"I've never been sired before." Eve said aloud to Damon as she leaned against the garage door, unbraiding her hair. Damon jumped as he turned around from Stefan's Porsche.
"Well, you've only turned into a vampire once, so that's understandable." Damon sassed back as he locked the car and turned to leave the garage. Eve rolled her eyes as she pulled a piece of a stick from her hair before letting the rest of her hair down. Damon came up and wrapped his arm around her.
"Dat's not what I meant." Eve snapped as she ran her hands through her hair to let her head breathe. "Ya know what I meant." Eve muttered as she replayed what she had said aloud. "Ya know, I've never turned someone and had dem be sire bound ta me." Eve shrugged as the two started walking towards the boarding house.
"It's not fun, let me tell you." Damon muttered back. Eve glanced up at him. "Remember Charlotte?" Damon asked. Eve blinked a few times to try and remember.
"Oh! With de sacrifices?" Eve asked making Damon chuckle and nod at her enthusiasm. "Dat was fun."
"If you think finding 12 people to kill is fun." Damon laughed out.
"It was fer me! New Orleans isn't de most holy place in de world." Eve sassed back. "It wasn't so much fun dough when de witch suggested Liam as a sacrifice because she dought he was listenin' ta our conversation." Eve gabbed with a slight glaze in her eyes as she recalled her misadventures with Damon.
"Well, he wasn't so much listening to us, but more so being a little creep and watching us talk about murder." Damon sassed. Eve pushed him away playfully.
"Don't call me little nephew a creep. He was only 20." Eve sassed back making Damon roll his eyes with a smile.
"Only 20 and spying? I wonder where he picked up something like that from?" Damon questioned with a mocking tone. Eve let out a scoff.
"His father was just as bad!" Eve quickly retorted.
"And where did his father get it from?" Damon laughed at how defensive she was becoming.
"Mo dheartháir was just as mischievous as I was; if anythin', he taught me and his kids." Eve sassed back before she froze realizing the words that had slipped out. Damon stopped as well and raised an eyebrow at her. Eve blinked and shook her head, smiling back up at Damon. "I can't imagine havin' someone bein' sired ta me." Eve said changing the subject, beginning to move towards the house once more, looping her arm with Damon's, trying to ignore the sad look that crossed his face. "I mean, havin' ta do what Stefan told me ta do today was shitty." Eve continued staring ahead of herself.
"I don't think you should tell Stefan." Damon said, changing the subject. Eve glanced up at Damon. "I don't like to think of you without having any free will." Damon muttered.
"Ya say, as yer tellin' me not ta do somethin'." Eve sassed making Damon tense. "I'm kiddin' Day." Eve nudged him as the two walked closer to the house. Eve watched their feet as to try and walk in sync before Damon stopped, making Eve look up. Anna.
"All right now, this is getting weird." Damon muttered. Eve raised an eyebrow up at him for the comment. "We talked earlier." Damon said back down to Eve. Eve almost laughed at the attitude change between his two interactions.
"We're here to talk." Anna replied back. Eve raised an eyebrow. Before she could make a snarky comment about the 'we', Pearl walked out from the shadows by the front door. How dramatic.
"Not in the mood, today's been a no good, very bad day." Damon snapped back. Eve glanced up at him. It had started out so well though. At least Eve thought it had started off well.
"Annabelle tells me you're looking for something I took from Jonathan Gilbert." Pearl said calmly, her hands resting in front of her. Eve almost rolled her eyes. Eve runs off for hours to try and make sure Stefan doesn't kill a girl and missed all the drama.
"I'm listening." Damon said walking towards Pearl and Anna, his arm going to his side, but not without catching Eve's hand. Probably to make sure Eve didn't just stand behind him the whole time and gawk. "What is it?" Damon asked as Pearl handed him a leather satchel of some sorts. Damon let go of Eve's hand as he pulled out a pocket watch from the satchel. Eve looked at it with her eyebrow raised.
"Jonathan was passionate about his inventions." Pearl said. "He confided in me that he had created a detection device meant to track down the town's vampire element." Damon flipped the watch in his hands, studying it.
"It's a pocket watch." Eve muttered aloud. She still didn't know what was going on, but she wasn't about to let these old vampires leave her in the dust with a pocket watch.
"That's what it turned out to be yes." Pearl sighed. "But that's not what I stole. I discovered my mistake when I saw the watch in Jonathan's hand, the night they took us, its stile pointed at me." Pearl said quietly. She seemed slightly sad by all of this. Eve knew about 1864, but not every little detail. Pearl and Anna seemed like they were the little details. Which, they were when it came to Damon and his Katherine problems.
"So what is this?" Damon asked turning Pearl's attention back towards him.
"I have no idea but now it's yours." Pearl replied.
"What's the catch?" Damon asked, sounding skeptical.
"There is no catch." Pearl said. "My daughter wants to stay here. I want to stay here. You refused to trust us and for good reason." Pearl continued with a sigh. "Consider this an apology." Pearl said lightly, her eyes slightly trailed towards Eve. Eve glanced at Pearl and Anna before she rolled her eyes.
"Give it a few months, maybe I'll forgive ya den." Eve muttered, walking past the two and into the boarding house. She could hear Damon's footsteps behind her. But she was pissed now. They came all this way to apologize with a pocket watch? A pocket watch? That was involved in something she knew nothing about? As an apology for not knowing that she was being tortured in their basement because they were out shopping. The more she thought about it, the more angry she became with it all. She had all but forgotten about the whole ordeal. As if she had never been tortured before.
