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Where do we go from here?
Do I leave without you?
Exchange the haze for something clear?
Live my life without you here.
Where do I go from here?
Do I set ourselves in clay?
Watch our lives play day-by-day
See you slowly start to fray
Where do you go from here?
Would you tell me all your fears?
Show me all your tears?
Where do we go from here?
Mystic Falls, Present Day
Aurora thought back over her couple of days in Mystic Falls. The only thing she could call that- this time in her eternal life was hell. Damon didn't love her, Aurora felt the need to rip out Elena's throat every moment she saw her, Katherine was out on revenge, Klaus would be in Mystic Falls any minute with his own revenge, Damon couldn't love her. She sighed. The one thing that was right was sitting with Anna on her couch after Anna found her in the graveyard.
Anna sat in front of Aurora a glass of blood on the coffee table and sighed dramatically. "So the person I thought killed you," Anna stared at Aurora pointedly and sat besides her on the couch, "Is coming…here?"
Aurora pressed her palms in her eyes until there was red, she left them there. "Yes, and he's going to do something, to everyone here in Mystic Falls because I hadn't been his acqua for the last century and a half." The words rolled venomously on Aurora's tongue.
"He's seeking revenge because you…feel human?" Anna asked, rather stupidly to Aurora's ears.
"Kind of, falling in love with Damon reversed a part of the spell that was cast on me when I was turned, and if Klaus doesn't get what he wants…" Aurora let her sentence hang in the air.
"I know what he can do." Anna said, removing Aurora's hands from her eyes.
Aurora was always her calmest when with Anna. Anna was like her sister and she knew, without questioning, without a moments thought that Anna would be there with her through this…and Aurora couldn't decide if that's what she wanted. "By part of the spell you mean there's not enough for you to hurt Katherine at all but there's enough you feel the need to hurt Elena?" Anna asked quietly.
Aurora nodded, grabbed the glass off the table and took a sip of blood. "At least…that's what I think."
Anna let out a heavy sigh, which meant without words, well-you're-in-deep-at-least-it's-not-me. Aurora laughed without humour.
"So, Damon can't love you because if he does he'll reverse the entire spell?" Anna questioned, setting Aurora's empty glass back on the table.
"Something right out of a Disney movie I know." Aurora smirked bitterly.
"No," Anna shook her head. "They end happily."
"Funny." Aurora said heavily.
"Why not reverse the spell?" Anna asked.
Aurora sighed. "If I do…everyone in the town will die." Anna scoffed in reply. "That includes Jeremy Gilbert." Anna didn't appear so dismissive about innocents. Aurora regretted bringing the boy she'd never met into this.
After a few moments of silence Anna left knowing that Aurora needed time to be alone. Aurora's thoughts were silent until a dark echo…which she wished hadn't emerged from that dark floated in her mind. What were the lives of small town people to her happiness? Klaus could come and Aurora could be half way to Nevada or Poland for all she cared with no one the wiser. She took a deep breath. She had to stay; she was the reason, the cause of everything. Katherine's hatred and actions, Klaus's soon descent on Mystic Falls…Damon's hatred towards her. If it wasn't love, it might as well be hate. Something familiar called to her. Aurora couldn't quite put her finger on it, but the call was something deep, urgent and necessary, without really knowing what she was doing Aurora was outside Anna's backyard in a flash. The sun was warm against her skin, the breeze cool. Aurora highly doubted the nice weather was what called her outside. Silence, the leaves rustled and the air grew cold, Aurora jumped as the caw of not one, but two crows rang in her ears, carrying with the wind. The birds…something about them, Aurora stared at them unaware of her surroundings.
"Living without my acqua has been like a thousand years in the desert." The voice chilled Aurora over, sent her plunging into a freezing depth. Fire licked her insides, his voice sounded sardonic, cruel. Just as it always was.
"You- you can't be here." Aurora stammered, cowering slightly.
His lips were suddenly against her ear, and Aurora felt like she was back in 1664. "I can, it is your entire fault really. Katerina has been running around unpunished for over a century." His Italian accent was thick, which always meant Klaus was very, very angry. "I would've come sooner, but, I liked to watch you struggle. It is a great joy to me."
Aurora took three daring steps away from Klaus. "Wasn't her last punishment enough?" She questioned.
Klaus scoffed. "That was merely physical; stakes and vervain are not good enough."
His dark hair that framed his unusually pale skin filled her vision. His electric blue eyes swarming with twisted rage. "You've failed acqua."
The last sentence was filled with cruel demeanour that she knew what was coming. "Klaus no, please."
Klaus smiled cruelly. "It is not you I want my punire." As if on que Anna stepped out onto the back porch, her eyes widening as she saw the scene laid out for her.
