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"Damon, put me down. It's too early" I complain as Damon carries me into the Salvatore Boarding house.
"No, it's not. And we have things to do" He replies while leaving me hanging over his shoulder. I do have to say that he does have a very nice looking ass. And now we are going up the stairs and into a room. He places me onto the ground and tells me to be quiet. I roll my eyes and turn around only to see Elena and Stefan all snuggled up in bed, asleep. Well, this isn't awkward at all. Note the sarcasm.
Damon lays onto the end of the bed as Elena starts to wake up, followed by Stefan a few seconds later.
"Mmm. Good morning" Elena says to Stefan without noticing Damon and I.
Stefan kisses Elena's check and pulls her in closer and says "I could get use to this."
Yep, defiantly not awkward.
Damon decides that now is a good time to interrupt the couple. "Rise and shine, sleepyheads."
Stefan and Elena both sit up, surprised to see Damon on the end of the bed. Both of them pull the sheets up to their chin and Elena says "Damon! Please!"
"What are you doing?" Stefan asks Damon.
"Oh, stop being smutty" Damon replies to him.
I places my hand over my mouth and make a little coughing noise to get their attention. Elena and Stefan heads both turn to look at me.
"Charlie? What are you doing here?'' Elena asks me.
"Damon dragged me here" I reply.
"Seriously, both of you get out of here" Stefan exclaims as he pulls the sheets farther up on Elena.
"If I see something I haven't seen before, I'll throw a dollar at it. Now listen, we have some very important business to discuss." Says Damon.
"And it has to be right now?" Elena asks him.
"Well, we have lots to do, now that we're all friends and working towards a common goal" Damon says as he stands up and walks over so he is standing next to me. Elena and Stefan look at each other while I ask "what common goal?"
Damon looks down at me and says "getting Kathrine out of the tomb."
"Ok" I reply to him.
Damon turns back to Elena and Stefan and says "so, in order to open the tomb, we need to find the journal to get the grimoire to undo the spells. First things first, since you are Elena Gilbert, you're on journal duty."
"Since when am I helping?" Elena asks.
"Well, Stefan's helping, and you've taken up residence in Stefan's bed, ergo…" Damon trails off.
"You don't have to do anything that you don't want to do" Stefan tells Elena.
"I'll look for it tonight" Elena says then lays back down and pulls the sheets up over her head.
"Good" Damon says.
"How do we know that this journal will hold the location of the grimoire? We're really going to take the word of this vampire? He seemed like a bit of a dimwit" Stefan asks Damon.
"In lieu of any other option" says Damon.
Elena sits up and pulls the sheet down from her head as I ask "what exactly is a grimoire?"
"It's a witch's cookbook" Damon answers me.
"Every spell that a witch casts is unique unto itself, so every witch would document their work" Stefan tells me and Elena.
"Yeah. Cookbook" says Damon.
"What about our mystery vampire? Dimwit obviously wasn't working alone, so whoever's out there knows who we are" Stefan states.
"And I don't like that disadvantage, so" Damon claps his hands then continues, "chop, chop." He then starts pushing me out of the room, following after me. He pauses and turns back to Elena and Stefan. "You know, I really like this whole ménage a foursome team thing. It's got a bit of a kink to it." He then chuckles and says "don't screw it up." He then pushes me the rest of the way out of the room and down the stairs.
"Now you may go home" he says to me then pick me up and puts me back over his shoulder.
"So you dragged me here for this little team meeting?" I ask.
"Yep. Now I am going to take you home." I feel the wind rush past my face and within a few seconds, Damon is placing me on my feet in my room.
"I'll call you later" he says then he is gone. I crawl back into my bed and fall back asleep for a few hours.
After a few hours of sleep, I wake up and get dressed into ripped jeans and a dark green long-sleeved t-shirt. I walk downstairs and make myself a ham, cheese and tomato sandwich. Once I have eaten my sandwich, I go into the living room and sit on my couch. I turn on the TV and start to watch a rerun of Cheers. A couple of hours later and a few more random shows, my phones rings. I pick up my phone and look at the screen to see that it's Damon ringing me.
