Author's Note: I know, I know it has been forever. Sorry for that but I got stuck on the plot of this story. I'm still not sure how far this will go or what will be included. I can guarantee the tomb will be opened but I'm not sure if I'll get to Founder's Day or Stefan's spiral into eating humans again. I'm not a fan of Isobel so I'm not sure if she'll show up at all. Let me know if any of you have ideas and I'll consider them.
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She was fragile in my arms. Her soft breath fell against my neck as I cradled her soft body against my hard lines. Her body molded into my embrace while her head fell against me. Her hair fell out behind her, blowing lightly in the wind. I had watched her eyes patiently hoping for her to awaken quickly. My own fears could only be released when I looked into her chocolate eyes. I leaned down quickly and pressed a kiss to her forehead. Now that she was in my arms, I did not plan on letting her go again.
It only took me a few moments to realize that we had broken up. She was no longer mine in her mind. I needed time to change our relationship status once more. I needed to prove to her how much I loved her. My eyes swept over the crime scene and my eyes fell to her purse lying on the ground. I bent to retrieve it and noticed her cell phone was broken from the crash. Slowly a plan began to form that would allow me to have some quality time with my girl and not give her a chance to call for help.
I ran with purpose back to the Boarding House and placed Elena in the front seat of my car. I cushioned her head with my leather jacket before speeding to the other side of the car. We would go away for awhile and maybe when we returned on Monday, we would be back to normal.
We were on the road for a few hours before I felt her stirring. Her breath picked up slowly as she began to awaken. Her feelings became more prominent and I felt her soreness radiate off of her small body. I had patched up the small cut on her forehead but the swelling would cause some discomfort. I turned to glance at her pressed against the car door, her head resting lightly on my balled up jacket. Her face was riddled with sadness and I knew she would soon turn her sad eyes to my own.
I hated seeing her upset and I was unsure how I could go without pulling her to me, soothing her. I wanted to pull her to me and tell her how I loved her. I knew she would not receive that well so I spent my time trying to plan ways of showing her how much I cared. Luckily I could still feel her moods so I knew she had not completely severed her heart from me yet. I needed to move quickly or she would soon move on and I would have to satisfy my own heart by becoming a stalker. Sometimes I wished Twilight never existed. Every day I was becoming Edward Cullen and I was certainly not thrilled about that. Before I would have just left her and moved on to some new woman yet here I was trying to mastermind romantic gestures for a small human girl.
Her breath picked up noticeably and I watched her eyes open slowly. Her hand rose to her head as a soft groan escaped her lips. I waited patiently for her to freak out and start yelling. She turned and looked out the window and noticed the fields passing by us. I could feel the confusion rolling off of her as she attempted to make sense of her surroundings.
"Damon?" She turned to look at me and her eyes held an extreme sadness. I could feel her heart ache and the emotions rolling off of her were so intense, so overwhelming I felt the car idle over into the other lane for a moment. "DAMON!" Her hand gripped my thigh for a moment as she grew frightened by my erratic driving.
I swerved back into our lane and my hand dropped to hers. I cradled it for a moment before pulling it to my lips and kissing it gently in a way reminiscent of our first meeting. I felt her response, breath quickening, arousal pooling. Her reaction was pleasing but soon her feelings of lust were ousted by anger. She ripped her hand from mine and moved to the farthest edge of the seat. She glared forward for a few moments before she began looking through her purse.
"Where is my phone Damon?" She continued to dig for the item she would not find. My eyes drifted back to the road as I patiently allowed her to grow angrier at the missing phone. "Stop the car Damon!" I ignored her request and continued driving. She continued to repeat the request and I only pulled over when I felt the desperate wildness radiating from her body.
The moment the car stopped she opened the door and climbed out of the car. She began to walk along the road and I stood beside the car while her frustration began to calm down. "Where are we Damon?"
"Georgia." The answer was simple but I knew that she would not view it that way. True to form she began to breathe loudly and a soft groan escaped her lips.
