A Black Magic Rose Chapter 9: Decor and a Savior, a vampire diaries fanfic

Author Note:

I am sorry I haven't updated recently, things have been hectic lately and school just started again. I hope you all enjoy this chapter that includes Ms. Salvatore's character Victoria Brooks. I also know that a lot of you enjoy Damon talking in Italian, so I included that, with translations at the bottom. This chapter is a lot longer than normal, about 10 pages! So, you can see why it took so long to type out. This chapter is definitely for people who hate Stefan and agree that Damon should get the girl.

Thanks to the following for your great reviews on the last chapter:

ShadyLady21, Maiqu, the Lost Chapters, Elena0017, rjinx, Lind-z-lou, XxxmusicluverxxX, VampireFan01, Violetta Valery, .BeautifulDreamer.x, and Poppy Salvatore – Ozera

*Thank you to The Lost Chapters for editing this chapter and the wonderful ideas. Great job Annabeth!

*Thank you to .BeautifulDreamer.x for music ideas (It was her idea for Catch me-Demi Lavato.) Thank's,Amy.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, (all characters belong to LJ Smith , except Jeremy and Anna, whom belong to CW Studios and Victoria who belongs to Ms. Salvatore), although I, like everyone else reading this would agree with me and love to have Damon! =-)

And now for Chapter 6, Décor and a Savior.

A Black Magic Rose

Décor and a Savior

"I've never felt this way before,

Everything I do,

Reminds me of you" ~Avril Lagvine

Elena was unpacking the last of her luggage in her old bedroom. She had been in Mystic Falls for three days. After lunch, she was helping Bonnie decorate at the church before the rehearsal. Anna and Jeremy were picking her up after lunch and Caroline was meeting them there. The rehearsal is at 6pm. Bonnie wants everything to be perfect. Elena was now pacing around the room, trying to figure out what to wear.

"Elena, you going to be here for lunch?" Jenna yelled up the stairs. "Yeah, Jenna" She heard her aunt coming up so she opened the door.

"Have you figured out what you are going to wear tonight?" Jenna asked as she walked in the room carrying a white square box.

"No, I haven't decided yet, I didn't bring many dresses with me."

"Well, I'm not sure if this will still fit, but I found it under your bed after you moved out. You should try it on." She said as she handed Elena the box and walked out of the room, stopping in the doorway. "Lunch will be ready in an hour"

What on earth could be in this box? She had passed most of her old dresses from high school on to Anna before she moved to South Carolina. She walked over to her window seat and sat down. She sat the box on her lap and slowly opened the lid to find a long blue silk dress. It was her Miss Mystic dress, she thought as she pulled it out and walked over to the mirror, holding it up to her. Dozens of memories flooded her mind as she sat back down on the seat.

Damon telling her Stefan was on human blood, still.

Damon waiting at the bottom of the stairs for her.

Damon's hand on her waist, other palm up with hers, the intimacy of the near touch.

Damon's blue cerulean eyes boring into hers with intensity so deep, she was captured in them throughout the whole dance.

Damon fighting off Stefan.

Damon helping her take Stefan into the basement.

Damon's back sliding down the stone wall to sit through the long, dark night with her.

Her wonderful thoughts were interrupted by Jenna. "Lunch is ready, Elena!" It was then that she realized she had spent an hour daydreaming about Damon Salvatore.

After eating lunch, Anna and Jeremy picked her up to head to the Bonnie's rehearsal.

When they walked up to the entrance of the Church, Bonnie rushed over, "Hey guys, I'm glad you're here. The wedding planners have the benches set up, and the flowers are here, all we really have to do is place the flowers around everywhere and roll out the carpet for the aisle."

They worked for two hours, decorating, talking, and helping the planner. Caroline arrived carrying a dress over one arm, cell phone up to her ear, purse on her wrist, and high heels dangling from her left hand. Tyler was slowly trailing behind her holding a suit and folder.

"Hey Elena! I haven't seen you in forever!" Caroline yelled after hanging up with the bakery, rushing towards her before wrapping her in a bear hug. "Hey, 'Lena" Tyler said, giving her a quick hug. "Hey guys, I've missed you so much."

"Well, it's 5 o'clock, we all have to get ready for the rehearsal; it should only take an hour to go over everything."

They all got dressed and were fixing hair, slipping on their shoes, zipping up dresses, and tying ties as Matt walked in.

