"So, if I miss even one of dese vampire meetings, I'm out?" Eve groaned as she leaned against the railing at the top of the stairs in the boarding house.
"Yup." Damon commented back. "They kill you if you ever leave because you know too many secrets." Damon chirped. Eve rolled her eyes.
"Is dat a dreat or a promise?" Eve wondered aloud as Damon ushered her down the stairs and out of the boarding house.
"Very chipper today, are we?" Damon asked back. Eve rolled her eyes.
"Caroline has been so uppity about de Miss Mystic pageant." Eve shrugged. "She's very excited about it and hasn't stopped talking about it since de first kick off party." Eve groaned as the two got to Damon's car. "I mean, I'm happy she's excited and all, but Christ de girl can talk me ear off about what kind of earrings she's goin' ta wear." Eve muttered as she plopped into the passenger's seat. Damon could only chuckle.
"Yeah, she always talked my ear off, that's why I just compelled her to stop talking." Damon shrugged. Eve looked over to Damon as he started his car.
"Oh right! I forgot ya had a ding with her!" Eve laughed. "God, ya were a dick." Eve muttered.
"Is that all I was to her?" Damon asked, mocking offense.
"All she can remember, at least." Eve laughed.
"And you called me a dick." Damon sassed as he started driving to the Founder's Hall. "Who's the one laughing at a friend not being able to remember anything about her shitty ex, besides the fact that he's a dick?" Damon sassed back. Eve couldn't help but continue to laugh and shrug back. Caroline was her friend, but Damon had been her friend longer.
"It's better dan rememberin' he's a bloody dirsty vampire." Eve muttered. "I dink dat may get ya kicked out of de vampire hate club." Eve pondered aloud.
"Good thing I wiped her mind then." Damon sassed back. "I don't think the sheriff would be too happy."
"Probably not." Eve laughed as they arrived to the Founder's Hall and parked. "Parkin' lot looks a bit din." Eve said aloud as she saw only a few cars parked compared to the first time she had been to a meeting.
"Did I say this was an official meeting?" Damon asked as he got out of the car. "Wow, it must have slipped my mind. This is just kind of a panicked meeting set up by the mayor because of something that happened." Damon shrugged. Eve quickly got out of the car as well and went to his side.
"Why did ya drag me den!" Eve hissed.
"The mayor gives the sheriff a call if he see's anything vampire related. She, then, calls me to tell me that we should have a small meeting to make sure it's vampire activity and not just some weird coincidence." Damon shrugged as they walked up to the Founder's Hall. "I'm kind of the muscle of the group." Damon muttered with a faint smirk on his lips. Eve couldn't help the 'oh me God' that slipped out under her breath. "Don't 'oh my God' me, Evie. You're like extra muscle after kicking John's ass." Damon muttered back down as the two walked into the Hall. Instantly, Liz came walking up to them.
"Oh good, you two are here." Liz let out a slight sigh of relief. Eve glanced to the left of her to see John Gilbert's back as he...made a drink? Eve stared for a second. Was there alcohol everywhere? Anywhere when Founders were involved. Eve almost giggled. The Founders went hard.
"How long have ya been here with dis...Gilbert?" Eve asked lightly as to not be heard and to not call him any names.
"Too long." Liz replied back instantly, with a sour look in her face. Eve couldn't help but snicker. "But he's not the only reason you were called." Liz muttered turning her attention back to Damon. "There was a disturbance at the hospital blood bank last night; some of the supply was compromised." Liz said seriously. Damon raised an eyebrow.
"Compromised? You mean stolen?" Damon asked inquisitively.
"We almost missed it." Liz nodded. "The inventory records were altered but when the night manager was questioned he had no recollection of changing them." Liz said, her eyes turning towards John as he turned around with a glass of whisky, from what Eve could smell.
"Meaning that the vampire who stole the blood used mind control to hide the theft." John butted in. Eve wanted to roll her eyes. Damon looked over at him.
"I know what she meant." Damon slightly sassed back at him, a fake smile on his face before he turned his attention back to Eve. Eve kept a slightly longer look at him. Christ he was a pain.
"We wouldn't have noticed had John not alerted us to recent discrepancies in other hospital blood banks in the county." Liz said, sounding genuinely grateful. John really was a pain in the ass.
"How lucky for us," Damon said aloud, walking towards John. "We have John." Damon muttered slightly.
"We're stepping up security at the hospital, giving the guard vervain to prevent this from happening again." Liz continued, slightly side-eyeing Eve about the slightly hostile air that was beginning to form. Eve shrugged lightly back to her, slightly shaking her head to get Liz off the subject.
"Sheriff, may I offer a suggestion?" John said aloud. Great, now what? "Why don't Damon and I put our heads together?" Damon's head quickly snapped towards John's. "We can track down whoever is doing this." John continued, staring at Damon.
"Truthfully, I could use the extra hands." Liz hesitated slightly. "Would you be helping them as well, Eve?" Liz asked, turning everyone's attention to Eve. Damn it Liz.
"I mean, I could always be a solo team of me own." Eve shrugged as she felt Damon's glare slightly singe her. "Whatever helps." Eve smiled towards Liz.
"So why not just be with us then? Surely, Damon or I could use the extra protection." John muttered back. Eve breathed in slightly as to not snap his neck right then at his tone.
"Is that something you all would be willing to do?" Liz asked. "Work as a team?"
"Well, of course, I mean if it'll help." Damon shrugged back, sounding a lot friendlier than he looked.
"I think we could make a good team, us three, don't you think Damon?" John asked, turning his attention from Liz to Damon.
"John, whatever I can do to help keep this town safe; even if it means spending time with you." Damon sassed, giving a friendly smile back to John.
