Sorry I didn't update last week or earlier this week. I'm in college so I had a lot of school work to do. Here is the second half of this episode. I hope you all enjoy it and don't forget to leave a comment in the reviews. Thank you!
Season 1 Episode 9 History Repeating (Part 2)
"Lucky shot." Damon muttered as Stefan made yet another bull's eye. They had been playing for about an hour now, and Damon hated to admit that Stefan was beating him. Damon didn't like to lose, especially not to his little brother. But there was more to this game than just darts. Stefan was doing a completely different mind game, but Damon just couldn't figure out what it was.
"More like a carefully honed skill over many decades." Stefan replied, picking up another dart. Damon wrote the score on the chalk board and turned back around.
"You're beating me." Damon admitted angrily. Stefan chuckled.
"Yeah. It's because I'm better than you." Stefan said playfully. Damon smirked. Stefan may be better at darts, but playing mind tricks was Damon's forte. He could see right through this nice brother routine. Stefan wanted something, what that was, well Damon didn't know just yet.
"I'm onto you." Damon said. "Reverse psychology. It's a little transparent, but I admire the effort."
"You prefer the brooding forehead?" Stefan asked, referring to the deep wrinkles in Stefan's forehead. Damon wasn't used to this Stefan. This playful, joking Stefan. This was the old Stefan, the one that Damon got along with, the one he was friends with. Damon remembered how close they had been, and how that had been ripped apart by their rivalry. Sometimes he wondered if it was worth it, but then he remembered how much he loved Katherine and he knew his answer. Although he missed his time with his brother, he had other things to do and playing around with Stefan wasn't one of them.
"Seriously, what game do you think you're playing?" Damon asked. He didn't think Stefan would actually answer, but he could at least try. Stefan wasn't good at hiding the truth, his heart was too big. Stefan chuckled.
"That's a funny question considering the fact that I have been asking you that for months." Stefan said, causing Damon to grimance. "It's frustrating isn't it?"
"Touché." Damon admitted and threw another dart. It didn't hit the bull's eye. Stefan smirked and threw his own. Right into the center. "Seriously how are you doing that?"
"Natural skill." Stefan replied with a smile, but then he turned serious. "So, I have a question for you."
"No promises that I'll answer." Damon replied, throwing another dart.
"What is this thing you have going on with Alex?" Stefan asked. Damon turned rigid. He knew that Stefan was going to catch on eventually. Stefan wasn't stupid and by the way he and Alex had been hanging out recently he knew that at some point someone would notice.
"Next question." Damon replied, but he should have known that Stefan wouldn't let up.
"I know about the bracelet." Stefan said. "That's very… Stefan of you."
"Isn't it?" Damon asked. "I'm trying it out. This whole good guy thing."
"And how is it working?" Stefan asked. Damon's smirk fell as he thought about it. Stay the hell away from me. Her voice replayed in his head over and over, like a broken record. He wanted it to stop.
"She hates me." Damon admitted with a stiff jaw. Stefan sucked in a breath.
"Well, I can imagine." Stefan replied. "You did feed on her."
Damon rolled his eyes. He had thought about it, how sweet her blood was. But ever since she had been trapped with him and she listened to him like he was a friend and not a monster, he couldn't bring himself to do it anymore. Her fear affected him in a much different way than it did before. He didn't enjoy it like he used to. It took the fun out of drinking from her.
"She's better off you know?" Stefan said said solemnly. "I'm backing off of Elena as well."
"Oh no." Damon said with fake sadness. "Mystic Fall's power couple is no more?"
Stefan chuckled and threw a dart. Damon watched Stefan. He had a good face on, but he couldn't hide that this break up with Elena was messing with his head.
"She deserves better." Stefan added. "They both do."
Damon swallowed. He had to agree with Stefan there. Both Gilbert girls were different in their own ways. But they deserved to have good lives without the Salvatore interfering. However, for Stefan he was leaving Elena for her own good but Damon didn't want to leave Alex. They weren't romantic, but she understood Damon, or at least she tried. There was something about that trait that made Damon think she was utterly stupid, but also it made him want to stick around. But she made it clear she didn't want him anymore.
