Chapter Three

Wow. Amazing episode. I think my jaw is still dropped. Glad Stefan and Elena are still apart... lol. And i'm lovin Jeremy and Bonnie right now :) Thank you thank you reviewers! You are amazing ! Okay so this chapter may get a little confusing. Keep in mind that Damon is still going to be written as Damon even though he looks like Stefan. So obviously, Elena will call Damon Stefan. And vice versa with Stefan. Got it? Okay. I just made everything even more confusing, didn't I? Sorry! Welll…Good luck! Lol.

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"We need to talk."

This was getting really weird. If he wasn't himself, then who was him? It didn't even make sense in his head. Could it be…Stefan? That explained the angry, puckered look that almost made Damon laugh. He wondered if he had ever looked like that in his life.

Elena was undeterred. "Damon! There you are! You have to see…um Damon? Are you okay?" Stefan…or whoever was in Damon's body, didn't even glance her way, but continued to glare at Damon menacingly. Damon had to admit…he was pretty scary.

"Fine." Damon yawned. He exited the room with himself, leaving a very confused Elena behind.

"So…" The two had made their way into Damon's room. Damon's body closed the door, an act that made Damon slightly uneasy. "Are we breaking up?" Damon asked, successfully breaking the tension that was building up from…himself.

Damon's body turned to look at him, and his menacing face melted to one of exhaustion and slight relief. "Damon? It's me, Stefan." he said cautiously.

"Unfortunately, not in the flesh." Damon sat himself on his bed.

Stefan laughed bitterly. "So now what?"

"Well how about we call that witch over, make her undo this spell, then kill her?"

"Fine. Except for that last part, obviously." Stefan cocked his head with a knowing smile and Damon made a face.

"Okay and let's hurry this up 'cause this is freaking me out. I don't know how you do it, but your managing to make me a lot less sexy."

Stefan exhaled. "Same…I mean, not the sexy part. But I'm feeling a lot more powerful." He clenched fists and bit his lip. "I mean, I can hear everything! Including you and Elena talking, Damon. Why are you pretending to be me? What are you up to this time?"

Damon gave his best Stefan martyr innocent gaze. "Nothing."

"What do you think I'm stupid? Just because I'm in your body doesn't mean I have your brains. I'm not going to let you manipulate her, and ruin what we have together."

"Don't worry. I'm not gonna try to break up your annoyingly perfect relationship."

"You're not?"

"I'll try. It'll be…difficult." Damon said with a brilliant smile.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Stefan roared, making Damon take an involuntary step back. Wow. When his eyes flashed like that, it was almost scary. Damon felt something akin to sympathy at all the people he terrified over the years with that same face. He wondered if he ever looked at Elena that way.

"Ooh testy." Damon shook his head tersely. "But if you'll excuse me, I have a beautiful Elena waiting for me. Have fun figuring this out, Damon." He smiled cruelly and headed for the door, but he never made it.

In a flash, Damon was against a wall with rough hands crushing his airway. He looked surprised, into his own darkening blue eyes, with veins becoming more prominent in seconds. Damon tried to make a snarky comment about how Stefan was strangling himself, but only a strangled hiss came out. Damn.

"Getting a taste of your own medicine, huh Damon? Got nothing to say? Well that's a first." Damon could only glare mutely as Stefan looked on with savage enjoyment. "I'm the strong one now Damon. So stay the hell away from Elena."

"What the hell?"

The voice was clear and high, and murderous. Stefan and Damon both turned, Damon with difficulty.

"Damon!" She surged forward, and Stefan could almost taste her fury. "Get the hell off of Stefan!" Stefan winced and pulled guiltily away from Damon, leaving him able to take a sharp, unnecessary breath of air. Elena did not stop however, but continued her deadly advance. When she reached him, she drew back her hand and slapped Stefan hard, hard enough to snap his head back. Stefan gaped and rubbed the now red mark on his cheek. Damon smirked at the irony.

"Elena…"Stefan started, in a small, pathetic voice that made Damon embarrassed.

Elena was unyielding. "How dare you? If you ever touch him again I swear I'll drive a stake through your heart." Damon winced. Would Elena really do that? A minute ago he swore that she cared for him a little bit but now he wasn't so sure.

She sighed and softened at the sight of Stefan's terrified face, which made Damon grimace. He never looked like that. Stefan was ruining him, his image, and he was going to pay. She shook her head and turned to Damon. "Come on Stefan. Go and get ready or we'll be late for school."

"What?" he asked absently. His mind was still half on how quickly she had forgiven Stefan for half strangling him to death. Maybe she didn't really care that much about Stefan, he thought with a small smirk.

"School. You know that place we go five times a week if we're not being hunted by sadistic vampires."

"You've got to be kidding me." Damon muttered. Stefan snorted, his eyes now sparkling.

"Well I know we haven't been there in a while, but we should at least go once this month."

"You actually go to school?" Damon had to think of a way out of this. There was no way in hell he was going to…

"Please?" Oh God no. Not that face. Elena did it again, her big brown doe eyes silently pleading. It was too late. Damon's carefully tended walls were crumbling. But it couldn't be that bad. It was a whole day away from Stefan ruining his beautiful body, and a whole day with Elena. A loving Elena. If he was going to be stuck in…in this, he might as well have fun with it.

"Sure. You can just go on ahead and I'll meet you there."

Elena smiled quickly, but it faded when she looked at Stefan. "Stay away from Stefan, Damon." She gave him one last cold glare, before leaving the room.

Stefan turned to Damon when she left. "Have fun in school today." He said with a slightly mocking smile. Damon wondered if being in his body was starting to rub off on him.

"Don't worry. I will." Damon smirked at the brief flash of horror in his, well Stefan's, blue eyes.

"Damon, please don't do anything that I wouldn't do. I'm going to see Bonnie today, and everything will back to normal before you know it."

"Whatever. Now if you'll excuse me, I have your life to ruin." Damon crossed the room, took something out of his drawer, and left the room, leaving an open mouthed Stefan behind. He was still smirking as he made his way into Stefan's large room, and rifled through his stuff. His hands ran over something hard and thin, and he pulled out a picture. Katherine. Damon grimaced. Why did Stefan still have this, after all that happened recently? He thought about tearing it up but he rejected the idea. The reason behind it however, surprised and frightened him. Damon shook his head dismissively, and pushed the discovery out of his head.

Damon found what he was looking for, and quickly changed into dark jeans, a black shirt and a black leather jacket and boots. He finished off with a spray of his own cologne and messed up his hair.

Damon smiled into the mirror as he fixed his dark shades into place.

He was ready for school.

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And that's it! Hope you weren't too confused. It'll be better next chapter when Stefan is with Bonnie and Damon is at school! Oh and would you rather see Stefan with Bonnie or Caroline? Tell me and revieww!