Chapter nine: Explain it to me.
" Looking up from underneath, Fractured moonlight on the sea. Reflections still look the same to me, As before I went under. And the arms of the ocean are carrying me, And all this devotion was rushing over me, And the crashes are heaven, for a sinner like me, But the arms of the ocean deliver me. "
Elena:
I walked into the kitchen where Jenna should have been cooking but she was nowhere to be seen. I sat down at the table wondering where she could have been as I saw a note placed on it. 'I'm out to your uncle John, he called me something about an emergency, I'll call you later, there's money in the drawer for pizza, Jeremy is out with friends. Xo '
I walked to the phone and grabbed it to order a pizza, I ordered a double pepperoni for in 30 minutes. As nearly 30 minutes past while watching television the doorbell rang and I quickly got up. I opened the door only to remember that the money was still in the drawer. I faced the person at the door. "Come in, I gotta get the money" I rushed to the desk and got out exactly enough money.
I walked back to the person handed it to her and grabbed the pizza. "Good night" I closed the door behind her. I sat down quickly, starving and ready to eat. The pizza was delicious and I putted on friends, my favorite TV show.
Jeremy got home around 11 pm and was all hammered up so he went straight to bed. I finished cleaning up my mess and went upstairs. I opened my door to my bedroom.
There was a figure standing in the middle of my room, she had long curly brown hair and when I looked at her face it was like looking in the mirror. "Who – How" I managed to whisper. "Hello Elena" she said while walking up to me with a cocky grin. She paused in front of me and studied me while clicking with her high heels on my bedroom floor.
"It's so nice to meet you, I'm Katherine" She fakes smiled at me. She bit her lip and walked around me. "We really do look a like, except that I'm prettier, no wonder Damon couldn't resist me" She grinned. I frowned at her. "Damon?" I squeaked. "Mhm" She stopped in front of me again. "He was all over me before, thinking I was you, he doesn't really know you that good now does he" She sat down on my bed crossing her legs like some super model.
"Get out of my room" I hissed at her. She stood up again and placed her finger in the air. "Now now Elena, don't you want to know how we look exactly alike? Or maybe what happened to your friend" I raised my brows and felt nausea. "What was that perky blond name again? Right Caroline" She flipped her hair and smiled at me again.
"What did you do to her?" She frowned. "Don't you know Elena?" she said mockingly. "I turned her into a creature like me, just for the fun of course" she said while swaying her hips and grinning again. "You didn't have to do that" My blood was starting to boil. Why was she here and why did we look so alike.
"Oh I know I didn't, but you see, I was trying to get your boyfriends attention, but he isn't that smart, Stefan on the other hand knows I'm alive and well, poor little Stefan, couldn't tell his brother." She said pouting her lips sarcastically.
The doorbell rang downstairs and I heard Stefan's voice calling out to me. I turned to the door and wanted to walk downstairs, Katherine came in front of me to stop me" She placed her hand on the door. "You forget I was here, you were just going to bed" and with that she left the room with her vampire speed. I blinked twice, was she just ordering me to forget something? Hell no.
I rushed downstairs and open the door to see Stefan. I lunged at him to give him a hug and sobbed against his shirt. "Elena you okay?" he asked me while placing his hand on my back. "Stefan, why does she look like me?" I heard him sigh. "May I come in?" he asked while taking me back from him by my shoulders. I nodded. "Come in".
We walking into the house and I sat down on the couch with him. I felt the tears in my eyes but was trying to hold them in. "I'm sorry Elena, that you have to go through this is my fault, I provoked her by threatening her" I felt my eyes becoming big. "You knew she was alive?" I asked him with anger. He knew and Damon didn't what kind of brother is he. "I do, but I was compelled not to tell my brother." I saw his face becoming guilty.
"Compelled?" I asked him confused. "Yes we vampires can compel people, so basically tell them what to do, we do this with mind controlling" I nodded. "I think Katherine was trying to make me forget she was here but somehow it didn't work…" I looked at him curiously. "Well, it's the necklace you wearing, you see it has a herb in it that work against compulsion" I grabbed my locked and smiled. "Damon gave it to you" He said.
I frowned. "No my mom did" He smiled at me. "He compelled you to not take it off and that you would remember Jenna finding it in your mom's stuff. Trust me Elena, he would never hurt you. My brother always has been the less caring and not the gentle type, but with you, he can't be selfish, he really likes you, maybe even loves you."
I let Stefan's words going on and on in my head and couldn't quite feel assured with them. I had so many questions but I was also very tired. The thought of Damon possibly loving me was the only thing that was sticking. After all, I wondered how he felt about me a long time.
"Look" He placed a hand on my knee and broke my thoughts. "I'm sure you have a lot of questions, but you need to talk with Damon too. I can't tell Damon about Katherine, but you can." I nodded understanding him. I felt quite afraid about how Damon's response would be.
"Do you know when she got invited in?" Stefan asked me. I shook my head. "what you mean?" I asked him curiously. "Well we vampire's have to be invited into the house before we can enter. I don't know why, but if the owner doesn't invite us is we can't enter." I frowned. "Well I shouldn't know when…" then it popped into my head. "Pizza" I whispered.
Stefan frowned at me. "Pizza?" He looked at me with a questionable face. "I ordered some pizza and the person whom delivered it was wearing a cap and I couldn't see her face, I only saw her hair. Now I think about it, I think it was her. I invited her in because I needed to get the money" Stefan nodded and I saw him thinking everything over.