"I win." Stefan said after he threw his last dart.
Bonnie had stopped crying about ten minutes ago. She sat next to me, staring blankly at the wall, eyes puffy and red. I waited until she wanted to talk or whatever. I didn't want to push her or make her uncomfortable. So I just sat there and waited.
"Bonnie…" I heard. Both Bonnie and I looked to the right and there stood Caroline. Gone was her confrontational shield and it was replaced with an apologetic demeanor. I stood, walked out of the room, patting Caroline's shoulder as I went.
I met Elena right outside of the living room, surprising me. She shushed me, so she could hear. I rolled my eyes.
"What did Stefan say?" I whispered. Elena looked to me and turned very serious.
"He knew Emily." She said. "She was Katherine's hand maiden."
"Really?" I asked. Elena nodded. "What is it for?"
"I don't know." Elena said. "Stefan said that he would try to find out what Damon wanted."
I nodded. Then Caroline said that we could return to the room. Caroline and Bonnie looked very much better after their talk. I was glad that everything seemed to be better, and honestly I was glad that all of this happened. Things needed to be said and now that they had been hashed out, I thought that we would have a good night.
"There is just way too much drama in this room. So, what do you guys wanna do?" Caroline asked. The three of us shrugged. "I have an idea. Why don't we have a séance?"
"I don't think that's a good idea." Bonnie said. I shook my head.
"Me either." I added. After everything that had happened, summoning spirits didn't seem like the right move on our part. Caroline rolled her eyes, putting her hands on her hips.
"Come on. Let's summon some spirits." Caroline explained. "This Emily chick has some serious explaining to do."
Nervously, the four of us headed up to Elena's bedroom. I had never performed a séance so I had no idea what to do. Caroline turned out all the lights and lit some candles. I felt a shiver go up my spine as my eyes adjusted to the little light given off by the candles. We then sat in a circle and Caroline instructed us to hold hands.
"What are we doing?" Elena asked.
"I don't know." Bonnie replied. Obviously, neither of these girls had done this before either. I was beginning to wonder why Caroline knew what she was doing, or at least seemed to look like she knew.
"Be quiet and concentrate. Close your eyes." Caroline said. I obeyed. "Now take a deep breath. Bonnie. Call to her."
After a second of hesitation, Bonnie took a deep breath. I knew that this was a bad idea from the start. Although all of this was a game to Caroline, I knew better. This wasn't something to play around with. Emily's ghost was real, and calling her was probably the worst thing we could do. She was a deceased witch for God's sake! Still, no one listened to me or tried to stop it. So I just went along.
"Emily, you there?" Bonnie asked very casually. Caroline's eyes shot open.
"Really? Emily, you there?" Caroline mocked Bonnie. "That's all you got? Come on."
"Fine, geez….Emily, I call on you." Bonnie said. "I know you have a message. I'm here to listen."
There was a small pause, where everything was still and nothing happened. In that fleeting moment, I thought that Emily didn't want to give a message, but my mind changed after that moment. The flames on the candles went higher and burned brighter for a second. No one moved, or touched them. I knew it wasn't a coincidence. Elena, who was beside me, squeezed my hand.
"Did that just..." Elena trailed off. I didn't think she was too gung ho for this either, especially after that.
"Yeah, it just happened." Caroline replied then she shivered like she was suddenly cold. I felt the chill too, and none of the windows were open. I was starting to get a very bad feeling.
"It's just the air conditioning." Bonnie quipped, but by the expression on her face, she knew that it wasn't. After finding out she was a witch, I couldn't understand how Bonnie could believe that anything was a coincidence anymore. She had done many things recently that were anything but a coincidence. I guessed she was trying to hold on to any normalcy left in her life.
"Ask her to show you a sign. Ask her." Caroline urged. "Emily, if you're among us, show us another sign."
