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CHAPTER 7
"Hell will freeze over before I´ll go anywhere with you. Especially on a road trip.
"Did you somehow magically forget what you just learned I am?" She gave him a death glare.
"I wish I could forget YOU."
"Ouch, he touched his chest where his heart was supposed to be. That really hurt."
"You don´t even have a heart!" By now she was screaming at him. Damon kept driving in silence. "Don´t you have ANYTHING to say? Don´t you think you have some explaining to do?"
"What is it that you want me to say huh? You want me to apologize? Fine I´m sorry, I´m sorry for being what I am. Does that make you feel any better?" She pouted and looked almost like a child.
"NO, she said sounding like a 4 year old.
"What do you want from me? Really Savannah what is it that you want? The seriousness in his word unmistakable.
She let out a sigh. "I don´t know. I want answers, I want the truth and the whole story and I want to not feel this way anymore. Can you give me that? Can you make me not feel this way?"
His answer came as a surprise to her. "Yes, I can give you the whole story with all the answers you want, and I can make you not feel, I can make you forget this whole evening. But think about this very very carefully. Because if I do then you will never be able to get these memories back. Are you sure that is what you want?"
She was surprised yet again by him when he reached out and gently put his hand on her cheek.
"Feeling all the feelings, all the pain, the confusion, the anger and sadness you feel. That is what makes you different from me. I can turn all that off whenever I want. If I take that from you it´s like I take a part of your humanity." He was just as surprised by his actions and his words. Seriously, what the hell is wrong with me? He thought but didn´t remove his hand. She gave him a small nod, just realizing that she freezing due to her wet clothes and shivered lightly. Damon must have noticed it to because he took his hand from her cheek and reached back in the backseat pulling out a blanket for her. "Here, you must be cold. Feel free to take of any clothes that is to wet." He wiggled his eyebrow at her.
"You really are a first class jerk aren´t you." But she still accepted the blanket.
"So if you don´t want to go home, where do you want to go?"
"Nowhere, she muttered still not sure what she wanted. I don´t even want to be in this car remember."
"How about this, I´ll take back to the boarding house where my brooding little brother and Elena probably are, then you can be their problem."
"If you think I that much of a hassle why do you even bother to care?"
"Care? Who says I care?"
"Your actions say that you care. You don´t spend half the night searching for someone if you don´t care." He was stunned by her answer. Is she right? DO I actually care? No way, I´m Damon Salvatore, I don´t care about anyone or anything but myself.
As he finished his thoughts the car pulled up at the boardinghouse driveway, he had barely turned the ignition off when Savannah was out of the care and made her way to the front door not waiting for him to follow. When she entered the house the first thing that struck her was how large and old it was and how beautiful it was.
"Damon? Is that you?" Elena slowly emerged from the enormous living room.
"No, it´s just me. Savannah said, wrapping the blanket tighter around her. "Damon is still outside. I think he is taking care of his humongous ego or something."
A small laugh escaped Elena, "is he alright?"
"Probably not, I think I managed to hurt him pretty bad in the ego department." Savannah fund herself, smiling at Elena, almost forgetting to be mad at her, and Stefan, and Damon and well most of the world for the time being. Just then the door slammed shut behind them reveling a pouting Damon.
"At her you smile, at me you just yell. Why is that?"
"Well for one thing she´s nice," Savannah said.
"So?"
"Have you met you? You are not a very nice person if you´re even a person that is." Elena couldn´t stop the next laugh from coming earning a glare from Damon.
"It´s not funny you know."
"Actually Damon I think it is, and by the way she´s right. You aren´t really that nice."
"Who cares what you little human girls think?" And with that he walked into the living room to pour himself a drink.
"Apparently you, since you have to drink just to be around us, and why don´t you offer us any? That´s not very nice, I thought you were a gentleman. Oh no that´s right you´re not." Savannah took the bottle of whiskey from his hand and poured herself a glass before sitting down in one of the large armchairs. You looked first at Stefan and Elena who was now sitting on the couch, and then at Damon.
"Both of you have promised me to answer my questions and to tell me anything and everything I want to know. So spill, from the beginning, the whole story."
Stefan looked at Damon before he started to speak. He told her about Katherine, how she used them as her personal toy´s, the haunting of vampires in Mystic Falls, how they were betrayed and murdered by their own father, how they turned and everything that had happened since he came back to Mystic Falls. Not once during his story did she interrupt him. But when he finished she took a deep breath.
"And what about Isobel?"
