The Salvatore Sister
Chapter Seventeen – Fair Play
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Mystic Falls, 1854
The dinner with my family and the Lockwoods had really upset me. Of course, I wanted to get married as much as the next girl but I always saw myself walking down the aisle as a beautiful, mature woman rather than a child. And I did not like the fact everything was being decided for me.
I was sitting out on the gazebo, watched a 'V' shaped flock of geese soar by when I heard someone approach me from behind.
"Leave me be, Damon," I called to who I guessed was my twin brother advancing on me.
"Uh- I'm not your brother," a voice I didn't expect to hear sounded from behind me.
My body snapped around to look at Julien who stood looking rather awkward behind me.
"I hope I did not scare you too much, Amelia," he said, sounding and looking equally shy.
His hands were behind his back and he was standing up straight with shoulders back, his stance made me feel like he was addressing someone fifty years his senior rather than someone younger than him.
"No, you did not," I comforted him.
"May I sit down?" he asked tentatively and I was surprised by the formality in his voice.
"Yes, you may," I answered just as formally, watching his every move like a hawk watches her prey.
"I came out here to apologise for my mother's behaviour," Julien said, an undeniable pink tinge on his tanned cheeks and an ashamed look in his brown eyes, "She does not know when to keep that mouth of hers closed – so for that reason, I apologise."
"Your apology isn't necessary, Julien," I assured him, "You didn't tell your mother to say what she did, so it wasn't your fault."
"But I'm still sorry if she upset you – that was the last thing that I wished to happen," Julien said, his voice so soft that my face unintentionally heat up and I knew it would be scarlet all over.
I didn't reply to him – mainly for the reason that I didn't really know how to reply – and we sat in a comfortable silence and it became just slightly harder to decline the offer of marriage to him as we sat, listened to the birds and found pictures in the clouds.
The Salvatore Boarding House, Present Day
The next morning I woke up on the same sofa I had consoled my brother on last night, I must have fallen asleep. The absence of my brother on the same couch confused me though. He probably went to bed, or something, I thought to myself.
"Damon?" I called out, hardly expecting a response but expecting the silence I received.
So, I was alone in the house, again. This fact usually wouldn't have surprised me but thanks to the events of last night – namely Damon killing the girl he loves's younger brother – I knew my twin would probably not be at Elena's today.
Damon's promise to spend the entire day with me today ran through my mind and I hadn't really expected him to break it at all, never mind before midday. Just to be sure I double-checked every room in the house – mainly because I didn't believe that Damon had went AWOL already and concluded that I alone in the Salvatore boarding house.
Defeated, I made my way back downstairs and padded back to last night's make-shift bed and sat down.
"So much for spending the whole day together..." I muttered darkly to myself and to the foreboding silence of the house.
Maybe a little too... foreboding. Something wasn't right. I slowly got to my feet and checked my surroundings, yeah, definitely alone, but definitely not right. But who would be in the house anyway? And make me feel this creeped out? Okay, okay, I know.
"Katherine?" I asked out to the silence, hoping I got another no response.
"Yeah?" a voice asked from behind me and I spun around to face the woman.
"Don't do that," I snapped, taking in her appearance once again, so alike Elena yet so different. I often wondered why my brother's – or mainly twin brother - found it hard to decipher between the whiny bitch and the manipulative bitch – I'll let you decide who is who. Maybe I could tell Katherine from Elena so easily because I had seen a side of the vampire in front of me that my brothers hadn't. Maybe that's it...
"It's fun though," Katherine giggled and smirked.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"I thought I'd come and check on my little sister," Katherine smiled, "Or my little spy – whatever you want to be referred as."
"I'm neither."
Katherine laughed that god awful melodic laugh of hers, "That's not entirely true though is it, Mia? You didn't tell your brothers you'd seen me, or spoke to me. That's not very good sisterly behaviour in my opinion."
"What I tell my brother's is none of your business," I tried to smirk back although it felt more like a grimace, "And don't call me Mia."
"Oh, why not?" Katherine smirked successfully, "Is that Ty's name for you? I may need to have a couple of words with that boy, don't want him hurting my little sister now, do I?"
"Just stay away from him," I snapped, and was surprised by the hostility in my voice. "It would be very easy for Tyler to hurt you, physically I mean," Katherine said, obviously waiting for a reaction out of me, "What, with him being a..."
"A what?" I prompted when she stopped talking, which only got a stupid peal of laughter out of her.
"I better go, Mia," Katherine said suddenly, "I can hear that stupid brother of yours walking up the drive. Are you going to tell him about this?"