A silence fell of a few minutes. "You need a drink?" I nodded. "Please" He stood up and went into the kitchen.
Then I remembered what Katherine said about successfully seducing him. "They kissed" I stated in the open air. Stefan came back walking in and glanced at me with confusion while placing the glass with soda in front of me. "They had sex didn't they?" I felt myself getting angry at Damon for not telling it wasn't me. Stefan frowned. "What did Katherine say to you?" I bit my lip with anger. "They had sex, I'm sure of it." I stood up and paced around the room.
"Elena calm down, you don't even know that, don't let Katherine come into your head." I walked up to him. "But she did Stefan, why is she here? What does she want?!" I felt myself getting angrier and angrier. He took my by my shoulders and shook me a little. "Elena, snap out of it, she's just trying to get you mad." I huffed, "Well it's clearly working!" I shouted through the room.
The doorbell rang and I saw Stefan rushing to the door. "Why are you here?" I heard Damon's voice. I quickly shot to the door and when I saw his face I got even angrier, I walked up to him and smacked him across the face. "Why couldn't you tell?! Did you think I was that easy?!" I shouted at him. Damon frowned and moved his jaw from left to right. I think my slap was harder then I would have guessed.
"Elena what happened?" He asked gently. "Katherine happened!" Damon's eyes grew wide and he shot a quick glance at his brother. "Katherine?" He asked with confusion. "Was the sex good with her? Didn't you have enough from me in school yesterday? Wanted her to finish it for you?" I shouted while folding my arms. "Elena, calm the fuck down, I don't even know what you're talking about, that's like 60 years ago" I shot back into the room and sat on the couch with my hands in my hair.
Damon:
I looked back up to my brother and walked inside the house to Elena. Stefan joined next to me and I frowned at him. "Care to explain some stuff?" He shook his head. "I can't tell, compelled remember?" I placed the dots together. "Katherine? She was the person Klaus wanted you to hunt down?" I frowned and went with my hand through my hair. Hell no, this couldn't happen; I lived with the idea of Katherine dead for so long.
Stefan sighed out of relief. "Now you know, I can finally talk." I narrowed my eyes at him and sat down next to Elena whom was sobbing. I placed my hand on her knee but she shrugged it away. "Well fucking talk then!" I spitted towards Stefan. Stefan sat down on the chair and started explaining what happened.
After a few minutes when I got all the information I needed I moved to Elena and placed my arm around her shoulders. Again she shrugged me off. "Elena, please, I don't even know where to start, you think I wanted this to happen?" She looked up to me, her eyes all red from crying. "Did you have sex with her?" She whispered.
"I didn't have sex with anyone in the last 2 months I've known you." This was true, since I met Elena the first time, which she even doesn't remember; I haven't had any interest in any other woman. "Did you kiss her?" I shrugged. "Honestly, I don't know." She pressed her lips together.
"Yesterday when we got into that fight about some books, was that her doing?" I sighed. "Probably" I knew what the next question was going to be. "She went to your house to get that book didn't she?" I nodded. "Probably" She bit her lip and her eyes went to fear. "What happened then?" I sighed again and threw my head back out of frustration. I closed my eyes hoping this would end well. "She came on to me and I gave in, after we kissed for a several minutes Stefan came in and she went away" I heard her teeth clench and when I looked at her she was looking away from me.
After a few moments of silence she stood up and went upstairs. "Elena" I called after her following her already. "Leave me alone Damon" she said with a broken voice. I felt my rage coming up and pumped my fist into the wall. "Argh!" I shouted feeling the pain sob away immediately. Stefan came up to me and signed me to leave. I glanced one more time up the stairs and nodded. It was time to leave.
Elena:
I sat down on my bed and felt the tears in my eyes sting again. Why did my live change so drastically over 2 months time. I let myself fell down and turned on my side, I clasped my arms around my waist and thought about everything that happened.
' x ~
I didn't even remember getting tired or falling asleep but I woke up around 4 am in the morning, not feeling tired anymore at all. I was fully awake and got up to get something to drink. When I got downstairs I noticed a little light still on. Jenna was sitting at the kitchen staring into nothing.
"Jenna?" I approached her carefully, her eyes shut up to mine, I could see that she's been crying. "Elena, what are you doing up so early?" I smiled at her. "I could ask you the same?" She sighed and took a sip of the water before her. I placed myself in the chair next to her. "I just came home from the hospital actually" I frowned. At 4 am?
She looked up to me. "Your uncle John had an accident. Somebody attacked him and sliced off his fingers with a kitchen knife." I shivered at the idea, who in the world would do that to him. I mean I never really liked him, he was always so distant and got involved with everything that didn't involve him. But still, the idea of him overcoming that… ew.
"Anyway, I just got home, he lost a lot of blood and he's resting but he'll be fine." I nodded. "That's good to hear, did he tell the police who did it?" She shook her head. "He doesn't even remember, he said that everything happened so quickly. He told me that it's probably somebody that broke into the house and when he got home that person probably panicked." I closed my eyes and felt goose bumps all over. "Scary" I stated when I looked at her. She smiled at me. "Yes, kind of" She patted my back and got up. "I'm going to bed, good night Elena" I smiled. "Night."
