First of all to answer a couple questions I got after the first chapter was posted. 1) The kids are entirely human. 2) Mostly everyone knows Damon and Elena are vampires, and are fine with it as long as they dont kill anyone in town and maintain their blood bag diet, likewise with Caroline, Stefan and Lexi. 3) the town is slightly more open to the supernatural. Hope that clears up most of the questions, if not feel free to ask me. Here is the new chapter, it starts out quite slow but i picks up at the end. I kept rewriting, trying to eliminate the last part until a further date,but my muse refused to cooperate. they wanted this intense scene to happen now. The next couple chapters are going to be angsty. Hope you like it. Let me know what you think pretty please. Thank you for all the feedback on the first chapter. You get to meet our first villain in this chapter. Happy reading :)
PS i own nothing except the characters I made up.
"What to do? What to do? Our kids are at school and we have nowhere to be. Oh the options." Damon said as he walked into the living room to find Elena reading a book.
"What do you have going on inside that brilliant mind Damon Salvatore?" Elena asked looking up from her book. It was clear from his expression that he had something big on his mind, and that something big most likely involved them naked and in bed. She couldn't fight that, she wanted him as much as he wanted her.
"Well lets see here, no kids, just the two of us and a perfectly perfect bed upstairs waiting for us. What do you say Mrs Salvatore?" he asked.
"I'd say race you upstairs." she said standing up and vamp speeding up to their room. He caught up almost immediately and slammed her into the bedroom door. She giggled as she pushed him towards the bed. She fell on top of him as they kissed languidly. Just as she started undoing the phone on the bedside table started ringing.
"Ignore it." he instructed as he tried to get her shirt off. Her hands had paused on the buttons of his.
"I cant. What if its important?" she asked rolling off of him and picking up the phone from its cradle.
"Hello?" she greeted. "Yes this is she." she answered.
"This is Principal Walters, and we have our son in the office, Aiden Salvatore. We need you or your husband to come down and retrieve him." the principal instructed.
"What did he do?" she asked.
"Just come and get him please." she said.
"Okay, we'll be right there." Elena said before hanging up the phone.
"What?" he asked.
"Aiden is in some sort of trouble. We have to go get him." she explained as she redid the few buttons he'd gotten undone.
"Damn kid. My son- the cockblocker." he muttered as he did up the buttons on his shirt. She laughed at the mutinous expression on his face and took his hand.
"Come on pouty. Let's go get your son. Being a parent never ends." she said.
"He knows that if he does something wrong, he's not supposed to get caught. He knows that. Now I am missing out on sexy time with my very very sexy wife because of his stupidity." he whined. He drove them to the school and parked close to the entrance. They walked to the office and took a seat waiting for the principal to call them in.
"Mr and Mrs Salvatore please come in." the middle aged woman said. They got up and followed the principal into the room and saw their son sitting in a chair against the wall with a defiant expression on his face.
"I called you in here today before your son here is a deviant." she said glaring at the teenager.
"What did he do now?" Elena asked.
"He was caught doing drugs on school property. That is grounds for immediate expulsion." she said.
"Principal Walters, don't expel him please. He's rebelling. That's normal in a teenage boy." Elena said.
"Mr and Mrs Salvatore, I know that usually you're used to getting whatever you want with you vampire status and even more so because you're two of the few accepted vampires in Mystic Falls, but don't pull that crap with me. I'm not expelling him today, but this is his last warning. And he's suspended for two weeks." she said.
"Sounds fair." Elena agreed.
"You need to control your son better because along with the drugs he always has an entourage of girls just aching to be touched by him. Its a very unhealthy lifestyle for someone so young to have." she said calmly.
"I'm aware." Elena said.
"Very well. Thank you for coming in and you may leave." she said pointing to the door. They got up and left the room pulling Aiden along with them.
"Drugs on school property? Are you serious Aiden?" Elena shouted once they were in the car.
"Whats the big deal Elena?" Damon asked.
"The big deal is that our son is doing drugs on school property." she explained. "Don't you realize how quickly your future can be destroyed Aiden?" she yelled.
"Look mom, I don't think about the future. I live in the moment." he defended.
"That outlook got me through several years relatively unscathed." Damon told his wife.
"You're so not helping here." she said glaring at Damon. "Along with your suspension, you're also grounded for the two weeks. Don't get any smart ideas about going out with friends at all during this time frame. You're going to sit at home and reflect on what you've done." she said.
"Great another two weeks added to my already stupid sentence?" he asked rhetorically.
"Yes, and complain and you get another week added on." she said angrily. Aiden wisely stayed silent.
