Play Your Game

A Vampire Diaries Fanfic.

Damon Salvatore x Ashlan Corral

'For those who think Life has ended before it's truly begun.'

Song: 'Syndicate' -The Fray

Chapter 21

"The Trembling Foundation We Built"

"Bella!" I shouted, smacking her across the face when Damon let out a shout.

She stood there, stunned, and I looked over to find Damon rubbing his head but over all he looked fine now. I let out a breath I forgot I had been holding and turned to look at Bella.

"Why did you-"

She slapped me.

"Ow-"

She smacked me again.

"Just had to make sure you still had a brain." She said, smirking at me, but I just rolled my eyes and glared.

"So what, you were planning to kill my friend to prove...?"

"That you still have devotion for him. Otherwise I might've just killed him." She said with a shrug as though it weren't a big deal.

"You hurt him."

"He's a homicidal vampire, he could handle it."

I went to open my mouth to retort, but nothing came out. She actually had a point there, I couldn't really see Damon as being that hurt in the first place anyways. Looking over, I saw Damon giving me and Bella an incredulous look.

"You two, belong in a psychiatric ward." He said sharply, but I just walked over to him and frowned.

"Are you okay?" I asked, holding his face in my hands, looking for damage as I turned it side to side. He slapped my hands away and I made a whining noise before crossing my arms.

"I'm fine." He said, looking over to glare at Bella. "So why're you here? Ol-"

"Ah!" I shouted, covering his mouth and looking at him with wide eyes. "We do not use that word! Or the word I think that was going to follow it!"

He pushed me away gently, glancing at me before glaring at Bella again. I just shook my head, hoping he wouldn't take things the wrong way.

"I am here to check up on my daughter, but I can see she is definitely not out of harms way if you're still here." Bella said sharply, and I looked to the ceiling, praying for patience.

"Really Bella? That's your calm and kind speech?" I asked incredulously.

This was not going to go very well.

"I don't know if you noticed, Judgey, but I've managed to keep her alive and more or less sane. What have you done?" Damon challenged, and I could feel his hand on my back pulling me towards him.

"She is not yours to protect Damon." Bella said, but I frowned when she glared at me. "Why didn't you leave with Axel?" She asked, and my eyes widened.

"I knew it! You sent him here!" I said, pulling form Damon's grasp to walk over to her. "So what? You just wanted my Ex asshole vampire boyfriend to sweep me away to Never Never Land where we could have a civil life and no alcohol?" I asked, to which she shrugged.

"That was the idea, you weren't supposed to fall for him though." She said, nodding over to Damon who was behind me. I could feel his eyes burning holes into my back, and I frowned.

"Okay, let me make this very clear," I said, walking up to her and putting my hands on her shoulders, looking her dead in the eye. I needed to make this look real, or Damon would know. "Damon is my friend, and I love him like a friend. I will never leave Mystic Falls with Axel. I refuse to listen to you anymore either Bella." I said firmly.

"Ashi-"

"No Bella!" I said, throwing my hands down to my sides. "I refuse to leave Mystic Falls, and whatever you want me away from- too bad. It can come and it better be ready, because I'm staying to fight. And I refuse to ruin away and leave my friends."

She looked at me with raised brows, then over to Damon.

"Is she high?"

Fuck my life.

"So let me get this straight," I began as we drove in the car to Elena's. "You're actually going to come to this dance with me?" I asked, getting excited. We took Damon's car over to the Gilbert property, apparently Elena had been attacked, a vampire had been invited into the house.

"Well I guess I could, but I'm going to need you to do me a little favor." Damon said, and I raised a brow.

"Go on." I insisted.

"If a vampire has been invited into Elena's home, he's probably going to keep stalking her. We have to eradicate him before he hurts anybody else. So tonight at the dance, I want you to be extra wary of everybody. Don't go anywhere by yourself, and please for the love of god don't play the hero, you got it?" He said as we pulled up to Elena's house. I nodded, understanding what he was saying. Looked over to me and smirked.

"Good, now let's go see how much of a meltdown my baby brother is having." He said with a smirk. I rolled my eyes and shook my head, not liking where this was going at all.

"You just want me out of the Board House and away from Bella." I teased as we walked to the front door. Damon shrugged.

"She's... scary." He said, still smirking. Last night's events hadn't settled very well, and I was just thankful nobody had died. Bella insisted on staying, and before I could even ask she had situated herself in my room, insisting I sleep right next to her. Or in human words 'Don't you fucking dare sneak off and sleep in Damon's bed!'...