"Hopefully, dey don't kiss any time soon." Eve whispered to Liz who couldn't help but let out a quiet snort. Damon and John looked over at the two, John looking slightly confused and Damon giving a more annoyed look. "What? Just girl talk, boys." Eve sassed back. She needed to be funny or else she would be mad. Liz didn't need to know that Eve could kill a man in less than a second.
"Ya know, we could just kill him again." Eve muttered as the two sat at the kitchen table, drinking coffee.
"He'll just come back." Damon muttered back.
"But in de mean time, he would be quiet!" Eve whined. "Can't believe ya dragged me ta a meetin' for us ta get dragged inta a team with him." Eve groaned as she took a long sip from her sweetened coffee.
"Hey, if you hadn't come with me, I would have probably killed him." Damon shrugged. Eve let out a small scoff.
"I was with ya de first time ya snapped his neck, if anythin', Liz stopped ya dis time." Eve sassed. Damon took a drink of his coffee, slightly glaring at her over the cup before pulling it down.
"You're right." Damon said plainly making Eve laugh and shake her head staring at her coffee, probably overthinking something. "Hey Evie." Eve glanced up at Damon. "You should come to the Miss Mystic Bullshit with me." Eve blinked up from her coffee and stared at Damon.
"Yer actually askin' me dis time?" Eve sassed. Damon rolled his eyes back at her. "We'll see." Eve smiled as she took a drink from her coffee, trying not to laugh at Damon's offended reaction. "Maybe I'll just go with meself again like I did fer the Kick-Off party." Eve muttered back playfully.
"This is fancier though! I've got to wear a suit!" Damon tried to bribe. Eve raised an eyebrow.
"Dat's such a bad ding?" Eve asked. Damon shrugged before Eve let out a laugh. "Damon Salvatore, you look like a true gentleman in a suit. Maybe ya can find a girl dere dat's willin' ta sleep with ya." Eve laughed.
"Why go through all the trouble when I can just have you?" Damon smirked over to her. A slight blush rose up her cheeks.
"Because no one can have me." Eve sassed, ignoring the annoyingly proud look on Damon's face. "I am priceless." Eve said matter-o-factually. Damon rolled his eyes.
"Back in my day, you could be sold for two sheep." Damon muttered back.
"Two! Only two! What do ya take me as!" Eve snapped playfully back at him. Damon raised his hands in defense. "Ya weren't born in BC time Damon! And I would be at least five sheep." Eve sassed back, mocking offense.
"I thought you were priceless, Evie." Damon sassed. Eve glared up at Damon's snarky look. "If that's the case, would you be willing to go to the stupid Miss Mystic with me for five sheep?" Damon asked.
"Just ta go ta de pageant and not sleep with ya?" Eve asked as Damon quickly tried to correct himself "If ya insist, but I expect five sheep before Friday. Dat's only four days away Day." Eve continued talking over Damon, trying not to laugh at the whole ordeal. Damon let out a sigh of defeat.
"Five?" Damon asked. Eve nodded, not being able to hold the smile that fell on her lips. "Alright, fine, if that's what it takes." Damon shrugged as the doorbell rang. Both made faces up towards the ceiling. "You expecting anyone?" Damon asked. Eve raised an eyebrow and shook her head. "Okay, fine, I'll go check who's trying to murder us." Damon sighed out as he stood up from the table. "Five sheep." Damon muttered out loud making Eve burst out laughing.
Eve took a drink of her coffee with a smile. He had better not show up on Friday with five sheep. Eve would lose her mind. Especially with Damon, it was dangerous to even joke about something so stupid. Because he would do it. He would do it in a heartbeat because he would think it would be funny. And it would be. Stefan would be mad and it would all but make up for somehow getting five sheep. Eve turned her attention to the door as a girl walked through. She hadn't been paying attention to the conversation, but Damon looked annoyed as he began walking back towards the dining room with the girl following behind.
"I'm sorry about what the other vampires did to Stefan and your girlfriend." Eve watch as she recognized the girl now as Anna. "Abducting them, torturing them...It wasn't supposed to go down like that." Anna continued as the got to the dining room and Damon picked up his coffee.
"Evie, why does everyone think we're dating?" Damon muttered as Damon stood behind her and Anna walked around to the other side of the table. She became tense as she noticed Eve, while Eve simply wiggled her fingers at the teenage vampire. "You know, you're playing house with half of a tomb of really pissed off vampires. What do you think was going to happen?" Damon snapped back at Anna as she leaned onto the table.
"My mom is devastated; they tried to over throw her." Anna snapped back.
"Why isn't she here telling me this?" Damon snapped back.
"She doesn't really do apologies." Anna muttered back.
"She probably should try." Eve chimed in. "I was down in dat cellar longer dan Stefan. And unless she lost some hearin' from being trapped in a tomb for a century, she now owes me a bit of an apology in person." Eve snapped suddenly, more annoyed that she was still pissed off about it. Anna and Damon both tensed up. It had happened less than a month ago, which in retrospect, wasn't that long. But she didn't like remembering it and wanted to be over the whole ordeal.
"We hadn't been in that house for days when you showed up. My mother wanted to find new clothes, so I took her out of town." Anna replied. "Listen, I can try and get her here, but she'll probably blame you." Anna sighed. "Like I said, she doesn't do apologizes."
"Well, it's a coincidence, 'cause I don't do forgiveness." Damon jumped in. "Evie here does, I mean, it takes a few decades, but not me. So just run along." Damon muttered walking around the table to Anna. Damon wasn't wrong, a few decades was how long she held most grudges. "And if you're going continue playing house with these little vampires pets, you might wanna stop robbing the blood bank dry because they're onto it." Damon hissed. Anna in return shot him a confused look.
