An: I had HUGE plans for this chapter but it didn't happen, I still like the beginning though, let me know what you think.
Damon and Katie both were relieved when they reached their destination, Elena's parents' cabin, and Katie wouldn't of cared where they went if it meant she could get out of the car. Katie jumped out of the car and ran towards the dock that looked over the water, "Wow!" She exclaimed, "Where are we?" She asked, running back to Damon, who held his arm out to stop her from running when she reached him, "Heyyy!" She yipped, feeling out of balance.
"We've got to talk about a few... rules." Damon began, catching hold of her arm and crouching down to be eye level with her, "Kay," Katie murmured, still thrilled to be outside again, especially at such a wide open area, and it even had a lake!
She was practically bouncing, and Damon grabbed ahold of her hands, "Jeremy's a hunter," He paused, "Don't ask me what that means," And continued, "I've got to train him to kill vampires, so he can grow his mark, and don't ask what that is either. His friend Matt is coming up too." Damon stopped, just to give Katie a minute to process what he'd said. "Okayyy," Katie replied, trying to free her hands, and failing.
Damon nodded, "If Klaus shows up, shut up. Got it?" Katie chewed on her lip, "I got it. Can you let go of me now?" She pleaded, and Damon sighed, "Get."
Jeremy and Matt showed up shortly after that, and Katie had stopped running to sit with her feet in the water, which Damon would soon be objecting too. "That Katie?" Jeremy asked, glancing over towards the dock.
Damon blew out a breath of air, "Katie, get away from the water!" He called, and Katie asked, "Why?"
Matt and Jeremy laughed, and Damon glared at them, "Because I told you too."
"Hm," Katie mused, kicking her legs so the water lightly splashed her face, "That's not a very good reason," She declared, fighting the urge to laugh. Not even Damon could quell her excitement, Katie really loved to be outside.
Running out of options, and patience, "Katie Rae! I'm giving you the next three..." Damon didn't even get to finish before Katie was running back over to him, "I hate that," She grumbled.
"You're lucky that's all I said," Damon remarked, "Run around the lake once. Since you like to run your mouth so much," He demanded, pointing towards the trail around the lake. And when Katie smirked, Damon added on, "No using your vampire speed either."
Katie huffed, and kicked the dirt a little bit, but started running at the fastest speed she humanly could, and Damon directed his attention to Matt and Jeremy, "Ready?"
Damon watched as Katie angrily ran around the lake, a pout playing on her lips the entire time. When she finished running she dropped to the ground breathing hard, , and trying to get the sweat off her face. He had no doubt she'd get back in the water just to prove a point.
Jeremy and Matt sparred for a long while until Jeremy became irritated, and moved to stand under the trees to get some shade. Matt followed suit, and Damon hadn't noticed because he'd been listening to voicemails of a pleading Elena.
He flipped his cellphone shut after the last voicemail played, Matt and Jeremy were standing in the shade chugging down bottles of cold water, and Katie was splashing around in the water.
And Katie was… Damn it! "Katie." Damon growled.
Katie heard Damon's angry under-his-breath comment, which is exactly why she didn't make a move to get out of the water. Damon's tone of voice was typically a well enough indicator of his current demeanor… And Damon was clearly not pleased with her right now.
Katie peeked up at him through her bangs, trying to devise a plan to stay out of trouble-which she knew wouldn't happen-then bringing her hand to her mouth to bite at her fingernails, something Damon hadn't seen from her before. "Hi."
"Get out of the water Katie." His voice was eerily quiet, and this incident reminded him of the time Elena tricked Alaric into going on a wild-goose-chase for Stefan.
"It was really…uh, I was…" she stammered, not making eye contact.
"Katie, I don't care why you took it upon yourself to get in the water, after I explicitly told you not to. All I care about, is you getting out of the water, now."
"Okay…"
45 minutes later…
Damon carried a tear stained, flushed faced Katie to his old blue Camaro, trying to agitate the sleeping girl as little as possible. Katie cried herself to sleep-after Damon made her take a shower and put on dry clothes-even more surprising-to Damon anyways-was the fact that Katie willingly let him pick her up, considering her weird aversion to touching. She didn't eat anything, but there was no way in Hell Damon was waking her up, even to eat.
Thank God, Klaus hadn't dropped by, one of the reasons Damon left was that Katie wasn't gonna' be able to tolerate Klaus in her current disposition. The affect Katie had on him was starting to become irritating as it was chipping away at his hard exterior.
Then again, even Stefan without his humanity couldn't resist Katie's sad, hollow, grey puppy-dog eyes. Most of the time Katie didn't even realize she had them, which made it so much harder to be stoic with her.
An: Hi, guys! How are ya' doing? I promise you this, I genuinely love this story, and I keep rewriting chapters because they never seem good enough. So, please be patient with me. I've had testing at school the last 2 weeks and have final exams soon… When it's Summer I'll be able to update more. Thanks! J