Chapter two
In a flash Damon is at her side, crouching in the leafs. "Are you okay? I thought we were supposed to meet in your room. I had no idea you were so eager." He smirks.
"What are you talking about, Damon? I didn't know we had plans to meet in my room. Why are we outside?"
"I just asked you that." He pulls a leaf out of her hair. "Did you fall?"
"I can't remember anything. I know like… up until ten minutes ago… I was asleep then I had a missed call from you, and two from Stefan… He asked me to call you… and… that's it." Elena takes a shaky breath, "help me up?" He reaches down, picking her up. "Damon…" She sighs.
"Yes Kitten?"
"Never mind… Can you get me up to my room without letting Jenna and Jeremy know you're here?"
"Of course." He braces his legs and jumps, up into her room. "Better?" He asks not putting her down.
"Much. Uhh… Can you put me down? I need to shower…?" She looks up at him, but she's not trying to get away.
Slowly he sets her feet on the floor, "Mind if I join you?"
"As a matter of fact I do. You can wait here. And after I shower, we need to talk… I don't remember why, but I hope I do soon."
"Elena, Look me in the eye." When he does so, he states, "You've been compelled recently. Within moments." He bites his wrist, "drink."
"Damon.. I-"
"Do you want to remember what you were made to forget?
"Yes. But I-"
"How fast do you want to remember?
"What do you mean Damon?"
"Drink my blood, two days-max. Exchange blood-an hour. You're choice. You got 10 seconds to decide."
"Bite me then." She pulls her hair to one side, stretching out her neck.
"Wrist is less intimate."
"Does it look like I care, Damon?"
"Okay…" He used a knife to cut his neck. "Drink" he says as he nicks her neck, drinking. He smiles into her neck, as he feels her lips attach to his neck.
~~30 minutes later~~
"What the…?"
Damon pulls back, as Elena does the same, as they see Stefan standing in front of the window. "Stefan I-"
"What the heck is going on here?"
"Stefan… I-"Elena falls to the ground, Damon catches her, flashing her to the bed.
"Elena?" In a flash Stefan is beside them, taking her hand. "Why were you guys exchanging blood?"
"She has been recently compelled. I found her outside her window, leaves in her hair, she doesn't remember a thing after hanging up with you. You could tell by looking in her eyes, she had been compelled."
"And so you tried to sleep with her?"
"No. I brought her back up here. Set her down so she could take a shower, and then I noticed that she had been compelled. I told her that If she drank my blood, she would remember- In two days. If we exchanged, then less then an hour."
"Did you mention the risk exchanging could have with changing her?"
"She knew." Damon puts a hand on her cheek, "You okay Kitten?"
"Quit Damon. And Yes Stefan I knew the chances. I just wanted to know what I'd been forced to forget. You both will want to hear this: It was Isobel."
"Isobel was here?" Stefan asks, confused.
"Yes Stefan. She said-and I quote- Stay close to Damon, Bonnie, Jeremy, and Caroline. They will be the best for you. Allow your self to drift from Stefan. It'll be better in the end. AND remember. Do not blame Caroline for anything. Forget girl-code in the name of love- She compelled me to remember that."
"Stay close to Damon?" says Stefan as Damon says "Drift from Stefan?"
"I don't know… that's what she said. And no Damon, that's not what I meant." She says, when she see's his smirk.
"Hey! You said it!" Damon smirks, tousling her hair, "It wasn't me this time."
She rolls her eyes, suddenly noticing that she is only in a belly-showing-tank-top, and booty-shorts with two boys in her bed. Two ridiculously sexy guys sitting beside her. And she loves them both. "Crap… uh… I am going To get in the shower. Damon. We still need to talk." She smiles at them, before standing up. "I'll text you when I'm done okay?"
"Sure." Damon smiles, and wraps his arms around her quickly, kissing her passionately, before dashing from the room.
Elena turns guiltily to Stefan, whose staring at her with his mouth hanging open.