A/N: Okay, as promised chapter 6. Remember, this story is rated M for a reason. Long-waited smut in this chapter. You're welcome. Express your thanks by reviewing. Note that this is also my first time writing detailed smut, no harsh comments please but healthy criticism is always appreciated.

Chapter 6: Carnal Based Instincts

When Damon reemerged from the bathroom, this time in his boxers and t-shirt, Sara was no longer in the bed. He looked around and noticed the door to their room was slightly ajar. He walked over and saw Sara just standing outside the door with a cigarette in her hand as she peered out over the parking lot, her thoughts were held elsewhere.

"Careful that you're not seen by the crazy old lady. She might think I'm not doing my part as a loving husband." Damon joked as he joined her outside. She had her purple tank top on and a pair of black lacy boy shorts. Sara didn't respond or even smirk at his comment as she took another drag. "Hey, Sara?" he said as he placed a hand on her shoulder. Sara flinched as she was dragged out of her thoughts and turned her gaze to see Damon standing beside her.

"Damon, you startled me." She whispered as she rubbed out her cigarette.

"Sorry. Are you okay?" He asked. His concerned tone made Sara smile.

"I'm fine, Damon. Just thinking is all." She said as she went back into their room. Damon followed in behind her.

"Anything I should know about?" he asked as he shut and locked the door behind him.

"Hmm? No, it's nothing. Just the past is all." She said as she climbed back into what she had claimed as her side of the bed. She had no problem sharing a bed with Damon. She may have only ever been in love once in her long life, but she had shared a bed with hundreds if not thousands of men over the years.

Damon approached the bed with caution as he verbalized his thoughts. "Seeing him stirred up some old feelings again didn't it?"

"More like old demons." She answered with a shrug. She could never love Pelicarpo or anyone who looked like him ever again after what he did. She was more pissed off at the fact that the bastard was back and that he'd been back for centuries without her knowing. It was her worst fears come true.

"So I guess we don't have to worry about you teaming up with him anytime soon then?" Damon said trying to play it off as a joke. Sara looked up and glared at him. Damon, for the first time, feared for his life. That glare was worse than a pissed of Katherine and Elena combined.

"Damon, I would gladly give up all control and live as the terrible monster that I am before I ever teamed up with that lying son of bitch! He betrayed me in the worse way you can ever betray a person. I hate him more than my ex-fiancé. While he may have rapped me, he did give me a beautiful daughter, but he also never pretended that he cared for me unlike Pelicarpo who played with my heart. I lost everything because of him!" She spat, her voice dripping with venom before she let out a long sigh. "You know I've never once loved another man since him. Personally I'm not sure I'm capable of love anymore." Sara admitted to him. For some reason, since she had met Damon, it was very easy for her to open up to him. There had been very few people she could do that with over the years and even then she still never told them everything. Perhaps Damon would be the first, why was that?

"Really? There hasn't been anyone since then?" Damon asked as he joined her in the bed. Damn, Pelicarpo really did a number on her. When Damon saw that bastard again, he was going to make him pay for what he did to her. It was no better than Katherine playing him and Stefan against one another.

"Well, I've had plenty of lovers over the years. Celibacy and 2000 years of existence do not go hand in hand, but no I've never loved anyone since Pelicarpo. I've never really been able to trust anyone after what those two did to me." She admitted. "What about your sources? Surly you must trust them, what will all the information they give you." Damon asked.

Sara shook her head. "Remember what I said about the people I feed off of? How I can control them?" Damon nodded. "Well, that's exactly that. Those people are under my control, have been for years. Under a spell of sorts and they do whatever I say, they look into things and give me the information I need. That's how I knew about the Travelers and how to find all of you." She stated.

"Wow, so you've really been alone all these years haven't you?" Damon asked as he reached for her hand and took it in his.

"More alone than you could imagine. It hasn't been all bad, but it gets very lonely. And when you're trying to have a meaningful conversation with a person who is only around you because they're under your control eventually loses its satisfaction." She joked slightly, but Damon saw right through it.

