Disclaimer: I don't own The Vampire Diaries! If I did it would be hell of lot more gay.
Remember that in the rest of the story Alex will go by Elena!
A few days after the whole bachelor raffle Elena was making herself ready for another day at school while talking to Lexi on the phone.
"How's that pretty brother of yours?" Lexi asked with a chuckle.
"Don't you have Lee?" Elena asked as she put on a pair of blood red skinny jeans.
"Oh, that would be so hot." Lexi sort of made a mocking moan over the phone. "Lee and your pretty brother on one bed, mhmm."
"Lexi!" Elena mocked cringed and almost stabbed herself in the eye with her eyeliner.
"What?!" Lexi laughed. "Your brother is pretty right now but imagine in a year or two, he's gonna be freaking gorgeous!"
"Yeah, I'm going to have to learn material arts or something to protect his virtue, aren't I?" Elena hummed.
"Definitively." Lexi agreed with a chuckled.
Elena walked out of her room to knock on Jeremys door. "Hey Jeremy," She called through the door. "Can I borrow a hoddie?"
"Oh, tell your pretty brother hello from me and to stay sexy." Lexi told Elena.
"Good morning, Lena." A newly awoken Jeremy said as he opened the door with a smile and held out a maroon colored hoddie towards her.
"Thank you." Elena smiled back at him then she gestured a little to her phone. "Oh, and Lexi asked me to tell my pretty brother 'Hello' and to 'Stay sexy'."
"Hey Lexi and stay epic." Jeremy said with a blush, knowing that Lexi could hear every word.
"Oh, I just want to do very bad things to him." Lexi teased Elena through the phone.
"I'll see you later Jere." Elena kissed Jeremy on the cheek, doing her best to ignore Lexi. "Love you."
"Love you to, Lena." Jeremy called after her as she walked down the stairs.
"I wish I could talk longer but it seems like Lee needs me for something." Lexi told Elena. "I'll text you later, bye, bye, beautiful."
"Bye, bye gorgeous." Elena said with a smile and ended the call.
"Were you talking to a boy?" Jenna asked hopefully making Elena jump, not having noticed her.
"Aunt Jenna!" Elena exclaimed as she mock glared at her aunt. "No, it wasn't a boy, it was just Lexi."
"Just 'Lexi' huh?" Jenna smirked with an eyebrow raised then she raised her hands in surrender. "I don't judge."
"Really aunt Jenna?" Elena laughed. "Would I date Lexi? Probably not, even though she's awesome. Would I consider having sex with her? I just might, she's gorgeous."
Elena and Jenna just looked at each other for a while and then like a dam broke they started to laugh. Elena finally managed to calm down around 10 minutes later, put her on her knee high, high heeled boots and left for school with a quick hug from Jenna.
XOXOXOX
"Stefan!" Elena called out as she arrived at the school.
"Elena." Stefan smiled when she walked up to him.
"I have a very important question." Elena linked her arm with Stefan and started to walk into the school.
"Okay?" Stefan asked hesitantly.
"When it comes to vampires you have to invite them in, right?" Elena hummed.
"Yeah?" Stefan looked at her.
"But what counts as 'inviting in'?" Elena wondered. "I mean do you have to say the words 'Come in' specifically or does it work with calling out 'Enter'? Does a welcome Matt with the words 'Welcome' or 'Come in' count as an invite?"
"I…I actually don't know." Stefan looked thoughtful.
"Mhmm." Elena hummed softly. "Do you think Damon would know?"
"Maybe." Stefan shrugged. "You could always ask him, but…"
"But?" Elena asked.
"He has been very quiet these last few days and I'm worried about him." Stefan admitted. "The whole thing with Kathrine and her not being in the tomb… I love my brother and I don't want to see him so hurt and almost broken."
"Come here." Elena pulled Stefan into a gentle hug and murmured in his ear. "If you are worried just hug him. A hug can save lives and it has been scientifically proven that it makes people feel better."
"I think it would give him a heart attack if I just walked up to him and hugged him." Stefan chuckled but had to admitted that the hug helped him feel better.
"Can vampires have heart attacks?" Elena wondered as she pulled back.
"No idea." Stefan laughed.
"Elena, Stefan." Caroline smiled as she walked up to them.
"Caroline." Stefan smiled back and Elena hugged her best friend.
"I need your help." Caroline looked at them imploringly.
