Blood Sharing
Chapter 9- Electric Feel
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Author's Note: Thanks so much to everyone who's been reading so far. I'm really thankful for all the reviews and I am soooo glad you stuck with me long enough to read those last few chapters. I was really proud of them and tried to bring everything around. This will be the last chapter for a little bit. I want to see where the TV show goes first before I decide on a few things I have planned. As always, check out the music! I think this song would work so well on the show for a sexy scene haha! Thanks again.
Chapter song: MGMT- Electric Feel
They were out of the woods far too quickly and back at the car. Both Elena and Damon were giggling, making little comments, and pausing to kiss and touch each other. Elena had braided her hair back again, and was wearing Damon's shirt. It was thankfully long enough for the ride home. Damon was shirtless, still had spots of sand on him, but wore a sideways smirk that made it all run together. They were glowing from the experience. Elena felt strong in her recovered memories, and her renewal with Damon. And Damon? For the first time in his vampire life, he was letting himself really feel happiness. He knew there were things they were going to have to face and people to answer to, but there was a steady sense inside him that it would all be okay now that Elena was with him.
"I'm going to have to sneak you home without anyone seeing." said Damon once they'd piled in the car and Elena tossed her shoes in the back.
"Ugh, I don't want to go home and back to reality." said Elena. "Caroline will want me to help tonight at the prom fundraiser, Stefan will be moody and tell me off, Jeremy will look at me in pain, and Bonnie will probably tell me something new about Professor Shane that I don't want to know." she groaned rolling her window down and letting her arm hang out of it.
"Yeah..." started Damon as he turned the wheel and took the car back on the high way. "I don't exactly want to face the real world either." he smiled. "I'm afraid you'll forget me the second I let you out of my sight." he joked, though Elena felt like there might be a true hidden fear there.
"Don't worry. Klaus has no use for me anymore. I don't think he'll try and mess with our bond again." replied Elena rubbing his arm that was closest to her. Damon looked down at it briefly before looking back at the road.
"I don't know if I'll ever get used to that." he remarked.
"Used to what?" asked Elena.
"Just you. Touching me. It's electricity." said Damon casually with a shrug. "It's... nice."
"Guess I'll just have to touch you more." teased Elena running her finger along his waist line. He laughed, but it caused the electricity to run through him and his blood bond pulse.
"Careful! Driving here!" he turned a moment to give her a toothy grin. His eyes were dark but they twinkled, and it reminded Elena of the stars she'd seen both in the sky and in him the night before. Elena had always noticed his eyes. Now she wondered if all that gazing from the past was really their blood calling out to each other. His eyes showed what was inside. Just like the old quote about them being windows to the soul. "You must be hungry. We can head to the boarding house before I take you home. Grab a blood bag. Or... depending on how you're feeling with your compulsion ability we can pick up a snack..." he gave her a sideways glance to see that she was staring very intently at him.
"I'm not hungry for blood." said Elena in a thick sultry voice that caught Damon off guard. Touching his bare skin again had only ignited her, and talking about going back to reality put a damper on things. Elena wasn't going to let this moment end so soon. She gave Damon her best come hither look and feeling very courageous took off her seat belt and wiggled into the back seat while he was still driving.
It took poor Damon a moment to realize what was happening. Between her statement, him trying to watch the traffic, and then her wiggling into the back, it finally dawned on him. "Oh... Oh!" he bit his lip with wide eyes and checked over his shoulder, then pulled the car back over to the side of the road. "Well wait for me!" he called struggling to get out of his seat belt- which now seemed like some sort of trap- while Elena giggled from the back seat. This was certainly something he'd have to get used to. He was usually the one making all the moves.
