Here's part one of the Lockwood Party. The reason I split this in two because by the time I started to finish this I was on four pages and I still had alot more to come so I decided to have all the romantic stuff between Damon and Elena and add the exciting, angst stuff in part two because believe me this is only the beginning.

Song ~ Lifehouse- You and Me.

The reason I put the lyrics throughout the chapter because Damon and Elena dance to it, also the lyrics seemed really fitting for different parts of the chapter.

Enjoy.

What day is it?

And in what month?

This clock never seemed so alive.

I can't keep up, and I can't back down.

I've been losing so much time.

Damon POV

"Welcome, Damon." Mrs Lockwood spoke her words slowly, her eyes glancing up between her eyelashes. She held her hand out for me to take, a smirk plastered on her face making me wonder if she ever did forget the time I had once flirted with her back at the Grill when I had wanted to find out who had the vervain in town. I almost had to hide a grimace from my face older women wasn't my style.

"Mrs Lockwood." Smiling softly at the older woman in front of me I kissed her hand before letting go.

"Save me a dance?" She asked opening the door for me to enter her home.

"Of course." I told her just wanting to get inside and find Elena. I just had to see how she was coping because if she wasn't here there was no why I was staying any longer than necessary. I was here for her, nothing else. Only her.

As soon as the doors opened, I searched around the ballroom looking for my brother and Elena. Women walked around in their ball gowns, many of them huddled together gossiping about other girls who looked more beautiful than themselves. Men walked around with drinks in their hand occasionally dancing with their dates and other women. The entire scene felt old like nothing had changed since 1864, everything was the same. The people of Mystic Falls hadn't changed in over a century. The thought was actually quite depressing.

My eyes continued to search for her but there was no sign of her. I knew she was coming tonight, I had seen my brother getting ready to be her date, to be her lover. Cursing under my breathe I pushed through the couples who were making their way to the dance floor. Elena had to be here somewhere. She had to be. There was no sign of any of her friends here either. No Caroline. No Bonnie. No Tyler or Matt, not even Jeremy.

The need to find her was overwhelming, every part of me just wanted to know that she was okay and safe. She had to be protected. I had to find her because I wanted to know how she was dealing with everything, we hadn't spoken for over a week. The night we had the fight, I had gone back to her house and she just lay there sleeping, stains of where her had makeup had run with her tears down her face. She had looked peaceful in her sleep and it took everything I had not kiss her soft lips. Somehow the taste of her lips seemed like a bittersweet memory, a memory that was unfortunately fading fast. I had gone back nearly every night this week just wondering if she would mutter something about me in her sleep but she never did. I had left her alone this week hoping that she would able to make sense of things on her own, come to some sort of decision and revelation about it all. Caroline had told me to leave her alone until she came to me wanting to know. Everything had to be her decision.

"Caroline, I'm not sure I can do this. If he's here…"

"Elena, you can't hide away forever."

Elena. She was here somewhere. I followed the sound of her voice and soon picked up the familiar beautiful sound of her precious heartbeat. Her voice and Caroline's got louder and I turned my head to follow them. Her heartbeat was beating irregularly, she was nervous and scared about something. Was Stefan back on human blood? Had he hurt her? Was someone else here that I didn't know about? Different scenarios rolled around in my head as I made my towards her. Nothing mattered but her. Nothing.

"He loves you, Elena. He didn't want you to find out like this." Caroline told her.

"I know but doesn't stop the confusion. Every time someone smiles at me tonight, I just keep wondering if they know." Elena sighed softly but I could hear the strain and exhaustion echoing through her voice.

Elena's problem was me. I had been an idiot to think that it was somehow someone else who was making her so distressed, so hurt and alone. Cursing under my breath, I pushed past a couple who were in the middle of an intimate embrace. They both regarded me with a look of disgust before going back to trying to swallow each other's faces. Rolling my eyes at them, I concentrated back on her heartbeat and voice, I had to talk to her and help her. This was my fault and I had to fix it. Her heartbeat grew louder instantly telling me that she was close, very close.

"I just want to go." She whispered to Caroline.