"Hi, everybody" he said before crossing over to Bonnie and kissing her on the cheek. Elena thought she heard him say something like, "Speaking of rehearsal, is our best man going to be here?"

"I don't know," she whispered back to him.

Elena walked slowly up the stairs to the balcony, she felt drawn there for some reason, like someone was calling her name. She walked to the center, leaning against the rails. She watched as she saw a girl walking to her out of the corner of her eye. The girl had pale skin and wavy, blonde hair. "My names Victoria," She said with a thin, wicked smile.

"Uh, hi Victoria, are you here for the wedding rehearsal?" I asked, already knowing the answer.

"No, darling. I'm here for you," She said with a wider smile.

"Why?" I asked.

A familiar voice came to her from the shadows, "Because I asked her to, Elena."

Realization dawned on her. "Stefan? What do you want with me? I've moved on, we broke up!" I said .

"You are mine, Elena. MINE. You will never be his!"

"What do you mean, Stefan? Whose? Damon? I haven't seen him since the day I left"

"What about the plane, Elena? Don't pretend you didn't know he was on there!"

"If you're trying to say that I knew he was going to be on the plane, I didn't, and how did you know about that?"

"I was on the plane Elena, I heard your thoughts. You love him. You're lucky I didn't stake him right then and there, I could have killed you for thinking that way, and he's a monster Elena, mostro"

"You are the monster, Stefan. Look at yourself! And SO what if I do love him? You know what? I don't even know what I feel. I know now that you didn't love me, I was only a replacement for her. So go ahead and kill me, you didn't do it on the plane, so you come here to try again. To top it all off, at my best friend's wedding rehearsal! Stefan, what happened to you?"

A wicked, deep chuckle erupted from Victoria. "Try, Elena? You don't understand, we are going to kill you." Victoria then rushed towards Elena and held her by the neck. "Ready for a taste of what it's like to be dead for good, sweetheart?" She said as she stroked the side of my neck, searching for a vein. I whimpered softly, thinking this was the end.

"NO!" I heard a voice say, the voice was oddly familiar. It was soft as silk, but angry as hell at the same time. I looked over to the top of the stairs in search of the voice. He had a leather jacket on and deep black hair, face hidden in the shadows. Oh, God, it's Damon. Victoria let go to stand near Stefan and I slid down to the floor, coughing. My eyes began to close, but my conscious told me to watch, to see him again, for at least another moment.

Damon POV:

I walked into the church, figuring this would be the perfect time to tell Elena I was back in town.

I crept up behind Bonnie and said, "Guess who?"

She jumped. "God. Damon, what do you want?"

"I'm here for the rehearsal, you know, decorating. It's a party! Who Hoo! Where's the booze, or some A negative? You know how I like it." I pumped my fist in the air. She just rolled her eyes. "I'm here to see Elena, as I'm sure you haven't told her who the best man is, so I thought I should so she doesn't screw up your wedding."

"Thoughtful Damon, very thoughtful. I don't know where Elena is, ask Alaric."

"Oh great, the history teacher is here."

"Yeah, and if you don't help me find my stepdaughter, I'll be here with a stake."Alaric stepped up to face me.

"Oooohhhh, scary, Ric"

"I'm serious Damon, now's not the time for jokes, no one's seen Elena in the past 20 minutes."

My jaw dropped. "And you didn't think to, I don't know, look for her?"

"I have Damon, she didn't leave either, her car is still outside," He responded.

"And her purse is on the piano bench, and trust me, she wouldn't leave without it," A new voice chimed in. It was the dumb blonde, Caroline.

"I looked around everywhere, Damon; I lost her scent near the stairs," Anna said. She looked tired, angry, and rushed.

"I'll check the stairs, lead the way, Annabelle"

We rounded the corner and she turned on me, and started talking so low only I could hear. "She's up there Damon, there are two vampires. I recognize one scent, I just don't know who it is. I didn't mention anything out there because I didn't want to worry Jenna and Caroline."

"I kind of figured it was something like that."

"How, who do you think it is?"

"I have my suspicions, Annabelle."

"What? You mean…."

"Yes I believe dear little brother has decided to pay us a visit and he's back on the good stuff, probably created a little vampy minion too."

"Wow." It was all Anna could manage.

"What do we do?" She whispered.

"You go tell the teacher, I have the feeling I'm going to need a stake or two." Her jaw dropped as she shook her head and was gone within an instant.

