Things happen...
AN- Guys this is my take after 3x05. Please note that this is a 10 page chapter that I didn't want to break because of my exams so I'll probably post after them. Please review and I'll see you in a couple of weeks. :)
DISCLAIMER- I OWN NOTHING.
It happens, love happens, shit happens. One minute you tell yourself that you're not going to fall in love. That you have just gotten out of a relationship with a nice, sweet guy because of a horrible tragedy and then, just when you think you aren't ready to be with someone, life throws him at you. Upon looking he's the perfect guy, handsome, funny, sweet, mysterious, everything you can possibly imagine. So you in a short period of time fall in love.
And thats when it all comes crashing down.
It had been a tough day on him, everything was going perfect until it just wasn't. It was like we had it and then at the last second it got messed up. Looking at him sitting on the sofa, his head in his hands, my heart broke. I remembered the day I had first met him, exactly in this room, well technically the path leading to the parlor but still, he was (and still is) breathtakingly beautiful, but one look at his face and I knew he was that guy. The guy that you'd never bring home to meet your parents, the guy who'd never stick around long enough to meet your parents, the guy that only looked at your physical qualities rather that you as a person.
But over the past two years I saw him in a whole new light, he became that guy who was betrayed, hurt, cheated and treated unfairly. That guy who when loved someone loved with every fibre of his being, a masochist who would give everything up for himself to see someone else be happy, the guy that you would love and cherish and never let go. He was that guy.
"Elena.. I'm sorry. I know I asked you to trust me, and the one time, the one time you did, I blew it away. Please don't cry..." He said, and I realized that for a long time I had been staring at him, tears falling from my eyes.
Hastily wiping away the tears from my eyes, I walked towards him took the glass of scotch and smiled.
"You know, I never really liked the taste of scotch, or any liquor except vodka, champagne or an occasional gin and tonic. But now I find myself craving the fire that it ignites when it grows down my throat or the feeling of satisfaction I get after I drink it. Maybe I'm becoming a borderline alcoholic, maybe I'm just different now..." I said, staring at the yellow liquid before finishing the glass, just for the dramatic flare.
"Hm. I'm different now too." Damon said, his eyes looking a darker shade as the reflection of the flame engulfed them. He said standing up and walking towards a nearby wall, I followed him, knowing that if I didn't he would most probably try to zip away.
"You're not different, Damon. Different would be if you would pretend to be someone you're not. You're the same, as always. Fun, kind to the people you love, fierce, caring, charming, true to yourself and chivalrous or wait cross that last one, but you know what I mean." I said, and his shoulders tensed.
"Why do you think that, Elena? Why do you always push me? Is it because Stefan's gone? Because he doesn't love you anymore? Maybe because now that he's gone you..." He shouted and before he could say something that would possibly make me slap him I interrupted him,
"Stefan? Damon there is something you need to know, that night when Klaus compelled him, he didn't Stefan's pupils did not dilate, he was not compelled, he was never compelled. Why do you think he saved you from Mikael? Why do you think he saved me from dropping? Why do you think he interrupted every damn moment that I would tell you that I have strong feelings for you!" I blurted out on my own. My eyes widened with realization of what I had just said, and my body turned to me and said, 'what an elegant way to tell the man you love that you might love him too'.
I looked at Damon expecting some kind of reaction when a scream erupted from me and on instinct alone I threw myself at Damon before a sharp stinging pain coursed through my body and indescribable pain shot trough my chest inches away from my heart. Trying to stay conscious I saw Rebecca throw Damon onto the nearby wall, and turn towards me.
"You saved him from being killed, be thankful I pity you right now. Try that again and I'll make sure to kill him slowly and infront of you next time." And with that she was gone. My body slumped to the ground and I looked down at a gut wrenching sight, my whole torso was covered in blood. I began to feel light headed and with all the energy I could muster, I breathed,
"Help me Damon."