Aurora's protests came out in high, loud screams as she suddenly knew Klaus's intent. "NO DON'T!" The sounds of vampire fangs piercing another vampire's skin were like metal against metal, scraping and tearing, the worst of all sounds. Anna's screams were far worse than Aurora's fear. Aurora- now behind Klaus swiftly pulled at the nape on his neck with both hands, trying to get into a position in which to break his neck. Klaus turned to Aurora momentarily distracted, his blue eyes sparking like the core of a flame.
"Wrong move Bello." He hissed. He moved so fast, so swiftly and elegantly it put most vampires- including Aurora to shame. She didn't see it, not even Anna whose eyes were wide with pain- until they suddenly closed, a wooden stake protruding from the core of her chest. "A lesson, I won't be so forgiving next time." With that he was gone. Leaving Aurora to partly die herself over Anna's limp, cold blue body.
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Damon had exited his home over two hours ago. It hadn't been as heart-tearing as he expected it to be. Leaving Elena always felt like tearing some vital unknown part of him that Damon really didn't want to see. Instead he had felt that feeling, that often sick, cruel feeling when he told Aurora he didn't love her. The sun was warm on his skin as he walked rather aimlessly through Mystic Falls, somewhat missing the great distractions human were, they could take away all his pain. He kicked himself mentally, he wasn't allowed fresh human anymore. Damon stopped, a cold wind ruffling his hair. He turned, and almost, almost jumped at the sight of not one but a pair of crows watching him intently. He knew that look in a birds eyes. It was the look of control, the look only a vampire could create in an animal's eye. Damon didn't really stop to think who could possibly want to come to this small town, someone that strong. He had one thought and one simple thought only.
Aurora.
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It was a sight that even caused Damon Salvatore pain, and that was saying something. Aurora's blonde curls caressing the body of a dead vampire, her silent tears dampening the, what was now ice cold, hard as rock skin. The fact she was so silent, so eerily silent was even more painful than if she had been screaming. Damon was getting used to these kinds of emotions, it didn't mean he liked them, He briefly considered walking away…but felt compelled to stay. He watched her intently for what seemed like hours. She stayed there in that same position, that same mourning position always silent. Something told him she had partly died herself and Anna was some sheer will Aurora would find that part if Anna wasn't dead, Aurora was always the one for strong emotions, easily giving herself to another…She and Damon on the inside were kind of one in the same. Damon after what seemed like forever stepped out from the dense overgrown garden and made his way towards Aurora, he felt like his feet were anchored with cement, weakness was not something that came naturally, but it appeared Damon had a lot of weak spots forming. Aurora made no move to recognize Damon's presence; a small selfish part of his pride was wounded. He stood gravely at the foot of what was Anna. He felt a strange sense of loss when he looked at her motionless body. A loss of a connection to his past.
He turned to Aurora, tearing his gaze away from Anna's body. "I am-" Damon tried to say.
"Get away." Aurora interrupted sharply, almost inaudibly, but her voice was thick with still unshed tears, but the threat was still strong, still eminent that Damon was one, hated and two unwanted.
Damon knitted his eyebrows together, which in this case meant he was deadly serious. "You can't spend forever running away." He quoted.
Aurora's eyes looked past Damon, looked into a nothing she would rather be in. "She died because I'm selfish."
Damon despite the entire scene shrugged, and then shook the guilt in that one movement as a force of habit. "All vampires are."
Aurora was suddenly looking at Damon. Her green eyes shining with tears, which reminded him of the way, the water glistens off leaves in the sun after the rain. "No you don't understand… because I stupidly love you Anna is dead."
Damon gaped at her with his eyes. Unimportantly to Damon her voice held no sarcasm, but what was most important to Damon was her tense. There was no past tense in her words. "That makes no sense." He said without thinking.
Aurora pulled out rather softly the stake that had killed Anna, she walked slowly and handed it over to Damon, the stake was light in his hands. "I might as well die Damon Salvatore. Loving you is my death." Aurora spat out the words softly at Damon.
"I, Aurie I didn't mean to cause you pain." Damon swallowed. He shortly considered Aurora as a lovesick vampire- over Damon…and discovered…that she possibly was. The thought was neither appealing nor discomforting to him.
She shook her head. "Yes, yes you did." Aurora contradicted and grabbed Damon's hands and guided the stake directly to her heart. "You can kill me and save the whole town." For a second, a tiny single second Damon actually wondered what it would be like to have Aurora lying next to Anna, utterly and completely dead. Damon was the perfect example of the selfish kind of vampire.
He slowly let go of the stake, savouring the sweet sound as it fell to the ground. He looked at Aurora with the pain her words and actions caused him. He looked at her with everything he had. "Don't do that again." He warned.
Aurora glared at him. "Leave me alone Damie." It was the first time he heard Aurora use his pet name she'd given him. He'd missed the sound. Damon wasn't surprised when Aurora collapsed into his arms, crying with the tears of everything that had caused her pain, crying for Anna, crying for him. Damon went rigid and supported her crumpling form.
