Damon sat watching Elena sleep in the half light of the early morning. He checked the ridge of the mountain range and looked down at her again as she smiled. He ran his hand over her forehead brushing the wisps of hair off her face. She turned into his hand smiling and he quickly pulled it back. He sat watching her sleep for a few more minutes until a yellow sliver of sun peeked over the ridge. He slid one hand down her waist and gently kissed her neck. She murmured gently and he ran his hand back and forth over her side. "Five more minutes." she mumbled into the pillow.
"You said I could wake you up at sunrise and it's sunrise. Now get up." She rolled over smiling up at him.
"I almost forgot I was here with you." she said. "Take me anywhere you want me." she said sitting up slowly.
"Then come with me." he said. She swung her knees to the side wrapping the sheet around her. He offered her a hand and she stood up slowly. She fell into him sleepily and he kissed her gently.
"Why do we need to go anywhere?" she said. "We've got everything we need right here." she said pulling him back towards the bed.
"No." he said pulling her towards the door. "You've got to come with me, this is worth seeing." He pulled her out of the room and into the hallway towards the library. The breeze from the still open window blew across the as they entered the room. He took her towards the door but covered her eyes before she could look out the window. "If you thought this view was great last night..." He took her through the door and uncovered her eyes. The sky was all gold and purple and the lake looked like it was on fire.
"Oh my god." she said falling into the banister. "Damon..." she looked over her shoulder and kissed him softly. He pulled the sheet away from her and slid his fingers down her front dipping two fingers inside her. She fell back into him closing her eyes as he swirled his fingers gently.
"Open your eyes." he said. "You can't miss this view." She tilted her face forward watching as the sky changed to orange. "The only thing more beautiful then this view," he said into her ear as she gasped and he ran his hands gently through her hair. "Is you."
"Damon..." she groaned falling forward into the banister. He pulled her back into him kissing her neck. She finally rose herself up on her toes before falling back into him unwinding completely. As she leaned against his chest breathing heavily closing her eyes as they were both bathed in yellow light. "Every time I think this place can't get better, you prove me wrong." she said looking over her shoulder at him.
"You have no idea all the things I have planned for us here." he said quietly kissing the side of her neck. "Now why don't you take a shower while I make you breakfast?"
"Why bother?" she said turning around and pushing him into the wall. "I'm just going to get dirty again."
"Then you may as well start with a clean slate." he said bending down to wrap the sheet around her again. "Now the bathroom is the door on the left and the closet is the door on the right." She turned and started to walk through the library but before she could make it to the door he was in front of her.
"What is it?" she said almost walking into him.
"How did you get more beautiful overnight?" he said looking her up and down.
"It's all your doing." she said smiling up at him. She sidestepped him and walked down the hallway. Before she could make it more then halfway down the hallway he was in front of her again. "What?" she said biting back a smile.
"Do you prefer pancakes or waffles?" he said catching her waist.
"Pancakes." she said giggling and stepped around him again. She had just made it to the bedroom when he was braced in the doorway. "What?" she said throwing her head back in laughter.
"I forgot." he said and she ducked under his arm sprinting towards the bathroom but she knew he would be in front her before she reached the bathroom door. "I remembered."
"What is it?" she said crossing her arms in mock annoyance.
"What kind of berries with your pancakes?"
"Surprise me." she said pushing him out the bedroom door and locking it behind him. She walked to the bathroom dropping the sheet to the ground behind her. She stepped into the white tiled bathroom exhaling and smiling at herself in the mirror. Her hair was tousled and her cheeks were flushed. She turned and cranked both of the gleaming silver faucets and let them fog up the mirrors as she found a white towel and set it on the counter.
She stepped under the water letting it soak her hair and skin. As the roaring water filled her ears she began to think to herself for the first time this morning. She started to think about what she had said to him the night before and her heart started to race. He couldn't have heard what she'd said last night...could he? She had made sure that he wouldn't hear her. And even if he had heard her he would have brought it up. He would have, she was sure of it. She reached for a bottle of lemongrass and sage body wash and worked it into a lather in her hands while she thought.