But this time nothing happened. The flames did not move and nothing else happened in the room. I felt myself relax. Maybe this was all just a big game. I mean, how well could these things work?
"See? It's not working." Bonnie said. But a nanosecond after the words left her mouth, the windows burst open with a loud crash. My eyes widened and my heart beat quickened.
"I can't, I'm done." Bonnie said and tore the necklace from her neck. She then tossed it to the floor right in front of us. After the necklace was off the room went dark. The candles blew out and there was no light at all. I felt a shiver go up my spine as I thought that maybe Emily was inside the room and doing this.
"Get the light." Bonnie wailed. I could sense her fear from across the room. "Please, get the light!"
"Here, I got it." Elena said and then the lights came on. I felt immediately better now that there was light in the room and I could see there was no ghost around. However, when I looked to Bonnie my good feeling had disappeared.
"You guys, the necklace." Bonnie said, staring at the floor. "It's gone."
Down at the school's football field, Stefan had brought Damon. Damon didn't know why they were there and he was getting tired of Stefan's games. This whole bonding thing was fun at first, but now Damon was becoming impatient. He wanted to know what Stefan wanted and he wanted to know now.
"What are we doing here?" Damon asked. He knew that Stefan wouldn't answer him directly. It was so frustrating, and then he realized this was what it was like to talk to him all the time. He wondered why someone hadn't strangled him yet.
"Bonding. Catch!" Stefan said and threw the football to his brother. "Go on. Give it a try."
Damon smirked, remembering when he had learned the game. He was never interested in fighting. He only became a soldier for his father. Although he was good at it, he wasn't motivated to do it. Now, fighting was much less work for him and he knew he would win. He enjoyed it more.
"Don't forget who taught you how to play this game." Damon said. And with that the Salvatores began playing their favorite old past time. Damon was a bit rusty, and he was never as good as Stefan was. However, he held his ground and admittedly had fun with his brother. That is, until Stefan tackled him. What shouldn't have hurt him, actually did. He groaned.
"That hurt." Damon said, surprised that he could still feel pain. He hadn't felt this kind of pain in a long while. Perk of being a member of the undead.
"Downside of my diet" Stefan admitted. "Getting hit actually hurts a little bit."
Damon moaned and started to roll over. Stefan chuckled. The two brothers lay there for a while before Damon smirked. He couldn't take this anymore. Stefan was up to something and it was unlikely he was going to let up until he got what he wanted.
"I'm impressed Stefan. Fun with booze and darts, sentimental with football, and now?" Damon said and gestured to the sky. "Starry night. What do you want, Stefan?"
"I could ask you the same question." Stefan said. "Why are you here? What is keeping you here? What is this thing you have going on with Alex?"
"Alex?" Damon asked, eyebrows furrowed. "There is nothing going on with Alex, Stefan."
"I beg to differ." Stefan said. "You're always around her and from the looks of it, you haven't fed from her in a while. What gives? You never leave a human alive for this long."
"Maybe my humanity is kicking in." Damon joked. Stefan was right. You have no humanity. The sentence kicked him in the gut. He didn't know why he wanted Alex to trust him, to think he was good. He never cared before, what people thought of him. But Alex was different, and her opinion mattered even if he didn't want it to. It was starting to bug him.
"She can't be Katherine, Damon." Stefan said, looking up at the sky. "Elena and Alex will never be Katherine."
"Who said I wanted them to be?" Damon replied. "I know Alex is not Katherine. She's much more… tame."
"It wasn't real, Damon. Our love for Katherine." Stefan continued, Damon scoffed. "She compelled us. We didn't have a choice. Took me years to sort that out, to truly understand what she did to us."
Damon felt a fire burn in his soul. He loved Katherine. He was never compelled to love her, he did that on his own. Although he understood that Katherine's motives were underhanded and sneaky, he still couldn't bring himself to not love her.
He liked Alex. He thought she was a good girl, which already made her different from Katherine. But unlike Stefan, Damon didn't think he could control himself. Alex was fragile and if Damon got the idea to feed, he might kill or hurt her. If Damon cared, he wouldn't be able to live if he hurt her. So, he decided not to care.