The second the words left my mouth I saw his body begin to move, automatically his fangs elongated at the smell of blood. He rushed to my side and I saw through one hazy eye that he was trying his best to control. He bit into his wrist and brought it to my lips, and said the words that scared me and made me fall deeper for him at the same time,
"Drink, you're dying. Cant, cant lose you."
So I drank, drank the thick red liquid and gulped it and immediately felt the pain go away. Felt the hole in my chest heal, felt my bones somehow fix themselves and in a matter of seconds I felt.. normal. Breathing heavily I looked at Damon whose gaze was trying not to drift on the blood on my hand. I didn't know if my next move was based purely on adrenalin, blood oh who am I kidding, the deep-seeded feelings I had for him came rushing back and slowly, inch by inch I moved my hand closer to his mouth. He turned towards me, confusion spreading through out his gorgeous face, I nodded reassuringly and before I could say anything his veins came out and his face slowly transcended onto my hands. His tongue swiped down on the blood, tasting it, before he took my fingers in his mouth and one at a time slowly sucked the remnants of the blood, swirling them in his mouth with his tongue as an erotic moan escaped from my lips.
He turned towards me his eyes mirroring my own hunger, my own yearn for him before he hastily shook his head. I stared at him and saw an emotion I knew all to well in his eyes, regret.
Hot tears threatening to fall, I got up, trying to salvage any ounce of dignity before thinking of what had just happened. I told him that I had feelings for him, we had a moment and he obviously doesn't still love you.
"I know that you cant wait forever, and I know that it took me a long time to finally admit to you that I have feelings for you, more than I ever did for anyone else. And I know I took a ling time to tell you that I choose you, only you but then explain to me what was that? I came this close to losing you, I could have died Damon, you could have died. And if you would have would have lost it, I would have killed myself. So here I am in front of you, begging you to not give up on me, begging you to give me one last chance, because... because you're my world Damon and I am nothing without you, I love you. Please don't reject me." I said, all the wall I had around me breaking, all the fake I'm okay with everything attitude shattering, all my vulnerability coming forward.
When I didn't hear anything for what seemed like an hour but was only just a few seconds, the tears threatening to fall, fell and I screamed at my body to move, but before I could Damon looked at me, stood up and came towards me, his eyes boring into mine and his lips pressed firmly in a thin line,
"I could never reject the only woman I have loved in my whole existence." His voice, husky with desire. With his hands he softly wiped away the tears and put his forehead near mine, embracing me in an amorous hug, his whole body pressing against mine.
"I love you, Damon." I said. "I should, uh, get out of this shirt." I said, before awkwardly trying to go upstairs and change,
"No problem." He said grabbing my hand, so that I couldn't go and pulling me in for a kiss, a kiss that ignited my body on fire with a passion so well.. passionate that it left me breathless. And in that moment, nothing mattered as I kissed him rough and hard, forgetting all thoughts of tomorrow or yesterday. My kiss deepened as his tongue doing wonders inside my mouth elicited a moan from somewhere deep within me.
Boldly I took of his shirt and he mine throwing it somewhere far away,
"Wait, don't you want to wait for me to set up the upstairs bedroom, make our first time by the book?" Damon asked,
"When were we by the book? I want you Damon." I said, smiling before roaming my hands over his chest. He looked at me, his body struggling to speak,
"Do you honestly want the first time we make love to be up against a wall or a sofa?" Damon said,
"Why is this such a big deal, Damon?" I asked, frustrated by his concern on where we do it instead of doing it.
"Because I want to do you right, Elena. Now that I have you, I don't want to mess things up." He said, his eyes not meeting mine. My heart melted and I looked at him.
"Look at me, it doesn't matter where we make love, now that we have each other we can have sex where ever, what matters is that we love each other. And honestly I'm fine right here, so shut up and kiss me Damon." I said, demandingly and he complied, oh he complied.
His hands reached down and unzipped my jeans, before tearing them away, leaving me clad in only my bra and panties. Not to be underdressed I did the same, struggling with his belt, he impatiently ripped it away and threw it away before pushing me down hard on the sofa and covering my body with hot kisses.
