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It was just like any other summer morning, warm, bright and beautiful. It could be called a perfect summer day. There was an unsettling factor to this day. I sat up in bed and wrapped my arms around myself.
Damon and Stefan were vampires, and there was no kind of day that could change that fact.
Damon had come to me last night and explained everything, he even prepared me a bath and put me to bed. He did everything that a normal human being would do, there showed no sign of him being a vampire last night, he acted like he always did when he was around me. Normal.
I still couldn't shake that unnerving and unsettling feeling, flickers of Stefan's face kept coming across my vision. I needed to talk to someone about this, but again there was still the factor that I would come across insane.
"I won't come back, it's up to you if you want to see me again Elena,"
I kept hearing Damon's words play through my mind. He was giving me the time to think things through and make a choice. Right now the only choice I was going to make was what I was going to have for breakfast.
"Jeremy get up," I banged on his door and heard him grumble something. "It's getting late and I'm making breakfast what do you want?" I waited for answer. "Jer, you'll be eating nothing but granola if you don't answer me," That was his least favorite food, he always complained about how dry and plain it tasted, I started towards the stairs taking it slow waiting for his answer.
"Pancakes!" He called from his room. I grinned and headed towards the kitchen to make my brother and I breakfast.
"Hey you, I didn't see you come home yesterday. How was you're day?" Aunt Jenna was sitting at the dinner table with a cup of coffee in her hand and the paper in the other.
"Yeah, I was feeling a little under the weather, I just needed a good nights rest was all," Jenna was grinning like crazy, she kept her head down in the paper. "What?" I asked smiling right along.
"Oh nothing, it just sounded like you had a good night," She glanced up quickly and snickered taking a sip of her coffee.
"Um, I took a bath and went to bed, if you count that as having a good night then yeah," I poured myself my own cup of coffee trying to make sense of what she was getting at.
"Don't try and hide it, we both know that you had Damon over last night. I could hear the bed rocking from my room," Jeremy walked through the room being extremely blunt that it made my jaw drop, his hair was still tousled from sleep. He was grinning just like Jenna.
"What the hell? Yes Damon came over last night, but nothing happened, he left," I racked my brain. He went home didn't he?
"Keep telling that to yourself Elena, but I was up extra early this morning and I saw Damon leave through the front door," Damon usually made sure that he wasn't seen, he told me when we first started seeing one another at my house that he would be as quiet as a church mouse when it came to sneaking out of the house. That wasn't the point, the point was that they were saying that Damon stayed the night and I could have sworn that he left me last night after giving me a bath.
I tossed some of my hair to the other side of my head and held my coffee cup in place. Nothing was making any sense anymore.
I thought maybe I would try calling Damon, but it would make talking a whole lot easier in person, but would he get the intention that I was okay with everything between the two of us?
I said screw it and went for his home, hopefully I wouldn't have to deal with Stefan.
"Elena! I'm surprised to see you here so soon, I figured,"
"Stefan, move," Damon pushed his brother aside and took a hold of me and pulled me out the door into the sunlight. There was nothing different about him in the sunlight then there was when he was in the darkness. He didn't burn, or crisp or anything. I eyed the large blue ring on his finger. He told me last night in the dream that, that was what allowed him to walk freely in the sun.
"What are you doing back here Elena? I told you to think about what I had told you," He seemed a little upset that I had come back to see him.
"What happened last night?" I got straight to the point, I wanted answers. He furrowed his brow and started walking with me around the property, he was probably doing that so Stefan wouldn't intervene.
"What do you mean? I told you everything, gave you a bath and tucked you in," He said it so straight forward, he made it seem like there was more to what happened last night.
"Jenna said that she saw you sneak out this morning, and well Jeremy said that he.. well he heard things," I felt the blood rush into my cheeks. Whenever Damon came over, we made sure to keep the bedroom activities to ourselves when no one else was home. Damon held the confused look, he played it very well. I couldn't just ignore the fact that both of my family members heard and saw that Damon had stayed later then I thought.
"They must be hearing and seeing things Elena because I left last night after I told you everything," He avoided eye contact with me, he kept casting his gaze to the ground.