"Evie, wait." Damon said catching up to Eve as she continued walking towards the stairs to go upstairs. "I'm sorry, I-"
"Why are ya sorry?" Eve asked, turning back around to Damon. Damon shrugged lightly only for Eve to let out a slight scoff. "It's not even deir fault really." Eve sighed as she said that. It really wasn't their fault for what happened. But coming and giving an old pocket watch that may be useful as an apology? It seemed half-assed. "Ya have nothin' ta be sorry fer either." Eve said as she took off Damon's jacket from her shoulders. "It's been a long night." Eve muttered as she handed him his jacket back.
"I didn't mean to bring up your past, Evie." Damon said back quickly, lightly grabbing Eve's hand as she began to try and walk towards the stairs.
"It's fine, Day. It's been over 50 years." Eve shrugged it off as she tried to move again only for Damon to keep her where she was. "Day, 28 years and 50 years are a long enough time fer me ta get me act together. Which I have." Eve sassed as she turned back towards Damon, but Damon only stared at her. Eve rolled her eyes as she felt her heart start to clench. "Damon, I'm fine, I'm not a child." Eve snapped suddenly as she pulled her hand away from his.
"I don't think it's childish to have feelings, Evie." Damon sassed back, folding his arms. Eve rolled her eyes back at him.
"Says de person who shuts his off at any sudden emotion." Eve suddenly snapped with a bitter laugh. Silence filled the air as guilt the of her words hit Eve.
"I've never lost Stefan." Damon said aloud breaking the silence. "But if I did, I don't think any amount of time could make that absence hurt any less." Eve stared at the ground for a moment before she walked over to Damon and buried her face into his chest.
"I'm sorry." Eve muttered quietly. Damon didn't say a word as he wrapped his arms around her.
"You should be. I don't turn off my humanity at every emotion. Just the bad ones." Damon sassed making Eve snicker and push away from him, quickly wiping the tears that had fallen.
"I'm de worst friend ya have ever had." Eve grumbled lowly only making Damon chuckle.
"Evie, you're the only friend I've ever had." Damon said as his he lifted Eve's chin up. "And you're not that bad." Damon sassed back down to her. "Looking." Damon continued. Eve let out a snort before she rolled her eyes and gave a fake pout pushing away from his hand. "See, even when you pout, you're cute." Damon snickered as he closed his eyes and pinched Eve's cheeks. Eve rolled her eyes and pushed his hands away from her. "So, do you need help out of that dress or…?" Damon asked playfully making Eve fully push herself away from his embrace.
"I got it on meself, so I can take it off meself." Eve sassed back, poking his nose before turning her back around to go up the stairs.
"Hate to see you leave, Evie." Damon muttered aloud as Eve started walking up the stairs. Eve couldn't help but laugh as she ran her hands down the back of her body with a little wiggle before she glanced behind her as she got near the top of the stairs to see Damon's face. Eve almost let out a scoff as she didn't see him anywhere. "Are you playing dirty right now?" Damon asked at the top of the stairs. Eve nearly fell backwards from the shock, but Damon quickly grabbed her and pulled her to the top of the stairs.
"Damon, I could have died!" Eve snapped, lightly punching Damon in the arm. "Ya can't just flitter up behind me." Eve scolded as Damon let out a scoff.
"You can't just walk up the stairs like that." Damon scolded back making Eve snicker as she started walking towards her room. "It's cheating." Damon said lowly. Eve could only roll her eyes before her back was against the hallways walls with Damon trapping her.
"And dis isn't?" Eve asked back, taking in a slight breath as to try and calm her frantic heart.
"And why would this be considered cheating?" Damon asked with a smirk slipping onto his lips. Eve rolled her eyes, despite the red that was slipping across her cheeks, and put her hands up against his chest to keep him slightly away.
"It's late, a lot has happened today, I'm moody." Eve listed off reasons as to why what he was doing was cheating, slightly annoyed that her heart was still beating in her ears.
"Consider this something to help get you out of your head then." Damon smirked playfully before he quickly nuzzled into Eve making her slightly flinch away him his breath tickling her neck. "And payback from earlier with the tie." Damon purred lowly into Eve's ear making her subconsciously grab hold of his shirt.
"Ya know, we can't even see each other's face, so what's de point?" Eve asked annoyed by how breathy she sounded. Eve almost snapped his neck at the sound and feel of him chuckle against her neck.
"Just a silly hope that maybe you'll lose control before me." Damon muttered back making Eve slightly shiver. Damon pulled back. "And because I lost." Damon grumbled as he breathed in, trying to make the veins from his face disappear. Eve let out a snicker as she quickly pulled her hands from his shirt. "I wouldn't laugh so soon. Your eyes are a lot darker than mine feel." Damon sassed.
"I could make yers a lot darker, if ya'd like." Eve smirked back up at him as she grabbed his tie and pulled him down to her as she had done earlier that day. "I could even make yer face all veiny too." Eve smirked back almost laughing as veins started crawling down from Damon's eyes. The smirk died instantly as Damon's hand wrapped around the back of her waist and the other cupped her face. Her head was against the wall as Damon was dangerously close. Eve could feel his breath against hers but all she could see was his eyes lighten from dark red to his normal light blue. The two jumped suddenly at the sound of the front door being slammed. Damon eyes almost rolled into the back of his head as he whipped around to the railing of the stairs. Eve couldn't help but begin to giggle out of embarrassment.