"What can we do for you?" Elena smiled. "Is it illegal?"
"No, it's completely legal." Caroline just looked at Elena.
"Oh." Elena sighed.
"Why do you sound disappointed?" Caroline asked as Stefan laughed.
"No reason." Elena denied and continued. "What can we help you with?"
"I know that you two are just friends but it would mean a lot to me if you guys could come on a double date with me and Matt." Caroline rushed out. "It would be just fun with a few friends but also help with the awkwardness."
Stefan and Elena looked at each other and came to a silent agreement. Elena then turned towards Caroline. "We're in, but nothing too fancy."
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Caroline bounced up and down as she hugged Elena and then Stefan. "It will be nothing to huge, just a dinner at the grill and then later maybe a movie."
"Sounds fine." Stefan chuckled.
"See you tonight." Caroline beamed and walked away.
"Are we sure she's human?" Elena murmured. "I mean, it can't be normal to have that much energy and that much positivity in one body."
"Really?" Stefan looked at Elena from the corner off his eye.
"Don't look at me like that." Elena huffed with a smile.
XOXOXOX
"Can I wear this?" Elena asked Jeremy when he opened the door to his room. Elena was wearing a dark blue, knee length dress with a sweetheart neckline.
"Depends on where you're going and with who." Jeremy smirked at his sister.
"I'm going to the grill with Caroline, Stefan and Matt." Elena told him.
"Then yes, you can wear that and you look really pretty in that dress." Jeremy smiled then he straightened. "I actually got something for you that I want you to keep with you in your purse or pocket or something."
Jeremy walked back into his room and pulled out a small bag from his bedside table. he handed Elena the bag when he got back to the door, looking slightly nervous.
"Oh Jeremy." Elena giggled as she pulled out a dark red knuckle duster from the bag.
"It's actually been soaked in vervain so you can use it against vampires." Jeremy rubbed the back of his neck.
"Thank you." Elena hugged him and kissed him on the cheek.
"I just want you to be safe, Lena." Jeremy murmured into her hair.
"I love you little brother." Elena sighed as she burrowed closer to Jeremy.
"I love you too." Jeremy hummed before he pulled back at the sound of the doorbell. "Have fun tonight and call me if you need anything."
"I will and don't get to lost in the wonderful world that is the internet." Elena chuckled as she walked down the stairs to open the door.
"Stefan." Elena smiled as she saw Stefan on the other side of the door.
"Hey Elena." Stefan smiled back. "You look beautiful."
"Eyes off my sister!" Jeremy called out with a smirk as he walked down the stairs. "I've always wanted to say that."
"Was it everything you hoped for?" Stefan chuckled as he looked at Jeremy.
"Nah, not really." Jeremy shrugged. "Would have been a lot more fun if you actually were here to take my sister out on a date so I could threaten you."
"Sorry to disappoint you." Stefan smirked.
"Are you two done?" Elena asked as she smiled while looking between them.
"Yeah, I was just going to get some coke form the fridge." Jeremy shrugged and walked towards the kitchen.
"We have those spicy chips you like." Elena informed him.
"Awesome." Jeremy called out. "Thanks Lena."
"You're very welcome." Elena smiled. "Bye Jeremy, see ya later."
"Bye Lena." Jeremy called back as Elena shut the front door.
"You know." Elena turned to Stefan as they walked towards the car. "You'd think that someone who was around when the car was invented would have one."
"Oh, I do have a car." Stefan said. "I just never drive it."
"Why not?" Elena asked.
"It doesn't run." Stefan shrugged, not really having a better answer. "You know, the last time I was on a double date was 1972. Hef and the twins."
"You are telling me that you went out on a double date with Hugh Heffner?" Elena gasped in surprise.
"Yeah, playmates." Stefan smirked. "I got Miss June."
"Good on you." Elena laughed.
Later at the grill Elena, Stefan, Caroline and Matt are talking and laughing, telling stories and just having a good time.
Elena looked to the bar and chuckled, "I did not expect that."
"What?" The others turned to see Kelly, Damon and Jenna drinking together.
"Are they actually having fun together?" Matt asked shocked.
"Good on them." Elena laughed. "I'm going to go over there and talk to Jenna about something."
"Good luck." Caroline laughed.
"Aunt Jenna." Elena smiled as she stopped beside Jenna.
"Elena, my darling niece, what can I do for you?" Jenna hugged her sloppily making Elena chuckle.
