Ava groaned and shoved her face further into her pillow, she was sleeping but loud knocks woke her from her slumber. She grumbled under her breath waiting for either Stefan or Damon to answer the door.
"SOMEBODY ANSWER THE FUCKING DOOR" Ava yelled, and swore when there was just continuous knocking. She knew Elena was about since the brunette had spent the night with Stefan; let's just say Ava was extremely grateful not to have super hearing. And that her bedroom was on the other end of the corridor, she grabbed her robe and slipped it on as she stumbled out of the room.
Damon had bought it for her since sometimes the Boarding House would be cold. She pulled the hood up and rubbed her eyes.
Ava now knew the basic layout of the Boarding House, learning the layout of downstairs was much easier. She pulled the hoodie up of her robe since her hair was a disaster and trudged down stairs where she could hear knocking.
Alaric Saltzman stood at the front door waiting for an answer; he was annoyed when no one answered it after all they had called him. He was about to turn on his heel when the door opened revealing a grumpy and tired looking Ava.
"Ava?"
"Who are you?" she mumbled yawning as she did so.
He canted his head to the side realising that her robe made her look like a bear, the hood had pointed ears and everything.
"It's Ric-"
"Don't know a Ric. Too early go away" with that she slammed the door in his face. a second later it was opened but this time by Damon who had a smirk on his face
"Hey thanks for coming Ric"
"Sorry" Ava blushed "Didn't know-"
"Its fine" Alaric chuckled, Damon grasped her hand and led her towards the parlour where Elena and Stefan were.
She plopped down beside Stefan and pulled her legs up, she rested her head against his shoulder and yawned. The vampire glanced down and chuckled Ava did make an adorable sight.
"Can I get you something to drink? Bourbon? Coffee? Bourbon with coffee?" Damon questioned as Alaric strolled into the parlour.
"Elena mentioned you needed my help-"
"He doesn't like you Damon, so don't get friendly. He thinks you're a dick" Ava uttered sitting up, her hood was askew making the pointed ears on her head look sloppy. "No one likes you" she muttered.
"Uh oh" Damon exclaimed mocking her "we've got a grumpy Ava, which is even cuter-"
"Fuck you Damon-"
"Make me-"
"You prick" Ava went to get up but Stefan wrapped an arm around her waist pulling her back down.
"Enough"
"He started it" she pouted and reached over snatching Elena's mug of coffee out of her hand
"Hey" Elena exclaimed, Damon rolled his eyes and blurred off as Alaric sat down. The blond took a large gulp of the coffee. Ava balked at the taste and spat it back into the mug.
"Eww" Elena cringed Ava held the coffee out to her "I'm not drinking it anymore, that's disgusting-"
"This is disgusting" Ava stated wiping her tongue "where's the bloody sugar?" she asked
"I don't like sugar" Elena uttered.
Ava scrunched up her nose and placed the coffee mug down on the table, Damon zoomed back into the room.
"Here this is the cure for a grumpy Ava" Damon set the tray onto her lap, Ava's nose twitched and her mouth watered smelling the delicious food. He had made pecan waffles and drizzled it with syrup.
"Looks good" Elena murmured and reached out to grab a piece but smacked her hand away using the flat side of her knife "Ava sharing is car-"
"It's bullshit. This is my breakfast. You weren't hungry earlier in the morning though were ya?" she uttered and bit down on her waffles. The
"I doubt I'm here to watch Ava eat. Elena mentioned you needed my help" Alaric cleared his throat.
"Yeah" Stefan leant forward so that he was resting his elbows on his knees. "We want to know if you know anything about the Lockwoods"
Ava broke the tense silence buy chewing loudly, she gulped down her juice licked her lips "That was good"
"Thank you honey-"
"Don't call me that" she scrunched up her nose in disgust
"But you are like honey you're sweet-"
"You're cheesy-"
"And if I can, I can make you sticky-"
"EWWW" Ava shrieked and threw a cup in his direction, the vampire easily caught it. "You're disgusting-"
"Ok" Stefan exclaimed "can we get back on track?" he cut the bickering pair off he knew there bickering go on for days and days. "So the Lockwoods?"
Ava leant back and rested her head on the pillow "Why would I know anything about the Lockwoods?" he asked. Damon dropped down on the other side of Ava
"Well you won't but your dead not dead vampire wife might" Damon said downing the rest of Ava's juice. The teen looked like she was half asleep.
"Isobel's research, from when you guys were at Duke together" Elena said pulling her knees up to her chest.
"You said she had spent years researching this town" Stefan pointed out.
"Isobel's research here…Mystic Falls are rooted in folk lore and legend" Alaric explained, a poke from Stefan caused the dozing blond to jump
"Yes, yes I agree" Ava blurted out pretending to be listening. Elena shook her head whilst Damon snorted.
"Listen Ava" Elena told her.
"Well at the time I thought most of it was fiction" Ava could tell that the hunter didn't want to drag the past back up.