"Hey Stef, how ya doin'?" Damon asked, trying to sound concerned but it came off more annoyed than anything. No response was a good enough answer for the both of them as Stefan came storming up the stairs. Eve watched as Stefan stormed by the two without a single word. Eve tried to say something, but ended up keeping her mouth shut as the nights events replayed in her mind. Eve walked over to Damon as he continued to stare down the hallway to where Stefan's room was.
"I dink we can call it a draw." Eve sassed lightly, slightly nudging Damon, turning his attention back down towards her. "It's been a long, very no good bad day." Eve mocked his earlier words.
"No good, very bad day." Damon corrected her with a slight roll of his eyes. Eve quietly mocked him before Damon gave back an offended look, making Eve laugh. "If my queen has to go to bed..." Damon sassed back at her, slightly ruffling her hair.
"Careful, me hair might eat yer hand." Eve warned. "It's been cooped up all day, I can't control it." Eve sighed, running a hand through her hair. "Now, if ya will excuse me, I'm goin' ta go take dis dress off and put on me pajamas." Eve said turning to walk towards her room. "Take care of yer brother." Eve sassed, slightly turning around while walking to talk to Damon. Damon rolled his eyes back at her. "Ya said it yerself, ya would miss him if he wasn't around, and I'm countin' not bein' himself as him bein' gone." Eve sassed making Damon swat his hand at her before she walked into her room, closing the door behind her.
Damon let out a low sigh as Eve finally got into her room. His hands ran through his hair. Fuck. Fuck Stefan. Fuck how tonight went. Fuck how stunning Eve looked tonight. And how she made him feel for others. And how she made him feel about her. Fuck Eve in general. Damon almost laughed. If only.
Damon began walking back down the stairs to get a drink. If he was going to deal with Stefan, he needed something to be able to deal with the angst of it all. Before he could even get to the bottom of the stairs, the front door opened.
"Damon?" Elena's voice asked quietly as she poked her head into the house. Elena nearly jumped out of her skin when he flittered in front of her. Damon couldn't help but chuckle as Elena smacked him in the chest. "Is Stefan home?"
"Visiting hours are over." Damon sassed as Elena walked into the house with Damon closing the door behind her. She had her mind set on seeing him, and she was too stubborn the be persuaded otherwise.
"I want to see him." Elena said, folding her arms with a very stern look on her face. It was almost laughable.
"Elena, he's not in a good place right now." Damon argued, but Elena shook her head and pulled something out from the back of her pants. Damon's eyebrows furrowed as he saw the familiar vervain dart come into view. "Where did you get that?" Damon asked as his arms crossed.
"Alaric. Listen, I have an idea." Elena said putting the dart back she had hidden it and pulled her shirt over it. "But I need to know you're going to help me with it." Elena said seriously. Damon stared at her for a second. He was far too tired to argue with whatever plan she had. Damon let out a sigh.
"What do you need?" Damon asked. Elena let out a silent sigh of relief. The gesture almost made Damon take it back.
"You have that cell in the basement, right?" Elena asked. "I think we should put him down there. Let him, I don't know...detox?" Elena questioned as she blurted out the plan. "I know it seems dumb, but-"
"And you're going to stab him with that?" Damon asked, interrupting her and nodding towards where she had hidden the vervain dart. Elena nodded. Damon stared for a second before letting out a sigh. "Alright. But if anything goes wrong…" Damon trailed off and Elena nodded.
"I know. I just want Stefan back." Elena said softly. Damon stared as Elena's head fell. Damon sighed, bringing Elena's attention back up to him as he began walking towards the stairs to the second floor. Damon paused, turning around and nodding for Elena to follow him, which she quickly did.
"Me too." Damon muttered quietly. Elena didn't hear it. Good. She didn't need to know that Damon liked his baby brother.
Eve yawned aloud as she finally sat up from her sleep. When she opened her eyes, she wasn't in her room. Eve froze as she looked around the unfamiliar location. All she knew was that she was definitely in a woods of some sorts. And wearing historical clothing. What was going on? Eve tried to get up, but something underneath her dress paused her efforts. Eve lifted up her dress to see a giant hooped petticoat. Eve let out a puff of air as she threw the heavy fabric back over the petticoat before she tried to roll over to her stomach and get up. Eve tried once more to get up, but this petticoat was not one that was going to bend easily. Eve let out a groan as she crawled over to a tree. If anyone was behind her they would have a nice view up her dress with the petticoat's help. Even with the light breeze that was blowing up her dress and hitting some type of long undergarment, the actual dress didn't move with the wind. With help from the tree, Eve pulled herself up.
Christ, how many layers did she even have on to make it near impossible to move?
"Alright Eve, let's figure out what's goin' on." Eve muttered aloud to herself as she looked around, subconsciously straightening out the dress. Woods, woods, woods, mansion, road from mansion, woods. Mansion sounded better than woods. Plus, people would surely be there. Hopefully. Eve began walking towards the mansion. Her shoes kept sticking in the soft dirt.
