I walked out of my bathroom fully dressed and my hair still slightly damp from the shower I took. As soon as I walked out I got pinned to the wall and I felt a pair of lips on top of my own.
"And here I wanted to wake up with you beside me, but instead I hear the shower running." Damon spoke after he broke off the kiss and started to kiss down my jaw and stopped at my collarbone.
"Well when I woke up you looked so peaceful that I didn't want to disturb you. So I decided to take a shower." I answered in an innocent tone.
"You could have at least invited me into the shower." Damon complained and started to nibble on my collarbone with his blunt teeth.
"Mmm, you hit second base not a homerun remember?" I reminded him lightly scraping his scalp with my fingernails.
"If you're suggesting you won't shower with me until we do then we easily could." Damon tried to seduce as he kissed and stopped when he got to my pulse.
"I told you last night. I'm not ready for that." I informed him sighing. Damon's cell phone suddenly went off and he groaned, annoyed of the interruption.
"You should probably answer that. It might be important." I advised kissing him again and walked towards my shoes.
"Hello? What do you want Caroline?" I heard Damon asked harshly, "What do you mean Tyler's a Werewolf now?! Where are you? Well stay put until I get there!" Damon hung up the phone and he looked agitated.
"Did you know about this?" I heard him ask and felt eyes on my back.
"That's what I was trying to tell you last night, but Katherine kinda made it impossible to tell at that moment." I explained putting on my last shoe.
"Ugh, it's always Katherine." Damon groaned irritated, "I'm going to take a shower then I have to head over to Caroline's. I need to figure out this mess." Damon grumbled as he headed for the bathroom.
"I'll lay out some of my brother's old clothes for you to wear. They should fit." I called out to him as he shut the door. I walked into the bedroom down the hallway and opened the dresser in there. I grabbed a black button up shirt and dark blue jeans. I headed back to the master bedroom, but I froze seeing the door to the attic above me. The ring that Derek described to me appeared in my head.
I placed the extra clothes on the bed and heard the water running. Knowing that Damon couldn't hear me with the rushing water, I walked back out to the hallway and opened the door to the attic. The ladder came down as the door was opened, and I climbed into the attic and sure enough sitting in the corner by itself was the chest.
The water was still running so I quickly got up and walked towards the chest. I quickly broke the lock on the chest and opened it and saw many antique items that looked to be from the 1800's. I dug around the chest and found a small leather ring case. I opened it and saw the ring that Derek described inside it and a small photo fell from the case. I placed the ring on my right ring finger and picked up the picture.
My eyes widen seeing a woman, but what caught my eye is the man who the woman was with in the photo wearing the ring. It was Damon as a human! He was wearing that centuries clothing with curly hair, and he was smiling, not smirking. He was holding the woman's waist affectionately and had a happy expression on his face. I turned the photo around and faded handwriting was on the back but still legible. It read:
Elizabeth Hale and Damon Salvatore
1864
I stuck the photo back inside the case, tossed the case back inside the chest and closed it. I quickly got down from the attic and closed the attic door. I heard the water shut off and moments later Damon walked out of the bathroom with a towel around his waist. He smirked seeing me standing at the doorway, "Like what you see?" He asked huskily, starting to walk over to me but stopped seeing my serious look.
"What's wrong?" He asked now concerned.
I saw his eyes look at the ring and he looked shocked to see it, "Where did you get that ring?" He grabbed my hand and examined the ring.
"I just got it in the mail from my brother, he told me a couple nights ago he sent a family heirloom through the mail." I lied, remembering Derek's warning about not telling anyone.
"It's been over a hundred years since I last saw that ring. Elizabeth Hale wore that back in 1864 and never once had I seen her take it off." Looks like I'm not the only Hale who feared what witchcraft could do.
"The Elizabeth that Katherine mentioned last night?" I asked pretending to be clueless.
"The one and only, Elizabeth was my childhood friend. You remind me a lot of her." Damon said softly cupping my cheek with his hand.
"How?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Your personality and your eyes, the same emerald green color." Icy blue eyes met emerald green and we both started to lean in, then I remembered…he's still in a towel.
I pulled away and confusion was written on his face with a hint of hurt in his eyes, "Sorry but um… you're only wearing a towel." A blush rose to my face and I heard Damon chuckle now knowing why I pulled away.
"You know you like it." Damon whispered huskily in my ear. I silently cursed myself feeling my heart beat rise, Damon's smirk grew bigger signaling he heard my heart beat.
"Just get dressed." I avoided looking at him with my face flushed and stormed off downstairs.
"You're cute when you're blushing!" I heard Damon call out before I heard my bedroom door close.
"Stupid, arrogant Vampire." I muttered under my breath as I sat on the bar stool in my kitchen.
