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!
The next morning Elena looked like a warrior from olden times, her hair braided like a mohawk at the top off her head and lose in the back with several tiny braids hanging around the sides of her head with some going up into her mohawk braid.
She had on a pair of black artfully ripped jeans, a dark grey tunic that went around mid-thigh and had a sidelong cut at the bottom, a black zip-up hoddie and a pair of black combat boots.
"So, Alaric had some information on this whole thing?" Elena asked into her phone.
"Yeah and he was willing to share. Seems like your egg-donor is in Grove Hill." Damon answered from the other end. "Alaric's picking me up in an hour."
"Have fun." Elena told him. "And call if you want dinner at casa de Gilbert later."
"I'm hoping I get to kill someone on this trip and that would be fun, so cross your fingers." Damon laughed as he hung up.
As Elena closed her closet door and saw someone standing behind it. She reacted on the instinct that came from sparring with Damon and punched the someone in the face.
"Uncle John?!" Elena gasped when she saw who she had punched.
"Elena." John rubbed the side of his face were Elena's punch had landed. "That's a good right hook."
"Thank you." Elena smirked devilishly. "I'm not sorry for punching you though. I mean you did sneak up on me so…"
"I guess I did deserve that punch." John admitted.
"You did." Elena nodded and thought quietly 'and so much more, dickhead'.
"I just thought we could talk." John said after a while. "We haven't had a chance to catch up."
'There's a reason for that.' Elena thought but out loud she said, "What did you want to talk about?"
"Well…I know you know." John tried to be subtle and Elena saw an opportunity to be a bit of a bitch and hint very, very subtly that she knew that he was her bio-dad.
"How babies are made? Definitely." Elena smiled innocently. "A few years too late there, Uncle John."
"What? No!" John looked slightly disturbed by the thought. "It's really silly to keep pretending. What would your mother say if she knew you were dating a vampire?"
"Who am I dating?" Elena asked, because as far as she knew she wasn't dating anyone.
"Damon Salvatore." John said like it was obvious.
"Hold that thought." Elena pulled out her phone, dialed and put it on speaker.
"Miss me already, Elena?" Damon voice chuckled from the other end.
"Hey Damon." Elena chirped and then she whispered without moving her lips so only Damon could hear her. "You're on speaker with me and uncle John."
"What can I help you with?" Damon asked with a laugh.
"I just wanted to know if you knew that we were dating, because I had no idea." Elena hummed.
"We're dating? Since when?" Damon asked sounding a bit weird but Elena pushed that to the back of her head.
"Apparently I'm dating a vampire, aka you." Elena giggled. "Which is funny because as far as I knew I wasn't dating anyone."
"That must make the dating very exciting." Damon said mock seriously.
"Oh very." Elena agreed. "I seem to get around a lot too, first with Stefan and now you. I wonder who's next."
"Maybe Harper." Damon hummed in thought. "Didn't you agree to go shopping with him today? You did guilt me into paying for a new wardrobe for him."
"Yeah and Pearl is coming to." Elena responded with a smirk knowing that she hadn't guilted him into anything, he had offered. "I'm helping her buy some new stuff for her store."
"Have fun with that and say hello from me." Damon chuckled. "I have to go now, seems like my ride is here. Bye Elena."
"Bye Damon and have fun." Elena raised an eyebrow at John as she hung up the phone and said, "Sorry, you were saying?"
"Really?" John asked.
"What?" Elena looked at him with big innocent eyes.
"So, Miss. Zhu found some property to buy then?" John asked to change the subject.
"Yeah she bought dad's old office." Elena smiled.
"She can't have." John denied.
"Well, she did." Elena told him.
"No, really, she can't have." John repeated. "I have the last say in the selling of any property that used to belong to my brother and his wife."
"Until either me or Jeremy became legal." Elena nodded.
"Exactly!" John nodded. "And neither of you are off age and I haven't signed over any property to her so that means she stole it!"
"You might not have signed over a property to her, but I did." Elena smirked.
"You are not legal yet." John said with a glare.
"Not by age, no." Elena shrugged, still smirking. "But by emancipation? Absolutely."
"But…she's a vampire!" John glared at her.
"And…?" Elena drawled. God, he was such a hypocrite.
"She kills people!" John fumed.
"This conversation is boring me." Elena sneered and walked away.
XOXOXOX
"Come on Harper." Elena begged. "Can you just show us?"
Elena was sitting outside a fitting room in a men's clothing store with Pearl, waiting for Harper to come out in one of the outfits she had chosen for him.
"But what if I look bad?" came Harper's muffled voice from within the fitting room.
"You won't, I would never have you try on clothes that would make you look bad." Elena promised. "And if you don't like the style then we'll try something else."
"Okay." Harper said as he came out.
Beside her Pearl gasped and Elena smiled brightly. Harper looked really good in the dark blue dress pants matched with brown shoes and a brown belt topped off with a light blue button up shirt and a light grey coat.
"Does it look bad?" Harper looked at Pearl when she gasped.
"You look very good, Harper." Pearl smiled at him.
"The important questions are; Do you like the style and do you feel comfortable?" Elena asked seriously.
"Yes, I do like the style of the clothes." Harper smiled slightly as he looked at himself in the mirror. "And I feel very comfortable. Thank you, Miss. Gilbert, for your expertise in this matter."
"You are very welcome." Elena smiled, then she added. "And you can call me Elena."
"Of course, Miss. Elena." Harper bowed his head at her.
Elena smiled and decided to leave that discussion for another time as she called over a sales person. When the young person came over Elena looked at the androgynous appearance and decided to ask. "Not to seem rude, but what pronoun do you prefer?"
"Thank you for asking." The person smiled brightly looking very happy at getting asked. "I prefer the pronoun they/them but you could always just call me Ezra. Not many people actually take the time to ask and just assume so thank you again for asking."
"No problem. I just think it's better to ask then to just assume." Elena smiled back. "Anyway, Ezra, I was wondering if you could help us?"