Mystic Falls 1863, Falls Cemetery.
Human. It was the only word for it. Aurora felt completely…human. She felt her cheeks turn a rosy colour as Damon slowly and reluctantly let her go. "Where do we go from here?"
"I…there's so much you don't know about me." Aurora whispered.
"All the more to be together." Damon whispered.
Aurora tried to make a joke, to distract Damon…or rather herself. "You sound like Stefan when he is in 'love'." The last words were quotations themselves.
Damon didn't react as Aurora had planned. "Let it be then, let me sound pure, sound honest without fault."
Aurora shook her head. "Stefan doesn't sound like that."
Damon held up Aurora's chin. "But I am now."
"How could you love someone like me Damon? I'm not…like other ladies." Aurora spoke with double meaning. Damon of course couldn't catch it because he didn't understand.
"I am not like a man. I am selfish. But I love you and if it is selfish so be it." Damon whispered.
Aurora avoided looking into the blue of Damon's eyes. "This doesn't sound like you at all Damon."
Damon voice was pained. "Am I not enough?"
Aurora looked at Damon. "How- OF COURSE YOU ARE!"
Damon lips twitched into a ghost of his signature smirk. His features lit up as it did. "Then tell me you love me too." Aurora smiled then but couldn't say the words she thought every second of the day when it mattered most.
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. Aurora .
She'd expected Damon to take advantage of her, like he did with so many women- so she was told. To Aurora's sadness numbed surprised he didn't. Which either showed how close, or further away they were from one another. They sat besides Anna. Aurora didn't want to move, because movement was the first step to admitting she was gone. Damon only kept the conversation about himself, which was a good distraction. He talked about the sadness he felt when he found out his immortality meant for Katherine was for nothing because she was dead, or rather he thought she was. He described in detail what he did with his time until he waited for the comet, briefly touching on a deal he struck with Emily. His 'waiting period' as he called it involved much blood, lots of lust and the many women to occupy his time. There was nothing Damon hid from her. He described when he came back to Mystic Falls, seeing his brother after fifteen years, the tormenting he caused in spite of Stefan out of anger and fun, did to a girl called Caroline Forbes and another called Vicky Donovan. He regretted only one. He briefly talked about Elena and admitted that he did feel…something towards her. Then he talked about Stefan.
"We're closer now, wether because of Elena or our new sense of brotherhood." He continued never looking bored. Aurora stared down at Anna, her eyes now dry because there were no more tears left in her.
Aurora glanced at him briefly her voice devoid of all emotion. "Elena?" She questioned.
"Yes Elena, we- Stefan and I, both want to protect her. We both love her, so it was a mutual, unspoken agreement." Damon explained.
Aurora spoke without thinking. "Was?"
Damon cleared his throat but said nothing.
Aurora, through the haze of grief realized they were on dangerous grounds. Aurora continued the conversation and talked about her time instead. Starting from Katherine's arrival in 1864. What she discovered, how she felt about Damon's betrayal, to which the use of betrayal didn't even make Damon blink. She continued about a deal she had struck with Emily, Aurora never feeling ashamed explained to Damon that she had spent the last century keeping her self made promise to find him, and somehow find a descendant of Emily's willing enough to reverse the spell cast on Damon. In that century and a half she had spent time in different countries, learning as much as she could as her own kind of distraction. Aurora only avoided two things. Anna and Klaus.
"Katherine found me on the boarder of Virginia, she had plans to be in Mystic Falls and decided she needed my help, of course I refused, but it takes a lot to refuse Katherine." Aurora completed, never taking her eyes away from Anna.
Damon spoke after a respectable silence. "Where's Pearl?"
Anna stared wide eyed at Damon. "I haven't seen her since late afternoon."
Damon was still. "She's probably out somewhere, brooding over Jonathan Gilbert." Damon said in his characteristic sarcasm.
Aurora shook her head. "She never leaves anywhere without Anna. She went to bed the last time I saw her." Damon was gone, and back within seconds. His eyes told her everything. "She's gone…" Aurora whispered plainly.
Worry crossed Damon's face until he masked it. "We'll find her." He assured.
"Why do you want to help me?" Aurora asked slowly, not daring to move away from Anna.
Aurora watched Damon shrug. "To get my life back." He explained, Aurora was confused as to which life he was referring to.
It turned out Damon and Aurora didn't have to look very far for Pearl.
I hope that 'blew your socks off!' I do pray it was worth the four day wait D: Really sorry about that. Sorry for changing Anna's death, but…it fit, maybe…maybe bringing Aurora and Damon closer…. ;) Or not, who knows with Klaus and Katherine! REVIEW, REVIEW! Would be gladly appreciated.
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(Please tell me if I kept Damon's character properly and I'm not slowly losing the plot.)
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