Alexandra smiled feeling Damon nuzzle in close and his arms closing around around her. "mmmm... I love you." She purred.
"you too." He said simply and kissed her neck just below the ear. "I am beginning to wish I had not agreed to stay here." Damon said, resting his head against hers as the sound of Stefan and Elena laughing and cavorting in the bedroom down the hall came to his well honed ears.
"Why?" Alex asked turning over in the bed, her leg draping over his. She couldn't hear anything.
"Because the last thing I want to wake up to every morning is the sound of my brother and Elena practicing for their honeymoon."
"Ooh." She said in an amused tone. "Now you understand why I didn't want to stay here when I first came to town. " Alexandra said with a quiet laugh. "All I could imagine was Stefan hearing us."
"And what about now?" He asked with an impish grin.
"Its not a spectator sport."
"But this is." He said and began tickling her, laughing himself as she squealed and squirmed.
"Stop it!" She gasped out between bouts of incapacitating laughter.
"Ah the joys of not being enthralled any longer." He said pulling her tightly to him although he did back off, there was a point when being tickled wasn't fun any longer.
Her laughter subsided and she slid her arms around her neck. There was something about His laughter that she found intoxicating. Perhaps it was that it had been so rare in the past, and rarer still that it was a sound associated with pleasure rather than derision or sarcasm.
She reached up and caressed his face, pulling him into a kiss. "Maybe we could be... quiet." Alexandra suggested.
"Is that possible? I seem to recall you have trouble in that department." He laughed as she swatted at him playfully.
Rebekah frowned. " I don't like not knowing where they are." She said, although much quieter than her initial protestations about Klaus just shy of a year ago..
"Nor do I." Elijah said setting aside his book with a sigh. "Its not the Salvatores and Alexandra was not yet in town."
"Who does that leave? Katherine's boogie man?" Rebekah asked as she sat down, a glass of blood in hand, and grateful that it didn't turn to sack cloth and ashes in her mouth.
"Madelena Medici." Elijah said. "Its possible. I had thought all the truly powerful necromancers were dead or buried." Only in the world of necromancy and vampires could buried and Dead be exclusive terms for any real length of time.
"Apparently your lover isn't as paranoid as we had first thought." Rebekah said rolling her eyes. " Please tell me you are through with your infatuation? Kol had told me you were pursuing Damon's necromancer. I'd almost rather it was her than Katherine."
"I love Katherine. " Elijah said. "And once this necromancer business is put to bed or we find Kol, whichever comes first, I am leaving Mystic Falls to rejoin her. I would like my family with me but I understand if you are reluctant."
Rebekah rolled her eyes. "She is using you, Elijah. She uses everyone. She says she loves you but she has also said she loves Stefan and the werewolf Mason. She's a whore Elijah and you know it. "
Elijah's eyes narrowed. "I intend to spend eternity with Katerina. You will respect that, and her even if you don't agree with it."
Rebekah sighed. "No, Elijah. I will respect you. I will pretend to accept your choice. I will never respect that woman. I'm sorry."
"And what of your football player?" Elijah asked gently.
"He's hardly MY football player."
"And I suppose that he has another lady that he prefers and that is why he came to your side to keep you company when you were afflicted?"
"I don't know why he came." She said honestly. "He's one of those genuinely good people. I suppose they are only an endangered species rather than an extinct one."
"The human race has come up in your estimation? I should thank him for that alone." Elijah teased.
"And if I let myself fall in love again, he will turn out to be as despicable as the rest."
"And if you don't he'll remain a very young knight in shining shoulder pads?" He asked. "I think you are giving yourself too much credit for the condition of his soul."
"Now you're mocking me." Rebekah said with a frown.
"No." He said. "I'm not." He worried about his sister. The others, including Kol were much less vulnerable, although in some ways Rebekah was the strongest most stable of them. "Matt Donovan is who and what he is regardless of your feelings for him or lack thereof. If you feel that he is worth your time, worth your affection then give him both. Just be aware; that young man will not ever willingly choose to become one of us. He will have the lifespan of a fruit fly. Don't waste it worrying that you might be wrong."
"I want to go back to the cabin to pick up a few things." Damon said as they finished their shower. "I'm going to get tired of only two shirts." He said.
Alex dried off and nodded. "Yeah I want to pick up some things from my workshop." She said as she pulled on Damon's discarded shirt to wear back into the bedroom and gasped seeing Alaric standing there waiting. "I'm going to put a bell on you." she told him, her hand pressed against her chest waiting for her heart to slow down.
"You could but then I would make a lousy spy." He pointed out.