"Like the mazing vampire story" Damon uttered sarcastically
"Ass" Ava muttered
"You want a feel-"
"Stefan-"
"Stop it Damon" Stefan scolded them
"Aside from vampires" Elena cleared her throat. Ava shifted in her robe and tightened the sash around her waist. "What else?"
"A lycanthrope" Alaric answered.
Ava grinned perking up "No way" excitement was brimming from her she loved finding out about the supernatural world "In your face Damy. Told ya there are werewolves in the world" she declared loudly.
"No way" Damon shook his head tugging Ava back down "impossible way too Lochay-"
"Is it?"
"What's the problem Damon?" Ava asked "you're a vampire and you're in denial about massive dogs" she scoffed
"I've been in this world for a hundred of something years and I haven't come across one" Damon drawled.
Ava rolled her milky green eyes "So if you haven't seen them they don't exist?"
"Yeah-"
"You're a dick" she frowned
"If werewolves exist well the hell are they?" Damon countered.
"Hiding?" Ava suggested "they're probably just better at hiding then you"
Alaric smirked hearing that, Ava did know how to handle herself against him. Truth be told he was kind of worried when he heard that the blond would be moving in with the Salvatores. But seeing her now he could honestly say that this was a good thing for her.
"Why do you suspect the Lockwoods?" Alaric asked
"Because he's crushing on Mason" Ava commented earning a sloppy kiss on her cheek from the raven head vampire "Eww" she cringed and hastily wiping her cheek. "Answer his question douche"
Damon rolled his eyes and annoyed the blond by dropping his arm around her shoulders "No, vervaine didn't affect the mayor on Founders day. But the device did"
Ava's wriggled beneath him but his grip on her were strong, she let out a sigh and gave up. "It affected his son Tyler-"
"Explains the reason for the crashed car" she murmured relaxing in Damon's hold.
"And at the carnival his uncle Mason Lockwood exhibited inhuman behaviour when he fought one of the carnival workers. It suggested some sort of supernatural entity"
Ava shifted under Damon's arm. The vampire tugged one of her curly locks she swatted his hand away.
"We were hoping that Isobel's research might tell us something about that" Elena pitched in.
"Her things are still at Dukes I mean her office is still there, she technically is still missing." Alaric uttered his voice was hoarse "Oh god everything is still there….when she was …human"
Ava lightly shook her head causing him to look down at her "Your little trick?" he whispered into Ava's ear
"Yep" she murmured back just as quiet.
"You think you can get access to it?" Damon asked wondering what Ava had found in the hunter's mind. "We need to know what we're dealing with"
"Can't you just be happy not knowing?" Ava uttered
"Can you?" he countered. She shook her head in defeat making Damon grin he knew Ava was just as curious as him maybe even more so.
"So if this wolf man thing is true I've seen plenty of movies to know it's not good" the vampire said seriously he was not only concerned about himself and Stefan but also Ava. He didn't want another supernatural being lurking around his girl, wait he's girl? He discreetly shook his head. "It means Mason Lockwood is a real life Lon Chaney. And that Tyler punk may just be a Lon Chaney junior-"
"So there's a possibility of them being werewolves? Huh that's another thing they share" Ava commented tucking a stray curl behind her ear.
"What's the other thing they share?" Stefan questioned thinking that perhaps Ava had found something else about them, but yeah that flew out of the window with what Ava said next
"Their super-hot looks" she grinned. Damon scowled causing Stefan to smirk
"Ava you can't even see them-"
"Fuck off Damon" Ava scowled "I touched them"
"What?" Elena balked.
Ava's eyes widened in realisation that had come out totally wrong "Oh shit not like that…I don't touch them….i want to-no wait I touch their faces yes….and they…thing-"Damon placed his hand over her mouth silencing the teen.
"And this is where you shut up"
Ava nodded he could feel the heat coming off of her cheeks. "Which means Bella Gousie meaning me is totally screwed. So we are going on a road trip"
"Good have fun" Ava said getting onto her feet
"Wait where are you going?" Stefan called after her as Damon grabbed the back of her robe and tugged causing her to fly back into his lap
"Back to bed. let go. Have fun and good-"
"You're coming" Stefan stated.
"No I'm not" Ava snapped
"Ava-"
"I don't want to go"
"You are" Damon countered, "You got thirty minutes to get dressed-"with that he let her go.
Ava scowled and flopped down onto her bed, she burrowed beneath her blankets. She wasn't in the mood for a road trip. She just wanted to spend her weekend in bed. The carnival had been somewhat of a distraction but then it all came back. She wasn't going home to her Gran she was going to the Boarding House.
She was dozing off in the warmth of her covers her ears perked up hearing footsteps or something, Ava's eyes snapped opened feeling someone lying down next to her.
"So-"
"Damon" she frowned "I told you I don't want to go on a road trip" she pressed her face into the pillow so that her voice came out muffled.
"Why?"
"Because-"
"You're moping around Ava not healthy-"she snorted and rolled over so that she was face to face with him. He stared into her milky coloured eyes.
"Says the guy who drinks his problems away" she uttered.
