ELIZABETH'S POV
I sat in the living room, filling out a few notes that I had missed, honestly, I never thought I'd say it but, thank god for being friends with Caroline Forbes. The chick may have been overbearing, and a tad overly happy, but she really did care about you and you had that for life it seemed like. The only friend I ever truly had was Katherine. It was sad really, and in the 20s, this other chick, couldn't remember her name for the life of me. Hell of a bombshell she was. My dearest dad and I were separated for a while in the 20s, because I decided to be with my very fun, ripper of an uncle at the time. Ugh. What a mistake that was.
"Really? Homework? Has Stefan made you boring?" My father asked as he entered the living room.
I rolled my eyes, putting the blue pen on the notebook. "No, notes. A friend dropped them off."
"Good, because I'm gonna need your magical skills." He said, coming in and sitting on the chair nearest the couch I had been on.
I turned to look at him, my bluish/hazel eyes staring in a bored manner. "Why?"
"Couple of campers in the woods, figured we could make it an outing." My father stated, no tone present in his voice, leaving me confused.
"Fine. I'll go. But I promised Zach no more dead bodies, dad, that's your thing, not necessarily mine." I stated, looking at him as I closed my notebook and hurried it up the stairs, into my room, placed the items on the bed and made my way quickly back down the stairs.
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DAMON'S POV
"Stefan? Stefan?" I could have sworn that voice was Katherine, I sent the crow towards her..she was human, however. This must be Elena.
She turned around, and Elizabeth was right, she was a dead ringer for Katherine, except human, and obviously not rotting in the damn tomb that I can't open. And thinking of my daughter, I'm still unsure of where she has been the entire afternoon. Elena seemed very nervous as she spoke. A trait Katherine wouldn't dare to have. "I...I'm sorry for barging in. The door was...open." she said, looking at me.
"You must be Elena. I'm Damon, Stefan's brother." I introduced myself, might as well as make myself known to her. Right? I wonder what lie Elizabeth told her about our family.
"He didn't tell me he had a brother." Elena noted, confused and worried now.
I shrugged, a small smirk. Of course he wouldn't, I'm surprised Elizabeth never mentioned anything. "Well, Stefan's not one to brag. Please, come. I'm sure Stefan and Beth will be along any second."
She looked uncertain, but walked further into the living room, I was however, still wondering where the hell my daughter was. "Wow. This is your living room?" Elena said, shocked by it most likely, some of the stuff was old and dusty, but the more modern things were Beth's, mainly.
"Living room, parlor, Sotheby's auction. It's a little kitschy for my taste. I see why my brother's so smitten. It's about time. For a while there, I never thought he'd get over the last one. Nearly destroyed him." I told her, bringing up Katherine, I'd be surprised if he hasn't brought her up yet, or Elizabeth for that matter.
Elena looked at me with furrowed eyebrows. "The last one?"
"Yeah. Katherine, his girlfriend, Beth's best friend, well notsobestfriend? Oh, you two haven't had the awkward exes conversation yet." I noted, making sure to be as sarcastic as possible.
Elena's eyes had now narrowed, obvious sign. "Nope." she stated plainly, probably annoyed with me at this point. Eh, I was just doing my job.
"Oops. Well, I'm sure it'll come up now. Or maybe he didn't want to tell you because he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound. We all know how those relationships end." I told her, it would never work between them. Honestly, did Stefan really think this would affect either of us?
"You say it like every relationship is doomed to end." Elena responded, turning to look at me with a slight look of pity, well, most relationships do end. One dies or they break up. Normally how cards play out.
I shrugged nonchalantly, "I'm a fatalist." I told her, then seeing my brother and daughter walk in behind her. "Hello Stefan, Beth."
I furrowed my eyebrows as I saw Elizabeth wave to Elena, and then walk into the kitchen towards the cellar, but then saw Stefan get tense and broody, funny how the more time my daughter spent with her dearest Uncle Stefan, the more she was picking up his brooding stare.
"Elena. I didn't know you were coming over." Stefan stated nervously, giving me a glare.
Elena smiled nervously. "I know. I should have called, I just..." she started. Then I see Elizabeth walk into the room, she always had impeccable timing.
Elizabeth only smirked at Elena, soon the smirk formed into a small, almost forced smile, going to reassure the human girl. "You're welcome any time, right Stefan? Maybe next time you can see some home videos or I could break out the photo albums, I have to warn you though, he wasn't always attractive from what I've seen." she shrugged at the end when Stefan gave her a brooding stare, and then nervously himself, looked at Elena. Well, if Elizabeth got anything from me, it was the sarcasm.
