A/N: So here we are, chapter 3! Don't get used to the frequent updates, I am writing as much as I can, but I also have 2 other stories I'm writing and they are just as important as this one.

So I have gotten some great feedback from this story and one guest reviewer who just doesn't seem to get the concept of building a back story. Yes, this is a Damon/Bella story, as can be seen in glimpses in this chapter, but this is also a Jasper/Bella sibling story (not really, he is just like family, they are siblings in every way, there is no romance there). If you don't like the way I write, you don't have to read it. I get a kick out of your reviews and if all you can say is it's terrible because there were no Damon/Bella moments when there are many other characters that I have to deal with, too bad, so sad. No apology. It's my story, if you can do better, I will gladly give your writing a shot.

Another reviewer asked a really important question. Why does Damon call Bella, Allie? I completely forgot to answer that question before so I am glad to answer it now. Their nicknames for each other (Allie and Noah) are from The Notebook. She is his Allie, and he is her Noah. Hope that clears everything up.

On to the story!

Peace, Love, and Slyther,

Gimi aka Jess

Bella had spent a lot of time ignoring most of the school. Rumors were swirling around her, and frankly, she was tired of it. She was the first to sit at lunch waiting for her family to join her, she thought over the year she had and was once again surprised she had survived it. Living and loving her family was not for the weak of heart, that was for sure. One by one her friends joined her at the table and her poor mood raised.

Jeremy was the first to walk up to the table and sat next to his friend. Giving her a hug as he watched her chew on a carrot stick he smiled. He knew that Bella still had trouble with her eating habits, but he was glad that the Cullens return hadn't caused her to regress into her bad habits. Speaking of, he watched as Edward and Alice Cullen both walked into the cafeteria, Edward still staring at his friend like she was a chocolate cake and he was on a diet.

"Bells, he's doing it again," Jeremy said as he opened his soda and popped a fry in his mouth.

Bella looked up as Stefan and Elena both walked up to the table, followed by Bonnie and Tyler. Stefan sat down on the other side of Bella and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Looking over at Edward he let out a little hiss, "Stop staring at Bella, or I'll rip your eyes out of your head fuckwad!"

Tyler, being the only one at the table with super hearing, snorted unexpectedly and choked on a piece of food. He was not used to Stefan being so violent. Usually, that was Damon's job.

Bella looked up at Tyler with a grin on her face, "Ty, do you want a sip of my soda?" She offered as he continued to cough. With a smirk, he swallowed and shook his head no, a small laugh still on his lips. Bella looked around at the table, "Where is Caroline?"

"Jasper picked her up last period, something about picking up supplies in Port Angeles," Angela said as she plopped down next to Jeremy. Jeremy gave the brunette a big smile and a kiss on the cheek. Angela, still not use to the public display of affection, flushed pink as he took her hand. The relationship was still new, they had only been dating for a month or so, but Bella could tell it was already more serious than her relationship with Ben was.

"I think she was looking for a particular decoration," Bonnie said, "You know Caroline, it has to be perfect."

Bella groaned, "Why is she insisting on this dance, this isn't Mystic Falls. We don't do dances here."

Tyler laughed, "Which is why she is insisting on doing it. The Decade Dance was her favorite event. Why do you think she started the dance committee at the beginning of the year?"

"What decade is she planning?"

"Fifties," Angela said, "Should be fun. Poodle skirts and letter jackets."

"Boring," Tyler said, "Leather jackets and slicked back hair. That sounds like more fun."

Bella snorted, "Of course you would be a greaser Ty. It's just up your alley."

"You should talk, Damon is the epitome of bad boy greaser," Tyler chuckled, throwing a fry at Bella.

Bella laughed and nodded her head, they spent the rest of the lunch trying to figure out what kinds of fifties clothing they could find for their costumes, Bella even promising to go to shopping with Angela and the girls the next weekend.

"I don't understand," Edward said quietly under his breath to his sister, "Why does she seem so happy about a dance? Remember the prom? We had to trick her into going."

Alice looked up at the group of friends with a frown, it hurt to hear Bella be so happy about dances and shopping, and she was not included in the fun. Bella always hated shopping with her.

