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Chapter 38: Telling Jenna The Truth
Making a deal with Elijah was pretty easy even though it was a huge deal. For my plan I mean. Everything went down quite smoothly. And hopefully, if the plan goes accordingly, Klaus and the other originals along with Elijah himself should be out of Mystic Falls on the right time. They would be out of everyone's life for good. When that is done, everyone's life would be safe finally and my task here will be complete. And then I will have to leave too. To never come back again. A part of me wishes I didn't have to leave, that I could stay here. Alas, that wouldn't happen. After everyone here is safe and sound, I won't belong here anymore. I didn't really know how it is going to work but I will be gone from here and from everyone's life and possibly from their memory as well. A thought crossed my mind several times. What if I don't do anything? What if I let everything happen the way it happened in the show? What if I let every horrible thing happen to the people here? That could extent my stay here in this world. Maybe I wouldn't even have to go away. But then again, it would be extremely selfish of me. And I can't really do that knowing if I get selfish now, I will just ruin more lives than I have saved so far. Holding that thought, I kept on going with my plans. So, that's why I was sitting with Katherine in the tomb at the moment, discussing upcoming issues.
"So, as soon as Elijah will be daggered, you will be free of his compulsion and could get out of here right away." I said to Katherine. I didn't tell her anything about my deal with Elijah though and I wasn't going to either. Only Elijah and I knew of our deal and Dr. Jonas knew parts of it but not the entire plan. We had to tell him because we needed him to help us with our plan.
"How you are going to do that? I mean dagger Elijah" asked Katherine while sipping blood from her blood bag that I brought her.
"I am sure Stefan and Damon will find a way to do it. Of course they are going to realize later that they've made a huge mistake." I said with confidence and a little smirk on my lips. Though I have to make sure that neither Damon nor Stefan uses the dagger on Elijah themselves because then they would die. Like it happened in the show Alaric has to do it. Of course I have to make arrangements that they find out that little very important information about the dagger just in time. Mentioning Damon's name, my face clouded up with worry immediately. He was staying away from me intentionally. What is going on with him? The fact that I had no idea about his problem, made me more worried. I hoped it's nothing too bad but then again, there is always a chance that Damon is plagued with something horrible. And I definitely didn't want it to be one of the consequences of my being here. Katherine noticed my worry right away and asked about it.
"What's wrong?" asked Katherine with a little frown on her forehead. I sighed out a little before speaking up.
"It's Damon, something is wrong with him." I confessed and Katherine frowned in confusion more.
"Damon? What's wrong with him?" Katherine immediately got curious. I told her what was going on with Damon and his control issues with his vampire side. He has been acting weird for long and it was just getting worse everyday.
"Yes, I have noticed it too the other day, his vampire face was coming out now and then and it seemed like he didn't even realize it happening" said Katherine after hearing out everything from me. I sighed out heavily once again.
"Do you have any idea what it could be? I mean have you heard about anything like this before?" I asked with a little bit hope but Katherine shook her head as I expected her to. I knew everything she knew, even more. And if I didn't know something than there is a high chance that no one else in this world does. At least the characters the show is surrounding.
"Why didn't you have any dream about that?" asked Katherine with confusion. I shrugged my shoulders at her nonchalantly and thought to myself, only if she knew why? I didn't have any dream about that because there was nothing like this in the freaking show. Why something has to go wrong every time?
"I don't control the dreams Katherine. I only see what I am showed. And clearly whoever is giving me these dreams, Damon isn't important to him or her." I said getting kind of pissed off. I was seriously frustrated about the whole Damon's vampire problem thing. Damon said he is going to search for everything similar in case he doesn't find anything exact. I didn't know if he found anything yet. Damon hasn't contacted me yet and I had no idea where the hell he is at the moment. It was frustrating to say the least. I was wondering what if Damon already found out something but he wasn't willing to tell me about it. Even though he promised me to tell everything he finds out.
"Why did you stop Damon that night? You could have found out what he is really capable of doing to you when the vampire side is out of control. You could have got some real answers to your questions" said Katherine with nonchalant tone of voice. I gaped at her for sometime. And yes, I told Katherine what happened between me and Damon the night I was rescued from the tomb.
"Are you kidding me Katherine? I was not gonna let Damon fuck me just to get some answers out of his uncontrolled vampire side." I said with shock in my voice. The mere thought was disturbing to me to say the least. Katherine however rolled her eyes at me.
"Come on it's not a big deal Jacq. Besides, you are in love with Damon, sooner or later you would ask him to do it yourself." Katherine said bluntly. I felt my cheeks burning instantly. Katherine obviously noticed that and she smirked at me evilly. She really is a bitch.
"I will never ask Damon to do that." I said confidently with a huff of annoyance. Katherine rolled her eyes at me again.