His hands roamed over my body, exploring it, leaving goosebumps where he touched. Unclasping my bra, I felt my whole body go rigid and a blush creep up as I realized that he was the second man to ever see my exposed like that, but the he explored the soft, firm swell of my breasts and tugged on the tender pink crests, he had me moaning and bucking my hips towards him.
I felt myself going out of control very fast, all the events of the day melting away replaced by this odd, primal sensation channeled into one piercing need. I wanted him, really really wanted him, with an intensity that was so un-hidable I was surprised it took me this long to take out. Ripping away my underwear, his exploration of the slick pink cleft drove me insane with delight.
"You're so perfect." He growled, tipping my leg back to rise over me, impatient to ease the painful ache of his arousal.
We lay there by the fire breathless, tangled in a make shift blanket that had somehow gotten there. For all I knew, it probably flew here because that was the state my mind was right now.
Regaining my composure realization dawned on me. Me and Damon had almost died (again) and I had finally accepted my feelings for Damon, and I was ashamed that I didn't feel.. well, ashamed.
But why should I? I mean I love him, he obviously loves me, and Stefan... my heart broke whenever I thought about him, but he chose his path even though he fought, and even though he did this for me and for Damon, but somewhere along the way our love.. turned platonic, I mean yes he's the first guy I fell in love with but he's also that guy (not the rebound guy, hell no) but that guy who was with me, who supported me at a time when my world had crashed.
Looking next to the man, lying there beside me I couldn't help but smile at his peaceful expression, he smiled back as I stared intently.
"No need to be so intense 'lena, this hot face will still be here in the morning." He said with his signature smirk, I rolled my eyes, trying to stifle a yawn, blinking a couple of times I started seeing a bit of black, maybe I was tired...
"D'mon, cant see... tired... ake, me... bed..." I mumbled before my eyes closed shut.
"Elena? Elena? Wake up..!"
I woke up slowly, hoping to see Damon's face and maybe go in for a long overdue round two.. or four from last night. Instead I woke up to an all too familiar place, the graveyard. Tears blotched my eyes as I became fully aware of how long it had been since I had visited the place I'd once go every other day. Running I ran towards the grave of the two important people of my life.
I knew the way by heart, straight, right, left and straight to the Gilbert mound. I kept on going, swearing to myself that I was passing the same place over an over again, panic overcame me,
"Mom? Dad?" I shouted, scared, where were they.. I knew that this was the cemetery.. but where were they? No, please God don't take them away...
Finally after an hour of searching, I only went a few steps away from the cemetery when I turned back and saw their headstones, relief overcame me and I turned around and went towards them, when suddenly, it all went away, just like that before I could do anything I read the headstones, A strangled cry escaped from my lips.
Where was I? I was sitting, in a room, but wait.. why couldn't I move my hands.. What was happening. Screaming I thrashed around, trying to escape.
"Scream all you want, you aren't going anywhere till I'm finished love." A menacing voice drawled, and my heart sank. Suddenly I was face to face with Klaus, my eyes widened in horror when I saw the look of pure evil and malice in his eyes.
"We don't need these." He said, before ripping open my clothes and discarding them away.
"Elena! Elena can you hear me? Wake up, honey!" I heard the voice call at me,
"Damon!" I screamed, joy overcoming me, when suddenly Klaus pinned me to the wall, desperately trying to go towards the sound of Damon's voice I punched him hard as I could in the sternum and while Klaus huffed in pain, I ran with all my will towards his voice..
I woke up screaming and crying, as I felt arms wrap around me,
"No!" I screamed trying to get away.
"Elena, open your eyes, its me, Elena? Bonnie, do something!" I heard his voice scream and I opened my eyes, trying desperately to breath.
Catching my breath, I looked around, Damon and Bonnie were standing there infront of the bed, looking at me with worry etched around their faces. I saw Damon breathe a sigh of relief as I held onto him, tears falling freely from my eyes.
"I'll come back later, call me first thing tomorrow, okay?" Bonnie said and I felt Damon nod.
