Roman turned his attention to Markus who had made it back to his feet, anger written all over his face look on his face, he looked at Roman threateningly, seemingly ready for a fight. Roman bared his fangs at Markus, daring him to make a move. Markus's look of anger quickly faded, he was obviously having second thoughts.
"This ain't over Salvatore". Markus then turned and ran off, disappearing into the night. Roman turned back to Elena, his features now back to normal, held his hand out to help her up, she didn't hesitate to take it. After Roman helped her up,Elena looked into his eyes.
"Thank you". Roman was surprised, most people would run scared from him, but Elena, Elena was different, his head tilted slightly to the side as he looked at her.
"Your welcome". Elena gave a small smile at him as Roman spoke his first words directly to her.
"So you can speak". Roman gave her a smirk. At that moment they heard Stefan behind them.
"We're okay too, thanks". Roman turned at looked at Stefan and Bonnie with a look of guilt.
"Sorry". Roman had almost forgotten they were there, but they both looked fine.
"Who was that guy". Elena asked curiously, Roman replied.
"We'll explain later, but right now we need to get out of here before he comes back with more of them". Elena looked confused.
"Them?". Roman looked back at her.
"As I said...later". Roman then speed away into the night.
That night at the Salvatore Boarding House, Elena tossed and turned on the couch in the living room,having elected to sleep there,but her head would not seem to shut off,she kept thinking about what she was going to do to get back home,how she missed Damon and of course the earlier incident at the grill. Roman had disappeared and never came back to explain who Markus was like he said and Markus having said that it wasn't over bothered her, the guy seemed crazy and she was afraid her being the cause of him getting thrown like a football by Roman was going to make her a target of his revenge. Elena rolled on her stomach and tried again to go to sleep,giving a frustrated sigh into her pillow. Things in this world were already going crazy, and to think she hadn't even been here a day.
Roman was on the front patio of the house drinking a blood bag, he had just arrived home a few minutes before. Stefan walked out beside him
"Are you just now getting home". Roman could tell by Stefan's tone that he was annoyed, but he just kept feeding, not looking at Stefan.
"Yeah, didn't really wanna hear your speech, was kinda hoping you would be asleep by now". Roman looked at Stefan then, the anger prevalent on his face.
"What you did tonight was dangerous Roman". Roman sighed,now annoyed himself.
"You know, most people would say thank you after having their lives saved". Stefan just continued on, ignoring him.
"You could have exposed yourself in front of humans tonight. I mean hell I don't know how Elena is being so calm, we don't even know if she knows about the supernatural world. Bonnie interrupted them from the doorway.
"She does". Roman and Stefan turned to Bonnie as she walked out, stopping a Stefan's side.
"She said she knew that my Grams died from the spell opening the tomb, so she at least knows I'm a witch". Roman turned back to Stefan.
"See, plus she saw me drinking on a blood bag earlier, didn't even blink an eye, so I think we're safe". Stefan's anger rose now, his voice rising with it although not quite yelling .
"That is not the point. I'm saying you should know better than to assume things, you know the old saying right, assume means making an ass out of you and me". Roman scoffed at him.
"I'm pretty sure you're making an ass out of yourself just fine on your own Stefan". Stefan threateningly advanced him then, but Roman advanced too, just a little quicker, dropping the blood bag, his voice rising as they got right in each others faces.
"What?...what?, you wanna get popped in the mouth again?..because I'm pretty sure Markus ain't got nothin on me". Bonnie got in between the two of them before something bad happened, her voice stern as she spoke.
"Hey that is enough for you two". Bonnie then put her hands on Stefan's chest and gently pushed him back.
"I think it is time for us to go to bed". Stefan looked at Bonnie then, he could tell that her statement was not a request, he looked back at Roman for a moment before walking back into the house. Bonnie turned back to Roman.
"And you...go walk it off". Bonnie then turned and Walked back in the house as well. Roman scoffed and picked up his blood bag, taking a drink before shaking his head and sighing.
"Un freaking believable".
Elena awoke with the sun hitting her face, she sat up trying to adjust her eyes to the light,she looked at her surroundings for a second, a bit confused before she remembered where she was.
'Oh,so it wasn't a dream'.
Elena sighed as she got up, then she smelled something delightful coming from the kitchen. Elena walked into the kitchen to find Roman making breakfast, it looked to be eggs, bacon and sausage, He turned when he noticed her presence.
"Oh hey, sleep well?". Elena shook her head.
"No, not really". Roman's look turned sympathetic.
"Yeah figured". Roman turned to grab something beside him and held out a mug to Elena.
"Coffee". Elena took the mug from him.
"Thank you". Bonnie and Stefan entered the kitchen as Elena sat down at the table.
"Elena our bathroom is free if you want to use it". Bonnie sat beside her, Stefan walked past Roman and patted him on the back, Roman turned and patted him back as Stefan sat down. Elena looked confused for a moment. Bonnie answered her silent question.
"It's their silent apology to each other for last night". Bonnie's statement just confused Elena more.
"What happened last night?". Bonnie waved the question away.
"Don't worry about it". Elena's eyebrows rose, her confusion still prevalent, but her need to use the bathroom made her decide to just let it go, so she shook her head and got up to head to Stefan's room. Bonnie's attention turned to Stefan and Roman, watching as Roman took a piece of hot egg from the pan and threw it at Stefan hitting him in the arm, Stefan grabbed the singed spot.
"Owww, Hey". Roman's laughter filled the room as Stefan gave him an exasperated look. Bonnie rolled her eyes and smiled at them.
"Brotherly love".
Later that night Elena found herself left in the house alone with Roman. Stefan and Bonnie had left,they said it was to collect some research, but did not say what kind, only that it was important. Elena found Roman in the living room , intently focused on a book.
"Hey". Roman's head popped up from the book
"Hey, what's up". Elena's look of worry made Roman grow a look of concern.
"What's bothering you Elena?". Elena sat down across from him.
"Who was that Markus guy?, you said you would tell me, but you haven't and it's been bugging me ever since". A look of realization dawned on Roman's face, truth be told he had completely forgotten.
"Well umm..Markus is an alpha of a local werewolf pack, he has been giving us problems for a while now, mostly trying to start problems in front of humans knowing we won't do anything to expose the supernatural world, so it makes him feel powerful when we back off,but last night was the first time he's ever laid a hand on any of us. Guy's lucky I didn't kill him".
Elena nodded.
'So that's why he must have attacked Stefan, when Stefan stood up to him it hurt his ego'. Elena opened her mouth to ask another question, when both her and Roman jumped up as they heard a gunshot from outside. Roman turned to her, his face and voice growing very serious.
"Stay here". Roman then walked to the door to check what or who had fired the gun.