A/N: Okay well here's chapie 4. Hope you guys enjoy it! Thanks for the reviews, they mean heaps to me. /h6EY-aEdNVE
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A pair of strong pale hands grabbed the young man with the eyes the color of the bluest sky in hell. Beautiful and seductive on the outside, tricky and moral less within. Damon laughed at the woman in front of him. "And you expect me to believe you?" He scoffed. The woman with the golden eyes pushed him up higher on the wall, successfully cutting off his air supply. "Okay, okay!" Damon wheezed out. "I've suddenly had a change of faith." He was rewarded with being able to get oxygen back into his lungs. He gasped, subconsciously fidgeting with his daylight ring. He walked around the woman in front of him warily, and crossed over to the liquor. Too much new information to deal with sober.
"I need you to stay away from her," the person warned. Damon nodded happily. "See, that's something I can do. I don't want to be around something that can torch me to ashes. I like- well is it living or un-living? Anyways, that's not a problem," he summarized under the lady's reproachful eye. The woman with the gold eyes nodded appreciatively. She stepped away from Damon and began to walk away from the boarding house parlor. Before she left though, Damon used his vampire speed and rushed in front of her. "But really, what are you? I mean, I can tell you're not a vampire. But with those freaky gorgeous gold eyes," Damon said, twirling a piece of the young woman's blonde hair in his right hand flirtatiously. "You've got to be something of the sort. Hmm?" He asked, cockily raising his eyebrows in an almost suggestive manner. The woman's hand shot out and broke his fingers, twisting each painfully. She snarled at him as he winced and then took a hasty step away.
"And what a shame, I had thought I could leave you to have your memory of me," she said in a patronizing tone, as if talking to a baby that couldn't quite grasp the meaning of her words. "And since you won't remember this until I want you to," she said idly. "Let's just say I'm old. Arcane even, and that my people were the ones blamed for the disappearance of that wretched girl." She growled while simultaneously breaking Damon's other hand. "We had heard from a little bird that Delilah and Walter were having second thoughts about giving over Lux and well, we couldn't have that. Now thanks to you, our girl didn't need to kill them. But also thanks to you, we can't get her now." The gold eyed woman looked into the vampire's eyes and steadily told him to forget her, and to remember this conversation when needed to. And only then.
"Until next time, child," she called over her shoulder, flicking blonde hair over brown leather coat. Damon looked around, wondering why a glass of his favorite whiskey was broken on the floor.
"You promised," Zach accused Stefan, shoving a newspaper in front of him. Stefan was startled and looked up at his nephew. He seemed a little jumpy lately, but that mainly had to do with both the fact that Lux was coming over soon and that she knew about Damon. Not to mention her fire tricks.
"This was an animal attack," Stefan sighed, looking at his room's full shelves. And he was suddenly having a sneaking suspicion that Damon was in town again. He let his mind wander for a second to the party he was going to and Elena before snapping himself back to attention. Focus, he chided himself. He folded up one of numerous diaries and rested it on his desk.
"Don't give me that." Zach snapped at him. "I know the game. You tear them up enough, they always suspect an animal attack. You said you had it under control!" He shouted angrily. He rubbed his stubby beard and shifted his stance. "And I do," Stefan replied coldly. He looked at Zach reproachfully.
"Please, Uncle Stefan," Zach said. His tone had changed from an angry one to a forlorn and desperate note. "Mystic Falls is a different place now. It's been quiet for years, but there are people who still remember. And you being here, it's just going to stir things up." Zach tried to convince his uncle. "It's not my intention," was his distant reply. Zach sighed again, something he seemed to always be doing.
"Then what is? Why did you come back? After all this time, why now?" Stefan pondered on this question and didn't want to reply that he was there because of Elena Gilbert and how she looked like Katherine. After contemplation, he said, "I don't have to explain myself." Stefan went back to reading the paper about the supposed animal attack.
"I know that you can't change what you are. But you don't belong here anymore." Zach gazed down at Stefan's figure with a sort of empathy that he didn't think he could have mustered for a vampire. Stefan was one of the good ones, but with Stefan's good came his self-loathing and guilt. Zach guessed that was the punishment for going against your nature.
"Where do I belong?" Stefan quietly asked. He wasn't angry, his tone was despair. Just then a knock sounded from the front door. Stefan got up tiredly to answer it only to be met nothing outside. No one. Confused, he poked his head out a little more. Nothing, until he looked down a little farther to the short Lux. She beamed up at him and he smiled back. Something about her energy was endearingly infectious.
