Hello everyone, well here it is part 2. I hope everyone enjoyed the last chapter, I had a comment that made me realize I've never mentioned but this is a strictly NO Delana fic. As always I only own my OC. Enjoy!
Damon,If by some miracle you didn't just tear this up the second Katrine gave it to you, then I need you to know how sorry I am. Believe me, no one thinks I'm more of a hypocrite than myself right now. Klaus gave me two options, my freedom or my humanity. Through this whole thing with the witches, freedom wasn't really something I had a whole lot of, can't miss something you never had. But my humanity and morality isn't something I'm quite ready to give up.I get it if you hate me for this but you're alive so that means I have an eternity to make it up to you, in the meantime try to keep the body count down. I love you, Pidge
Alexis's POV
I closed my eyes and enjoyed the little bit of sun on my face. It was the first time in weeks that I'd gotten to just sit and enjoy being outside, hell enjoy anything really. Klaus and Stefan were off looking into the third name on our list, Ray Sutton. I had convinced the pin-head magical babysitter Klaus assigned me to put the barrier spell up just off the dingy little balcony.
By convinced I mean, I fed him my blood and threatened to snap his neck. Meaning he'd no longer be a witch and have a huge probability of being sired to me, thus useless to Klaus. So out of great fear for his life, here I sit enjoying a beautiful day in captivity.
Cate wrote her spell when there weren't seven billion-plus people in the world, 500 years ago this spell would have been perfect but now it meant looking for needles in a haystack. Klaus was getting impatient, Stefan even though the non-ripper moments were far and few now, was probably the only reason Klaus hadn't locked me in a box with the 5th dagger he claimed to have.
I didn't really care anymore, not about what happens to me, I was almost always alone, except for my witchy little shadow. I learned quickly they were not on my side. So for the last six weeks, it's been me, my thoughts and Cate's journals, bouncing from hotel to dark cabin in the woods working through a list of names with no locations. The last girl Hayley Marshall was like a ghost, lots of people had seen or heard of her but no one seemed to know where to find her. The full moon came and went and Klaus decided to move on. Which is what brings us here to Tennessee, part of me was praying that they found him, that this was the right guy. The faster that Klaus found a werewolf pack, the faster my job would be done, not that he'd actually let me leave, I'll probably owe Klaus for eternity.
I could hear him talking to Stefan in the hall, I quickly got up closing the door behind me, sitting on the bed opening one of the journals to a random page. The door swung open and Klaus stepped in looking smug, "Time for a field trip little witch." He picked up my jacket, throwing it on the bed. I looked from the jacket to him, unamused.
"I'm impressed, I really didn't believe you would keep this hissy fit up as long as you have." He stalked towards the bed, leaning his face down to mine, "Speak, witch."
Oh, believe me, you do not want to hear what I have to say.
In a flash, Klaus's hand was on my throat. I didn't struggle, and I kept my face as blank as possible as my lungs begged for oxygen. He can't kill me and he clearly needs me for something right now.
"Motus," I croaked, as Klaus hit the wall, my babysitter from earlier trapped my in an aneurysm spell and I gripped at my head grinding my teeth together to keep from yelling out.
He let me out of the spell and Klaus was off the ground, "Get in the car." He growled. I crossed my arms, leaving the jacket on the bed and walked out without a second glance.
I sat in the back of the SUV watching the world go by, we turned down a dark dirt road. It was almost two miles since we left the highway before we came across an old white farmhouse all lit up, "You'll be getting us inside Alexis," he drove further down the road, parking off to the side.
"Use those hunter instincts of yours, get them to trust you and let you inside, we'll be by shortly." He held out the jacket I'd purposely left at the hotel.
I started down the road, slipping my jacket on, letting my hair down and messing it up a little, before I sprinted towards the house. I stopped a few yards away out of sight, a woman in her mid 20's walked out calling for what I assumed was a dog. It didn't take much to muster up some fake tears, at this point, I wasn't even sure they were fake. I walked out towards the house, "Oh thank God, I've been walking forever." I stopped a few feet away from the girl, "I'm having the shittiest luck tonight, my GPS got me lost out here and then I got a flat and for some reason I can't seem to get any service. Do you know anything about tires or maybe could I use your phone?" Lord, I sounded pathetic, I was rambling, probably because this was the first time I'd spoken more than spells in weeks.
"Of course honey, come on in. I'll grab you the phone." I followed her up the porch steps and into the house. It was cute, prints on the wall by the stairs, dollar store decor set up to make this place look like a Better Homes and Gardens ad. I could hear someone else in the house, I didn't have time to investigate because the young woman from outside walked back into the hall, "Here you go." She held out a cordless handset and I took it grabbing her wrist and locking my eyes with hers, "There's a man on the porch, you're going to invite him in and do whatever he says ok."
