I only own my oc. I'm sorry about the last chapter I didn't realize I'd have such a hard time moving it from google docs to here. I lost all my formatting and then my edits wouldn't save on the app. I plan to go through it again to fix anything I've missed.
I was dreaming, really dreaming for once. Elena and I couldn't have been more than 12, helping pass out flyers for some town function. It was night time and the street lights were on. All the sudden the sky lit up with fireworks and for just a second I was in awe but that moment was broken by "psst." I fought hard as the scene in front of me faded away to the inside of my eyelids. I knew the voice and the breeze that drifted over my face confirmed it. I didn't open my eyes just rolled over and mumbled, "Close the damn window."
Damon didn't listen, he threw his arm over me and leaned his head down, "Time to wake up." I could feel his breath on my ear. I opened one eye slightly, seeing it was still dark in my room I quickly closed it, "Go away." I said trying to pull the covers up but he stopped me. I turned around to face him, "What ungodly reason do you have for waking me up at," I looked at my clock then back to him, "4:30 on a Saturday."
"Did you talk to Elena?" He asked.
"Oh for fuck sake." I said pushing him. "That's why you're here?"
"No, but I did figure it would annoy you enough to wake up." He stopped for a minute, I rolled my eyes, "Come to think of it though was Kathrine's story the same as Rose's?"
"Yep, I did miss an interesting bit though. Kathrine wasn't here for you or Stefan, she was here to get everything she needed for Klaus to earn her freedom. She triggered Mason's curse, when he died she already had a plan in place to trigger Tyler's, there's the werewolf. She turned Caroline, she found the doppelgänger and knew where to get the moonstone. From what she told Elena an elemental was next on her list when she found me. She saw me use magic the night before the founders parade, when I snapped your neck."
"So that plan really didn't work out for you." He laughed.
"No it didn't. Ok so why are you really here?" I said yawning.
"We're going for a run get dressed." He said as he swung his legs off the bed.
"I don't run." I did, I ran track before Elena guilted me into focusing on cheerleading, from the few memories of it I'd gotten back I wasn't half bad.
"You wanted to learn how to protect yourself, well this is where we start."
"We couldn't start at a more decent time like, noon?"
"Nope, now get up, get dressed, put on one of the 8 million pairs of shoes you have and meet me outside." He was gone before I could argue, he's one to talk, fucker has like a billion black t-shirts. I threw on a tank top and leggings, pulling on a pair of sneakers I finally walked outside. I flipped my head over to pull up my hair, when I flipped my head back there was Damon, "I could have snapped your neck before you even saw me."
"Are we really doing this? If I thought about every scenario that could possibly lead to my death, I'd never leave the house. Besides I knew you were out here, you going to let someone hurt me?"
"That's not the point."
"Well that's why we're doing this." I said and with that I took off, we'd run 3 miles before it finally hit me, I stopped putting my hands on my knees trying to catch my breath, it had been way too long, "Why are we running? It's impossible to out run a vampire. I mean I'm over here dying and you, you could do this for what, another 20 miles?"
"At least." He smirked.
"No, no more running pick a new method of torture." I stood up straight.
I unfortunately got what I asked for, he led me out to a clearing in the woods, the main point of this exercise was for me to figure out where he was coming from and avoid getting grabbed or knocked down. We'd been at it a half an hour most of which I ended up on the ground, or in a vampire vice grip. I was bad at this and I was not ok with it. The trash talk had started off as normal bickering but was starting to get hurtful, on both ends and it was abundantly clear that him training me was not going to work.
"I'm done." I said picking myself up off the ground for what felt like the hundredth time.
"You're not done." He said.
"No, I'm done." As I brushed the dirt off my pants, he grabbed my wrist, "Then admit that wearing this," his eyes tracked to my bracelet, "is more dangerous then not."
"No." I said pulling my wrist back, trying to walk away, he was in front of me before I could take more than a few steps, his hands around both wrists this time, he wasn't going to let me leave, "Then turn around and try again." He said.
"Don't you get it, I dont give a shit about not having magic I'm wearing this to hide, because Klaus strikes me as the kind of guy who will kill people to get what he wants. I'm not willing to let you get hurt so he can get to me." I pulled at my wrists again.
"What makes you so sure someone would pick me out of all the people in your life?"
"Because when we were in that house the other day I know I said I stayed to make sure everyone was safe, it wasn't everyone, just you. I don't know if it's a cosmic thing or if it's just us but if Klaus finds me I know I'll do the selfish thing because I will choose you every time, in every instance, I will pick you." Damon dropped my hands and stared at me."Don't tell me it's not the same for you because when that window came down yesterday I was far enough away I would have been fine, maybe a couple of cuts. You picked me over Rose knowing she'd burn in the sun."
"Of course I picked you over Rose."
"It's not just that, your insesant need to hide me away at the first sign of danger, even when you know I can be helpful." He still wore a confused expression, "You know what fine, it's completely one sided, now I feel ridiculous." I said in a huff, sidestepping around him.
"It's not." He said quietly, I stopped but didn't turn around, "I always just thought it was because of the heightened emotions, deep down I knew it wasn't just that."
"See so even if you aren't used against me, you'd try to save me." I turned around to face him, "My way keeps both of us safe."
He wrapped his arm around me leading me out of the woods, "We're not done talking about this."
"Of course were not." I said, "Is Rose at the house?"
