Chapter 13

Elena

Damon didn't lie. I woke up the next morning held tightly in his arms. I smiled and closed my eyes again enjoying the feel of our bodies touching like this. He was behind me spooning me with his strong arms wrapped around my waist. My butt was pushed into his groin area and my mouth opened slightly feeling he was hard against me. It made me think of us as a much more intimate couple. The closer we got the closer I wanted to be. Damon was sweet to want to go slow but I was never a patient girl.

Besides the fact that my boyfriend is probably the hottest man on the planet and my hormones are going crazy. I just want to be close to him as close as two people can be. I want to give him everything all of me. I read some of Bonnie's journals and stuff about vampires last night. Damon was right about the vampire bite being intimate with someone they loved. Exchanging blood was another form of intercourse seemingly. I wanted to do that with him too. I was just going to have to figure out a way to convince him it was alright. I know he would be worried because of what Stefan did to me. But I know it wouldn't be like that with Damon.

I fell asleep to fantasies of him making love to me but they quickly merged into fantasies of him biting my neck. We were on his vampire bed in his room at the boarding house. I was wearing all white and when the blood spilled down it was a beautiful sexy red on the white silk and lace. I had never thought of blood as sexy before until that image flashed into my mind.

"Good morning beautiful." He whispered in my ear causing my heart to flutter. I didn't even hear him wake up I was so lost in reliving last nights dreams.

"Hi." I whispered turning my body so I could kiss him. He kissed me back deeply his arms still hooked around my waist. I easily wrapped my legs around him pressing myself into his erection.

"Oh Elena." He moaned. "Your going to make me lose control."

I started kissing him feverishly my vivid dreams from the night before fueling me further. I reached for him under his boxers and he moaned low surprised my sudden action.

"Shh." I hushed him with a secret smile on my face.

"Is my girl always this horny in the morning." He mumbled rolling us over so he was on top of me kissing my breasts over my tank top.

"After I had erotic dreams about you all night I am." I said in a low whisper pulling him back down to my lips again.

"Do tell." He murmured sucking on the side of my neck. I felt myself grow wet at how close this was to the dream I had of him biting me.

"Well." I said surprised at how confident I felt. I should be nervous confessing my sexual fantasies to him but I wasn't.

"I dreamed of you making love to me in your bed at the boarding house." I started.

"Mm." He murmured continuing moving from kissing my neck to kissing my breasts lowering the tank top down to reveal more skin as he went. "What were you wearing?"

"Just white lingerie." I said smoothly.

He hissed and bit my nipple slightly almost causing me to cry out in pleasure.

"I've had a similar fantasy of you." He said huskily running his hands down my stomach and towards my panties.

"I want to make it come true." I said stopping him in his tracks.

"Tonight." I added staring into his eyes.

"Elena." He hesitated speaking in a low tone. "I want to make sure you're ready..."

"I am. Your my soul-mate Damon. I love you. I have never been more sure of anything. " I promised.

"I know angel." He said laying back unto the bed next to me and pulling me into his arms. "But we have time your still so young."

"I'm almost 18." I augured. "We don't know what kind of danger our future might hold. I don't want to waste any time we have. I want to be all yours in every way that counts Damon."

His eyes widened with love and he smiled softly shaking his head in slight disbelief.

"God and the devil know I don't deserve you." He murmured. "How did I get this lucky?"

"Your all wrong. Your my other half Damon, of course you deserve me." I smiled. "And you're the one who made sure of that too."

"Elena baby, did you just say myself, the devil and god are all wrong?" He smirked.

"Stop changing the subject." I said raising my eyebrows.

"Elena..I just really want to make it special for you. That room doesn't have good memories for you."

"It's the room we connected again and the room you found me again in. I won't let him taint us." I said somberly.

"Elena, if this is what you want and you're sure you're ready I'm not going to deny you." He said kissing me softly.

"Tonight." I smiled peering into his eyes which were full of love and passion.

"Tonight." he promised.

I could hardly contain myself all day. I was anxious about opening the tomb but my mind was on Damon and what lay ahead for us later tonight. I couldn't stop daydreaming about it. Maybe I should have waited to ask him until after we opened the tomb, I wondered as Bonnie snapped her fingers at me.

"Pay attention." Anna said standing up the rest of us all sat around the kitchen table.

"This needs to go off without a hitch." Anna continued.

"How can I help?" Jeremy asked coming down the stairs.

"Jer I don't want you in danger." I said quickly.

"He hurt you Elena. Your my sister. I am going." Jeremy said firmly taking a seat next to Damon who turned and nodded at him with a hint of a smile on his face.