Damon sighed "Fine you're right. But you can't spend days in bed, unless you're with me and we're having a sexy-"she whacked him managing to hit him in the face "Come on Ava-"
"Is Stefan going?"
"Why-"
"Because I like him more than you" Ava giggled when he tickled her sides "Damon stop-"
"I won't until you say I'm more fun than Fabio-"
"No" Ava's cheeks were bright pink. "Damon-"she went to slip off the bed but he easily manoeuvred himself so that he was on top of her "Ok, ok" she was literally panting for breath "You're more fun" she wheezed wriggling beneath him. She could smell the cologne coming off of him in waves.
Damon swallowed seeing her heaving chest, and he groaned feeling the petite blond beneath him god she was intoxicating. He wanted her not just her blood which was calling him but all of her.
"Are you going to puke?" once again Ava had unknowingly broken another moment between them,
"No, now come on. Ric is going to pick us up" he rolled off of the bed taking Ava with him. He landed on his feet. She grabbed onto his upper arms to steady herself. Damon's large hands dropped onto her hips
"But-"
"Ava you're coming. Either willingly or not you will end up with us-"
"Why?" Ava stomped her foot and pouted
"Because Barbie-"she knew he was referring to Caroline "Is a new vampy so she has no control. Ergo you'll be in more danger if you stay plus there's a chance you can find out why you were affected by the Gilbert device" he explained.
Ava sighed and scratched the nape of her neck "Fine" she huffed
"Good now you got twenty five minutes" he slapped her bum ad blurred off.
"Ass hole" Ava muttered under her breath, she padded barefooted to the bathroom. And did her usual morning routine, the blond brushed her teeth and turned the bathroom faucet on, unlike the old bathroom she was accustomed to where she had a shower cubicle this one had a large tub where roughly two people can fit into.
Ava quickly showered and dried herself off; when she was done she wrapped the towel around herself and headed back into the bedroom. She hurriedly slipped on her underwear and rummaged through the walk in closet. Ava opted to wear a dress she paired it off with tights and her laced up brown boots.
She brushed her hair and grabbed her messenger bag. If this was a road she needed something to keep her entertain.
"AVA" Damon shouted.
Soon enough they were parked outside the Gilbert house,
"I'll tell Jenna where we're-AVA" the blond got out of the car and was already walking up the pathway,
"You coming?" Alaric asked unbuckling himself, they could see Ava knocking on the front door
"Nope" all of a sudden Damon snorted causing Alaric to glance over to where the blond was, he saw a wide eye Jenna standing there
"What?"
"Ava just told Jenna you want-you know what why don't you just this along" the vampire uttered.
Alaric narrowed his eyes at the other male but clamoured out of the car after Ava.
Ava was in the kitchen scouring the cupboards for food, she grinned in triumph as her hands closed in around a box of pop-tarts.
"Jeremy really needs to hide these better" she muttered under her breath and shoved the box under her jacket knowing if the youngest Gilbert teen would throw a fit if he found out she stole his pop-tarts.
Ava lingered in the doorway she could hear Alaric and Jenna talking by the front door.
"Haven't seen you around" Jenna commented.
"Well the school has been keeping me busy" Alaric, Ava snorted and rolled her eyes
"I want you to know that It means a lot to me that Elena has a connection to her mother , I appreciate you for bringing her along-"
"She wants to jump your bones" Ava blurted out, Jenna's mind was literally brimming with thoughts of her and Alaric doing the dirty deed.
"Ava" Jenna said
"Wait outside" Alaric said sternly
"What-"
"Now" she huffed and stomped off but before she left she whispered loudly to Jenna "He wants to get in your panties as well"
"Ava" Alaric snapped, Ava rolled her eyes and dropped down onto the porch step. She glanced over to her left where the Xenia house stood.
She frowned there was no thoughts coming from that place. It was literally dead. She dug her finger nail into the hardwood floor. She bit her lower lip, she felt a pang in her heart.
"Honey a smile on your face makes you sexier" Damon sat down next to the blond. He was standing by the car and had saw where Ava's gaze wondered off to.
He didn't need to be a mind reader to know that Ava missed Claudine.
"Damon don't-"
"I won't start" he dropped his arm around her shoulders and kissed her cheek "You miss her?"
"More than anything" Ava said softly "she was my whole world"
"Now you got to change it Ava. Come on" he grasped "before Jeremy finds out that you got his pop-tarts in your jacket"
"How'd oh wait stupid question" she mumbled recalling that being a vampire gave him heightened senses.
"This is so long" Ava groaned, she and Damon were waiting by the car for the others. "Anything going on between Jen and the teach?" she asked
Damon cocked an inky dark eyebrow "I thought you were one for privacy?"
"Ergh but I'm bored." Ava muttered and managed to slam her hand down on the horn causing Jenna and Alaric to jump apart "MOVE YOUR ASS" she yelled.