"I was just going to check if you wanted to go with me to the dealership this weekend?" Elena asked with a hopeful smile.
"Wait…" Jenna sat up straighter. "You got it?!"
"Yeah, they called today to say that I could pick it up on Monday." Elena had a proud grin on her face.
"Absolutely!" Jenna got up and pulled Elena into a hug. "You are going to look so bad ass!"
"That was the only thing I really wanted." Elena said as she pulled back from Jenna. She turned to Damon and Kelly. "I hope you three have a nice evening." And as she left, she kissed Damon on the cheek after having hugged him quickly.
Elena starts to make her way back towards the other three when a man grabs her arm. "Kathrine?"
"I'm sorry." Elena looked at him and there is a vague warning bell ringing in her head. "You have the wrong person."
"My mistake." The man muttered but kept looking at her as she walked back over to the others. As she approaches them, she sends a quick message to both Damon and Stefan. 'That man just called me Kathrine'.
"Let's go back to my place and watch some movies or something." Stefan offered after he read the text message and shared a subtle nod with Damon. "And no Elena, we are not watching Disney this time."
Elena closed her mouth and pouted at him.
"What?" Matt asked confused.
"Elena seems to have made it her life mission to make me watch every single Disney movie in existence." Stefan mock groaned.
"Hey, Disney is awesome!" Elena declared as she grabbed Carolines arm and they walked out of the grill together.
When Elena and Stefan arrived at the boarding house they talk while they wait for Caroline and Matt to arrive. Stefan asked, "You didn't recognize him at all? Never seen him before?"
"No, but there is something about him that I just can put my finger on." Elena hummed thoughtfully.
"Are you okay?" Stefan looked at her.
"Yeah I'm fine." Elena smiled. "And I have this if the man tries something." Elena pulled out her new knuckle duster.
"A knuckle duster?" Stefan chuckled.
"A vervain-soaked knuckle duster." Elena had a slight maniac smile on her face but then it dropped into a frown. "Except I don't really know how to throw a punch."
"You should ask Damon to teach you some self-defense." Stefan told her. "He taught me and he knows a lot of dirty tricks."
"He thought you how to fight?" Elena smiled.
"Yeah, he's actually a very good teacher." Stefan looked like he was lost in his memories with a small smile on his face.
"Come on." Elena got out of the car as she saw Matt and Caroline arrive in Matt's car.
Stefan led them into the living room and Matt and Caroline looked around with big eyes.
"Man, I've always wanted to see the inside of this place." Matt said lowly.
"It's a bit much." Stefan shrugged.
"I like it." Caroline smiled at Stefan.
"Whoa; these are great." Matt exclaimed as he looked at a display full off miniature cars.
"This is uh…a little hobby of mine." Stefan said with an embarrassed shrug.
"I did the entire Mustang series when I was nine." Matt told him.
"You like cars?" Stefan asked with a smile.
"Understatement." Matt laughed.
"Come with me." Stefan said and lead them all to the garage. When he had opened the garage door, they saw a car covered by a tarp. "Prepare yourself, my friend."
Matt gasped in awe as he saw the red 1963 Porsche 356B Karmann Coupe He slowly walked towards the car with big eyes then he stopped and turned to Stefan, "Wait, how do you have this?"
"Got passed down through the family." Stefan said and Elena and Caroline had to look away from each other so they wouldn't start laughing.
"Why don't you…I mean…why don't you drive it?" Matt hesitantly asked.
"It doesn't run." Stefan told him sadly, "I could never figure out why."
"So, it's a good car then?" Caroline asked with a smile.
"It's a very good car and it's very desirable, only round 2300 where ever built." Matt gushed.
"Boys and their toys." Elena said to Caroline who laughed.
"Want me to take a look at it?" Matt offered. "I built and rebuilt the engine on an old Camaro that Elenas dad used to own."
"You guys have fun with that while me and Caroline go outside and gossip or something." Elena and Caroline walked away.
"Thank you for this." Caroline said softly to Elena as they stand outside the garage. "You and Stefan helped make this evening less awkward.
"No problem." Elena smiled at her. "You are my best friend, Caroline, there is very little I wouldn't do for you."
"So, this is how it feels like." Caroline murmured in wonder.
"What, what feels like?" Elena looked at her,
"Be someones best friend and first choice." Caroline smiled with tears in her eyes. "I know that between me and Stefan you would choose me first and I've never really been anyone's first chose before."
