A/N: Its finally time to turn things up!


3rd person POV

Damon's room:

Damon and Clara collapse on the floor having danced themselves to exhaustion. Clara wasn't sure how it would have been possible to accomplish the Charleston is you didn't have Vampire powers it required so quick movements.

Damon takes something out of his pocket and looks at the object, it the invention Pearl gave him.

"Have you figured out what that is?" Clara asks still trying to catch her breath.

"Nope. Whatever it is, it doesn't work." Damon puts his arm under Clara's neck and brings her closer to him. He rolls over partially and buries his nose in her neck inhaling her scent.

Clara takes the object out of Damon's hand and examines it.

"Pearl didn't say anything else about it?" she asks,

"She thought she was stealing his vampire compass, but that was a pocket watch. That Johnathan Gilbert was a crazy scientist." Damon responds,

"so not unlike the present Johnathan Gilbert, simply minus the scientist part. Do you think he's still cross you temporarily removed his finger and gave me his ring for safe keeping?" Clara asks,

"I think he's furious."

"I don't like the idea of someone that unhinged being cross with us." Clara says still worried,

Damon picks up his bride from the floor.

"What are you doing?" Clara exclaims,

"Treating you to a bath, Damon Salvatore edition. And don't worry about Elena's crazy uncle, I told you as long as we look out for each other, nothing will be able to touch us."

Damon strips the silky dress off of Clara slowly kissing every inch of her while the bath fills up. He puts in salts and bubbles exciting Clara.

"I see bath's have gotten more fancy over time, and I swear this tub is practically the size of the local pond."

"Just wait till you're soaking in it, nothing will feel as good... especially once I get in there with you." Damon says as he starts to strip himself. Clara leans back on the ledge of the bathtub and watches her husband greedily causing Damon to have a cocky smirk but it only make him more attractive to Clara.

Damon helps Clara climb in and starts washing her. She pouts at him, "I thought you were joining me?"

"All in do time, first I want to help clean you so I can get in and get you all dirty again." He tells her seductively causing her to practically pant with want.

Just when neither one can take any more teasing Damon stands up, all of him at attention, and moves to get in the bath when his phone starts ringing.

Groaning he bends down to answer it to quickly get rid of whoever it is.

"Hello?" Damon asks annoyed,

"Hey, it's Alaric Saltzman." that surprises him,

"Before I hang up, how did you get this number?" He asks when Clara sits up on her knees and moves closer to Damon's hard cock.

"Ah, it's a mystery. Listen, I've, uh, been doing some digging on Elena's uncle. You interested?" Damon's head falls back as Clara runs her lips around his tip in a circular motion.

"What kind of digging?" Now he feels her bring her tongue out and run it up and down the sides of his shaft. His breathing is picking up slowly.

"I've got an old friend from Duke. Who studied criminology when we were there together. Let's just say he's become a very proficient digger."

"Well, did he find anything?" Damon asks before covering the receiving end of the phone as he inhales sharply from Clara's wet mouth taking him in. She begins sucking softly still getting his cock slicked.

"Well, I had him run a track on John's cell records. He was getting a call from a number...The same number that Elena dialed to get Isobel. And then the number was disconnected."

"Isobel knows John. Whatever. We knew that." Damon tells Alaric completely uninterested in whatever he is saying instead focusing on running his hands through Clara's hair as she increases her tempo and intensity causing his knees to go a little weak.

"Right. Well, after that, he started getting calls from a new number. And I had my friend run a geotrack. Got the address. It's...It's an apartment in Grove Hill."

"Isobel's in Grove Hill?" Damon asks keeping one hand on Clara's head as she works him good.

"I don't know. I thought we could take a look and see what we find." The ferocity of which Clara is putting into this act has gotten so great it causes the water to slosh violently spilling out the sides of the tub and it causes Alaric to ask, "wait Are you taking a bath right now? Man I don't want to talk to you when you're naked!"

"Well anytime I'm not with you assume I'm naked, look just give me the address I got to hang up." Damon says not wanting to orgasm with Ric listening.

"Oh, so you can go without me? No. I don't think so."

"Hold on!" Damon silences the phone as he grabs both sides of Clara's head and thrusts into her, fucking her mouth while staring right into her gorgeous eyes. He growls as he comes but keeps his softening cock his her mouth not wanting to pull it out yet. And she graciously allows it there every so often running her tongue over his slit causing him to jerk more.

Damon gets another call and reaches behind him to pick up where he left his phone.

"What?" Expecting Ric must have hung up and dialed him again but its Elena.

"I'm just grabbing some clothes, and then I'll be right over. How's Stefan?" She asks,

"Extra broody. Hold on." He puts the phone on silent again and talks to Clara, "I think I'm going to have to meet Ric at this place the more ammo we have on crazy uncle John the better and Elena is on her way over." Clara takes Damon out of her mouth causing him to pout and whine a bit.

