Alright, I know it's been a long time since I've updated. I got into a little writing block. Rrrggg…
Hope you like it! Please review!
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"Klaus?" Shaylee asked, shocked.
A pair of black boots emerged from the shadows. First his feet, then his legs until all of him became visible, even the stupid smirk on his face.
"Yes Love. Great deducing skills." He commented, his accent would have been very attractive if he hadn't been wanting to kill her.
"why are you doing this? Just to break a damn curse of the sun and the moon?" Shaylee exclaimed angrily.
"Because, that's not all the curse is." Klaus told her, smirking. Shaylee eyes grew wide and she ran, quickly up the stairs.
She headed to the right, going up another level, but there he was, in front of her. Shay gasped, and ran down the level and to the left stair case, running up it, but there he was, suddenly in front of her. Shaylee shrieked and turned, running down to the lower level.
"Alright love, this has been fun, but I'm bored." Klaus told her, zooming in front of her, making her scream. His face morphed into a vampires as he opened his mouth, showing his sharp teeth and black veins under his eyes.
He thrust his head forward in one fluid motion, biting into her neck.
"That's what you get." David's voice rang out mockingly.
"NO!' Shaylee screamed as she sat upright in bed her chest heaving, gasping for breath, her heart feeling like it was going to burst.
Damon heard Shay's scream and was immediately upstairs, looking around the room. Nobody was there. He immediately went to Shay's clammy body.
He sat beside her and brushed her hair back from her forehead, feeling how cold she was, and her breathing hard and uneven.
"Hey…" He said softly. Shay shook her head and ran her hands over her face, calming down from Damon's touch.
"Nightmare." Shaylee told him, shaking her head. Damon sighed and furrowed his eyebrows. "Sorry, did I wake you?"
Damon shook his head, his eyebrows still furrowed, concern written all over his face. Shay didn't have nightmares…ever.
"No, I was already up." Damon told her. He had called the man about putting the deed in Shay and Elena's name, though he was iffy about putting it in Elena's. He trusted Shay.
"You alright?" he asked concerned as he did a once over on Shay's body. Shaylee took a deep breath and nodded, collapsing back onto the pillows.
"Fine. Just a bad dream." she told him honestly. Damon nodded and leaned down to kiss her, but she laughed quietly and hid her face in the covers.
Damon." She complained laughing.
"C'mon." He said, moving closer suggestively.
"No, I have morning breath." Shaylee complained but Damon wasn't taking no for an answer.
He pulled the sheets down, and kissed her deeply. Shaylee kissed him back, wrapping her arms around her neck. But what turned into a sweet good morning kiss, quickly turned into something else.
Shaylee and Damon were kissing more passionately and deeply. Their tongues intertwining. Damon's hands running up Shaylee's body, moving his body directly over hers as Shay ran her hands threw his hair.
"Mmm…no morning breath." Damon teased her. Shaylee laughed softly and kissed him harder as Damon's hands traveled up under her tank top.
"Damon…" She breathed as he moved down to kiss her neck. Shay gasped, arching against him.
"Shouldn't…I be getting ready?" Shaylee said, her breathing staggered.
Damon nodded.
"Mmhmm." He told her, still kissing her neck.
But a knock on the door separated them.
"Alright, cut it out. Mr. Henry's here about the deed. Elena's already downstairs waiting." Stefan told them.
Damon rolled his eyes and continued kissing Shay's neck.
"Seriously. Save it for the honeymoon." Stefan told them teasingly. Shaylee laughed and Damon rolled off of her.
"We still haven't decided." Shaylee reminded him. Damon nodded.
"You pick the date, I'll pick the place." Damon told her. Shaylee narrowed her eyes at him.
"Mmkay. I'll trust you with this." Shaylee told him. Damon grinned and kissed her quickly before getting off of her, already knowing where they were going to go.
"I put some of your clothes in the dresser." Damon told her as he headed out of the room. Shaylee smiled and got out of bed.
She just couldn't shake that dream though… what had it meant? The curse wasn't just breaking the sun and moon curse? It was more? And what the hell was David doing there?
Shay walked to the dresser and opened it, taking out her grey knit sweater dress, black leggings and a big black belt to put around her middle. She paired it with black cloth boots that went up to her calves and Isobel's chunky necklace.
She ran her hands threw her hair, leaving it wavy. She quickly ran the eyeliner across her top and bottom lids very lightly and put on the mascara, making her eyes look huge, and eyelashes look long and thick.
As she headed downstairs, the deed was all ready for them to sign.
Stefan and Damon were waiting outside until it was finished being signed.
Shay smiled as she saw Bonnie there. Yep. There was a friendship that no one expected to ever blossom.
"So this place is all yours? They just gave it to you?" Bonnie asked confused.
"For now." Shaylee told her as she signed the deed. "Being owners, we're the only ones that can invite a certain type of person in."
"Your own personal safe house?" Bonnie asked. Shay and Elena nodded.
"Essentially." Shaylee agreed with her.
They all settled up, and Mr. Henry was ready to go with the deed.
Shaylee opened the door and thanked him, smiling along with Elena.
Shaylee and Elena turned, but winced.
Damon and Stefan immediately followed, but couldn't get in.
Shaylee and Elena turned around, smiling guiltily. "Sorry, I completely forgot."
"would you like to come inside my house?" Elena asked him, smiling brightly.
"I would love to." Stefan told her, walking into the house. Shaylee looked at Elena, and narrowed her eyes, knowing she wasn't going to invite Damon inside the house.
"What are we? 12?" Damon asked.
"one of us is." Shaylee told Elena pointedly.
"Damon, would you like to come inside your house?" Shaylee asked smirking. Damon nodded and walked inside, making a big show of wrapping his arm around Shay, and kissing her passionately. Winding his hand into her hair, one of his hands trailing down to rest on her ass, in the pocket of her jeans.