OoOoOoO

Rosalie looked off the porch as Emmett knocked on the door. She was still angry over Edward and Alice, they had not been happy when they heard that she and Emmett were invited to visit with Bella, but they still weren't able to speak to her. Rosalie didn't care, she didn't even care if Bella would accept her apology, all she cared about was Jasper, her brother.

As the door opened, Rosalie turned to see a girl who resembled Bella quite a bit and a man around Edward's age. The girl gave a tight smile and stepped aside. Rosalie could see the animosity in the girl's eyes, but she didn't mind. That was something she used to, Rosalie was always the center of jealousy, but this was different, this girl wasn't jealous, this girl hated her for the part she played in whatever happened to Bella. That was certainly different.

"Jasper isn't here right now, he and Caroline will be back in about fifteen minutes," The girl said as she led them into the living room, "Bella will be down in a few moments. I'm Elena."

"I'm Emmett, and this is my wife, Rosalie." Emmett introduced, "We're Jasper's… Uh, family. Or former family."

The man also gave a tight smile, "I'm Stefan, Damon's brother." He pointed them to the couch, and they all sat down waiting for Bella.

All of a sudden, there was a commotion on the stairs. Emmett smiled, he knew that smell. Strawberries and verbena, it was Bella.

"I'm serious Damon," Bella shouted. Emmett began to open his mouth to let her know they were there and Stefan shook his head. Rosalie looked over at the couple coming down the stairs and then the couple on the sofa, Elena had a smile on her face as she watched them argue.

"Okay Bambi," Damon said with a smirk on his face.

"Don't call me Bambi!" Bella shouted walking down into the living room, not noticing the people sitting in the semi darkness.

"Why not?"

"Damon, we have three vegetarians in the family, I would really rather not be called something that reminds them of dinner," Bella scolded.

Damon couldn't help it, he burst out laughing at her reprimand, holding onto his sides as she rolled her eyes at him. Her anger instantly disappeared as she watched her boyfriend laugh at her.

Damon's laughter subsided, and he reached for her, pulling her into his arms. He kissed her softly, a faint smile still on his lips, "Don't worry my Bell, no one gets to eat you for dinner but me."

Bella chuckled and smacked him in the arm, "Yes, well you won't be doing anything of the sort for a while, Noah."

Damon raised an eyebrow, his bright blue eyes sparkling, "Oh really? That sounds like a challenge Allie."

As he said the words, he brought his right hand to hers, grasping it lightly, he pulled it up between the two of them, laying it on his chest, and they began to sway. This was the way they were, the reason they called each other Noah and Allie. No matter the fight, no matter the intense anger that might be between them, they always ended it with a dance.

Bella smiled at their entwined fingers lying lightly on his chest, it didn't matter there was no music, Damon would sway them to the tune in his head or the rhythm of her heart. Ryan Gosling had nothing on Damon Salvatore.

Damon smiled at his girlfriend, leaning down, giving her a soft kiss, and leaning his forehead against hers as they swayed, "Allie, I can't let you come."

Bella looked up, anger and betrayal in her eyes, "Dammit Damon, I have to go!"

"It's not safe! I can't go looking for her if I'm worried about you in the city!"

"There are millions of people in Seattle," Bella pointed out standing still and placing her hands on his cheeks, "I'm safer there than I am here."

"Bonnie placed a spell on the house, you're safer here! It's only for two days."

Bella shook her head, "No, Bonnie is going. Stefan, Jazz, Caroline, even Elena is going, I can't stay here while you all are placing yourself in danger."

"God, why do you have to share this martyr trait with Elena! For once why can't you be more like Katherine and be a little selfish!"

Elena gasped, and Stefan groaned under his breath, wincing at the reaction he knew was coming. Damon must have realized his mistake and opened his mouth to contradict his words.

Bella dropped her arms, rage evident on her face, "I should be more like Katherine huh? A manipulative, self-centered, bitch?! Maybe I should fuck Stefan while I'm at it too? I know how much you guys both loved that aspect about her," Bella seethed as Damon stood there silently waiting for her to calm. Bella began to pace back and forth, Rosalie could almost see the anger rolling off of Bella's body.