"Oh, Care." Elena pulled her into a hug and in a corner of her mind she thought about making a shirt with the text 'Free Hugs for Friends' on it, with an emphasis on friends. She would hate if some unknown stranger came up and just hugged her, Elena shuddered at the thought.
They pull away from each other just in time for Stefan and Matt to pull up in Stefans Porsche.
"Piece of cake!" Matt crowed as he stepped out.
"Why don't you and Caroline take it for a spin?" Stefan asked as he tossed the keys to Matt.
"Really?" Matt looked at Stefan like he had hung the moon or something.
"Yeah." Stefan smiled.
"You just made his year." Elena laughed as she watched Matt and Caroline drive away.
Stefan and Elena had gone up to his room to have something to do until Caroline and Matt came back. Around an hour later Stefan sat up from where he had been writing in his journal. "They're back."
"How?" Elena started to ask then she just shook her head when she remembered his vampire hearing. "Never mind."
They made it down the stairs in time to see the awkward confrontation between Kelly, Matt and Damon.
"I got to…" Matt gestures towards where Kelly had just left.
"Go, it's fine." Caroline laughed and kissed him.
"I'll take Caroline home later." Elena reassured Matt.
"Thanks." Matt called as he rushed out after giving Stefan his car keys back.
"Sorry if we ruined your evening." Elena smiled at Damon.
"Eh, that's fine." Damon shrugged and took a sip from his bourbon.
Before anyone else can say anything the man from the grill jumped through the window and stabbed Stefan with a piece of glass. Damon pushed him of his little brother and engaged him in a fight, all the while Elena and Caroline did their best to stay out of the way.
Stefan removed the glass piece just in time to defend himself from a woman who attacked him. As she pushed him to the floor, Stefan quickly broke the leg off of a wooden chair and staked the woman through the hart.
At the same time Damon managed to send the man flying across the room and when he saw that the woman is dead and that he is outnumbered, he ran.
"Damn it!" Damon cursed.
"I remember them from 1864." Stefan murmured. "They were in the tomb."
"Yeah, about that…" Damon then proceeded to tell them about the visit from Pearl.
When Damon is done, they all just stood there until Elena sighed. "How about we deal with this tomorrow?"
The other three quickly agree, feeling tiredness creep in after a long day.
XOXOXOX
Elena came home to voices in the kitchen after she had dropped Caroline off at home. She assumed that it was Jeremy and Jenna but was shocked when she saw Anna sitting at the breakfast bar with Jeremy.
"What's going on?" Elena asked as she looked at Anna.
Anna looked like a dear caught in headlights and Elena did her best not to crack a smile. Anna shifted and looked at Elena. "I'm sorry that I kidnapped you and then tried to feed you to my mother, but I was desperate to get her back and this was the first chance in 145 years."
"I know that you aren't really sorry, I can also guess that the only reason you are apologizing is that you actually like Jeremy and wants to keep being friends if not more with him. I really don't blame you for any of that." Elena walked over to Jeremy and Anna. "If I had a chance to bring my mom back, there wouldn't be a lot I wouldn't do to make that happen."
"You mean…" Anna looked shocked and hopeful.
"I forgive you." Elena smiled at Anna, then her eyes and smile turned cold. "But if you ever hurt my baby brother, I don't care how old and powerful you are, I will find you and then I will cut off different body parts and see if they grow back or not. We clear?!"
"Yes." Anna nodded quickly, actually feeling scared of this one human girl.
"Good, then you have both my forgiveness and my blessing." Elena beamed, turned to Jeremy to kiss him on the cheek and walked up the stairs with a good night tossed over her shoulder.
Elena made herself ready for bed all the while feeling like she had forgotten something crucial about the man that attacked them at the boarding house and Stefan. As she climbed into bed, she was determined to be cautious the coming days.
XOXOXOX
The next day Elena was helping Damon and Stefan clean up after yesterday's home invasion. She had started to clean up all the glass as she listen to Damon rant about yesterday.
"I say we go to Pearl's, bust down the door and annihilate the idiot that attacked us last night." Damon growled as he was putting up boards over the broken window.
"And then what?" Stefan groaned. "Turn to the rest of the vampires and say 'Oops, sorry' and hope that they'll let us leave?"
"Can't we just talk to Pearl?" Elena asked softly. "It's just…"
"Just what?" Stefan asked.