I turned my head to towards the sound of her voice, my own heart racing in anticipation to finally see her. The last week had been agonizing without her; without her constant worry about me, the constant need for her to check that I was still being the better man. The man that I had thought I was incapable of being until I met her, until I saw her for the first time back at the Mystic Grill all that time ago. The love of my life, the girl that I let slip through my fingers and whom I pushed away thinking it would be better for the both of us.

"Damon." Her voice breathed from behind me.

"Elena?" I whispered turning around to finally see her face for the first time in a week.

The first thing that caught my eyes was hers; the way they lit up underneath the majestic chandeliers that hung in the ballroom, the way they seemed to relax when they met mine but how they also seemed to hold guilt and confusion all at once. Elena's bottom lip was caught between her teeth as she made a step towards me. As Elena moved my eyes drifted down to her dress that was blue and glittered just like her eyes had done under the chandeliers above. There was a matching blue ribbon around her waist that emphasised her curves underneath the dress. The dress was completely strapless but Elena hugged the clear wrap around her shoulders before coming to a halt in front of me. Her hair fell down her shoulders gracefully in loose curls and I had never seen anything more beautiful in my life. Right now, she was the only person in this entire building with me. Elena Gilbert looked like a fallen angel from heaven. A fallen angel that was stood in front of me.

'Cause It's You and Me,

And all of the people with nothing to do.

Nothing to lose.

And it's you and me,

And all the other people,

And I don't know why

I can't keep my eyes off of you.

"You look…" I stumbled trying to find the right adjective for her appearance. "Perfect." Tasting the word on my lips before repeating it again. "Elena, you look perfect."

Elena smiled at me before her gaze retreated to the polish wood beneath us, her cheeks blushing but it only added to her perfect appearance tonight. Slowly she lifted her head back up to face me and I could see her hands tighten around her wrap as if she was bracing herself to me. Her brown doe eyes locked with mine and just for a moment it was like we were dating again, in love with each other but then her gaze changed to something else entirely. She was looking at me as though she was seeing me, really seeing me for the first time.

"I should apologise…." She whispered her eyes never leaving mine. "I'm sorry about how I acted last week. I know you wouldn't have just used me for sex. I was just so confused, Damon and I still am." She shrugged before looking away from me and back to the floor.

"Elena, please don't apologise. Between the two of us I should be apologising. This entire thing is my fault."

A moment of a silent understanding passed between us when she looked back up from the floor for the second time that evening. We had both done wrong, we had both hurt each other and it was time to move on, time to deal with the past instead of running from it. Elena sighed to herself, pulling her gaze over to the corner of the room where Stefan was talking to Caroline who seemed to be talking to him more so than usual. Was she biding me and Elena time?

"Stefan went to get drinks and Caroline heard you coming so she went to distract Stefan for a bit to give us sometime for me to apologise." She told me, her eyes searching mine for some unknown truth.

I felt as though there were a million words to say, a million things to ask and a million things to do but I just couldn't bring myself to say them or do them. One thing I was sure of was that I didn't want her to go back to Stefan yet. I wanted more time with her, more time with her smiling and blushing at my comments just like she used to. One more night with the woman I loved was that too much to ask? One more hour, one more minute with her arms around me. One more moment with me making her laugh, making her smile. All I wanted was one more minute. One more chance.

Why are the things that I want to say,

Just not coming out right?

I'm tripping on words,

You got my head spinning.

I don't know where to go from here.

An ironic smile came across my lips as I listened to the song lyrics that played around us. The song was perfect for this moment between me and Elena. She smiled at me and I knew instantly that she was thinking the same thing as me neither of us knew what to say. She glanced at Stefan before glancing back at me and her heart grew fast in her chest. We were running out of time but how could I get her alone?

"May I have this dance, Miss Gilbert?" I asked her holding out my hand.

Elena nodded without, much to my surprise, taking a glance towards Stefan. I raised my eyebrows silently asking for an explanation but she just shook her head, whispering the words 'not here'. I nodded in return. She was right we shouldn't talk about these problems in front of Stefan and the majority of Mystic Falls.