"So, what are you planning to do? Save yourself until you two are happily married. How virtuous of you." This time I glared at Katherine as she said that which made her smirk at me more. After sometime I sighed out heavily.
"Look, we just kissed for the first time only a couple of days ago. I don't think Damon would agree to do anything else so soon." Katherine seriously choked on the blood as I said that.
"Damon? HE won't agree to get laid and moreover with you, I wouldn't believe that even if Damon says that himself standing in the sunlight without his ring" said Katherine like a smart ass. I couldn't help but chuckle at that but rolled my eyes at her anyway. Katherine got a great sense of humor, I will give her that.
"Okay, I admit, it's not Damon. I don't want our first time to be an experiment of a crazy vampire problem." I said truthfully. Katherine shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly at me.
"As you wish baby Gilbert." A smirk playing on Katherine's lips. I rolled my eyes at her for using my last name. I hated to be called baby Gilbert. Katherine however didn't bother about my objection and she spoke up again.
"But if I were you Jacq I wouldn't have wasted any time to be with Damon. With Klaus coming to Mystic Falls who knows what's gonna happen afterwards. It's very possible that there won't be a tomorrow for any of us once Klaus is here" said Katherine with seriousness and depth in her voice. I wouldn't let anything horrible happen to anyone. I was quite confident about my plans. However, I also knew for sure that once Klaus is gone from Mystic Falls there won't be a tomorrow for me. Now that I thought about it, I realized that Katherine is right after all. I shouldn't waste any time to be with Damon. After all we are going to have only a little time with each other. But it's also true that I didn't want to just jump in the bed with him right away. I didn't want to rush things between us. But then again, it is kind of a rush for me. Why wait? I wanted to ask Katherine something regarding that matter but I was hesitating. After thinking about it for a moment, I blurted out the question while blushing a little.
"Does it really hurt? The first time I mean." Katherine smirked at me right away which made me blush more. Even though I expected her to smirk.
"Well someone in considering now" said Katherine with her unique sultry voice. I rolled my eyes getting annoyed at her cockiness.
"Shut up Katherine. I am just wondering about it." I said with strong tone of voice but Katherine didn't believe me and shook her head to herself. She answered me however.
"Yes, it does hurt like bitch for the first time. I know mine did, a lot. It was horrible. But like any other girl, I am sure you will survive it too even though your first time will be with Damon. He likes it rough" said Katherine. Of course she would know about that. The conversation was weird to so many levels.
"But I am sure Damon wouldn't let himself kill you on your first sex because he would want to do it for the second time, and third, and fourth. Actually there is no point in counting" said Katherine with nonchalantly voice. I gaped at her for sometime and then groaned out loud as the vampire kept smirking at me evilly. I was feeling a bit scared suddenly about going to that level with Damon. Not to mention uncomfortable at the mere thought of it. That's just great. First Katherine encouraged me and then she scared me. No wonder why Katherine is a first class bitch.
"That was really helpful Katherine, thanks." I said sarcastically and rolled my eyes at her angrily while Katherine kept laughing at my tensed face. She was enjoying looking at me getting all nervous and flustered. After a while, I breathed out my fear and laughed a little myself. I was getting paranoid for no reason at all. I shook my head at myself and got up to leave.
"Leaving so soon?" questioned Katherine with disappointment in her voice.
"Yeah, I have to go now, see you later Katherine." I said and Katherine lazily waved at me as I walked out of the tomb.
The following day, I woke up in the morning. When I got downstairs, I found Uncle John in the kitchen. Of course John Gilbert would be in Mystic Falls at the time being. After all the timeline was of the episode, 'Daddy issues' of season two. I obviously knew that John is in town to deliver the dagger to the Salvatore brothers along with white ash that Isobel has sent in order to take down Elijah. The matter that would reveal a lot latter is that Klaus is the one who ultimately wants Elijah out of the picture. Those secrets would be revealed when the time is right. For now, only I knew the truth of course.
"Uncle John! Oh my god, when did you get here?" I gave John a welcoming hug much like the first time we met. John was happy to be welcomed by me.
"I arrived late last night. It's good to see you again Jacqueline" said Uncle John returning the hug warmly. Poor guy, he wouldn't be welcomed here by anyone else. Not, Jenna, Elena or even Jeremy.
"Yeah it's good to see you too Uncle John." I said enthusiastically. Right then, Elena barged in the kitchen and threw uncle John a nasty glare.
"Morning!" Uncle John greeted Elena ignoring her glare at him. Elena got more pissed off to say the least.
"What are you doing here?" My sister asked John straight away with annoyance in her voice. I obviously knew from beforehand about the heated conversation that Elena and John are going to have shortly. It was one thing watching the fight on the show but I had no wish to witness it for real this time. Therefore I excused myself.
