"Wha-what? When? When did it happen I mean why?" Was all Damon managed to spat out quickly. He was utterly upset and angry. Why did God hate him so much lately? Finding out to have a psycho ex-girlfriend was enough for one day..now even this?
"We don't know for sure, Mr. Salvatore. But we can say that someone has introduced in the house because the fire has started from the inside, from the parlor to be exact. Again, we're sorry..we've tried to do our best. If you want to come over, feel free. But as I said before, it's all gone. I advice you to stay away from the house at least for tonight. Especially if someone has indeed set it on fire on purpose."
There was a moment of silence before he replied. Damon really didn't know what to say. "Okay. Thank you." Was all he said coldly before hanging up.
He turned his gaze towards Elena, who just looked confused and worried.
"Damon..what happened?" She asked looking at him in the eyes, trying to figure out what was going on.
He huffed in frustration and laughed bitterly. "Everything happened. Next thing that will happen I will probably die shot or something like that." He said sarcastically. He then took a seat on the porch steps, looking at her as in asking to join him. Elena rectulantly did – now more nervous and mad at him than worried or confused, because he was shutting her out once again.
"Please Damon. Talk to me." She said softly, taking his hand.
He took a deep breath to calm himself down. "Rose's baby is not mine," he began, and he couldn't help but notice the huge grin of happiness on Elena's face. "But I'm pretty screwed-up either way, because she's going to post some private...tapes. And not just with her." He said hesitantly, now looking at her with guilt and shame. She immediatly let go of his hand, it was like she felt disgusted by him.
"Oh god..Damon what did you exactly do during this year? Whoring around the whole time, so that women can actually blackmail you with sex-tapes, for Christ's sake!" She now shouted angry, and Damon could see her point. He was actually surprised that she was still with him after all. Finding out about Rose's pregnancy, and be willing to stay with him even though he was going to have a child with someone else, had been a huge task for her, but she did it. Now goddamit sex-tapes with other women were on the verge of being published, and he could understand the humiliation that it was for her. He just looked at her, not finding the words for this. He had no excuses.
She took her head in her hands and then sighed. "How many?" She just asked.
"She told me about two videos, but I'm not sure if there are others. One is just with her. And in the other one there's Andie too." He replied quickly. He didn't know if he had gone too harsh on her telling her the entire truth, but he didn't want to lie, she would have found out anyway.
There were a few moments of silence and a light sound of disgust escaping from her mouth, before she laughed bitterly, shooking her head. "You're an ass, Damon. You screw-up up most of the times, you're impulsive and stubborn, and almost always you don't show what you're feeling. And now I have to go through the humiliation of seeing you having sex with othe women in some dirty videos..you're a mess, you know." She said, looking at him firmly in the eyes.
That was it. She was finally breaking up with him, and he would have broken up with him too. He was just so god damn wrong on so many levels. But now the slighest of the smile appeared on her beautiful face.
"But you're my mess, Damon Salvatore. And I love you. So much, unfortunately. So we're going to go through this together and you won't go down, not without me." She said still firmly as before, taking his hand again and squeezing it lightly.
He smiled at her genuinely, one of those smiles that were rare to see on Damon's features. He then took her in his arms, kissing her head.
"What did I do to deserve you?" He just asked chuckingly.
"I don't know, to be honest.." She said laughing. "But I still think that you're an ass. And seriously Damon, ew, a threesome.." She then said trying to light up the mood a little.
"I know I am.." He said, guilt written all over his face again. That angel in his arms had waited for him for more than a year, she was surrounded by guys hitting on her for Christ's sake, she should have moved on, and yet she still loved him after all. And what did he do? Going cruel on her when he saw her again? Almost knocking-up another woman and sleeping around? She deserved better, but as long as she wanted him, he would have stayed. Because in that moment Damon realized that there wasn't another person in this world who could actually compare to Elena, make him feel like she did, and he would never be able to love someone else. Not as much as her. And that thought scared him, because if someday she was going to grow tired of him…he couldn't think about that.
Seeing his espression going blank, Elena waved a hand in front of his eyes. "Damon?" She asked slightly amused.
"Yeah?" He suddenly asked, shooking away his thoughts.
She tightened the grip on his arm. "There's something else you want to tell me?" She asked softly, cupping his face.