He pointed upwards towards the sky, "It's Day time."
"Well she has that fancy car." I shrugged.
"Why?"
"I wana test a theory, that thing with Stefan's blood the other day really tripped me up, I haven't found anything about it, Bonnie's got some books she's going to let me borrow."
"So you're going to see if Rose's blood makes you sick too?"
"Unless you can think of anything else. It is a good thing to know just in case."
Damon let me stumble through the woods for a good fifteen minutes before he finally offered to get us there a little faster, he let my legs go when we got to the door. When we walked in Damon went to find rose while I went to shower, picking leaves out of my hair on the way upstairs.
I walked into the library a little while later, Damon was standing at the bar cart and Rose was sitting one of the chairs, "It's not going to work." She said as I walked down the steps.
"What's not going to work?" I asked.
Damon turned around and held two glasses in his hand, "A or B?"
"Umm What?" I asked confused.
"Mind over matter, you don't know which is which."
I rolled my eyes grabbing one of the glasses, I slowly took a sip, the taste was unbearable I couldn't even swallow. I put my hand over my mouth and pointed towards the trash can which Damon quickly handed to me. I spit the blood out, "That tasted like garbage smells." I looked over at Rose, "No offense."
"None taken." She shrugged.
I was sore from landing on my ass all morning, not to mention the several cuts and bruises from our "training" so I snatched the other glass from Damon who yelled, "Hey!"
"Did you want it?" I asked as I plopped on the couch.
"Well no." He said.
I tilted the glass back and held it up in the air, Damon grabbed it putting it back on the bar cart, "Well now we know." He said.
"Yup." I said slumping back on the couch, "Rose you've been around a while, have you ever heard of anything think this before."
"No, it's a first." She replied.
They filled me in on Slater's phone call from the night before, "So we need to get Bonnie on board and get the moonstone from Kathrine." I said.
"That's if Sabrina can even do it, Slater just said get it to a witch they'll know what to do." Damon explained.
"Come to think of it I don't think I've touched it."
"And you're not going to, you wanted a magical hiatus you got one."
I cocked my eyebrow was this the new plan make me jealous that Bonnie got to have all the fun, "Fine." I said standing up, "Can you take me home?"
"Fine?" His eyes narrowed in my direction.
"That's what I said."
"Wait you don't live here?" Rose asked.
He pulled his keys out of his pocket while smiling and gestured towards the door, I scowled in Rose's direction before walking out. Once we got in the car Damon asked, "So why are you in such a hurry to get home?"
"Because no one is there, Elena said she was going to study with Bonnie, Jenna is off collecting something or other for some charity my mom started, and Jeremy is, well I don't know where Jeremy is but there's like a 90% chance it's not at home."
"And if he is?" He asked pulling out of the driveway.
"Then I kick his ass at Call of Duty until he gets butthurt and leaves, Duh."
"Yes, because that was the obvious answer." He peaked over at me, "So there's no diabolical plan?"
"Nope, I have 2 days worth of makeup work to do and the possibility of quiet is too good to pass up." Moments like that had been few and far between since all the supernatural stuff made its way into my life.
"You like all the excitement, admit it."
"I'm never bored that's for sure." I said rolling my eyes.
It had been hours since Damon dropped me off, I'd already managed to finish all the work I'd missed the last couple days, I heard the front door open followed by the sound of keys being thrown in the bowl by the door. A couple minutes later a knock, "It's me." Elena said through the door.
"Come in." I sighed, Elena and I hadn't had a normal conversation in a while, even when we're comparing Kathrine's story it was short and to the point. She walked in slowly and sat on the bed setting some books down next to her, "Bonnie said you wanted to look through these. She said she had more if you couldn't find what you were looking for."
I'd been laying on my stomach reading through my book, I closed it moving It to the floor and sat up taking the other books from Elena, "Awesome, is that it?"
Elena looked down and fidgeted with her hands, "I'm sorry."
"For?" I asked.
"Well everything, for taking Caroline's side, making you go to that party, pushing so hard for the old you, getting you in to all of... this." She waved her hands through the air.
"I got myself into all... this." I mimicked her hands.
"No if it wasn't for me Kathrine wouldn't be here, we wouldn't even know about this Klaus guy."
"Well we do so the only thing we can try to do now is keep it from happening. I'm personally all for dropping the moonstone in a bucket of concrete and dumping it in to the ocean."
"So what are you looking for?" She said pointing to the books.
"I can't keep anyone's blood but Damon's down."
"Is that like a witch thing."
"No, I can't find anything about it and well Bonnie's the only other witch I know I'm hoping something in one of these will help."
"Is there anything I can do?"
"Try not to die." I said shrugging. I heard the ding of my phone saying I had a text.
"Well I'll leave you to it." She stood up, taking the hint that I didn't really want to talk and walked towards the door, "But really if you need me..."
"I know." I said with a small smile. She walked out and closed the door, I laid back on my bed with my head on the pillow and opened Damon's text, Are you done yet? You have no idea how boring it is here.
I texted back, Read a book. I chuckled as I took my own advice, picking up one of the books Bonnie had sent over, it was a fairly old textbook probably from Sheila's occult studies research, I'd only gotten a few pages in when my phone dinged again, I don't want to sit still. I knew where this was going we were way past subtly, if Damon and I were alone long enough it always ended the same way naked, not that I minded at all. I smiled as I sent my response, By my calculations you still have a good 17 miles left in you go for a run. His response was quick, You're no fun. Lies I was tons of fun, I rolled my eyes and went back to my book.