"Charming Ava-"
"Shut up Damon" she huffed and folded her arms across her chest. Alaric waltzed over to them with Jenna on his heels
"Look after Ava-"Jenna advised
"I am here ya know" she drawled she waved over herself "Here-"
"I know" Jenna chuckled "but don't do…anything Ava like" she pulled the teen into a hug "keep safe-"
"Ok" Ava smiled as Stefan and Elena walked down the pathway hand in hand
"Pity you can't come to Stefan" Damon smirked Ava frowned at that
"Wait what? You said Stef was coming" she turned towards the younger Salvatore "Why aren't you going?" she demanded
"Someone has to take care of Caroline" Stefan chuckled seeing the pout on the petite teen's face "You'll be fine-"
"I'll take care of her" Damon grinned; Stefan rolled his eyes and pulled the smaller teen into a hug.
"I-"
"No fighting please" Alaric begged as Damon ushered Ava into the jeep. He climbed into the front seat whilst Stefan said goodbye to Elena.
"Buckle up" Alaric ordered from the front. the vampire glanced over his shoulder and saw Ava struggling with the seatbelt.
"Ava-"
"I can do it"
"Look I appreciate you being independent." Damon uttered he got onto his knees so that his arms could reach her, he snatched the seatbelt out of her hands "But…it's not such a bad thing to get help once in a while" he buckled her in and settled back in his seat.
Ava sighed "Are Elena and Stefan making out still?"
"Yep" the vampire replied popping the 'p'
"ELENA HURRY UP" Ava shouted causing the couple to jump apart "Finally"
"Did I ever tell you Ava how charming you are?" Elena asked as she climbed into the car, Stefan shut the door behind her
"You don't need to, I already know" a cheeky grin came upon her face
"Bye and don't get into trouble" Stefan stated
Ava cocked an eyebrow "Why do I get the feeling he's looking at me?" Alaric chuckled and glanced over to the vampire as he started the car
"Maybe because he is?" Elena smirked
Ava snorted "Pfft, you should be giving Damon the stink eye. He is as much trouble as me-"
"What? So you never get in to trouble?" Stefan asked, Ava licked her lips and shook her head
"Nope I'm an angel-"
"WHO TOOK MY POP-TARTS-"
"Holy shit Ric drive" Ava yelled
"I thought you never get into trouble-"
"AVA?" Jeremy yelled
"DRIVE"
Alaric rolled his eyes and slammed his foot down on the accelerator, Elena giggled seeing a fuming Jeremy running out of the house. The car just peeled away as he got to the cub.
Soon enough they were on the road, a silence filled the car ride.
"Did you take his pop-tarts?" Elena asked, Ava's reply was to pull the box of pop-tarts out from beneath her jacket. "I shouldn't have asked"
"Want one?" Ava asked abandoning the book she had been reading, she opened the box and dug her had into the box.
"Nope" Elena replied
"Anyone?" Ava offered taking a pop-tart
"No Ava quit asking" Damon snapped, she glared down at the pop-tart
"Fine" Ava muttered
"Look Ava sorry-"the blond chucked the pop-tart managing to chuck it at the back of his head.
"Ava-"he growled and picked up the bag of half-eaten chips and threw it at her. Alaric swore and Elena squealed
"Ava don-"
"Enough" Alaric snapped silencing them, "god it feels like I'm back at school" he muttered under his breath "No chucking pop-tarts-"
"He was being mean" Ava pouted
"I don't care. This is Damon we're talking about the-"
"A real dick-"
"Hot-"
"Idiot-"
"Sexy-"
"Arrogant-"
"Smart-"
"Dumbass-"
"Oh my god would you both shut up" Alaric shouted there was another moment of silence in the car. This was broken by Ava taking a massive bite out of the pop-tart. She blanched at the taste and much to Elena's surprise the blond threw the box out of the moving car.
"Ava what did you do?" Alaric frowned "why are the couple in the next car swearing at me?"
"I didn't do anything" Ava lied.
"Liar-"
"Shut up Damon-"
"Make me-"
"I swear to god who's got a spare stake I'll shove it down his throat" Ava snapped,
"Enough anymore arguing and I'll just turn this car around" Alaric threatened them. There was another minute of silence before the two teens and Damon erupted in laughter.
"Oh shit Ric you're funny-"
"Very funny" Ava finished off. Alaric mentally slapped himself today was going to be a long day he thought.
"I'm bored" Ava declared
"We're here now" Alaric said, she felt the car coming to a stop she hastily started to unbuckle the seatbelt. Elena climbed out of the car, as did the history teacher. Ava could hear the buzzing thoughts of students and professors' coming from the buildings.
Damon opened her side of the car and easily unbuckled Ava. She grabbed her bag and scrambled out of the car. he was pleased to see that Ava didn't put up as much of a fuss compared to how she did beforehand.
Ava inhaled and grinned taking in the breath of fresh air. "Great let's go" she was about to run off but the vampire grabbed the back of her jacket
"No running off" he said sternly.
"Damon-"
"Nope" she was ushered ahead,
"Hey come on this way" Alaric returned having gotten directions to Isobel's office.