"Elena, what happened? Please, talk to me?" He said, pleadingly, his hands wrapping around me protectively. When the tears dried out and I felt myself return back to normal, I looked at him and hugged him even tighter, realizing that without him I would not be able to survive. He had be going up till now.
"I... lost consciousness, didn't I?" I said,
"Yeah, you blacked out but why were you scared, Elena? What happened?" He asked lying next to me on the bed,
"After my parents died I used to have these nightmares... I used to... they would tell me that it was.. that it was my fault they died.. but then they stopped and I didn't have them anymore, Damon. But tonight, they came back and maybe it was exhaustion or the roller coaster ride I went through.. I.. don't know but they came back." I said,
"We shouldn't have had sex, I knew it would stress you out..." Damon began,
"No! no, it had nothing to do with it, Damon, you know that. I don't regret what we did, and its not the last time we'll do it. I love you." I said,
"And I love you, Elena." He said, "Do you want to tell me what happened?" He asked me, and I sighed. This was going to be hard, but even though I knew that telling would help, I just didn't want to. Damon turned over and clicked the lamp shut, making the room black.
"I know this is extremely difficult, and I'll totally understand if you don't want to say anything, but know that if you want to talk, I'm here for you, okay?" He said and I nodded.
We stayed there, lying quietly on the bed before in a voice that he probably would not have heard if he was a human said,
"I was in Mystic Falls Cemetery and I realized how long it had been since I had visited mom and dad. I knew the way by heart and I went there, but no matter how many times I... I tried.. they weren't there... I thought I had passed a place several times... I panicked and went to sit somewhere when.. out of the corner of my eye I saw their headstones. I ran towards them but no.. matter how.. how fast I ran I couldn't reach them. Then suddenly I was in this room.. it was dark and I was tied up.. when suddenly Klaus came.. I was so scared, Damon... Because I knew what he wanted to do.. and he was about to... when I heard you trying to wake me up... he was there... and the wall... and I struggled and barely went to where I heard you, then I woke up." I said, tears forming in my eyes.
"Ssh, its okay, Elena. You're fine now, first thing tomorrow you will go visit your mother and father. And I promise you, Klaus will never hurt you, Elena. Not if I'm here." He said with finality.
"Will you come with me?" I asked, a hint of hope in my voice.
"To your parents? Yeah.. I mean if you want me there." I said,
"I do, I want them to meet you Damon, my mom would have liked you a lot." I said, smiling.
"And why exactly would your mom like a bad boy?" He said, chuckling.
"Because... well my mom always thought that 'bad boys' are the much more better choice because they bring out the fun in you and are fiercely loyal." I said and I felt him smile against me.
I opened my eyes slowly when I heard the sound of bickering in the other room, frowning I got up and yawned before slowly peeking out of the room. I was surprised to find everyone, Damon, Alaric, Caroline, Bonnie and Jeremy standing there looking at Damon.
"What's going on here?" I asked, suddenly feeling afraid. I saw Jeremy come towards me, wrapping me in a hug and I almost flinched but the tears in his eyes made me almost cry. Caroline and Bonnie also came in gave me a hug and I was crushed by the three people who I loved.
"Oh my god, Elena. Are you okay?" He asked, looking at my face, concern in his voice. I nodded, shakily.
"Yeah, I'm fine Jer." I said.
"I was so worried, Elena." Caroline said.
"Damon told us about what happened." Alaric said.
"Thats not all you guys talked about is it?" I said, looking at Damon who's face was expressionless.
"No, Elena that is not all. I went inside the Lockwood cave and saw an opening in a stone. Pulling it out I saw the last piece of the puzzle. Turns out Mikael turned one more person into a vampire, who I'm guessing was his lover Kishin. On the stone Kishin, a woman is drawn where Mikael feeds her blood and then theres another drawing in which a wooden stake has been put through Kishin's sternum, causing her to die." Alaric said and the silence in the room grew.