But...his bed was so comfy...

Screw the company, I wanted his mattress!

Damon knocked on the door, and Stefan let us in then. I gave him a weak smile, and we walked into the house. My orbs landed on Elena, she looked tense and upset. Sitting down next to her, she looked up to me and forced a smile.

"How'd he get in anyway?" Damon asked, but Elena looked to the floor.

"He posed as a pizza delivery guy and I guess Jeremy or Jenna asked him to wait inside." Elena said, and I patted her back.

"He gets points for that." Damon said, pacing around the room. "Did he say what he wanted?"

"No, he was too busy trying to kill me." Elena said through gritted teeth. I bit my tongue, preventing me from saying anything as Stefan looked up to Damon.

"You're sure you don't know who it is?" Stefan asked, a sharp undertone in his words. Damon glared back at his younger brother, rolling his eyes.

"Oh don't look at me and get all judgey. I told you we had company." Damon said, looking over to me. "And you, do you think you're up for this?"

"Of course, but how many are there?" I asked, but Damon shrugged.

"We don't know." Stefan said, making me roll my eyes.

"Well then, I've got a way to expose quite a few." I said, making all three look at me. Then Damon's eyes widened and he shook his head.

"No way in hell." He said quickly, but Elena frowned at me.

"What's he talking about Ash?" She asked, but before I could explain Damon started to talk.

"Miss Martyr here is planning on spilling some of her blood. No doubt at least half the vampires here would fall for the smell and come running." Damon said in a sarcastic tone. "Great plan." He spat, but I rolled my eyes.

"You said it yourself Damon, my blood is exceptionally good. If we can get the vampire who has been invited in to come out of the woodwork isn't that better than guessing?" I asked, but Elena and Stefan seemed hung up on one fact.

"Wait, when did Damon drink your blood?" Elena began, then glared at Damon. "Did you compel her?!" She asked, looking mortified.

"Damon." Stefan warned.

"Get over it!"

Damon and I looked at each other- did we just say that at the same time? He shook his head and glared at me.

"Don't make me send you back to Mama Witch, because I know she'll lock you in the basement for the night." He said, but I shook my head.

"He's been invited in. So either all of us stay here, or all of us go to the boarding house. Let's not forget Jenna and Jeremy. What will you do about them?" I challenged, Damon rubbing his face.

"Fine!" He said, then looked over to Elena. "What about you? Think you can act normal at the dance?" He asked, Elena just nodded.

"Great, give me a stake and we can-" I said standing up, but Stefan actually stopped me.

"You and Elena should stick together, let Damon and I handle to vampires." He insisted, and I rolled my eyes as I walked with Elena to her car. Once we were in, I whispered quietly to her.

"Y'know, sometimes I wish chivalry was dead."

"I agree."

When we got to the dance, it was already underway. I was supposed to chaperone, but I had a feeling Jenna and Ric were doing just fine. Not to mention Damon would not let me go anywhere.

I glanced at Elena, she seemed to have the same issues with Stefan, and we both nodded in silent agreement at the unsaid statement.

Yup, they were over protective alright.

Still, I found my eyes looking around the crowd, trying to find someone who at least stood out a little bit. Nobody did, so I figured if Damon and Stefan couldn't find him, I wouldn't be able to. Damon leaned down to talk in my ear over the loud music.

"You and Elena go get a drink, don't separate though." He added with a warning tone. I rolled my eyes.

"Yes Daddy." I said in a sweetheart tone, making him give me a look, but I walked over to Elena. Stefan seemed to have said the same thing to her- okay in a nicer tone- so she forced a smile at me and we both went to grab a drink.

"How are you?" I asked, Elena shrugged.

"Should I lie and say I'm fine or tell the truth and say I'm scared?" She asked with a humorless laugh. My own lips pulled into a sad smile.

"It's okay to be scared Elena, to tell you the truth I'm a bit worried too." I said, but we dropped the conversation as Caroline and Bonnie made their way over to us. I felt a little out of place- being the only one not dressed up at all. I hadn't had time- I barely managed to curl my hair before Damon threw a shirt and jeans at me before dragging me out the door.

"Hey," Bonnie said to us, smiling. We both forced a smile back, but then Bonnie narrowed her eyes behind us.

"What's Damon doing here?" She asked sharply, and I knew this wasn't going to be good.

"Easy girls, he's just here to help... chaperone." I said, shrugging it off when they glared at me.