I didn't answer her and she must've taken my silence for her desired answer because she laughed once more and then she was gone.
And sure enough, two seconds later the sound of the door opening could be heard and I listened to Damon walk into the house. He walked into the parlour two minutes later carrying what looked like a tonne of shopping bags. I studied his face to see any signs of his scary breakdown last night but he looked like normal, sarcastic Damon to me – and I think I know him pretty well.
"'Morning," he said, "I didn't want to wake you so I just went on out, had to stop by the Lockwoods, Carol wanted to talk to me... What were you doing just standing there?"
I was still standing in the same spot I had been when Katherine had popped in for her oh, so, delightful visit.
"What is all that stuff?" I asked, ignoring his question, stepping closer to investigate the many bags in his hands further.
"Clothes," Damon answered, "I thought since you'll be staying here from now on you should have your own clothes, rather than wearing dead girl's clothes."
"Wow, you went clothes shopping for me?" I laughed, opening one of the bags and pulling out a midnight blue strapless dress I knew I could wear to one of the many Mystic Falls parties, "Or should I call it clothes shoplifting?"
"Call it what you want," Damon smirked, putting the bags down at my feet, "So, throw something on and we'll go out and spend the day together just like I said."
I smiled excitedly before launching into the bags and digging through them like a kid digs through their presents on Christmas. I was just pulling out a burgundy jumpsuit that I knew would look good with my leather jacket and Damon was pouring us drinks – and by that I mean blood - when our little brother walked in.
"Hey, Stef," I said, cheerily, and then held up the jumpsuit for him to see, "What do you think?"
"It'll look great," Stefan smiled kindly, "But then again, everything does on you."
"You are so right, Stef," I smiled then laughed.
"Want one?" Damon called to our brother holding up the bag of blood to show him what he was referring to.
"No, thank you," Stefan replied, "I'm not hungry. Just ate."
"Are you worried that one day all the forest animals are gonna band together and fight back?" Damon asked with a smirk as he handed me my glass, "I mean, surely they talk."
"I'm just happy that it's a blood bag and not a sorority girl supplying your dinner," Stefan noted.
"Ew, sorority girl?" I asked then pretended to throw up, "Don't you know me at all, Stefan?"
I smirked in satisfaction when I saw the corners of Stefan's mouth turn up at what I had said but then they moved back into the standard position for Stefan's famous frown.
"I like this," Damon began, "You, walking on egg shells around me because you think I'm gonna explode. Is Elena worried to? I bet I'm your every conversation."
"Have you heard from Katherine?" Stefan asked, ignoring Damon's mini monologue, although I couldn't help but notice the way he looked at both of us.
"She hasn't talked to me at all yet," I lied, "Bet she's too scared of me."
"I think the Lockwood's have a family secret because the Gilbert device affected them but vervain didn't so they're not vampires," Damon interrupted, talking more to himself than either of us and I really did start to question his sanity at that moment, but I was thankful for the conversation change nonetheless, "They're something else..."
"Is this your new obsession?" Stefan asked.
"If you'd rather some unknown supernatural element running around our town and our sister, might I add, then, fine, I'll drop it," Damon replied.
"Tyler isn't an unknown supernatural element..." I added in, but then stopped.
"With him being a..." Katherine's words bounced around my mind. Maybe... But listening to Katherine has got me no where before so I'm not planning on starting now.
"We haven't seen a lot of Katherine," Stefan noted, steering the conversation back to the way he wanted it to go, "We have no idea what she's up to."
"Sure we do," Damon shrugged, "She came back to confess her undying, eternal love for you. So, I'm gonna let you deal with her. I have more important things to do, like... explode."
Stefan and I watched Damon as he walked out into the hall calling out a "cheers" back to Stefan.
"You haven't seen anything of Katherine have you, Amelia?" Stefan asked.
I didn't look at him, just answered, "No, like I said, Stef."
"I don't believe you, Amelia," Stefan replied, "You might have Damon convinced you'd never lie to us but not me."
"Wow, that hurts, Stefan," I remarked, keeping the smirk on my face.
"Katherine has more reason to talk to you than either myself or Damon, she's known you the longest," my little brother said, "And I just don't want her hurting you."
"It's really none of your business, Stefan," I told him, my tone patronising, "Now, off you go scurrying back to your girlfriend. And I'm talking about Elena, in case you thought differently. Cheers."
And with that I followed Damon, for the first time not caring that I may have hurt my little brother.