"I think you're being overly harsh on him. He's a teenage boy, he'll rebel. That's what they do." Damon said as he pulled into the garage.
"That's what they do? Damon we're supposed to be a team. You're supposed to be helping me, not defending his actions." Elena said.
"Look, I know. But this is how teenage boys act." he defended.
"Thank you dad." Aiden cheered.
"This is not how my son acts. I don't know what you think a responsible teenage boy should act like, but its obviously not the same idea as I have." she said making herself a cup of coffee.
"Look, I just don't think we should him further than what the school did. He's suspended for two weeks Elena, that's enough." he said.
"No its not. He's got this attitude lately, he thinks he elite, he thinks he's more important than everyone else. He needs to learn differently." she said.
"So?" Damon asked, tensions were rising.
"So, you taught him that. This Aiden we have is your fault. You've successfully molded him into everything bad about you. He uses girls constantly, never committing to just one. He binge drinks and uses drugs constantly. I don't know what to do with him. You've successfully taken my son away from me. He's all yours. He's not grounded. You can deal with him. Congratulations, you've taken my son away from me." she said turning around and walking upstairs.
"Dad..." Aiden started. He hated seeing his parents fight, it made him feel vulnerable. He didn't know what he'd do if one of them ever left. He would be more disastrous than he was now. And he hated that he was the cause of one of the worst fights his parents had had lately, it was all because of him.
"What Aiden?" Damon asked.
"I don't want you and mom to fight." he admitted.
"It's kind of late for that." Damon muttered.
"What if I decided that I wanted to be grounded, all the punishments that mom thinks I deserve. I'll take them. I just don't want you guys to fight, especially not about me. I know I sound somewhat like a five year old right now, but I don't care. If you guys break up, I'll be even more screwed up than I am now." he said.
"Your mom and I aren't going to break up. We may fight, but its out defence mechanism. It shouldn't be but it is. I love her and I like to think that she loves me. But you don't deserve these punishments." Damon said adamantly.
"Yes I do. If it'll make mom smile again, and have some hope that maybe I can turn out okay. I'm not stupid dad. I know that if mom loses hope in me, then that means I'm doomed." he said.
"Your mom still believes in you, she's just a little wounded. You're actions have put her through the wringer lately." Damon said.
"I know. Do you think she'll forgive me if I try to be better?" he asked hopefully.
"Of course she will. Your mom is nothing is she's not too forgiving for her own goods. But before you go talk to her, I need to. She's mad at me, not so much at you." he said standing up and bracing himself for a tirade from his wife.
He walked upstairs and opened the bedroom door. Elena was laying across the bed writing in her diary, something he knew she did when she was mad, or when she had no one to talk to.
"Hey." he said cursing his lame opening line.
"I don't want to see you." she said focusing entirely on her book.
"You don't have to. But you do have to listen to me." he said.
"I do, do I?" Why don't you go mold our son, into an even more awful person. You've done such a good job at that." she said sarcastically.
"He's accepting your punishments. He was really affected when you said that more or less he wasn't your son anymore. Like me, he cant bear to lose you. You hold this family together." he said sitting beside her on the bed.
"Then why the hell do you always undermine me? Make me feel like I'm the only one willing to reprimand our kids on anything except for yesterday when Aurora had Nathan over." she said.
"Because I want to be accepted by my kids. I want them to think of me as the "cool dad" and so far I've been successful." he said honestly.
"So in your efforts to be the "cool dad" you've completely left my side. Damon in order to be good parents we need to be a team. You need to help me, I cant be the only one doing the disciplining." she said.
"I know. I really am sorry." he said.
"I know." she agreed.
"I love you." he said pulling her to his side.
"I love you too." she agreed letting him pull her closer. "Do you think he can be fixed?" she asked.
"It'll take some time, but it can happen. Look at me, I don't use women anymore, for the past 17 years I've been firmly with one woman." he said. She smiled at him and leaned in to kiss him softly.
"I better go talk to Aiden." she sighed.
"Yes you should. He thinks he's lost you forever." Damon said. She sighed and went down the hall to her sons room. She could see him sitting on his bed with his eyes closed, headphones covering his ears. She knew that if he had his door it would be shut. He opened his eyes as she approached the bed.
"Can we talk?" she asked, he took his headphones off as she approached.
"I guess so." he answered.
"I'm sorry. I was more lashing out at your father than I was at you. I love you, every version of you Aiden. I'm your mother and I will love you unconditionally no matter what you do. I don't want to change you, I just wish you'd be more careful. You're human and all these things can affect you in your future. It would be one thing if you were born half vampire of something, but you weren't. You're entirely human and all these drugs and alcohol can kill you Aiden. You're father drinks because it helps curb the blood lust. You don't have that problem. And when it comes to girls, I don't want to come home to you having a different girl here everyday. That's not how we raised you. So yes while I'm disappointed, I don't, cant and would never hate you. You're my only son and I love you." she said.
