I only own my oc
I woke up and my room was dark I looked at the clock and it was eight thirty I slept all day, I turned on my light and looked around Damon's jacket had ended up on the floor. I cleaned up and changed my clothes, I peaked under the bathroom door and saw Elana's light on I went and knocked on the door. "Come in." I heard from the other side.
"Hey," I said I came in and sat on the bed she was in her window seat writing.
"I went to check on you earlier, you were passed out."
"Yeah, rough night." I said rubbing my hand on my neck.
"Isn't it always with Izzy? What is is with you and her?"
"I don't know... Funny I was asking myself the same thing while puking my guts out this morning."
"Why didn't you call me this morning?"
"Because... I just... I don't know, I needed a minute and it wouldn't have been a fair argument with as terrible as I felt."
"You mean I would have won for once." She laughed and I threw a pillow at her.
"We can't let that happen." I stretched out on her bed for a second before feeling my stomach growl. "Is Jenna here? I'm starving but I'm not up for explaining where I've been."
"She's been gone since Friday morning, she has a test tomorrow morning so she stayed on campus to study."
"You mean I'm off the hook."
"I covered for you Friday morning told her you went to school early to finish a project." She shrugged "If you promise to stay away from Izzy I might could be persuaded to forget about you taking off last night and sleeping off your high all day."
"Scouts honor." I signaled as I walked downstairs. I made myself some oatmeal and walked out on to the porch, I sat in the swing and rocked it. "You know it's dangerous outside at night." I heard a familiar voice behind me, I smiled into my oatmeal, "Yeah the shadow lurking boyfriend might attack." The swing stopped moving his hands on either side of me "Don't you break this swing, it's older then me and probably my favorite place in the world to sit." I said.
He walked around and sat on the swing keeping his feet on the porch he stretched his legs out I had to hold on to the armrest to keep from almost falling off. He let his feet go and we swung forward I yelped he laughed. "I'm going to dump this oatmeal on you stop." He laughed again letting the swing slow down he turned to me "What are you doing out here anyway?"
"I just woke up. I was hungry. What are you doing here?"
"Stefan, while he no longer wants to kill me, also doesn't want to talk to me."
"So what you just decided to guard the house." I laughed
"Went for a walk, I just happened to end up here." He shrugged.
"Yeah ok." I laughed and took another bite. He took the bowl away from me picked up a spoonful and dumped it back into the bowl. "Why are you eating goop?"
"I like goop now give it back." He held it just out of my reach so I got up and grabbed the bowl back. "If you're just going to be aggravating you can go home." I sat back down on the swing.
He sat back down next to me "I'll be good."
We sat on the swing for a couple hours my head in his lap before I finally started to feel tired again. I stretched my arms out above my head I opened my eyes and Damon was staring at me, "What?"
"Nothing just enjoying the veiw." He smirked.
I sat up "I'm going back to bed, Elena heard we had a new history teacher starting tomorrow so I should probably got to school." He followed me inside and up to my room, he spied my journal sitting on my desk where I'd left it the other day. "You know, you're just as sassy on paper as you are in real life." He said picking it up off the desk.
"Please leave that alone." I said laying on the bed with my legs hanging off the bed.
He walked over and stuck himself between my legs and leaned over me, "Ok, but that just means I'm going to aggravate you again." He whispered in my ear before kissing my neck. I pulled his face so he was looking at me, "Elana is right through that bathroom door, and we both know I can't be quiet."
He stuck his lip out to pout I grabbed it in my teeth he growled a little, I let him go "Tease." He said rolling off or me. I got myself all the way in to bed, I watched Damon lay down next me "I don't know how you're tired, didn't you sleep all day."
"Well according to an email I got from Izzy's roommate none of us slept, we went to a party I talked to a plant and then we got Chinese food and stayed up laughing at old 90s cartoons until about six I called you at seven thirty so I slept for an hour, so any sleep today is welcome." I rolled on to my stomach, Damon rubbed my back until I fell asleep.