Damon took a step towards Bella, deciding it was the right time to try and head off more ranting and that was when Bella struck. Turning toward her boyfriend, she pushed against him, and before Emmett knew it, she had a stake right up against Damon's stomach.

Damon winced, the tip of the stake making contact with his skin, piercing the shirt and just slightly indenting his flesh.

"Maybe selfish wasn't the right word Allie." Damon bit out slowly, bring his hand up to the stake, holding it in place.

"No," Bella grunted as she pushed ever so slightly, bringing her weight up against the wood, "The wrong word was Katherine fuck head. Don't. Compare. Me. To. Her. Again." She punctuated each word with a slight push. A tinge of coppery metal wafted through the air, and Bella pulled the stake out of his hand and threw it on the ground.

Damon groaned, regretting how much training she had been getting from Ric, Jasper, and himself at that moment as she had turned away from him.

"Allie…"

"Don't Damon," Bella spat out, "Just don't. Don't remind me how much I'm not your type, how much you preferred sexy Katherine to plain old me. I'm not exciting enough, definitely not sturdy enough, and ultimately flawed for you. You win, I'll stay home, I know where I'm not wanted." And she walked through the kitchen, the back door slamming shut.

"DAMMIT ISABELLA MARIE! THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT!" Damon shouted as he kicked a hole in the wall.

Ric walked into the kitchen to see Damon kick the wall, standing there, he could see into the living room at the pale faces with Stefan and Elena. Ric waited until Damon was finished destroying the wall and then said, "You really are an asshole Damon."

"Can we skip to the part of the lesson we already know? Everyone knows I'm a dick, they expect it from me. I'm only catering to my audience here."

"Go fix it, Damon," Elena said out loud walking into the hall.

"I can't yet Elena, she will stake me through the heart this time, you know how she is."

"You would deserve it jackass! How could you say that to her? You know how she is, you know she already doesn't feel worthy, and you fucking bring up Katherine? You fix this or I'll let Tyler bite you and this time you have to grovel to Klaus," Elena threatened, "It won't even take that much convincing. He loves Bells, if he found out what you said to her-"

"What did you say to her?" Jasper's voice met them at the door. His hazel eyes took in the distraught look on Damon and Elena's faces as well as the wall and narrowed, "What the fuck did you do? Where is Bella?"

"Fuck," Damon hissed under his breath as Elena stepped back, she knew what was coming. Ric must have known too, he guarded the back door so no one could get in.

"Elena. What. Did. He. Do."

Elena gulped, not wanting to tell Jasper something that could potentially get Damon killed.

"He said something about Katherine," Stefan said as he pulled Elena farther back.

Damon sighed, knowing he was going to get punched at least. Jasper blurred over in front of the raven haired man, grabbing him by the neck and lifted him off the ground. "Why would you do that Damon? Why would you mention your crazy ex to her? The one you were pining over for 145 years? Do you want me to kill you?"

"Ah, he can't answer any of your questions if he can't get air to his lungs Jasper," Ric pointed out as Damon was struggling to breathe.

Jasper dropped Damon to the ground and kicked him in the side, "You are an idiot Damon Salvatore. You know she loves you, you see she is prone to thinking she's worthless, and comparing her to that slut only makes her feel even lower. I should kill you, but I'll save that for Bella."

"She wants to go to Seattle, Whitlock," Damon grunted as he heaved a shallow breath in, "She intends to get in the middle of it all, where we know they are trying to kill her and go looking for it! I can't let her do it, I can't worry about if they find her if I get her back. So yeah, I said I wish she had a bit of self-preservation and was slightly more selfish, like Katherine. I would rather she stay here where it's safe, then go walking into danger when we aren't ready for it."

Jasper scoffed, "That girl will always choose to get in the middle of it, she will always help others even if it means jumping head first into danger. She will never be like Katherine, and as infuriating as you might find it, you love that about her. If she had any self-preservation, she wouldn't have the family she has now. She wouldn't be with you, cus God knows, you put her in more danger every day."

"Fine," Damon bit out, anger still in his eyes. Quickly he punched Jasper in the gut, the resounding crack was like lightning. Damon whistled out a small groan as he walked towards the door that Ric had opened, ushering him out.