"I'm sorry about today mom. I really am. I try to make you and dad proud. I do. But it never works out. It didn't take long but I turned into a bad version of who I could be. If I promise to try harder, will you promise to let me have some space, and maybe my bedroom door back?" he asked hopefully with a hint of his fathers smirk on his face.
"That's a nearly irresistible option. Fine if you try you can have your door back." she agreed.
"Great, that's funny. Dad told me that the smirk would only work for him. He was wrong." Aiden said gleefully.
"It wasn't the smirk. It was that you promised to be good." she corrected him.
"Whatever." he said smiling. Elena got up and walked out of the room just as she heard the front door open.
"Mom, dad. I'm home." Aurora called walking in the front door.
"How was school sweetheart." Elena asked coming down the stairs.
"I heard that Aiden was suspended for two weeks." she noted.
"He is, and we've already dealt with it so its not any of your business." Elena said.
"alright. I'm gonna go do my homework before dinner." she said going upstairs. She passed Damon on the stairs and he joined his wife in the kitchen.
"Know what we need? I was just thinking while I was upstairs." he said wrapping his arms around her.
"What do we need?" she asked curiously.
"A couple days alone. We could go to the Boarding House, spend a couple nights. What do you think?" he asked kissing the side of her neck.
"I think it sounds wonderful, but we cant be away from the kids for two nights." she said.
"Fine, how about just overnight?" he suggested.
"That sounds good." Elena admitted.
"and besides I've already tested it out, it takes me 2 minutes in my Camaro to drive from the boarding house to here, going at way above the posted speed limit." he told her.
"Now I feel better." she said.
"We really need some time alone. We're both tense and we're taking it out on each other." he said hugging her tighter.
"I know. When shall we do this?" she asked.
"Friday?" he suggested.
"Sounds perfect." she agreed before going back to cooking dinner.
At dinner that night they ran it by the kids.
"Okay, so your father and I are going to stay at the Boarding House overnight on Friday for some good old fashioned alone time. Are you okay with that?" Elena asked.
"Yeah." Aurora said. "It's cool." Aiden answered.
"Good." Elena replied pleased.
"Uh, is it alright if Lilah stays over Friday night?" Aurora asked.
"Of course. Lilah is always welcome here." Elena said.
"Can I go stay at Travis's for a night of video games?" Aiden asked.
"What about our discussion earlier?" Elena asked.
"We will do nothing illegal mom. I promise. We've actually been planning this for a while. We've been friends since we were five and we want to hang out like we used to. Drug, girls and alcohol free." he promised.
"I guess that's fine." Elena agreed.
"Aurora, since you'll be alone with Lilah overnight. You remember what we taught you about vampires?" Damon asked, hating the idea of leaving his daughter unattended.
"Yes, don't invite anyone in unless you know them. And even if you do know them don't actually say the words that invite them in because you never know who got to them. Unless its Grandma and Grandpa, Jeremy, Bonnie, Caroline, Tyler, Alaric,Jenna, Stefan or Lexi." she listed.
"Very good." Damon said nodding.
"You've told us several times." she reminded him.
"I know." he said non repentantly.
"Dad, I've been meaning to talk to you about something. It's been happening for around a week now." she said.
"What?" he asked.
"Every time I leave the school there is this black car parked there. Sometimes I can see the driver, he's obviously a vampire that doesn't have good control over his instincts." she said.
"And he's always around? What does he do?" Damon demanded, not liking the sound of this.
"Always, whenever I leave the school and he's always watching me. His face is always like yours when you get hungry with the veins and fangs." she said.
"Has he ever tried anything? Have you ever seen him anywhere other than at school?" Damon asked.
"No. I only ever see him at school. He watches me leave the school and then he speeds away. He's never approached me or anything. I just didn't know what to think of it you know?" she asked.
"It's okay. I guess just ignore him as much as possible. He wont try anything with lots of humans around. He wouldn't dare come around here,he'll smell me and your mom on the house. Don't go anywhere alone whether you have Lilah with you or someone else." Damon said not seeing any immediate danger in the new threat.
"OK. I feel better now that I told you." she said. Damon nodded and went back to eating dinner, Elena glanced at him worriedly.
"It'll be fine. I don't see him attacking." he assured his wife.
When Friday finally came around Damon and Elena stood at the front door. Aiden had left already for his friends house and they stood at the front door talking to Aurora and Lilah.