I crept up the stairs, and stopped to listen when I heard voices.

A wicked, sly, girlish chuckle erupted from above. "Try, Elena? You don't understand, we are going to kill you."

Ok, that was it, I'm going to break whoever just said that to Elena into a hundred pieces. And little brother is dead too.

I walked up the rest of the stairs to see that the mysterious vampire had Elena by the neck, stroking her delicate, creamy, white neck.

Elena, even though hurt, looked extremely beautiful; she was wearing the same silky blue dress from the Miss Mystic competition. Beautiful, freaking beautiful.

A soft whimper broke my thoughts. I stepped up to the top step and looked at Elena. "NO!"

A sneer came across the vampire's face as she let go of Elena's neck.

"Hello Brother" Stefan said as he came out of the corner with a smirk.

"Hello Stefan, Per Questo,nella diavolo hai fatto questo? , fluent Italian rolling off my tounge.

"Perche' ti importa? , Tu non hai coure,no humanity."He replied just as quickly.

Oh, he wants to get on the humanity kick, well, two can play at that game.

"Look at yourself, little brother; I don't see any humanity left in you, either."

I stalked over to him, waiting for my chance to attack. To hell with being brothers, I should have killed him long ago, this would have never happened.

I lunged at him, he moved out of the way. "You honestly thought it was going to be that easy?"

The girl, I now recognized as the one I had bumped into 3 days ago outside the grill, started toward Elena again. I dashed toward "Victoria "and threw her out of the way.

Something was thrown up the stairs behind me and landed with a thump; I turned around to see a stake and grabbed it, muttering "I said two, Anna"

I heard a grunt and looked down to see Tyler, the infamous ex quarterback throw up another one that landed beside Elena before heading back to Alaric. Since when did he know about vampires? Ugghh. Probably not worth asking.

I ran towards Stefan, plunging the stake into his back. He fell to the ground.

I turned him over to look at him, pulling the stake out leering down at him on my knees.

"Accidenti a te Fratello, Accidenti a te all'inferno e ritorno. Pensi che non hanno un cuore, Stefan, il tuo male, lei che laggiù,rotto. Lei è il mio cuore, lei consuma la mia anima. La amo più di quanto mai pensato possibile," I yelled.

"And you wonder about Katherine? Stefan, do you really want to know what happened to her? Hmmmm?"

"Yes," he grunted.

"I killed her Stefan; I drove the stake into her cold, dead heart"

"How could you?" He yelled.

"Because she was a narcissistic bitch, Stefan, she didn't love us; she played with our hearts and minds all those years. She's dead now, get over it"

We were staring at each other before I heard him whisper.

"I loved her Damon, she loved me"

"Just like you looovvveeed Elena, Right? It was fake, voi ragazzo stupido"

I screamed with pain as a stake pierced into my shoulder from behind. Victoria. In all my ranting I had forgotten her. I fell down. Before I closed my eyes I vaguely saw Stefan walk towards the railing were Elena was lying. I looked toward her and whispered "Svegliati,Elena,Egli viene", knowing it probably wouldn't help, but praying like hell it would.

Elena POV:

I slowly opened my eyes, having been woken up by a thump of something wooden hitting the floor beside me. A stake, good, I have the feeling I might need that. It was then that my ears started to work and I heard Damon talking in Italian, most likely cussing out Stefan. I looked over and saw the Victoria girl standing behind him. Damon had a bloody stake in his hand, looking down at Stefan. They were talking about Katherine. Great I guess Damon was right all those years ago when he said "doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman?". In the blink of an eye, Victoria had pulled a stake out of her pocket and thrust it into Damon's shoulder. I started to scream, but held it back and closed my eyes, tears streaming down my face when I saw Stefan walk over to me. I faintly heard Damon say "Svegliati, Elena, Egli viene", before he closed his eyes.

I know the first part meant wake up. Isabella, my Italian roommate from college, said it to me once when we were late for class. I didn't listen to Damon, I just laid there with the stake under the edge of my dress, waiting, I quickly thought of a plan.

"She's still out, Victoria. Go get the knife, I'll stay here."

I heard her walk out through the side door and Stefan kneeled down beside me. I slowly opened my eyes. "Stefan?"

"Yes, Elena, your white night is dying over there, so I suggest you come with me. If not, you both die," He said loudly with a smirk.

"What do you want with me, Stefan?" I asked with narrowed eyes.

