WHISPER OF THE PAST – (Sequel of my story: Too much noise in the bedroom) – SEASON 2 – TVD
By Lovely Vero
Writer's note: Ok Vero, put back your "BAMF" writer's vibe in place! LOL…Every time, I come back to write this story, my dear readers…I give myself a free out of jail card to be bad to the bone with my writing! Alex is bringing that effect in me (smile). Those who know me would also know that it is like seeing a bunny transform into a devil woman (laugh)!
Ooooooh! Alex is evil and bad to the bone, alright….He will test her, and stretch her limits to the maximum….but she will fight him, with all that she got in her! She's a fighter that little one….It is a game of cat and mouse, and it can only end up in wild, burning, hot passion! Bit of advice – bar Tequila scene: You will need a glass of cold water with ice by your side, a fan or an air conditioning! Mark my words for it! Enjoy my dear readers!
Music: Always and for ever, the excellent group "Lifehouse" with the CD "Smokes mirrors", and also (and you'll know soon enough why, winking at you…), "We will rock you" from Queen, this writing scene is for my friend Emma.
Extract from my Staroline story: "An unexpected love affair – Part II"
Chapter 4: "Heat wave"
Two years ago
Pine City – Small bar – Near midnight
Oregon, near Snake River
Stefan entered the dark and smoky bar, while directing his walking steps to reach the counter, he was exhausted…He did not fed himself for several hours…And he needed something strong to help him find the courage to go hunting for animal blood in the forest. Since he had left Mystic Fall in this pilgrimage of trying to find his brother and regain his soul from his ripper past, he had only slipped a couple of times, and every time, it is with anger and determination that he had tried to get a grip on his humanity and fight his growing need to be Stefan the Ripper once again.
He dropped at his feet his backpack and traveling bag, while passing a hand on his face, his beard of several weeks scratching his fingers. He really needed to shave himself. He took a sitting position on a bar stool.
"Whisky, please…" He demanded to the man who was standing behind the counter, before finally raising his head to look at the barman in front of him. The man had drops of sweat on his face, wide scared eyes, and shaking hands. It is at that moment that he realized what was happening in this place, by taking a quick look at the room, in the mirror placed behind the bar counter, on the wall in front of him. Several vampires had taken possession of the bar, and were enjoying, an all including buffet of human blood at the present moment!
"Help…" The barman murmured in his teeth, as a last attempt to save his own skin, before sliding to him, with his right shaky hand, a small glass of whisky on the counter.
Stefan slowly nodded his head, to calm the man down, while perfectly knowing that the man would probably not live to see the night, before slowly turned to face two biker's vampire men who were standing arms crossed behind him.
"Well, hello folks!" Stefan said, while smiling to them. "Just here to have a drink…Don't want any problem…" He added to the vampires.
"He's a vampire, boss…" One of them shouted to a man, who was sitting in a very dark corner of the room, with his diner on his knees, while gulping the open throat of a woman, before rising on his feet, snapping the woman's head away from her body, while carrying his carnage with him, leaving traces of blood on floor with each of his walking steps, finally reaching Stefan's bar position, before putting the woman's head on the bar counter.
"It's a private party!" Stefan heard the man's voice said to him, before raising his head and facing Damon!
"Shot of Tequila…." Damon lashed out at the barman, while turning his head to take a rapid glimpse at Stefan, who kept his head down. "Private party…Meaning you take your vampire ass elsewhere!" He added to him, while screaming at the barman. "Hey…I want it now! Move! Or do you want to be my next trophy on the bar counter!"
Stefan could almost feel his heart beat again…After three years of searching for him, his brother was finally standing in front of him! Or he should say a pale resemblance image of what his brother Damon used to be. The man in front of him had none humanity left inside of him; it was simply an empty soul with only the worst demonic and sadistic instincts to keep him alive. The reverse curse had ripped his brother in pieces!
Physically, he was the same…Except that his hair were longer, on the shoulders now…He was wearing an AC/DC t-shirt, a ripped black jeans, biker boots with silver fins, and leather bracelets on each wrists.
"You're still sitting there vampire, are you deaf?" Stefan heard his brother asked him.
"Just enjoying my drink…" Stefan responded to Damon, while raising his glass to his mouth.
In a matter of second, his entire body was projected into the left wall of the bar, and he was lying on the floor, before being grabbed by the throat, his body elevated on the wall.
"Now…It's been a long time since I ripped out a heart of a vampire from his chest…." Damon angrily said to him, while for a split second, as Stefan noticed, Damon seemed shaken while looking at him, with a veil of interrogation in his eyes, like a "deja view" feeling. But, it did not last, and the emptiness in Damon's eyes came back as quickly as it left.
"Alex, let him go!"
Stefan heard a voice calling his brother, from an older bearded vampire man, who was limping because of one injured leg, while being released from Damon's grip, and dropped on the floor like a bag of potatoes for the second time, before being pushed out of the bar by his thugs vampire men, with his bags thrown on the street near him.
- Chapter 5 -
GIVE YOUR SOUL TO THE DEVIL
"I'll shatter your life apart; I'll hold your heart in my hands,
I'll count your tears, one by one; I'll suck your last breath out of you,
Till…. I'll break you in pieces, while finally capturing your soul,
And making you, my princess of darkness, for ever"
It was early morning, when Elena entered the bathroom, before closing the door silently behind her, closing her eyes, and leaning her back on the wooden door.
