[A/N: I'm so sorry about the late update! Just to reassure you, I'm not losing my muse; it's running on hyper drive!
So, I know it's been like, I don't know, 18 days since but happy thanksgiving! In the part of London I live in, we don't celebrate thanksgiving but in my school, we all call it American day and we do a challenge, to speak in an American accent all day. Even I've gotta admit, mine was a little exaggerated.
Oh well, let's get to the story already. Big, big, big 'thank you' full of awesomeness to my beta, PorkChopSmall! You're awesome.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
~Just My Luck part ll~
Elena stepped out of the shadows as the sunlight attacked her form. It wasn't a hot atmosphere, it was just…sunny. To be honest, if you look past all the furrowed eyebrows to block out some of the light, it was calming.
She spotted her group and ran towards the group, hoping not to be late. She arrived just as the register was being called out.
"Miss Pierce, I'm glad you finally decided to join us."
"Might just be Mrs Pierce, you don't know what she did in there." Rebekah commented making the outer audience ripple in silent giggles. Surprise, surprise huh?
"Save it for the field Miss Mikealson…" The teacher interjected but Elena took no word of it.
"Might just be Mr Mikealson. You never know, do you?" Elena snapped back, making the same crowd swell in gasps and laughter.
Elena smiled pleased when the smirk from Rebekah's face immediately dropped. She was defiantly getting used to being bitchy Katherine.
"You girls can claw each other's eyes out elsewhere but not in my class." Mr Howard retorted at the two as Rebekah presented herself and Elena took a seat on the grass at the back with Bonnie and Caroline.
"So as I was saying, we wi-" Mr Howard started once again only to be interrupted once again.
"Sorry I'm late Mr Howard." The boy Elena was told to avoid in all cost appeared, making her breath hitch in her throat.
"Dammit!" Elena muttered under her breath when she realized they were in the same class. Typically her luck!
"Did you say something?" Caroline whispered to her.
Elena nodded her head 'no' and watched him…
"Oh joy. When I saw Salvatore on the register, I was just hoping it would be your brother…" Mr Howard spat out, his voice laced with disappointment.
"I'm glad I have you for senior year too Mr Howard." Damon's lips curved to form a smirk, dripping with amusement as he took a seat on the fake grass but not before sending her a glance.
"So class, this is going to be your first lesson of your last year, the P.E department have decided to form a program for all seniors. It's more of a competition really. You will be paired up-" Mr Howard got cut of once again by almost all the student's arms went up simultaneously.
"Before any of you ask, no you are not choosing your partners." He continued, making the class groan and put their hands down.
"As I was saying… You will be paired up and set through a series of team building exercises to go through. The first pair to reach the end will win; simple as that."
"So, are we going to do this for nothing or is there going to be a veiled motive?" Damon, out of all people, interjected causing Elena to roll her eyes.
"Now that you mention it, yes Salvatore." Mr Howard gave a dirty look to Damon with him responding with his usual amused smirks. "The winning pair will get an authorized day off school." Hearing the words, the section of the football field they were currently using flushed with light chatter at the thought of skipping school without getting in trouble.
"Who are our partners?" Caroline called out, eager for it to be someone good.
"If you'd let me speak, I'd get a chance to call them out." Mr Howard snapped as the chitter chatter died down in curiosity of who they'll be working with.
"Okay…so we have: Dana and Brad…" Mr Howard started as a low 'yes!' ran in the air from Dana andBrad.
One by one, most got picked off. As their names got called off, they stood up and went over to the spaces marked on the field. Elena soon got a little paranoid as more and more got picked off, her name not being spoken yet.
"Forbes and Mikealson," Mr Howard addressed by last name causing Caroline, Rebekah and Klaus to switch confused glances. Mr Howard realized the lack of movement and spoke. "Caroline Forbes and Klaus Mikealson,"
Caroline let out a sigh of relief and started getting up but not without sending Elena an apologetic glance. Mr Howard watched pointedly as the pair slowly got up and headed up to their spot.
