"Wait where are we going?" I asked confused.
He rolled his eyes like it was obvious.
"Just get in the car." He said pointing to his crystal blue GTO. If he stood too close to the car his eyes would disappear from the crystal blue color.
I looked at him for a moment.
"You can trust me, can't you?" He teased with an edge in his voice.
I knew I would regret telling him that I trusted him.
I flashed him the "look" and past right bye him, brushing his shoulder as I opened the door of his sports car.
"That's what I thought." He said as he dangled the keys and started to walk to his side of the car.
I couldn't believe I was in his car, the last time I was here I vowed to myself that I would never let it happen again, but now I was willingly getting in.
Of coarse last time I was kidnapped but now things were different.
I tried to concentrate on the green air freshener hanging from the rear view mirror, and not so much on him humming as we pulled out of the parking lot.
"So this personal appearance made by Katherine. Maybe you would like to explain." He said raising an eyebrow at me.
"There is not much to say." I paused.
He turned to look at me with an "I know there is a lot to say" stare so I continued.
"I started to get a really bad headache so I ran to the bathroom, when I looked in the mirror it wasn't my face, well it was but it was Katherine controlling it. It was like she entered my body. She told me that she was back to get what was hers, like I had taken something from her."
He huffed in the seat beside me.
"She made me move my hand to my necklace." I said motioning to the pendant around my neck.
"When my fingers grazed the top it burnt my hand. It was fast and felt like energy surging through my body. I tried to pull away but Katherine made me clutch it even harder. Then it reflected off the sun and she told me that she would be back." I said rubbing my head.
"Is she doing it now?" he asked with a worried expression.
"No, its just thinking about it hurts." I admitted.
He looked down at my chest closely.
At first I thought he was staring for his pleasure.
"What?" I snapped.
He looked at me like I had just slapped him in the face.
"The necklace." He said.
"Oh." Was all I could say.
He chuckled in the seat beside me. "But those are nice too." He said.
I reached over and punched him in the arm.
"Don't think I won't have you pull over." I threatened.
"Who do you think will win the fragile human or the hungry vampire?" He said flashing his fangs.
I rolled my eyes.
"The necklace." He said again.
"What about it?" I said clutching it in my hand. It was still cold.
"You said when you touched it, it burnt your hand."
I nodded my head.
"Do you know where that necklace came from?" he asked.
"Stefan?" I said.
"Elena, you do know that was Katherine's necklace." He said.
"I knew Katherine had something to do with it, but I didn't know it was specifically hers." I said a bit shocked.
"It was." He said. "It was hers before she was a vampire."
I looked down at the vervain necklace, and then up at him questioningly.
"Well it obviously did not have vervain in it then." He said.
Oh, that made more sense.
"She always used to tell us that it was something that would always be there to protect her and then when she changed she gave it to me. She said she no longer needed it since she could protect herself." He rolled his eyes. "I didn't think anything of it and threw it in a tinder box that I had. I never even thought of it until I saw it around your neck and that's when I knew."
"Knew what?" I asked.
He hesitated.
"That's when I knew you must have meant the world to him since you had that necklace around your neck. Then when I tried to compel you and you viscously slapped me I realized that there was vervain in it. That meant he loved you enough so that nothing else could control you."
"Why didn't you tell him you wanted the necklace back?" I asked.
"Well that was my first thought since the necklace was originally given to me. I was going to tell him that it didn't belong to him to be giving away but then I got to know you, and I realized he had made the right choice. You were worth being protected." He said.
I looked down trying to avoid the awkward moment. I suddenly felt close to Damon like we were one. He had really thought that I was worth protecting.
Surprisingly I reached over and laid my hand on his.
"Thank you." I said staring into his blue eyes.
He looked into mine for a moment and then looked back to the road.
"But." He said. "Stefan thought that the necklace would protect you but what if it is doing the very thing that it was supposed to block?" he suggested.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"What I'm saying is that what if the necklace is like a gateway for Katherine. What if she was getting to you through it." He said.
I thought about this for a moment. He could be right; it was kind of a good usumption considering the necklace burning my hand.
Suddenly he slammed on the brakes and my head shot forward. He swung the car around in the opposite direction.
"What are you doing?" I asked rubbing my sore neck.
"We are going to pay your witch a visit."
So let me know what you think about the damon/elena realationship getting closer! Sorry for the cliff hanger!