"Oh." Was all I could say, I looked at Damon who was unbelievably quiet, whats wrong with him.
"And then what?" I said, Damon looked at me smirking,
"Thats all folks." He quipped, and I felt a sudden anger rage through me, I felt as if something inside of me had snapped and all of a sudden I felt a piercing need to hurt someone. The intense anger shot through me, and I heard shrieks from Caroline before Bonnie rushed to me and touched my head before backing away, chanting words I couldn't comprehend. The only thing I knew now was, that I was insanely angry.
Suddenly the anger washed away, replaced my a numbness, an eerily calming numbness. Feeling my control slipping back,
"What the hell happened?" I asked,
"Your eyes they turned a shade of yellow for a second." Jeremy said, horrified.
"I am going to kill that son of a bitch." Damon said, his voice low and menacing, his cool facade evaporated.
"What the hell happened?" I asked,
"Your eyes they turned a shade of yellow for a second." Jeremy said, horrified.
"I am going to kill that son of a bitch." Damon said, his voice low and menacing, his cool facade evaporated.
"What's wrong with me, Damon?" I said, scared.
"I think when Klaus turned Tyler into a hybrid he may have given him a fair share of your blood. And I think that even though the bond between you and Tyler is one sided, its still strong enough to make you feel what he feels. And it would be stronger, but since our bond, though weak is there it is fighting that one. Long story short, Tyler may form a blood bond with you if you don't have one stronger, to try and contradict it." Damon said and I closed my eyes, wishing that when I'd wake up, for once I wouldn't have to deal with all of this but I knew that that wouldn't work.
"And how do you know this, Damon?" Bonnie asked.
"Katherine, Stefan and I shared a blood bond. So we were attracted to one another, to blood bond really heightened it. I consumed a lot of blood of Katherine, as she did of mine. So now you can say why I thought I loved her for such a long time, before the bond just broke. She didn't want to keep it, and I didn't wanna either, so the chain binding the bonded broke." He replied, his eye leveling with Bonnie.
"You know what, right now, I don't want to deal with this, so I'm just going to go take a nice long walk, okay?" I said and made my way out of the door.
15 minutes later in the Salvatore boarding house.
"She's still not here." Alaric said, Like I didn't notice, Ric. Truth be told I was confused, things had just gotten great between us and then the universe had to go and fuck things up, didn't it. Now Tyler, damn mutt.
I knew that as soon as this business with Tyler was sorted we needed a plan to get Klaus, this lead on his sternum may be the one, or if that didn't work maybe we'd get close to rip his heart out, he need his heart. Nodding to myself I let the others know of what I was thinking when suddenly I got a text, looking at my phone it was my damn mobile carrier, My eye caught another text,
"Tyler texts me saying that he needs to talk to me about something." I said,
"When's he swinging by?" Alaric asked and I checked the time his message was sent,
"Half hour ago." I said, oh shit.
I was walking away from the boarding house and had reached the end of the street, when I felt a sudden rush of happiness, looking around I saw Tyler jog up towards me,
"Hey, Elena." He said, smiling. I smiled back, instantly in a better mood.
"What are you doing here?" I asked, curiously.
"Just, I don't know, thought I'd ask Damon for some blood tips, since Caroline and I are on the outs and Becca.. well, I don't know where she is." Tyler said,
"So its Becca now eh?" I said, teasingly and he laughed.
"No, Rebecca and I are just... more than acquaintances and less than friends, Elena. Why the sudden interest? I swear you have not said more than five words to me and now here we are striking a conversation." He commented leaning closer. I felt hot, like I was on fire and something was pulling me in...
"Uh.." I couldn't say anything.
"What is this, Elena? Why do I suddenly want to be so close to you?" Tyler whispered his body just inches away from mine. My mind was reeling, a part of me wanted to give in... but another part of me didn't. Tyler, leaned in surprisingly fast and before I could react kissed me,..., the sheer shock of what happened stilled me for a second before I put my fist to his chest, struggling to get away.
