As the days rolled by I noticed Elena starting to ask questions, I hated when she came to me for advice for two reasons; for one Damon is not Stefan and two Stefan begged me to keep their secret with the promise he would eventually tell her.
I was so excited that it was Friday, being particularly drained from the training I'd been doing with Bonnie and Sheila as I pulled in the driveway I saw Damon sitting on the porch. "I think you need a hobby," I said smiling.
He stood up off the swing and met me at the steps, "I have plenty of things to do." He replied.
"Day drinking and waiting for me to get home are not hobbies."
"Depends on who you ask."
I gave him a kiss and we walked inside and back to the kitchen, Damon sat at the island while grabbed and cut an apple. "So not that I'm mad or surprised but what are you doing here?" I asked.
"I came to ask if you wanted to spend the night at the boarding house, I'll make you dinner."
"You don't cook." I looked at him with an eyebrow raised.
"I'll buy you dinner," he laughed.
"That sounds much safer." I finished my apple and heard Elena walk in the door, "ALEXIS ARE YOU HERE?" I heard her yell up the stairs.
"In here." I hollered back.
"Fucking Stefan and his cryptic non answered bull-" she stopped when she saw Damon sitting in the kitchen.
"Damon's here," I said with a smile.
"Oh don't stop on my account." He said leaning on the counter faking interest.
I pushed his face, "I'll be back in a minute." I said and walked upstairs with Elena. She proceeded to tell me about this encounter they'd had with a guy at the grill today. "He seemed so sure that Stefan was this guy from the '50s, I'm going to do some digging. Logan is going to set me up with the archives before his date with Jenna"
"Eww, Jenna is going on a date with him? Doesn't she hate him?"
"I don't know." she sighed. "What are you doing tonight?"
"Damon bribed me with food," I said.
"Doesn't take much does it?" We laughed and I walked out towards my room where I was greeted by Damon.
"Are you going through my stuff again?"
"Just your underwear." He winked "I pulled out a couple of pairs I'd love to rip off of you." He walked up to me and lifted me up. I wrapped my legs around his waist. I leaned in to kiss him when our lips met and my hands went to his hair, his fingers dug into my legs, he broke away, "We've got to stop this, I've got plans for later." He gently set me back down and kissed me on the cheek.
"You started it," I said, crossing my arms letting out a huff. I got up to go pack a bag and sure enough, when I opened my underwear drawer there were three pairs unfolded laying right on top. "If I'm only staying the night why did you pull out so many pairs of underwear?"
He shrugged "That's for me to know and you to dot dot dot." I rolled my eyes and threw some clothes in a bag.
"Let's go, dork." I handed him my bag and we walked downstairs.
We stopped by the grill to pick up food and then headed to the boarding house. When we walked in Stefan was sitting on one of the couches "You." I said. He looked up from his book, "Me what?" He asked.
"You are about to have a lot of questions to answer. Elena is pissed, she's on her way to look through some old news archives." I said Stefan put his head in his hands. "Look, I don't really care what you do but I'm not going to get shit on because I didn't tell her myself."
"What would you like me to do Alexis?" He asked looking at me.
"Oh I don't know, maybe just tell her the truth?"
I took my food and walked into their kitchen. Damon grabbed the bag from me and put it on the counter and then put his hands on my shoulders. "I have a surprise for you," he led me to one of the larger cabinets "open it".
I pulled the handle and when it opened I literally saw a cabinet full of all my favorite junk food. "Aww, snacks. You do care." I smiled as I pulled out the food we brought home by the time we were done Stefan had disappeared from the living room.
"What do you want to do?" Damon asked. I knew the answer he was looking for but I was going to string him along a little we had all night and if I'm being honest I packed for the whole weekend. "I don't know about you but I'm going out back getting the munchies and checking out that cabinet again." I smiled at him before digging through my bag. Damon poured a drink before following me outside, I rolled a joint on the garden bench and then laid in the grass looking up at the stars. Me and Damon talking back and forth until I heard a very familiar voice out front.
"What are you, Stefan?" We snuck up to the back gate to hear more of what was happening in the driveway.
"I think you know," Stefan replied.
"SAY IT!"
"Elena-"
"Say it, Stefan."
"I'm a vampire."
