"Hey, can we stop? I need to pee." Elena sat up in the backseat.
"Elena, you're awake? How do you feel?" Stefan asked concerned. She had passed out for 4 hours, while he and Damon had been driving around to find a place to hide from the world, from Klaus, and from Bonnie.
A day ago Elena and Damon believed that Stefan is threatening the life of everybody they knew of. And suddenly all had changed. They found out that Stefan was only a tool in one of Klaus's evil plans.
A potion that was supposed to help Elena to disguise herself from Stefan, caused a lot of trouble, when Damon ended up inhaling it and the whole situation got into a tailspin.
But on the upside Elena fell in love with Damon just before she accidentally died and transformed into a mythological creature. Everyone had been very well played by Klaus, who seems to get what he wanted after all.
"Hey look who doesn't look like a freak anymore." Damon said glancing in the back-mirror.
"You think I looked like a freak?" Elena sounded deeply hurt.
"In a cute way, darlin, only in a very cute way."
Elena checked her hair which was back to normal. No snakes that were hissing from her head anymore. Her cat-like features, her horns, and her amber goat eyes with the rectangular pupils were gone as well.
Damon stopped the car and let Elena out. She vanished quickly behind some bushes.
"Be more sensitive with her. She is going through some serious stuff. You don't know how damaged she is." Stefan advised.
"I know exactly how. She is dead and I'm the one to blame." Damon said tiredly.
'So you killed her on purpose?"
"No of course not, idiot. I would never...but I didn't take care of her properly...I should have..."
"Stop it. If you hadn't killed her, then it's not your fault. Just deal with it, will ya. She needs us!"
"The last time she needed me she died, don't you get it. I'm the last thing she needs."
"Fine Damon. Leave her sorry ass alone with me. I'm sure she will totally trust me after all what happened. See, I know she should be as far away from us as possible, but it's too late for that now. There is no-one left to protect her. Her old life is over."
Damon only sighted but seemed to understand Stefan's point. His self loathing wasn't helping.
Elena stood up after relieving herself. She eyed the forest, smelled it, felt it, tasted it.
"How beautiful you are. I never noticed." she whispered and took some steps forward. She couldn't look away. The sight into the green made her feel better, less disconnected. So she leant against a tree and watched.
Only 10 minutes later, Damon and Stefan went after her out of worry. It didn't take them long to find her. There she sat, next to a big tree with silent tears in her eyes. Without a word the brothers placed themselves on the ground and put her in their middle.
"I had a dream..." Elena started to talk. "Before I turned I had this dream. I saw myself as this creature. You two were there, too... then there was Klaus and he, he did things to me...and I was pregnant all of a sudden and and gave birth to his child." More tears ran down her cheeks and out of habit she hid her face in Stefans shoulder, grabbing Damon's hand.
"That will never happen!" Damon spat.
"Do you think that is what he plans. Creating even worse creatures than his hybrids?"
"There is a legend about two women. Sun and Moon. Their blood was used to create vampires and werewolves in the first place.
One of the women had a daughter, and a knowing witch implanted the ribs of mother and aunt after they had died into the girl to assure the world's balance against the inhuman creatures.
That and a spell made the girl a sleeping chimaera and all 300 hundred years there is a chimaera born out of that line who looks exactly like the first one.
Only the last of these doppelganger descendents, who is to die by accident or natural death, can be awoken with blood that has to come from someone she loves." Elena forwarded the informations, that she gained with Bonnie's help.
"So you are able to take us all down? But how? And why would Klaus risk that?"Stefan asked.
"Maybe Klaus didn't know much about the chimaera thing, only that she can bear pretty little uber-hybrids." Damon remarked.
"So we should find out about your skills then, and avoid Klaus and everybody else till we did. Am I right?" Stefan eyed her reassuring.
"Sounds like a plan to me" Damon approved.
" Yeah, but before... Uhm... I'm hungry really bad. Can we find something to eat before we work out my abilities?" Elena asked a little shy.
"Sure, what do you have in mind?"
"Mhhm, can I have blood?"
"Do you wanna feed from humans or animals?..." Damon wanted to tease her a little.
