Chapter Twelve: Vampire Smile

Baby you need to leave, 'cause I'm getting drunk on your noble deeds
It doesn't matter that they don't get done, when I feel this cold they're like the fucking sun
Baby I need a friend, but I'm a vampire smile, you'll meet a sticky end
I'm here trying not to bite your neck, but it's beautiful
And I'm gonna get so drunk on you and kill your friends
You'll need me and we can be obsessed and I can touch your hair and taste your skin
The ghosts won't matter 'cause we'll hide in sin.

~Kyla la Grange

She heard Elena calling after her, but kept walking. Her blood was boiling because of that conversation. Her head felt fuzzy with anger. Nilin hated the way Elena speculated those things, the way she spoke about Damon, the way she looked at Nilin. Elena looked at her as if Nilin had been dropped on her head and hadn't been quite right ever since. Like she was just some disgruntled youth that didn't have enough common sense to think for her self.

There was some truth to that though. Nilin never thought for her self, she was always too busy thinking about everyone else. She was too busy worrying about what Elena and everyone else would think of her to actually do anything worth the trouble. The fact the Elena wouldn't even give her the benefit of the doubt left Nilin fuming.

Right as she was about to open her bedroom door, Jenna came up the stairs."I take it you're not going to school today?" she asked, motioning to Nilly's PJs.

Nilin shook her head. "No, if it's okay. I'm still not feeling too hot."

"That's fine, sweetheart," her aunt said, coming over and placing a hand on Nilin's cheek like the night before. "You still feel a bit warm. Just take the day off and relax. I'll come by on my lunch break to check up on you, okay?"

"Thanks, Jenna." Nilin gave her a small smile. Jenna gave her a kiss on the cheek before rounding up Jeremy and Elena and heading back downstairs. Finally Nilin went back into her room, locking the door behind her this time.

"Skipping school, are we?" she heard Damon ask behind her. She turned to find him lounging on her bed, head perked up by his arm.

She made her way over to the bed."Well, look who's finally awake. How are you feeling after a night of drinking your feelings away?" Nilin asked with her own little grin.

His eyes narrowed at her. "You're going to lecture me about drinking my feelings away?"

"Oh, calm down. I'm just joking. At least I don't sneak into your house at night, drunk off my ass and nostalgic." she said, crawling across the mattress to him.

"Nostalgia is a dirty liar that insists things were better than they actually were," he said with a smirk on his lips. It made Nilin wonder if he actually remembered anything from their conversation last night. "Besides," Damon continued. "You should take that as a compliment. You were the person I was thinking of when my brain wasn't functioning properly," his lips perked up into a toothless smile.

"Awe, how romantic," she shook her head. Damon just chuckled a little before pulling her on top of him. She looked down at him, her hair cascading around their faces. His hands rested on her lower back as he looked up at her with a strange expression.

"What?" Nilin asked in a small voice.

"Nothing," he said. "I'm just happy."

Nilin couldn't help but smile. "Despite everything that's happened?" she wondered.

"Despite everything," Damon told her. "I hope I didn't get you into too much trouble," he added.

"Ah, you heard that little spat." Nilin nodded, taking some weight off his chest by bracing her arms on either side of his head.

Damon reached up softly to brush the hair off her face and tuck it behind her ear. "Why do you insist on defending me all the time?" he wondered.

Nilin gave him a little shrug. "Because, you deserve more than people give you," she tried to explain.

He just snorted as if what she said was ridiculous. "Nilin Gilbert, always digging the slivers of good out of people," Damon mumbled to himself.

Nilly locked her jaw. He could be so belligerent sometimes. "Well you know me, with every heartbeat I have left, I will defend your every breath," she promised him.

Damon laughed, flipping them over so that he was hovering over her. He was just a breath away. For the first time, Nilin noticed how dark his eyes were.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Nilin asked as her fingertips traced down his cheek. His skin looked dull and tired. "You look…"

"Thirsty?" he finished her sentence, a smirk playing on his lips. "I've been a little busy with more important things lately." He nipped at her fingers that were running across his skin.