"Your just one more human to have to keep an eye on." Anna snapped in a cool tone. She was always so upbeat and chipper. I had never seen her act so cold.

"I don't care. I'm stepping up." He said looking at her intently. She avoided his gaze and glanced at Damon.

"Your problem." She said.

I flashed her a surprised look but she avoided my gaze too.

"So Jeremy can just go with you two then." Anna said dismissively.

"Bonnie, Sheila and I will 'meet' Stefan and Liz in the woods and go to the tomb. Damon, Elena and Jeremy can meet us from the other direction. Damon you rush in once we open it and beats Stefan down enough so he cant get out then run before Sheila and Bonnie shut the seal again. I'll worry about my mother." Anna hammered out the details in a businesslike tone.

"Liz and everyone else is just back up be ready to shoot any other tomb vampire with vervain and scream if they get out." Anna directed. "They shouldn't though. They are all mummified."

I didn't like the idea that I was nothing more then a back up. I nodded casually knowing if I needed to get in that tomb for Damon I would.

"Everyone underatand the plan?" Damon asked in a serious voice. "Elena? No going in the tomb okay."

"If I don't need to I won't." I half promised.

He gave me a waning look but I shrugged it off. Damon had to get out before the seal closed. I would do what I had to do to make sure that happened.

"I'm going to." Caroline said in a firm voice. "My mother might need me."

"Another human?" Anna groaned. "These are starving vampires here you guys."

"It doesn't matter. I'm going." Caroline said firmly. "Safety in numbers."

"That's true." I nodded. I didn't want to leave Jer outside alone if I had to rush in to get Damon.

"God I hope this doesn't go to hell." Ana groaned stepping outside.

"Elena." Damon said in a warning tone. "We need to talk about this plan."

"I understand the details." I said quickly.

"You stay outside." He said in a harder voice then I had heard before.

"I will try Damon." I said. "But if your in danger..I can't just do nothing."

"I will be fine. I promise. In and out. No reason for you to follow me. Please, I won't be able to focus if I think your in danger." He begged his voice softer.

"Okay." I said kissing him softly. I wasn't really promising him anything just acknowledging his concerns but he didn't need to know that right now. Hopefully everything would just go smooth and it didn't come to that.

"What's wrong with Anna?" Bonnie asked in whisper joining us. "I thought I got through to her last night."

"She's shutting it off so she can focus." Damon explained. "She's nervous and she can't handle nerves. This is how she deals."

"We just have to follow the plan and everything will be fine right?" I asked biting my lip.

"It's witches and vampires and century old spells. No one can really predict what's going to happen." Bonnie said in a wise tone.

Damon and I walked quietly with Caroline and Jeremy behind us. We were all armed with stakes and a bunch of vervain darts which is a herb that' poisonous to vampires. My heart was racing. I hoped Stefan would be down near the tomb and I wouldn't have to actually face him. Though part of me wanted to just to slap him or spit on him.

Damon hushed us as we got near the large hole in the ground. I could hear Bonnie and her grandma chanting a strange light surrounded the area. I could hear Stefan yelling at them to hurry.

Damon was crouched down ready to rush in directly after Stefan. My heart was racing widely. I suddenly had an urge to call this whole thing off and stop this.

Opening ..destiny..you cant stop it.

The strange thought popped into my head without warning but the tomb was open and Damon was gone in a flash before I had time to figure out what that was.

Damon

As soon as the door opened I ran. I heard Anna shuffling around for Pearl so I acted quickly slamming Stefan against the side of the hard stone wall.

"Damon let me get to her." He spat out pushing me back.

"You'll find her in here eventually" I said sticking a stake into his stomach. He lurched forward but stood up pulling it out.

"Hurry." Bonnie yelled. "We are losing strength."

"Damon come out!" Elena screamed running to the entrance. "Please."

I slammed Stefan back again just as someone grabbed my foot. I kicked his hand off my ankle and raced after Stefan who was running towards the entrance.

"Oh Elena." Stefan sniped, "Long time no see. You want to take her place don't you? Make sure I don't rescue her, Your just as cruel as him." He drawled.

"Go to hell!" Elena yelled sticking a syringe of vervain into his chest and spitting at him.

"Whoa." I said impressed and a little turned on.

Stefan fell backward and I grabbed him throwing him far back into the cell then running for the door and into Elena's relieved arms.

Pearl and Anna raced out afterward and Pearl started on a blood bag.

"Close it now grams." Bonnie said and they resumed chanting. Stefan ran up to the seal just as it locked again and fell backwards when he tried to leave.

"No you can't leave us in here." He begged. "You can't Damon. You can't leave Katherine and I to rot."

"I'm not." I quipped. "Just you."

"What?" He said his eyes confused and unfocused.

