Hello everyone, in the next little while I am going to finally have the sequel for "Feels so right" up here. It will be entitled "Eternally Yours" so I hope all of you who have asked for it, will tune in and read it. I have ideas for a couple other new stories as well so as I finish one up, I'll start another. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy this chapter.
"It really is busy here at night. I never really thought about it before." Elena said as she took drink order after drink order.
"I told you. Imagine working it all alone. That is pure insanity." Matt said as he rushed back out to the floor with plates of food in his hands.
"I couldn't do that. It was busy enough at the paper today with all the photocopying." Elena said as she rushed out with a pot of coffee. When she walked out, she saw Damon sitting at the bar and she shot him a smile before pouring coffee for all the patrons.
"Thank you so much for this Lena. You have no idea how much I appreciate it." Matt thanked her profusely as he walked by.
"It's not a problem. I'm happy to be able to help you." she said brushing off his thanks. He smiled at her and rushed back to the kitchen to gather up another order.
"Can I get you something?" she asked sidling up to Damon.
"Hmmm, I may have to actually order something instead of just compel it with a waitress that looks like you." he whispered wrapping one arm around her waist and pulling her closer.
"Stop. No contact. I'm working." she said mock reprimanding him and pulling out of his embrace.
"You're not actually an employee so canoodling with the customers isn't strictly forbidden." he said.
"I'm here helping my friend. Keep your libido in check for a while longer." she ordered as she walked away from him. He grinned at her as she walked away. She smiled back at him over her shoulder as she walked to the kitchen.
"It's getting loud out there. Wow, I have never seen so many kids in one place before." Elena said filling glasses with chocolate milk for a table with four kids at it.
"The family rush will be over soon, and then the next rush starts. People needing drinks after a long day at work." he said.
"Okay. I'll stay as long as you need me." she promised him.
"Even if you just stay for another hour I should be fine after that." he told her.
"Sounds good. I'll just run out and tell Damon that I'll be another hour." she said running out to where Damon was sitting at the bar with a glass of bourbon.
"Back already? Can't get enough of me." he said smirking at her.
"Nice try. I just came to tell you that I'm working for another hour, then I'm all yours." she said.
"I like the sound of that." he said. Elena watched in amusement as all the families got up and paid at almost the same time and the drinking crowd filed in almost as if they were on a schedule.
"Here comes the drinking crowd." Matt said standing beside her.
"Here it goes." Elena said.
"We don't have to do much here. The bartenders handle all the alcohol. We just do food. There's just a lot of it." Matt told her. Elena nodded and walked over to a table where two middle-aged biker men were seated. They looked out-of-place in a restaurant filled with business suits and a few jeans and t-shirts.
"What can I get you?" she asked standing at their table.
"Well hello there darling. You're really a pretty little thing." one of the bikers said. She sent a warning glance over to Damon telling him to stay where he was. She was sure she could handle it. She could see the tension in his muscles as he fought to stay out of it per her wishes.
"What can I get you?" she asked again trying to remain aloof and professional.
"Well for starters we'll have some hot wings. But a date would be cool as well." he said openly flirting with you.
"Hot wings I can do. A date is completely out of the question." she said.
"Too bad. I wonder if there is anyway I could change your mind." he wondered pensively.
"Believe me there's not. Now if that is all I would like to go put your order in and move on to another table." she said.
"You'll be back dear. I know it." the biker said.
"Yeah I will be. To bring you your food." she said before she walked away. She walked over to Damon before heading to the back to check his temper. She knew him well enough to know he was probably fuming now.
"Are you okay?" she asked placing a hand on his shoulder. He was deceptively calm, she knew under that calm there was a massive storm brewing.
"Are you?" he asked.
"I handled it. I'm fine. Don't worry." she said kissing his cheek.
"I'll behave as long as they keep their hands to themselves." he told her.
"They won't do anything." she said surely.
"They better." Damon said harshly. Elena went and put the order in when Matt stopped her.
"Do you want me to take over that table?" he asked having seen how the biker was acting.