"Here Ava" Elena handed the teen her cane
"How-"
"Stefan made sure you had your cane, he mentioned about you hiding it in the fireplace-"
Ava bristled "Yeah I got to find a better hiding place" she muttered under her breath.
They entered a building. Ava could smell the musty aroma in the air. Damon linked his arm with Ava's much to her annoyance he said something about her not wondering off.
"Isobel was officially employed by the anthropology department given that the most paranormal phenomenon is rooted in-"the glass doors slammed shut behind them. "folklore" he finished off. They approached a desk where a woman was rummaging through the desk drawers.
"Excuse me" Alaric cleared his throat. Ava idly tapped her fingers against her cane "Hi I'm Alaric Saltzman, I called earlier"
"Yes" the woman smiled she shook the history teacher's hand "I'm Vanessa Monroe research assistant companion to folklore" she glanced over to the other three. Damon narrowed his eyes noticing that this Vanessa person's eyes seem to linger on Ava. The vampire cleared his throat "Let me just grab Isobel's keys"
"Wait sorry these are my friends, this is Elena, Damon and Ava"
"Hi" Ava grinned offering the woman her hand.
"Hi" Vanessa smiled at the friendly blond. Ava withdrew her hand she had pulled up the barricades so she couldn't hear any rampant thoughts.
"Hope this isn't too much of an inconvenience" Alaric uttered,
Vanessa smiled and shook her head "Please Isobel's office is right through there" Ava could hear the woman's heels clacking back over to the desk "Isobel was one of my first professors. I'm a grad student" she pulled out keys "she was brilliant and one of the reasons I went into folklore-"
"Wonder how she would feel if she met the bitch now" Ava muttered under her breath causing Damon to snort with laughter. "I have to ask, has there been any news?"
"Yeah…she's a bit-"Damon slammed his hand over Ava's mouth shutting the teen up
"No I'm afraid not" Alaric uttered.
"Really need to control what comes out of your mouth Ava" Damon whispered into the blond teen's ear. She nodded and let out a huff of air when he removed his hand.
Vanessa hopped off of the desk "It's right this way" she led them into a back office. Damon placed his hand on the small of her back; she felt tingles erupt all over her skin but ignored it. She stepped into the office and her nose twitched no one has been in here for a while she concluded.
"I'll grab the light, feel free to look around" Vanessa uttered,
Ava used her cane to guide herself around, she felt the end of her cane touch something hard. She raised her hand and felt books after books on a shelf. She pulled out a thick book and opened it. from what she could feel of the paper this book was old. "It's fascinating isn't it?"
"More than that" Ava murmured, she frowned and pulled out another book as Elena moved over to her. The petite teen idly pulled out another book and felt something shoot up her arm,
"You ok Ava?" she asked she swore for a tiny second that Ava's eyes seem to flash white
Ava cleared her throat and nodded "Yeah" she frowned clutching on the book. It felt as if power surged through her. She discreetly slipped the heavy book into her bag. This she will be taking. Elena looked through the other books
"Where'd she go-"
"Katherine-"Ava's eyes widened just as Vanessa stormed back into the room with a crossbow. She raised it up Ava shoved Elena aside the research assistant fired.
"AVA" Elena shouted, Damon blurred in front of Ava shielding her. he groaned in pain when the crossbow embedded into the middle of his back
"Damon" Ava grabbed his arms. Elena scrambled on to her feet whilst Alaric slammed Vanessa against the wall.
"Pull it out, I can't reach it Ava" Damon uttered
Ava cringed her hand was around the arrow. Elena and Alaric were with Vanessa thinking that the blond could take care of Damon
"This is gross you do it" she whined. The vampire rolled his icy blue eyes
"I would but I can't reach" he said in a sing song tone. "Just pull the damn thing out it hurts-"
"How about we leave it in?" Ava suggested
"Ava I took a cross bow in the back for you-"
"Hey I saved you plenty of times and –"
"Ava"
"Fine" she grunted and tore the arrow out of his back, her nose scrunched up in disgust when she heard the sound. Damon shuddered and shook his shoulders Ava took a step back and tucked in a stray curl. The vampire spun around
"That bitch is dead-"
Ava placed her hand on his chest "Damon you can't kill her"
"I can-"he went to walk pass her but she took a step in front of him.
"Damon-"he easily stepped around the blond. Ava spun around and used her cane to smack his shin "touch her Damon and I won't talk to you-"
"Ava princess you got no power over me. She would have killed you. Technically this is your fault-"her jaw dropped
"What? How the hell did you get that?" she asked. She felt his chest brush against hers, he leant over her causing her to take a step back
"Because if you hadn't been dumb enough to push Elena out of the way-"
"Damon she is my friend" Ava snapped
"Risk your life like that again Ava," his long fingers grasped her chin so he could look at her in the eyes "you won't like the consequences"
Ava shoved him back "I don't need you to look out for me Damon-"
"What? why not?" he growled "because you're doing such a great job of it by yourself? Ava you suck-"
"Fuck you dick. I don't need your help and you can't tell me what to do" she stormed passed him heading towards the area where she could hear Elena's thoughts.