"I haven't been to the local blood bank in at least a week." Anna defended herself.
"Then it's one of your others." Damon muttered.
"The others are gone, Damon." Anna quickly replied.
"Well, where did they go?" Damon asked, slightly annoyed by the back and forth conversation.
"They weren't cut out for this town. After what happened with your brother and your gir-friend, my mom kicked them out and they took off." Anna snapped. "It's just us and Harper now." Damon became tense. "I swear, we haven't done anything." Anna insisted. Damon let out a puff of air.
"Fine. But just tell you mom that we should talk face to face sometime. Maybe she'll force out an apology. Or I'll force one out of her." Damon growled. Anna rolled her eyes, not even bothering to reply.
"Goodbye, Damon." Anna snapped as she walked around him and began making her way out of the house. Damon turned back to Eve with an annoyed look on his face.
"Don't look at me, Salvatore, I only do fresh blood." Eve defended, but Damon shook his head, going back and sitting back down at the table.
"I know. It's not you I'm worried about." Damon muttered. Eve cocked her head slightly. "Stefan." He muttered aloud, taking a drink of his now cool coffee.
"Hasn't he been detoxin'?" Eve asked. Damon shrugged. "He wouldn't do somethin' dat dumb, would he?" Eve wondered. "Ya would dink he would be smarter about stealin' blood."
"He hasn't been on human blood in years, Evie. We should be lucky he compelled someone at all." Damon muttered.
"If it was him, ta begin with." Eve defended. Damon slightly shook his head.
"I don't know, but when he gets home, we can sure as hell ask him about it." Damon grumbled.
"Good cop, bad cop den?" Eve asked. Damon raised an eyebrow at her with a slight smile. "Ya can be de good cop." Before Damon could even say anything about being 'good', Eve was leaning over him, very close to him. "DID YA STEAL DE BLOOD, TELL US." Eve snapped loudly as Damon slightly jumped before letting out a laugh. "DIS IS NO LAUGHIN' MATTER, SALVATORE." Eve said shaking Damon's shoulders as he continued to laugh.
"We're not mad at you, we're just disappointed." Damon said gently back through his snickering. Eve jaw dropped dramatically.
"Man, Day, dat's a bit too bad cop fer a good cop. We want ta shake it out of him, not rip his heart out!" Eve said, putting the back of her hand against her head. Damon rolled his eyes playfully back at her.
"I never asked to be a good cop, Evie." Damon shrugged. "Plus, I may get a bit jealous if you were this close to Stefan in the first place." Damon smirked as Eve slightly pulled back.
"Ya and Elena both." Eve muttered, slightly pushing his face, picking up her cup and turning towards the kitchen. "I'm cleanin' me cup." Eve said aloud, knowing Damon would ask.
"Without me?" Damon asked with a pout. Eve turned nodded for him to follow. Damon was by her side easily. "So, what are we going to do until Stefan gets home?" Damon asked in a suggesting voice. Eve let out huff of a laugh.
"Personally, I'm goin' ta finish me book." Eve sassed back. "Maybe actually get it done without interruptions." She said accusingly towards Damon. Damon let out a scoff as the two got to the kitchen.
"I have never !" Damon said with offense before smirking back as she rolled her own eyes. "Come on Evie, there has to be something we can do." Damon groaned as he set his cup by the sink. Eve let out an annoyed puff as she grabbed it and dramatically shoved it into the sink.
"Ya know, ya could always read with me." Eve suggested as she turned on the water and started washing out the cups.
"Naked?"
"No."
Damon let out an annoyed puff of air. Eve glanced down to her lap, where his head had been laying for a while. The two shared a glance before Damon started trying to grab Eve's book, which Eve quickly swatted his hands away.
"Day, ya were doin' so well." Eve groaned as she placed her bookmark into her book and set it on the arm of the couch. "What happened." Eve asked, casually running her hand through his hair.
"I woke up." Damon grumbled, leaning his head against her hand. "What time is it anyway? Is Stefan going to be back yet?" Damon yawned, not wanting to move. Eve shrugged as she leaned over to the table next to the couch and grabbed her phone.
"It's 3:30." Eve said as she unlocked her phone to see some texts from Caroline.
Caroline: Ok so i have sum dimond earings that wud match a hair clip i have. Send pic later
Sent: 10:39 AM
Caroline: ooo gurl some bonnie elena drama going down! Guess who called evryday. me ;p im the betr frend
Eve: Bonnie?
Caroline: part of the gurl trio w/ me and Elena. She wus out of town 4 a funeral 4 her grandma, but now shes back and u betr know i was a betr frend thn Elena
Caroline: Now abt those earings.
Sent: 12:15 PM
Eve remembered again about this girl. Bonnie was a witch, her grandma was also a witch, the Bennett family witch legacy. Damon had talked about it a little when she had first come to help babysit the drunken baby. He didn't talk much about it though, saying he actually felt bad that the grandma died. Eve wasn't about to ask about it now. It didn't seem very important, especially with Damon seemingly over Katherine and the whole tomb situation.
Caroline: There going 2 annonce the miss mystic1!1 Just b4 skool gets out!
Sent: 2:47
Caroline: they just annonced mis mystic! Bitch u alredy no whos in it.
Sent: 3:15
Eve couldn't help but laugh at the last one. Eve would have been surprised if Caroline wasn't on the roster for the pageant with how much she talked about it. Hell, she even bought a dress for it without knowing she was going to be in it. It did seem kind of brash to only announce who would be competing less than a week in advance. Eve jumped when her phone started ringing.
"It's just a phone call, Evie, no need to jump out of your skin." Damon sassed below her. Eve rolled her eyes at him, pushing him off her and the couch. Eve quickly answered her phone as Damon thumped on the floor, with a loud 'ouch'.