He groaned as I managed to push him away and the second I did, out of nowhere Damon came and punched Tyler square in the jaw and with a thud he fell to the floor. Fangs bared Damon growled,
"Damon stop!" I said, feeling embarrassed and light headed, what had I done.. almost done? I loved Damon! Damon, and here I was almost kissing Tyler.
"You son of a bitch!" Damon spat, "Come near Elena again, and I will rip your head off. Tyler emitted a low growl,
"Tyler leave, please." I said and after a second he vanished. I turned to Damon, who's face was unreadable. I was at a loss of words,
"Damon..." I began, my voice a mix of guilt and remorse.
"Don't say anything, let the company go." He said his voice hard and decisive. My head hung low as we entered the boarding house. Seeing our moods the gang knew better than to stick around and one by one left, coming close to me Alaric whispered,
"Call me if you need to." He said and I nodded.
Dreading-ly I made my way into the hall, Damon was there standing still as his eyes bore onto the fireplace. I stood there waiting for him to react, to scream, to shout to take his anger out... To do, something.
"Say something." I pleaded, stepping close to Damon, tears threatened to spill as he stared on at the fire.
"I don't feel anything for Tyler, Damon you know that. Its just... when I saw him there, I felt different like my feelings were doubled.. and then I don't know what happened but I swear to god, Damon I..." I began before a sharp stinging pain shout through me as my body collided with concrete.
"How did it feel?" He asked sardonically, his mouth drawn in a sharp line.
Angrily he crushed into me, his eyes inches away from mine before his gaze travelled down to my lips, and again to my eyes,
"I.. stopped the kiss, you know that... why are you doing this to me?" I said, tears falling from my eyes.
"I know its not your fault, and I know that you stopped it, but I also know that if you don't fight, that I'm gonna lose you." Damon said,
"But I love you." I said, my voice breaking.
"Then be my bonded, Elena! I want me to be the guy that makes your heart pound, the one that makes you do things without thinking, I want to be your only." He said,
"Don't you understand, you are all that and more. You are the only guy I ever think about, the guy that makes my heart pound, makes me do things without thinking, the guy I want to be with for the rest of my life. And most of all, you're the only man I love Damon. I. Love. You." I said before claiming his lips with my own.
The afternoon went by in a frenzy, between our passionate love making and well.. more lovemaking it was dawn by the time we got up,
"What are we going to do, Damon?" I asked, and Damon groaned.
"Elena, you have horrible timing." He said.
"Damon, what happened today really scared me." I said and he turned towards me, curiously.
"Elena, I would not have hurt you, you know that." He said, his face dead serious.
"No! No, I know that, Damon. I meant, what happened with Tyler. What if..." I began but he cut me off,
"It wont happen, I promise you." He said, his voice thick and heavy, he said. I looked at him, uncertainly and sighed. He was gorgeous, too good looking, and then my mind wandered. What if I wasn't enough for him. What if.. what if he got bored of me?
"Elena?" he said, snapping me back to reality.
"Hmm?" I asked,
"I would never get bored of you Il mio amore." He said and I blushed, realizing I had voiced my thoughts. He looked at me, his face confused,
"What is this really about, Elena?" Damon asked,
"Nothing." I answered a bit too quickly.
"Elena?" He drawled saying my name in a way that said otherwise.
"I'm just, I'm worried Damon. Yes we may have found a way to kill Klaus but now this blood bond thing with Tyler and then who knows what else. I just want some time to myself where I don't have to worry about blood bonds or evil hybrids..." I began,
"Or vampires?" Damon asked and I nodded instinctively. I saw hurt flash in his eyes and I realized what I had just said,
"I didn't mean you..." I said,
"You did, Elena. But don't worry, Tyler and Klaus aren't here for now and neither am I. You can have your time of solitude." Damon said and quick as flash he picked up his clothes and left.
"Damon wait!" I sad but it was too long. Groaning in frustration I got out of bed and changed. Maybe I did need sometime away from him. My heart immediately blackened at that thought but I put that thought out of my mind and took out my journal from my little bag that I always carried, that was strange. Usually when I wrote the words would just flow. But now I sat there, with a feeling of dread and emptiness.