"Actually, yes..there is something else. Someone broke into my house tonight and they set a fire. The apartment is completely gone." He said in disbelieve, as if he couldn't actually believe at his own words. Of all the things that he had hated when he moved in New York, that apartment wasn't. He indeed loved it because it had actually become his place, his shut out from the others.
Elena was in complete shock, she was speechless. Did she hear him well? Someone actually set a fire on purpose? That meant…no way.
"Oh my God..oh my God you could have been in that house! Who would do such a thing!" She yelled angry, throwing her arms around him and holding him tight and allowing a few tears to escape. She knew that she was the one who should have probably comforted him right now, but she couldn't help it. Who could actually hate him so much to want him dead? Because you just don't burn a house in the middle of the night, if it isn't for a reason. And in that moment she felt like a lioness that had to protect her babies, no one could put a hand on him as long as he was with her.
"Ssshh Elena. I'm here, no need to worry." He reassured her softly, petting her hair. He could be strong, controlling his emotions and being cold was something that he had learned very well during the years. But for Elena..it was a lot to take in and handle in one night.
He gently picked her up and took the keys from her hands. She relaxed against him and actually fell asleep in his arms as he drove them upstairs.
He quietly opened the house, not wanting to make too much noise. His hopes seemed to be vanished though when he saw Caroline and Katheirne talking anxiously on the couch. Uh-oh, a confrontation with those two without Elena helping him out wasn't exaclty what he had hoped for.
When they saw them, Caroline's jaw just dropped open, while Katherine shot a dead glance at him.
"I knew it! I knew that you were 'the' Damon!" She spat furiously, pointing her finger at him like she had just found the guilty of something.
"Hello girls." He just said awkwardly, sounding a moron more than anything.
"And Jesus Christ Damon, it's almost an hour that she's out! What have you done out there? Is she okay?" Katherine kept talking.
"She's okay, she just fell asleep Katherine. Jeez, it's not like I'm a maniac you know." He said rolling his eyes while gently putting Elena on the couch.
Katherine then got closer to him, shooting him another killer glance before grinning at him. "Son of a bitch..I've missed you!" She slapped him playfully before hugging him affectionately.
"I've missed you too, little bitch." He said chuckingly. "Has Caroline became silent or what?" He then said, looking strangely at Caroline who for the whole time had been with her jaw dropped open and with that 'WTF' look on her face.
"Holy shit. Am I going insane because it's 3 am and I actually need to sleep..or Damon just entered in with Elena in his arms? I mean Damon, as in The Damon! Oh my goodness." She said in disbelief.
She then ran to him too, literally jumping into his arms. He cared about Caroline and Katherine, and seeing them again made him happy and somehow closer to Mystic Falls, even if he didn't really love that place besides a few people..
She then made a noise between squealing and yelling. "Aww! I knew it! I knew that you and Elena were going to get back together! You're just so unbelievably cute, and beautiful, and perfect, and in love.." She kept going and going until Damon put his hand in front of her mouth, and she still was mumbling.
"Are you finished?" Damon asked cocking his eyebrows, amused and glad to see that Caroline was always the same.
"No really Damon, we're not even kidding..don't you dare leaving her again. She becomes all sappy and depressed without you that it's not even funny." Katherine said annoyed, throwing herself on the couch next to Elena, checking her long perfect curls.
"Oh yeah!" Caroline agreed firmly nodding her head.
Damon laughed. "You know that she would actually kill both of you if she heard you talking to me about this, right? Come on, where's your girls code or something like that?" He asked amused.
"Oh no Damon, I don't give a flying fuck about the girls code or whatever it is right now! Dare to leave her again like you did last year and I'll choke your balls. One, because you make my sister suffer. And two, because she becomes ridiculously annoying and unbereable without you that I would blame it all to you." Katherine smiled at him sarcastically.
He rolled his eyes. "I'll do my best, Miss Katherine." He said sarcastically too.
"Now why don't you get back to sleep..I'll take care of Elena." He said.
"Well, we gladly let her room to you two! Kath and I are going to sleep in this other room." Caroline said. She pointed at Rose's old room and he felt somehow uncomfortable, remembering that she had indeed lived here.
"Okay. Goodnight." He said and smiled at them.
He then picked Elena up and curled her in her bed, closing the door. He took another comforter from her closet and he put it on her, wanting her to get more warm as possibile after they had been almost an hour outside.
He then took his shoes and shirt off, laying beside her.