"Hello" I answer.
"Come to Elena's house" he says without greeting me.
"Why?"
"Because I said to, that's why."
"No, really Damon. Why?"
"Because we may have a lead on the journal and I want you here."
"Ok, I'm on my way."
"Thank you" he says then hangs up. I stand up and put my phone into my pockets. I grab my keys and walk out the front door, making sure to lock the door on my way out. Once I reach the Gilbert household, I walk straight in and go to the kitchen where I see Damon slicing tomatoes and Jenna drinking wine.
"My father never approved of anyone I dated, which only made me want them more. Of course. What about you?" I hear Damon say as I walk over and stand next to him.
"Hi, Charlie" Jenna greets me then answers Damon's question. "There were a few guys. Logan isn't the only loser I've dated."
"Did they ever find him? Or is he still missing?" I ask her as I walk over to the counter where she is sitting.
"He's not missing. He's in the Bahamas working on his tan. Very entitled, that one. Marches to his own drum." Jenna then drinks the rest of the wine in her glass. "He's a Fell. They're all snooty" she finishes.
Damon laughs and walks over to Jenna and me. He pours Jenna another glass of wine. She raises her glass to him and he turns back around to continue cooking. When he has his back to us, he says "hello, Elena."
Jenna and I both turn around to see Elena standing in the doorway. She looks shocked to see Damon there but me, not so much, she's use to seeing me here.
"Hey. Where have you been? We're cooking dinner." Before Elena can answer Jenna, Damon buts in by asking "is Stefan with you?"
"Um, he'll be here soon" Elena answers Damon's question. She then walks over the Jenna and I, she leans on the counter and watches Damon cook with a look of distaste on her face.
After dinner I am sitting on the coach with Jeremy, playing a video game that I have absolutely no idea what it is or how to play it.
"You really suck at this game" Jeremy tells me as he kills me for the fourth time.
"Well if you would tell me how to play it" I reply trying to figure the game out.
"I showed you what each button does" he says while attacking me on the game.
"Like that helps. Can't you just let me win this once?" I ask while hopelessly trying to defend myself.
"Nope" he says as he kills me once again.
"Oh come on" I say and place the controller onto the couch next to me. "I give up." Damon walks in and takes a seat next to me. He picks up the controller and tells Jeremy, "I'll play."
"Have you even played it before?" I ask Damon.
"No" he replies as the game starts.
Half an hour later, Damon is kicking Jeremy's ass.
"You said you never played this thing before" Jeremy states.
"I'm a fast learner. Quick reflexes" he replies. Jeremy's phone starts ringing and he pauses the game. He looks at his phone and declines the call. He tosses his phone onto the table and un-pauses the game. I pick up his phone and look at who he is avoiding.
"Who's Anna?" I ask him.
"Just this girl. She can be, uh, persistent." He replies without taking his eyes off of the TV.
"Is she hot?" Damon asks Jeremy.
"Yeah, yeah, but she can be weird." Jeremy tells him.
"Hot trumps weird, trust me" Damon replies. Jeremy smiles and laughs and continues playing the video game.
I sit back and cross my arms over my chest, watching them play the game. A few minutes later, the doorbell rings.
"That's Stefan" Elena says from the kitchen. Damon quickly stands up and walk to the door, leaving Jeremy playing the game by his self.
"Dude!" Jeremy exclaims.
"Relax, I'll play game" I tell him and pick up the controller from where Damon dropped it.
"But you suck at playing" he whines.
I punch him on the arm and say "just start the game."
He starts a new game and we begin playing.
About 5 to 10 minutes later, Damon walks back into the room and sits on the arm of the couch.
"So Jeremy… I heard you found a really cool journal from back in the day. Who else did you show it to?" Damon asks.
"Huh?" Jeremy asks as I say "You mean, the one Jenna gave him?"
