Ava's brows furrowed hearing the annoying sound of something ringing. She groaned and pulled the thick covers over her head.
"Someone's bloody phone is ringing" the fairy grumbled. "Answer it…bloody hell…" she could hear the other girls groaning and a loud thump. "Answer the freaking phone-"
"Alright" Elena huffed and answered her cell phone, the brunette had been shoved off of the bed by Caroline.
Ava slowly drifted off but she could still hear the conversation that was taking place. The fairy had a thumping headache; damn it felt like she had a hangover.
"Hello?" the doppelganger answered
"Elena-"Caroline whined
"Ssh" Bonnie hissed.
"You're too loud" Ava grumbled and snuggled in her cocoon of blankets, unlike her friends the fairy had found a spot somewhere else.
Elena rolled her eyes and crawled out of the room. The petite teen yawned and let out a small sigh, last night was a night to remember. The quartet had started the evening off with something akin to calmness, but that had quickly disintegrated. They were planning to watch some movies, but disagreements arose when Ava had threatened to walk out with Caroline's choice of movie which had been the 'Notebook', and then when Bonnie suggested 'Twilight' Ava sulked in the bathroom for four hours until Elena coaxed her out with food.
And for the rest of the night they had played games and ate till they were stuff. In fact Ava had eaten till she couldn't move anymore. The Fairy could hear Elena's conversation since the doppelganger was on the other side of the wall.
"When can you and I have one?" Elena uttered. "Today?...take me far far away…because of everything that's going on"
"Eww Elena…you're sick…I'm right here" Ava whined causing the brunette to roll her eyes she was only able to hear one side of the conversation. She yawned and shifted and soon drifted back to sleep
"Ava go back to sleep…oh wait Stefan said not to…"she paused hearing the vampire on the other end. "Ava?"
"She's sleeping" Caroline called out sitting up in her double bed so that her covers pulled around her waist. Bonnie used her arm to shield her eyes from the bright sunlight
"Erm…Stefan you might have to come and pick Ava up" Elena uttered seeing that the fairy had curled up into a ball. "Ava wake up-"
"No" Ava mumbled
"Just tell Stefan to come and pick her up" Caroline uttered as she swung her legs out of bed. Elena told her boyfriend and he replied that he would be coming over.
Stefan walked up to the Forbes house and could hear the sound of females talking. He waltzed up to the front door and raised his fist, after a couple of seconds the door swung opened revealing a grinning Elena,
"Morning" he kissed her on the lips and stepped into the house
"Morning Stefan" Caroline smiled, Stefan returned the gesture and his eyes darted around, Caroline, Bonnie and Elena were gathered around the breakfast bar but there was one person missing.
"Where's Ava?" the male vampire asked
"She's still sleeping and before you ask yes we did try to wake her up…but it didn't go according to plan" Caroline replied cheerily.
Stefan grumbled under his breath "I take it she's in the bedroom?" he asked, the trio of females nodded.
Stefan shook his head and made his way towards Caroline's bedroom; he could smell last night's junk food and cringed. He stopped at the doorway and frowned there was no sign of Ava on the bed "Where is…oh you've got to be kidding me" he uttered spotting the petite blond curled up underneath Caroline's desk "What the-"
"Well she got under there and….yeah" Elena shrugged her shoulders; Ava had opted to steal most of the blankets and covers and made a pallet beneath the desk.
Stefan let out a sigh and meandered over towards the sleeping blond just as Bonnie and Caroline arrived.
"Ava" Stefan gently shook her shoulder "Come on wake up-"
"Noo" Ava whined and moved further away so the vampire couldn't reach her "I'm sleeping" she muttered
"Ava out now please" Stefan said sternly
"Nope" the fairy protested and scuttled further backwards.
"Get out now-"
"NO" Ava shouted.
"This has gone to hell" Bonnie muttered under her breath, all three teens canted their head to the side and took in the sight of Stefan now lying flat on his belly trying to grab the petite blond.
"Yeah I-Caroline are you filming this?" Elena asked in disbelief, the blond vampire had her cell out
"What?" Caroline asked "It's funny and oh look at that" she giggled, the other two girls couldn't help but chuckle when they saw that Stefan had managed to grab on to Ava's leg and she was attempting to grab on to the table leg.
"You know Ava's got a YouTube channel?" Caroline casually commented as if the struggle in front of her wasn't taking place
"What?"
"Yeah Damon created it" Bonnie said and they all winced when they witnessed Ava kicking her leg out managing to catch Stefan in the face.
"That's it" Stefan growled and grabbed both of Ava's ankles and dragged her from beneath the desk
"Noo" Ava whined pathetically "Stef I-"but the vampire ignored her and swung her onto his shoulder. "Put me down" she yelled
"No you're in big trouble and…my god how much sugar did you have?" he asked seeing candy wrappers littering the spot that Ava had occupied.
"Elena-"Ava called
"No" Elena cut her off knowing that her friend would probably wanted her to intervene but by the look on Stefan's face she knew not to. "Catch you later" he kissed Elena on the lips and waltzed out with a pouting Ava on his broad shoulder.
"Stefan is sexy when he's being bossy" Caroline said and just managed to avoid getting hit by a pillow.
"You're mean" Ava mumbled as Stefan pulled up to the boarding house.
"Ava I heard every insult in the book." Stefan rolled his eyes as Alaric's car pulled up to the house. Damon must've called the hunter he thought.
"You heard every insult?" Ava questioned, she was still clad in her pyjamas from last night and was also sporting her teddy bear robe
"Yes-"
"Fine you look like Edward Cullen from Twilight" Ava belted out causing Stefan to freeze
"What-"
"You heard" she grinned mischievously
"Why you little-"he went to grab her but Ava hurriedly got out of the car. "I swear Ava you're grounded" he shouted
"You can't do that" she shouted and ran up the pathway; Stefan rolled his eyes and pulled out of the driveway once again. He needed to run a couple of errands before he and Elena went on their trip. Alaric frowned hearing a commotion going on behind him. He looked behind him and just managed to catch sight of mane of golden hair before he was knocked down onto the gravel pathway.