"Well, you're not alone anymore. You have me." Damon said giving her a true smile as he reached up and stroked her cheek. Despite their looks, she was nothing like her descendants, if anything she was a mix of the two. A perfect combination of both good and evil, the person who could easily beat the shit out of you, but would also put her 'life' on the line to save you. The fact that she had to kill to stay alive just meant that she also understood that Damon had to as well. Well he had other options, but chose not to employ them. Sara looked at him and smiled back at him.

"Thank you Damon." She said with a small smile on her lips. Perhaps she could put her trust in Damon. He'd done nothing, but defend her since they'd met. Sure he'd been defensive at first, but she couldn't blame him for that. "Damon." She whispered as Damon leaned in closer to her.

"Sara." He whispered back. He cupped her face in both his hands and just as their lips were about to touch…

"Oh Yes!" came through the wall behind them along with a few loud rhythmic bangs. "Oh Yes! Harder!" came the passionate cries of a woman in the room next to them.

"Seriously?!" Damon growled as he glared at the wall, their moment broken. Sara's laugh reached his ears causing him to look at her. "What's so…" the milky white color of her eyes caused him to stop mid-sentence and a smirk formed on his lips. "Shall we dine next door, Mrs. Salvatore?" he asked as he crawled out of bed and offered her his hand, the veins around his eyes bulging out as his fangs elongated. They were finally going to have a decent meal.

Sara giggled as she accepted his hand and climbed out after him. "Oh how you spoil me, my dear husband." She laughed as they exited their room and out on to the landing to the room next door.

"Well, dear wife. It is our wedding night after all and as I said nothing but the best for you." He said before breaking open the door and the two carnivorous creatures pounced on their rutting meal.

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Damon held onto the man in the other room, having already compelled him to be quiet while Sara held onto the woman.

"What do you want?" cried the woman as she tried in vain to hide her naked body. Sara gripped her neck tightly and forced her to look her in the eyes; terrified green to milky white.

"You will not make another sound." She hissed as she compelled her before throwing her back onto the bed where the couple had just been having sex. Damon smirked as he watched Sara dominate the woman and he found it very arousing. A sudden movement beside him caused him to turn his gaze from the feeding Striga to the man next to him who was actually jerking off the scene before him.

"Shit!" he cursed under his breath. "Sara, get a load of this sick fuck. He's actually getting off by this." He sneered as he pulled the man to his feet. Sara removed her face from in front of the woman's, breaking the connection of the woman's soul between them as she turned to look back at the two males.

"He's not the only one I see." She smirked as she noticed the tent in Damon's boxers.

"Yeah, but it's different in my case. Like you've never fucked your food?" Damon said with a roll of his eyes. Sara quickly compelled the woman to not move before she got off the bed and walked over to where Damon stood.

"Didn't your mother ever teach you not to fuck your food, Damon." She purred as she ran a perfectly manicured nail up and down his fabric covered chest.

"I can honestly say that lesson never came up at the dinner table." He responded before Sara grabbed ahold of his shirt and attacked his lips with her own. Damon responded with full force before Sara broke this kiss.

"Why don't we switch, he's got more than one soul attached to him." She said as she looked to the man, finding him to be a better meal for her liking. Damon nodded as he released the man and turned his hungry gaze towards the woman on the bed. "Oh and Damon?" She called behind him.

"Yeah?"

"Don't fuck her." Damon looked back to see the seriousness on her face, but he could hear the possessiveness in her tone.

"Baby, you've got nothing to worry about there." He said as he grabbed her and kissed her passionately before releasing her and quickly sank his fangs into the woman's neck. Sara was momentary shocked before she smiled and then sucked the life out of the man behind her.

When the humans were drained of their life forces Damon and Sara stood to face each other. The raw sexual tension between the two was so thick you could cut it with a knife. The veins around Damon's eyes had receded and Sara's gaze had returned to its chocolaty brown hue, but still contained the lust for the vampire in the room.

"Take me to bed, Mr. Salvatore." she said as she licked her lips in a seductive manner, her voice was dripping in what Damon could think of as a seductive tone.

"With great pleasure, Mrs. Salvatore." Damon replied, his voice just as thick as he lifted Sara into his arms and vamp speed them back into their room. They continued their little game with one another; it was something between the two of them that no one else would get unless they told them of course.

