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Chapter Twelve: Twisted, Beyond Straight

Damon growled, "Well he's not getting you, the bastard can rot in hell."

Elena closed her eyes and sighed deeply, trying to calm herself somehow in all of this. But, everytime she seemed to start feeling somewhat okay everything would blow up in her face. It was agravating and now with the 'Demon' thing going on they were kind of screwed for any type of normalcy.

"We should probably let Stefan know." Bonnie murmured quietly, leaning against Jeremy looking down.

Damon nodded, embracing Elena from behind, resting his chin on top of her shoulder, "We'll go to the boarding house, you guys should look into how to kill a demon."

"We can drop you guys off at the boading house." Jeremy offered, turning to walk with everyone towards the car.

Elena opened her eyes and smiled half heartedly, "Thanks, that'd be nice."

They headed to the car and drove silently, all processing the fact that a psycho demon is on the way to bring hell into Mystic Falls. With a small wave toward the car backing out of the Boarding house drive way, Elena and Damon walked into the house.

Damon groaned loudly, filling the silent house to the ears of a human. "You know, this really sucks. All the guys got lucky except me. I mean really?"

Elena rolled her eyes, and poked him in the chest, "Stop whining, is that really all you can think about, getting lucky? " She shook her head and added, "If you keep it up you won't get anything tonight either."

His blue eyes brightened as he smirked then winked at her suggestively, "We should just get to it now."

Damon's eyes shot to the stair case the moment Katherine walked down the stairs in Stefan's shirt smiling slyly, "Don't mind me, just getting some blood."

Elena walked over to her, ignoring Damon's pout and sighing, trying to be rational and serious. "He's alive."

Katherine raised an eyebrow and shrugged, taking a blood bag from the fridge and heating it up. "And your point?"

"It means that one, he's going to try to kill everyone and take me for whatever his twisted mind wants." Elena replied, glaring slightly at her.

Katherine frowned, ignoring Damon's growl, "Why would I care what happens to this shitty town and you?"

"Because Stefan cares about me, therefore meaning he probably doesn't want me to die or be used as a demon's personal two dollar whore." Elena smirked, "And since you're still madly in love with him, you'll care and for another thing we're also family. If it means anything or not to you."

Her reflection glared at her and then slowly smiled, "If you're the two dollar whore, then I call being four dollars." Katherine walked over to Elena closely, whispering in her ear. "If you plan on living you should at least make it seem like you're giving up. Act, it shouldn't be hard, you're a Pierce, we can be very persuasive and convincing."

Katherine eyed her a moment longer before flashing back up the stairs. Elena's eyes stared at the spot she was just in. "What am I gonna do?" She wondered aloud quietly.

"Hey, it's okay. You don't need to do what Katherine said, I don't want you too. I haven't come this far for you to be out of reach again." Damon looked into her eyes. He held so much love, and compassion, it made her heart feel warmer and fuller, as if everything was the way it should be when he was around. It made her feel some what reasurred, but then everything came crashing down when she stepped away from him. Too overbearing.

"It's not okay Damon. It's only gonna get worse. I know that everyone else isn't going to like this, so I'm not going to tell them. It will just make it more believeable if they think I went to him."

Damon held her in front of him scrutinizing her, "No, I told you I can't just let you go into his arms, feel like I've lost you and put you in danger of him."

"You won't lose me, if there's anything I can promise it's that I only love you. No one else, I don't like this either, but it's what's going to work. Katherine's right, and I need to do this." Elena replied, feeling a swell of emotions deep inside of her start to build up.

He pulled her closer to him, "I love you, but can you do me a favor?"

She nodded, gazing up at him. He continued, "Promise me that no matter what, whatever happens you won't let him make you believe that I don't love you. That it's not real."

"I won't." Elena reached up and kissed him softly on the lips, a tear escaping her eye.

He brushed it away and kissed her again, whispering lowly, "I love you."

Elena pulled away from him. Trying to hide the dark emotions of fear and sadness, seeping out of her. She saw the look of confusion and hurt sweep through his blue eyes. "I need to do this now, or else I won't do it at all."

He shook his head slowly in understanding, "Do you know where he is?"

She nodded, "I'm pretty sure, he told me where he was living."