"I'll do whatever he says," she replied and turned to open the door. Klaus stood smiling on the other side. "You can come in." The woman said pushing open the screen door. Klaus stepped over the threshold and into the hall. The other person in the house called out, "Sarah is everything alright?"
Sarah, the too helpful girl's name was Sarah.
Klaus narrowed his eyes at me and I looked at Sarah, "Everything's fine." I whispered.
"Everything's fine, Mary," Sarah replied.
Sarah and Mary, great now they had names.
Stefan stepped up onto the porch and Klaus asked Sarah to invite him in, which she did quickly, "Your job is done little witch, wait outside." I walked out brushing past Stefan and sat out on the bottom steps. There was some knocking around and a short conversation I didn't feel like listening in on. Those girls were not getting out alive and they would be two more names on my guilt list.
Klaus stepped out and walked down the stairs, "Follow me," was all he said as we started walking in the opposite, direction of the car. He stopped in the middle of a field about a hundred yards from the house, "Stefan tells me it's your birthday tomorrow."
I let out a short laugh but didn't actually say anything.
"When I first heard an Elemental had popped up as the doppelganger's twin I was sure it was Cate, that she had somehow managed to weasel her way back from the other side. It took all of one conversation to know that wasn't true."
We get three chances at life you would think that would be enough.
"Less than one conversation actually and I knew that wasn't the case, she would have never let the Bennett witch get close to me."
Believe me, I wanted to kill you.
Klaus stood there, I'm not sure what he was looking for but he seemed to find it, "For the next part of my plan I have to be able to trust you and since I can't do that and you can't be compelled, you're all but useless to me."
"Why bring up my birthday if you're just going to shove me in a box somewhere."
"Oh no dear you misunderstand," he shoved something in my coat pocket, "I need you for something else." *Snap*
Damon's POV.
It's been six weeks, six weeks of chasing down half leads and getting nowhere. I didn't even know if she was alive, Stefan and Klaus have both been seen but not Alexis. I walked down into the parlor grabbing a drink as Elena walked in, "You should really knock."
"Why, Ric said your juice box was busy last night." She snapped, I raised my eyebrow at the reference, "his words not mine," she shrugged.
Elena rolled her eyes handing me a piece of paper, "Sheriff Forbes said there have been a couple 'animal' attacks just outside Memphis."
"So another dead end then?"
"You don't want to go then I'll just do it myself." She stepped up into the hall and I zipped in front of her and snatched the paper out of her hands, "I'll take care of it, Klaus thinks you're dead let's keep it that way, besides don't you have birthday party stuff to do?"
"Not much of a birthday when both your sister and boyfriend are off on a killing spree."
I didn't have the heart to tell her it was probably Stefan doing most of the killing. "I'll make some calls and let you know what I find." She huffed turning on her heel and heading out, I pulled out my phone and called Ric.
"You got the address?" Alaric asked we were about an hour away and on a time limit.
"Yeah, Andie just sent it to me," I leaned over putting it in the GPS.
"You're not going to kill her are you?"
"Andie? I wasn't planning on it." I rejected Elena's third call since we left the house.
"So what happens to her when you find Alexis?"
"I say the magic words and she forgets I ever existed."
"I'm afraid to ask, what are the magic words?"
"Game over." I smirked.
"Seriously?" Alaric asked, surprised as he turned off the highway, "Seems a little cruel."
"Hence the forgetting I ever existed." I sighed, "She asked me not to leave a trail of bodies, I did that. She left, she could have flipped the switch and stayed but she didn't. Part of me gets that but there is an even bigger part of me that's still really angry, she couldn't trust me enough to keep her from doing something she'd regret with the switch flipped."
"You don't know that."
"You don't know Alexis." I leaned back in my seat, "Says we'll be there in 10 minutes." My phone rang again.
"Elena?" Ric asked turning down, yet another dirt road.
"Yeah."
"Why don't you just tell her what we're doing?"
"Because I'm not going to get her hopes up on half leads. No one's even seen Alexis and Stefan at this point is so far off the wagon Elena might not see the old him in her lifetime."
"Well, what am I supposed to tell her? I'm your accomplice on these half leads."
"Still sleeping on the couch?" I asked, leaning up to look up at the white farmhouse coming into view.
"Yeah you know I keep waiting for them to kick me out, I'm not helpful."
I'm sure he didn't get just how helpful having someone around could be. Especially for someone like Elena, who up until a year ago, was surrounded by family and friends.
Alexis's POV
I opened my eyes but it was pitch black, oh god he buried me in a field. I felt around me, feeling drywall to my sides and coats above me. I was in a closet, I felt around for a door finally grabbing a handle, it was locked. I leaned up against it hearing someone coming up the stairs outside. I needed to get out of here. I stood up pushing clothes to either side and pushed off the back wall with my foot, crashing into the door with my shoulder. I ended up in the hallway as the front door swung open. I looked up as Damon walked through the door, he looked up at me speechless, "Hi." I said quietly.