Damon was a smooth guy. He was a stealthy guy, and an agile guy. But when Damon's lust was engaged, on top of his hunger, and the blood bond, Damon was not exactly graceful. Especially after all the emotional drama he'd been through the past few days. In the process of climbing into the back seat he managed to honk the car horn with his leg, and turn the radio on full blast. Elena was laughing so hard her face hurt from smiling. There was something sexy about disarming a man with a simple look. Damon made it to the back seat and reached forward to turn the radio off, then thought better of it and left it on to ward off any nosy nobodies who might come to investigate. "So not hungry for blood, huh?" asked Damon with a devilish knowing grin. He was putty in her hands, and he knew it.
"I want a few more things from you before we go back to reality." stated Elena pulling him by the belt until his mouth met hers with a passionate open kiss.
All along the western front People line up to receive. She got the power in her hand To shock you like you won't believe.
Their mouths were open when they met and Elena bit Damon's lower lip. He'd missed this so bad. The passion. The fire that always built between them, the intensity, and the anticipation. Last night had been special. It was like their first experience all over but this time there was no guilt, and it felt new. This, was a fervour that made him drunk. He just wanted to touch her, pull at her, taste her, and breathe her in. She didn't want their time together to end so quickly, and he wasn't about to deny her. His hands ran up her ribs under his shirt she was wearing. Damon clawed at her shoulder blades and she moaned. He didn't think it was a good idea to blood share. He was already dizzy, and hungry and knew she'd be feeling the same, but that didn't mean he couldn't do other things to express his intense desire and revel in the moment.
Saw her in the amazon With the voltage running through her skin Standing there with nothing on She gonna teach me how to swim...
Damon entered her with a feral ferocity, not wasting a single moment. The night before had been desperate, him trying to grasp at any of the remnants of Elena's memory. Now he was almost marking his territory in a way, Elena was his, he was hers, and he'd be damned if she didn't scream it until the whole world knew. He fell into a comfortable thrusting rhythm and with every push Elena pushed back harder. Her neck and back arched, and her stomach quivered with every move. The scent of her was dizzying. His head was spinning and he felt more animal than man as their breath came out in gasps and pants. Damon wanted to smell like Elena and he wanted every vampire and wolf around to smell him on her.
I said ooh girl Shock me like an electric eel Baby girl Turn me on with your electric feel
The tension was mounting as Elena pushed her hips. The car was rocking a bit, squeaking, and the windows had steamed and fogged up. Her canines ached, but she was so dizzy she knew she needed human blood before she blood shared again. This would have to be enough, for now. Damon was pushing inside her but his face was trailing soft kisses down her chest. She grabbed fists full of his hair and pulled his head back, just enough to arch his neck and make him moan. Elena loved hearing Damon moan. She'd always thought that no one was as strong and mysterious as Damon, but here she'd been inside him, he'd been inside her, and she could make him moan with a flick of her wrists. It was intoxicating, this bond they shared. Her blood was boiling and screaming in her ears. It electrified their skin contact, made their bodies hot, and their senses come alive.
All along the eastern shore Put your circuits in the sea This is what the world is for Making electricity
Damon wrapped both his arms around Elena's waist and held her as tight and as close as he could while still rocking forward. He lifted her up off the seat and she careened her head back. Beads of sweat trickled down her neck and bare chest. He kissed and nipped at her breast- tasting her skin's saltiness. "I want you always like this, always like this." he said over and over. His eyes were rolled back in his head. He was exhausted, starving, but he couldn't stop. He wanted every inch of Elena. He ran his tongue along her elongated throat and she moaned in response.
You can feel it in your mind Oh you can do it all the time Plug it in and change the world You are my electric girl.
Elena was pulsating and she knew she was nearing the edge. Their bodies moved in time with each other and the pounding bass that thumped through the car. She didn't want to give in, she wanted the moment to last! But the accumulation of all the events leading up to this moment became too much both mentally and physically. Her nails dug into the flesh above Damon's hips and she arched back with a satisfying scream. Damon was right behind her, grunting, gasping, and then finally, crying out. His body convulsed and hers rippled with aftershock.