"Alright, that's more than I needed to see." Bonnie complained. Shaylee pulled away and laughed along with Stefan, who had gotten used to it by now. As long as Damon and Shay were happy, he wasn't in any position to judge.
"Ready to go?" Bonnie asked Shaylee and Elena, handing Shay her leather Jacket. Shaylee smiled in thanks and took it, slipping it on, flipping her hair up, and out from under the jacket.
"Where are you going?" Stefan asked confused.
"School. Or did you forget that us humans have to go to school by law?" Shaylee asked. Stefan shook his head.
"Na, na, no. we didn't create a safe house just for you two to leave it." Damon told them, shaking his head.
"Yeah, guys, Klaus is out there. We know that." Stefan told them, still confused as to why they thought it was safe to leave.
"Right. But where?" Shaylee challenged. That obviously threw Damon as he rolled his eyes.
"Well-"
No one knows where he is." Elena pointed out to the very annoyed and irritated brothers.
"I really appreciate what you guys are doing." Elena told them. "And I'll be able to sleep at night, knowing that I'm safe-"
"What she's trying to say is that she won't be a prisoner in her own house. Same for me." Shaylee explained to the boys puzzled looks with amusement.
Stefan raised his eyebrows challengingly irritated and looked to Damon to see if he was going to go along with this.
Damon sighed and pursed his lips. "Your way, Elena."
"Don't worry. I'm ready. If he shows his face, I can take him. I know how." Bonnie told them appeasing..
"And she's in every single one of our classes, so next to Bonnie is the safest place we can be." Shaylee told them, taking her messenger bag off of the couch. Damon gave her a pointed look, but she purposely ignored it.
Stefan scoffed and shook his head at the girls. Damon narrowed his eyes at Shaylee's retreating back.
"Wait. I'm….coming." Stefan told them irritated and reluctantly as they walked out the door.
They got to school and headed into Alaric's class, now first period. Shaylee sat in the back, obviously, along with Bonnie next to her. Elena sat a seat in front of Shaylee, and over on. Stefan, a seat in front and over two.
Flyers were on everybody's desk for the decade dance. Shaylee groaned, remembering the last one. That was horrible. Vampire's attacking them…Shaylee twisting her wrist after that vampire threw her into the table…it wasn't good.
Elena held the paper up to Stefan, and he immediately shook his head. There was no way that he was going to let them go. Elena rolled her eyes and turned to Bonnie and Shay, showing them the flyer, smiling.
Shaylee and bonnie chuckled, but nodded. Elena gave Stefan a pointed look and he rolled his eyes.
Alaric had been…weird…at best. Shaylee swore that she caught him looking at her weirdly. Maybe she was just creeped out from her dream.
At lunch, Elena met up with Shaylee and Bonnie at their usual table.
"What's with Jeremy?" Shaylee asked confused as he stormed off. Bonnie shrugged.
"I told him that he had to dress up tonight and he got all weird." She explained, shrugging her shoulders.
Elena and Shaylee rolled their eyes and chuckled. Typical Jer.
"Shaylee!" Becca exclaimed, coming up to their table excitedly.
"This is going to sound freaky, but this totally hot guy just asked me to ask you if you were going to the dance tonight." Becca told them.
Shaylee, Elena, and Bonnie all furrowed their brows and looked at each other in confusion.
"Tell him she has a boyfriend." Bonnie told Becca. "I mean…fiancé."
"You could at least meet him. His name is Klaus."
All three hearts stopped, and their eyes looked around the room nervously.
"Where is he? Is he here?" Bonnie asked nervously.
"I….I don't know." Becca told them confused. Bonnie sighed.
"She's been compelled."
"But he wants to know if you'll save him the last dance. How cute is that?" Becca gushed.
Shaylee looked around the room nervously, her heart ready to burst out of her chest. Where was Stefan?
"Let's get out of here." Shaylee told them, immediately getting up from her seat. Elena and Bonnie nodded in agreement and followed her, practically running out of the school, with Elena calling Stefan, and Shaylee calling Damon.
"What happened?" Damon demanded.
"Klaus. He was at school. He compelled Becca to ask me to the dance for him. It was a warning shot. We're coming home."
"Good. I'll see you there." Damon told her, hanging up the phone. She did the same as she got into the car.
Everybody made it back to the boarding house in record breaking time.
"So, we go to the dance and find him." Damon told them, shrugging.
Shaylee stood with her arms crossed under her chest and Bonnie sat on the arm of the chair Elena was sitting in. with Stefan standing in front of them.
"really? How are we going to do that? We don't even know what he looks like." Stefan argued, shaking his head.
"something tells me he's not going to be 16 and pimply." Damon told Stefan pointedly. Besides, Klaus took the first warning shot at shay. He was not going to get away with that.
"He could be anywhere at any time, he compelled someone at school. Guess it's not as safe as you guys thought." He told the girls pointedly, who all on cue, rolled their eyes.
That's when there was a knock on the door, and it opened, revealing Alaric.
"There you are." Damon spoke in a greeting.
"Sorry I'm late." Alaric apologized as he headed into the room.
"Hey, I need you to put me as a chaperone for the dance tonight. Klaus made his first move." Damon told Alaric, walking behind Shay and wrapping his arms around her waist from behind. She relaxed into his grip slightly. Damon moved his hand to the back of her neck, rubbing softly.
"Ok, so we find him, and then what? Hmm?" Shaylee asked all of them in the room.
"What's our plan of attack?" Elena asked.
"Me." Bonnie spoke. "I'm the plan. He has no idea how much power I can channel. If you can find him, I can kill him."
Alaric chuckled dryly, nervously. "well, it isn't going to be that easy. He is the biggest, badest vampire around."
Shaylee raised an eyebrow skeptically. Since when did Ric talk like that? Biggest Badest? Really?