"Oww" Ava whined "What the-"
"I should be the one complaining" Alaric grumbled
"Ric?" Ava sat up she had landed on his stomach "Is that you?" she poked his nose, her gaze was off.
"Yeah now could you get off of me?"
"You're comfortable you know that Ric?" Ava commented
"Glad to hear it" Alaric gently pushed her aside and got onto his feet, he then helped the fairy on to her feet. "So what got you running out here?" he questioned as they walked up to the boarding house, he didn't bother asking why she was still in her pyjamas she probably had a very Ava like reason to be wearing them…even if she did look slightly mental.
"Hey" Ava slapped his arm "I'm not mental-"
"Damn, you should really stay out of my mind" Alaric rubbed his arm "and that hurt-"
"You are such a big baby" she scoffed "I'm wearing my Pyjamas because I was at a sleepover. And technically it was Stefan's fault you got knocked over in hindsight" she said seriously and waltzed off towards the front door.
"Stefan's fault?" Alaric asked incredulously coming up behind her "How-"
"I only ran out because he was going to chase after me" she pointed out and clumsily rummaged through the pockets of her robe to get her key.
"What did you do?" Alaric sighed.
"Me? Why I never-oh-"she said dramatically "I am hurt" she clutched her chest "and betrayed and downright-"
"Ava"
"Fine" she huffed knowing that her history teacher wasn't buying a word of what was coming out of her mouth. "I'll tell you since I am such a considerate person, which you should appreciate and I wouldn't mind if you applauded as well since-"
"Ava" he cut her off, he could see that the fairy would be going off in a rant so forced her back on track "Why would Stefan chase after you?"
"I sort of…well I compared him to Edward Cullen" she grinned when she felt the cool metal of her key. She pulled it out of her pocket "So Ricster what you up to?"
"Ricster?" he cocked an eyebrow as Ava held out her hand so she could find the lock
"New nick-name. You like?" she questioned him
"Erm…no-"
"It's alright, I got so many nick-names for you" Ava nodded she had located the lock and was about to slid the key in to the lock but the door was flung open.
"Have a great day honey" Ava frowned recognising that voice as Damon's. Who was he talking to? She thought. She heard the unmistakable sound of kissing, for some reason she felt her gut clench at that.
"Oh hey Alaric, Ava you're looking uber cute" of course Ava thought, the wonderful Andie Starr was here. Much to Ava's mortification Andie pinched her cheek and cooed at the blond "You're adorable" she cooed at Ava. Alaric bit down on his bottom lip to stop himself from laughing seeing the expression on Ava's face.
"I kill people" Ava blurted out "I cut them up into pieces and then…I make pies with them in it. I eat it and kick puppies over. Still think I'm adorable?" she grinned mockingly and skipped away leaving behind a very disturbed looking news-reporter.
"What-"Damon quickly grabbed Andie's face. "Forget about everything Ava had just told you" he compelled her.
Ava stripped out of her pyjamas and turned on her shower faucet "Oh I'm Andie Starr" she said in a poor imitation of the news reporter. She threw her pyjamas aside so that she was only now standing in her bra and panties. "I use the words adorable…and I have big hair it's all poufy…stupid ass reporter…slept with Damon"
The fairy quickly shed her underwear off and was now standing in the shower, she closed her eyes feeling the warm water hitting her, and it was getting rid of the slight ache that was coming from her temples. "I would've slept with Damon" she muttered. Her eyes widened at that "Never said that, I never said that" she violently shook her head and lightly tapped her head against the tile walls. What the hell? She thought when did she even start to think about sleeping with Damon? Ava shook it off and put it down to her exhaustion.
Ava's grasped her wash cloth, all the things she needed for a shower was stacked in a small basket that Stefan had nailed to the wall. He had made sure she knew where everything was beforehand.
The fairy quickly showered and washed her hair. When she was done she dried herself off and padded barefooted back to her room. Ava rummaged through her dresser and slipped on her bra and panties. She was now standing in front of her large closet her hands on her hips.
"What to wear?" she hummed to herself rocking on the balls of her feet. She felt a pulse of air behind her
"I can help you with that" a deep voice purred in to her ear.
"Damon" she shouted and shoved him away. But the vampire remained standing "Shoo go away pervert and-"he rolled his icy blue eyes and threw a sheet at her, it landed on the top of her head.
"There all covered" he drawled "but must say you look sexy in lacy panties"
"Should you be saying that" Ava frowned and pulled the sheet off and used it like a cloak.
"And why wouldn't I?" Damon cocked an eyebrow looking through her closet trying to find something appropriate to wear.
"Because you got a girlfriend" Ava said bitterly, causing the vampire's head to snap towards her.
"Are you jealous?" he asked amusement glinting in his eyes.
"No" she denied she wasn't was she? "Why on earth do I need to be jealous?" she huffed and plopped down on the foot of her bed.
"Yeah why would you?" Damon muttered to himself. He wished she was though than at least he would know she had feelings for him.
"So…you and Ms news-reporter…-"
"Ava?" he pulled out a pair of black skinny jeans and a grey chiffon blouse, this was appropriate for a tea party.
"What? I don't get jealous" she scoffed "I'm…"she swung her feet back and forth over the edge of the bed. "I'm a robot…I don't have those sorts of feelings" she snorted.
Damon smiled knowingly and blurred over to her so that he was right in front of her. "Whatever you say princess." Her heart skipped a beat when she felt his callous fingers on her cheek "Now get dressed but I must say I prefer you with your current attire-"
"I haven't got any clothes on. Except for this sheet" Ava said
"Exactly" he grinned and kissed the blond on the cheek "But Stefan will kill me if I let you run around with no clothes. So get dressed and I'll fix us up some lunch" he declared and swept aside her blond locks.
