AN (1): Well, here I am. Sorry for the delay, but this chapter has been quite hard to translate. Maybe there are a few mistakes. If you see any, tell me please because I hate it when there are mistakes in something I write.

I'm not quite sure if you'll like the chapter or not. Like I said on the last chapter, Damon's gonna be a little jerk. I'll explain the motives at the end of the chapter.

Well, that's all. Enjoy it.

Chapter 7

Damon's POV:

Elena fell asleep quickly in my arms. I spent a few minutes watching her sleep, astonished. It was amazing how much she looked like Katherine: her voice, her eyes, her face… the only physical difference between them was their hair: Elena's was a completely straight, deep brown hair; while Katherine's was curlier and a tone or two darker. The rest was identical, physically, of course. They weren't in the same league inside: how they talked, how they behaved, even the way they moved wasn't the same. I found myself making a mental list with the differences I had been able to detect so far.

I looked back down to Elena. So different to Katherine, but so similar to her apparently… It was normal that baby bro had mistaken them. It would have happened to me if I had seen her walking the street, not lying in a cell where her blood's scent filled everything and made me reject any chance that she was Katherine.

I hadn't lied to Elena when I told her that kidnapping her because of her similarity to Katherine would have been something typical in me, but, yet, I wouldn't have done it like Stefan. Stefan had to turn an awesome idea into a complete disaster. I would have compelled her to come with me and then I'd treat her like a queen. I loved Katherine too much to hurt her doppelganger. She would be a great substitute until I'd drag Katherine out of the tomb. Then, I would have erased her memories and she would go back to her normal life, while Katherine and I would be together forever. It sounded like something perfect. Everybody won and Stefan lost. Perfect.

There were only two weeks left until the comet passed through Mystic Falls and its Power would last about a month, which was time enough to get all I needed to open the tomb. Luckily Emily's crystal would be where I had left it almost a century and a half ago and the little Bennet witch wouldn't be hard to convince. During all this time, I could be with Elena, taking advantage that anyways I had to protect her from my stupid brother; I could have an advance of what was waiting for me in a month and a half…

Elena, who little by little had been sliding along my side until her head was using my thigh as a pillow, made her a bit comfortable and sighed with a smile on her lips. I wondered what she could be dreaming of to make her smile like that after all after all she had gone through. A boyfriend? The sudden thought of her embracing and kissing another guy like her, a teenager, a human; made me feel the same thing I felt when I knew that Katherine was with my brother: jealousy. But that was impossible. Elena wasn't mine (well, she would be for the next month and a half but, at the moment, she wasn't). I couldn't be jealous. Besides, I didn't actually know if she had a boyfriend or not, so I was raving like a crazy man. But she kept smiling in her sleep and I was going to die because of curiosity. Maybe I could get into her mind to find out. No. I had to keep an eye on her. Stefan would find that Elena wasn't at 'her place' in a little bit and he'd come here. And what would happen if he burst into the house when I was in Elena's mind, sharing that wonderful dream she was having and changing it if I didn't like it? He'd kill me. And then he'd take Elena again. And then he'd kill or compel Elena's family to forget her. That last thought reminded me another thing I couldn't get out of my mind. Why the hell the boy couldn't have been compelled? I mean. The compulsion did have worked, but not completely, because the kid had doubts. Maybe Stefan had been on the animal diet when he did it. If he was weak because of that pitiful diet parody, it made sense that the boy had resisted but, then, why Elena's aunt, Jenna, had no doubt about what had happened?

That thought kept consuming me the rest of the night until I felt Elena stirring. I smiled to myself. I could feel how, when she realized her head was on my thigh, she flushed and her breathing increased, but yet, she didn't change her position at all. That was all I needed to start the 'Katherine's advance' idea.

"Look, the Sleeping Beauty is awakened." I said with a light tone.

"Is it that late?" She asked incorporating slowly and with a sleepy voice. She was completely adorable.

"Who said it is late? For all I know, you were sleeping and you are beautiful. That makes you the Sleeping Beauty." I explained like it was the most evident thing in the world, extending a finger to touch lightly the tip of her nose. She flushed even more and looked away, which made her look more adorable even.

"I'm gonna have breakfast. Do you want something?" She said trying to look cold and neutral, but her pulse betrayed her.

"Sure. I thought you'd never offer." I said while I set her hair aside from her neck, like I was going to bite her. Her eyes widened with horror and slapped my hand away while she stood up hastily.

"Damon!" She screamed. Instantly, she covered her mouth with her hand and looked at her aunt, who was still sleeping peacefully on the couch.

I was already laughing at her.

"I was just kidding." I said standing up. She tried to move away from me, but the blanket was tangled between her legs and she stumbled with it. She would have fallen if I, like the perfect gentleman that I am, hadn't grabbed her by her wrists in the last second attracting her to me. Slowly, I brought my lips to her ear and said barely above the whisper: "I will only bite you when you ask me, princess."