Upon entering their room Damon quickly deposited Sara onto the bed before going back and locking the door. When he turned around Sara was leaning up on her elbows and was motioning for him to return to her with her finger. Damon quickly joined her on the bed, cupping her face in his hands and quickly devoured her lips with his. Sarah deepened the kiss by pushing her tongue into his mouth and while the two battled for dominance their hands roamed around each other's bodies. Their kiss broke only for a moment in order for them to remove their shirts before their lips were locked together once more. Sara ran a perfectly manicured hand down Damon's chiseled chest and gripped him through his boxers causing him to groan deep in his throat. Damon responded by leaving a trail of bloody kisses from her mouth down her neck and into the valley between her breasts. Two could play this game.

"Fuck." Sara moaned as Damon took a nipple into his mouth and teased it between his teeth while he squeezed the other in his hand. Damon then switched to the other breast while his free hand snaked its way down her body and into her black, lacy boy shorts to find her wet and ready for him.

"So wet, baby." Damon groaned as he released her nipple with an audible pop.

"Damon." Sara moaned as he slipped a finger inside her tight channel.

Damon groaned when he realized how tight she was. "When was the last time you…" Damon was cut off as Sara claimed his lips.

"I'll be fine." She assured him with a smile. Damon removed her panties and his boxers quickly followed suit. Damon positioned himself on top of her and rubbed himself against her wetness, lubricating himself. When he was ready, Damon slid inside her till their hips were together and they were fully joined as one.

"Fuck." He groaned while Sara moaned out her pleasure as she arched her back, pressing her chest to his.

Soon their animalistic instincts took over and Damon was soon pounding into her at near vampire speed. Sara claimed his mouth with hers and as she pushed her tongue into his sweet cavern she could feel that his fangs had elongated once more and it turned her on even further. She pulled back and Damon watched as her pupils dilated and her fangs also elongated. The two supernatural creatures gave into their carnal instincts as Damon sunk his fangs into Sara's neck Sara did the same with her own into Damon's neck. They weren't feeding off one another; no this was something more special, more intimate between two people. They were blood sharing.

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The next morning Sara was awakened very early by a very skilled tongue deep in her pussy. "Mmmm." She moaned as she shifted a bit to see Damon's icy blue eyes gazing up at her from between her legs. "Good morning." She husked her voice thick with sleep and lust.

"Good Morning." Damon said as he made his way up her body and kissed her. Sara could taste herself on his lips and she loved it. They made love this time, going slower than they had just a few hours before and took a chance to explore and enjoy each other's bodies. They fell asleep for a few more hours before Sara was awaked once more but this time to the sound of the shower running. Sara threw back the duvet with full intention on joining Damon in the shower but a knock at their door stopped her. Sara quickly threw on Damon's discarded black t-shirt and her panties, thankful that Damon's shirt reached to the middle of her thighs and covered up most of the dried blood on her upper body. She opened the door to reveal Mrs. Silverman on the other side.

"Mrs. Silverman…what a pleasant surprise..." Sara said, unsure as to why the woman continued to bother them.

"Good morning dear." smiled Mrs. Silverman. "Sorry to bother, but there is some breakfast available. If you just follow me you can grab a plate for you and your husband."

"Oh, thank you but were…Well okay." Sara said as Mrs. Silverman grabbed ahold of her and dragged her down towards the office.

"Sara? Did I hear something about food?" Damon called from the shower. When he got no response, he turned off the water and stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. "Sara?" he called to find the room empty. Damon grabbed his jeans and was about to go back into the bathroom when he heard a loud scream coming from outside. "Sara!" he shouted as he quickly tugged on his jeans and vamp-sped out of the room.

Sara stood in the office surrounded by Shadow People as a possessed Mrs. Silverman tried to hold her against her will. As much as the old woman interfered she was still innocent. "Release the old woman." Sara commanded as the old woman's grip on her tightened.

"You don't call the shots around here, Striga." sneered the leader of the Shadow People. He was larger than the others. While the majority of the shadowy figures were tall and lanky human shaped shadows with green glowing eyes, this one was even taller with a bulky shaped silhouette and had red glowing eyes.

"I said let her go." Sara growled as her eyes began to turn white.

"Your compulsion won't work on us, woman." the leader laughed, his followers joining in.

"Shit." cursed Sara.