Damon growled, and out of anger and frustration built up he punched the wall nearest to him, punching it again, muttering, "I hate this, stupid demon coming here and acting like he's the shit. Trying to steal my girl and kill me. How great can things get?"

Elena didn't flinch, but closed her eyes. Opening them again with a deep breath; she walked closely to Damon and held him to her. He slowly hugged her back and kissed her neck. She pulled back and cradled his face in her hands, "I am going to say things I don't mean. If I say that it was never you or that I just used you, it means that it's always going to be you and that I love you with everything I have."

Damon closed his eyes leaning into her hands, "When I act like I could care less and say thinga that reflect me like an insensitive dick, it means that I love you too."

"I think you should go to your house first. Before you do anything Elena. Tomorrow, is better, I don't care what you say." Damon said with a look of what she noticed was how much he didn't want to do this, how much he would do anything for this scenario not to go into play.

She shook her head, "I don't know, what are we supposed to do after he thinks he has me, just wing it? We need a plan."

"You shouldn't put yourself in this position Elena it's too dangerous." Stefan said as he came down the stairs, without a shirt, staring at Elena with worry and even some anger.

Elena took a deep breath, "If I don't do this every one I love will be in even more danger than they need to be. I owe it to everyone including you too."

Damon exhaled loudly, running his hands through his hair. "You see that's where you're wrong, you owe nothing to no one. Everyone has done something at least once to the point where they owe you not the other way around."

"Even if that's true I don't care. I'm doing this because I need to, for the sake of your lives." She argued, crossing her arms.

Stefan stood next to Damon and faced Elena, "We are vampires Elena, we can hold our own and protect everyone."

Damon nodded in agreement as if further trying to convince her.

"But, that's where you don't get it! You both are putting yourselves in danger, I don't want to lose anyone."

"If she doesn't do this we have no chance to catch him off guard." Katherine interrupted Stefan before he could speak. "And I'd rather not die while I'm still young."

Elena nodded with her, swallowing slowly to keep herself calm. "Like I said before, she's right and I can...keep him somewhat busy while you guys find a way to kill him."

Damon and Stefan shook their heads, expresions filled with disaproval, "So you can distract him? Get into his pants and keep him happy? I don't think so." Damon said sarcastically, shaking with visable anger.

"No I wouldn't-" Elena was cut off by Damon's humorless laugh.

"Oh you wouldn't? Then how do you think he'll be kept distracted by you, I mean come on Elena. He may be a demon, but humans have seemed to have really rubbed off on him. I changed my mind I don't want you going."

Stefan paced and looked up, "This isn't safe, we don't know what he'll do, or what the hell we're going to do for that matter."

Katherine stood there in silence until she put a hand on Stefan's shoulder, it was the most humane thing Elena had seen her do and for the moment she didn't think of her doppleganger as an evil conniving bitch with psychotic tendencies. She thought of her as someone who, for once in their life, wanted to help the one they loved whatever the cost.

Elena walked over to Damon and pulled him out of the room, giving Katherine a look. She nodded and then Elena took his hand. He walked with her a questioning look in his eyes but she ignored it. They walked up stairs and then into Damon's room, in all of it's dark and sexy glory.

She stopped and turned toward him, placing her hands on his face.

"What-" Elena cut him off with her mouth and kissed him, the passion weaving through every motion.

He responded quickly, yet almost hesitantly. His hands made it to her hips as she pressed herself against him, her back hitting the wall. She didn't want the moment to end, just last forever, without any interruptions.

"No, wait." Damon pulled away from her to look in her eyes, "I don't want this to feel like it's some kind of goodbye. I don't want this feeling like it'll be our last when I just got you."

Elena thought that earlier wold have been the last of this, the last of these arguments on her going, the last of trying to convince him.

"Damon we already talked about this, you're not losing me and I'm not losing you. When we have this stupid Oliver thing over and done with it'll just be me and you and no one will make a difference."

He sat on his bed and put his head in his hands, "How do you think he's going to be when you come to him willingly huh? He'll want to see if you're actually loyal or not, test you. I don't want to have you in that position."

Elena threw her hands up, "What do you want me to do then? Sit around and wait for you guys to do everything, play the little damsel in distress? I don't think so, if we have any chance at all to even get him off track we should take it. I'm not that fragile, my ring will protect me."