Elena stepped out the shower wrapping herself in the towel. She walked to the closet and was happy to see that Damon hadn't unpacked her bag, but instead had only placed her bag on the floor so he hadn't seen the gift bag at the bottom of her bag. She knelt and began to dig through her bag a smirk sliding over her lips.
She walked down the stairs a few minutes later her hair still slightly wet from he shower. She was wearing a sleeveless red sundress and hadn't bothered to put on shoes. "Hey." she said to Damon who was flipping a pancake in midair dressed in his usual uniform of a black v-neck and jeans. "Show-off." she said as he slid it onto a stack of already waiting pancakes. The plate was on a tray with a tall glass of orange juice, a pitcher of syrup and a bowl of strawberries, blueberries and blackberries.
"I couldn't decide which berries you'd like best so I just-" he turned around looking at her for the first time since she had come down the stairs. "Wow." he said stepping back.
"LIke something you see?" she said plucking a blueberry out of the bowl and popping it into her mouth.
"I like everything I see." he said leaning over the island and kissing her gently but she pulled away as he tried to wrap his hands around her waist.
"You said you'd let me eat before things got dirty again." she said.
"Now why did I say that." he said. "Well I thought we could eat outside. Well," he said. "You could eat." He pulled a blood bag from the freezer and a crystal tumbler from the cabinet. She watched as he added them to the tray and he caught her eye. "Does it bother you?" he said as he picked up the tray and headed for the back door.
"No." she said. "I was just thinking." She opened the backdoor and followed him as he walked down the porch. She expected him to walk straight but he turned around to the side of the house. As she turned her breath caught again. On the side of the house was a cabana with white gauzy curtains surrounding two low couches and a low table. "Damon, how did you-"
"I have my ways." he said setting the tray down as she sat on the couch tucking her legs beneath her. She poured syrup over her pancakes and took a bite.
"Oh my god." she said. "These are so good."
"So what were you thinking about in the kitchen?" he said as he poured the blood bag into the tumbler and took a sip.
"I was just thinking I could never survive on one food for the rest of my life. I mean doesn't it all taste the same?" she said taking a sip of orange juice.
"Well yes and no." he said. "There are all kinds of people like there are all kinds of...pie."
"Pie?" she said almost spitting out her orange juice as she laughed.
"It's all I could think of." he said.
"Please elaborate." she said taking another bite of pancakes.
"Well there's a million different flavors of pie so while it's all the same general idea there are different nuances that make each persons flavor different."
"And what's your favorite flavor?" she said eyeing him over her orange juice.
"Elena flavored." he said.
"Good answer." she said setting her glass down.
"The only answer." he said leaning over the table but she pulled back.
"I'm not done with my breakfast." she said swallowing another spoonful of berries.
"Aren't you the tease this morning?" he said sitting back and taking another sip from his glass.
"I thought it might be fun." she said raising an eyebrow. "If did the withholding for once."
"Damn your learning curve." he said sitting back.
"Just until I finish my breakfast." she said taking the last bite of her pancakes. She had nearly finished her berries but instead of eating them with her spoon she began to eat them one by one with her fingers.
"You are awful." he groaned leaning forward. She shrugged taking a slow sip of the last of her orange juice eyeing the last strawberry in the bowl. She reached for it but he stopped her. "Allow me." he picked up the strawberry and lifted it slowly to her mouth. She took it into her mouth sucking gently on his fingers. "Goddamn it." he groaned as she pulled back. "Can I touch you now?" he moaned leaning into her.
"What's stopping you?" she said gripping his shirt and pulling him on top of her laying back onto the couch.
"God you are perfect." he said reaching for the front of her dress.
"Don't tear it." she said. "This is one of my favorites."
"Then you take it off." he said.
"Gladly." she said. She reached for the back of her dress and pulled the zipper down slowly. She stood and let the dress fall forward off of her immensely enjoying the look on Damon's face.
"When the hell did you have time to buy that?" he said standing in front of her running his hands down the sides of her deep violet and black lace corset.
"Online shopping and overnight shipping work miracles." she said looping her arms around his neck. "And you told me you were a fan of corsets."
"Oh god I do." he moaned pressing his forehead against her looking down at her newly revealed body. He dug his fingers into her sides and pulled her into him. She kissed him gently as he continued to run his hands over her. "God I love the feeling of silk on your body."