"You forgot incredibly hot and sexy Vampire!" I heard Damon's voice come from upstairs, of course he heard me. I shook my head and laid my head against the counter in defeat.
After this morning's little incident, Damon left to talk with Caroline and left me with nothing to do. So I decided the read a book that Allison recommended called, "Hush, Hush". I was currently lying on my leather couch with the book resting against my stomach as I read it.
"We got a problem." I jumped at the voice and saw Damon in my living room.
"You're going to give me a heart attack one of these days. What happened?" I asked marking my place and closing the book.
"Elena's missing." I rose up from the couch in alert.
"What? Who would have taken her?" Anger and worry filled up my emotions as I let the thought sink into my head.
"I don't know and we don't have any idea where she is!" Damon growled out and started to pace.
"Stefan and Jeremy are still at school, right?" I asked, an idea popping into my head.
"Yeah, what does that have to do with anything?" Damon stopped his pacing and turn towards me.
"I need to talk with them. I have an idea of how to find Elena." I walked up and grabbed my black leather jacket from the hallway closet.
"I'll drive." Damon stated simply and we both headed out the door.
I walked through the doors of Mystic High with Damon beside me. He was showing me the way to Alaric's classroom since that was the obvious place where they'd be. Once we got to the door I could hear Jeremy and Stefan talking.
"Great, I'll come with you." I heard Jeremy speak.
"No, it's better if I go alone." Stefan argued.
"You can't go alone." Jeremy fired back. Damon took that as his cue and opened the door and met his brother in the eyes.
"He's not going alone, we're coming too." Damon informed.
"I have an idea but I'm going to need both your approvals." I announced pointing at Jeremy and Stefan.
"Depends on the idea." Jeremy noted.
"If you can get me something of Elena's that has her scent on it. I can track her exact location." I explained intently.
"Werewolves can do that?" Jeremy asked interested.
"Our sense of smell is our greatest sense. After all, Werewolves in the past have used their sense of smell to track down and kill humans." I explained crossing my arms.
"What do you need?" Stefan asked, agreeing to the plan.
"Anything with her scent on it. Clothing would work but to be completely honest with you, blood is the strongest scent of them all." I answered truthfully.
"Are you saying her blood could be a one hundred percent guarantee of tracking her down?" Bonnie piped in.
"It's the best way." I replied nodding my head.
"I think I may have something. I forgot to throw this away after the Masquerade party." Bonnie pulled out a handkerchief and it had Elena's blood on it, "It's her blood from last night, could this work?" Bonnie asked holding it out to me. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and Elena's scent hit me at full force.
"Got it." I stated opening my eyes and a flash of crimson red appeared before they returned back to their emerald green color.
I leaned back against the passenger seat of Damon's car as he drove and Stefan was in the back.
"Why would they take her?" Stefan asked suddenly.
"I don't know, Katherine mentioned about running away from someone in her past. My guess is they tracked her down." Damon noted, keeping his eyes on the road.
"Well they got the wrong girl." I muttered as I looked out of the passenger's window.
"Are we still going the right way?" Damon asked glancing at me then back at the road.
"You're enjoying seeing me stick my head out of the window like a dog, aren't you?" I stated annoyed as I rolled down the window and unbuckled my seatbelt.
"Well when you put that way…" I slapped his arm playfully and he just shook his head with a smirk on his face.
I used both hands to grab onto the hood of the car then pulled myself out of the window and thousands of scents immediately hit my nose. I heard Damon and Stefan having a brother squalor moment. I tuned them out by closing my eyes from the harsh wind and focused on the scents.
I found Elena's scent and it was just farther up the road. I got back inside the car and rolled up the window, "Keep going down the road, we're almost there." I informed, buckling my seatbelt.
"Just out of curiosity, what else can Werewolves smell?" Stefan asked curiously.
"We can smell death." My answer made Damon look at me for a moment then returned his attention to the road.
"When someone is dying we can smell their body decaying from the inside out, and trust me, it is not a pleasurable smell. That's why I try to stay clear of hospitals the smell of death is permanently etched into the building." I finished my statement.
"Is that how you can detect Vampires? We smell like death?" Damon chimed in.
"Vampires are more complicated, I didn't know what they smelled like until I confirmed that you two are Vampires. You guys tend to have a mixed scent that's very unique. The scent of death is there but it's mixed with a human scent, both of them are equally strong scents and it's hard to tell them apart. That's how I can tell the difference between Katherine and Elena, Katherine reeks of Vampire while Elena has a human stench." I tried to explain.
"So we have a personal Vampire detector." Damon teased playfully causing me to roll my eyes. Damon suddenly reached to the back seat and pulled out a blood bad and started to sip at it.