"No. I can do it. I will not run away from the ass." she said.
"Are you sure? Damon looks like he might be plotting murder." Matt noted glancing over to the bar.
"He probably is. He's protective of me. He won't do anything though. He promised me he wouldn't lay a hand on them." she said.
"I hope not. I just really hope they don't do anything because then Damon will snap and you'll have a fight on your hands." Matt said patting her on the back.
"I know. But their wings are up, I better get them out there." she said grabbing the big plate of hot wings and carrying them out of the kitchen. She walked back to the table and set the wings down in front of the big biker that was flirting with her before.
"Here you go. Enjoy." she said turning to walk away. Before she could get away the bikers hand snapped back and connected with her ass. Time in that moment stood still as the biker was pressed up against the wall and Damon's hand around his throat.
"No! Damon stop." Elena shouted, grabbing at his back.
"You ever lay another hand on my girlfriend. I will kill you. No questions asked. Understand?" he warned the biker, his hand never lessening on his throat.
"Damon, let him go. Please." Elena begged yanking futilely on his arm. He shook her off his arm and she tried again.
"You will never touch her again." he said compelling the man. He dropped him to the floor and stormed out of the Grill.
"I have to go. I'm sorry Matt." Elena said rushing out of the Grill.
"It's okay. Just go." Matt called after her.
"Damon stop." Elena demanded.
"What Elena?" he asked.
"Why do always do that? It was mostly harmless." she insisted.
"He put his hands on you. In my world that garners a reaction. He's lucky I reacted as well as I did. He could have so easily been dead now." he told her.
"You compelled him. You took someones free will away from him. That is just so wrong." she yelled throwing her hands up in the air.
"So you just expect me to let some jackass grope you? That is not happening Elena. I protect what is mine." he said desperately trying to hang on to his last vestiges of control.
"Just whatever. I'm going home." she said turning around and walking towards her car.
Once she was gone, he turned and walked back to his car. A good day turned into shit and about to get shittier. He had a council meeting to go to and wasn't looking forward to spending time with more members of the Gilbert family. When he walked in he took his accustomed seat beside Sheriff Forbes who smiled at him. Grayson walked in and nodded at Damon which was a new development for both. Partially in shock he nodded back. What was with the Gilbert's tonight? Grayson was nodding at him and Elena was yelling at him. When the meeting was over, he got up and walked out of the room.
"Damon! Wait a second." Grayson called after him.
"What can I do for you? It's a bad night for you Gilbert's to be confronting me." he said.
"I'm not sure what you're talking about but I just want to know how Elena is. She doesn't talk to me anymore, and I just want to check in on her." he said.
"I wouldn't know how she is at the moment. We're not on speaking terms." he said impatiently.
"Do you mind if I ask what's going on?" he asked.
"well since we're bonding Gilbert I'll tell you. Some jackass groped my girlfriend at the Grill tonight. I snapped now she's pissed. End of story." he stated.
"If it's any consolation, I think you were right in this sole situation." Grayson said nodding appreciatively.
"This is different. Never thought I would have ever seen the day where you would side with me against your daughter." Damon said.
"Well Elena is nothing if not forgiving and as much as it bothers me, I'm sure you'll work it out, and I honestly hope you do. The only thing I want is for my daughter to be happy and she seems to be happy with you." Grayson said awkwardly.
"Well this is odd." Damon said shaking his head. It was like he was stuck in a parallel universe, one where Elena was not speaking to him and Grayson was visiting with him like they were old friends and not the enemies that they actually were.
"It is. But my wife has been insistent that I change. I decided if I'm going to change I might as well start with the root of my issues and come to terms with your relationship with my daughter." Grayson said shrugging.
"Well that's good. Elena is too special to lose. But I have to go. I have a bottle of bourbon waiting for me at home." Damon said.
"Oh. Okay. You're not going to talk to my daughter?" he asked.
"Not tonight. Believe me it's just safer this way. We're both equally passionate and stubborn and we'll fight endlessly. I would rather skip the yelling and fighting and just wait for the makeup sex later." he said.