Let's see who's left… Elena wondered, surely all the hope of getting a good partner flushing down the toilet once realizing everyone left were guys and Rebekah. Stoner dude, geek central, Rebekah! Stoner dude, stoner dude; dear god this school has problems with drugs! She was so deep in her thoughts that she didn't realize her name had been called out until she felt someone nudge her.
"Whoa dude…" Some guy lazily, too lazily for her liking, drawled out to her. "You spaced, Katherine. Your name was just called out, you're Salvatore's partner."
Elena's eyes almost popped out when she drifter her eyes to the devil himself to find him standing up. She hurriedly thought of all the possible outcomes that would lead but was interrupted by his outstretched arms.
"I guess you're stuck with me." Damon pulled her towards his body and stretched out every syllable seductively in her ear. It definitely affected her but definitely not enough…
"Get over yourself." Elena tried to shake it off.
"Aw come on! Even the school thinks we should be together." He points out with his 'mockery' smirk.
Elena huffed and crossed her arms over her chest. And without having a second look back to see if he was following, she walked up to where they were supposed to be in the first place. This was going to one hell of a long lesson…
The games weren't that hard but working with Damon was.
They were already halfway through all the tasks and even though they were almost three tasks ahead everyone else, they couldn't complete one task without shouting at each other.
But the worst, out of all of them, would have had to of been the egg and spoon task…
Crash!
"Damon! The school only has a certain amounts of eggs!" Elena attempted at yelling at him but her voice getting muffled with the heavy spoon in her mouth, carrying the egg.
"Well excuse me but I'm not a professional egg-spoon-balancing-thing!" He managed to get out, not knowing which words to use.
"Well you certainly don't have to be a professional to break 15 eggs!" Elena finally gave in and took the spoon with the egg still firmly on it out of her mouth.
"I'm sorry," He began, waving his hands out in a gesture of mockery, "but I'm not 'Miss Suddenly-Goody-two-shoes' who's professional in every single game!" He snapped back, the egg all forgotten.
"Yeah, well, 'professional' this!"
And before Damon had the chance to blink, the egg, which was resting on her spoon, came flying at him.
Luckily, he dodged; otherwise they would of both of been excluded from the school.
Damon and Elena moved forward to the next field to find a teacher from the P.E department awaiting them just like the other tasks. She was perkier that the rest, jumping up and down of the tips of her toes.
"Okay, so your objective for this task is team work between the two of you…" Her enthusiastic voice started but got cut off by the groaning coming from the two at the tad bit of information.
She chose to ignore it and continued with her instructions. "You will get two hoops between the two of you and you have to try to get yourselves to the other side without touching all grounds except the insides of the hoops. Got it?"
"Floor is lava; extreme level." Damon commented sarcasm and mockery lacing his voice. Elena elbowed him in the ribs with a firm arm, showing no signs of playfulness.
Elena mumbled a 'sure' as Damon slowly recovered
"Good luck you two but I doubt you'll need it." She pointed to the others far behind.
In one of the fields, they could see Rebekah climbing out of the sack that she was supposed to jump in to get to the finish line and dump it on her stoner partner's head, walking away. They were just such nice people, no?
The teacher handed the hoops to them and skipped off to the direction of Rebekah. The hoops were bright yellow and about three to four inches bigger than a basketball. If he thought she was stepping into that hoop with him, then he was nuts! But then again, what little choice did she have? She wanted to win this game. Katherine Pierce aside, Elena Gilbert had a competitive side and she refused to back down from a challenge.
Before Elena could conjure up a plan, Damon had already thrown one of the hoops from an arm's length from the start line.
"What? We're just going to start with no plan?" She asked him with a strong gaze and crossed arms. Thankfully, this was the last round so if they passed this, they'd get their passes and skip on home.
Damon look just answered her question immediately. It was one of those 'seriously?' looks that made Elena huff join him at the starter line.
"Ladies first," Elena joked, stepping aside to let Damon take the first jump.