"I am gonna go out. See you later Uncle John." I said and he nodded to me acknowledging my leave. I went out of the house without wasting any time. Once out of the house, a thought filled my mind. I was worried about Damon. I have been calling him since last night but Damon wasn't picking up my calls. Something was wrong. I could feel it. Usually I don't get worked up about what is wrong because every time I knew about them from beforehand. But this time with Damon, I knew nothing about his situation and I was worried about it to say the least. I thought about going to the boarding house to check up on Damon but then thought otherwise and went to the Grill instead. Once I got there, I found Anna sitting at a table, waiting for Jeremy who hasn't arrived yet. I realized that I should inform Anna about uncle John's arrival. She and her mom shouldn't cross paths with John.
"Hey Anna!" I said as I walked up to her. She smiled brightly at me.
"Hey Jacq!" I pulled a chair and settled down.
"Waiting for Jeremy?" I asked and she nodded as I expected.
"Okay, apologizes in advance but I have a bad news for you." Anna frowned at me with confusion and worry as I said that.
"Uncle John is in town. He arrived home last night." Just as I expected Anna's face darkened immediately. She got tensed up as well.
"Do we need to leave again?" Anna asked sadly. Clearly she didn't want to leave Mystic Falls. Good for her, I shook my head in reply.
"No, John is here for Elijah this time. You don't need to worry about leaving town. But if he does something to threaten you or your mom, just let me know about it. I will take care of that." I said with assured tone of voice. Anna nodded her head and sighed out in relief. Anna trusted me enough to depend on me with her life and her mom's life as well. After that matter cleared out, I asked Anna about her relationship with Jeremy. Considering I am Jeremy's sister, I have a right to know if he is happy with his partner.
"So, how are things going on between you and Jeremy?" I asked without any hesitation. Anna blushed but answered my question.
"It's going great. Mom likes Jeremy now and things are very... good between us" said Anna and I smiled at her, feeling happy for my brother and Anna.
"I am happy for you two." I said and I really meant it. Anna bit her bottom lip and hesitated to say something but she said it anyway.
"Jeremy wishes to become a vampire again, after graduating high school. And I said I would do it when the time comes." Anna told me and I simply nodded my head in understanding.
"Of course he has to if he wants to be with you forever. I just hope everything goes fine between you and Jeremy and you get to live happily." I said showing my support to their decision that way. Anna smiled thankfully at me. Right then I spotted Caroline and Tyler being all mushy in a table at the corner of the room. I excused myself from Anna and made my way up to them.
"This is really not fair." I said out loud as I reached their table. Caroline and Tyler jumped away from each other and looked at me.
"I really didn't expect you two to just forget about me" saying that I dropped myself on the empty chair across from the couple and tried to look mad at them.
"You know it's not possible to forget about you Jacq" said Tyler while coming over to my side and giving me a light hug. I laughed a little at that and Tyler went back to sit with Caroline.
"So, how are things going on between you two, the newest couple of Mystic Falls?" I asked with interest even though I knew they are doing really well together. Tyler rolled his eyes at me for my remark while Caroline only blushed.
"Everything is fine Jacq. Even Matt is okay with my being with Tyler. So, they are still buddies and Matt is currently dating Amy Bradley." I nodded at the information Caroline just gave me in one sentence. She knows everything about everyone's love life. How does Caroline do that? I really don't know.
"That's great. What about you and Matt?" I asked Caroline curiously. She shrugged her shoulders at me.
"We are still friends. Just a little awkward type of friends" said Caroline and I understood that everything wasn't smooth between Carline and Matt yet. I sighed out heavily. I knew everything will be okay with passing time. Tyler, Caroline and I kept talking about unimportant stuffs before my eyes fell on Alaric and Jenna. They seemed to be having some kind of trouble. Jenna looked so shocked and frustrated. Well obviously I knew exactly what was going on with Jenna. John must have told her about him being Elena's biological father. Jenna was bound to be shocked. Suddenly an idea came into my mind.
"Caroline, I am gonna do something interesting and I need your help for that. Are you up for action right now?" I asked straight away. Caroline frowned at me with confusion and so did Tyler.
"What do you want to do Jacq?" Caroline asked with seriousness and I smirked at her.
"Let's tell Jenna everything." I said at once and both Caroline's and Tyler's eye brows shot up in their hair lines.
"Are you serious?" asked Tyler and I nodded my head vehemently.
"Absolutely, and if anything goes wrong, well Caroline can always use her compulsion power to make Jenna forget everything." I said and the love birds thought about the idea for a moment. They agreed to help me just as I expected them to. Tyler, Caroline and I grabbed Jenna when Alaric wasn't around. We practically kidnapped Jenna to Caroline's house. We chose the Forbes house because it's always free.
"Kids what is going on?" Jenna asked. She was totally confused about what was going on.