"Have you seen the vampire again since we talked about it Monday night?" Damon asked.
"No. He seems to have disappeared." Aurora said.
"Good. Remember the rules. Here is money for pizza. Don't leave the house. All the windows are locked, I already checked. I made vervain tea for you just in case and you're wearing your locket. Lilah drink some of the tea to protect you please. Nathan does not enter this house. If you need anything call us we can be home in under two minutes. Only answer phone numbers you recognize and if for some reason something goes wrong so to the safe area, behind our closet in our bedroom." he listed, ticking numbers off on his fingers.
"Got it dad. Have a good night." she said gently shoving him towards the door.
"Yeah. We'll call you later to check in." he said.
"Don't worry about it. We'll call you if we need anything." Aurora said shoving him again towards the door.
"Fine. I get the hint. I'll see you tomorrow." he said going to join Elena by the car. Aurora shut and locked the door and went into the living room.
"You're lucky you know that?" Lilah said.
"Why do you say that?" she asked knowing it was true.
"Your dad loves you like crazy. Mine doesn't care as much." she said.
"I am lucky." she said smiling.
Damon drove to the boarding house at almost mach speed. He wanted to begin is alone time with his wife as soon as possible. Barging into the house he sped them up to the bedroom and immediately started tearing clothes. He was desperate for her and she was desperate for him. The pace was satisfying to both of them. They kissed, licked and nibbled every inch of each others bodies. When he finally slid into her it felt like coming home. They moved together at a more than satisfying pace as they called each others names and clawed at each others skin. She came first and he followed directly after her locked in a lovers embrace, nothing existing in their post coital bubble but them.
"When is that damn pizza going to get here? I'm getting hungry." Aurora groaned nibbling on a potato chip as she desperately waited for the pizza to arrive. The girls were sitting on the floor in the living room with a mountain of blankets and pillows surrounding them. The sound of the doorbell filled the air and Aurora got up to answer the door. The pizza man on the other side of the door appeared vaguely familiar but she couldn't place him.
"Come on in." she said gesturing for him to put the pizza on the table. He obliged and then turned to take the money from her. When he turned to face her again she was shocked. Standing in front of her was the vampire that had been stalking her for the past week. He bared his fangs and Aurora immediately pulled out her phone from her pocket and started dialling her dads cell. The vampire sent the phone flying out of her hands and sent it smashing into the wall. Aurora backed up and joined Lilah standing by the stairs. Aurora had to try to get to them to her mom and dads room to the safe area. She couldn't believe she'd been so stupid, she invited the vampire in. And even if he left them alive tonight, he could come back again and again. He could go after Aiden next.
"I suppose you want to know who I am?" he asked.
"I don't care who you are." she spat back, needing to stay strong.
"I bet you want to know why I'm targeting you Aurora Salvatore." he said.
"How do you know my name?" she gasped.
"I know more than that. But this isn't about you. You're just a means to an end. This is for your father. This is my revenge for Maria." he said stalking the girls. By now he had lead them back into the living room as far away from the stairs as they could get.
"Who's Maria?" Aurora asked needing bide herself some time.
"That's none of your business." he roared. He backhanded Lilah and sent her flying across the room.
"Lilah." Aurora called worried.
"You're mine now Aurora." he said staring into the blue eyed teenagers terrified eyes. Aurora glanced over to where Lilah was stirring on the floor. She sat up holding her arm from the way she landed on it.
"You're mine now Aurora." he repeated as he produced a syringe filled with a clear liquid. He stuck it in her arm and she felt her world slipping away to darkness. Lilah screamed and started scrambling for the cordless phone. She needed to call someone, needed to save her best friends life. The vampire dropped Aurora and sped over to the brave human.
"Naive little human. No one can save you now." he said baring his fangs and biting into her. He left her alive,he needed her to deliver the message to Damon. Before leaving the house he walked downstairs and found a blood bag, and then walked upstairs into the master bedroom to write a little message. He couldn't depend on the teenager to convey his message, and she was too almost dead to compel. He sliced open the bag and used his finger to write a message on the bathroom mirror.
"You knew it would come to this. I told you it would come to this. I've just been biding my time. Game on Salvatore. Revenge is a dish best served cold." he wrote in blood on the mirror. He drank the rest of the blood, he kept the evidence of the blood bag with him. Wanting to worry Damon just a little bit more, thinking that it was his daughters blood covering his mirror. Returning to the living room he picked up Aurora an rushed out of the house to his car which was parked down the street. He disposed of the body of the pizza boy tossing it in the trunk of his car before speeding out of Mystic Falls.