"Hello?" Eve said through her laughter as Damon glared back up at her. "Hi, Caroline." Eve smiled as Damon stood up and tried to grab her phone. "Nope, not busy at all." Eve said as she stood up on the couch to get away from Damon. "Practice fer de interview? It may be a bit more Irish dan what ya want dough." Eve said quickly as Damon tried to flitter up and grab her, but Eve quickly flittered off the back of the couch. "Today, aye, I can do dat fer ya. What time do ya want me ta come over?" Eve stuck her tongue out at Damon as he stared back at her with his eyes squinted. "Alright, just give me a few ta get over dere." Eve got out before Damon grabbed her phone and ended the call. "May I help ya?" Eve asked as Damon grabbed her and threw her over his shoulder.
"We're going to the roof and I'm throwing you off." Damon said casually as Eve couldn't help but laugh. "This wouldn't have happened if you had just not pushed me off the couch." Damon muttered as Eve began to squirm.
"Damon Salvatore, put me down!" Eve demanded as the two left the library and went through the hallway up to the second story. "Dis isn't even de best way ta get ta de roof." Eve sassed as Damon went down the hallway towards the fire escape. Damon stopped as the two heard the front door open and footsteps coming up the stairs. "Oooh, hear who's home." Damon said aloud to Eve, not letting her go.
"Dis is not good cop bad cop, Day. Dis doesn't seem serious." Eve puffed out as once again tried to get off his shoulder once again.
"How was school?" Damon asked, turning one of the corners to catch Stefan. Stefan turned around, but kept walking backwards.
"Fine." Stefan said nonchalantly, ignoring the fact that Eve was on Damon's shoulder.
"Yeah? Same old, same old? Nothing new? No stories to bring home?" Damon asked inquisitively, walking towards Stefan.
"Yup, same old, same old, just like you two, it seems." Stefan said, a slight chuckle in his voice. Eve squirmed once more, only this time, Damon let her go and dropped her on her butt. Eve let out an annoyed groan. "Hey Eve." Stefan smiled down at the redhead. Eve glared up at both Damon and Stefan.
"Hey, blood addict." Eve almost snapped back up at him as she helped herself up. Stefan raised an eyebrow at her, his arms crossing, while Damon sent down an annoyed glare towards Eve.
"I've been detoxing." Stefan defended, but Eve shook her head. "I have!" Stefan almost laughed. "Can you both just leave me alone." Stefan muttered, trying to turn back around.
"You seem awfully chipper lately, you know, besides from just then." Damon muttered making Stefan turn to face the two again. "Less doom and gloom, a little more pep in your step." Damon cut in with a more playful tone than Eve was hissing out. Stefan looked at Damon.
"And you think it's because I drank human blood again." Stefan asked, becoming slightly annoyed.
"I don't want to brag but I would definitely take responsibility for this new and improved you." Damon smirked, but Stefan let out an annoyed sigh as Eve rolled her own eyes.
"Well, I hate to burst your bubbles, but I'm clean." Stefan said, slightly placing his hand on both of their shoulders before turning around and beginning to walk down the hall again.
"Not possible." Damon sassed back at him, making him turn around and stop.
"Not only isn't possible but it is quite true." Stefan turned back around with his finger up to try and verify his point, but that only made Eve snicker. He was such a gentleman, and centuries wouldn't take that away from him. Must have been a Salvatore thing. It definitely wasn't a Branigan thing. Then again, she was never the most proper lady of her time to begin with.
"Stefan, just be serious for a second." Damon muttered walking towards Stefan once more. "You spent the last century and a half being a poster child for Prozac and now you expect me to believe that this new you has nothing to do with human blood. Nothing." Damon stared, but Stefan simply shrugged.
"I'm clean." Stefan said, once again turning to walk away.
"You're lying !" Damon muttered back at him with a slightly annoyed smile.
"Believe what you want." Stefan muttered as he didn't turn back around. Damon turned back towards Eve who had simply been watching.
"You weren't much help." Damon muttered towards Eve.
"I like ta watch ya two talk. Especially when ya aren't yellin' and hatin' each other." Eve said. Damon rolled his eyes. "Don't just drop me on de ground and I won't just blurt out accusations." Eve sassed. "If ya want ta keep talkin' with him, be me guest, I have ta go to Caroline's." Eve smiled as Damon let out an annoyed puff.
"I'll leave him be for now. Maybe not, who knows." Damon shrugged, folding his arms. "Maybe snoop around the house for his supply."
"Try de basement." Eve suggested. Damon raised an eyebrow at him. "Isn't dere a fridge down dere?" Eve asked, turning to walk towards the stairs. "He used ta put his animal blood down dere." Eve shrugged. "Call me if ya need anythin'." Eve said sternly. Damon let out a small offended scoff before she walked down the stairs.
As Eve walked up to the Forbes' house, she glanced down at her phone to see Caroline calling.
"I'm here, Christ." Eve answered the call which resulted in a huff before the front door opened. "I told ya I had ta drive here." Eve sassed as she walked up to the door and froze. Shit. She hadn't been invited in. Caroline walked back into the house before turning around to see Eve in the doorway still.
"Well, come in, we aren't going to get anything done with you just standing there." Caroline sassed, folding her arms. Eve almost let out a sigh of relief as she walked through the doors' threshold without a problem. "Come on, follow me."
"Caroline? Is that you?" Liz's voice rang through the house. Caroline motioned for Eve to follow her up the stairs.
"Yeah! Eve's here!" Caroline called back. Eve heard Liz walking towards the bottom of the stairs as the two go to the top.
"I'm about to head out, there's lasagna in the fridge that just needs heating up and some lemonade." Liz called up the stairs, making Caroline roll her eyes.