I said ooh girl Shock me like an electric eel Baby girl Turn me on with your electric feel
They lay piled in the back seat, in a heap of steaming skin and gasps. The windows had completely fogged over, and the two vampires dripped with sweat. Any mark they'd left on each other had already healed or was in the process. Damon still had Elena pinned on her back, and he crouched forward laying his head on her stomach. Without thinking he let out an exhausted but satisfied sigh. Elena laughed in response, which broke the two of them into happy giggles once more. Elena couldn't remember a moment since her parents were alive that she'd ever been so happy. "We need to really eat now." said Damon muffled in her stomach.
"I know." she sighed.
"That means back to civilization. Back to reality." he lifted his head to stare at her, then kissed her full on, hard, on the mouth. She kissed back and felt him push his shirt into her hands. "You'll need this." He was already doing his best to shimmy into his pants with the little room in the back seat.
"What if we didn't have to go back?" asked Elena as she followed him back to the front seats of the car.
"We have to go back. Our family is there. You're still a senior in high school. And sooner or later we're going to have to face Klaus and Stefan. Don't you want to find out all the stuff we've been missing with this hunter business and the cure?" Replied Damon turning the car back onto the highway for the second time that morning. It wasn't like he hadn't thought of simply spiriting her away for a few days... or years.
"Yeah. Of course I do." started Elena pulling her legs up on the seat and wrapping her arms around them. "But I feel like a few more days won't make a difference. Stefan's already pissed at me and needs time to cool off. Klaus will be angry and on a rampage. Jeremy doesn't trust me enough to explain everything about his mark, and Bonnie is preoccupied with Dr. Shane and restoring her magic. I don't want to rush back to that."
"What about Caroline? And Tyler?" asked Damon
"Oh... right..." groaned Elena. "I'm supposed to help Caroline with the prom fundraiser tonight. I did sort of disappear on her last night too..." it was hard to think of everyone else's needs when she'd been so determined to restore her memory.
"Well..." began Damon. "Why don't I take you home. We eat, get washed up, and get in touch with miss bossy vamp. When everything finishes tonight, we can head over to the Gilbert lake house. Spend the weekend, maybe skip Monday." he grinned because he knew Elena was already nodding and agreeing with his idea.
"That's perfect!" she exclaimed.
"I know. That's just me. I'm perfect." shrugged Damon with a little eye role for sarcasm when he said, perfect. Elena giggled.
"Well today you are, that's for sure. Everything about last night and today was perfect, thank-you." She started off the sentence with a bubbly tone, but it became serious at the end. "It's really scary to think I could have chosen not to get my memories back, and I would have missed out on this." She put her hand on his knee.
"Believe me, I wasn't letting you walk away. Even if you chose not to remember me, I'd do it all over again. You're worth it." he turned briefly and gave her a smile before turning his attention back to the road. They drove on silently with the radio on in the background, content to simply be near each other, and have a moment with their thoughts.
Everything has been so fast and exciting the night before, that Elena was only now letting the whole impact of having her memory erased sink in. It was mind blowing to think that blood sharing with Damon would change them both so much. Even Klaus who'd been around since the beginning didn't know the true effect a blood bond could have from blood sharing. She wondered how early vampires even discovered it. It wasn't too hard an idea to conceive that two vampires destined to be bonded met each other and through pure instinct discovered the blood sharing and thus the bond. Everything about it was just so cosmic. Nothing in her life would ever compare to blood sharing, human or vampire.
Damon pulled the car on to the side of the street in front of Elena's house. The plan was to make a quick dash to the door. He'd be coming in for a blood bag, then take off to the boarding house for Stefan damage control. She'd get washed up, rest, catch up with Jeremy, and they'd meet each other later at the town square. Elena was already looking around with vampire speed, and in an instant they were racing to the front door laughing while she tried to force the shirt to cover more of her body. It wasn't unusual for Damon to be caught wandering around Mystic Falls shirtless, but Elena pants-less was a different thing.
The two walked in the door giggling and Elena dropped her shoes on the mat. Damon kissed her neck playfully. "Stop!" she giggled pushing him away with little effort. "Let me get in." He pressed his forehead against hers and smiled. Suddenly, someone cleared their throat.