"Georgia? As in two states away Georgia?" Her hands slammed down on the hood of my car and I flinched lightly when I heard the hood ripple gently.
"Yes Elena, two states away Georgia." I watched her patiently as her shoulders slumped a little in defeat.
"Well you need to take me home Damon. You can take me home and then continue on to do whatever it is you plan to do. Can I please have my phone?"
"I don't have your phone Elena. It was broken in the crash. By the way, you don't have any broken bones or sprains. I think you'll be just fine." She shivered lightly from my mentioning of the crash. In a fit of idiocy I remembered that she could be upset about that. I moved forward for a moment until she put her hand up to fend me off. "Elena, come with me. You need a vacation and this weekend can be that. Let's have some fun..."
"Damon, we aren't together anymore. We can't do this." I knew she was really saying, 'I can't do this'. I moved to her swiftly and pulled her into my arms. She sunk into my embrace for a moment before she began to struggle.
"Shh Elena. We don't have to do anything. I don't expect anything from you. I just think we deserve to have some fun." She stayed in my arms for a few moments and I felt her acceptance.
"Fine but I'm not sleeping with you. You get a room with two beds." She pulled back and moved to get back into the car. I smiled for a few moments but soon we were driving down the road in a comfortable silence. She began to play with her hair and I could feel the tension between us. We had things to discuss but I knew she needed some time to process what had happened. She needed to deal with her accident as well as her feelings before I could begin to apologize to her.
We drove for awhile before I pulled to a stop in front of a familiar building. She glanced at the sign before turning to me with a questioning glance. "A bar? Really? This is the place you just needed to go?" I chuckled lightly and moved to open her car door. She stumbled lightly and I caught her.
"Are you alright? Do you need to sit down again?" She gave me a look like she was flipping me off with her eyes. She moved aside and began huffing up to the door. We went in and I was greeted by Bree and her slutty lips. I was never a fan of that particular greeting from her but you don't mess with a powerful witch when she wants to greet you like that. Elena seemed jealous so I introduced them quickly, downplaying my relationship with Bree.
Elena turned to me quickly and asked for my phone. I granted it to her after she promised to only check in with Jenna so she didn't call the cops. I watched her exit the bar and lean against the car door as she talked to Jenna.
"So you messed things up pretty bad with that girl, huh?" I turned to look at Bree for a moment as she poured me another drink.
"How did you guess?" She sighed lightly before sitting down next to me. She turned to look at Elena through the window.
"I'm a woman Damon. That girl is pulsing with hurt feelings. Well and then there is you..."
"And what about me?" I glared at her for a moment and she turned to drink her beer.
"You are obviously in love with the girl. I never thought I'd see the day when Damon Salvatore would look at a woman and want to spend eternity with her." I choked on my drink for a moment and began coughing up the amber liquid.
"Eternity?"
"Oh you are still as silly as ever. I never understood that Katherine fixation, Honey. That girl used you and your brother and you two fell for it. That girl..." She gestured lightly at Elena who was walking around in the sunlight. "That girl is pure innocence. She radiates light and pureness with every movement. She truly is Katherine's opposite."
I paused to consider her for a moment. "Yes she is Bree. She is so kind and understanding. She accepted me as a vampire on our first date. She just...loved me even when I gave her no commitment." She leaned over for a moment to pat my back. Her rough hand rubbed the back of my neck for a moment before dropping to her lap.
"And how, may I ask, did you screw this up?" She looked at me and I knew this was my chance to get some advice.
"I promised her to tell her when or if I decided to pursue Katherine. I lied to her and she found out. She told me she hoped Katherine was everything I wanted. She left after that and here we are." I took a sip of my drink as I watched Elena argue on the phone with her aunt. Even in anger she was perfect, the light shining on her beautifully.
"Stupid thing to do. Well I suppose the only way to fix this is to show her how much you love her right? You'll need some help I assume?"