"Alright, thanks." She called back, slightly pulling Eve towards presumably her bedroom. Eve glanced down the stairs to see Liz's slightly annoyed and slightly sad expression. As the two got to Caroline's room, Eve looked around. She expected a lot more pink than she actually saw. Caroline had a very chic room. A lot of beige, besides from her closet, that was overflowing with colors. "Alright! So, I made a list of things that could be possible questions that will be asked for the contestants." Caroline said, turning Eve's attention back towards her as she rummaged through the top of her dresser before whipping back around. Eve looked at the pages she had in her hands. "Here," Caroline said, shoving the papers into Eve's hands as she sat down on the vanity chair. "Sit on the bed and start asking me questions." Caroline said. Eve glanced down at the pages as she sat at the edge of the bed. Caroline was crazy. She had better win.
Damon lay sprawled out on the couch. Eve was right. In the basement, in the fridge, there was large supply of blood. Stefan wasn't very secretive. Well...he was because he was pretending to not be addicted to human blood again. But putting it in the fridge in the basement? Bad move. Especially with the shitty covers he tried to throw over it. Stefan was never good at hiding anything in the first place. Damon was now just waiting for Stefan to start heading down the stairs to the basement. Being caught in the act was always a lot more dramatic and fun.
"Speak of the Devil." Damon thought as he heard the familiar footsteps down to the basement. Damon quickly flittered to the top of the basement stairs to see if he was in the clear. It looked so, as Stefan was on a one track mission. Damon quickly flittered behind him to the door-frame to see Stefan looking into the fridge.
"Well well, he's a liar and a thief." Damon said aloud with his arms crossed, turning Stefan's attention towards him. Unfortunately, it wasn't the reaction he was hoping for. Sure, Stefan looked a little surprised, but nothing too dramatic. Boring. "So, when were you gonna share?" Damon asked as Stefan leaned his hand on the opened fridge door.
"Go ahead, help yourself." Stefan muttered back nonchalantly towards the fridge.
"No, no, no I'm talking about the fact that you're a closet blood junkie." Damon stated. Stefan simply shrugged.
"So, I'm drinking blood again." Stefan said in a monotone voice. "You're the one that shoved it on me, what's your problem?" Stefan muttered. Damon slightly nodded. "I have it under control." Stefan stated.
"Under control? You robbed the hospital!" Damon said, walking towards Stefan now.
"So, what's your point?" Damon wanted to roll his eyes. Stefan was being so... Stefan.
"Fine, whatever man, drink up." Damon muttered as he walked into the fridges light. "Just remember, we're trying to keep a low profile." Damon almost whispered, trying to keep his calm. Sure, it was Stefan's life, and sure, he was kind of a dick about the whole thing, but this involved him, because if Stefan got caught, Damon would eventually get caught as well. Which meant Eve would be caught by association, and John Gilbert would win. Damon wouldn't have any of that. "Why don't you just walk up to Sheriff Forbes and ask her to tap a vein?" Damon snapped.
"Have my actions negatively impacted you?" Stefan asked, before letting out a sarcastic puff of air. "I can't imagine what that must feel like." Stefan sassed. Damon couldn't help the annoyed smile.
"Yeah, what's Elena thinks about the new...you?" Damon asked, knowing that would get a slightly more interesting reaction.
"Nothing's changed; I'm still the same person." Stefan muttered. Damon's eyebrows raised slightly.
"Clearly." Damon sassed back.
"Elena doesn't need to know anything yet." Stefan said once again nonchalant about the whole situation.
"You've been off the human stuff for years, Stefan. If you're having trouble controlling-" Damon got out before Stefan rudely interrupted his attempt to be a nice big brother.
"I'm not having trouble." Stefan insisted.
"Who do you think you're talking to?" Damon snapped lightly. "I know what it's like. That Jekyll and Hyde feeling, that switch, sometimes it goes off and you snap. Right now is not a good time for me to be worried about you snapping." Damon snapped.
"Yeah, too much on your plate with the whole Katherine thing." Stefan snapped back causing Damon to slightly recoil. "I thought Eve was supposed to get you off that whole thing." Stefan rolled his eyes.
"I'm over Katherine." Damon snapped back. "I'm more worried about Johnathan Gilbert not being dead. " Damon hissed. "If he catches word of this, he's going to hold it over our heads." Damon snapped.
"Maybe if you hadn't killed him in the first place…" Stefan trailed off.
"He knew about us already, genius." Damon snapped back.
"So snapping his neck was the best option?" Stefan snapped. Damon shrugged.
"It was the most fun option." Damon corrected with a slight smirk, making Stefan scoff.
"For who? You or Eve?" Stefan muttered. Damon rolled his eyes. It was a decent question.
"Eve had nothing to do with this." Stefan rolled his eyes at that. Damon almost scoffed.
"Yeah, because Eve is so innocent." Stefan muttered.
"I mean, she does anything you ask her." Damon argued. "She came to Mystic Falls because you asked her, or did you forget?" Damon snapped.
"Because you were being a baby." Stefan laughed. "There's always ulterior motives for both of you." Stefan snapped. "Which is why you're worried about me." Stefan hissed, before putting both his hands in front of him to emphasize his next point. "I know that it pains you to see this but I'm fine, okay? I'm fine." Stefan insisted, pulling out a blood bag. "So do me a favor, and back off." Stefan snapped, letting the fridge door slam shut before walking around Damon to leave the basement. Eve was right, Stefan was a dick on human blood. Which was why Damon needed to get him off of it.
Eve laid back on Caroline's bed. They had been on-and-off asking and answering questions about the stupid pageant. The offs were Eve's favorite. They gave her time to breath, as Caroline talked through most of them about school. Eve's life was boring. Especially since she couldn't really talk about her life any because of the whole being immortal thing.
