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Ashley groaned as she heard someone make noise in her apartment. She pulled her sheets from her body and then pressed her feet on the cold floor. She winced a little from the coldness but she kept hearing noises like someone was punching the punching bags. She wanted to scream at the person as they ruined her sleep. She opened the door and got out of her bedroom with hurry. There she saw Elena who was punching and kicking the punching bag.
"What the hell, Elena?" Ashley exclaimed a little angry at the brunette who didn't stop kicking.
"Alaric gave me his key and told me I can come workout." Elena defended herself and Ashley cussed her uncle under her breath before speaking one more time.
"He probably didn't think that you'll punch the punching bags without thinking that you'll wake me up." Elena didn't stop kicking and punching the bag which drove to Ashley to the point where she lost it. She grabbed the bag out of Elena's reach and dodged a kick of Elena's.
"Ashley!" Elena protested but Ashley was too angry to even listen. "What the hell?"
"What the hell, Elena? You are working out in my apartment without thinking about the fact that it's still early in the morning and that I'm probably asleep." Ashley was still holding the bag while Elena stood in front of her.
"I've got things going on right now." Elena excused herself and Ashley gave her a scoff.
"Go then figure them out of my apartment." Elena didn't move which made Ashley raise her eyebrows at her. "Are you moving or do I need to move you?" Elena scoffed at the dark haired girl and then grabbed her stuff before leaving the apartment. She slammed the door harder than necessary which made Ashley flinch in her place. She rolled her eyes at the doppelganger who just left. Ashley shook the thoughts of Elena and went to her bedroom to catch some sleep as it was still 7 a.m.
Of course, it didn't work for her to sleep. She groaned in her pillow before deciding to wake up and do something. She was glad that she didn't have work today and she had time to prepare for the fundraiser Felix invited her. She decided to take a shower and then eat breakfast.
As Ashley was eating her breakfast, Alaric opened the door with his keys and looked at his niece from his place.
"You kicked Elena out?" He asked her and she rolled her eyes a little.
"I'm so sorry for hurting the princess's feelings when she woke me up from my sleep." Alaric stood silent and Ashley was surprised that he didn't defend Elena.
"Maybe it was her fault for working too hard." Ashley interrupted by scoffing her uncle.
"More like not caring enough." Ashley added and Alaric looked at his niece a little bit annoyed. "And it was your fault for giving her the keys in the first place."
"Fine, it was my fault." Alaric moved to the place where he kept his weapons and Ashley followed him with her brown eyes.
"So, when are you gonna ditch that ring? And when are we leaving this town?" Alaric stopped abruptly to look at his niece and by the silence Ashley knew the answer. "Really, Ric?"
"Look Ashley..." He began to say but she cut him off.
"I got it, uncle Alaric." Alaric flinched at the way she called him as she never did that. "I totally got it." She put her food down and left the room in hurry. Alaric sighed as he knew he had hurt his niece's feelings.
Ashley was looking at the dresses she was deciding to wear but she seemed in conflict as she didn't want to seem too showy in the Fundraiser that she's most likely meet Felix's parents. She started to get frustrated as she looked at the dresses.
One was crimson and it was all tight in her body with long sleeves and an open neckline. She gave it one last look before deciding that it wasn't good to wear for the Fundraiser.
The second one was navy blue. It was tight in the top but started to loosen from the hip. It was a sleeveless down and it came to her knee. Ashley hummed before looking at the other dress that was cream colored which was strapless and the frontal part of the dress went above the knee while the back part went below the knees.
Ashley was looking at the two dresses from one to another before her phone started to ring. She moved to get it and looked at the caller I.D before answering it.
"Are you coming to the Fundraiser tonight?" She heard the voice of the older Salvatore brother.
"Yes, I'm going on a date with Felix." She responded before looking at the dresses.
"I called you to warn you about Papa Hybrid. He's going to be there." As soon as Damon said those words, Ashley was reminded the call she had with Hanna a few days ago and how she told Ashley something.
"Damn it. Doesn't he have anything better to do?" Ashley bit her lip as she looked down at her dresses.
"He wants to find Stefan and get his precious coffins so he is making our lives miserable."