"Sorry did you want some?" Damon asked looking at his brother through the review mirror.
"I would want some." Stefan replied.
"Awe, you want to drink some blood so you can save your girl. Don't worry that's why I'm here." Damon responded smirking.
"No, I mean it. I've been taking small amounts everyday to adjust." Stefan argued.
"You've been taking blood?" Damon asked, handing the blood bag to his brother.
"Elena gives me a little bit every day." Stefan admitted and sipped at the blood before handing it back.
"That's romantic." Damon duly noted. I continued to stare out the window until I smelled Elena's scent coming into the car.
"We're close, pull into the woods so no one will see the car." I ordered, sitting up straight in my seat. Damon pulled the car over and stopped the car and we all stepped out of the car.
"The house is just a couple of miles ahead. Elena's scent is getting stronger in that direction." I noted walking towards the direction and Stephan followed with Alaric's Vampire hunting bag with him.
"Now wait a minute I got a lot more experience then you two do when it comes to this." Damon spoke up, making us stop.
"So what's your point?" Stefan asked shrugging his shoulders.
"I've done this before, Damon." I argued folding my arms against my chest.
"Not with someone who has been chasing Katherine since 1864 and before then." Damon noted strictly looking directly at me.
"And?" Stefan asked.
"And it means he's over 500 years old and strong, are you sure you want to do this?" Damon asked mainly his brother.
"Yes I'm certain to do it." I continued to stand there awkwardly while the two brothers bickered about the plan.
"Are you, because when you step into that house you might not come back out." Damon warned his brother with coy smirk.
"Then I won't come out." Stefan stated simply.
"How noble of you, Stefan." Damon remarked with a smirk on his face.
"I can't think of any other better reason to die. If you want to stay here I understand." With that Stefan turned around and walked towards the house with the duffle bag over his shoulder. I went to go follow Stefan but I felt Damon's hand catch my wrist and pull me back into his chest.
"Are you sure you want to go?" Damon asked looking at me with his icy blue eyes.
"This isn't the first time I had to save one of my friends from being kidnapped. I know what I'm doing, don't worry." I told sincerely, giving him a soft look.
"Just don't do anything reckless. I can't stand to see you get hurt." I gave him a soft smile and kissed him gently. I pulled my wrist out of his hand and walked backwards with a grin on my face.
"I don't think I'll get hurt with my knight in shining armor around." He let out a smirk and caught up with me.
"You got that right, Miss Hale." Damon cockily stated calling me by my last name.
"I wouldn't have doubted you, Mr. Salvatore." I replied playing along with him. I hooked my arm underneath his and leaned against his side as we both went to catch up with Stefan.
I waited on the upper floor of the abandon house with Stefan on the same floor as me and Damon on the bottom. Stefan blurred down and appeared back on the second floor with Elena.
"Up here." Stefan called and gave a quiet gesture to Elena to be quiet. I caught a glimpse of the Vampire in the black suit on the stair before he was called back, "Down here." I heard Damon announce.
"To who it may concern, this is a bad idea. If you think you can win, then you're sadly mistaken. I'll give you to the count of three before heads roll." I heard the Vampire ripping something wooden apart, he was making a makeshift stake. Stefan looked at me and nodded, I tossed the Vervain grenade soundlessly and he caught it and gave it to Elena. Stefan handed her the grenade and nudged his head towards the Vampire and she nodded in understanding.
"Do we understand each other?" I heard the Vampire ask and Elena rushed down the stairs.
"I'll come with you just leave my friends alone. They were worried about me." I heard Elena say innocently and she held the grenade behind her back. The Vampire rushed at Elena but stopped and she let out a gasp.
"What game are you playing with me?" The Vampire asked, Elena threw the Vervain grenade and it hit the Vampire and I heard his skin burn from it. He roared out in pain but it stopped and I saw him go for Elena who was sitting in the corner.
Just as he got closer I let out a roar which caused the Vampire to stop in his tracks. I shifted and jumped against the wall by Elena then pounced on the Vampire, and tackled him back to the main floor. I sunk my claws into the flesh of his shoulders as I pinned him to the ground. A vicious growl erupted from my throat and the Vampire seemed surprised and curious of me.
"Interesting…a Werewolf." The Vampire kicked me off of him and I heard some of my ribs break from the force. He sent me skidding against the wooden floorboards. I dug my claws in them leaving ten claw marks to stop myself from skidding.
The Vampire got up and went after me he suddenly started to get pelted by small wooden stakes from Stefan. That didn't even slow him down. I let out a warning growl as the Vampire got closer. Damon suddenly appeared from the doorway beside me and rammed a wooden jacket hanger into the Vampires heart and pinned him against the door. His skin went gray and his body became lifeless.