"So, was it family or a boyfriend?" Caroline asked. Eve lifted herself up by her elbows to show Caroline a confused face. "You know, the ones that hurt you and gave you those bruises?" Caroline asked nonchalantly. "I mean, I know they're pretty much gone by now, but like? What kind of dick would hurt someone?" Caroline asked. Eve sat up more. Shit. How was she supposed to tell Caroline about her bruises?
"So, long story short, a bunch of vampires kidnapped me and tortured me in a cellar because I was mad dat one of de main vampires came in and hurt Damon." Eve thought, making her chuckle. Caroline turned from her vanity to stare at Eve. "Oh, it was a boyfriend." Eve shrugged. "He was kind of a dick near de end." Eve muttered out the lie.
"What was his name? I heard names of certain people are like indicators of shitty people." Caroline asked, turning her attention back to the mirror.
"Oh, his name was...Cory." Eve lied. Caroline nodded slightly.
"How long were you two together?" Caroline asked. Eve wanted to sigh. Eight years? That would make Eve 14. Did people date at 14? Probably not for so long. "Was it long?"
"Well, what do ya consider a long relationship?" Eve asked.
"I don't know, like four years?" Caroline shrugged. "For like high schoolers, at least." Caroline shrugged. Three years would suffice.
"Oh, just dree years den." Eve shrugged. "Near de end, he was kind of a dick." Eve shrugged. "He got tired of de whole datin' ding, so he left."
"Not before hurting you though, what an ass." Caroline growled out. Eve wanted to laugh. If anything, Eve was a bit more violent towards him. "Was he cute?" Caroline asked. Eve shrugged before pulling out her phone. She still had a picture of the two together. They didn't look as happy as they did when they first started dating, but it was an okay picture. Eve crawled off Caroline's bed to show her the picture.
"You know, he kind of looks like Damon." Eve looked down at her as Caroline glanced up at Eve. "I mean, he's got really dark brown hair, it is a bit curly, which Damon doesn't have," Caroline stated aloud. "Pretty green eyes too. I mean, Damon has blue ones, but they both have pretty eyes." Eve snatched her phone quickly. "Was he your first boyfriend? Or was there another clone of Damon you dated?" Caroline joked. Eve let out a forced laugh as she forced herself to think of her breakup rather than Aidan.
Los Angeles; 2009
"Listen, Eve, this has been fun and all, but I'm just bored of it all." Cory muttered as he lay naked in their bed. Eve froze as she turned around with her robe on. "We had a good run, eight years ain't too bad." Cody shrugged.
"Oh, and ya dought dat havin' dis conversation could wait after de sex dough?" Eve snapped. Cory shrugged slightly.
"Rather have the before breakup sex than after breakup angry sex." Cory muttered. "Your angry sex causes bruises, sweetheart." Eve glared back at him. "You know, regular sex does too. You're kind of a hazard when naked." Cory laughed out before Eve threw a hairbrush at him that went through the headboard. "Jesus, can you chill?" Cory hissed, quickly getting up from the bed with sheets wrapped around him.
"Chill? Chill?! " Eve screamed suddenly. "Cory, what de fock is yer problem?" Eve screamed grabbing something else on the dresser.
"You really want to know?" Cory snapped back, ducking as a whiskey cup flew and smashed against the wall behind him. "Besides the fact that you're a crazy bitch when you're mad?!" Cory asked as he ducked once more as a shoe went past his head. "It was Damon." Eve stopped throwing things at the mention of her friend and glared at Cory.
"What do ya mean, Damon?" Eve snapped.
"Through our eight years, he was a main topic of discussion for half of it." Cory snapped. "God, Eve, you've been alive for over a century and he was always in our conversations!" Cory snapped louder. "What do you think we should have for dinner? Oh, well Damon once said there was this good Chinese place. So, how was your day? Well, let me tell you, Damon called and it was the best thing that's happened all day! How did you turn? Well, Damon's brother! Who do you love most in the world? Damon. Damon Damon Damon Damon." Cory mocked her Irish accent as he asked questions to himself. Eve could only glare back at him.
"Damon is me friend. And he's been me friend for over a fockin' century!" Eve snapped. "When ya know someone fer over a fockin' century, ya might have a few dings ta say about dem." Eve hissed.
"That's the thing though! It was always about Damon! No matter what! You had spent years without him, and yet, he always came up in conversations!" Cory hissed back. "Dating is boring, yeah, but fuck Eve, you want to know the real reason I want this to end?" Cory snapped, gesturing towards the both of them. "I'm not Damon." Cory snapped. "I could never be like Damon." Eve shook her head. "You call him your best friend but fuck, does he feel like your one true love."
"Damon is just me friend!" Eve snapped. "I'm sorry dat I talk about him a lot! But Christ, when yer life has been shit, ya may want ta talk about de good more dan de bad!" Eve hissed, feeling tears well up in her eyes.
"My life hasn't been the best either, but how am I supposed to know about yours when all you do is talk about him." Cory snapped. "I get it, your family died a shitty death, but man Damon was a fucking beacon." Cory laughed out. Eve threw a lamp at him, but Cory caught this one. Eve flittered to him and shoved him against the wall.
"Ya know why I don't talk about it. Damon was a dick when me family died. He had me shut off me humanity. Ya call dat a beacon?" Eve snapped, annoyed by the tears that were falling from her eyes.
"I was more so talking about Liam." Eve's heart almost stopped at the familiar name of her nephew. "What a dark time that was, cuddling with Damon and having a ball." Cory hissed, throwing Eve off of him. "I'm over this already. Why do you think all my clothes are gone already?" Cory asked as Eve sat up quickly. Had she really failed to notice the lack of clothing in her dressers and closet? Or the lack of his things in general. "Have a nice life, Eve. I hope you end up with Damon, I really do. Because until then, anyone you date will have to try and live up to his reputation." Cory snapped, grabbing his clothes from the ground and leaving the bedroom.
