Chapter 7:
Jade woke up to the blinding light of the sun on her face, she brought her hands up to shield her eyes from the bright rays of sunshine but instead of relief she felt another sort of pain on her arm. She shot up in bed and rubbed at her arm which was not in pain any more but tingled. She looked down at her arm and it looked a bit red but still normal. Jade looked back at the sun ray peeking its way through the window drapes and then stuck her hand out letting the sun ray touch her finger tips. Again the pain she once felt just a minute ago made its way to her fingers.
"This is not good." Jade said thinking out loud to herself. She took that moment then to look around at her surrounding, which seemed familiar for some reason and she new why because she was in Demon's room.
She got off the bed and made her way to the door but before she got there someone was already opening it and Damon's face came into view.
"Oh your awake, finally, you've been out for hours the suns already setting." He said opening he door wide now, "Slept well?"
Jade nodded, "Yeah slept fine."
Damon smiled and crossed his arms while leaning against the door frame, "So would you like to explain last night for me?"
Jade looked up her cheeks turning a light shade of red, "Yeah sorry about that and thanks for helping me and stuff but I gotta go." She said walking forward to go out the door. Damon extended his left arm so that she was blocked from leaving.
"Don't run off I really think we should talk if you still want to keep what is around your neck."
Jade looked down and brought a hand up to grasp the necklace sighing in relief.
"Thank you for not taking it off me."
Damon smirked, "No problem I still don't think though what you are doing is the right way to go."
Jade shrugged her shoulders, "It's not up to you but thanks for your opinion."
She then pushed passed him and made her way down the stairs while Damon followed not far behind her.
"The pendant won't save you forever eventually you won't be able to fight the change."
Jade turned abruptly, facing Damon.
"I can't give in, I won't. You're wrong; there are vampires that can control their thirst."
Damon looked down at her and walked a few inches closer to where she stood.
"You're not other vampires. Do you recall your reaction to my blood it was absolutely not normal transitioning vampire instincts."
Jade looked around nervously thinking on his words, "Your right" she said in defeat, while thoughts of her mother invaded her mind.
"But I cannot become a vampire, I - I can't do it." Jade said turning. She yanked the front door open and ran outside.
Damon rolled his eyes and ran after her. "Stop being so stubborn it's not all that bad really…you're over reacting…." He stopped talking though as he saw the now frozen form of Jade in the middle of his front lawn.
"Jade?" He yelled from where he stood on the porch.
Jade just stood there again trying to control the several smells of people in the town not far from the boarding house and the suns effects on her now very sensitive eyes. She raised a hand to her pendant, held it tightly in her hand and closed her eyes controlling herself.
"I can do this." She said out loud to her self and loud enough so Damon could hear.
Damon stood arms crossed still under the porch watching her back.
Jade had her eyes tightly shut, still trying to not give into the desires that were taking their tole within her.
"Jade" Damon said to her softly and he was much closer now then he was a minute ago she noticed.
Jade opened her eyes and Damon stood in front of her the sun setting behind him and the trees. She was mesmerized for a second her eyes watering from the suns bright setting light peaking behind Damon.
"Jade?" Jade shook herself from her daze a little disappointed that she was back to the present where the thirst still lingers.
She looked up at Damon and didn't say anything. She didn't know what to say. She felt like all the drive she had these last months were leaving her, fighting the thirst was becoming so much harder. She was trying to be hopeful but he wasn't making it any better either.
"Can't you just understand? And…and stop harassing me?" A tear fell down her face and she wiped it off harshly.
Damon took another step forward and raised his hand to brush back the hairs that had fallen into her face during all her commotion since she had woken up not long ago.
Jade didn't step back from his touch but closed her eyes and relished it. She didn't know what had gotten into her. "Damon..." She said and opened her eyes but while locking eyes with his blue ones she lost her train of thought.
Damon cupped her face with both his hands, caressed her cheeks and brushed her hair back determined to relax her as best he could. He was absolutely dumb founded by his actions though. What has come over me? He thought to himself but instead of being disturbed by this thought he was some what at ease.
