Metamorphosis by mishasalvatore
Summary: After Edward leaves Bella is left in a catatonic state. But a after a tragedy leaves her shaken will she finally give up on her life or find the courage to pick up the pieces back again.
Disclaimer: I do not own twilight or vampire diaries.
Authors note: Thanks for the reviews guys… since you all have been so nice; let me give you an extra special chapter. Enjoy!
Chapter 10:
BPOV:
Today was the day the masquerade ball was going to be held in the Lockwood mansion, the excitement for it was not as before, as things between Elena and Bella were still awkward. Thankfully Elena had stopped cold-shouldering Bella, but still they were more stiff and formal to each other.
"I don't get you girls" said Jeremy finally tired of all the tension in the house.
"I'm sorry Jeremy, I over-reacted, but I didn't like Elena ordering me around like a kid." Bella replied she was genuinely sorry she reacted that way, but was still wary to talk to Elena.
"I think Elena is the one you should be saying that to"
"I don't know how to talk to her; I think she is still hurt"
"Well, give her some time then bells, she'll come around"
"Yeah, Bella, Jeremy's right" said Caroline, entering the living room carrying bags of what Bella assumed were her and Elena's dresses.
"And speaking of Elena where is she. We have to get ready."
"She's in her room"
"Well, she's not going to be angry with you forever Bella, and the party and the mood is just right, she'll forget everything. Caroline and Jeremy shared a look; Bella thought Caroline didn't quite believe what she said.
"Let's get started then" Caroline said clasping her hands together, making Jeremy roll his eyes.
"Elena" Caroline called out as she entered Elena's room. Bella entered nervously, and was glad when Elena smiled at Caroline. At least she wasn't completely mad. But the two cousins, remained formal and distant.
"Bonnie will be meeting us directly at the ball, well it would have been nice if she was here, I could use another opinion on my dress" Caroline blabbered trying to dissipate the tension in the room.
Bella finally got into her dress, which she had got while shopping with Caroline and Elena, Bella had fallen in love with the dress as soon as she saw it. The dress was a deep blood red gown that was off-shouldered and frilled at the end with a fitting bodice. Bella thought she looked like one of the literary heroines in her favourite novels. Caroline her curled her hair and let it free across her shoulders and given her a dark smoky eye. She had to admit, Caroline was pretty good at this, she looked edgier with this look…somehow sexy.
Bella turned from the mirror to find Elena wearing a dark blue gown, which fitted her every curve, Bella was about to say how pretty she looked in it, but thought better of it.
"Wow, Bella you look stunning" Caroline commented.
"You are not so bad yourself" Bella said winking at her. Caroline was wearing a light pink coloured dress that reached mid-thigh and was made of some floating material.
Bella glanced at Elena to find that she was looking at her with the same wary expression. Bella gave a tentative smile to Elena which she returned. Bella felt glad that at least Elena was not angry anymore. But they had to hurry, they were getting pretty late, they could talk at the ball anyway. Bella felt nervous all of a sudden thinking about the ball, which she was going to with Damon as her date. She felt restless all of a sudden thinking about those deep blue eyes. She looked at Elena who was touching up her make-up and wondered how she would feel about this. Bella, feeling reckless decided for once she didn't care. Bad boy or not there was something about Damon Salvatore that attracted her, and now she was going to be a regular girl, going to a ball with a, maybe not regular, but definitely human guy.
DPOV:
Damon couldn't focus. Their plan to trap Katherine was laid out, but Bella Swan was the only thing going on Damon's mind. Somehow, he felt…excited. Like a stupid teenage guy; what had come over him anyway. She was this regular teenage girl who happened to be the cousin of the girl he loved, or though he loved. It was surprising how he could think of Elena so platonically. He felt almost guilty hiding stuff from Bella, but they couldn't involve more humans in this. This was not her fight. But somehow Damon couldn't resist her, he needed the closeness. He couldn't believe how comfortable he felt around her, like they were friends from a long time, as clichéd as it may sound.
He was overthinking, right now he had a date. Damon smirked as he drove to Bella's house.
"Hello bambi eyes" Damon wolf-whistled as he looked at Bella. That name suited her perfectly. Beautiful.
"Hello handsome." Bella giggled at she took Damon's arm.
Damon glanced at Stefan with a knowing look, as he entered with Elena at his arm.
"Let's go guys, we are getting late." Caroline shouted and they made their way to the masquerade ball.
The Lockwood mansion was huge but nothing compared to the Salvatore mansion in the eighteen hundreds. Damn Katherine for ruining everything. Today he was staking her in the heart if it was the last thing he did.
Damon took Bella by the arm and led her to the dance floor. He placed his hand on the small of Bella's back and twirled her around. He could sense that she was a bit uncomfortable with the dancing.
"What's wrong Bella?"
"Um… I can't dance" she said chewing her bottom lip.
Damon smiled. She was so cute, so different from the rest of the girls out there.
"You don't have to dance if you don't want to." He said brushing a strand of hair away from her face.
"No, I want to" she said with a determination that Damon couldn't refuse.
He placed her hand on his shoulder and twirled her to the beat of the music.
"It's all in the lead" he said smiling at her.
He held her closely to him, Bella's arms around his shoulder and his arms around her waist; they were there comfortable with each other, just looking into each other's eyes.
"Why does everyone hate you so much?" Bella asked out of the blue.
"Why are you so mysterious?"
She snorted.
"Me? Mysterious?"