She took rapid, but deep breaths, to calm her down, while feeling nauseous and dizzy all of a sudden; she put her right hand on her mouth, while directing rapidly her steps toward the toilet bowl, lifting up its cover seat, and kneeling in front of it, before relieving herself. After a few moments, she raised herself up on her feet, while passing the back of her right hand on her mouth, putting a hand on the sink cabinet, to keep her balance, before raising her head to look at the poor image of herself in the mirror.
She passed a rapid hand on her lifeless tangled hair, while feeling a tear running freely on her cheek…Her skin tone was white as the snow, profound circles were showing under her eyes, and her lower back was burning like hell. She opened the facet, before sprinkling her ravaged face with cold as ice water. She owed it to herself to not sink any lower than what she was now; she needed to put herself back together, if not for her…for the slim chance to see her daughter Rose again.
But, wasn't she the worst hypocrite ever? Not sinking any lower? How can this be possible after having given herself so freely to Alex? She was ashamed of herself, and she knew perfectly well that she could never face the "Why" of her last night decision. She lowered her eyes from the mirror, she could not even look at herself…She was not having any control over her attraction to him…And that was the reason of her being so sick in her stomach right now, that more than anything else. Damon had died five years ago, and he would never come back! She needed to stop thinking that Alex could ever be his replacement!
Now, there was no coming back for her! She needed to play his game…for Rose, only for Rose! It was that, or dying. She knew that after two months away from Mystic Falls, Caroline would put Stefan on her trail…But It had not even been a week that she had dropped Rose in front of the Salvatore's boarding house, leaving her daughter in the hands of Caroline, and she needed to assure herself that she would stay alive, by any means necessary, until the two months would have passed!
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer!" She needed to repeat that sentence to herself, over and over and over! She needed to convince herself that she could make him believe that she was really falling for him…her life depended on it now! She had to become one with Alex…Make him believe that she was her true partner in crime, gaining his trust in her….and precious time to save herself from this nightmare. She was making a promise to herself now; raising her sight in the mirror, and murmuring in an angry tone of voice.
"I'll break you Alex…With all that I have left in me; I swear that I'll break you!"
Alex entered the kitchen, bare chest and feet, while directing his walk toward the coffee maker, before pouring him a cup.
"Come in…Don't be scare, sweetheart, the boss will be happy to see you!" Alex heard Bill mockingly say behind him, before giving a quick glimpse to see his vampire friend bringing a young, frightened, random woman, in the kitchen. Alex looked at Bill in the eyes, before shaking his head in negation.
"No?" He asked Alex, adding. "You're sure?"
"Yes! I don't need to feed now…" Alex responded to him, distant, while sipping his coffee, and directing his sight outside, by looking through the kitchen window.
"Then…." Bill said to the woman, before forcing her, with a strong grip on her arms, to face him, while sighing and adding. "…I guess you'll be my breakfast!"
"No…Please, no!" She mumbled in screams to him, while trembling and crying, before adding. "…Let me go, I won't tell anybody, I swear!"
"Oh….But you won't have to tell, sweetie pie..." Bill answered her, before sliding her long blond hair behind her ear, away from the right side of her neck, while transforming rapidly and entering viciously his fangs into her veins, leaving her breathless in a matter of seconds, before dragging her lifeless body toward the house entrance, and dropping the body in front of the door "…Because, you'll be dead!" He added in a mocking tone of voice. "I'll get rid of the garbage later!" He said in laughter to Alex, before asking. "So? Tell me…How's the little princess this morning, enjoying her new tattoo or enjoying your love making even more?"
Alex kept quiet, his stare lost in front of him, while finishing his coffee. Bill took a sitting place on a chair, while resting his limp leg on another one, lowering his head, before nodding his head, and passing a quick hand on his face and beard.
"I worry about you, Alex…" He said to him.
"Don't…I have everything under control…" Alex responded calmly to Bill, adding. "Tell the boys that we'll be leaving this place for good tonight, we'll be heading toward Michelle's place, before the underground…I want the house to be burned, with only hashes left behind us; exactly what Elena's past memories will be soon."
"I'll tell them, they'll be happy to hear it…It felt a bit too "Honey, I'm home" for their taste!" Bill said to Alex, with a laughing tone of voice.
"Good…" Alex simply added.
"She'll be coming with us I presume?" Bill asked him.
"Yes…." Alex replied to him.
"Ok, if you say that you have her under control, I'll give you that. But, I seriously thought that I had lost you yesterday night, son…The tattoo thing, really Alex? Never seen you react that way for a woman before…And…I was worry that you would let her have a grip on you. She's a very intelligent young woman, I know that you think that you have her under control, but I can see the power she has over you…She'll fight you with all that she got in her. Yes! She'll be in your bed every night if she has to do it to survive, look at you for God sake! You could have all the women that you want, and she has eyes! And she will stab you in the back the minute that you will the least expecting it! I can see that in her eyes…She'll break you, Alex!"
"No, Bill…I'LL-BREAK-HER!" Alex responded to him in a louder voice, while deliberately separating each word of his sentence, before dropping his coffee mug on the kitchen counter, and turning to face him. "She won't even see what will hit her in the face…I'll shatter her life apart, cracking every walls that she had put around her, hold her heart in my hands if I have to, count the tears that she will dropped for me every night, one by one, suck her life out of her, till she will finally break in thousand of pieces, make her forget her past, and then, when she will finally beg me for mercy, and want to be with me for real, I'll capture her soul, and make her mine, for ever…And only after all of this, I will be finally free of her mental grip on me!" Alex busted in front of his vampire friend, before directing his walk toward the stairs, and adding. "And don't think for a minute, that I don't know that she is playing me for a fool! I know, I see right through her little princess act….I'm ready for her, Bill…She'll have a fun ride in the hands of the devil! It will be my pleasure to tame her… Mark my words for it!"