"I'll do my very best." Ezra nodded, ready to work.
"I want these pants" Elena gestured at the pants Harper was wearing. "In dark brown, dark grey and black plus the ones he's already wearing."
Ezra pulled out a notepad and started to write everything down.
"I want the shirt in the same style but in several different colors, both light and dark but no neon or print." Elena continued. "Say five light colored ones, including the one he's wearing and five dark colored ones."
Both Harper and Pearl looked at Elena with big eyes as she gave Ezra orders.
"Four belts, the one he's wearing and one in the same style except in black and then two belts in a thicker style in brown and black." Elena was almost done and finished with, "And the gray coat he's wearing plus one in the same style in black."
"I will get right on that." Ezra smiled and called over another sales person to get them to start getting all of the items that Elena ordered. Then they turned to Harper. "If you could go back into the fitting room and change back into your clothes, we will take these to the check out after we have taken all the sizes."
Harper nodded and walked back into the fitting room to do as requested.
"How long will this take?" Elena asked. "I only ask because we can go and do our other errands and come back later if that works for you?"
"That would be really helpful." Ezra smiled. "That way we won't have to feel any stress. If I could just have your phone number, I'll text you when your order is done."
"Sound good." Elena smiled and rattled off her phone number just as Harper came out of the fitting room, back in the clothes he had on when they arrived.
Elena said bye to Ezra and together with Harper and Pearl, she left the store to go get whatever it was that Pearl was looking for.
XOXOXOX
Several hours later Elena was making tacos in the Gilbert kitchen when Anna and Jeremy walked in.
"Hey guys, you staying for dinner?" Elena looked at them and smiled.
"We'd love to." Jeremy walked over to hug his sister.
"By the way, Elena, you did an amazing job with the clothes for Harper." Anna smiled.
"Thank you." Elena blushed slightly. "I just hope he is happy and comfortable."
"He looked very happy as he showed them off to me and Jeremy." Anna reassured.
"That's great." Elena said as she placed the chopped tomatoes in a bowl. "Could you guys set the table for 4?"
"Is aunt Jenna joining us?" Jeremy asked as he pulled four plates from the cabinet.
"Nope, she's on a date with Ric." Elena informed him. "Damon is on his way, he just wanted to take a shower before he came over."
"Which I did and now I have arrived." Damon said dramatically as he walked in.
"Hello Damon, you are just in time." Elena said as she placed the last bowl on the dinner table. "Anna, Damon, do you want blood or soda with the food?"
"Soda's fine." Anna smiled and sat down.
"Both if that's okay?" Damon asked.
"Of course." Elena hummed as she walked over to the fridge to get the soda and the blood.
"Thank you." Damon smiled as she gave him the blood in a tall glass.
"So, how was the 'errand'?" Elena asked after a while.
"Futile." Damon took a bite out of his taco. "Although, I think I witnessed the teacher having an existential crisis."
"What are you guys talking about?" Jeremy asked.
"Oh, right." Elena smiled and proceeded to tell him and Anna about what had been going on.
"So not only does your uncle want the device my mom has but your biological mother is in town?" Anna groaned.
"Seems like it." Elena shrugged, then she smirked. "And on my uncle, I might have punched him in the face earlier today."
"What?" Jeremy chuckled.
"He snuck up on me and since Damon has been training me, my natural response to that is to punch." Elena giggled. "He did compliment my right hook though."
"I wish you had gotten it on film." Anna said wishfully. "He accused my mother of manipulating you into selling the property to her."
"Okay, now I want to punch him." Jeremy growled, he liked Pearl even if she hadn't like him at first.
"I don't know if that is an insult to me or a compliment to your mom?" Elena hummed.
"What do you mean?" Anna sipped her soda.
"Well, either uncle John is insulting me by calling me naïve enough to be manipulated or he's complimenting your mom for being cunning enough to manipulate me into selling." Elena explained her thoughts.
Annas phone started to ring before she could say anything. "Hey mom!...What?!...Is she okay?"
Anna started to breath heavily, having a hard time talking so Elena grabbed the phone. "This is Elena."
"Hello Miss. Elena." Harper sounded rattled on the other end. "Is Miss. Anna okay?"
"She's doing okay, Jeremy is helping her calm down." Elena reassured. "What is going on?"
"Jonathan Gilbert tried to stake Miss. Pearl a few minutes ago." Harper explained. "Luckily he only caught her shoulder before I broke his neck but I wanted to warn Miss. Annabelle."
"Shit, shit, shit." Elena cursed lowly.
"I'm sorry for killing you Uncle, Miss. Elena." Harper sounded apologetic.
"That's just the thing, you and Pearl need to get out of there." Elena insisted. "He has a ring that will bring him back!"
"What?" Harper gasped.
"I can't explain now but if you and Pearl can get to the Gilbert house I can explain then." Elena told him. "And then Pearl, Anna and you can move into the Gilbert cabin until you can buy something else."
"We'll be there in half an hour." Elena heard Pearl say before Harper hung up.
"Hey Anna, breath for me, your mom and Harper are on their way here and they are both okay." Elena pulled the relived vampiress into a hug.
XOXOXOX
Later that night, after Elena, Jeremy and Damon had helped Anna, Pearl and Harper move into the Gilbert cabin and agreed to not tell anyone where they were staying, Elena was talking to Stefan on the phone.
"I'm happy that you're back, Stefan." Elena smiled as she chose clothes for the next day.
"It's nice to be back." Stefan hummed. "Thank you for calling Lexi."
"You are very welcome." Elena giggled. "Are you feeling better now?"
"Yeah I'm back on a 'vegetarian' diet." Stefan assured her.
"That's not what I asked, Stefan." Elena said softly. "I asked if you are feeling better?"
"I think so," Stefan mumbled. "I'm not really sure yet."
"Well, tell me if there is anything I can help with." Elena murmured softly. As Elena turned around, she taught she saw a dark shape watching her from the corner of her room but when she turned to look there was nothing there.