"Hi?" Damon replied angrily before he zipped forward, pinning me against the wall.
I smirked before flipping us around and holding him down, "I'm stronger than you even when you're not dying." He pushed against me and I let him go, "Speaking of me dying, what are you even doing here?" He asked.
"I don't know, Klaus snapped my neck and I woke up in a closet," I stopped feeling the pockets of my jacket, pulling out my phone, which was dead and a note with Damon's name on it, the other pocket had Elena's necklace in it. I held out the note, Damon snatched it out of my hand, "What's that?" Ric asked.
"It's Elena's, it wasn't in my pocket before I got killed." I shrugged and shoved it back in my pocket, "What's the note say?"
"Basically you're a bargaining chip. He said the only use you are to him now is an incentive to keep us from looking for Stefan. How did he even know?" He shoved it into his pocket as I reached for it.
"He's got a shit ton of friends, people who owe him favors. Probably has someone keeping an eye out for you."
"How do I know you're not compelled to do just that?" Damon growled.
"Did that werewolf bite leave you with some brain damage? I can't be compelled, not even by you anymore." I smirked before passing the room where Sarah and Mary were posed on the couch, "Oh god!" I spun away covering my mouth.
"You think you'd be used to it running around with Stefan all summer," Damon moved past me and Ric followed with a disgusted look on his face, "How do you know it was Stefan?"
Damon walked over looking at the girls, "There's a reason they call him the Ripper, it's the damnedest thing, he feeds so hard he blacks out and feeds until their heads fall off. When it's all over he feels remorse and puts the bodies back together."
I turned around just in time to see Damon nudge Sarah with his foot, her head rocked and then rolled down her body to the floor. The sight made me actually feel ill, "I need some air." I said before moving past Ric outside.
After a few minutes both guys walked outside, Damon stopped, standing next to me, "I'll give you guys a minute." Ric announced as he walked to the car.
"Hi," I said again quietly.
"Yeah, you said that." Damon spat, "What the hell Alexis. I thought you were dead."
"Well that was dumb, I can't die."
"Whatever." Damon threw his hands up and turned to walk off the porch.
"Damon, wait," I called after him.
"What?" He whipped around.
"I tried, I tried to let you know I was alive."
"Really? I must have missed your call."
"I tried to magically send you a message, Klaus had a witch tracking my magic, they intercepted the note, Klaus was pissed and he bit me." I gripped the porch rail so hard I heard the wood splinter, I snatched my hands back and looked down.
"He bit you?" It was probably just wishful thinking but I swore I heard concern in his voice.
"Yeah, and then had the same witch prolong my suffering for three days. After that, I stopped talking."
Damon looked me up and down for a moment, "Are you coming back to Mystic Falls?"
"I'd like to. I never thought I'd say that."
"Help me get rid of the evidence." Damon flashed to the truck and pulled out 2 gas cans, rushing back and handing me one, we proceeded to douse the farmhouse, "Hey did you get a chance to look around here last night?" He asked, pressing on the floor with his foot making a creaking noise.
"No, I just got them invited in and then Klaus sent me outside. When I was actually allowed out he never made me stick around for the gruesome stuff. This is the first time I've actually seen Stefan's aftermath."
Damon pulled the rug back, revealing a trap door. Damon flipped it open and stepped down the small ladder, "Well what do you know, a werewolf lair."
"He's looking for a werewolf to lead him to a pack, he's got a list with about 500 names on it."
"Wonder how he got that," Damon replied, climbing back up. He grabbed his gas can and continued throwing the accelerant around.
"You can't stay mad at me forever."
"I can be pissed right now." He threw the can into the hall and we stepped outside, "Little help?"
"Oh, now I'm useful." I raised my hand and flames shot up. I flinched but when nothing happened I watched as the flames licked up the walls and ignited the furniture. This old farmhouse would be nothing but ash in less than an hour.
I followed Damon back to Ric's truck, he opened the back door for me and I climbed in. Ric turned around in his seat as Damon got in, "Happy Birthday."
"Thanks, I guess."
"Caroline is going to be excited," Damon said, reaching into his pocket, pulling out his phone.
"Why?" I asked as Damon ignored the call.
"She swore you'd be back by tonight, has an outfit picked out for you to wear and everything." he rejected another call this time I caught the name on the screen but I didn't say anything about it, "How's Elena? And Jeremy?"
"Jeremy is good, he's working at the grill," Alaric answered.
"And Elena?" I repeated.
"As well as can be expected, considering the fact that you and Stefan just took off," Damon replied bitterly.