Eve raised her eyebrows as she raised the dress and looked at her feet. Ivory heels with little light blue designs near the toe. They were almost as uncomfortable as the ones she had to wear when she was a young teenager. Strange, that she was thinking about when she was a teenager. Being as old as she was, it had been over a literal century.
As Eve walked towards the mansion, the large dress kept catching on things on the ground. The dress was all a light blue with a section in the middle being the same ivory color as her shoes. Around the ivory were ruffles and near the top, in the center was a rose design. Along with the sleeves that hung off her shoulders slightly, the ivory that ran down the middle section of the dress seemed to be lace. Which explained why it was getting caught in every little twig and sharp piece of grass.
This had to be some kind of weird lucid dream. Or a prank. Or compulsion. Why in the world would Eve be wandering around a strange place in a large and heavy historical dress otherwise. If it was a dream, Eve had to lay off on the caffeine. If it was a prank, she would give credit, and then kill whoever did this. But if it was compulsion...She didn't really know what to do. Stefan was the only person that could compel her to do anything. And he only compelled her when he was extremely pissed and bloodthirsty. Why would he want her to wander around the woods in an old dress anyway? Everything about the situation made her more and more annoyed and confused.
As Eve got closer to the clearing of the woods, she noticed that she would have to go down a hill to get to the mansion. She was barely able to walk on the relatively flat terrain of the woods as it was in the heels she was in. Maybe she could flitter. Eve paused as she looked down at her hands. On her right ring finger was her lapis lazuli ring. Flittering it was. As she tried to flitter, all she ended up doing was running and nearly tripping of the massive amounts of fabric from her dress.
"Not a vampire. Great." Eve muttered to herself. "Den dis is just a dream." Eve said aloud as she tried to pinch herself. Eve tried closing her eyes, but when she opened them, she was still near the top of the hill staring at a mansion. Eve leaned up against a tree near the edge of the woods. "Stay calm." Eve breathed out. "Don't panic, panickin' is no good. Let's just get ta de damn mansion." Eve said aloud to motivate herself. Eve began walking once more towards the mansion. The bottom of her dress caught on the tree she had been leaning against. Eve rolled her eyes as she turned around and pulled the bottom of the dress, ripping it and tumbling backwards in the process. "FOCK."
"Evie, are you okay?"
"Evie?"
"Eve."
Evelyn! Eve's eyes opened to see Damon shaking her. "Hey, you okay?" Damon asked as Eve looked around. She was in her room, on the floor, beside her bed. "Evelyn." Damon said making Eve's attention turn back towards Damon. Eve shook her head.
"I-I'm fine, Damon." Eve muttered back. "I just...had a bad dream." Eve blinked before shrugging it off. "Bit too vivid fer me likin'." Eve sighed as she ran her fingers through her unruly hair.
"I bet." Damon let out a laugh, his face still slightly scrunched in a concerned fashion. "You were talking in your sleep...and then yelling." Damon said as he stood up and held his hand down to help Eve up. Eve grabbed onto his hand and snickered as he helped her up.
"How long were ya just watchin' me den?" Eve snickered as she blinked and looked back up to Damon. Eve gasped as she looked at him and pulled her hand from his, nearly tripping backwards again. Damon froze with a concerned look on his face. But it wasn't Damon. But it was. Only this wasn't the Damon she had just been talking to. This was a different Damon.
"I do apologize, miss, I did not mean to frighten you." Damon apologized. He was wearing a Confederate soldier uniform. He quickly took off his hat and slightly bowed. Eve blinked. Her mouth was open but she couldn't get any words out. "I saw you fall down that hill over there. I just wished to make sure you were not harmed." Damon said gently, his eyes showing worry and guilt.
"Why-what are ya so worried about?" Eve stuttered out as she continued to stare at him. Out of all the things to ask...Damon blinked and slightly rung his hat in his hands.
"I-I saw you fall down the hill from my home's second floor. I-I did not get to you as quickly as I would have liked." Damon muttered out, his eyes falling to the ground. "You must have been knocked out for a good ten minutes before I got to you." Damon sighed. Eve felt her heart clench in her chest at how sorry he sounded.
"Well, I'm fine now, so ya don't have ta worry." Eve chirped back to try and cheer him up. Damon gave back a sympathetic smile.
"I do not mean to sound too pushy, but would you mind accompanying me back to the estate?" Damon asked slightly hesitant. "We have a doctor there today, and I would just like to make sure that you are truly okay." Damon continued. Eve stared at this Damon. She didn't know what was going on, but even in this strange dream, she didn't want to see him look so down and worried.
"If dat would calm ya down." Eve shrugged back. Damon couldn't help the sigh of relief as he put his hat back on and held his arm out. "Ya know, I could be a dangerous person." Eve said aloud as she looped her arm through his casually. She was surprised when she felt him shrug instead of tense at the comment.
"I was in the army." Damon replied casually as the two started walking. Eve couldn't help but snicker and roll her eyes. Wait, there were more pressing matters at hand. Like where the fuck she was.
"May I ask ya somethin' strange?" Eve asked as her mind got back on track.
"Of course." Damon replied casually. As if he found a lot of random people near his...home. And all of them asked strange questions. Was this a normal Tuesday for this Damon?
"Where am I?" Eve asked as the two continued to walk towards the mansion, or estate, as this Damon had put it. Eve's heels stuck in the dirt as the walked. Damon raised an eyebrow back at her.
"You are in Mystic Falls." Damon replied. "I know you said it would be a strange question, and you said that you were fine, but...are you sure you are okay?"