Ava walked into the room just as Elena introduced herself "I am Elena Gilbert, Isobel's daughter and a descendent of Katherine Peirce. And this is Damon-"
"Dick-"
"Salvatore who you just shot" Elena uttered a frown formed on her face. how did Ava know about Vanessa coming to shoot her.
"I would be extra nice to me right now" Damon uttered.
Vanessa nodded "And her?" she looked over to Ava
"Ava Xenia-"Damon didn't miss the wide eye look coming onto Vanessa's face
"Xenia you say?" Vanessa uttered, no she…her kind couldn't…wow. Ava frowned her thoughts were in a jumbled mess.
"Yes. Look we need your help, we need to see all of Isobel's research" Elena interrupted
"This box" Vanessa hefted a cardboard box on to the desk that Alaric and Ava was sitting at. The blond was slumped forwards and resting her cheek against the cool table "tracks Katherine's arrival in Mystic Falls in April 1864."
"Is that all there is about her?" Elena asked.
Alaric meanwhile poked Ava in the shoulder "What?" she bolted upright
"Were you asleep?" a flash of amusement appeared on his face
"No you were" Ava denied
"That doesn't even make sense" the hunter scoffed
"Neither does your face" she countered
"Ok go back to sleep" he rolled his eyes
"This is boring" Ava said grumpily "should've stayed with Stefan. And Damon is a douche"
"I heard that" Damon's voice rang out into the quiet room
"I said it out loud so you were meant to" Ava said in a sing song tone. She folded her arms across her chest
"Are they together?" Vanessa nodded towards Ava and Damon.
"Eww" Ava screeched "No, no and no-"
"We're married she's my sexy wife-"
"Fuck you Damon-"
"And that's what she will be doing later tonight" Damon grinned. Ava scowled
"No Ava don't-"Alaric warned it was too late she picked up the lamp and threw it towards the vampire's direction.
"Ava outside now" Alaric ordered
"What?"
"Now, you need some fresh air" he uttered. She sighed and got on to her feet "don't get into trouble"
Ava rolled her milky green eyes and clutched on to her cane, she made her way outside.
"Where's Ava gone?" Alaric frowned it's been more than thirty minutes since the blond had disappeared. Elena brows knitted together she stepped away from the desk
"I have no clue, Damon?"
"She's coming" he smirked as soon as those words left his mouth a security guard entered the office holding petite teen by the scruff of her jacket.
"What the?"
"Does this belong to you?"
"Floyd?" Vanessa cocked an eyebrow
"Floyd? That's your name?" Ava snorted oblivious to the dirty look the guard was shooting her.
"Yeah kid-"
"Hey watch the merchandise" Ava exclaimed he pushed her forward and Damon caught her,
"What did you do?" Alaric let out a sigh
"Nothing"
The security guard snorted "She disrupted a lecture and called the professor stupid-"Elena's eyebrows shot to her hairline
"Ava-"
"What? He was. He mixed up the dates of the civil rights movement. That's high school stuff and-"
"Just make sure she doesn't wonder off again" Floyd shook his head and walked off.
"Here" Damon sat the teen down next to Alaric, "Really Ava?"
"What? He was getting all the facts wrong. And he was mean" she mumbled the last part; Alaric shook his head he wasn't surprised really. Ava could literally pick a fight in an empty room,
"Hey guys check this out" Alaric stated flipping through the pages of a thick book. The petite teen settled in the seat and tucked in a stray curl behind her ear. The hunter passed the book he was reading over to Vanessa
"There's no record of werewolf mythology in Mystic Falls-"
"Great can we go now?" Ava cut in
"Soon" Damon gave her shoulder a small squeeze he gestured for Vanessa to carry on.
"But here are some of the records from lesser known legends" Vanessa exclaimed "from Scandinavian skin walkers to Aztec legends" she uttered. Ava rested her chin on her hand she turned on of the conversation but was brought back to reality when the vampire tugged a lock of her blond hair. "Which roughly translates into the curse of the sun and the moon"
Now this interested her "Sun and the moon?" she perked up "Is that native American?" she asked
"Wow you're actually smart-"
"Go away Damon" Ava sniped
"It's Aztec actually"
"Got that wrong didn't you Ava?"
"Shut up Damon-"
"Make me-"
"You're so irritating, I'm surprised no one staked you yet" she muttered under her breath. Vanessa's eyes darted between the pair they did make a fiery couple "We are not a couple" she snapped all of a sudden.
"I never said anything" Vanessa frowned. Her eyes widened in reality "I thought-"
"Nothing. I'm messing" Damon cut her off sending a glare towards the human, she took the hint and carried on with the story
"Right…it explains one of the Origins of the werewolves that is traced through Virginia, the short story is that six hundred years ago, the Aztecs were plagued by werewolves and vampires, they terrorized the countryside and made farming and hunting impossible, until an Aztec Shaman put a curse on them. Making vampires slaves to the sun and the werewolves' servants to the moon."