"Alaric has a point." Damon pointed out, letting go of Shay. "I mean….what if he-"
Damon suddenly lunged at Bonnie, who merely smirked. She put her hand out, and Damon flew across the room faster than Shay could blink. Everyone gasped, but Stefan and Shay were smirking amused. Shaylee chuckled, seeing Damon's irritated face.
Stefan raised his eyebrows amused and looked at Shaylee who had the same look on her face.
"Well, I was impressed." Stefan told them.
"My sentiments exactly." Shaylee told him. Damon narrowed his eyes at his girlfriend as he got up.
"It doesn't matter if he's an original. I can take down anyone who comes at me." Bonnie told the group seriously.
Shay didn't know why Stefan and Damon seemed so confident about this plan. It was a bad one. She trusted Bonnie…but she hasn't even used her new power yet! They don't know how much she can do, and she doesn't know how much she can hold.
Shaylee sat on Damon's bed with her legs in a cris-crossed way, playing with the daisy that was in the bouquet downstairs. She was pulling the petals off, one by one.
As Damon came in, carrying a box of his relatives old clothes for Shay to wear and saw her sitting on his bed, a worried look practically imbedded in to her beautiful face.
"He loves you." Damon told her teasingly, coming to sit behind her, his hands running up her back. Shay jumped slightly out of surprise but laughed.
"I wasn't doing that." She told him, relaxing into his touch. Damon smirked and kissed her neck softly.
"stop worrying so much. Your going to have permanent lines on your pretty forehead." Damon told her, his hands rubbing her neck, smoothing out the knots.
"Damon, I believe we've had this conversation before." Shaylee reminded him.
"And everything turned out ok the last time."
"No it didn't. As I remember, David showed up, I got stabbed in the back, literally, and then kidnapped by Rose and Trevor." Shaylee told him, sighing in frustration.
Damon sighed and let go of her, moving to sit in front of her. He took his hands and held hers in his own, looking into her bright blue eyes.
"Your going to be fine. I'm not going to let anything happen to you." Damon promised intensely. Shaylee sighed and looked up, meeting his promising eyes.
"Damon…you can't always protect me-"
"Just watch me." Damon challenged her, raising his eyebrows. Shaylee sighed and nodded. Damon smirked in achievement and swooped in, kissing her deeply before pulling back.
But Shaylee couldn't shake the nerves. All this talk about Klaus…and never seeing him. Shaylee had started to convince herself that he wasn't real. Just a figment of people's vivid imagination. Not a living….in a relative term, breathing supernatural entity. It was all starting to come down to the wire now…and she was getting more, and more jumpy.
"Alright, I took the liberty of taking some boxes down from the attic-" Damon started , moving to place the box on the bed.
Shaylee smiled and quickly jumped up excitedly. "60s clothes?"
"Nothing but the best for my girl." Damon told her smirking. Shaylee laughed and immediately started digging around in the box.
"Your ancestors were such pack rats." Shaylee told him laughing, looking at all of her options. She saw two that she immediately liked.
"Alright, twiggy, or sexy hippy?" Shaylee asked him, holding up the two outfits.
Damon turned to look at her as he stripped his shirt off and smirked. Shaylee bit her lip, looking at his very naked chest. His perfectly sculpted abs, and his muscular chest.
Damon smirked as he saw her checking him out. "See something you like?"
"I see everything I like." Shaylee told him smirking. Damon chuckled and put on his black long sleeved shirt that hung loosely off of him and had a deep v in the middle with strings criss-crossing it. He wore black leather pants which Shaylee smirked at.
"Sexy hippie." he told her smirking, walking up to her. Shaylee smiled and dumped the clothes on the bed.
"Sexy hippie it is." Shay told him wrapping her arms behind his neck. Damon smirked and brought her in for a deep, loving kiss.
Damon smiled and kissed her back passionately, slipping his tongue in, making Shaylee's pulse skyrocket. Shaylee ran her short fingernails over the back of Damon's neck teasingly, making his eyes roll to the back of his head, groaning. God she was good.
Shaylee slid her hands up into Damon's hair, and Damon ran one hand into Shaylee's hair, while the other ran down the small of her back, down to her ass.
"Mmm…Damon." Shaylee moaned, smiling as Damon smiled back at her and trailed kisses down her jaw line, making Shaylee gasp.
"Damon!" She scolded laughing. "I have to get ready! Your going to make me late."
"mmm…Then…let's just…skip this pesky dance." Damon suggested between kisses to her jaw. Shaylee moaned and laughed.
"We can't!"
"We can do anything we want if we just put our mind to it." Damon joked teasingly to her as he kissed right under her ear, easing her down, onto the bed, immediately going over her.
"Damon!" Shaylee smiled and he kissed her again. Damon's hand slipped up her toned bare stomach and up the side to the side of her breast.
Shaylee scooted up the bed so her feet weren't hanging off, as did Damon, following her. As he pushed her deeper into the bed, Shaylee felt something poking her back. She gasped, and Damon stopped kissing her.
"What? You ok?" Damon asked. Shaylee nodded confused as she reached behind her, and laughed as she pulled out a hanger.
"Alright. That's a sign. I have to get ready, and you have to get out of here!" Shaylee told him smiling, pushing him off of her. Damon sighed dramatically, and scooted off of Shaylee, laying by her side.
"alright, I'll be waiting." Damon told her, running his hand down her arm. Shaylee nodded and grabbed her outfit and started to change as Damon walked out of the room.
As Damon and Shay walked hand in hand up to the school, they saw Jeremy and Bonnie in a very intense discussion. Shaylee was dressed in a dark green and purple long sleeved dress that blew out when it hit her waist, and ended around the middle of her thighs. The sleeved blew out the farther they went down. She paired it with a big dark brown circular belt that hung low on her hips. Her hair was in big loose curls and a small section of the front sides of her head were pulled back loosely, her side bangs still hung swooped on her forehead.