"Elena? Elena?!" Stefan called out from the phone.
"Huh?" Elena was feeling a little shaken. "Sorry, I just thought I saw… Never mind, it was nothing."
"Are you okay?" Stefan sounded worried.
"Yeah I'm fine." Elena chuckled. "I'm just tired."
"Okay if you're sure." Stefan said hesitantly. "Then I wish you a good night and pleasant dreams."
"Thank you and I wish you the same." Elena yawned. "I'll see you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow." Stefan repeated and hung up.
Elena put down her phone on her night stand, looking around the room as the feeling of being watched never went away. She felt like the being watching her didn't want to harm her but it was also very old and very powerful.
As she was about to fall asleep after getting into bed, she thought she felt a cold but gentle hand stroke the side of her face and a whisper on the wind wishing her a nice rest.
XOXOXOX
The next morning Elena was wearing jean shorts, knee high socks, a black tank top and one of Jeremys hoddies as she walked around the kitchen, trying to find an apple or something to eat as she talked to Damon and Stefan on the phone.
"I'm supposed to help build the Miss Mystic float for the Founders' Day parade, if I don't I get the wrath of Caroline and that scares me more than anything." Elena chuckled. "But I just wanted to ask if you or Stefan were in my room yesterday after I had finished talking to Stefan?"
"I wasn't and Stefan is shaking his head." Damon told her. "Why do you ask?"
"I sort of knew it wasn't either of you but I thought I'd ask." Elena hummed, taking a bite of an apple she had found and chewing slowly. "I have had this feeling of being watched, not all the time but sometimes and yesterday I thought I felt someone stroke my face just before I fell asleep."
"Are you okay?!" Stefan's worried voice called out.
"Yeah, it didn't feel evil just…old." Elena murmured.
"What do you mean when you say 'old'?" Damon asked slowly.
"It's hard to explain." Elena shrugged and made her way out the door to her bike. "What ever it was it had a feeling of being very old."
"That doesn't sound good." Damon muttered.
"I was thinking about calling Bree and ask her but right now I have to go." Elena said as she stood in front of her bike. "Stefan, I'll see you at school in a few minutes and Damon I'll talk to you later. Bye"
"Good bye and be careful." Damon told her as he hung up.
Some time later Elena was standing beside Stefan as she listened to Alaric giving instructions to everyone.
"So, these are the specs for the History department." Alaric said as he handed out papers. "For the Founders' Day float, we'll be recreating the battle of Willow Creek. Tyler has been nominated to be the head of the production design."
"By who?" Tyler gapped at Alaric.
"By whom." Alaric corrected. "And by me, I've seen your sketches and they're really good."
"I'm not really into the…" Tyler trailed off.
"Well, you just pick your team, be creative and don't screw up." Alaric smirked at him.
"Heya Ric." Elena smiled as he came over to her and Stefan.
"Come with me, we need to talk." Alaric said quietly. "And can one of you call Damon?"
"I'll do it." Stefan said as he pulled out his phone.
"You are awfully quiet Elena." Alaric said as he leaned against his desk.
"Well, of course." Elena hummed pleasantly. "No one plans murder out loud."
"What?" Alaric spluttered, shocked, while Stefan laughed.
"I'm trying to plan the best way of making my uncles future death look like an accident." Elena told him casually. "I was thinking about making it look like he fell down the stairs or maybe ask Damon to hold him down while I fired a stake at his heart and make it look like a vampire hunting accident."
"Elena!" Alaric sounded appalled. "You can't just kill your uncle!"
"Why the fuck not?!" Elena cursed while throwing her hands up. "He tried to kill my little brothers' girlfriends' mother and my new friend Harper. That deserves at least a little murder."
Alaric looked at her with wide horrified eyes as Stefan had to lean against a desk to not fall to the floor as he laughed, tears running down his face.
Stefan had managed to calm down by the time Damon arrived with a "Sorry I'm late, my dog ate my uh… never mind."
"Thanks for coming Damon." Alaric sounded relived.
"Have you been crying?" Damon asked as he looked at Stefan.
"Tears of laughter." Stefan chuckled. "I'll tell you later."
"Okay then." Damon shrugged. "Why are we all here?"
"I saw Isobel last night." Alaric informed them.
"I do NOT need to know about your naughty dreams about my bio-mom." Elena groaned in disgust.
"I think he meant here, in town, Elena." Damon smirked at her.
"Oh, well, that makes a lot more sense." Elena shifted awkwardly.
"Did you ask her about uncle John?" Damon turned to Alaric again. "Are they working together?"
"No." Alaric answered simply.
"No, they're not?" Damon huffed out, annoyed.
"No, I didn't ask." Alaric clarified.
"What about the invention?" Damon asked.
"Didn't ask." Alaric admitted.
"Did she know about the tomb vampires?" Damon wondered.
"I don't know." Alaric rubbed the back off his neck.
"Did words completely escape you?" Damon raised an eyebrow at Alaric.
"No, I was a little too distracted by my dead vampire wife to ask questions." Alaric defended himself.
"Elena wouldn't have frozen." Damon mocked the teacher. "What did she want, anyway?"
"She wanted me to set up a meeting between her and Elena." Alaric informed them. "I don't know why or what she wants."
"You don't have to see her if you don't want to." Damon looked at Elena with a gentle look in his eyes.
"She threatened to go on a killing spree if Elena didn't meet her." Alaric said.
"I don't really care." Elena shrugged. "But I sort of want to meet her just to have a chance to stab her if nothing else."
"Come on my stab happy little friend." Damon laughed. "I'll drive."
"I'm not little!" Elena argued with a pout.
"Of course not." Stefan chuckled as he joined them.
Around forty minutes later Elena was sitting alone at a table at the grill while Stefan was standing by the pool table in case he was needed.