Mystic Falls; 2010
"Caroline, come on, we've been at dese questions fer dree hours." Eve groaned as she leaned her head against the end of her bed, looking at Caroline upside down. Caroline let out a sigh. "Even pageant queens need ta eat." Eve sassed, making Caroline turn around and raise an eyebrow at the upside down woman.
"Fine. But I haven't won yet." Caroline reminded as she stood up and motioned for Eve to follow. Eve rolled off the bed and landed on her feet, much to Caroline's surprise. "I'm surprised you didn't fall on your face." Caroline sassed. Eve let out a small scoff.
"I've got de reflexes of a cat." Eve sassed back as she followed Caroline down the stairs. On the last step, Eve slightly tripped.
"A cat on catnip, maybe." Caroline muttered as the two walked to the kitchen. Caroline opened up the fridge and Eve saw a little note on top of a glass pan. "Do you want some lemonade or water?" Caroline asked. "You're eating this lasagna though. My mom always makes too much and it goes bad before we can eat it all." Caroline said as she pulled out the pan and placed it on the counter. Eve glanced at the note as Caroline pulled out two plates. "Just a warning for the lemonade, my mom doesn't add any sugar." Eve nodded as she read the note.
"Already cooked, just needs warmed up 3 Mom" Eve couldn't help but smile as Caroline pushed the note out of the way.
"Water is fine. Dat's a cute note." Eve said aloud as Caroline rolled her eyes slightly before taking out two pieces of the lasagna out and placing them onto two plates.
"She's always leaving notes like that around." Caroline muttered. "Me and my mom aren't the closest. With her being the sheriff, I feel like I can't do a lot." Caroline shrugged as she put a plate into the microwave before pulling out 2 cups and pouring the two some water. "And her being in some secret group about the town? I just feel like there's too many secrets between us to really be that classic mother-daughter duo." Caroline muttered, turning to Eve as she leaned back against the counter. Eve nodded.
"Ya, me and me parents never got along." Eve shrugged, getting off of Caroline's mom, seeing how tense it made her.
"Yeah, I guess me too. I mean, how should a freshman feel when their dad tells her he's gay and has a boyfriend?" Caroline asked. It clicked in Eve's head now the conversation that Damon and Liz had in the bar, the first time she had met Liz. "I guess they should be happy that I don't do drugs at least." Caroline sighed, turning her attention towards the beeping microwave.
"Yeah, me father was an alcoholic, and me mather didn't much care dat he was." Eve said as Caroline put the second plate into the microwave. "He pushed me down de stairs once." Eve muttered aloud, almost laughing a bitter laugh. "I almost died." Almost, actually, both words started with an 'A' at least.
"Jesus." Caroline muttered. "I assume you don't talk with them." Caroline said, turning her attention back towards Eve. Eve shook her head.
"Nope, dey could be dead fer all I cared." Eve shrugged. "Ya know what's funny about de whole ding?" Eve asked. "Damon was dere."
"I knew it. You two totally had a thing." Caroline muttered. Eve laughed and shook her head.
"No, he was dere because I had snuck out earlier dat night and he helped me get home." Eve laughed. "Dat was de first time I actually met him." Eve wanted to laugh once more. She wasn't technically lying to Caroline. She was just sort of leaving out the date.
"Baby Damon sounds like a nicer guy than Adult Damon." Caroline laughed. Eve shrugged.
"Just a little bit." Eve shrugged.
"Man, he's always been nice to you then." Caroline said. "Has he asked you to go to the pageant yet?"
"Technically?" Eve shrugged. "I said no and now he has ta do so with five sheep." Eve laughed at the stupidity of it. Caroline's confused face made her laugh even harder. "It's a long story."
"Aren't they all when they involve Damon." Caroline winked, making Eve roll her eyes. "Remember, I'm taking him down through you." Caroline said, pointing her finger at Eve before turning around and taking the second piece of lasagna out of the microwave.
"Hey, I'm sorry he comes up a lot." Eve apologized suddenly. Caroline raised an eyebrow at her as she motioned for Eve to grab her glass of water and follow her to the table.
"I mean, I don't like him, but I'm not going to get mad because you do. You're your own person and your person has been friends with Damon." Caroline shrugged. "I mean, I talk about my friends a lot, but that's because I've known them a really long time. What else are we supposed to talk about besides things we've done and our friends? The weather?" Caroline sassed placing the two plates on the table before slightly nudging Eve into a seat as she went back to the kitchen to grab silverware.
As soon as Eve walked into the Boarding house, she was greeted by Damon.
"So, guess who was right about Stefan being a blood addict?" Damon asked as he walked beside Eve. Eve raised an eyebrow to him. "You. But also me." Damon smirked as he slightly lifted Eve off her feet, making her let out a laugh.
"Can I help ya?" Eve laughed as Damon smiled back at her.
"You look down, so I'm picking you up." Damon sassed. Eve couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Both physically and mentally!" Damon said, slightly shaking Eve. Eve tried to push herself off of him, only for him to walk over to the couch and drop her. "So, Stefan is a blood junkie. And he keeps his stash in the fridge in the basement." Damon said as he plopped down beside her.
"I told ya." Eve sassed. "He's not very good at hidin' dings." Eve muttered as Damon nodded. "So what are we supposed ta do about it?" Eve asked, making Damon look at her with a confused look. "What? We can't just let him keep it up. He's a mess when he drinks blood, not ta mention a dickhead." Eve groaned.