"Take a seat Jenna and relax first." Caroline told her and sat Jenna down on the couch. Tyler handed her a glass of soft drink. Jenna was getting more and more confused with each passing minutes. Caroline looked at me and I nodded at her. Caroline is good with talking. Not as good as Stefan but definitely better than me and Tyler. Therefore I asked Caroline to tell Jenna everything about vampires and werewolves and other supernatural stuffs.
"Jenna we know that you already found out about John being Elena's biological father" started Caroline. Jenna sighed out heavily and nodded her head with distaste.
"But that is not the only secret that everyone is keeping from you" said Caroline slowly in a very Caroline way. She was perfectly creating suspense for Jenna.
"What else I don't know?" Jenna asked worriedly. She was scared to find out more awful secrets. After over half an hour of talking, Jenna was gaping at us, simply gaping at the three of us. During the entire explanation Jenna hasn't spoken a single word or asked a single question. At first we thought Jenna wasn't believing us but we showed her prove afterwards our explanation. So there was no way Jenna wouldn't believe us but the problem was she wasn't saying anything or giving us any kind of reaction. It was kind of making us worried.
"Is she going to faint now?" asked Tyler impatiently cause he was eagerly waiting for that to happen. Caroline threw a glare at his way that shut him up immediately.
"Jenna please say something, you are freaking us out." I spoke softly to her and shook her shoulder a little. Jenna focused her gaze on us. Thank god she moved but unfortunately to yell at us.
"I am freaking YOU out. You are the supernatural freaks, oh my god, how is this even possible, and this entire time I knew nothing about it. Oh my god, how is this... this is impossible... I am going insane..." Jenna finally started freaking out and kept rambling incoherently.
"Great, now she is getting a panic attack. I told you girls this was a bad idea" said Tyler scolding me and Caroline. And the way Jenna started acting, I guess Tyler was right. It was a bad idea to tell Jenna everything. But I wanted to give the idea a try and I am still going to give it a shot after she calms down a little bit and become stable enough to listen to what I have to say to her. I waited for a while but Jenna wasn't calming down anytime soon.
"Jenna, Jenna, please look at me, look at me. I know this is a lot to take in all on a suddenly but try to calm down, okay, just calm down, take deep breaths." I tried to calm down Jenna while Tyler handed me a glass of water. I helped Jenna drink a little water. She was still shaken obviously and tears were leaking out her eyes. But on the good side, Jenna was calming down slowly.
"I think we should just compel her to forget everything" suggested Caroline but I asked her to wait. I had a feeling in my guts that everything will work out perfectly. We waited patiently for Jenna to calm down slowly.
"All the bed time horror stories I have heard my whole life, vampires, werewolves, witches... things I believed to be just stories... now I know it's all true... I mean everything unrealistic is true now. How can one handle knowing all these things?" Jenna asked softly. I sighed out in relief because Jenna didn't get into a coma because of the shock.
"The way I am handling it Jenna, the way everyone else is handling it. You are living among them Jenna. The only difference between today and yesterday is that now you know, now you are aware of them." I said and paused a little to give Jenna a moment before making my offer to her. "But of course you have a choice Jenna. If you don't want to know all these things, and be oblivion to everything like you were before then Caroline can make you forget about everything that we just told you." As I said that Jenna looked at Caroline and then at me.
"By using compulsion right?" She asked and I nodded my head.
"It's up to you now Jenna. We will do whatever you want." I said and I really hoped that Jenna would want to remember everything. There would be no more lying to her or hiding things from her. It would be great. But if she wants to live a normal life and have no knowledge about the supernatural world around us then she would get it. To my utmost surprise Jenna didn't even have to think for a second before making her decision.
"Of course I want to know all about this, supernatural world. Of course I want to remember everything. I am living among them right. Besides, I am responsible for you and Elena and Jeremy. How can I take care of you when I wouldn't even know what you kids are really going through? I may not be able to protect you from the bad supernatural things but at least I can be there for you to comfort you. And for that I have to know, right?" said Jenna and I nodded happily. Not only she is finally stable but she is also understanding things. I definitely got more than what I asked for.
"Right." I said softly to Jenna. Then suddenly Jenna straightened up after thinking of something.
"What about Ric? Does he know too?" asked Jenna with anxiousness. I knew this question would be asked sooner or later.
"Yes Ric, he knows everything too. He is a different story though. Alaric Saltzman is our local vampire hunter." I informed Jenna and again she became a statue with shock but not like previous time though. We had to tell Jenna everything about Ric as she insisted. How he became a vampire hunter? What he is doing currently? Which is being accomplish of Damon and Stefan, well Damon mostly. I also told Jenna about Isobel and how Alaric is actually Elena's step father in a way. After hearing out everything Jenna could say only one thing.
