Elena sat at the end of the dock holding her cell phone for over an hour. She wanted to call Damon so badly and tell her what Stefan had done but she knew if she did he would turn the car around and he could not be here when Jenna got here. As soon as Jenna did get here though she would call him. Maybe he could come back and then at least he could be a buffer between them.
She looked back at the house making sure he wasn't coming out to see her but instead it was Caroline bouncing on her heels coming down to end of the dock. "Hey Elena!" she said sitting beside her. "Again I am really sorry about earlier." she said.
"It's fine." she said looking over at her. "So you and Stefan are..."
"Well I don't really know quite what we are." said Caroline. "I mean we've been spending a lot of time together with all the vampire stuff and then the two of us being up here all alone just talking... It just happened." she said. "You don't mind do you?"
"No!" said Elena almost too quickly. "I mean... I don't mind at all. Me and Stefan were over a long time even before the Damon and I."
"He's just so amazing." said Caroline. "I mean he's been so patient with me through all of this. I am so hopeless with drinking blood without getting me all over me." She laughed and Elena tried to join her but she couldn't muster up a believable laugh. "Is something wrong?"
"Not really." said Elena. "I just already miss Damon. I mean these last few days were...perfect."
"How was it?" said Caroline. "Where did he take you?"
"Oh god Caroline it was like something out of a movie." she said smiling. "It was this big beautiful house and we had it all to ourselves. He made me breakfast and we ate out on this gorgeous gazebo and we'd watch the sun rise from the library over the lake."
"It sounds like a dream." said Caroline.
"It was." said Elena dropping her feet of the dock so her feet dangled in the water. "And I finally said it. I told him I loved him."
"He let you hold out this long?" said Stefan from behind her. Elena turned around looking up at him.
"I knew I loved him." she said. "I just couldn't say it."
"Maybe it's because you didn't mean it." he said. Elena started to argue but she saw Jenna's silver car pulling down the road into the driveway.
"You need to go." she said. "Jenna's here." She stood picking up her shoes and marched back down the dock to the house.
"What was all that about?" said Caroline.
"I don't know." said Elena trying not to let her hands ball up. "Ok we have to make Jenna think that the two of us, just the two of us were the only ones here this weekend. A girls weekend."
"Got it." she said. "No Salvatorre brothers involved." The got to the house just as Jenna pulled up.
"Hey Jenna." said Elena. "We were just down at the dock putting our feet in the water."
"Wow." said Jenna looking around. "I forgot how great this house was."
"So thats the real reason you came out here." said Elena. "You just wanted a vacation yourself under the pretense of worrying about me."
"Well I was worried." she said. "You weren't picking up your phone and when I called Caroline you were never there to talk."
"Well here I am." said Elena. "A big two hour drive for nothing."
"Well not quite for nothing." said Alaric getting out of the car. "I actually have a cabin up around here too so I thought I'd bring Jenna up just for a little two day trip. You and Jeremy will be alright on Monday on your own won't you?"
"Yeah of course." said Elena. "Well do you two want to come in for-" She remembered the bare state of the fridge. "A bathroom break or water?"
"No we're only 20 minutes away from his place." said Jenna. "I just wanted to stop in and make sure everything was alright."
"Well we'll be heading out tonight so we can get some rest for school." said Elena. "I'll call you when we get on the road and when we get home."
"Great." said Jenna hugging them both. "See you Tuesday." She got back in her car and she and Alaric drove up the road and out of sight.
"I cannot believe I drove here like a maniac for that." she said stepping inside the house. "That visit lasted less then five minutes."
"Yeah but at least you got back in time." said Caroline. "Can you imagine what would have happened if you hadn't been here?"
"Yeah I guess." she said. "But Damon and I had to cut our perfect weekend short."
"Oh no." said Stefan walking in the back door. "You had to actually do what you were telling everyone you were doing. How tragic." Caroline looked between the two of them trying to understand what was happening.
"I'm going to my room." she said fighting back the urge to scream several creative insults back at Stefan. "Then I'm going to head into town and pick up some groceries for those of us who don't subsist on deer and squirrels." She got into her room and pulled her phone out of her bag dialing Damon quickly.
"Hey." he said picking up almost immediatly. "Is Jenna there?"
"Here and gone in under a minute." she said. "She was just stopping by on her way up to Alaric's cabin."
"So how is it going apart from that?" he said. Elena sat on her bed not knowing what to say. "Elena are you still there?"
"It's Stefan." she said. "And the way he's acting."
"What did he do?" said Damon his voice cold.
"Well he hasn't really done anything." she said. "It's what he's saying. He keeps... it's like he's trying to dangle Caroline in front of me to make me jealous."
"What the hell?" said Damon.
"I know." she said. "And Caroline feels like she has someone she can really connect to and he's just using her."
"I don't like that you're alone up there with him." said Damon and she could almost see his fingers tightening in anger over the steering wheel. "I thought would at least have Jenna looking out for you."
"I'll be fine." she said. "And we'll be leaving tonight anyway."
"Then I'm turning the car around." said Damon. "I'm not leaving you alone with him."
"Damon you don't have to do that." said Elena her mood already lifting.
"I know I don't have to." he said. "I want to. And frankly I miss you already."
"Well don't turn the car around." she said. "Go back to the house and get all our stuff together and then come back. I'll be fine until noon. I'll just stay in my room and out of his way."
"I love you." he said. "Just stay safe. You don't want to know how Stefan can get. when-" Damon stopped mid-sentence.
"When he what?" said Elena sitting up a bit.
"He just hasn't always been this controlled." he said. "Just be careful ok?"
"I will. I love you Damon." she said her fingers wrapping around the necklace he gave her.
"Say it again." he said.
"I love you." she said smiling. "I love you. I love you."
"I love you too." he said. "And I'll be there soon." She smiled and closed her phone.
"Laying it on a bit thick aren't you?" said Stefan leaning in the doorway.
"Get out." she said her hand closing over her necklace tighter.
"Just wondering why if you're so madly in love it took you so long too say it. Maybe you're really not-"
"Don't you dare." she said standing up. "I am sorry about how I ended things with you. I am sorry but how many times do I have to say it? We are done. And Caroline thinks you two have something going on. So don't use her for whatever sick plan you've got going on."
"So I was right." he said. "You are jealous of me and Caroline."
"You are deranged!" said Elena. "I am not jealous of you. I have Damon, I am in love with Damon."
"Keep telling yourself that." he said stepping into her and she instinctively stepped back. "Keep telling yourself you don't regret-"
"Get out." she said. "Get out of my room." She pushed against him even though she knew he was much stronger then her.
"I will for now." he said backing away. "I'l give you time to see what you really want."
"I want Damon." she said.
"For now." She slammed the door in his face locking it.
Sorry for the big gap between updates. Just school and life getting in the way. I know this update was short but I wanted to give you something to show that this is not abandoned.