~ I can't believe I'm at Heart of Darkness already. Although this is only the first part I'm liking this so far.
~ I added a little bit of Damon flirting... I couldn't resist.
~ I wanted to add a little bit of Klaus/Chelsea in this chapter... but that's just going to be in the next one :)

ENJOY!

Chelsea's POV

I put some clothes into a suit case. Two t-shirts, two pairs of jeans, light green pajama pants, a light pink tank top and a couple of other necessities for a trip. I felt like I needed a little break, to figure stuff out, getting away from him felt like a good idea. He started to make things feel difficult.

"Hey." I said as I felt a presence by my doorway. I didn't look back as I closed the suit case and locked it.
"Got everything?" Damon asked me.
"Pretty much." I said before turning around with the suit case in my hand. He looked at me, slightly concerned.
"Why did decide that you want to come with?"
"I've never been to Denver and I thought that it would kind of be a nice break from everything going on here." He flashed me a small smile.
"Are you sure it isn't just so you can spend more time with me?"
"Why would I want to spend more time with you if we already live in the same house?"
"Because I'm irresistible." Damon said with a cocky smirk.
"If you say so." I said, kidding with him. "We should go downstairs." I suggested to him.
"Yeah." He said quietly before I followed him out my room and down the stairs.

I walked down the stairs and placed the suit case on the floor next to the bags that were packed. Stefan was standing, staring into the fire place.

"Have you heard from him yet?" I asked Stefan, not wanting to say Klaus's name.
"Not yet. I'm sure I will soon though." Stefan turned towards us and picked up a stake that was sitting on the coffee table. "He's expecting me to deliver two stakes, I only have one."
"Well, that's gonna be disappointing for him." Damon said as he stepped closer to Stefan.
"Or you could always lie and say that you destroyed the other one." Stefan and Damon both looked back towards me.
"Assume we do that and they believe us, there would be one stake to kill three Originals. There is still a one and three chance that we all die." Damon said to me.
"True, but there are two witches on your side." I said before looking between Stefan and Damon. "There could be a spell that would save us, if you would pick the wrong original." I saw Damon wearing a smirk before I looked at Stefan, whose expression didn't change.
"I'll get it out of Alaric." Stefan said to me. Damon turned to Stefan. "I just need some time."
"We might not have a lot of time." I said to them.
"You should have some confidence Chels." Damon said before he turned back towards me.
"Once we know we are safe I'll be a bit more confident." Damon took a couple of steps to me. His head turned to Elena, who was coming up from the basement.
"Have you ever flown first class?"
"Who did you have to compel for that?" Elena asked.
"Please, I used miles." Damon smirked and walked to me. He bent down, picked up the duffle bags and looked at me for a moment before walking to the car. I looked between Stefan and Elena.
"I'll give you guys some time." I said before picking up my suitcase and walking to the car.

The trunk was open so I just put the suit case in there. I closed it, thinking everything was in there, before opening the door to the back seat.
"You don't want to sit with me?" Damon asked from the driver's seat as he looked back towards me.
"If I would sit in the front, I wouldn't have this whole seat to myself." I gave Damon a small smirk before setting my legs up on the seat.
"No shoes on the seat." He groaned. I kicked them off onto the floor before putting my feet back on the seat.
"Better?"
"Not really, but at least your feet don't stink." I rolled my eyes before Elena opened up the passenger door and sat in the car. "Her feet don't stink, right Elena?" Damon asked, catching Elena slightly off guard.
"I can't smell anything." She said.
"There, your feet don't stink." Damon said before turning the keys.
"They never do." I said before I pulled out my phone to play some music.

~In Denver~

We walked, Damon between me and Elena, towards some batting cages. So far, Denver seemed like an okay place, despite the things that were lurking around in secret.

I saw Jeremy with a baseball bat in his hand.
"There he is." Elena said as we walked up towards where he was.
"Next time we compel him, remind me to make him better at baseball." Damon said as we stood on the other side of the cage, watching Jeremy miss the baseballs.
"You are the one that compelled him." I said to Damon as Elena walked up to the cage.
"Hey Jer!" She said, getting his attention. He turned around with a smile on his face.
"Elena?" Jeremy asked when he turned around. "What's wrong?" He asked after looking at her for a moment. Jeremy walked out of the cage, with the bat in his hand and started walking towards us.

"So Jer, long story short," I said, before explaining what he has missed ", the family that Klaus carried with him are up and about, with the exception of the one Matt killed. Bonnie found her mom, but then her mom was turned into a vampire, the Originals held a ball and we found out that if an Original dies all of the vampires that were created from their bloodline dies along with them."
"That's the short story?" Jeremy asked as he put the bat away with the others.
"I could have gone into the details, but that pretty much sums up what happened since you left." I said to Jeremy.
"The point of our visit is we need your help." Damon said to Jeremy. "Katherine sired us, Rose sired Katherine, all we need to do is find out who sired Rose."
"Anna sired me, who was sired by Katherine, and you know the rest." I said to Jeremy.
"So, you traveled across the country to get me to talk to a dead vampire?"
"Dead vampire is redundant, but yes." I rolled my eyes at Damon's remark as Jeremy put away the helmet he was wearing.
"I can't." Jeremy said before turning to us. "I could talk to Anna and Vicki because I knew them. I've never even met Rose."
"What good is you dying and coming back to life if you can't talk to a ghost when I need you to?"
"Be nice Damon." I said to him before looking at Jeremy. "Rose spent a long time running from Klaus." I let out a breath. "She and Damon were close at one time, so maybe we can use him as a connection." When I finished, I felt something behind me.
"Fine, fine, but can we do this later? My friend just got here..." I looked behind us, with a good feeling of who it was. 'Kol.' I thought when I saw him starting to walk towards us with a smile and a baseball bat. I stopped listening to Jeremy and started walking towards Kol.