"Wait where are we going?" Ava called after him.
"A tea party" he yelled over his shoulder "and Ava try to brush your nest of a hair"
Ava rolled her milky green orbs and got onto her feet. She pulled on her black skinny jeans and grasped her top; she felt the brail lettering on the label. She was kind of surprised at Damon's choice of top, seemed he had picked out a sleeveless buttoned down top. The top half had a lace overlay.
Ava hurriedly put her clothes on and then slipped her feet into her grey shoes. When she was done she bounded down the stairs and made a beeline towards the kitchen. Where Damon had just finished making her some lunch,
"I'm here" Ava declared in a sing song voice "Now what's cooking-"
"Well holy hell did you even attempt to brush your hair?" the raven head vampire asked, eyeing Ava's golden mane, it was resembling an overgrown nest.
"I brushed it" Ava said offended at his tone "ass" she muttered. The vampire set a plate of food down in front of her
"Yeah sure you did" Damon shook his head, no way could they turn up at the tea party with Ava's hair looking like that.
"I did and-OWW" she shrieked when the vampire tore a brush through her hair. "You're hurting me-"
"Well stop moving" Damon grunted "Is...you have popcorn in your hair" he frowned picking the piece of snack out of her hair.
"Be gentle you dick" Ava snapped, to her surprise he did as she ask. Damon brushed the rest of hair much more gently
"Good now you don't look like a hobo" he said pouring himself a mug of coffee. Ava rolled her eyes and ran a hand through her thick loosely curled hair
"Why does everyone say that for" she huffed picking up the sandwich that Damon had made for her. The raven head vampire plopped down next to her.
"Because when you don't brush your hair you do look like a homeless person" he quipped. Ava scrunched up her nose in distaste and swore under her breath.
"No I don't-"
"Yeah you do" he countered swiping one of the sandwiches off of her plate. Ava pouted and bit down into her sandwich, she paused feeling the empty space on the plate "Did you take one of my sandwiches?" she asked in a deadly voice
Damon swallowed "Erm…no?"
"Damon-"
"Oh Ava learn to share" he sighed and was getting antsy when he saw the glare on her face. And was even more miffed when it morphed into a sweet smile
"I can share Damon" she nodded calmly and stood up holding onto her sandwich "But I don't like sharing food-"with the last word she shoved the sandwich into his face. "There-"
"Ava-"
Ava paled realising she may have gotten carried away. "Now Damon remember that-"He wiped the tuna off of his face "You say to the world that I'm your ward and that-"
"Just run"
Ava hastily nodded and sprinted out of the room; Damon mentally counted down to ten and snorted hearing the Fairy running into the wall. He blurred after her.
Ava sighed she was bored out of mind. She was currently in the Founders Hall being part of the High Tea Party in honour of Elijah.
"You look-"
"Bored Ricster…I am bored and what the hell is this?" Ava uttered she was at the refreshment table.
"Ava it's a cracker" Alaric uttered, "how comes you're here? Why didn't you arrive with Damon?" he fixed her a cup of tea
"Damon was being a bitch" Ava retorted causing Alaric to chuckle
"Ok…here have this it's lemon tea" he made she had a good grip on the handle before he let go.
"Lemon tea?" Ava cocked an eyebrow
"Yep"
Ava took a sip Alaric was expecting the teen to spit the tea back out but much to his surprise she slurped it up. "Oh this is good" she downed the beverage.
"Careful" the hunter scolded her "It's hot-"
"It's delicious another please" she grinned Alaric shook his head and handed the teen another mug of tea.
"Excuse me Mr Saltzman" a new voice entered the scene,
"Mrs Brooks?" Ava questioned recognising the voice, the silver haired lady was the teen's English teacher.
"Hi Ava" the woman said curtly
"You still hating me?" the blond asked sipping her tea,
"You…told my mother I was lying about having a boyfriend" she hissed
"Yeah" Ava bit her bottom lip "Not my best move, but hey what are you gonna do?" she carelessly shrugged her shoulders. "So wanna give me extra credit for being awesome or-"
"Ok no" Alaric stepped in "You shoo, Jenna is near the entryway" he didn't want the blond to get into any trouble.
Ava rolled her eye and skipped over to Jenna, "Jen-"
"Right here" Jenna just managed to grab Ava's arm stopping the teen strolling pass her "Having fun?"
"Do I look high?" Ava countered sipping her tea
Jenna's brows furrowed "Erm…no you don't"
"Well then I'm not having fun" Ava uttered "So you and the Ricster are getting jiggy with it?" she balked "Ok that sounded terrible, are you and the Ricster getting your freak on? Ergh that one is terrible are you-let me just say it. Are you and Ric having good sex?" she said loudly, Jenna turned beetroot red when she saw more than a few people giving the pair incredulous looks, Alaric wanted to fade into the background
"Ava" Jenna hissed
"Did I cross the line?" Ava whispered,
"Honey sometimes I wonder if you even know where the line is" Jenna muttered and lightly pushed Ava towards the side of room. "Plus you're lucky Carol hasn't heard that"
Ava licked her lips "Where is the mayor anyway?" she questioned; there was the sound of low music in the background and the people chatting. Ava pulled the barriers up in her mind so that she wasn't subject to the party goers thoughts; it was just a low hum at the moment.
"She's chatting up the guest of honour" Jenna replied, she could see the mayor talking to Elijah about the history of the town.
"Oh my god…Elijah is here?" Ava asked Jenna took a hasty step back she could imagine the teen jumping up and down on the spot, and squealing.
"Ava do you fancy him?" she asked a small smile on her face.
"No" Ava spluttered.
Jenna cooed and pinched her cheek "Aww that's so adorable, just don't do what you did to Mason, you know follow him around-"
"I don't fancy-"
"You so do fancy him" Jenna giggled when the fairy simply crossed her arms and pouted.