Mentally cursing I got up and took my car keys, I needed to find Damon. Before I could get into the car, my phone rang. I picked it up, hoping it would be Damon.
"Elena, I am so sorry for what happened today, don't say anything cause that wont happen. I am going out of town to attend Uncle Theodore's funeral and I wont bother you for another few weeks." Tyler said, hearing his voice soothed my nerves. Shaking that feeling with all my might I reminded myself of Damon.
"Yeah, that would be great, take care Ty." I said and clicked the phone shut, breathing heavily, I forced all thoughts of Tyler out of my mind and got into my car already knowing where i'd find Damon. I pulled up ten minutes later to Mystic Grill and got out of the car, making my way inside I stopped in my tracks when I saw Damon laughing of with a woman, nay a very pretty woman.
Shaking of the jealousy, okay fine, ignoring the pang of jealousy I made my way towards Damon and he looked at me surprised.
"Miss me already?" He said, smirking.
"Can we talk?" I asked, seriously and his expression turned somber. He nodded slowly and got up.
"Bye Damon." The woman said, obviously displeased at his departure. Damon didn't say anything as we left the grille.
"You wanted to say?" He said, as soon as we were outside.
"Damon... I got scared today okay. I love you and then out of nowhere I hurt you and then I thought that maybe I needed a few hours alone, but the truth is Damon, I cant live without you, you are my whole world. I couldn't spend two minutes without thinking of you..." I said trying to tell him everything, everything I was feeling. He remained there still and emotionless and I didn't have a single clue to what was going on his mind.
"None of this hot and cold attitude anymore, Elena. Do you want me or someone else?" He asked, his voice vulnerable.
"You've ruined me for anyone but yourself, Damon." I said and he smiled before placing a tender kiss on my forehead.
I woke up to the sound of the shower running in the washroom, smiling to myself I got up thinking to surprise Damon when he closed the faucet, stepped out and wrapped a tower around himself.
"Morning." I said, not trying to gawk at the droplets of water dropping and covering his body making his skin glisten like.. ah, you get my point.
"Morning, now hurry up and get changed." He said and I frowned, wasn't he the guy who would take this conversation into a less talking more not talking kind of a way.
"Why?" I asked,
"Because we're going to visit your parents. We had a slight delay before but you cant hide me forever." He said before looking into his closet,
"Hmm, which is better a black teeshirt or a... jet black teeshirt?" He asked and I giggled,
"Wow, you either have black, black or more black.. Wait a second, here you, wear this." I said digging out a burgundy colored teeshirt from his closet. He pulled a face,
"Fine but I'm wearing my black leather jacket and combat boots." He said and I rolled my eyes, before I could turn around he caught my hand and brought me close to him before giving me one of his breath stopping kisses.
"You're welcome." He smirked and I slapped him on the shoulder as he mock winced.
I thought it would have been awkward to take Damon to my parents, I thought he wouldn't take it seriously or we would just go there, pay our respects and leave, but today I learnt another thing about Damon. He may not be the most respectful guy with everyone but.. I just felt so lucky when I saw him, lets back up.
"Here we are." I said as we reached the all too familiar headstones. Damon held my hand as we placed the flowers on the graves of the people I loved.
"Mom and Dad, I'd like you to meet Damon Salvatore, the guy I love. Yes I know he's a bit too old for me, but don't worry he's young at heart." I said and Damon smiled.
"I know an old ex homicidal vampire is not the perfect guy you would have liked for Elena, but I do love her and I'd be damned well more than I already am before I let anyone including myself hurt her. I have heard Elena talk a lot about you Grayson and I know that you wanted to protect your daughter, and I will do that, I can assure you." Damon said and I saw tears gather in my eyes. He was so sincere and intense with what he said.
"I know you'd do just that son." A voice came from behind and I gasped as I turned around.
"Mom? Dad?"