Summary: After Damon and Stefan rescue Elena from Elijah, they forget to also rescue Maddison Bennett, also known as Maddie. Elijah ends up finding her and as time passes they grown an instant connection with one another. Maddie knows that it's wrong and she ultimately shouldn't be with Elijah, but she doesn't care. This is her story.

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BEFORE THE SUN SETS

CHAPTER 12 ~ Photobooth

I DO NOT OWN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES!

Maddie looked between her sister and Nathan. She could see it, how cute they were together. The pictures Cordelia has showed her of them together did no justice, not at all. Nathan stood of over Cordelia, his hair was brown and almost looked it had traces of blonde in the curls, his smile is a killer smile and he has bluish eyes from what Maddie could see.

"It's nice to meet the man that has captured Cordelia's attention." She finally said. She got up and walked over, "I'm her sister, Maddie."

Nathan shook her hand, "Wow. I mean I saw from the pictures that you look alike but in person … wow, twins."

"She's annoying though," Cordelia joked.

"No," Maddie spoke pointing at her sister, "She's the annoying one."

"Yeah yeah yeah, where the parents at?"

"They went somewhere," Maddie spoke with slight shrug. "Dad went show them something, probably the pool or whatever."

"Of course," Cordelia commented. "Well, dad better be nice."

"I'm always nice," Christian spoke coming into view. "And who's this?"

Maddie smirked when she saw her sister gulp. Ha ha, was all she could think. "Dad this is my boyfriend Nathan, Nathan this my dad."

"It's nice to meet you sir," Nathan said, reaching out to shake Christian's hand.

"Sir? Do I look old to you?"

Nathan slightly paled. Maddie noticed how he gulped before saying, "Not at all, I just-," Christian cut him off, "I'm only kidding. You can call me Christian."

"Nice to meet you, Christian."

"You too son."

"You have a beautiful home."

"No need to butter me up," Christian said with a smile. "My wife is still around so I can't exactly do anything to you, at least not now anyways."

Janette hit him on the chest, "He is just kidding!" She glared at her husband. "You are perfectly safe here. It's so nice to finally meet you!"

"Thank you Mrs. Bennett."

"You can call me Janette."

"Okay, Janette."

"Alright let's go inside," Janette said towards the adults. "Nathan, eat we have plenty of food." She turned towards her daughter, "Cordelia make him a plate."

"He has hands," Cordelia said causing everyone to chuckle, well everyone except her mother.

"Go on, make the future son in law something." Christian said walking into the house, Maddie was trying not to burst out laughing, especially by the look on her sister's face.

"NOT FUNNY DAD!"

"Your dad seems cool," Nathan commented when all the adults went back inside.

"Yeah he's alright." Cordelia said grabbing a handful of pretzels from a bowl on the table. "So, how's the party going."

"Not exactly a party," Maddie said. "But it's been fun."

"Oh yeah, got another round of lax in you?"

"You know I do."

"Cordelia tells me that you are really good." Nathan commented.

"She's alright, but I am better." Cordelia chuckled.

"In her dreams." Maddie turned towards Nathan, "You play too?"

"Yeah, but basketball is more my sport."

"You can play with dad."

"Don't give him any ideas, I want us to return to Stanford in one piece." Maddie couldn't help but smile, she was happy to see her happy.

By ten thirty the Bennett house cleared out. It was now just Christian, Janette, Cordelia, Nathan and Maddie. Maddie had an itch to get out and go see Elijah. Cordelia was well aware, having pulled her sister to the side a bit earlier.

"So, tell us all about yourself Nathan." Janette said as they sat in the living room.

"Mom, he just got off a plane and then came to a party. Let him get some sleep."

"Yeah Janette, let our future son in law sleep." Christian chuckled.

Janette frowned, "Are you tired Nathan?"

"I..." Cordelia cut him off, "He is tired mom. I am going to show him the guest room upstairs now, Maddie is going to get some rest and you and dad are going to sleep, you know you'll need it for when you interrogate us in the morning."

Maddie didn't want it to seem obvious that she was in a rush to get out of the house. "Actually, I might go out for a little bit."

"Where?" Christian wondered. "It's 10:30."

"Yeah, I know. I just wanted to go out for a drive, clear my head."

"She's going to meet a boy," Christian said to Janette, he spoke like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Cordelia chuckled, "Yeah maybe they'll go get frisky in the back of her car."