I tried to peek over the back gate so I could gauge her reaction, I slipped knocking the gate open and tumbling out into the lawn.
"That was graceful," Damon said as he stuck out his hand.
"Alexis?" I heard Elena as she walked over "Did you know about all of this?" I looked at my feet. I did not want to be around when she found out, I finally managed to get the word out "Yes".
"How long?"
Still not looking at Elena, "Since mine and Damon's first date." I built up the courage and looked up. Elena stared at me in shock, "You weren't in any danger Stefan doesn't eat people." Elena's face twisted up in anger but I wasn't expecting it when she punched me in the face. I fell backward clutching my nose. I could feel the blood pooling up in my hands, Elena walked off. I tried to follow her but fell right back down.
Damon helped me up and into the house, once we got upstairs he set me on the bathroom counter.
"You're going to have to move your hands," he said "they aren't doing much good anyway"
I knew he was right. I'm sure there was a small trail all the way through the house "I'm pretty sure it's broken" I said. Finally moving my hands I turned to look in the mirror, sure enough, my eyes were already blackened. "Can't say I didn't deserve it," I turned back around Damon handed me a wet towel and a cup. When I saw it had blood in it I looked at him funny.
"I didn't think you would want to walk around with a broken nose, I also figured it would be easier to drink out of that."
I tilted the cup back I made a face when I was done, "It's kinda gross cold," Damon stepped in front of me "This is going to hurt but just for a second" he said, "the blood will heal the break but not set it." I closed my eyes and braced myself I felt his hand and heard the pop, "AH FUCK!" I screamed.
"Leave it to Elena to make me pour blood when two of the four people in our little group eats it survive," I said, wiping the blood off my face. "This is useless, I need a shower." I threw the towel into the sink. When I walked past Damon I noticed him tense, "I know you're the king of self-control and all but I can get myself cleaned up." I stopped looking through my bag and looked at him, still standing by the bathroom I could tell he was thinking over what I said. We didn't talk about his hunting habits other than the agreement he'd practice snatch, eat, erase, no sense in leaving bodies if he wanted to stay in town.
He walked over and kissed me on the forehead, "I'll be back before you're out of the shower."
When I got out of the shower Damon wasn't in the bedroom so I headed downstairs to raid the snack cabinet, when I walked into the kitchen Damon and Stefan were talking I looked to my left and there was Vikki sitting at the table.
"What is she doing here?" I asked, joining their little huddle.
"I found her," Damon said, "she's going through transition, someone turned her."
I looked at Vikki, she looked strung out more than anything, she was shaking and pale, she looked like she'd been crying. "What are you going to do with her?" Damon looked at the counter Stefan spoke up, "Honestly it's up to her she's got about twenty-ish hours to choose what she wants to do. She can either drink human blood and complete the transition or... she dies."
"She can't just die, she's my friend. Who did this to her?" I could feel tears welling up in my eyes.
"We don't know," Stefan said looking between me and Vikki. I'm going to keep an eye on her tonight, Damon said he'd keep her company tomorrow. I have some explaining to do with Elena, how's your nose?"
"Sore, thanks" I started to walk toward Vikki, Damon grabbed my arm, I looked at him and pulled it back "I'll be fine." I mouthed. I sat down on the bench next to her and put my hand on her arm, "Vikki," I had no idea what to say, all the normal questions seemed stupid "do you want a hug?" She turned to me with tears still in her eyes, I wrapped my arms around her and for a second I thought she'd calmed down a little then I noticed how strong she was holding me. I pushed her back fuck she's strong already, she started freaking out, "I refuse to be anyone's first meal." Damon zipped over and pulled her back till she calmed down.
I looked down at my watch. It was already midnight, this exciting night had worn me out. Stefan and Vikki had walked out of the kitchen to find her somewhere to sleep. I turned to Damon, "So much for our night." I yawned.
"Oh, we can totally salvage it." He winked and threw his arm over my shoulders.
"Let's see, I've had my nose broken, completely blown my buzz, just so you know and one of my best friends just tried to make me dinner. I honestly just want sleep." I put my head down on the table, "Am I safe here tonight?"
"I swear nothing will hurt you in this house tonight." He stared at me waiting for my response. I lifted my head "Just tonight?"
"There is some weird shit going on I'm not making any long term guarantees."