"I want to turn you, you will be forever mine. No one," he paused, glaring at Damon "will be in my way again."

I bit back a retort about how he just wanted a complete, bloodsucking replica of Katherine. Because if I was going to play it up, I needed to play it up good, and that wouldn't help matters.

I sighed as I gave him a flirty smile and put one arm around his neck, leaning toward him and pressing my lips against his, while I grabbed the stake with my other hand. I pushed him back and straddled him, keeping him distracted. "I knew you missed me," he chuckled deeply and stroked his fingers down my neck.

I put my other hand into view and he gasped. "Goodbye, Morire,ti mostro, I will not be Katherine," I yelled, before plunging the stake into his heart, slowly, trying my best to ignore his cries of pain until his skin turned ash gray. Stefan Salvatore was dead.

I sighed with relief when I saw Alaric walk up the stairs. He looked relieved to see me, then he saw my position and his mouth opened and closed again when he saw that Stefan was dead. I struggled off of Stefan, almost falling down again and started to walk toward Alaric who had now pulled the stake out of Damon's shoulder. Before I got there, Victoria had returned and smashed into me, sending me flying through the railing and down towards the ground.

I kept falling, screaming, praying, until I felt strong arms wrap around me. I looked up and saw the one face I never thought I'd see again. "Damon?"

"The one and only," he replied.

"You're alive?" I whispered.

"Yes, thanks to the history teacher, and this fancy little ring."

He yanked a chain from around his neck and tossed it back to Alaric who caught it and said, "Got the blonde one, great job up there, Elena"

"Thanks, Alaric, I wouldn't have been able to kill him without you."

Damon looked down at me, puzzled. "You killed Stefan?"

"Yes, Damon," I said with a sigh. "Is that a problem?"

"Hell, no. I just figured Ric here killed the bastard, so spill the beans," he said, standing me up right. "How'd you do it?"

"She made out with him, straddled him, and staked him," replied Anna who was sitting on the last step.

"What?" I replied. "It was the only way to keep him distracted." Everybody burst out laughing, including Damon who chuckled deeply behind her.

"Would've worked on me too," he whispered in my ear, so quiet only I could hear, sending shivers down my neck..

Caroline walked into the room with a glass of water.

"Hey, Elena, want something to drink?"she asked.

"Uh, yeah, maybe that will stop my head from hurting." I reached out for the water and took a drink, but the pain in my head got worse. I fell over. The last thing I noticed before the world went black was strong, leather clad arms carrying me off into the night, moving with inhuman speed as my tears fell down my face.

I could have been dreaming later that night when I heard a voice as rich as silk and dark as black velvet say, "Sonno, bella"

Whether or not it was a dream, a vision, or real, I knew it was Damon, my dark savior, who would be there to protect me and be there with me when I needed him most.

Translations:

Per Questo,nella diavolo hai fatto questo? – What in the hell are you doing? (Damon)

"Perche' ti importa? , Tu non hai coure,no humanity."- Why do you care? You have no heart, no humanity. (Stefan)

Damn you Brother, Damn you to hell and back again. You think I don't have a heart, Stefan, your wrong; she's lying over there, broken. She is my heart, she consumes my soul. I love her more than I ever thought possible. (Damon)

Voi Ragazzo Stupido- You stupid boy(Damon)

"Svegliati,Elena,Egli viene"-Wake up Elena, he's coming.(Damon)

"Morire,ti mostro"-Die, you monster"(Elena)

"Sonno, Bella"-Sleep, Beautiful (Damon)

*Chapter Soundtrack:

*When Your Gone-Avril Lagvine (Chapter Begins)

*Addicted-Kelly Clarkson (Elena Daydreaming about Damon)

*Catch Me-Demi Lavato (Damon catches Elena)

*Carry You Home-Nashville Skyline (Damon Carries Elena to the boarding house)

*Author Note:*

What did you think? Please review. Chapter 7: A Witch's Wedding and A Dance for Damon

Yes, that's right; Bonnie's wedding is finally here.

Some clues about next chapter:

*Wedding

*Damon tells Elena he is the best man. How will she react?

*A dance between Elena/Damon

*Elena/Damon fight *But what about?*

I absolutely can't wait for the season premiere!

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~Vampgirl144

Oh,before I forget , I've created a video for this chapter(When Elena is having flashbacks about Miss Mystic Falls competition), the link is on my profile page.