Nilin brushed her thumb under his bottom lip, dodging his attempt to bite it. "I'm sorry," she whispered while an image of Damon's mouth stain red popped in her head.

A strange feeling came over her as she thought of Damon feeding on some random girl. She should feel repulsed by the whole idea of vampirism, but instead she felt… possessive? "Maybe you should go…" she couldn't finish her sentence again.

"Refuel?" he asked. "I think I'll survive for a few more hours." Damon said, leaning down towards her. The color of his irises was nearly pitch black, but before Nilin could pay more attention to it their lips came crashing together. His fingers interlocked with hers on either side of her head, holding her in place.

"Wait," Nilin breathed. "Are they still home?"

Damon chuckled. "They're pulling out of the driveway as we speak," he told her, kissing her neck. "There is no one around," he smirked before returning his lips to hers.

Nilin smiled, pulling her one hand out from under his and running her fingers through his hair and down his neck as the intense need to touch him came over her. Their kisses were rough and desperate, fueled by pent up emotions that had been rolling around for the past 24 hours. It was like a fist hitting drywall, that satisfying sting accompanied by a dull ache. Everything they did was volatile, neither of them knew how to be gentle.

A low growl emanated from the back of Damon's throat as Nilin bit down on his bottom lip. His hand began to travel down her body, leaving goosebumps in its tracks. She felt it slip under shirt and explore her flat stomach. Nilin's hands found their way to Damon's hair again, pulling at the raven locks.

"This is exactly why they don't want us alone together," she gasped against his lips.

He smirked against her mouth as his fingers played with the elastic band of her underwear. "What our siblings don't know won't hurt them." Damon shrugged.

With that Nilin couldn't say another coherent word as his mouth attacked hers again. Her slim fingers slipped between them and she attempted to unbutton the pesky shirt he still had on. She quickly discarded the thing, tossing it over the bed and pulling him closer to her.

She started feeling lightheaded and had to tilted her head to the side just the slightest, breaking their lips part from a moment so she could breathe. Damon was a vampire though, he didn't need to take a breather. His mouth traveled down her jaw to her neck. He placed bruising kisses on her pulse point, right where her blood surged under the skin.

A moan slipped out of Nilin's mouth as he started to nibble at the skin there. "You know, you don't have to wait," Nilin gasped out, not even realizing what her words meant until they were out of her mouth. Damon did though. Her hands, which had been exploring the sculpted lines of his chest, were suddenly pinned next to her head.

"You shouldn't suggest things you don't mean," he told the skin on her neck, his face still buried there.

A gasp escaped Nilin's mouth when she felt the sharp point of a fang scrape against her skin. If he couldn't hear her frenetic heartbeat before, he definitely could now. There was a moment of panic the shot through Nilin. The involuntary reaction her brain caused, throwing her backwards into darker memories from her time before Mystic Falls. Quickly, she dispersed it using the trick Mags had taught her yesterday. She cleared her mind, feeling the emotions of present time and not the past. This was Damon, he loved her. That didn't stop her chest from heaving underneath him though, but the more she focused on Damon, the more Nilin calmed down.

"And what if I do mean it?" she challenged, her voice breathy.

She'll admit it, in some ways this was spiteful move on her part. If Elena was going to convict Nilly for nothing, why not actually give her a reason. Nilin was tried of caring, there were too many other things to worry about— Damon and Nilin shouldn't be one of them. For once, Nilly was going to make a decision on her own accord.

Yes, she was acting on an impulse, but it wasn't as if this just popped into her head two seconds ago. Nilin had always wondered what it would be like with Damon. Her only experience with this part of vampirism involved dark hazy memories of Christian— and those were usually filed away under near death experiences.

She wondered if it was always that painful and terrible.

His body had grown rigid, but he was chuckling. It wasn't a laugh to clam her nerves, that was for sure. She could feel his raspy breath against her neck. It made it hard for her to talk.