"To quote Obi-Wan Kenobi." Elena smiled slightly. "I have a bad feeling about this."
"What is that feels bad about it?" Stefan looked at her.
"I don't know." Elena admitted with a shrug. "I have the feeling that something is coming."
"Are we sure we can trust Pearl?" Stefan wanted to know then he turned towards Damon. "Why did you make a deal with her, anyway?"
"It was less a deal and more a helpful exchange of information. And it's not like I had a choice." Damon defended himself. "She's…scary. Besides she's going to help me get Kathrine back."
"Are you sure you want too?" Elena looked at him sadly.
"Want to what?" Damon asked.
"Find Kathrine and take her back?" Elena murmured.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" Damon smirked.
"Because she doesn't deserve you Damon." Elena walked up to him and placed her hand gently on his cheek. "She abandoned you for 145 years and I don't want her to hurt you again."
"I…I…I need to go." Damon stuttered out and was gone before Elena could react.
"I didn't mean to make him uncomfortable." Elena muttered.
"He'll be okay, he's just not used to people caring." Stefan pulled her into a hug.
"How are we going to handle the vampires from the tomb?" Elena asked after a while. "I don't have anything against Pearl or Anna but those that attacked us are going down."
"Let me and Damon handle it, please." Stefan pleaded. "I just want you safe."
"And I want you and Damon safe." Elena declared with a glare, then she softened. "I'll go home so I can get something to eat and maybe take a nap."
"You okay?" Stefan asked concerned, never having heard about Elena taking a nap in all the time he had known her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Elena smiled. "I just didn't sleep well last night, weird dreams and stuff."
"Okay, drive safely." Stefan told her softly.
"Absolutely." Elena smirked teasingly. "100mph the whole way."
XOXOXOX
Elena woke up to insistent knocking on the door. She got up from the couch, were she had taken her nap, and went to open the door.
"You're ignoring me." Damon walked in as soon as the door was open.
"No, I'm not." Elena defended herself as she rubbed her left eye and closed the door with a yawn.
"I've tried calling you 6 times and you didn't answer." Damon looked at her.
"Oh, sorry I was taking a nap and must have not heard my phone." Elena walked over to the couch, looking for her phone.
"That means Stefan isn't here." Damon groaned.
"Should he be?" Elena asked as she finally found her phone.
"He went out to hunt in the woods earlier and hasn't come back." Damon started to pace. "I can't reach him on his phone and I hoped that he was with you."
Elena tried calling Stefan to and looked worried when he didn't answer. "It'd going straight to voice-mail. Where could he be?"
"You're not going to like the answer to that." Damon muttered.
"The tomb vampires." Elena cursed as she remembered what had happened in the show.
"You're really smart and insightful." Damon muttered quietly.
"What?" Elena asked as she pulled on a jacket.
"Nothing." Damon shook his head. "Where are you going?"
"With you to get Stefan." Elena pushed Damon out of the door and locked it behind them.
"No, you're not." Damon denied.
"Watch me." Elena put on her knuckle duster and walked over to Damons car and got into the passenger side. Before she closed the car door she called out to Damon, "You coming or what?"
"If you are coming with me you have to promise me to stay in the car while I go talk to them." Damon said as he started the car. "Otherwise I'll knock you out and fucking leave you on your porch."
"But…" Elena started to protest but stopped at the look she got from Damon and sat back with a pout. "Fine."
XOXOXOX
Elena was bored and worried out of her mind as she sat in the car waiting for Damon, knowing he would return without Stefan due to the fact that he couldn't get into the house.
"What happened?!" Elena got out of the car as she saw a pissed looking Damon approaching.
"They have him!" Damon snarled and punched a tree. "I can't get in."
"They have a human who owns the property." Elena groaned. "I hate it when the bad guys are smart."
"Yeah that sucks." Damon snorts. "They also compelled the woman who owns the house to never let me in."
"I guess it time to do some work for a living." Elena declared and pulled on her knuckle dusters and pulled out a knife from her bag, then she started to walk the way Damon had come from.
Damon vamp-sped in front of her. "And where do you think you are going?"
"To get Stefan." Elena said it like it was obvious. "Just because you can't get in doesn't mean that I can't."
"You are not going in there!" Damon growled.
"We can't just leave him." Elena looked up at Damon sadly.