"Hello." He said with a smile when I stood in front of him.
"Hey man." I could hear Jeremy say from behind me. "Chelsea this is…"
"I know who is Jeremy." I said looking at Kol. "He likes to flirt."
"You like it." I rolled my eyes and Kol gave me a smirk.
"Aren't you worried about your cover being blown?" Kol's expression slightly changed before he looked behind me where Damon and Elena were.
"I see you brought them along. It could have been so much more fun without them." I rolled my eyes before Kol sped to Damon and hit him with the bat. Damon was hit so hard that he fell to the ground and the bat broke in half.
"What are you doing?" Jeremy asked in surprise.
"Jeremy, get back! He's an Original." Elena said as she took a step back.
"What?"
"No hard feelings, mate. But we're not buds." Kol said to Jeremy as he walked to the baseball bats. My eyes went to a piece of the broken baseball bat.
"You know," Kol started to say as he took out a bat ", I'll never get use to aluminum. But hey, at least it won't break." Kol was about to hit Damon with the bat in the air when I sped to the broken piece lying on the ground and stabbed Kol in the chest. The aluminum bat fell from his hand and he fell to the ground. I bent down next to Damon.
"You realize that this is basically the second time I've saved you from an Original?" I asked him as I helped him up.
"Did you kill him?" Jeremy asked as he looked at Kol's body.
"No." I said.
"But it'll give us a head start." Damon looked from Jeremy to Elena. "Come on." I helped Damon as we walked to his car.

Damon parked the car in the parking lot of a hotel. He got out first and went to the trunk and opened it so we could get out stuff out. I walked to the trunk to get my suit case out, but Damon already had it in his hand.
"Here you go." He said with a smile before handing me my suit case.
"Thanks." I said to him before walking around him.
"For the record, they are the ones who wanted to stay in a motel, not me." Damon said to Jeremy.
"Yes Damon, blame the girls. There is nothing wrong with that." I said
"So, where are we?" Jeremy asked.
"Corner of somewhere and nowhere, where Kol can't find us." Damon answered Jeremy before we reached the bottom of some stairs.
"I can't believe Kol was a vampire." Jeremy said as we walked up the stairs.
"Well, didn't you find it weird that you made a friend so fast? Have you met you?" Damon asked.
"Not helping." Elena said after giving Damon a stare.

We walked up to a room and Elena opened it.
"Well, this should work, right Jer?" Elena asked as we walked into the room.
"Yeah, doesn't really matter." Jeremy said as I closed the door behind me.
"Alright Whoopi, what do you need?" Damon closed the curtains and turned to Jeremy. "Candles? Incense? Pottery wheel?" I went started to walk over to a bed.
"That's not how it works." Jeremy said to Damon. I sat on the closest bed.
"I know, I know. They push from the other side and you pull from this one." Damon said to Jeremy as he took off his leather jacket.
"Alright, you uh, you got a picture of her?" Jeremy asked as he sat down on a chair by the table.
"Picture? What, a trip to Disneyland?" Damon sat down next to me on the bed. "Come on Rose, you're not gonna actually make us wait, are you? I know you're obsessed with me." Elena and I both scoffed. She sat down next to her brother while I move to I was sitting against the bed rest. I had nothing against Rose, but I didn't like the little fling they had.
"Alright, uh, tell me something about her."

Damon scooted closer to me, without looking at me.
"Well she does this little thing with her tongue." He looked back towards me after a second. I rolled my eyes and looked straight at him.
"Something that matters, Damon." I said. His eyes shifted over my face before slowly looking away. Damon slightly bent over with his arms resting on his legs.
"She spent her last day in paradise." I looked at Damon, slightly confused. "Soaking in the sun and reminiscing about what it means to be human. And when death came, she didn't fear it." That, for some reason, reminded me of how his face looked after her death. It also made me have a feeling of nostalgia about being human.
"We were with her on her last day," I glanced at Elena before looking at Damon ", and she definitely wasn't in paradise." Damon didn't move.
"It was in the dream he gave her." I looked at Jeremy, who blinked a couple of times. "She's here." I took in a breath and couldn't help but look around. I felt like something or someone was with me and Damon on the bed.

~ Can you believe that the story is basically 7 chapters until the end? 3 episodes and the second half of this one.
~ I would never have gotten this far without your favorites, story alerts, and most of all your reviews. Thank you for taking your time to review and helping this story get this far.

~ Chelsea is slightly telling Damon the truth about why she is going with to Denver. We all know that she isn't going to tell him the real reason.

~ The next chapter is 5/19/12

*Spoiler Alert*
Two Originals are going to give Chelsea some problems soon.

R&R 'till the next update