"I am so bored." Elena groaned loudly and when an elder woman looked at her strangely as she walked past Elenas table, she glared and asked. "What are you looking at?"
"Rude." The woman huffed and moved on with her nose in the air.
"Hello Elena." Isobel said as she sat down opposite of Elena. "You look just like her, that's eerie."
"That was the worst sort of name baiting I have ever heard." Elena snorted. "So, you've met Kathrine? Congratulations. If that's all, I'm going to go now."
"Kathrine found me after I was turned." Isobel said as Elena made a motion to get up. "Genetic curiosity, I suppose. She would be fascinated by you."
"God you are pathetic." Elena groaned. "You know the only reason that I showed up was so that I could stab you if the opportunity presented itself."
"Acting all nonchalant and unafraid is not cute." Isobel sneered.
"Who's acting?" Elena hummed as she leaned back.
"Your new boyfriend over there by the pool table? Stefan Salvatore." Isobel looked over at Stefan with a smirk. "Why Stefan? Why didn't you go for Damon? Or are you enjoying them both like Kathrine did?"
"Why does everyone assume I'm dating Stefan or Damon?! Like seriously, can't a girl have male friends without them automatically dating?" Elena blurts out annoyed. "Why did you want to meet me, anyway?"
"Because I'm curious about you." Isobel said and Elena just looked at her with a 'bitch please' expression. "But the real reason is; I want what your uncle wants. Jonathan Gilbert's invention."
"I don't have it and even if I did, I wouldn't give it to you." Elena stood up to leave but Isobel caught her arm and forced her down in her seat again.
"Sit down." Isobel ordered her. "And tell Stefan to walk away."
"Are you serious?" Elena snorted. "You do know that Stefan is both older and stronger than you right? That means in a fight between you two he wouldn't even have to try before he gives you the final death."
"I want the invention." Isobel demanded but she looked a little uncertain.
"I don't have it." Elena smirked.
"I know that but Damon does and you're going to get it for me." Isobel insisted.
"No, I won't." Elena told her coldly.
"Then the blood will be on your hands." Isobel got up to leave.
"No, the blood will be on your hands because you will be the one to do the deed." Elena sneered at her unimpressed. "I'm not forcing you to do anything and I'm definitely not holding a gun to your head."
"It was nice meeting you Elena." Isobel said as she left.
"Get fucked." Elena muttered back.
"Are you okay?" Bonnie asked as she came over to Elena.
"Yeah I just got this urge to stab my bio-mom." Elena shrugged. "How about you?"
"I miss my best friend." Bonnie admitted and looked at Elena.
"I miss you to but I can't be around you if you are only going to blame Stefan and Damon for something they had no control over." Elena said sadly.
"I can try to stop thinking like that but it is going to take time." Bonnie mumbled. "But I would appreciate my best friend telling me when I'm getting all judgmental again. So, will you please forgive me?"
"I forgive you Bon." Elena hugged her, thinking that maybe she had gotten through to Bonnie.
XOXOXOX
The next day Elena walked into the school, having promised Bonnie she would meet her in the English classroom.
"Hey, thanks for meeting me." Bonnie smiled as she leafed through Emily's grimoire. "I wanted you to see this."
"Is that Emily's witches' cookbook?" Elena asked as she sat down by Bonnie.
"I've been going through it since Grams died." Bonnie said and showed her an open passage in the book. "Check this out."
"That's the vampire compass." Elena hummed as she looked closer at the pages.
"Yeah, according to Emily, Jonathan Gilbert never actually managed to successfully invent anything. Emily secretly spelled them all with magic." Bonnie sounded very proud of her ancestor as she flipped a couple of pages to show the device everyone was so interested in. "Compass, ring and the mystery device you told me about."
"Yeah, that's it." Elena looked at the device depicted in the book. "Damon only has the one piece of it."
"While Emily pledged her loyalties to Kathrine, she couldn't stand by and watch innocent people get killed." Bonnie tried to keep the righteousness out of her voice but Elena caught it anyway. "This was the only way she could think of to help. To let Jonathan Gilbert believe that he'd actually invented these devices."
"Does it say what it does?" Elena asked but if she remembered correctly it stopped vampires by making a high-pitched sound only someone with supernatural hearing could hear, or something like that.
"Are you sure this is what Isobel wants?" Bonnie asked after she read through the pages.
"Yeah I'm sure." Elena nodded. "Why?"
"This is a weapon." Bonnie said. "Against vampires."
A while later Elena and Bonnie had rejoined the float preparations and Elena was walking around looking for Stefan outside the school when Jeremy walked up to her.
"Elena." Jeremy smiled at her.
"Hey Jeremy." Elena looked around. "Have you seen Stefan?"
"No, not lately." Jeremy shrugged. "Want me to help you look?"
"That would be appreciated, thank you." Elena smiled in thanks.
"We'll split up so we can cover more ground." Jeremy kissed on the cheek and started to leave. "I'll call if I find him."
"Thanks Jeremy." Elena called after him, then she turned around to see Isobel standing right there.
"Isobel." Elena sneered. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm your mother, Elena." Isobel smiled condescendingly at her. "I want to be more involved in your life."
"Pull the other one, it has bells on it." Elena snorted. "And even if that was true, I don't want you in my life."
"I understand that. You already have a lot of people you care about but I've been studying you" Isobel smirked.
"Stalker alert." Elena muttered
"Let's see if I got this right." Isobel looked over at Bonnie. "There is the witchy best friend, Bonnie. Going to stay away from that one." She looked the way Jeremy had left. "Little brother Jeremy." Then she turned to watch Caroline. "And there's Caroline…obnoxious Caroline. I got all my info from her by the way. She had no idea who I was and she wouldn't stop yapping."
"Oh, she knew who you were." Elena smirked. "So, how sure are you that the information she gave is accurate?"
"And then there's Matt, friend, ex, yappy's future ex." Isobel tried to hide the uncertainty in her voice. "Lots of connections there."
"Can you just go away?" Elena groaned. "No one want you here."