"I can not believe this." Jenna was holding her head with both her hands. Obviously her head was spinning at the moment. She was having a hard time staying calm and not have a panic attack again. With all the information Jenna just learned about, anyone would have had a breakdown. Compared to that, Jenna was doing fairly well in my opinion.
"Jenna, you have to understand, Ric couldn't tell you about these things like we couldn't. Don't be mad at him for keeping secrets." I said trying to make Jenna understand in case she is mad at Alaric for not telling her the truth.
"Yeah, what if you had freaked out beyond repair?" pipped in Tyler and both Caroline and I shot glares at him this time to which Tyler just shrugged his shoulders. Jenna on the other hand was still shaking her head to make her headache go away and being able to think straight again. After a while Jenna sighed out heavily and calmed down enough to start acting normally again. Well as normally as she could given the circumstances.
"Okay I understand why you guys couldn't tell me anything and why Ric had to keep secrets from me but that doesn't mean I am not gonna give him a hard time for hiding the truth from me. And for lying to me this entire time about everything. I mean we have been together like for months now and everything he ever said to me were nothing but lies. I am so gonna get back to him for this, I have to" said Jenna with determination in her voice. The three of us frowned at her in confusion.
"What are you gonna do Jenna?" I asked her with curiosity.
"Well Ric didn't want me to know the truth about him or the supernatural world, did he?" asked Jenna and I shook my head in affirmation.
"Then I don't know anything about him or the supernatural world. And I will keep giving him a hard time by asking him questions that Ric can't possibly answer to me truthfully without giving away all his secrets" said Jenna with a mean demeanor. Both Caroline and I smirked at that. Jenna has guts, I will give her that.
"Now that sounds like fun" said Caroline and Tyler just rolled his eyes at her. Obviously Tyler is a guy and he felt sorry for Ric.
"Yeah Ric is definitely going to have a lot of fun now." I agreed with Caroline with a devilish smirk of my own. After discussing a few more things, all of us went back to the Grill. Jenna parted away from us and went over to Alaric. She was pretending not to know anything and I must say, she was doing a great job. I spotted Stefan and Elena with Uncle John. They must be having discussion about killing Elijah according to the show or about something else. Whatever, I walked up to them.
"Hey Stefan, do you have any idea where Damon is?" I was seriously getting worried about him now.
"He must be at the bar" replied Stefan with casual tone of voice. He must not know about Damon and his vampire problem. I wasn't surprised about that though. Damon wasn't into sharing his problems with his little brother or anyone else.
"I already checked the bar. I didn't see him there." I told Stefan and then Elena quipped in.
"I saw Damon leaving with Andie Star just a while ago." I blinked couple of times, not believing what Elena just said.
"Andy Star?" I said with confusion.
"Yeah, the news reporter girl" said Elena thinking I was trying to recognize Andy when actually I was shocked about the information. Why Damon would be with Andie this time? He has me. And unlike Elena I am actually returning his feelings. Why would he go for another girl? Suddenly, I had a lot of questions buzzing in my mind. However it confirmed me one thing. Damon was intentionally avoiding me this entire time I was worried about him. The big question is why. Why Damon is doing this? What happened to him?
"Jacq, are you alright?" asked Elena with concern in her voice. I could barely nod my head to them before I walked out of the Grill in rush. I figured Damon must be at the boarding house at the time. So, I went there. The door wasn't locked as usual. I barged right in and saw Rose first. I wasn't in a good mood at the moment so I didn't bother myself with greeting her formally.
"Rose, where is Damon?" I asked her with patience in my voice even though I was clearly being impatient. I knew Rose knew where Damon is but she was hesitating to tell me about his whereabouts. She tried to come up with some lies but I already started going towards Damon's bedroom. Rose followed me right behind.
"Jacq, I don't think you should go in there right now" said Rose as she kept following me all the way up to Damon's bedroom. I completely ignored what Rose was telling me and entered the bedroom. I walked straight inside the bathroom where Damon has his favorite bathtub. Damon was in there, obviously. He was naked in the tub and with Andy. Just like he was in the show. They were making out as expected. As Damon and Andy couldn't see me, neither of them stopped. Rose was standing right behind me. I turned around to face her. An angry frown gracing my forehead.
"How many women is he sleeping with currently?" I asked with seriousness in my voice. Rose didn't answer my question. I walked further inside and made myself visible to the couple. Andy stopped kissing Damon right away as she noticed me standing in the room. She tried to cover herself up with the bubbles as much as possible.
"What the hell?" Andy shrieked out loud, confused about what was happening. Damon on the other hand was still facing away from me. I crossed my arms over my chest and glared at Damon viciously. I glanced at Andy and said-
"Sorry for interrupting the seven minutes in heaven. But I need to talk to him." I used my bitter sweet voice that sounded kind of cold and hostile and I really didn't care about that. Damon finally turned his face to look at me. There was carelessness clouding his expression. Without saying anything to me Damon looked at Rose.