Stefan cut Elizabeth off, turning to look at Elena. "Thank you for stopping by, Elena. Nice to see you." he said, with a little bit of a rush to his tone.
Elena nodded, and looked at the three of us. "Yeah, I should probably go. It was nice to meet you, Damon. Nice seeing you again, Beth." she agreed, and then left.
"Interesting. Well, I have plans. Bye." Elizabeth said, and I looked at her with a raised eyebrow, holding my hand to Stefan before he had a chance to lecture me on "Leave her alone, Damon" and "Don't do this, Damon" or "Don't involve my niece, Damon". It was annoying, honestly, could he ever learn to live?
I sped so I stopped in front of her at the door. "And what plans might those be?"
"Plans that I planned," Elizabeth crossed her arms over her chest. Vampire or not, she was still my daughter.
"Uh huh. Where at and with who?" I asked, getting a annoyed look from Stefan and it only caused me to smirk.
"Hmm, none ya and none ya business." She replied sarcastically, causing me to sigh. "No seriously though, Bonnie Bennett and at the Grill. Will you move now or will I have to deal with my Uncle's brooding stare piercing my soul all afternoon?" Elizabeth finally answered, and I was impressed. Though, Stefan and I would have to have a talk about Elena.
I sighed. "Fine go, ten o clock curfew." I told her, joking of course, but hey, why not have some fun?
"Bite me." She stated lastly before speeding out the door, and when I heard her car door shut and the vehicle turn on, I decided to address Elena to Stefan.
I smirked at him, stopping him from leaving. "Great gal. Whoo. She's got spunk. You, on the other hand, look pooped. Did you over-exert yourself today? Let me guess...hospital." I said, waiting for a response.
"Someone had to clean up your mess." Stefan replied, crossing his arms over his chest promptly. Oh boy.
If he really thought he could while drinking animal blood, he really was in for a whole other ball game. I stated to him, "Well, were you successful? Did the powers of persuasion work? Remember, if you don't feed properly, none of those little tricks work right." a smirk forming as I finished my statement.
Stefan sighed, the same worried look on his face returned on his face. Did he actually think I'd hurt Elena? "How long was Elena here?"
"Were you worried, Stefan? Scared we may be doomed to repeat the past? Isn't that why you play your little game, "I'm a high school human"?" I told him, this whole 'pretending' to be human thing was getting old, how many high schools was he going to go to? College, I possibly could understand that, but high school? Elizabeth probably wants to blow her brains out at this point.
"I'm not playing any game." Stefan replied, his eyes narrowed, and eyebrows furrowed. Ah, the brooding stare of Saint Stefan.
Only thing with my brother was, is he tries to hide who he actually is. If he thinks that'll get him anywhere, I'd be surprised. "Of course you are. We both know the closest you'll ever get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it."
Stefan sighed, getting annoyed and almost done with the conversation. "What kind of game are you playing, Damon? Why is Elizabeth here?" he asks.
"Guess you'll just have to wait and see, won't you?" I stated, looking at him. "And on her own accord."
"Whatever it is, brother. Don't involve my niece." Stefan warned before walking away, leaving me to scoff.
ELIZABETH'S POV - LATER ON, TOWN SQUARE
After spending a torturous afternoon of handing out Comet pamphlets, I finally had made it back with a few candles in my hand and approached Elena, Caroline and Matt, seeing them in the crowd. For once, I think I might have actually have made friends. Normal, nonpsychotic, nonvampire, friends.
"Hey, I got some candles." I said, handing one to Caroline, and then she handed the other two to Matt and Elena. Stefan was supposed to show up, but I didn't know where my Uncle was.
"Hi, hey." Elena smiled, as a thank you for the candle.
"Hey." Matt greeted, I liked him, he was a nice kid, a little too jocky, but nice.
Elena and Stefan seemed to be in deep conversation, so I was going to start some of my own, but Caroline beat me to it.
"I wonder what they did for the comet 145 years ago." Caroline stated curiously, and I smiled. I wanted to know too, considering I was only two years old in 1864.
I nodded. "Yeah, maybe they didn't do anything..maybe it just looked like a shooting star." I replied, wanting to watch the comet without any light pollution sounded wonderful. I loved astronomy and the science behind it all.
Caroline shrugged. "Maybe. Who knows!" she chuckled lightly.