"I'm actually probably not okay." Eve flinched as something poked her heel.
"Yeah, I would say not, Evie." Eve's eyes snapped open again to see the present day Damon.
"Damon, what de fock is happenin'?" Eve asked quickly, pulling her arm from his that he was trying to hold. She needed to figure out what was going on before whatever it was that was happening, happened again.
"I don't know. I helped you up and you just started walking. So I kind of just hooked your arm with mine so you didn't hurt yourself." Damon shrugged. "You started talking too. I tried to talk back, but it was like you were having your own conversation with someone." Damon continued. Eve nodded back.
"I-I don't know what's goin' on." Eve grumbled as she looked down at her bare feet. "It-it's like I'm dreamin' but of de past." Eve said as she leaned against Damon to see the bottom of her foot. "And yer dere, but it's not ya. It's like a past ya." Eve said as she saw a rock poking out of her bare heel. "Like human ya, I guess. And I don't know why I'm havin' dese episodes but I'm not too fond of it." Eve muttered as she pulled the rock from her foot. "It has ta be sometime in de 1800s." Eve said as she looked back up at Damon. Her heart sank.
"1864." Past Damon replied back as Eve gently pushed herself off of him and placed her foot back on the ground. 1864? That was the year Katherine showed up. And in the beginning of that year, Damon was in the war. But the Confederate army never came to Mystic Falls for anything. So he must have either just come back or he had deserted. Either way, Eve knew that Katherine was around in this time. "See, this is why I wish to have you checked out. Asking about where you are and the year is not normal." Damon breaking Eve of her trail of thoughts.
"I suppose yer right." Eve muttered back as she looped her arm with Damon's and made the two start walking again.
"My name is Damon. Damon Salvatore." Damon introduced himself. "I should have done so earlier, which I do apologize for." Eve almost laughed as she remembered the first time she had really met Damon. He was drunk and snarky. This Damon was very laid back and gentlemanly. It was strange to think Damon as a genuinely kind person without any sass.
"Eve Branigan." Eve introduced herself. Damon reached his free hand over to her. Eve couldn't help but laugh at the gesture as she did the same. Eve shook his hand as he tried to kiss the back of her hand, but failed at the awkward positions of it all. "I dink a nice handshake is good enough, Mr. Salvatore." Eve sassed as a light blush spread across Damon's cheeks.
"I suppose you are right; I apologize."
"Dat seems ta be all ya do." Eve sassed back, looking back over at Damon. If she was going to keep having these weird episodes, of a time she wasn't even close to being born in, she was going to mess around a little. Nothing seemed to happen when she was back in the present day with Damon, meaning, it wasn't real. Or she wasn't important enough to change anything if it was.
"I'm a gentleman and if I feel that I have offended, I am going to apologize." Damon sassed back, once more pulling Eve out of her own head. Eve gave a mocked offended look back at him. To her dismay, he looked sorry. "I am-"
"If ya say yer sorry one more time, I'm goin' ta have ta hit ya." Eve warned, rolling her eyes. It was strange to have Damon apologize so much. In the present, getting him to say sorry to someone was like pulling teeth, but in the past, all she had to do was look at him wrong and he would apologize. In the present, he did apologize more willingly to her, but only when she was truly upset. Not just for looking upset. It was almost sad. Like he felt he needed to say it.
"My apologizes." Damon said. Eve went to glare back at him but saw a faint smirk on his lips. Eve couldn't help the smile that slipped onto her own lips. As the two finally reached the back of the estate, Eve caught sight of two people running through a little maze of bushes. Eve's eyebrow raised at the familiar looking figures as the got closer.
"Damon?" The man asked aloud. Eve saw him now.
"Stefan?" Eve said aloud, staring at this time period Stefan, before a tugging of her arm brought her attention back towards Damon.
"Okay, that's enough." Present Damon said. Eve whipped around to where Stefan had been. They were in the basement right next to the cell. Stefan was in the cell, staring back at her through the bars from the bed. "Come on Evie." Damon tried again to pull her away from the door. Eve began following Damon hesitantly before Stefan spoke and stopped both of them.
"You were there." Stefan said in a slightly confused voice. Eve turned back around. "Why were you there?" Stefan asked, sounding strangely annoyed. Eve almost scoffed. As if she was jumping into these episodes on purpose.
"Ya saw me?" Eve questioned back. "Are ya havin' some weird flashbacks?" Eve asked, putting her full attention back to Stefan. Stefan's stare was blank.
Eve turned back to Damon. Past Damon was standing there, with a slightly confused look. Eve almost screamed out of frustration.
"They extended your leave then, brother?" Past Stefan asked as Eve's attention caught a woman with dark brown hair that stood close to Stefan. Katherine. She was watching the three interact. Damon's brows were furrowed at Stefan's comment.
"I...I was simply having too much fun to return to battle." Damon stuttered but quickly recovered as he and Stefan walked towards each other and hugged.
"Wait, no, dis isn't right." Eve muttered aloud, turning everyone's attention towards her. Eve stared back at Stefan, who had a very confused look on his face. "Stefan, wake up." Eve snapped suddenly walking over to the two brothers.
"Eve, stop, he has to get this human blood out of his system." Present Damon snapped, seemingly pulling Eve out of the strange flashback.
