Author's Note: Thank you all who reviewed! I got soo many for the last chapter! I hope you like this one; I have a little surprise at the end! I know it's not very long, but I'm very tired and I wanted it to end here to better set me up for the next chapter

Chapter 15: Icarus

Elena stilled from her position over Damon when the doorbell rang. She was about to hop off him when Damon held her hips in place.

"No…Elena don't you dare move." He scolded.

Elena smiled down at him her hair draping around her face in waves. "It could be important." She justified. When the doorbell rang again she raised her brows. "See? I'll be right back…wait here." She slid off him, both of them groaning at the loss of contact.

Damon leaned up to kiss her hard. "Don't be long, Elena!" he called out, throwing his head back onto the pillow and sighing.

Elena grabbed the shirt she was wearing earlier and pulled on a pair of booty shorts before rushing to the door. She pulled it open to see Caroline ready to push the doorbell again.

"Oh, you're here!" her eyes lit up brightly.

"Yeah, I came by to see Damon this morning and we worked it out." She said shyly.

Caroline looked her up and down. "I see that! Anyways…I was just wondering if Stefan was here. I need to talk to him about something."

Elena shook her head and leaned against the door. "Oh, he's not here. I think he's still at the Bed and Breakfast."

Caroline nodded a little disappointed. Her eyes widened as she looked past Elena. Damon walked up behind Elena only in his jeans...which were undone and hanging loosely on his hips. He placed his large hands on her hips and stepped flush against her.

"Hello, Caroline." He rested his cheek on the top of Elena's head. She couldn't help at smile at how open and sweet he was being to her in front of her friend.

"Hi…Damon." She waved awkwardly. "You look a lot less hammered since the last time I saw you." She kidded. "Boy, were you haggard!" she laughed out.

Damon smiled tightly and ignored her comment. "You just interrupted us at a very inconvenient time…I would be nice to me right now if I were you." He sneered, narrowing his eyes.

"Damon…" Elena chided. "Don't worry about it Caroline, he's just trying to be difficult." She mocked glared at him

He glared back comically before kissing her softly. "I'll be upstairs." He whispered before turning around and walking away.

Caroline raised an eyebrow. "So did Damon get an overnight lobotomy?" she laughed. "He's so different, I mean besides that one comment." She rolled her eyes.

Elena shrugged. "That's Damon, Caroline. He just never showed that side to anyone else." She explained.

"I guess you bring it out of him." Caroline smiled. "Well I should probably go hunt Stefan down." She jerked her thumb over her shoulder.

Elena nodded and looked over her shoulder. "Yeah I should probably get back to Damon…I kinda left him hanging." She giggled.

"See ya!" Caroline raised her brows and sped into the forest.

Elena closed the down and headed back up to Damon's room. She saw him leaning against the padded headboard reading 'The Coral Island'. She canted her head to the side, her hair framing her face. "So you're gonna read now?" she smirked, slowly undoing the buttons.

Damon swung his eyes to her before reluctantly bringing them back to the pages in front of him. "You were busy." He replied flatly. He wasn't really mad at her, but it was fun to act like he was.

Elena let the shirt hang open as she crawled onto the bed and straddled his waist. She pulled the book out of his hands and placed it on the nightstand. "I'm sorry. I should have never opened the door." She kissed him and whispered against his lips. "You were right." Damon nibbled at her bottom lip. "Forgive me?"

Damon grabbed the back of her head, and caressed his tongue with hers fervently. "Yup."

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Stefan furrowed his brows when he heard a knock at the door. The only people that knew he was here was Elena and Damon, and he didn't think they would just show up. He got off the couch and answered the door.

Caroline stood on the other side with a bright smile. "Hi!"

"Caroline. How are you?"

She shrugged. "Okay I guess…now that all that Elena/Damon drama is over." He laughed rolling her eyes up. When Stefan frowned in concern she waved her hand in dismissal. "Oh, don't worry about it, they worked it out. Anyways, I came here to see you." She stepped through the door when Stefan opened the door wider.

"Is something wrong?" he sat next to her on the couch.