"That would be nice. I just need her to know that I love her and that Katherine is no longer an issue for me. I want her to know she is the only one in the world for me." I noticed she ended the phone call but leaned on the hood of the car.
"Go stay at the hotel down the road. Ask for Willy and I'll arrange for you to get the Honeymoon Suite. He owes me a favor." She turned quickly to the bar and texted him to inform him of our arrival. "I suggest you recreate your first date. Perhaps that will show her how much that meant to you."
"That could work although our first date was outside and for this one I think we should stay in." She nodded appropriately.
"Damon, I'm going to make myself scarce so you can get Elena out of here. Make sure you tell her how you feel. If that mating bite is any indication then you will know immediately how your actions are being received. Use your connection to your advantage." She leaned down and kissed my cheek before high-tailing it into the storeroom.
"Where did your friend go?" Her soft voice reached me and I turned to face the woman I loved. She looked radiant again and I hoped her smile would soon grace her features.
"She had work to do. Come Elena, we need to get to the hotel." I finished off my drink before grabbing her hand lightly. We got in the car and hurried down the road to a semi-fancy hotel. I hoped Bree knew what she was doing because that room needed to be spectacular. "Are you alright Elena? You seem to be upset about something?"
"How did you...? Oh yeah the bite. Sometimes that thing irritates me."
"Only sometimes?" I pulled her out of the car and she stumbled into my awaiting arms, a blush graced her features. "I love your clumsiness." She leaned back and stared at me. Her eyes became clouded with desire as she inched her lips closer to mine. My hand cupped her cheek as I moved closer and closer to my own slice of heaven. We were a mere breath from mutual satisfaction when a car horn blared with a catcall of "Get a room!"
She jumped back and nearly fell back into the car until I righted her. "Leave me alone Damon." She moved swiftly around me and headed into the lobby of the hotel. I shrugged and followed her until I could stop her from demanding separate rooms. I located Willy standing off to the side and spoke to him in low whispers. I needed romance tonight and I needed to be sure we got it.
"No problem Sir. I'll have the chef whip up something spectacular and have it brought up. Here are your keys." I started to walk over to get Elena when he called out, "Bree told me to tell you, 'sometimes love is the easiest thing to proof if the other person is still in love' so don't screw it up."
Elena was sitting quietly on the couch and I could feel the anxiousness rising off of her skin. She was scared to be alone with me. I didn't want her afraid of me but I needed to get her alone. I needed to have a chance to prove it to her. "Elena, they only had one room left and it was the honeymoon suite." She glared up at me and seemed ready to explode but I cut her off. "I know you want separate beds so I'll take the couch and you can have the bed." That statement seemed to soothe her for a few moments and she stood up beside me with a glance that said, 'move along then.'
The room was incredible. We walked around for a few moments and I could immediately see her laying on the large bed, cushioned by the countless pillows waiting for me. She gazed at the mirror above the bed and a blush grew across her soft cheeks. I could feel the desire rolling off of her and knew at that moment I could have her and she wouldn't fight me.
"I'll leave you to relax Elena. I need to run an errand." She turned to look at me for one long moment. "Please don't leave the room Elena. I can't protect you if I'm not here." She nodded quickly before making her way to the spacious bathroom.
I returned an hour later and was pleased to intercept the room service cart. I pushed it into the room and noticed Elena sitting on the couch watching a cooking show. She was jotting down directions and ingredients and for a moment I simply watched her. I could see her in our own kitchen preparing dinner and waiting for me to come home. She would turn and kiss me lightly before pulling out blood bags from the fridge.
I had never pictured her as a vampire yet I could dream it up. She would be flawless as she moved around with speed and grace that only a vampire could possess. Her finger was graced with a small lapis ring on her right ring finger. On her left was a rather large diamond and silver band. In my dream she was not only my vampire princess but she was my wife.
"Damon?" Her soft voice broke me out of my dream. She had turned to look at me and the cart of food. "Is that dinner?" I nodded dumbly and suddenly she was in front of me smelling all of the food.