My eyes fluttered open, I'd fallen asleep reading, the light was on I was still clothed and when I looked to my right there was Damon asleep. I nudged him with my arm before looking at the clock, the last time I'd looked it was only 5 pm, it now read 9 pm. "Damon." I said quietly, nudging him again, "How long have you been here?"
"I don't know." He looked over at the clock, "Three-ish hours."
"Why didn't you wake me up?"
"I didn't think I'd get away with that twice in 24 hours." He laced his fingers together and put them behind his head, "I figured you'd wake up eventually, I guess I fell asleep too."
"You mean to tell me you didn't snoop." I said faking shock.
"Oh no I snooped." He smirked, "Sneak out with me, Alaric has Jenna... entertained, everyone else is asleep."
"Damon..." I started, He cut me off quickly leaning over and kissing me, I melted. He broke away kissing along my jaw to my ear, "I wanna play." He whispered. My eyes opened wide and I turned my head, our noses almost touching, I smirked. I sat up hopping off my bed, I pulled on my shoes, clicking off the light so no one would check on me and walked over to the window, "You coming?" I asked as I leaned out grabbing the branch that hung by the window and swung my legs out so I could climb down.
"Just let go." Damon said from the ground, he'd just jumped out.
"Talk about a trust fall." I said as I let myself fall from the branch, he caught me and set me down so I could walk next to him. "Didn't I play helpless victim enough today?" I knew exactly what he'd meant by play, a few months back he'd lured me to the house and scared the crap out of me. While his vampire nature was a huge turn on, the element of surprise wasn't necessary. We'd only played one other time and it had been amazing.
"Yeah but that wasn't any fun." He said with a smirk.
"I don't know could have fooled me, you looked like you were having fun." I said as we reached his car.
"More amusement than fun." He said opening my door, "Besides that was like tag this more dirty hide and seek."
"Way to ruin childhood games for me." I replied with a laugh.
"You don't remember playing them anyway."
"Low blow." I said sarcastically.
He parked at the boarding house and we walked through the back gate to the wood line, I had 2 minutes to "hide". The last time we did this I was pretty proud of how long it took him to find me, I'm still not sure if he did it on purpose or not. We stopped a couple feet into the tree line he wrapped one arm around my waist and pulled me to him, our chest pressing together, he leaned down capturing my lips in his. My arms tightened around his waist until he pulled away, "Go." He said quietly.
"Cheater." I said breathlessly as I took off thought the woods. I was still wearing my shorts and t shirt from earlier so I was careful as I could be trying to avoid branches and holes. I found a spot I thought would be perfect, there was a log about halfway down a hill that would hide me pretty well, there wasn't a whole lot of wind so he'd actually have to work to smell me.
I checked my phone, my time was up and Damon would have been searching for about 5 minutes at this point. It was quiet, I figured I'd hear animals or something, maybe they were all aware of Stefan so they didn't venture this close to the house. After what seemed like forever I heard a crunch of leaves meaning he'd stopped moving, I stayed as still as I could, breathing slowly. I was having a hard time containing my excitement because the fun part started when he found me but I wasn't going to make it easy for him. As quietly as I could I picked up a rock and threw it off to my left, it took only a second for me to hear another crunch. I listened intently, "Boo." I jumped even though I knew it was him.
"I win." He smirked.
I stood up taking a couple steps backwards and held my arms out to my sides, "Then come claim your prize, Mr. Salvatore." He was in front of me before I could take another step, picking me up wrapping my legs around his waist. He crashed his lips on mine, the air moved around us as I felt my back pushed up against a tree. He pulled back, "I don't want another quicky in the woods."
I bit my lip, "How fast can you make it to the house?"
He smirked and I tucked my face into the crook of his neck, maybe I'd get used to the feeling when I could do it too. When he stopped I lifted my head and was greeted with the warm sight of Damon's room. While this wasn't what I was expecting I was thankful not to have pick leaves out of my hair twice in one day.
He set me down my back pressed against the door, his hands on either side of my head, our faces nearly touching, "Are we still playing?" I asked breathlessly.
"Nope," he smirked and kissed me quickly, "You said something in the woods this morning that no one has ever said to me before."
"What that I didn't want you to be used as leverage?" I laughed.
He rolled his eyes, "No sassy, that you choose me and I intend to show you exactly how that made me feel." Before I could say another word he pressed his lips to mine, one hand wrapped around my waist pulling me close as I opened my mouth. I worked my fingers down the buttons of his shirt, getting frustrated about halfway down and yanking the fabric apart. Damon pulled away as the last few buttons hit the floor, "I liked this shirt." He said with a smirk.
"Call it payback." I replied matching his facial expression. The smile on his face grew to the point of showing teeth, in a flash he picked me up and my back hit the bed, he nestled between my legs and leaned in, running his tongue down my throat, my fingers trailed light touches down his chest. Damon's hand ran under my thigh hitching my leg up as he pressed his hips to mine, I could feel his erection through his jeans. I pulled my hands back and leaned up pulling my shirt over my head, his arm wrapped around me and in one quick movement I was in his lap on my knees. He trailed his fingers up my spine and leaned his head down sucking at my pulse point. He unclipped my bra and I snatched it off throwing it to the floor. I cupped his face making him tilt his head upwards and kissed him, circling my hips into his, pushing his shirt off his shoulders, he shrugged out of it and opened his mouth letting me enjoy the taste of him. His fingers dug into my hips as my chest melted against his, Damon broke away and kissed down my jaw, sucking and nipping down my neck, my hips bucked.
