Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However I decided to have a little play around with the characters (I would definitely like to play with Damon).
Elena decided to go back to school the next day, and to ensure she didn't starve, Matt had offered to help her out and let her feed from him. In return he'd taken to wearing the Gilbert ring during feeding, just to be on the safe side. They'd arranged to meet near the stoner den before school started whilst it was still quiet. Elena hadn't been waiting long when she heard Matt approach.
"Kind of weird, doing this in our old make-out spot." Matt said smiling.
"Thank you for doing this. Damon seems to think that I need to be able to feed properly before I can move on to blood bags." Elena replied.
"It's okay. I kind of owe you my life, remember?" Matt insisted with a small chuckle.
"Yeah, but I didn't make Stefan save your life so that I could turn you into a human blood bag." Elena retorted, knowing the situation with Matt was only going to be temporary, she just hadn't decided what to do yet.
"Elena, please, just... Let me do this for you." Matt said adamantly as he rolled up his sleeve and held out his his arm towards her prompting Elena's fangs to appear, as she gently bit into his wrist and began to feed on him. As soon as the blood entered her mouth, she felt the veins pulsing around her eyes suggesting the blood lust was about to take over, forcing her to stop and let go of him.
"Was that enough?" Matt looked down at his wrist in confusion. He knew that she had hardly taken any yet she'd already stopped.
"No." Elena said as she wiped the blood from her face with a paper napkin. "But, if I had any more, I'm afraid I wouldn't stop. Here." Elena offered as she took out a bandage from her bag and covered the bite marks on Matt's wrist. "Thank you." she said as Matt nodded at her just as the bell rang. Elena jumped down onto a table and then to the ground followed by Matt before they began to walk across the school yard.
"So, you really think school is the best place for you right now?" Matt asked
"The vampire hunter knows that Damon's a vampire and that I know Damon." Elena explained. "Hiding at home would be more suspicious. Besides, I want to be here. It's my senior year. I survived this long, there's no way I'm bailing before graduation."
Elena noticed a pamphlet on the windshield of a car and and picked it up so she could read it. "Mandatory curfew, all ages commencing until further notice, which is issued by the Police Department." Elena read out loud. "Town called for curfew?" she asked confused.
"Tyler got shot in front of half the town. Everyone's a little freaked." Matt shrugged.
"If only they knew the real story." Elena bit back and headed to class.
First period was History and Elena sat down at her desk next to Stefan. Elena noticed the chalkboard with Alaric's handwritten notes on it. Losing Ric had been hard and the notes were just another reminder of someone else she had lost. Tears started to well up in her eyes, choking back, she tried to do everything she could not to cry in front of the whole class.
"It's the first time we've been back in Alaric's classroom..." Stefan said pointing out the obvious.
"First period, and I'm ready to bawl my eyes out." Elena whispered back, the tears threatening to fall.
"Morning, everyone." Rebekah greeted nobody in particular as she entered the classroom with fliers
"Morning, Bekah." Someone behind Elena replied.
"Just like that, I'm no longer feeling sentimental." Elena muttered under her breath as her mood switched immediately from grief to anger.
"So, I'm throwing a little anti-curfew party at my new house. Starts at fifth period and goes 'til whenever. Spread the word." Rebekah announced as she began to hand out a couple of the fliers before turning to Elena. "You're welcome to join, Elena, if you'd like to bury the hatchet." She plastered a fake smile across her face as she handed Elena a flier
"It's a pretty enormous hatchet." Elena spat back at her.
"Well, I'm feeling generous of spirit." Rebekah said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.
"New house, huh? Did your brother finally kick you out?" Elena asked as she looked at the flier in her hand.
"He didn't kick me out, I left." Rebekah corrected her.
"So, you left the only person on earth that actually likes you?" Elena raised an eyebrow as Rebekah looked at Stefan.
"Well, your boyfriend liked me once. Actually, a lot more than once." Rebekah smirked which made Elena even more angry.
"Why are you still in town, Rebekah? Don't you have anywhere else to go?" Stefan asked lazily.
