If you want to
I can save you
I can take you away from here
So lonely inside
So busy out there
And all you wanted
Was somebody who cares
All You Wanted by Michelle Branch
Chapter Eight: All You Wanted
Elena woke up the next morning happy. She was actually humming and everything as she got showered and dressed for the day, and the sight of a happy Elena nearly gave Jenna and Jeremy a heart attack as she walked down stairs with a smile plastered on her face.
"Okay, what happened?" Jenna asked
"What do you mean?" Elena asked
"I mean why do you have a huge grin plastered on your face?" Jenna asked
"Oh, Just happy I guess, nice weather outside-"
"Damon and his girlfriend broke up last night" Jeremy said and looked up to see a shocked Elena, she didn't think Jeremy would know about that already
"Someone was a little jealous of Emily I see" Jenna said
"Was it that obvious?" Elena asked
"It was as obvious as a bull in a china shop" Jenna said
"That bad?" Elena asked
"Worse, I was just going easy on you there" Jenna said
"…Sorry" Elena said "Anyway, I'm going to go see Damon today"
"Since when did you become the person to go after someone right after they have a break-up?" Jenna asked with a smirk
"Since now" Elena said and decided to let Jenna believe that Damon and Emily really were dating instead of explaining everything. "I'll see you guys later" Elena said and kissed Jeremy and Jenna on the cheeks and walked out of the house
"It's so nice to see her happy again" Jenna said
"I bet you twenty bucks that she's gonna come home with a problem or a reason why her and Damon can't be together" Jeremy said
"…You're on" Jenna said
Elena was in her car still after checking her make-up for what was probably the fiftieth time today already, and as soon as she opened the car door, she saw Caroline bolting out of the Salvatore house with another blur right behind her, and from what she could tell, she guessed it was Stefan. And something told her she would be hearing about that later, but right now, she walked into the house since Stefan left the door open and heard Damon arguing with someone else.
"Look, Caroline is a very sensitive person" Damon sighed
"All I said was that the pig tails reminded me of Pippy Longstocking, I loved that move, that was more of a compliment" Felecia said
"…Still, try to be careful what you say to her next time" Damon sighed
"How come she doesn't get all overly sensitive when you make fun of her?" Felecia asked
"She's used to me, she knows that's how I am. She's not used to you yet" Damon said
"Teenage girls this decade, their so overly sensitive to everything" Felecia mumbled
Finally Damon turned around to see Elena standing there, listening in to his and Felecia's conversation. He was a little surprised actually to see Elena here.
"Elena, what are you doing here?" Damon asked
"Uh, just came by to say hi" Elena said "I know Emily left last night…she told me everything"
"Everything?" Damon asked shocked, he didn't think that Emily even really liked Elena.
"Yeah, everything" Elena said
"Well, that's my cue to leave," Felecia said and stood up from off the couch and took her glass of blood with her "I'm gonna go find your brother and blondie, apologize to her I guess" Felecia sighed and in a flash she was gone and that left Damon and Elena alone in the Boarding House
"So, I'm guessing she told you we were faking it, huh?" Damon asked
"Yep" Elena said "I was faking it with Stefan though too"
"I know" Damon said
"How?" Elena asked confused
"Stefan told me he was playing along with it. I still was jealous though" Damon sighed
"Really?" Elena squeaked and instantly blushed since that wasn't how she wanted to sound
"Really" Damon smiled and caught her blushing before she looked away from him "Were you jealous of Emily?" Damon asked interested to hear the answer
"…A little" Elena admitted and blushed even more and kept trying to hide it from Damon, but that only made him smile at her more considering he thought she was the cutest thing ever when she tried to hide her blushing from him
Damon walked over to Elena and stood there in front of her and she finally decided to stop trying to hide her blushing and look back at Damon and into his blue eyes that she always loved. And before Elena could walk away this time, Damon pulled her closer to him and he kissed her. Elena noticed, but didn't really care, that Damon's hand slid up under her shirt and that he pulled her ever closer while they kissed. It wasn't anything new from all they had been through, but it was still nice. And she missed Damon's kisses like this, the ones that made her forget about everyone and everything in the outside world and only focus on Damon. And even though Damon and Emily were fake dating, it still worked and it made the kiss better than it probably would have been if they hadn't been in a battle to make the other one jealous.
