A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I AM CO-WRITING THIS STORY WITH TWILIGHTELENA SHE HELPED WRITE SOME OF THIS.

Stefan growled and took off. He didn't know where the hotel was but the words shack echoed in his head. He had to get to her. He made it to Georgia in a matter of seconds but finding her was harder then he thought. Damon had masked her smell but eventually he found the hotel and then the small house behind it. He slammed open the door and gasped. She looked horrible. She was beaten to a pulp. He rushed to her side.

"No, please don't hurt me anymore." She whimpered.

Why would he hurt her? Didn't she see it was him? That's when he realized her eyes were squeezed shut. Why were her eyes closed?

"Baby, it's me. It's Stefan, open your eyes."

"No, you're lying, you're trying to trick me."

"What? Baby, no I'm not lying. It really is me. Please open your eyes."

"Please don't compel me." She whimpered.

"I won't I promise. You can trust me."

Something in the tone of his voice made her trust him. She slowly opened one eye and saw it was Stefan. She opened her other eye.

"Stefan."

"It's ok, you're ok now. I've got you. Just hang in there."

Stefan bit into his wrist and put it too her lips. She quickly turned her head.

"No, no more blood please. I promise I'll behave."

"Hey, shhh it's ok. It's only me. I won't hurt you. Please baby, drink my blood. Let me heal you."

Elena looked back at him.

"You can trust me sweetie. Please, open your mouth."

Elena sighed. Damon had forced her mouth open that gagged her with his wrist, shoving it down her throat. Stefan wasn't even trying to open her mouth. He was letting her be in control. She slowly opened her mouth. Stefan gently touched his wrist to her lips and let her close her mouth around it. Elena liked this way better. Damon had gagged her when he fed her his blood but this was different. Stefan was so gentle and the blood was making all her pain go away.

"Good girl. You're ok now." Stefan cooed as he gently stroked her hair.

Elena closed her eyes enjoying the feeling. She had this suddenly flash of herself as a baby in her mother's arm drinking her bottle as her mother rocked her and stroked her hair. She felt safe then and she felt safe, in that moment with Stefan. He pulled his wrist away and she whimpered. He chuckled.

"I'm the vampire here, not you." He teased.

"Need more…still hurts."

"It's going to take some time for the blood to spread throughout your whole body, just hang in there."

It wasn't just the blood that she wanted. She needed to feel him close to her, to remind her that she wasn't dreaming. She reached out and took his hand just holding it close to her.

"Let's get you home." He said

"Can we go back to the lake house?" she asked.

"You would rather go there than back to your house?"

Elena nodded.

"Ok, wrap your arms around my neck." Elena did as he said. He lifted her and carried her bridal style as she rested her head on his shoulder. She didn't sleep the night before, in fear of Damon coming back and doing something to her while she was sleeping. Now that she was safe with Stefan it was taking it's toll on her. Stefan noticed and kissed her.

"Sleep, we will be home soon."

She nodded and closed her eyes. Stefan ran back to the lake house. He waited outside a few seconds to make sure there was no sign of Katherine. When there was none he went inside and brought Elena back upstairs to the room they were using. He set her down on the bed. She whimpered.

"Stefan!"

"Shhh I'm right here."

"Don't leave me Stefan!" she cried.

"I'm not going anywhere." He said softly. He climbed into the bed with her. She cuddled into his side resting her head on his chest and keeping one hand by her face clinging to Stefan's shirt. He gently stroked her hair and rubbed his hand over hers.

"You're ok. You're ok." He cooed gently.

Her body relaxed under his gentle touches and soon she was fast asleep. It didn't last long through she was hunted by nightmares of her attack. She started to squirm around on the bed clutching tighter to Stefan's shirt.

"Ste-Stefan!" she cried out.

"Shh shh I'm here. You're ok." He soothed rubbing her back.

Elena opened her eyes and cuddled closer to Stefan, hiding herself in his side.

"You're ok. You're ok. You just had a bad dream. You're safe now."

"I don't want to sleep anymore Stefan."

Stefan sighed. He knew who was behind her nightmares. He climbed out of bed. She whimpered.

"I'll be right back."

He sped off and a second later sped back holding a glass of water in his hands.

"Drink this. It's got Vervain in it. Damon is controlling your dreams since you no longer have your necklace on. This will keep him from doing it again."

Elena took the glass from his hand and drank it. "Thank you." She muttered.

