~ Shards of Sapphire ~

"Is that my shirt?"

"Yeah... why, you want it back?"

Before Damon had a chance to answer, Rose started unbuttoning the shirt, clearly intending to take it off right that moment.

He tried to tell her that he didn't mind that she was wearing his shirt (he had plenty of them to spare, while she still owned very few clothes of her own), but right as he opened his mouth to say it, she undid the last button and the shirt fell open, exposing a thin strip of skin... which was not particularly provocative, but it was enough to reveal that she was wearing nothing underneath.

And so, instead of actually managing to speak, Damon stood there staring at Rose as she shrugged and the shirt slid down her shoulders.

Then, with no warning whatsoever, the front door of the house began to creak open.

Damon immediately closed the distance between himself and Rose with a burst of vampire speed, and gathered her against him.

"Am I... interrupting something?" Stefan asked, giving the couple an odd look as he paused awkwardly in the doorway.

Damon merely glared at his brother in response, holding Rose protectively against him so that Stefan wouldn't see her bared skin.

Of course, it wasn't like Stefan had never seen Rose's shoulders before. She frequently wore tank tops around the house. But this was different.

Rose pressed closer to Damon.

Stefan still wasn't sure what exactly he'd walked in on, but Rose was clearly embarrassed and Damon was doing his best to preserve her modesty.

"I'm just gonna... pretend I didn't see... whatever this is that you're doing," Stefan said awkwardly, before vampire-speeding up to his room.

Once he was gone, Rose and Damon pulled away from each other just far enough for Damon to slide his hands between their bodies and fasten up the buttons of the shirt Rose had on. When she was wearing it properly once more, she closed that small distance between them, wrapping her arms around Damon's waist and burying her face in the crook of his neck. He hugged her close and tucked her head under his chin.

"You look great in my shirt, by the way."

~oOo~