Vanessa tapped the picture in the book, she took in the group's reaction Elena looked shocked, Alaric looked curious whilst the vampire looked bored. Now Ava's reaction was something different she looked actually excited and was bouncing in her seat. "And as a result vampires could only prowl at night, and werewolves turn on the full moon, when the full moon crests in the sky, whose ever unlucky enough to full under the curse would turn into a werewolf"
"Oh shit" Ava grinned "Damon your bitch ass got owned by a shaman" she exclaimed and yelped when he tugged her hair
"Ava-"
"Mean" she pouted.
"Can they control their conversations?"
Ava scoffed "No-"
"I wasn't asking you Ava" Damon rolled his eyes
"No let her go on. I want to hear her explanation" Alaric uttered.
"Thank you Ric. Well if they could control it do you think they'd turn into one willingly? Putting people in danger? Breaking bones and all that jazz?" Ava stated. "Plus the curse term is used, so no choice"
"Yes, werewolves will attack humans, but instincts and centuries of rivalries had hard wired them to hunt their prey of choice, vampires" Vanessa explained.
Ava leant back in her seat "Seems like Damy you're not on top of the food choice" she smirked folding her arms in front of her chest. She tilted her chair back and Damon grabbed the back of it causing Ava's arms to go flailing.
"DAMON-"
"What? It was funny-" in retaliation Ava slammed her chair back hard hitting the vampire in the stomach. Damon grunted
"What?" Ava mocked him "It was funny-OWW RIC-"she screeched when Damon pinched her.
"Pinch-"
"With fucking vampire strength-"she scowled
Alaric groaned and rubbed his head "Out-"
"What?"
"Out-"
"Me?"
"Yes you Ava out now" Ava huffed and shoved her seat away "Un-fucking-believable. Second time I got sent out" she waited by the door with a pout on her face.
"Is-"
"She's a student" Alaric shook his head "sometimes sending her out works"
"Vampires though?" Elena brought the topic back on hand "they're hunted by werewolves?"
Damon shook his head "Can't be? If they are I would have heard about it-"
"You don't know everything" Ava yelled out
"Oh Ava just come back in" Alaric sighed there was no point of the petite teen being out of the room since she was listening anyway.
Ava re-entered the room and stayed by the bookshelf, she had dumped her messenger bag on the desk,
"Plus there aren't that many werewolves left alive" Vanessa pointed out "hundreds of years ago vampires almost hunted them to extinction."
"Ergo Ava, vampires are the superior species" he smirked, she poked her tongue out and rolled her eyes, she hopped onto the desk and cringed when she accidentally knocked over a pile of books
"Ava-"Elena sighed
"Accident" Ava raised her hands up in a sign of surrender "Anyway why did the vampy hunt the doggies?"
"Doggies?"
"Yeah" Ava nodded "makes them sound more cute, but dear lord do they have to strip when they transform." A goofy smile appeared on her face. Elena squinted her eyes
"Oh my god you're picturing Mason Lockwood naked aren't you?"
Ava blushed and shook her head "No" she mumbled, Damon scowled and looked away
"What's so good about him?-"
"I heard the term Greek god to describe him" Ava uttered
"Can we get back on track?" Alaric interrupted them "So they got hunted-"
"Probably to protect themselves" Vanessa shrugged her shoulders. "A werewolf bite is fateful to a vampire."
"Now that's a bad thing" Ava muttered scratching the back of her head.
Ava returned to the room and could hear rummaging she settled back down on the edge of the desk. She sipped her drink
"There you are" Damon sauntered over to her, "where did you get the fries?" he asked pinching one
"Hmm" she swallowed down the food "Floyd" she grinned, Damon popped a fry into her mouth
"The security guard?" Alaric questioned "I thought he hated you"
"Not everyone hates me Ric-"
"You got a few enemies" both Ava and Alaric snorted
"What and you don't?" she countered
"Hmm, I do but then again I wasn't the one who stole something today did I?" Ava frowned as Damon took another fry off of her.
"What?"
"The book that's currently in your bag?" Damon murmured
"What-"
"It's going back-"
"Damon-"
"Why do you want it?"
Alaric glanced over his shoulder towards the pair, they were being very hushed hushed now. It discerned him somewhat, he noted how close the vampire was to Ava, it seems that Damon's close proximity
"Because…"Ava trailed off, Damon frowned and lightly cupped her chin "I-when I touched it I felt something. It was like the book was calling me"
Before he could further question Elena entered the office she had been talking to her boyfriend. Ava jumped off of the desk and meandered over to the hunter.
"Have you done any research on doppelgangers?" Elena asked
"Well" Vanessa uttered she was currently sitting down and was tired from looking through the boxes. "The word means different things to different cultures. But typically it means a doppelganger is a living breathing double of oneself"
Ava cocked an eyebrow "Did Isobel having anything explaining the link between Elena and Katherine?" she asked
"That's all she had on Katherine unfortunately." Ava jumped when a book was slammed shut "I can tell you that usually doppelgangers torment the people they look like and try to undo their lives-"
"Damn tough luck Elena" Ava shook her head
"It's not exactly uplifting"
"So more things we already know" Elena muttered.
