Chapter 17

Weeks went by, Cassie would train Jeremy and his crew every morning with Mason, then Mason and her would go and have breakfast and chat. Cassie would hang out with Damon or Kol and Rebecca and life went on.

Elena still hasn't talked to Cassie and Stefan really wanted to help her. He talked to Cassie and he didn't see why Elena was so against her.

"Elena please just talk to her" Stefan pleaded to her

"Stefan I don't want to" Elena said.

"Stefan I don't want to" Katherine mocked listening in on the conversation.

Damon laughed to himself.

"What are you even still doing here?" Elena asked glaring at her

"Causing trouble and annoying you," she said.

Damon stood up and started to leave.

"Where are you going?" Elena asked walked over to him.

"I'm leaving, I cant take the two of you fighting" Damon said. "Elena either talk to your sister or don't but make a decision" and he left.

"Where is he running off to?" Stefan asked Elena

"Probably going to see Cassie" Katherine said.

Elena turned to her. "Why are you still here?"

Katherine rolled her eyes and walked out of the house.

Elena turned to Stefan and hugged him. Stefan kissed the top of her head and then rested his chin on her head. He could sense the tension she was feeling so he was trying to help her calm down.

"Damon is right" she said, "I need to talk to her."

"When?" Stefan asked

Elena took a deep breath "tonight" she said.

She looked up at Stefan and kissed him. He returned it and the two of them stayed like that for a while, just enjoying each other, taking a break from reality.

Damon walked into the Grill and was happy to see Cassie there by herself. She was sitting at the table with and order of fries and reading a book. He sat down across from her.

"Damon Salvatore, tell me what have I done to deserve your presence." She said from behind her book.

"Well I could say its because you look amazing today" he said.

Cassie set her book down and looked at him.

"Elena and Katherine were going at it again," he finally told her

She smiled "that doesn't surprise me" she said.

Damon reached over and took a French fry.

"And you left Stefan to deal with it all by himself?" she asked

"Yep" he said popping the p

"Poor guy" she said.

Damon laughed "don't worry he is probably going to give her some your senses are heightened junk"

Cassie groaned, " I swear if I have to hear that one more I'm going to scream"

Damon laughed and got an idea "I know what we could do to have fun with it" he said mysteriously.

Cassie squinted her eyes "what?" she asked hesitantly.

Damon leaned forward and motioned her to lean to.

She did.

She was very much aware of how close the two of them were. She could smell his cologne and loved to stare into his blue eyes.

"Drinking game," he whispered.

Cassie saw the excitement in his eyes and couldn't help but catch it.

"Yes" she whispered back smiling.

The two leaned back and continued to talk.

Damon wanted nothing more then to kiss her then but something held him back, he didn't know how to try and win Cassie over. She was different and he liked that. Over the past weeks Damon started to think more about Cassie and less about Elena, in fact Elena was starting to annoy him. He needed to do something he couldn't take just sitting there and staring at her.

"Do you want to play darts?" he blurted out.

Cassie looked over at the dartboard and back at Damon. She bit her lip.

Damon wanted to kiss her right then.

"I'm not really the best dart person," she confessed.

Damon got up and walked over to her. He grabbed her hand and whispered in her eye.

"Don't worry I'll teach you"

Cassie's heart fluttered and she nodded. Allowing Damon to take her over to the dartboard.

She grabbed a dart and stood across from the board.

"Ok, oh wise one, teach," she said.

Damon walked behind her and placed his hands on her hips.

"Make sure you have a balanced stance," he whispered in her ear

He left his left hand on her hip and moved his right hand to her shoulder "make sure everything is lined up with the board." He continued in her ear.

"Your shoulder" he said running his hand over her shoulder.

"Your arm" he said moving his hand down her arm.

"And finally your wrist" he said fixing her wrist.

"Hold the dart between theses two fingers," he said playing with her fingers.

Cassie couldn't breath all she could think of was Damon, his hands, his breath on her neck as he told her what to do.

"And finally" he said. "You need to tuck this hair behind you ear, you can't see if it's in your face." He tucked the hair behind her hair and trailed his fingers on her neck.

Cassie couldn't take it anymore. She turn around to face Damon who still had a hand on her hip and one on her neck.

She looked up at him and Damon ran his hand into her hair.

He could hear her heart and he smiled down at her and leaned in.

She couldn't control her breathing and her heart all she knew was that she wanted to kiss him. She put her hand up to his face as he leaned in.

