A/N: Sorry I've been gone, life got in the way a little bit! Anyway Ghost World is summarised here and then we move on to Ordinary People. OP would have normally been a summarised episode were it not for the fact that it's one of my favourite episodes ever, so instead we pick up with Damon lying on Elena's bed waiting for her and he summarises the episode for you m'kay? Hope that makes sense...just read it and it will all become clear. I still own nothing.

Ghost World & Ordinary People

On the Night of Illumination, Mason Lockwood and other ghosts become corporeal and Mason gets a little revenge on Damon. Damon let's Bonnie know that something went wrong with her magic, "When I kill someone, they're supposed to stay dead" and she gets to work on fixing it with Caroline. "Please tell me that's a recipe for witch cookies."

Bonnie casts a spell to reveal 'veiled matter' i.e. ghosts. Elena catches Jeremy kissing Anna, Lexi comes to capture and save Stefan and Mason asks Damon for an apology. "I do a lot of things I don't have to do."

Grams explains to Bonnie that to close the door to the Other Side she needs to destroy Elena's necklace. Lexi attempts to de-rippify Stefan and teach Elena how to save him. "That necklace represented hope" – "Ironic then, that it's about to get blown to pieces."

Damon gets a lesson in trust from Mason as they explore the Lockwood claves for Klaus related information. Elena confronts Jeremy about his relationship with Anna and tells him that he can't love a ghost forever which she then applies to her own situation with Stefan, telling him that he has to find his hope or he will lose her forever.

Caroline kicks some vampire ass when the ghosts of Founder's Day's Past try to attack Tyler's mother, Anna says goodbye to Jeremy and reunites with her mother, Bonnie and grams cast the spell to send the ghosts away. "You are stronger than all of this."

Damon calls Ric to help him find out what's in the vampire-free zone and regurgitates his apology with more sincerity. Team Badass reunites.

Ordinary People

"Your heartbeat, helps me sleep
Your breath soothes my soul
I love you more than I knew I could ever love someone"

All in all I'd say that this day has been rather successful and as I lie in Elena's bed waiting for her, I'm really feeling rather positive about our future 'Kill Klaus' operation.

Ric is talking to me again and this morning we took Elena to the caves to show her what Mason found upon his, thankfully brief, foray into the land of the living. There's a whole buncha drawings carved into the walls down there which pretty effectively detail the birth and life story of the Originals.

There was one unexpected name up on that wall though. Mikael. Or as I now like to call him, "Papa Original" who'd have thought? The one who's gonna kills Klaus is his daddy. Sorta.

So while Ric was trying to put the pieces of the Original puzzle together, Pictionary style, I helped Elena with her vamp-training and then she decided to go "straight to the source" Rebekah. And while she took on that unpleasant job, I went to pay a visit to my little bro.

Aaand, then I let him out. Yeah. Elena's probably gonna be pissy about that part, especially after all her hard work getting him all locked down in the first place, but honestly I just couldn't stand seeing him locked up in there. And I am not a proponent of the Lexi method. It's like putting a band-aid on the problem and hoping the cracks don't start pushing through regardless. Which, inevitably, they will, because they always do.

If I've said it once I've said it a million times, Stefan needs to learn control, moderation, in short terms: how to be a better vampire. And he's not gonna learn locked up in a damn jail cell or wallowing in his own self-pity for the rest of, oh I don't know, eternity.

'Course he's probably not gonna learn much of anything until the switch is fully returned to the upright and locked position but I figured we'd get a head start on the process, maybe throw in some brother bonding while we were at it.

So I took him to a little dive-bar outside of Mystic Falls, well I didn't want him chewing on the locals! There's only so much grief I'll take from Elena for my brother's sake. Point is, I took him to this bar, and we had a nice time, relatively speaking.

A little blood, a lotta alcohol, some dancing with pretty girls, drinking games and a few life lessons from me thrown in for good measure. "I happen to like the edge Stefan. Your problem is your inability to resist falling over it. You're all or nothing man, you can't just...be" yeah turns out my brother's actually kinda...half fun to be around when he's not acting like a complete douche. Yeah. Everything was going great. Until it wasn't.

Mikael. He somehow managed to track us down to the shittiest bar in the world. Said he can kill Klaus, that he has a weapon, but of course to kill Klaus we actually need him to be present. And apparently that's where I came in, or more to the point, that's where my heart came in.

Due to Klaus's rather annoying compulsion on my brother, Stef couldn't tell Mikael where Klaus is, so to provide a little...incentive, Papa Original threatened to pull a classic Damon. On Damon. Heart snatch.

Thankfully after a rather disturbing version of Twenty Questions my brother managed to find both a shred of his humanity and a way around the compulsion. He pulled through for me, although I would have appreciated it if he had been a little quicker, but the point is, he did. He told Mikael that he can lure Klaus back to Mystic Falls.