"Um, yeah. I brought you dinner. It's supposed to be amazing." She glanced at the small bag in my hand but moved to sit down at the small dining room table. I moved to her quickly and set up our romantic meal. She was radiating her happiness and for the first time in 24 hours she seemed content.
We ate quietly and soon there was nothing to distract us from our aloneness. She glanced up at me and seemed to grow pensive. Her moods were a jumbled mess and I stopped trying to make sense of them. I moved to turn on the stereo system until a soft melody filled the air.
"Dance with me?" She took my hand and allowed me to pull her into my embrace. We moved until we were cheek to cheek with her body curled around mine.
We swayed lightly to the music as she inched farther into my embrace. My plan had worked and I was smiling as I pulled her closer. Her eyes were closed as she burrowed her face into my neck. I could smell her unique scent, wafting up to ensnare my heart and to stoke my desire. Her petite frame folded into mine as her breasts pressed temptingly into my own chest. Her breath caressed my neck and I suddenly wished she would bite me and complete the claim. I longed for her to be able to understand how I felt about her. I wanted her to know the intense feelings I had for her, hoping she would recognize the feelings of love. I wanted her to be mine forever, but more importantly I wanted to be hers forever.
The song shifted in the background and I began to feel a shift in her emotions. She had been happy and now sadness was creeping into her being. My hand lowered down her back into order to press her closer to me. "Elena..." She shivered at the sound of my voice but the sadness began to pierce every fiber of her being. It was dripping off of her and I was frozen in fear, waiting for her to break the silence.
"I can't DO this Damon!" She broke away from me suddenly and huddled near the window, overlooking the Atlanta skyline. I watched her for a moment as she held herself. I was by her side the moment she began to shake from tears. Her shoulders trembled as she let out all the hurt she had been holding in. The feelings radiating off her were so intense that I nearly stumbled from the despair and loneliness surrounding her. "Why do people always leave?"
I pulled her to me. She had suffered so much heartbreak this past year. First her parents, then her brother, and now myself and we had all let her down. She needed someone to stay with her, to just love her and not leave her. I wanted to be that person for her. I wanted to be able to wake up next to her everyday and see her beautiful eyes look at me with love. "Most of the time they don't mean to. Your parents never wanted to leave you, Elena. They were taken from you. Your brother is being an idiot and treating you horribly. He hasn't truly left you Elena. He's just taking a break for the time being. And I ..." She looked up at me, her eyes still shining with unshed tears. "I am a fool. I threw away the one good thing that has ever happened to me for an illusion of love. You gave me everything and I threw it away for the chance at something that never belonged with me." I felt the change in her as her sadness began to turn to hope. We moved to the small couch and she sat down while I kneeled in front of her.
"The moment you said goodbye to me I broke inside. I felt so empty Elena. I never want to feel like that again. You asked me once what it was like to switch off your emotions. It feels like numbing them so you don't need to focus on them. When you left the other night there was nothing. I couldn't even muster up anger or sadness. I was just empty." I broke off for a moment and took in her features. She was staring at me wide-eyed, her hands resting lightly in her lap. I reached up gently to move a strand of hair behind her ear and I felt her shiver from my touch.
"When I saw you laying in your car and bleeding I just lost it Elena. If he hadn't run off I would have ripped his head off. I held you in my arms and I felt everything again. I feel empty without you."
"So you want to keep me around so you can feel emotions again? How will you explain me to Katherine? She's your true love and I'm your emotional pillar?" She made a move to get up from the couch but I pushed her back down.
"Don't you see Elena? Don't you understand?" I tilted her chin to face me and looked at her shimmery eyes. I brushed a tear from her cheek before she cut me off.
"Understand what Damon?"
"Elena...I love you. I'm in love with you."
"This isn't funny Damon."