She looked up at Damon questioningly, wondering about their conversation as Bonnie and Jeremy hugged tightly.
"Damon." Bonnie greeted somewhat nervously. Damon smirked and nodded.
"Evening."
"Hey you two." Shay greeted as she walked up, forcing Damon to walk with her. "You look nice."
"So do you." Bonnie told her smiling at her.
"Hey guys, you look nice." Elena greeted. Shaylee and Elena met eyes and looked away, creating an awkward, tense mood for the people around them.
"Let's go." Damon told them, wrapping his arm around Shay's shoulders. Shay nodded and headed inside with Damon, while Stefan, Elena, Bonnie and Jeremy trailed them.
As they walked in, Dana was giving a speech.
"Alright everybody! Thank you for coming today. We have a special shout out tonight. This is for Shaylee. From Klaus."
Maybe Elena was wrong. Maybe Klaus wanted her for the sacrifice instead. Maybe he didn't want Elena because she looked like Katherine…maybe he wanted her because she didn't.
Shaylee froze and Damon felt this. He put a calming hand on her waist, but he could tell she was starting to freak out.
Stefan looked to his best friend and saw her starring wide eyed up at Dana. .
This is dedicated to my love
This is dedicated
This is dedicated to
My love
"that was a lame, cheap shot." Damon sneered, rolling his eyes, trying to make Shay feel better. "He's just trying to bait us."
Nonetheless, he pulled Shaylee against him by her waist, protectively.
"I know everyone here." Elena told them.
"Well, thanks for that recap, Elena. Obviously. It's our school." Shaylee told her, rolling her eyes.
"Maybe he's not here and just wants us to think he is." Stefan informed them.
All 6 of them were looking around at the moment, trying to see if they spotted anything unusual.
"It's a party, people." Damon reminded them, shrugging. "Blend. Let him come to us."
Shaylee nodded, along with everyone else, nervously.
"Come on. Let's dance." Bonnie told Jeremy, pulling him out onto the dance floor.
"No, I really don't want to-" Jeremy started to complain, but it was pointless to do so.
"There's Ric." Damon nodded when he saw Ric off to the corner on the side of the dance floor.
He ran a hand over Shaylee's waist, comfortingly and across her back, silently telling her that he'll be right back. Damon raised his eyebrows to Stefan and nodded towards Shaylee, hinting. Stefan nodded as he got the hint.
"Alright Shay, I do believe I owe you a dance from last time." Stefan told her smiling. Shaylee let out a breath of a laugh but nodded, and took the hand he was politely offering her.
He took her onto the dance floor and pulled her close.
"So, how are you doing?" Stefan asked seriously a little while after they started dancing. Shaylee rolled her eyes.
"Fi-"
"If the word fine is about to come out of your mouth-" Stefan threatened playfully. Shaylee smiled and shook her head.
"Just an ordinary night. A vampire trying to kill me." Shaylee told him casually, as if it were the most ordinary thing in the entire world.
Stefan chuckled and shook his head as they continued to dance. But were quickly interrupted as Shaylee's eyes flitted across the people in the room and saw Caroline entering the gym with Matt.
"Caroline's here. She doesn't know." shay told Stefan worriedly. Stefan nodded.
"I'm on it." Stefan told her. He saw Damon walking up behind them and nodded to Shaylee. Stefan spun her in a circle, and then let her hand go when he was supposed to bring Shaylee back to his body, however, he let go of her hand, walking off. As soon as Stefan let go, Damon smirked and took Shay's opposite hand, pulling her against his body before Shaylee could blink. She hit his body and gasped for breath as she looked up at him, his face suddenly close to hers.
Even though they were engaged, he still took her breath away, literally. His arm slipped around her waist, pulling her tightly to him and held her right hand up with his left, swaying back and forth.
"How you doing?" He asked smirking playfully. Shaylee chuckled breathlessly and looked up to meet his piercing bright blue eyes.
"Freaking out a bit." Shaylee admitted as he let go of her, starting a new motion. "You?"
"Cool as a cucumber." Damon bragged, still smirking at her as he thrust his thumbs back over his shoulder in a very 60s dance.
Shaylee nodded as she ran a hand behind her neck. Damon sighed as he saw his usual techniques were not working.
"Oh come on." He spoke.
"Remember the last decade dance when the vampire's were all 'Rahhh' and you were all 'ahhh?" Damon asked her, demonstrating the "rahh, and Ahh hand motions.
Damon was being ridiculous, but it made a million dollar smile creep across Shaylee's beautiful face.
"Yeah. We won." Shaylee told Damon, her hands rubbing the sides of her neck. Damon smiled and took both of her hands into his own, bringing them in between the two of them tightly, resting on his chest and not far from hers.
"Yes. We did." Damon told her pointedly, promisingly, meeting her bright blue trusting eyes.
He let go of her right hand, and pushing her out, away from his body, surprising her, and pulled her in, but spun her around so she landed with her back against his firm chest, her body pressed against his.
Shaylee's chest rose rapidly as he moved her in shock, pressing her intimately against himself. Damon met her surprised eyes and smiled down at her.
"wow…your good at this." Shaylee told him.
"I have moves you've never scene." Damon bragged huskily into her ear as he spun her out, away from him, and pulled her right back.
Shaylee giggled as he pulled her back to his chest, smiling brightly at her. He loved her laugh.
As it changed to a slow song, Damon pulled her in tightly to his body, wrapping an arm around her waist. He didn't know if it was protective, or just the need to be near her, he didn't care. Honestly, he was nervous tonight, but he would never let anyone know that.
He was nervous, because as they walked up to the gym, he overheard Bonnie telling Jeremy she would die if she killed Klaus. Normally, Damon wouldn't give a damn. But they needed her. Unfortunately, she helped…more than Damon was willing to admit.