"I don't he just…I'm a sucker for accents ok. That's it. I do not fancy him" Ava said stiffly and sniffed, Jenna shook her head
"Who doesn't Ava fancy?" Damon strolled over to them
"No one" she bit out downing the rest of her tea, "and what's with the tea cups they're tiny" she muttered Jenna hurriedly snatched the empty cup off of the fairy. She wouldn't put it past Ava to just drop the object.
"Damon" Jenna greeted the vampire "what are you doing here?"
Just then Andie came over "Hi-"
"That's what he's doing here. Greeting his skanky girlfriend" Ava said without thinking
"Ava-"Jenna scolded
"I mean…I mean slinky girlfriend" Ava babbled "slinky as in sexy…I'm not a lesbian by the way…but at the moment I sound like one. But I'm not. Not that I have anything against gay people, they're awesome and-"
"Ava shut up" Jenna whispered cutting the petite teen's rant off. Ava hastily nodded; she really needed to leave before she says even more disturbing things.
"Right, I'm so glad you came" Andie said dreamily and smiled when Damon kissed her.
Ava's eye twitch, I'm not jealous she chanted in her head. No this was Damon…her friend and he was with Andie, why the hell was she jealous? Easy enough to answer though Ava had feelings for him, but it was just too risky to do anything about it, especially with everything that was going on.
"Thanks for introducing us Jenna" Damon smirked at a wide eye Jenna
"Ha ha" Ava laughed forcibly and elbowed the older woman "that's Jenna, always setting people up and…I'm hungry" without another word the fairy strolled over to the snack table.
Ava dipped the prawn into a sauce and sniffed it, she was by the table that had been pushed to the side that was laden with snacks. "Hmm smells nice" she murmured and took a big bite out of it and froze "and taste horrible" she spat it back out.
"Ava this is a people event," Tiki uttered nibbling on a cracker
"Really?" Ava said "then what are you doing here?" she uttered. The other teen scowled
"Are you getting smart with me?" the taller girl scowled, Ava frowned feeing the other girl's proximity to her. She resisted the urge to shove Tiki away.
"Am I?" Ava said loudly, they were attracting more than a few looks from the other party goers. "If I am getting smart how would know?"
"Well-"Tiki swallowed, "You're so old your birth certificate has expired" she retorted.
Ava cocked an eyebrow "Erm…that doesn't make sense since you're older than me" she scoffed "even if you're twice as smart you still would be stupid" she grinned. "No shoo go away you crazy whore-"Ava yelped when Tiki literally tackled the other girl on to the floor.
"You're a bitch Ava" Tiki shrieked as they literally struggled on the floor. Ava kicked the other girl and managed to roll them over
"Beauty is skin deep Tiki" Ava shouted "You're ugly to the bone-Oww" she shrieked when Tiki pulled her hair.
Ava grabbed anything she could reach which turned out to be Tiki's hair and tugged it hard causing the other girl to cry out. "You cow" the taller girl screamed.
"Ladies" Carol Lockwood ran over to them "that's enough now-"she clapped her hands attempting to catch their attention. But that was a useless idea.
"You're just as crazy as your gran-"Tiki screamed managing to whack Ava in the face snapping her head to the side.
"Your sister is shacking up with your new boyfriend-"Ava yelled back,
"Stop this I say" Carol Lockwood shrieked this tea party would turn into a disaster if they carry on.
"Crazy, crazy, crazy" Ava said repeatedly pulling the other girl's hair, she hissed when Tiki scratched her cheek. Before she could retaliate a strong arm wrapped around her waist and pulled the fairy off of the other girl. Tiki was about to launch herself at a flaying Ava but someone else pulled her back.
"Let go-"Ava snapped her blood was pumping in her ears
"Calm yourself" an stern voice commanded her. Ava's eyebrows shot to her hairline Elijah had pulled her off?
"Enough" Alaric snapped he was holding onto Tiki.
"This is an embarrassment" Carol Lockwood hissed glaring at both girls, Ava wasn't attempting to claw her way out of the Original's hold. "Now will you two apologise and act like civilise human beings?" she snarled.
"Fine" Ava grounded out "Tiki I'm sorry that you're not a civilised human being"
"You bitch-"Tiki elbowed the history teacher in the gut causing him to groan
"You're the bitch" Ava snapped
"Ladies-"Carol snapped "Now"
Both Elijah and Alaric reluctantly took a step back; Ava smoothed down her top and held out her hand to Tiki
"So-"she was cut off when Tiki pulled her to the ground and once again they launched themselves at each other
"Bloody hell" Alaric swore he and Elijah intervened again
"Calm down" Elijah murmured and pulled the blond away from the other girl. Alaric took Tiki in the other direction.
Ava exhaled and shook her head, her cheek was stinging and she felt flushed.
"You really need to gather new techniques to aid you into calming yourself" Elijah advised.
"I-yeah so-"
"Elijah there you are" Carol spotted the pair "apologies for that, sometimes we shouldn't let children in here, they cause so much trouble" she made a dig at the fairy.
Ava frowned "Then-"
"Carol" Damon said casually attempting to sound friendly but Ava wrinkled her nose at the tone of the raven head vampire's voice. He wasn't pleased about what the fairy been up to. "This one causing trouble again?" he uttered and grabbed the back of Ava's top and pulled the petite teen to his side.
"As always, you should really-"
"Oh no she's in trouble rest assure Ava will get punished-"
"What?" Ava started
"Shut up" Damon hissed into her ear. Carol noticed the pair of males eyeing each other so set out to introduce them to each other.
"Elijah this is Damon Salvatore his family is one of Mystic Falls founding families" Carol uttered. "And this is his ward Ava Xenia" she said not thinking that Ava didn't meet the Original before.