His mouth trailed down my chest and I threw my head back as he took a nipple into his mouth, flicking it with his tongue. He rubbed his hand between my thighs and I moaned out enjoying the small amount of friction. He flipped us again pulling my hips to the edge of the bed, quickly popping the button on my shorts, removing them and my panties. Leaning over capturing my lips in his while running his fingers through my folds. His thumb rubbed over my clit, sending sparks though my body, I moaned into his mouth, fingers tangling into his hair. I bucked my hips as he pushed two fingers inside me, Damon's mouth moved along my jaw down my neck as his fingers curled inside of me. Each trust sent waves of heat though my body, I moved my hips to meet his fingers and my nails dug into his shoulders. He inserted a thrid finger and my body went ridged, moaning out loudly as the pleasure overtook me.
Damon removed his fingers, leaning down pressing his forehead to mine, "I love you." He said quietly.
"I love you too." I breathed.
He smiled before kissing me quickly, his hands trailed up my sides while his mouth moved south. Damon's tongue trailed down my chest and over my stomach. Kneeling down next to the bed, he positioned my legs on his shoulders, his tongue briefly flicked over my clit before running down to my core. Circling it around my entrance, I started panting when he trust it in and out, my hips bucked and placed his hand on my stomach to keep me still. He replaced his tongue with his fingers and sucked the small bundle of nerves into his mouth, my eyes rolled back as he sped up his fingers. He flicked his tongue over my clit a couple of times and I screamed out, my walls tightening around his fingers.
Damon gave me no time to recover, as I was gasping for breath, his pants were gone, he gripped my hips and we locked eyes as he slid his dick into me, both of us moaning out. He lifted my hips to aid in his thrusts burying himself to the hilt before pulling back and and slamming back, each one eliciting a moan from me as I clutched the sheets. One of his hands slid under my back and he pulled me up to him, moving us so my back was against a wall, the relocation hadn't slowed him down at all. The hand on my back slid up the back of my neck before he gripped at my hair, tilting my head to the side, locking his lips around my pulse point and increasing the pace of his thrust. "Please." I begged
"Please what?" He mumbled against my neck.
"Bite me, Damon!"
I felt him smirk, his tongue circled the spot and his hand slipped in between us, his fangs pierced my neck at the same time his thumb connected with my clit. My legs clenched around his waist, "Yes, yes, yes." I panted out, my orgasm shook through my body, I fixed my eyes on Damon as he pulled back from my neck, his face scrunched up and he moaned out, spilling inside me. I unwrapped my legs which had turned to jelly so I slid down the wall, trying to remember how to breath normally. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, "Wow." I said.
"Yeah," He said, "I'm a big fan of my prize."
"I need clothes but I can't move." I laughed running my hand over my neck.
"It's healed, and I cleaned up my mess." He said as he tossed me a shirt and a pair of boxers from his dresser.
"Little bit of blood goes a long way, when I'm not being witchy." I pulled the shirt on, "You know my dresser is like 10 extra steps."
"Why so I could hand you the exact same thing?"
"Touché." I said crawling up into the bed laying face down in the pile of pillows.
"I take it you're sleeping here." He said laying down next to me.
I turned my head opening my eyes, "Don't sound so mad about it."
"Oh I'm not your bed sucks."
"Not all of us can afford to sleep on literal clouds every night." I said rolling my eyes, "I should go home, I still have a shit ton of research to do. That's what I was doing when I fell asleep."
"Care to share?" He brushed his fingers through my hair and I closed my eyes, "I'm trying to figure out this pesky little blood problem, I wanted to read into it as much as I could because Alaric is supposed to be bringing me some of Isobel's research. If I can by some miracle get my hands on the actual ritual maybe, just maybe I can find some kind of loophole."
"You don't have to do all of this by yourself."
"I know," I said yawning, "I just can't so around and do nothing."
"Believe me I'm aware of your inability to sit on the sidelines."
I let out a small chuckle, and drifted off to sleep.
The next morning I woke up to an empty spot next to me, I sat up disappointed and looked around, Damon was no where to be found. I hopped off the bed and walked downstairs stepping into the kitchen, "So would this be a walk of shame since you don't live here and those are clearly not your clothes?" Rose asked from the table.
"I have no same." I smirked walking towards Damon who handed me a cup of coffee, "Wanna go on an adventure?" He asked.
"Depends."
"On?"
"Can I eat first?" I laughed.
He'd been leaning at the corner of the counters, he turned around and handed me a white to go box from the dinner I liked, I took the box and grabbed a fork sitting down next to Rose at the table, "Ok so where are we going?" I asked as I opened the box.
"To see your great, great, too many great grandmother."
"Eww, Why?"
"We need the moonstone."
"She's not just going to freely give it up, you up for negotiation because none of us," I circled my finger around the room, "can go in, get the stone and come back out."
"I'm aware, I vividly remember the panic attack you had when you thought you were stuck."
