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The sun shining through the windows woke me up, the empty cold spot on the bed made me open my eyes. I sat up and looked around Damon was nowhere to be found so I got up gathering various clothes that were still in one piece. That left me with a pair of shorts and my bra, I stole a t shirt and headed downstairs still no one. Big house or not there are four people wandering around I should have seen or heard something. I grabbed a Pop-Tart out of my cabinet and decided I would head back up to Damon's room. I climbed back in to the giant empty bed flipping through the channels on the T.V. pretending not to hear the door when Damon finally walked in.
"Why must you eat in the bed?" He asked joining me on the bed.
"Call it payback for waking up by myself." I said taking a bite.
"You know you're supposed to cook those."
"What are you the Pop-Tart police? So where were you?"
"You've made it very clear you want nothing to do with the tomb."
"You're looking for the journal?" I asked not looking at him "Jeremy has it, he was using it for a project for Mr Saltzman's class." I finally looked up and saw he was staring at me "I'll get it."
"Why?"
"Because," I sighed "I want to get this over with, the sooner I can put my mind at ease."
He looked at me as if he was still confused so I continued "Elana and I share a bathroom I can hear her and Stefan talking without super hearing. They think - or I should say Stefan thinks that as soon as Kathrine is out of that tomb you're both going to run off into the sunset together." I wasn't looking at him anymore.
Damon got up and started pacing "You know, in one hundred and forty five years of being dead I don't think I've ever experienced this much déjà vu. I know what St. Stefan thinks what about you?"
"I think that... I think I have no reason to feel like this but at the same time I can't keep ignoring this pit in my stomach that seems to pop up every time someone mentions that fucking tomb." I was standing now "Switch places with me for a second Damon how exactly would you feel?"
Damon didn't have time to answer because there was a knock at the door and Elana peeked her head in, "Hey I'm going to get something to eat you want to come?"
"Yes." I answered without hesitation, leaving Damon all alone to think about what I'd asked.
"You going like that?" She asked as I walked into the hall, eyeing my thrown together pajamas.
"Wardrobe malfunction, can we stop at home?
"Yeah I have to aske Jeremy about something anyway."
"The journal? I'll get it."
"No, I heard you guys arguing don't torcher yourself for Damon."
"I'm not talking about this." I put my hand up, Elana looked hurt but dropped it.
When we got to the house she stayed in the car while I ran it to change, It was getting cold out so I found a hoodie, leggings and boots. When I was done I knocked on Jeremy's door. Without waiting for a response I flung the door open "Rise and shine little brother." I almost yelled while hopping up and down on his bed. "Get up Seriously I need a favor."
He groaned and rolled over "It better be life or death."
"Sure sure, life or death I need the Johnathan Gilbert journal."
"I don't have it, Alaric asked to borrow it."
"Well shit" I got up and opened the curtains in his room "You should get up anyway." He threw a pillow at me as I ducked out and headed back down to Elana. When I got in to the truck I pulled out my phone and called Damon.
"You can't just ask a question like that and then leave."
"Well if that's how you answer the phone, guess you don't want to know where the journal is." With that I hung up.
"Well then." Elena laughed, my phone rang and she saw the ridiculous picture Damon had set to pop up when he called as roller her eyes.
"Reject." I said swiping the red buttons on my phone it rang again and I rejected again.
"You know he's going to keep calling." She said as we pulled into the Grill.
"Nope he's going to eventually just come find me." I said turning off my phone.
As soon as we sat down I heard Elana's phone start ringing. "Or he's going to aggravate me." She showed me her phone while making a face, I took it from her, "You going to be nice now?"
"No now I plan on being even more of an ass."
"Welp' have fun." Click. I looked at Elana "I sure there was a great satisfaction to slamming a phone down to hang up on someone.
"Well if you turn around you might get the satisfaction of punching your boyfriend in the face cause he just walked in."
