Chapter 24

Damon was sold. There truly was nothing better than having your arms wrapped around someone who actually loved and needed you. No there definitely was nothing wrong with it. Peyton had always been a passionate lover – she had always been a passionate woman, but he had forgotten how much he loved that about her.

"Peyton …" Damon groaned as he placed delicate kisses on her collar bone.

"Damon." Peyton sighed out, gripping his dark hair between her fingertips.

"I just wanted you to know that I've always …." Damon started but he was interrupted by the sound of another male's voice.

"Well this is a surprise…" Klaus murmured as he walked in on the pair.

Damon instantly tensed up. Peyton on the other hand was already cursing Murphy and her brother for their magnificent timing.

"Klaus?! What the hell are you doing here?" Damon growled out, shielding Peyton with his body.

"Don't bother. I don't want to look at my sister's naked body … let alone yours." Klaus smirked deviously. He was treating the whole situation as if it was something out of a dark comedy.

"Sister?! What the hell is he talking about, Peyton?" Damon asked puzzled.

Peyton so didn't need this right now. Not when her and Damon were finally getting back on point, even though it was technically a sexual point but still it was better than nothing. She had been planning on telling Damon about her history with Klaus and the fact that they were indeed brother and sister. Although she hadn't planned on it happening like this.

"It's nothing. Klaus get the hell out of here!" Peyton tossed a pillow at Klaus.

You didn't tell him about us?" Klaus raised an eyebrow, his grin stretching over his face with absolute delight.

"Did you sleep with him?" Damon gritted as he looked back and forth between the two.

"Oh my god no! That would be incest." Peyton couldn't hide her disgust.

"Incest? Wait a second … he's your brother?" Damon couldn't believe what he was hearing.

"You really aren't the sharpest tool in the shed are you?" Klaus sneered at Damon.

Klaus wasn't particularly happy that Damon Salvatore was or had been doing the deed with his little sister.

"Klaus! Get out of here now!" Peyton could have slapped her forehead. This really was turning out to be something out of a Hitchcock movie.

"Well at least lock the door when you're busy on the inside. It sounded like someone was getting murdered in here." Klaus rolled his eyes and left the room.

An awkward silence followed suit and Peyton was sure that her unbeaten heart was in fact beating.

"Please tell me this isn't true?" Damon asked as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Can't hide from it now – can I?" She glanced towards him.

"How is it even possible that you're his sister? There were only five originals … well technically three left now." Damon corrected himself.

"I'm not an original … well I am but I'm not related to them. My father was Klaus's biological father. We share a dad." Peyton drew a pattern on the duvet – she couldn't look at him.

"How long have you known?" He asked.

"I've known my whole life. He saved me and he turned me into a vampire. He's protected me all these years. Despite the wrong he has done in his life – he's always done right by me. Though it doesn't excuse what's he's done he's my brother.

"I see." Damon sighed out in disbelief.

"I always meant to tell you but then I learned of Elena's involvement with Klaus's hybridness. I figured you'd hate me. I never got involved in any of his plans – he's allowed me to live a pretty solitude life. He drops in every now and again of course. He is my brother after all and he's family. You have to be lenient when it comes to family." Peyton answered truthfully. Despite her brothers misgivings he was good to her and under all the wit and snide she saw the good in him that no one else bothered to try and find.

"I see." Damon repeated again.

"Is that all you have to say?" Peyton asked.

"What do you want me to say Peyton? I mean I always knew you were hiding something about your past but not this." Damon climbed out of bed and reached for his jeans.

"Why didn't you ever ask me about it? If you knew that I was hiding something? You always brought up Katherine? Rubbed it in my face about how she was your true love. I knew who Katherine was, I knew she was up to no good and that she wasn't in that damn tomb. But I didn't tell you that because I knew it would kill you." Peyton growled out angrily.

"You had no right to keep that information away from me." Damon buttoned up his jeans and reached for his black t-shirt. He no longer was on a high induced buzz from the alcohol or Peyton's warmth.

"I had my brother to look out for." Peyton grabbed her robe from her floor and climbed into the white cottoned robe.

"Your brother?" Damon scoffed out in disgust, "How can you defend him, how can you sit here and tell me that you would of have rather allowed Klaus to get to Katherine before I did."

Peyton ran a hand through her short blonde hair. She was beyond aggravated at this point. He wouldn't understand. She had always known that.

"Get out." She sneered at him.

All illusions of love and comfort were out the window.

"No." Damon growled out as he moved towards her and gripped her by her shoulders.

"Let me go." Peyton tried to push him away, her mask had cracked and tears were flowing now inhibited.

"Why can't you understand that I did it for you? That it always was for you. I did it because I loved you." Peyton sniffled as Damon's grip slackened.

Damon stepped back and away from her. He didn't know what to think and he couldn't watch her cry because he knew he was the cause of her tears and that there was nothing he could do or say to make it stop. Too make it any different.

So he left. Leaving Peyton behind.

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