"You need to be a bit nicer to me, I have some friends here to." Isobel gestured towards a man standing by Matt who was working on a float. "You see that man over there? His name is frank, he's very handsome and he's also very handy and he'd noticed that the axles are a little rusty which is very dangerous. So, all you have to do is apply a little bit of pressure and…"
In some ways Elena thought Matt would deserve to get hurt after the way Caroline had cried as she told him how he treated her, making her feel bad about herself and trying to change her.
"You are such a bitch!" Elena growled as Frank jumped on the trailer above Matt, making the trailer break and Matt's arm got stuck under it. Elena started to make her way over but was stopped by Isobel grabbing her arm.
"I'm just showing you how easy it is to hurt the people you care about." Isobel smiled.
"You really need to get away from me!" Elena glared at her bio-mom.
"Hand over Jonathan Gilberts device and everything will stop." Isobel promised.
"I thought vampires were supposed to have good hearing?" Elena sneered. "Damon is not going to give up the device, not to anyone."
"I think that you underestimate how much Damon cares for you." Isobel chuckled.
"He will kill you before he gives it up." Elena shrugged.
"Is that before or after I kill you little brother?" Isobel asked pleasantly.
Elena started to look around frantically for her brother. "Jeremy!" Elena turned back to rip Isobel a new one only to see that she was gone to.
"If one single hair on my brothers' head is hurt, I'm going to cut a bitch!" Elena ranted as she silently planned the most painful, horrific ways to kill someone.
XOXOXOX
Elena walked into the boarding house followed by Stefan and Bonnie. Bonnie had said she could spell the device useless but Elena knew she wouldn't do it, her hate for vampires ran to deep and it didn't just take a day or two to get over that.
"Damon." Elena smiled sadly as she walked into the parlor.
"What's with the sad face?" Damon asked softly.
"Isobel took Jeremy." Elena couldn't stop the tears from falling anymore.
"Hey, hey, it's going to be okay." Damon pulled her into a hug as she sobbed into his chest.
Elena knew that Jeremy would be fine, he was in future episodes but at the same time she couldn't risk it. She didn't know what she would do if she lost her little brother but it would be bloody and very painful for those involved in Jeremys death!
"What do you need?" Damon asked softly.
"Isobel said she wanted the device or she would kill Jeremy." Elena sniffled as she pulled back.
"I can't just give up the device to Isobel so she can give it to John who will turn it on to kill me." Damon looked regretfully at Elena. "I like being a living dead person."
"I can remove the original spell on it." Bonnie piped up. "John and Isobel will never know."
"I don't trust her." Damon said to Elena who mouthed 'Neither do I' back to him but the desperation was shining through her eyes so Damon sighed and turned a glare in Bonnies direction. "Are you even up for this? I mean, all offence meant, you are no Emily Bennett."
"He's right." Stefan agreed, having hidden a snort by couching. "Emily knew what she was doing."
"I've been practicing." Bonnie defended herself.
"It's not piano lessons, honey!" Damon mocked her.
"What's your favorite book?" Bonnie demanded to know.
"What's that got to do with anything?" Damon asked.
"Name a book, any book." Bonnie ordered.
"Call of the wild by Jack London." Damon said after a while.
Bonnie concentrated for a while and suddenly a book flew into Damons hands.
"Jack London." Damon looked at the cover. "Great parlor trick."
"Please Damon." Elena pleaded. "It's my little brother."
"Fine, for you Elena." Damon sighed, then he turned to Bonnie with a glare. "I don't trust you."
"Thank you." Elena almost collapsed in relief, then she whispered so only Damon and Stefan could hear her. "Can I talk to you in the kitchen?"
"I'm going to get something to drink while you set up the spell." Damon muttered and walked away towards the kitchen.
"I need to go to the bathroom and Stefan could you please call aunt Jenna and tell her what's going on?" Elena asked as she to walked away.
"Sure." Stefan smiled and made his way out of the room, pretending that his phone was in his room.
"We can't trust Bonnie to do the spell." Elena said quietly to the Salvatore brothers when they all made it to the kitchen. "But even if she doesn't do the spell I will try and steal the device back from uncle John."
"Isn't she your friend?" Stefan asked. "Why wouldn't she do the spell?"
"She hates vampires and she blames you and me for her grandmother's death." Damon shrugged.
"It wasn't your fault." Elena declared. "Sheila should have thought about the consequences of her actions."
"What if you can't steal the device back?" Damon looked at Elena.
"Then I'll try and find out when it will be used so you, Stefan, Anna, Pearl and Harper are far enough away not to be affected by it." Elena promised and walked back into the parlor were Bonnie was setting up.
"I just need the device." Bonnie looked up at Damon as he and Stefan reentered.
Damon handed it over with a glare and Bonnie began the spell as Stefan, Elena and Damon watched.
"It's done." Bonnie declared and gave the device to Elena.
"Thank you, Bonnie." Elena smiled, hoping that if Bonnie hadn't done the spell, she would feel guilty for lying to a friend.
"Now what?" Damon asked.
"Now we give it to Isobel." Elena said as she made her way out of the boarding house.
Elena had been standing at the town square waiting for Isobel for a while when she arrived behind her.
"Where is the device?" Isobel asked.
"Where is my brother?" Elena asked back.
"This isn't a negotiation." Isobel glared. "Where is the device?"
"No brother, no device." Elena shrugged and turned to leave.
"Do you really think that I came alone?" Isobel smirked as two people arrived stopping Elena from leaving.
"Did you think I did?" Elena turned to look at Isobel with an unimpressed sneer as Damon and Stefan appeared.
"For god sakes." Isobel sighed. "Call home."
Elena quickly pulled her phone out and called Jeremy.
"Hello?" Jeremy answered after the third ring.
"Jeremy are you okay?" Elena asked softly.
"Yeah I'm fine but uncle John took a hit to the head." Jeremy informed her with a chuckle. "We are back home with aunt Jenna."