She shook her head. "Nope, I just wanted to hang. I've been feeling kinda lonely lately." She murmured looking down at her hands. Stefan nodded knowingly. "It's just now with Elena spending all her time at the Boarding House, and Matt avoiding me, and Bonnie doing her magic thing." She sighed and looked at him. "You were like my bonding buddy, and when you left I had no one. No one to talk to or learn from…it sucked." She pouted.

Stefan laughed…actually laughed. "Yeah, that's gotta suck." He overemphasized a frown.

Caroline mouth dropped open in shock. "Are you mocking me Stefan Salvatore?"

"A little bit, yeah." He smiled. "But I'm back now, so you can have your bonding buddy back, how does that sound?" he suggested with a bantering tone.

She beamed. "Really good." She jumped up from the couch. "Let's get out of here. Let's go running or something!" she suggested eagerly. "I have all this energy and I want to use it!" she laughed excitedly.

Stefan stood gazed at her for a while. "Do you wanna learn how to fight?"

Caroline's eyes lit up.

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Elena looped her arm around Damon's and linked their hands. "It's gonna be fine, Damon."

"She hates me, Elena…knowing that we're together now is going to make her hate me more." Damon grumbled as they walked up the steps to Elena's porch.

Elena pulled him to stop and placed a hand on his chest. "Then she'll have to get over it. I love you, and when she sees that, she'll back off." Damon gave her an 'as if' look. "It's not gonna be instant…but she will, trust me." Elena leaned up to kiss him before continuing up the porch.

Elena walked through the door, bringing Damon in with her, their hands still linked. "Aunt Jenna?" she called out.

"In the kitchen!" she called back.

The new couple walked into the kitchen to see Jenna and Alaric making dinner, laughing and playing around. "Hey, Ric." Elena greeted.

Alaric turned and so did Jenna. "Oh hey Elena, Damon…" He looked down at their joined hands awkwardly. "This is new…" he mumbled to himself.

Jenna raised a brow and quirked her mouth to the side in dissatisfaction. "Damon…Elena didn't tell me you were coming." She grumbled, wiping her hands on a dish towel.

Elena glared at her Aunt. "We didn't think we had to. This is my house too." Damon gripped her hand tighter in a show of support.

Jenna laughed bitterly, looking up at the ceiling. "Really? Could have had me fooled with the way you're never here!"

Elena rolled her eyes. "Can we not do this? We didn't come here to start a fight with you." Damon desperately wanted to say something, and put Jenna in her place but he knew Elena had to handle it.

Jenna looked puzzled. "What's with all this 'we' talk? You and Damon are a 'we' now?" she crossed her arms glaring him down.

"It's more than that, Aunt Jenna…I love him." She declared solidly. "And he loves me too."

Jenna rolled her eyes, and Alaric uncomfortably left the room. "You actually believe that?" Damon frowned angrily and was about to say something when Jenna cut him off. "I have dated so many guys like you Damon. Guys that say what we want to hear just to get what they want…and the second they get it, they're gone."

Damon fought to keep his voice calm. "You think you know me, Jenna? You don't. You only know who I want you to know. I love Elena…more than anything. I would never hurt her. I'm a better person because of Elena…now look at me and tell me you don't believe that." Damon spoke with all honesty and sincerity, and it showed in his face, and in his voice.

Jenna sighed as she took in his words. Jenna was too proud to apologize just yet so she changed the subject. "Elena can you set the table…dinner's almost ready."

The rest of the evening was filled with awkward conversation and tense silence. Elena tried to break the tension but it was useless.

As they were walking back to the car Damon spoke. "She still hates me." He sung out.

"She doesn't hate you Damon…she believed you, you were very believable, but she's just too proud to admit she was wrong just yet. She'll come around." They got in the car and headed towards the Boarding House.

Damon was quiet for a while before glancing at her briefly. "I want her to like me." He uttered softly, hating that he actually cared what Jenna thought of him.

Elena smiled brightly. "And she will…I promise. She did once, and she will again."

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Icarus smirked as he past the Entering Mystic Falls sign. He never intended on coming back here…but the world worked in mysterious ways. Her whole existence was against nature. She was never supposed to be in the first place. So Icarus vowed that he would take it upon himself to rid his kind of the threat of the doppelganger.

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Author's Note: Yay! Another chapter up! Hope you like it, and now we're got a new whatever he is to complicate things! I'm adding another character next chapter too! Please review!