Slowly, Damon pulled away, his hands still pinning her wrist down on either side of her head. Nilin felt her heart hammering in her chest as he looked down at her. Blood had seeped into his eyes, dull blue veins snaked out under them. His hair stuck up in all different directions and his cheeks were flushed. Viciously sharp fangs poked out from between his scarlet lips.

Nilin stared up at him, her eyes widening. This was definitely a test for her. She had to remind herself that this was Damon, and that he cared about her— loved her — immensely. This wasn't one of the monsters that crept in the shadows of her nightmares. This was Damon, her Damon. Not Christian or anyone else. Just Damon.

She'd never seen a creature as terrifying or as mesmerizing as him. Nilin knew he was trying to spook her, but all that she could think was how striking he was. "Damon, I mean it," she clarified, standing her ground. His grip loosened on her, and Nilin managed to slip her wrist out of his hold.

Cautiously, she brought her hand up and laid it on his cheek. Her fingers traced the veins under his eyes. Then they traveled down and followed the outline of his lips. The entire time he watched her, his breathing hard and uneven.

"Scary, isn't it?" he smirked down at her.

"I've seen worse," Nilin mumbled as she slowly brought his head down towards her and pressed her lips against his. It was for a moment and then she pulled away again. They locked eyes. "What does it feel like?" she whispered.

He took several deep breaths before he could compose himself enough to answer. Slowly his features were beginning to return to normal. "Like someone's rammed a hot poker down my throat," he said, with a grin. "Since the first night I saw you in the Mystic Grill, you've been killing me slowly." He seemed to chuckle a little as if that had been an inside joke with himself.

"Well, at least I'm not the only," she told him with a slight smile, watching the last of the red disappear from his eyes.

"It's like my own personal civil war," he explained. "There's the monster and there's the human. You've grabbed a hold of the human enough to push the monster away, but at the moment he wants to rip your throat out," Damon managed to say with a smirk.

"I have that much influence, huh?" she asked him sarcastically, but there was a waver in her voice that gave away her nerves.

He smirked for a moment, but then grew serious with her. "I never wanted to scare you away." Damon explained, running his pointer finger along her jaw line.

"I'm not scared now," Nilin said, slipping her other wrist out of his grip and linking it with the one behind Damon's neck.

He stared down at her, the war clearly raging on. He tried to pull away from her, but Nilin didn't let him. "You're not ready for that, Nilin," he finally spoke. She knew what he meant. He was afraid that Nilly would lose touch again and something would end up crispy.

"I'm here, Damon," she told him. "I know what's going on, I know who you are and I know that I love you. That's how I know that I'm here." Nilin smiled a little, seeing his lips perk up. "I'm getting better, despite yesterday's freak accident."

"Nilin," he pushed.

"Damon," she mimicked. "Don't tell me that you're getting all soft and moral over little old me."

His eyes narrowed because of her teasing. "How can someone be so irritating and sexy at the same time?" he wondered.

"It's a learned trait," she answered. "Listen to me, you're hungry and you're hurting because I'm an incompetent supernatural that demands your attention every waking moment of every day. The least I can do is make it up to you by tapping into a vein."

"Nilin," he went to protest but she rolled her eyes.

"Just do it," she told him. Her eyes flashed to his parted lips as she bit her bottom one nervously. She shot her eyes back up to his. "I trust you," she told the both of them.

He didn't say anything, and Nilin thought she had done something wrong, but in the next moment, he crashed his lips into hers. Nilin gasped against his mouth as an electric shock bolted through her. He was putting everything he has into that kiss, and she didn't let him off the hook either.

Her hands cupped his face and pulled him closer to her, as he pressed her into the bed. Nilin's knees brushed against his hipbone. She gave a little roll to her own hips as her hands ranked down his back, egging him on.

They both were breathing hard when Damon pulled away for a moment. "I love you, Nilin Gilbert," he told her, not a breath away. Those words interlocked with her name made her heart skip a languid beat in her chest. Before she could manage to mumble out a response, Damon dipped his head to her neck.