"So, may I come in?" She asked teasingly. "Or are you just going to stare at me from the door?" Stefan smiled shyly and stepped back, he hadn't even noticed that he'd been staring at her for a while. He politely opened the door wider for her and she walked in, stripping off her coat and hanging it on one of the numerous pegs on the wall. "You know, I almost didn't come here at all. I was afraid, what with you being a little less than normal, you'd be dangerous." Lux laughed genuinely and then added, "But then I tried to picture you as a violent person and just couldn't match your sweet green eyes to those of someone that would intentionally hurt anyone."
His mind wandered to his dark times without humanity and he inwardly shuddered. Stefan walked over to her, careful to keep a small distance between him and Lux. Even after feeding off of the forest animals earlier, he was still drawn to her blood. He walked her up to his room where he could talk to her in privacy. Lux gazed wondrously at everything around her, amazed at the shere amount of historical objects. She slowly orbited around in a circle while trying to follow Stefan at the same time. She was successful until she collided with something at her back. She tripped, and squeezed her eyes shut for impact but only felt warm hands on her arms. Looking up, she expected Stefan to be there but was met with the cold and calculating blue eyes of Damon.
Lux gazed at him and took in his features. He was good looking, but something about him felt off. She curiously poked his arm and he gazed annoyingly down at her. Lux jumped back as he playfully tried to bite her finger. She laughed, he didn't seem all that bad, and turned around to Stefan only to be met with his angry glare. And it was directed at Damon. "Well, we be off then," Lux said, pulling on Stefan's arm. Stefan shook off his stare and smiled down at Lux. Something about her just made him want to protect her from harm. Maybe it was because she seemed so small, and he didn't want Damon to hurt her to get back at him.
Once up in Stefan's room, Lux sprawled out on his bed grateful that she'd worn her comfy pair of boyfriends jeans and Avengers tank. She lay her black spiked bag on the floor and kicked off black ballet Oxfords. She sighed, and Stefan glanced at her bemusedly. She caught his look, and harrumphed. "What? I'm tired and I was too impatient to wait after school, so I woke up early." Lux yawned, and it sounded like notes going down a scale. Stefan cautiously laid down next her, not wanting to scare her. Lux cuddled into his arm before forcefully making herself sit up. "You are like the big brother I always wanted," she gruelingly drawled out while simultaneously rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
"So what are you?" Lux asked, plopping into a sitting position besides the teenage boy next to her. Stefan sighed, how did he explain what he was without intimidating her away? The young girl's smile didn't falter and their seemed to be a warm breeze skirting around the room. When Stefan failed to answer after a few moments Lux laughed. "I mean, it's not as if you're Edward Cullen for crying out loud!" Her smile froze and broke as he apologetically smiled and shrugged his shoulders. "Wait, you're a vampire?"
Stefan rushed in, "But I only drink animal blood."
There was a long pause while Lux ingested the information and Stefan stared at his hands.
"Okay, I can live with that." Stefan's face whipped towards hers. "I mean, it's not as if you feed off of humans and kill them for fun! And another question," she waited for Stefan to nod and she continued. "Why so mad at Damon? He's your brother, and he's good too, yeah?"
"Well, while I personally don't drink human blood or use mind compulsion on them, my brother Damon does. Frequently," he added hoping to warn her. "He's not good news Lux. Please, just stay away from him."
The girl before him seemed to mull this over and hesitantly nodded. "But everyone has good in them," she finally said though she regretted ever laughing with Damon, who knew how many people he's hurt. Stefan nodded in agreement and replied, "Yes. I'm just trying to unearth that part of Damon again." Lux nodded understandingly and then moved on to another subject. "So are there an advantages to being a vampire?" The word felt strange rolling out of her mouth.
Stefan looked at her and used his extra speed to transfer himself from one side of her to the other. She gasped, eyes filling with curiosity. Lux always was a sucker for her own will to simply learn. "Wait," he said. He ran to the window, dangling from the railing, and plummeted down. Lux dashed to the window to see him on the ground before he jumped back on to the sill. She tried to hold in her giddy laughter, but it sneaked out in peels of amazed chortles and a snort.