"You come with us girl and we'll leave the old woman alone. Master Pelicarpo requests your presence."

"Yeah and if you come quietly, maybe we'll even leave her alive." laughed one of the smaller shadows.

"Silence!" roared the leader causing the smaller lackey to receded back into the corner.

"How dare you say his name in front of me!" seethed Sara as her eyes burst into a solid, glowing white. At that moment a shirtless Damon came bursting into the office.

"What the…" Damon had come into the office with every intention to rescue Sara, but really after being alive for 2000 years he knew she didn't really need his help. What he wasn't expecting however was an extremely pissed off Striga being held back by a little old lady.

"Salvatore!" hissed the leader. "This doesn't concern you. Leave now!"

"Like hell." Growled Damon as he moved to grab at one of the shadows, but they were just that and how do you beat the shit out of a shadow? Damon's efforts were appreciated by Sara but they were doing nothing to ward them off seeing how two wrapped themselves onto Damon's arms and held him in place.

"Let him go!" shouted Sara as she glared at the leader of the Shadow People. "Why are you doing this?"

"Why? Because why not, that's why." laughed the leader. "We don't have bodies of our own and soon we will have all the bodies we will ever need!" Damon looked over at Sara with an expression on his face that said she'd been right about the Shadow People having their own ulterior motives.

While the leader was off monologuing about their need for bodies a cloud had moved out of the way of the sun's rays causing them to filter into the hotel office. While sunlight was not their weakness, except come noon time, another form of light was. Hanging in the large window hung a decorative display of prisms. The refracted, colored light clusters shinned on the two creatures that had their hold on Damon and they screamed in agony before dispersing. Damon quickly realized what had caused them to flee and pulled the curtain cord to release more light into the room, causing the other decorative prisms in the office to give of their rainbow reflections around the rest of the office. Howls of agony sounded in the office as the shadow people began to flee from the building.

"Curse you!" growled the leader.

"It's a little late for that." Came the voices of Sara and Damon in unison as the Shadow People fled and a van could be heard speeding away from the motel.

"Are you okay?" Damon asked as he approached Sara, a look of concern on his face and in his tone.

"I'm fine." she said as she looked to Mrs. Silverman who seemed to no longer be possessed. "Mrs. Silverman, are you alright?" she asked, concerned for the old woman. Mrs. Silverman looked up at Sara in confusion.

"Mrs. Salvatore?" she questions as she looked around almost unsure of her surroundings. When she realized she was in her office with two of her guests she quickly gained her composure. "Are you heading out already Deary?" she asked.

"Ah, yes Ma'am we are." Sara responded as she and Damon shared a look. It was like she didn't remember anything. "We just wanted to thank you for everything."

"Oh it was no trouble. Now you two better get on the road. And if you're ever in the area, please do stop in again." She said with a smile.

"We will, Mrs. Silverman." Damon smiled as he wrapped an arm around Sara's shoulders. "Come along Dear." He said as he led Sara out of the office before Mrs. Silverman could comment about their state of dress or lack thereof. Damon and Sara returned to their room and quickly finished dressing themselves before gathering what little items they came in and got into Damon's car. When they were a few miles away from the hotel Damon broke their silence. "What the hell just happened?"

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"I don't care if they come after all of you, I'm not going back there!" shouted Katherine as Caroline, Jeremy and Bonnie cornered her at the home of one of Mystic Falls citizens that same morning.

"Be reasonable Katherine!" groaned Caroline while Jeremy just snorted. Katherine and reasonable did not go in the same sentence unless there was an 'is not' in between them.

"No. Let them take her." She sneered as the owner of the house, a single man in his 30's, set a plate of food down in front of Katherine, including a glass of his own blood. A thick bandage was wrapped around his wrist.

"Katherine, Damon said these things aren't to be messed with. They can possess people, which may include you. We need to stick together. We don't know what else these things are capable off or even what they want." Bonnie said, trying to reason with 1473 Vampire.

"I think I can handle a few shadows. And who knows maybe I'll take a liking to this Pelicarpo, turn him to the other side." She hinted in a seductive tone as she sipped on the blood.

"Please, the dude is bad news. He's working with them and something tells me he'd rather have Sara than you, Katherine." Jeremy told her. Katherine's eyes flashed dangerously.