The woods were dark I kept hearing whispering, I followed the noise I came to a clearing. It wasn't whispering it was chanting fire sprang up from the ground, the dark figure lifted its head I couldn't make out the face. I felt a sharp pain in my stomach and fell to my knees blood covered my hands.
"AHHH" I screamed as I sat up Damon fell off the bed with a thud. "What! What! Are you ok." I jumped out of bed and turned on the light looking in my closet mirror there was no blood no wound. "I'm- I'm fine." I said my heart was still pounding I knew he could hear it. I wasn't fine that dream felt so real my stomach was churning again. "Not fine." I said running to the bathroom slamming the door behind me. I laid on the cold bathroom floor for a second trying to calm down.
"Alexis?" Damon whispered under the door. "Let me in." I reached up and closed the lid on the toilet and smacked the doorknob unlocking it "just leave me here" I said with my face still on the cool tile.
"Quit being dramatic." He picked me up off the floor and put me back into bed I had my arm thrown over my head so he startled me when he tapped my arm with a cold glass. I took the water from him and gulped down the whole glass. "Thank you."
"It's not the drugs the blood would have cleared that all all out."
"It was a nightmare, I think—- I died."
"You seem alive to me, you are kinda warm." He had his hand on my head.
"Maybe you're just cold." I moved his hand I knew he was right I felt clammy and still a little sick. "I'm never going to be able to fall back asleep." I looked at the clock three thirty.
"Probably shouldn't have ate all that goop earlier." He laughed.
"I'm glad my pain is funny to you." I closed my eyes I felt Damon reach and take my hand I felt myself drift off to sleep I don't know if I dreamed but I know I didn't have a nightmare. I woke up to the alarm going off I rolled over and smacked the snooze button Damon groaned with his face in the pillow.
"You don't have to get up Jenna won't be home until later tonight." I said getting out of bed I ran into the bathroom just beating Elana to the shower. She huffed back into her room "I'll be quick I swear."
"Jeremy doesn't deserve his own bathroom." She joked.
After my shower I walked back in my room Elana slamming the door behind me as she took over the bathroom. I walked to my closet Damon was sitting up on my bed. "What do you remember from before the accident." He asked.
I whipped around, "Excuse me?"
"I'm pretty sure you heard me."
"I heard you why do you want to know?"
"I asked first." He shrugged.
"If it's not in one of those journals, nothing even then it's just a blur. Now your turn."
"I may have tried to get in your head last night." He said seeing the scowl on my face he continued, "I was trying to help you sleep I tried to dig for a childhood memory but there wasn't any."
"Stay outta my head ok." I snatched a shirt off the hanger threw it on and went downstairs Jeremy was rushing past me and out the door. I walked into the kitchen and Elana saw Elana sitting at the table eating "morning." She said
"Morning, Where's Jeremy going so fast?"
"I don't know, he was already awake and dressed when I checked on him this morning."
"Weird." I finished my breakfast and went upstairs to grab my stuff Damon was gone the window wide open "just use to door." I muttered to myself.
When I got to school I met up with Bonnie and Elana talking by Elana's locker. "I woke up in the cemetery both times." Bonnie's said.
"I thought my nightmares were bad." I said.
"Have you asked your grams?" Elena asked.
"She'd just tell me to embrace it."
"Maybe you should." I shrugged.
"Says the one who's dead ancestor isn't invading her dreams."
The bell rang signaling we were late for class, we all rushed in on behind the other by the time I made it to my seat and unfamiliar, tall, sandy haired man walked in and closed the door. He walked up to the board and started writing and talking "Alaric Saltzman. It's a mouthful, I know. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Saltzman is of German origins. My family emigrated here in 1755 to Texas. I, however, was born and raised in Boston. Now the name Alaric belongs to a very dead great-grandfather I will never be able to thank enough. You'll probably want to pronounce "Ala-ric" but it's "Alaric," okay? So, you can call me Rick. I'm your new history teacher."
When class was over Rick stopped me "Alexis Gilbert?"
"Yeah?" I stopped at his desk.
"Mr Tanner didn't care for you or your brother very much did he?" I didn't say anything "Your work is brilliant your attendance meh."