"What about you?" Stefan asked. Lux breathed in and held out her hand again, she'd been practicing on her fire tricks. Stefan gazed at the red flames, transfixed. Then she closed her palm and it was gone. She breathed out and the warm breeze in the room picked up until it was twisting Lux's hair and pages flew around Stefan's room. She hadn't been practicing this one as much and soon she realized the wind was trying to fight her. She cupped her hands together and held them strongly. The wind turned freezing and Lux could see her breath before her. Stefan pushed his way to her, and grasped her arm to support her. Lux's concentration was broke, and her body was sucked out the window. Stefan was hurled into one of his book cases, and couldn't see straight. He tried to shuffle to grab Lux from falling out the window but his body wasn't functioning properly. "Lux!"
Damon walked down the hallway below, and eavesdropped on his brother and the small girl's conversation. Lux, what an odd name. So baby brother was confiding in her about the vampire stuff. He was curious, and already had a plan forming. Get the girl to trust him. Then snap her neck. What will Stefan do? Well, Damon had promised an eternity of misery and he was just fulfilling his promise. Damon paused mid-step when he heard a loud bang from upstairs. What were they up to? He slid up the stairs and barged into the door to be smacked in the face with one of Stefan's diaries. He snarled and felt the cold wind, more like mini tornado, tossing the book back in the current. In his peripheral vision, he spied Lux flying out the window and rushed over. He can't have her dying now, that was to be done by him.
He snatched her hand but Lux seemed repulsed by him, and Damon guessed that Stefan had told her about his lifestyle. He smirked, trying to get a foot hold on the ground but he was thrown out too. Down they fell, Lux didn't scream. Damon crashed into their hedges and got up to straighten himself out. He peered around, wanting to find the whatever the hell Lux was. There she was- but what was she doing?
Lux peeked through her eyes, waiting for the pain. But she felt nothing. She opened her eyes wider to find that she was a couple feet off the ground. Part of her was relieved and the other part was frightened. Of course, there was also her ever present curious side. She smiled and dropped to the green grass and crossed herself happily. Out of the window came her bag and Stefan. Stefan eased from his crouch and looked at Lux, assessing her, to make sure she was alright. He picked up her bag and used his sonic speed to grab her coat for her. "I think that's enough crazy for today," Damon joked snidely. This time Lux disapprovingly glared at him and put on both jacket and bag.
"Hey, Stefan?" She asked tentatively. Her eyes were sort of blank and she seemed to be in a daze. She halfheartedly tried to smooth down her hair.
"Hmm hmm?" He replied, not taking his eyes off of Damon in case he tried anything. Why had he helped save Lux?
"Can I get a lift to school?" Stefan nodded and turned to her before scooping her up into his arms and jumping into the sky, landing in a parking lot a little ways from school. Lux hollered as he put her down and asked if they could do that again. He smiled, glad she was herself again, and assured her that they could. He walked at a normal human pace with her to another day at Mystic Falls High.
"The Battle of Willow Creek took place right at the end of the war in our very own Mystic Falls," Mr. Tanner droned on and on in history class. Lux usually loved history but this was not her exact cup of tea. She made a face as if she were to die from boredom towards Bonnie and Bonnie could hardly repress her giggles. "How many casualties resulted in this battle? Ms. Bennett?"
Lux rolled her eyes and rummaged through her bag to find her current book An Abundance of Katherines. "Um . . . a lot? I'm not sure. Like, a whole lot." Lux laughed under her breath, and turned to Elena who was sharing some pretty intense romance novel stares with Stefan. She tittered again, imagining Bella and Edward then groaned. She hated- oops, she meant strongly disliked Twilight. Sure, she'd still read all the books. Lux bobbed her curls around and sneakily read John Green under her desk. If they got to act all in love, then she got to read about her love. He was fictional, but aren't all the best guys?
"Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Ms. Bennett." The tiny girl looked up long enough to glower at the back of Mr. Tanner's head. "Mr. Donovan? Would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?" Nobody turned to see Matt but you could tell in his tone that he was smiling.
"It's okay, Mr. Tanner, I'm cool with it." Lux turned in her seat and air high fived Matt. He smiled at her as she turned around. He just felt like she was a silly little girl, one that sometimes was really deep and at other times making the worst puns ever. "If someone throws a coffee cup at me, does it count to say I've been mugged?" Lux wrote on a piece of paper and handed back to Matt. He guffawed and visibly crumpled it and threw it at her head, where it promptly got stuck in her hair. She tugged it, and with a final pull it was released but she landed on the floor- definitely not in her seat. Looking at the wad of paper she saw a piece of gummy putty. She got up, not without a teasing frown at Matt, and sat back down with dignity. Mr. Tanner didn't know what to do with this situation. So he moved on to torture someone else.