Elena passed her t-shirt above her head, before dropping it on the bathroom floor, standing half naked, with only her panties for only clothes, in front of the mirror, while twisting and turning her upper body to take off the bandage on her lower back. The skin around the scar was red, and a bit of infection was showing…rubbing the sheets on a fresh tattooed skin for hours would have that effect, she thought while blushing…She reached to take a wash cloth on the sink cabinet, before opening the facet, when she felt him! She hold her breath and movements for a short moment…He had opened the bathroom door, before closing it behind him, and was now leaning his back on it, his arms crossed on his bare chest, while sliding his sight on her half naked body, with a sadistic smile on his face. She turned her sight to reach the soap dish, while taking a body towel to put in front of her naked breasts, closing her eyes and counting to five. "You can do this!" She murmured to herself, before turning herself to face him, while timidly smiling to him.
"What…No good morning kiss, Elena?" He mockingly asked her, thinking that it was time for a game, adding. "Don't tell me the honeymoon part of our relationship is already over, baby?"
She slowly turned and finally faced him, while finally taking a few walking steps to reach his standing position, before raising her body on her tip toes, sliding her hands on his naked chest, and kissing him softly on the mouth.
"Good morning…" She whispered to him, her trembling lips on top of his, while locking her eyes with his stare.
He grabbed her hair with his right hand, while pulling them and pushing her head backward, lowering his head near hers, sliding the tip of his tongue on her bottom lips, and murmuring in top of her mouth.
"Now…That is not very convincing, Elena…Coming from a woman who was screaming my name from the top of her lungs, every time, I made her come last night….Scratching my back with her nails, till my skin bled…Where is that woman this morning, you would not be playing with me, would you Elena?" Alex asked her, while sliding both of his hands on her waist, before turning forcefully her body, gluing her back on his chest, while pushing her in front of the sink cabinet, making her grasp for air in surprise. "Look at me!" Alex ordered her to do, while waiting for her to raise her sight at him in the mirror.
"I'm just tired, Alex…" She whispered to him, while locking her eyes with his, playing the game that she had promised herself to play.
"Tired…and suddenly shy?" He asked her, while playing with the corner of the body towel, which she was keeping in place in front of her breast.
Elena kept her stare locked with his, while shrugging her shoulders.
"It's new for me Alex…I don't know how to react or be around you…You have to give me time…" She whispered to him, while taking his right hand in hers, and bringing it to her mouth, before kissing its palm gently, while avoiding looking at him in the eyes.
"Oh! You're good Elena Gilbert…" He thought with a smile on his face, but he was way more devilish than her!
"I'm a patient man, Elena…You know it…It took me years to track you down…" He murmured to her, his lips on top of her left ear. "…But now that I have you…" He added to her, while caressing her bare arms with the palm of his hands, creating wave of shivers in all her body. "…I just want to touch you every second of the day…And I know that you are craving for the same deep intimacy." He continued whispering to her, before turning her body, and pushing her on a near wall…Making her grasp for air a second time, while rubbing his hands on her body. "Caress me…" He whispered in her ear, while putting her hands on his chest, before lowering his mouth on the right side of her neck, sliding the tip of his tongue on her pumping vein, in an upward movement toward her mouth, before sliding his lips on top of hers, and kissing her deeply.
Elena had unfortunately, no other choices, but to go along with this embrace. She raised her hands on his chest, in a mix of caressing and grabbing his skin, sliding them on his back, with the pleasant sensations of his tight muscles under her fingers, while feeling his hands detaching her body towel, before letting it dropped on the bathroom floor, raising his right hand to cup the perfect roundness of her left breast, making her groaned his name and closed her eyes. He pressed her harder in his arms, while sliding his hands on her lower back, before hearing her groaned in pain.
"What is it?" He asked her.
She shook her head from right to left, saying:
"Nothing…I just have a bit of infection." She responded to him.
He turned her body around, and lowered his sight on her lower back, while seeing redness around her scar skin.
"You should have told me…" He said to her, while grabbing the antibiotic cream that he has seen on the sink cabinet.
Elena shrugged her shoulders, while lowering her head. He put his fingers under her chin, while rising and turning her head up to make her look at him.
"That happens to naughty girl, who's rubbing her skin on sheets all night." He mockingly said to her, before putting cream on her scar skin. "I have put clothes on the bed for you to wear…Me and the boys; we're going out tonight…And you are coming with us!"
"Where…" She asked him, while bending her upper body to pick up the body towel on the bathroom floor, before wrapping herself with it.
He smirked at her, without responding to her question, while directing his walk toward the door, before opening it, and leaving her alone in the middle of the room.
"You're going to stay in front of the bar all night, Elena?" Alex mockingly asked her, while getting rid of his motorcycle helmet, watching her getting off the motorcycle herself, before handing her own to him. He smirked at her, before sliding his appreciative stare from her head to toes…She was wearing the clothes that he had put previously on her bed, black high heels boots, skinny, low waist, black jeans, low cut t-shirt, purposely showing her tattoo in her back, and a short black leather vest. "They won't bite you, baby….If someone bites you one day, it will be me!" He added sarcastically to her. "Come!" Alex ordered her to do, while forcefully taking her hand in his, and entering the bar.