"Hey, I'm back- Whoa!" Caroline's voice came from behind them
Elena wanted to pull away, but Damon held her there and they continued their kiss as if Caroline wasn't there.
"…I'm just gonna go now…I'll be back later" Caroline said and walked out of the living room and Elena smiled a little when she heard Caroline trying to get Stefan out of the house without actually telling him what was going on in the living room
"Okay Damon, enough" Elena said and gently put her hands on Damon's chest to let him know to pull away since she knew there was no way she could push Damon off of her by herself
Elena laughed a little when she heard Damon mumble something under his breath, something probably about not wanting to stop, but Elena knew her limits now and she wasn't about to just go jump back into bed with Damon…even though she really wanted to, she wasn't going to.
"So…what now?" Damon asked
"I was planning on you knowing because, I have no idea" Elena said
"I have a few ideas-"
"Damon" Elena said and glared at him
"BUT, I won't go through with them because then I know you'll tell Jeremy and he'll come kick my ass…again" Damon said and Elena giggled
"He's been spending a lot of time with Alaric" Elena said
"I've noticed. But I think somehow he got better than Alaric" Damon said "Alaric would never be able to sneak up on me and attack me with that damn vervain" Damon mumbled
"Hey, don't get down on yourself, you're still the big bad vampire" Elena smiled "YOu just need to suck it up that someone can actually get to you and hurt you" Elena said
"Two people can actually" Damon said and Elena looked at him bewildered for a minute, but then she realized who he was talking about
"Oh" Elena said and bit her lip
"I didn't mean it like that" Damon said "I mean it like…you're the only one that could really hurt me because you have my heart, or what's left of it"
Elena didn't know what to say, so instead she just leaned in and kissed Damon again. He kissed back right away but Elena had to end the kiss again, afraid that things might go too far too fast again. Instead of stopping kissing Elena, Damon just kept giving her kisses down her neck, he didn't want to stop kissing her anytime soon, but that gentle push from Elena told him to stop even though the rest of her body was telling him to keep going. When Damon pulled away, Elena smiled, he knew that she didn't want to go fast, that she wanted to try to be normal, unlike last time.
"Caroline, why on earth would there be a snake in the living room?" Stefan asked and walked into the living room and saw Damon and Elena with their arms wrapped around each other, but didn't mind it and was still focused on if Caroline was telling the truth about a snake being in here "Have you two seen a snake in here?" Stefan asked
"…A snake?" Elena asked puzzled
"…Caroline!" Damon called for her and Caroline appeared at the archway into the living room and stood there "Did you lie to Stefan and say there was a snake in here to keep him from seeing us making out?" Damon asked her as if she were a five year old
"…Maybe" Caroline said and looked down at her feet "I just didn't want to blurt out 'Stefan, I wouldn't go in there because Damon and Elena are making out and are about ready to practically hump each other!'" Caroline said
"Whoa, what did I miss about Damon and Elena humping each other in the living room? There was something about a snake too…but I don't wanna know" Felecia said and sat down in the living room
"Nothing was going on" Damon said "Caroline was just turning everything into a soap opera"
"Was not! If you two could have seen the way you were kissing you would have thought that-"
"Caroline, for the love of god, do not finish that sentence" Elena said and was blushing a bright red now, she didn't think Damon were kissing like that, but was she really that blind to everything while kissing Damon?
"No, please do finish that sentence" Felecia said "Damon giving you the death glare is hilarious"
Caroline looked over at Damon and he really was giving her death glares and Caroline looked back down at her shoes again.
"So tell me, why are we playing family gathering in the living room?" Damon asked
"We're leaving" Stefan sighed and Caroline followed him out of there and that left Felecia who was sitting there, drinking a glass of blood, like nothing was wrong
"What?" Felecia asked as Damon glared at her "This is the living room, you want privacy, take her to your room Romeo"
Damon just rolled his eyes at her and led Elena into the kitchen instead where they could talk without Felecia starring at them, even though she could hear them from the living room, it helped if no one was starring at you.
Elena walked into the house happily that night, and she was pretty sure she heard Jenna say something to Jeremy about him owing her twenty bucks, but she didn't pay too much attention to their conversation. They all had a quiet family night and Elena was still on Cloud Nine from being with Damon all day. After that, Jenna was the first to bed while Jeremy and Elena stayed up to watch a scary movie together. But somewhere around 1 in the morning, someone knocked on the door and Jeremy went to go answer it.