"Hate you so much," was Maddie's response to Cordelia.

"Well, their curfew on the weekends is 1."

"You guys still haven't bumped up Maddie to 2 yet?"

"The last time I checked your curfew was never 2," Janette commented, she had an almost mean look now. "You just liked to drive us crazy."

"They both like to drive us crazy." Christian made sure to emphasize the both part.

Nathan watched, amused by the whole thing. "You should have your own reality show."

"You'll get used to it," Cordelia commented.

"Oh, so he is here to stay."

"Shut up Christian!" Janette spoke giving him a look.

"What did I say?"

Maddie sighed, "Alright so I am going to go out for a bit, I will be back."

"No she won't." Cordelia laughed, "She is going to run off and get married."

"Make sure I can walk her down the isle," Christian said to Nathan, talking about Cordelia. "Since my youngest is running off with someone."

"Sure thing sir," Christian raised an eyebrow at Nathan, "I mean Christian."

"Much better." Christian chuckled lightly, "This boy catches on fast."

"I thought you might have forgotten about me," Elijah said as he opened the door.

"We didn't end our shindig until ten thirty." Maddie commented, stepping out of her converse shoes. "And my sister brought home her boyfriend. My dad isn't aloud to interrogate him until the morning."

"Interesting."

Maddie only smiled, "So you promised to tell me everything."

"I did, didn't I?" Elijah walked into the living room and sat down, Maddie followed.

"Sure did, so spill," she sighed and raised her feet so that they were now planted on his lap. "Don't try stalling me either!"

"Where shall I begin?"

"Tell me what happened at the dinner party."

"I warned Damon that if he tried anything I would kill everyone inside of that house." Maddie sighed, of course Damon didn't listen. "Alaric stabbed me with the dagger first."

"I never expected Ric to be the dumb one."

"They aren't the brightest group of people I've come across." Elijah commented before going on with the story. "They obviously weren't aware of the fact that the dagger only works as long as it stays inside of an Original. So when I regained consciousness I went after Elena myself. She and Stefan were at some cabin. I planned on taking her, until she stabbed herself."

"She stabbed herself?!" Maddie was shocked. She now considered Elena a plain idiot.

"Yes, and before I could heal her she stabbed me."

"They didn't leave the dagger in?" Maddie asked. She was condoning the their actions but she was sure Damon wouldn't leave the dagger in for too long.

"They did."

"How are you here?!" Elijah contemplated whether or not to tell her. He knew she would eventually find out. "I mean if they left the dagger in."

"Someone pulled it out."

"Who?"

"Your sister."

Elijah watched, kind of amused as Maddie's mouth opened, then closed, then opened and closed some more. She was genuinely shocked. "My sister. Cordelia? That's who you are talking about right."

"She is your sister, isn't she?"

"Well yeah, but … that's … I mean she … why am I just finding this out now?!" There was a hardness to her voice.

"I asked her not to tell you."

"WHY?!"

"I wanted to."

"A little late, don't you think?"

"Are you upset?"

"I don't know." She answered honestly. "I mean, don't get me wrong I am glad you are here but I wish you would have told me earlier that you met my sister."

"She's quiet lovely."

"Yeah." Maddie thought about the situation over. Not just Cordelia daggering Elijah but everything.

"I'm sorry."

"For what, exactly?"

"Damon said that John gave him a dagger, and he was talking about using it but I didn't think … I just, I should have said something. I'm sorry."

"It's alright."

Maddie moved her feet and sat crisscrossed by him. "No, it isn't. If I would have said something, things might be different."

Elijah sat back on the couch, almost slouched. He studied her face. "It's alright."

Maddie sighed. Her hands began playing with the buttons of his suite jacket. She undid the button, then buttoned it back, and then repeated the steps some more. "I like this on you."

"Do you now?"

"Yeah, I like the colors." The suite he had on is black and grey.

"Good to know." Elijah spoke, carefully caressing her face with his hand. He moved a strand of hair from her face. Maddie leaned in to his touch, her eyes meeting his before they wandered to his lips. How she wanted to feel those lips against her own. She gently pushed herself up a bit, she moved her right leg slowly so it moved towards the other side of Elijah. She planned to sit right in her lap and have a bit of fun with him. She knew she wasn't going to have sex tonight but she felt good enough to make some moves. As she planted herself in his lap, she felt his free hand go to her back, holding her to him.