"Damon? Damon where are you?" Elena said anxiously in her sleep, and it sounded almost like a whine. She repeated it again as she felt that he wasn't in the spot next to her.
He quickly placed himself near her, so she could feel him.
"I'm here baby, I'm not going anywhere." He told her softly, kissing her cheek and wrapping his arms around her.
"Good." She said sniffing and entwining their legs together. "You know that if you didn't show up to me tonight, if for some reasons you deciced to stay home, I could have lost you? Damon this cannot happen again. If I'll find who did this to you, I'm seriously going to kill that person. Do you..do you have any idea of who might have been?"
He was silent for a few moments, before speaking. "I honestly have no idea." He said sighing, kissing her shoulder. He thought about Rose for a moment, and even if she indeed was not perfectly sane, she wouldn't be able to do something like that.
She turned to face him with an almost look of guilt and pain on her face. "But I might. Do you know Klaus?"
"Yeah..Rose's ex." He nodded.
"When Rose was still here, I heard them talking one morning. He sounded jealous, he wanted her back and I clearly remember that he called you a jerk. I'm not saying that it's been him without doubts..but…"
"You know what Elena? I don't care. That guy is a moron, and I actually think that yes, he would be capable of something like that. But who cares? I'm here now. That's all that matters."
She seemed surprised at his words. "Oh really, so you don't care? He's not sane, Damon. If he wants you dead he could always find a way! Don't you understand it!" She said desperately.
He took her chin into his hands and looked at her deeply, making her melt into those beautiful eyes of his. "I can't predict my future, Elena. He could have set on fire my house just for pure cruel fun, or you can be right and the guy wants me gone. We don't know for sure. But let's not make this haunt us, eat our lives. I don't want this for us. Please." He demanded softly. She nodded quietly and kissed him on the lips.
"I love you." She whispered, snuggling into him.
"I love you too." He whispered into her hear as they both feel asleep.
"No I'm not going to open this door Katherine, what if they're naked?" Caroline whispered exasperatedly for the thousand time.
"Oh please! And what if they are? Elena is my twin, and Damon..well I sleep with his brother so!" She retorted. Caroline just huffed angrily.
"What's that supposed to mean? Do you know what sense of privacy is? You're unbelievable Katherine, unbelievable!" Caroline said, losing patience.
Damon was already awake for a while, but hearing those two out of the door was hilarious.
"Goodmorning, ladies." He said opening the door with his usual cocky smirk, caughting Katherine and Caroline by surprise. Caroline went completely red knowing that he had heard them, Katherine instead just had her usual amused look.
He couldn't help but notice their apprecciative stare at his body while he put his shirt on.
"So, what exactly do you want at nine in the morning?" He asked, trying to sound polite.
"We wanted to ask Elena if she wanted to join us for jogging.." Caroline said. "But she's still asleep so.."
"Oh don't worry about Elena. I promise you that when she wakes up, I'll make her exercise with something better than jogging." He said smirking.
They rolled their eyes at him. "Thank you for the information, Damon. Really knowing about your sexual life is what makes my days." Caroline said sarcastically, heading for the living room.
"For the record Katherine..I've seen my brother naked, you know. And you wouldn't say that he is actually my brother, if you know what I mean." He teased her.
Katherine was red like a tomato now, and slapped him hard on the arm before going back to Caroline.
As soon as Elena woke up, Damon didn't waste time.
"Now we're going to take a very hot shower..what you think?" He said while planting kisses in every inch of her body.
"I'm in." She replied smiling.
He gave her a devilish grin before picking her up and taking her into the bathroom.
They were naked in a matter of seconds, their tongues already battling for dominance under the hot water. He let her win, but just because he loved this feisty Elena too much. Then she looked at him with her big doe eyes, and as always he let her read all the emotions that he felt written all over his face. This was one thing that he just did with her.
He was broken, Elena could see. In one day he had been betrayed once again from a person that was close to him, and someone pretty much tried to kill him. But when she saw the tendress and the insecurity into his eyes, she knew that the vulnerable Damon was still there, telling her with his eyes how much he needed her.
She pressed her forehead against his. "You won't ever lose me. You can always count on me." She said softly.
He gave her a warm smile as he kissed her passionately. And words weren't needed.
I know that this is incredibly short and I'm sorry, but I wanted to update before the week-end..I think that on Monday I will be able to post another chappie :)
Please review! :)