"He said he has it under control." Damon shrugged. Eve rolled her eyes.
"Obviously." Eve sassed. "He robbed a hospital of blood." Eve muttered and shook her head. Damon snickered. They both thought so much alike.
"I plan on letting him do something he regrets and then deal with him." Damon shrugged. Eve smacked his shoulder. "Listen, he's not going to listen to me about it. And with the whole Gilbert situation, we're not on the best standings." Damon grumbled.
"Yer not too good at helpin' anyway." Eve sassed, making Damon place his hand on his chest in a mockingly offended manner. "Don't even fake bein' offended. Yer de least helpful when it comes to drinking blood." Eve laughed at his continued offended look.
"But listen, I'm very helpful when it comes to the opposite of getting off of blood." Damon pointed accusingly at Eve. "I'm not the one who really got him started this time. He was a wreck ever since we came back from the vampire hang out." Damon said. "I mean, as much as I want to be the one who turned him back into a crazy blood addict, I was pretty preoccupied with making sure that you were okay." Damon sassed. Eve couldn't help but roll her eyes, even with the warm feeling in her chest.
"I bet he's blamin' ya." Eve muttered.
"Well, I haven't been the most supportive of his detox process." Damon shrugged. "I've always wanted him to be okay with human blood, but we both know what he's like when he really lets loose." Damon grumbled.
"A dickhead times a billion." Eve muttered, making Damon chuckle. "But sometimes, ya just have ta let him be a lame vegetarian." Eve shrugged. "No need ta kill de whole town."
"Especially when the whole town likes us." Damon nodded. "Speaking of the whole town, no one in town owns a single sheep." Damon muttered. Eve glanced over at him with a cocked head. A second passed before she remembered their deal for asking Eve to the Miss Mystic Pageant and a laugh erupted from her.
"Damon, I swear ta God. I don't need five sheep. I just need a better askin' from ya." Eve laughed, but Damon shook his head solemnly.
"Only five sheep will work. You've made your bed, now you've got to sheep in it." Damon said seriously. Eve began laughing and slightly leaned against Damon, as she began to hiccup from laughing so hard at the stupid sheep joke. Eve's laughter made Damon crack, letting out his own laughter.
"I hate ya." Eve hiccuped, wiping the slight tears that had welled up in her eyes.
"You love me. Otherwise, you wouldn't have laughed at such a shitty joke." Damon chuckled.
"I would have laughed just as hard if someone else had said it, because me sense of humor is dead." Eve began laughing through her hiccups as she thought about the joke again. "P-p-probably n-not." Eve laughed out before letting out an annoyed groan as she continued to hiccup.
"Okay, it's time for bed, you giggly vampire." Damon said, standing up and holding his hand out, which she took, still giggling. "Sometimes I wonder how you lived so long with such a terrible sense of humor." Damon muttered as he began walking Eve to her room. A warm feeling engulfed him as he felt Eve's hand hold his instead of letting go and grabbing his arm, like she usually did. "So, how was Caroline's?" Damon asked as the two walked up the stairs together.
"She better win dis ding or else I'm going ta kill everyone." Eve snapped. Damon raised an eyebrow at the sudden grumpy tone. "Day. I got dere at about 4. I got home at about 12. She had me ask her questions fer seven hours. Minus all de times we weren't actually weren't talking about de dumb ding, dat's still about six hours of stupid questions and answers." Eve grumbled as the two got to the top of the stairs. "I know I joke about killin' people, but I swear if she doesn't win." Eve growled making Damon laugh.
"Okay, you really need to sleep off this murderous rage." Damon laughed as he opened Eve's bedroom door and lightly nudged her inside. "Want some blood to help you sleep?" Damon asked in a joking voice. "There's a whole fridge downstairs full of it." Damon joked making Eve shake her head and slightly smush Damon's face. "You're right." Damon said, taking Eve's hand into his. "Only the blood of the innocent for you, my queen." Damon muttered against her hand before kissing it and pulling her and her hand closer. Eve's face lit up instantly, much to her displeasure.
"Only if it's truly innocent." Eve said playfully back as she tried to pull her hand back to her side. "Now, de queen needs some sleep."
"Would it be too improper for a simple stable boy to join her in bed?" Damon asked, slightly wiggling his eyebrows at her. A snort left Eve as she pushed herself away from him.
"Alas, it would be." Eve sassed, putting the back of her hand to her forehead dramatically.
"Then it has to be kept a secret." Damon muttered, pulling Eve against his chest. Eve looked up at him as he smirked down at her reddening face. Eve suddenly pulled him down closer to her face.
"So secret, even we don't know about it." Eve whispered into Damon's ear before she pulled his face towards hers. "Don't play games with de queen, silly stable boy." Eve said quietly. "De queen always win, veiny eyes." Eve sassed pulling away and patting his cheek slightly. Damon let out an annoyed groan as he turned his head.
"The queen may be a bit surprised to find out that the silly stable boy is really a vampire." Damon said quickly trying to flitter into her room, only for the door to be quickly shut.
"De stable boy vampire may be surprised dat de queen herself is also a vampire." Eve sassed through the door. "Maybe try again some other time, stable boy." Eve muttered as she turned her attention to getting to bed and losing the heat from her face. Damon couldn't help but laugh. Damon had to put on the charm. He was down by one and he couldn't have that. He couldn't lose to her.
SO CLOSE TO THE PAGEANT MY DUDES. Are you excited? I'm excited. Also! HAVE SOME OF EVE'S PAST. This chapter would have been done sooner, but I was making an actual timeline for Eve. Because I love her. A bunch of names and history that I know and you don't. But be patient! All will be revealed in time, I promise!
Anyway! Hope you enjoyed! You're all great!
-Nebula