"Such a pleasure to meet you" Damon murmured eyeing the other man
"No the pleasure is all mine" Elijah countered, playing along with the younger vampire's little game, he shook Damon's hand.
Elijah inwardly smirked knowing what would goad the impulsive being in front of him. "And it's such a pleasure to meet you Miss Xenia" he took Ava's hand and raised it to his lips so he could kiss the back of her hand.
"Oh…good lord" Ava muttered his accent was amazing "Hi…mister Sexy, I mean accent-"she fumbled "I mean Elijah…nice to meet you Elijah….nice and- I'm single just putting it out there"
"Ok, I need a word with my ward" Damon plastered a fake smile on to his face and pulled a blushing fairy away.
A flash of amusement passed through Elijah's eyes watching the little fairy. Carol cleared her throat
"She's erm…one of our bolder residents of Mystic Falls…she's-"
"Different" Elijah finished off and Carol swept him away to talk some of the other party goers.
Meanwhile across the room was Ava and Damon, he was giving her a right telling off.
"What the hell Ava?" Damon growled
"What?" Ava snapped
"Fighting" he snapped "Why would you-"
"Maybe you would have known why if you wasn't making out with Andie in the freaking utility room" she sniped
"What-"
"Your girlfriend or whatever she is broadcasts her thoughts rather loudly." Ava uttered playing with the hem of her top "And do you know she's got two kittens well now she's got one, since she accidentally killed one because-"
"Stop" Damon slammed his hand against the wall right besides Ava's head causing the fairy to shut up "Just stop. No more Ava, you're acting like a child and-"
"Hey Tiki started the fight and-"
"I said stop" he snarled causing Ava to falter "No more, you're acting like a little child things are getting serious and stay away from Elijah"
Ava bit her bottom lip and tugged the hem of her top, something bloomed in her chest she wasn't sure what it was though. "Ok" she said softly.
Damon closed his eyes and inhaled her scent and gently lifted her chin so he could see her eyes, they were slightly glossy. "Ava I didn't mean that…you're not a child…just I worry for you. I wouldn't put it pass Elijah to store you away somewhere, and you're not exactly helping in keeping a low profile" he rubbed his thumb across dark pinkish cheek where Tiki had slapped her.
"Here" he pressed a cool cloth into Ava's hand, his hand covered hers as he placed it on her stinging cheek. "Keep this here. And stay out of trouble" he murmured
"Where are you going?" Ava asked she could tell that the vampire was probably an inch or two away from her.
"I need to speak to Elijah" Damon replied "don't cause any mischief" with that he kissed her cheek and walked away.
"When do I ever cause any mischief" Ava called out causing the vampire to chuckle.
Ava sighed and walked passed Alaric and John, just managing to catch the last couple of words from the hunter's sentence.
"You're a dick-"
"You just found that out now?" Ava exclaimed "Creepy uncle John is a big dick" she grinned and carried on walking, she was heading back towards the refreshment table since she wanted another cup of that delicious lemon tea.
John's eyebrows shot to her hairline "How did you know that he was talking to-"
"No creepy John I didn't use this" she spun around so they could see her, she lightly tapped the side of her temple, "I knew it was you because you put on way too much cologne" she uttered and hurried off.
Ava took a small sip of a cup of tea and balked at the taste. This definitely wasn't lemon it was honey.
"So I'm guessing you don't like that"
She jumped at the sound of the voice and nearly dropped the cup but someone quickly caught it.
"Sorry" he chuckled
"John the bus boy?" Ava questioned her brows furrowing as she tried to recall the other teen's name.
"Yeah John the bus boy. Catchy name right?" he grinned. "Just so you know you was awesome when you punched Tiki in the face"
"I punched her? Wow" Ava uttered causing the other teen to laugh.
"Yeah ya did" he lightly bumped her hip with his "so what were you trying to get?" he asked
"Oh erm…lemon tea and-"
"Here you are" Ava felt the porcelain cup being pressed into her hands "careful" he murmured making sure she had a good grip on the cup. "So the last time I saw you was-"
Ava blushed recalling that incident, she was meant to be going on a date with him but in the end she vomited all over him. "I made a complete ass out of myself. I'm surprised that you're actually talking to me" the fairy said.
John grinned "Well you're too gorgeous not to talk to-"
"Eww no" Ava shook her head
"Too cheesy?" John questioned
"Way cheesy" she uttered "by the way do you have a middle name or something that I can call you? I already know a John and he's a bit of a dick"
"Nice" John laughed "erm…well my middle name is Maximus?"
"No way…like the gladiator?" Ava asked excitedly, "Ok that's it I deem you Max." The newly dubbed Max grinned at her, he had fancied her since the beginning of the school year, and she sat in front of him in their history class.
"Ok I can live with that" Max nodded "So erm…I was wondering if you would like to try and have a second go at having-"
"Excuse me" an accented voice interrupted him "May I borrow Miss Xenia-"without waiting for a reply he gently took Ava's arm and swept her away.
"Just so you know Elijah you can borrow me anytime…I mean anytime" Ava said without thinking. Elijah's lips twitched in amusement he found the little fairy funny.
"I understand" they stopped in front of the door to the study where Damon currently was "take this-"
"You're giving me a handkerchief?" Ava said feeling the thin material in her hands "I wouldn't have said no to flowers…or money" she muttered.
Elijah shook his head and gently grasped her chin "Ava pay attention. Your annoying friend Damon is through those doors and is bleeding out. I think he would appreciate if he had this" with that he gently pushed her into the study and closed the door behind her.
"Damon?" Ava called out.
The vampire was leaning over the desk and looked up hearing his name, he was clutching his throat and the wound that the Original had inflicted was healing. "Ava what-"
"Elijah sent me" she raised the handkerchief and followed the sound of his voice till she bumped into the desk. "Want to help me out?"