"We are all laughing." Elena heard Jenna call out.
"But yeah, I'm okay." Jeremy assured her.
"Movies and ice-cream when I get home?" Elena asked with a smile.
"Absolutely." Jeremy agreed. "I'll invite Anna and we can watch 'The Empire Strikes Back'."
"Sounds good to me." Elena giggled and hung up, then she turned and glared at Isobel as she handed over the device. "Lucky for you he wasn't hurt."
"I wasn't going to hurt him; I was going to kill him." Isobel shrugged. "Don't look for any redeeming qualities in me, I don't have any."
"You took a risk with Damon." Elena hummed. "We might be friends but that was no guarantee that he was going to give me the device."
"There wasn't a risk at all, I knew he was going to give the device to you." Isobel smirked. "Because he is in love with you."
"No, he's not." Elena said with certainty.
"Goodbye, Elena." Isobel chuckled. "As long as you have a Salvatore on each arm, you're doomed. Kathrine was smart, she got out, but we all know that you're not Kathrine."
"Hey Isobel." Elena called out as Isobel started to walked away, when she turned back towards Elena, she aimed her vervain filled water gun straight at Isobel's face and pulled the trigger. "That was for taking my baby brother in the first place."
Elena turned on her heel and walked away, leaving Isobel holding her face and cursing and screaming in pain. Stefan and Damon joined her on either side and she smiled at them "Thank you for coming with me."
"No problem." Stefan smiled.
"I loved the ending though." Damon laughed.
"She deserved it." Elena growled.
"Oh definitely." Damon agreed with a smirk as Stefan laughed.
"Elena?" Damon asked hesitantly after they had dropped Elena off at the Gilbert house. "Why did you sound so certain when you said I wasn't in love with you?"
"Because you can't be." Elena smiled softly. "I'm not the sort of person people like, I'm weird, to blunt, I don't care about people that aren't close friends or family and most of the time I have very dark humor that puts people off."
"Elena." Stefan said sadly.
"Hey, it's okay." Elena stopped before she opened the door to her house. "I accepted that about myself a long time ago. Anyway, good night and sleep tight."
Elena walked in and closed the door, ready to join Anna and Jeremy on the couch for some Star Wars and ice-cream, but first, when she saw that Anna hadn't arrived yet, she went in to the kitchen where she could see John sitting with Jenna.
"Hello, uncle John." Elena smiled pleasantly and then she rammed his head into the breakfast bar.
"What the heck, Elena?!" John called out in pain as Jenna looked on in uncertainty.
"If you ever, and I do mean ever, try and kill my friend or Jeremys girlfriends' mother again." Elena spoke darkly. "I will make your death look like an accident, you get that?"
"They are vampires." John tried to defend his actions.
"And you are an ass. Are we done stating the obvious?" Elena muttered.
"Seriously, John?" Jenna huffed. "You can't just kill someone because of what they are, that's discrimination."
"If you want to be in mine and Jeremys life's you will have to accept that we are friend with vampires." Elena slowly let John up. "I don't expect you to be happy about it, I don't even expect you to be friendly with them, what I do expect is for you to be civil when you talk to them and not try to kill them."
"Okay." John said quietly.
"Good, then you should probably leave before Anna gets here." Elena smirked. "You did just try and kill her mother recently."
Elena then grabbed three spoons and a carton of ice-creme and walked into the living room where Jeremy had fixed so everything was ready for the movie night, the only thing missing was Anna.
XOXOXOX
Elena woke up early on the day of the Founder's Day parade. She taken a long warm shower and she was about to put on her makeup in the bathroom mirror when she froze. In the valley between her breasts there was two dark tattoos like marks.
Elena took off her bra so she could see the marks better and leaned closer to the mirror. One of the marks looked almost like the Viking rune YR which meant death, end or war except the lines were more flowing. The second mark almost looked like the Viking rune ALGIZ which meant life, beginning and protection, this mark was also more flowing than the original.
"What the fuck is going on?" Elena muttered to herself. She decided to talk to Damon and Stefan at a later date, she just wanted the Founders' Day parade out of the way first.
Around an hour later, Jenna was helping Elena with her Founders' Day parade dress. She had refused to use the one Elena had used in the show, mustard-ish yellow really wasn't her color. Instead she had chosen a dress in almost the same design except it was red and black.
"Did woman in the 1800s learn not to breath?" Elena gasped as Jenna tightened the corset of the dress.
"Suck it in, baby." Jenna laughed.
After the torture device…eh…corset was tied and Elena had put on a choker, which she had borrowed from Anna, that matched the dress, she made her way down the stairs.
"You look radiant, Lena." Jeremy, who was dressed as soldier, kissed her on the cheek.
"Thank you, kind sir." Elena curtsied with a giggle. "You look very handsome."
"Thanks." Jeremy blushed a little, then he turned around to open the door when someone knocked.
"Hey Anna, you look beautiful." Jeremy said wide eyed as he looked at Anna who was on the other side of the door.
"Thank you, Jeremy." Anna smiled brightly. "Never thought I would get a chance to wear my old clothes again."
"Is it true that you learned how not to breath?" Elena asked as she tried to take a deep breath.
"The trick isn't not to breath," Anna smirked. "It's to learn how to breath in the right way."
"And the right way being?" Elena wondered.
"Instead of breathing with your entire ribcage you just breath with your upper chest." Anna explained as she demonstrated. "Just breath normally as you use the upper chest and you'll be fine."
Elena tried to breath as Anna instructed and noticed that it became easier the longer she did it, "Thank you, Anna, you're a life saver."
"No problem." Anna giggled. "Are you two ready to go?"
"Yeah, we're just waiting for aunt Jenna." Jeremy kissed Anna softly. "She's our chauffer for today."
"And here I am." Jenna walked in from the kitchen with a camera. "I need pictures!"
"Aunt Jenna." Elena chuckled but went to stand beside Jeremy while Anna was on his other side.