Damon lifted his middle finger as he walked out the door, "Fuck you, dickhead!" He called out going to look for Bella.

Jasper laughed and shook his head, turning around as Stefan had run to get replacement boards for the wall. The drywall would need to be replaced, but just covering the hole would do for now. Damon could repair it later.

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Damon walked to the side of the house where he knew he would find Bella. She had taken a liking to looking into the woods from the gazebo. Just like he knew she would be, she was there, sitting with her arms wrapped around her knees, staring into the trees. Damon stretched his fingers as the bones began to realign and heal as he walked in and sat next to his girl.

Sitting a bit further than normal he said, "I didn't mean it. I don't want you to be Katherine, I haven't thought of Katherine in years, especially not like that and definitely not since we've been together. I just meant I wish you could see that I'm trying to keep you out of danger." He sighed as she continued to look into the woods, "She had a knack of knowing where danger was and running far away from it; you, my love, run right into it. It scares me that I could lose you because you would sacrifice yourself for everyone." He put an arm around her, and she leaned into his side, "Call me selfish, I want you. I want you whole, I can't keep you out of danger, but I'll be damned if I will walk you into it like a pig to slaughter if I can help it."

"But Ele-"

"Elena isn't my concern! Dammit Bella, can't you see. I will never leave you, I will never abandon you, but that also means you can't do the same to me."

"I'm not!"

"If you go with us and for some reason get hurt or killed, that is exactly what you are doing!" Damon cried out, his anger getting the best of him again, "Don't you understand, if you go and get captured, she will kill you. I can't live with myself if that happens."

"If I stay here and something happens to you, I couldn't live with that either," Bella said stubbornly.

Damon growled he could feel his face change, see the red haze over his vision, and feel the elongated fangs begin to protrude from his gums. Bella turned to face him, his vampire face shrouded his usually bright blue eyes. Bringing her small hands up to his cheeks, she traced the veins visible around his eyes and caresses his face until he got control of himself.

Once his fangs retreated back into his mouth, she kissed him. Soft at first and then with more vigor, straddling his lap, pushing her center into his growing erection, she began to move against him as he wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her ass even closer so he could brush up against her pubic bone. The cold wind swirled around them, but the friction that they created around them heated their entwined bodies. He wanted to take her right there, not caring that it was March; not caring that it was freezing outside, determined to heat her body with his own. Unfortunately, he knew they shouldn't.

Groaning, he pulled back from her pink lips, "Oh baby, I wish we could continue, but we should go back in."

"Why?" Bella asked frustrated, "Can't we just stay out here and cuddle in the cold?"

Damon chuckled, "As much as I like your thinking, Jasper and Blondie are home, and I think we have visitors waiting to talk to you."

"Who?"

"I don't know, some of the Cullens I would think. I smelled them earlier when we came down, but we, ah… Got distracted."

Bella paled, " They were there during our fight?"

Damon grinned, "Probably, they got to see you be a bad ass. I must say, you're getting faster, I didn't even see the stake," he began tracing his hands up and down her body. Goose flesh began to erupt on her sensitive skin, "Where, my dear Allie, did you hide that stake?"

Bella moaned at his soft touch, "I'll never tell," she teased as she got off his lap, grabbed his hand and walked back to the house.

Before they walked through the door, Damon held her back with a firm tug of her hand.

"Okay, you can come with us, but you have to drink my blood every day we are there. Not negotiable Bella."

Bella rolled her brown eyes, "Yes Damon, I will drink your blood." She went up on her tiptoes and gave her boyfriend another kiss, "I love you, Noah."

Damon smiled down at his girl, grabbing her hands, they began to sway again. Bella smiled back, moving in time with him, "I'm sorry I staked you."

Damon shrugged, "It wasn't the first time I've been staked in the middle of a passionate argument, I doubt it would be the last time." He smirked at Bella, giving her a kiss on the nose, "At least you didn't aim for the heart."

Bella stood back a few millimeters, "I would never, I might get mad at you, but I would never kill you."

Damon kissed her one more time, "I love you too Allie."