"So what? Is this whole threesome going on with the Salvatore brothers?" Caroline asked as she turned to Elena, making me furrow my brow.

"What?" Elena asked as all three of us looked at her. "What are you talking about Caroline?" She asked, Bonnie and me looking to Caroline now. She laughed without any humor and raised her brows.

"Oh come on, he's been trailing after you like a lost puppy." Caroline teased, and I pretended not to feel a stab in my chest when Elena looked at me.

"You sure?" I asked, and I just knew I'd regret what came next, I usually did. "I think it's you who's chasing after him Caroline. Jealous much?" I challenged, my anger flailing.

I really needed to stop hanging with Damon so much, his attitude was rubbing off on me. Caroline looked at me with a frown, her eyes a little wider as she looked down at the table. Elena and Bonnie were both giving me looks, but I just rolled my eyes.

"Why are you defending him?" Bonnie asked, and I wanted to say the truth- that I wanted Damon, that he was mine and Caroline could go drop in a hole with her thoughts- but I couldn't, so I shook my head.

"I'm not- look. Just... deal with him, I can, why can't you?" I asked, and Bonnie raised a brow as though it were obvious.

Well excuse me, next time I'll let Damon bite your head off.

Bitch.

"Ash is right," Elena added, the two other girls looking at her as I looked at the table. "I mean it's not like we can kill him."

"I'd be in on that." Bonnie said, clinking cups with Caroline. I sighed, shaking my head.

Teenagers.

The night was getting kind of boring, listening to Bonnie and Caroline talk about different boys and how hot they were got on my nerves pretty fast. So when I caught sight of Damon through the crowd I decided to put myself out of my misery and went to talk with him.

"Where are you going?" Bonnie asked, following me a little bit. She glanced to Damon then, so I knew she knew.

"To talk with my friend, where else?" I asked, raising a brow when she opened her mouth.

"You do remember what Damon did to you, right?" She asked, making me frown.

"I'm not sure if you're aware, Bonnie, but I really don't care what you or anybody else thinks about Damon. He's my friend, build a bridge and get over it." I said, and she let me go. When I reached Damon, he was smirking, so I leaned against the table he was at.

"Pretty bold speech." He teased, and I rolled my eyes.

"I think it deserves a dance in exchange." I said, and he looked down at me with raised brows. I gestured to the dance floor, and he sighed before holding his arm out for me. It was mostly couples dancing in pairs right now, nothing like the clubs I had been to with Damon. Yet it was alright as my hands went onto his shoulders and his on my waist. I smiled as we swayed back and forth.

"Couldn't handle teen drama anymore?" He asked, smirking.

"Nope, being with Caroline reminds me of why I hated high school." I said, getting a little closer. His eyes were looking around the room, still searching for the predator. "Do you think he'll show tonight?" I asked, making his eyes snap down to me.

"Probably, it's the best place to snatch her." He said, and I frowned.

"Why don't you let me lure him out?" I asked, my brow furrowing. His eyes were so intense again, this strained look on his face.

"Because then they might hurt you." He said finally, the song becoming even slower. I pulled myself to him, and he wrapped his arms around me, and as I rested my head on his chest he rested his on mine. It was then that I noticed quite a few girls looking at us.

Looking at Damon.

Ah.

What would not in love me do? Hmm, I really don't want to answer that but...

"Ah, lookey here, a blonde lady this way comes." I teased, and Damon looked over to the girl.

"I can do better." He said, shrugging.

"I dunno Damon, I mean she's really pretty." I teased, actually she might be prettier than Caroline...

Fuck.

I pushed away, and Damon gave me a look.

"I'm going to go get some punch, and if you're not here when I get back I will totally understand." Despite the fact that I said this, I could feel his eyes burning holes into my back the whole walk to the bar.

When I turned around though, I saw Blondie flirting with him.

Way to go Lani, way to fucking take one for the team.

Double fuck.

"Hey Ash," Jeremy said, catching my attention as I turned to grin at him. "Want something to drink?" He offered, and I nodded. Looking around, i noticed quite a few people were dancing and...

Damon was dancing with two girls now.

"So," I said, turning back to Jeremy then. "How goes the punch serving?" I asked, Jeremy just shrugged.

"Kind of boring, but I mean, it was nice of you to trade off for me." He said with a smile, I just grinned in response. The kid was good, I think he just needed a little bit of leeway. So I figured giving him something to do would be better than him up in his room panicking to do some dumb assignment.

