Chapter 9: My Little World

AN: internet's back up…thus the promised chapter. I'm getting slightly nervous…I only have one more chapter pre-written...anyway, enjoy:)


Stefan looked down at his phone and answered it immediately when he saw his brother's name. "Where are you?"

"I'm on my way home."

The doorbell rang and Stefan got up to answer it. "I thought you told Elena Mystic Falls wasn't home anymore."

"Stefan, Katherine's back."

Stefan opened the door to reveal Elena's form. Only it wasn't Elena, something deep inside him told him it was his sire. "I know."

On the other end of the line Stefan heard the car rev and speed up. "I'll be there in an hour."

Stefan slid his phone into his pocket as he stood at the open door.

"Aren't you going to invite me in?" Katherine asked sweetly.

Stefan remained silent.

"Never mind. I don't need an invite anyway." She moved to step forward but hit the invisible barrier, growling angrily.

"Yes you do," he told her, giving her a smirk that would impress his brother.

Katherine stood seething on the threshold. "No I don't! Zach Salvatore is dead! Damon killed him! He owned this house, then it went to you and Damon and you are not ALIVE."

"I transferred the deed," Stefan said simply. He closed the door in her face, pulling out his phone to text Elena.

Elena looked up when her phone beeped with a text message and grabbed it off her desk. It was from Stefan.

Elena, Katherine's here. DO NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE! Damon will be home soon, I'll come see you then.

Elena ran down stairs her first thought being for her family who would be the first victims of the doppelganger. Jeremy was playing X-box, Jenna was in the kitchen doing the dishes. She went to Jenna first.

"Hey Jenna."

"Oh, hey Elena," Jenna greeted her. "I didn't know you were home."

"Yeah I'm just gonna hang out at home today, do some homework and stuff."

"Not seeing Stefan?" Jenna asked with a smile, normally her niece and her boyfriend were attached at the hip.

"Not till later, I'll be home all day."

"Okay, just let me know if you do decide to go out."
"I will, definitely." Satisfied Jenna would think something was up if 'Elena' knocked on the door, she turned to Jeremy.

She sat down on the couch next to him. "Jer, I need to talk to you."

Jeremy paused the game he was playing and turned to look at her. Elena leant towards him, sneaking a look at Jenna, who was still doing the dishes in the kitchen. "Katherine's in Mystic Falls," she whispered. "Call Anna over here, we're going to need all the help we can get."

"What about Bonnie?" Jeremy asked. It'd barely been a week but half the town knew how upset Bonnie was, though no one really knew why, only that her, previously doting boyfriend, that gorgeous Damon Salvatore, had left.

"Damon's on his way." Elena couldn't help the smile that slid onto her face as she revealed this news.

Jeremy smiled too, both Gilberts glad to know that the girl they considered a sister would be okay soon."Good. I'll call Anna now."

"Go upstairs, so Jenna won't hear."

Jeremy left the controller on the couch as he walked into the kitchen. "Hey Jenna, can Anna come over for a few hours?"

"Of course, Jer."

"Awesome, thanks Jenna." Jeremy ran upstairs to call his girlfriend and Elena settled back on the couch. She turned off Jeremy's X-Box and flicked the TV back to her favourite channel. A re-run of The OC was on, the one where the gang went to Tijuana. It was near the end of the episode and Ryan had just found Marissa passed out in the alleyway. He picked her up and carried her out of the alleyway as sombre music played in the background of the montage.

It reminded her of Bonnie and Damon. At one of their football games Bonnie had attempted to do a mid air somersault and had landed badly, falling on her ankle. Before anyone else could reach her, Damon was by her side and had picked her up, brushing off Caroline as he carried Bonnie behind the bleachers.

Elena followed them and sat beside Bonnie worriedly. "You okay Bon?"

"Let me kill her," Damon snarled, his hands gentle as he unlaced Bonnie's shoe and pulled the sneaker off along with her sock.