"I love the feeling of your hands on my body." she said. He pushed her back onto the low couch underneath the cabana. She threw her arms over her head as he kissed up her neck and pinned her wrists down. "And I like it when you hold me down."
"Good." he said. He stroked the matching silky violet underwear with one hand and she shivered underneath him.
"You're not allowed to rip this." she said. "It costs way to much money and took way to long to put on."
"Damn it." he said. "It's going to take me forever to undo the laces."
"Good things come to those who wait." she said sliding her hands under his shirt and lifting it over his head.
"Oh you'll be coming." he said rolling onto his back. She straddled him, her toes touching the grass. He reached up and started to undo the ribbon bow at the base of her spine. "You couldn't have gotten the one of the ones with the hooks down the front?"
"I couldn't make it easy for you." she said.
"How did you lace this up this tight by yourself?" he said finally undoing the bow.
"You have your ways, I have mine." she said kissing his collarbone gently smiling as he moaned and she nipped at his neck. He gently worked his fingers between the laces and slowly began to pull them apart. She leaned down kissing him gently as he worked his hand up her back slowly loosening the laces.
"You know I wish we could spend each and every day like this." he said looking into her eyes. "Just like this without a care in the world."
"So do I." she said closing her eyes as his hand passed the halfway point on her back. "Can we stay here forever?"
"You know we can't." he said. "But don't think about that, just enjoy right now."
"Ok." she said closing her eyes as one of his hands slid underneath the slowly opening gap at the front of her corset. "I can enjoy this."
"I know I am." he said. He worked the lace out of the top set of loops and pulled the long silky black ribbon out in one swift movement. "All done." he said pulling the corset off of her and laying it on the low table. He rolled her on her back and pulled the matching silky underwear off of her. He slid off the rest of his clothes and she looked up at him.
"I've never- you know... outside." she said her breath shallow.
"Do you want to go inside?" he said sitting up.
"No." she said pulling him back. "I was just telling you. You push me to my limits and I love it." He hovered over her for a moment before gently pressing inside her. She gasped digging her nails into his back exhaling suddenly.
"I love you." he said stroking her hair off her face. She bit her lip and dug her nails in deeper into his back pulling him closer into her.
"I need you." she said as he groaned in her ear. He braced himself on one of the wooden posts pressing into her again. She threw her head back as he pressed into her deeper.
"Don't you ever forget that." he said.
"I won't." she gasped. "I promise." She felt him release inside her and her toes curled as he thrust deeper into her. She came right behind him and he kissed her smoothly absorbing her screams of pleasure. He rolled off of her laying beside her and she turned to look at him stroking his bare chest.
"You know you are complete and utter perfection." he said.
"I'm not." she said laying flat in her back and looking at the cerulean sky. "I'm messed up in so many ways. But you are perfect." she said turning her head to look at him for a moment, before looking back at the sky.
"Not even close." he said. "I mean physically, yes." She sat up laughing pulling her dress back on and he followed suit pulling his jeans on. "But I'm royally fucked up."
"Well then let's be messed up together." she said standing up and padding across the grass letting the sun warm her skin. She opened her arms turning her face and palms upward. "I love that feeling." she said her face turned to the sky, her eyes closed.
"What feeling?" he said walking up behind her and wrapping his arms around her waist. She wrapped her arms over his still keeping her face turned to the sky.
"When you step into the sun and your skin kind of tingles as you warm up. Like you're being electrified, like you're a lightbulb."
"I miss that feeling." he said. "I don't really warm up anymore. But I know exactly what you're talking about."
"Sorry." she said opening her eyes and looking over her shoulder at him. "I didn't mean to-"
"Don't." he said gently tilting her face upwards again. "Don't worry about me, just enjoy all of this."
"I'll enjoy you too." she said leaning back into his chest running her fingertips over his arms.
Your reviews have been MAGNIFICENT. You are going to be the reason I flunk out of college because I am completely ignoring all my homework in favor of writing this chapter (which I had to do twice BTW). The Georgia Weekend will continue with at least one more chapter if not two. Sadly they will have to return to reality again but you'll have the memories of this weekend to get you through it.