Thank you to my beta Courtney (cdaye8184) for being so wonderful. We're down to the last 4 or 5 chapters including epilogue. This is more or less just a filler chapter until the wedding becomes the focus. Enjoy...
"Baby I really have to get going." Damon cajoled Elena, trying to extricate himself from Elena's grasp. She had her entire body wrapped around his, refusing to let him leave their bed.
"No. I need you to make love to me again." Elena insisted.
"I have a council meeting, with your dad I might add. I'm not adverse to walking into the room late because I was fucking you but I'm sure you'd hate your dads disapproval. No matter how much he adores me, he frowns at our already copious sex life." Damon insisted.
"But it shouldn't matter. You're already late for the meeting." Elena whined, not trying to let her fathers name interrupt her sexy time with Damon.
"Yes, I'm late because you keep trying to seduce me. I have to go" He stated finally setting himself free of her grasp and walking towards the bathroom gloriously naked.
"Are you really turning me down when I'm desperate and needy for you?" Elena asked sitting up, clutching the blankets to her chest.
"Not turning you down, delaying sexy time until I get home." He promised from the bathroom. She heard the shower start up and him slip inside. She could imagine him lathering up his hair and rinsing it out, then soaping up his body. The imagery made her wet. Steeling her nerves she got out of bed and walked into the bathroom. She slipped into the shower behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist, pressing a kiss to the middle of his back.
"Elena..." Damon admonished slash sighed,
"Damon... please. I'm hot and wet for you. It's not because of the shower." She pleaded, kissing him in between the shoulder blades. When he groaned this time it was in surrender. He picked her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist as he immediately aligned his length with her entrance. She arched against him, taking his tip inside her. He pushed the rest of the way inside her and immediately started moving needing to make this quick. He quickly rammed into her over and over again needing to make her come now. There was something so wrong about being late to a town council meeting because of sex, but he couldn't bring himself to care at the moment. He couldn't bring himself to care about anything when he was inside Elena.
"Where is Damon? Has anyone seen Damon?" Carol Lockwood demanded when Damon was 45 minutes late.
"It's bound to be important. Damon is never late." Liz defended.
"I talked to him this morning. He said he'd be here." Alaric chimed in.
"I will say this, in all the time I've known him he's never been late before." Grayson shot in.
"Well we'll wait for a few more minutes, but then we will have to start without him." Carol decided. Everyone in the room nodded and agreed.
"You have no idea how late I am. You are an evil, naughty woman." Damon muttered as he pulled a black t shirt over his head.
"I would apologize but you told me to never apologize for what I want. Besides you never apologize for almost making me late for work." Elena murmured still lying in bed with only a short robe covering her frame.
"This is true. But I have to go." He said rushing out of the room and out the door before she could convince him to stay.
Damon walked into the council meeting five minutes later and everyone stared at him.
"What? I'm late I know." Damon muttered taking his seat in between Liz and Grayson.
"Why are you late Damon? There had better be a good reason for making us wait for almost an hour." Carol mentioned.
"I would say there is a very good reason, I'm just not sharing it with you." Damon said.
"Fine, well does anyone have anything to report?" Carol asked. Everyone muttered "no" so Carol turned her head back to Damon.
"Since there is nothing else to report. What was so important that you were late for a meeting Damon? If there is something going on that we should know about then you have to tell us about it." Carol insisted.
"Believe me when I say that this has nothing to do with the council. It has nothing to do with Mystic Falls at all." Damon explained.
"Just tell us why you were late." She insisted rubbing her forehead feeling a headache coming on.
"Fine, I was seduced. That's absolutely everything there was to it." Damon admitted.
"Wait a second. The great Damon Salvatore was seduced to the extent he was an hour late to a council meeting? I thought you were always in control." Alaric snorted.
"At least I get laid on a regular basis." Damon said back to his best friend.
"So do I." Alaric responded.
"Not as often I do. But hey, who's keeping track?" Damon asked smirking.
"I'm not because I am 99.9% positive that you get sex that much more than I do." Alaric decided.
"Right you are. Everyday. Every night. More often than not, more than once." Damon bragged.