"Should probably try turning your phone on once in a while Elena... or is that a thing with you two now, you just don't turn on your phones?" Came Caroline's prissy tone. Elena and Damon looked up to see Caroline standing in the hall with her arms crossed and her cell in her hands. Elena's face turned red and her eyes went wide, but Damon just rolled his. Elena made to push her shirt down even further, holding it by the bottom flat against her skin.
"I better go." he said making to leave.
"No!" said Elena, a little too desperately. "You haven't eaten, and you don't need to leave. Why don't you go get a blood bag and I'll meet you in my room in a few minutes...?" suggested Elena. Caroline didn't get to decide if Damon stayed or not. This was Elena's home, and her choice.
Damon exchanged a glance with Caroline, who stared daggers at him. He simply smiled, shrugged, and moved past her to the kitchen. "Lose your clothes?" asked Caroline in a judgemental tone. Elena looked down at her legs and suddenly felt very self conscious.
"Something like that." she walked past Caroline to the main level bathroom, opened the door, and retrieved her house coat from the inside of it. She wrapped herself up and motioned for Caroline to follow her, knowing that Damon had made a quick retreat upstairs and she needed blood.
"You disappeared last night." remarked Caroline following her into the kitchen. Elena prepared herself a blood bag and then sat drinking it on a stool.
"So did you. I texted you." said Elena nonchalantly with a shrug.
"I was moving things. I would have texted back but you obviously turned your phone off. Looks like you got your memory back too." snapped Caroline sitting across from her at the counter with a know it all expression. She crossed her arms and eyed Elena, waiting for her response.
"And you've been talking to Stefan." observed Elena since Caroline had referenced Damon not keeping his phone on. They'd clearly been catching up. "Did you tell him I left with Damon to get my memories back?" She wondered just how much Stefan told Caroline about their meeting yesterday morning, and how much Caroline told Stefan or even knew about the Damon situation.
"Of course I did Elena, because you were being crazy!" yelled Caroline. "Stefan is your epic love and you could have gone back to the way things were. You didn't have to remember Damon. It's bad news and you know it. Look at everything he's done to people around you. You're different since you transitioned. Full of impulses. You just can't resist the bad boy now that you're a vampire and have no self control."
That's when Elena slapped Caroline hard across the face. It didn't hurt her, but Caroline's eyes widened in shock. "I'm getting really tired of people telling me who I am and why I do things. You're my best friend Care. You're supposed to see things from my point of view or at least try to. I didn't judge you when you went for Tyler. I don't judge you when you're with Klaus. I thought you of all people would understand how important it was for me to get my memories back." spat Elena. Even she couldn't believe she'd just slapped Caroline. Maybe Caroline was right about the impulse thing. Still, it felt pretty damn good to do it.
"Getting your memories back doesn't mean you have to sleep with Damon! And don't lie and tell me you didn't. Stefan caught me up to speed on what happened before your memories were erased, and from the look and smell of you walking in the door you two didn't waste any time." Argued Caroline leaning across the counter for effect.
"...and?" Cried Elena. "People sleep together when they're in love Caroline. I love Damon. I love him!"
Elena expected Caroline to soften her reaction, that her best friend would know she wouldn't just throw that word around, but Caroline's expression only hardened. "You only think that because of this stupid bond you've got going on. All the blood sharing messed with your head." she insisted.
"If you even knew what blood sharing was you wouldn't say that. You'd understand that blood sharing lets you see inside the soul of the other person. You can't make things up. It doesn't create things that aren't there." said Elena slumping on the stool suddenly feeling very tired. She didn't scream the words like she wanted, she just spoke them. It didn't go unnoticed by Caroline. They were silent for a minute.
"I'm not trying to be the queen bitch over here Elena." started Caroline with a sigh." You're my friend and I'm concerned for your safety. Don't you remember who dated Damon first?" Caroline pointed at herself. "Did you forget all the awful things he did to me and all the compulsion?"
