I was in a writing mood tonight, so here's chapter 9 sooner than I had planned. I hope you like. Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Diaries.

Chapter 9

Elena and Damon sat in silence in the car. They had been driving for a couple hours and neither of them had said anything to the other. The radio hadn't even been turned on.

Elena looked at the man driving out of the corner of her eye. 'What's his issue? Did I do something to piss him off? I mean, we slept together last night and now he won't even look at me? What a jackass.' She continued ranting in her head as she glared out the window.

"Don't burn a hole through my window. You'll have to pay for it if you do." Damon spoke for the first time since in the suite. He smirked over at her as she turned to glare at him.

"Oh, now you want to talk?" she spat at him.

"Oh, come on, Elena. Don't be like that." He said, trying to ease the tension.

"Like what?"

"Like that."

"I have no idea what you're talking about." She said as she turned back towards her window. Damon sighed softly as he too went quiet again. They were silent for several minutes before Elena spoke once again. "Where did you go?" she whispered.

"When?" Damon asked, knowing exactly what she was talking about.

"Last night."

"I needed to hunt."

"You had blood in the fridge." She said in the same detached voice.

"I needed fresh blood, not stale blood."

"You could have told me you were going." Her voice rising slightly.

"You were sleeping."

"You could've woken me up. And I know for a fact it doesn't take that long for you to hunt. So what took you so long?" her voice growing angry as she still refused to look at him.

"I needed to go pretty far to find anyone to drink from."

"That's a lie!" she yelled finally looking at him. "If you needed blood so badly, I would have given you some! But no! You had to leave me behind, to wake up alone. You didn't let me know anything. After what happened…" she trailed off. Her voice had grown weak and tears threatened to fall once again.

"I didn't want your blood. And all that happened was that I needed a good fuck. You were the only option I had so I took it. It meant nothing." He said with a deadly even voice.

Elena looked at him shocked. The tears that had threatened to fall pushed full force, flowing out of her eyes, making tiny streams down her cheeks. She bowed her head and turned away from him. "Stop the car." She whispered.

"No."

"I said, Stop. The. Car!" she yelled turning towards him, hate in her eyes. She thought he was going to ignore her but she soon found them pulled over on the side of the road. She stepped out of the car and turned to look back inside at him. "Drop my stuff at my house." Was all she said as she slammed the car shut.

Damon stared at her as she began to walk down the highway. 'Good. It's better that you hate me.' He was about to pull away when another thought crossed his mind.

Elena laid, snuggled up into his chest, a small smile on her face. They were both naked. He couldn't stop the corners of his lips from curling up as he moved a stray hair behind her ear. "Aw…shit." He muttered as he pulled up next to Elena, who hadn't made it more than fifty yards. He rolled down the window. "Get in."

"No" she spat angrily as she continued walking, not looking at him.

"Just get in. St. Stefen will kill me if he finds out I left you here."

"I don't care. I hope he does."

"That hurts." He joked lightly.

"Damon, just leave me alone, please."

"Get in the car and I'll leave you alone. I'll bring you home and we can pretend this trip never happened." He said in the same deadly even tone he used before. Elena stopped walking. She switched between looking at him and at the road ahead of her. With a sigh she walked over to the car and got in. "That's my girl." He smirked.

"Don't talk to me." She glared. Damon held up his hands in a defensive manner before starting to drive again.

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Elena had fallen asleep in the passenger seat. Damon quietly pulled the car to a stop in front of her house. He shut the car off and turned to look at the sleeping girl. Again the image of her snuggled to his chest flashed through his head. Carefully he reached a hand over and stroked her check, gently smiling when she leant into his touch. He enjoyed the moment for a few more seconds before releasing a sigh as he pulled his hand away.

"Elena." He said quietly, giving her shoulder a gentle shake. "We're back." Said girl woke up and looked around with tired eyes. With a yawn she stepped out of the car and went to grab her bags out of the trunk. Once she was sure she had everything she turned to walk into the dark house. She didn't even bother to say goodbye to Damon.

"Goodnight, Elena." He whispered in the confines of his car as he watched her enter her house. Once she was in, he pulled away, driving back to the boarding house.

Okay there it is. Let me know if you want me to continue this one or just cut it off here.

~Thanks~

~Ashley~