"Okay, bitch." Damon said this simply, wiping the blood off coming from his nose.
"I know you feel the need to fight for Elena. So, I will give you, your pound of flesh… If you can take it." A smile of knowing on my lips, knowing he could never make me bleed.
Damon struck me in kind, but for me it felt like a feather being brushed up against my nose. No blood was drawn; all it did was make me sneeze, while a giggle escaped my lips. I was not trying to make him. Blinding him with anger to the point where he just could not see that there was no winning this battle. He was hitting me with all the strength he had, and not once did I waver in my stance. Surprisingly, he decided to pick me up and through me up again the wall next to the fireplace, for me to only land on my feet. It was then that both Stefan and Elijah, stood between Damon and I. It was when I felt Stefan land against the wall opposite me was when I was done with this game.
"We are done, stand down Damon." I was looking down at him, my foot holding him to the ground, by the neck.
"No!" His words gurgled with blood.
Removing my foot from his neck, pushing my power out to hold Damon down, I knelt down next to him. I could feel his conviction of not giving up this fight, his need to self-destruct. It saddened me that someone who had such great passion and love for others felt he himself was not worth of their love in return.
"I am a higher being Damon, to fight against me, what I know , you will lose." Reaching to touch his forehead I pushed a little of myself into him. When his eyes met mine I knew he had no more fight left in him.
"You can let me up." Damon's voice seemingly lost it life when he spoke.
Knowing I could trust him to not attack me again, I released him and went to Stefan and Elijah. Giving them the once over, reassuring myself they were well, I turned back to Damon.
"You fight an unnecessary battle inside you. Damon, you are as you were meant to be." A simple statement, that took him by surprise.
"Guardians are meant to give choice Damon. We are not meant to make the choice for you, but to warn you when you are making the wrong ones. It is up to those we warn whether to listen or not. Whether to be awakened to their true selves, what their true destiny is meant to be." Pausing for only a moment, "I am a protection, as well as destruction."
"Why, are you here now?" Damon was slowly processing what I showed him. He wasn't his normal sassy self.
"I am not sure. Could be the Hunters, Elena, you." I stopped suddenly turned to Elijah, "Klaus." It was really a question, but more of a statement. Then I just started laughing.
"Has he been uncomfortable?" Knowing full well Klaus was far from comfortable. No one could break an order if given by me. Only making me laugh harder, remembering I ordered him, like a dog to stay, over a week ago.
"He is far from pleased." Elijah's reply had a hint of laughter.
"Well, a few more hours won't kill him. Why don't you go tell him I will see him shortly. I am sure that will please him even more." Knowing I would have to face him sooner or later. I only wished to spend a few hours alone with Stefan, for him to take me to the falls.
Without even voicing my needs Stefan was beside me. Looking down at what I had on I took a quick look at Elijah. "Do you have any more beautiful clothes for me?"
"I do." Elijah always taking care of me.
"Perfect, I cannot show my face, looking like this, now can I." I knew it was a little vain, I just like nice things. "I will see you shortly, my friend." Walking over I kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you."
"It is my pleasure." Before Elijah even finished I had a hold of Stefan's hand, we disappeared as if we were never really there, Like a ghost going back to the other side.
The waterfall was just as beautiful as when I left it. The sun was shining down on my Eden, beckoning me to enter its healing waters. As I walked toward it I stripped of the baggy men's clothing Stefan had given me to wear. It was a shame I had to put them back on when I was done. Stefan did not follow me as I neutered the water; he knew I needed a moment just to take it all in.
He sat next to the water just watching me, waiting for me to ask him to join me. The water enfolded me in its cold embrace, making the need to sleep and heal longer unnecessary. I could feel Stefan get restless as he watched me swim around. Letting the pleasure of the water fall back into the pool, I was next to him, helping me stand. I would not make him wait any longer; I would not make myself wait any longer.
Knowing Stefan's body as if it was my own, reaching to take his jacket off; I felt young and unsure. This feeling in me, bringing a smile to his lips; telling me he would not help me, only making me more nervous. Letting his jacket fall to the ground I glided my hands down his sides to clinch the edges of his shirt, delicately pulling it over his head. As it drop to the ground to lay with his jacket, not taking my eyes away from his, my fingertips feeling the warmth of his skin against them. There were no words between us, in silence or out loud. This was all about feeling and remembering; it was about us. His hand reached to touch my face, I could only lean into it; welcoming it.
It was when our bare chests made contact that I was no longer unsure, I only felt the heat of our bodies connecting radiate throughout my entire being. As our lips barely connected, I could barely breathe as he fused our bodies together. With this one kiss I gave myself over to him, giving him the power to control me. Stefan hardly pulling away, he gently lifted me up to cradle me in his arms, walking us into the water.
The coolness of the water did nothing for the heat running thorough my body. With each touch of his lips against mine, every caress that touched my skin; the water only warmed to match the heat radiating from both of us. Wrapping my legs around him, taking him further inside myself, further than I ever thought I could again; My legs locking us in our embrace, I released my hold around his neck; letting my upper body float on the water, the pleasure of how he felt inside me, making everything disappear around me, everything but him. I did not want the feeling to end, the urge inside me, inside him was getting hard to ignore; the intoxicating pleasure needing to be released.
I don't remember how I came to lay half in the water, Stefan underneath me; not feeling tired, just more renewed than I ever have in my long life. Turning to look behind me at the water, steam floating out of it, I looked back at a Stefan with a smile of satisfaction on my lips.
"Hi." Simple, but full of meaning,; given to me with a smile on his lips.
"Hello." Laying my head back against his chest, comfortable with how well our body's fit together, wanting to stay forever.
"Chloe, we can't stay here forever." He was actually laughing at my thought. Well, maybe a giggle, if men even giggled.
"You know Stefan; it's not very nice to bring a girl down to earth after something like that." Saying this as pouty as I could, "I should remind you why we should stay? You seem to have forgotten in the last few seconds."
"You wouldn't?" He said this as a dare, wanting me to remind him.
"You doubt me?" I tried to say this as serious as I could, to only break out laughing.
"Then remind me." Stefan whispered playfully in my ears.