But he couldn't. Obviously, there was something between the two. He initially thought it was physical attraction and the game of chase. But once he got to know her, that resilience she had, and the way he so easily annoyed her, he started to realize that he was beginning to care. And if he started to care, it would mess up everything.
"Oh, no, Stefan. We are not taking that on tonight." Damon said once he was up. Although he could think about all of this, there was no way in hell he would talk to his brother about it.
"What do you want with Katherine's crystal?" Stefan asked. Damon stopped in his tracks. He smirked. So that was what Stefan wanted.
"How do you know about that?" Damon asked, turning around, eyebrows furrowed.
"Come on." Stefan chuckled. "You knew Elena would tell me."
"How do you know it was Katherine's? Emily gave it to her on her last night." Damon pointed out. "I was with her, and you weren't."
"I was the last one to see her, Damon." Stefan said, making Damon's jaw grind together. "Now, what do you want with Katherine's crystal?"
"She didn't tell you?" Damon asked, amused and surprised at the same time. Katherine always seemed to talk more to Stefan about stuff. But she compelled him more than she ever compelled Damon.
"We had other things on our mind." Stefan replied, the underlying tone making Damon's heart jerk. Damon glared at Stefan and with his vampire speed, he sped over and got right into his face.
"I could rip your heart out and not think twice about it." Damon threatened. He could do it, kill Stefan and not think twice. He might regret it later, but at that moment he could really do it.
"I've heard that before." Stefan smirked. Damon wanted to smack that cocky look right off his little brothers face. But Damon himself found that he began to smirk.
"I have a bigger surprise, Stefan." Damon admitted, backing away slowly. "I'm gonna bring her back."
The four of us girls looked all around for the necklace; we searched in every nook and every cranny, but it was nowhere to be found. I was really starting to get freaked out. I had seen it lying on the floor, and a second later it just disappeared. I wasn't hallucinating, I definitely saw it laying on the floor and in a second it was gone. It was like it dissolved into thin air. Or someone took it.
Or something.
"Okay, fun's over, Caroline. You made a point, and I get it." Elena said and held out her hand. "Now give it back."
"What? Well, I didn't take it." Caroline insisted. Then out of nowhere, a dark figure passed the open door. I felt my stomach lurch. "What? What happened?"
Elena locked eyes with me. I nodded, telling her in silent that I had seen it too. Like a ghost, it passed by the door and disappeared. She went to the door frame, calling out for Jeremy but she received no answer.
"Uh… guys." Bonnie said, inching closer to the bathroom. The three of us watched her as she slowly walked into the bathroom. She bent down to the floor to find that the crystal had been in there. I felt a little bit more relaxed now that we had found the necklace, but my good mood disappeared just as quickly as the crystal had. As soon as Bonnie looked up at us, the door slammed shut.
"Bonnie!" Elena screamed. We then bolted to the door, Elena trying to open it. It didn't budge. The realization that the door was locked hit me like a brick. Bonnie hadn't done it. I knew this séance was a bad idea. Bonnie began to scream.
"Bonnie! Unlock the door!" Caroline shrieked. I could feel my bones chilling as we listened to Bonnie scream. It was a blood curdling scream, like she was being attacked. I felt frustrated, terrified tears pour from my eyes. Elena ran out the room to check the other door that was in Jeremy's room but it was locked as well.
I reared back my foot and kicked at the door but nothing happened. All it did was hurt my foot. I was prepared to kick the whole thing down until the screaming suddenly stopped. Caroline, Elena, and I all looked at one another and stared at the white door. There was a minute of silence before the door finally opened. Bonnie stood there, face hidden in her hands.
"What happened? Are you ok?" Elena asked hysterically. Bonnie stood still for a while before she looked up. She looked normal. She didn't even look afraid.
"I'm fine." She said, but there was something about her that didn't seem fine to me. She looked stoic, not frightened like I figured she would be. She didn't look like Bonnie. Physically she did, but the body language and movement were alien to me.