Alex entered inside the bar, with her at his side. Elena glued her back to one of the walls, while looking around her. The bar was filled with smog, an after taste of alcohol in the air, and filtered lights, all of which were giving a filthy ambiance to the place, but it looks nevertheless decent and clean. Most of the bikers were playing poker on tables, while putting wages of money or jewelry in front of them. Elena only saw one woman, in the middle of them, she was standing beside a very tall, husky, bald, and tattooed man, the said woman was dressed in Gothic clothes, in black from head to toes, and seemed very infatuated by him….no one had noticed Alex's and Elena's entrance yet.
"Hey Rick! Put the song in the juke-box…It's been a while that we did not do our little show number!" Several of the vampire men of Alex screamed at the said Rick, who seemed to be one of Alex's men, while hitting their fists on the tables to encourage him to do it.
"It's been a while guys…You're right!" He replied to them, while gulping his entire beer bottle, before putting quarters in the juke-box machine.
It did not take long for the place to be filled by the rhythmic - tempo noise of hundred of feet kicking the wooded floor of the bar, and an old rock classic of Queen, to be bursting through the juke-box speakers, while Rick started singing:
"Buddy you're a boy make a big noise, playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day…You got mud on your face, you big disgrace, kickin' your can all over the place…Singin'…"
At the moment that all the bikers were shouting,
"We will, we will… rock you!
We will, we will… rock you!"
Leaving a speechless Elena, her back glued on the entrance wall, before seeing Alex nodding his head to her, to sign her to sit at a near table, which she managed to do on shacking legs. It was official to her: Elena Gilbert had reached hell! Alex got rid of his black leather biker jacket, threw it on a near chair, showing a torn and sleeveless grey t-shirt, on a torn jeans, before jumping on the bar counter, hearing the welcome loud cheering of the audience, before breaking several glasses with his feet and starting to sing out loud himself, with an explosion of hands clapping:
"Buddy you're a young man hard man shoutin' in the street gonna take on the world some day…You got BLOOD on your face, you big disgrace, waving' your banner all over the place…"
Hearing once again, the biker's group screaming after Alex:
"We will, we will…rock you!
We will, we will… rock you!"
Alex singing:
"Singin', Everybody!"
With the last cheers of his men:
"We will, we will… rock you!
We will, we will… rock you!"
When the song was over, Alex jumped, from his standing position on the bar counter, to the floor, while hearing screams and cheers, he knocked his right fist with the one's of Rick.
"Hey boss! Tequila shots…" Several vampire men shouted from the top of their lungs to Alex. "Tequila, Tequila…Tequila…" They all continued to scream at him.
Elena, who was still sitting quietly at a table, in a darker corner of the bar, saw Bill approaching her, before taking a standing position behind her, while drinking his alcohol glass.
"You think you'll survive long in these conditions, Princess?" He mockingly asked her, before lowering his head near her left ear and murmuring to her. "It's not a low cut neckline, showing your pretty breasts, low waist thigh jeans, and high heels boots that will make you his woman! And certainly not the tattoo that he had put in your lower back….You are realizing that, aren't you, sweetheart?" He added to her, making Elena closed her fists in anger, but keeping quiet.
"Alex, Alex…Alex!" The men were continuing sheering with louder screams.
"Because you see, a spoiled girl like you won't last long in his arms, Elena…He'll break the porcelain doll that you are, sooner or later!" Bill said to her, in a mocking tone of voice.
Elena got up on her feet, taking Bill by surprise by angrily pushing her chair on the floor, before getting rid of her black leather coat, throwing it on the table, and bursting loudly at one inch of Bill's face.
"I don't like you either Bill! Every time I see you, I just want to throw up! Maybe if you could take a bar of soap from time to time, and wash yourself, while trimming you awful beard, a woman would want to look at your face…. Now, shut your damn mouth up! Or I'll make you shut up! What is between me and Alex is between me and Alex, and it's not of your fucking damn business, and another thing: I'm not a freaking porcelain doll – Put that in your fucking head, or It is me who will tattoo it on your forehead to make you remember it!"
A dead silence filled the place in a matter of seconds; Elena turned herself, sliding her sight on the entire room, while noticing being the center of the attention, with all eyes turned at her.
"What did you do to my girl, Bill…For her to be so pissed at you?" Alex mockingly asked his right hand man, adding. "You want to give me a hand with the salt part, baby?" He asked Elena, literally putting her on the spot in front of his group of men.
The woman who was now standing behind the bar, smiled at the scene and took a Tequila bottle on a shelf behind her, before sliding it on the bar counter toward Alex.
"Thank you Michelle!" Alex shouted to her.
"Elena?" Alex repeated to her, while opening the Tequila bottle, and turning to lock his fiery stare with hers, in an intense game of power between the two. She could feel her heart beats pumping in her ears – Damn this evil man! "Boys, I think Elena needs a bit of encouragement, she is shy, she told me so this morning…You should cheer her up!" He added in a mocking tone of voice, while winking at her.
In a matter of seconds, Elena heard his men shouting her name from the top of their lungs.
"Elena…Elena…Elena…."
"I am waiting for you, sweetheart…" Alex added to her, whiletaking the bottle of Tequila in his hands.
She kept her stare in his, while taking her first walking steps toward his standing position near the bar counter, swinging her behind on her high heels boots, like there was no tomorrow, while taking the bottom of her low cut t-shirt, and turning the fabric material in her hands to make a knot just above her belly button, lowering her deep neckline by the same way, and showing subjectively the roundness of her breasts and the lace of her black bra, while being cheer by his men, with loud whistling, screams of her name, and fists hitting the tables.