Damon rolled his eyes at the comment but too the jump anyways. "Classy till the end Katherine,"
Once he jumped onto the hoop, Damon threw the other hoop at arm's length and hopped on.
Elena looked quizzically at him. Is he serious? That's like walking into the lion's den without any weapons; except this was just some silly high school completion for a day off school.
"Come on then, we don't have all day before they catch up." He interrupted her accusing thoughts of how.
Elena, as a result, sprang towards the first hoop. Damon shuffled back to the edge of the hoop, signalling Elena to hop on. It would have worked but she wasn't having it.
"I'm not going in there." She spat out stubbornly, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Now's not the time to be petty Katherine!" he scolded but not getting much of a result from her. "Plus, I'm sure we've done much worse."
If only he knew?
Elena gave up. She just had to remind herself that it would be Katherine he's seeing, not Elena Gilbert. That doesn't mean that he's gonna get the satisfaction because if you didn't know, Elena Gilbert was a very stubborn girl…
She hopped onto the new hoop but managed to keep her balance considering that she had stepped onto the edge to keep her distance. Even though it was better than the ulterior motive, if you'd stick a magazine between, it would probably be a little crumpled up.
"What's the plan, superman?" She jested but the bitterness crystal clear in her voice.
"I prefer batman but okay." He shrugged off but got back to business. No matter how much he loved Katherine she can be nerve racking sometimes. "Drag the hoop close enough for you to grab it."
She did as she's told; certainly glad to make a bigger space between the two since she had to stretch her leg enough to step in the hoop.
The day was certainly something to be proud of. Elena hadn't shown much of herself today; she was full blown Katherine mode. Sure, being bitchy for one of the most passionate person you'd ever meet was a really tough job but she could pull through.
But it was safe to say that the person she was now was definitely not her.
"What now?" She asked in her bitchy, Katherine voice as she handed the hoop to him.
"Patience, Katherine." He mini scolded with a playful smirk upon his face. He relayed his previous actions.
Elena's mind blowing plan to avoid this situation and not possibly blow her cover was to just step on the edges of the hoop. So far so good. So far.
Elena stretched her toned leg out to an attempt at hopping over to the edge which would've worked if Damon hadn't thrown the hoop a little too far. Her heart sank to its core when she began wobbling in her current position on the edge. It went on for barely half a second before she felt her weight beginning to drop.
Just make this a painless one! She thought to herself, preparing herself for the fall she was about to go through.
Fortunately for her, it never came. Unfortunately for her, it was Damon that got hold of her forearm just about in time and pulled her body flush against his own.
It all happened too fast for Elena to make out what had just happened but what could he say? Strong reflexes. Damon looked down at her, feeling the feeling he had felt before but decided to ignore it; but not this time...
It was a feeling he had never felt before, not just with Katherine but with anyone. It wasn't fuelled with lust or desire but the want and need making an appearance. Damon didn't know what was different this time or what had caused it but what he did know was that a) he was feeling it now and b) it was the best sensation he had felt in his entire life.
Almost as if snapping back to reality, Damon's eyes shot down to Elena to see her eyes drifted down and her lips parted. Almost sensing his gaze, her eyes snapped up to meet his.
She's never believed in clinché moments that happen in the movies. You know, when your heart picks up, threatening to burst out of its cage. Or when the outside world starts to fade out and the person in front of you is your soul purpose of everything. You could say she was right and wrong. Those moments rarely happen but when they do, it's mainly because the person in front of you has triggered a vein.
Elena made up the courage to confront him once and for all before she blew her cover as the infamous Katherine Pierce. Once she'd done the gesture, Elena's breath got in here throat to find him staring down at her in the most intense gaze she's ever encountered. From Elena's perspective, Damon looked nothing like he did mere five minutes ago. All the playfulness drained out of his face and his eyes had gotten a few shades darker than the calming ocean tone it was before but Elena still could get lost in them.