After a lot of pictures had been taken, they finally arrived at the high school and split up so they could go find their respective places.
Elena saw Damon and Stefan standing talking some paces away and started to make her way over to them, Stefan was wearing regular clothes, not having to be in the parade, but Damon was dressed as an 1800s gentlemen in a dark charcoal grey suit whit a brown tie thing and a red waistcoat to match her dress.
She smiled and curtsied at them when they saw her approaching them.
"You look absolutely stunning." Damon murmured as he kissed the back of her hand.
"He's right, you look beautiful." Stefan smiled as he kissed her other hand.
"And you both look very dashing." Elena complimented with a giggle.
They walked around while Damon and Stefan told her what they had found out about John and his connection to Isobel and her.
"Huh." Elena hummed when they were done.
Damon laughed and smirkingly held out a hand towards Stefan, "Told you it wouldn't face her, pay up."
"Damn." Stefan grumbled and gave Damon a twenty, then he mock glared at Elena. "Couldn't you have reacted like a normal person for once?"
"Stefan, sweetie, normal people freak me out." Elena patted his cheek.
"Understandable." Damon nodded seriously. Then all three of them started to laugh.
"What am I supposed to do now?" Elena giggled. "Give John a cake that says 'Congratulations, it's a teenaged girl!'?"
"Can I be there when you do?" Damon looked delighted at the prospect, "Maybe he'll have a heart attack."
"Damon!" Stefan laughed.
"What?" Damon smirked.
"You two should make your way over to the Miss Mystic float." Stefan smirked, happy that he could just be in the crowed.
"Do we have to?" Elena groaned, not looking forward to standing up on a float and have everyone staring at her.
"Come on, you'll do fine." Damon reassured her and led her away towards the right float.
As the floats started to parade Elena could hear Carol Lockwood commenting. "Let's give a big hand to the Mystic Fall's Marching Band!" The crowd applauded and whistled.
"And for a little local history, Mr. Saltzman's students have recreated Virginia's Battle of Willow Creek." Carol's voiced sounded.
"I hope Stefan or Jenna takes pictures of Jeremy on that float." Elena whispered to Damon with giggle.
Carol's voice came over the speakers again. "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our stunning Miss Mystic Falls Court and their handsome escorts."
"Are you going to frame them to?" Damon asked out of the corner of his mouth even as they both started to smile and wave at the crowd.
"This is Caroline Forbes, Miss Mystic Falls." You could hear the smile in Carol's voice.
"Of course, I'm going to frame it." Elena smiled brightly, then she saw Bonnie and Stefan standing in the crowd so she waved at them with a smile.
"Let's cheer for the Mystic Fall's high school football team." Carol called out. "Alright! Let's show them our support, everybody!"
XOXOXOX
A few hours later Elena, Damon, Stefan and Jeremy walked around the town, waiting for the firework display, all off them back in modern clothes.
"Where is Anna?" Elena looked around.
"She went home to change and said she would meet us here when she was done." Jeremy told her.
"Okay, I hope she gets here before the fireworks." Elena smiled.
"What's with the look?" Damon asked Elena after a while, seeing her frown.
"I was thinking about liquid vervain and tattoos." Elena hummed. "Would a tattoo made with ink mixed with vervain work against vampires?"
"That is a really genius idea, at least if it works." Stefan muttered. "Sadly, I can't answer with certainty. Do you know, Damon?"
"I don't know but if it did that would be great." Damon looked thoughtful.
"But what if you have a tattoo like that made when you're human but then get turned into a vampire?" Elena wondered slowly. "Would that be like having a spot on your body constantly burning or would you get used to it?"
"Planning something?" Jeremy asked with a smirk.
"Huh?" Elena looked at him and shrugged. "No, I wasn't thinking about turning, I'm only seventeen, maybe in the future though. I was thinking more along the lines if Damon or Stefan had given me their blood to heal something and then later I, I don't know, fell down the stair and died."
"Guys, we have a problem!" Anna came running up to them.
"Are you okay?" Jeremy asked, instantly worried.
"Yeah I'm fine but the vampires from the tomb are planning an attack tonight." Anna looked at them.
"How do you know?" Stefan asked.
"I heard two of them talking so I went to their meeting." Anna explained. "They think I'm with them but I'm not. They want the Founding Families dead."
"When is the attack supposed to happen?" Damon asked, already planning and calculating.
"When the fireworks start." Anna told him.
"John Gilbert wants to use the device on them." Damon groaned.
"Then we can't be here!" Anna sounded scared.
"We don't know if the device will work." Elena said softly. "Bonnie was supposed to deactivate it but her hate for vampires is very deep so I don't think she actually did."
"Elena." Jeremy walked over to his sister when he saw the tears in her eyes.
"I'm so sorry, I thought I would have more time to get the device from uncle John." Elena said heavily, worried about her friends.
"Hey, we don't blame you, Elena." Damon pulled her into a hug.
"We'll just have to plan for both scenarios." Stefan hummed in thought.
"Anna and Jeremy, I want you two to go to the Gilbert cabin and be on standby with Harper and Pearl to come to the rescue if the device is deactivated." Damon ordered as he quickly came up with a plan. "We will arm the ones in the know with vervain and stakes just in case."
"Sound good." Anna agreed and pulled Jeremy with her as she left to go to the Gilbert cabin.
"Stefan, Elena, I want you two to walk around and help protect people if they get attacked. I would love to tell you to go home Elena but I know you would laugh in my face for that." Damon sighed. "I'll go talk to Ric and Jenna and tell them what's going on."
"But what if Bonnie didn't deactivate it?" Elena asked. "Then you and Stefan will be in danger."
"We'll be fine." Damon smirked at her.
"If either of you get killed because of this, I'm going to bring you back just so I can kill you myself for being a reckless idiot." Elena glared at the Salvatore brothers before she walked off with a huff, Stefan following behind her with a chuckle.