Alex kept his eyes in hers, before sliding his stare from her head to toes, while smiling and thinking that Elena Gilbert was a hell of a fighter, a stubborn, obstinate, fearless woman! She would go to great ends to prove him a point! And at this present moment, even if he knew that she was doing it to make him believe that she was really on his side, he never wanted her more!
She finally stood in front of him, her two hands on each side of her waist, before grabbing the bottle of Tequila from his hands, while putting her mouth on it, leaning her head backward and drinking several big gulps, hearing wild burst of applause in her ears.
"Hey boss…Your girl is a read bad ass drinker!" Several screamed at him.
"Oh believe that she is also a bad ass in other areas!" Alex screamed at them, before slapping hard her bottom, creating a burst of laughter.
She lowered the bottle, while passing the back of her right hand on her mouth, before approaching him, and putting the bottle back in his hands, deliberately gluing her body on Alex's, while rubbing her breasts on his chest, creating more cheers between the men, before grabbing his hair with her hand around his neck, and whispering in his right ear, with a false sfeductive smile on her face.
"Never underestimate me, Alex!" She murmured to him, adding. "And go to hell!"
"With you…Anytime, baby!" He whispered back to her, in her left ear, while sliding his right hand around her waist, before gently biting her ear lobe, making her close her fists in anger, he was obviously playing her for a fool. It was time for her to teach him a lesson!
She gently pushed him away, before raising herself in a sitting position on the bar counter, heels of her boots on top of two separate bar stools, raising the salt in one hand above her head and a piece of lime in the other, Alex's men shouting their appreciation of the scene, by continuing to scream her name. She lowered her upper body, before lying herself on the bar counter, bending her back, in the most suggestive way, inserting the lime quarter between her breasts, wetting her fingers in her mouth, in a in and out motion, before humidifying her belly skin with them, and throwing a bit of salt around her belly button.
"What are you waiting for…Scare of a little bit of challenge, Alex?" She screamed at him, with all the anger and resentment she had in her, making his men burst into loud laughter.
"Alex, your girl is challenging you!" They screamed back at him.
Alex raised his right hand above his head, asking with his gesture to obtain the silence, which came not even a second later.
"Accepting your challenge, sweetheart!" He screamed back at her, while hearing his men screaming loudly his name, adding. "But in return, you'll have to accept mine!" He approached her, while slowly and seductively got rid of his t-shirt, standing bare chest in front of her, before grabbing the Tequila bottle in his right hand, and drinking several gulps.
"You have to see it, to believe it!" Bill said to Ben, who was standing beside him, while crossing his arms in front of his chest.
"Well she is certainly not a porcelain doll now!" Ben mockingly answered, while winking at Bill, and drinking from his beer bottle.
The minute that Elena saw Alex jumped on the bar counter, she knew that she had made the wrong move by challenging him this way, but, she needed to put a front, keeping her calm, and hiding to him how scare and frightening she was….But must of all, how turned on and sexually aroused she felt at this present moment, watching him bending slowly toward her. He winked at her, before kneeling in front of her, while opening her legs, and sliding his upper body between them, before lowering his head and mouth on her belly button, while licking the salt that she had put previously on her skin, she bended her back even more, while closing her eyes, all rational thoughts leaving her mind.
She felt an intense fire rising in her body, the minute his lips touched her skin, waves of delectable shivers surging from the burn of his lips. All the screams, wild shouting surrounding them, disappeared completely for her. She was now only surrender with the most intense sexual sensations that Alex was giving her. He raised his head, and saw that Elena had closed her eyes, and slightly open her lips, in a silence prier for a kiss. Alex smiled heavenly…he had her exactly where he wanted….He took the bottle in his hand, gulping the Tequila, before dropping it, and sliding his hands upward, on each side of her chest, lowering his head once again between her breasts, before biting into the quarter of lime, while hearing wild applause from the audience. Elena opened her eyes; in an intense staring in his eyes, with the shortness of her breaths, not knowing if the ringing in hers ears were caused by the cheers, or the fast beats of her heart.
Alex took her left hand in his, lifting her upper body in a sitting position, gluing her to his chest, his lips at a near inch of her mouth, his eyes locked with hers, in an intense burning stare, while holding her face in his hands, and caressing her left cheek with his thumb.
"Never underestimate me, Elena…" He whispered to her, while repeating her own previous sentence to him, his lips on top of hers. "…This morning, you played me for a fool, Elena…And I knew it…Because I see right threw you, Princess…But this…just now….This was fucking real…This is us…It consumes you with passion…This is the Elena that I want in my arms…And this is the Elena that you want to be…And that is scaring you more than anything!" He added to her in a murmur, while taking her by surprise, by crashing his mouth on hers.
"He knew!" She thought…He knew that she was playing with him since this morning…But this, what they just shared on the bar counter; in the middle of a wild audience…He knew also that she was not playing with him this time! Mad more at herself than anything, or anybody else, she tried to push him away, but he had a solid grip on her…and she finally gave in, by sliding her hands on his naked chest, before grabbing his hair, and sliding her tongue in Alex's mouth, while hearing his moaning of pleasure on her lips.
As fast as the kiss has started, it simply stopped. He jumped from the bar counter to the floor, while taking the bottle of Tequila in his hand again, and gulping the rest of it, with the wild clapping of his men's audience, then he turned and took Elena by the waist, while dropping her on the floor. Her hands on his chest, she raised her head and sight on him, before detaching herself from him.
"Well…" Alex started screaming to his men. "…Let just say that we were both winners!" He added, while locking his eyes with Elena's.