"Yes, how did you get that weird scar on your hand?"
"Why don't you answer my question first?" she said slyly.
"Everyone hates me, because I have done things for them to hate me. Gives you something to think about doesn't it"
"I'm mysterious because I don't want to be easily readable. My mom calls me her open book"
"Hmm, you could be if you want to Bella"
"Maybe, I don't want to" and maybe I don't want to know thought Damon, after all she didn't know his secrets too, he wasn't entitled to hers. Damon wondered since when did he become so moralistic, this was usually the way his brother worked not him. But, he couldn't bring himself to use his usual tactics with Bella, what was it about this girl that had captivated him so much.
Damon was jerked out of his reverie by Stefan motioning to him. It was time. They had to find the moonstone, before Katherine and kill that bitch before she caused further damage. He was although sceptical to leave Bella but they had to sort out this mess.
"I have to go Bella, need to finish something important."
"Another date?" Bella asked him in mock horror.
"As much as all the ladies love me, they would have to wait" he said walking away, turning to wink at Bella.
"So what's the plan" Damon asked as he entered the garden area where, Stefan, Caroline, bonnie and Tyler were gathered.
"We are going to trap her and Bonnie is going to doing the spell of trapping her in the tomb again."
"And then, I'm going to stake her."
Stefan looked exasperated. "No, Damon she has information we need."
"Yes brother, we get the information and then I'm going to stake her."
"Okay fine lets catch her first" Caroline said annoyed.
"I'll show you guys around the house, there are a couple of places the moonstone might be hidden." Tyler said.
BPOV:
Bella's mind was spinning. She couldn't get the dance from out of her head. All Bella wanted to do was get out of her comfort zone, try and dance for a while, and Damon had been so sweet about it. Damon. She could still feel his scent on her, they were so close, and the dance seemed so intimate. It was nothing like prom, nothing like what she had ever done before. The passion, the intensity was over-whelming, but so familiar. What was happening was she beginning to like Damon. It was all so confusing.
Bella headed to the gardens, she needed some fresh air. She was walking towards the gardens and noticed that it seemed pretty secluded. Everyone was inside enjoying the party.
"Bella" she heard a voice call out.
"Elena?" Bella asked confused. Elena stood in front of her smirking in a very un-Elena-like way. Bella's brain registered something. Elena had curled her hair for today's event but she was in a totally different dress and make-up. She was wearing a slinky black dress and dark make-up.
"Elena, what are you wearing? And wear is Stefan?" something about Elena made Bella's flight-or-fight instinct active. This couldn't be Elena she was some lookalike, as weird as though it may sound. The lookalike took a few steps forward causing Bella to retreat.
"Nice to meet you Bella" said the girl.
"Who are you?"
The girl just laughed, she held Bella and looking straight into her eyes said,
"You are going to stab yourself, as a warning to Elena and the others" her pupils dilating. It was similar to what Damon had tried to do to her when they first met.
"What? What are you saying? Who are you?" Bella asked growing more confused and scared with each passing moment.
"Impossible!" the look-alike said, her face betraying shock. She quickly recovered herself.
"Looks like I'll have to kill you!" she said. Bella couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"Who are you?" she asked more sternly, straightening herself. This was not the first time she had come face to face with death; first, with James in the ballet studio, then with Victoria. If she was going to die, she might as well get some answers.
"Why do you look like Elena?" she blurted out before the girl could react.
"Well, a brave one aren't you."
"Your cousin, Elena is my doppelganger"
Doppelganger? This was so weird.
"Didn't she tell you all about her life? How bloody complicated it is? Didn't she tell you what kind of creatures roam this town, Bella?"
As she finished this sentence, her face began to change, there were large veins underneath her eyes and…and her fangs elongated.
This was too much to absorb. What on earth was this girl?
"What…what are you?"
"Silly, silly, Bella I'm a vampire" the girl was about to pounce on Bella, when she was knocked aside. Bella opened her eyes to look at Caroline engaged in a brutal fight with the girl.
"Get away from her Katherine" she heard Stefan say as he and Damon approached them. So she was Katherine, and this was what they all had been hiding from her. But if Caroline was fighting with a vampire, without getting hurt, then…Caroline was a vampire too. But why did they have fangs? And they all looked pretty human. Who else was involved in this? So many questions.
"Hold her Caroline" Damon said, and shot a reassuring glance at Bella, which unbelievably made her fell a bit safer.
He produced a long stake and went to drive it in her ribs, not killing her but hurting her quite a lot, as she screamed out.
"Wait!" Jeremy came running towards them, he looked ashen.
"Elena's getting hurt each time you stake Katherine"
Stefan and the rest looked horrified, Katherine just smirked.
"I had a witch put a spell on me, every time you hurt me your precious Elena gets hurt." Wait what? A spell. A witch. Holy cow!
"Bonnie, do your stuff" Stefan said, and Bonnie went on to chant something that sounded like Latin.
"I lifted the spell." Bonnie said triumphantly, "And now you are going to the tomb where you belong." They hauled Katherine away, but Damon decided to stay back.
"You might have some questions?" he said looking serious for the first time Bella met him.
"What… how…?" Bella couldn't manage words right now.
Then she remembered something, Damon had tried to use whatever Katherine did too. Katherine was a vampire…does that mean? No she was overthinking, just because she had met vampires before didn't mean… but still, no human would stake Katherine that way, she was a strong vampire.
"Are you…?" Damon looked solemn.
"Yes, I'm a vampire Bella"