Shaylee wrapped her arms around Damon's waist and laid her head on his strong chest. In return, he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her in tightly. They would both stay like this forever and ever if they could. It was perfect, as if the world stood still.
"I love you, you know that?" Shaylee told him, picking her head up off of his chest to look at him. Damon smirked down at her and kissed her softly.
"Love you too."
As Damon looked around, he spotted Bonnie and Jeremy in a spot on the dance floor. Now, he didn't want to leave Shay, but talking to the witch was slightly more pressing.
"I'll be right back. I gotta talk to judgy about something." Damon told her, kissing her cheek quickly before walking over to them.
Shay nodded and headed over to the punch bowl. She poured herself some juice as Jeremy walked over not a few seconds later, Damon having kidded him out so he could talk to Bonnie and dance with her.
"What's up with them?" Shaylee asked confused, looking at Damon spinning Bonnie into his chest. They looked…friendly. Much more friendly than Bonnie frying his brain. It was…entertaining for Shay to say the least. She was glad Bonnie was making an effort, and She knew it was for her.
"I don't know." Jeremy told her, shaking his head, glaring back at Damon and Bonnie on the dance floor.
Shay turned to look at Jeremy confused. His voice had edged of anger and frustration to it, and it seemed like his face was set in a permanent sculpture of anger.
"Is something going on?" Shaylee asked inquisitively, raising an eyebrow, silently challenging Jeremy not to tell her.
"Fine. I'm fine." Jeremy told her before throwing the cup in the garbage and storming out. Shaylee rolled her eyes at her melodramatic brother and started to head after him when Stefan and Elena stopped her.
"Hey, everything alright?" Stefan asked. Shay immediately shook her head.
"Not sure."
"I'll go talk to him." Stefan volunteered, heading in that direction. "We should all be together."
Shaylee and Elena nodded in agreement. Wow…agreement. They haven't done that in awhile.
Not a few minutes later, Stefan practically ran into the gym, his eyes scanning the crowd nervously for Shaylee and Elena. He finally found them standing off to the side…having what looked to be a civil conversation. That's gotta be a first in a very long time.
He quickly walked over to them, grabbing one of Shay and Elena's arms in his hands.
"There's something I have to tell you." Stefan told them, pulling them over hurriedly into a secluded corner.
"If Bonnie kills Klaus, harnessing all that energy will kill her." Stefan told them. Elena and Shay's jaw's dropped and they instantly looked to each other.
No. They couldn't loose Bonnie. She was there friend. Shay knew that they hadn't gotten along before…well…hadn't gotten along as soon as Bonnie turned into a vampire hating betraying witch. They fought, snarled, spoke insults, but they had sorted all of that out.
Shaylee couldn't let Bonnie die for her. It wasn't right! Nobody should have to die for her. She couldn't sacrifice her own life. It wasn't heroic. It was tragic.
Elena and Shaylee immediately pushed threw the crowd nervously when they got to Bonnie who was standing at the punch bowl having left Damon when he started dancing with the girls with the green and blue wigs. Shaylee would have laughed, but she was to mad with bonnie to laugh at her boyfriend at the moment.
"I need to talk to you." They both demanded. Bonnie looked at them shocked, nervously too.
She didn't want them to know, but clearly they did. This was her duty. It's why she was given her powers. She couldn't just stand idly by and watch her friends die. She would never forgive herself if she stood on the sidelines to float feathers and light candles.
She looked at Damon from across the room, who was looking back at her worriedly. Damn-it. Elena and Shay knew. This was not good news for him. They would try to stop her, and then it's them who could end up dead, not the witch.
Stefan charged up to Damon who groaned, expecting this.
"C'mere." Stefan demanded, trying to pull Damon aside angrily, But Damon didn't move.
"C'mere." Stefan demanded again, finally, moving Damon off to the side of the dance floor as Shay and Elena took Bonnie outside to talk.
"Please tell me you didn't know that Bonnie was on a suicide mission!" Stefan demanded furiously.
"Oh great." Damon spoke sarcastically, rolling his eyes. "Jeremy told you and of course you told Elena and Shay."
"Yeah, I told them." Stefan confirmed nodding. "You promised her no more secrets!"
"I changed my mind!" Damon told Stefan.
Meanwhile, outside…
"How could you not tell me?" Elena demanded angrily.
"Because I knew how you'd react!" Bonnie defended herself.
"No. It's not an option." Shaylee snapped, shaking her head. She wasn't going to let anyone die for her. That was the easy way out.
"It's our only option." Bonnie argued fiercely.
"We will find another way!" Shaylee yelled at her angrily. "You're not dying to save either of our lives."
"I have the power to save you two." Bonnie told her promisingly. "If I don't use it and something happens, that would kill me."
"I can't let you." Elena argued, shaking her head. Bonnie was her best friend in the world. She wasn't going to just let her sacrifice herself for something that might not even work.
"Just answer one question." Bonnie told her desperately, wanting her to understand her point of view.
"If the situation was reversed, would you do it for me?" Bonnie asked them pointedly, raising an eyebrow.
Shaylee and Elena sighed and looked at each other, then back at Bonnie, their eyebrows furrowed. She was playing dirty. Playing with emotions, and that never got them anywhere.
Bonnie knew their answer just by their look on their faces. They obviously would. They couldn't let her die for them, and she couldn't let them die because she didn't do anything.
"So you know why I have to do this." Bonnie told them, trying to get them on her side, which wasn't going to happen.
Sure, Shay and Elena understood, but it didn't change their thoughts about it!
"Elena! Shay!" Alaric called, running up to them anxiously.
Shaylee, Elena, and Bonnie all turned to him with confused looks on their faces. Why was he looking so nervous?
"He's got Jeremy." Alaric told them apologetically. The three pairs of eyes grew wide with fright. He had Jeremy… No!