"You're talking to Ric again aren't you." Damon called from the bathroom where he was shaving. "You know I'd almost be willing to be bound again just to be able to do that. Tell him I said to stop scoping out my wife."
Ric chuckled. "I can hear you all on my own, buddy. And I'm not checking out your wife."
"So what brings you here?" Alexandra asked.
"Apparently good timing as usual. Meredith has a visitor out there. A necromancer. One of Damon's older brothers." Alaric told her. "He was shot during the Founders ball invasion and she's got him out there recovering. "
Alexandra's brow furrowed. "Thank you." She said and went to sit on the bed. She wasn't sure what to make of that. It was the best place for a necromancer to heal, and Meredith probably felt guilty given what Joshua had said happened that night. Still... a stranger in her home. A strange necromancer that may or may not be the enemy...
"You okay?" Damon asked coming into the room. "Really going to have to talk to him about only showing up with bad news."
Alex laughed quietly. "I'm not sure what kind of news it was." She admitted. "Apparently Meredith has taken her necromancer friend to recover over our cemetery."
"Which is to say she has him in our home." Damon said. "And this is the guy that might be my brother. "
Alexandra nodded.
"Sounds like I should grab Stefan and we should go have a bit of a family reunion."
"Maybe we should scout him out first... find out what he thinks about vampires."
"I'm protected against necromancers. " Damon reminded her, showing the ring on his left hand.
"you are... Stefan is not." She pointed out.
"He will be when I pour some of that concoction you make down his throat. It'll be fine. But just so that you know... I've been remembering things. Nothing to do but think while slowly turning into a mummy."
She frowned a little. "What kind of things?"
"Bits and pieces. I remember an invisible friend that tried to kill me... I remember a guy that was there calling Madelena mother, I remember another man that was at Veritas just before she died. I saw that man at one of your fathers gatherings."
"Ugh those dreadful balls." She rolled her eyes. "I'd be surprised if there was a necromancer in the south at the time that you didn't see at those things."
Damon chuckled. "I want to follow a hunch, and that conveniently leads back to our house."
"Fine. But lets go without Stefan." she said and sighed when Damon gave her a look. "Stefan is easily drawn in by necromancy, and he's a vampire."
"So am I... the vampire part anyway." Damon pointed out.
"True but you started out as a necromancer. Stefan did not. Stefan wasn't supposed to be turned according to what ever grand plan your mother had."
"Meaning he'd be a slap in the face and I'm not? Probably the other way around, babe. I'm not worried about their feelings and I promise you Stefan is thick skinned. He's put up with me for quite a while now."
"Its his actual skin I would be worried about."
"Its an injured necromancer vs two vampires and a very healthy necromancer. I'll take those odds. Besides I don't want to deal with Stefan if he finds out I met one of our brothers and didn't take him along. He's sensitive that way."
Jeremy sat down in the chair across from Bonnie. "They were found." He told her. "I know that things were crazy before and you don't understand why we had to do the things we did, but I know you still love Elena. She's been your best friend forever." He said. He continued talking even though all she did was stare ahead. "She was found. Pretty much unharmed just really hungry."
The nurses had told him to just continue talking to her, tell her anything and everything, read to her, anything to try and ground her in the here and now. Of course they were under the impression that she'd had a psychotic break after being slipped an hallucinogen. Jeremy knew better.
Part of him very much resented Damon for what he'd done. Part of him resented Bonnie for what she did to Tyler and the lies and yeah siding with Klaus. That one was hard to take.
He had seen the sorrow it had caused Alexandra's family to lose Yvette. Not that she'd be any great loss to society but then again who were they to judge and that wasn't why Bonnie had done it. Yvette hadn't been her target. Avril was and she hadn't done anything wrong. Bonnie hadn't run her down to save her friends, she'd run her down to cover up the lies.
"I still love you, ya' know. I always will even if you never come out of this and speak to me again. But I don't understand. There is so much that I don't understand. I won't until you're back to explain it to me. So...find a way back okay. "
Matt looked at his watch. He had half an hour before Jeremy's visitation time with Bonnie was over. He parked in front of the grill and unbuckled, intending to go inside and grab lunch while he waited.
He paused and reversed the process, pulling out and pointing his truck in the direction of the Mikaelson estate. He didn't know what he thought he was doing. This was a bad idea on so many levels and he knew it. He didn't know if this would be considered fraternizing with the enemy or just one hell of a stupid idea but he was doing it.
He parked and headed up the walk to the front door. "Is Rebekah available?" He asked the servant who opened the door and he was shown inside.