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Elena couldn't help but let a smile curve on her lips brushing her fingers over a burgundy silk ribbon wrapped carefully around a dozen beautiful white and red roses laid over her favorite pillow of Katherine's many comfortable bed cushions. Her lover had filled her eyes with stars again with such a kind romantic gesture even if Elena had protested her maker leaving the luxurious house of Katherine's Paris estate. But it was such an early Thursday and the older vampire had insisted her 'errand' was of the up most importance.
"A bakery lures my love from our comforts…must be some delight…" Elena felt her body tremble with how 'delightful' their evening had been. Katherine astounded her with every surprise every graceful yet seductive move and Elena was even learning the strides of her lover's best play. The younger vampire chuckled at their wild excursions, making way to their bathroom and passed the glorious shower to the rather large and oval Jacuzzi tub surrounded in black and grey tile. Upon the counter around the rim was several small glass saucers holding white red and purple candles of different sizes set between an array of different crystals that seemed to glisten when each wick was illuminated with matches Elena struck and brought from one candle to another. It gave such a tranquil setting and with it she removed her lover's favorite robe from her body letting it slide down her back and drop to the marble floor. Turning her head slowly she admired the basket of several herbal salts and soaps carefully reaching for each glass bottle bringing it to her face breathing in the scents one by one until she found the perfect one reaching over turning the faucet and adjusting the heat. Elena softly poured some of the contents of her favorite aroma in breathing in again letting her senses soothe with the scents stepping up then into the tub. Her body slowly lowered down into the heat and she let out a soft moan of relaxation laying her long hair back that she had noticed over the few nights with her lover had begun to curl so similar to Katherine's.
The older vampire had filled her in on the changes the transition would bring to her body and it excited Elena to no end. As the water filled she reached over turning the knob off leaning back shutting her eyes. Katherine had told her the secrets to toning out certain noises and focusing on others. It was an art Elena was still perfecting but it was indeed growing more defined. As the scents rose higher with the heat of the water surrounding her soothed body she drifted off into memory, if just for a moment…
Everyone had stated their condolences about their parents sudden tragedy but it didn't stop Elena nor her brother Jeremy from losing themselves into every dark corridor. They barely made contact with one another and the once proud cheerleader now wallowed down into the woods fading away from the confines of the town trying to lose herself in the wilderness around her. She hadn't cared if Jenna scolded her, or even if she puked but the bottle of hard liquor was cupped in her grasp though as shaky and weak as her body was she still managed to hold onto it. If it was an escape so be it, if it ended her she didn't care. It hadn't been the first night and when she stumbled passed a pile of twigs nearly tripping on one larger branch that had fallen she felt her wrist brush roughly against the bark of one of the bigger trees. It stung for a moment but in a strange sense felt good. The marks on her wrist were healing from where she had scraped the razorblade across her skin but with the contact of the tree they sparked to life again with a pain that Elena couldn't even consider such. She wandered further until her stumbling got worse and she brought the bottle to her lips tipping it until the contents were empty and she spun around losing her balance and falling onto her back. Even the rocks her spine had hit didn't seem to give her much. She was beyond numb, beyond feeling. It had been days a week then two but nothing helped. Elena only wanted to disappear, to reach for something dark and mischievous. It felt like a twisted fairytale she had longed for to come true. She didn't want a white knight, no. She wanted a black knight, something mysterious dangerous and even perhaps deadly. She didn't want school or her captive Aunt's home. She didn't want pity she wanted freedom from everything and everyone. It didn't matter how she got it and as she lay there and a shooting star flashed across the night sky she held a deep breath and let out her wish, her wants her desires uncaring who heard uncaring if it tore her once known life apart…she wanted a change. After her stuttered and drunk wish she shut her eyelids letting nature hold her in it's grasp for the end of another long and agonizing evening…
Elena opened her eyes realizing she had sunk under the water and suddenly marveled at how her lungs hadn't struggled her body hadn't convulsed bringing such new and almost curious revelation through her. Slowly she slid her body upright and out of the water bringing her hands to the edges of the tub then one to her face brushing the soaked hair from her eyes in which she closed fading away the old memories of misery from her present mind filling it only with her incredible nights her rebirth, at Katherine's hand. But when she heard two sets of footsteps and felt a rather devious presence her brown eyes shifted to a darker almost blackened state on full alert until a strong arm came around her waist tugging her out of the water and a hand cupped over her mouth instantly scenting the musky hint of cologne knowing exactly whose it was.