"Yeah, I get bored."
"Well how about showing up to class and I'll toss the whole file he's got on you."
"Just this class," I laughed "deal."
When school ended I walked out into the parking lot when I got to my truck I noticed Damon talking to Bonnie what's he doing I walked towards them "Next time she pops up you tell her I said a deal's a deal." I heard Damon say. Bonnie looked up "Hey Alexis"
"Hey," I stared at Damon not sure what I'd walked up on I needed an excuse "Bonnie my truck won't start can you give me a ride home?"
"Yeah of course I was giving Elana a lift anyway."
"Kay I just need to talk to Damon for a second." I grabbed his arm diggin my fingers in a little more then needed. "What are you doing here."
"Minding my own business, what's wrong with your truck?"
"Leave Bonnie alone."
"You didn't answer my question." He snatched my keys out of my hand and walked towards my truck. Nervous because I knew my truck was fine I held my hand out and watched the keys snap back to my hand. "So much for minding your own business." I said. I turned to head to Bonnie's car when he stepped in front of me. "I need that necklace, you know that."
"Well we established I can't get it for you and I'd prefer if you didn't scare the shit out of my friends." We stared at each other for a minute before I handed him my truck keys. "There's nothing wrong with it, but you can bring it to my house.
I got in Bonnie's car and we left, "He's such a creep." Elana said "The only person Damon is remotely nice to is you Alexis."
I shrugged my shoulders "I have my own way of dealing with Damon."
"Bonnie you need to stay away from him." Elana said.
"I'm trying, he just keeps showing up." Bonnie said looking at Elana.
"Well you don't need to be alone tonight you're coming to stay the night with us. Well make it a girls night." Elana said looking back at me then to Bonnie again.
Suddenly Bonnie pulled off the road and got out of the car and threw the necklace into a field when she got back into the car I asked "Are you ok?"
"I am now."
Bonnie dropped Elana and me at the house I was in the process of opening the door when I heard my truck pull in the driveway. "I thought it was broken?" She asked walking in the house.
"Guess he fixed it." I pulled the door closed and turned to talk to Damon who had disappeared. "Ok then." I went upstairs and finished up some homework before Elana came up letting me know that Caroline and Bonnie we're here. "Ugh Caroline." I said getting out of my chair.
"Yes Caroline and you will be on your best behavior." Elana stuck her finger in my face I pushed it away and headed to the kitchen.
"Where's your gaudy necklace?" Caroline asked Bonnie
"I got rid of it." Bonnie answered.
"Why you could have given it to me." Caroline whined.
"What, Why? You just called it ugly." I said.
"I'm sure I could have found something to match it with."
"Mmhmm" I said.
"Ok" Elana interjected "who's up for manicures everyone got their kit?"
"Mines in my bag." Bonnie said Caroline walked over to search for it.
"We all know I just use the stuff in your kit Elana." I laughed.
"Bonnie Bennett you lying bitch." We all turned to see what had upset the queen bee to see her holding the necklace.
"I swear I threw it in a field." Bonnie said.
"It's true both me and Alexis saw her do it." Elana said mouth wide.
"Well then how did it end up in your bag?"
"Emily" me and Bonnie both whispered at the same time.
"Who's Emily?" Caroline asked
"A ghost." Bonnie said
"Oh sure the ghost has a name now?"
"See this is why I can't talk to you."
"Sure you can."
"Ok fine I'm a witch, Alexis too."
"Sure you are."
"See this is what I mean you can't just brush off what you don't understand."
Me and Elana let the two argue for a little while finally I came up with an idea. "Why don't we have a seance?" I blurted out.
The three looked at me, after a little convincing we moved upstairs to Elana's room I grabbed some candles and Bonnie lit them we sat in a circle .
"Emily if your here show us a sign" Bonnie said. The candles flared up
"Was that-" Caroline said.
"Just the air conditioning."
"Emily if you're here show us another sign." Caroline said looking around nothing happend. Bonnie went to say something else when the windows burst open. She jumped up "I can't I'm done." She snatched the necklace off and threw it to the floor. I closed the windows and Elana turned on the light.