"I was the only living person in a tomb full of dedicated, hungry, vampires. My panic attack was completely warranted.
"I'm going to have to agree with her on that." Rose piped up.
I stuck my tongue out at Damon, he smirked and set my coffee cup in front of me, "If you're going, drink that."
"While I planned on it, have we stopped to think about this is maybe why I reject blood from other vampires." I said finishing my food and picking up the cup.
"I have and I obviously decided I'd rather you be safe the sorry. We're leaving in about a half hour, I gotta go talk to Stefan." He smiled before turning and leaving.
"Touchy subject with him I see." Rose said.
"He promised me eternity and I think he's just trying to live up to the deal." I smiled.
"You're good for him." She said, I looked at her over my cup and she continued, "I'd heard a lot of stories about him from Lexi."
"You knew Lexi?"
"I did, and yes I'm aware of who killed her." She said.
"Oh I wasn't going to tell you that, I've already begged for his life once for that. I'd hate to have to hurt you for hurting him."
"I'd get to you before you could even flinch and get that bracelet off."
"Well it's a good thing we'll never have to find out hu?"
She laughed, "He's right about it, you know." I ran my fingers over the chain, "Did he put you up to this?" I asked suddenly angry.
"No, you were given this magic for a reason so either use it or give it to someone who will, hiding isn't going to save you, trust me." And with that she got up and walked out leaving me all alone to think about it.
I finally got up cleaning up my breakfast and heading upstairs, once I got dowstairs the guys were waiting for me, "Ready?" Damon asked I nodded and followed them out. Stefan surprisingly got in the back seat, "You know I'm smaller I'd fit better back there." I said standing at the door.
"It's a short ride." He replied.
I shrugged pushing the seat back and climbing in. Once we got to the cemetery we walked to the tomb entrance, Damon took my hand helping me down the narrow stone steps, "Have I mentioned how much I hate it down here?" I said.
"I'm sure at least once." He replied.
Stefan and Damon moved the stone door and stepped up to the barrier, "Knock, knock." Damon called out. I heard a shuffling noise as Kathrine came into view, she was pale and staggering with a look on her face that said every step hurt, "Come on in plenty of room for all of us, you can even bring twitchy, I need a snack." Her eyes locked on mine.
"I'd rather poke my eyes out." Damon retorted.
"Oh but there such pretty eyes." She's said shuffling closer grabbing on to the wall.
"We want the moonstone." Stefan said.
"I'll make you a deal, gather your witches together and get me out of here and you have my word, I'll give you the moonstone and leave Mystic Falls forever."
"I thought you liked it in there Kathrine, nice and safe."
"I've had time to reconsider."
"Meaning you're hungry." Damon corrected.
"I'm starving and I'm dirty and bored. I may have ran for 500 years but at least it wasn't boring." She turned and started walking away, "Take it or leave it, you know where to find me."
"We need to tell Elena what we're planning to do." Stefan said as we stepped out of the ruins, Damon nodded as we headed back to the car. The short trip to my house was quiet, Damon had texted Bonnie telling her to meet us at the Boarding house later so we could come up with a plan to get the stone and leave Kathrine in the tomb.
I opened the front door and the guys followed me inside, "Elena?" I called out.
"In here." I heard from the kitchen, when we walked in Elena looked at Stefan, "What are you doing here?"
"We talked to Kathrine." He replied.
"She claims she's going to hand over the moonstone if we get her out." I said sitting at the table.
"You don't actually believe her?"
"No of course not."
"Why do you guys even want the moonstone."
"According to Rose's friend Slater if we can get it to a witch they can release the curse from the stone. No curse, no doppelgänger sacrifice, ergo you live and your sister doesn't have to deal with the guilt of killing you." Damon said.
"That's if they find her." Elena rebutted, "Sounds like you guys have everything figured out."
"Yep were awesome like that."
"What about Klaus?"
"We can deal with him once the moonstone is taken care of." I said.
"Is that before or after he kills all of you?"
"We can save you if we de-spell the moonstone." Stefan said.
"Everyone keep saying that." She looked down.
"What the hell is your problem?" I asked standing up.
"I'm not going to let everyone get themselves killed trying to save me. You're going to take that stupid bracelet off, yeah I know about it Bonnie told me, and you're going to do whatever Klaus tells you too. There is no reason Jeremy has to lose both of his sisters."
I stared at her open mouthed, this was it the anger and frustration that had been building between us for weeks now was finally boiling to the surface, I walked over to her, "I refuse to be the murderer that makes you a martyr." I said smacking her in the back of the head, "So if that's your plan you need to figure something else out." Elena reached out snatching my hair pulling my head down, "Ah fuck!" I yelled out, I used my awkward position to my advantage, wrapping my arm around her leg pulling it from underneath her. She latched on tighter to the chunk of hair she had pulling me with her, my head hit the floor first, I was disoriented, catching a quick glance at the guys who looked like the didn't know what to do. Elena was up first, she pinned my hands above my head and leaned her head down, "I know you don't remember but when we fight I always win." I struggled to get my hands free making her lean down on them harder, "Bet I didn't fight dirty then." She was in just the right spot I swung my head forward, crashing my forehead into the bridge of her nose. She screamed out and now that there was blood the guys decided to intervene, Damon pulled Elena off and held her back as she tried to jump at me, "Elena you have 10 seconds to calm down or I'm ripping that necklace off of you and compelling you into a nap." Damon said. She instantly stopped moving, "I'm done." She said, he let her go and Stefan led her into the kitchen.