"Can we please stop talking about Damon's sex life with my daughter please. In my mind she is still a virgin until marriage. I don't need to hear about that." Grayson called out.
"You're only a few months too late on that one Gray. But if this meeting is adjourned I have one more stop to make before I head home to my beautiful and sexy fiancee." Damon said standing up.
"The meeting is done. Council meetings are easy when there are new vampire drama to report." Carol decided.
"Good. Gotta go I have one more stop to make before I go home to seduce my fiancee like she seduced me this morning." He said walking out of the room.
"Damon!" Grayson called after him as he walked out of the room.
"I just wanted you to know that this weekend at my birthday party at the lake house, none of that will be happening. The two of you will not be sharing a bed and definitely will never be sharing a bedroom. The two of you aren't married yet so I cannot rightfully condone that." Grayson told Damon firmly.
"Wanna bet?" Damon asked smirking.
"There's no need to bet. I don't want to take your money. In a couple months I'll never tell you that you can't sleep with my daughter, but until the two of you are married I can't condone something like that." Grayson explained.
"I can understand that. But I have to go. I'm not giving in either, I will guarantee that Elena and I will be stuck in the same bedroom at the Lake House." He said walking out of the building and to the blue Camaro.
Damon parked in front of the newspaper office and made a beeline towards the offices.
"Elena's not working today Damon." Chelsey stated when Damon walked in.
"I know she's currently at home waiting for me. I'm here to see Anthony. I'm assuming he's here." Damon asked leaning his elbows on the counter.
"Uh yeah. He's in his office. What's wrong with him? He was in a foul mood when he came in this morning. He was going on and on about the existence of vampires." Chelsey asked.
"He had a bit of a fight with my fiancee and we need to discuss that. If the guy thinks vampires exist he's really losing his marbles." Damon explained Chelsey nodded and Damon smirked, walking away. He walked through the double doors and ran into Dennis.
"Ah Damon, Elena's not working today." He said scratching his head.
"I know. Elena's at home. I'm here for Anthony. Him and I need to have a discussion about the way he treated MY fiancee." Damon stated as he walked past Dennis towards Anthony's office. Dennis shrugged and walked back to his office as Damon walked down the hall to Anthony's office. He could see Anthony typing away at his computer and Damon barged through.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Anthony demanded when Damon walked through the door.
"The two of us are going to have a conversation about you." Damon stated.
"If you don't leave here right now I'm going to tell everyone here what you are." Anthony smirked. Damon laughed out loud.
"You think your co-workers are going to believe you when you say that I'm a vampire? Thanks to Bram Stoker and Twilight people either think vampires can only come out at night, are pasty white and have sharp fangs all the time, who wear capes and hate garlic, or God forbid they sparkle. I do none of those things. In fact, I love garlic. It tastes good on almost anything and you will never see a sparkle anywhere near me. No one will believe a thing you say" Damon laughed.
"Then I'll tell the council. I'm sure they would love to know that an actual vampire infiltrated their ranks." Anthony smirked.
"You really are delusional aren't you? The council knows all about me, because newsflash I am the reason there has been no vampire threats lately. I protect this town and the council isn't willing to lose me." Damon stated shaking his head.
"You shouldn't be here. You are unnatural. You are a danger to Elena, it's my job to protect her." Anthony said staying strong. Damon was impressed with his courage but would never admit that.
"I would never hurt her, emotionally or otherwise... unlike you. Now since you know about me, you know that I could make you more agreeable. But I'm not going to do that because Elena frowns upon compulsion. Even in someone she's not overly fond of. But I am going to warn you. You were a good friend of Elena's and she needs good friends. You are going to apologize to her, tell her you were wrong. If she doesn't forgive you then I will come back here and we will have this discussion over and over again until you do it right." Damon told him.
"Why should I listen to you?" Anthony asked pouting.
"Do or don't I really don't care. It's entirely up to you." Damon shrugged as he walked to the door. He shut it on his way out. He walked past all the people sporting curious glances, clearly wanting to know what went on in Anthony's office. Damon walked past them without a backward glance and out to the Camaro, eager to get home.
