And if your heart wears thing
I will hold you up
And I will hide you
When it gets too much
I'll be right beside you
I'll be right beside you
Beside You by Marianas Trench
Chapter Ten: Beside You
Damon left the rose right there on the nightstand next to Elena. While she was passed out, he managed to sneak away to go get that for her. The roses thorns were still pretty sharp, but not as sharp as they could have been. He moved the pillow he gave Elena to hold while he was gone and quickly took the pillows place. Elena didn't wake up, but she snuggled up closer to Damon and situated herself again. But, after a few minutes of not being able to situate herself, Elena opened her eyes and saw Damon laying there.
"Where did you go?" Elena asked sleepily
"I was here" Damon said
"No…you left" Elena said "I woke up after you left and I was holding a stupid fluffy pillow" Elena yawned
"I didn't think you'd wake up" Damon said "You were knocked out. I didn't think you'd care actually"
"Damon, I care" Elena said and snuggled up closer to Damon, "I'm sorry about the whole Stefan thing last night, you don't have to accept my apology, you have every right to be mad and hate me, but I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry, and I really mean it" Elena sighed
"…We'll talk about it later" Damon sighed and got off the bed now and head for Elena's bedroom door
"Where are you going?" Elena asked confused as she sat up
"I need to talk to your brother about last night" Damon said and walked right out of the room and across the hall to Jeremy's room.
Elena started to wake up a little more and she looked around her room, she was just happy to see that everything in here was still the same at least. She finally looked over to her dresser and saw a rose sitting there, she knew where Damon went now. She carefully picked it up and looked at it, just as beautiful as the ones before it, and just as full of thorns.
"What do you want Damon?" Jeremy grumbled and sat up in bed now and looked over at his clock "What is so important that you need to tell me at 7 in the morning?"
"Well, if you haven't noticed yet Sherlock, we have a bloodthirsty, limb ripping vampire on the lose that's been invited into your house and, since Elena seems to be a danger magnet, I'd say we have a problem bigger than you and your need to sleep until 12 in the afternoon" Damon said
"Don't look at me! I don't know how to handle it! I thought bloodthirsty vampire was more your department, not mine" Jeremy said
"You and Alaric are both part of this now," Damon sighed "You both have those big tacky rings that obviously the vampire didn't spot last night"
"Look who's talking about the big tacky rings" Jeremy said and pointed out Damon's ring
Damon mumbled something too quiet for Jeremy's ear to pick up on.
"Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today" Jeremy sighed "Is it because of Elena and Stefan last night?" Jeremy asked
"None of you're business" Damon said "Can we focus on the real danger-"
"If you just suck it up, and try to be whatever version of yourself that you are in front of Elena which for reasons beyond me being able to comprehend, made her fall in love with you, then I'm pretty sure you won't be going through all of this again" Jeremy sighed "Plus, the last thing we all need to handle right now is you and Elena having even more relationship problems. Like you said, we have a bloodthirsty, limb ripping vampire on the lose"
"…Since when do you care so much about me and Elena?" Damon asked curiously but just kept looking around Jeremy's room, pretending not to care
"Since she's my sister. She may not be my blood sister, but I've grown up all my life with her as my sister. She's been there for me, now it's my turn to be there for her" Jeremy said and got out of bed and Damon watched him curiously as he reached for a video camera that was perfectly hidden on his desk "And, after watching this last night, you're friend Felecia knows more about that shirt than she's letting on" Jeremy said and tossed the camera to Damon and he caught it
"So what? You pretending to be James Bond today now with catching people on camera?" Damon asked and started fast forwarding through the video until he could find Felecia
"Call me whatever you want" Jeremy sighed "But admit it, I just helped you"
Damon finally found Felecia in the video and he stopped and started to watch it. She was trying to find a scent on the shirt past the blood, and then suddenly her eyes widened in shock of something. She put the shirt down and quickly left the room.