"Elena" Jeremy called from the front door "Can you get me some water?"
"…Sure" Elena said and paused the movie and walked into the kitchen to get Jeremy a glass of water and by the time she got back to the living room, Jeremy was sitting down on the couch again and just staring the movie up again
"Who was at the door?" Elena asked as she handed Jeremy his water
"…What are you talking about?" Jeremy asked confused and started drinking his water
"…You just went to answer the door and asked me for some water" Elena said
"…I went up to my room to get my phone" Jeremy said and held up his cell phone "I never answered the door"
Elena looked at Jeremy's wrists to see if his bracelet was there, the one she gave him that was filled with vervain, and it was gone.
"Jeremy, where's your bracelet?" Elena asked worried
"Oh…huh, I swore I was wearing it" Jeremy said and looked at his empty wrist "It must be in my room"
Elena knew Jeremy was wearing his bracelet before he answered the door, he never walked upstairs, she would have heard him ever from the kitchen. It was then that Elena knew someone must have yanked Jeremy's bracelet off and compelled him, if they wanted to badly enough, they wouldn't care about getting burned a little by a vervain bracelet to compel Jeremy. Elena got up and looked all over the house, she even checked on the sleeping Jenna and she was fine.
"Elena, what are you doing?" Jeremy asked
"Just checking…I guess you did go to your room" Elena sighed, seeing nothing different around the house
"I think you need some sleep sis, you're imagining things" Jeremy said
"Yeah, I am a little tired from today" Elena said and yawned
Elena and Jeremy went to bed then, but Elena still felt uneasy about the whole door/bedroom story Jeremy was telling her. For once, she was actually a little thirsty before she went to bed and she decided to go get some water herself now. She walked downstairs and swore she felt something run by her, like a vampire. It was just a cold chill that went down her spine, and she never liked that feeling. She cautiously walked into the dark kitchen and looked for the light and turned it on. And in the middle of her kitchen floor was now a pool of blood with the body of someone she had never seen before in her life, but the way this body was, Elena felt truly sorry for whoever this was. The girl's body was mangled and could probably only be explained as that she was ripped apart. There were bloody claw marks all over her body that resembled something like an animals claws, and there was just blood everywhere, and the girl was everywhere too, with a scene that should only be in a horror movie with blood and guts everywhere, mostly blood. From what Elena could tell looking at the girls face which was fine, just covered in her own blood, was that she was a young girl, around Elena's age or younger. She now had dark brown lifeless eyes that felt like they were watching Elena even though she was obviously dead. And she also had long beautiful curly brown hair that was now soaking up her own blood around her. It was then, that it finally hit Elena to scream, because just standing there, Elena knew whoever left this body here was still in the house with her. Elena screamed as loud as she could, and a second later, it was muffled by someone wearing a black glove covering up her mouth.
"Shut up!" The voice hissed and Elena took note that it was definitely a girl voice
"Elena!" Elena thankfully heard Jeremy say and then his loud footsteps running down the staircase.
Before Jeremy could get there, the girl who was muffling Elena's screams was gone and Elena was left there still shocked and starring at the dead body. Jeremy walked up behind Elena and had all his focus on Elena.
"Elena?" Jeremy asked and made her face him
Elena couldn't verbalize anything at that moment, so she pointed out the body instead and Jeremy looked and finally saw the horror that made Elena scream.
"Oh my god" Jeremy said
"There was a girl too…a vampire" Elena finally said
"…We'll take care of this" Jeremy sighed "I promise you Elena, we'll take care of this, okay?"
Elena just nodded and wrapped her arms around Jeremy and buried her face into his chest to keep from looking at the body that was forever going to be in her mind now, she would never ever forget the sight of this body now.
A/N: Just gonna say this right now: IF this is Elizabeth, she won't be coming into the story just yet, there will be a few more gory crime scenes to scare everyone before we find out exactly who it is. Hell, right now, truthfully, I don't even know who it is, I mean obviously it's a ripper, but, I don't know, which is why I said if it was her. It might not be. But, they won't be reviled for a while so we can get in some Delena, there will just be some bloody murders along the way ;) Oh, and the roses come back in the next chapter, the ones Damon used to leave Elena :) So, I hope you like this chapter, and I love you guys all SO much! xoxoxoxoxo, Avril ;)