If there's a place that I could be
Then I'd be another memory
Can I be the only hope for you?
Because you're the only hope for me
And if we can't find where we belong
We'll have to make it on our own
Face all the pain and take it on
Because the only hope for me is you alone
The Only Hope For Me by My Chemical Romance
Chapter Five: The Only Hope For Me
"Last I checked, it wasn't exactly a crime to come and see the guy who turned you into a vampire a hundred years ago" Felecia said and walked into the house and looked at Stefan "So this is the brother you told me about, he's cute" Felecia smiled
"Care to explain this one Damon?" Stefan asked
"…It was a hundred years ago, she was one of the first people I turned-"
"One of the first?" Stefan questioned "Exactly how many other people did you change while we were staying away from each other?"
"…Two more" Damon said trying to remember the other two "One is from 1922 and the other is from 1956. Those were good times" Damon smiled
"Did you come here by yourself?" Stefan asked Felecia
"Yep" Felecia said "Though I think Emily is looking for him too, I heard that somewhere along the way over here. I don't think Elizabeth is looking for you though"
"Somehow that doesn't surprise me" Damon sighed
"You made three vampires?" Stefan asked
"I was bored" Damon said "And all those years I had no idea where you were anyway. But I can honestly say I have no idea why she's here" Damon said and pointed to Felecia
"I came here to see if you were still alive. After all the things I heard about Katherine" Felecia said "And if I'm right, you are in love with Katherine's doppelganger, aren't you?" Felecia asked "Elena Gilbert?"
"…Maybe" Damon said "What does it mean to you?"
"I never thought I'd see you in love with someone" She laughed a little "It's hard to imagine if you ask me"
"Well…let's just say that she's not in love with me…yet" Damon said
"What happened to the Damon Salvatore I met in that bar 100 years ago that said he'd never go through unrequited love again?" Felecia asked
"She's different from Katherine" Damon sighed
"Yeah, the only thing that'd make her different from Katherine is if she never dated both of you" Felecia said "And judging by the looks on both of your faces, she's dated both of you"
"…She's different from Katherine" Damon mumbled and grabbed his keys and head for the front door
"Right, she's so different" Felecia said
Damon stopped and in the blink of an eye had Felecia pinned up against a wall and was right in her face.
"She is different" Damon said
"Prove it" Felecia challenged
Damon growled at her for a minute, but she never flinched. That was why he changed Felecia so many years ago, she was fearless and feisty. She never backed down from a challenge. And she especially never backed down from Damon. Her attitude always got her in trouble, but she was never afraid of older vampires, she always projected the image of that she was much older and powerful than she actually was. Thinking back, her attitude was why he changed her. The fire she had inside of her was like Katherine's, they were twin flames in that way. But she never schemed against someone, and she also never manipulated someone. That was the only resemblance she had to Katherine, she had her fire and wasn't afraid to let it burn like a wildfire.
"Fine" Damon grumbled and let go of Felecia "I'll bring her here"
"I'm dying to meet her" Felecia said with a smirk
"…Watch her" Damon said to Stefan as he walked out the front door and slammed it shut behind him
"So, you're the other Salvatore, huh? Do you really eat bunnies?" Felecia asked
"Uh, no, not anymore" Stefan said
"Do you rip people to shreds like you used to?" She asked curiously
"…No" Stefan said
"Oh, so you drink stuff from the blood bank" She said
"Yes" Stefan said
"…Cool" Felecia said and there was an awkward silence between them for a minute "Well, I'm bored. Let's do something fun" She smiled and walked into the living room
"I can see why he changed her" Stefan sighed and followed Felecia into the living room
Elena was sitting in her room on her bed incredibly nervous. She had never been this nervous before in her life, not even when her and Stefan went on their first real date. She knew she was only hanging out with Damon today, but just the way he kissed her last night, after being apart for two weeks, and her breaking up with him, he still managed to kiss her as if his life depended on it and it set her heart and soul on fire. As soon as Elena heard someone knocking on the door downstairs, she jumped out of bed and practically ran downstairs, but slowed her self down when she reached the door, she didn't want Damon to know just how nervous she actually was. She slowly opened the door and saw exactly the opposite of what she was expecting. Instead Elena opened the door up to a girl who was about the same height as her, she was as tiny as Elena too and looked like she could easily break in half. She had pale skin with barely visible freckles and bright, memorizing brown eyes, perfectly curled dirty blonde hair, and she wore a necklace that looked similar to Katherine's.