Before he could really think his actions through Damon was closing the distance between him and Jade. His lips met hers in a tender light kiss, neither of them sure why or when such emotions were coming from. Damon deepened the kiss after a few seconds while placing an arm around Jades waist and bringing her much closer to him. Jade wrapped her arms around Damon's neck equally deepening the kiss, meeting Damon's passion.
"Ouch!" Damon said suddenly backing away from Jade and brought a hand up to his lips where blood had been drawn "Damn it! You bit me."
Jades glassy eyes looked down at the ground in shame, the good feeling the kiss had brought out now gone, leaving her cold again.
Then the sound of a car door slamming brought both people to someone entirely different.
Alaric was making his way to Jade and Damon looking livid. He walked straight to Damon and took out a wooden stake from his out of his jacket.
"Dad!" Jade said a little taken aback by the presence of the weapon.
Damon quirked his eye brow and said, "Ric? What do I owe the pleasure?"
"Cut the crap! What the hell are you doing kissing my daughter?"
"I assure you she was kissing me back." He said smiling.
"Dad" Jade said placing a hold on the arm her father held the stake with.
Alaric looked at her for the first time a little surprised by his daughter stopping him from hurting the self absorbed vampire. He looked into his daughter's eyes noticing for the first time how dark and clouded her eyes looked not light green how they were suppose to be.
"Jady, your eyes?"
Jade blinked a couple of time and rubbed her eyes with the palm of her hands. She looked up again at both men staring at her.
"Not working." Damon said.
"What the hell did you do to her Damon?" Alaric said again now glowing red with anger. "Did you make her a vampire?"
"Now Ric listen…" Damon said but Alaric continued.
"NO! You listen! How many lives are you going to ruin? You changed my wife. Now my daughter too? If you think you are living after today you are very mistaken."
Alaric ranted while Jade listened, her eyes growing wide at his word.
Damon looked down at the floor knowing very well what was going to happen next.
"What?" Jade said looking at the cast down face of Damon's. "What is he talking about Damon?"
Damon looked up placing both hands on his hips, "I didn't turn her Alaric."
"What?" Alaric said now surprised himself.
Jade stepped closer and pushed Damon. "Answer me!"
He looked at Jade and regretfully answered, "It's true".
"Why?" Jade said to him through gritted teeth.
"She wanted it." Jade nodded as her eyes grew clouded again, in one second she had Damon pinned on the ground and she was punching, slapping, scratching at his face and chest.
Alaric immediately went to his daughter pulling her off Damon, "Jade! Stop!"
Jade turned around and launched herself at her father aiming for his neck but before she reached him she was pulled back and thrown on the ground.
Damon stood above her and took something out of his pocket. She didn't even have time to get to her feet before she felt a prick on her arm and within a few seconds the world grew dark once again.
Jade opened her eyes and shot up from where she lay. She was taking many breaths frightened of the dream that she had been trapped in but as she took in her current surrounding it seemed her bad dream was not going to stop. She was in a cell made of concrete walls with a heavy looking medal door. She got up from the scrawny bed that she had been on and walked towards the door. She pushed and pulled at it but it would not move an inch. She turned around and looked at the cell again aware now that her dream was not a dream at all, it was reality.
Jade sunk down to the dirty floor of the cell very aware that not long ago she had wanted to kill her father and drink him dry. She placed her head in her hands and pooled at her hairs.
I can't do this anymore. She thought to herself. I'm going to end up killing someone and I almost killed my father if it wasn't for Damon.
Jade looked down at the pendant that still dangled around her neck.
The choice... this was always the choice I had to make.
Jade pulled the pendant breaking the chain that held it around her neck. She rubbed the pendants surface with her thumb, "Live with or die" She said to herself, repeating the words her mother had spoken to her that horrible night of the crash.
"I've made my choice mother." Jade said as she flung the pendant to the other side of the cell making sure its magic was as far from her as possible.