I grabbed hold of his face gently and forced his gaze upon my eyes"Look at me, what aren't you telling me Damon?" He looked a little sad, I hated when he looked sad. "Please tell me what's going on, I'm so confused and I can't just ignore what both my family members said to me. What happened last night and why can't a remember it?" I begged him with my eyes to tell me. That's what I tired to do when I wanted him to stay the night. Most of the time the eyes never worked on him, but his walls seemed to crumble now.
"I stayed the night Elena," That was all he said, but I wanted more, I wanted the details.
"Obviously we did things together, what happened? Did you compel me to forget?" I asked wanting answers now. With his lips pursed he let out a heavy sigh.
"Elena, you asked me to, you begged me to stay the night, but then you asked me to make you forget. Don't ask me why because I don't entirely understand it either, but that's what happened. Yes we may have done some things that were a little sexual, but it's those damn eyes of yours Elena," He stepped closer and took my face in his hands. I felt my heart skip a beat, he never failed to make my knees weak and make my breathing accelerate.
"My eyes?" I blinked a few times pretending like I didn't know what he meant.
"You came here to ask me a question, I answered it for you, now is that the only reason you came here today? You know you could have called me and you would have had your answers all the same," He pulled away and I regained my composure.. slightly.
"I wanted to see you," I spoke softly, the conversation wouldn't have been the same if we did it over the phone. "I needed your answer in person, it meant more to me than a phone call,"
"So that is the only reason that you came here today? Was to ask me what happened last night?" He was checking to see how I was doing and if I really wanted to stay in his life.
"I don't want to see Stefan," His actions frightened me and I wasn't sure if I could trust him. Damon relaxed slightly.
"I know my brother is a pain in the ass, I've had to deal with him for one too many years. He makes stupid decisions sometimes, but in all fairness he isn't a horrible guy. He just needs to learn to get in control. That's the one thing he's been working on for years. So I understand if you don't want to see him right away, but if we are going to try and make this work, then there are going to have to be nights were you stay here," I nodded slowly listening to all he had to say. He was backing up and defending his brother, of course there was going to be tension between the two of them, but I was still shocked that he would say anything good of him, even after what he had done to me.
"I'm going to need time with him, and I still need time to wrap my head around everything. I'm still a little confused, but for some reason I can't seem to get away from you," I admitted looking into his eyes. They softened significantly.
"You aren't afraid of me?" He mumbled taking one of my hands in his, rubbing his thumb over the top of it. His touch sent chills down my spine.
"No, at least I don't think I am, did anything else happen last night?" I still felt like there was something he was keeping from me.
"You asked me to feed from you," He willingly admitted. This didn't scare me as badly as I thought it was going to. Instantly my hand flew up to my neck to check for any wounds. "I made you drink my blood so you wouldn't have any scars," I must have looked confused because he continued on with an explanation.
"Vampire blood heals humans, and if it's in your system and you die, you can be turned into a vampire," I wasn't exactly sure how to answer that, it was in my system now, anything could happen.
"Don't worry, it will be gone by tonight, and you won't have to worry about that," He reassured me. I didn't really know the first things about vampires, let alone being one myself.
"Will you let me remember it?" Him telling me of everything last night did not give off the same effect as it would for me to remember what actually happened. He seemed half hesitant to answer that question. "What's wrong? Did something happen last night that you don't want me to remember?" I got that nauseous feeling in the pit of my stomach. There was one something that he was keeping from me.
"I want you to remember Elena, just not yet. I want to wait for the right moment," I thought about doing the eye thing again just so he would tell me. It was killing me that he had this much control over my thoughts.
"Damon!" He started walking off slowly, but with a strange casualness to his step. "Why won't you just let me remember?" I chased after him, grabbed a hold of his shoulder to stop him. He was just smiling.
"Because I need to know what conspired last night wasn't out of pure impulse and confusion," He stopped me and continued walking with that smile on his face. What the heck was that supposed to mean?
"Can I stay with you tonight?" I questioned knowing that was a risky question, but it was answering his from earlier. He turned on his heels and stared me down.
"If that it what you want Elena, then yes you may stay," he was letting me make up my mind for everything else. I couldn't think of anything I wanted more.
So I quickly hoped in my car and drove back home to gather my things. I rushed in through the front door and up to my room. This was going to be my first night staying with Damon at his house. Yes I was probably going to have to deal with Stefan, but I could handle that if it meant sleeping in Damon's bed for the first time.
