A/N: So I was pissed that I couldn't remember why I chose Ellie so I changed it to Allie. Soz.
At the end I'm going to go off the episode track. Hope it's alright! Let me know, review please!
Chapter Twelve
Alexandra
When I wake in the morning, it's windy and stormy and my window is open yet my bed is abnormally warm. I'm about to get up when something tightens on my waist. I smile and roll my eyes. Who knew Damon Salvatore was a cuddler.
"Damon, I've got to close the window," I whisper knowing he could hear me. "I'm cold." He lifts his arm and I crawl out of bed to close the window. I'm back in the bed soon. I'm shivering and he pulls me closer. "Morning."
"Good morning Allie,"
"You know, I never expected you to stay."
"I wasn't planning on it. I need to fix the window at home."
"Oh, yeah, ya'll were attacked."
"Ya'll?"
"You've never heard me say that before?"
"Maybe I've just never noticed. Things have changed." I nod. "I've got to go. I need to fix that window."
"Elena and I will be over soon."
"Be careful when you're driving." I nod and he gets his jeans on and leaves. I sigh and get up.
"Elena!" I sing when I walk into her room. "Get up! We've got a big day ahead of us!" She groans and rolls over. "Stefan and Damon were attacked last night, get up."
"Are they okay?"
"Damon is, not sure about Stefan. He didn't really talk to Stefan much last night. They fought, killed one of them, and Damon immediately came here to make sure I was okay. He sort of stayed the night."
"Really?" She exclaims. "Well we talked last night. I just don't know if it was before or after the attack. He's probably alright, right?"
"Should be. Let's go."
We make it to the boarding house pretty soon, within the hour. We walk in and we sit on the couch while Damon is boarding up the window, ranting to us about last night.
"I say we go to Pearl's, bust down the door, and annihilate the idiot who attacked us last night."
"I agree. He broke the damn window, he should pay. Do you have any idea why?" I ask.
"I probably pissed him off when I defended you."
"It was him?" I asked. Damon gets off the ladder he was on to fix the window and comes to the couch that I'm sitting on and sits down next to me. He throws his arm on the top of the couch, somewhat over my shoulders. I lean into him, slightly as Stefan walks in.
"Yeah it was. But I still like my idea."
"Yeah? And then what? We turn to the rest of the tomb vampires in that house and say 'oops, sorry'?" Stefan asks sarcastically.
"I can't believe you almost made a deal with her," I say.
"What deal?" Elena asks.
"It was more like a helpful exchange of information. And it's not like I had a choice to refuse her information, she's scary." Elena is glaring at him because he wont say anything else about the almost deal. "She was going to help me get Charlotte back."
"Of course she was," Elena says. "Damon gets what ever Damon wants. No matter how many people he hurts doing it."
"Is that such a bad thing that I always get what I want?"
"Yes," I answer.
"Don't have to be so snarky, Allie, I've saved your life on many occasions."
"I'm sorry, I woke up this morning to learn that all of the vampires have been released from the tomb. I've earned the right to be snarky, Damon."
"Alright, alright. Fair enough." He pulls me to him and rubs my arm. Elena rolls her eyes and turns her head away fom him. "How long are you going to blame me for turning your birth mother into a vampire?" He asks Elena.
"I'm not blaming you, Damon. I've accepted the fact that you're a self-serving psychopath with no redeeming qualities," Elena says smiling sarcastically.
"Ouch, Damon. How are you going to recover from that one? It was good." I give Elena a thumbs up and we laugh.
"That's why I have you. To boost my ego when your sister tramples all over it."
"I'm alright. That's why you have your bourbon. You can drink an entire liquor store and not get drunk."
"This isn't being very productive. Though entertaining, not productive," Elena scolds us. We turn to look at her. I stick my tongue out at her and she smirks at me.
"Alright, I'll figure out what to do with him," Damon says kissing the side of my head then getting up and leaving the room. Stefan is confused then it hits him.
"He stayed at your place last night, didn't he?"
I nod. "He did. We weren't planning on it but I fell asleep and so did he." He grins at the fact that I'm happy.
"Alright, well Damon and I are going to take care of everything. I promise." Stefan kisses Elena's cheek.
"Well what are we going to do? We can't just sit here and do nothing," Elena says.
"That's exactly what your going to do, because that's what's going to keep you safe. Besides, I'm perfectly safe, I have Damon, the self-serving psychopath, on my side." He smirks at me and leaves.
We get back home and Elena goes upstairs while I lay upside down on the couch, trying to entertain myself. The doorbell rings and I get up to answer it. I lean against the frame as I open it.
