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The next morning I woke up to lips ghosting over my skin slowly and tenderly. I opened my eyes and smiled at Damon who was partially sitting up, balanced on his arm.
"I was wondering when you'd finally wake up." He said and I laughed and pushed him down.
"That felt so nice, I thought maybe I was dreaming." I told him as I yawned. When I was in bed with him it felt like things might work out. I forgot all about the threat outside these safe walls.
"I figure we need to take all the time we can to be together." He said kissing my forehead.
"Is that you're way of saying we should have sex?" I asked with a coy smile on my face.
"If that's what you got out of that, I'm not going to object." He laughed.
"For the record I agree with you. Besides we're not going to see each other much today so we should spend as much time together right now as we can. Our problems don't come into bed with us." I told him and he nodded. There were no need for words from then because he rolled me onto my back after I lifted my arms and he pulled his t-shirt off of me. After he shucked off his boxer briefs I rolled on top of me and silenced me with a kiss. His hardness was between us and I wanted him inside me right now. I had to take every opportunity to love him. This was a golden opportunity. I reached between us and wrapped my hand around him as he kissed me. His kisses were drugging and they made me want to do nothing else in my life but keep kissing him. Our kisses were languid and our bodies weren't rushed.
"I love you so much." He whispered against my lips when he broke the kiss to breath. My hand was still wrapped around his erection until he covered my hand with his and pulled my hand away.
"If you keep doing that, this will be over before it's even begun." He warned me and I didn't want that. I wanted him inside me so I reluctantly took my hand off of him. He took my hands in his and raised them so my hands were above my head. He held them down with one hand while he positioned his erection at my entrance. When he slowly pushed inside he entwined our hands above my head and held tight as he started to slowly move. He didn't pick up his pace, he went at this deliciously slow pace designed to drive me crazy but make me come at the same time.
"I love you too." I replied long after his declaration of love. I loved him more than anyone I've ever known. The only other person I loved as much as I loved Damon was Caroline. But that was a far different kind of love. Caroline was my sister in everything but genes. Damon was the love of my life. He kept moving and I kept my noises to a minimum. I knew Caroline could hear enough to know that she wouldn't want to barge in here. Closed doors were rarely a deterrent to Caroline Forbes. But somehow I still loved her anyway, despite all of her flaws. I held onto Damon's hands harder the closer to the edge I got. It felt like I was about to tumble off the edge, I was so ready to come it was ridiculous.
"I'm so close." I said to him and he covered my lips with his again. His thrusts were getting faster and more erratic and I knew he was chasing his orgasm. He hit a different spot inside me and it was enough to send me tumbling over the edge, biting my lip just in time to stop from calling out his name in passion. He followed right behind me, burying his head in my neck to stop from calling out my name. He stayed like that for several minutes after we both came. I knew he didn't want to be apart from me because I felt the same way. We were bonded in every sense of the word. I couldn't bear the idea of being apart from him but I knew I would have to. It would hurt so much more to lose him.
"Are you guys decent yet?" Caroline called from outside the bedroom door.
"Not really. We have blankets on." I called back as Damon pulled out of me and lay down beside me with me in his arms.
"Good enough." She said walking into the bedroom.
"What can I do for you?" I asked her seeing her all ready to get on with her day. She was wearing a denim mini-skirt and a pink tank top. She looked like nothing was wrong, I wasn't sure if I could put that kind of effort into my appearance. I would be lucky if I was able to put yoga pants and a hoodie on. There were far more important things to do.
"I just need to know what the plan is for today. If you don't need me, I'm going to stick with Tyler and the guys. I need to make sure they stay safe even though Tyler should be safe because he's a Lockwood." She told me and I nodded.
"That's a good idea. I don't know what I'm doing yet, all I know is I need to stay away from this house and away from Damon. I can't let them see us together." I told her and she agreed with me.
"Okay, I'll meet you downstairs, it's probably time for you two to get dressed." She said and I laughed.
"Do we have to?" Damon whined and Caroline and I both laughed.
"Unfortunately." I told him. Caroline left the room, shutting the door behind her and we got out of bed. We got dressed silently before heading downstairs.
"So I'll see you tonight, right?" He asked and I nodded.
"Yes, Caroline and I will be back later on. We just don't want to come back so early that someone sees us." I told him.
"Be safe out there." He said kissing me by the door to the garage. We kissed for a couple minutes before Caroline loudly cleared her throat.
"Can we leave? Please? As much as I love seeing you make out, we should really be going." She said and I laughed and gave Damon one more peck on the lips.