"Thanks for the warning. See you at the party." She was about to end the call then she decided to ask him something. "I need to ask you a question."
"Ask away, Buffy." Ashley took some deep breaths before asking.
"I don't really have girls as friends around town. I kinda had Rebekah but you know Elena daggered her. So, what color do you think it suits me better? Cream or navy?" There was as silence before Damon started to chuckle on the other line.
"You really don't have girls as friends if you are asking me." Damon joked and Ashley regretted that she even asked him that question.
"I'm regretting that I even asked you this question." Ashley was about to end the call but Damon stopped her.
"Navy, it goes with your skin tone." Ashley knotted her eyebrows at first because of his answer but then she hummed a little.
"Thanks Damon for the advice."
"You're welcome, Buffy." Ashley ended the call with a smile before she looked at the dresses. She took the cream colored dress before putting it in her closet. She looked at the navy dress one more time and she agreed with Damon that it fitted her better.
Alaric was looking at the model of the Wickery Bridge and Damon was standing beside him looking it with his best friend.
"That's the bridge where Elena and Jeremy's parents died in the car accident." Damon told Alaric as he looked away from the bridge and Alaric looked at Damon.
"Something is up with her. Elena. Something more than usual. You know what it is?" Alaric asked Damon who shrugged his shoulders. If Alaric had asked him a few weeks ago, Damon would have known but his friendship or relationship with Elena had become estranged.
"Well I'm sure it starts with a "Stef" and ends with an "an"." That was the best guess that Damon had for Elena's problems as she always had that problems these days. "I'm gonna get a drink, write a check and then we're out?" Alaric nodded and Damon left him. As Damon walked to get a drink, he was faced with something that made him stop and look in awe.
Ashley. She was wearing the navy blue dress that he recommended her to and she looked beautiful. The dress fit in all the right curves in all the right places and he was right about the whole skin tone. She was talking to a couple and of course Felix was there too smiling at her making Damon roll his eyes but he tried to get on the focus that it was Ashley. It felt wrong looking at his best friend's niece like that but he couldn't help it.
Why did he always go for the wrong girls? One was in love with his brother while the other one was his best friend's niece. Damon looked at Ashley one more time and saw that she had a fake smile on her face.
Just then, her brown eyes met his blue ones and she excused herself to go talk with him. He smirked at her as she made her way towards him.
"They hate me." She told him and he raised an eyebrow. "I think they're racists."
"Come on! what did you expect? It's Virginia and they are rich snubs." Damon told her as he moved to get a drink.
"We are living in the 21st century, not Civil War time which was of course your time and you might still be racist. Are you?" Damon shook his head and Ashley looked at Felix and his parents while Damon looked at her with a little smile playing on his lip
"What else did it make you think that they are racist?" Damon asked and Ashley sighed a little.
"His mom told me that she didn't know that I was exotic." Damon almost spat out his drink before chuckling at her.
"Well, you are quite exotic." Ashley turned to him and hit him with the purse she was holding.
"God, I really need girlfriends." She sighed before adjusting her purse noticing that Felix's parents were looking at her with raised eyebrows and she gave them a smile which they returned with looking away. "They totally hate me."
"Good luck." Damon walked away from her and Ashley gaped at him.
"Damon Salvatore, don't walk away from me." But he did.
Ashley was sitting alone in a table and she got in more trouble with Felix's parents as she never could shut her big mouth. She sighed and then bit her lip when she noticed Felix walking closer to her.
"So, that was disaster." Ashley joked but Felix wasn't smiling at all.
"Why did you hit Damon like that?" Felix immediately asked and Ashley turned to give him a questioning look. "Because my mom thought it was quite violent."
"He was teasing me, that's what we do." She told him and he frowned at her.
"We? You and Damon are a 'we'." Ashley raised an eyebrow at him and he covered his face with his hands.
"We is a pronoun that people use to replace names to make it shorter or easier. Do you need some grammar lessons?" Felix snorted a dry laugh before looking at her.
"First, you act rude to my parents and now to me." Ashley sighed a little and got up from her chair that she was sitting.
"Your mother called me exotic and she frowned after she said that. Your father asked me if I was born in U.S. You just said that I like Damon."