Shaylee and Elena could not loose another person in their life. It wasn't fair! It shouldn't happen like this. He was supposed to get old, and live his life. Not get captured by a supernatural entity and die at 16.
"What?" A chorus of what's sang.
"Klaus has Jeremy. Come on." Alaric told them, running to a door that separated the gym from the school. Elena, Bonnie and Shaylee rushed into the building while Alaric held the door open for them.
Their hearts were pounding in their chests with worry and nerves as they walked the hallways of the school with Alaric leading them.
"Ok, so, where are you taking us?" Elena demanded, quickly running after Alaric which proved difficult to do in platform boots.
"Just a little further." Alaric told her, not stopping until he rounded another corner.
This was weird. They weren't in the direction of the gym at all. There was no Damon…no Stefan. The brothers would have met up with them by now! Alaric clearly had no idea where he was going…and he worked there. He traveled these halls everyday.
"Wait…" Elena told them pausing. "Something isn't right."
"Where's Jeremy?" Shaylee demanded, feeling off put about the mood in the atmosphere.
Alaric smirked, and began to chuckle as he turned around to face them. Shaylee narrowed her eyes suspiciously. That wasn't chuckle…and he certainly didn't smirk.
"I just had to get away from that dance." He explained, smirking at them. "The 60s? Bleh. Not my decade."
Not his decade? What the hell was going on here? Shaylee looked him up and down appraisingly, nervously. Elena and Bonnie did the same thing.
"Who's call was that anyway? I much prefer the 20s." Alaric explained, still smirking.
"Alaric…are you on vervain?" Elena asked skeptically, taking a step back to match his step towards them.
"Now why would you ask me that, Elena?" Alaric asked, smirking.
He started moving towards the girls and Bonnie positioned herself in front of them.
"He's been compelled." Elena told them.
"Nope!" Alaric told them. "Try again."
"What's going on?" Bonnie demanded, putting her arms out to protect Shay and Elena.
Shaylee's heart felt like it was about to burst out of her chest. He was clearly not Alaric. If he wasn't being compelled…then- Crap. He had to be Klaus.
"I am not Alaric." he told them smirking.
Shaylee's eyes grew wide with fright as she took a step back. Klaus…he was in Alaric's body!
"Klaus…" Shaylee whispered.
"Surprise!" He told them joyfully. "Just relax girls, I'm not here to hurt you."
Obviously he was talking to Shaylee and Elena. They both knew that and immediately looked to Bonnie with worry.
"You however…" Klaus started, sneering at Bonnie. He lunged at her, but she skillfully put out her hand and pushed him back, knocking him roughly into the lockers.
He groaned in pain, but crawled back up, standing in front of her.
"Did I mention that I know a witch? You're going to have to hit me a lot harder than that." Klaus threatened sadistically smirking.
Bonnie sneered and immediately pushed her hand out, flinging him down the hall and into the glass trophy cabinet.
"By all means, fire away. If you kill this body, I'll just get a new one. Maybe Jeremy."
Bonnie's eyes grew wide with fright, and she pushed Shay and Elena back.
"Run! Go, now!" Bonnie told them. Elena and Shaylee took off running as fast as they could with Bonnie trailing behind them.
Bonnie slammed the doors behind them closed, and they turned a corner, breathing heavy with adrenaline.
They saw Damon jogging up to them.
"What happened?" He complained.
"Kl…Klaus. Klaus is in Alaric's body." Shaylee stuttered, scared. She really had convinced herself that Klaus wasn't real. But no, he was. Very real. A very real threat that was eminent and upon them.
"What?" Damon demanded.
"Like he's possessing it or something." Bonnie explained.
Damon's eyes widened in fear, and he immediately looked at Shay and Elena.
"Go find Stefan." He demanded lowly. "Now."
"Damon-" Shaylee started to protest, shaking her head, but Damon wasn't having any of that. No. Tonight, Shaylee listened to him, did what he told her to do. Just for tonight. After that, he didn't give a crap if she never listened to him again. Right now however, he was trying to save her life that she was so hell bent on destroying.
"Now Shay!" Damon snapped at her. Shaylee narrowed her eyes In a glare, but took off running down the hall with Elena to find Stefan.
Damon immediately turned on Bonnie.
"Can you kill him?" Damon demanded with the utmost seriousness.
"He's got some kind of protection spell on him." Bonnie told Damon, shaking her head.
"You have the power of a hundred dead witches. Break it!" He sneered.
"I'm trying!" Bonnie told him. "But if I kill Alaric, he's just going to posses someone else! He knows I have my power Damon, he's trying to kill me."
Damon's eyes flashed to hers as she said kill her. He had an idea…but Shay and Elena were never going to speak to him again after this. However, that is the chance he was willing to take.
"No. Klaus does not get to win tonight. No way. Are you still doing whatever it takes to kill him?"
Elena and Shaylee frantically searched threw the crowed looking for Stefan. They had to save Bonnie. They couldn't let her die. It wasn't an option. Nobody was going to die for them, and Elena and Shaylee were going to make sure of it.
They ran threw the halls after they found Stefan. As Damon emerged from around the corner to the cafeteria, Shaylee immediately narrowed her eyes. Where was Bonnie? What was he doing just standing around?
"What are you doing?" Shaylee demanded. Damon sighed. He had to do this. Whatever. He was used to being the bad guy.
"Where's Bonnie?" Elena demanded next.
"She's doing what she had to do." Damon explained appeasingly.
Elena and Shay both shared frightful looks. "What?"
"Where is she?" Stefan demanded, moving closer to Damon threateningly.
"Stefan!" Damon snapped. "Let. Her. Do this."
"Damn-it Damon! Where is she?" Stefan yelled at him angrily, grabbing his shirt.
But they didn't need that answer because as soon as he said that there was a commotion of sound around the corner in the cafeteria.
Stefan, Shay, and Elena ran anxiously to the cafeteria. When they got there, Alaric was yelling in pain on the ground.