"No problem." I said, and just then a girl came through the crowd with a stack of cups.

"Okay, this was all I could-" Her eyes stopped on me then. "Carry..."

"You didn't have to do that." Jeremy said with a smile, but she just smiled back before looking at me. I read it as 'I want to talk with him', and suddenly pointed to the exit.

"I have to use the washroom, talk to you later?" I asked, Jeremy nodded.

"Thanks Ash."

When I walked out the exit- sparing a glance to the dance floor to find a group of girls dancing with Damon- I was shoved against the wall once it shut.

That little girl looked up at me, glaring sharply as she looked me up and down. I bit back a scream, watching as she frowned.

"You're human..." She said as though it was a surprise. I quirked my brow, confused as to what she meant. Of course I was human, what else would I possibly be?

"Yeah, uh, who are you?" I asked, and she gave me a sharp look.

"Forget this happened." She said, her pupils dilating, but I frowned and shook my head.

"Nice try chick." I said, and she jumped back a bit, growling. "Vampire huh? Tell me who did you think I was?" I challenged, and she seemed to be studying me.

"Who are you?" She demanded, but I ignored her.

"Was it Madison?" I offered, and she seemed a little surprised. "Are you involved with the vampire that attacked Elena?" I said, reaching for the short stake shoved in my pants pocket, hidden under my leather jacket.

"You're pretty smart, for a human." She said, but before I could say anything else her eyes snapped to down the hallway. That's when I saw the guy, standing there, stock still. I didn't like the odds anymore, and actually started to sweat a little.

"Can I kill her?" He asked, looking at the girl. My neck cracked from how fast it turned. My orbs bore into hers, and I dared the small Asian to attack me. She seemed to weigh her odds out in her mind, but then spoke.

"You must be close to the Salvatore brothers if you know about your double." She said, then turned to the guy. "Grab her."

I gave the girl an aneurism when she lunged for me, and she fell to the floor unconscious, the guy turning to chase me but I pulled the stake and stabbed him in the stomach. When I pulled it out and tried to stab him again though, he caught my arm. My eyes widened as he gave this wicked smirk, before I felt the pressure on my arm.

"No-no-"

SNAP

My eyes widened and I had to bite my tongue to keep from screaming.

He just snapped it- like a- like a twig!

I tried to focus, but the closest to focusing I got was one thing.

To try and survive.

Glaring, I gave him an aneurism, but just one, and he let go. I used that opportunity to turn tail and run. The door to the dance wouldn't open though, so I turned down another hall and ran like the devil himself was chasing me. My lungs hurt and my wrist was throbbing, but I didn't stop even when my body begged me to. I could feel blood gushing from my nose- probably from using my ring too much- but I didn't care.

I had to get out of there.

There had to be an exit, I didn't care if people saw me running, I just needed an-

A door.

I ran to it, but my heart sunk when I saw the chains on it. My feet kept pushing to go past it, but I did a sliding stop when I saw someone banging on the door.

Elena?

She looked at me, but then spun around. The guy was behind her, and my heart started to beat even more wildly. She ran into another door, the guy following her. Without really thinking, I ran at the door, and leaped at the glass. It gave way and I crashed to the floor on the other side, writhing for a moment because I landed on my bad left wrist. It was only when I heard Elena scream that I got back up and ran into the room Elena had prior.

She was there, and the vampire was just feet from her. He tossed a long piece of wood, looked like it belonged to a mop, and it came right at me. I caught it mid run and came up behind him. Elena screamed as he went to bite her, but I stabbed the wood through his back first.

He let out a groan, and fell over, Elena backing away.

"You missed." He said, and I yanked the wood out and covered Elena. We were backing towards the doors, the man glaring at me sharply.

"You're the reason Katherine's dead." He growled. "Madison." He said sharply. I didn't bothered correcting him, nor did either of us have the time as he ran at me. I went to stab him in the chest, but he was thrown aside suddenly.

Both Elena and I jumped when Stefan appeared, the man looking at him.

"Hey!" All of us turned to look at Damon who was standing by the door, holding his hands up in surrender. "Nobody wants to kill you, we just want to talk." He said, to which I snorted.

"Speak for yourself." I growled, glaring at him. He turned to me, his veins going wild on his face as his fangs elongated. He lunged, and had Stefan not grabbed the piece of wood from my hand I would've missed him completely as Stefan stabbed him in the gut. The guy groaned, falling to his knees right in front of me.

