Blast From the Past
Author's Note: Sorry it's been so long, the next chapter will be short but it'll be up tomorrow!
Chapter Seven: Adjusting
Damon awoke to empty arms, an empty bed, and a heart full of pain as he brushed last night off as a wonderful, painful dream. A beautiful dream, of that beautiful man he loved, that had been taken away from him.
Damon stiffened though as he became more awake, smelling the air and sure enough the scent around him with heavy with sex and..Jaden.
"Jaden," Damon breathed out as he realize last night wasn't a dream, but his bed was still empty. He opened his ears to the rest of the house as he stumbled into a pair of worn out, black pajama pants, the first thing he pulled out of the drawer and he rushed with all the vampire speed he had downstairs where he could hear a clang of pots and pans and someone moving around in the kitchen.
"Jaden," Damon breathed out again this time relieved as his hungry eyes drank in Jaden's form, clad only in a pair of Damon's other pajama pants, at the stove dutifully flipping pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes to be precise.
Jaden looked up and smiled a Jaden smile at Damon's ruffled appearance and then suddenly he frowned seeing the panic and relief spread through Damon's eyes. He left his pancakes unattended and hurried over to Damon, embracing him quickly.
"I'm still here, Day," Jaden whispered into his ear soothingly, stroking those black locks he adored so much.
After regaining his composure Damon held Jaden away at an arms length looking at the pancake mix behind him, the fresh orange juice on the table and pieced it all together to form...
"You went outside?" Damon asked dangerously, his voice rising.
Jaden shot him a look that clearly said 'duh.'
"There was no food in here," Jaden answered with a shrug going back to his pancake flipping.
"Jaden, if you hadn't noticed Klaus is out there, just waiting to kill us all! How could you possibly go outside, without even telling me? You could have woken me up and I would have gone with you!" Damon ranted angrily, frustrated.
"Calm down, I don't need you as a bodyguard. Klaus doesn't even know I exist Damon," Jaden told him with a smirk.
"Your not even wearing vervain yet or drinking it, what if someone compelled you or bit you or..." Damon trailed off his throat tightening. At the thought of Jaden dying again a flaring pain wrought its way through his chest, slicing and dicing everything in its path. Hurting and burning as he gasped for air.
"I'm fine Damon, don't worry so much," Jaden reassured him, pecking his cheek sweetly to back up that he really was there and fine. "Damon, I have a second chance at life, I won't spend it locked up in your house," Jaden told him wryly.
"I smell food!" came Elena's excited voice as she and Stefan stepped into the kitchen.
"Pancakes?' Jaden asked with a smile, holding a plate of the warm buttery goodness.
"Oh god, these are even better then yours Stefan! Jaden you're amazing!" Elena announced happily as she dug into the pancakes. Stefan pouted and gave a Jaden a mocking glare.
"Show off," he teased lightly as he bit into some of Elena's pancakes.
"Since when did this place start serving food?" Bonnie questioned as she stepped into the kitchen with Jeremy, Jenna, and Alaric at her heels.
"Jaden's cooking!" Elena announced gleefully.
"Look at that, some good comes out of having Damon around!" Bonnie teased with a glare in Damon's direction.
"I am his better half," Jaden replied with a sigh as he set the rest of the batch of pancakes on the table. Stefan pulling out the ends so everyone could sit down.
"Oh Jenna, meet Damon's boyfriend, Jaden!" Elena practically yelled, moving her aunt in front of Jaden.
"Pleasure to meet you miss," Jaden told her with a charming smile.
"Not to be rude but when did Damon go gay?" Jenna asked confused.
"I'm not gay!" Damon insisted.
"He just dates a guy Jenna, how could that possibly make him gay!" Stefan added in.
"We raised him from the dead last night," Bonnie told Jenna proudly.
Jenna looked lost as everyone went on to the table digging into their pancakes.
"Where was I when we were raising the dead?" Jenna asked.
"Asleep," Alaric told her with a shrug.
"Great, I always miss the cool stuff."
Everyone was settle in except Damon who was still twitching over the fact that Jaden had gone outside.