"Well, history's my favorite class. Actually, where is Mr. Saltzman...?" Rebekah paused causing Elena to get even angrier. "Oh, that's right, I killed him." Rebekah smiled sweetly.
Elena finally lost it and threw her pencil at Rebekah's face, which Rebekah managed to grab mid air, throwing it back at Elena and impaling her in the shoulder. They glared at each other before Elena removed the pencil and got up before anyone else in class noticed what had just happened. Elena stormed out into the hallway and Stefan followed, stopping her as he gently took hold of the arms of the visibly furious Elena and tried to calm her down. Elena however pulled out of his grasp and continued walking down the hallway.
"Just breathe, just breathe. You haven't felt this kind of rage before." he tried to coaxed her.
"I fucking hate her." Elena growled as she and Stefan stopped walking and stood face-to-face. "I didn't think I was capable of hate, but I hate her, and I hate that I hate her."
All of a sudden Elena's mood switched once more, suddenly distracted from her hate as she looked over Stefan's shoulder. "That's the hunter." she said quietly, prompting Stefan to turn around as they both watched Connor in the hallway, talking to a woman.
"What the hell is he doing here?" Stefan asked as they watched Connor walk towards Jeremy, who was standing at his locker.
"Jeremy. No." Elena began to walk towards Jeremy before Stefan managed to stop her.
"No, no, no. Hey, hey, let me get this." Stefan pointed out her bloody hand to her. "Okay? I got that." Stefan walked off towards Jeremy and Connor. Elena headed to the girls restroom to clean up. She took off her sweater before grabbing some tissues and rinsing her blood-soaked hands and shoulder with water. Moments later, a girl walked into the restroom behind Elena with her hand clamped over her neck.
"There you are. Rebekah sent me to see if you were okay." The girl said as Elena threw away the tissues, barely taking any notice of the girl.
"I'm fine, Heather." Elena said irritably
"I'm not." Heather told her.
Suddenly the scent of blood filled the air. Elena turned around and looked at Heather confused, until she saw the blood dripping from Heather's neck underneath her hand. Realizing what Rebekah had done, Elena began to breathe heavily as she struggled trying to resist the girl's blood whilst she could feel her canines itching to elongate.
"What's wrong, Elena? Getting hungry?" Rebekah asked as she entered the restroom and walked over to Heather who removed her hand from her neck, making the blood easier for Elena to see and smell.
"No, get-get away from me." Elena began to panic as Rebekah wiped at the blood from Heather's neck with her finger. This was the last thing Elena needed with the Hunter around.
"But she's so delicious." Rebekah taunted as she placed her finger with blood on Elena's mouth, forcing Elena to slap her hand away.
"You shouldn't be here. This is my school. It's my life. And I'm not gonna let you ruin it!" Elena shouted at Rebekah.
"It's my school now." My life. Maybe you're the one who shouldn't be here." Rebekah shouted back. "And I couldn't help but overhear that there's a vampire hunter roaming the hallways." Rebekah rubbed her hand over Heather's bloody neck wound. "How inconvenient for you." she continued as she wiped her bloody hand all over Elena's face, prompting the veins to pulse all around Elena's eyes and causing her to growl. "See you in gym. I think it's dodge ball day." Rebekah took Heather and they both left the bathroom. As if nothing had happened.
Elena took a few deep breaths to force the veins to disappear, before she furiously stormed outside to find Stefan who was sat with Caroline at one of the picnic tables. Once there, Elena proceeded to tell them what happened with Rebekah in the bathroom, all the while pacing back and forth in front of them.
"It was a valiant first day effort." Caroline told Elena. "No one will judge you if you want to go home." she suggested.
"I don't want to go home." Elena replied indignantly. "I want to take the white oak stake and kill her. That's how mad I am. She made me murderous!"
"How about we just leave the murdering to Damon?" Stefan joked before getting up and walking towards Elena.
"And-and then do what? Ignore her to death?" Elena asked, although the mention of Damon had given her an idea regarding killing Rebekah.