"Unbelievable. You were totally faking it." Caroline said before crossing her arms over her chest. "You scared the hell out of me!"
"Bonnie?" Elena questioned, taking a step further. Bonnie's hands were folded in front of her, something I had never seen her do. Her head was held high and her chest puffed out. That was definitely weird behavior for her.
"I'm fine." Bonnie said looking between me and Elena. "Everything's fine."
She walked past us, leaving both Elena and I dumbfounded. We stared at one another trying to come up with a solution to this bizarre behavior but both of us came up blank. I swallowed, what if something had happened while Bonnie was locked in the bathroom?
"She's definitely not fine." I said in a hushed voice.
"Definitely not." Elena agreed. Bonnie had walked out of the room, so both of us were alone.
"Do you think…" I trailed off. "Do you think something…. Witchy…. happened in there?"
"I don't know." Elena replied. "I should call Stefan."
"Wait." I said stopping her. "Let's make sure first."
"Why?" She asked me, phone propped in hand. "If something is going on he needs to know."
"And if everything is fine then you are going to look crazy." I told her. "Let's just watch her and see. Then we will call."
Elena bit her bottom lip, processing my words. Stefan needed space, and even though what had just happened was very strange, I didn't want Elena to make Stefan come over here for nothing. Elena nodded to me, closing her phone. We headed down the stairs then to find Bonnie.
"I can't believe I fell for it." Caroline whined. Bonnie was headed for the stairs, moving quickly. Both Elena and I followed.
"Are you ok?" Elena called after Bonnie, who ignored her.
"I must go." Bonnie replied. That was not Bonnie vocabulary. This was not Bonnie at all.
"She's leaving." Caroline said. "I'm leaving."
"You guys can't leave." Elena urged. We had to try and keep both here, then we could be sure they were safe. Whatever happened had been supernatural. There was no telling what could happen.
"I can. I've had enough freaky fake witch stuff for one night." Caroline said. Obviously, she didn't understand and her whining was getting on my last nerve.
"It's not fake!" I retorted. "Besides, you're the one who wanted to have this stupid séance."
"So this is my fault?" Caroline asked with a glare. I sent her one back. I liked Caroline, but she wasn't taking any of this seriously and she should be. That whole séance was a terrible idea, and it was Caroline's.
"Guys stop!" Elena scolded us.
"Thank you for having me." Bonnie said. "I'll take it from here."
"Where are you going?" Elena asked Bonnie as she bounded down the stairs.
"Back to where it all began." Bonnie replied cryptically. Elena started to go down the stairs after her.
"Bonnie! Bonnie" Elena called, then a face of sudden realization hit her. "Oh My God! Emily!"
Bonnie turned at the name, or should I say Emily turned. It all made sense. Bonnie was acting strange, because she wasn't Bonnie. The ghost of Emily must have possessed Bonnie's body and now she was on a mission. And we had to stop her.
"I won't let him have it." Bonnie/Emily said. "It must be destroyed."
"Wait!" Elena yelled but Bonnie/Emily was out the door. The door had slammed shut and when Elena tried to open it, the thing wouldn't budge. Both Caroline and I made out way down the stairs to see her pulling on it.
"What's happening?" Caroline asked.
"I don't know." Elena said, pulling the handle. "The door. It's not-"
As we pulled then, the door came open to reveal Jeremy. We screamed, causing him to scream. He glared at the three of us, rolling his eyes once the sudden shock wore off. He pushed past us and headed toward the kitchen.
"I'm out of here." Caroline said, going out the door and to her car. Elena and I stood there for what seemed like forever while we figured out what to do. What did you do when your friend is possessed by her witch ancestor and is off somewhere and we have no idea where?
"What do we do?" Elena asked, knotting a hand in her hair. I stood there looking between her and the open door. "Alex! What do we do?"
"I'm thinking." I said and then looked to her. She looked like she was about to have a panic attack. I grabbed her shoulders. "First you need to calm down."