"Hmm. Elena?" Elena shot around from making dreamy eyes at Stefan to the definitely less attractive Mr. Tanner. "Surely you can enlighten us about one of the town's most significantly historical events?" He said in his ever present snide voice.
"I'm sorry, I-I don't know," she fumbled. Lux turned her serial killer mode on and stared at her jerk of history teacher. It usually got them all flustered and embarrassed and they wouldn't be able to grill or even look a student in the eye for a few minutes or until aforementioned serial killer mode was turned off. But not this teacher, he was a different breed of horrible teacher.
"I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena," he stared at her and Elena squirmed in her seat. Lux raised her eyebrows, he was using her technique! She felt her hackles raise- well if she had hackles, she was sure they'd be raised. "But the personal excuses ended with summer break." Okay, enough.
"Excuse me?" Lux said disdainfully. She looked at him as if he was a particularly disgusting and repulsing non-canon ship that made no sense unless the character had Stockholm's Syndrome. "I believe that is a little out of line for you to say. Now, I know that you've got a reputation to up hold and all that meaningless-supposed-to-be-meaningful crap, but I'll have you know that we're not here for your amusement. You're here to teach, not torture or ridicule. So please," she paused looking down at her book once more and finishing her sentence without looking back at him, "refrain from doing so."
No one said anything for a moment- but when they did reply to Lux's outburst, they laughed and a few clapped appreciatively. Even no-smile-Stefan quirked at it, and bemusedly glanced at his friend. "There were 346 casualties. Unless you're counting local civilians," Stefan answered Elena's previous question. Mr. Tanner's face had gone red, and he told himself that he'd deal with Ginnavia Lux James. Back to teaching.
"That's correct. Mister. . .?" Stefan leaned forward in his desk and peered at the teacher before him oddly. "Salvatore," he finished for him. "Salvatore. Any relation to the original settlers here at Mystic Falls?"
Stefan tried to keep his features from giving away himself and shrugged before answering. "Distant." Lux knew what that meant and tried to cover up her laugh with a racking cough.
"Well, very good. Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle," at which Stefan shook his head and replied sickeningly sweetly. "Actually, there were 27, sir. Confederate soldiers, they fired on the church, believing it to be housing weapons. They were wrong. It was a night of great loss. The founder's archives are, uh, stored in civil hall if you'd like to brush up on your facts. Mr. Tanner." There was a few laughs and impressed whistles form the class and Stefan knew he'd earned some respect.
Humiliated yet again, Mr, Tanner responded with a simple, "Hmm," and a slightly warranted glare at Lux who paid no attention to him whatsoever besides a sarcastic smirk and then at Stefan who had a similar expression.
Lux was just about ready to head to the party at the Falls when she heard shuffling in Jer's room. Walking out in her leather looking skirt and gray hoodie. She tiptoed up and quickly rapped on the door. Jer had told her about him being with Vicki the last summer and how now she was with Tyler and didn't think of him as even an option anymore. She felt like she needed to help him and do something that can actually help. It was probably her atychiphobia flaring up though.
"Jer?" Getting no response, she sighed and walked down stairs. She grabbed her phone and purse before retiring to Elena's car to wait for Jeremy. A few moments later, Jeremy walked over and slid into the back seat. They were off.
Once at the party, Lux could see why everyone wanted to go here. The place was big, you could see the stars, and there were no parents around. None. But, there was plenty of alcohol. Lux thought about it, she'd always loved the few tastes of beer, whine, and champagne her parents had given her. And she promised herself that she wouldn't get drunk. There was just something about drinking so much that your brain swells and presses against your cranium painfully that didn't exactly call to her. Looking around, she pulled a smiling Elena over to Bonnie at the bonfire.
"Just admit it, Elena." Bonnie started with a red Solo cup of beer or something sloshing in her hand. Lux stole it and took a sip before placing it back in her hands. Hmm... not too bad.
"Oh, okay, so he's a little pretty." Elena finally gave up. Lux looked around to find the one and only nice brother vampire. He was smiling, and Lux thought that he had probably been using his vamp powers to listen in on their conversation. She saw Caroline walk up to him and she began to blatantly flirt with him besides the fact that she had seen the looks exchanged between Elena and him just a few hours ago. Lux sighed and readjusted her sweater.
"He has that romance novel stare," Bonnie reminded her laughing. Lux laughed and knowing Stefan could hear her. She deadpanned, "I think it's a little creepy, if you ask me."
