Hello Beautiful people! Sorry that I have been gone but life sucks right now! Its just wayyyyyy to much to handle and I couldn't edit these chapters but here they are! I am going to start with a light and funny one and then keep them coming. I would also like to take this opportunity to wish mr. somerhalder and mrs. somerhalder all the luck and happiness in the world! So here to the happy couple and to all of you my beautiful readers. Let the chapters begging.

All my love,

OA

Chapter 9: Working life, It can get messy.

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A couple of days latter and another 20 or so cases that I wanted to get out of the way before I had the whole wedding to cover. I had been planning it for about 4 or so months with Caroline, well at least deciding the colors and the guest list and possible venues. Caroline was going to be my maid of honor, Jenna, Rebekah and Bonnie my bridesmaids. Damon was going to be the best man and Stefan was going to be one of the groomsmen.

Any who, I had practically lived in my office for the past month, trying to get as much done as I could before I left for the wedding and honeymoon. Well, no I was wrong I actually lived in my office. I had clothes there and the bed was left out, I took showers there and ordered food in. Yep, how pathetic does that sound.

Bonnie had been working some extra hours, not because I asked her to, but because she wanted to be sure that everything was in order and I would get no interruptions during my honeymoon. She came in every morning with coffee, which was a real necessity and blessing for me.

Damon had practically moved in the office with me. He was the one that ran the dinner orders and forced me to eat and take breaks every once in a while. He literally was worried sick that I was going to damage my health with all that I was doing. But he did help and we got about 17 of the other cases that we needed to get through done about a week and a half before I was due to go check the possible locations for the wedding.

One of the nights, Damon had convinced me to go back to my apartment and do work there, where I was more comfortable and I could actually sleep in my own bed.

It was well into the night and I apparently had fallen asleep. Well the last thing I remember was that after I had taken a shower, I came to the living room to find that Damon had ordered my favorite chinese food and it was waiting for me. We ate watching the news, since I had stated that I had been so involved with work that the we could have been overtaken by aliens I would know nothing about it , which, predictably, earned me a well humored laugh from my accomplice. After that I went back to work on my desk, double checking the final draft to one of the cases that we had solved and needed the files to be finished, and Damon had gone to take a shower. And there is where I say that I feel asleep cause one minute I remember me reading the file and deciding to rest my head on the desk for a minute or two and the next thing I know I wake up at NOON in my bed.

Still rubbing my eyes I walk out of the bedroom to find Damon asleep in my desk with the finished files on the printer tray. I took them and looked at them. Turns out Damon had stayed up and had finished the work that I was supposed to have done. I smile as I walk to him and gently wake him up, he stirs in his sleep and then wakes up with that cute hair of his sticking out in all directions. I laugh a little as I run my hand through his hair and tamed it under my touch.

"Hey sleepy head. What are you doing here?" He just gets up and stretches, his muscle flexing as he does so. Dang any girl would be lucky to end up with him, hell I was lucky to have him in my life.

He gave me a small kiss on the forehead. "Well, I was pitching in to help you get more rest and the things done so you can enjoy planning your wedding."

"Thank you! You know you didn't..." But he interrupted me.

"Have to, I know hun, but I wanted to do it for you." He moved past me and towards the kitchen. I especially loved that I was one of the few people that got to see this side of Damon. To most people that just met him, they peg him as a bad boy, what with all that charm, sarcasm, innuendos and black clothes (especially the black leather jacket). But in reality he is this man with a heart of gold that only lets a small group of people, mainly family, see the real him, the side that sweet, considerate and sometime downright romantic.

We spent the next hour laughing and working together in the kitchen to make ourselves a very good lunch. It consisted of chicken cordon bleu made by Damon, salad and couscous made by myself and a chocolate cake made by both of us. Better said we were able to make a small cake since we ended up having a mini food fight with the mixture. That means showers for both plus cleaning the kitchen!

After that we changed and got back to the office, filed the papers and ended the normal business day.

Yes Damon had clothes in my apartment and I had in his. Well, Stefan and Caroline also had clothes in my apartment and I had in theirs. The thing is that the Salvatores are a very united family and they love to call to tell you if its ok they can swing by your house to stay the night in like an hour. It was something that I was a part off, we all slept over at each others when we were in town and didn't want to hike up to our own house, when we just wanted a girls or boys night or when we had work to do and it was late when we finished.

But most importantly was the once a month compulsory, yet fun, visits to mom and pops! It had to be the most anticipated weekend I had every month. We all made time in our schedules and went back home for a weekend of relaxation and family time, we informed each other of the few things we hadn't talked about already and planned our yearly family vacation! Those vacations had started once all of us had steady jobs and, because we all were stubborn in our own way, we each paid for our own expenses, except for mom and pops, whose expenses were covered by all of us, much to their annoyance. By now they are accustomed but they still don't like it. Well they did get even since they always paid for a huge, fancy meal for all of us to close the fabulous vacation.

Well, next years is going to be a very different one since there is going to be another person with us. Since none of us were married, the close family was the only one that went there. That meant no friends, no partners, no boyfriend/girlfriend and for me this year, no fianceé. But we liked it that way, it was family time and we were on-board with the whole concept. But since I was going to get married, my husband was to become part of the family and therefore coming to next years vacations. Lets see how that goes!

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