Damon stuck to his word and spent the whole day with me. We talked and it really felt like we were Damon and Amelia again, like we were a team. Attired in my new burgundy jumpsuit and leather jacket, we were now at the high school run carnival. It was a warm night full of fair ground music, joyful screams from the faster rides and laughter from the games stalls. Damon had bought me a pink cotton candy that I was now nibbling on when I spotted someone I hadn't expected to see by the popcorn stand.
"Wait, I thought he was dead?" I asked but got no reply as Damon headed towards the dark haired boy.
"Jeremy," Damon addressed the notably alive boy, "So good to see you alive."
"Aren't you a little old for a high school carnival?" Jeremy asked my twin brother.
"A hundred and fifty years too old," Damon confirmed.
"You're pretty funny cracking jokes when I could, I don't know... Tell everyone what you really are," Jeremy threatened before he tried to walk past Damon but was stopped effortlessly by one of Damon's strong hands.
"Please tell me that was not a threat," Damon smirked.
"Maybe it is," Jeremy said simply while holding his hand up to show Damon a huge, ugly ornate ring on his finger.
All of a sudden Damon had Jeremy from behind with his arm around his throat in a chokehold. Jeremy was struggling and Damon wasn't putting in any effort to confine him.
"This is what we're not gonna do: we're not gonna walk around like we are invincible when it's this easy for me to end you," Damon hissed in Jeremy's ear as I watched the kid's face turn slightly purple from lack of oxygen.
"Leave the kid alone, Damon," I warned, watching Jeremy's – kinda bugged out eyes – watching me, almost pleading with me.
"Why?" Damon snapped, "You infatuated with this one as well?"
"No," I answered, "I'm just stopping you from doing something you're gonna regret later."
With that, Damon let Jeremy go – not before I noticed him silently tugging the ring off Jeremy's finger - and Jeremy stumbled slightly before standing up straight, trying to appear as threatening as possible in front of my brother.
"If you want to tell people what we really are, go ahead and try," Damon smirked and then held up the ring he had snatched from the boy's finger, "I will shove this ring so far up your ass; you'll really have something to choke on."
Damon then threw the stupid ring right into Jeremy face's grabbed my hand and dragged me away from the Gilbert who's eyes followed me trying to convey some message to me I couldn't decipher.
Our next destination turned out to be inside the high school near the arm wrestling stall where Tyler was dominating, defeating every person who dared to challenge him. After another victory Tyler noticed me then beckoned me over.
"Amelia, get over here," Tyler called.
"Go ahead," Damon prompted from beside me, "We need a spy on the inside."
"I'm not gonna be a spy," I replied, then almost smirked at how ironic it was me saying the same sentence to my brother as I had said to Katherine.
I made my way over to Tyler; he beamed and wrapped an arm around my shoulders which slid down until it settled around my waist and I felt shivers run down my spine along with his arm.
"So, who's next?" Tyler asked cockily, watching as a guy walked forward to accept Tyler's challenge.
Tyler's arm was removed from my waist just long enough for him to arm wrestle the guy and slam his opponent's hand down on the table with ease before his arm was once again around my waist. I glanced over to where I left my twin waiting and saw him standing with none other than our little brother.
"I bet I could beat you," a voice sounded from behind me, a voice I had come to recognise all too well. Sure enough I turned around to see Tyler's uncle standing with a cocky smirk on his face.
Tyler once again removed his arm from around my waist to verse his uncle. This match lasted a little longer than the last one but it still wasn't long until Tyler's hand had been forced to slam into the table and Mason came out victorious.
"Okay, he's the champ," Tyler admitted, "Who wants to go next?"
I half wanted to volunteer myself and kick Mason's ass but I knew that would be a little conspicuous. And another volunteer had beaten me there:
"Stefan wants a go," my brother called from behind me.
"Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot," my little brother answered and I turned to see Stefan walking towards the table.
"Get 'em, Stef!" I heard Damon mockingly cheer.
"My brother over there thinks I could beat you," Stefan told Mason as they positioned their hands and got ready to arm wrestle.
"Your brother's wrong," Mason answered, still donning that same stupid smirk.
When their 'match' started I truly expected Stefan to force Mason's hand into the table immediately and was surprised when their hands just stayed in the middle of the table. But all of a sudden Mason started to push Stefan's hand down until it unmistakably touched the table. My eyebrows knotted in confusion as I watched Stefan rejoin my brother.
"I gotta get back to my brothers," I told Tyler although didn't take my eyes off my brother.
"Oh, okay," Tyler answered and I could hear the disappointment in his voice.
As I went to join my brothers I felt Tyler stop me by gently grabbing my air.
"Wait..." he simply said before he spun me 'round and my lips were against his.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Well this sucked, but ah well...
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