"Each life makes its own imitation of immortality" - Stephen King

Chapter Seven: Playing God

Elena's POV

"Damon!" I said, bursting in through the Boarding House door and just glad to be away from everyone else and somewhat safe again

"Elena?" Damon said from the living room and a second later he was in front of me "Elena?"

"Yeah" I said and nodded nervously and before I knew it, Damon had his arms wrapped around me and I held Damon close to me now too

"Are you okay?" Damon asked and pulled away a little to look at me and make sure I had no scratches on me and stopped and stared at the bite mark on my neck that I didn't bother covering up since I was more focused on running away than covering up something Katherine caused "Did Stefan do this to you?" Damon asked and I saw the anger flash across his face now

"It wasn't to me" I sighed "But Katherine gave me a very clear visual of why Stefan did that" I grumbled

"…He slept with you?" Damon asked and I heard the anger in his voice now too, he wanted to go stake Stefan himself right now

"Damon, relax, it wasn't technically me, but yes." I said "But we have bigger problems right now like Katherine still inside of me"

"Right" Damon sighed and let out a deep breath, "I'll call everyone and let them know you're here and okay and I'll see how Bonnie's doing in trying to find a way to get Katherine out of you"

"Okay" I said and nodded and walked into the living room and sat down while Damon went upstairs

I was never really a drinker, but after all I've been through tonight, and all I've seen, I needed a drink. After I stole a glass of Damon's scotch, I sat there on the couch and hoped that Bonnie would have found something by now to get rid of this problem.

"Elena…Elena" I heard an all to familiar voice whisper in my head, I knew it was Katherine "Enjoy the show?" She asked and I could hear an evil snicker too

"Go away!" I hissed in my thoughts

"Why did you ever leave Stefan, he's a real animal in bed" Katherine said "But judging from your memories, so is Damon"

"Leave. Me. Alone" I said

"I think I'm going to stay a while" Katherine snickered

"Elena," Damon said walking into the room and staring at me strangely, I guess he wasn't all the used to seeing me drinking "Bonnie's coming over, she found something. Are you okay?"

"Fine" I sighed "I just want Katherine gone back to hell where she came from"

"It won't be long until she's gone" Damon said and sat beside me and kissed me on the cheek "I promise everything is going to be okay"

"…The thing Bonnie found…it's going to be painful…isn't it?" I asked after hearing the tone of Damon's voice

"…I don't know" Damon sighed "But it'll be okay"

"Okay" I sighed

Jeremy's POV

"I got here as fast as I could, what's up?" I asked Damon as I walked into the Boarding House and saw Bonnie in the living room with Elena laying on the couch, barely awake, she looked like she just got hit by a semi truck

"Can you stay with Elena tonight?" Damon asked and yawned and he looked like hell too, he was paler than usual and had dark circles under his eyes "I would, but, I need some sleep, Bonnie does too after all she did tonight"

I looked over and Bonnie looked like hell too, but she held herself up and awake and held Elena's hand and kept her calm after everything that happened.

"Yeah" I said "Is she…normal now and everything?"

"Katherine's gone" Bonnie said and got up from the couch and walked over to me as Damon walked over to Elena "But…something else stayed" Bonnie whispered to me

"What?" I asked and Bonnie glared at me

"Not now" Bonnie said "They have enough to worry about"

"…Okay" I sighed and nodded "Goodnight"

"Goodnight" Bonnie said and walked out the front door

"I got everything from here Damon" I sighed and walked over and sat down by Elena

"Take care of her" Damon said

"I will, she's my sister Damon" I said

"Let me know if something's wrong" Damon said and I nodded in return as Damon got up and left the room and I held Elena's hand and she squeezed it

"Hey Jer" She said weakly and smiled a little

"Hey, you're a strong one, aren't you?" I asked with a smile

"Toughest of the tough" She said weakly

"You should probably get some sleep" I said

"I'm not tired" She said

"Elena, you should see yourself, you need some sleep" I laughed

"…Will you stay here?" Elena asked

"I'll be here the whole night" I smiled "Get some sleep, okay?"

"Okay" Elena said and squeezed my hand again and finally closed her eyes and went to sleep

And the whole time Elena was sleeping, the only thing I could think of was what Bonnie meant when she said that 'something stayed' when she left the house. What stayed with Elena?

A/N: I thought I should probably update this with the holidays coming up and everything :) I hope you guys like this chapter :) Katherine's finally gone, but, something else stayed. No, nothing else is possessing Elena, but something else is still there with her, nothing really evil though. ;) xoxo, Avril