"Why are you doing this?" Stefan asked, and the guy looked up to him as Damon walked over.

"Because she looks like Katherine," He said, then turned to look at me. "I didn't think Madison was still alive though." He said, and I rolled my eyes before kneeling down to look him dead in the eye.

"I'm not Madison." I said, feeling like a tape recorder. Damon leaned down next to me, and I glanced at him while he glared at the guy.

"You knew them?" He asked, looking confused. The guy smirked, finding something funny.

"You thought you were the only ones with Katherine? You don't even remember me." He said.

"How do you get into the tomb?" I asked, Damon looking at me. He didn't answer, so Stefan shoved it deeper into his gut.

"The grimoire! Read Jonathan Gilbert's journal!" He said, coughing and groaning. Stefan and Damon exchanged looks as I stood up.

"Who are you working with?" Stefan asked, but the guy just shook his head. Damon made a motion towards him with his hands, and Stefan pulled the makeshift stake out and stabbed him in the heart.

"W-Wait!" Elena said as the guy dropped to the ground, turned grey. "Wh-Why would you do that?" She asked, seemingly panicked. I walked up to him and looked down.

"He had to die." Damon said, but Elena wouldn't listen.

"But he-he-he-"

"Elena," Stefan said in a softer tone. "He was invited in." He said. I looked down at the deceased vampire, and crouched a bit. So he had known Madison too? What sort of tales hadn't been told yet? I wondered what part of the story was I missing, how did he know Madison?

There was a noise outside, and we all looked up. I could see Ric's jacket as he walked away, Damon marching out the door after him.

"Are you okay?" Elena said, and I looked up to see her trembling a bit. The pain in my wrist was shooting up my arm, and it hurt like crazy, but nothing nearly as bad as that attack. It wasn't like I was dying- that slow motion suicide that I couldn't escape from.

This pain, I could live with.

"Meh, I've been better, and worse." I said, forcing a small smile. "You?" I asked, but she shook her head, fighting back tears.

"I don't know."

"You look tired." I said as I walked into his room. Damon raised a brow, looking at my tank top and shorts. My pajamas.

"Isn't Mother Witch going to start yelling at you?" He challenged, but I just rolled my eyes.

"Please, after a bottle of whiskey she's lucky if she remembers my name at all." I said with a small chuckle before lying on his bed. A wince broke out across my face as I gave a small gasp. Damon, who was lying next to me, looked over with a furrowed brow.

"What happened to your arm?" He asked, looking down at the immensely swollen arm that was wrapped.

"That asshole snapped it when he was chasing me, then he chase Elena." I muttered, looking down at it. Damon surprised me by lifting his wrist to his mouth and biting onto it. I winced at the sound of his flesh tearing, but when he held the bleeding limb to my face I looked at him with surprise.

"Drink, it'll help." He said as I skeptically grabbed his wrist with my one good hand. I gave a small like, experimenting the strange taste. It tasted good, so I began to softly suck on the blood. It dripped from his body, and continued to fall into my mouth. When the blood started to slow, I instinctively bit down. A soft groan escaped Damon's lips, and I instantly drew back and looked at him.

"I'm sorry, did I hurt you?" I asked, but he was looking at me with that intense gaze of his. Those insanely blue eyes trapping me as they locked on my own steel orbs. He gave a small smirk, leaning closer to me.

"That's funny, a human asking a vampire if they hurt them." He teased, but I couldn't smile at how close he was.

"I'm a special human." I whispered, because I was afraid to break the spell around us.

"You sure are." He said with a smirk, before pulling away to grab my broken wrist. I gasped, about to yell at him, but then I realized that it didn't hurt. Gently, he unwrapped the bandage from my arm, and I looked down at it with surprise.

"Amazing." I said, flexing my arm and finding it felt even better than new. Looking up to him, I noticed a certain mirth at my fascination in his eyes. For a moment, I wanted to just say thank you, but I felt he needed a little more than that.

"Thank you Damon," I said, before turning over to straddle him. He looked up with a quirked brow, and I smirked. "Your turn." I said with a smile, but he frowned- much to my surprise.

"I don't think that's a good idea Lani." He said, but I shrugged.

"Most of mine aren't, but I trust you." I said, and he sat up, looking me in the eye still. I pulled my shirt over my head, and he gave me a look. "You are not getting this dirty, it's Kings of Leon!" I teased, trying to ignore the feeling of his hands on the bare skin of my back.