"I'm going to ignore that last comment. Do you maybe want to meet at the Grill for a drink tomorrow night?" Grayson asked running a hand through his hair.
"Why not? I have nothing better to do with my time." Damon agreed.
The next day Elena got up and smiled relieved. It was a day off work, but she was helping Matt at the Grill, so it
wasn't really a day off. She got dressed and pulled her hair back before glancing at her phone. Zero missed calls, and zero texts. Strange. When she got to the Grill a while later Matt was rushing around frantically.
"What do you want me to do?" she asked.
"Just what you were doing yesterday. Is everything okay between you and Damon?" Matt asked.
"I'm not speaking to him until he apologizes. I don't plan on seeing him either." she said as she followed him to the kitchen.
"Um well too bad for you. He's here having a few drinks with your dad." Matt said.
"What? Damon and my dad? What is the world coming to?" she asked sticking her head out of the door to see them sitting together.
"Yep Damon and your dad. Strange pairing right there." Matt said chuckling.
"I'll be right back." she said walking out of kitchen and over to where they were sitting.
"What are you two doing here?" she asked confused.
"I'm just having a few drinks with your father." Damon said smiling at her.
"Well when did you two become buddy buddy? Last I checked you two hated each other." she said.
"Well it seems I can only dislike one Gilbert at a time, and now that's you." he stated.
"Wow. You dislike me? Very mature Damon." Elena said walking away.
"It seems like there is still trouble in paradise." Matt noted when Elena returned to the back.
"Oh yes there is. Apparently he is only able to dislike one Gilbert at a time and now its me." she repeated.
"You don't think he actually means that do you?" he asked.
"Yes I do. Damon speaks his mind. That's what he does. He doesn't have a filter and he doesn't care about others. He assaulted that guy last night, he could press charges." Elena said.
"Well whatever Damon said to him seems to have worked. We haven't heard anything yet." Matt said.
"It doesn't matter. Until he apologizes for his actions I'm not speaking to him. But I have to go. I have a table." Elena said walking over to a couple sitting in the middle of the restaurant.
After a couple of hours of drinking with Grayson, Damon got up and walked over to the table that Elena was serving.
"We need to talk and it can't wait any longer." he said pushing her into a corner.
"I'm working. It needs to wait." she said.
"No, you're volunteering and it can't wait." he said.
"Damon, it has to wait." she said rubbing her forehead. Instead of saying anything he kissed her, in his experience kissing was a better way to end a fight that arguing or talking.
"What the hell?" she asked when he pulled away.
"You wouldn't stop. For the record even your dad agrees that I'm right in this situation." he said.
"Oh really?" she asked.
"Yes. If you want me to apologize for defending your honour then I can't and most of all won't do that. I know maybe I shouldn't have compelled him but he deserved it. I will not risk him ever coming onto you ever again. You're mine." he said.
"I know I'm yours and it's not going to change. But you need to be careful. You can't just attack and compel someone because he smacks my ass. That's not normal." she said.
"I never claimed to be normal. And what I feel for you is definitely not normal. I'm not normal and I never will be. You and I we're both so stubborn and at the risk of losing my man-card I don't want to fight with you anymore. I miss you Elena Gilbert." he said.
"I miss you too." she said wrapping her arms around him.
"Maybe you should get back to work." he said pressing a soft kiss to her lips.
"Really? Work? That's what you're thinking about right now?" she asked.
"Sort of. I'm thinking you can get back to work with Matt. The sooner this place is under control, the sooner I can take you home." he said.
"Does the home part involve make up sex?" she asked.
"Always does. I thought you knew me better than that." he said smirking.
"I do. I always know what's on your mind Salvatore. You have a one track mind." she said.
"Get back to work." he said slapping her ass when she turned around to walk out.
"Hey! You can do that but other people can't?" she asked smirking.
"No. This is all mine. No one else can touch." he said following her back into the restaurant where he took his seat beside Grayson again with a smile on his face.