Damon shoots me a look but says "don't ask questions, just spill."
Jeremy chuckles and say "you're kidding me, right?"
"Jer, did you tell anyone other than Mr. Saltzman about Jonathan Gilbert's journal?" Elena asks.
"Why is everyone so obsessed with that thing?" Jeremy answers Elena's question with a question.
"Who else did you tell?" Elena asks, ignoring Jeremy's question.
"Just that girl Anna" Jer answers Elena.
"The hot, weird one?" Damon asks.
"Yeah." Jer replies.
"Wait, who's Anna?" Stefan asks, butting into the conversation.
"That's what I want to know" Damon says. Elena's phone starts ringing and she excuses herself so she can go answer it.
"How do you know her?" Damon continues the questioning after Elena leaves the room.
"I just know her. She wants me to meet her at the Grill tonight" Jer replies.
"Perfect. I'll drive" Damon says and stands up.
"O-okay" Jeremy says and follows his lead and stands up as well. They both start to leave the room when Damon stops at the door, turns back to me and asks "you coming, Charlie?"
"No. I think I'm just gonna go home" I say.
"You sure?" Jer asks.
"Yea. I'm sure. I'll see you guys later." I say then stand and I walk pass them both and out the front door, leaving them both behind me. As I walk home I think to myself 'who's this Anna chick? And why hasn't Jeremy mention her to me before? He normally tells me everything. It just feels like we are drifting apart and we are not best friends anymore.'
A few hours later Damon is dragging me through the cemetery because he found out the location of the grimoire. It's buried in his father's grave with his father. As we nearly reach the grave, Damon says "well, what do you know?" I look up to see what he's talking and I see Elena and Stefan with the grimoire, standing over the grave, which has been dug out. Elena and Stefan are both startled to hear Damon's voice. They both turn to look at us.
"This is an interesting turn of events" Damon continues when they don't say anything to us.
"I can't let you bring her back. I'm sorry" Stefan says.
"So am I. For thinking for even a second I could trust you." Says Damon.
"Oh. You're not capable of trust. The fact that you're here means that you read the journal and you were planning on doing this yourself." Stefan replies.
"Of course I was going to do it by myself, because the only one I can count on is me! You made sure of that many years ago, Stefan. But you..." Damon looks at Elena and then continues, "You had me fooled." Damon has a look of hurt on his face and Elena just looks ashamed. She should.
"So what are you going to do now? Because if you try to destroy that, I'll rip Elena's heart out" Damon tells them.
"You won't do that" Stefan says. Damon nods agreeing with Stefan. Damon speeds over to Elena and grabs her around the neck. "I can do one better" Damon says then bites his wrist and forces Elena to drink from it. The next thing I know it that now Stefan has me in a chokehold and we are facing Damon and Elena.
"Give me the book and Charlie, Stefan, or I'm snapping her neck. And you and I will have a vampire girlfriend" Damon says to Stefan.
"Let her go first" Stefan replies to Damon.
Damon pulls his wrist away from Elena's mouth but he keeps the hold he has on her neck.
"The book and Charlie!" Damon says. I really wish they would come to an agreement because it's kind of getting a little hard to breath here.
"I'm not giving you the book and Charlie until Elena is standing next to me" Stefan says.
"Problem is, I no longer trust that you'll give Charlie and the book back."
"You just did the one thing that ensures that I will."
Damon nods at Stefan and Stefan says "Ok."
Stefan slowly places the book into my hands and very slowly takes his hand away from my neck. But he grabs hold of my arm so I can't walk over to Damon. Damon places his head against Elena's hair, looking like he might not let her go but then he slowly takes his arm away from her. The second Elena starts to walk back to Stefan, Stefan releases the hold he has on my arm and I jump over the grave and walk back to Damon. When I reach Damon, I wraps my arms around his waist and hold onto him. He wraps his arms around my shoulders. When I finally pull away from him, I notice that Elena and Stefan are gone. Damon takes the grimoire out of my hands and says gently "come on, let's get you home."
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