Chapter 21 - Founders Day and Visiting Vegas
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Gilbert Residence
I'm getting ready in the dress I need to wear with Aunty's help and it is a little painful.
"Ouch Aunty." I tell her.
"Suck it in honey" she tells me snarkily
I chuckle "there's hardly anything to suck in Jenna"
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Mystic Falls High School
Me, Damon, Tyler and Stefan are near the floats and I look at Tyler and I lean in closer to him and whisper "do we have to be here? Can't we go on a road trip or something? We could see if Damon would like to help, we could go to Vegas or Japan or something couldn't we?"
I hear Stefan snort.
"We should it'd be fun." Damon says agreeable
Tyler shakes his head with a small smile "No, my mom would be soo pissed."
"Come on live a little bit Lockwood " Damon says trying to egg him on.
I whisper again "but it would be fun You, Damon, me, Jeremy and Stefan and we could Pick up Anna on the way."
"We at least have to try to save my father though." Tyler says with a sad sigh.
"I know. He's such a dick though." I tell him out loud.
He snorts "you don't have to tell me that."
"Fine, but afterwards, road trip to Vegas." Damon tells us happily.
I look around and I see Caroline taking pictures, I sigh "I should probably take a picture of Care and Matt."
"I'll come with" Tyler says.
Damon shakes his head and puts his arms up "I'm not joining that meeting." And he walks away.
I raise an eyebrow a Tyler and asks."Are you sure you want to? Matt hates you right now."
"I was drunk, like really drunk. I didn't even know I was kissing her Lena." He tells me pleadingly.
I shake my head and put my arms up about his pleading and say "Hey, Don't look at me, I'm pissed at her, she's the adult. She shouldn't have made the move on you in the first place and you were both drunk."
"Thanks, you seem to be the only one who gives me the benefit of the doubt" he tells me as we start walking towards them.
We reach the side of Caroline and Matt, "I'll take the pictures of you and him Care!"
I see Matt eyeing Tyler. "Both of you behave."
I see Tyler's mouth twitch and Matt's eyes narrow at him. Then Matt explodes out "How can you hang out with him and the Salvatore's like this? So what? Now you sleep with everyone Elena?"
I snort then block Tyler as he goes to attack Matt.
Tyler snaps at Matt, sounding rather pissed off "Say That Again Matt, say it and I'll beat you up like I was going to"
Tyler try's to push past me and I grab his arm. I say calmly to them "It's alright Tyler."
I turn to Matt and say calmly, "Although, I'd actually have to be sleeping with someone for that to be true."
Wasn't he supposed to be nicer or something? Maybe the way things are going have made him more violent?
I roll my eyes, then I see Stefan. "Hey Stefan, I hear you got forced on the float with me." I say when I turn to him.
"Forced is a strong way of putting it Elena." He says to me.
"I'll see you later Tyler, have fun pretending to shot my brother I guess." I tell him.
Tyler laughs "I'll do my best."
I grab Stefan's arm and drag him to the float, following behind Caroline and Matt before us."Come on Stef"
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Town square
After the whole Float thing that occurred we were waiting around. We figured if I turn we get Mayor Lockwood to take Caroline and Matt home he'll survive right?
"You three need to get home." I tell them sternly.
"But what about..." Damon starts to say.
"No" I tell him.
"But we could" Damon starts again.
"NO, the device plus vamps and wolves equals you guys in my dream adopted dads old practice which is a no go." I tell them.
Damon, Stefan and Tyler are muttering under their breaths.
"Go, I'll find a way to get the mayor away from here." I tell them.
I've been searching around the square for maybe 5 minutes when I saw the Mayor looking frantically for his son.
"Mayor!" I shout out. His head snaps towards me, his eyes narrowed.
"Elena" He says curtly "Have you seen my son?"
"Yup!" I say happily "I sent him home, which is where you need to be!" I tell him
"You aren't the boss of me young lady." He says annoyed.
I smile "I know, Caroline and Matt are trying to find a ride home! Your wife can make the Speech right?"
"No one else will give them a ride?" He asks worriedly, they are just kids after all.
I shake my head "No, most want to stay for the fireworks but they want to get home and rest."
"Alright, but you need to get home too. It's not very safe out here." He tells me sternly. Aww so he does care about others.
"Agreed sir, see ya!" I tell him and walk off to my car and I head home. Ohh he needs to know where though I yell out to him "THEY'RE AT THE GRILL SIR."
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Gilbert Residence
I arrived at home, we're all in my room for now.
Tyler and Damon are again beside me. It's really kind of weird and annoying.
Jeremy and Alaric are talking and Stefan and Aunt Jenna are discussing books. It seems we're lucky enough to be more then five miles away.
"When we go to Vegas can we go clubbing?" I ask them curiously.
"And Gambling " Tyler says excitedly.
"Yeah, yeah. We can, but she will have to stay by us." Damon says pointing at me.