Damon loved the feeling of her hands on his face. He couldn't believe this was happening.

RRRRIIINNNNGGGG

Both of their phones went off. Cassie sighed and Damon groaned as they went to answer their phones.

"Hello" Cassie answered

"This better be important" Damon growled.

"Ok Matt slow down where is he" Cassie asked

"And you can't deal with this by yourself?" Damon asked

"Ok I'm at the grill I'll be right there" Cassie said hanging up.

"I'm at the grill be right there" Damon said hanging up.

They turned back to each other; the passion of the moment was lost in the emergency.

"Jeremy" Cassie said.

"I know" Damon said, "I'll give you a ride.

Rebecca was sitting at the bar and watched as the two almost kissed. She sighed, it was obvious they liked each other from the way they had been acting around each other.

Her phone rang the same time that theirs did and her brother summoned her to the Salvatores.

Rebecca beat the other two the house and walked in. she saw Caroline, Matt, Elijah, Kol, Katherine, Alaric, Stefan and Elena all standing on edge. But caught her attention was standing in the middle of the room was Jeremy with a white oak stake and it was pointed right on Klaus

Cassie spent the entire ride over there thinking about the almost kiss. And trying to get calm back down but she was flustered. Damon wasn't talking about it and she didn't know if he wanted to talk about it or if he was even thinking about it.

What she didn't know was Damon couldn't get his mind off of how that was twice he had built up enough courage to kiss her and been interrupted, and from there he was thinking about how he shouldn't of even had to work up the courage he was Damon for god's sake.

They pulled up the house and Cassie walked in and took a second to see the situation but didn't hesitate and walked up right between Klaus and Jeremy.

"Jeremy" she said

"Cassie" he said, "he said, that"

"Jeremy, look at me" she said in her calm tone.

Jeremy looked at his sister "don't take your eyes off of me," she said.

He nodded.

Damon walked in and saw Jeremy standing with a stake pointed at Cassie. He started to walk over there but Alaric grabbed his arm and shook his head.

Damon stopped and looked him and nodded.

Klaus was stunned that this girl, this human, would walk right up and stand between him and her brother. "Look" he said but was cut off when she stuck her hand behind him to be quiet.

"Jeremy take a deep breath," she said soothingly

Jeremy did without taking his eyes off of his sister.

"Feeling better?" she asked

Jeremy did, feel a little like his old self so he nodded.

"Ok. Why don't you hand me the stake?" she said holding her hand up.

Jeremy put the stake in her hand and then lowered his.

Cassie took a deep breath happy that this was over until she looked at her wrist Jeremy was squeezing it.

"No" he growled, "they deserve to die"

"Jeremy" she said, "these are your friends and family, they didn't chose this path and they are dealing with it the best they can"

Klaus couldn't believe what he saw, he saw Jeremy and how tight he was holding onto his sister's wrist but she wasn't even noticing,

"Actually" he started again but Cassie throws her hand back up again to get him to be quiet.

Jeremy kept looking at his sister. "They aren't" he growled, "They have just killed and not thought about anyone else, they killed Jenna"

"And we don't know who their bloodline they came from, if you kill one of them you are sentencing everyone else to death." She replied back

"That doesn't excuse what they have done," he said.

"No, it doesn't, but who are you to decided the fate of the countless others who will die?" she asked him.

Jeremy started shaking "Cassie" he said "I…cant"

Cassie nodded "ok, I can help but it's going to hurt." She told him

Jeremy nodded and she reversed the grip he had on her wrist and she took the side of him hand and slammed it against the wall, making Jeremy pass out.

Cassie looked at Damon and threw the stake to him.

Damon blurred away and hid the stake.

Cassie nodded towards Alaric and Matt who helped get Jeremy into Alaric car and they drove off to the Gilbert's house.

After that everyone took a deep breath.

"That was either very brave or incredibly stupid love," Klaus told her

"You told me to help my brother, so I did" she said walking over to pour her a drink.

Klaus chuckled and Elijah walked over to her.

"What my brother is trying to say is thank you for fixing this situation?" he told her

Cassie smiled at him "your welcome."

Elijah stared at her for a couple of seconds taking her appearance, she was frazzled but he didn't think it was about what had just happened.

Damon came back and Cassie snuck a look over to him.

Elijah didn't miss it, neither did Klaus.

Damon went over and poured himself a drink.

"So what happened?" he asked

"Well Klaus came over and was telling us his riveting tale of how he had his hybrids dig for the sword." Katherine said.