"Please get rid of her." Damon asked Rose to take me out of the house. With rude attitude of course. I didn't realize but my jaw dropped when I heard Damon saying that. Rose put a hand on my shoulder and tried to take me out of the room. I yanked myself out of her hold and glared at Damon angrily.
"I am not going anywhere Damon. Not until you tell me what the hell is going on? Why are you acting like this?" I was mad at Damon yes, very much so but I was ready to be understanding as well. I wanted to know what is going on with Damon because something was clearly wrong. And I had to know about that no matter what. Damon was staring at me with a bored look on his face, eyes half closed. As if he didn't care about my concern for him or my frustration to know the truth.
"I am not gonna tell you anything Jacq" said Damon straight away.
"Why should I? I mean you don't trust me enough to tell me anything at all." I frowned in confusion as Damon said that. What the hell was he talking about?
"I don't have anything to tell you Damon." I clarified with strong tone of voice. But of course I was still very confused about why would Damon think that I have hidden something from him in the first place. Damon looked at me with wide eyes this time. Clearly he wasn't believing me.
"Really? You don't? Fine then, just get out of here" saying that Damon looked away from me again and he started kissing Andy who looked quite uncomfortable kissing him back in front of us. I took in a deep breath to calm myself down first. Whatever Damon was doing, he was doing it on purpose. But why? Then suddenly something crossed my mind out of the blue.
"Does this have anything to do with your vampire control issue?" I asked out loud even though more to myself than to Damon or Rose. Damon stopped kissing Andy once again and turned his face to look at me. I narrowed my eyes at Damon, looking closely at his face, judging his reactions carefully. Calculating every movement of his eyes. Damon however shrugged his shoulders at me nonchalantly.
"Maybe, maybe not. But I am not telling you anything until you spill out your guts to me" said Damon with commanding tone of voice. We both stared at each other for a while. Neither of us looking away and accepting defeat in the process. Andy looked totally confused at the moment. Thankfully she was under compulsion otherwise she would have started making a lot of noises and Damon would have killed her right away. I didn't know about Rose or what she was feeling about the entire thing because she was standing behind me and I couldn't exactly see someone's face who is standing behind my back. After a few moments of complete silence, I scoffed darkly at Damon and shook my head at him.
"Right, now I get it." I said that more to myself than to anyone else in the room. I understood that Damon was clearly trying to blackmail me into telling him something he wanted to know. And he wasn't angry because he learned something about me. Well maybe he did heard something but he needed me to tell him the entire truth. But why did he choose to blackmail me instead of asking me straight away about whatever he wanted to know. That I didn't know about. But there must be a reason. It also made me realize that Damon learned something about me, something important. And that information was making him behave horribly with me. What could he possibly know? I wanted to know what Damon knew of course but I couldn't risk telling him anything about my deep dark secrets. I have to find another way to learn the truth about Damon's knowledge about me. Whatever Damon learned about me, it seemed to be quite important and not to mention troublesome because it was making him suspect me. Damon suddenly started making out with Andy again, completely ignoring my presence there or what I just said. However, this time I saw right through it. Damon was doing everything to make me desperate enough to tell him everything I was keeping a secret from him. Unfortunately for Damon, things don't work that way with me. I looked at Damon with a small smile this time.
"You know what Damon, it's fine. You don't have to tell me anything. I think I will survive not knowing whatever it is going on with you because clearly whatever it is, it's entirely your problem and got nothing to do with me. And you know it very well that I don't mind in others business when they don't want me to... unlike some people I know." I said the last part under my breath. I breathed out air as if relieved myself from tension. Damon wasn't pleased a bit with the reaction I gave him all on a sudden. It was clear as crystal. What can I say? It's his fault to expect that he could so easily blackmail me into telling him everything I knew about. I am the master in emotional blackmailing department. Therefore, I am not that easy to fool. Thankfully Damon didn't see it coming.
"I will take my leave now, sorry for the interruption again" saying that nicely I started to walk away. But I stopped at the door and turned to look at Damon who was still staring at me with a defeated look on his face.
"Oh! I almost forgot. I should thank you for managing yourself a distraction because honestly Damon, I don't want you anywhere near me with the controlling problems you have going on right now. Have fun!" I said cheerfully and gracefully walked out of the room and eventually the house. I am definitely gonna get back to Damon for this. I said to myself in my mind. I will be damned if I don't. How dare he kiss someone else!
