I am back everyone! Sorry I was MIA for a while, my computer had a major meltdown and it took a while to fix. But now chapter six is here for all of you to read and enjoy! And the best of all, it's the second to last chapter! I give my thanks to every person who ever reviewed, alerted, or favorited, it means a lot to me. So thank you to everyone who has followed me all the way through and I hope you enjoy the second to last chapter. So please read, enjoy, and review. :) -I Own Nothing -Lioness002
P.S. I know everyone was expecting it to be the long awaited Damon/Elena conversation but when I tried to type it out it seemed rushed and messy so I am putting it off for the next chapter. Sorry. :( This is pretty much the set-up for the big conversation. I hope I haven't disappointed anyone! :) Please enjoy!
I sat staring at the ceiling of my room as I tried desperately to sleep, usually I would be out doing something crazy, fun, or just maybe stupid, but the night events had left me spent. I was so over the overly emotional crap that was going on in the house, it was driving me crazy to even think about any of it. To think that Katherine was here stirring up trouble in our already turbulent waters made me physically sick. Then add in Klaus the Original and sacrifices and you have a real party. I rolled my eyes at my own stupidity and sighed as a pulled a pillow over my face. I hated to admit it, but I was worried about Elena. I saw her rush out of the house; she was heartbroken by the fight between her and Stefan, and I hated to admit it even more, but it had been my fault, maybe not as much as Katherine, but I was still a culprit. I'm going to be honest, a fight between the so madly in love couple every now and again is fine with me, it lifts the veil of perfection, because lets face it, Elena and Stefan's relationship is nowhere near as perfect as they think it is, the problem I have with their fight tonight was because it was mainly Katherine's fault. The little bitch better have an escape plan for when I try and rip her un-beating heart from her chest and force feed it to her. She has been on this planet way to long.
Sadly for me my normal routines for calming down or relaxing aren't working tonight, I've had at least three blood bags and it has made absolutely no difference to my crap mood. I tried to drift and let my mind wander to less deadly, tragic, and emotional events, but my mind will not let me think of anything else but Elena. Elena. God I can't help but love her, she is kind and caring, beautiful, and strong willed. She's almost inspirational, but she needs to think through her plans before she acts, she keeps me busy saving her life constantly, thinking of which, she saved my life…for a third time. Ugh, she is never going to let me live that down. Then again, we are pretty even, I think for every time she saves me I save her four times. It's a give and take relationship.
"Oh Damon!" Katherine called breaking me away from my train of thought. I looked over to see her entering my room with something clutched in her hand. "You missed a call." She said tossing me my phone with a secret smile. I raised an eyebrow in her direction as I looked down at my phone and then back at her.
"Why do you care?" I asked suspiciously. Katherine smiled sweetly and folded her arms across her chest.
"Because you missed a call from Elena." She said putting emphasis on Elena's name. I tried to keep my face blank but I saw Katherine's face pull into a smile when she saw concern cross my face. "Who knows what it's about, maybe Klaus got her," she said leaning against my doorframe, "or maybe, just maybe, something happened between her and Stefan." She said with an evil glint in her eyes. I rolled my eyes and pressed a button so I could hear the message. The voice mail started off with shallow breathing and automatically my heart was in my throat.
"Hey Damon, its Elena." Elena said in a quivering voice. "I really need someone to talk to right now, something has happened." She gulped before continuing. "But more importantly, we need to talk about tonight. When you get this please call me back as soon as you can."
The message was short but I could sense Elena really needed to talk, she almost sounded desperate. I sat staring at my phone for a second before I remembered Katherine leaning against my doorframe.
"You had nothing to do with this did you?" I asked evenly. I wouldn't put it past her to leave me a message making me think Elena wanted to talk. Katherine smiled and shrugged.
"Who knows? Goodnight Damon, I'm going to have some fun." She said with a mischievous grin. I sighed after she left and turned to look at the clock, it was past midnight. Stefan should have been home by now. He usually was dead asleep by this time of night, no pun intended.
As if Stefan had radar, I heard the front door open up before it was slammed loudly and forcefully. I cocked my head to the side as I got up from my bed and walked down the hall to the top of the stairs.
"There are people in this house trying to sleep you know." I said with a smirk as Stefan stomped up the stairs. Stefan looked up at me with murder in his eyes before he stopped one step in front of me.
"It's entirely your fault." He hissed in answer to my comment. I narrowed my eyes at his accusing tone as my smirk disappeared into a line of annoyance.
"What exactly is all my fault may I ask?" I said crossing my arms over my chest as I said as I widened my eyes slightly. Stefan took the final step so he was up to my leave before glaring harshly at me.
"Elena. You took her from me." I felt a bit of my anger melt at her name, but how and when had Stefan lost Elena. I am pretty sure that the last time I checked they were having a fight, not breaking up over a misunderstanding. Stefan was just overreacting as usual.
"I don't follow."