"Son of a bitch" Damon sighed "She does know"
"And I suggest, we start with her to finding out who this ripper is that's after Elena" Jeremy said
"Alright, you helped Gilbert, happy?" Damon asked
"If you remember what I said about you and Elena, then yeah, I'm happy" Jeremy said and caught his camera as Damon tossed it back to him
Damon just rolled his eyes at Jeremy as he walked out of his room, but Jeremy had a point, there would be no use in fighting with Elena over something that was done and over with. Damon knew Elena and Stefan were still pretty close, he knew she wanted something to make her feel safe last night, and Damon wasn't exactly the poster child for being someone to keep people safe, that was Stefan. He knew why she ran to him. Now he was going to actually take Jeremy's advice. He was going to suck it up, and try to win Elena's heart back. He was going to fight to the death for her and hear her say "I love you" to him someday, even if it took all of eternity, he was going to get her to admit that she loved him, and she was going to say it first this time.
Elena was in the bathroom, she was just out of the shower and fully dressed now. She was looking at herself in the mirror and was disgusted with the face that looked back at her. She knew now how much running to Stefan hurt Damon. Just earlier yesterday, she was making out with him in his living room, getting back together with him, and of all the people in that house last night, she had to run to Stefan. Maybe she really was Katherine? Katherine. That name hadn't crossed her mind in a while. She knew Stefan and Damon had her locked up in the old tomb where she should have been for the last few hundred years. She had been in there for a few months now, probably slowly dying and rotting, who knew how far along she was on that. Elena kinda wished that she was trapped in there now too. Katherine had it easy right now. No choices, no problems, all she had to do was sit there and wait for her body to shut down. Then again, Elena knew she didn't have choices, she chose Damon. She wanted to be with Damon. Every thought she had anymore was about Damon. So why did it feel like the world was fighting against her every waking minute to be with Damon?
"Elena, are you okay in there?" Jenna knocked on the bathroom door and asked
"I'm fine" Elena said and opened up the door and saw Jenna was probably just waking up
"I'm just wondering, why is Damon downstairs?" Jenna asked
"He stayed the night, I was scared and I made him stay" Elena sighed
"Oh, okay" Jenna said "You okay today? You saw a lot last night"
"I'm fine. It's just…creepy to know that someone got in here last night and just…did that" Elena said
"I know what you mean" Jenna said "I'm okay with Damon staying over here for as long as you need him too, okay?"
"Thanks Jenna" Elena said "I'll go, see what he's up to down there"
Elena walked out of the bathroom and down the stairs and saw Damon standing in the middle of the kitchen, probably still seeing that dead body that was laying there last night. Before Elena could speak, Damon spoke first.
"So you didn't see the girl who tried to keep you quiet last night?" Damon asked
"Nope" Elena sighed "She was behind me, I didn't see her. She wore gloves though, probably for when she ripped of Jeremy's bracelet"
"Probably" Damon sighed "Felecia knows something"
"She does?" Elena asked
"I think she caught the scent of who was here. She knows" Damon said "I have to talk to her today. I can send Stefan or Caroline over" Damon said
"…Send Caroline" Elena said "I need a good distraction"
"Will do" Damon said and walked up to Elena and kissed her on the forehead "I won't let anything happen to you"
"I know" Elena said "Thank you"
"…For what?" Damon asked
"Protecting me" Elena said
"…No problem" Damon sighed and made his way for the front door "Blondie will be here in a few"
"Okay" Elena said
"So, are we gonna do this the easy way," Damon said "Or the hard way?" Damon asked as he looked at Felecia who was currently tied to a chair with Jeremy and Alaric on both sides of her with vervain and stakes while Stefan was sitting on the couch next to where Damon was standing
"Felecia, if you know something, just tell us so we don't have to go through all of this" Stefan sighed
"I don't know anything" Felecia mumbled
"Wrong answer" Damon said and Alaric stroked some vervain across her cheek with caused her to hiss out in pain and left a huge burn on her cheek that was slowly healing, slower than usual since they injected her with vervain before they tied her up
"Okay, I knew the scent" She huffed
"Then who is it?" Damon asked
There was a moment of silence and Damon started at Jeremy now, he was about to get her with the vervain, and she spoke up.
