Ok I made some changes. I took out the part with their encounter with Lucille. I didn't care for it as much as I read through it. I figured I would let them find her even though she has been stalking him. Smut is staying..

Chapter 37, I'll Always Be With You

As night time approached, Thomas, Elena, and Tyler headed to a destination a little further away from where the apartment was. A cab had dropped them off, so they wouldn't have to walk as far. Elena did some research familiarizing herself on this place before they left. Thomas stayed close by Elena's side as they kept walking through the small tunnel.

"Now I know why they call this the gates of hell." Elena said seeing an old graveyard ahead of them. She started walking ahead of them being the first to walk through the graveyard. Most of these graves were from the eighteen hundreds. She found a spot sitting next to the grave with her temperature reader on. Thomas and Tyler must have walked another direction. Elena was alone hearing nothing but crickets around her.

She stood up walking around hearing strange noises. Then something had lightly touch her back. It caused her to jump and look behind her. "Hello?" She spoke.

For some reason, she started feeling strange. Her body started to feel a little numb from the legs up. Visions of Thomas and Edith were starting to appear in her mind. Elena felt like something was happening to her. Then after a few minutes everything was gone. Her feeling in her legs was back. She looked seeing a white figure of a woman walking across from one grave to another.

Both Thomas and Tyler had returned from where ever they went. Thomas noticed Elena as she looked as if something scared her. "Elena, are you alright?" Thomas said walking over to her.

"Something happened to me. I saw you and Edith together. My legs went numb so I couldn't run." She said trying to explain.

Thomas wrapped his arms around her noticing her shaking a little. "Calm down I'm here," he said comforting her.

Elena leaned in kissing him a moment. This lasted a moment until he pulled back to look at her. His hand rubbed along her face. Thomas looked behind her seeing a ghostly figure that looked like Edith. It was standing there watching him. He let Elena go slowly walking towards it. It's stood there watching him as he started to get closer. "Thomas," he heard a voice in his mind.

"Edith," he spoke.

Before anything could happened. They were interrupted by footsteps coming their direction. The figure in front of him disappeared. Elena went up to Thomas grabbing his hand pulling him to come with her. Elena stood there wondering who he was talking to. "What is it?" She asked him.

"The woman looked like Edith," he answered her. Elena looked around a moment trying to find the figure. Thomas turned around noticing it had disappeared. He wondered if Edith really did come back to him.

Elena decided that it was time for them to leave. Tyler had them start walking and he would catch up. Their walk was long, but they made it back to the apartment. As they made it to the front door, they noticed it was unlocked. Tyler caught up to them seeing them standing at the door. "Get the fuck out," Tyler said pissed. He shoved him about ready to punch him.

Thomas walked in front of Elena seeing what was going on. "If you would just listen," Derek pleaded.

"You got five minutes," Tyler warned him. Elena came in seeing Derek standing there. Thomas was very less enthused to see him.

"I want to help you. Look, I know what I did was stupid. I'm sorry," he apologized.

"You sure as hell should be. Why should any of is trust you?" Elena questioned him.

Derek sighed at that knowing he really ruined things. "I quit helping Lucille. The plan wasn't for me to really fall for you but I did. I realized that felt strongly for you and I couldn't go through with it," he said walking up to her.

"What were you suppose to do?" Elena asked him.

"Kill you," he answered. Thomas remembered the plan him and Lucille had for Edith. This all seemed similar to what happened with him, realizing he couldn't go through it because he fell in love for real.

As much as Thomas wanted to hate him, he could understand where Derek was coming from. So for that he could forgive him for. "You are forgiven," Thomas spoke.

"What?" Tyler protested.

"I was in his place once. The plan was to kill Edith, but instead I realized I couldn't follow through that I can forgive him for. We need all the help we can get," Thomas explained.

"Fine, but no more bullshit," Tyler warned him.

Elena walked up to Derek. He looked at her. "It still doesn't make up for what you did to me," she said sadly.

"I didn't expect it to," he said placing a hand on her shoulder.

"It is getting late we should rest," Thomas said looking at the time. Elena walked away from Derek going to her room. Thomas followed her from behind shutting the door.

Elena sat on the bed taking her shoes off tossing them on the floor. Thomas sat beside her watching her. "Why would Edith come back now?," he spoke.

She turned to look at him putting her hand over his. "I don't know." She got up from the bed grabbing some pajamas to throw on. Thomas got up having her look at him. His lips went over hers as he kissed her passionately on the lips. She dropped the clothes on the floor as he kissed her nearly forgetting they were there.

The way he kissed her had her mesmerized by him. She embraced him pulling him close to her. Thomas felt his need growing. Wasting no time, he removed her shirt allowing it to fall on the floor. Elena unbuttoned his pants pulling everything completely off leaving him with nothing from the waist down. He removed the last of her undergarments kissing between her chest. Her hands grabbed his shirt unbuttoning it literally almost ripping it off him. Thomas had her against her dresser as he made his way between her legs kissing and sucking, causing her to let out a soft moan. Her breathing labored literally driving her crazy. After a while he, stood up placing a finger inside her pumping in and out. She started to moan loudly and he put his hand over her mouth.

It didn't take her long to reach her orgasm. He led her to the bed having her lay on her back. They he looked at her was like a male claiming his mate. In his mind, he was. He entered her getting on top starting to thrust. Thomas had a dominate side just like his sister. It took him a while to realize that until now. "Do you like this? Is this what you want?" He whispered in her ear while thrusting.

"I want you," she said breathing heavily. He shifted moving behind her entering her from behind. She moaned as he had his arms around her keeping her close. Thomas started losing completely control literally giving everything he had causing her to have another orgasm. He felt it literally drench in her wetness as he continued to ride her. His moans started to get a little louder enough for her to hear him.

After a few hard thrusts, he finally found his release inside of her as his grip tightened. He held her a moment longer before pulling out lying beside her. She turned to face him as they both got under the covers. His eyes were on hers as they laid close to each other. "I love you,' he said looking into her eyes.

"I love you," he kissed her cheek.

"We should rest," Thomas said snuggling up to her. She agreed lying beside him drifting off to sleep.