"Can I have your blood?" licking her lower lip in anticipation Elena still felt insecure to ask such a question. "Only a little bit of each of you. Not much I promise."
"Each of us! Interesting. Uhm, what do you think brother. Should we risk to get killed by a full-fledged chimaera?"
Only a little sting in Damon's heart reminded him that he usually would never share Elena willingly in any way with anybody. But the fact that she wanted to drink from both of em indicated that her feelings for Stefan had returned and surprisingly he seemed to feel okay with it.
"She can't stay hungry, so I guess we better let her." Stefan replied.
"You first. I wanna see if it's dangerous." Damon assigned.
"Damon! I would never..."
"You don't know that. Remember good old Caroline? She didn't want to kill either. But don't you worry. I take care of you and stop you if I have to."
Stefan gulped but eventually bent his head to the side, still sitting next to her on the ground.
Damon moved on Stefan's other side and Elena looked deeply in his eyes, before her face disappeared in Stefans neck base.
Almost immediately Stefan's expression changed into surprise and fascination.
"Whow, thats..."
"Good..." Elena finished the sentence, releasing Stefans neck after a few mouthful of his blood. She wanted to show that she could stop. After another couple of sips she leaned back.
Her eyes were searching for permission to have some of Damon's blood as well.
"Let's just wait another second. I want to see if my brothers face is still able to show some more intelligence." He said without looking away from her.
Stefan's eyes were dreamy and a tiny smile lingered on his lips. He didn't react at all to Damon's comment.
"Stefan!" Elena started to shake him.
"I'm okay I guess...Wow, that's some kind of a feeling..."
"I was worried. Don't do that again."
"Sorry, but I can't promise that."
"Okay...come over here little lady." Damon grinned. Elena noticed that his smile didn't made it to his eyes. Somehow he wasn't as easy-going as usual. She had a good idea why.
Gently she touched his jaw and placed a butterfly kiss on his cheek. Then she buried her teeth in his neck and softly sucked little amounts of red deliciousness out of him.
She guessed that the feeling they all shared was mutual. Stefan's reaction told her that he must have felt it, too. An intimate tasty pleasure. And with Damon it was even more intense. Maybe it was because she just recently fell in love with him and everything felt new and exciting.
A tiny moan escaped Elenas mouth and that triggered something in both of the brothers. Their vampire features appeared and with it lust.
Stefan grabbed her arm forcefully to get her attention.
"I'm in control. I just had a few sips. Don't worry about him..." When she saw Stefan's face she was taken aback in surprise. Alerted she dared to look at Damon, but his face, which also had changed, was still relaxed and sleepy. So she had only to deal with Stefan.
"Kiss him! I want to see you kissing him!" Stefan demanded heavy breathing. Elena didn't move. She thought about, if he had sounded jealous or mad in any way. But he hadn't and that confused her. He would never talk to her or ask her seriously to do things like that ever.
"I know you two became closer during the last days. He told me. So please, I wanna see it." Stefan pushed her.
The look on his face confirmed it. He was somehow totally turned on by the thought of them kissing. And like a chain reaction, she felt what he felt. Strong and urgent. He would sit there and enjoy watching her kissing Damon. The picture in her brain was mighty and clear and without loosing another second she turned around to place herself on Damons lap.
Damon still was visiting la-la-land due to her snacking on him. But when he felt her sitting on him and felt her tongue asking for permission to enter his mouth he immediately joined the club they had just formed.
Damon could taste his own damn blood. Did he get hit on his head by his jealous brother or was this for real?
Elena felt him getting hard under her and ruthlessly intensified the kiss. She couldn't stop herself and moved her hips to feel his reaction.
Damon felt Stefan's hand leading his own to one of her breasts. He took it as a permission but also as a request to touch her. And he did. And how he did.
The craziness of the moment was dimmed. All three were drowning in need and want. Was there ever a feeling of moral or decency, they would have sworn they had never heard about it.
With an innocent consciousness they were about to become sinners, if a big branch had not fallen off from a nearby tree to startle them.
Elena gasped and moved backwards, away from Damon's lap. It took them awhile to realize what just had happened.
"Yupp, definitely dangerous." Damon stated uneasy.