It was around nine in the evening. I was still at the Grill. Hanging out with Caroline and Bonnie. The place was still very crowded. And I was in an extremely good mood instead of being all grumpy and upset. I even convinced Caroline and Bonnie to play truth or dare with me by spinning the bottle. We were having fun actually while playing the game and most of the time we were choosing truth. We were really into the game when I saw Damon and Rose entering the Grill together. They went straight to the bar. And of course they pretended not to see me. Well I ignored them as well. But I decided it was time for payback. I sent a text to Caroline because even whispering to her would be risky and a certain someone could overhear me. I told Caroline to give me a dare in the text. Caroline smirked when she read the text and nodded to me silently. Next time the bottle stopped to Bonnie.
"Okay, Bonnie truth or dare?" I asked her. Bonnie didn't have to think to answer that question.
"Truth of course." Bonnie would never choose a dare in fear that we would ask her to do something extremely embarrassing.
"Okay, when did you loose your virginity and to whom?" I asked smirking and Bonnie blushed right away. Caroline just laughed at her embarrassment.
"I lost my virginity in my sophomore year and his name was Ben. He is a family friend who came to visit us" answering the question, Bonnie span the bottle and it stopped to Caroline this time.
"Truth or Dare Caroline?" asked Bonnie. Caroline thought about it for a moment.
"Dare" chose vampire barbie.
"Go to the bar and get a drink for yourself without using compulsion." Bonnie dared Caroline, making her groan out loud. Right then she noticed Matt still working at the bar. A smile spread across her lips immediately.
"Be right back" said Caroline happily and she walked over to the bar. Caroline asked Matt for a drink. After hesitating a bit, he gave her one. Like Matt could say no to Caroline. Vampire barbie returned to the table with a victorious grin on her face. She was holding the glass like a trophy. Bonnie rolled her eyes at Caroline but I gave her a high five. Caroline sipped from her drink as she span the bottle. I was really hoping that the bottle would stop to me and this time it did, thankfully. Caroline grinned broadly.
"Okay Jacqueline Gilbert, truth or deadly dare?" asked Caroline trying to sound spooky. I smirked and smugly said-
"Deadly dare of course." This is going to be fun. I thought to myself. Caroline thought about it for a moment and then said-
"Pick a guy and make out with him in front of us" said Caroline with nonchalant tone of voice. Bonnie however gasped out loud hearing that.
"Caroline, no this is-" Bonnie couldn't say more because I cut her off.
"Easy, just need to pick a good looking guy." I said and Bonnie gaped at me with wide eyes. I ignored the look on Bonnie's face and started looking around the room for a hot looking guy. Of course he needs to be hot, not any guy would do it for me even if it's just a dare. While checking the room, I noticed Damon staring at me this time. Rose was no exception. Obviously they were eavesdropping in on our conversation. I pretended never to look at them and spotted a guy at the pool table. He was kind of cute looking among his friends.
"Be right back" saying that I got up from my seat and started walking towards the guy. Bonnie was still gaping at me while Caroline was still smirking at me. I made my way over to the guy gracefully.
"Excuse me?" I said to get the boy's attention. He looked at me and I proceeded to introduce myself.
"Hey, I am Jacqueline Gilbert. Can I talk to you for a moment please?" I asked politely and the boy nodded his head.
"Yeah, sure Jacqueline." He was paying his full attention to me.
"Please call me Jacq. Um, what is your name by the way?" I asked with hesitation. And no I wasn't feeling nervous. It's called natural acting. The boy gave me a pleasant smile. He looked like a senior at a high school. His friends were kind of gawking at me. They were obviously wondering about why I was suddenly talking to their friend.
"I am Collin. It's nice to meet you Jacq." Collin put his hand out for me to shake. I held his hand and shook it lightly. Collin didn't let go of my hand immediately. He brought my hand up to his lips and he kissed the back of my palm with a smirk. That single move was evident enough to clarify that Collin is a player type. Well good for me. To make my acting more believable, I blushed brightly and made sure he noticed it.
"Nice to meet you too Collin. I know this is going to sound very... I don't know awkward considering we just met. But I was hoping you could do me a favor." I said with sultry tone of voice much like Katherine.
"Sure. What can I do for you?" asked Collin and he sounded more than willing. I walked him away from his friends first.
"You see I am playing truth or dare with my friends over there." I pointed Caroline and Bonnie to him. "My friend Caroline, dared me to make out with the hottest looking guy in the Grill right now. I was hoping you could help me win since you are the most handsome one here obviously." I pampered Collin and he smirked hearing that. Satisfied about my opinion concerning him.