Slowly, I brought my lips from her ear to her neck, passing through her jaw, caressing it slightly. When I arrived to my destination, I inhaled deeply, allowing her scent to invade my senses. I felt my fangs extending and sharpening, but I wouldn't bite her. I controlled the impulse of biting and I just kissed the bite mark that Stefan had left. I felt how a chill ran through her body and the initial tension was disappearing until she was completely relaxed; even I was pretty sure that if I hadn't been holding her, her knees would have failed. Quite satisfied, as I saw how much I affected her, I smirked evilly and backed a little.

For half a minute, Elena looked like she was in a trance, until suddenly, seemed she snapped back to reality. When she talked, she did it incoherently:

"I think… yeah, well… errrr… I'm gonna… errr… yeah, breakfast." She said while she tried to take her legs from the blanket.

"Sure." I said in a friendly tone. "I'll wait for you here, just in case your aunt wakes up."

Suddenly, she looked much more alert and aware of what there was around her. She looked at me and later at her unconscious aunt and said hastily: "Why don't you come to the kitchen with me? We can see if Jenna wakes up from there." She looked terrified of the possibility of letting me alone with her aunt. This made me have contrary feelings. On one hand, I was pleased she was afraid of me, it was the normal thing and much more after the little hungry and seductive vampire show had had set (a few minutes ago). But, on the other hand, I wanted her to understand I wouldn't hurt her. It'd be like hurting Katherine and that would never happen. Just like I had said before, I would treat Elena like a queen, although that didn't mean I wouldn't have a little fun with her.

"Whatever." I finally answered, narrowing my eyes a little.

I followed her to the large kitchen, where she was already setting the ingredients to make a piece of toast. Deliberately slowly and carefully, she worked on her breakfast without giving me a second glance, although I was sat in front of her.

I was watching here intently, absorbed by her moves and actions' naturalness. Not necessary to say I had never seen Katherine cooking. I had never seen her doing any of the quotidian things Elena was doing right then. She was finishing the last toast when, awkward because of the silence, she said with a hesitant voice:

"Do you like this kind of… food?"

"Actually, we do. In fact, while we keep a minimum quantity of blood in our system, we can eat pretty much anything." I said taking a piece of toast from the dish there was in front of me and biting it. "Hmmm… Delicious."

She glared at me both angry and surprised before going on:

"What about the garlic?"

"I could eat it, but, personally; I hate it." I pretended to shudder. "Truth be told, almost anything you had seen on the films or books is false." I continued explaining.

"Yeah, sure… Have you seen St-… Stefan over here?" When she said my brother's name her voice almost broke, but she tried to hide it. I passed from jerk mode to worried mode.

"Nope. He hasn't been here. Anyways, you shouldn't go anywhere alone."

"Not even in the day?" She asked surprised. "You said sunlight burns you."

"Yeah, but my brother and I are special. We have these awesome rings," I said rising my hand and showing her the ring Emily had given us. "they protect us from the sunlight, so, I repeat, you shouldn't go anywhere alone and you shouldn't stay in alone either. You're lucky I have enough free time to protect you."

She was thoughtful for a few seconds when she suddenly asked: "Why do you care so much about my security?"

I was petrified. What could I tell her? That I did it for the same reason why my brother had kidnapped her? Because she looked like the love of my existence? Because I wanted her to be mine until I dragged Katherine out of the damn tomb in a month and a half? Probably, she'd get angry with me and throw me out of the house, then I'd have to compel her to accept me near her and I didn't want to do that. I wanted that to be as real as possible. For the first time in my hundred and forty five years of my life as a vampire, something prevented me to compel a human to do whatever I wanted.

In the living room, Elena's aunt, Jenna; was stirring. I said to an expectant Elena: "Your aunt is awakened."

Obviously, she wasn't expecting that answer. In fact, she almost looked like she had forgotten her aunt's existence. Giving me one last glance that I didn't know how to interpret, she got out of the kitchen and headed towards the living room.

I had the feeling that Elena wouldn't drop the topic just like that, but at the moment, she had better things to think of. Sighing, I got out of the kitchen to head towards the front door. Elena spotted me in a second.

"Where are you going?" She asked curious and worried.

"I'm just gonna give you a little of privacy." I winked at her. "Don't worry. I'll be at the porch."

Nodding a little towards me, she turned to talk with her shocked aunt.

When I opened the front door, I had the century's surpise.

"Wow, look what the wind has brought." I said smirking. "Hello, brother."

AN (2): Sorry if you didn't like the chapter. But you have to understand that this sets at the beginning of the first season and that Damon had come to Mystic Falls to free Katherine after 145 years missing her and I can't change that in a few chapters, it has to take a little of time, with lots of sexual tension eventually resolved ;) Please, review I promise you it'll get more interesting.

Thank you veeeery muuuuch, xoxoxo. Rebeku95