"Your ignoring me," Damon says before he sees me leaning against the door frame. "You alright?"
"Yeah just fine. I was just laying on the couch upside down, trying to entertain myself in the storm. But I'm not ignoring you. Have you been calling?"
"Yes. Is Stefan here?"
"No. 'Lena! Stefan up there?" I shout. She comes out of her room and shakes her head. I turn back to Damon. "What's wrong?" Elena came jogging down the stairs.
"He went out to the woods and didn't come back. I can't get him on his phone so I figured he must be here," Damon says concerned for his brother.
"It's going straight to voicemail," Elena says. "Where is he?"
"You're not going to like what I'm thinking." He walks out the door and I follow, telling Elena to stay behind and to keep calling his cell. Damon drives to, what I'm guessing, is Pearl's place and gets out, telling me to stay here. I comply.
A few minutes later, I see him coming back. I get out and rush to him. "What happened? Where is he?"
"They have him, I can't get in."
"Why not?"
"Because the woman that lives there is compelled to not let me in," He spats out. I nod.
"I can get in."
"You are not going in there," Damon says, putting emphasis on not.
"I'm going! I've got to for Elena, she's my sister."
"You're not goinng in there. I won't let you Alexandra." Now I know he's serious.
"Why are they doing this? What the hell do they want?"
"Revenge. They want revenge."
"We've got to do something." I say, starting to pace. I push my soaking wet hair out of my face. "We can't let them hurt him. We've got to get him out of there."
"I know, Alexandra, I know." He stops me but putting both hands on my face. "But I don't know how to get him out." Tears stream down my face, mixing with the rain but Damon can tell the difference. "Allie, it's going to be okay. We are going to get him out, for Elena."
"For you too. He's your brother."
"Come on. Let's get out of the rain before you get a cold." I nod and we get into the car.
Elena gives us a stupid idea that actually works. We talk to Mr. Saltzman and he disagrees at first but Damon, stupidly brings up Isobel and says that Pearl can find her. What a load of crap but it works.
"Teacher by day, vampire hunter by night."
"I've got you to thank for that."
"What are those?" Elena asks when she looks into the bag full of weapons. I sneeze and Damon looks at me. Great, I'm getting sick.
"You're getting sick," Damon points out.
"No I'm just allergic to something. I'm allergic to... Alaric. Sorry Alaric, you've gotta go now."
"You're getting sick, Allie. Don't argue with me."
"Guys!" Alaric says. He turns back to Elena and tells her its a tranquilizer dart full of Vervain.
"Can I borrow one?" I ask reaching in and taking one to inspect it.
"No," Damon says. I nod and put it back. While him and Alaric are talking again, I take it and shove it into my purse. Elena and Damon start fighting about her going in.
"Then I'll go in, Damon. You can't really stop both of us, so just let one of us go in."
"Fine you two can drive the get away car. You're not going in."
"You can't stop us," Elena says. "It's Stefan we're talking about."
"Oh I understand, I understand. He's the reason you live. His love lifts you up where you belong. I get it."
"Can you not joke for two seconds?"
"I can't protect you, Alexandra. I don't know how many vampires there are in there." Damon suddenly turns to me and pushing me into the wall behind me. He snaps his fingers once. "That's how long it takes you to get your head ripped off. I have to be able to get in and out. I can't be distracted with your safety. Or this will end up a bloodbath that none of us will walk away from, including Stefan." He lets me go and looks me over to see if he hurt me at all.
"Alright, guys. If we are going to go, we need to go now."
We wait in the car for a few minutes after they leave.
"Hey, if I told you I was going to go in the house, what would you say?" Elena asks me.
I hold up the syringe and say, "Can I join you?" Elena and I get out of the car and go to the house. We climb up to the back porch and we glance around the corner when we hear a voice talking to other people. Elena motions to a staircase and we go to it without being detected. I break the glass with my hand, bare unfortunatly and get a cut on it. We walk in and see a vampire. He makes eye contact with us and is about to attack when he gets stabbed in the heart.
"Are you two insane?" Damon hisses at us. I shake my head and walk past him to where Stefan is. We see another vampire in there with him tied up as well. We get him down and we save him.
"Can you make it?" Elena asks as we make our way to the car. We put him in the back. The keys weren't in there though. Stefan gets ripped out of the car and a small branch gets lodged into his stomach. I get the syringe out of my purse and stab the other vampire with it. I go to Elena and Stefan. "It's alright Stefan." Elena grabs a sharp rock and cuts her wrist with it. Blood drains out and he responds. I look behind me and see the other vampire standing over me, smelling the blood on my hand.