Elena and Stefan had been walking around for a while when Stefan suddenly fell to his knees holding his head.
"Stefan!" Elena ran up to him. "What's going on? What's happening?"
"My head!" Stefan groaned in pain.
Elena sat down on the ground and pulled Stefans head into her lap, trying to help him ease the pain all the while feeling the betrayal welling up in her chest.
"Thank you for derailing that deputy." Elena looked up at Alaric as he came over to them.
"No problem." Alaric said as he helped Stefan up and led them towards the stairs. "Vampires are going down all over town. The cops inject anyone who goes down with vervain."
"Where's Damon?" Elena asked worried about her friend.
"I don't know." Alaric tells her slowly. "He gave me instructions and then he rushed off."
"I'm just glad that Jeremy brought Anna home to Pearl and Harper." Elena sounded relived. "Hopefully that's far enough out of town for the device not to reach."
When the whole thing was over, Stefan rubbed his head. "It was like needles where piercing my skull and then it just stopped."
"I saw at least five vampires go down." Alaric told them. "They're taking them to your family's old building, Elena."
"It's the Gilbert device." Stefan muttered. "It has to be."
"How could Bonnie do this?" Elena looked both sad and betrayed.
"We asked her to deactivate a device that could protect people against vampires." Stefan noted with a shrug.
"But not all vampires deserve to die." Elena murmured feeling equally as pissed as she did sad.
"A vampire is a vampire to her." Stefan rubbed Elenas back.
"You said they brought all vampires to my family's old building, right?" Elena looked at Alaric and at his nod she continued. "Then Damon is probably there. Let's go."
Elena started to jog towards the building where the vampires were supposed to be when Stefan gasped when they got close.
"Wait, wait, wait, I can hear them." Stefan looked wide eyed at Elena. "The building is on fire."
"What?!" Elena called out in shock even as she sped up.
"The building is on fire." Stefan repeated.
She saw John close to the building and ran up to him, "Where is Damon?"
"With the rest of them, where he should be." John declared, almost sounding proud. "It's over for Damon."
"You're crazy!" Elena sneered and it took everything in her not to punch him.
"Why? Because I'm doing what should have been done a hundred and forty five years ago?" John asked with a glare. "This is the right thing, Elena."
Stefan looked at the building, wanting to go in there and save his brother.
"Go ahead, you won't make it out." John smirked at him. "It'll save me the trouble of killing you myself."
At that Elena had had enough and punched John in the face hard enough to break his nose, "You are a despicable person and Stefan and Damon are ten times the men you will ever be!"
"You know the building well, is there another way in?" Stefan asked Elena desperately.
"Utility door, there's one around the side." Elena informed him and goes to follow him when he goes towards the building but John caught her arm.
"You take one more step and I'll alert those deputies that they missed a vampire." John threatened her.
"You do that and I'll never talk to you ever again and sure as hell won't forgive you." Elena glared at him.
"Why should that matter to me?" John asked with a raised eyebrow.
"As my father it should matter, but I guess your hate for vampires are more important." Elena looked at him.
"You know." John said.
"Obviously." Elena sneered and walked away to where Stefan had disappeared.
"Stefan!" Elena called out as she saw Bonnie stand outside the burning building and tried to go in after Stefan.
"Elena, you can't go in there!" Bonnie told her.
"My friends are in there Bonnie!" Elena glared at her.
"I'm sorry I lied to you." Bonnie grabbed Elenas arm and started to recite a spell. "Ex spiritum intacullum, in terrum incendium, fes matos salvis adisdum!"
"Bonnie, I have to go in there so let go off me!" Elena tried to pry her arm free but Bonnies grip didn't budge as she kept reciting the spell.
"Oh my god!" Elena finally managed to get lose as Stefan came out of the building with Damon.
"Elena." Damon mumbled.
Elena fell to her knees beside Damon and Stefan and took out a pocket knife to cut her wrist and gave it to Damon. "Here, you need it."
"You would trust him with that?" Bonnie asked shocked.
"Yes." Elena answered without hesitation.
"I need to talk to you both." Elena looked at Damon and Stefan as they made their way towards the cars a few minutes later. "Can I come over to the boarding house tomorrow?"
"Absolutely." Damon nodded. "As I said the first time we met, you are always welcome."
"Thank you." Elena smiled and kissed first Damon and then Stefan on the cheek. "I'll see you both tomorrow.
"Good night, Elena." Damon and Stefan said at the same time and Stefan nudged his brother with a laugh.
Elena called Jeremy as she got out of the car at the Gilbert house three hours later, it had taken time to get home as it seems like someone had stolen some of her stuff. "I'm glad that you are all okay. Did the device affect Anna, Pearl or Harper at all?"
"Not even a little bit." Jeremy told her softly. "I'm relieved that you managed to save Damon, I would miss the sarcastic dick head."
"Are you staying with Anna tonight?" Elena asked with a laugh.
"Yeah, I think it's too late to ask Anna to drive me home." Jeremy said. "I already informed aunt Jenna."
"Okay, that's good." Elena opened the front door slowly. "Will you come to the hospital tomorrow? To visit Caroline?"
"Yeah, sure. I'll even bring her favorite pastries." Jeremy chuckled.
"I think she would like that." Elena smiled. "I'll see you tomorrow, little brother, love you lots."
"Bye Lena and I love you too." Jeremy sounded happy.
"Tell Pearl, Anna and Harper good night from me." Elena chuckled as she hung up her phone and made her way to the kitchen.
A/N: And there we have the conclusion of season 1!
On wards to season two which starts in the next chapter :)
The winner of the paring tally is Elijah with 56 votes to Klaus 52. So, the end paring will be Elena/Elijah but that doesn't mean that Elena and Klaus won't be friends. I was actually thinking about making Elena Hope's mom but I haven't really decided yet :)
But if I do make Elena Hope's mom, then Elena will basically take Hayley's place in The Original series.
Until next time
XOXO
Nyxi