"Lets dance." She said with an exaggerated smile.

Elena grasped her hand in mine and my entire body became alive, became fully aware that it was her little hand clinging to mine sending electric waves through my entire body. For a moment I just stared at her wondering whether she felt it too and from the way she stared at me in wonder, her mouth slightly parted I knew that she felt this connection too. I smiled softly secretly proud that I wasn't making this connection up in my head.

I twirled Elena onto the dance floor and the skirt of her dress spun around her causing her to laugh and playfully slap my shoulder as I brought her back to me. My eyes stayed locked with hers as I moved my arm around her waist making sure that she was comfortable, that she was okay with this. Elena smiled at me and her heartbeat grew louder in her chest obviously having the same reaction as me.

"You look beautiful tonight, Elena." I whispered in her ear and she blushed, burying her face into the crook of my neck. An action so small yet so intimate that it made me smile knowing that she was still comfortable dancing with me.

"You realise you've already said that right?" She smirked.

"I believe I said you look perfect." I laughed with her before growing serious again with her. The more she knew how I felt the better. The more she knew the more she would understand. "No words can describe how you look tonight. You're flawless, perfect, beautiful, breathtaking. Elena, you're everything."

'Cause its you and me,

And all of the people with nothing to do,

Nothing to prove,

And its you and me.

And all other people,

And I don't know why,

I can't keep my eyes off you.

"Ssh.." She whispered her eyes closing. "Don't."

"Why not?"

"Because…because I don't know what I feel for you, Damon. I can't control myself right now, I can't. I don't know what to do." She whispered, her eyes begun to water and I knew what this could look like from an outsiders point of view, especially to Stefan.

"Ssh, okay. We won't do this now. We never have to do this if you don't want to, okay? This conversation doesn't need to happen."

Elena sighed softly to herself and placed her head back into the crook of my neck. Closing my eyes at her touch, I didn't care that everyone was watching us, that Stefan would see us in this intimate position. I just wanted to be close to her, I just wanted her back in my arms where she belonged. Elena squeezed my hand before letting out another sigh.

"Why do I always feel like I'm at home with you? Why does it all go away when I'm with you? Everything stops when I'm with you, Damon. You are all I can think about." She whispered into my neck and if I had an heart it would have stopped beating.

Everything stops when I'm around her? A smile spread across my face at her words. After all this time wondering and thinking she hated me she still cared about me. My influence still affected her like it always had when we were dating. The words flew around my head bouncing off the walls in excitement at what she had just expressed for me. When I'm around her she can only think about me? Everything sounded so surreal yet so right at the same time, I had never felt such a weird emotion in my life. Did this mean she still loved me? Did she want to remember the past? What the hell did it mean?

Something about you now,

That I can't quite figure out.

Everything she does is beautiful,

Everything she does is right.

"Elena what do you-"

"Can I cut in?" Stefan asked practically forcing himself through me and Elena.

Elena moved her had swiftly from my neck and completely detangling herself from her body. She breathed in and out almost as if she were trying to calm herself down from some electric current that had just flowed through her body. Elena slowly flattened her hair before smiling sweetly at Stefan and taking his hand in hers. Stefan smiled at her before taking her over to the dance floor and placed his hands on her waist. Elena turned to give me a sympathetic smile but quickly turned back to Stefan when his hands roamed her back. A part of me wondered whether he was doing this on purpose to make me jealous and other part knew that he was just being with Elena, relishing in the fact that Elena belonged to him. She belonged to my little brother but that would never stop me from loving her. It would never stop me from caring about her and right nothing would tear my eyes from her.

'Cause it's you and me,

And all of the people with nothing to do,

Nothing to lose.

And it's you and me and all of the people,

And I don't know why,

I can't keep my eyes off of you.

So what did you think? I'm going to try and update as much as I can! I'm so sorry for the lack of updates its just this summer has been chaotic, writer's block and I guess all I really needed to was to relax and now that I have. Please review xo. Twitter is FlyingFireworks. SPOILER - There's more drama next to chapter! Thanks for reading MidnightGirl467 xo