Damon sighed and moved onto her side of the desk and hopped onto the edge of the oak desk "Come here" he gently took her hand and pulled her towards him so that she was standing in between his legs "Give-"
"Nope I want to do this. You cleaned me up plenty of times" Ava smiled at him. Damon's lips also stretched into a smile and he grasped her hand silently telling her where the wound was. Ava set about to clean the mess up. "So you wanna tell me what happened?" she asked after a moment of silence.
"I and Elijah spoke and-"
"And you threatened him?" Ava finished off. She now had wiped most of the blood off of his neck "Anywhere else?"
"My hand" Ava took his much larger hand in hers and started to wipe the blood off of it.
"So what did he exactly say?" the fairy murmured. Damon forced himself to remain completely calm. Ava was so close and it was testing the vampire's patience not to just grab her, plus he could feel her warm body in between his legs.
"He said" Damon cleared his throat "That I should show him respect as he is an Original"
Ava perked up "He said it in his accent right?" she asked him
Damon frowned "Yeah why-"
"Oh so sexy" the fairy muttered and yelped when Damon leant over and swatted her bottom.
"So that was a bust" Damon drawled, he, Ava and Alaric were back at the Boarding House, the tea part had finished a couple of hours ago
Ava finished off her pop tart "I'm going to get change" she said
"Hurry up, we got dinner" the vampire called after her.
"Yeah, yeah" Ava said and left the room, leaving the two men to talk to each other. Alaric watched the fairy leave and turned back to fairy.
"So how's the throat?" he asked
"Sore" Damon replied, he was lying down on the leather sofa clutching onto a glass of bourbon.
"Yeah Elijah is one scary dude. But Ava doesn't seem to think so…according to Jenna Ava has a little crush-"the hunter didn't miss the way the vampire tensed which caused him to frown "It's only a small thing Damon. It'll pass-"
"Well Ava shouldn't be crushing on anyone" Damon scowled
"Anyone except you?" Alaric questioned causing the other man's head to snap towards him "don't play dumb Damon…you are so in love with her. Which makes me wonder what the hell are you doing with the news lady?"
"Oh she's got spunk huh?"
"Damon don't kill her and with Ava-"
"Andie is nothing more than a distraction, Ava is way more important" Damon sighed
"Than what are you-"
"Leave it Ric" Damon snapped glaring at the other man.
Alaric shrugged his shoulders "Just don't kill Andie, she's friends with Jenna and it's bad enough I'm lying to her about everything else" he murmured.
Damon hummed and closed his eyes; his heightened vampire hearing could Ava moving about in her room.
"I should go I have to go and pick Jenna up" Alaric uttered getting onto her feet. Damon waved him goodbye and once again closed his eyes, he knew that Stefan had taken Elena away for the weekend so it was just going to be him and Ava.
He froze when he heard the sound of shattering glass. He groaned thinking it was Ava. "Please don't let her be breaking another one of my vases" Damon muttered under his breath and hurriedly left the parlour. His eyes narrowed in Alaric and he saw the big knife sticking out of the history teacher's gut.
"Ava" Damon breathed praying that the fairy would stay upstairs, Alaric collapsed onto the floor the vampire spun around hearing someone dropping behind him.
Whoever this guy was he wasn't a vampire, the stranger launched himself at Damon and managed to grab him around the throat, Damon slammed himself backwards trying to dislodge the syringe that was embedded in his throat.
His eyes widened when Ava casually padded barefooted down the hallway she was now wearing a pair of flannel shorts and a camisole. The werewolf slapped his hand over Damon's mouth.
"Damon?" Ava called out just walking pass Alaric's body "Is dinner ready yet? Or do you want to get takeaway-"Damon's voice came out muffled he was trying to warn the teen.
Ava slowed down something didn't feel right "Damon?" she called out "I am so not in the mood to play hide and seek or-"
Damon bit down on the werewolf's hand "AVA RUN" he roared the werewolf that was still clutched onto his back shoved the rest of the syringe into his skin.
Ava took a hasty step back and could hear Damon blurring around the room slamming into the wall. "Ava run" the vampire uttered he was being weakened by the vervaine. Ava swallowed and turned on her heel, she needed to get help she thought.
Ava just made it to the front door when it was slammed open "Oh Ava you better not be running"
"Jules? Ever heard of just ya know….calling?" Ava backpedaled and jumped when she bumped into another werewolf.
"Hmm it's not my style-"
"Huh-"Ava ripped through the un-expecting female's mind making Jules cry out.
"Take her down-"the last thing Damon saw was the man behind Ava hacking the butt of his knife down on her head knocking the fairy out.
Damon groaned, his eyes slowly opened and he realised that he was strapped down to one of the high back chairs. He felt the spikes digging into his throat. His eyes landed on Alaric's body and were relieved to see the man was wearing his ring. But his relief was cut short when he saw Ava's still form; she was right beside his feet. "Oh thank god" he muttered she began to wake up.
Ava winced and clutching her throbbing temple. "They always go for the head" she muttered as her shoulder brushed against a leg "What-"
"Relax and try to keep your mouth shut" Damon uttered.
Ava licked her lips nervously, she had no clue what was going on, all she could remember was Jules making an appearance and Damon shouting at her to run.
The vampire stiffened noticing the werewolf that had knocked him out standing on his other side. "Morning sunshine" the weasel like man smirked.
"Its' evening you ass" Ava bit out. Damon groaned wanting Ava to shut up. "Is your name Stevie? What kind of name-"
"Oh don't use your fairy tricks on me" Stevie drawled and moved around so that now he was standing right on front of the blond causing Damon to bare his teeth when he saw how close Stevie was to her.
He needed to keep the werewolf's attention on him, Ava shifted so that she was on her knees, and her hands were bound together behind her back. "I saw this movies once" Stevie started off casually holding onto the chains "torture, porn flick anyway they had this collar device" Ava could hear the chains rattling, she attempted to untie herself but all she did was make the knot even tighter "it was really cool so I just modify it some with some wooden nails and when I pull" Stevie did just that, Damon forced himself not to cry out since he knew it would frighten Ava eve more.
