Chapter 8 – Together Again

From the song: "Together Again" by Evanescence. Trust me, it will make sense at the end (hint: It describes how he kind of feels about Katherine at the end of the chapter). This is mostly done in more of Damon's point of view.

A/N: This one does have some smut/lemon/sex scene WHATEVER you call it in it! LOL =)

Damon: [smirks at a brooding Stefan]

Stefan: [broods] I hate this story.

Me: Then leave.

Stefan: I can't. [Brood. Pout.]

Me: Why not?

Stefan: I promised Elena.

Me: [turns to Elena] Why?

Elena: I wanted him to be polite, but I also want to let him know I would never do this to him.

Me: Why wouldn't you?

Damon: Yeah, why wouldn't you? [Smirks]

Me: I mean, come on, Elena! Have you not seen him?

Damon: Yeah, have you not seen me?

Stefan: Shut up, Damon! [Fangs come out.]

Me: [reaches for mallet.] Dang it! Elena, where's my hammer thingy?

Elena: I took it.

Me: [glares]

Elena: It's not nice to hit people.

Me: [reaches for stake]

Stefan: [slaps stake out of my hand]

Me: [wails dramatically to Damon] He hurt me!

Damon: [growls at Stefan and goes for his throat.]

Elena: [watches in horror]

Me: [giggles insanely then sighs dreamily.] He's so protective of me.

Elena: [backs away from me]

Never thought that I'd be leaving you today. So alone and wondering why I feel this way. So wide the world. Can love remember how to get me home to you someday?

Damon closed the door behind him and Elena and couldn't keep the smirk off of his face as he did so. What Elena probably didn't realize is that, though his brother was downstairs, he'd be able to hear everything. After everything that had happened, he believed that they both deserved a little fun.

Giggling like a child, Elena reached behind him to lock the door. He grinned and grasped the hem of her shirt, pulling it over her head. He threw it on the floor and kneeled down before her to unbutton her jeans.

Damon looked at her face and she bit her lip and Damon felt the zipper on his jeans tighten.

He slowly unzipped her pants and slid them down her legs. She carefully stepped out of them, and Damon hooked his thumbs under the waistband of her dark red underwear, pulling them off of her unhurriedly. He stood back up and unhooked her white bra, throwing it onto the linoleum floor.

Damon reflexively licked his lips before running his tongue over his canines. He could smell her arousal, so he did a show of unbuttoning his black silk shirt and letting it slide down his shoulders. He unbuttoned his dark pants as slowly as he did hers, wanting her to enjoy this moment. Obviously, she did. When they were both completely bare, Damon walked over to the shower and turned it on making it a little hotter than usual.

He looked over his shoulder at a naked Elena. He was stunned by her beauty, True, she didn't have that almost frightening vampirical glow like Katherine did, she was beautiful just the same – it was an innocent beauty. Damon was in front of her at once and he brushed a side of her dark hair off of her neck and shoulder.

For a split second he remembered doing this same thing to Katherine in 1864, only then he was checking for a bite mark. He bent his head down and softly kissed the skin at her pulse point. She shivered and he grasped her hand, pulling her to the shower.

When they were both under the water, he closed the glass door of the shower, separating them from the rest of the world at the time. Damon ran his hands through her hair and Elena shivered again. He ran his finger along her top lip and they parted reflexively. He leaned down to kiss her lightly, and it was her that deepened the kiss. It was then that the realization came; she was his.

He pushed her against the shower wall and kissed her hungrily, his tongue exploring every inch of her mouth, taking in the taste of her. At last he pulled back from her and lightly ran his fingertips over her jugular vein. She exposed her neck to him, offering herself to him.

Damon touched his lips to her throat and he felt Elena recoil a little when his fangs penetrated the skin, but she relaxed, allowing him to give her the pleasure she deserved. He pulled away, looking her in the eyes. Her dark eyes, oh so similar to Katherine's, were not full of fury or bloodlust as Katherine's had, they were just as frail as her human body was to him.

He bit down on his own wrist, allowing her to drink from her. A million sensations went through him as he felt the pleasure of his blood being drawn out, and Elena's satisfaction of feeding off of him. He regretting pulled his wrist away and noticed Elena was standing a little better and the bruises were healing better.