She never knew how she had found in herself the strength to go back to the table, all her body was shaking like a leaf!
"It's a bit disturbing, isn't it? But they are not that bad…They're just having fun!' Ben said to Elena, while placing a beer bottle in front of a shaking Elena, and taking place on a chair near her sitting position.
The tattooed man she had seen discussing with the woman at the bar was now sitting beside her. She nodded her head to him; while not knowing if she should talk to him or not, actually, she was so out of her comfort zone, that she could feel the beats of her own heart in her ears, with each breaths that she was taking...A mix of after the event, strong level of stress, and she would never admitted to herself, the intensity of what she had just shared with Alex….She was scare, and was feeling lonely and insecure. Damn Alex! He just tested her…And he knew that immersing her in his world would scare her half to death! But she was handling it! She needed to repeat this to herself.
"You have guts! What you just did, right now, blasting Bill in front of Alex's men and the Tequila show on the bar counter… It completely surprised everybody, but most of all, Alex…And he is not easily surprised! Though, I totally saw that you were testing him…And he knew it too!" Ben added to her, with a smile, while taking a taste of his own beer. "I'm Ben by the way…" He added to her, while presenting his hand to her. "…I'm human!" He added, to calm her down.
Elena opened her mouth in shock, before handing her hand to him, and shaking it.
"I'm, Elena…" She replied to him, still shivering because of her nerves. Could this Ben be her salvation for escaping? Or could he at least deliver a message to Caroline if she was able to convince him to do so?
"Don't even think about it, I would never betray Alex, by contacting someone that you know!" He said to a speechless Elena.
She lowered her head disappointed, while taking deep breathe, before raising it again, and asking.
"What does he have on you?" She asked him, with a detached voice, while shaking her head from right to left.
"On me, nothing, Elena…He just saved my life once!" Ben told her, making her wince with surprise, before adding. "Yes! He did that for a human! Surprising isn't it? If you think that his devil behaviors is all that you will get from him…But, that's not the truth!"
Elena did not replied, she just sit silent beside the man.
"Michelle is my girlfriend…" Ben told her, while nodding his head in direction of the woman who was standing behind the bar. "She's ….She's a vampire. And the owner of this bar…We're living between here and there…Here being the bar, and there being my tattoo shop the other side of the street…" He added to her, continuing. "…She used to be with Rick…But, she presented herself one day at my tattoo shop…And, the first time we lay eyes on each other…BOOM! Something clicked, something happened, we just knew…She was still with Rick at that time … Rick is the one standing near Alex at the bar, at the moment…Let just say that I almost lost my life for loving her!"
"It's you who tattooed me, isn't it?" Elena asked him, suddenly putting two and two together.
"Yes…And, I'm sorry…I could swear on my human life that I never tattooed people against their approval usually, but, this was a special case…" Ben explained to her.
"You were obligated to do it, because Alex saved your life once …" Elena replied to him, while finishing his sentence.
"Let say that I am not obligated to do anything anymore…" Ben replied to her, adding. "…The skin is healing well." He added to her, while lowering his sight on her lower back, and smiling.
"Yes…" Elena simply replied to him, while taking the bottle of beer in her shaking hands, before taking her first gulps.
"You don't want to be here, Elena?" Ben asked her.
"No…" She whispered to him. "…And I hate him, for doing this to me!" She courageously confessed to him, without knowing if he would repeated it to Alex, but with the confidence at the same time, that he would not, something about Ben, felt like trustworthy to her.
"No, I don't believe you hate him…" Ben replied to her, making her raised her head to look at him with surprise, adding. "…Do you believe in love between a human and a vampire, Elena?" Ben asked her.
Elena lowered her head, before taking a big breath and confessing.
"I think it's possible….!" She answered him, while sadly thinking of Damon.
"Because the way you were looking at Alex, when he was singing on the bar counter...And your little show number to prove him that you could go against him….Reminded me of the way I was with Michelle, when I met her! I think there is real passion between the two of you and that you're falling for him…" He replied to her, adding. "…It's a pitiful life we're living, Elena…Nothing that we thought is the truth anymore…And as human, we will all die one day…At least, they, the vampires, are more truthful to the way they are, they don't go against their true nature…Don't let your pride getting in the way of what your heart really wants…and something tell me, that you are not truthful to what you really want…" He added to her, before raising himself on his feet.
"So…You'll turn for her then? You let your humanity leave your soul, only to be with her? While following a group of thugs vampires, who takes human life for granted!" Elena replied to him, in an angrier voice. "You'll forget all about who you were for her?"
"Probably…Isn't it what love is all about? But the real question is: Will you turn for him, Elena?" Ben asked her, before leaving. "It was nice to meet with you, face to face, this time, Elena…" He added to her, while nodding his head, and continuing. "And by the way, if you haven't done the little number you just did…I would have helped you escape…But, now…I believe that you have a journey to do with Alex…The upstairs loft is available for the nights that you and Alex will need to stay there, take the corridor till you see the stairs…."
"What you mean, the upstairs loft if available, are we staying here?" She asked him, while putting a hand on his tattooed right forearm to retain him.
"I thought you knew…." Ben replied to her, adding. "…He told me that you and his men had left the house that you were leaving in and that they would be heading north…Toward the underground quarters…"
Elena shook her head in negation, and lowering her hand away from Ben's forearm. Alex had played her for a fool! Luring her to leave Michaela's house for good!
"The underground….What…What is that?" Elena asked him.
"You'll know soon enough…" Ben replied to her, before nodding his head, and leaving her side.