"Sorry to bother you" She said and Elena noticed that she had a British accent "But I was wondering if you knew where the Salvatore Boarding House was?" She asked and Elena noticed that her eyes wandered to Elena's necklace before quickly darting back up to look at her
"Uh, yeah, it's-"
Elena was cut off at the sight of Damon's car pulling up into the driveway. Before Elena could say another word to the girl, she was down by Damon at the car. Damon seemed to react to her, like he knew who she was. He got out of the car and hugged her and she kissed him on the cheek. Something inside of Elena sparked up then, she didn't like seeing someone else showing Damon affection like that, but then again, it's not like she was Damon's girlfriend…but she was hoping to be his girlfriend. But with that beautiful girl around who was obviously a vampire Damon knew from his past, Elena knew it wasn't going to be easy to get Damon's attention. Elena saw the girl tugging at him, as if she was trying to get him to go with her somewhere. Damon was thinking about going or stay there with her, in the end he must have told her he was staying here, because she took off and Damon walked up towards Elena. Elena took a deep breath and stood there, waiting for Damon to come up to her.
"Who was that?" Elena asked trying to sound curious instead of jealous
"Someone I know. Emily" Damon said "I knew her back in the 20's"
"Oh…is she a friend of yours?" Elena asked
"I don't have any friends Elena" Damon stated
"Right" Elena sighed "So…"
"Oh, I wanted to take you to the Boarding House, I have another person in town and if I leave Stefan there alone with the both of them for too long, he'll probably snap and start ripping people apart again." Damon stated
"Oh, okay" Elena nodded
So he has two beautiful vampires in town now? Great. Elena thought to herself.
Damon lead her down to the car and it was a short quiet drive to the Boarding House. Damon was about to say something once he shut off the car, but he was cut off by the two vampire girls walking out of the Boarding House, hand in hand, laughing, like they were best friends.
"Damon! I think we broke your brother" Felecia laughed
"Great" Damon mumbled as him and Elena got out of the car and Felecia stopped and stared at Elena before whispering something to Emily and she nodded in response to whatever she just told her. "Felecia, this is Elena. Elena, this is Felecia" Damon said
"Nice to meet you" Felecia said and smiled a little
"You too" Elena said back politely
"And Elena, I believe you and Emily have already met" Damon said
"It's a pleasure to meet you Elena" Emily smiled
"Well, now that everyone knows everyone, I'm gonna go try to fix Stefan." Damon sighed and then glared at Felecia and Emily "Don't break her" He said and walked away into the Boarding House leaving Elena with an uneasy feeling of being left around two vampires that she just met, especially after Damon gave them that warning
They seemed to be waiting for Damon to disappear completely into the house and out of ear shot. Once he was gone, both of the girls looked at Elena at the same time.
"You were right Emily, she really is her doppelganger" Felecia said and walked towards Elena first and Elena backed up as Felecia walked towards her "I'm not gonna hurt you" Felecia sighed "Emily might though since she still has the hots for Damon, but don't worry about me, I'm long over that sarcastic jackass"
"I do not like him anymore Felecia" Emily sighed
"Tell yourself whatever you have to" Felecia said with a smirk "You'd be just wasting your time anyway, I hear he's crazy about you, little Miss. Gilbert"
"I doubt he is" Elena sighed "He should be going after girls like you after I dumped him"
"Been there, done that, not doing that again" Emily grumbled
"Would you get over it already? It was what? 88 years ago now?" Felecia asked
Emily stuck her tongue out at Felecia and Felecia just rolled her eyes at Emily. "You'll have to excuse Emily, she was 16 when Damon changed her"
"I'm still an adult!" Emily hissed
"Keep telling yourself that" Felecia sighed
"So what, you're 18, that's not much better" Emily said
"There's a difference. I'm legally an adult, you're not" Felecia said "Anyway," She sighed and looked back at Elena now "I think you'd be good for Damon."
"I don't" Emily piped up and walked towards Elena now "She looks like Katherine, she must act like her too"
"I doubt it" Felecia said "Have you ever dated two guys at the same time?"
"…Not at the same time" Elena said
"How about date one guy and sleep with another guy at the same time?" Emily asked
"…No" Elena said
"See, not Katherine" Felecia stated and glared at Emily now
"Well…she broke both of the Salvatore's hearts" Emily stated
"…Very true" Felecia said "But, I think that's just a Petrova trait"
"So who's to say that she won't-"
"Enough!" Elena said and had no idea where that came from as both of the vampires looked at her now "I'm going to go see Damon" Elena huffed and started walking away from them, only to get cut off by Emily who grabbed her and kept her from going any further
"I don't think so" Emily said
"…I want to see Damon" Elena said
"Emily, let her go" Felecia said as she appeared at Elena's side
Emily's face changed and she hissed at Felecia with fangs and all while still holding onto Elena's arm. Felecia changed too and Elena saw that once Felecia hissed at Emily, Emily was put back in her place. Elena knew who the older vampire was now and thankfully it was the one sticking up for her, not against her. Elena was so filled with fear, that once Emily let got of Elena's wrist, she noticed just how tightly Emily was gripped her and saw black and blue marks forming around her wrist now.