"Well, what can I say? It will be my pleasure" saying that Collin grabbed my waist and pulled me closer to him in a swift move however with human speed of course. He crushed his lips on mine eagerly. Even though I felt completely uncomfortable but my lips started moving against his. I let my fingers tangle in his brunet hair and pulled Collin closer to me more. I felt nothing during making out with Collin. No offense, the guy seemed like a great kisser but it didn't create any spark in my body like it would have if Damon was kissing me. I managed to glance at the bar and saw Damon with a murderous look on his face. Even his vampire face was coming out. Rose was trying to take Damon out of the Grill. I just needed to make things worse therefore, I moaned in the kiss loudly. The sound infuriated Damon however made Collin smirk. He deepened the kiss immediately. Damon was about to walk over to us but Rose used her vampire strength and pushed Damon out of the Grill. Thankfully not a lot of people noticed the drama. I broke the kiss immediately after Damon left.
"That would do the work Collin, thanks." I said with a small smile and tried to walk away from him. But Collin grabbed my wrist and stopped me from leaving.
"How about we continue this at my place?" suggested Collin and I smiled at him artificially.
"Sure if my girl friends let me but you have to ask them about it first." I said and thankfully Caroline and Bonnie came over to us right away. Caroline looked at Collin deeply into his eyes and started compelling him.
"You helped Jacq with her dare and now you are gonna let her go with a good bye and never talk to her again." Collin repeated the same thing in first person though. He walked back to his friends and the three of us walked out of the Grill. Caroline dropped me home and drove away. When I entered the house, no one was inside. It seemed to be empty. I knew Jeremy was at Anna's place and Jenna must be staying with Ric tonight. Elena is probably with Stefan at the boarding house and god knows where Uncle John is. I was feeling exhausted and wanted to just crash in my bed. The day was long and tiring to say the least. I made my way up to my bedroom. I almost forgot how it feels to be alone in a house. I turned on the lights and found out that I wasn't so alone after all. Damon was sitting on my bed. I guess his presence in my room was inevitable after what happened in the Grill. I leaned against the door frame with arms crossed over my chest.
"Damon, what brought you here? I thought you will be busy with Andy the entire night or did she fail to be a perfect distraction for you." I wondered with a coy smile on my lips. Damon didn't move from his place but he spoke up.
"You have no idea what you are getting yourself into Jacq." Damon said with seriousness in his voice but I wasn't really feeling like being serious at the moment.
"Yeah you are right about that. I don't know what is going on and who's fault is that exactly?" I asked being sarcastic about it because I am definitely not the one who refused to tell me things. In a blink of an eye Damon was standing right in front of me but I didn't move away and remained still. Damon thought about something for a moment, then he slowly caressed my face with one hand.
"Do you know what I wanted to do when I saw you-" his breath hitched in his throat as he spoke. "kissing someone else." It seemed that it hurt Damon to even say it out loud.
"No Damon, I don't know." I said calmly. His abnormal behavior wasn't scaring me at all. Damon leaned in closer to me and brushed his lips against mine. His words hit my lips as he spoke up this time.
"I wanted to kill you." Damon said really meaning it and the way he said it, it seemed that the idea was really tempting to him.
"I wanted to drain you dry." Damon snaked his hands around my waist slowly. His voice low, dark and dangerous.
"I wanted to rip your heart out." The way Damon was talking, it was frightening to say the least. But I didn't feel scared. Perhaps I was too stubborn to feel any fear. Instead of freaking out, I calmly asked Damon.
"Then why didn't you?" This time I was serious as well. Damon looked into my eyes intensely.
"I would have if Rose hadn't stopped me" said Damon and I knew he was telling the truth. I lowered my eyes from him for a moment before looking back at Damon.
"Are you going to kill me now?" I asked with cold emotionless tone of voice. Damon gulped before answering that question.
"I want to, I really want to, you drive me crazy Jacq" said Damon with frustration and I couldn't help but smirk at that.
"Then do it." I said fearlessly and dared Damon to kill me. Not because I knew Damon wouldn't do anything like that but because I knew he really could kill me at the moment and I didn't want to fear death. Especially when Damon is going to be my killer. We stared at each other for a moment and suddenly Damon captured my lips with his and he started to kiss me hungrily. I didn't hold back a bit and started to kiss him back with passion. My hand instantly wrapped around his neck and I pulled Damon closer to me. If this is a way to die then I am more than happy to get killed. In a blink of an eye, I was on my bed. Pinned on it by Damon. He was roughly kissing me while being on top of me. There was hunger in his touch and urgency in his kisses. Damon was more like punishing me for kissing someone else. His tongue dominated me in my mouth as his hands crazily roamed over my body. Damon left my mouth only to kiss my neck and throat madly. His eyes turned red already and his vampire face came out. Damon leaned in my ear and whispered with husky tone of voice.
"I am not going to kill you Jacq" said Damon and he bit on my earlobe lightly, making me shiver from inside.
"Tonight I will make you mine."
AN: Okay guys you know what's coming up in the next chapter. But I still haven't finished writing it yet. So I am going for 485 number or more reviews. So that I will get me enough time. Love you guys.