"Okay! I'll tell!" She said and Jeremy pulled away from her "It's hard to be 100% sure with the other girls blood on there, but from what I got, it was Elizabeth's scent" Felecia sighed "I haven't seen her since you changed her, I thought she was in Verona, that was last I heard of her and that's where Emily was going"
"I doubt Elizabeth let Emily go on a wild goose chase for her, those two were inseparable, if anything, Elizabeth found her leaving Mystic Falls and who knows from there" Damon sighed
"Maybe she has Emily?" Jeremy asked
"Or Emily's working with her" Alaric stated
"Emily's not a ripper" Felecia sighed "She hated feeding off of people as it is, she would never help her tear people to shreds. Bottom line is, if Elizabeth is here, it's not gonna end well"
"Why?" Damon asked "I made her, she's younger than me, you, and Stefan"
"You're forgetting one minor detail" Felecia sighed
"And what might that be?" Damon asked
"She was changed during a comet" Felecia said
"…What?" Damon asked
"August 17th, 1956, the night you killed Elizabeth. People still didn't know about comets. But that night was the night of a comet that comes around once every 200 years." Felecia said "And, you know how us vampires are with comets" Felecia sighed
"What do you mean?" Stefan asked
"Vampire plus comet equals a vampire that can kick your ass" Felecia said "She's strong enough to be an Original"
"…You've got to be kidding me" Damon sighed
"Well Damon, looks like you've really done it this time" Alaric sighed "Now we have another powerful psychotic vampire running around Mystic Falls, nice job"
"Hey, she's not coming here because of me" Damon said
"Actually, she probably is" Felecia said "I'm pretty sure she was friends with that vampire you killed a while ago, I think her name was Lexi…long blonde hair-"
"You mean, the Lexi I knew?" Stefan asked
"Yeah, Emily told me all about her, they used to all hang out. I guess Elizabeth and her were pretty close to, and hearing about Lexi being gone…well, she's probably pretty pissed off" Felecia said
"So why would she be going after Elena?" Damon asked
"You took away someone she cares about…now she's going to take someone you care about" Felecia said "Makes sense when you think about it"
"All of you vampires really need to stop hanging out together" Damon grumbled "Whatever happened to the original vampire stereotype of us being secluded in darkness?"
"Whining is not gonna save your little girlfriend. And neither is keeping me tired up" Felecia sighed
Damon walked over to Felecia and grumbled as he untied her from the chair.
"Finally, that was uncomfortable" She sighed as she stood up and stretched
"So, basically…Elena's in danger…again" Jeremy said
"Pretty much" Felecia said "I take it she get's thrown into danger a lot?"
"More than you can imagine" Damon said "So, I say we kill Elizabeth and get this all done and over with"
"It won't be easy" Felecia sighed "…Over the years talking to Emily…she's picked up on some very good…tactics from other vampires"
"Meaning?" Damon asked
"She's not going to be easy to find, to catch, or to kill" Felecia said
"This day just keeps getting better and better" Damon said "Sow what are we supposed to do?"
"Wait" Felecia said "Wait until she wants herself found, searching for her now would be useless and probably get a few of us killed. So, we sit and wait for her to come to us"
"I'm not too comfortable waiting for something to come and kill us" Stefan said
"Well, it's either wait, or you throw Elena in that tomb of yours where Katherine is and lure her in there" Felecia said
"Which is not going to happen" Damon said
"Then, all of you shut up and we'll have to wait it out" Felecia said and walked into the kitchen
"I'm going back to go let Elena and blondie know" Damon sighed "Keep an on her" Damon said and pointed to where Felecia walked off before walking out the front door
Caroline was long gone by now and it was just Elena and Damon in the house now. Jenna was out with Alaric, and Elena was hoping she'd stay there tonight to be safer, at least safer than she would be here. Jeremy was still with Stefan and Caroline at the Boarding House with Felecia. Elena didn't know when he'd be coming home. But for now, she was here with Damon.