"To save you." I spat back.
"No one asked you to."
"Whatever." I slammed my back against the seat and crossed my arms staring out the window. You knew he would be mad, you thought he'd have a decade to get over it but you knew he'd be mad. I was starving, it had been a while since I fed, "You wouldn't by chance have a blood bag stashed in here would you?"
"No. Ric, you wanna lend a vein?" Damon smirked.
"Not particularly." He replied, raising an eyebrow.
"I wouldn't even if you were ok with it." I crossed my legs in the seat and leaned on the door looking out the window.
"We can stop if you need to, I'm sure there's a jogger or ten in these beautiful woods." Damon pointed out his own window.
"No I'm fine, I'm umm laying off the fresh stuff for a bit." I didn't look away from the window, "Now that I have a choice." I added quietly.
Damon turned in his seat looking back at me, for the second time since I'd burst out of that closet I'd seen something other than anger. I swallowed hard, not ready for the onslaught of questions I'm sure was to come, I quickly asked, "So where's my stuff, I need a shower and some clothes I haven't recently died in."
"Everything is right where you left it," Damon replied before turning back around in his seat.
Alaric dropped us off at the boarding house and Damon opened my door as he told Ric he'd see him later at the party. "Your clothes are still in the closet," Damon said to me as he pulled out his phone and rejected another call.
"Who's Andie?" I finally asked.
"You should go in, I think I hear Caroline and Elena." He walked over to his car.
I sighed and slowly pushed open the door walking in, "Honey I'm home!" I yelled out. I hadn't made it two steps when Caroline crashed into me and trapped me in a bone-crushing hug, "See Elena I told you, I just knew she would be back by your guy's birthday." She screeched right into my ear.
"Please let me go, I think I feel ribs poking organs." I groaned, Caroline moved away and revealed Elena right behind her. She looked tired but the smile that crossed her face washed most of it away, "Happy birthday," I said.
"You too." She walked up hugging me, "I'm glad you're home.
"Me too," I replied as she moved away. I walked all the way in and headed for the cellar, Caroline followed after me while Elena helped Tyler find somewhere for the rest of the booze to go.
"I've been telling them since you left, that you'd be back. I bet it was some crazy escape, wait is Klaus going to come looking for you?"
I rolled my eyes when we got to the bottom of the steps, "No, no one's coming after me." I walked to the chest fridge and opened it up, snatching a blood bag I ripped the top off and started drinking.
"Well, then how are you even here?"
"Klaus let me go, he thought it would make everyone stop looking for Stefan." I finished the bag and pulled out a second, knowing Caroline there was going to be a bunch of people at this party and I really didn't need the extra temptation.
"Is Damon going to stop looking for Stefan now that he found you?"
"Doubtful, and I don't blame him, he should keep looking." I slowly took a sip from the second bag, "So knowing you, there's two different party scenarios in your head, one with me, one without."
"Yeah, so?" She took the bag from me taking a sip.
"Soooo, can you do the one without?"
"Absolutely not, Elena has been miserable and I'm sure the last couple months have been awful for you too. You need this all of us do."
"I feel like it's worse, you know for Elena it's just me here."
"How is Stefan?"
I looked down at my feet, "Not great."
"Well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Tonight we drink." She held up the blood bag triumphantly, "Go shower and meet us in Stefan's room. I'm going to make you pretty."
I snatched the blood bag back from her, "I'm fucking gorgeous, what are you talking about."
Walking into Damon's room felt strange, mostly because everything really was right where I left it. Cate's journal was still laid open on the floor next to my bag, I crouched down digging through it, a stale bag of weed, and a bowl, I slipped those into my jacket pocket and plugged in my phone. I let myself fall back on the bed, God I missed this bed, I heard footsteps coming from the hall and shot up. Damon walked in as I rounded the bed, throwing my coat on it and walking toward the closet. "Caroline commanded me to take a shower, I can go use one of the guest bathrooms I just need something to wear."
"No. I just had to grab something, I have one more stop to make."
"I can help you find Stefan, or well, Ray. That's who they were looking for."
"How? You can't do a locator spell without something of his and we torched the place."
"Well vampirism has turned me into a klepto," reaching into my shorts, I pulled out a set of dog tags, "I found them upstairs in the only room a dude would have ever slept in." I tossed them to Damon, "Since you clearly don't trust me, which I understand, have Bonnie help you."
"She's not here, she's visiting her dad's family off in the land of I don't care." He stared at the tags, "Look you've done enough, leave finding Stefan to me."
"I'm sorry," I said quietly, staring at the ground.
"You could have stayed."
"I could have but I didn't and I can't go back and change that. I have spent the last 6 weeks beating myself up over it, telling myself I'm no better than Kathrine-"
"You're not Kathrine."
