Sorry its taken so long again! Last week of term was crazy before we broke up and naturally my little sister chooses now to give me her cold/fever thing. Almost over it now, but I'm guessing the last half of the chapter would be appreciated yes?
To my fellow stamon readers: the inspiration for this chapter came from a link to a interview that I found from San diegos comi-con this year.
-Enjoy the chapter! :)
Damon's POV
'Well that went well didn't it?'I was talking to Stefan, we were heading to the grill to grab a bite to eat after our confrontation with Elena and the others. It wouldn't be long until Klaus, Rebekah, Elejah and Barbie heard about it. Elena would no doubt be very unhappy.
I waited for her whilst she dated my brother and watched her break his heart both intentionally and unintentionally, the same way he hurt her. Which if anything, made it way worse for both of them. But long story short, when they broke up after Elena became a vampire, Stefan needed support, so one night I poured him a bourbon after a whole dance fiasco and sat down to drink with him. I asked him to show me how to dance, so what? I was curious! But with the fire blazing with the dimmed lights...something just..clicked.
It wasn't Elena I had been in love with, it wasn't for her I had done all those things, finding her necklace given to her by Stefan when Rose and Trevor kidnapped her, the necklace was one of his prized possessions, or when I told her my brother deserved her more than I did to push her feelings away from me and make him happy. I did it all for Stefan. To let him be happy with me watching over him like his own personal guardian angel.
'I don't think we'll be able to stay in Mystic Falls much longer.' Stefan said, breaking my initial explanation of how we came to be together as a couple.
'Why?' I asked, not wanting to leave the one place I had found happiness since I was human.
'Everyone here knows us as brothers, so them finding out we are a couple wouldn't exactly be good.' Stefan explained.
'I see. Well we could always...' I trailed off wondering how we could actually solve this problem.
'Always do what? Compel the entire town?' He asked with a raised eyebrow.
'Well... that's not actually a bad idea.' I considered it, I knew it sounded crazy, but I was willing to do just about anything for Stefan. For us.
'No. That is possibly a step too far.' Stefan looked at me with his 'your adorable but completely insane' look.
'Why not? That doppelganger bitch Katherine has done it plenty of times, you just need a cover to get everyone to the right place, oh and of course you need to take the founders off vervain and get someone to compel the vampires in this town.' Rebekah's voice floated up from behind us.
'And how would you know that?' I asked, both how Katherine compelled an entire town and how she knew about me and Stefan as she hadn't been over at the boarding house this morning to see the confession.
'News travels fast around your little group, you know, you should really do something about that?'Rebekah replied almost in a taunt.
'Who was it? Was it your boyfriend? or did Caroline spill the beans to your older brother after Elena or witchy told her?' I asked. Slightly annoyed she had found out about me and Stefan.
'Actually, it was my brother, the one who walked in on the two of you?; Rebekah had a classic I don't care look on her face and her voice was laced with sarcasm.
'Huh.' I muttered, I hadn't figured Kol was the original squealing kind, but apparently he was just like his little sister.
'What would be in it for you?' Stefan asked her suspiciously.
'Me? nothing.' Rebekah replied all to innocently.
'No, there is, you have that look on your face and if there wasn't why would you have suggested it in the first place? What is it? Why won't you tell us?' Stefan asked her again.
'I told you, I just want to be nice.' Rebekah shrugged.
'Right...so if you really did want to help us honestly then what would you suggest?' I asked, annoyed with her for deflecting my boyfriends questions. But I was curious to see what the original barbie had in mind.
'A mandatory gathering of sorts, for the townspeople.' she replied as if the answer was obvious. Ok, so it was obvious, we just hadn't arrived at the conclusion yet.
'That's not actually a bad idea.' Stefan considered this with a thoughtful look, that was admittedly very sweet on him.
'But how would we do that?' I asked, pulling myself out of a daydream involving Stefan, a maids outfit and a lock on the door so Kol couldn't walk in.
Pulling it off would be hard to do. Compelling the entire town sounded mad but hey, that's the only idea we had.
'With my help of course! It could be something like a...charitable party to fund something, with a mandatory attendance level.' Rebekah thought aloud as we looked at her in shock.
' Mandatory attendance level? This is Mystic Falls. Not a place for 'mandatory level' things. We live in Virginia not on a military island!'
'Well have you got any better ideas?' She asked, folding her arms across her chest. Was that a french tipped manicure on her fingers, with a chanel bag? wow. it looked stylish.
