Chapter 12: Whispers in the Dark

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From Whispers in the Dark by Skillet

Me: Damon, where's Ian?

Damon: [turns to Stefan and Elena] you see how she just assumes it was me?

Me: …

Damon: Okay! I sent that bastard back to the human world.

Me: [glares] why?

Damon: Hey, you're just lucky I didn't kill him.

Me: True.

Elena: So…you made Matt and Tyler gay?

Damon: [laughs hysterically] you made human boy and wolf boy gay? [Resumes laughing]

Me: [grins] yep.

Stefan: Do you really think that was appropriate?

Me: Shut it, Stefan. You're just jealous that Damon gets to have sex with Elena and you don't. [Sticks tongue out.] Well, I could make this a threesome story…

Elena and Stefan: NO!

Damon: [smirks] alright.

Me: O.o

"…Your love is mine for the taking. My love is just waiting to turn your tears to roses. I will be the one that's gonna hold you, I will be the one that you run to. My love is a burning, consuming fire…You'll never be alone. When darkness comes I'll light the night with stars, hear my whispers in the dark…"

Elena couldn't help the shock that had crossed her face. For one, she thought her father was dead – that Katherine had killed him. Was he a Vampire now?

"John." Damon said, smirking.

Elena thought of her current entanglement and blushed. Her dad walks in and, here she was, naked underneath Damon (who was still inside her), and breathing heavily. Not usually something a father wants to walk in on. Especially not when said daughter was with a Vampire.

Damon did good to shield Elena's bare body with his own, obviously not giving a damn what John saw of him or not. Typical Damon.

He turned his head to look at John and his bandaged right hand, and then back to his face. "Well, hello, there. What brings you here?"

John looked more angry than embarrassed at the sight of Damon and Elena. "I need to speak with Elena."

Damon glanced at Elena for a second before smirking at John. "Well, John, she's a little…tangled up right now."

"Damon!" Elena slapped his shoulder for the inappropriate comment, blushing even more.

"I'll let you two get dressed." John said, taking one last look at the couple on the bed and then walking down the stairs.

John walked back into the Salvatore's living area where only Jeremy and Stefan remained.

"Where's Bonnie?" He asked, uninterested.

"She went home." Stefan replied rigidly.

"Ah. May I sit?" John raised his eyebrows.

"Of course." Stefan said his expression unchanging.

He deliberately sat next to Jeremy, obviously knowing what he was now. "So, Jeremy," He leaned closer to him, making Jeremy lean away slightly.

Stefan narrowed his eyes at John, wondering what his motive was now that the Tomb Vampires were dead.

"What are you up to lately? New Sports? Basketball? Baseball? Hunting?"

Jeremy narrowed his eyes at his Uncle, but didn't say anything. He accidently let his eyes drift down to the vein in John's neck and swallowed impulsively.

"What's wrong, Jer? Afraid to talk to your Uncle now? What happened to our bonding?"

Jeremy didn't take his eyes off of his uncle's neck.

Stefan stiffened, ready to hold Jeremy down – at least long enough to call for Damon.

John leaned just a bit closer when Jeremy lost it. His eyes darkened as the red veins pushed through the skin underneath, his canines extending and he went for John's neck.

"Oh, no you don't." A voice said, and in the blink of an eye, Damon was holding Jeremy down on the floor.

Jeremy thrashed beneath him, but Damon, obviously stronger, held him still. Finally, Jeremy's face returned to normal as he held completely still. Damon raised an eyebrow at him before standing up and turning to John. "Now," He said. "You could have easily gotten killed, John. Obviously you don't have your ring anymore." He smirked.

"Why did you turn him?" John replied hotly.

"Oh, I didn't."

"Yeah, right. And what reasons have you giving me to trust you?"

Damon simply chuckled.

"Who else could it have been?" John said standing up. "This is obviously your fault!"