"I know, Elena, I know." Damon sighed. "They are torturing him for revenge and I can't get in to get him."
"We need back up." Elena declared and started to smirk. "Who do we know that is a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and can't be killed by supernatural creatures?"
"You are a genius." Damon grabbed Elena and spun her around in his arms with a laugh.
It took them around 40 minutes to get to the school and the whole way Elena and Damon had argued about whatever Elena would go into the house or not.
"Damon, it's my choice." Elena told him strongly. "And I appreciate that you care about my wellbeing, I really do, but I am going."
"Fine, but you do everything and anything to get out of there alive even if it means leaving me, Stefan or the teacher to die!" Damon looked at her seriously.
"It's adorable that you think I would actually do that." Elena smiled and patted his cheek.
Damon muttered a few profanities as he and Elena walked into the school to find the history teacher/vampire hunter.
"What do you want?" Alaric glared as Damon vamp-sped in front of him.
"Maybe I just want to see how many times I can kill you before that ring of yours stops working." Damon smirked.
"We need your help, Mr. Saltzman." Elena told him as she elbowed Damon in the ribs.
Elena explained everything as they made their way to Alaric's classroom. "Stefan's in the house and because Damon is a vampire, he can't get in. We need you because Damon won't let me go by myself."
"I really want to forbid you to go at all but you are one stubborn little bitch." Damon groused.
"Thank you." Elena beamed at him.
"Her life is valuable, yours isn't." Damon looked at Alaric. "Your ring makes you the expendable one."
"What about my ring?" Alaric twisted the ring on his finger.
"Let's recap, shall we?" Damon sneered. "You tried to kill me, I defended myself, you died and then you came back to life… You see where I'm going with this?"
"Yeah but you forgot the part where I try and kill you again but this time, I won't miss." Alaric glared.
"Why do you hate Damon?" Elena asked with a condescending look. "Is it because he turned your wife? It's not like he just woke up one morning thinking 'Oh today I'm going to turn Alaric Saltzman's wife'. She begged him to turn her so if you want to hate anybody it should be her. I do."
"That's not the same." Alaric started to say.
"Your right." Elena interrupted with a sneer. "She's not my wife, she's my biological mother and she abandoned me when I was a baby. So, she left you to become a vampire? Suck it up and be a man!"
"I'm sorry Elena, but it's not my problem." Alaric looked at her sadly.
"That's a shame." Damon hummed thoughtfully. "Because the woman in charge of the crowd can help you find your wife."
"You're lying." Alaric glared.
"Am I?" Damon shrugged. "Why don't you ask her yourself, coward? Come on Elena."
Elena and Damon started to leave but was stopped by Alaric. "All right! Wait, I'll go!"
Ten minutes later Alaric was pulling out all his vampire hunting equipment and placing it on his desk and Elena felt like messing with him a little more.
"So…which cabinet was it that was a shrine with half naked pictures of me?" Elena looked around the room innocently.
"What?" Alaric spluttered and dropped a stake.
"What are you talking about?" Damon asked.
"Oh, you didn't know?" Elena hummed. "Apparently Tanner had a shrine in one of the cabinets dedicated to me, full of pictures of me in different states off undress, which basically means that Mr. Saltzman here, has seen me naked."
"Has he now?" Damon murmured but what Elena couldn't see was the dark glare he was sending Alaric.
"What are these?" Elena picked up something from the table.
"Those are tranquilizer darts filled with vervain." Alaric explained, happy to change the subject.
"Just get me in and I'll get Stefan out." Damon declared.
"You are not going without me." Elena told him with a raised eyebrow.
"Elena." Damon groaned.
"Damon." Elena said in the same tone of voice.
"I can't protect you in there." Damon looked her in the eyes. "I don't know how many vampires there are in there."
"I can take care of myself." Elena defended.
"Wasn't it you who asked me to teach you self-defense because you didn't know how to throw a punch?" Damon asked.
"True." Elena nodded in agreement. "But I can almost guarantee that it doesn't matter if you are human or a vampire, a knee in the balls still hurts. Plus, I have this." Elena took out a water gun from her bag with a smirk.
"A water gun?" The disbelief in Damons voice was strong.
"Yes." Elena smirked. "Filled with liquid vervain."
"Okay, that is actually quite genius." Damon admitted.
"If were gonna go, let's go!" Alaric called out as he made his way out of the classroom.
