AN: Anna's POV. Remember that she and Jer didn't actually see the dance. They spent the entire dance talking. She's known Damon for over a century. Reaction to the news that Elena and Damon seem to be intimate…?

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Fairytales

Damon and Elena? What? No. Elena and Stefan are playing Romeo and Juliet. Damon doesn't bother with that kind of thing. It's not his style. Not since Katherine. And despite the eerie physical similarity, Elena is not Katherine. Not even close.

He danced with her? At the ball? Maybe Jer and I should have gone to watch. It would have been funny to watch him try to lead Elena. They probably spent the entire dance stabbing each other with their eyes and bickering in whispers.

Though, I do kind of want to know why he bothered to step up and replace Stefan. Maybe he thought if he danced with Elena the same sort of dance he'd danced with Katherine, he could relive the moment. A sort of Cinderella moment: Elena is Katherine until the ball ends. God, that is just so sad and pathetic.

I always kind of respected Damon. He was Katherine's whipping boy, sure. But he was a real vampire. He hunted, he killed. He did want was necessary to get what he wanted and everyone else could rot for all he cared.

Now that he knows Katherine didn't even care about him enough to let him know she wasn't dead, he seems…softer. A bit more Stefan, a bit less Katherine. And it's kind of working for him. He's still an arrogant, self-centered ass. Most of the time. But he let a few of the walls down, let himself humanize enough that people could stand to be in the same room as him without compulsion. It's an improvement.

But going so far as to save Elena? As to dancing with her so she wouldn't be humiliated? No. That was all selfishness. It had to be. Damon doesn't bother with all that fairytale crap. He doesn't play the hero who sweeps in at the last minute to save the girl. He enjoys playing the monster of horrors too much to give it up for some…mortal.

Damon is a creature of nightmares and darkness. He likes it that way. He isn't going to change teams for a Katherine look alike. It's just not going to happen. I mean, who the hell would Damon Salvatore be if he wasn't the villain of the piece? What would he do if he wasn't slaughtering the innocent with a haughty smirk and dark chuckle?

Stefan. That's who he'd be. And god knows we don't need another one of those running around….

AN2: I didn't mean to Stefan bash there at the end, but in keeping with what I had said about Anna respecting the crueler aspects of Damon's personality, I thought I might go as far as to say she's…disappointed? In what Stefan became and how he chooses to live his eternity.