Elena stared at her friend. "Of course I don't forget that. I hated Damon for years because of that and many other things. But he's different now. Back then he'd turned himself off. Vampires are all like that when they switch off, even you and me. But he's changed now." she replied.
"Changed?" groaned Caroline. "You sound like every battered woman ever. Wake up Elena!"
"Because Tyler wasn't like that at all, the entire time we grew up together...? Because being with you didn't change him at all for the better, right Care?" said Elena cutting her off and leaving her friend momentarily stunned and speechless. "I'm not asking you to like it Caroline. I'm not asking you to support it. I'm asking you to try and understand, and maybe cut me a little slack for everything I've been through in the past few weeks. Damon makes me happy. Don't I deserve a chance to be happy?"
Caroline stared at Elena with a sad face. "I'm sorry. The bitchiness comes from a place of love." she sighed. Elena was so relieved she finally backed down. She felt tired, dirty, and in need of some alone time to digest everything that was going on. She even felt tears creeping at the corners of her eyes. "Hey hey, I'm sorry, don't cry!" Caroline rushed to hug her friend and as soon as they embraced the tears spilled over.
" I'm just so tired and everything about this all has me feeling so stressed." Elena sniffled. "But I'm still going to be there tonight for everything, I think I just might take off to the lakehouse for the rest of the weekend 'til I get my head on straight." she decided to leave the Damon detail out of it.
Caroline studied Elena who still had tears coming down and gave her another quick hug. "Okay, well, I'm sorry. You're right, I don't have to be happy about things- and I'm not. But I guess jumping down your throat wasn't very friendly of me. At least some things never change, vampire me or not. I do really just want you to be happy" Elena nodded silently.
After Caroline had left Elena made her way back up the stairs to her bedroom. The conversation had taken so long she'd expected Damon to have taken off- but she found him lying on her bed with a book. "The Hunger Games should have vampires. Wouldn't it be much more interesting with at least one vampire?" he grinned tossing the book down.
"You stuck around." said Elena playfully swatting at him, but sitting down on her bed in the process. "And you're clean." she observed.
"Yeah, I took full use of your bathroom while you were, ah, talking with Caroline." his face became serious as he searched hers. "You okay?" he put his hands on her shoulders. Elena nodded.
"I'm just tired, and a little stressed out, and I think just overwhelmed." she admitted. "The last thing I needed was a judgemental Caroline."
"That's what I figured." said Damon hopping up off the bed and opening her bathroom door in one swift move. "Hence, this..." he bobbed his head in the direction of the bathroom. Elena could smell the candles before she saw them.
Damon had taken her bath tub and turned it into something beautiful. It was filled with lavender scented bubbles and white candles and tea lights were all around. "I would of thrown some rose pedals in there for added effect, but I had to go with what I could find in your room." grinned Damon. "I'm sort of a connoisseur of baths." he bragged.
Elena stepped off the bed and gazed into the bathroom. "Wow!" she exclaimed. "But my tub isn't big enough for us both." she added playfully.
"I know. It's not nearly as nice as mine." teased Damon. "I'm already clean. This is for you. You're getting in the tub and then you're letting me give you a neck rub. If you're lucky, I might wash your hair. I'm good with my fingers." he wiggled them like jazz hands in the air. Damon was being his usual flirty and arrogant self, but all Elena could do was just smile and fight the tears from spilling over again. He was coming through for her again, like he'd been doing all week, and getting her exactly what she needed. "You get in, I'm going to get you another blood bag." he announced.
Elena nodded as Damon left the room and took herself to the tub. She didn't need to be told twice! She dropped the house coat on the floor, and lifted his shirt over her head. She took a moment and stared at her naked body in the mirror. It didn't betray the slightest hint of exhaustion. There was no trace of the mark inflicting passion she and Damon shared, and overall she had a healthy glow. "I guess healing super fast doesn't make me any less mentally exhausted." said Elena out loud to herself, before stepping into the tub.