"Kathrine's not in there." I laughed. "She never was. Saw her 2 years ago in Chicago. She asked about you."

"What?' He gasped.

"Later brother." I smiled closing the large cement door.

"Your the doppelganger." I heard Pearl gasp.

"I know." Elena muttered.

"Listen Pearl Katherine can't know about her." I said stepping protectively in front of Elena.

"No, no, no." Pearl muttered. "It wasn't supposed to happen for years and years."

"It is 2009." Anna said softly. "You have been in the tomb for a long time."

"What isn't supposed to happen?" Elena asked.

"I'm sorry Damon." Pearl said and I was thrown back in a flash.

"No mother!" Anna said ripping Pearl off of Elena.

I was back up fast adrenaline coursing through my body I pushed Pearl hard against a tree and held a stake towards her heart.

"No Damon, please don't kill her." Anna begged. "I'll kill you or Elena if you do. Let's not do that to us. You are like one of the only family that I have."

"She has to die." Pearl hissed. "She'll destroy us all."

"What no she wouldn't she's not like Katherine." I hissed. "She's the opposite."

"You don't get it." She said fighting against my grip she was weakened from her years in mummification with so little blood. I wouldn't get this chance again if she was a threat she had to be eliminated.

"She is a pure soul an angel. She wouldn't destroy anything or anyone." I said.

"Except vampires." Pearl yelled. "Your destiny is calling to you do you hear it? "

"Tell me." Elena said firmly looking cautious and guarded but still strong.

"You have the Petrova fire." Pearl commented.

"What?" Elena asked.

"What is your last name?" Pearl asked. "Is it Gilbert?"

"Yes." Elena said her eyes narrow.

"Get to it." I threatened pushing the stake slightly into her skin.

"Damon." Anna said in a cold voice. "Kill her and I kill them all. I'm not bluffing."

"Elena is the one, the blood of the scorned family mixed with the blood of the scorner will create a perfect doppelganger of exact likeness but opposite disposition." Pearl quoted. "When this girl comes to be be 18 a decision will be handed to her to end the feud and finally acquire justice."

"What?" I asked.

"Its a prophecy." Pearl said. "One Katherine quoted to me several times the night before we were all captured. Katherine's real name is Katerina Petrova. In the early 1400's she was engaged to be married to the original Jonathan Gilbert after becoming pregnant. Despite the controversy he loved her very much. She promised the suffering family notoriety and great wealth for handling the situation so gracefully. But Katherine had different ideas and shipped the baby away to wealthy family secretly after she was born. Johnathan was bedside himself when he found out the truth. She ran and was gone for days when she returned it was in the middle of the night she had drained him of all of his blood. She didn't tell me whether or not she did it on purpose or how and why she turned."

"Please remove the stake from me. I won't kill her. Hopefully you will when I finish the story." Pearl snapped suddenly still weak and unable to handle the pain in her chest.

"Never." I said gazing into Elena's wide eyes. I slightly lessened the pressure allowing Pearl to continue.

"The Gilbert family were also proficient vampire hunters. They knew their son was killed by a vampire and they knew by Katherine's hair and makeup on the bed and on his body that it was her. This invoked the wrath of a great witch. Someone who had watched the Gilbert's and helped them throughout the years. The witch cursed Katerina promising a doppelganger in the future born of both Petrova and Gilbert blood. On her 18th birthday she will be given a choice should she accept this choice she will embark on a path to end the vampire curse all together." Pearl finished looking directly at Elena's frightened eyes.

"I'm a Gilbert but not a Petrova." Elena shook her head. "My mother's maiden name is Sommers."

"Clearly your family has a few secrets." Pearl said.

"Do you understand?" Pearl asked looking from Damon to Anna. "If she ends the curse we all die as we should be."

"I won't ever do it!" Elena exclaimed. "Never, not all vampires are evil. I know that. I will refuse the choice."

"Their will be repercussions if you do." Pearl said. "I know not what they are just that they will be severe not just for you but mankind itself."

"I don't care. I will never let the man I love die." Elena said firmly.

"She won't." I assured her stepping past Pearl and over to Elena holding her tightly against me.

"Elena is not a vampire hunter like her family. You can trust her." Anna added. "We can help her get through whatever comes when she denies the choice. Please mother trust my judgment. She is not selfish like Katherine."

"I cannot entertain anything right now. I'm fatigued and I need to rebuild my strength." Pearl said weakly.

"No." I said leaving Elena and walking up to Pearl the stake back in my hand.

"I can't let you leave and re-fuel so you can come back and kill her." I said my voice hard.

"Your asking me to trust the girl who could kill us all." Pearl groaned.