"I'm not joking Elena. I finally realized what that feeling was that I felt coming off of you. I was feeling it too but I didn't know what it was. The moment I put a name to the emotion I realized I never loved Katherine. I have never felt this before Elena. What I felt for Katherine was infatuation, an obsession. What I feel for you is real, it's earth-shattering." I looked down at her hands after my confession waiting patiently for her response. "Before you say anything Elena I want you to know that I am prepared to love you forever and if you reject me I'll still love you forever. Elena, I-"
She cut me off by pulling my mouth to hers. Her lips felt heavenly against mine as she pulled me up. I pressed her to the couch as I blanketed her body. Her fingers gripped my shirt and I sunk down to her. Our legs were entangled on the small couch as I kissed her constantly. I kissed her over and over until her lips were pink and swollen. I worshipped her face with my kisses as I pressed my lips to her eyelids, her cheeks, her ears, her forehead, and her nose. Her eyes drifted shut as she just gave herself over to the feelings. I moved down and pressed my lips to her neck. My fangs descended as I reached her mating bite. She moaned deliciously as my fangs traced the marks on her neck.
"D...Damon!" I pressed my mouth to the spot and sucked hard until she was arching against me, her legs wrapped around my waist. Her warmth was pressed intimately against my own arousal. I leaned up to look at her face and her hand reached up to touch the veins under my eyes. "It's okay Damon. If you want to..." I pressed my lips to hers once again, prepared to just lick at her marks until she begged me to take her. She surprised me then as her head dipped to my neck. She began to lick at the sensitive skin and I lost myself in the pleasurable feelings. Her tongue moved leisurely over the skin as if she wanted to erase a bite on my own neck. I went to pull her up to me when I felt her bite down on my neck hard. I could smell my own blood hit the air before she pressed her lips to the wound and sucked. My head dropped to the soft couch pillows as she drank some of my blood. Finally she pulled away from the quickly healing wound in order to press her lips to ear. "Mine!" She whispered fiercely.
"Yours." I whispered back. I pulled myself back from her in order to straddle her small body. Some of my blood remained on her lips and I couldn't resist the urge to kiss it from her. I leaned down to her neck and reopened the bite mark. I sunk my teeth in, reminding me of the last time she gifted me her blood. The difference this time was my control. I focused on her pleasure as I fed from her. Every time I pulled a little of her blood out I made sure it would stimulate her sex. She began writhing on the couch as she moaned in my ear. I pulled back from her, her blood still on my lips. "Mine!"
I had barely completed the word when she said a definitive "Yours!"
"I love you Elena" I pulled myself up from her and then ripped her off the couch and into my arms. I carried her swiftly to the bed before laying her down before me. I stood back from her as she lay on the bed like a Pagan offering. Her chest was heaving as she looked at me with hooded eyes. I ripped my shirt off and leaned down to remove my socks and shoes. Elena rose to remove some of her clothes but I gestured to her to leave them alone. I sat on the bed and pulled her shoes and socks off. She continued to look at me as I lifted first one foot to place a kiss on the top and then the other to do the same.
"I love you Damon." She laid her head back on the pillow, her chocolate hair falling against the pearly white cover.
"And I love you Elena." I pulled her to me for a passion-filled kiss until she became breathless beneath me. I pulled her into a sitting position before ripping her shirt off of her. Her lace-clad breasts greeted me and my fingers fell to her soft skin. She moaned lightly as my tongue traced the cup of her bra. Tonight would be about her and showing her my love. She would come first and only if she gifted me would I find release tonight.
I ripped her bra in a fit of annoyance and fell to her breasts. Her dusty nipples teased me when they contracted under my fingers. I spent long moments teasing her with my mouth and fingers until her body was quivering. Her lust permeated every single pore in my body until I felt so full of her that I could hardly think.
Her fingers fisted in my hair as she tried desperately to pull me up to her lips. I ignored her moans and sweet, sweet sighs. I moved down and unbuttoned her jeans before ripping her bottoms off. Her lacy panties were tucked into my back pocket before I settled between her thighs, still fully clothed. She groaned softly as my lips caressed the dip of her hips.
