Chapter 24

Damon was pacing his room trying to think how he was going to fix what happened between the. He wasn't even sure he understood what happened between them. He heard the shower turn off and waited a couple more minutes to give her time to get changed. He went and knocked on the door.

She opened it. "Damon" she said

"I know you're mad but please hear me out" he begged.

She nodded.

"I " Damon started but never got to finish it because the sound of glass breaking downstairs.

The two of them looked at each other then ran down stairs.

Klaus was sitting in the study when he heard Elijah and Kol come in.

"Brothers" he said, "what did you find?"

Elijah ran his hair through his hair. "Its not good, there have been signs of Mikael" he said.

Klaus stopped "that's not possible because I know for a fact he is dead" he said.

"Are you so sure?" Kol said. "Mother was a witch who preserved her body for a thousand years, is really that far of a stretch that should would save her husband?"

The two elder vampires looked at each other.

"If that's true." Elijah said "then we are looking at a full on attack from Mikael."

"Revenge style" Kol said.

"Ok, so right now its just rumors, no one has actually seen him yet?" Klaus said.

"As of right now" Elijah replied

"Ok, so we will treat it as a rumor for now," Klaus said.

The three brothers nodded.

"What about Rebecca?" Kol asked, "Should we tell her?"

"Not yet" Elijah said.

"She can't have another parent on Revenge Avenue." Klaus said.

Damon and Cassie made it down the steps and saw Katherine, Elena, and Stefan all fighting at least two vampires.

Without a word Cassie leapt into action jumping on the back of the vampire who was attacking Katherine.

Damon grabbed the arm of one of them who had ahold of Stefan. He quickly ripped his heart out and turned to his brother. "What happened?" he yelled.

The vampire Cassie was on ran her into a wall. Grunting she managed to stay on finding her hands around his neck and snapping it. He dropped and Cassie stepped around him.

Damon had another vampire's arms while Stefan ripped his heart out.

Katherine was holding her own she had killed the two around her. She looked and saw Elena struggling. She rolled her eyes and went over to help.

Cassie went over to help but a vampire grabbed her from behind he snaked his hand around her neck. "You smell delicious," he growled pressing his face into her neck. Cassie stabbed him in his side with a knife causing him to growl. "You bitch" he hissed taking it out of his side and putting it into Cassie. She cried out and bit his arm. He released her and she turned to him holding her side.

Damon and Stefan killed all the vampires around them. All that was left was the two Katherine and Elena were dealing with and the one Cassie was dealing with.

He smelled the blood before he saw it.

"Damon" Stefan gasped out

Damon turned to his brother who had gone full vamp mode. "Stefan go, I got the rest of this." He yelled at him.

Stefan nodded and blurred out of the house, the smell of Cassie's blood was to strong.

Damon saw Katherine take down one of the vampire's and start to help with the one Elena was dealing with.

He saw Cassie start to sway; she was losing a lot of blood and fast.

The vampire moved toward Cassie who sidestepped it and grabbed his arm. She brought it to him so the vampire pulled forward she kneed him in the face breaking his nose.

Damon took the opportunity and blurred behind the vampire and pulled out his heart.

Cassie looked at Damon and started to fall. "Hey" he said catching her. "Lets go sit down"

Katherine and Elena started to do vampire clean up while Damon tended to Cassie.

"Here" Damon said handing Cassie a drink "it'll help, I put some blood in it."

Cassie nodded and sipped her drink watching the two clean up.

"Who were they?" she asked softly not worried that nobody could hear her.

"I don't know" Katherine said, "never seen them before"

"I have" Damon said, "Russia, I might have slept with the czar's wife. Turns out the guy was a vampire"

Cassie shook her head and sipped her drink.

"How are you feeling?" Damon asked sitting down next to her.

"Better" she replied.

Damon put his arm on her back.

The vampire who's neck Cassie had snapped popped up and glared at Damon before blurring away before anyone had time to react.

"Let him go" Katherine said. And the two started clean up again.

"Where did Stefan go?" Cassie asked looking around and not seeing him.

"He smelled your blood and had to leave before he ate you." Damon said.

Cassie finished her drink. "Well I should go then." She said standing up.

"What? No" Damon said, "You don't have to"

"Yes I do, I'm not going to run Stefan away from his home, especially when I have a home to go to" she replied.