XOXOXOX
Alaric knocked on the door as Elena and Damon waited hidden at the side of the house. As Alaric lied about his car breaking down to be let in to borrow the phone Elena had to hide her face in Damons chest to not make a sound as she did her best to not laugh, that was the most used trick in the book for fucks sakes.
As Alaric is let in Damon and Elena walked over to the door to wait for Alaric to come back.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Miss Gibbons said as Alaric opened the door for Elena and Damon. "He's not allowed in the house."
"I know that." Alaric said. "But you have to make an exception."
"Just get her out of the house." Damon snarled.
"Sorry not sorry." Elena reached forward and grabbed Miss. Gibbons arm to pull her out of the house.
"Now, Miss. Gibbons." Damon grabbed her and looked her purposefully in the eyes. "Tell me the truth. Are you married?"
"No." Miss. Gibbons answered dully.
"Parents, children, anyone else who lives on this property?" Damon asked.
"No, it's just me." Miss. Gibbons said.
"Good." Damon smirked and broke her neck.
"You were supposed to compel her!" Alaric glared.
"It doesn't work that way." Damon told him.
"She's human!" Alaric kept glaring.
"And Damon isn't and truthfully, if he hadn't killed her, I would've." Elena said as she pushed her way past Alaric and into the house.
"That is one hell of a girl." Damon smirked then he turned to Alaric. "Now, get out of here and get rid of the body."
Elena runs into an unknown man? vampire? Manpire? Vampman? Eh, whatever, he tried to attack her but she punched him in the face with her knuckled duster making him call out in pain and then while he was shocked, she stabbed him with a stake, killing him for good, and kept going to the basement.
A man is standing guard by the door at the end of the hall and Elena assumed that it would lead her to the basement and Stefan. She made herself ready to attack him with one of her vervain filled syringes but before she could Damon had already dispatched him.
"Nicely done on the one in the hallway." Damon complimented her.
"Thank you." Elena smiled and together they walked down the stairs to the basement.
"Elena." Is the first thing she hears as her and Damon enter the cellar. "You shouldn't be here…"
"She refused to be left behind." Damon informed him and was about to stake the dark-skinned vampire staked to a chair.
"No, no, no, no, not him." Stefan mumbled out.
"Whatever." Damon shrugged. "Let's get you down."
"There's vervain on the ropes." Stefan hissed.
"Elena, pull that." Damon gestured towards something behind Stefan.
Elena pulled at the rope thing and Damon caught his little brother as he sagged to the floor. "All right, let's go."
"Wait." Stefan said and made his way over to the dark-skinned vampire to help him.
"What's your name?" Elena asked gently as she helped Stefan remove the stakes from the dark-skinned vampires legs.
"Harper." The vampire groaned out in pain.
"Hello, Harper." Elena smiled. "My name is Elena and I wished we could have met under different circumstances."
"Me too." Harper tried to smile bit it came out like more of a grimace.
"Do you want to come with us Harper or would you like to stay here and wait for Pearl to come back?" Elena asked softly.
"I'll stay here and wait for Pearl." Harper smiled at the kind young woman. "But thank you for the offer."
"If you ever need anything you can come find me and I'll do my best to help." Elena smiled, she hoped she could save Harper from her uncle/dad, he was such a sweet and gentle soul.
"Can you get him to the car?" Damon interrupted when Stefan and Elena were done pulling out the stakes.
"Yeah." Elena nodded in determination. "But what about you?"
"You rescue, I'll distract." Damon smirked. "Go!"
Stefan groaned as they slowly and in Stefans case painfully make their way back to Damons car. Elena looked at Stefan in concern, "Can you make it?"
"Ugh hu." Stefan groaned out in some sort of agreement.
The took a couple of more steps and then Elena tripped and they fell. She hissed in pain as she cut herself on something sharp but felt that it was something she could deal with later.
"You okay?" Stefan mumbled.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Elena reassured and helped him to his feet. "Come on, keep going."
They finally arrived at the car after some very colorful curse words from Elena. "We're almost there."
Elena helped Stefan into the car and went to the driver side to see that something was wrong. "Stefan…"
Before Stefan could ask what was wrong, the vampire that had called her Kathrine busted the window on Stefans side and pulled him out and started to beat him.
Elena ran over just as the vampire was about to stake Stefan in the heart. She launched herself at his back and plunged the vervain filled syringe into the vampire's neck with a loud "No!"