"Look, she's trying to make herself feel better." Stefan sighed. "She knows that everybody hates her, so she's trying to hate harder. Tell you what, let's just skip the rest of the day. Go have some fun. I feel like this day is severely lacking in fun." Elena looked at Caroline who smiled back knowingly. Elena pretended to nod reluctantly in agreement, although inside she was forming a plan.
"Yeah. Okay, fine." she lied causing Stefan to smile. "Then, we'll go to her party and show her that she can't intimidate me. I just have to go home and change first." she continued as she waved goodbye to Caroline and left.
Stefan took Elena home and went back to school, leaving Elena to grab a change of clothing before she headed to the boarding house as she intended to change when she got there. She had had enough of Rebekah and she just wanted her out of their lives for good. It was partly her fault that Elena was a vampire, Matt had no truck because of her, and not only that, she had she tortured Damon and she'd slept with him (the latter bothered her more than she'd care to let on to anyone). Elena started to think about her plan. As Rebekah wasn't their Original sire, Elena would be able to kill her with no personal repercussions as neither she nor her friends would die as a result. Knowing that Damon was with Ric when he died, meant that Damon must have the white oak stake stashed somewhere, all she had to do was find it. When she arrived at the boarding house, she was happy to find it empty, so she went straight to Damon's bedroom and began searching through his drawers and closet for what she was looking for.
"Hope you plan on cleaning this up." Elena was so busy searching for the stake, that she hadn't heard Damon get back to the house, so hearing Damon's voice completely startled her and she nearly jumped out of her skin as she turned round to face him.
"I need bourbon to get through Rebekah's party. Yours is better than Stefan's." Elena lied, hoping that Damon wouldn't see straight through her.
"Top drawer in the dresser." Damon told her pointing towards the dresser in question.
"Thanks." Elena said, trying to sound relieved as she walked over to the drawer and opened it whilst Damon pulled out a silver hip flask from his pocket and took a swig from it.
Realizing she'd been duped, Elena pulled out a pair of black briefs and held them up. "You keep alcohol in your underwear drawer?" Elena asked Damon sarcastically turning round to face him.
"No." Damon smirked as Elena threw the briefs back into the drawer. "But, you weren't looking for alcohol, were you?" Damon asked as Elena looks at him guiltily and also slightly annoyed that Damon could read her so well. "Do you think I'd actually leave the last remaining white oak stake where any vampire could just walk in and take it?" he asked as he unbuttoned his shirt, alerting Elena to the blood from a healed wound on his shoulder.
"What happened to you?" Elena asked with concern.
"Hunter mishap." Damon replied nonchalantly as he examined the area where the wound had been.
"You know he was at my school today?" Elena asked him, as she walked over to him.
"Yep. Jeremy told me." Damon replied.
"Why were you talking to Jeremy?" Elena asked, worried that Damon was going to get Jeremy involved with some idiotic plan to get rid of the hunter.
"Don't worry about it." he reassured her as he began to take his shirt off.
"Damon, don't bring him into this." Elena trained her eyes on Damon's face, knowing that if she didn't concentrate hard, her eyes would inevitably start to roam all over his gorgeous body.
"Cherish the thought that he might actually be useful, Elena." Damon said as he began to undo the belt on his pants. Elena's eyes ignored her mind and they wandered down to watch what he was doing. She was using every part of her mind trying not to lose control and grab hold of him, strip him naked and indulge in all manner of dirty things that she couldn't have even imagined as a human. Being around a semi naked Damon was proving more difficult than being around April as she lay bleeding to death.
"You staying for the show or...?" Damon asked as he unbuttoned his pants, snapping Elena back to reality as she realized she'd subconsciously taken a step closer to him whilst he was undressing, leaving only a couple of inches between their bodies and Elena breathing heavily in a state of arousal. Unfortunately now she was aware of how keen the vampire sense of smell was, she embarrassingly aware that Damon would know the effect he was having on her.
"I'm finding that stake." Elena said determinedly trying to bring herself back to reality as she walked out of the room. She wasn't sure if she would be able to control herself if she spent another moment longer in his bedroom with him.