"So…wanna watch a movie or something, pass the time?" Elena asked Damon who was sitting in the living room, completely silent and almost a statue except for the occasional times where he moves to take a sip from his drink
"Sure" Damon said "You pick"
"…Okay" Elena sighed and started looking through all the movies, and while she was looking, she couldn't help but have a few questions come to her mind "Damon…I know this has nothing to do with what is going on anymore but…why did you fall for Katherine…you never told me"
"Long boring story, that's why I never told you it" Damon sighed
"I wanna keep my mind of things, so, tell me" Elena said
"…I feel for her because she was everything my father told me not to fall for" Damon said
"…What do you mean?" Elena asked
"My father always told me, even before I met Katherine, that I should marry a good girl. Someone that would keep me in place because, even back then I was technically what they called a rebel" Damon said "And Katherine…definitely not the good girl"
"So…you fell for her to piss off your dad?" Elena asked
"Basically" Damon said with a smirk "But I did really fall in love with her. She had this…fire. Never saw it in anyone else, even as a vampire"
"…Oh" Elena said
"I didn't see it for a long time. Until I saw you" Damon said and Elena turned around to face him, confused
"Last time I checked, I'm not a psychotic, manipulative bitch" Elena said
"The first time I met you Elena, I didn't see it. I didn't see how you and Katherine could possibly be related. You were this doe eyed, innocent girl. Completely oblivious to everything bad in the world" Damon said with a smirk "You were so cute with that ignorance"
"…I still don't see your point" Elena sighed
"Then I got to know you," Damon continued "And you are more than just the die eyed innocent girl I first met. I see it now, the fire. You're stubborn, feisty, you take things into your own hands, you refuse help 90% of the time. You got spunk Elena" Damon said with a smirk "You have all the spunk…and you're still the good girl. My father would have loved you"
"Why?" Elena asked
"Because, as much as I hated him, he told me when I meet a good girl, to not let her get away. That she'd be good for me. It took a little longer than most people take to find someone…good for them. But, you're her" Damon said "The good girl"
"What are you saying Damon?" Elena asked and finally turned around to see Damon's face now during all of this
"I'm saying…I don't wanna lose you" Damon said "And I'll protect you, and Jenna, and Jeremy, and…everyone to keep you happy. Even if I have to die protecting all of you."
"Damon…don't talk like that" Elena said and walked over to him and hugged him tightly now "What if I don't want to lose you either?"
"You're out of luck then" Damon said with a smirk and glared up at him
"Even when you're trying to be serious, you still have to be a wise ass" Elena said and smiled a little
"Can't help it, I've been like this for the past hundred years" Damon said "So, now that I've gotten that out of the way, pick a movie yet?"
"You're unbelievable" Elena smiled and rolled her eyes at him
"I'm not one for sharing feelings" Damon said "Now, movie?"
"I heard you the first time" Elena laughed and let go of Damon and out of the blue, kissed him
It was unexpected, but Damon kissed her back right away. He was still unsure really after everything that's happened in the past 24 hours weather him and Elena were together or not, but he didn't care right now, all that mattered was that she was kissing him, she cared for him, and she'd care if he died, that had to mean something, right?
A/N: This chapter was pretty much just a filler, sorry if it sucks :/ I just wanted to kinda explain everything. But I ended it with Delena :)
December 2nd. I'm going to die of TVD withdrawal :( But I can't wait until it comes back on! The Sacrifice looks SO good ;)
And, the remainder of this week, I'll probably be obsessing over Harry Potter, I'm going to see the midnight premiere of it on Thursday! I can't wait! Harry Potter is seriously my childhood :)
xoxo, Avril