"Right, well we didn't," Bonnie said while giggling. They looked around and just enjoyed the feeling around them.
"So where is he?" Bonnie asked. Elena shrugged and then got an idea. "I don't know. You tell me, you're the psychic one," she teased. Lux felt curious-again. Maybe Bonnie really was psychic. "Right, I forgot. Okay, so give me a sec. Grams says I have to concentrate."
"Wait!" Lux called and handed an empty beer bottle. "You need a crystal ball, silly!" Bonnie smiled and took the glass bottle as her fingers touched Lux's. Lux felt a strange surge around her as Bonnie dazed off for a moment before looking focused again.
"What?" Elena asked worried about Bonnie and confused as to why Lux's body had been jerked backwards. "What happened?"
"That was weird," Bonnie paused. "When I touched you, I saw a crow." Elena and Lux exchanged looks before Elena clarified. "What?"
"A crow. There was fire, earth, a tornado, and this lake. And from the fire came this weird fog and a man..." Bonnie tried to laugh it off. "I'm drunk. It's the drinking. There's nothing psychic about it. Yeah? Okay, I'm gonna get a refill." Bonnie left without waiting for a response. Lux frowned and thought of what Bonnie had said. So it was probably safe to assume that she was the real deal of a witch.
"Okay? Bonnie!" Elena frantically called after her friend's quickly retreating back. She sighed and turned around to meet Stefan.
"Hi," Elena said, surprised by his sudden appearance. "Hi," he said smiling at her. Lux took this as her cue to leave and walked away for some not as loud time. But that didn't mean she couldn't eavesdrop. She twirled her fingers around a curl absentmindedly and it started a light breeze towards her from their direction.
"Yeah," Lux heard Elena admit sheepishly. Lux kept walking, not really paying attention to exactly where she was going.
"I'm sorry. You're upset about something," Stefan said kindly. Lux laughed at how much of a gentleman he was.
"Oh, uh, no, it's- it's just Bonnie. She's... You know what? Never mind. You're . . . here," Lux could practically feel Elena's smile. Stefan was probably smiling again too.
"I'm here," he agreed and she heard them walk away. She started making her way to where someone had pointed out the path for the Falls. Must be beautiful at night. As she walked on the tough bark and stones, she finally made it to a clearing where she could take in the whole view. It opened up for about a thirty feet circumference with one side to the forest and the other to the hills around the Mystic Falls. She gazed around, still listening to Elena and Stefan's conversation. She heard footsteps nearby but brushed it off, figuring it was one of the other teenagers at the party.
" Last spring-" Lux heard Elena tell Stefan. Her heartbeat increased and she hunched her back and hugged her knees. "My parents' car hit someone, hit Lux's parents' car and drove off of a bridge into the lake. And I was in the backseat and I survived, but. . .they didn't. Lux's parents died, she's been staying with us, and her sister is in a coma. She won't even speak about her sister, I don't know her name, but Lux is like the sister I never had. So yeah, that's my story." Lux smiled sweetly at the end and wiped away a rogue tear. A long time ago, she had chosen not to show others that she was sad. Because when she did, they always either fretted about her and feel a bad about her feeling bad, or they treated her like a China doll. And she didn't like to be babied or fretted over. It had always felt like she was being smothered when she was sad, and if she distanced herself from the emotions, then she didn't have to feel that way.
"You won't be sad forever, Elena. And Lux will be okay." Stefan soothed. Lux could tell he had said that for her to hear. And even though she knew it wasn't true, even though she knew he was just trying to make her feel better, she somehow believed that it was really going to be okay.
A twig snapped nearby and Lux turned around. And another one, coming closer. She scooted back as the trail of broken crunches came to the edge of the clearing. It was a girl, about Lux's age it appeared, and she had black shiny hair and golden eyes. "Um, do you need help finding the path? It's right over there," Lux said, pointing to an opening to the clearing but a few feet away. The other teenager strode closer with a sort of prestigious air about her. She had on leather boots, dark jeans, and a brown leather jacket. The girl shook her head and smiled. Lux let out a shaky, horrified breath as she saw the girl's teeth.
They were pointed, serrated, like a sharks. All of them. Lux drew on her fire and put them up defensively. She stood up and took a few more cautious steps away from the golden eyed girl. "What do you want?" Lux bravely (or stupidly, you choose) called.