"You wait in the parlor, I'll bring it down when I'm done." Damon called after her, she could almost hear the triumphant smirk in his voice.
Elena went to Stefan's room and changed before heading down to the parlor to wait for Damon. Elena sat on one of the couches in the parlor as Damon emerged newly dressed in black carrying the white oak stake in his hand. He walked over to the wet bar with it and put it down whilst he poured himself a drink before looking up at her.
"I hope this is not for Klaus." Damon took a sip of his whiskey. "He might be an annoying little shit, but I'm not quite ready to die yet."
"It's for Rebekah." Elena offered.
"Ah Barbie Klaus. Now that's more like it." Damon smirked. "So what's your plan?"
"She's having a party at hers later. And I've been invited..." Elena told Damon, who raised his eyebrows in surprise at that comment. "I'm hoping that whilst she's got her guard down I can take her by surprise. I've done it before when I was human. She has weaknesses and is easily distracted when people are being nice to her."
"So I take it you're going to compel some unsuspecting person to be nice to her..." Elena nodded, standing up as Damon moved away from the wet bar with his drink in one hand and the stake in the other. "Maybe compel them to keep her occupied whilst you stab her in the back?" Damon asked seductively as he walked over to Elena until they were only a couple of inches apart. Elena gulped and nodded again, his mere presence was sending her into a tizzy. "Good plan, I like it." Damon whispered with a smile on his face as he handed her the white oak stake, their hands brushing together sending jolts of electricity through Elena's body. "Keep it well hidden from everyone, including Stefan, and make sure that nobody knows you have it. I want it back when you've finished." Damon whispered into her ear from behind her as she put the stake in her bag.
"Thank you Damon. I'll keep it safe, I promise." Elena turned her head around to look at him, they stared at each other momentarily before Elena heard a noise. Damon was back over by the wet bar in a flash.
"Hello Stefan." Damon said pouring himself another drink as Elena made her way to the entrance towards Stefan who she kissed on the cheek. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Damon watching their interactions with interest.
"Bye Damon." Elena called turning round to face Damon who in turn only smirked in response, before she left for the party with Stefan who simply ignored Damon.
By the time Stefan and Elena reached Rebekah's house, the party was already in full swing. There were already people outside, drinking from beer kegs and having a good time. Elena and Stefan made their way to the entrance of the house and stepped straight in through the doorway.
"Wow, we didn't have to be invited in. I wonder who used to live here." Stefan asked.
"Or who died here." Elena added as they stopped walking. Elena spotted Rebekah and she started to feel incredibly angry again.
"You're fixating." Stefan warned her.
"No, I'm just quietly hating." Elena said quietly trying to reassure him.
"This is mine now." Stefan said compelling a boy who was walking past them with a cup of beer in his hand to give Stefan his drink. "Thank you." Stefan said to the boy before handing the beer to Elena. "Why don't you have a drink? It'll help you let go." Elena took the cup from Stefan and was about to take a sip when she saw April walking across the room.
"April's here. I'm gonna go say hi." Elena told Stefan.
"And I am going to find something a little stronger than beer." Stefan told her.
"Okay." Elena replied as she and Stefan walked off in opposite directions, Stefan towards alternative alcohol supplies and Elena into the kitchen where she found April standing alone at the island in the center of the room.
"Hey." Elena said as she walked over to greet her.
"Elena! Thank God, I know someone." April said with a huge smile on her face.
"I'm glad you came. Are you thirsty?" Elena asked as she offered April a drink.
"You know, you used to read me bedtime stories." April reminded Elena as she looked at the beer, smiling.
"And now I'm giving you beer. Sounds about right." Elena grinned at the irony causing April to laugh, as she took the cup from Elena's hand and drank it.
"Mmm, if my dad could see me now." April mused sadly.
"How are you doing with everything?" Elena asked.
"I'm trudging through my denial phase. Dreaming up conspiracy theories." April told her as Elena frowned sadly. "My first weekend home from boarding school, my dad smelled cigarette smoke on my clothes before I even walked in the door. He would have noticed a gas leak in the house." April explained her problem with the gas explosion theory.