Sparks were flying all over the room from the blown lights. The papers, and flyers were flying off the board and around the room crazily.
"Bonnie!" Elena yelled, immediately running to her, but Bonnie turned and slammed the doors shut.
"No!" Shaylee yelled, trying to get passed the doors. Stefan groaned and rammed into them, but they wouldn't budge. Her spell held.
Bonnie shot another painful bone breaking experience threw him and more lights burst, their sparks flying across the room.
Shaylee, Elena and Stefan watched in horror as Bonnie was practically killing herself.
Elena and Shay pounded on the door desperately. No. she couldn't die. Bonnie was one of their best friends. They couldn't loose another person in their life. They wouldn't be able to deal with it.
Bonnie screamed as the power went threw her and Alaric collapsed onto the ground in pain.
Bonnie turned back to Elena and Shay. Her nose was bleeding, and blood was all over her mouth, under her nose. She was weak, and clearly shaking on her legs.
Shaylee and Elena's jaws dropped as they realized what was happening. They were about to loose their best friend! She was killing herself for them!
"No! Bonnie…Bonnie please!" Elena pleaded desperately, banging against the door.
"Bonnie! Don't!" Shaylee yelled threw the door pleadingly. Their hearts clentched as Bonnie let out one last scream.
To everyone's horror, Bonnie collapsed to the ground, and everything went dead. Including Bonnie.
Shaylee and Elena gasped, and immediately pushed the doors open and ran into the room, skidding to a kneel beside Bonnie's dead frame.
"Bonnie!" Elena sobbed, trying to get her to wake up. Elena put Bonnie's head on her lap, and Shaylee stood above them, her arms wrapping around her midsection, trying to keep herself together, but it wasn't working. She bent over, tears coming out of her eyes as she covered her mouth.
"Bonnie! Bonnie...no. Bonnie…Bonnie please." Elena pleaded desperately, tears springing to her eyes and running down her face.
Shaylee was trying to hold herself together as Elena pleaded with whoever was up there to save her best friend.
'Stefan, do something!" Shaylee pleaded desperately. "Stefan…please!"
"I can't find a pulse. Do something!" Elena pleaded with her boyfriend.
Stefan looked at the girls sadly with compassion in his eyes. He couldn't do anything. It was too late.
"I'm so sorry." Stefan apologized.
Shaylee and Elena shook their heads.
"N…no. No." Shaylee pleaded, shaking her head as tears were streaming down her face.
She hated Bonnie for a majority or her time back in Mystic Falls. The last month she had gotten to know Bonnie, and loved her. She was amazing, and so much fun and lively. She couldn't be dead! She didn't deserve this! Elena and Shay brought her into this world! It was all their fault!
"No. n-n-n-n-no." Elena sobbed over Bonnie's body.
As Damon came in, he was stunned. Shaylee and Elena were crying over Bonnie's body. His heart cried out for Shaylee, and all he wanted to do was take her into his arms, and tell her that it would be alright. That Bonnie wasn't dead, she just cast a spell, but he couldn't. Their reactions needed to be real.
"Stefan, get Elena and Shay out of here." Damon demanded. Elena and Shay looked up at him shocked and hurt.
"I'll deal with the body." Damon explained, kneeling down on the floor.
"What do you mean deal with it?" Shaylee yelled at him angrily.
"The sheriff can't know about this." Damon told them. "The last thing we need is a mysterious death."
"This is Bonnie!" Elena sobbed angrily. Damon sighed in frustration, trying to keep himself in check.
"Get them home." Damon demanded lowly. "Now."
"Hey…c'mon." Stefan whispered to Elena, taking her up off of the ground comfortingly, wrapping her into his arms.
"Jeremy." Shaylee suddenly spoke in realization. "Jeremy. Where's Jeremy?"
Damon looked at her guiltily, and nodded. "I'll find him."
Shaylee nodded to him. Stefan took Shaylee's arm and started pulling her out of the room as Elena sobbed heart wrenchingly.
Damon looked back after them apologetically. He swiped his hand over Bonnie's face and closed her eyelid's.
Stefan finally got Elena and Shaylee calmed down and on the couch, a blanket wrapped around each of them.
As Damon came into the room, Shaylee and Elena glared up at him angrily. How could he have just let her die?
"What did you do with her?" Shaylee demanded angrily, standing up to face him. Damon sighed, knowing that this was coming. He knew she would be angry, but he was in no mood to deal with it.
"Would you please calm her down?" Damon demanded from Stefan.
"Do not talk like I'm not standing right in front of you!" Shaylee snapped angrily with dried tears on her cheeks, and fresh ones coming out of her eyes sadly.
"Please, calm down." Damon demanded more softly, coming to stand right in front of her, looking intensely into her sad blue eyes. It killed him to do this, but he had to.
"You knew! Didn't you!" Shaylee accused angrily, tears streaming down her face as her heart clenched. She was always the one to have outspoken anger. Elena grieved in silence.
"You knew that if she harnessed all of that power that she would die, didn't you!"
"Yes." Damon told her flatly. Shaylee's eyes grew wide, her eyebrows furrowed, and her jaw dropped in anger. How dare he!
"Yes, I knew-"
Shaylee was practically seeing red. He did not get to make the decision of who dies and who doesn't!
Shaylee swung her hand back, and it connected with Damon's face in a harsh slap. His face snapped to the right, but it didn't phase him. He was already expecting it.
"You need to listen to me, and prepare for what I'm about to say." Damon explained lowly, starring intensely into her angry blue eyes, practically taking Shay's breath away.
"Bonnie had to die. Klaus using Alaric body? She wasn't prepared for that! And he wasn't going to stop, and we weren't going to be able to stop him until he thought she was dead. He had to believe it."