I pout "Well I wouldn't venture far, we'll be having fun yea?"
"Yeah, and as much as I like Jeremy and Anna you'd have ran off before they noticed because they'll be making sex eyes at each other." Damon says pointedly.
"But" Before I can finish what I was going to say Tyler interrupts me then.
"Nope, you're not aloud on the dance floor alone either." Tyler says then
I groan. Before I can say anything the phone rings. Tyler answers "Hello?"
"Mom?" He says.
"Are they Alright?" He asks.
"Good, yeah, we'll be stopping by the hospital soon then. Thanks Mom." He finishes and hangs up.
"Is caroline in the hospital then?" I ask.
"Yeah, dad and Matt are fine too so.. ." He says with nervous look.
I give him a small smile.
"I hate the mayor." Damon says solemnly.
I snort "Don't you hate everyone?"
He looks at everyone in the room and says "I don't hate anyone in here."
I snicker and bump his shoulder "thank god for that!"
He smiles back.
Alaric and Jenna are walking out of my room holding my hands and I whisper to the boys "young love"
We all smile.
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Hospital
We arrive at the hospital together. As we walk into the lobby we see the mayor and Matt sitting in the chair.
"Dad" Tyler says as he walks over to his father.
"Tyler" the mayor says sounding relieved.
"Matt" Tyler also says.
Matt still shaken from before just nods at him.
"How is she?" I ask them.
"She needs surgery" Matt says solemnly.
I nod and look at Damon and lean in to whisper in his ear "You should give her some of your blood, it'll help and it's better your blood then Katherine's."
Stefan's head snaps towards mine "we'll want either Lexi to come or you to stay here for if she's turned, just make sure she only drinks from blood bags otherwise she'll accidentally kill someone." I tell them while whispering in Damon's ear.
Of course Tyler and Stefan also heard so they nod.
"I'll stay" Stefan whispers quietly. We all nod.
After Caroline is left alone in her hospital room Damon go into it and comes out about 3 minutes later.
He nods, we are Bonnie come over to us.
"Is caroline okay?" She asks frantically.
I snuggle into Bonnie and tell her quietly "She will be Bon, I'm not sure if Kat will target her but she does have vamp blood in her to prevent her dying or staying dead from her injuries Alright?"
She nods and cry's quietly. I ask her quietly. "Could you spell her a ring please? I'll pay you ok?"
She nods again "I'll do it for her Elena." I nod and hold her for awhile.
I gave her a kiss on the cheek. "We'll be back in a few days, I convinced Damon to take me, Tyler, Jeremy and Anna to Vegas! After Caroline is in control or if she doesn't end up changed we should all go. " I finish saying excitedly.
Bonnie smiles "we'll have to plan to do that in a few weeks Lena. See you on Monday!"
"Bye darling" I say to her giving her a hug before I leave the hospital. As we walk out the doors I see Tyler's father looking at us curiously.
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On The Road
While we're in the car Anna and Jeremy keep making out (unsurprisingly they haven't seen each other in awhile) and me, Tyler and Damon are debating the best way to die.
"I think having your neck snapped would be best, it's simple and less painful then other ways." Tyler says after thinking about it.
"Honestly? Having your blood drained isn't to bad, it gives you a sleepy feeling but it's not exactly painful either." I say thoughtfully.
Damon is still thinking about it then he says "Having your heart ripped out doesn't seem to bad, pain a little while and then it's supposed to be all bye bye."
"We need to work on my fighting some more, we've been distracted." I tell him.
"I'll help, I'm not to bad either." Tyler says.
Damon snarks "So what you want to alternate days? What if I want to do it with her myself?"
Tyler rolls his eyes and says "I'm going to help too."
"Fine." I snap in before they can fight anymore."you'll both take turns then alright?"
They both snap out "Fine"
I roll my eyes, freakin idiots sometimes, it's fighting not sex. Not that sex and fighting can't go together. They can but, well. . We're not doing that.
Weirdos they are.
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Las Vegas
When we arrived in Vegas it was early Saturday morning. We went to the Bellagio Hotel and Casino.
The walk way was white with black and on the side were some Japanese style garden area and it was Big.
Damon reached the counter first and says "I'd like two rooms please"
"One bed or two for those?" The receptionist asks.
"One bed for one room and two for the other" Damon says.
"Alright, here's your room cards and you'll pay at check out, both rooms are 234.00 plus tax. Thank you for picking the Bellagio" The male reception says.
We follow Damon along to our rooms. Me and Anna get the room on the right and the boys get the room on the left.
Me and Anna enter our room and it's rather large, the bed boards are dark mahogany and the bedspread is white. There's a desk and a tv as well.
"So you know, we haven't gotten to know each other that well." I tell her looking at her.
"Names Lena, I like chocolate, swimming cooking and making things. I also enjoy dancing and doing stupid things sometimes."
I tell her.
"I like spending time with Jeremy, reading, dancing, chocolate and shopping." Anna replies back.