"I can't!" She said pushing me away. "My best friend is being possessed by a ghost and I don't know how to help her!"
"Shhh." I hushed her. "Jeremy will hear you."
"I have to call Stefan." She said and pulled out her phone. I didn't stop her this time and waited as she dialed. It seemed that he picked up immediately. She explained everything to him, how Emily was possessing Bonnie and that she wouldn't let him have the crystal. Whoever him was.
"Damon." I whispered. "It's Damon."
Elena furrowed her eyebrows at me. I knew Stefan could hear me.
"Emily is going to destroy the crystal so Damon can't have it." I said. Elena nodded, again listening to Stefan. What was so important about this crystal that everyone wanted it?
"Fells Church." Elena said. "The old cemetery. That's where she took Bonnie in her dreams."
I swallowed, waiting for Elena to hang up. She closed it and just stood there. I waited for a while it seemed before I gave her a look.
"What did he say?" I asked impatiently.
"He said he would find her." Elena said. I grabbed my jacket, pulling it on. "Where are you going?"
"To Fells church." I replied like the answer was obvious.
"Stefan said to stay here." Elena told me. I rolled my eyes. "Alex, I think we should stay here."
"Stefan is your boyfriend not mine. I don't take orders from him. " I told her, grabbing my stuff. I wasn't going to let anything happen to Bonnie. I wanted to be right there when something happened.
"Damon would want you to stay here." Elena said. I froze, standing in the doorway. I didn't know if she was right or not, if Damon would actually care if I was in harm's way. I would like to think he did, but I wasn't too sure. I slowly turned and looked at her.
"And I don't give a rat's ass what Damon wants." I told her. "Bonnie is what I care about. You should too."
Elena stood there contemplating her next move. I knew it was a low blow, but I really didn't want to go alone. I would if I had to, but I didn't want to. When she didn't move, I gave a curt nod, thinking she was going to stay behind. I didn't know what I was going to do, I was only human. But I knew that I would do anything I could to help my friends. I couldn't lose them.
"Wait!" I heard Elena call after me. I turned and there she was rushing to her car. I smiled and followed after her, sliding into the passenger seat.
I didn't know that Elena could speed that fast. I kept look out for cops, but at this time of night I didn't think any would be cruising. Elena parked quickly, out in the woods. It was so dark. Once I was out I started to run, Elena not far behind me.
"Look!" I pointed to a plume of smoke that arose above the trees. I ran toward the smoke, tripping over roots and logs. It was hard to actually get anywhere without something tripping me up. We got closer to the smoke, breaking the tree line just in time to catch Bonnie/Emily throw Damon's crystal into the air. It exploded, into a million tiny little pieces.
"No!" Damon yelled, but it was too late. The crystal was gone. The flames surrounding Emily dissipated and left Bonnie standing in the middle of the pentagram Emily had created. In anger, I saw Damon rush forward, latching on to Bonnie's neck.
"Bonnie!" Elena yelled, but as soon as Damon was on her, Stefan was on him. Stefan pulled Damon off Bonnie, and then she fell to the ground, her neck wound bleeding. Elena and I rushed forward, looking at our friend on the ground, not moving. I turned to look at Damon in anger.
"What did you do?" I screamed at him. The veins in his face were still pushed out and his eyes were ringed in red. I sent a bone chilling glare his way.
"She's alive but barely." Stefan said. I turned from Damon back to Bonnie. He then bit his wrist and put his bloody wound into Bonnie's mouth. She started to drink the blood from his wrist. Then I magically saw her wound heal back to normal, as if nothing had happened.
"Her neck…" Elena said. "It's healing."
I watched in relief as her wound healed fully. She was awake not too long after. Elena helped her up, and pulled her into a hug. I followed soon afterward. She looked very scared, gripping us for dear life. I couldn't help myself from looking over Bonnie's shoulder. Damon stood not too far away, looking very broken and his eyes held the utmost sadness. I felt my heart reach out to him. Although I knew it was a bad idea and that he had almost killed my friend, I released Bonnie.
