's wrist.

"Damon." She said his name, so softly, it made Damon's heart skip a beat.

"I'm so sorry for what I did today." She said, batting her eyelashes and Damon thought he had forgotten how to breath.

"We're stuck with detention together for weeks to come, let's just be nice to each other, and to declare peace, how about I treat you to ice cream, this weekend, in Hogsmede." Elena said so sweetly, that Damon felt like he'd frozen.

"Okay?" Elena said.

Damon nodded.

"It's a date." Elena said with a wink and walked away.

"what just happened?" Enzo said, shocked, witnessing what had happened.

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"Don't tell me you're going out with her?" Ric couldn't believe when Damon told him what had happened, next day at the Quidditch ground.

"We're not going out. It's just… some evening snack." Damon muttered as he tried to grab the snitch. He let go of it and as soon as it reached to arm length Damon would jump and catch it again.

"You used to like her a lot back then."

"She is a muggle born. I don't like her."

"But, she is hot muggle born." Enzo commented.

"She's not a thing, Enzo. Don't talk about her like that." Damon frowned.

"you're already defending her."

"No, I'm not." Damon said, defensively.

Just Elena and her friends arrived at the ground with their brooms, she was talking to Caroline, while running her fingers through her long beautiful hair.

Damon couldn't help but stare.

He didn't know why he wanted her to look at him.

He let go off the snitch again and decided to catch it in a dramatic way so Elena would notice him, but as he complied his plan, the snitch dodged his hand and moved further away from him, and Damon was left embarrassed, empty handed.

The girls over there, Slytherin and Gryffindor laughed at his slip, while Damon scratched his head, clearly humiliated.

"You just made a fool out of yourself, so she'd notice you." Enzo commented, smirking while Ric couldn't stop laughing.

"Shut up." He growled. But before he turned, he saw Elena smiling at him and he couldn't help but smile back.

All this was witnessed by Stefan, who was burning in the fire of jealousy.

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