"You're a dick" Ava spat "and got no taste in television. Seriously? Porn torture flick? How sad. By the way are you an internet porn addict?" she was getting under his skin. Ava knew Damon was in pain and it was just making her get angrier "is one arm bigger than the other? You're a joke Stevie. And who wears a beanie?"
"Shut up" Stevie shouted at her
"You shut up" Ava snapped back
"Shut up-"
"You shut up" she scowled.
"Don't" Damon growled seeing the werewolf raising his hand about to strike Ava across the face.
"Enough" Jules entered the scene "we don't want to cause this one any damage. She's one of a kind after all" she smirked
"You're a lesbian?" Ava frowned causing the female werewolf to roll her eyes.
"No" she raised the rifle "Now I heard you've got the moonstone"
Ava dropped down to the ground dramatically so that her temple was against the carpeted floor causing Damon to roll his eyes "Bloody moonstone is always getting us into trouble" she muttered causing Damon to chuckle.
"Oh if you only knew the irony of this moment right now" Damon panted he was covered in a thin sheen of sweat, his nostrils flared smelling a familiar scent. His eyes narrowed in on Ava's and noted that her wrist which was still sore from when she got kidnapped was beginning to get slightly bloody, he put it down to the rough material of the rope.
"Let me tell you how this is going to go" Damon breathed, his eyes had darkened in anger "You're going to torture me and I'm not going to talk. Someone is going to lose their heart" he paused.
Ava anxiously licked her lips, she attempted to get into the werewolves mind but the knock to her head had rendered her unable to. She was too weak. "Last time it was your boy Mason" Damon smirked
"You are such a dumb shit" Ava hissed he was goading a group of wolves and people say she didn't know when to shut up.
Jules took another step closer, the fairy could feel the werewolf over her "This time it's going to be you" she nodded at Stevie. He took the silent command and tugged on the chains hard making the wooden spikes stab into Damon's throat.
"Damon-"Ava cried out fear and panic was beginning to eat away at her when she heard Damon crying out in pain
"It's ok" Damon soothed her, glaring at the pack of wolves.
"Oh how cute, the big bad vampire trying to comfort the ickle little fairy" Stevie cooed mockingly
"Oh fuck you" Ava sneered causing him to take a threatening step towards her "by the way work on your insults you prick-"
"Do you ever shut up?" Jules uttered knowing if she hanged around the fairy she would probably end up with a headache.
"Are you ever not a bitch?" Ava uttered "Erm…No"
Jules's jaw clench in annoyance, Damon inwardly groaned only Ava would piss off someone who was holding both of them hostage. "Do you know the great thing about a buck shot is?"
"Erm…well-hold up is that a real thing?" Ava asked aloud, she could feel the tension building up
"Shut up-"
"You shut up Stevie, she asked the frigging question. And before you answer it you should at least know what the question means ass" Ava uttered she had stopped struggling against the ropes since it was only burning her skin. "No wonder you failed high school" she muttered.
"It scatters through the body" Jules carried on with her earlier statement "maximum damage." Damon blinked "Where's the moonstone?" she aimed the gun at the vampire.
"Get over it honey. You're never going to get it" Damon drawled
Jules narrowed her eyes at him; they flicked down to the fairy "You're not being very co-operative are you?"
"Maybe if we put a hole in the fairy then he'll talk" Stevie suggested.
"Good point"
"Hey-"Ava shouted when Jules reached forward and forced her onto her knees in front of Damon, she bowed her head when she felt the cool metal of the rifle against the back of her neck.
Damon snarled and struggled against his chains "Don't touch her-"he growled
"You got five seconds before I fire" Jules pressed the rifle against the back of Ava's shoulder. The blond paled "Five-"
"Damon" Ava uttered her voice was shaky and her eyes were glossy.
"Don't you dare" Damon's anger was coursing through him.
"Four-"Ava cringed when Jules dug it painfully into her skin. The werewolf held onto Ava's other shoulder keeping the teen still "Three-"
"Stevie had a gay experience" Ava blurted out
"What?" one of the other guys asked "Serious?"
Damon's lips thinned knowing that Ava was attempting to buy some time
"No I didn't" Stevie spluttered
"He so did. Honestly who's the mind reader here? Me so he did-"
"Two-"Jules snapped silencing the room, Damon could hear Ava's heart racing "One-"the fairy clenched her eyes shut, any second now she was expecting to feel a bullet tear through her shoulder but she didn't get that. Instead someone else entered the scene.
"Are you looking for this?"
"Oh dear sexy-"Damon cleared his throat but winced when the wooden spikes moved within his throat. "I mean Elijah" Ava rushed out; Jules spun around her grip on the fairy vanished. The blond shuffled forward so that she was closer to Damon.
Elijah casually strolled into the parlour holding the moonstone, the room was filled with silence the Original placed it on the table "Go ahead take it" he took a step back. Ava's eyebrows shot to her hairline
"What? Are you friggin serious? After all the crap that we-ow Damon stop kicking me" Ava called out.
One of the werewolves blurred forward but Elijah met him half way and punched through the man's chest cavity ripping his heart out.
Ava swallowed hearing a thump of a body, the next two wolves ran towards the moonstone but like their companion their hearts were also ripped out.
Jules ran out she was the only one smart enough to do it. Ava canted her head to the side
"If I hide here…maybe he won't hurt me-"
"Damn you're really stupid. Did you know that?" Ava asked "Why don't you pull your hood up? I'm sure the vampire won't notice you then"
Elijah strolled over to Stevie, the werewolf actually Ava's words to heart and tugged his hood over his head. "What about you sweet heart?" he hauled the werewolf on to his feet "huh? Do you want to take a shot? Yes? No? Yes? Where's the girl?"