"That is for Damon to tell you, that is his story not mine." She looked over at Damon her blue eyes filled with so many emotions at yet she seemed so determined to her the rest, to know the rest.
"Are you sure you want to hear this?"
"No I´m sure I´m going to regret hearing this for the rest of my life but I still want to know."
"Elena? This is actually going to affect you too…"
She nodded and gave him a sad look before once again looking into the fire that was burning in the fireplace.
"Fine, Isobel came looking for me about two and a half years ago, talking about her research and how she believed it to be true, that vampires did in fact exist. When I finally admitted it to be true she begged me to turn her, she gave me a whole list of reasons why I should do it. And finally I gave in, I turned her. "
"But why?" Somewhere during the time Damon spoke tears had slowly begun to roll down her cheeks and when she look at Damon it felt like someone was squeezing his heart.
"I don´t have a good answer for you, I´m sorry, I really am." He sat down in front of her taking her hands in to his. "I wish I hadn´t done it but I did. I´m sorry that it hurts you, and I´m sorry that it hurts Elena, that she didn´t get a chance to know Isobel.
Somehow at that moment she knew that he truly was sorry, that this whole I´m a big bad vampire was mostly an act, and that he in fact had a huge heart that just needed the right person to open it up. And somewhere subconsciously she wanted to be the person to open up his heart. She wanted to be the one to love him and have him love her. But here was no way she´d admit that to anyone not even herself. So she looked him directly in the eyes and said; "Okay, I believe you, and I will keep your secret. I won´t tell anyone about what you are."
"Thank you." He gave her a smile. A real smile not one of his famous smirks but a genuine smile, and it just melted her heart. As she turned her gaze away he realized how cold her hands were.
"You´re still wet, you must be cold."
"Yeah a little."
"I´ll take you home before the teacher has a complete melt down."
"No." She nodded her head. "I love Ric but I´m not ready to see him just yet. I still need some time took take all of this in, and I still need to forgive him for not telling me."
"You can stay here tonight, Elena said. Right Stefan?"
"Of course, you welcome to stay as long as you like. Why don´t you let Damon show you to the bathroom so you can take a hot shower and the temperature back up."
"Thank you Stefan." He gave her a silent nod.
"When you´re done there are a few more things we need to talk about. Are you up for it?" Damon finally let go of her hands.
"Of course she´s up for it, but for now we have a shower to find. Come along now." Savannah silently followed Damon out of the living room not looking to happy. When they left the room Stefan put his arm around Elena's shoulders and pulled her close to him softly kissing her.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes, actually I am, I think that by hearing the whole story it gave me some kind of twisted closure. This is probably much harder on Savannah. At least I have you and Jeremy. She doesn´t really have anyone to talk to. Or to protect her for that matter."
"That´s true. I will always protect you Elena I promise you that."
"I know, she said kissing him again. I love you Stefan."
"And I love you."
"You know something?" Elena started to smile.
"No, what?"
"I think Damon is falling for Savannah."
"You mean like falling in love with her?"
"I´m not sure Damon is capable of having those kinds of feeling for anyone."
"He is. Look at the way he touches her, the way he looks at her. Why else would he spend half the night looking for her?"
"Hm, I never thought of it like that, but now that you mention it you´re right." Stefan´s face lit up. "This is going to be fun.
On the second floor Damon was showing Savannah the bathroom that was connected with his bedroom.
"I´ll put some dry clothes on the bed for you, but then again you could always wear nothing." He gave her his famous smirk.
"I´ll take the clothes thank you very much.
"Suit yourself." Damon left the room and Savannah got undressed and got in the shower. God it felt good when the hot water was running down her body warming her up. She stayed in the shower almost half an hour before she got out and found a pair of black sweatpants and a black T-shirt on the bed. By the looks of it it was Damon's clothes and somehow she liked the idea of that.
When an hour had passed and Savannah still hadn´t come down Stefan sent Damon back up to check on her just to be sure everything was alright. With each step Damon got a little Angier at her for not being ready.
"Women, he muttered to himself. Why do they have to take all night just to take a shower and get dressed?" He reached his bedroom door and was about to pull it open and start to yell at her when he suddenly stopped. He could hear her heartbeat but it was slow and calm, not what he expected. He opened the door only to find her curled up at his bed fast asleep with a peaceful look at her face. The sight of her was absolutely breathtaking. He walked quietly over to the bed and pulled the covers over her. And before he realized what he was doing he bent down a kissed her cheek.