"Nah he doesn't deserve physical violence, at least not today."Damon slid into the booth next to me. "Do you have it?" He asked looking between me and Elana.
"Nope but I know where to find it."
"Are you going to tell me?"
"Alaric has it."
"Why?" Both Elana and Damon asked at the same time.
"I don't know he asked Jeremy for it, probably because he's a history teacher." I shrugged, I got a quick kiss on the cheek and he was gone. The waitress came and took our order and when she walked away I noticed Elana staring at me with the concerned look on her face.
"No" I said banging my finger on the table.
"Alexis-"
"No! I'm not talking about this. I will literally talk about anything else on the planet." I put my head down on the table, "Just let me live in denial, it's nice here."
"Fine." She folded her arms and leaned back, thankfully the food showed up shortly after so the awkward silence just turned into eating silence. I decided to walk home Jenna and I were going to go get my new car on the morning but until then I was hoofing it. I'd made a pit stop before actually heading home by the time I got there it was afternoon. When I walked in I heard Jenna in the kitchen "Alexis, is that you?"
"Yeah." I said throwing down my bag and when I walked into the kitchen I was greeted with not only Jenna but Damon sitting at the counter with her.
"Hey I tried calling you."
"Really," I pulled out my phone remembering I turned it off. "Must have died." I said showing her my blank phone. Damon tolled his eyes behind her back.
"So what are you guys doing?" I asked
"Damon came by looking for you and offered to help make dinner." She said finishing her glass of wine.
"So should I schedule some pizza and ER visits now." I laughed grabbing a soda from the fridge.
"I'm right here." Damon said faking hurt.
"You're the one who said you can't cook."
"I can't but see this nifty little book here," He held up the cookbook "it has instructions."
"Well good luck." I walked over to the couch Jeremy was on and jumped over the back stealing the controller from him.
"HEY!" He whined.
"Cry about it there's another one." I said continuing his game.
"What's got you all snarky today." He grabbed the other controller and joined in.
"Nothing shut up and play, unless your afraid you're going to lose."
We played a couple games before Elana and Stefan made it to the house, "Hey Lana." I said getting up and tossing the remote down. "Hey, did no one warn Jenna he can't cook." Pointing to Damon, Jenna laughed.
I walked into the kitchen accidentally brushing Stefan, I'd always wondered what it felt like when Bonnie got a vision I'd gotten feelings before but this was intense.
Elana and Stefan digging up a body taking a book I could only assume was Emily's, scanning the graveyard I found a name.
GIUSEPPE SALVATORE
"Hey, you ok?" Stefan asked.
"Yeah, peachy." I said with a smile, I could tell he knew I was lying but with Jenna and Jeremy in the room he wasn't going to push it. Damon had been watching me too I signaled that he needed to follow me, Jenna took over cooking. Once we got upstairs I closed the door and turned on the radio.
"You know, you're taste in music sucks." He said with a smirk sitting on my bed.
"It's not for atmosphere Damon, I saw something and I don't think you want anyone listening. Did you find the journal?"
"Yeah, well sort of, Stefan was supposed to look over it. Is everything ok?"
"No it's not, Elana and Stefan I saw them digging up a grave it was a Salvatore something with a G."
"Giuseppe." He said, it wasn't a question. "I wasn't there?"
"No just them."
"Well then I guess I'm just going to have to beat them to the punch."
"We," I said before turning the radio off, "I'm going with."
He looked at me concern in his eyes, "You don't have to." He got up from the bed and wrapped his arms around me. "In fact if I were you, I wouldn't." I looked up confused so he continued. "You asked me this morning to put myself in your shoes I did, I'd probably be going crazy. So no you don't need to come with me."
"Well I was crazy long before this." I leaned my head on his chest, "A little extra shove isn't going to hurt."
"We'll ditch them after dinner." He whispered in my ear.
"Or we can hope they get food poisoning." I laughed he scowled.
When we got back down to the kitchen I walked over to Elana while Damon went to play a video game with Jeremy.