"Wait, just let me talk ta him." Eve quickly snapped back at Damon before she turned back to look at Stefan through the cell bars. "Stefan, please, ya have ta talk ta me. Why am I in yer...flashbacks?" Eve asked. "Stefan, focus, please." Eve snapped as she saw Stefan's head slightly drop.
"If they were flashbacks, you wouldn't be in them." Stefan snapped as he stared at his hands. "I don't know why you're there. It's not like I can change anything anyway." Stefan hissed lowly, more to himself, it seemed like.
"Well knock it off." Eve snapped back. "So far I've fallen down a hill and have no vampire abilities and met human Damon." Eve grumbled as she recalled the flashbacks...or whatever the hell they were.
"You say that as if it was a bad thing." Damon muttered behind her. Eve turned back around so Damon could see her roll her eyes at him. "What's so wrong with human me?" Damon asked, mocking offense.
"Oh nothin', I'm sorry." Eve apologized making Damon raise an eyebrow back her. "Dat's been most of our conversation so far. Ya apologizin'' ta me." Eve sassed back. "Ya know dis isn't where I wanted de conversation ta go." Eve sighed, turning back towards Stefan. "I just want ta know what's goin' on." Eve muttered glancing back towards Damon.
"That is something the doctor can tell you, not me." Past Damon said with a concerned look on his face. Eve nodded back, feeling defeated by the whole ordeal. It had something to do with Stefan and that was all she knew. It was annoying. Stefan was pouting in the real world and there wasn't much she could do to stop him.
"Alright, take me ta yer doctor." Eve sighed out as Damon looped her arm with his and gave her a reassuring pat. It was endearing. Eve glanced back over to Stefan and...Katherine. Eve froze slightly, even with Damon moving towards the estate. But she was staring at Katherine. Eve had seen pictures of Katherine. And Elena and her were definitely doppelgangers. There was no difference in appearances. But this was Katherine. And if Eve really didn't matter in these flashbacks that weren't technically flashbacks, it wouldn't matter if she beat the shit out of this Katherine. Eve quickly pulled herself away from Damon's arm and started storming over to the woman. "But first, I'm goin' ta beat de shit out of-"
"Eve, no!" Eve was quickly pulled back. Eve blinked and saw Elena in front of her. Back in the basement. Damon was holding her back. Eve's heart sank as she saw Elena slightly cower away from her. "There's a difference between Katherine and Elena. I know they look the same, but trust me, there is." Damon joked lightly, only confusing Elena and making Eve roll her eyes.
"I was so close ta punchin' her. It was about ta turn dese flashbacks inta a dream." Eve groaned. Elena continued to stare at the two. "Stefan's havin' flashbacks-"
"They aren't flashbacks if you're in them." Stefan muttered from in his cell. Eve rolled her eyes at his comment.
"And fer whatever reason, I'm in dese not flashbacks." Eve explained back to Elena. Elena stared. "I get it, it's confusin', trust me." Eve puffed out as her attention turned back to the cell door. Stefan was laying on the bed now, with his back turned. Was he pouting?
"Stefan, I know it was kind of a dick move of us to lock you up and all, but come on, there has to be some reason Eve's involved." Damon reasoned as he walked over to the cell door. Stefan remained silent. He was definitely pouting. There had to some reason she was being thrown back into the past...Maybe there was some kind of connection...Eve stared for a second before she quickly grabbed Damon's hand, turning his attention back towards her.
"I have a dought. Come with me." Eve said, as she kept his hand in hers as she started pulling him towards the stairs out of the basement.
"You kids be good." Damon sassed back to Elena and Stefan as he was dragged out of the basement. "So what's up?" Damon asked as the two walked up the stairs.
"Not here." Eve muttered as she continued to drag Damon behind her as the two walked through the boarding house and eventually to the front door. "Do ya have yer car keys?" Eve asked, finally turning around to him.
"Yeah, I was planning to go out, get some animal blood for Stefan. What's going on?" Damon asked as Eve ignored his question as she began pulling him behind her once more out the front door. "I'm silently taking bets with myself on how long you're going to drag me around before you realize you're still in your pj's." Damon muttered aloud. Eve rolled her eyes.
"Don't worry, I'm fully dressed whenever Stefan has dose flashbacks, which is why I'm pulling you." Eve muttered, ignoring the cool February air on her bare legs, arms and feet as she pulled Damon to his car. Damon pulled the keys out of his pocket and unlocked his car. Eve slightly nudged Damon to get into the driver's side as she quickly opened the passenger's side and hopped in, buckling herself in and child-locking herself. She really hadn't realized she was still in her pajamas until Damon had said something. Lucky for her, it was before the cold really seeped in. Her goosebumped arms crossed over her chest as Damon got into the driver's side.
"You gonna tell me what's going on now?" Damon asked, turning his body to better face her, but Eve shook her head.
"I need ya ta drive until ya can't hear Elena and Stefan." Eve instructed. Damon raised an eyebrow back at her before Eve rolled her eyes and nodded for him to start the car. "Just do it. I'll tell ya when ya can't hear dem, okay?" Eve grumbled as she felt herself shiver. Damon couldn't help but let out a small chuckle as he turned the car on. Eve quickly turned the heater on as Damon started driving. Damon was silent as he drove while Eve leaned near one of the air vents as it slowly started producing actual heat instead of cool air. Damon drove over the Wickery Bridge and into the outskirts of town before he pulled his car to the side of the road.