"Okay it looks like I'll have to dirty myself in this bath." She replies innocently. She leans back covering her chest with the bubbles and runs her hand along her thighs before disappearing under the water to wear she knows Damon most wants to be right now.

Damon leans over and kisses her fiercely,

"I will make this up to you later, I promise... until then" Damon look down towards her center where she has her hand, "think of me." He gives her a wink before he picks up the phone again going back to Alaric.

"You drive. Pick me up in 15." Damon tells Alaric,

"Done." Alaric says agreeing

Damon hangs up and switches back to talking to Elena on the other line. But struggling to remember where he left of he looks to Clara who is working herself up... tempting him to say to hell with everything and get in there to loan her his own hands.

"What was I saying," He whispers asking Clara, she whispers back, "He won't eat anything." Right.

(To Elena) "He won't eat anything."

"He has to eat what's his favorite...Kind of, um..."

"His favorite kind of what?" Damon asks distracted by his wet writhing wife.

"Type of animal blood that he prefers?" Elena finally manages to ask,

"Ew. Gross." That definitely killed the mood. "Uhh I don't know...Stefan likes...Puppy blood...Little golden retriever puppies with cute, floppy ears. That's his favorite." And he hangs up before jumping in the tub with Clara, "We have 7 minutes, lets make the most of them." He tells her before his head disappears below the water causing hers to dip back in ecstasy.

Later Damon brings a bottle of blood for Stefan as Alaric is pulling up outside

"Brought you something to eat...100% Stefan diet approved. I wanted to see you drink something before I left. You know what will happen if you don't eat. You'll get all rotting and crusty."

"I'm not hungry." Stefan replies solemnly,

"Of course you are. We're eternally hungry. Take it. The human blood should be gone by now. You want to explain why you're still in here. Feeling sorry for yourself? Come on. Drink up."

When Stefan didn't give Damon lost his patience, "Fine. Starve. What do I care?"

Elena comes down to the basement to see Stefan

"Thank god your babysitter is here, now I have to go out tonight do you promise to behave?" Damon said mocking Stefan and then went upstairs leaving Elena and Stefan alone.

"How you feelin'? Damon says you need to drink that. You need it, Stefan. You can't survive without it."

"I don't want to survive." He tells her,

"What? Don't say that." Elena pleads getting upset,

"I'm sorry, Elena. No more. After what I've done, it has to end. I just want it over."

Elena decides to take a break and is sitting in the living room and talking to Clara

"Damon says he's just being dramatic and he's not gonna starve himself. But I think deep down he's worried." Clara explains,

"Sure sounded like you guys were worried," Elena says snarkily.

"Elena I lost over a century with the man I love, and as horrible as it was it taught me to never take the time you have together for granted. So yes we were enjoying ourselves but that doesn't mean we don't both care for Stefan very much. I know he feels bad about hurting that girl and Lexi isn't here to help pick him back up again like usual but Stefan needs to learn to pick himself back up. Trust me he won't make it to the end of the week trying to keep this up. The pain will be unbearable and his survival instincts will prevail. You just have to give it more time." Clara tells Elena calmly,

Elena sighs, "I know you care but...maybe if you tried to not take the time you have with Stefan for granted that would help. He just seems to be in a lot of pain."

"I tried to get through to him but if you want me to try again I will. And pain won't kill him, if he wants to torture himself to alleviate his conscious, let him. The pain will go away once he finally eats."

"I didn't mean physical pain." Elena says

"I know what you meant. Fighting the demons inside is always daunting and we can tell Stefan how much he means to us but ultimately he needs to fight this battle on his own. No one can do it for him."

"There has to be something else I can do to help him. What would you do if it were Damon?" Elena asks,

"Damon, wouldn't do this. We always knew we wanted to spend forever together, not matter how guilty he was feeling over something he wouldn't think of leaving me... Can I ask you something?" Elena nods and Clara continues, "What do you plan to do, did you and Stefan have a plan?"

"I don't know what you mean?" Elena says confused,

"I mean, were you going to become a vampire? Is Stefan downstairs betraying your forever or was this relationship always meant to be temporary... Maybe he doesn't have a good enough reason to stay."

"I... uh, we never really talked about it. I never really thought about it before." Elena says starting antsy,

"You have time now, its seems you should think about this. You are going to age and eventually die if you stay human, plus Stefan and you wouldn't be able to have children, is that something you want?"

"I mean yeah someday, but you and Damon probably thought you would have kids together too right?" Elena says,

"Uhh, i suppose it would have been inevitable back then but no I never desired children. I worked my whole life, I just wanted to be with Damon and enjoy our time on earth together without anyone telling us what to do. How were we supposed to make sure our children ate balanced meals and acted properly when all we wanted to do was misbehave ourselves?"

"Yeah I guess I can't really picture Damon as a dad. I think I should go and check on him its been awhile." Elena says getting up,

"Would you like me to accompany you?" Clara offers,

"No, its okay you should, um, you should stay up here... find something dangerous and fun to do. I'll be fine."

The women exchanged a smile and parted ways.