"You're welcome. That should keep you safe until we can get you another necklace."

Elena just nodded.

"Did you get any sleep at all last night?"

She shook her head. He climbed back into the bed and let her cuddle back into his side. She sighed in contentment. He kissed her hair and resumed his previous actions of rubbing her hand and stroking her hair. She fell back to sleep fast. So many questions were running through his mind. How did Elena get taken by Damon? How did Kat get out of the tomb? How did she get inside the lake house? Why was Damon acting like this?

A little later on Elena stirred. She cuddled closer to Stefan and muttered "Stefan..."

"I'm here Angel. How do you feel?"
"Better, still a little sleepy but I'm not in any pain."
"You can sleep longer of you want."

Elena shook her head. "I'm awake now. I just want to cuddle for a bit."
"We can do that. Would you...would you mind if I asked you some questions about what happen?"
"No...as long as I can stayed cuddle with you I'll tell you anything you want to know."

Stefan pulled her closer into his arms. "How did you even get near Damon?"
"I had a nightmare and needed to get some air so I went outside and saw a person it was a vampire so I took off running but he chased me and I soon found out it was Damon. He bit me and I blacked out. When I woke up I was in that hotel room. He bit me and fed on me then forced his blood into my mouth to heal me and then...he...he tried to...to compel me. I closed my eyes and hid my face so he couldn't. That just made him mad so he hit me. He hit me twice then left me alone. He came back this morning and repeated his actions from the night before only this time he didn't stop hitting me. He just kept hitting and hitting..." Elena trailed off and burst into tears. "He wouldn't stop and it hurt so bad! I begged and pleaded with him to stop bit he just wouldn't. Then he tried and failed at compelling me after I was too weak to move he left."
"He didn't feed you his blood first?"
"No he just left me there in pain to punish me for not looking at him. I'm glad he didn't because normally after he feeds me he feed off of me then feeds me again. He forced his fist onto my mouth to the point that he's gagging me then once I'm healed he bites me again he just did those two things over and over."
"That's why you were scared of drinking my blood?"

Elena nodded. "I knew you wouldn't bite me but I was scared of being gagged again but you were gentle and that made me feel better. Thank you and I'm sorry for leaving last night."
"It's not your fault. Next time though if you have a bad dream wake me and we can go outside together ok?"

Elena nodded and cuddled into him more. "Stefan why did Damon do this to me?"
"It's Kat she played with his heart then dumped him and so out of anger he came after you."
"Kat is in the tomb isn't she?"
"Not anymore I guess when we killed Elijah it broke the compulsion he had on her and freed her."
"I don't want her back in our lives what are we going to do?"
"We stop worrying about it and spend the rest of our time together having fun." with that. He started to tickle her sides Elena squealed and burst into giggles squirming trying to get away.

"Stefan stop it!"
"Nope not until you say the magic vampire words."
"The what?"
"Say 'Stefan Salvatore is the hottest and strongest vampire in Mystic Falls' once you say that the tickling will stop."

Elena didn't speak she just started to tickle him. He burst into laughter squirming around.

"So that's how you want to play huh? All right then you asked for it."

He rolled them over and pinned her arms over her head pinning her body under his.

"You asked for this one Miss. Gilbert."

He started attacking her underarms.

"STEFAN NO!"

Elena screamed in laughter trying to escape but it was no use he was too strong.

"OK! OK! I'LL SAY IT!" Elena screamed. "STOP PLEASE!"

Stefan stopped.

Elena took a deep breath and said "Stefan Salvatore is the hottest and strongest vampire in Mystic Falls"

"Thank you." Stefan smirked.

He rolled off her and she cuddled back into his side.

"What is Kat doing back here Stefan?"

Stefan sighed. "I wish I knew. Look, we came here to escape life and just relax and have fun. So don't worry about Damon or Kat ok. We will figure everything out when we get back. Until then I don't want you to even mention The D word or the K word."

Elena giggled and nodded. "Ok, I can do that."

"Good. How are you feeling? Physically I mean?"

"Just the normal side effects of having vampire blood, the headaches and dizziness."

"I say we take today and just spend it in bed together. No more cooking fights or anything just resting in bed. What do you say?"

Elena cuddled closer into his side. "I'd say I love the idea, when can we start."

He laughed and pulled her even closer to him. "Let's start now."

They were both quiet for a few minutes just enjoying being in each other's arms. Elena was safe again and that's all he cared about. He'd figure out the whys later. Right now it was just him and the women he loved…just the way he wanted it.