Damon held out his hand helping me up, "You couldn't have stepped in a little earlier?" I asked.
"Oh no, you never break up a girl fight." He said laughing.
"Whatever." I said snatching my hand back and heading towards the stairs, Damon following close behind, "What so you're mad at me now?" He asked.
I walked through the bathroom grabbing my hairbrush, running it through my hair as I walked into my room, "No I'm not ma-" I stopped.
"What?" Damon asked.
"Someone's been in here." I said.
"How do you know?"
I walked over to my bed, my book was sitting open I picked it up and froze when I saw what was on the page, "This isn't good." I said turning the book around to Damon.
"Is that the recipe for..."
"The compulsion elixir, yeah."
"Maybe Elena was in here snooping."
"Maybe," I walked into the hallway, "Elena!" I yelled.
"She let me heal her nose and she left." Stefan called up the stairs.
"Shit." I said walking back into the room, I walked over to my desk and pulled out the bottle of concentrated vervain and took a swig.
"Little over dramatic you think?"
"No I don't, Damon this is dangerous."
"They have to have your blood for it to work, you're safe for now."
"We can argue about this later, right now I need..." I trailed off walking back though the bathroom and pulling a box from under Elena's bed, I opened it up and pulled out a black bracelet and clipped it on to my empty wrist, "Guess I should have thought of this first." I said looking up at Damon.
"Is that all vervain jewelry?"
"Yeah Stefan gave it to Elena when she first found out. He tried to give me one but I didn't need it at the time. Come on Bonnie's going to be at the house soon." I grabbed my book and the ones Bonnie had let me borrow and shoved them into a duffle bag along with my laptop and the notes I'd made last night, "I probably know the answer but can I stay with you for a couple of days until this whole thing blows over?"
"What about Jenna?"
"She's so wrapped up in Alaric and school I can probably get away with it."
He held his hand out and I dropped the handle of the bag in it, he swung his other around me, "You can stay anytime you want." He leaned down kissing my forehead.
"Are you guys coming, Bonnie's at the house." Stefan yelled up.
"Let's get this over with." I said walking out.
"I told them to meet us in the parlor." Stefan said as we pulled up to the house.
"Them?" I asked, Damon flinched as he opened the door.
"Oh fuck no!" I said seeing Jeremy standing by the fireplace.
"You took yourself out of the fight you get no opinion." He sneered.
"Jesus Bonnie I said don't tell anyone, not oh please tell everyone I'm absolutely defenseless."
"I don't know I'd say defenseless, you did a number on Elena's nose." Damon said chuckling. "Relax, baby Gilbert is here for moral support."
"I only told Elena and Jeremy, so they could keep and eye one you." Bonnie added.
I let out a huff and plopped myself on the couch, "I told the only person I need to 'keep an eye on me'." I looked to Damon and then back to her, "I know you meant well but damn." Not exactly forgiveness but that was as good as it was going to get.
Stefan explained the situation with the moonstone, "I may be able to lower the seal for a few minutes giving you time to get the stone and get out."
"How?" Jeremy asked, I was also curious.
"I've learned a few new things."
"From who?" I asked raising my eyebrow.
"This weirdo named Luka." Jeremy said angrily.
"He's not a weirdo he's another witch him and his dad just moved to town. I may have told him I didn't know how to channel and stole these." She let a pair of dog tags dangle for her hand." She paused, "I didn't tell him about you if that's what your wondering."
"I wasn't. But if he asks about me I need to know like immediately." I said seriously.
She looked back at the guys, "So how do you plan on getting he stone?"
"Kathrine hasn't been feeding she's weak." Stefan said.
"Sounds like you might be underestimating her."
"Maybe we are but what plan doesn't have flaws." Damon added.
"Just let me go in," Jeremy stepped up, "I've got my ring, no spell required I can get in and out."
"Oh fuck no!" I said jumping out of my seat.
Damon was behind me immediately hands on my shoulders, pushing me back down on the couch. "What she meant was we're not sending a 16 year old child in to deal with a 500 year old vampire."
"Alexis has been in on this stuff and she's only a year older than me." He almost wined.
"I have magic powers dumb ass." I snapped, Damon's hands tightened on my shoulders, I tried to shrug him off but he wouldn't move.
"That you won't use!" Now he was standing.
"What if I could tilt the scales in your favor?" Bonnie asked stepping between us.
"What do you have in mind?" Damon asked.
"Do you have anything of hers?"
"I do." Stefan said before leaving the room.
"How many siblings are you going to fight today?" Damon asked letting me go.
"All of them, apparently." I said quietly as I watched Jeremy help Bonnie set everything up.
Stefan was back a few seconds later with the picture of Kathrine, "I found this in her things when we thought she died." He said handing it to Bonnie, she dropped it in a bowl, sprinkling a few drops of water on it. She started chanting quietly and the picture burst into flames.
"What's that do?" Damon asked.
"It turns the metal into and ash, if you blow it on her then it should incapacitated her long enough to get the stone and get out."
The guys went and got the car ready leaving me, Bonnie and Jeremy, "Jeremy can you give us a minute?" I asked as nicely as I could. He nodded and walked into the hall, "I saw that." I said to Bonnie.
