BLOODSHARED
Chapter 9 ~ Discomfort
(Zippos Cont)
Caroline looks at me, with a stern wide eyed look and she immediately notices Damon a few feet away. She crosses her arms over her chest and huffs..
"Elena! What the Hell" she shouts.
I just look at her and before I can open my mouth to speak, she goes off.
"Dammit Elena! I was looking all over for you. Do you know how scared I was?" I went to the bathroom, following our plan (she emphasizes) and there was no sign of you. I was Freaking out Elena! I was looking everywhere in the bar for you. I didn't see you or Demetri at the bar anymore. I was so freaking scared that he had ran off with you somewhere and terrible, terrible images were flashing through my mind and...
Suddenly she stops talking and takes a sniff of the air and looks at Damon and then back to me and huffs again.
"Damon fed off you? Oh my God Elena! What the heck am I suppose to tell Demetri now?" she asks while walking toward me.
I open my mouth to tell her that I will talk to Demetri but Damon speaks up first.
"Tell him nothing! Elena does not owe that Jackass anything!" he spits out.
Damon than vamp speeds to her face and growls at her.
"You should be scared Caroline! You of all people should of known how dangerous it was to bring her here in the first place!" he shouts.
Caroline tries to talk but Damon growls and puts his finger in her face to gesture he is not done.
"You don't know how old these vamps are? How dare you risk Elena like that! Did you really think you could protect her, when your not that old of a Vampire yourself?" he says shouting.
I jump in "Damon, It's not her fault, I coerced her into it. So, if you want to yell at someone, yell at me! Caroline was just being a great friend." I add.
Damon relaxes his posture and Caroline looks back at me with an angry/hurt look. So I speak up...
"I'm sorry Caroline, Damon vamped me out here so fast, that I didn't have time to tell you where I was going, and everything just happened so fast. I'm so very sorry." I say with tears stinging my eyes.
Caroline looks at me and says..."I understand, are you okay Elena? She asks.
"Yes Caroline, I'm okay." I hug her and whisper sorry in her ear. She looks up at me and says..."Let's go please." she says with a sad but stern voice.
"Okay, but please just give me 5 minutes, then I will come in and straighten everything out. Okay?" I ask.
Damon growls but I ignore him.
"Are you sure Elena?" she says with pleading eyes.
"Yes, I'm sure. Just 5 minutes okay." I say confidently.
Caroline looks at Damon with disgust and puts her hands on her hips and says...
"Make sure you give her some blood to heal her before Stefan sees." she says with a smirk tone to her voice.
Damon growls and shews Caroline away with his hand, and then she walks back in the bar, and as she closes the big metal door she gives me a look of disapproval. I now look at Damon but he looks away like the dark woods nearby are so interesting. I swallow hard, building up courage to speak. I feel embarrassed, ashamed, and a little sad that Damon is so angry with me, but oddly I also feel great, like a ton of stress rolled off me with each wave of ecstasy I experienced just a short time ago.
"Damon I..."
"No Elena!" he shouts!
I quickly look down at the ground, hurt by his tone of voice and his angry stare.
"Nothing to talk about! You got your little urge, craving, or whatever, now you know...and I'm sure you got what you wanted." he says.
I can't tell if he is stating or asking if I got what I wanted. Is this his round about way of asking if I enjoyed it, or got satisfied? Oh, my head is spinning again...should I answer...or was his statement rhetorical? Well he's not saying anything else so I open my mouth and out it rolls...
"Oh Yes, I got what I wanted, every urge and desire 100% satisfied." I say low and seductively, not meaning too.
He gazes at me and for a split second, I swear I see a smirk on his face, but then it's gone, he then lets out a deep sigh and speaks again...
"Well Elena, this was a one time, and only one time thing." he barks out like an order.
I swallow and fidget with my fingers and he continues...
"Feeding can be like a drug Elena, and you have never had a drug habit Elena, so you do not understand the pull or the withdraw a person on drugs feels. If you feel the urge, draw etc, you will make sure you fight it. Remember, one time, and Never again!" he says loud and sternly.
I clear my throat and shuffle my feet, head down, I feel like a child that has just been scolded.
"Um. Yes Damon I understand." I say with a low squeaky voice.
I start to feel ashamed again, guilty thinking about Stefan, I look up at Damon's stare, and I suddenly feel fear and panic, afraid Stefan will find out, Damon must read it in my eyes or sense my fear because he says...
"If your worried I'm going to tell Stefan, don't, I won't tell him Elena." he states with a hint of sadness in his voice.
I give him a very small smile and nod, I swallow and am nervous of his stare, I stare back and feel this very strange connection with him now. I can't explain it, he just looks more attractive to me than before, and I feel intense, and embarrassed still...I want to run away, but I can't, there is a pull to be closer to him, a connection like I don't need to speak because he knows just what I'm feeling. I shake it off and he says...
"Okay Elena, you need to drink some of my blood to heal the fang marks." he states as he walks closer to me.
My breath hitches, and I feel excitement that I know I should not be feeling, that quickly subsides when I watch Damon bite his inner wrist, and see his blood spill. I realize that I am going to drink his blood and I start to feel a little nauseous. He holds his wrist up near my mouth and then looks away, I stare at it and shake a little, Damon startles me with his stern voice..
"Drink Elena, before Vampire Barbie comes out here and yells again." he snaps.
I grab his arm with both hands on each side of the bite, then I press my lips to his wound and touch his blood with my tongue first to test the taste, he jerks a little but stays still. I am surprised there is a tinge of sweetness with the coppery taste, and something else I can't put my finger on. I began to suck on his arm and he stiffens I notice, I get about 3 draws of his blood in my mouth and he jerks his arm away and turns his back to me and says..