She turned and left the room, ignoring his protests left on deaf ears. She passed Stefan and Katherine. Katherine walked with her to the door and then went outside to drive her, surprisingly enough.

"I'm sorry," Katherine whispered as she started the car.

Elena let the tears fall, and covered her face, she could hear Damon's anger as things were being thrown and sounds of yells echoing to the outside. It only made her heart ache for the kind of pain she was causing he and herself, for deciding to go to Oliver.

"I'd say, it's okay, but nothing really is right now." Elena laughed, humorlessly, as the tears kept streaming down her face.

Katherine was silent as she drove, so was Elena. They both decided that there was nothing really worth talking about at the moment. They stopped in front of Elena's house, Elena, wordlessly, stepped out of the car. Happy that no one was around in case they could have seen Katherine with Elena.

She went inside and threw herself on her bed, but she found a crinkled note and slowly looked at the front of it. Nothing, but her name. she opened it, biting her lip. Elena wasn't sure what to expect in seeing it.

I will see you at school, you will be mine.

-Oliver

Reading it only made her crumple it up and throw it across the room. She had, had it. If he wanted to play some kind of game then so be it. He wants her, then she'll just have to act the part.

Monday

Damon laid in his bed, with a bottle in his hand swishing it around mindlessly. Today, was not going to be a very good day. They had decided that everyone would find out about Elena's little decision after school. He was going to act like he was going to pick her up and she was going to go against him and say shes going with Oliver instead.

Elena sounded, different yesterday, there was something that had to have happenened, for her to be so into wanting to get this over with. To make sure this went convincingly.

No matter how many times he gave her looks and asked her what happened, she'd smile and say she was fine, that nothing happened.

He took a swig of the alcohol and let it burn down his throat. Damon got up and dressed, he was downstairs in seconds taking out a blood bag from the fridge.

His phone started ringing, he picked it up and answered. "What?"

Usually Bonnie would say something about his rudeness in answering but she was worried.

"What's with Elena?"

"I have no idea what you mean." he said innocently.

Bonnie took a deep breath, "Don't give me that Salvatore. She's acting like Caroline would to some hot guy she met at a party."

Damon cringed at the thought and cleared the thoughts of ways to kill the asshole his girl was playing with at the moment. "Do you know how to kill him?"

"But, Elena-"

"Do you know how to kill him?" He repeated the question high with irritation.

She sighed, "This subject's not over, but I found two ways I'm not sure which it is."

Damon paced in front of the fridge, "Well, witch what are they, we'll do both."

"Burn him or its having a priest place an exorcism and sending him away, but not dead."

Damon stopped pacing, "We're burning him until that son of a bitch is ash." He then hung up on her, not letting her get back to the original subject.

Elena wanted to vomit seeing the look Oliver was giving her and the ones Bonnie were too. She felt like it was too easy to play him like this, but she knew he still didn't trust her.

"Hey Ollie, you want to help me with my books?" She asked winking at him.

Oliver studied her a moment before complying and wrapping an arm around her waist. She giggled, in the most real way as possible, leaning into him, trying to pretend that it was Damon's arm around her, hell even it was Stefan, she felt safer with either of the brothers than this creep.

"Thank you."

Stefan passed by and looked at her with question, but he already knew, she glared at him only meaning that at the moment everything was going smoothly. She turned away but not before seeing the slight nod he gave her.

"I'm glad you've started seeing things my way." Oliver whispered in her ear.

Elena smiled, "I couldn't resist, I'm yours."

Oliver smirked in a way that made her uncomfortable again, but she brushed it away. He stopped in front of her class and handed her, her books. "It's going to take a lot more than this to make me think you really are mine." With that he walked down the hall with his hands in his pockets.

Now Elena thought she really was going to spill her lunch. She walked into class and took a seat next to some girl, but was in the back near Stefan. It was Alaric's class.

Her phone buzzed twice in her pocket. She looked down and opened her phone. One from Damon and another from Stefan.

Damon's read:

Are you okay? I love you... -D

Next was Stefan's:

What are you going to do? I heard you guys in front of the classroom. -S

Elena texted back Stefan first and then Damon. She put her phone away and rested her head on the table. She missed Damon and wished he was here with her. it would make things...worse. She changed her mind, it would be worse.