Another Vampire, but a woman, appeared then quickly blurred out of the house. Damon went to go after her but he was stopped, "No, let her go." Elena stated from atop the staircase and walked down.
"Hey, are you alright?" Stefan asked embracing his girlfriend in a hug.
"I'm fine." Elena answered embracing Stephan back.
"Allye, are you hurt?" Damon asked as he quickly walked over to me and rested his hands on my shoulders.
"Couple of broken ribs but they'll heal." Damon carefully helped me back up my feet. Once I stood up straight I heard several cracks and the pain suddenly vanished.
"What was that?" Elena asked slightly pale from hearing the cracking.
"My ribs aligning back in their right places and healing. Don't worry I'm fine." I started to dust myself off then I felt Elena run into me and hugged me and I returned the hug.
"I'm glad you're okay." I muttered closing my eyes as I tighten my hold on our sisterly hug. Damon and Stefan watched silently as their girlfriends hugged each other out of relief.
I dropped my toothbrush into the toothbrush holder and used the hand towel beside me to wipe away the water around my mouth. I look in the in mirror and sighed, I was wearing plaid blue and yellow shorts and a royal blue spaghetti tank top. I gently touched my rib cage it was still a bit tender, that Vampire called Elijah kicked me pretty hard. I turned the light off in the master bath and walked into my bedroom and saw Damon sitting on the bench attached to the window.
"Cute pj's." He sparked conversation, sending me a light smile.
"I'm tired Damon, I just want to go to sleep right now." I answered softly. He stood up and slowly walked up to me.
"This fell off when you fought Elijah." He held up my ring with his index finger and thumb, I stared at it wide eyed.
"I didn't even notice it was gone. Thank you." I went to grab it but he pulled it back and closed his hand around the ring.
"I just have to say something." Damon assured putting his hands up in defense.
"Why do you have to say it with my ring?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
"Because what I'm about to say is probably the most selfish thing I've ever said in my life." I look at him in confusion, "I just have to say it and you need to hear it."
"Okay, hear what?" I asked slowly, not too sure where he was going with this.
"I know I've only known you for a few weeks, but I feel like I've know you better than anyone else and I think I...I love you." My eyes widen and I could feel my heart stop for a second, "I love you Allye and it's because I love you that I can't be selfish. You deserve someone so much better than me, someone who can actually give you the life you deserve." His eyes started to water and a single tear slowly trickled down his cheek.
"Don't go there, please. You're not the only one who feels like that." I pleaded and gently wiped the single tear away.
"What do you mean?" He spoke softly as his hand caressed mine tenderly.
"Being a Werewolf, I have animal instincts like a wolf. And just like a wolf there comes a time when a Werewolf meets somebody and they feel drawn towards them and vise versa. What I'm trying to say is that I think my inner wolf is telling me that you're my mate." I explained and I felt like weight was lifted off my shoulders.
"Mate, as in partner's for life?" Damon asked looking at me curiously and gently gripped my hand and pulled it away from his face.
"Yes, but it also depends on if I accept that I choose you as my mate or I let you go. I'm not going to make that decision, that's up to you." A silence fell between us as Damon just searched through my emerald green eyes with his icy blue eyes. I felt him intertwine our fingers and pulled my closer and cupped my cheek with his other hand.
"I accept it." I felt the emotions coming off of Damon at full force, love, care, and lust radiated off of him.
I let a smile make its way to my face, "Then I choose you, Damon." As soon as those words left my mouth the feeling of my inner wolf trying to break free stopped. All I could think about was Damon, wanting to be with him every second of the day, I felt the need to protect him, and I felt the love pass through every fiber of my body. So this is what meant for a Werewolf to have a mate…I could get use to this feeling.
"I love you." Damon said softly as he gave my hand a loving squeeze. He kissed me softly on the lips and rested his forehead against mine.
"I love you too." I replied and Damon let out a soft smile, not a smirk but a smile.
I felt his lips crush down to mine and he wrapped his arms around my waist and mine around his neck, deepening the passionate kiss. I felt my back slam up against the wall, Damon's hands went down to my thighs and I wrapped my legs around his waist. He pressed his body more into mine and I felt his tongue swipe against my lower lip asking for entrance. As soon as I did I let out a moan feeling his tongue enter my mouth, I knotted my fingers in his raven locks. I soon found myself on the bed with Damon hovering over me. He quickly took his shirt off then bent down again and continued our kiss. When I felt his hands at the hem of my shirt, I knew where this was probably going to lead tonight.
Ooooh, it's getting steamy ;p. Haha okay, so Allye gets to meet her first Original, Elijah. Now they have to figure out what he wanted from her. Stay tune for chapter 8.