"She ran" Ava answered
"It doesn't matter" Elijah said looking back over to the frightened man he was holding on to, without another word he slammed his fist into Stevie's face with enough force to break the man's neck instantly killing him. Elijah swooped down to Ava and easily tore the ropes from her wrists "Vampire blood won't work" he stated.
"Huh, first time anyone just said that outright" Ava commented as Elijah moved over to Damon and broke the chains, he flicked his hair away from his dark eyes.
"You realise this is the second time I saved your life. And you're meant to be protecting Ava. Not doing a very good job are you?" he smirked.
"If you want a thank you I can give you a hug" Ava uttered causing a flash of amusement to cross Elijah's face. Whilst Damon looked irritated.
"No" he said shortly causing Ava to pout. "Keep her safe" without another word he turned on his heel and left.
Ava let out small sigh a goofy smile coming on to her face.
"Ava why are you so keen on getting a hug from him?" Damon huffed he couldn't help but feel jealous
"Duh…he is soooooo sexy. And just…epic" Ava uttered dropping down onto the floor her hand landing on something soft "what's that-"
"You just touched Ric's crotch" Damon snorted
"Eww" Ava shrieked and backed away causing the vampire to burst out with laughter. "I touched Ric-"
"Maybe you should go wash your hands" Damon suggested as he pulled out the spikes. Ava hastily nodded and sprinted out of the parlour "crazy fairy…but I do love her" he shook his head.
Soon enough Ava returned to the parlour just as Damon was clearing up, he was on the phone to Caroline. The fairy dropped down on to the couch, she knew Alaric was still dead since she couldn't hear his thoughts.
"So he planned on killing her the whole time?" Damon questioned, he saw the look of confusion on Ava's face. "Got it loud and clear…no I'm keeping Ava with me" he hanged up
"What's going on?" Ava asked, Damon gave her a brief explanation of what Elijah's plan was she let out a dejected sigh
"What?" Damon asked
"It's just…the hot dudes always ends up being evil and crazy" he dropped down beside her and wrapped his arm around her shoulders bringing her close
"I'm hot and-"
"And you've just proven my point"
"Cheeky" Damon kissed her cheek, just then Alaric let out a pained groaned
"What the hell-"
"You were killed" Ava responded telepathically causing the hunter to jump
"You missed all the fun. Now Ava you want to help and-"she snorted causing Damon ruffle her hair "Yeah that's not going to happen"
"You got that right" Ava leant back into the couch, Alaric sat down in the arm chair "you probably should call Jenna" she told him. Alaric swore under his breath, he had completely forgotten about his date with Jenna. "If you want I can let her down gently for you" she offered. There was a moment of silence but it was broken when both males laughed loudly
"Oh shit you're funny and hot" Damon grinned
"Dick" she huffed.
"Sorry Ava" Alaric wiped a tear away from his eye "But I actually want another date with Jenna and if I left it up to you to do the talking, I won't be getting another date" he said pulling out his cell.
"You're both dicks" Ava folded her arms across her chest and yawned
"Go to bed" Damon uttered as Alaric dialled Jenna's number
"No-"Ava whined "It's Saturday and-"
"Bed" Damon said sternly his tone suggesting there was no room for arguments. Ava sighed dramatically and headed towards her bedroom.
Ava crawled into her bed and sighed as she lay down on her back, her mind was racing with what she had learnt today. Seems like Elijah wasn't being truthful at all he intended to kill Elena all along, and this whole Damon and Andie scenario, her ears perked up hearing a pair of boot clad feet entering her room.
"Damon?"
"Yeah me. Here Stefan wants to talk to you" Damon uttered pressing the phone into her hand, she grabbed the device.
"Hi Stef" Ava said into the phone she grinned
"Hey Ava. I heard you've been causing trouble" Stefan smiled on the other end hearing the teen groan
"Stefan don't start" Ava yawned; Damon kicked off his boots and took his jeans off as well leaving him in his boxers.
"Alright I won't" he chuckled he could hear the tiredness in her tone "You should be sleeping-"
"No-"
"Yes. Night Ava"
"Night Stefan" she hummed her eyes were drooping close, she felt the bed dip besides her indicating that someone else was there "I miss you"
"I miss you too. Love ya Ava"
"Bye" the phone was gently pulled out of the dozing petite teen's hand and set aside "Damon?" she murmured
"Yeah?"
Ava rolled over so that she was facing him; the back of her neck was resting on his outstretched arm "Why are you here? Shouldn't you be sexing it up with the news lady?" Ava hummed
Damon chuckled "Sexing it up?"
"Yeah" Ava snuggled into his chest.
"She's not that important Ava" Damon murmured gently brushing aside her fallen curls. Soon enough the pair fell asleep the vampire had curled up so that it looked as if he was shielding the fairy from the outside world.
AN: Apologies for any grammar or spelling mistakes. And also I know it took a while for me to update but I have a reason. My Laptop completely went haywire, the hard-drive got corrupted or something and wiped all my fics from it. So updates will take a while. But I'll try to update as soon as I can.
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So in this Chap-Ava sleeps under Caroline's desk, where Stefan drags her out. We also learn that Damon made a youtube channel for Ava. Ava says Stefan looks like Edward Cullen and runs off knocking Alaric down. Ava gets jealous of Andy and blurts several things out including that she kicks puppies. Ava and Damon have lunch he brushes her hair and she shoves her sandwich in his face. Ava is at the tea party, where she ends up fighting with Tiki, and they have an battle of insults which turns physical. Ava likes lemon tea. Ava meets John (remember him?) and they talk. She names him Max. Ava may have a crush on Elijah. She cleans Damon up. They go home where Ava and Damon get knocked out. Ava insults Stevie and Elijah comes to the rescue. Stefan and Ava talk in the end. And Damon ends up sleeping next to her.
Next Chap-A dinner party. With Andie, Elijah, John and Ava. Things get out of hand.
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