She stood up from her sitting position a second later, while taking her leather jacket in her hands, and directing her shaking legs toward the said corridor, without noticing that Alex was following every of her move, from his standing position, near the bar.
She found the corridor easily, climbing the stairs, and pushing a door to enter inside the loft. The place was big, but almost empty of furniture. Small kitchen in a corner of the open space, a bed and two side tables….table and couple of chairs. After looking around, she finally found the bathroom; she entered inside, before holding herself with her hands on the sink cabinet, her head down, while taking deep breaths. She had left behind, her last connection with her previous life, and more so, with Damon: Michaela's house….Now, she was really at Alex's mercy! She suddenly felt a cold shiver going through her body. She opened the cold water faucet, before sprinkling her face with fresh water, raised her head to look at herself in the mirror, she had blushed cheeks, and her eyes shone, her lips were swallowed, after the effect of their shared kiss. She stepped out of the bathroom, before benching hard at his sight in the middle of the loft.
"Going somewhere, Elena….I missed you downstairs, baby?" He said sarcastically to her, while crossing his arms on his chest.
She turned on herself, and took a few walking steps toward him, before raising angrily her head and sight on him.
"Why didn't you tell me that we had left the house for good?" She busted in his face, while taking walking steps to reach his standing position, in a confrontational gesture of her part.
"But, sweetheart…Being with your man should be the most important thing for you…You shouldn't care about the location? Happy to see that you are back to being your bitch self again….And that you left your comedy acts of this morning behind you…." He mockingly answered her.
Elena angrily raised her fists, before throwing it on direction of his face, with all the strength that she got in her. He intercepted it with his left hand, while holding her fist forcefully.
"NEVER-RAISED-YOU-HAND-AGAIN-ON-ME…" He angrily warned her, while lowering his head at a near inch of hers, before letting go of his grip on her arm a second after.
She rubbed her writs, while taking deep breathes, and asking:
"Where are you bringing me, what is this underground place?"
"Not of your concern for now…" He responded to her.
"I want to go back to the house…." She ordered him, while closing her fists in anger.
He devilishly smiled at her, before raising his left leg and biker boot, on the edge of a kitchen chair, forbidden her to reach the entrance door, while caressing her hair.
"Ohhhh, Elena….Not going to happen...And you know why?" He sarcastically asked her. "…Because I asked couple of my men who stayed behind to burn the house to the ground…Leaving only ashes behind us!" He added to her, with a smirk on his face, while tilting his head to the left to mock her more.
Tears appeared in her eyes instantly, and it is without even thinking for a second that she slapped him hard on both cheeks in a matter of seconds. Making him dropped his elevated leg from the chair, and raising his right hand on his cheeks to feel the after taste of her gesture, before turning an angry stare at her.
She tried to run in direction of the door, away from him, but he forcefully grabbed her by the waist, and pushed her on a wall, without noticing the nail on a door frame, profoundly scratching her left upper arm, holding her fists above her head, with both of his hands, and pushing his body on hers, to maintain her immobile.
"Why did you burn that house? I hate you with all that I got in me for that…I want you to burn in hell!" She lashed out angrily to his face, while squirming underneath him, and feeling the tears running fluently on her face.
"Hating me like you did on the bar counter ten minutes ago, Elena?" He busted to her, while approaching his face at a near inch of hers, and starting to lick her tears from her face.
"Don't touch me…" She mumbled angrily in her teeth, adding. "…What are you doing?"
"Counting your tears one by one…" He whispered back to her. "...Witnessing the cracks on the walls that you have erected around you…" He added to her.
"That house was like my house…" She said to him, in a teary voice.
"The past is the past, Elena…leave it behind you, it's time!" He whispered to her, while raising his head and suddenly noticing a trickle of blood that was flowing from her left upper arm, keeping his stare on it.
Elena turned her head, while witnessing the blood on her skin, before starting to tremble.
"Alex, don't …Please, don't" She mumbled in her teeth.
He did not even heard her; the attraction of her blood had already put him in a trance that was bigger than his own restrain …He transformed himself, before bending his head slowly toward her scar skin, and with the tip of his tongue, licking sensually the small scratch, before sucking her blood from her wound, in slow gulps, while tasting her for the first time. Never in the last past five years, he had felt more connected or alive than this moment, while slowly drinking her red ecstasy nectar…Elena closed her eyes, while feeling the race of her heart beat decreasing, he needed to stop, or she would faint! He must have felt the weakness in her, seconds later; he was closing her wound, while healing her skin, and finally raising his head up again, a droop of blood showing on his bottom lips.
"God…" He whispered to her, before lowering his head and crashing his mouth on hers, making her taste for the first time her own blood on his lips, and, it is while kissing her that flash images memory came back to him.
ooOoo
Damon nodded his head in negation before directing slowly his walk toward his leather jacket. When suddenly his vampire senses were in alert. He looked at the close bedroom door, sliding his sight to the bottom of it, only to notice an intense smoke coming from under. He approached it, putting his hands at a near inch of the wood, feeling the intense heat on it.
"What the hell?"He firstly said to himself in disbelief."Damn it…"Damon screamed before turning his sight at Elena who was following every of his move with a surprised expression on her face."You have to get out of here with me Elena…"Damon said before picking in a split second, one of her jeans on a chair, a T-shirt, and her leather coat, throwing all of it on the bed for her to grab."Hurry…Don't discuss about it…."He ordered her.
"What… But why…"Elena said while passing her panties and putting her bra on.
"You house is on fire!"Damon screamed at her.