"So, you...you don't think that it was an accident?" Elena asked.
"I know there's no investigation, that everyone's calling it an accident. But, the shooting at the church? It just feels like..." April stopped to think as Rebekah joined them.
"Like something wicked is coming this way? I know, right? It's like this town's cursed or something." Rebekah offered as she walked into the room.
"Hey, April, why don't you go look around the house, and I'll find you in a little bit?" Elena suggested.
"Okay." April said sounding confused before leaving the kitchen.
"Did I forget to uninvite you?" Rebekah asked sarcastically.
"Did you blow up her dad's house to get revenge on the Council?" Elena asked, hoping the answer would be yes to give her an extra excuse for killing Rebekah.
"I don't give a damn about some dodgy, middle-aged Council." Rebekah scoffed angrily. "You come into my house, throw around false accusations and then you have the nerve to drink my beer?" Rebekah took the cup from Elena's hand and smirked as she took a sip of the beer, when suddenly Elena started to hear a sizzling noise causing her to look down at her hand where she saw that the sun was burning her when she realized that her ring is missing.
"My ring!" Elena cried as Rebekah smiled as Elena vamp-sped into a dark corner of the room whilst Rebekah held up Elena's daylight ring in front of her.
"Give it back!" Elena shouted.
"Get it yourself." Rebekah told her as she threw the ring down the drain of the sink.
"No!" Elena tried to move out of the dark but she was again burned by the sun. Rebekah smiled before she turned on the garbage disposal and walks out of the room.
Taking a deep breath Elena vamp-sped towards the sink and stuck her hand down the plug hole, as she managed to grab the ring out of the drain, all the while her flesh burning. Luckily she managed to put the ring back on her finger just in time to prevent her from going up in flames. Elena furiously walked over to her bag on the counter top, and took out the white oak stake. Just as she started to leave the kitchen to follow Rebekah, she was stopped by Stefan who suddenly appeared right in front of her.
"Damon give that to you?" he asked.
"Yes. Reluctantly." Elena lied. "Stefan, she's not gonna stop. She's just gonna keep pushing and pushing..."
"Well, if you want to kill her..." Stefan interrupted before stepping aside and gestured towards the hallway. "...I'm not gonna stop you. But see, here's what will happen. It'll feel really good for about ten seconds, and then after that, tens of thousands of vampires all over the world will start to die. Every vampire she ever turned will die. See, rage is a really powerful feeling. But guilt? Take it from me... it'll destroy you. So, you can either go after her, or you can get on the back of my motorcycle and we can get the hell out of here." Stefan smiled and held out his hand. Elena sighed reluctantly before handing him the stake and walking out of the house and down into the front yard.
"Leaving so soon?" Rebekah asked with a fake pout on her face as Elena stopped on the porch to turned around and face her.
"No. Not just yet." Elena looked at Stefan and handed him her bag. "I never got a drink." She smirked at Rebekah, before walking over to the keg, placing her hands on the sides of the keg and doing a handstand. She felt someone stick the beer hose in her mouth and she started to drink as everyone around her starts shouting, "Chug! Chug! Chug!" After a few moments, Elena got off the keg, stood up and wiped beer from her mouth.
"Now I'm ready to go." Elena smiled as she got on the back of Stefan's bike.
Stefan took them out for a ride through the countryside. Elena decided that now she was immortal, she could get a little more adventurous. This realization prompted her to remove her arms from around Stefan's waist and put them on his shoulders so she could stand up on the seat. Once she'd stood up and happy that she was well balanced, she let go of Stefan and spread her arms out wide so she could revel in the feel of the breeze rushing past her.
As much as it felt good to let go in that moment, Elena knew something wasn't right. A few months ago, this would have impressed her, just like being taken to the top of the Ferris wheel. Yes they were having fun, but that's what kids did, not adults and she wasn't a kid anymore. As she got back down and put her arms around Stefan's waist, she began to wonder if she'd out-grown him. She was biologically older than him, and it had started to occur to her if vampires only emotionally matured up until the age they were turned. She decided to put that thought to the back of her mind for the time being as they approached the driveway to the boarding house. Instead Elena thought now would be a good time to show Stefan why she chose him, hoping that it would help him with his insecurities about Damon.