I nod. "Wanna jump on the bed with me?" I ask her.
She laughs "Sure"
After we've been jumping on the bed for a good ten minutes I get off and say "I need to shower before we do anything today"
After I'm done with the shower I get dressed in and I put on some black tights, a black skirt that's a little below the thigh, combat boots and a black tank top with a see through black long sleeved shirt.
"What do you think?" I asked her nervously.
She looks me over and says with a nod"You look hot."
"Thanks" I say back with a laugh. "I'll meet you over by the boys then?"
"Yeah, they said they're ready, but they'll meet us in their room, they said something about you being directionally challenged or something." She tells me sounding almost curious and I laugh quietly.
"Well, they're not wrong Anna. See you in a bit!" I tell her as I walk out into the hallway.
I turn to the door on left and knock. It's Jeremy that opens it. He gives me a happy smile "Hey Sister-mine! What do you think so far?" He asks me curiously.
"I like it and I'll be getting to know Anna a bit better too." I tell him with a smile.
"What do you think Jere?" I ask him curiously.
"I like it, and I look forward to be spending some time with Anna away from the drama of Mystic Falls" he tells me honestly.
"Boys" I greet Damon and Tyler who are having a arm wrestling match on the desk.
"Lena" Damon says in greeting.
"Elena" Tyler says with a small smile as they go back to arm wrestling.
I look at jere and raise an eyebrow "who's won and who hasn't?"
"They seem to be going back and forth. Tyler will win, then Damon will win, I'm not sure who's one most or if one of them is occasionally letting the other win, your guess is as good as mine sister." Jeremy says with an entertained smile on his face.
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The Bar in the Hotel
Klaus POV
They walked into the bar, an Asian woman with a shaggy dark haired male who had an amused grin on his face. Shortly after them came a group of three a tall male with dark hair and blue eyes, a light brown haired woman with eyes sparkling and a male on her left with dark hair and slightly shorter height then the male on her right.
They were all laughing and joking. The music in the bar was loud, after the day my heart hurt I've been looking around to find the source of the pain, occasionally there will be random moments of joy or sadness in my heart that I can't explain.
If I had to describe it I'd say my hearts happiness matches the woman's eyes who just walked in but in them I see pain, so much pain and it confuses me. I'll admit that she looks familiar, that I should recognize her. She looks like the doppelgänger, but then she also doesn't.
Maybe It's the eyes that are confusing me? Or the hair? But her face, her face is Katherine's to a T. I watche them curiously, wondering if she's the doppelgänger I'm looking for, so from my corner I eavesdrop.
"What do you mean you won? I did." The shorter male snarks at the taller one with blue was.
"No I did, I let you win" the blue eyed one says.
"You liar, you lost, just admit it." The shorter one snaps.
The look-a-like snorts and chuckles then says "Ladies, Ladies, you're both pretty. No need to fight." And then she sticks out her tongue.
Both males mouths snap shut as the male that came in with the dark haired woman starts laughing.
"Shut up Jeremy" the shorter one snaps.
"Awww, is Tyler's feelings hurt" 'Jeremy asks mockingly.
"No, I just think you're annoying." Tyler shoots back "and I'm not stupid enough to do that again."
The light haired female looks amused shaking her head says "that's what happens when these two are stuck in a room then?"
The other male speaks up "we want to sometimes but our little Lena likes to jump into fights, right dear."
"We're going to do our own thing, we'll meet you in our rooms" Jeremy whispers but he gets no response as he grabs Anna and leaves the bar.
'Lena' puts her hands up in surrender and says "better I get hurt then one of you darling."
"You keep it up and I'll put you in a padded room Lena." The blue eyed one says.
Lena rolls her eyes "I'd like to see you make me stay in one of them Day."
'Day's eyes seem to sparkle at that and he says happily "That can be arranged, Tyler would even help."
"I'd love to help, you're too reckless" Tyler says. I can't help but feel that there's an interesting story to that.
She groans. "As much I love the kinky bondage shit sometimes Day, my answer is well, it's NO. Now I'm going to dance k?"
"I'm going with" both males say and she groans.
She raises an eyebrow at both boys "you do know you could both find someone and hook up right?"
I roll my eyes, doesn't she notice both males like her? Stupid question, because she just completely shot down that idea.
"I don't want to." Both males say.
She shakes her head and I hear her mutter "idiots, they can't get a girl following me around all day."
I almost laugh, god she really doesn't notice that they're into her.
I watche her dance and the males occasionally dance with her, the males glaring at anyone they see staring to long.
She's completely oblivious, I can see it, but I also sees her randomly stiffen at touches and I can't help but admit that I hopes she's not the doppelgänger.
I'd hate to have to kill her, but I knows that I will have to keep a look out and I'm quite positive that it's her.
I won't admit it then but I can almost feel my heart drop. I just doesn't understand why. I must have had to much alcohol or something.