"I didn't say that Ashley." Felix pointed out and she looked at him with a scowl on her face.
"Yes, you did Felix." She practically hissed his name while talking to him. "You know what, this party was kinda good because I got to see what I'm getting into and I think I'm going to dodge a good bullet. Goodbye Felix."
He didn't say nothing at all, he only looked away from her and Ashley walked away. She walked in a room with more people and she regretted it when she heard a voice which dripped British accent.
"Lover's quarrel?" She heard Klaus's voice from behind her and she turned to him. Her mind immediately going to her perky blonde friend in New York.
"I don't think we were lovers or will ever be. Now, if you'll excuse me." Klaus prevented her from leaving with his body which made Ashley sigh in frustration.
He gave her a smile that she found both annoying and charming as he looked at her. "To tell you the truth, I think Damon was a big problem in your relationship with that boy."
Ashley scoffed at him before she spoke. "Damon wasn't a problem."
"But he was, Ashley. When the three of us were on his house together, I saw the looks that you two shared. The good thing here is that you both feel something for each-other." The dark haired girl gave him an annoyed look before scowling a little.
"I thought your work in town was to be the big bad villain, not a therapist." Klaus chuckled at her words before smiling at her.
"You know, I ask one of my hybrids to do some research for you Ashley. He found interesting things. Both parents gone, your older brother was kidnapped and then killed alongside your father while your mother died of tumor. Your only family is Alaric over there," He pointed out to her uncle and she looked the way to see her uncle talking to some woman she recognized as his doctor when he had the ring problem. "and grandparents in California. Lovely couple, according to my hybrid." Ashley felt like she was losing her breath thinking all of the worst scenarios that he could have done to her grandparents. "Don't worry he didn't do anything to them. they're going to die sooner or later." Ashley controlled herself not to slap Klaus after what he said to her. "But I never knew you were half Sanchez."
"What does that mean?" She asked him and Klaus raised an eyebrow quite in shock that she didn't know.
"Your mother is Violet Sanchez, the daughter of Alexander formerly known as Alejandro Garcia and Susana formerly known as Renata Garcia."
All Ashley could think was other lies. More lies from her family coming to her since she moved to Mystic Falls and it was driving her crazy. She wanted to scream and talk to her uncle.
"Who moved in the U.S from Columbia in 1968. Two years before your mother was born in California." Ashley tried to pretend that these news were old to her but she then remembered that her emotions had already betrayed her.
"Why is this important?" She asked him and Klaus smirked at her.
"All in due's time." He walked away from her and Ashley wanted to follow him so she could punch him and get some answers but she knew that she's not going to get them from him.
She went to find her uncle but both him and the woman had disappeared something. Ashley ran a hand through her hair running the curls as she felt so overwhelmed by the thing that just happened with Klaus.
"Hey." Damon walked towards her and she turned to look at him. "Have you seen Stefan?"
"Stefan is here?" Ashley asked with a raised eyebrow giving Damon the answer. He didn't say anything, he only pulled his phone out and Ashley guessed he was calling Stefan. Ashley heard Stefan's voice on the other side of the phone but she couldn't make the words.
"Why the hell do you have Elena's phone?" She knew immediately that there was trouble waiting them. She then heard Elena yell through the phone and Damon's eyes showed concern. "Stefan, leave her out of this." Just then, Ashley heard the phone get ended and she knew it was Stefan.
"What is going on?" She asked Damon and he turned to her.
"Have you seen Klaus?" She pointed to the direction and Damon nodded at her. "Take a cab and go home, okay?" Ashley gave him a curt nod and Damon walked away from her while she got out to go to her apartment.
"Ric, this is my fifth time calling you. Please pick up, I need to tell you something important." She ended the voicemail and let out a sigh. She slumped in her bed and typed 'Columbia, Garcia' but she got nothing. She looked down to her pyjamas before looking at the laptop.
"Why are you searching Columbia for?" She heard a voice behind her which made her jump from her the couch and almost drop the laptop. She turned to see Damon with his feet on the coffee table now.
"Warn me before you speak." Damon gave her a questioning look and she rolled her eyes. "You know what I mean."