Once back in Stefan's bedroom, Elena pushed Stefan down onto his bed to straddle him as she wanted to take control for a change. Their lips met and Stefan began kissing her passionately. Pulling back, Elena sat back up to look down at him. Stefan tried to sit up as well but Elena pushed him back down on the bed. Elena began to vamp-out hoping Stefan might find it appealing, however, Stefan made his feelings clear as he vamp-sped himself on top of her so that again he could be the one in control. Elena was a little disappointed by Stefan's actions, but ignored it as they began kissing again. Elena's thoughts once again turned to Damon and to whether Damon would let her take control if he was the one who was kissing her, not Stefan. Whilst she was thinking about Damon, the kisses had suddenly moved away from Elena's lips, instead he was kissing one side of Elena's neck, then chest, then the other side of her neck. Elena remembered when Damon had kissed her like this in Denver, except it had been this and so much more, and that was how it felt as a human, she wondered what his kisses would feel like as a vampire. Suddenly Stefan stopped kissing her and Elena looked up at him, but instead of seeing Stefan, it was Damon she saw hovering above her.
"No!" Elena cried as she pushed 'Damon' off of her as she knew she wasn't with Damon, which meant something was wrong.
"Are you okay?" Stefan asked as Elena began to breathe heavily before pulling up her sleeve revealing dark red and black marks creeping up her arm.
"Stefan. What's wrong with me?" Elena panicked as she pulled up her other sleeve only to reveal the same marks on the other arm.
"Damon said the hunter had werewolf venom." Stefan replied, his voice filled with horror.
"Oh my God." Elena cried as the severity of the situation took hold and Elena began burning up very quickly. Stefan picked up his phone and started making calls. Elena was feeling too ill to know who he was talking to.
"Hey." Stefan said causing Elena to smile at him. Feeling weak from the werewolf venom running through her, she momentarily closed her eyes. When she reopened them she saw Damon sat where Stefan once was and started to become confused.
"Why am I thinking about you?" She asked the Damon figure.
"Because you're a vampire now." he told her softly. "And part of you knows you're a lot more like me than you are like him."
"What's wrong, love?" Elena suddenly heard Klaus's voice in the room addressing her like a little child.
"She has werewolf venom in her system." She heard Stefan tell him. "You know you're the only one that can heal her, Klaus. Please."
"And what would you have done if I were no longer here? Hm? If you and your friends had succeeded in ridding the world of me? Let's play that game for a moment, shall we?" Klaus asked.
"Whatever you want from me..." Stefan begged.
"I don't want anything from you." Klaus replied as approached Elena and sat down next to her on the bed.
"Her, on the other hand...If you had told me a few hours ago, I wouldn't have cared a lick about her dying. But, as it turns out..." Elena heard Klaus bite into his wrist. "You may be of use to me after all." Elena felt Klaus place his wrist in her mouth and she began to drink his blood.
"Yes. There we go." Elena heard Klaus say softly as he pulled his wrist away.
It took around half an hour for Elena to feel fully healed enough to be ready to head back home. Stefan had offered for her to stay the night at the boarding house, but she didn't want to leave Jeremy alone, especially with the hunter roaming around. Another reason she wanted to go home was because she needed time alone to think the day's events and her physical reaction to Damon. Although she'd been hallucinating Damon earlier, the words 'Part of you knows you're a lot more like me than you are like him.' They had now become etched in her brain and she was beginning to wonder if they might be true.
Tired from thinking and exhausted by the what had happened to her in the last few hours, Elena called Matt to see if she could feed a little when she got back so that she could regain her strength from the werewolf venom. As usual Matt agreed to meet her at her house at seven, to let her feed from him. Wanting to get home as quickly as possible, Elena turned to leave, kissing Stefan on the cheek before making her way back home.