Ava yawned they had spent most of the day here and now it was getting late. She was tired and wanted to snuggle into her bed.
"I want to know why we look alike"
"Head scratcher isn't it?" Damon commented
"Oh shove off Damon" Ava snapped "Not helping, do you know anything or are you being your usual self? Unhelpful?"
Alaric looked down a smirk on his lips, Damon slowly made his way over to the blond "Now if I do know anything I'm not going to tell you, if you got that attitude-"
"Go away" Ava declared "You're being a dick. Shoo Damon go away. You only want to help yourself and no one else" she said.
"And for that Ava I'm taking your stolen goods away" he scowled and snatched the thick book out of her bag.
Ava scowled and jumped onto her feet "Fine. Be like that. I thought we were friends or whatever. Clearly I was wrong" she shoved passed him and grabbed her bag and cane on the way.
"Ava" Elena called after her.
"I'll be in the car" they heard her shout back and then the slam of doors.
"Son of a fucking bitch" Ava muttered under her breath, her dramatic walkout had been ruined by the fact that the car's doors were locked. She heard a beeping noise and then the door opened. Ava was about to climb in but Damon gently took her wrist
"Ava you're more than a friend to me. I'm sorry for being a dick." She smiled hearing the sincerity in his voice
"It's fine, and the book?"
"It's not in brail so-"
"No point?" Ava shrugged her shoulders "Oh well" she muttered and clamoured into the car. Damon buckled the teen in and was now waiting for Elena to come out of the building.
"Take it Ava. It seems to call you anyway" he placed the book on her lap and kissed the crown of her head. She smiled and thanked him.
Soon enough everyone was settled in the car, Damon caught sight of Vanessa at the office window "Hold on-"
"Where are you going?" Alaric asked he had just started the car.
"Just wait there I'll be back in a second" before he could blink the vampire was gone. Ava leant back in her seat and could hear the sound of rustling papers.
"What's that?" Ava asked
"Damon gave me something" Elena answered "Did you know that Katherine's name was Petrova before she changed it."
"Oh" Ava hummed "she was from Europe?"
"Seems so"
Meanwhile back in Duke Vanessa was beginning to put the papers and the boxes away, she felt a pulse of air behind her and jumped when she came face to face with the Salvatore.
"Damon? I know I got the message and-"
"What is Ava?" he demanded his eyes were hard and steely
"What?"
"Don't play dumb with me" the vampire growled "Tell me-"
"No clue-"she gasped when the vampire grabbed her by the throat and pinned her to the wall, his fangs out on full display "Ok…ok" he let go of her. She scowled and shook her head "Whatever she is hasn't been heard of for a while…it's…it's Isobel knows and they were just rumours she mentioned something about a light…"
"And?"
"That's it" Vanessa snapped.
Damon scowled and left just as quick as he arrived.
Later on that night Damon finished off his drink. Alaric had dropped him and Ava off at the Boarding House, before taking Elena home. The petite teen had ended up sleeping on the ride back. Alaric muttered something about not being surprised since the blond had been literally everywhere today.
Damon climbed up the stairs and checked in on Ava; he couldn't help but smile seeing the teen sprawled out on the large bed over the covers
"Ava-"
"Huh?" she grunted half asleep.
"Come on" he gently lifted her up so he could pull the covers over her. Ava stirred and reached out grabbing the vampire's hand before he could leave "Stay" she mumbled
"I thought I was a dick, a prick a-"
"You're all those things. But you're comfortable" Ava muttered "plus I don't have nightmares when you're here"
Damon brushed his fingers against her cheek she leant into his touch. He toed off his boots and climbed in beside her but was on top of the covers. He pulled her close. Ava rested her head on his chest and was soon fast asleep.
"Ava Xenia what are you?" Damon murmured inhaling her scent; he was beginning to doze off. A breeze entered the room his eyes slowly closed.
The wind blew into the room and opened the thick book that Ava had snatched at Duke; the pages flickered because of the breeze. It finally stopped in the middle of the book where the title of the page read 'Faes'.
AN: Apologies for any grammar or spelling mistakes. Outfit link on profile. Thanks to those who reviewed.
I know a delayed update, sorry just school started and i've been ill for the last couple of days.
Anyway on with this Chap-At the beginning Ava is woken up by loud knocks. It's Ric. We find out Damon gave Ava a robe that makes her look like a giant teddy bear. They go on a road trip. Damon convinces Ava to come along (She got no choice) Ava steals Jeremy pop-tarts. Alaric sends her out. Damon and Ava moments. Ava and Damon bicker throughout driving Alaric crazy. They arrive at Duke. Vanessa attempts to kill Elena. They talk. Dava (Love that name for them) bicker again. Ava goes off for a bit but gets returned, they find out Ava disrupts a lecture. After learning about wolves they go home. Ava steals a book. Vanessa knows about the light. Damon and Ava end up sleeping in the same bed. At the end some insigt of what Ava may be.
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