Thought she was dead? Had to believe it? Shaylee and Elena's hearts pounded hard in her chest and their eyes widened, the littlest glimmer of hope.
"She cast a spell." Damon explained. "Bonnie's ok."
Shaylee sighed in relief, tears streaming down her face as Damon turned away from her, heading up the stairs. Shaylee was completely shocked, but also felt guilty. She had acted horribly towards Damon. She slapped him…snapped at him. He didn't deserve that. He had saved Bonnie. Saved her best friend.
Elena and Shaylee stood there, completely stunned as Stefan immediately chased after Damon.
"You know, you could've told me." Stefan told Damon in annoyance as he followed him down the hallway.
Damon scoffed. "How do I know when you're going to go blabbing things to your girlfriend and mine?"
Damon started heading up the stairs.
"Do you understand what you put her threw?" Stefan demanded for Shaylee and Elena. Angry for Damon at causing them both immense pain.
Damon stopped, and turned around. "See! That's why I didn't tell you, because you would've been never able to do it. Don't get me wrong Stefan, I don't mind being the bad guy. I will make all of the life and death decisions while you worry about collateral damage. I'll even let them hate me for it."
Damon started heading back up the stairs to his room when he paused, and turned back to Stefan.
"But at the end of the day, I'll be the one to keep her alive." Damon told him, before continuing the rest of the way up to his room, to get out of those leather pants.
As Shaylee made her way up to Damon's room, he was coming out of the bathroom, and groaned when he saw her.
"Look, Klaus had to think she was dead." Damon explained in annoyance. He wasn't in the mood to deal with this tonight.
He threw his leather Jacket onto his bed.
"You're reaction had to be real."
Shaylee nodded as she walked into his room a little more.
"I understand why you did what you did." Shaylee admitted sheepishly. She hated apologizing, and Damon knew that.
He turned to her, and raised an eyebrow, shocked.
"Klaus was fooled, and Bonnie's alive." Shaylee told him shrugging, as did Damon as he raised a glass to her in a toast.
"Here's to duplicity." he told her, taking a sip. Shaylee narrowed her eyes and shook her head. Nope. He wasn't getting off that easy.
"Let's get one thing straight." Shaylee told him, walking to stand in front of him. "I love you, and I love that you want to protect me, but nobody will die for me. I will not let that happen. "
"We need to kill Klaus, Shay." Damon told her in annoyance. Bonnie had to be the one to do it. They had no other options.
"Real Klaus, who will probably be coming to pay you a visit soon now that he knows that Bonnie is dead." Damon explained to Shay.
"we will find another way." Shaylee told him, telling him that Bonnie wasn't going to die for her.
"I hope so." Damon told her, looking down at her tear stained face.
"I'm sorry too…for hitting you." Shaylee started softly, embarrassed. "I shouldn't have done that."
Damon smirked and nodded down at her. "Apology accepted."
Shaylee smiled and headed to go lay down on his bed, but Damon stopped her. There was no way that they were ending this conversation without her truly understanding how far he will go to save her.
"But let me get one thing straight." Damon told her, taking her arm and pulling her back into his chest.
"If it comes down to you and the witch again I will gladly let Bonnie die. I will always. Chose. You." Damon told her seriously, intently passionate. Shaylee looked up at him wide eyed.
They had their passionate stare, Damon taking Shaylee's breath away with the intensity of his eyes. She wrapped her hand behind his neck and pulled him into a passionate kiss. He would always choose her. That's what she wanted to hear.
Damon took in a swift breath and wrapped his arms around Shaylee's back, pulling her flush into his body, kissing her passionately as his tongue ran across her bottom lip.
Shaylee moaned as their kiss turned into aggression, passion and lust. Them letting all of their feelings out and just holding onto each other.
Shaylee gasped as Damon's hands gripped her ass, hoisting her up having her wrap her legs around his waist. Shaylee moaned as she felt how much he wanted her. She would never get used to that. She loved it.
Shaylee's hands fisted into Damon's hair, pulling him closer as he walked them over to his bed, pushing her down, and immediately covering her body with his own.
Shaylee pulled her face away, practically gasping for breath. Damon immediately placed his lips all over her neck seductively. Shaylee moaned and arched her back, pushing her chest into Damon's. Damon smirked and ran his hand up her toned stomach, to her breasts, squeezing softly, sending tingles straight down to Shay's lower regions.
"Wait…Wait." Shaylee told him, putting her hands on his face, tipping it up to look at her. Damon was looking at her with furrowed eyebrows, his face full of confusion.
"What?"
"No more secrets. You promised…we promised right before we got engaged." Shaylee reminded him. Damon nodded.
He knew he promised…but tonight, it was necessary. Her reaction had to be real, for Klaus to know for sure that Bonnie was dead. He hated to do that to her. He knew he caused her a lot of pain tonight, and now, he wanted to take it all away.
"Promise." Damon told her passionately, looking into her bright blue eyes.
Shaylee smiled softly and pulled him up to her lips once again.
As Shay's eyes blinked open she smiled as she curled against Damon's muscular chest. This moment was perfect. She breathed to the rise and fall of Damon's chest, instantly calming her as her head rested on his chest, her hair splayed out around her.
Feeling her throat clench, she coughed softly, as to not wake Damon up. She got up and put her underwear on, and one of Damon's long black shirts.
Her feet padded out of the room and down the stairs where she saw Elena, heading for the basement door. Where Elijah was. She was a girl on a mission. Immediately narrowing her eyes, she followed Elena worriedly. What was her sister doing now?
"Elena?" Shaylee asked confused as Elena opened the door and ran down the stairs. Elena shook her head and didn't listen to her.
"Elena! What are you doing?" Shaylee exclaimed in a hushed whisper. But Elena headed into Elijah's cell, kneeling down next to him. Shaylee gasped and her eyes went wide in fright as Shaylee saw Elena pull out the dagger.
"What did you just do!"
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