"Katherine…been a long time hasn't it?" Damon smirked holding tight to his captive with a fierce anger and determination to make her pay in spades for his agony his brother's and Elena's. He wondered when she'd show her usual cocky strength and no doubt shove him into the next wall or throw him through the building but then it donned on him maybe she had weakened from being in slumber so long. It brought a happy chuckle through him that in turn brought a tremble through Elena. "Guess you aren't as strong as you used to be." Damon snickered pulling out a sharply curved stake he'd taken the time to carve little ridges in so when he did drive it through her cold heart it would bring her a slow painful death since he'd coated it in vervain too. "No final words?" But when he felt another presence so familiar it brought his eyebrow raised Damon turned his head as the wall cracked and blew apart with something thrown right through it. "What the hell?" Elena didn't care, it had been the distraction she needed and she used her reflexes well knocking her head back into Damon's jaw back peddling them into the wall where she used all her strength to slam against then bolted forward and to the other side of the room now dry and furious uncaring if she was naked before him. "Oh you are gonna…" The elder brother watched as his sibling attempted to pick himself up off the ground knowing just as well something had kicked the crap out of him. "Come on Stef pull it together I found Katherine!"
"No…you didn't." Elena snarled with fang until she felt a soft pair of arms wrap around her body and pull her backward handing her the robe from the floor. Damon turned his head as Stefan raised his and both felt their jaws drop with disbelief. For there in the now newly made doorway the younger Salvatore had been tossed through, stood Katherine with eyes of absolute rage matched to Elena's swarming vampiric ones.
Stefan couldn't believe his eyes standing beside his brother whom dropped the stake he had reached down to retrieve when Elena had knocked him back. Both siblings glanced from one to the other and realized neither had a pulse.
"Stef…" Damon stammered with more fear than concern. He knew what was racing through his brother's mind, it was the same thing running through his. Katherine would be ripped apart piece by piece for taking away the one thing both Salvatore's had reached out to be their light. Damon had, in that moment been grateful he'd never let the cat out of the bag about his feelings for his brother's girl because none of it mattered now. Katherine watched their expressions leaning in placing a soft kiss on Elena's neck as her lover laid her head back contently and the older vampire felt the sinister smile brush over her lips hiding the fury for what Damon was about to do to Elena whom he had mistaken for her.
"What's the matter boys…Kat got your tongue?"
"Actually…" Damon growled rushing forward to snatch Elena from Katherine's arms but both women moved as one shifting out of the way as the older brother stumbled back in disbelief but there it was, more proof the human girl both Salvatore's had adored no longer existed. "Come now, be a good little manipulative bitch and hand her over Katerina." Damon snickered watching his old lover's eyes flash with a hint of irritation.
"Katherine…let her go." Stefan pleaded stepping forward knowing aggressive tactics wouldn't work but subtleties might. Though then again, he could have slapped himself realizing whom he was dealing with. "Is this payback?"
"Oh I wouldn't call it that…" She grumbled with Elena close to her side. She was intently focused on the other brother's movements. If he tried at her lover again he'd meet the other wall not yet disassembled. Shame though. I had to ruin our beautiful oasis. She turned her head slightly with Elena's hand folding around her own. We'll build a new one…maybe on our own private island away from all this…testosterone. Katherine couldn't help but curve her lips with a held back laughter. Straightening her expression again she opted for a way of escape. "Listen boys, it's been fun but Elena and I well…we need to go far FAR away from you, from the chaos you've stirred in her sleepy little town and away from a danger you couldn't fathom even if I handed you a child's map and crayons." Elena choked down her own urge to burst in amusement.
