I wake up with a start when I feel someone shaking me and calling my name.

"Madison, wake up." I hear my cousin's voice.

"What? What's wrong?" I jump. Jeremy throws his hands up in surrender.

"Nothing, its Monday. Matt and I have school. We wanted to know if you want us to stay home or head to school." I look over at the door and see Matt leaning on the door frame.

"No, go to school. I'll be fine. I'll call Damon to come and keep me company. I'll see you later." I saw rubbing my face. The boys get up and walk out. Jeremy turns around.

"If you need me, you text me and I'm home. Be careful of Damon."

"I'm fine Jer. Go, get." I say getting up and closing him out of my room. I walk back over to the night stand and get my phone. I see that its only 8am. I still have a little bit before Damon and Elena show up. I text Elena to know that I'm alone.

Jer and Matt went to school. See you in a hour.-Maddie

I head into the bathroom and take a long relaxing shower. I take my time washing up. After my shower I get out and blow dry my medium length brown hair, and then straighten it. I'm still wrapped in my towel when I enter my room.

"Nice look." I hear from my bed. I jump a mile high.

"Damon! Get out!"

"It's past 9. That was one long shower. Still like the whole towel dress thing. It's…new." He smirks.

"Where's Elena?" I ask going to my dresser to pull out some clothes.

"Down stairs."

"Why don't you join her, and I will be down in a few minutes."

"Oh don't change the dress. It looks nice."

"Go!" I say opening up my door. He grunts and gets up and starts for the door. He walks threw and turns around.

"Your no-" is all her got out before I slammed the door on his face. Just to upset him I take my time to change into Capri's a tee and my running sneakers. I put on my mom's necklace I haven't worn in forever. But I need a little bit of her today just to keep me going. I grab my phone and go down stairs. Yum, I think I smell coffee. I head the rest of the way and just follow my nose.

"Hey Maddie." I hear Elena say. But I'm too interested in the coffee. I pour a cup and take a sip.

"Ahh. So good. Hey Elena." I say with a smile. "I'm not fully awake until I have some coffee." She smiles back. "Shouldn't you be at school?"

"I'm going after we talk. I want to make sure you're ok."

"Yeah I'm fine. I got body guards in all species." She looks down with a sad look.

"What did Jeremy say?" she asks

"He's on board in helping to keep me locked up here. He just can't be here with you guys here. So I guess we take shifts? Him at night, the brothers during the day." I say taking more of my coffee.

"Well, at least he's willing to help us." Elena says. "But when can we have some time together? We haven't spent much time together at all since you been here."

"Movie tonight? Something girly?" I ask. And her eyes light up. And nods her head.

"Oh girl time, with the Gilbert girls. In a home with a vampire hunter and a vampire. This shouldn't get to messy." Damon smirks using his hands to talk.

"I hide her in my room. He won't hurt her. Not with me here. I'll knock him out first. So don't be a dick." I go over and squeeze Elena. "My cousin." I say with a childlike voice. And me and her start to laugh.

"I'll bring the wine. But I gotta get to school. I'll text you later." She gets up and leaves.

"And then there was one vampire." Damon says. I shake my head with a small smile.

"Coffee my dear vampire?" I say pointing to the pot.

"No I had it at home with breakfast." He says moving his eyebrows up and down. I roll my eyes.

"So, what is there to do when your locked up in a house?" I ask walking toward the living room couch.

"I can think of some things to do." He smirks sitting down next to me and folding his left leg over his right.

"Ha-ha. Not happening. I have more self respect than that Damon. Why don't you tell me about what you were like before you became a bloodsucking demon?" I smirk back at him.

"I will ignore the bloodsucking demon comment. And there's not much to tell. I was 24 when I turned. I had a good relationship with my brother and father. I feel in love with a girl. And then I turned." He shrugs.

"Really? That's all you're giving me? What happened to your mother?"

"She passed away when we were young."

"And your father?"

"Stefan killed him. On accident."

"OK, so you don't want to talk about your self. I'm just trying to get to know Damon Salvatore. Not Damon the vampire. You want me to like you right?" I question.

I see the wheels turning in his head. "Fine. Ask away."

"How did he kill your father?"

"He was in transition. He went to go say goodbye to Father before we died…"

"Wait, you didn't want to complete the transition?"

"No. Anyway, he went to go say good bye to Father. Father couldn't believe that Stefan showed up. He thought that he was dead. Father told Stefan that it was he who shot us and killed us. Since we tried to save one of the vampires that was going into the tomb. Father took out a stake and went for Stefan. Stefan defended himself and pushed Father much harder then he wanted too. He didn't know about his strength. The stake went threw his stomach. Stefan went to go see if he was ok and to see if he could help. But the blood drew him in and he fed off Father. He completed the transition." I stood there in shock. I didn't know what to make of the story.

"Who changed you?"