I try to move away but he bites into my neck. I scream and he starts to suck my blood out. More painful than I imagined. Soon Stefan is up with the stick in his hand and Damon is holding the vampire in a headlock and Stefan stabs him with the branch several times.
"Stefan, stop!" Damon shouts at him. He does and the veins around his eyes go away. Damon drops him and comes to me. "Are you okay? Please tell me you're okay."
"Very light headed." I sneeze again and more blood rushes out of the wound. He picks me up bridal style and we head home in the car.
Elena and I were patching each other up from the long day full of battle. I was still light headed and she was finally healing.
"Allie?" Damon says. I look up and see him leaning against the frame of the entry way. I get up and become dizzy again. He's in front of me and he leads me away from Elena as Stefan comes in. "You've got to get home. You're getting sick and you've lost a lot of blood today."
"I'm alright. Just hold me." I say leaning into his embrace.
"How are you? Other than the obvious."
"My stomach is churning. I feel like something bad is about to happen. I feel guilty and I just don't know why. I feel so exhausted. I just want to go to sleep and never wake up."
"Alexandra! We've got to go." Elena says quickly. "Vicky's been found." My eyes go wide and I look up at Damon.
"Go. I'll be here. Let me know if you want someone to stay with you tonight." I nod and kiss his cheek.
We go to Matt's house quickly. We walk in. "Go find Matt," I tell Elena. She nods and finds him. I walk past Caroline and find Kelly. I go to her and she hugs me tightly, crying into my shoulder. She pulls back and I find Jeremy. I embrace him and he cries too. What a terrible day.
We go home and Jeremy goes to his room and same with Elena. I don't have to even bother texting Damon to come over. He's here and he's holding me while I cry, for the umpteenth time since we've met.
It's been a rough few days. I'm sick, Stefan is supposed to be back in school today but we all know he won't be. Elena and I are about to walk out the door but run into Uncle John. Awesome.
"Uncle John, surprised to see you here," I say my voice nasilly.
"Well I thought it would be good to catch up with the family. Not sure when I'm leaving though." Our faces fall.
"Uh huh. Well, we gotta run," Elena says. "Good luck Aunt Jenna." She says. We really dislike Uncle John.
Elena and I get to school and Matt comes up to us. We start talking about John next to Elena's locker.
"He said the trip is open ended," I tell Matt, sniffling.
"Uncle John. Never liked that guy." We chuckle. "I'm here for moral support if you two need it."
"Thanks, but I think we will suffer together," Elena says. "We make a pretty good team. Besides you've been through enough."
"Thank you both by the way. For just everything you did at Vicky's funeral. I couldn't have done it without you two."
"Of course Matt," I say.
We walk into Alaric's classroom at lunch cause he wanted to speak with us.
"So I made a couple copies of Jeremy's paper. Thought you two might want to take a look at it."
"Fact or Fiction: The Truth About Vampires in Mystic Falls," Elena reads aloud. I'm confused. Does he know? "Jeremy wrote this?"
"It's very clear that he didn't think it was real."
"I really hope your right, because we've done so much to keep him from this," Elena says, hope evident in her voice.
"How do you deal with it?"
"With what?" I ask. I sneeze multiple times before he answers.
"All the lies and the secrets. You have to lie to everyone around you."
"It's just not safe for them to know. We keep it from them, but only because we love them and it would kill us to see them get hurt. It's better this way," I say.
We get home and nothing exciting happens the rest of the day. I am sick and I contemplate telling Jeremy about vampires but I figured that I might as well wait for Elena to tell him about the adoption. Besides it's Friday. Tomorrow is when the real action starts. Except when I hear a thud across the hall. I get up and look out the door. Luckily Jeremy was gone and Jenna was outside in the backyard talking to John.
I see something whirl past me and I walk quickly to Elena's room.
"Elena what was that?"
"Stefan was about to bite me." She says scared out of her mind. I hold her hand till she calms down.
"I'll call Damon about Stefan," I say when she's calmer. She nods and I get up to make the phone call.
"Hello?"
"I need you to come over. Like now." I say, my voice still nasilly. He's probably about to grin at my words till he hears the urgency in them.
"What's wrong?"
"Just come over as soon as you can." I hang up and a couple minutes later I hear a knock at the door. I rush down the stairs. "You're here," I say when I see those deep blues.
"You ask, I come. I'm easy like that."
"Come on, I need to speak with you upstairs."
"No, Alexandra," Damon says loudly, catching no ones attention. "I will not go to your bedroom with you."
"No one is down here." I grabbed his hand and dragged him up the stairs.