"I don't know, guys, but I have a bad feeling." Bonnie said, speaking up. I've heard stories of her ancestor, Emily, and met a few others on travels and what not. They were a powerful bunch, those Bennett witches.
Matt rose an eyebrow at Bonnie, and then I shrugged when he looked at me. "What do you mean?" he asks, looking at the witch.
Bonnie shrugged one shoulder in response. "I just have a really, really bad feeling about this comet, that's all."
"It only happens every 145 years, I can't remember the name of it for the life of me." I stated, smiling as I let my inner "nerd" show.
Caroline laughed quietly. "That would be helpful. Tanner mentioned it but nobody listens to him anyways. Ugh."
"It still doesn't give me a good feeling, though." Bonnie said, forcing her smile as she looked at us.
When I was on my way home from the event, I heard my dad and uncle fighting on top of a building. To my horror, Bonnie Bennett couldn't have been anymore correct. This comet brought nothing but misery. I found my father holding Vicki Donovan towards the edge of the roof, I sped up to them and stood next to my uncle. What the hell did my father think he was doing? Jackass!
"What the fuck, dad?!" I shouted, looking at him with my eyes narrowed. If Vicki had done something, I'd understand, but all she's done is a lot of pills, and probably smoked some pot. I'd have to ask her about that, or Jeremy, maybe.
My dad rolled his eyes as he tossed Vicki over to Stefan. "Ugh! Relax!"
"Relax?! She's innocent, dad!" I countered, making my way more forward, in case I needed to protect Vicki with my uncle. "She doesn't deserve to know any of this! Have you lost all common sense?!" I exclaimed, throwing my arms up in the air.
However, instead of a response, my dad only turned to Vicki, and then towards me. "I may not need her dead, dearest daughter and brother, but you might."
"Damon, no!" Stefan exclaimed, knowing what he was going to do. I did too. I was almost close to seeing red.
My dad asked Vicki. "What attacked you the other night?"
Vicki shrugged. "I don't know, an animal?"
"Are you sure about that? Think. Think about it. Think really hard. What attacked you?" He pressed further, knowing he'd break my uncle's compulsion.
Vicki's eyes widened, and my uncle put an arm around me. "A vampire."
"Who did this to you?" My dad asked, pressing to break the compulsion again.
"You did!" Vicki exclaimed, scared now. Dad, don't be stupid, don't be stupid...
My dad smirked. "Wrong!"
"Don't." Stefan warned.
"It was Elizabeth." My dad told her, and she looked shocked.
"Don't!" My uncle exclaimed, I couldn't believe this!
"Dad, don't!" I shouted, gritting my teeth.
My dad looked at Vicki. "Come here."
She was hesitant, but quickly moved past Stefan and I. How the hell could my father almost risk ratting me out to the council?! We all knew they were still around! He looked at Vicki, having both of his hands on the side of her head. "Dad, no! Don't!" I exclaimed again, knowing it would go no where, but it was worth a try.
"Elizabeth Salvatore did this to you." He compelled her.
"Elizabeth Salvatore did this to me." Vicki repeated, almost robotically. Compulsion, it was wonderful.
"She's a vampire. A vicious, murderous vampire." He told her, and she nodded, looking at me horrified. I kept myself behind my uncle, I was not dealing with my father after this. I was furious.
Stefan looked at my father with a look that could kill. "Damon, don't do this to her. Would Helena appreciate this? Doing this to Elizabeth? What the hell is wrong with you, brother?" he questioned, furious with my father, I never thought he'd bring up my mother.
My dad shrugged nonchalantly, his eyes narrowed at the mention of my mother. "Helena, is dead, don't bring her into this, how low of you, Stefan. Though, if you couldn't fix it before, I don't know what you can do now." he said to my uncle.
"Yeah, you want to know what you can do?" I said, walking to stand in the middle of my uncle, father, and Vicki. "You can leave me the hell out of whatever you're doing, I thought you really wanted to try and fix shit, I guess not." I looked at my father while saying all of this, I then turned towards my uncle.
"Thank you for at least trying, Uncle Stefan." I stated, before I went to the other side of the roof and hopped off, heading towards Bonnie's to grab my car, and then later to head home.
Once I had made it home, I pulled a bag of blood from the fridge and the bottle of Jack Daniels that sat promptly waiting in one of the shelves. I had a feeling that Vicki Donovan would only be the beginning of our problems.
AUTHOR'S NOTE!
Wow. Okay. Third chapter now. How do you guys feel about Elizabeth so far? I love reading your reviews and I really hope you continue to read all the updates to come along. :) Happy February!
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