The Shark Teeth Girl, or STG for short, inched menacingly forward before replying. "I want you," she said. Lux laughed uneasily and said, "Right, well I don't swing that way. Back in Oregon, I had a friend that you might want to meet though."
"And you continue to talk," the girl muttered darkly. "Come, and there won't be any trouble." Lux laughed outright at that though. "The antagonist always says that in movies and books, and they never mean it."
"What makes you think I'm the villain?" The countered. Lux replied truthfully, "I don't think any protagonist would have a set of chompers like that. Well, besides Enobaria." STG tried to swipe at Lux, but Lux blew fire off her hands at her. STG shrieked in pain as Lux stumbled backwards. The fire kept growing, as STG burned alive. Spreading, always spreading. Lux couldn't contain it, she was too overcome with fear. Her eyes started to burn and her nose twitched at the awful smell of burning flesh. The smoke from the dry-ish grass made it hard for Lux to breath, paired with her panic attack, she was helpless. STG's scream pierced the air at the same time as another girl's. Lux listened harder.
It was Vicki, and there was a vampire there. Damon.
Lux let out a growl, angry at herself for not being able to move. She heaved in a mother lungful of smoke, trying to use her arms to army crawl across the hazy view in front of her. All of the sudden, voices broke out around her. From what she could tell, they'd found Vicki and she was alive, thank goodness. "LUX!" She heard someone cry out in a wild voice. Looking up through tears that annoyingly smeared her vision as easily as charcoal, she saw Lily. She was standing there, waiting for her. She breathed in, trying to move towards her sister.
Wait, that was Elena. The hallucination of Lily was gone and in her place was Bonnie, Elena, and Stefan. Someone else was there too, she could feel them. She used the last of her will and energy to push the last couple of feet where a strong pair of arms plucked her off the ground. "Lux, oh Lux," Elena cooed as she stroked the girl's heated hair. A whoosh of air came by and she felt another pair of hands tug at her. She groaned as someone pulled her roughly from Stefan's hold. She tried to open her eyes, and they finally opened a little. She saw blue eyes and she held out her hand slowly to his had told her all about Katherine on the way to school and she felt sorry for Damon, she really did. "I'm sorry," she whispered as he humanly ran away from the shocked Elena and the worried Stefan.
Damon on looked down at the limp girl in his arms. Now that he had seen her like that, in the fire and alone, he felt a connection to her. It was very small and very weak, but he still felt her loneliness and could only compare it to his own. But a plan was a plan, and he needed her to trust him enough until it would both be a surprise for her and Stefan. "For what?" He asked softly to his own dismay. He was Damon Salvatore,a vampire without humanity, and he was going to both ruin Stefan and save Katherine.
He he used his vampire speed now, away from the eyes of Elena and the other anxious teenagers. They were already in the boarding house, going up the stairs. Lux still hadon't said anything, causing him to believe that she had fallen asleep. He lay her in his bed, and tucked her in. Why am I doing this? What does she matter?
And as he sat there, waiting for his dear brother to check in on him and then Elena, he began to read aloud the book he'd found in Lux's purse, starting at a random page. "The girl smiled again. Colin wasn't thinking about anything but himself and K-19 and the piece of his gut he'd misplaced- but there was no denying her smile. That smile could end wars and cure cancer." He smiled ruefully at the book and began to read more, starting at the first page this time. He heard a gurgling laugh come from Lux's blistered red lips. He sharply looked up.
"I'm sorry about Katherine. Nobody should have to ever lose someone they love," she laughed bitterly before adding, "Because 'you can love someone, but you'll never be able to love someone as much as you can miss them.'" Lux looked closer at who was in front of her with her swollen eyes, and cleared her scratched throat. She looked around, frightened that she was somewhere she'd never been before. Her over due panic attack kicked in again, and her breathing hurried. She had said that she was sorry for his loss, and she was, but she didn't want to be alone with him. Stefan had told her what he does, what his lifestyle was, and she couldn't handle the thought that he was the reason why so many people were dead. She felt her throat constrict, he'd lost everyone too, and felt a sort of half hatred roll of her in waves.
He absentmindedly leaned forward, not realising he was petting her hair and shushing her to sleep until her breathing had gone to a steady rate, and during those few moments of before sleep Lux tried to imagine Damon as Stefan and successfully fell asleep snuggled unto the pillows. By then he could already feel humanity fighting its way to the surface. He couldn't let it. He needed to get rid of her soon, or else he might do something stupid like start to care.
He shivered. What a horrible thought.
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