"Oh dearest Kat…haven't we learned anything? After all wasn't it you that killed her dear ole Uncle and hell turned one of her best friends? So who is the real egotistical maniacal selfish backstabbing murdering tramp here? So what you do, compel her? Take away all her will until she surrendered to you?" Damon stepped slowly forward letting each word spewed from his throat egg his ex on enough to give Stefan the amount of time to drag Elena out, even if it was kicking and screaming. But when his brother's girl, no doubly no longer, stepped in front still clasping Katherine's hand he felt the air shift. Though new to her ability Elena bared it all and her fangs hissing at Damon turning her eyes to Stefan then back to his brother with them swirling with vampiric darkness. "Elena…"
"You want the truth…Damon? Truth is I was on an edge for so long tip toeing around every move the two of you made, regarding the town, me, the secrets you kept. All the while…Stefan…you were playing too cautious treating me like I was some fragile thing you needed to keep in a glass box. While your brother eyed me like the best meal he could ever order up, but never tried." Elena flicked her gaze back to Damon. "Furthermore, not too thrilled that you compelled me to forget our first…encounter. So I don't care that Katherine did strip my necklace which was rightfully her possession, and yes…she made me hers but with one touch from her hand one brush of her lips she didn't need to train me to obey…she didn't treat me like a puppy on a leash…she didn't look at me like a spinning image of her ex…" Elena clenched tight to Katherine's hand as her lover returned the gesture hitching a soft moan with every word Elena let free. "…and she gave me freedom, hope, protection, power…and let's just say…the best damn sex I ever had." The younger doppelganger was teetering on the edge of blood hunger, anger and the switch Katherine had warned her that could remove all feeling in her. Elena knew even if she need to flick it off to get passed them, it could cost her dearly knowing she didn't have the control to shift it back on and becoming cold and sinister unable to love Katherine…it would end her long eternity before it had even really begun. So she took a lesson from her lover's best page, and let the boys have it. "I…love…her…"
"You were compelled." Stefan stated, arguing everything in his mind, swallowing each cruel word that didn't sound like his Elena at all, but merely a shadow of Katherine.
"Oh Stefan…don't you know…anything?" Katherine purred stepping forward against her lover's back driving her hips teasingly against Elena's knocking her made out of her struggling emotional state and right back to want, need…have." She waited till both sets of eyes were fully focused on her movements cupping Elena's chin tilting her head back giving a little smirk then pressing her lips to her lover's. Immediately the younger vampire reached back clenching tight to Katherine and both women moaned with their deep and hungered kiss.
"Hmm…" Damon whispered but with everyone inhuman in the room he'd been caught red handed in the blood cookie jar. If I didn't want to rip your heart out and use a butane torch on it I'd say that was the sexiest thing I've ever seen…But when he watched his younger brother nearly drop to his knees in sheer heartache he shook the porn image away. "Fuck you Katherine." Both women broke the kiss and as the older vampire went to speak Elena beat her to it.
"The only one who will be doing anything like that to her, is me. Now leave, you aren't welcome if you're going to try to kill her." Elena snarled. Damon swallowed down the pain about to reach for his own switch but right now Stefan needed him so his own agony would have to wait. The older Salvatore sighed walking over to his brother grasping his arm.
"Let's go…" But Stefan was frozen by his loss by the look in Elena's eyes steered at him. "Don't make me drag you outta here…" Damon glanced over to his sibling and saw the murderous vengeance in his eyes and remember that look…it was the glare he'd given him before Stefan has shut it all down and became the 'Ripper'. We can come back later and kill the bitch Stef…but for now…Elena's safe. We need to regroup do some research on what she meant. Damon pushed the thought into his brother's head and with it Stefan turned to him nodding as much as it pained him to retreat. "Pity we couldn't stay for tea but you know…old habits die hard. No hard feelings right?"
"Leave." Elena repeated with a growl and veins flowing through her face. Damon studied the fury and the beast Katherine had created in such a beautiful heart and he couldn't help but wonder if his ex had done this for payback, a way out of her abandonment issues or she truly cared about Elena. Time would tell. As Stefan turned without looking back at his lost lover and Damon threw a hand on his shoulder Katherine didn't hesitate to pull Elena from the destruction and her once most comfortable estate knowing if she didn't it wouldn't just be the Salvatore brothers after them. She only had one chance, and it was one of the reasons she chose to turn Elena…even if it cost her, her own life in the end as long as her lover was safe it was all that mattered.
But until that danger came knocking on their door, she'd whisk her beautiful companion away to paradise bask in their embrace soaking up every moment of eternal bliss giving Elena all she ever dreamed about and more. Was it worth a few casualties, a couple hunters and a little excitement with a chase along the way? You bet your ass it is…Katherine thought holding tight to her lover beside her in the hot little black jag convertible she had nonchalantly hotwired with their hair blowing freely in the wind turning to one another with ray bans over their eyes laughing and speeding off to their next destination…