"That's enough." so quietly that I can barely hear him. He takes a few deep breaths and then turns around and lifts my hair off my neck and says...
"All better, now let's go back inside and you might want to clean yourself up in the ladies room. Get Caroline, we're leaving." he adds.
"It's okay Damon, you can go, Caroline and I will be just fine." I state.
"No! I am not leaving until you are. I want to make sure you get out of here and home safely." he says.
I know there is no use to argue with him, he is right, we don't know John and Demetri that well, or what they might do, or how strong they are. I nod and smile and then Damon grabs the metal door handle and jerks the door open and I swiftly grab his arm, realizing I need to do it now..
"Thank you Damon, for everything." I say as soft and sweetly as I can, and then I add .."I'm sorry I made you so angry Damon and I hope you will forgive me and that this...uh...won't harm our friendship because it's important to me." my voice is still soft but there is a serious tone to it now.
Damon just nods and gives me a half smile and says "Let's Go."
I follow Damon back into the bar and he starts to walk over to Caroline, who is at the bar with John and Demetri, I tell Damon I am going to the restroom, he stops and stands against the wall right by the ladies door
"I will be fine Damon, you can go tell Caroline I am almost ready to go." I say.
"No, I will stand right here and we can tell her together when your done." he says.
I nod with and smile at him, because I can't help it, I'm stupid. What is wrong with me? He's angry, and I am smiling, I pushed him into something he did not want to do. He saw the way I acted on the dance floor. I know Damon has feelings for me and here I am smiling at him. I walk in shaking my head at myself but I still can't stop smiling, his protectiveness, that use to drive me crazy mad, now seems endearing. I just feel so safe and protected. I look in the mirror and notice my dark makeup has ran a little. I don't really look drunk, but I do look high. I smile at myself, I now have a minute alone to process what has happened. I grab a paper towel and wet the corner in the sink and wipe off just a small smidgen of blood off my neck right at my pulse. My eyes go wide, I am amazed, there is not one mark on my neck, it has completely healed. I wash my hands and start to wash out my mouth, then I don't, I like the taste of him in my mouth and I want to keep it there longer.
Without thinking I touch the pulse of my neck and close my eyes and remember Damon drinking from me, how erotic it felt, how good he smelled, and how good he felt that close to me. Just then Caroline opens the door and snaps me out of my thoughts..
"Elena, stop daydreaming and let's go." she says smiling.
Keeping silent, I shake my head and angrily point toward the hallway where Damon is standing, and put my finger to my lips and mouth shh.
"He's not out there Elena, he is over at the bar talking to John and Demetri." she states giggling
"Oh, Oh No! Caroline! He may stake them or something." I exclaim loudly!
"No Elena, it's fine they are all having shots and yacking like girls already." she says rolling her eyes.
"Really?" I ask.
"Yes, it's fine, Damon seems just fine." she adds.
"Well, he was not fine earlier. He was so angry that I was scared to death," I say shivering at the memory.
"Just how did Damon go from Angry to feeding on you Elena?" she huffs out.
"That may be kinda my fault. I will explain it to you later. Right now I need a drink myself, and then we can go." I state surely.
I start to walk out the door and Caroline giggles..
"What is so funny?" I ask.
"Nothing." she says laughing.
"Come on Caroline, what?" I ask again with as serious of a face as I can muster.
"It's just that...um...I can smell your arousal." she says giggly.
"What!" I snap at her.
"I'm a vampire Elena, we have super senses." she adds with a smile.
"So that means...um..."
"Yes, Damon can smell it too." she says grinning from ear to ear.
"Eww, no wonder he said to go clean up in the bathroom. Oh My God, now I can't go out there. I am so embarrassed." I say mortified.
"Oh Elena, come on.." she says pulling at my arm.
"NO!" I shout!
"Yes Elena!" she shouts back.
"Please ask Damon to leave first Caroline, please I am so embarrassed." I cry out.
" Damon is not going to leave without us and you know it. Geez Elena, if I can smell it, don't you think he smelled it during the feed, you we're out there like 10 minutes instead of 5. There is nothing to be embarrassed about." she says firmly.
I sigh and shake my head, there is no way out...I need a drink...
"Okay, you go order me a "Kiss on the lips" and I will be right out." I say.
"Kiss on the lips, what is that?" she asks.
"It is a drink that Demetri orders for me, it is sweet and awesome, now please Caroline just go get me a drink and I will be right out." I beg.
"Okay Lena, you stay and clean up; she laughs. He has already smelled it." she says giggling as she turns and leaves the bathroom.
I run to the sink and wet some paper towels and grab dry ones too. I go in the last stall and raise my skirt and drop my thongs. I look at the red Lacey thongs and gasp, they are so wet, they look like I peed myself. I start to clean myself and notice that even my inner thighs are moist. I clean more and then take my underwear off, they are just to wet to put back on. I can feel my face flush as I walk out of the stall, knowing I have to face them. I head toward the door and Oh God, I realize my underwear are in my hand, I look around for the trash and toss them in, along with the paper towels. I go back to the sink and wash my hands. I am so nervous to go back out there so I just grab the door handle, take a deep breath, I square my shoulders, hold my head up high, and walk out of the bathroom.
(A/N) That was all a little to tense lol I am sure the next chapter will be a little more easier:)
How will Elena act around Damon? What will she say to Demetri? If anything?