"I hope I can make it up to you," she said in a light whisper. She was well aware he wasn't mad at her but she felt the need to say it, since in the moment she was trying to be "sexy."

Slowly she moved in, her head going towards his neck. First she ran her nose lightly against his neck, before she let her lips go there. She began to plant light kisses on the left side of his neck. She then moved to the right side and began doing the same thing. By the time Elijah's hands were now on her hips, not moving … yet. When Maddie felt Elijah was getting the point with the light kisses, she slowly opened her mouth and gently began to suck a bit. She smirked when she heard him take in a breath. Deciding she was done torturing him, Maddie finally moved her lips to his awaiting ones. There was nothing slow about it, as Maddie immediately opened up her mouth to Elijah's waiting tongue. She let out a deep moan as his tongue dominated hers. Her hands moved up to his hair holding him tight to her. His hands traveled down to her ass, grabbing a handful. Her moan became a tad louder when he did this.

Elijah quickly stood, Maddie in his arms, still kissing her intensely and walked off to his bedroom. Maddie didn't remember him walking up the stairs, she only remembered her back hitting the mattress.

Maddie moved slightly against Elijah as her tongue massaged his. She couldn't help but moan some more. Ugh, she was obsessed with the way he kissed her. She found herself protesting with he began to pull away from her. "What's wrong?" She wondered breathing heavenly.

"You need to breath."

She dramatically took a deep breath, then she let it out. "Alright, there, now back to what we were doing," she moved in to kiss him again. Elijah let her kiss him some more before he pulled away again. "Now what's wrong? Don't tell me it's about my breathing status either."

"What's wrong?"

She frowned, "Nothing's wrong. Can't I just kiss you because I want to."

"You can."

"Alright then." They stared at one another.

"I'm not going anywhere Maddison."

"You don't know that," Maddie said quietly, she moved her eyes downward. "Damon is freaking out that you're gone. I mean seriously, he is pissed, I don't have to be around him to know it. Besides, I am sure he's going to try and pull something else. And then what about when Klaus comes?!" She hadn't realized it but she was actually worried. Really worried.

"I will be fine. I am not worried about Damon or Klaus for that matter." Elijah told her honestly. "And you shouldn't be either."

"Really? Elijah as you told me earlier the Martin's are dead!"

"That being true however I always have a backup."

"Really? What is it?"

"That's for me to know and you to dot dot dot."

"No fair." Elijah couldn't help but chuckle at her pout.

It is 7:30 a.m., I don't smell pancakes.-Cordelia.

Why?! Why don't I smell pancakes?!-Cordelia.

And why would you smell pancakes?-Christian.

Because my mother happens to be a fabulous cook and her favorite daughter and future son in law are home.-Cordelia.

I am trying to sleep!-Maddie.

And mom never said you are her favorite!-Maddie.

Well that's what you get for coming home so late.-Cordelia.

I was home before 1!-Maddie.

LATE!-Cordelia.

Go to sleep or make your future husband breakfast!-Maddie.

Burn.-Christian.

I would love to be able to sleep in.-Janette.

Mom, you should know by now that if I am home and it's a Saturday you aren't sleeping in.-Cordelia

Why don't we just go out?-Christian.

Is Nathan awake?-Janette.

He should be, who knows.-Cordelia.

Go check on your man!-Christian.

Where are we going?-Maddie.

Thought you were trying to sleep.-Cordelia.

I could totally go for some iHOP.-Maddie.

Their pancakes are lit.-Cordelia.

That isn't proper English.-Christian.

Maddie chuckled reading through their family group chat. She kept scrolling up, reading previous chats and couldn't believe how funny she, her parents and sister actually were. Nathan was right, they did need a TV show.

We are leaving at 9, everyone be ready!-Christian.

Cordelia make sure my future son in law is aware.-Christian.

Of course.-Cordelia.

Maddie reluctantly got out of bed and went to the shower. She knew that if Cordelia got there first she would hog the bathroom. She took a good shower before she headed back to her bedroom. She found her phone and scrolled through to see what the weather was supposed to be like, 72 degrees, but there was supposed to be a slight breeze. She was pretty sure that she was just going to wear shorts and a t-shirt considering she had practice from twelve to two. Searching through her drawers, she pulled out a pair of Nike spandex shorts and a just do it t-shirt. She slipped on some socks and shoes quickly. Sitting down on her bed, she combed through her hair before putting it up in a bun that sat on her head. She saw how it looked in the mirror she had a sighed, laying down. She was still tired from last night. She had left Elijah's around 12 and then just drove around, she went to the beach and sat in her car, thinking.