"I don't but I'm just going to get that behind us. So, why are you searching for Columbia and the surname Garcia?" Ashley sighed before looking at Damon.
"Well, Klaus did some digging of my life and he found out that my mom's real surname is Garcia, not Sanchez. My grandma who I thought was named Alexander Sanchez was in fact Alejandro Garcia and my grandma who I thought was named Susana is in fact Renata." Damon seemed to be shocked with the news as he parted his lips a little.
"I don't know what to say expect that Klaus knows how to dig up dirt on families." Ashley gave him an annoyed look and Damon just shrugged her shoulders
"I was thinking about asking Alaric about this but he might juts be clueless because he really doesn't know my grandparents."
"Alaric doesn't know anything, he tends to tell a lot when he gets drunk." Ashley chuckled at that and Damon smirked at her. She closed the laptop and put it in the coffee table.
"What happened with Elena?" Ashley asked sitting better in the couch and supporting her head in her arm.
"Stefan threatened to kill her in the same bridge that her parents died and where he saved her." Ashley raised an eyebrow and thought that what Stefan had intended to do was horrible.
"That's just horrible." She said and Damon gave her a surprising look. "What?"
"I didn't know you could show sympathy towards Elena." Ashley tilted her head and let out a laugh.
"Elena pisses me off cause she makes herself the victim all the damn time and she clearly plays with both you and Stefan."
"She doesn't trust me. Katherine played with us, she didn't even bother to hide it."
"Katherine didn't care that she was using you too and she knew that she was doing something bad, she knew she was ruining yours and Stefan's relationship but she admitted that she was doing it while Elena for example is doing the same thing but she's not admitting it. She's stringing you both, maybe not right now as Stefan pretends not to care about her but she did when he was with Klaus and I'll bet she did it before." Damon didn't speak at all for a few minutes and Ashley tried to catch his eye but he wasn't looking at her.
"Every time, I talk to her or even look at her I think of you and your annoying words." Ashley chuckled and Damon finally looked at her.
"I'm known to ruin romance. My best friends don't watch romcoms or anythings with romance because of me."
"What happened with you and Felix tonight?"
"We broke up." Ashley revealed to her and Damon raised an eyebrow at her. "He was pissing me off. He was even jealous of you." Damon raised an eyebrow at her and Ashley anticipated what would he say.
"Can you really blame him?" Damon smirked at her and did his usual eye thing.
Ashley scoffed at him but then she looked away. "It was good to break up with him. You know, I wasn't feeling the chemistry with him."
"The chemistry?" Damon asked with a smile on the corner of the lips.
"Shut up." Ashley told him and she began to laugh a little. When she looked at Damon's blue eyes, she was lost in seemed so filled with joy in that moment and that made her heart swell into place. She then noted that he was looking at her too. There was something about the way that they held their stares that made her shiver a little. They way his blue eyes watched her like he was trying to know every fiber of her.
And that was to Ashley, chemistry.
I'm really sorry for the short update but I promise the next one will be a long update as Ashley is going to see her grandparents and ask them about the whole Garcia thing and don't worry there will be moments with Damon in the next chapter. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and thank you for the favorites and follows.
NicoleR85: She's going to confront him about the matter again in the later chapters as it becomes an issue with her.
SomebodyWhoCares: I'm really glad that you liked that Ashley stood up to Alaric. Yes, Dean Winchester is a fine man and he could give the TVD boys a run for their money (no offense to my TVD boys but let's be honest). If Ashley met Dean because of him travelling another dimension, I don't think we would have Ashley with us anymore.
beautifulwhiterose: In this chapter, Damon would start to see Ashley's point of view and see that she is actually right but you shouldn't forget that you have Rebekah even though she is daggered.
Adela: I'm glad that you loved the chapter and I hope you'll enjoy this one too.
galwidanatitud: Amen to that!
BlueBloodsSVUOrder: Here is the update!
Ray: Well, the ending in this chapter will be even more exciting. Here is the update!
P.S. I have another story about TVD and it's called 'More Than Vampires'. Some of you are maybe reading it and some maybe aren't but I would love for you to give me some reviews and tell me if you like it or not, the choice is yours.