Sorry for the wait, I made this one a bit longer than usual. Thanks for the reviews!
JGE x
Chapter 32
"Red or white?" the man behind the table asked Damon.
"Red" he replied a smirk on his lips.
The man handed him two glasses of red wine, after a suspicious look at Elena, calculating what age she is.
Damon passed Elena hers as he led the way through the crowds to the centre of the town square.
Elena put the glass to her lips, allowing the wine to caress them gently; she licked her lips, tasting it. It wine's texture was thick, and it smelt rich and sweet, she wondered if this was how her blood was like to Damon.
Damon tilted the glass upwards and downed the contents in one go.
"Where are we going after this?" Elena asked sipping the wine cautiously.
"I've got a house in France?"
Elena laughed, "Do you have houses everywhere?"
"Just places with good tasting…wine" Damon winked.
"Nice save" she said, finishing the wine.
A man was getting on the stage that was set up at the front, "The mayor" Damon said nodding towards him.
"Why is that woman staring at you?" Elena whispered, looking over at the elderly woman who was leering at him.
"Camilla De Luca" Damon smiled to himself, "It was 1947, I was drunk and she was lonely" Elena hit him in the chest playfully.
The Mayor started speaking in Italian and Damon whispered into Elena's ear the translation, "Welcome to our Italian wine festival, thank you all for coming, the firework display will begin momentarily, and the town lights will be turned on this year by a chosen town member. Afterwards there will be a town celebration with music from our local musicians." Damon stood behind her, his arms wrapped around her waist,
"This year the chosen town's member who will turn on the town lights is…" Damon's voice trailed off even though the Mayor continued, Damon's arms tightened around Elena's waist, his body stiffened.
Elena didn't need to hear the translation as she seen a young women walk onto the stage, her skin looked translucent in the moonlight, her pale blonde hair was in a twisted bun with some curls hanging down to frame her face, her eyes were deep blue and shined secretively. She was wearing a vintage pale pink dress and her presence dominated the stage, demanding attention. Elena couldn't believe it, she looked exactly like her, and she knew it had to be Katherine, but Damon said she was dead?
The girl looked down into the crowd, her eyes scanned through the people until they rested on Damon. Her expression didn't even falter.
Elena looked up to Damon and seen shock flash through his eyes, then betrayal.
His arms released Elena, and he grabbed her hand instead, he walked away from the crowd, they all made room for him to pass, as if they could sense his mood which was pulsing with anger.
Damon kept walking even after they were away from the crowd he led her up the steps to what looked like an abandoned warehouse; Elena didn't speak because she knew he needed to get as far away from Katherine as he could. He would be feeling hurt; even he couldn't understand why Katherine was living all this time without him even knowing.
The doors of the warehouse were boarded up, Damon pulled them off with the hand that wasn't holding Elena's, and pried the door open. He closed it after them, letting go of Elena's hand his back fell against the wall, defeated, he sank down to the floor his eyes shut tightly, his fists clenched.
Elena knelt beside him, her hand reached out and held his clenched fist until slowly it opened and he pulled her into his arms, his eyes gradually opening to look at her. His mask was broken, his soul revealed by the pain that ran deep into his veins. Every emotion that he kept hidden over the centuries erupted, overflowing, his expression showed all of his grief, the wasted mourning over Katherine that had kept him bitter.
He held onto Elena, he never before let himself need someone, but he needed her right now, for once he felt vulnerable. He had sworn to himself, after Katherine had died, that he would never give anyone his heart, scared that it would be ripped apart again.
"I love you" Damon said, finally bringing himself to look into her familiar, warm, lapis lazuli eyes.
"I love you too, Damon" Elena whispered, her hand running through his hair to comfort him.
"No but I really love you, you not her" his eyes pleading with hers, he needed her to understand. "I don't know why or how she tricked us into believing she was dead, but she did and I've spent all the years hating my brother and myself because of her" he wasn't hurt anymore just angry.
The lights streamed in through the window, Katherine must have just turned them on. "Let's get out of here, we can go to France or wherever you want" he traced the outline of her jaw with his hand, his lips crashing down on hers, she felt a surge of emotions behind the kiss, love, passion and desire. She kissed him back with equal force, neither of them wanting to pull back.
"Am I interrupting something?" a small, delicate voice came from the entrance.
Elena jumped backwards, shocked. "Yes, you are" Damon's voice was spiteful as he glared at Katherine.
Katherine stepped forward, walking closer, "It's been a long time, Damon but it looks like you've kept yourself occupied" her eyes flickered to Elena; her tone was light and teasing.
"Shouldn't you be occupied with being a pile off burned flesh" Damon's eyes pierced through her, a smirk spread on his face.
"That was the past, you'll forgive me like you always do" she moved even closer with graceful movements.
Damon stepped protectively in front of Elena, "I don't need to forgive you. I don't want you" Damon emphasised every word as Katherine's happiness melted from her face, leaving rage.
"You do want me!" Katherine snarled, "Well, you will when you get rid of her" Katherine's eyes narrowed in slits as she glowered passed Damon's shoulder at Elena.
"You should leave" Damon spat through gritted teeth.
"Fine if you would get rid of her, I will" Katherine pounced herself forward like a cat, her feline body leapt passed Damon, pushing Elena to the ground. Damon grabbed Katherine's hair pulling her backwards, but Katherine was strong she scratched Damon's neck, clawing her fingernail downwards, making him push her away, leaving a trail of blood down his neck.
She ambushed Elena again, she tried getting up but Katherine had pinned her legs down as her teeth aimed for her neck. Elena cried out a gut-wrenching scream as Katherine's teeth pierced her neck as an unbearably pain shot through Elena body as her blood was taking unwilling from her.
Damon pulled Katherine's shoulders back throwing her against the wall with all the force he had. Katherine leaped back to her feet regaining her posture, Damon's mouth was pulled back revealing his sharp fangs, and he wanted to run to Elena who was biting down on her lip to stop from screaming.
"She's human Damon! You don't want her she's weak" Katherine's singsong voice rang.
"I do want her and I want you to leave, now" he growled at her.
"I could taste your blood in her, don't you know that with that much of your blood in her she could become one of us?" her voice was teasing and dangerous.
"No she can't" Damon's voice said filled with anger.
"Not alive she can't" Katherine's eyes glittered with threat.
"Touch her and I'll kill you" Damon hated how she was stronger because she was older, he hated being weaker than anyone.
"You wouldn't kill me, you still love me" she said confidently as she speed past him with incredibly speed. He reached out to grab her but his hands gripped the air.
She was standing behind Elena's trembling body, Elena tried to move but her legs felt broken after the weight Katherine had applied earlier.
"Don't touch her" Damon said advancing forward slowly so Katherine didn't do anything in haste.
"Don't come any closer" her voice sent chills through Elena's body as Katherine's clothes brushed off her back.
Katherine raised her hands to surrender, and then dropped them quickly to Elena's face, twisting her head to the side in a quick movement, breaking her neck.
Damon pulled Katherine away, a smile overtaking her features. He threw her to the ground with a new-found strength that he got seeing Elena's body lying limp on the floor.
He picked up the piece of wood that he had taken down from the door earlier and broke it in half. He drove the pointed wood into Katherine's chest. She gasped sharply, her face drawn in shock, Damon didn't like killing her but that was only because she looked so much like Elena, but he knew she wasn't anything like Elena, the one he truly loved, who was a few feet away from him, dead.
"I don't love you" Damon laughed humourlessly as Katherine's eyes started to close, "I never have"…
Next update will be up soon, please review x