She thought about her sister, parents, Damon, Klaus and Elijah. She wasn't sure why but she had a feeling everything was changing. Like big time.

"Knock knock," Cordelia spoke, interrupting Maddie from her thoughts. She stood in the doorway in a towel. "I need to borrow your blow dryer."

"On my dresser," Maddie pointed.

"Thanks." Cordelia walked over and grabbed it. She was going to go before she studied her sister. "What's wrong?"

"When were you going to tell me that you undaggered Elijah."

"He wanted to talk to you first."

"Oh, is that right?"

"Yeah." Maddie could tell her sister was being honest. "Listen, do you really want to talk about this now? While I am standing here, in a towel."

"Good point."

"I'll be back when I finish up."

"No need, I'm not mad."

"Still, we need to talk."

"Whatever floats your boat."

"Nathan floats my everything," Cordelia spoke with a wink before leaving.

"Seriously did not need to hear that."

"Love you too baby sis."

Cordelia came back about half hour later, and sat down on the corner of Maddie's bed. "Are you mad at me?"

Maddie felt bad instantly. She wasn't mad at Cordelia, she just wished she had known. "No, I'm not mad. I just wish you would have said something."

"I was going to but he asked me not to."

"Right."

It was quiet. "I like him, I mean I don't know him all that well but he seems nice."

"He's great."

"Just don't rush into things."

Maddie frowned, "Why would you say that?"

"No reason, just as the older sister I feel the need to tell you not to rush, take things slow."

"Right." Maddie sighed, "That's kind of hard with one of my best friends trying to kill my," she cut herself off. She didn't really know what to call Elijah. He wasn't her boyfriend but at this point they weren't just friends either.

"First, Damon is not your best friend. He might think he has your best interest in mind, but he has yet to prove it." Cordelia stated firmly. "And second, I'm going to assume you aren't his girlfriend yet, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, you gotta let him no," the way Cordelia said it caused Maddie to chuckle. "Seriously! If he wants you he better let it be known. There are a lot of fish in the sea."

"You're kind of funny."

"Oh now I'm funny."

Considering Maddie would have to go to practice after breakfast, she packed her car with her stuff and followed her parents to breakfast. Cordelia followed behind Maddie in her car, Nathan was with her, obviously. She planned on showing him around. By the time they arrived at the nearest iHOP it was a 20 minute wait, which really turned around to be half an hour. For the food quality, it was worth it. Maddie was sitting in between her parents while Cordelia and Nathan sat across from them. Currently they were discussing college life while eating pancakes.

"What is your major?" Maddie wondered.

"Business marketing."

"Sounds fun."

"Do you know where you're going?"

"Nope."

"Do you know what you want to do?"

"Nope."

"Perfect reason for you to stay home after you graduate," Janette commented around her omlet. "You can live at home for free while you go to a community college close by."

"Mom," Maddie said looking Janette in the eyes. "I'm leaving. I need to get out of here and explore."

"You got to let them go sometime." Christian said.

"Excuse you Christian, you are the one that's gonna have to let go." He was well aware though, he was going to have more of a problem with Maddie leaving than Janette. He loved both his daughters equally, he just had a strong bond with Maddie.

Maddie smirked and was going to comment, until her phone buzzed.

I want to see you today.-Elijah.

Oh really? Didn't get enough of me from last night?-Maddie.

No, it seems I didn't.-Elijah.

Well I guess I can squeeze you in this afternoon. I have lax practice first.-Maddie.

Of course, shall I pick you up?-Elijah.

How about I meet you at your place, I want to change after practice.-Maddie.

You can change here if you'd like.-Elijah.

I'll bring clothes.-Maddie.

See you then.-Elijah.

Maddie anticipated seeing Elijah. She was excited. She found herself always craving to be around him, and last night simply just wasn't enough. That's why as soon as her practice was over she rushed to Elijah's house but she made sure to drive safe. Elijah was already waiting with the door open when she arrived. After planting a kiss on him, she went to go change. When she returned downstairs she was in a simple t-shirt with a sweatshirt covering it and a pair of shorts.