"…Tell Damon I left" Elena said as she looked up at Emily and then turned around and started walking home, she didn't care, she just wanted to get out of there.
"Nice job Emily!" Elena heard Felecia hiss at her as she walked away
Felecia and Emily walked inside to see Stefan calm and sitting on the couch drinking a glass of blood now. Damon heard them walk in and ran up to them, hoping to see Elena, but she as nowhere in sight.
"Where's Elena?" Damon asked confused
"Well…" Emily started and kept looking down at her shoes
"Emily scared her off, she was jealous" Felecia hissed and Emily felt Damon's gaze on her now, he was obviously pissed off
Damon didn't bother with yelling at her or anything, he just swallowed his anger and stormed past them without another word and slammed the front door behind him. It was so loud that it made Emily jump a little bit as she heard the door slam.
"I guess it's too late to say sorry" Emily said
"Gee, you think?" Felecia said sarcastically
Damon didn't bother with the front door and went straight up to Elena's bedroom window and saw her in there with Jeremy sitting on her bed next to her, gently holding her arm and looking at her wrist which he noticed was black and blue now, probably from Emily. He sat there out of sight and listened to what they were talking about.
"So, two new vampires in town?" Jeremy asked and let go of Elena's arm now
"Yep. Both ex-girlfriends of Damon obviously" Elena sighed
"If their his ex-girlfriends, then why are they visiting him?" Jeremy asked "I wouldn't just go visit one of my ex's" Jeremy said
"I don't know. Knowing Damon, he probably turned them too, I never really found out" Elena sighed
"That sounds more like something Damon would do" Jeremy said "Look, just don't worry about them, okay?" Jeremy said and Elena nodded a little "You need some ice or anything for that?"
"No, I'm good" Elena sighed
"Alright. I'll be in my room if you need anything" Jeremy said and walked out of Elena's room
A few minutes after Jeremy was gone, Damon knocked on Elena's window and her gaze shot over to the window to see him sitting there. She got off of her bed and opened up the window and stood there, not letting him in.
"What?" She asked
"I'm sorry about Emily Elena, I didn't know, I swear" Damon said
"I don't wanna talk about it Damon" Elena sighed "Maybe it's best…with everything going on, if we just…stay away from each other, okay?"
"Elena-"
"Date one of them for all I care" Elena lashed out, she had been holding that in obviously since she saw how Emily still liked Damon. "I just…I wanna be alone" Elena said and shut the window and with one last look at Damon's bright blue eyes she was sure she was going to cry over later, she shut the blinds and walked away from the window
She never wanted to look out that window again, because she knew, even with him gone now, that she would only see his bright blue eyes looking in at her filled with sadness, and she didn't think she could bear seeing those eyes like that anymore. She also didn't think she'd be able to see Damon with one of those vampires, they were so enviously beautiful, and one of them obviously still was in love from him from 88 years ago. Maybe Emily deserved him, because obviously, Elena didn't.
"You're going to fix this" Felecia hissed at Emily in the living room and Emily was sitting there as if she was a child getting punished for doing something wrong, which technically, she was
"How?" Emily asked
"I don't know yet, but you are" Felecia said
"I know how" A third voice popped in and the girls looked up to see Caroline "I'm Caroline, close friend of Elena's. I know how you can get Damon and Elena back together" Caroline smiled
"I thought you were staying out of this" Stefan said who was sitting in the chair in the living room, probably half drunk now since Caroline could smell the liquor on him from where she stood
"I am staying out of it. My plan doesn't involve me" Caroline smiled "Because now it involves these two to do all the work"
"What makes you think we'll do it?" Felecia asked "You're a baby compared to us"
"Because I used to be in high school. I know how to manipulate people into doing anything I want them to do" Caroline smiled and Felecia and Emily looked at Stefan now
"It's true, she's very convincing" Stefan said
"…Fine. Let's hear your plan blondie" Felecia said and Caroline just smiled ear to ear, knowing that her plan would work, it would just take time
A/N: I'm pretty convinced that I got the idea of Damon changing three people from watching Brom Stoker's Dracula, and Van Helsing, because Dracula always seemed to have three brides, so Damon has three ex-girlfriend vampires :P I don't think we'll be seeing the third one until later on or something.
But don't worry about Emily or anything, you'll find out why she acted the way she did later. And, Caroline has a plan, a really good one if I say so myself, and it's pretty simple, yet highly effective ;)
Now, since I just got pretty well organized today, I'm off to go write my other chapters for my other stories now :) xoxo, Avril