Cassie smiled and walked over to the couch and sat down. Damon followed and sat on the arm next to her.

"So tell me about this riveting tale" Cassie said.

Damon laughed and Klaus glared.

They all settled back down to hear what Klaus had to say.

"I found the sword" he said "my part is done we just need to get the map from Jeremy, how many vampires has he killed since you got here?" he asked

"We almost had one today" she said smiling.

Damon and Elijah chuckled.

"Now here is my question, once we get you the completed map then what?" she replied

"We use the sword to decipher the map," he told

"Then what?" she asked

Klaus looked at her confused.

"Is it just magically going to be waiting there? Or like most witches spells are we going to need certain ingredients. I mean just to break your hybrid curse you needed so much, imagine what you need to break an important curse." She said.

Klaus stared at her, and Cassie stared right back not backing down.

Cassie's phone rang.

She grabbed it finally breaking eye contact with Klaus.

"Hello?" she asked

"Cassie" Alaric's voice said "Jeremy is starting to wake up"

Cassie nodded "ok, I'm heading over there now." She said and hung up.

Elena hearing everything that was said over the phone stood up.

"I just can't believe this is happening to Jeremy," she said

Damon got off the arm of the couch and walked over to her.

"Hey, it's going to be ok" he said giving her a hug and rubbing a circle on her back with his hand.

Cassie glanced over at the two of them. Klaus noticed something flashing in her eyes but it was gone before he could tell what it was. She drained her drink and stood up.

"Cassie is helping him," Damon said still comforting Elena

Elena looked up at him then over at Cassie "I can see how much she is helping him. He almost got himself killed today"

Klaus was still watching Cassie she was busying her self pouring herself a drink.

Elijah was watching the girl as well; he was impressed, nothing except her hand tightening around her glass.

Katherine however was glaring at Damon and Elena, which didn't go unnoticed by Stefan.

Cassie's phone rang again.

She pulled it out and looked at the id she sighed and answered it.

"What?" she said walking into the kitchen.

Damon and Elena finally stopped hugging and went to sit down. Klaus was trying to hear what Cassie was saying on the phone but he found that she had turned the water on so he couldn't hear.

Kol laughed at his brother "she is a vampire hunter did you honestly think she was going to listen in on her phone conversation."

Cassie walked into the kitchen and turned the faucet on as the person on the other side of the phone talked.

"Ok, ok" she said "calm down,"

"I cant calm down they have her!" the voice yelled

"I understand but if you don't have a plan your going to get yourself killed."

"I have a plan, lure the bloodsucker here and kill him"

"And that's a sucky plan if you wait I'll come down there and help"

"Of course you'll help because if you don't I'll tell your big secret"

"Are you threatening me?" Cassie growled, "Because if you are then your even more stupid then I thought, because what you are threatening me with should send you running to the hills."

"Cassie I um was-wasn't t-th-thinking" the voice stammered

"Put Blake on" she growled

"Cassie look Dom is an idiot"

"I know that's why I'm talking to you," she said turning the water off and walking back into the living room. "But if you ever threaten me again" she growled.

Elijah, Klaus, Kol, and Damon all turned at hearing Cassie sound like that.

"I know Cass, he just can't lose her"

"I know," she said hanging up and grabbing her bag.

"Kat" Cassie began "Isaac got himself in trouble I'm going down there before he does anything stupid."

Katherine nodded and threw her keys to Cassie who grabbed them and started to leave.

"Wait your leaving?" Elena asked.

I'll be back most likely tomorrow" she said

"So you're just going to leave Jeremy, you are suppose to be helping him," Elena said

"I am helping him Elena" Cassie said

"Well I can tell especially after today your doing a great job."

Cassie just turned around and left.

"Figures" Elena muttered.

Katherine blurred over to Elena and grabbed her throat. She threw her across the room and blurred back over to her pinning her to the wall.

"Your sister just left to go help her friend who's four year old sister was taken so why don't you get off your high horse for one moment." Katherine growled.

After she said that Katherine let go of Elena and left the house.

The originals were all looking at each other.

"Well that's our cue" Rebecca said.

The other three nodded, stood up and left.

Stefan, Damon and Elena all turned towards each other.

"I didn't know" Elena whispered.

"Well maybe you should ask before you yell at her" Damon said and went up the stairs.

Stefan smiled at Damon; he knew why Damon was getting so worked up about Elena yelling at Cassie.

AN: Longest chapter yet! keep telling me your guys opinion.