"Besides the point, I've had nothing but time to think and torment myself. I get it if you wanna hate me, fine, if you wanna talk, fine but please just know that I didn't leave to hurt you."
"But you left." He said quietly, "Look I gotta go, I'll see you later." He slipped past me and out into the hall. I sighed and walked to the closet, pulling the door open a little harder than necessary, papers fell to the floor, "Shit." I said quietly as I crouched down to pick them up, they were articles, animal attacks, arson, bodies found completely torn apart. I picked up the papers and stood up looking at the door I could see where most of them had been pinned, there was a map with pins in all the places I'd been the last few weeks and notes about what he found when he got there. I put the papers back and quickly grabbed something to change into after my shower.
"So what do you want me to do with your hair?" Caroline asked Elena as I walked around looking at all the junk in Stefan's room.
"Damon hates me." I blurted out, looking at myself in the mirror.
"Nope," Caroline replied.
"Not even close," Elena said right behind her.
"'Oh what do you two know." I huffed.
"I know that since you left no one's been allowed in his room, or whenever your name gets mentioned he tends to break things." Elena said, "He missed you as much as I miss Stefan, he's just upset."
"Who's Andie?" I asked picking up a pair of scissors off the desk.
"If we don't tell you are you going to stab us?" Caroline laughed.
"What? No."
"Some girl who's been helping him look for you guys."
"That's it?"
Elena looked down at the floor, "They started spending a lot of time together a couple of weeks ago but Alaric says he refers to her as his juice box."
I turned back around looking in the mirror again, with a couple of quick movements I pulled all my hair into a low pony and chopped everything above it off with the scissors. I shook my head letting my hair fall landing just above the shoulders.
"Oh my god, Alexis." Caroline yelled, "You're pretty hair."
"It's hair, Caroline."
"I like it," Elena smiled, "and not just cause you owe me $50 now."
"Yeah, you were never getting that," I smirked.
"How is Stefan?" Elena asked quietly.
"He's umm coping."
"What the hell does that mean?"
"Stefan is doing what he needs to do, he doesn't have the option to be a pain in the ass, he's keeping himself alive."
"Oh."
"Enough gloom and doom. Let's talk about something else." Caroline jumped in.
An hour later we were dressed and heading downstairs, Elena and I in almost matching dresses, except hers was white and mine was black. I'm sure there was a good twin, evil twin reference in there but one could never have enough black in her closet so I wasn't complaining, at least not about the dress. The shoes were another story, I was pretty sure even as a vampire I was going to break my neck going down the stairs. I stopped outside Damon's room letting Caroline and Elena know I'd be right down, I snuck in hearing the shower running. I wonder when he got back.
I slipped into the closet grabbing a pair of Chucks. I walked out and quietly closed the closet door, I sat down on the floor pulling off the ungodly heels and replacing them with the sneakers. As I stood up I heard Damon from behind me, "You should at least humor her for an hour."
"I think I've had my neck snapped enough for today." When I turned around I was face to face with Damon wrapped in a towel, I licked my lips and looked up at him, "You cut your hair?" He said quietly.
"See what happens when you leave me unsupervised?" I replied, loud music started playing from downstairs.
"Sounds like your party is starting."
"I'm forever 17, technically it's not my birthday."
"Then I guess you don't want your birthday present." He smirked walking over to his dresser.
"If I decline the present does that mean I can skip the party?"
"Not a chance, I have to go so do you."
Damon pulled on some clothes, I only stole a couple of peeks, the smirk on his face when he turned back around meant he was well aware.
"Is Andie coming?" I asked, keeping my voice even. I left, I'm not allowed to be mad.
"Will you stop asking me about Andie?"
"I know what I need to, Elena has a big mouth." I stopped, changing my tone, "I'm probably going to bail on the party early and go home, it'll be nice to sleep somewhere not a hotel."
"Caroline will be mad."
"I'm not afraid of Caroline."
"You should stay, I think we need to talk. You know without a hundred juvenile delinquents downstairs destroying my house."
"Yeah, we probably should." I looked down at my shoes, "You really think she's going to be mad?"
"Passive aggressively, so," he smirked. I let out a huff and pulled off the Converse, handing them to Damon, "Stash these, please." He laughed, taking the shoes and walking into the hall while I finished pulling the devil shoes back on.
"You look beautiful." Caroline screeched as I stepped down into the parlor.
"Thanks." I replied nervously, all these people made me anxious, "Where's the booze?" I asked with a little more confidence.
"That's the spirit, this way birthday girl."
I managed to get a couple of drinks in me, curbing the appetite of the giddy little vampire in me, dying to use these kids as a buffet. I poured what was left of a whiskey bottle into my solo cup and started walking around. Finally spotting Jeremy on a couch in the next room, Matt in a chair next to him.