"You know…my parent used to do this. Every weekend morning when they weren't working they'd just lay in bed and cuddle….until Jeremy and I would come barging in and start jumping on the bed demanding they make breakfast. That was before I had a boyfriend or knew how romantic and nice this is."

Stefan smiled and kissed her head.

"Stefan, if you wanted to hear about my childhood you should have just asked. You didn't have to take me here." Elena teased.

"Yeah, because I secretly brought you here in hopes of finding out more about your childhood."

They both just laughed.

"In all seriousness though, if you want to leave just say the word and we can leave I promise."

"No, I love it here. I was just teasing you because I keep having 'moments' and ruing our fun."

"It's fun for me to hear about your childhood."

"It's fun reliving it too but sometimes I just feel like you should be annoyed with how much I talk about it."

"Elena I'm anything but annoyed. I love it. I love watching you smile and glow when you talk about your parents. It's a nice change considering whenever I asked or the subject came up you'd look like you're going to cry."

"It just hard talking about them sometimes."

"I know…trust me I know. I've loosed so many people and even though I've had over 100 years to deal with it, it's still hard to talk about…especially Alex, Tanner and Lexi."

"Hey I thought we weren't going to mention the D word."

"I didn't say anything about him."

"You were thinking about him."

Stefan sighed. "You're right I am. Sorry."

"Don't be, just cheer up….When I was little I always hated this room."

"Why?"

"Let's just say I went there a phase where I wanted everything I had or owned to be pink, and not just a light pink, it had to be bright hot pink. I always begged my parents to paint this room pink but they refused."

Stefan smirked.

"What?" Elena asked.

"You feel like a little physical activity?"

"Sure but what?"

"We're going to paint this room."

What?"

"Why not? "

"I don't want it to be hot pink anymore."

"So, we can make it another color like maybe a light blue or something."

"But why?"

"Well if it's something you've always wanted I'm happy to help make it happen."

"You're serious?"

"Yes…unless you're not feeling up to it."

"I want to but…."

"But what?"

"My head hurts and I'm still a bit dizzy."

"So you just rest. I'll do it."

"Where are we going to get the paint?"

"I saw some in the garage the other day. We can see what the color is and try it out?"

"Ok. But no vampire speed you have to do it slow so it comes out right."

Stefan laughed. He got up and quickly left and came back with two cans of paint. He opened them and looked inside.

"This is a nice color, light tan?"

Elena looked inside the can. "It is pretty."

"The same color is in the other one."

"Ok then, let's do it."

Stefan grabbed the paint and went to start on the walls.

"Wait don't you have to move the stuff so we don't get paint on it."

Stefan smirked and vampire spend around the room until everything including the bed was moved to the center.

"Where were you when we were doing spring cleaning?" Elena teased.

Stefan laughed. Then he started on the walls. Elena sat on the bed watching him. She still felt tired and before she knew it she was sleeping again. Stefan smiled when he saw she was sleeping and sped up getting the whole room done and everything back into place within 5 minutes flat. Elena stirred a few minutes later. She opened her eyes and blinked in surprise.

"How long was I asleep?" she asked.

"A few hours." He lied smoothly.

Elena shook her head and smiled. "You used your powers didn't you?"

He laughed. "Yes."

Elena laughed with him. Then she got an idea. She grabbed the extra paint brush and dipped it into the can.

"You missed a spot."

"Where?" he asked.

She flung the bush at him hitting him with the paint. "Right there."

"Oh it's on Elena!"

He grabbed his bush and flung the paint back. She shrieked and giggled. They went back and forth throwing paint at each other laughing and giggling the whole time. Stefan sped over to her and pinned her down onto the bed brushing the paint all over her arms and legs. Elena shrieked and giggled squirming trying to get away.

"STOP IT STEFAN!" she squealed.

"Are you sorry?"

"YES! YES! I'M SORRY!"

Stefan laughed and stopped letting her up. They both stood there looking at each other and laughed.

"Looks like we need to shower." Stefan said with a smirk.

"Yes, alone…though." Elena said.

Stefan pouted. Elena giggled. "Baby."

"What was that Miss Gilbert?" Stefan asked raising his brush ready to strike again.

"NOTHING! " She squealed.

He laughed and placed his brush in the can. He pulled Elena towards him and they shared a deep kiss. They were happy the drama was finally over…at least till they went back home.

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