A/N: Sorry it's been nearly two months since the last update but I'm just not as passionate about Vampire Diaries as I used to be don't ask me why because I do not have an answer for you but it's the truth. I will still finish this story, but I don't know if it's going to be that great and honestly, I doubt that it will be more than 30 chapters. If that. I do hope that I can but I don't know yet. I do have plans for a sequel when I do finish this but I probably wont be posting it for a long time. Anyway, onto chapter 17. Oh, and this is going to be a bit of a time jump, just giving you a fair warning... Klaus will be making an appearance before chapter 20 I believe, so be ready (: (oh and that doesn't include him being in Ric's body, fyi -wink-)
It had been days since Sonya told Damon about everything, about her involvement with Klaus, her feelings for Elijah, for him and about her past as a Ripper. Since then she hadn't seen much of him except for when she went to the Grille with Alaric and he was sitting there nursing a bottle of scotch or some other dark alcoholic liquid that she couldn't even begin to guess what it was called. She stuck with red wine or with water or soda, but even those were barely passing her lips.
In those few days she and Alaric got closer, close enough to where they would spend as much time together as they could spare and when they weren't together they were in communication of some kind.
Damon sure as hell wasn't happy about it and he did voice this to Ric more than once but was basically just brushed off. It wasn't Ric's fault that him and Sonya were on the outs friendship wise, no that was their own doing. Well, it was a little more so Damon's than hers, it wasn't like she didn't try to get him to talk to her again because she did but he was terse with her more than not.
It was now at the point where Sonya would sometimes become quiet and reserved and wouldn't want to talk about much of anything that she could tie back to Damon but then Alaric would decide to take her mind off of basically everything by either handing her a book that he'd come to find out was one of her absolute favorites or he would ask if she was willing to help him grade papers.
He'd even as her to help come up with the next test or lesson plan and it would be like a light switch was flipped inside of her, bringing her smile back to it's regular intensity that made his mind halt in it's tracks for the briefest of moments.
It was like that on this current night, they were sitting in his living room watching the History channel on the 30's and she just stopped making commentary on how they got something wrong or how it was unrealistic or anything else that wasn't exactly how she remembered it. It took him a moment longer than usual to catch it but when he turned to look at her he knew. Her eyes were lighter, almost to the point where they were a soft grey, her smile was gone and her breathing - no matter how unnecessary - was shallower.
"Hey, why don't we go out and do something?" he asked reaching for the remote and tapping the circular red button, turning the television off with a slight click. "Not necessarily at the Grille but somewhere else, maybe."
It wasn't instantaneous but he did see the change as his voice finally broke her reverie, her head slowly turning to look at him and locking her now green-yellow eyes onto his dark blue ones and a small smile fluttered at the corner of her lips; "I thought that it was a school night, don't you have some papers to grade?" she asked with a hint of laughter in her voice.
She wanted to go out and spend some time with Ric, she wasn't saying no, but she knew that he did have some papers to grade and had to set up some sort of plan for the next day. That was why they had turned on the History Channel to begin with, for some idea's of what should be the next topic seeing as the next show that was on was on the fifties and she was sure that there was a dance coming up in the next month or so and they would practically order him to hurry and get through the twenty years before.
"Ah, I forgot about those, but I don't mind putting them off for a night." he replied honestly, he really did need to get them graded but he wanted her to get her mind off of how much she missed having Damon around, even if it wasn't the easiest to get along with him at that current time especially since they started spending time together.
She shrugged simply before a large smile graced her beautiful face, and laying her cheek on the back of the couch near his shoulder, "How about we do something tomorrow seeing as it is Friday, it'll be funner and you wont have to worry about the next test. Which, by the way, you've been putting on hold for a week," she tsk'd him lightheartedly and let out a small laugh at the face he pulled.
With a sigh and a smile of his own, he acquiesced before pulling himself off of the couch and holding his hand out to Sonya to help her off as well, "Wanna help?"