"Oh thank God someone I like." I hopped over the back of the couch and set my legs in Jeremy's lap, "Gimmie." I said holding my hand out
He rolled his eyes and handed me the joint in his hand, "Wow you think you'd have learned some manners hanging out with a thousand year old vampire."
"I wouldn't exactly call it 'hanging out' more like dooming hundreds of werewolves to what I'm sure is a very painful death."
"On that note," Matt stood up taking the joint from me, "Welcome home."
"He likes to pretend he doesn't know what's really going on around here." Jeremy whispered.
I saw Elena walking over with an angry expression, "Don't look now but you're about to be in trouble." I told Jeremy as I hopped out of my seat.
"You're not even going to help?"
"Nope you're a big boy now, gotta go."
Damon's POV
I watched as Caroline drug Alexis across the parlor and I made my way outside, snatching an expensive bottle of bourbon from a random kid. I sat on the wall outside, a few minutes later Alaric walked up.
"I'm every parent's worst nightmare." He said, sitting down and taking the bottle from me.
"I love high school parties," I smirked.
Alaric took a sip and handed the bottle back, "So are you going to let Andie walk into the lion's den?"
"Oh no, I cut that off this afternoon."
"Really?"
"Don't sound so surprised, Andie was a distraction, Alexis is home so I no longer need a distraction." I took a long drink from the bottle.
"Speak of the devil," Alaric replied looking at the door.
Alexis's POV.
"Shoes please." I smiled, walking out barefoot.
"What happened to the ones you were wearing," Damon asked, reaching over the wall and then holding out my shoes.
"I lost them about the time I finished my fourth drink." I finished what was left in my cup and tossed it. "I'll pick it up later," I mumbled.
"So that was number five?" Alaric asked.
"Six, I think, I might be drunk." I laughed,
taking my shoes and sitting on the ground.
"You're cut off." Damon chimed in.
"You're not my boss." I snapped back. "It's my party, I'll puke if I want to."
"Do vampires even do that?" Ric asked Damon.
"I might." I giggled from the ground.
"Are you drunk?" Elena asked walking out.
"Probably." I answered, giving up on my shoes.
"I just saw you like 10 minutes ago." She took the bottle from Damon and took a swig.
"Okay, I may have been drinking straight liquor out of full Solo cups." I watched the annoyance flash across her face, "I'm just trying not to kill everyone." I shrugged, "if you'd rather I can just treat this like the all you can eat buffet my warped little mind is trying to turn it in to."
She shoved the bottle towards me and I took it only to have it snatched back by Damon, "Hey!" I yelled and he ignored me.
"Can you talk to Jeremy?" She asked Alaric, "He's smoking again."
"Matt brought it and it is bitchin." I laughed.
"Enough lush." Damon nudged me with his knee.
"Anyway he looks up to you Alaric, it would really mean a lot." Elena said with a small smile, Ric nodded and she walked towards the door, "Caroline will kill you if you don't sober up for cake." She added looking at me before heading back in.
"Speed drinking doesn't sound so fun anymore, does it?" Damon laughed as he stood up, "I'm going to get her cleaned up, you think you can handle being the oldest guy out here for a bit?"
"Yeah, I think I can handle it." Ric laughed back.
Damon bent down scooping me up off the ground, "No, put me down." I tried to wiggle free, this was the closest we'd been since this morning. "I can walk." He set me down grabbing my shoes and steered me inside with his hand on my lower back. I turned to head upstairs but he led me to the cellar, "What are we-"
"We're sobering you up come on."
We got downstairs and Damon pulled a sheet off of a chair, "Here, sit down." I plopped into the chair sending dust everywhere, that sheet didn't really help, did it?
Damon grabbed two bags out of the fridge and handed me one, "It'll sober you up."
"I've already had two."
"So, you're in a stressful situation, you can drink that whole fridge if you need to."
"You can go back up, I'll be fine," I said, still fiddling with the top of the bag.
"Pidge-" he started, crouching down.
"Please don't call me that." My voice was almost a whisper.
"Why?" He took the bag from me and pulled the top off before handing it back.
"Isn't your date going to be here soon?" I took a drink from the bag. Stop, being, an asshole Alexis."
"I swear, I'm going to kill your sister." Damon stood up, turning away from me, "She's gone, on her way to some other small town, with no memory of me. You asked me not to kill anyone and you know as well as I do, that urge has to be replaced with something else." He turned back around, "You are currently the prime example of that."
"Elena shouldn't have been the one to tell me, I asked you." I finished off the bag, feeling slightly less drunk, "I get it, doesn't mean I'm happy about it." I fiddled with my bracelet spinning it on my wrist.
"Why do you even still wear that? It's useless now."
"Funny story, I can't take it off. It shocked the piss out of me when I tried. So it's there till the leather rots."