"Saw what?" She replied innocently.
"Oh don't play stupid, your nose. Bonnie if you can't do this then we need another plan."
"I can do this."
"Just know if Damon gets stuck in there, I will lose my shit."
"No one is getting stuck."
"You ready?" Damon asked from the door way.
"Yeah." I said not taking my eyes of Bonnie.
"I'll be fine go, I need to put this in a bag and get the grimoire and I'll be right behind you guys."
"You're quiet." Damon said as he got out of the car in the cemetery for the second time that day.
"Don't go in the tomb." I said quietly, Stefan had walked quite a way ahead and I wasn't sure if he could hear me. Damon stopped putting his hands on my upper arms, "Why?" He asked.
"I don't think Bonnie can break the seal, channeling that Luka guy or not."
"It's a little late to bring this up now."
"Is it? The whole way over here all I could think about is how fucking much it hurt when Sheila and Bonnie used me to lift the seal last time. If you get stuck then I have to go through that again."
"I won't step foot in there if I'm not sure I can get out, God knows I don't want to spend any extra time with Kathrine."
Once we got to the tomb we didn't have to wait long for Bonnie, "Where's Jeremy?" I asked.
"I don't know he said he'd be here. Let's get this over with." Bonnie replied as she started down the steps, Stefan following right behind, Damon took a couple of steps and his phone rang, "Hello?" He said, I couldn't hear what was being said on the other side but he got a serious look on his face and grabbed my hand leading me away from the tomb, "I'm on my way." He said before hanging up.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Your sister is an idiot." He said angrily.
Damon filled me in on the way, apparently Elena had used Rose's desire to walk in the sun to get a ride to Slater. When they got there Slater was dead but his girl friend was there and overly helpful, Elena had gone to hand herself over to Klaus. "I'd say I was going to kill her but that seems counterproductive." I said.
"Just a little." Damon replied.
We were almost to Richmond, when I started to feel dizzy, then the ringing started, it was like the Gilbert Device all over again, only I was the only one hearing it, "Ahh Fuck stop the car!" I yelled. I was out before it even fully stopped grabbing my head and falling to knees. In all the commotion I'd just noticed the white hot feeling on my wrist, I snapped the chain and threw the bracelet, as soon as it left my hand everything stopped. "What the fuck was that? Did Bonnie?" Damon said coming around the front of the car.
"I- I don't know, but it stopped when I took my bracelet off. I don't think it was Bonnie it felt like the the night John set off the Gilbert device." I went to wipe the tears off my face when Damon stopped me, "Hold on." He pulled an extra T-shirt out of the back, "It's blood."
"That's what you wana hear when you feel like your brains been scrambled." I wiped my face off and then got up and walked over to the bracelet, "Can you...?"
"Pick up the devil bracelet? Yeah I guess, but why not leave it here?"
"Because I don't know what happened, I don't need some random person being like oooh a bracelet and picking it up only to have some super bad shit happen. Someone obviously messed with it, which means they know who I am, I'm betting my book wasn't the only thing that got messed with last night. I'll have Bonnie look at it." I watched as Damon nodded and picked up the bracelet putting it in his pocket, I didn't seem to hurt him in the slightest.
Damon watched me like a hawk for the rest of the ride, "I'm fine." I said for the tenth time as we pulled into the parking garage. "Are you sure because you can just stay in the car."
"Damon."
"Yeah I know shut up." He said rolling his eyes, parking the car. We climbed the stairs to Slater's apartment in silence, mine was mostly caused by trying to stay in control. I'd had the bracelet on nonstop for a couple days and I felt like there was this buzz of energy going though me, my emotions were all over the place though so the combination wasn't a good one. Damon picked me up so we could sneak in with out alerting anyone, once were in he quietly set me down next to Rose and snuck up behind Elena. She turned around seeing him and gasped, "What are you doing here?" Damon asked.
"What are you doing here?" She looked to me and Rose, "You called them?" She asked.
"I had too." Rose replied.
"You said you understood."
"She lied." Damon sneered.
I turned to Rose, "I know she promised you a daylight ring, I don't know how she intended to get one but if you promise to never go along with her half ass schemes again I'll make you one as soon as we get back."
"I couldn't ask that you don't want to do magic."
I held up my wrist showing off the burn mark from the bracelet that Damon's blood didn't seem to want to heal, "I've had time to reconsider." She nodded and I turned back towards Elena, "What the fuck were you- wait is that my shirt? No, not the point, what were you hoping to accomplish today?"
"You ruined mine so I stole this when I got to the boarding house." She replied ignoring the real question.
"So not only are you and idiot but you're a thief."
"Oh my god Damon Salvatore." A new voice came from the kitchen doorway. She walked out and once I got a good look at her I whispered to Damon, "Well now I get why Slater didn't think I was a vampire groupie."
He smirked quickly before telling Rose to get rid of her but she wasn't quick enough, the girl touched Damon's shoulder and I quickly slapped her hand away, "Really?" Damon said as Rose dragged the girl away, "I'm a firm believer in look don't touch." I said shrugging.
"We're leaving." Damon said walking towards Elena.
"No!" She replied.
"Elena don't be stupid." I added.
"I'm not leaving."
"You don't get to make a choice here." Damon said stepping closer.
"I never get to make a choice, everyone else does that for me. This, right now, this is my decision and I'm staying."