"Stefan!" Elena tried to slap him awake but he was almost none responsive. "You are not allowed to desiccate! You hear me?!"
"Elena please run." Stefan mumbled out.
Elena looked at him and she knew that she could just feed him her blood but at the same time she didn't want to. She knew how Stefan became on human blood and while she didn't care, he did.
"Here." Elena held out her bleeding hand to him, he could hate her later as long as he was alive to actually hate her. "You need it."
"Go, Elena, run!" Stefan tried to make her leave him.
"No!" Elena snapped. "I trust you."
Stefan finally drinks the offered blood and regains his strength. Suddenly he is up and has the vampire that Elena vervain against a tree, repeatedly stabbing him in the heart with a branch.
"Stefan!" Elena called out to get his attention.
Stefan spun around, his face in full vampire form. Elena just smiled kindly at him, the vampire face was almost adorable, and slowly walked closer to him.
"I think he's really dead now." Elena informed Stefan with a small laugh.
Elena softly helped Stefan clean his face of the blood and led him to the car just as Damon arrived.
"You two okay?" Damon looked them both over with worry.
"Yeah, we had a little hick-up when we were attacked by that one." Elena gestured to the desiccated vampire by the tree. "But Stefan made him dead dead."
"Good on you little brother." Damon clapped him on the shoulder as he started the car so they could go back to the boarding house, Damon and Alaric shared a nod as Alaric got into his own car.
Around an hour later Elena stared out of Stefans bedroom window as Stefan approached her from behind.
"How are you doing?" Stefan asked softly.
"I'm good, thanks to Damons blood I am fully healed." Elena smiled at him. "What about you?"
"I'm okay." Stefan reassured. "The wounds have mostly healed."
"That's a relief." Elena hugged him.
"I'm sorry you had to see me like that." Stefan pulled away self-consciously.
"Hey, look at me." Elena touched his face to make him look at her. "I wasn't scared of you, okey? I know what you are Stefan and you could never scare me away by just looking a certain way."
"You really mean that." Stefan sounded so shocked that someone could accept him for all of him and not just the 'good' parts.
Elena's phone rang and she answered with a smile when she saw that it was Jeremy. "Hey, Jere…What?... What's going on?... Oh, no. Shit!...I'll be home soon, okay?" Elena hung up.
"They've found Vicki's body. You know it only takes one wrong step to turn you from somebody into some body." Elena shrugged with a bit of dark humor as she made her way out of the boarding house.
Elena arrived home at the same time as Jeremy. "You okay?"
"Yeah, but what are we supposed to do?" Jeremy asked as he closed the door after they both had walked in.
"You are going to play the grieving ex-boyfriend and I'm going to be the supportive big sister." Elena declared with a dramatic bow.
"Wanna watch a movie or something?" Jeremy asked after a while.
"Sure, but I want explosions." Elena decided.
"A New Hope?" Jeremy smiled.
"Sounds good." Elena agreed and walked into the kitchen to make popcorn.
"I'll go get it from my room." Jeremy called out as he ran up the stairs.
"Is it okay if Anna joins us?" Jeremy asked as he came back into the living room just as Elena put down the soda and popcorn.
"As long she's okay with cuddling." Elena turned to smile at the vampiress that was partly hidden behind Jeremy. "You want soda or blood with your popcorn? Or both?"
"Blood?" Anna asked shocked.
"Yeah Elena got a couple of blood bags in the fridge for when Damon is here." Jeremy smiled.
"Both it is." Elena chuckled. "I hope you're okay with A+."
"That's fine." Anna looked like she had been hit or something.
Elena came back from the kitchen with two more glasses, one empty so Anna could have soda and one filled with blood.
"Thank you." Anna smiled in wonder at the Gilbert siblings.
"No problem." Elena beamed and sat down on the couch as she pulled Jeremy down at the same time so he could sit in the middle.
The movie began just as Anna sat down beside Jeremy and like they had practiced it her and Elena leaned against Jeremy at the same time with a content sigh.
A/N: The chapter is done!
I hope you all liked it :)
How do you guys want me to handle Mason when he arrives?
As for the paring for Elena, I have cut most pairings from the tally due to the fact that they'll never catch up.
The tally at the moment are:
Elijah: 37
Klaus: 34
Or a healthy Polyamory relationship between Elijah/Elena/Klaus: 6
Until next time
XOXO
Nyxi