Damon looked at Katherine with help me look. Making sure that Cassie couldn't see her; Katherine made a steering the car motion. He nodded.

"I'll drive you," he said.

"Its fine I have my car" she said.

Damon blurred over to her. "You lost a lot of blood, I can drive your car home then walk back, go grab your bag." He said taking her keys.

Cassie didn't put up a fight being extremely tired from the blood loss. She walked into Katherine's room and grabbed her bag.

She walked back down the steps and walked to the front door.

"Rin I will see you tomorrow" she said.

Katherine nodded and the two of them walked out the front door.

Caroline and Rebecca were sitting at the grill talking about what Carol needed them to do for the dance.

"We need to figure out how to switch from dinner to the dancing" Rebecca said.

"But what?" Caroline said running her hands through her hair.

"Hey guys" matt said walking over to them. "Can I get you something?"

"Just a coke for me" Rebecca said.

"Fries and a milkshake" Caroline said smiling.

"Anything else?" matt asked.

""Yes" Rebecca said turning to him. "How would you let everyone know that dinner was done and its time to dance?" she asked.

"I tend to follow by example for those things" he replied.

"What things?" Tyler asked walking over to them kissing Caroline's cheek.

"Your mom's dance" matt said, "We need a transition from dinner to dance"

"Oh that's easy" Tyler said.

"What?" Caroline and Rebecca asked eagerly

"Flash mob" Tyler said shrugging.

"Seriously, that's your big idea" Caroline said

Rebecca looked out the window and saw the dance studio.

"Maybe not" Rebecca said. Caroline followed her gaze and saw the studio.

Caroline smiled "maybe not" she said agreeing with Rebecca.

Stefan was walking through the woods; he just needed to get out. Cassie's blood was too strong especially while he was getting off of his ripper binge.

He felt his phone vibrate

Hey buddy you can come home now, ALL of the problems are gone.

He smiled. Despite what Elena thought he liked Cassie.

His phone went off again.

Don't let Damon give you grief; he just wanted me to stay for a while ;)

He laughed and blurred of to the boarding house.

He walked in right, as Katherine and Elena were finishing up.

"Well its about time, how was Bambi?" Katherine said.

"Woodsy" Stefan said

Katherine giggled. And Elena walked over to him.

"Are you ok?" she asked. Hugging him.

Stefan nodded and helped the two girls finish up.

"Do we know who they were?" Stefan asked when they finished cleaning.

"Damon said he did" Elena said.

"He mentioned Russia and some one's wife" Katherine said. "But we haven't seen the last of them, one got away."

Stefan nodded and poured himself a drink.

"Is Cassie ok?" Stefan asked.

"Ya, Damon gave her some blood and is driving her home" Katherine told her.

"We can't keep doing this" Stefan said, "This house is open for any vampires to come attack."

"That would be because Damon keeps killing all of the humans who live here." Katherine said.

Stefan laughed. "True, but either way something needs to change."

Damon pulled up to the Gilbert house. He blurred out of the car and went to open the door for Cassie. "Thanks" she mumbled

Cassie and Damon walked silently to the front door. Cassie turned to unlock the door.

"Cassie" Damon said.

Cassie turned around and looked at him.

Damon drank the sight of her in. she was wearing one of Katherine's pajama sets. It was pale blue shorts and tank top set. Cassie had thrown on a sports bra underneath the tank top and the side of the top was dyed red from where she was stabbed.

"What?" she asked.

Damon snapped out of his trance. "What I did today wasn't right." He started.

Cassie shook her head and put a finger to his lips. "Damon I feel like ever since we met one of us is always apologizing for doing something."

Damon grabbed her hand and held it. "What are you saying?" he asked.

"I'm saying that I've been here for two months and the entire time I have been saying the same thing." She whispered.

"I know," he said.

"And you have been saying that for two months as well." She kept whispering.

Damon put his forehead on hers.

"What are you saying?" Damon said.

"I'm saying that I can't keep waiting around anymore. I need you to make a decision," she said.

"I know it's just that with Elena I might get picked, someone will finally choose me." He said, "That's all I want".

Cassie took a step back "Damon when will you realize that I am already choosing you in fact there isn't anybody else that you have to fight over me with." She said and she went inside the house.

Leaving Damon outside on the porch.

Alone.