"Damon," she bit out warningly, her face set in a grimace, before turning to her friend. "I'm fine, Elena."

"Okay, just maim her then," Damon continued. "I saw you yesterday, you weren't ready for this, she forced you."

"I'd done it before."

He scoffed, his hands gently touching her swelling ankle, the coolness of his skin soothing. "Yeah, once."

"I just landed badly. I'll be fine, it's not broken." She paused for a moment, looking up at him anxiously. "Is it?"

"No, but it's a pretty bad sprain."

"I'll be fine then." She moved to stand up shakily and grabbed hold of Elena's arm for balance. Damon moved to stand beside her, supporting her weight.

"Do you want some of my blood?" he asked her. "It'll heal it up."

"No!" Elena exclaimed. "What if something happens?"

"She'll be with me," Damon shot at her. "Nothing will happen to her."

How adamant he was took Elena by surprise, giving her the slightest insight to the seriousness of their relationship.

Bonnie nodded at him and he bit into his wrist before holding it out to her. Her tongue darted out to taste the blood before she latched onto his wrist and sucked. Elena watched as both Damon and Bonnie's eyes closed. She could tell they'd done this before and fought the urge to turn away, feeling as if she was intruding on an intimate moment. A second later he pulled away and the wound healed over. Bonnie reached for her sock and shoe, pulling them on over her normal-sized ankle. She stood up gingerly, testing her weight before she walked a few steps.

"Wow, good as new," Elena remarked.

"Vampire blood'll do that to ya'," Damon said. "Are you sure you're okay?" he asked, turning back to Bonnie.

"I'm fine," she told them both. "Come on, we're missing the game." She jogged back out onto the field, Damon and Elena following.

"Oh my God, Bonnie, are you okay?" Caroline asked, rushing over to her.

Bonnie smiled brilliantly at her, Damon's blood in her system making her feel on top of the world. "I'm great."

Caroline frowned slightly, eyeing her curiously. "You sure? You took a pretty bad fall."

"Yeah I'm fine, I just rolled it, I walked it off back there and now it's fine."

"They way Damon rushed you out of here…I thought it might've been broken…"

"I'm fine, Caroline. Damon just overreacted, you know what he's like." She turned to her boyfriend and he could see the affect his blood was having on her.

He pulled her towards him and, under the guise of checking she was really okay, whispered to her, "Easy cara, I know what my blood's doing to you. Relax babe."

Elena didn't know what that word meant, 'cara', but it sounded like love. Not like it translated to English as 'love' but as if it was the most loving, caring, doting word in Damon's vocabulary. Maybe it was the way he said it, the way he looked at Bonnie like she was the centre of his universe. Whatever it was, she was glad her best friend, her sister, had someone who loved her as much as Damon so obviously did.

"I know, and thanks." Bonnie pressed her lips to his for a moment before she pulled away and returned to the sideline with Caroline and the other girls.

Elena shuddered to think what they'd gotten up to after the game when Bonnie was still bouncing off the walls.

"Hey." Bonnie couldn't help the smile that slid onto her face when she saw his name come up on the screen of her cell.

"Hey, just letting you know I should be home in about half an hour."

She was stretched out on her bed, finally feeling herself again. "And you couldn't have just sent me a text to tell me this?"

"I wanted to hear your voice."

"You'll hear more than my voice when you get back," she said before she immediately clamped her hand over her mouth, horrified at how suggestive that had sounded. "I didn't mean-"

She was cut off by Damon's laughter. "I wish I could've seen your face just then," he laughed.

She felt the heat rise up her cheeks and she placed a hand over her eyes in embarrassment. "Shut up. Just hurry home."

"I will, all these other things I'll be hearing…"

"Bye Damon," she said flatly.

"See ya soon, babe."


AN: Tell me what you think about ELENA having the Bamon flashback…I thought it was different, considering there wasn't much Bonnie/Damon here.