"Ah, just like I remember." He mused walking into the room. "Why am I here Allie? Surely not to talk about saint Stefan."
"Actually it is." He groans and falls onto my bed gracefully. He grabs my teddy bear that Elena 'gave' me when we were babies. I cuddled with it every night then and I cuddle with it every night now when Damon isn't here.
"Did you know your Uncle has been kickin' it with The Founder's Council?"
"Seriously?"
"Yep."
"Great. 'Lena told me Stefan tried biting her today. How long is it going to take for him to be normal again? I don't trust him around Elena."
"Are you sure you're not the older twin? You sure act like it."
"Damon." I cough. He looks at me, worried. I shrug him off and he answers.
"A few days, give or take."
"It's been a few days Damon. I being serious."
"Give then, I don't know. What's the big deal?"
"He's not himself obviously."
"Well maybe the problem is he hasn't been himself for too long." He wanders over to my dresser and picks up one of my black bras. I snatch it back and put it away. He goes to my desk and picks up a loose picture, I'm not sure which one it is but I just don't care anymore and let him take it.
"Don't make me sorry for asking you over here."
"It is what it is Allie. The Stefan that you and Elena know was 'good behavior Stefan' and 'under control Stefan' and 'fight his nature to an annoyingly excessive level Stefan' but if you think there isn't another part to this then you haven't been paying attention." I sigh and nod.
"Alright, I get it."
"Good." I sit down on my window bench and put my face into my hands, taking deep breaths. He sits next to me and rubs his hand over my back. "You're okay, I promise. So is Elena. I wouldn't let anything happen to either of you." I sit up straight and lean against him.
"Thank you, Damon, really. What picture did you take?" I ask, sniffling.
"You're not going to find out right now." He kisses the side of my head and leaves.
Elena and I end up telling Jeremy sooner than expected.
"I can't believe mom and dad never told you two that you're adopted. Were you worried about what I would think?"
"A little, yes." We say at the same time. We tell him it was because of thinking we were related to him out whole lives but it wasn't the case. We talk about it history paper and how Alaric liked it a lot.
"What drew you to that subject?" I ask.
"I don't know, boredem, or maybe I'm just as nuts as the long line of Gilbert crazies."
"Gilbert's aren't crazy," Elena says.
"Easy for you to say, you're not one."
"Ouch!" She says feigning her hurt before punching his shoulder.
Later, I'm at The Founder's kick off party and I'm leaning against the bar drowning my sorrows in a glass of water, since I can't get served. Someone wraps their arm around my waist.
"Excuse me," I say, turning toward them. It wasn't Damon. It was the guy that Elena accidently bumped into and he snapped several times at her. "Who do you think you are?" I take his hand off of my waist and shiver. My voice is terrible sounding so it must not be very threatening.
"Come on, lady."
"She's with me," I hear Damon growl behind me, his hand snaking its way around my waist, holding me to him. The guy isn't phased.
"That's right," I say, emphazising Damon's point. I turn, throw my arms around his neck and plant a kiss on his lips. Damon's hand flattens against my back and he holds me to him. I hear the other guy scoff and walk away. What a creep. I pull back and look at Damon, our faces still close together. He smiles that polite, wide smile he has when he is genuinely happy.
"That was unexpected."
"I wanted to get rid of him." His face falls a little. "Besides, I want you, not him." His smile is back. I pull back a little more because I know that this is not the time or place to be like this. "Were you already coming over here, or did you come over here to help me get rid of that guy?"
"Was already coming over here. You looked lonely."
"I can't get served, I have no one to dance with, Elena is too busy trying to keep your brother in check. Did I miss anything?" He shakes his head. "Have you been noticing what your brother has been doing?"
"No, I've been too preoccupied with yours." I look over his shoulder and find Jeremy looking lonely. "Jeremy's been asking questions about Vicky Donovan's death."
"He knows it's been ruled as an overdose."
"Really? 'Oh, but, Sheriff, someone buried her. Who would do that?' I know, I know, me!" Damon whispers and points to himself. "I could compel him, but he's wearing Vervain."
"Damon, no. Not again," I sneeze a couple times.
"Okay, don't say I didn't warn you." He bends and steals a kiss from me then holds his hand out to me. "Dance with me."
I put my hand in his and say, "my pleasure." I smile and we go to the dance floor which has a more upbeat song playing than before.
After dancing for a while, Damon decides to open up about some things. "So you want to know the bad news or the really bad news?"
"What?"
"Let me rephrase. Do you want want to hear how the council is back on vampire move or how I killed Uncle John?"
"You what?" I hissed at him. I was appalled.