"Guys the necklace it's gone." Bonnie said.
"Yeah sure Bonnie." Caroline sneered.
"It was right here." Bonnie pointed and we all started looking around. Bonnie walked over to the bathroom "uh guys" she said walking in, we went to follow only to have the door slam in our faces. The next minute was a blur of screaming banging on the the door from both times the lights flickered and no matter how hard I tried my magic wouldn't open the door. Then as suddenly as it started it all stopped. The door opened and there was Bonnie calm as can be.
"Really Bonnie were you faking the whole thing?" Caroline snapped.
"Bonnie are you ok?" Elana asked.
"I'm fine I must go." Bonnie brushed past us towards the stairs.
"Go go where?"
"Thank you for having me." Bonnie took a couple steps
"Bonnie! Bonnie!" Elana yelled after her
"Emily." I yelled. Bonnie turned around "I can't let him have it."
"Have what where are you going?"
"To where it all began."
Before Bonnie was out the door Elana was on the phone with Stephan.
Damon's pov
After hearing the conversation Stefan had had with Elana I headed off to the old Fells church when I caught up with Emily I said "Long time no see, you sure have changed."
"I can't let you free them." She replied.
"We had a deal Emily you protect her I protect your family. Considering who your possessing I'd say I held up my end of the deal."
"Things have changed I won't let you put these people in danger."
I went to lunge for the necklace Emily waved her hand and I was impaled by a tree.
Alexis pov
I rode with Stefan and Elana to the church when we got there Stefan went to help Damon down.
"This hurts, this right here is why I eat people." He said.
"Emily Stop." I yelled.
"I won't let him free them." She said. She wasn't looking at me but drawing symbols in the dirt.
"What do you mean free them?" Stefan asked "what are you not telling us Damon."
"This town doesn't deserve this."
"Emily I swear-" Damon started still healing.
I walked up I was only a couple of feet from Emily the necklace was on the ground I could get it if I was fast enough. I made my move but I wasn't fast enough Emily pinned me to a tree I felt like I was being strangled by an invisible rope my toes barely touching the ground "You stay out of this. That magic doesn't belong to you and there are plenty of spirits on the other side waiting for it's return." She let go I grabbed my neck gasping for breath. Flames rose up around Emily she threw the necklace into the air as it exploded I heard Damon yell "NO!" The flames dissapeared and Damon attacked.
It happened so fast I heard Elana scream and Stefan pull Damon off he was gone before I could blink. Still catching my breath I crawled over to Elana and Stefan. I watched him bite his wrist and let Bonnie drink from it once she had woken up he explained to her about the healing properties of vampire blood. Elana took Bonnie over to the truck to explain the best she could about what was going on. Stefan helped me up "Are you ok?"
"Yeah." I croaked our and winced in pain I got up and walked to the truck.
Elana dropped me off at home she decided to stay at Bonnie's for the night since it was a no vampire zone. "Are you sure your going to be ok?" She asked for the thousandth time. I nodded since talking hurt. I walked upstairs and turned the light on in my room Damon was sitting on my bed if I could have screamed I would have. I pointed to the window.
"So what you're not even going to talk to me?" He asked getting off the bed.
I grabbed a notebook from my desk and wrote out if I could talk I'd fucking scream at you. I threw the notebook down and went to the mirror, there were bruises already forming on my neck like someone had really tried to strangle me. Damon came up behind me, I pushed away from him and picked up the notebook again "you lied to me AGAIN!" My blood was boiling, I was tired, hurt and just ready to be left alone. "Just leave." I wrote.
Damon opened his mouth a few times trying to think of what to say he finally turned around and grabbed his jacket off the chair before he got to the window I threw the notebook and hit him square in the back. He turned around "That stays." I whispered pointing to the jacket. He smirked. "You can have it back after we talk about what happened tonight." I turned and grabbed the pencil case from my desk and threw it, Damon was too quick for me and it busted open against the wall Damon was gone leaving me to clean up the mess.