"You've lost your fucking mind!" I yelled, the glass in Elena's hand shattered tinkling to the floor. I took a deep breath, "You can't go throwing yourself to the lions when everyone around you is working to save you."
"I don't want to be saved! Not if it means everyone I love gets killed in the process."
Damon was over the conversation part, "We're going, now." He said grabbing her arm.
"Damon no!" She said pulling it back.
"Elena I swear to god I will drag you out of here kicking and screaming if I have to."
"He will," I added, "I'll watch and laugh then spell you in the trunk."
Damon went to grab her arm again she pulled back her fist, Damon grabbed it mid swing, "Bad idea." He growled.
"Catch her." I said, Damon looked at me confused as I nodded my head in her direction, Elena only had a second to react before I said, "Phasmatos Somnus." Her eyes closed and she fell forward, Damon zoomed forward, catching her before she hit the ground. He looked over at me as he dropped her on the couch, "What she wasn't going willingly." He nodded and walked to the room Rose was in, she walked out, eyeing Elena, "What happened there?"
"She needed a time out." I said, "She's fine."
A couple of minutes later Damon was stepping out of the other room, "Stole your idea," He said looking at me, "Alice is asleep and will forget all about this stupid excuse for a day when she wakes up."
"I actually I stole it from you when Elena was freaking out earlier,"
He looked at Elena, "You know, I didn't actually want to carry her down to the car."
"Sorry." I said as Damon bent down and picked her up walking towards the door. We all stopped as both doors flew open and three guys blocked our way. "We're here for the Doppelgänger." The first one said.
"There's nothing for you here." Damon replied. The man didn't have time to answer, falling forward as his head was slung to the other side of the room, Elijah standing behind him. Rose waited all of two seconds before taking off.
"I killed you, you're dead." Damon yelled.
"For quite some time now." Elijah smirked, he turned to the other men asking the one on his right, "Who are you?"
"Who are you?" The man asked back.
"I'm Elijah."
"I'm Cody, we were bringing her to you, she's the doppelgänger and Klaus will want to see her."
"Does anyone else know you're here?"
"No." The man answered shakily.
"Then you two have been very useful to me." He smirked as he plunged a hand into each of their chests and pulled back their hearts, it took everything I had to to barf right there. Elijah dropped the hearts on the ground and trained his eyes on me, "I'm assuming since she's asleep, you got the message from my witch. Rest assured trying to conceal yourself again will yield similar results. I'll be in touch." I felt a shiver go through my body and he was gone.
I waited until we were almost to Mystic Falls before I woke Elena up, who was so mad I could only compare it to a cat that had been thrown in a bath, "If you don't calm the fuck down I will knock you back out." I said, "And not with magic."
"You should have left me there." She said crossing her arms.
"No we shouldn't have, that Cody guy showed up and the Elijah ripped his heart out of his chest."
"Wait what?"
"Yeah, he showed up killed them and took off, well after his creepy little threat." She looked at me confused, "Dont worry about it for once it has nothing to do with you."
"That we know of." Damon added pulling out his phone, "Jesus, is it Gilbert's be fucking idiots day."
"Hey!" I said.
"The day is still young you may still have a chance." He was quiet for a few minutes listening to whoever called, "That was Bonnie," he said putting the phone back in his pocket, "Jeremy stole some of that dust from her and tried to get the moonstone before we got there. After we left Stefan and Bonnie found the stone outside the tomb he'd thrown it out before Kathrine got ahold of him."
"That fucking idiot."
"My thought exactly, Well Sabrina couldn't get the seal down so to save your idiot brother, my idiot brother got himself locked in the tomb."
"What?" Elena said quietly.
For the third time we today we pulled up to the cemetery once I was out Elena pushed past me taking off at a run, "Go stop her." I yelled at Damon, he took off. I knew she'd get into the tomb before I could get her, I ran after them getting to the bottom of the stairs as Elena yelled, "This is all your fault."
"No it's yours." I said, she turned around, "We would have been here to figure something else out had we not been saving you from your little suicide mission."
"Get him out!" She said turning her anger towards me.
"I can't Elena, this spell was written to keep witches like me in there too I can't break the seal, not alone."
She pushed me out of the way and stomped up the stairs, Stefan walked up to the barrier, "Of all the stupid plans." Damon scoffed.
"Yeah I know, keep her away from here alright."
"We'll figure out a way to get you out of here." I said.
"No what you said to Elena is right, it's too dangerous, help Bonnie with the moonstone then worry about me."
I nodded following Damon out, we were about halfway back to the car when I said, "I need a favor."
"Ask and I shall deliver." He said smirking, taking my hand.
"I need you to steal me some stuff from the hospital. I've got a bad feeling that the compulsion elixir wasn't the only thing that got take last night."
"The juju begone?"
"Yeah, and as much fun as bleeding out out in a bathtub sounds I feel like there is an easier and cleaner way to get an overdose out of my system."
"Make me a list and I'll take care of it tomorrow. I have to replenish the blood stash anyway."
"I promised Rose a Daylight ring."
"You going to make her one?"
"If she comes back yeah, I get why she ran, her deal with Elijah fell through, she's still in danger. I figured if she could move around during the day it would make her less so."
"This doesn't mean you can go making rings for any little vampire." He laughed.
"After all these years of not being able to be in the sun I think she's earned it."