"You took her from me." Stefan repeated slowly. "She broke up with me." At that I took a slight step back in surprise.
"Wait, what?"
"That's right. I confronted her about-"
"Stefan," I sighed, "I told you to wait."
"I wanted to know." Stefan said turning his gaze down to the wood flooring.
"Know what?" I asked now knowing perfectly well why Elena had called me sounding so broken up. Stefan had visited, royally pissed her off, and apparently made her break up with him. That was one event I thought would never happen ever again. Funnily enough the first time it was about Katherine and this time me, man, if her and I could bottle up our trouble we would have a weapon of mass destruction.
"I wanted to know if she still loved me as much as she once had, you most likely can deduce the outcome. She fell in love with you. I just hope you can maker her happier than I could." He said brushing by me and heading for his room. I stood stalk still on the top steps replaying Stefan's words. She fell in love with you. I shook my head and turned to see Stefan with a suitcase in hand as he walked down the steps.
"Where are you going?" I called after Stefan. He stopped and looked over his shoulder with a defeated look.
"I have no reason to stay in town if Elena and I aren't together; I only came here in the first place because she was here. I'm leaving; maybe I'll go to Boston, New York, Washington, I don't know, just somewhere away from everything. I need some time to sort some things out."
"And what about when Elena tries to apologize and realizes she made the wrong choice?"
"That day will never come. This time Damon she is set in her decision, she doesn't want me, she wants you." Stefan said quietly. "Sadly enough, history has repeated itself, Elena did become Katherine." Stefan said icily. I whipped my gaze to Stefan before I rushed at him and knocked him down the stairs pinning him to the floor once we rolled to the bottom.
"Lets get one thing straight Stefan," I said closing my fingers around his windpipe, "You will never say Elena is anything like Katherine. Elena had the decency to tell you to your face that she didn't feel the same, that she didn't love you. Katherine played with the both of us, pinned us against each other while Elena pinned us back together. You say one more negative thing about Elena and I will kick your ass all the way back to 1864. You got it?" I hissed leaning forward until our face were centimeters apart and I glared down at Stefan while waiting for his answer.
"Fine." Stefan answered hoarsely as he slapped my hand away and stood up. "I just never thought Elena would be the kind of person to fall in love with someone like you." He said judgingly and angrily. He made it seem like I was lower than the dirt, made the point that I was lower than him. I ground my teeth together as Stefan and I stood up and I fought the urge to rip his head off. All the progress we had made in becoming brothers again was slowly unraveling in front of the both of us. Elena had brought us together and then Stefan tore us apart. The brother who wanted to see something human in me, have the bond between brothers was the one destroying it. Jealousy really was an ugly green monster.
"You are pathetic." I finally yelled. "I have put up with the feeling of rejection my whole life, it's time you get a taste. Now get out of here before I change my mind and hunt your sorry ass down." I hissed watching Stefan begin moving toward the door.
"Just try, now goodbye Damon. I hope you don't screw it up." Stefan said closing the door to the front of the house. I waited as I heard his muted footsteps walk over to his car and put his things in the trunk before he opened up the driver's door, started the engine and drove off.
"Goodbye brother." I whispered sadly. I was infuriated that Stefan had left on a sour note like that, that Stefan had been such a selfish, petty, jealous, douche. I was glad Elena had not seen Stefan's darkest moment. The un-candy-coated and raw Stefan, the part of him I had seen since he was born.
I let out a sigh as I pulled my hand across my face. I heard the creak of steps and I turned up to see Katherine.
"You're leaving." I stated knowing fully well that she would. "Stefan just left; you can probably still catch him."
"I think I will." She said cockily. "Have fun with Elena Damon." She said walking by me and messing my hair. "Oh, and by the way," she said turning around looking at me over her shoulder, "Elena really does love you. Anyone can see it."
"Goodbye Katherine."
"Bye." She said waving. The door closed and I stood standing in the entryway of the house.
"Wow." I whispered under my breath as I went into the parlor and poured myself a scotch. I downed it in one sip and sat leaning against the table in deep thought. In one day everyone lives had been turned upside-down. Katherine the pain had left, Stefan had left, Elena apparently had broken up with Stefan and realized she love me. I snorted at the idea. "Right, like that is really going to happen. Oh this is going to take so much damage control." I thought.
I sped up to my room and grabbed my leather jacket off the bottom of my bed and slipped it on. I ran my fingers through my hair and let out a choked sigh. "It's now or never." I thought speeding down the stairs and out of the house. "I just hope Elena knows that she opened Pandora's Box." I thought running through the trees down the road toward Elena's house. "Please don't let this be goodbye."
Chapter six is over and done, it took so long. Now I PROMISE the next chapter is the Damon/Elena conversation. He's on his way there so there is no way I can delay it any longer. Soooo, I really hope everyone enjoyed and please leave me a review telling me how I did. Thanks for reading! :) -Lioness002