He let out a small laugh.
"I should get back upstairs, I'm sure Caroline is going to hunt me down sooner or later." I handed him the second empty bag and stood up.
"Moderation is your friend."
"Yeah, yeah," I mumbled up the stairs.
I'll admit moderation had been my friend through the next hour, I'd managed to actually have a good time. Elena seemed a little better, even if it was just for now. Caroline kept an eye on me I'm sure at Damon's instructions, but it really wasn't necessary. I only had to hold it all together for a couple more hours, after cake and more drunken dancing I needed some air that wasn't soaked with boozy high school kids. I walked out back and leaned on the railing, enjoying the cool breeze as it hit my face.
"Hiding?" I heard Damon from behind me.
"Yes," I smirked, turning to face him, "I need a break from all the people. Did you know Elena has been telling people I was at some obscure summer program, I can't even remember the name."
"I thought we should have told people you went to rehab but no one listens to me."
"Probably would have made way more sense," I laughed, jumping up on the rail.
"Caroline compelled the right people at the school, you finished Junior year and you both are still tied for valedictorian."
"Well considering I was 9 points ahead when I left I guess I should be grateful."
"Someone is clearly sober again." He sighed, looking up at me, "I missed this."
I sat down kicking my feet back and forth, "What, awkward small talk?"
"No just you, being here, seeing you."
"Believe me, I'm happy to be here. I meant it earlier too, I want to help you get Stefan back, I saw the closet."
Damon tensed up, "No, you wanna make it up to me you will stay out of all Klaus related matters."
"Damon-"
"Stay out of it!" He growled before walking back inside.
I followed him inside and yanked him into the bathroom off the hall, slamming the door shut, "No absolutely not." I yelled, "I've spent the last six weeks watching him destroy himself, I'm not just going to sit back and watch."
"I can't let you get sucked back into all of this. I won't," he yelled back, stopping and taking a breath he continued, "I can't lose you again."
"I'm not going anywhere." I replied quietly, "I drove myself crazy wondering if Kathrine showed up that night. It was weeks before I heard Klaus talking about you looking for us and even then I had no clue if he'd already killed you for it."
"I wanted to burn that letter and most of your stuff."
"Thanks for you know, not."
"I didn't read it right away, I took off for a couple of days."
I stepped up closer to him, putting one hand on his cheek, "Please forgive me."
Damon grabbed my hand, at first I thought it was to push it away but his other hand found my hip and he pushed me up against the door, crashing his lips on mine. His tongue ran across the seam of my lips, which I parted quickly, pressing my chest against his. He let go of my wrist and moved his hands to my ass, lifting me up and onto the counter. I moaned as he moved his mouth down my neck, biting with his blunt teeth sending shocks through my body.
A knock on the door broke our concentration, "GO AWAY!" We both yelled.
"Seriously, in the bathroom," Elena whined from the other side.
"Get off me." I hissed at Damon, who's hand was halfway up my dress.
"You're kidding." He replied disappointed as he pulled his hand back.
"No she's right, there are a shit ton of people out there."
"We've done this before, twice, I believe."
"Yes, but I didn't know anyone on the other side of the door." I laced my fingers behind his neck and leaned in, "but I wouldn't be opposed to going upstairs." I leaned back smiling, "and I mean if you just wanna do it in a bathroom-" Damon cut me off kissing me quickly, "Stop talking." He smirked, scooping me up and opening the door.
We almost made it to the stairs when Caroline stepped in front of us "Seriously, the bathroom?"
"Caroline if you don't get out of my way we'll do it right here," Damon replied.
"No, we won't," I said quickly, fighting to get down, Damon just held on tighter and nudged Caroline out of the way, moving to the staircase.
As soon as the door was closed, our lips were locked again. My hands worked at the buttons of his shirt, while his moved to my back pulling the zipper of my dress down. I shrugged it off my shoulders and it pooled on the floor, leaving me in just my bra and underwear. I pushed his shirt off his shoulders and ran my fingers down his chest.
In one quick motion Damon lifted me up and threw me onto the bed, his tongue swirled in the hollow of my throat. My hips bucked and I laced my fingers in his hair as he moved down my chest. He tore open my bra and smirked at the face I made, "You're lucky the dress survived." He laughed and moved back to planting kisses over my breasts as one hand slid down my side. I wrapped my legs around his waist and pulled him towards me, my hands back in his hair, I kissed him. He caught my lip in his teeth and dug his fingers into my hips, he bucked forward causing me to throw my head back further into the bed and moan.
He smirked and trailed his mouth back down swirling his tongue over each of my nipples as his fingers snapped the thin fabric of my panties. Damon lightly ran his fingers through the juncture of my thighs. I moaned out again finally realizing how much I needed this, I nearly exploded as his thumb bushed over my clit. My back arched and my eyes rolled back, Damon teeth grazed over my nipple and rolled his thumb a little harder over the sensitive bundle of nerves. "Fuck." I groaned out.