"My fault?" Damon laughed, and then suddenly turned serious. "I'm sorry, who's the one that staked their nephew's girlfriend, huh?"

John looked confused, and then went silent waiting for an explanation.

Damon's voice turned venomous. "If you must know, I walk upstairs to find Jeremy dead in his bedroom, and an empty vial of Anna's blood and an empty bottle of pills in the bathroom!"

John began saying something before Damon cut him off.

"So really this is your doing. Your responsibility, John. If you weren't so obsessed with killing the race of Vampires because you sent your sweet little Isobel to me, then your nephew wouldn't have committed suicide to shut off the pain!"

Jeremy, Stefan and Elena stood silently, actually surprised at seeing Damon so angry.

John spoke up. "I am one of the Founding Families. The fact that you turned Isobel doesn't make me hate the Vampires any more than I should."

Damon rolled his eyes. "John, I'm one of the Founding Families, too. Look what I became."

"Yes, a heartless, selfish, blood-sucking monster."

Damon smirked, though his eyes were still furious. "Selfish? Is that why I made your innocent Isobel come so hard she forgot your name?"

Everyone in the room gaped at Damon's statement in disbelief of what he'd just said. Elena swallowed thickly.

John suddenly looked furious.

"I think you should leave, John." Stefan said calmly.

John looked around the room, and then walked out the door, leaving his only daughter with 3 Vampires.

The Next Day

"Elena?" Damon appeared in his bedroom where Elena was sitting in the middle of the bed writing in her diary. "I'm going hunting."

"Okay." She smiled weakly.

"Jeremy's in the library with Bonnie, and Stefan left an hour ago to go fuck a bunny or something."

Elena couldn't help but to giggle at Damon's crude remark, then slapped his shoulder. "Damon!"

He smirked, then leaned down and kissed her tenderly on the lips. He pulled away. "I'll be back in an hour or so."

"Alright."

In the blink of an eye, Elena was alone.

She began writing again.

Matt and Tyler lay on the couch, stripping each other of their clothing. An "Oh my god!" made them both freeze. They looked up to see Matt's mom Kelly, Sherriff Forbes and Tyler's mom Carol standing in the doorway, each one with a look of shock across their face.

Oops.

Jeremy and Bonnie sat in the library, each one reading one of the many books.

Jeremy finished Dracula and put it on the table. Bonnie looked up and smiled.

"Was it good?"

"Um…wow." He thought for a second. "John's like Dracula and Van Helsing together."

They both erupted in laughter. When they stopped, they looked at each other for a moment.

"Why did you do it?" Bonnie asked sincerely.

"Because…I wanted to shut off the pain."

She nodded. "I understand, but…Why didn't you ask for help?"

Suddenly Jeremy stood up." Because, I didn't want help. I wanted Anna."

"I know, Jer. I'm sorry."

Suddenly the anger stopped completely, but this time he knew it wasn't from being a Vampire.

Jeremy suddenly was distracted he heard a noise upstairs, stomping then the door shut.

"What?" Bonnie asked, obviously not hearing it.

"Come on." They ran up the stairs.

Damon had just finished feeding on a girl when his cell phone rang. He growled and picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Damon, it's Bonnie. You need to come home. John took Elena."

*dun dun dun dun*

"When darkness comes you know I'm never far, hear my whispers in the dark…You feel so lonely and ragged…You lay here broken and naked. My love is just waiting to clothe you in crimson roses…"

Ian: I'm baaack!

Damon: [knocks him out with my mallet.]

Me: Heeeyyy! Elena, I thought you took my mallet!

Elena: uh…I did.

Stefan: [studying Ian] wasn't he in that one movie about college?

Damon: [laughs] Haha, yeah he played a gay guy!

Me: NU-UH! It WAS BISEXUAL!

Stefan: o…kay, then. Calm down.

Me: [Hits Stefan with mallet] so ha!

Damon: High-five!

Elena: [rolls eyes]

Ian: [unconscious]