When he walked through the door he could hear Elena whistling from upstairs in the bedroom. He had a bad feeling about her whistling. She only really whistled whenever she had evil plans forming in her mind. Cautiously, he walked up the stairs until he found her in the bedroom packing a small overnight suitcase.
"What's with the whistling?" He asked wearily.
"What whistling?" She asked coyly, even though she know exactly what he was asking about.
"You know what whistling. You only whistle when you know something I don't know. It usually ends up with me begging somehow... so just out with it." He insisted reclining on their bed.
"I don't know what you're talking about. Although since we're going to be late it because you took too long at the meeting, you better get to packing or else you'll be wearing that all weekend." Elena insisted slinging her duffel bag over her shoulder and leaving the room. He watched her idly as she walked out.
"You're not demanding sex before we leave?" He wondered, completely baffled by her calm exterior.
"Oh honey I know you're going to miss it more than I will. I think I can wait for a while longer." Elena told him patting his cheek condescendingly as she walked back into the room.
"It won't be happening at all this weekend if your dad has anything to say about it." Damon muttered.
"What are you talking about?" Elena demanded, losing all pretence of ever planning on punishing him.
"Apparently you and I will not be in a bedroom alone at all this weekend." Damon told her smirking at her completely flustered expression.
"But we're sharing a room, we always share a room. I haven't slept without you by my side in a long time. My dad can't take you away from me." Elena whined.
"Oh but according to my dear friend Grayson, I will be sleeping in the spare bedroom, while you are tucked safely in your bedroom." Damon told her.
"You have to think of something. I can't sleep without you. I have to sleep beside you." Elena pleaded.
"Relax..." Damon soothed her needing to stop her breakdown before it got any worse.
"Damon..." Elena started again.
"I already have a plan. Worry not, we will be sharing a room this weekend and your father will not be able to argue with me at all." Damon assured her.
"What's your plan?" Elena asked wearily.
"I talked to Jeremy and he's bringing Katie and Travis. Travis will then take the couch." Damon replied smirking.
"But then there is still the issue of the spare bedroom." Elena pointed out.
"What problem? Jeremy and Katie don't sleep together in any way. She's not ready for that sort of commitment ergo... Katie needs her own room. I of course am more than gentlemanly enough to give up my room for the girl who isn't ready to take that next step with her boyfriend." Damon explained smugly.
"That plan is almost foolproof. My mom and dad can't make us sleep apart because we actually sleep together. They can't make Katie and Jer share a room because they're not ready for that. I don't give you nearly enough credit." Elena cheered.
"No you sure don't. Why do you ever doubt me?"Damon asked rhetorically. Elena wisely chose not to answer, so Damon quickly packed a bag and together they left the house.
When they got to the lake house, Jeremy, Travis and Katie were already there.
"I'm glad you guys are here." Damon said as he walked towards them with Elena in tow.
"Why?" Jeremy asked.
"Since you guys are here I'm going to be able to sleep with my gorgeous fiancee." Damon explained.
"As long as you mean "sleep with my gorgeous fiancee" as sharing a bed but nothing more." Jeremy pointed out.
"Yep, that is exactly what I mean." Damon stated sarcastically while rolling his eyes. Elena elbowed him in the ribs and shot him a glare.
"You couldn't be slightly more sneaky about your intentions for this weekend?" Elena demanded.
"It's not in my nature. I see no point in hiding the inevitable from someone. Everyone knows we are going to fuck more than once while we're here. One way or another it's going to happen. They can separate us all they want but it's never going to work for long." Damon stated.
"I believe you, only because I know that you can't get enough of me." Elena laughed as she saw her parents car pull up.
"You guys are here early." Grayson called out when he emerged from the car with his overnight bag in hand.
"We all got an early start. Damon and Elena just got here a few minutes ago." Jeremy replied.
"I'm glad everyone could make it." Grayson said walking up the stairs to unlock the front door for everyone. He stepped aside and let the group in before taking his wife's hand and leading her inside.
"We don't come here nearly enough anymore." Miranda sighed as she fiddled around in the kitchen.