"So, what would you like to do?" Elijah wondered.

"I don't know," Maddie sighed. "Do you wanna go see a movie?"

"Which one?" He asked carefully, which caused her to chuckle.

"Well, we can go see Batman vs. Superman. I know it came out awhile ago but I haven't had the chance to see it yet."

"Alright then, let's go."

Maddie smiled and took his hand in hers before leaving. She had her cell phone, some cash in her shorts pocket and car keys. When they got outside Elijah, opened the door for her of his car. "Such a gentlemen."

"I try." Maddie cracked out a laugh.

The whole ride to the movie's Elijah held Maddie's hand. He asked her how her practice went and she told him it went good, which was truthful. The rest of the ride to the theater was quiet. Maddie directed him on a theater that wasn't too far from Mystic Falls but was out of town. When they arrived Elijah got her car door and then followed her inside.

"How can I help you today?" Asked a girl selling the tickets.

"Two for Batman versus Superman," Maddie stated. She began to reach into her pocket but Elijah had already put a hundred dollar bill on the counter.

"What kind of gentlemen would I be if I let you pay?"

"Still a good one," Maddie noted. She smiled warmly at the girl in the window as she handed her two tickets. She then gave Elijah his change.

Still begin a gentlemen Elijah bought Maddie a bag of eminem's and popcorn before he led her to the theater room. When they sat down, he watched, amused as she opened up the bag of eminem's and poured them into her popcorn. "So good." She commented when she saw he was watching her.

"Wasn't too bad, right?" She asked him when the movie was over.

"It was alright." Elijah responded coolly. He had mostly been watching her. He watched the way she got frustrated when she bit into popcorn and an eminem wasn't in there, he watched how she jumped at certain moments and she watched as her face lit up to action scenes.

"Look, a photobooth." Maddie pointed the machine. They most have just gotten it, considering she and never seen it before. "C'mon on."

"I'm not really one for pictures."

"You can be for five minutes," she noted. He sighed giving in to her, although it really wasn't much of a fight.

For the Bennett's Sunday was hard. They had to say goodbye to Cordelia and Nathan. Maddie had gotten up extra early that morning, she and Cordelia went out for a run. On that run, Cordelia reminded her sister to be safe and watch out for everyone in that town. When they returned home, they helped there mother cook breakfast, afterward they all drove to the airport together. Christian knew Maddie was upset to see her sister go, so he took her with him to the gym since was off. Janette stayed home to make dinner. She was so focused on the lasagna she was making that she hadn't heard the door bell ringing at first. After pausing for a second she went to check and sure enough there was Damon.

"Hi Janette."

"Damon, what a great surprise. Come in." Damon walked in. "Maddie actually isn't' here right now."

"She's such a busy one."

"Isn't she."

"I just need to drop off something for her," Damon lied smoothly.

Janette, who was more focused on the lasagna that she needed to finish, then Damon nodded. "You can just drop it off in her room."

"Thanks, it'll only take a minute." With that he ran up the stairs. Having been in the house plenty of times, he was well aware where Maddie's room was. Her door was wide open so he just walked in. He planned on leaving her a note, telling her that he was going to just pop up in the middle of the night if she didn't start answering his calls. He went over to her dresser to scribble something on a pad of paper, however, before he could he noticed a strip of pictures. He would have left it alone had he not seen two heads together. Damon felt his eyebrows raise as he picked up the strip. For the moment he was only focused on the picture with the two heads together, but then he let his eyes wander. He felt his good mood going south as he stared at the top picture of Maddie and her mystery man smiling. Only it wasn't a mystery, it was Elijah.

Thank you all so, so much for reading! Sorry for the long wait, I ended up having so much to do then went on vacation and now I have A.P. exams. I just wanted to get something out to you since I know May is going to be crazy for me. I already started the beginning of the next chapter though! :) If you have any ideas for that one or any coming up, please share.

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Hope you all enjoyed this chapter!

In this chapter ... Nathan meets the family. Maddie goes to Elijah and he tells her that Cordelia was the one to undagger him. Things heat up a little between the two but not too much. Elijah takes Maddie to the movies and Damon later finds a picture of them ... together.

Next chapter: What you've all been waiting for the Damon vs. Maddie confrontation.