The water was warm and soothing. Damon had sprinkled in epson salts and the lavender smell was relaxing. Damon wasn't kidding when he said he was a connoisseur. When she thought back to how many moments she'd bumped into Damon in his tub or emerging from it, she realized she wasn't at all surprised. Damon seemed to really love his bath, like an escape. She could see why. She leaned her head back against the wall and closed her eyes. Without warning she felt Damon's hand graze her cheek. She must have been tired. With her vampire senses it was hard to sneak up on her, usually.
"Don't fall asleep in the tub." he lectured playfully. "Won't kill you like a human, but hey even vampires don't like getting water up their noses." he passed her the blood bag. "Sip on this, and turn around." Elena did as she was told without question. The blood filled her mouth. He'd been right. She needed more. After all the stress of the past few days she wasn't drinking regularly, and then blood sharing on top of it had drained her.
Damon's fingers found her hair and unwound it from the braid, casting them loosely around her shoulders. Then his fingers massaged her scalp. She gave a happy sigh. It was strange to be in this situation with Damon. He was so tender, careful, and affectionate. Yes, she'd seen glimpses of this side of Damon before, but never like this. "What are you thinking about?" he asked breaking her thoughts.
"I just really love you like this. I was thinking that I missed out for a very long time, on this side of you. You were always showing me glimpses of it, but I wasn't willing to see it all." she explained. Damon was silent and still running his fingers through her hair.
"I missed being human." he finally said. "For a really long time. I told you before you would have liked me as a human. I had no need to be cold, strong, or fierce before I met Katherine. I just wanted to love and be loved. When I'm with you, I feel like the little bits of humanity left in me get to shine through." he admitted, taking his time pausing between each phrase he spoke.
Elena smiled as she felt him pour warm water down the back of her hair. It spilled onto her neck and down her shoulders. She was feeling better between the bath, the extra blood bag, and the one on one attention from Damon. Stefan had loved her and been in love with her, there was no doubt. But Damon's love was so very different. He wanted to nurture Elena so she could grow. He never once saw her as someone who needed to change, or someone who was broken.
"Try not to worry too much, the hard part's over, we finally got to each other." said Damon. "You're going to rest up, we'll go to that thing tonight, and then we'll skip town for a few days."
Elena nodded. "You're right. I guess I just needed everything to stop for a moment." she paused. "Damon, would you become a human again if you could? Would you take the cure?"
The question caught Damon off guard. He furrowed his eye brows and tightened his jaw. "I don't know." he admitted. "There were times in my vampire life I'd have killed to be human. Other times I look around at guys like Klaus and I don't want to be weak. I might think differently though, if I was human with you." he was even surprised to hear himself say it out loud. It wasn't something he'd given a lot of thought to until he said it. "Stefan thought the perfect revenge for me would be if you became human and I never could. I'd still love you anyway."
"Even when I'm a wrinkly old lady?" grinned Elena.
"Especially." said Damon dumping warm water over her head.
"Hey!" she laughed turning around to face him, and kissed him on the nose. "I like things the way they are now. If Klaus finds the cure, if there's still some reason why he'll want to use it on me... we'll figure it out when we get there I guess."
Damon nodded and stood up to bring her a towel as she pulled the plug in the tub. "Yeah, I guess." he held it up for her to step into, and wrapped it around her.
"Damon Salvatore, I do agree, you are a connoisseur of baths." Elena smiled. "That was lovely, and just what I needed. Thank-you." she stepped into his embrace and put her head against his still bare chest. She ran her hand up his arm. The electricity between them sparked.
"Elena, you are a vixen." teased Damon. "But I'll never get anything done if I don't leave now. I need to talk to Stefan, and you need to get ready for tonight." He looked down at her. She pouted.
"I knoooow. Reality, right?" she said and he nodded.
"Why don't you pack a bag and bring it with you? We can leave right from the square." suggested Damon. She nodded, and he kissed her forehead again. "I'll see you soon."
In an instant he was gone, and Elena was left standing alone in the bathroom.