"We'll make sure to come out here every other weekend. With our kids and our kid's significant others. One of which is being a massive pain in my ass..." Grayson said loud enough for the vampire to overhear.
"What did I do? I am minding my own business." He said as he trailed kisses down Elena's neck as she tried to fight off his advances.
"You know exactly what you're doing Damon. Release my daughter at once. She is not a toy for you to play with over and over again while you're here. What the two of you do in your own time at your own house is up to you, but here that is not going to happen. I will make sure of it." Grayson pointed out.
"Daddy you have to let me sleep with him." Elena spoke seriously.
"Why should I allow that?" He asked wincing. Whenever she pulled out the daddy card, he couldn't help but be putty in her capable hands.
"I haven't spent a night away from him since before the attack. I don't feel comfortable without him near." Elena sighed her eyes wide.
"Elena... you won't get hurt again. There are enough people here to protect you." Grayson sighed knowing he was about to lose this battle.
"I know no one can get to me now, but it's the dreams. If he's not close I have nightmares about the attack." Elena pointed out. Damon's eye shot towards her, he couldn't tell if she was making the nightmares up or not. If she was, she wasn't as bad of an actress as he thought she would be, if she wasn't lying then there were things he clearly didn't know about her.
"Fine. You can sleep with him... but no funny business." Grayson said pointing his finger at the both of them.
"Great. Thanks daddy." Elena sprung up and kissed her dads cheek. "We're going to unpack." Elena took Damon's hand and dragged him to the stairs.
"You so got played." Jeremy pointed out trying to stifle his laughter.
"She got attacked Jeremy. I believe her when she says she has nightmares of those sons of bitches who attacked her. Thank God for Damon and his ability to fix her when no one else can." Grayson pointed out his voice tight.
"Gray, you definitely got played there. She is completely over the attack, she just didn't want to be separated from him. You know it's all better when she can use it against other people. I think it has everything to do with that man who is upstairs with her right now." Miranda agreed with Jeremy.
"So basically I got played." Grayson muttered.
"You sure did. But don't be upset, you were simply being a good father. At least you don't have to worry about unprotected sex. He's a vampire, he can't carry disease or can't get her pregnant." Miranda assured her husband.
"That makes me feel so much better." Grayson stated sarcastically.
"That was some pretty kick-ass acting you did down there." Damon pointed out.
"I know. You really need to give me more credit." Elena smirked at him.
"Apparently. So I'm thinking that if you can joke about it now that you're completely over it?" He asked.
"I'm over it. I barely even remember it. It was a chapter of my life that is completely closed and I'll never worry about it again. I'm eagerly anticipating the next chapter of my life. The one where I become your wife." She whispered, reaching onto her tiptoes to kiss him sweetly. He banded his arms around her waist and kissed her back, his tongue duelling with hers.
"How much time do you think we have before they come barging in?" Damon whispered against her lips.
"I'd say as long as we need. In utter fear of what they would find, none of them would walk in here." Elena assured him.
"Perfect." Damon replied softly, while lifting her up and placing her on the bed. He immediately followed her down after disposing of his shirt. He pressed his upper body into hers as she reflexively locked her legs around his waist. His denim encased erection brushed up against her and she arched up, already aching for him.
"Please. We don't have a lot of time." She begged needing him to take her hard and fast. He rose off of her and she quickly disposed of her jeans as he did the same thing. She moved herself back on the bed so she could get under the covers with him following right behind. He kissed her sweetly before rolling on top of her and gently thrusting inside. He kissed her to keep her quiet as he slowly started moving within her silken walls.
Damon's attention was solely focused on Elena, so he didn't hear the footsteps coming up the stairs. A few seconds later there was a banging on the bedroom door.
"Stop whatever you're doing in there. You are supposed to be unpacking not... that." Grayson hollered.
"Dad!" Elena squeaked frantically pushing Damon off of her.
"Yes. Now we both know that I know what you guys were doing in there so don't even play innocent. This is my birthday, come downstairs and be sociable." Grayson ordered.
"Buzz-kill." Damon whined as he quickly redressed and leading Elena out of the room and back downstairs where the rest of her family had convened. "This is going to be a long weekend..." Damon thought to himself.