"Please take your shirt off." Her breathy voice resounded in my ears. I leaned back and ripped the garment from my chest. Her fingers reached up to caress the muscles, trailing down my torso until she rubbed the dips near my hips. My lips were pressed to her in a heartbeat, tongues battling for dominance in a battle as old as time itself.
She gasped as my fingers found their way into her molten core, pleasuring her body until she was pleading with me. I brought her to her peak multiple times playing her body like a virtuoso. Her soft cries begged me to allow her a release. I was relentless in pleasuring her, driving her body higher and higher until she could only manage breathy moans. No words would escape her lips until I was ready for her to speak with meaning.
Her fingers grabbed my belt loops as she tried to remove the garment. She was determined to have me nude so she could return the torture but she would be disappointed.
"P...please D...Damon. I...oh god...need...y..you." Her voice mingled with the sounds of my loving her and created a glorious combination of noise. I looked to her deep gaze and decided to give in. We had all night for me to pleasure her, all night to make her weightless. I pulled back and pulled my pants off.
She was impatient as she clawed at my arms trying to drag me to her. I gave into her demands and in one quick thrust, encased myself in her warmth. She screamed at the contact and I took great pleasure in the sound. My lips fell to hers in a soft kiss unlike our previous ones this evening. I began thrusting into her while moans escaped both of our mouths.
Her lips dropped to my throat and she sunk her teeth into my mating bite. My reaction was to nearly scream her name. Was this what it felt like when I toyed with hers? My entire body reacted while my mind went blank. I was only conscious of her and the glorious feelings racking our bodies. She was driving upwards into ecstasy and I knew that I would follow if her lips remained on my bite.
"Damon!" She quickly reached her release after my toying with her before. I continued my thrusting, determined to reach my peak. Her lips caressed the bite and my release hit me like an avalanche. My body seized and my mind went completely blank. Blissful unawareness seeped into my being as I collapsed on top of her. Never before had I felt such a connection, such pleasure from another person.
"Mmmm...that was amazing Darling." Her fingers ran through my hair as I came back to myself. I pulled myself from her embrace and lay next to her, pulling her willing body on top of my own. Her face rested on my chest as I played with chocolate tendrils.
"Yes it was. May I call you Sweetheart again?" She seemed to consider me for a moment before giggling lightly.
"Of course."
"Good." I reached to the bedside table where I had placed my earlier package. I opened the bag gently and pulled out the small box. I placed in on my chest next to her nose and watched as her fingers reached out to look at the box.
"Damon, what is this?" She sat up and I watched her open the small box to find a small ring nestled in the case. "Damon?"
"Shh Sweetheart. It's not an engagement ring so there is no need to get worried." I could feel the tension ease off of her as she considered the ring.
"What is it then?" I reached out and took the ring out of the box before placing it on her ring finger. I placed the small heart diamond on her fingers. I leaned down and kissed the ring on her fingers.
"It is a promise ring." She looked down at the ring before turning her head to look at me. Her eyes pierced my soul with their depth of emotions. She was unsure but underneath that she felt happiness.
"What are you promising?"
"I'm promising to love you. I'm promising to let go of my past fixations and focus only on you. I want you and I want to be with you." She was quiet for a moment and I waited for her question.
"No more Katherine?" I pulled her into my embrace, settling her against my back.
"No more Katherine. I only want you and I promise to never lie to you again. You are much too important for all of that." I could feel the happiness in her next movement. She leaned down and kissed the ring. She turned in my embrace and pushed her lips to mine.
"I love it Damon. I will treasure it always. I love you."
"I love you." We basked for a long time in mutual happiness. We were content in our relationship for the time being. I looked down at the diamond on her finger and knew that soon I would want to put an engagement ring on her finger. Soon I would want her to mine forever. I could only hope she would still want to be with me when that happened.
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Check out my other story Getting into Bed (which is by far my favorite of my two stories). If interested here is the ring I modeled it after
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Oh and this is not really my favorite chapter but it had to get written.
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