The tension was so thick, it could be cut with a knife; yeah, a butcher's knife! They stood still for a few minutes, neither of them daring to move a muscle. The only connection Damon and Elena seemed to have with the outside world is the slight jittering playing in the background. The only thing that could be heard was the breaths escaping both their lips and the faint sound of each other's heart, beating its way to the core.
"Pierce, Salvatore! No PDAs on the field!" And with that, it was all gone.
Snapping back to bitter-sweet reality, the sexual tension that took place once upon a time was now replaced with a new layer of awkwardness. How can I tell you ask? Elena's coughing was a sure sign and Damon's body language.
"Shall we?" Elena's slightly strained voice spoke as she offered him the hoop she didn't know she had.
"We shall." The colour and the playfulness flushing back in his exterior but some traces of something Elena couldn't make out evident on his face.
"Good." Let out her slightly breathless voice that if you'd known Elena, you'd been used to. Unfortunately, nobody knew Elena; she was a mere stranger with someone else's face plastered on her own
Score! Elena's grin curved wider as she thought of the victory of her 'team.' Mr Howard being Mr Howard wouldn't let any other duo go get changed until they met the finish line. The downside though was that Elena was left unattended in the girls' changing rooms. Doesn't help Halloween is up in 2/3 weeks or so.
Sighing in relief when the door flew open, Elena almost threw her arms at Caroline when she walked in. Caroline looked completely unfazed by her reaction. Though it was nothing like what would've been like Katherine's, Caroline had gotten used to her new friendly attitude.
Like the girls they were, the gossiping began right about…now.
"And did you see Rebekah in the sack situation?" Elena took a seat on the steel bench, dividing the two rows of lockers.
"How could I miss it!? The only reason Klaus and I were not ahead was because we couldn't stop laughing and our eggs dropped." The thought of that task gave Elena a chill of disgust. "Hey, weren't you Damon's partner?" Caroline changed the subject subtly; it was how everyone acts around Katherine when talking about Damon Salvatore.
Elena pretended to be unfazed about the subject but was verging on failing miserably. "Um…yeah." She stuttered, fiddling endlessly with her laces, "Wha…what about him." but managed to keep her voice strong.
Caroline looked shocked at Elena not snapping at her because she brought in the topic. She however decided to take full advantage of this situation. "What on Earth happened between you two on the field!?" Caroline's perky alter ego kicked in as she sat on the spot beside her but facing Elena with her own legs curled beneath
"What?!" Elena's eyes almost popped out of her sockets at the sudden question. Were they that obvious!?"Yeah…" Caroline's face scrunched up in confusion but soon recovered. "I saw you two-" With that simple starter of a sentence, Elena's hear started beating and beating. "-after you finished the hoop challenge…" With that, the anxiety was gone. "And it was safe to say that he looked like she wanted to throw you over his shoulder and take you to his bedroom."
"Okay care, I'd lay of the 50 shades for a little while." Elena tried to shake off the accusation but turned out to be deeply disappointed.
"No se-" But turned out luck was on team Gilbert.
At that very moment the door flew open to see a certain Bennet throwing herself through the entrance.
"I'M ALIVE!" She exclaimed as if she'd just made it through a season of Hell's Kitchen. Reluctantly, Elena and Caroline started cheering her as Bonnie staggered to the two.
"Carl that bad, huh?" Elena more stated than asked her as she got her cloths from the locker. "I get it."
"Please! You got a hot guy." Bonnie play-argued back, causing Elena to fake gasp.
"Curse your mouth, Bennet witch!" Elena shouted in a fake 14th century accent. Sure, there was a reason for the witch part. A friend of Elena's back in London had the last name Bennet and she claimed to be a witch. Go figure.
"One time! One time I dressed up as a witch for Halloween!" Yep…go figure…
"Well, come on Bennet! We needs to get home!" Whined Caroline, pretty much imitating a baby of sorts.
"Watch your grammar if you want to pass English." Elena mini scolded as she did the finishing action to her last shoe lace.