"I'll be right back." I said and followed as Damon walked away. He settled himself on a rotten log looking off into the distance. I could see tears on his cheeks, very uncharacteristic of him.
"I thought you weren't talking to me." He commented, not looking at me. I kept my distance, leaning on a nearby tree. I was wary of him, but I wanted answers.
"I'm not." I replied. "What did the crystal do?"
He visibly swallowed. I knew that this was upsetting for him. Whatever this crystal did, it was important to Damon and it was now gone.
"It would bring Katherine back." He told me sorrowfully. I understood then, why he wanted the crystal so bad. He still loved Katherine, and that was like a knife into my gut. He had told me how much he loved her, and yet I wished he didn't. It made whatever connection we had much less special to me.
"I'm sorry." I admitted. He scoffed. "Really, I am."
He chuckled, much to my surprise. And then he was on me. I hadn't even seen him coming. At vampire speed he ran to me, pinning me against the tree. His face was inches from mine and I could feel his warm breath on my cheeks. His eyes flashed with danger, and I knew he could kill me in that second. I shouldn't have opened my big mouth.
"No you're not." He said, his breath cascading over my face.
"I-I am Damon." I squealed. "I'm sorry."
"You're glad this happened to me." Damon said, sounding truly crazy in the moment. "You want me all to yourself. You're happy."
"I- I didn't-" I stuttered, so afraid of how close he was to me. Although I was frightened, I was also elated at the contact. My body reacted on its own accord, contrary to what my brain was telling it to do.
"You're pathetic." He said, voice full of malice. "I'm a vampire. You're a human."
I nodded. I knew where this was going. He was a murderous vampire and I was a fragile human. He lived to kill and I lived to help. He loved Katherine and I… I didn't know what I was feeling.
"This could never work." He said with a shake of his head. "You will either die, grow old, or become a vampire."
"I never said I wanted to be with you." I told him. He scoffed.
"You didn't have to." He said. "I don't have to be a vampire to know that you want me."
"So what?" I asked him. "I told you to stay away."
"You don't want that." He replied. I nodded my head wildly.
"Yes I do." I nodded. "It's what I want."
He looked me in the eye for a while, searching for something. When he couldn't find it he scoffed and pushed himself off the tree. The space between us grew and I could finally breathe again. I watched him stalk off and I felt myself begin to cry.
"You won't miss me." Damon said to me over his shoulder. I shook my head. "Don't miss me."
In an instant he was gone. I took a deep breath, calming myself down. Was he right? Did my crush on him make me glad he wouldn't be able to bring Katherine back? I did feel for him. I really felt sorry for him, but was I happy to? I wasn't sure.
I found Elena and Bonnie. We rode home in silence, Bonnie terrified, and Elena crying. I didn't speak. I didn't cry. I just stared out the window as we passed by dark houses. No one was out this late, and I was glad. I didn't know what Damon was capable of in this state.
Once we were back at Elena's, we settled down for sleep right away. None of us wanted to talk. We all just wanted to sleep. Elena made sure Bonnie was ok and out of any harm's way before she left her alone. She had had a rough night, and both of us were worried about her state of mind. She almost died tonight… I couldn't imagine watching her die. I had made myself comfortable on the floor curled up into a whole mess of blankets.
"Night Alex." Elena said, going to turn the light off.
"Night." I replied. I listened to her crawl into her bed. It was quiet for a while, deathly silent. After everything that happened tonight, the silence was frightening to me. The dark held monsters that threatened me. And me being alone threatened more tears.
"Alex?" I heard Elena call. I sniffled, wiping my tears.
"Yeah?" I answered evenly.
"You ok?" She asked. I pondered her question. Usually I would have said yes, but then I couldn't hold it back anymore. I wouldn't hold it back anymore. Elena was in this too, and now we could lean on one another.
"No." I said, tears falling from my eyes. I then heard the squeak of her bed and the padding of her feet on the ground. She laid down next to me, pulling a blanket over her. She then wrapped an arm around me, pulling me into an embrace and I just cried.