He smiled at her, letting his wall down a little. He saw something in her eyes and she frowned.

"Damon," she whispered.

"Yes, Elena?"

"Please don't shut me out."

The pleading in her voice was enough to melt away any traces of emotional barriers he kept up, and they all came crumbling down.

She smiled her innocent smile and he kissed her again. He grabbed her shampoo and began to lather it in her long hair. He ran his fingers through it under the water and Elena sighed softly in satisfaction. He did the same with her conditioner, massaging it through.

He grabbed the body wash and rubbed it between his hands before rubbing every inch of Elena down with it. She didn't bother to rinse before grabbing his shampoo and washing his hair. He had to admit that Elena seemed a little nervous about washing his body; something Katherine had never been shy about doing with him in the river after hours.

He moved her under the shower head and ran his hands down her body to rinse her skin of the body wash. When he was rinsing between her legs, she bit her lip again. Damon smirked and decided to tease her a little. He lightly ran his fingertips over the femoral artery, and then moved his hand down again.

She opened her dark eyes and mockingly glared at him. He grinned and kissed her once again on the lips. He knew that if he didn't take her to the bed instantly, he would throw her against the shower wall and do it right here and there, but he knew he had to be gentler than that with her. She wasn't Katherine. He shut the water off.

Damon picked Elena's naked body up, the water droplets coating her skin, making her seem as though she were sparkling in the white light. It was a beautiful sight.

In a split-second, he was in front of his bed and felt Elena's heartbeat jump a bit from the swiftness of the movement. He was aware that her legs were wrapped around his waist, unintentionally pressing their lower halves together sensually. Damon instantly hardened and Elena gasped. He chuckled before gently setting her on his black sheets.

Elena's breath came in gasps as Damon placed kissed from her womanhood to her stomach to each of her breasts, then finally landing on her lips. She moaned in his mouth and he poised his erection at her entrance. She let out a soft moan and arched her back slightly. He licked his lips and very slowly entered her.

He moved gradually, watching her face as he thrusts into her. She was silently begging him to go faster and harder with her body. He went a little faster, and when Elena let out a moan of satisfaction, he changed angles slightly, hitting her in exactly the right spot over and over before she dug her fingernails into his back as she climaxed. Her warmth tightened around his manhood and he gritted his teeth as he, too, released himself.

Elena moaned his name when she felt him spill inside of her. The only thought Damon had was giving this pure creature before him satisfaction. He looked at her closed eyes as he slowed his thrusts, letting the sweat that was built up mix with the shower water and he saw the perfect woman before him. There were no secrets now, no worries, and no brothers. There was nothing but the two of them, moaning and sighing softly in rhythm with their lovemaking. He was overtaken by the passion and regretted the words the second they left his lips.

"Oh, Katherine."

In that breath he let go of the devils raging inside of him, his emotions that were spinning inside of him were loose. He felt slightly dizzy and confused. He was delusional.

Elena's eyes snapped open and she looked at him in shock for a second before the shock gave way to utter pain. The tears filled her dark Katherine-like eyes and spilled onto her cheeks. She was hurting far more than he could have thought possible. The quiet tears gave way to sobs and Damon tried to pull her into his chest, but she pushed him away.

The wall went back up. No one could hurt him. Not even the one he loved.

She fled the room, leaving Damon alone in his fucked up mind.

All just a dream in the end we'll be together again. So many fears were swimming around and around in my mind. Who would have dreamed the secrets we would find. I've found a world where love and dreams and darkness all collide. Maybe this time we can leave our broken world behind!

Damon: Uh…wow.

Elena: [shocked]

Stefan: [smiles] Ha!

Me: Don't make me sick Damon on you again!

Stefan: [brood]

A/N:I know, it seems a little OOC there, but think about it – The woman Damon's been looking for for over 145 years shows up, manipulates him again, shocks him, tries to kill her doppelganger that just so happens to be in love with him, and then he goes and kills the most precious thing to him since 1864. Don't you think that would shock a person? xD Oh yeah, I'm going to put Jeremy in the next one. *maniacal laughter*