Alaric called her after class to talk to her. She stayed and then went up to him. He looked a bit awkward trying to find some words. "Well this is kind of awkward," Elena said, looking out the window.

"Yeah, let's forget about Saturday. Anyways I wanted to see if you were alright. I could tell that you weren't paying attention."

Elena looked down, "I'm sorry, it's just...I-"

"Elena?" Her eyes shot over to Oliver, she smiled and bent down to write something on a paper on Alaric's desk.

She looked at her aunt's boyfriend with a certain look that meant she needed to tell him something, "Here's my aunt's number again, and I'll pay more attention in class."

Alaric looked down at his paper as she left quickly latching onto Oliver's arm, he was confused why she was being so to this kid.

On the paper it read: Talk to Damon...important.

Alaric raised an eyebrow and took out his phone dialing Damon's number.

At the end of the day, with Bonnie and Jeremy yelling at her during lunch and her playing it off like she didn't care, Caroline talking to her and accidently letting it slip, somehow Caroline got it out of her. Maybe from being a vampire and such, but still. She was telling her something about Tyler and Matt then Tyler's uncle that was coming to town, Mason. Elena had texted Stefan and Damon a couple more times when she could.

Now as she walked towards the parking lot with Oliver she texted quickly as Oliver said hi to some people, she told Damon that she was sorry and that she loved him.

"I'm guessing you're coming with me?"

Elena nodded smiling, "Sure, I'd love too." Not. she thought almost smirking the way Damon would.

Damon came into view, Elena wanted to run to him and make all of this go away. But she had to keep this up. "What do you want?" She asked, putting as much venom in her voice, but showing with her eyes, how much she wanted to be in his arms not Oliver's.

His blue eyes flashed with hurt, no matter how many times they could rehearse this it wouldn't get any better for either of them. "I thought I was picking you up." Damon answered, nothing at all in his eyes now.

"Well you're not."

Oliver smirked and held Elena closer. Elena saw Bonnie and Jeremy walking over. Caroline was by Bonnie, partly restraining her. "How could you Elena?" She asked, but more like yelled.

Elena laughed, "I don't care, just go and screw around with my brother already, I have things to do."

Stefan came up behind Jeremy and stopped him from coming forward. Everyone's jaw dropped, even Damon's and Stefan's eyes widened at her choice of words.

"This isn't you Elena," Bonnie said, pleading in her eyes to see some kind of light to her words.

Oliver smiled, "Or maybe it is."

Damon stepped forward and held a hand out, "You don't have to go with him,"

"Oh, but I want to, it was never you Damon, I found someone better, played you and went for it. Sorry hun." She said, biting back the tears and words ready to come out. To take back the hurtful words, the words that at one point Katherine had teared him apart with and Stefan had to her, but not as directly. She was tearing herself apart like this, the pain, she could feel and see on herself and Damon was unbearable.

"Whatever, I was being nice, you were just a good fuck anyways." Damon replied smirking, yet showing no emotion at all.

Even though they hadn't even really done it yet, it still hurt, it only made her wish that they had in case they somehow didn't make it out of this.

"Glad I was of service." She said sarcastically, angrily.

Stefan and everyone else looked between them, so many questions in the air, but Elena turned to Oliver and smiled, "We should get going."

He nodded and waved to everyone his eyes black, "Thanks for the staking, it was wonderful." He said and walked a litle farther with Elena to his car which was in open view to the others.

Before Elena knew it was coming, Oliver bent down and captured Elena's lips in his he kissed her deeply and mostly roughly. In a way showing that she was his, even if that wasn't necessarily true. Damon looked away and sped over to his car, not caring if someone saw or not. He had, had it. Oliver was going to die a painfilled death, no mercy.

Elena pulled back thinking, over and over, it was for everyone, it was for Damon.

She texed him the only thing she knew at the moment. The only thing she felt, the only thing that made sense at the moment.

Damon looked down as his phone buzzed, it was Elena.

I love you...don't forget. -E

How was that? As I was writing that I thought I was going to cry or something, Poor Damon, I'm so weird i was the one who wrote it! lol. When I saw the preview for the next episode on Vampire Diaries, I got so happy, they have to pretty much kill Rose! Wahoo, party! LOL, anyways tell me what you think or anything.

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