"Dude, is everything okay? You look like you've just seen a ghost!" Klaus, being the same old 'concerned best friend' asked the man currently beside him as they walk through the hallways ofMystic Falls High. Damon opened his mouth in attempt to answer the question asked however, Klaus beat him to it. "No, let me guess… Katherine Peirce?"
Of course, it was Katherine; when was it ever 'not' Katherine! She was acting so differently. She was still holding a grudge for sleeping with Rebekah and acting so cold towards him but somehow, she wasn't going to sleep with him? It was crazy! Maybe, just maybe, she was over him. Her continuously having sex him reassured him that she still wasn't over him. And not to mention the janitors closet. But then, why was she acting so hot and cold?
"No, then!" Damon snapped at Klaus in response to his previous question. "It's my time of the month!"
Okay, so he was moderately pissed. And confused. Nobody gets Damon Salvatore confuse. Okay, maybe maths; and English, and French. So practically every lesson but still. What confused him about this though was that Katherine done something he thought she'd never do; she surprised him.
"At this point, I'd probably believe you from what I've been getting from you in the last half an hour or so."
"Wouldn't hold my breath." He shot make, venom dripping from his voice.
An attempt at avoiding Klaus, he picked up his pace and started moving his legs quicker. As a result, he practically threw himself out of the main doors to find that most of the school had already gone home. Damn you P.E!
He made his way to where he'd parked his car before he spotted three certain people he'd rather not see at the moment; especially the one in the middle, throwing her head backwards as if the funniest joke in the world had just been said by her friends beside her.
If sex is the only reason Katherine's still doing this thing, that's what she's gonna get…
Damon, getting home completely forgotten, stomped his way to the devil herself.
"Witchy, Blondie." He greeted.
"1 year. 1 YEAR!" Bonnie mumbled under her breath and crossed her arms before walking off.
"I'm...uh…gonna give you guys some 'rehash' time…" Caroline slightly stuttered before following Bonnie's trail.
Elena being currently unattended by her girlfriends, Damon decided to block her way so there was no way out of this situation. Elena looked at him, certainly dumbfounded. She realized when she looked past him, Caroline showing her a thumb up and mumbling 'good luck' causing Elena to roll her eyes.
Elena's mind sprinted off back to reality when she felt his forehead scrape against her own.
"So…" He spoke in a barely audible voice that couldn't pass for a whisper.
Instantly, Elena's eyes darted from the ground to meet his eyes and suddenly felt the same pull effect from the little hoop incident, all over again. A few shades darker but still has the ability to make you fall? Yep, that's the one.
"So…?" Elena, sort of breathless, asked when Damon failed to continue his previous statement.
Damon finally realized she was awaiting him to speak but he was slightly dazed. Since when did Katherine have this much power over me!? It's like since the summer, she was a completely different person! She's gentler, more fragile but at the same time has a fire deep within her that she rarely shown but when she did, it was big enough to light up the world. Katherine (old Katherine at least) had fire but not as much however, every second of the day, she'd go on alert and the fire would be put into waste.
"You wanna go back to my place?" Damon drawled out seductively, hinting his true motives.
Elena sucked in a breath at the proposition. Sure, it was not like she's a virgin, just waiting to besacrificed on the next episode of Teen Wolf but how could she live knowing that all he saw was Katherine? That's exactly why it took her every ounce of strength to deny his request.
"No." Not wanting to push the subject, she shot out a simple answer before strutting past him and walking towards her car. Leaving Damon frozen and speechless…
[A/N: Good? Bad? What'd ya think? Was it worth the wait? Probably not but still.
Hope I'm setting a good example for the new followers I received last chapter. Hi, new friends! *creepy smile.* Yep, I'm as weird as it gets. Oh well, I won't hold my breath for the next chapter being early but don't do the opposite either…
A question, for Halloween, would you prefer Elena to be dressed as a good angel or a bad angel? The bad angel makes more sense for Katherine but the good angel outfit is REALLY good. What'd ya think?]
Next Chapter: Katherine wants Elena to run an errand for her, causing Elena to use her free-pass she won in P.E that one time. But is she the only one?
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