"It's quiet now. I can't even hear their breathing, and they were talking." Damon stated as he once again turned his body towards Eve. "Now, what's going on? Why did you make me drive you so far away?" Damon asked. Eve let out a sigh.
"I dink it's because I'm sired ta him." Eve said aloud. As she looked over to Damon, his eyebrows were up as if he expected her to tell him more. "Ya said yer detoxin' him, right? Maybe he's havin' dese flashbacks because of it." Eve shrugged. "It's not like I ever hung out with him when he was goin' drough however Lexi got him off de human stuff. Maybe dis is normal." Eve muttered. "I didn't want him ta hear me talk about de sire ding. And I didn't want ta go inta de 1800s while drivin' a car." Eve said as she explained herself.
"I don't think this is normal though, Evie." Damon replied. "I mean...it could be, but I've never heard of something like this."
"Aye, but how many vampires are dere like Stefan out in de world? How many have a literal nickname of 'De Ripper'?" Eve questioned. "I just...it's...I don't like it. I don't like wantin' ta tell ya what's goin' on, only to turn around and see dat it's ya but not ya." Eve sputtered out, once again becoming annoyed by the whole situation...and how powerless she felt.
"Are you saying that human me isn't your type?" Damon scoffed playfully. Eve couldn't help but roll her eyes and smile at him. "Come on. He's the perfect gentleman." Damon persuaded.
"Perfect gentleman, huh?" Eve back with her eyebrow raised. "I would dink dat a perfect gentleman wouldn't chase after de same girl his brother was eyein'." Eve joked. Eve flinched when she noticed him tense up. "Ya are far too proper fer de likes of me." Eve continued, trying to get off the subject of Katherine.
"You know, if you really had been around when I was human, I bet you could have gotten me away from her." Damon said casually. Eve glanced over at him. "I mean, all I really wanted was approval." Damon shrugged. "I think our past selves would have liked each other."
"I dink in any time, our past selves would be friends." Eve agreed. Damon smirked and shook his head slightly.
"Yeah, just...friends." Damon chuckled with a slight pause. Now Eve tensed. She wasn't any good at subtlety. If something needed to be said, why not say it outright? She would. Mostly, because it took her time to figure out the hidden meaning of words. And she hated having to think about words that could have easily just been said instead of having to deal with riddles. She hated being in the dark, even for a moment.
"I dink yer 1864 self would only be me friend." Eve laughed. "He has dis sad look on his face." Eve sassed. "Less apologizin', more obnoxious snark."
"My snark is not obnoxious!" Damon defended with an playful offensive look on his face. "It is right in between petty and hurtful at most, but obnoxious?" Damon continued, looking more offended by the second.
"Whatever ya say." Eve snickered and shook her head.
"I don't want to jinx anything, but you haven't...been in a flashback for a while." Damon said aloud. Eve glanced over at him. "Maybe Stefan has a range? Where he's alone in the flashbacks without you." Damon shrugged. Eve let out a grumble.
"Does dis mean I have ta be out of de house until he's clean?" Eve asked with a whine in her voice. Damon shrugged as he turned his car around to head back to the house.
"I would think so, but like you said, how many vampires in the world are like Stefan." Damon said. Eve let out a sigh. "Why not we just take a vacation?" Damon asked. Eve raised an eyebrow over at him. "We could go to New York or something."
"And leave Elena ta watch a blood dirsty vampire dat she's in love with and would do anythin' fer?" Eve sassed back. Damon paused before nodding.
"Good point." Damon muttered aloud. "Okay, then why not take Caroline to New York?" Damon suggested.
"I dought ya were jealous of Caroline and me friendship as it is." Eve snickered back.
"Oh, I am, but I also don't want you going anywhere alone." Damon shrugged. Eve rolled her eyes.
"And why's dat?" Eve sassed back.
"At least if you had Caroline with you, you would have to come back here." Damon said casually. "You have a tendency to run off if anything gets serious." Eve glanced over at Damon.
"I want ta see dis one drough dough." Eve sassed back making Damon shake his head. "Bein' sired is a whole new adventure." Eve muttered, turning back towards Damon only to see that she was sitting by past Damon. So there was a range for these flashbacks. And it must have been within earshot. At least, vampire earshot. Eve and Damon weren't outside anymore. Damon was in a nice suit with a white shirt and bow tie. Eve was still in the same dress she had been wearing. Stefan must have not thought out multiple dresses for Eve to wear.
"I did not know you owned any animals, Miss Branigan." Damon replied back casually. Animals? He must not know about vampires yet. Which meant he didn't know about siring. And siring was about animals.
"Of course. Not me specifically, because of de whole, ya know, bein' a woman." Eve said aloud making Damon tense up. Eve almost laughed as she looked around. It looked like a party was being thrown. Or a ball. Or whatever they called it back in 1864. "Anyway, ya look very nice." Eve smiled back to Damon who's face began to turn red.
"I-oh, you look lovely tonight as well. I-I should have said so earlier." Damon sputtered out. Eve couldn't help but snicker at this stuttering human Damon. Her Damon would take that compliment and run with it the entire night. Was this how her Damon saw her? A bumbling mess with a blush? Eve couldn't help but look back over at this human Damon. A sad look was on his face as he looked across the room. Eve looked to where he was looking to see Stefan and Katherine dancing...the Miss Mystic dance. It must have just been the Founders Dance back then...or back now.