"You know everybody has clothes on except you two," Jeremy told the two shirtless males with a smirk.
"Clothes are overrated," Jaden responded with a wave of his hand as he looked back over to Damon. "Come on Damon, your pancakes are going to get cold!"
"I'm a vampire, respectable vampires don't eat." Damon explained with a pointed look at Stefan who was shoveling food in his mouth.
Jaden rolled his eyes. "I've seen you eat a thousands times, humor me!"
"Yeah because how do you explain to your human boyfriend 'hey, I don't eat!'"
"So you're going to make me eat alone?" Jaden asked with a frown. The others at the table watched the couple with interest.
"There's six other people at that table you dork," Damon told him exasperated.
Jaden sighed turning back into his seat. "Well I just thought that now I'm back from the dead you would want to spend some time with me but I guess I was wrong," Jaden announced dramatically.
"Jaden," Damon groaned.
Jaden turned to face Bonnie. "You might as well send me back Bonnie, Damon doesn't want anything to do with me. Doesn't want to eat with me, the first thing he does this morning is yell at me, I guess he just doesn't love me anymore," Jaden went off into a rant, playing the guilt card hard.
"You yelled at him?" Elena asked incredulously.
"He went outside!" Damon yelled flustered.
"God Damon, your so insensitive!" Bonnie yelled at him, the two girls coming over to comfort Jaden.
"Manipulative little jerk," Damon hissed plopping down into a chair and shoving a forkful of pancakes into his mouth.
"That's why you love me," Jaden told him kissing him on the cheek happily as he settled in next to Damon.
"Wow, he's even more evil then Damon!" Alaric announced, impressed.
"I'm not going to eat with you everyday," Damon told him grudgingly.
"Bite me," told him sweetly.
"It looks like he already did," Elena pointed out trying to stifle her giggles. Jaden covered the bite wound on his neck.
"And what if someone had seen that while you were out!" Damon added this onto the list of reasons why Jaden should be holed up here.
"You're the one who bit me!" Jaden shouted jabbing his fork near Damon's eye.
"You-you made me!"
"He couldn't have made you Damon," Stefan chided his brother with a roll of his eyes.
"He's very persuasive," Damon mumbled grumpily.
"Are you two always such a happy couple?" Bonnie asked curiously.
"Oh, all the time," Jaden answered with a grin.
Soon everyone had finished with their breakfast and Stefan and Elena volunteered to clean up. The others sat around the kitchen as Bonnie handed out coffee.
"Was Bruce a vampire?" Jaden asked out of the blue looking over at Damon. Somehow Jaden had migrated out of his chair and into Damon's lap.
"Yep."
"Is he still alive, or undead?" Jaden asked curiously.
Damon cast a weary glance down at his lover. "Why?"
"Well, he was your best friend!" Jaden told him with an eye roll.
"I still don't get how Damon had friends," Bonnie muttered into her coffee mug.
"Last time I heard he was in New York with a few of the others who made it out," Damon told Jaden cautiously.
"Why didn't you go with them?" Jaden asked.
"To many bad memories," Damon murmured kissing Jaden's forehead. Jaden hummed in understanding.
"We're going to get dressed, and head over to look through the grimiores some more," Bonnie announced, standing up with Jeremy.
Alaric and Jenna went upstairs to go get ready as well leaving Stefan, Elena, Damon, and Jaden.
Stefan and Elena were over at the sink washing dishes.
"Look Stefan, everyone's gone let's have sex now," Elena whispered in mock loudness so Jaden and Damon could hear.
Stefan turned on the faucet. "Now they can't hear us, get naked," Stefan ordered mimicking Jaden and Damon from last night.
"They could hear us!" Jaden shouted, jumping off of Damon's lap.
Stefan and Elena burst into hysterics.
"Dammit, thanks a lot!" Damon whined as Jaden glared at him.
"You'd say anything to get me in bed wouldn't you Salvatore?" Jaden asked with a sigh.
"Can you blame me?" Damon asked with a charming smirk.
"Cheesy," Elena and Stefan coughed at the same time.
"Will you two go away!" Damon shouted at them good-naturally.
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