It only took perhaps an entire hour for them to get the papers graded, as well as the back assignments that he'd been putting off and then another hour and a half on the next days lesson plan as well as the test that he desperately needed to pass out before the end of the next week or he would possibly get a reprimand from the principle and he sure as hell wasn't looking forward to that.
His eyes were skimming the very last piece of paper as it was printed out of his printer before nodding to himself while being happy with the outcome, the test wasn't going to be easy but it also wasn't going to be hard enough to the point where none of his students, no matter what year or graded level. Some of his students weren't passing but the majority of them were doing much better than he'd originally thought that they would, which was definitely a relief as he wasn't looking much forward to having to fail many of his students. A lot of them were smarter than they gave themselves credit for, but even those that he knew were damn smart weren't doing as well as he knew that they could and that was something that he didn't like about being a teacher. But there were a vast amount of reasons that he did, which was why he was still doing it instead of quitting and finding another form of employment.
When he looked up his eyes found Sonya's form in his room where he'd left her and noticed that she'd fallen asleep while he wasn't paying attention. This wasn't the first time that she'd fallen asleep on him but it definitely was the first time that she'd done it while in his room, but he wasn't necessarily complaining, it was just a little different and it was definitely unexpected. A good kind of unexpected, he never did realize just how much he'd grown fond of her until moments like that, or when she would smile at him for pretty much no reason; he even noticed it when she was angry about something and while most of the time he tried to hide it, right now he wasn't doing the best of jobs at it.
A small smile pulled at the corners of his lips as he leaned on the door jam to his his room, just content in watching her sleep, even if it was for only the moment. When he slowly and quietly walked further into his room, he debated waking her up and having her move to the couch where she usually slept when she was out before him, which he had to admit had started to become quite frequent and he liked it. He liked it probably more than he should but he didn't really care, he was happy to have her around.
The thought of moving her himself even crossed his mind, but before he could think too much on it her eyes slowly opened and a small, sweet smile was on her lips at the sight of him. She didn't make any move to get up, she didn't make much movement at all except for her breathing and the blinking of her eyes, at least not until she scooted over a little and patted the empty space on the mattress in front of her, which just happened to be on the complete other side that he was currently standing on.
"Too comfy, don't want to move." she said softly, waiting for his barely noticeable nod before he walked to the other side and cautiously lay down beside her.
Usually he would sleep in his boxer shorts or an old pair of basketball shorts and sometimes even a t-shirt but tonight he decided that he was just going to go ahead and sleep in the clothes that he had put on earlier that morning before going to the school as per usual during the school days. Sonya was also wearing the same clothes that she'd put on after she herself had woken up, but that was back over at the Boarding House where all of her clothes were still in one of the old spare rooms that hadn't been in use until she'd arrived in Mystic Falls.
Soon as she noticed that he was settled, her smile softened and her eyes became slightly hazy with sleep again before she sidled up closer to him and lay her head on his shoulder, her eyes looking up into his in silent question if he minded much. His eyes showed his slight surprise before they softened and the small smile returned to his lips while his arm quickly lifted and draped over her shoulders, causing her to scoot that much closer to him.
A/N 02: Whew, that was a longer chapter than what I've generally been putting up for you guys, but definitely not my absolutely longest. I know that not much went on in here, much like my other chapters, but I like it. I do believe that this is currently my favorite chapter, but I think that simply has to do with all the Alaric/Sonya fluffiness (:
Ooh I have a poll up on my page that I would really love for you guys to vote on, it has to do with the next Vampire Diaries story that I have in the works. I need your guys' help figuring out just who I am going to have Lillith paired off with (that'd be the OC for that story, fyi) and who I have in mind for Lil is Brianna Evigan from Step Up: The Streets.
I will not update this story again unless I get at least 3 reviews, sorry but I'm going to start doing that for perhaps all of my chapters in any story. But then again I might not, I don't know yet..