"This woman I thought I was in love with Katherine. She changed me and Stefan."

"Wait, the Katherine who killed Caroline after you gave her your blood?" He nods his head. "She's a bottle full of sunshine isn't she?" He smirks.

"Yeah. She gives the devil a good name. But she's dangerous herself. She's over 500 years old. I wouldn't mess with her."

"What made you change your mind about turning?" I asked.

"Stefan did. He came back after completing the transition. He convinced me it was worth it. So I fed. It tore us apart for years." He looks down. I see that he is thinking. About what I don't know. He looks at me. "Enough about the gloomy vampire story. Lets here about you. What makes Madison Gilbert?" he annunciates the T on my name.

"I'm an open book. What do you want to know?" I say putting my feet under me on the couch.

"How old were you when you found out about us?" he asks. Why am I not surprised he wants to know about this first.

"I was about Jeremy's age when I started to get curious on what my dad and Uncle Grayson were always whispering about. They were always exchanging old journals, and I just wanted to know what it was all about. One day my dad forgot to hide a journal. I picked it up and brought it up to my room. I read a few entries and couldn't believe what I read. I waited until my dad got home to confront him. He told me at first that Jonathan Gilbert was just a crazy relative and that I shouldn't believe what I read. But when he saw that I was starting to watch and read everything vampire, he told me the truth. He taught me how to fight, and to kill. He taught me about vervain and stakes. Everything I needed to know."

"Ever kill one?" I nod and tell him the story about the vampire in the city and killing him in the ally way. "You killed him with a number 2 pencil?"

"Yeah. Crazy right?" I giggled. He just smirks.

"So what happened to your parents?" he asks. I look down and take my moms necklace in my hand. "You don't have to answer that. It's fine."

"No, no. It's fine. I had just turned 18, and I was spending the weekend with my girlfriends at one of their parent's house in the Hamptons. On the way home that Sunday I got a call from the local hospital asking me to come down, that my parents were involved in an accident." I get up and go to the fireplace. "I was driving so I started to race." I turn around. "I'm an only child so my parents were the world to me. I drop the girls off and race to the hospital. I go up to the nurse and she tells me to wait to talk to the doctor. So I head to the waiting room. The police come in and tell me that there was a fire at the apartment building. And that mom and dad are in critical condition. I sat in that waiting room for hours. My best friend came and stayed with me. Finally the doctor came in and told me they didn't make it. And they did all they could. I was an orphan." I look back down and try to hold back tears. I don't like to talk about what happened. It's still too fresh. Even so many years later. I turn away and walk into the kitchen just to be alone. But I know he follows.

"You're not the only one out there that lost parents." Yup, that sounded like Damon. "I lost mine and Elena lost hers. It's part of life."

"No disrespect Damon, but your over 150 years old. Even if they were alive after you turned. They would have died for natural causes and old age. Mine and Elena's parents were taken by an accident." I make myself more coffee just to something than talk to him.

"Well, I'm done being sappy and reminiscing of the past. You up for some video games? Jeremy has a good collection." I turn my head to the side to look at him with the 'You are crazy' look.

"No. You go play. I'm gonna go look at the 4 walls upstairs from my bed." I walk up the stairs and met by Damon on my bed. I sigh. "That wasn't an invitation for you to follow me Damon."

"But your bed is so much more comfortable with someone in it." He wiggles is eyebrows. I roll my eyes.

"Do I have to text my vampire hating cousin and tell him I'm getting hit on. And he's threatening my veins?"

"Oh that sounds like a good idea. Especially if you want to be pulling stakes out of the walls."

"Damon, I want to be alone for a little." I say as I grab my notebook and sit down. He snatches the book and speeds to the other side of the room.

"What's this?" he says opening the book. "Song lyrics? Who would have thought? Your cousin writes in her diary, and you write song lyrics. Must be a Gilbert thing." Then he looks up with his eyes. "And a Stefan thing." He murmurs.

"Give it back." I say as I'm about to take it but he moves away. Now he's standing in front of my bed. "Damon." I say moving faster. I go to grab it and he moves and I fall onto the bed. "Hey bloodsucker! Give it back!" I aggravated.

"Testy, testy. Here." He says and throws it back.

"I'm already going threw enough and you have to be a dick" I say taking my book and sitting Indian style. "Just stop." I feel the events of the last couple days on top of me. I throw the book on the floor and lay down facing away from him. "You can leave."

"I can't. I told everyone that I would watch you."

"Then go downstairs and use your vampy hearing." I say trying really hard not to cry. He crosses the room and sits down where I can see him. "Damon, please." My voice starts to crack. He goes to place his hand on my shoulder but hesitates but puts it down anyway. And I just burst into tears. I move closer to him and cry in his lap.

Sorry this chapter is kind of boring. But I needed a chapter where Damon and Maddie get a little closer. Please R&R. I need feedback