After creepy Papa Original left I decided it was time for Stef and me to get outta there too, and then I decided that it'd be kinda fun to kick my brother's ass as well. What? He pissed me off, and no brother bonding is complete without a good ass kicking.

He asked me why I was doing it; trying to save him. So I told him. I have to. Because he's in this mess because of me, because he saved my life, because he gave up his life for mine. So I guess really I was more pissed off with myself than him, also a good reason for kicking ass.

And all of these events led me to the only place I wanted to be, to the place I find my peace. Waiting for Elena. Normally I'd use the window seat but I figure we've progressed far enough in our relationship for me to use the bed. And I guess we're about to find out because she's coming back.

Right. About. Now.

"Uh, Damon, seriously?" ye-ep. I got news and lot's of it. Come let me share.

"We got Mikael" – "What? How?" well that part I'm not entirely clear on actually but "I guess Katherine came through" at least the girl has finally done something worthwhile in her life.

"The plan's in motion. See? I told you I had it" oh dear, she does have her judgy eyes on so I guess I'm not gonna get out of this totally unscathed, but you know what? That's okay. Today is a good day. Give or take a harrowing moment or two, so I'll let her say her piece.

"Go ahead. Kick, yell, scream, I'm sure you've been planning you're rant aaall day" – "I'm not gonna yell at you" you're not? Well that's, unexpected.

"Why not? I went behind your back, freed Stefan and you know what? It backfired; he's an even bigger dick than ever. It's just now, he's a dick that's on our side" she's trying to get the covers out from under me and it's kinda cute 'cause she's getting all flustered.

"I'm not mad, I'm tired I just...I wanna go to bed" yeah she does look tired, but I'm not done sharing yet.

"You know, I think Mikael's weapon's a stake..." and then she surprises me. She gives up trying to salvage the covers and just climbs on in the damn bed. Beside me.

"I think I got Rebekah on our side too" huh. How'd that happen?

"I learned that she's just a girl. That she lost her mom too young and she loves blindly and recklessly; even if it consumes her" Elena stops for timeless moments and she won't look at me but I wonder if she's thinking about Rebekah. Or herself. 'Cause honestly it could probably be either.

Seriously, leave it to Elena to find a way to relate to Barbie Klaus, I bet if you left this girl in a room with Klaus for long enough she'd find a way to identify with him too. Not that that's ever gonna happen. Ever.

"But when all is said and done, there's nothing more important than the bond of family" I turn over on the bed to face her, "you should tell that to my brother" and she gives me a lovely little smile.

"I'm not mad at you Damon" and then she switches off the light. "I think that you're gonna be the one to save him from himself. It won't be because he loves me, it'll be because he loves you" huh, I dunno about that. I mean, yeah, he found a way around the compulsion an-

"Can I tell you the rest tomorrow?" she asks as she snuggles into her pillow and man, she is just full of surprises tonight.

"Sure" I can't believe she's actually just...letting me stay. I guess I was right, our relationship really has progressed. Yep. It's been a damn good day.

Dear Diary,
It's been a really long day and now I can't sleep. Even though I'm exhausted. I went to see Rebekah today after Damon and Ric found the story of her life in the Lockwood caves. Rebekah told me her family story. Her mother was a witch and she cast the spell to turn them into vampires. And her father, Mikael, he killed them, all of his children.

When Klaus turned they learnt the truth about his heritage, his werewolf side and all of her life Rebekah believed that her father killed her mother in retaliation for her betrayal. Only he didn't. It was Klaus, I told her the truth and honestly I felt sorry for her. But I think she's on our side now.

And then we get to the reason that I can't sleep. Damon is in my bed. Asleep.

When I came through after my shower he was waiting for me, he told me what happened today with Stefan, and that we got Mikael. He is going to kill Klaus. At first I tried to get him to move but he wouldn't budge so I just gave up and got into bed. It shouldn't be this big a deal but it is.

Because I like it. It's comforting, it feels safe and normal. It feels right. But it shouldn't. Sometimes, okay most of the time, when I'm around Damon I can't think properly. I feel like I can't breathe properly. It's like all I see is him, he's all I can focus on and that scares me. It terrifies me actually.

In other ways it's a good thing because if I'm focused on Damon then I don't have to think too much about all the other ways my life has fallen apart. I don't have to think about Stefan. And of course when I do think about Stefan I feel guilty as sin. Although technically I've done nothing to feel guilty over, and we're not even together. But I do, feel guilty.

But Damon. Damon is sleeping in my bed and he looks so beautiful, so peaceful. In a totally strange way he looks like he belongs here, in my bed.

And is it wrong that I really want to reach out and touch him right now? Yes Elena. Wrong. Don't do it.

It's just the tiredness talking that's all. I really need to try and sleep.

Only, it doesn't feel like it would be wrong...
Elena