"Great party by the way, huh?" He says twirling me back in and steping out of the way so I ended up in Stefan's arms.
"Did you hear all of that?" I ask him. He nods and leaves me as well. What is up with everyone ditching me? Well I guess it's not really a bad thing. We are supposed to go into the main room for the speech. I search the crowd for someone I know to stand with and find Uncle John, alive. I walk to Damon. "Seriously? Were you trying to make me mad at you?"
"What?"
"John is over there, very much alive." He spins and his eyes go wide with confusion at how he is alive.
"I actually killed him, Allie. Seriously. I snapped his neck, and pushed him off the balcony for good measure."
"How is he alive, Damon?"
"That's what I would like to know." We walk to Alaric while John goes up to the stage to give his speech. "Ric, look at John's right hand."
"It looks like mine."
"And I just killed him." Ric's eyes widen. "Allie, go home with Elena, tell her you're tired or something. I'll be over later."
"But what about you?"
"You know John is going to try to kill me if he knows about us."
"There isn't even an us yet, Damon."
"Well I would hope there would be. But go home." He waits for John to look away from us before kissing me lightly on the lips. I'm not sure why he's so touchy tonight but he is. I leave with Elena a few minutes later and when we get home, Jeremy is upset, I just know it.
"Jeremy, what's wrong?" I ask, my voice still not back to normal, walking into his bedroom.
"Nothing, please leave."
"Jeremy, tell me now."
"Do you know why Elena would have this written here?" He places the open journal on his desk and points at the lines he wants me to read.
'...bodies drained of blood...'
'...take away Jeremy's pain...'
'...Vicky was a monster...'
I sigh and walk out to my own bedroom. I can hear Jeremy's door slam shut but I grab the letters I wrote to him after he was compelled and everything about Vicky and vampires. I open the door to his room.
"Jer?"
"Leave, Alexandra. Now."
"Jer, read these and please don't be upset with me. I'm your sister and you've gotta know I was trying to protect you." Tears are starting to form in my eyes. "Jer please read these and then tell me if your mad at me." He takes them from my hand and nods. "Thank you." I go through the bathroom back to my own room, so Elena and Jenna won't see my few tears. I wipe away the fallen tears when Damon's in my room suddenly. He sees how upset I am and walks to me, lifting my face, holding it in his hands.
"What's wrong?"
"I had to tell Jeremy. But he hates me."
"He doesn't hate you. He's just upset about not being in the loop about it. He just wants to know what his sisters know."
"Elena doesn't even know that I'm telling him."
"How are you telling him?"
"Through letter. I took your advice and wrote all my feelings down and what exactly happened and put it into letter form." He wiped under my eyes before I could even get there. "Why don't you go home and change?"
"Is that your way of asking me to stay the night?" He smirks. I blush and shrug. He grins and leaves. I change in the bathroom. Once I'm done, I brush my teeth and wipe off all the make up on my face. I get under the blankets and lay on my side facing my window, waiting. I wait for at least fifteen minutes and I'm almost asleep when Damon comes back.
"What's wrong?"
"That John is a real piece of work."
"What happened now?" I ask, as Damon crawls under the covers with me.
"He knows about me and Stefan, he knows about Ric, he knows too much. And get this, he's the one who sent Isobel to me."
"Seriously? She didn't just find you?"
"I guess she wouldn't of gone to a different vampire. Were they just wanting me to involuntarily hurt you by turning her?"
"I wouldn't doubt it. John is cruel like that." I burrow deeper into my pillow and close my eyes.
"You need to go to sleep, you're sick."
"No I'm not," I say, then sneeze. "Okay, so maybe I am. What are you going to do about it? Baby me tomorrow?"
"Well tomorrow is Sunday. I'm sure I could get away with it."
"Not going to happen Damon."
"Oh come on. You want it to, I know it."
"Uh huh, sure. Alright. Try and see how Jenna likes it." I scoot closer to Damon and curl into his side. He puts an arm around me and I fall asleep, not sure about him.
The next day, Damon get's away with taking care of me. Jenna is all for it because she's seen me sick the past few days and I'm upset because I was just planning on staying in bed, reading For Whom the Bell Tolls. But no, Damon being here, made me come downstairs and lay on the couch with him. Well he was sitting with a pillow on his lap while I slept and he watched TV.
I was comfy and it was nice, spending the day with Damon, but Elena was confused and so was I. Jeremy couldn't talk to me all day because Damon was there. It was an odd day.
"Alright, I'm going to leave now. I'll talk you soon." I smile at Damon.
"Good bye Damon. I'm going up to my room," I shout going up the stairs. I make eye contact again with Damon before he walks out of the door.