Elena finally noticed the intense smoke that was coming from under her bedroom door. She rose on her feet in a spilt second, before running toward the bedroom door. Damon stopped her by strongly grabbing her waist with both of his hands.
"Let go Damon…It's my house!"She screamed at him, trying to free herself from his steel grip.
"Are you crazy Elena? You'll kill yourself! "Damon started before pushing her toward the bed, grabbing her t-shirt, helping her by passing it over her head."We have to get out of here."
"But it's my house Damon!"Elena plaited to him with tears coming out of her eyes.
"I know sweetie…"He said to her while putting a sweet kiss on her forehead.
"You think it is Klaus who did this? Who's warning me?"Elena asked him.
"I don't know Elena…"Damon said to her."It wouldn't make any sense…He wants you alive!"Damon added."Now listen to me…did you leave something open downstairs that could have created this fire?"Damon asked grabbing her shoulders.
"No…Nothing…"Elena replied.
It took one minute for Elena to dress herself from head to toes. The intensity of the smoke in the room was now so dense, that Elena was coughing none stop, Damon was waiting for her on the exterior edge of the bedroom's open window. She climbed on her window bench before putting her arms around Damon's neck. He passed one of his arms under her knees, before lifting her in his arms.
"Hang in tight sweetie! Don't be afraid, o.k.?" Damon said before jumping down with his vampire speed, landing on his feet two seconds later. He drooped Elena on the ground, before taking her hands in his and running away from the blaze house with her at his side, standing a minute later on the sidewalk. They were both looking at her house in flames with astonishment on their faces.
ooOoo
Alex detached his lips from hers, showing haggard eyes, and sweat on his body and face, in an intense "coming back" from an intense vision. He pushed himself angrily away from her, while holding his head with both of his hands, feeling an intense pain hitting his temples, before lowering his upper body, with his hands on his knees,. It took him a moment to regain his strength…These headaches had stopped since Elena was at his side…But, something must have triggered them back, along with the strange vision he just had.
Elena looked at him, scared and lost, her back still glued to the wall, with her right hand on her chest, while taking deep breaths to calm herself down.
He finally straightened his body, before looking at her in the eyes.
"You'll stay here for the all night…" He ordered her to do, without any explanation of what had just happened, while directing his walk toward the door, opening it, and closing it with a key behind him.
He got back downstairs, on his unsteady legs, while entering the bar again, directing his walk toward the bar counter, reaching for a Bourbon bottle on a shelf behind it, pouring himself a glass, drinking it in one big gulp, before pouring himself another one.
"Having problem in paradise with your princess?" He heard a mocking voice asking him.
Alex turned on himself, took a glimpse at Bill, who was sitting on a bar stool near him, while smoking a cigarette, before shaking his head in negation.
"Something wrong, Alex?" Bill asked him, suddenly worried, adding. "You look upset?"
Alex drank bottom up his second glass, before raising his sight on Bill and asking.
"Who's Damon, and why am I having vision of Elena speaking to him?"
Two years ago
Pine City – Early morning
Oregon, near Snake River, in the wood.
"Boys!" Bill screamed to the vampire men, while looking at their sleeping drunk bodies scattered on the ground forest, lying between several ravaged and death bodies of a group of campers, who had the bad luck of being at the wrong place and time in this forest parameter. Ben gave them kicks in their ribs, pushing them to wake up. "Up I said! ….Idlers! UP…" He screamed from the top of his lungs.
A couple of them opened their eyes, before rolling on themselves, and slowly straightening their bodies in a standing position.
"The boss left already….Move your big ass…and up we go!" Bill continued screaming at them, before slowly and carefully turning his head to the left, sensing a none wanted presence, before projecting himself with his vampire speed toward the individual who was standing behind him, placing a hand on his throat, and pushing him hard on the trunk of a tree, before blenching hard at his view. "You have a dead wish in yourself, vampire?" He asked Stefan, before letting him free of his grip on him, leaving him on his knees on the ground.
Stefan shook his head in negation, before straightening himself in a standing position.
"Just extremely stubborn…" Stefan replied to Bill.
"You've been warned to stay away from us, son…What is your game in all of this?" Bill asked him.
"You party hard last night, as I can see…" Stefan started, while looking at the dead bodies around them, adding. "I want to see your boss again, the man named Alex!" Stefan asked him, while keeping his stare in Bill's.
"What is your business with Alex?" Bill asked him.
"The past….The past is my business with him…" Stefan answered him.
Bill raised one of his eyebrows, before approaching Stefan and murmuring to him.
"Alex has no past…He's lead by the present and nothing else!"
"That is what you think, but I will beg the difference…" Stefan replied to him, adding very calmly. "…I knew him!"
Bill kept his eyes in Stefan's, while slowly warning him:
"Leave now! Before not having the chance to see the end of the day, son…" Bill said to him, before turning and walking away from Stefan.
"His name is Damon Salvatore, he was turned in 1864 by a woman named Katherine Pierce…Also known as Katerina Petrova…He came back to live with me six years ago in Mystic Falls, .And I know all of this because, Damon, Alex…whatever his name is now….is actually my brother!" Stefan lashed out at Bill.
Bill stopped his walking pace before raising his head and slowly turning on himself to look at Stefan.
"You have the wrong man…I suggest to you, that to turn your back and try to find your brother elsewhere!" He responded to Stefan, before walking away from him.
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A wonderful Christmas filled with laughter and joy,
And a 2012 New Year, that will bring good health to you and your love ones.
Till the next chapter in 2012!
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