Damon pushed two fingers in my core, I rolled my hips into his hand and he crashed his lips on mine again. He worked at a vigorous pace, my walls tightened around his fingers and I moaned into his mouth. He pulled away as I came down from my high, kicking his pants off and climbing back on the bed. He pulled me on top of him and wasted no time filling me up I threw my head back, dragging my nails down his chest leaving little bloodied trails that healed immediately.
I could feel myself getting close again, Damon rolled my nipples between his fingers, I moaned out as my orgasm rocked through my whole body. Damon smirked and flipped us over, thrusting in and bottoming out, both of us panting as he sped up. I wrapped my legs around his waist pulling him closer. He leaned in, running his tongue over my pulse point. I craned my neck giving him the go-ahead, he bit down and my hips bucked forward. Tingles ran through my body as we both reached out release, Damon kissed my forehead before he rolled off of me. "Happy birthday to me," I breathlessly sang out.
"That wasn't your present." Damon laughed, rolling off the bed.
I sat up and walked to the closet intent on swapping my dress for shorts and a tank top. "Does Elena know about this murder board you have in here?"
"No, and she doesn't need to," Damon replied, raising an eyebrow. We finished getting dressed and Damon led me downstairs and outside. I noticed Caroline cleaning on our way out most of the guests were gone and the rest were on their way out. We wandered out towards the garage, "Close your eyes." He commanded.
I did, stealing a peak as he got to the door, "I said close 'em." He said looking back. I heard the garage door open and he told me to open my eyes, "Seriously?" I asked walking over to the small motorcycle, it was black with the words Honda Shadow written across the gas tank in gold. I ran my fingers over the seat, Damon walked up behind me, "Jeremy has kind of taken over your truck, and you're indestructible now so…" he trailed off.
"Thank you," I smiled, "You wouldn't by chance know how to drive it would you."
"You know, it just so happens I do and I'd be happy to teach you."
When we walked inside Caroline had abandoned cleaning and was lip-locked with Tyler, I stepped down into the parlor and grabbed a pillow. I threw it smacking Tyler in the back of the head, "Hey!" They both whined.
"Get a room." I laughed walking back over to Damon, "Says the girl who was about to do it in a bathroom earlier." He whispered.
"But I didn't." I smiled walking back into Damon's room, the mood quickly changing when I saw Elena holding the papers from the closet. "I'm going to leave you guys to it then," I said trying to move around Damon, he grabbed my arm, and Elena spoke up, "No I think you need to tell me what the hell happened this summer. Damon, why didn't you tell me that you had been tracking them all summer, that you have been looking into Klaus's victims?"
"Because this trail of bodies I've been following isn't Klaus's, it's Stefan's." Damon replied quietly."
"He let Alexis go because we were getting close, maybe if we keep on it he'll let Stefan go too."
"Klaus sent me on my way because I literally made every task into the biggest project, dragged my feet, Stefan doesn't have that luxury. I can't be killed so his choices were stuff me in a box or let me loose, you guys weren't going to stop looking for us. Maybe he figured one was better than none and kept the one that follows his every instruction." I watched as Damon shifted nervously, I chose to ignore it for now.
"You can't expect me to believe all of these are Stefan's," she yelled holding up the pile of papers.
"They aren't mine." I snapped back.
"Tell me how he is, for real."
"Elena-"
"No, I want to know!"
"You don't trust me." I sighed, " He's off the rails, Elena."
"We've got him back before." Her voice was shaky.
"Elena go home," Damon said from behind me, "We can talk about this more tomorrow, okay?"
"Whatever, you're just going to keep hiding things from me. That's if you're even going to keep looking for him now that she's home." Elena spat, before turning and walking out into the hall.
I stepped forward, Damon grabbed my arm, I snatched it back quickly, I stepped into the hall, "Elena!" I yelled. She ignored me and kept walking towards the stairs, I threw my hand out and watched her freeze, "What the hell?" She asked, confused.
"You don't get to do that, you don't get to blame him. You can hate me if you want to. I'd hate you if the situation was reversed if you came home and Damon was gone."
"Let me go, Alexis." She growled I did and without another word, she was gone.
I walked back into Damon's room, "You understand that I have a personal stake in bringing your brother home too." I crouched down and picked up the papers Elena had thrown on the floor.
"How bad is it?" Damon asked as I handed the papers to him.
"Really fucking bad," I replied quietly.
Well there it is, Alexis is home, I'm sure you all want to know what happened when she was with Klaus and I promise I'll be shedding some light on that later. Hope you guys liked it, if you did leave me a review.