I dropped Caroline off at the school where the guys were having football practice before heading to the Grill to sit down. I waved to people who waved at me and fought the urge to scan the area every thirty seconds. I wasn't sure if he was sending people after me or if they had a sneakier plan. I was afraid and being alone really made that worse. I wished they would just come at me but that would never do. My dad was playing mind games and that made it so much worse. When I was finished at the Grill I drove past the house and I saw that the car was gone. But I could see movement inside so I figured my dad left to set his plan in motion, whatever that may be. My suspicions were confirmed when my mom poked her head through the curtains. I looked at my phone and saw a text message from Caroline, assuring me that everything was still fine on her end. I was getting antsy, I just wanted something to happen one way or another.
Change happened when I got a call from Damon a couple hours later.
"Damon?" I answered worried. If he was calling me then there must be some sort of problem.
"Elena, somehow I knew you'd answer." I knew that voice anywhere.
"What are you doing with Damon? Don't you dare hurt him, I will kill you." I warned him and he just laughed.
"I don't plan on hurting him sweetheart. I only plan on doing to him what needs to be done to get you out of my life." He said and didn't know what to do.
"I'll leave town. Just let Damon go." I pleaded. I didn't know how he found out about me and Damon. We've been so careful. He must have a spy or something.
"I'm afraid that's not enough anymore, you'll have to die. It's a life for a life Elena." He told me.
"But where are you? I don't even know where you are. I'll do whatever it takes to save him." I said and I meant it. I would willingly die for Damon to live.
"I look forward to seeing you." He said but I found I had no idea where he was. I raked my fingers through my hair and vamp sped to Damon's house. Vamp speed was so much faster than my car. I didn't have to worry about stop signs or lights.
At Damon's house all the cars were still outside so I ran inside frantically. I hoped maybe my father would have wanted me to overthink it but he had Damon here. I found Giuseppe and Lily watching TV in the family room and they looked up concerned when they saw the terror on my face.
"Where's Damon, Elena?" Lily asked.
"I don't know. My father has him, I was hoping he would have kept him here." I said tears coming to my eyes now.
"Your father has my son? How did this happen?" Lily asked covering her mouth with her hands. I could see the tears brimming in her eyes and I could barely hold mine back.
"I don't know. I'm going to find out but I have to find him first. Do you have any idea where they could have gone?" I asked.
"I have a GPS tracker on both of my son's phones. I'll track Damon." Giuseppe said pulling his phone out. In a matter of seconds he had a location on Damon. It said it was in the middle of nowhere.
"I know where that is. Do you remember the story of the old Lockwood house back in the 1800's? The cellar is still there, the rumours say the cellar had been transformed into a dungeon of sorts back then. That's where they must have Damon." She said.
"I know where that is." I said not wasting anymore time in rushing from the house. I rushed out to the location that Giuseppe had given me and found the stairs to the cellar. When I got down there I walked through a set of doors and nearly broke down. Damon was there tied to a chair with my father standing menacingly over him.
"Let him go, now." I ordered and my father turned to face me with a smile on his face.
"Elena, I'm glad you found us." He said with a smile.
"Just let him go, you can do whatever you need to, to me. You just have to let him go." I begged.
"That's an intriguing offer, Elena. I will most likely take it." He said nodding.
"How did you get to him?" I demanded. I had thought I had him completely safe, but apparently I was wrong.
"It wasn't hard. After I found him I called his cell phone and told him I had you. He of course came running, which was when I captured him. Young love is so beautiful, just not when it involves a monster like you." He said.
"How could you go from promising to always protect me to undermining my safety, to finally kidnapping my boyfriend and threatening to kill him. You call yourself a good person, but the man standing there before me is the opposite. I'm not he monster, you are." I told him.
"So says the bloodsucker." My dad laughed cruelly.
"Let Damon go or else I won't be responsible for what happens to you. You can have me, you can kill me if you need to. But let him go." I pleaded. I realized that fighting with him wasn't the way to go right now. I was outnumbered even though I couldn't see anyone else right now. My dad would never go into battle with a vampire alone. Even his own daughter.
"No Elena. You are not giving your life for me." Damon insisted.
"I don't have a choice. You have a life to live, I'm already dead." I said.
The next minutes went by in a blur and I don't honestly know what happened. All of a sudden Damon broke the ties holding him in place, and charged at my dad. He tackled my dad and levelled one good punch to his jaw when I saw a man with a gun step out of the shadows. I sped over to him and broke his neck but not before a shot rang out and Damon fell. I screamed and rushed over but before I got to him I was attacked from behind and everything went black.