"What was that about?" Elana asked suspiciously.
"Nothing just a continuation of our conversation earlier." I helped her pull out some plates.
"No you got that same glazed over look on your face that Bonnie gets, you saw something."
"I don't know what you're talking about." I said pushing past her. She pulled at my arm, "You're lying."
"Why would you think that? Guilty conscience?" She let go and I set the table.
Dinner was less tense between Stefan and Damon then one would expect given Damon's new knowledge. Elana and I however you could tell something was going on even Jenna noticed, "You two need some bonding time, why don't you take care of the dishes." She said getting up from the table.
"What like when we're six and you'd make us hold hands when we got into a fight?"
"Exactly." She smiled.
"Fine." I said as I got up picking up mine and Jenna's empty plate and grabbing Elana's while she was mid bite.
"Hey!" She said whipping around, "I wasn't done."
I dumped the plate into the trash and smiled, "You are now."
"Just go Alexis." Jenna spat "and take the shitty attitude with you."
"Gladly." I walked towards the front door.
"School night!" Jenna yelled after me.
"Well aware thanks." I stopped I wasn't upset with Jenna "I'll be home by eleven." I said with a sweeter tone.
Damon was out before I reached the sidewalk, "What was that?"
"That, was me being unbelievably pissed that Elana has the balls to accuse me of something when she's the one being a lying ass." Damon opened my door before getting in the car himself.
"You were kind of lying too you know."
"She started it." Crossing my arms, "they are lying for the same reasons ish."
"Ish?"
"Neither one of them wants that tomb open Stefan because you know twenty seven vampires which I totally get. Elana though it's because she thinks I need saving, I'm not some damsel in distress. I know what may or may not happen and I've made my choice I'm sticking with it consequences be damned."
"You're feisty when you're mad."
"And twice as violent, don't you forget it."
The drive to the cemetery was quiet I caught Damon looking at me more then once with concern. When we got there Damon led the way "So who's grave are we defiling exactly?" I asked staying close behind him. "If he's your family why isn't he in the crypt?"
"The crypt was built long after dear old daddy died."
"Oh." I stopped walking. "Sorry."
"No apologies necessary." We made it through the the cemetery I'd never been back this far before.
"So, how exactly are we going to dig him up?" I asked once we got to the head stone.
He laughed, "Oh we are not doing any digging we're going to let the the wonder twins do it."
"Aww, that's way better then me throwing Elana's plate away."
"Stick with me kid, you have much to learn."
We walked back into the woods far enough that Damon could still hear when Stefan and Elana got there. I've never sat so still and so quiet for so long, I was sure if Damon could hear them they could hear us. After what seemed like forever, faster then I could register what happened he scooped me up and we were at the base of the now open grave.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here." Damon said as he set me down. Both Elana and Stefan looked shocked, "You know I almost trusted you two for a second."
"You found the journal?" Stefan spoke up and I noticed he was inching towards the book.
"Didn't have to, Alexis had valuable information and was more then happy to share."
"That's what you saw earlier?" Elana said
Stefan still moving towards the book, as he went to reach for it I held out my arms and felt it thump against my chest. "Not nice to be lied to is it?" I handed the grimoire to Damon earning a shocked look from the other two.
"So what you're going to open the tomb?" Elana asked.
"Oh no, this is where my assistance ends." I put my hands in my pockets.
"No this is where your denial turns into a dangerous delusion." Elana walked over and shoved me. "You're my sister, where's your loyalty to that?" She shove me again harder this time enough for me to stumble back.
"Ok for one you need to stop pushing me, for two you can't preach about loyalty when the only reason I found out about your plan was a cosmic accident." I turned around to walk and got one step before she shoved me again this time I fell face first.
I rolled over and sat up looked at Elana and watched her feet fly out from under her and her ass hitting the ground. "I said, stop." I pushed myself off the ground and began the long walk back to Damon's car.