Elena had hugged her best friend's goodbye and drove back to the boarding house. Elena walked through the door and said, "Damon?" "Hello, Elena." That was not Damon's voice, no that voice sounded all too familiar. She turned around to see Stefan leaning against the wall in a tight black shirt. Elena was shocked to see Stefan after so long, "Stefan?" He walked over to the bourbon and said, "Oh don't worry, act as if I'm not even here." He took a swig of the alcoholic drink and said, "Don't worry, I know all about you and my brother. It's sad that you think he's better than me, but whatever suits you best I suppose. Besides, with my humanity gone I will no longer be the jealous ex-boyfriend of yours. I have better things to do." He lounged on the couch as Elena made her way to the stairs. "And Elena?" Stefan said as she turned to look at him, "Nice seeing you." He said sarcastically. Elena made her way to Damon's room to find him not there. She sighed, sitting down on his bed. He must have gone out; great I get to be here with Stefan.
Damon pulled into the drive way and noticed Elena's car. He smiled to himself and walked inside with a bag of more bourbon, his stock was running low. He walked inside to find Stefan lounging on the couch and Damon was a little shocked and very pissed. "What are you doing here?" he said. Stefan looked up and said, "Hello brother, good to see you too." Damon rolled his eyes as he set the bottle in the cabinet. "What do you want Stefan?" He asked. "Can't I come visit my older brother and my ex-girlfriend?" "No." Damon sat on the arm of the chair and said, "What is it you want?" Stefan shrugged and said, "I heard my brother had gotten my sloppy seconds, of course there's no surprise there. I was checking up on my old life, funny to think that I actually cared at one point. Now that I am bored, I have things to attend to. Don't worry, nothing to do here in this deadbeat town, I'm going somewhere a bit warmer say California." He stood up heading for the door. "What, with Katherine?" Damon asked. Stefan scoffed and said, "Wouldn't you like to know." He left then shutting the door behind him. Damon growled and went upstairs to find Elena packing her clothes. "Where are you going?" Elena said, "I need new clothes from my house." Damon nodded carrying her bag down the stairs and throwing it in the back seat of his car. He drove Elena over to her house to find no one home. They walked inside and up to her room. Elena put her dirty clothes in the hamper and sat down on the bed. Damon sat beside her with a hand on her thigh. She flopped back onto the bed as Damon lay beside her. She spoke first, "I was shocked to see Stefan turn up at the boarding house." "I wasn't all to surprised, he heard that we were together and then once he found it true, he left with Katherine for California." Elena rolled onto her side and looked at him. He was looking up at the ceiling, his legs hanging off the bed considering that they were lying at the end. She put a hand on his chest and kissed his neck. Damon pulled her up to his lips and kissed her. Elena rolled on top of him and wrapped her arms around his waist, resting her head on his shoulder. It was pretty late as Damon stripped her down to her bra and pantie set and he to his boxers. He tucked her into bed, climbing in beside her.
Elena woke up to find that she was in her bedroom and not Damon's. She looked over at him, his eyes closed. He had terrible bedhead that she found adorable. His bare chest revealed as Elena wrapped her legs with his and stroked his chest. He groaned in his sleep from her touch. Elena didn't want to wake him, or leave him alone in bed as she got a shower. She kissed his lips as his eyes opened. "I need to get a shower." She said. He wrapped his arms around her hips and said, "Good idea." Elena smiled and said, "Alaric and Jeremy are in the house." Damon grinned, "So? We can be quiet." Elena just gave him a look that says, 'yeah okay' and kissed him before slipping out of bed and padding into her bathroom. Damon lied in bed as he heard the shower turn on and Elena sing quietly to herself. Damon smiled, feeling contempt. He waited for her to get out of the shower and get dressed before he got in the shower himself. He waltzed out and into her room to find a spare pair of his clothes he had put there and pulled them on. He walked down the stairs to find Alaric reading the paper with a cup of coffee in his hand. Jeremy was still asleep from the snoring heard from upstairs and Elena sipping at her cup, looking at him over the brim of the cup. Damon bit his tongue, if Alaric wasn't there, he would have taken Elena on the table right then and there. She was giving him that look on purpose to see what he would do. The thing was though, Damon had nothing to hide and grabbed Elena's hand and said, "We're going upstairs and just a warning, she's pretty loud." Alaric looked over the paper at them and rolled his eyes at Damon and said, "I got to get to work, tell Jeremy I'll be waiting in the car." Elena swatted Damon all the way up the stairs as he dragged her. Damon knocked on Jeremy's door, no longer hearing his snoring, opened the door to see him getting dressed. "If you don't want to hear anything that might scar you for life considering it's your sister. I recommend meeting Alaric in the car." Jeremy gave one of his disgusted faces and ran down the stairs and out the door. Damon chuckled as he carried Elena to her room as she said, "Must you embarrass me in my own house?" Damon said, "It's the honest truth." Elena gapped at him, "I am not loud." She said folding her arms across her chest. Damon raised an eyebrow and said, "Shall we put a recorder in here?" Elena chucked a pillow at him, missing him. Damon grabbed her by her belt loops, pulling her onto the bed and said, "I love you." Elena looked him in the eyes and said, "I love you too, Damon." Damon smiled at her and kissed her before removing her clothes and his and made love to her. This was no longer about foreplay and sexual need and want. This wasn't the first time he thought this. He just wanted to be with her in every possible way. He smiled as Elena became loud enough for the neighbors to hear. After they had both hit their orgasms and were breathing ragged, Damon whispered in her ear, "I told you that you were loud." She swatted his arm before kissing his lips. Elena pulled him out of bed and said, "We both need showers now." Damon grinned as she pulled him into the bathroom with her.
After another round of making love in the shower and actually getting showers, they got dressed. Damon helped Elena pack more clothes and headed over to the boarding house. It was now a month before Elena's birthday and Damon had a lot on his mind. The news would be told in a week about Elena being turned, but Damon wanted something more. He dropped Elena off at Caroline's and drove back to the boarding house. He went into Stefan's room, riffling through his draws until he found it. His mother's wedding ring.