"You're pretty crazy Lani." He said, leaning in to smell my skin. He threw himself back suddenly, the veins on his face going wild as his fangs extended. I couldn't help it, I had to touch his face, so I did, my thumbs brushing over his fangs.

"Duh, I trust you, that's crazy in it's own category." I said, and he leaned in again, his teeth running over my skin. My body relaxed in his arms as he supported me, and there was a very acute pain suddenly. After that it wasn't so painful, but strange. No matter how many times he'd bitten me, it never felt the same.

I sighed, leaning my body against his as he drank my blood. The sounds of him sucking made my heart beat a little faster, blood rushing to my face. Would it be bad to say it felt so good?

He pulled away a little bit later, bit his wrist, and held it to my mouth.

"You better drink." He said, and I did while he returned to my neck.

A moment later, we both pulled away, and I looked at that blood on his lips, and my mind raced before I could think. I leaned forward and licked them, licked his face clean. He leaned forward and took long strokes with his tongue over my neck, and I reached up when he pulled back. There was no wound, nothing to prove I had been bitten at all.

"Lani." Damon said, our foreheads touching. He looked down, then back up to me, I doing the same to his lips and then eyes. There was no doubt in my mind- I wanted to kiss him, I wanted to do more than that- but I knew the moment I did Damon would either reject me or compel me to forget. Yet I wanted to know what he felt, where he stood in all this.

Why did he have to play the hero now?

I'd much prefer the asshole who didn't care.

Fuck.

"I'm tired." I said finally, and Damon smirked at me.

"If you got tired from that, I wonder how you would react to more... strenuous exercises." He teased, but I felt the blood rushing to my face. A small smirk appeared on my face, and I leaned in to kiss his cheek.

"You're such a jerk sometimes," I said, but then continued to kiss his cheek, and then his jaw. "But you can be sweet too. I like it, all of it." I said, kissing around his ear lobe as I whispered. When I pulled back though, Damon had that same pained expression though. I had to change his mind before he tried to compel me again. So I grabbed his hand and put it on my chest, over my heart.

"Damon," I said firmly, yet softly, our foreheads touching again. His eyes wandered around for a second, before they locked onto mine. "I know it will always be Katherine, I know that you love Madison, but you have to realize, no matter what happens, no matter how much you hurt me, I will always chose you." I said firmly.

"Lani-"

"Shhh," I said, kissing his cheek again. "No matter what you choose us to be, I will always be your friend. No matter how much we fight, no matter what we might say, I will always have your back. I just want you to know, that even if you choose Katherine, Madison, Elena..." I trailed off, and he practically drowned me in those deep blue orbs. "I will always be there, because you are my important person."

"You have an awful taste in men." He said, kissing my forehead, and then he pulled me down on to him. I hugged him, playing with the hairs at the nape of his neck.

"But see Damon, that's your problem," I said, pulling away and frowning at him. "You talk like you're the most horrid person in the world, but you're not. There are probably things I would hate to know you did, and there are probably sides to you I may not have seen yet. But whatever comes my way, I want to know it. I want to know you, who you are, what makes you tick. We've all done stupid Damon, it's whether we let those things define us that counts." I said. He just sat there for a moment, and I felt a bit embarrassed. Sitting back on his thighs, I felt the blood rush to my face.

"Ah look at me, sorry, going all deep again on you. Bar talk all over again, huh?" I asked, but he didn't say anything, or move. "Sorry, I got a little too deep there, huh?"

"I can't." Damon said, making me frown. "I can't chose Lani, it could never be you."

I tried to pretend my heart didn't sink to the pit of hell then. Instead, I nodded, before getting off of him.

"I get it, really. But I still stand in the same place Damon." I said, and he gave me that upset look back before I walked out of the room. There was no doubt in my mind, it was just a game to him now. Yet I couldn't hate him, but part of me wanted to make him feel pain.

Do you feel guilty Damon, for dragging me in?

Good.

You deserve it.

Ugh, you have no idea how hard it's becoming to keep Damon in character.

At least, I hope he is, is he? I'm trying guys, but if Damon isn't and he's OOC, PLEASE let me know! I think we need a bit more bite back into their relationship now, don't you? We've got Damon having second thoughts... but what about Lani? Don't think she's going to wait around forever!

So some of you are set on Lani being Madi's reincarnate, huh? Well that's one idea I suppose, but why that? Any logic behind it?

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QUESTION OF THE DAY: What do you think Damon's thinking everytime he rejects her? If you were Lani, what would you do?