Nilin closed her eyes as she felt him place a kiss on to the skin there.

"Are you sure?" he said, giving her one last out. She couldn't speak, so she just nodded. "I need you to relax then, Nilin," he chuckled against her skin.

She let out shaky breath and unstiffened her muscles slowly, one by one. Damon's lips moved to her ear. "Don't worry, I'm going to do this right," he promised and Nilin felt his hand slip down her stomach. She let out a gasp as he body began to burn under his touch.

Right when Nilin thought it couldn't get any better, Damon's mouth returned to her neck. His fangs brushed against her skin again and Nilin shuddered in suspense. Then he bit down. His razor sharp teeth broke through her skin with a pop. He let out a noise of pure satisfaction, making her skin tremble. It stung only for a moment but as blood began flowing and the pain was completely forgotten.

Nilin's body hummed in delight. The feeling was something she'd never experienced before. She could feel Damon everywhere around her. She could feel everything he was feeling; love, protection, possession, wonder. These emotions flew through her as he slowly fed.

It was a clean and controlled process. He took his time, making little noises that resonated from the back of his throat. This was so new to her. It excited every cell in her body. Her eyes were closed and slow gasps escaped her mouth as he drank. Her mind was being pulled in too many directions. She didn't realize that Damon had stopped until she felt his tongue run over the area a few times.

He pressed his lips to her neck once more before pulling away from her. Then she felt him kiss each one of her eyelids. A smile broke out on her face as she opened them. "See, I told you it wouldn't that bad," she breathed out in an attempt to be funny. But her heart was still hammering and her chest was still shuddering with bliss, causing Nilin to sound out of breath.

She noticed that Damon was having trouble returning his breathing back to normal as well as he made a sound that she guessed was a chuckle. He kissed her again, before falling over on the bed next to her. A content sigh escaped his mouth and his hands quickly found her and pulled her against his bare chest.

"Thank you," he whispered into the top of her hair. Nilin nuzzled closer into him. She peeked up to find him with his eyes closed and a soft smile on his lips.

Her breathes were still coming out short but she managed to quote Virginia Woolf. "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well," she mumbled lazily.

Damon shook his head, chuckling a little. He pulled her closer, nipping at her shoulder. Before she spoke again, Nilin waited for her body to calm down. When it finally did, she rolled onto her back, using his outstretched arm as a pillow. "I'm gonna take a shot here and say that, that doesn't usually feel like that."

Damon laughed next to her, vibrating the bed. "You'd be right then."

"Any mystical reason for that?" she wondered.

"Not entirely sure," he answered her honestly. "There are stories of when vampire's feed off of certain people that they're connected to, things like that happen. It's like a mental link is formed for that split moment."

"Whatever it was, I liked it." Nilin mumbled. She felt him move and lifted her head up a little so he could slip his arm out from under it. Her head fell back on to the bed as she closed her eyes.

Damon shifted on to his side besides her as he ran two fingers over her neck. "Well, look at that," he murmured to himself. Nilin cracked an eye open. "You're not even bleeding anymore," he continued in wonder.

"I guess we can add that little talent to the list," she said. She was too happy right now to decide whether she should be concerned about it or not.

She felt Damon kiss her cheek. "Mmm, I do adore you so Nilin Gilbert." Damon hummed.

Her smile widened.

Author's Notes:

Okay, I'll admit it. This was another fluff chapter. When I wrote these I was just feeling really mushy and gushy, so I guess the romance of that showed up here. I hope you guys like it. This was a short one that tied in with the last so that's why I'm posting it so soon. Its just a quick, sweet read, trust me, there aren't going to be many of those soon. Thank you, again guys. Please review and let me know if you like this kind of stuff or not.

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Vampire Smile by Kyla La Grange (This song is one of my favorites. I strongly suggest you check it out, and also her other ones. They just fit with TVD)

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