"Katherine locked you in this tomb on purpose." I said causally. "She told me all about in Chicago. She said to fake her own death. Never told me why though...funny how she knew Anna would come open the tomb and you would see Elena..take care of her little problem for her so she can continue gallivanting around without a care in the world."

Pearl's eyes darkened and she looked off for a minute, "She planned this."

"Yes." I nodded.

"She wanted me to kill Elena." She added.

"Of course she did. She doesn't want whoever she's running from to know she's alive but she still has her pawns and if the pawns have to suffer for 145 years whatever.. right?" I smirked.

"I'm not doing things her way." Pearl said in a harder voice.

"The curse is not known by many but the ones that do know of it are dangerous." Pearl said. "If they find out Elena is here they will want to kill her. They will not stop to listen to reason."

"I know." I said stiffly. I would do whatever it took to protect her.

"Elena certain vampires hunters know of the curse too. They will make demands of you. They will hunt you down attempting to ensure you do this. If you refuse to they will come after you." Pearl said looking at her.

Elena stood up straighter and took a deep breath.

"I won't destroy the vampires. I think Damon and I would rather deal with being hunted down by humans then vampires. If I get the word out that I won't do this maybe more vampires will stand with us." Elena suggested.

"No." Pearl advised. "No one knew the exact time you would surface but Katherine apparently...That fact was kept hidden. Don't alert anyone to your presence earlier the need be."

"This means Katherine already knows about Elena." Anna said looking nervous.

"I doubt she'll get her hands dirty unless she needs to." Pearl said smoothly. "Let's just keep my identity quiet and hope she doesn't find out what you have gone and done to your brother this time."

"He deserved it." I said glaring at the cement door.

Elena

Everyone had separated and went home after the tomb incident. Anna took Pearl to the safe house deeming it unsafe now in Damon's eyes. I hoped we could trust her but I was a little scared. I trusted Damon and Anna but Pearl I hardly knew. As far as she saw it it was her life or mine.I decided I would need to convince her she could trust me. It was the only way to keep her on my side and away from Katherine's.

It was nice to be back in my room again with all my stuff. I looked through my underwear drawer and finally found the white lacy garment I had dreamed about wearing for Damon. I bought this with Caroline on a dare once at Macy's. But ever since I bought it I always imagined wearing it someday.

Despite the anxiety over the revelations tonight I was excited. It was almost a relief in a way at least now we knew. So we could prepare. I just wanted to worry about all of that tomorrow and just be with him tonight.

I put the lingerie on and left my hair down and straight putting a simple white summer dress over the silk slip with a see through lacy top. I sat on my bed impatiently waiting for him to show up and come get me. Hopefully Pearl's revelation tonight didn't make him want to stop or slow down our plans.

I heard my a tap on my window and smiled widely.

"Can you let me in baby?" He asked.

I nodded and quickly got up and unlatched the window.

"Come in." I said he hopped into room soundlessly.

"You look beautiful Elena." He said wrapping his arms around me.

"Where did you go?" I asked.

"I had to talk to Pearl and Anna alone." He said grimly.

"You don't trust Pearl." I guessed.

"No I don't." He said his mouth set firm. "It puts me in a bad place because I do trust Anna."

"We just have to be careful I guess. In the mean time I'll try to convince her she can trust me." I sighed.

"You stay away from her." He warned. "Don't tempt her with your presence all the time. We'll figure this out."

"How?" I asked.

"I'll come up with a plan." He said. "You won't like it so it's up to you if you want me to tell you about it."

"You can tell me anything." I said somberly. "No matter how bad."

"I'll need to find a way to kill her that doesn't implicate me." He said honestly. "She is a threat to you so she can't live."

"I don't know Damon she seems willing to work with us at least for now. Just wait a little while okay? We might need all the allies we can get here. If the vampires that know about the curse find out and come after me we're going to be outnumbered." I reminded him.

"I can't promise I can wait long. I really don't trust her she was Katherine's best friend." He said.

"But Katherine betrayed her." I pointed out."Plus Anna is very convincing. Just give it time please for me?"

"Fine but I'm watching her." He grunted.

"So are we sneaking out to the boarding house?" I asked casually changing the subject.

"If you're absolutely sure your ready." He asked again.

"Yes Damon." I said kissing him enthusiastically. "Let's go."

"What about Jenna?" He asked.

"She's out, I told her I would be at Bonnie's tonight."

"So the window entrance wasn't actually necessary?" He asked cocking his head to the side with a little smile.

"No but it was really sexy." I smirked kissing him passionately.

I squealed a bit when he scooped me up and started to my window.

"Your going to love this then." He said diving out the window with me in in his arms.

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