"I'd be careful there…."

"Now Katherine, we can either do this the easy way or the hard way." Caroline chimed as she indicated to the bunch of vervain in Bonnie's grasp. They had hoped that Katherine would go back with them willingly but they were also prepared to act on Damon's suggestion of shoving vervain down her throat and locking her up. It would be so much easier if Sara was with them to either give her descendant an aneurism or compel her.

"Give me one good reason." At that moment Jeremy's cell phone rang.

"It's Damon." He said as he answered his phone. "Hello?" After a few minutes Jeremy hung up the phone.

"So?" Caroline asked.

"They were attacked. The Shadow People found Sara at the motel they were staying at." he replied.

"Are they okay?" asked Bonnie while Katherine scoffed and took a bite of bacon.

"They're fine. Apparently the motel owner was possessed by them and was able to get Sara away from Damon for a moment, but it seems they may have found a weakness to the Shadow People. Damon wants all of us at the boarding house. Yes you too, Katherine." Jeremy said pointedly. "Stefan and Elena are even on their way back and you guys? The Shadow People have their own agenda here." Jeremy alerted.

With the new information Katherine tried to argue her way into staying where she was, but eventually she was dragged into Caroline's car with the help of a small amount of vervain in her system due to the blood she drank from the glass. Bonnie had gotten the owner of the house to drink some vervain when they had first gotten there before he prepared Katherine's breakfast. With that the four of them headed back to the boarding house where Katherine was locked up for the time being in the basement with the bag of blood and a bottle of water till Damon and the others returned.

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Damon hung up his phone after talking with Stefan. He had filled his brother in on what had happened and he and Elena were packing up and headed back to Mystic Falls. "Alright, now that that's settled, how the hell does the light from a crystal work against these fuckers but sunlight doesn't?" asked Damon, not that he was expecting Sara to know the answer.

"It must have something to do with the refracted light that comes through the prism that gives off the different wavelengths." Sara suggested. Damon looked at her in stunned silence. "What?"

"Wow, beauty and brains. Very impressive." Damon smirked as he grabbed ahold of Sara's hand and placed a kiss to the back of it. Sara rolled her eyes but smiled none the less.

"Well I do happen to know a thing or two." She joked. How could she not be smart? She was older than dirt after all.

"Oh I know." Damon chuckled with a wink, causing Sara to blush slightly. The two rode in a comfortable silence all the way back to Mystic Falls where they would met up with the others at the Boarding House.

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"Hey, welcome back you guys!" came the cheery voice of Caroline who greeted them on the front steps as they pulled into the drive way.

"Hello Caroline." Sara smiled as Caroline pulled her into a hug.

"Oh my gosh, Sara are you okay? Jeremy told us about how you were attacked." Caroline fussed.

"I'm fine, Caroline. I'm not exactly defenseless you know." Sara chuckled.

"Yeah, really Blondie. I think she can handle a few shadow creatures." Damon said with a wink in Sara's direction.

"I think I know that Damon. Have a little compassion." Caroline snapped as she gave him a nasty look before she led Sara into the boarding house, who was shaking her head at the two. From the way they acted, you never would've known that they were even friends. Their friendship was rather comical and amusing for Sara.

A few hours later and Stefan and Elena had finally arrived at the boarding house with their luggage. On the way there, Stefan had told Elena that she needed to come to terms with Sara being here and that while they were going to listen to what had happened to her and Damon they were also going to have a bit of a heart to heart to try and settle Elena's and possibly Katherine's indifference towards the Striga.

Unfortunately, the moment Elena and Stefan stepped into the living room where everyone was located, the sight of Damon's arm wrapped around Sara's waist in a loving manner caught Elena off guard. She marched right over to the two and slapped Sara across the face.

"This is all your fault!" she screamed as everyone tried to drag the vampire off the Striga and the boarding house erupted in a mess of yelling and fighting supernaturals.

A/N2: Okay, as promised chapter 6 and in just 2 days! I hoping to see some reviews, hint hint. Hope you all enjoyed it and keep an eye out for chapter 7 in the next few days. Up next, a true heart to heart with the doppelgängers, Damon and Sara discuss their relationship, and a decrease in Mystic Fall's stock of prisms.