Chapter 9
Stefan interjected, "It's probably best you stay here Bella. There's no telling what Katherine could do."
Bella laughed, "She's hardly going to kill me."
"Yet," Damon stated.
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Bella sighed as Stefan and Damon stood in front of her, they were trying to convince her to stay at the boarding house and not return to the bedsit.
"She could easily kill you without so much as a second thought." Damon tried to drill in.
Stefan nodded, "Damon's right. You're of no importance to her end game, she doesn't have any reason to let you live."
"Heck she tried to kill me and Stef just last week, and she loves him," Damon sneered in response, jutting a thumb in his brothers general direction.
Stefan frowned at his comment. Bella watched as Elena rubbed Stefan's arm to try and calm him. Watching them reminded her so much of her time with Edward. She may not love him, but she had cared depply for him and Jacob. She was brought out of her musings when Stefan threw a lamp at Damon.
"Stefan, how many times have I told you! Not the expensive stuff." Was Damon's mocking reply before he picked up a nearby stake and threw it at Stefans leg, causing the younger brother to drop to the floor and Elena to hug him whilst glaring at Damon.
Noticing all the commotion around her, Bella silently picked up her keys from the coffee table and snuck out of the room, hoping no one would notice her leave. Luck was not on her side, she was just reaching for the door handle when she was pulled back and pushed into a wall.
"What?"
Damon snorted, "You honestly thought neither of us would hear you leave?"
Bella felt the beginnings of a smile on her face, "More like hoping."
"How many times do we have to go over this? Did it not sink in?"
Bella frowned, "Stay away from Katherine, she doesn't need me, she'll kill me. I got it."
"And you're still going?" Damon asked in disbelief, even Elena wasn't this stupid.
"Of course."
"And how do you expect her not to notice your new hickey?"
Bella laughed, "I don't."
Damon was feeling lost, "How are you going to explain it then?"
Bella rolled her eyes before making her voice more monotonous, "I went for a walk in the woods. I got lost and an animal attacked me." She laughed at his shocked expression, "You think I don't know these things? Please, I dated a vampire remember? Although they do things differently, I've seen how a compelled person acts. I'll be fine."
Damon glared, "It's not an option."
Bella could feel the anger rising in her, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to tell me what to do? I don't know you, you don't know me! So I'm going to go live my life in my bedsit room. Goodbye Damon!"
With that she stormed out of the front door. Damon meanwhile still stood in shock, watching her fade into the night. No one had spoken to him like that in years, except for Elena, but even she wouldn't yell at him, not like that. This girl, there was something different about her. He'd smelt it when Stefan had been feeding from her, heck he could still smell it. And he wanted to know what it was, and what Damon wants, Damon gets.
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Bella fell onto her bed as soon as she entered her room. Today had been long and very draining, pun intended, and now all she wanted was to sleep, but today obviously wasn't working with her. The second her back had hit the bed Katherine's voice rang out from a darkened corner.
"Where have you been?"
Bella jumped up from the bed and turned to look where she'd heard the voice, "What are you doing in here?"
With a quiet click, the lamp on the desk Katherine was sitting on lit up, making the vamps annoyed face more visable.
"What's that on your neck?" She asked, appearing at her side in a flash, touching the bandage on her neck, "What happened?"
Bella stiffened before repeating to her what she'd told Damon, straight face and all. She watched in mild amusement as Katherine rolled her eyes and muttered, "I really need to deal with Damon."
Why did everyone always think the worst of Damon, I mean sure, he was a bit of an ass and he was mean to Stefan but he'd been nothing but sort of sweet with her. He'd made sure she was okay, tried to protect her from the vampire that now stood in front of her cursing the Salvatore name.
Suddenly Katherine was in her face, looking her straight in the eyes, "Don't move, don't make a noise."
Bella had to fight to stop herself from stiffening as Katherine lifted the bandage from her neck and sniffed the wound before sticking the tip of her pinky in. She watched in somewhat frozen fascination as Katherine licked her finger before replacing the bandage.
"Ooh Stefan you have been a naughty boy," she chuckled before turning back to her. "Go to bed, in the morning you won't remember seeing me"
She stayed frozen until she heard Katherine's door close up the hall before letting out the breath she had been holding in and flopping down onto her bed. Her stare on the ceiling, she thought back over her day. But one thing bothered her more than anything, if Katherine thought she could compel her and was making no move to kill her, what was she going to have Bella do. And more importantly, why did she feel like she'd been to Mystic Falls before?