"She's not dat interestin'." Eve said aloud as she looked back towards Damon.
"You do not even know her." Damon grumbled back bitterly. Eve rolled her eyes as she looked back over to the two dancing. If he didn't know about vampires, he didn't know her either.
"Aye, and ya do?" Eve sassed back. "Why go after someone if dey don't go after ya too?" Eve asked, looking back over to Damon. "What's de point of fightin' over a girl who isn't fightin' back?" Eve questioned. Damon looked down at the comment. Eve let out a sigh. "Alright loverboy, get yer dancin' shoes on. I'm not goin' ta sit around and let ya mope." Eve said patting his leg before grabbing his hand and standing up.
"Easy there Shakespeare, you're going to choke yourself out." Present Damon said as Eve let out a slight gag as she pushed herself against the child-locked seatbelt. "Did you just try and convince human me that Katherine sucked?" Damon asked as Eve sat back in her seat before she nodded. "Did it work?" Eve raised an eyebrow back at him.
"Ya know human ya more dan I do, what do ya dink?" Eve sassed back as Damon drove into the driveway.
"If you wore what you are now, I'm sure he would be over Katherine rather easily." Damon smirking, making Eve quickly wrap her arms around her chest once more and glare back at him.
"I doubt it, ya were a gentleman." Eve sassed back, despite the burning in her ears. Damon shrugged as he parked the car, the smirk still on his face.
"Maybe in public." Damon winked making Eve roll her eyes and unbuckle her seatbelt. "Go plan your mini-vacation. I still need to get Stefan food." Damon said, as he began shooing her from the car. Eve rolled her eyes.
"Why not just go out and hunt for it?" Eve asked as she opened her door. Damon rolled his eyes.
"You know I can't hunt anything." Damon muttered.
"Hippie."
"As if you even remember the 60's, you murderer." Damon sassed back. Eve let out a playful scoff. "Okay, get inside before you freeze to death because you were wandering around outside because of some flashback." Damon said, once more, shooing her away. Eve rolled her eyes as she closed the door and flittered inside the boarding house.
"Having fun with Damon?" Eve heard behind her as she closed the door to the house before turning around to see Elena-er, Katherine, from what the period clothes were telling her. But that meant it was Elena. And she had to be nice. "Well don't. He's mine." Katherine snapped.
"Aye, so is Stefan." Eve sassed back making Katherine glare. Eve rolled her eyes as she walked around her. The party was still going on, from what Eve could tell, as there were still a lot of people around. But now neither of the brothers were around. It would be fun to see human Stefan. But that would mean getting close to the present Stefan and opening up the cell and letting a blood thirsty vampire out. Eve turned back around to Katherine as she looked as if she was going to kill Eve in front of everyone. "Elena, can ya do me a favor?" Eve asked Katherine, who only glared with a confused look on her face. "Could ya slap me?" Eve asked. Katherine continued to stare for a second before she came over and slapped Eve.
"I'm so sorry!" Eve blinked as she looked back at Elena. "I-you told me to." Elena stuttered out, but Eve simply shook her head.
"And I dank ya fer it." Eve smiled. "Dis time at least, not last night dough." Eve continued to smile at Elena, but the tone was anything but friendly. Elena froze at the comment as her head dropped. Eve rolled her eyes. "Are ya goin' back down ta see Stefan?" Eve asked which Elena nodded to. "Good. If ya see me in a daze and goin' ta open the cell door, I'm givin' ya permission ta hit me." Eve said casually as she started making her way towards the stairs to go upstairs. She had to be quick about this whole mini-vacation. Eve didn't want to accidentally call Caroline during one of Stefan's flashbacks. As Eve got to her room, she quickly went over to her phone and text Caroline.
Eve: What are your feelings on a spontaneous trip to NYC?
Caroline: UM TOTZ IN?! Hw lng we tlking?
Eve: A week? No idea. Remember, it's spontaneous.
Caroline: OMG I am SO DOWN. When?
Eve: Today?
Caroline: ?? Wut happned?
Eve: Nothing, just kind of guilty about the whole Miss Mystic thing.
Caroline: As if bitch. Giv me sum time 2 pak. Mom busy w/police stuff. Pic me up like 1. xo
Eve felt slightly guilty as she remember that Caroline wasn't actually a grown adult and still lived with her mom. Eve would have to make it up to Liz. Then again, Liz hadn't seen Caroline get her sash either. That would be a good starter if when she came and picked up Caroline and Liz got upset. Until then, Eve was going to pack and deal with more of Stefan's flashbacks.
Eve let out an annoyed sigh. She had figured out how to get out of Stefan's flashbacks. All she had to do was lock herself in her bathroom and bedroom...multiple times. The first few times, she had just opened her bedroom door to get out, so she put herself in the bathroom. She opened both doors then. Then she locked her bedroom door and stayed in the bathroom. The bedroom door being locked woke her up a few times, but then she figured out how to unlock the door in her flashback state. Then the bathroom door was locked. Now she was on her sixth time of locking both her bathroom and bedroom doors. She was sitting in her tub. At the very least, she had been able to get dressed without going through any flashbacks. Eve almost laughed at the idea of walking around the boarding house in only her bra and undies and talking to herself.
It was going to take around 6 hours to get to New York, so Eve was comfy in a grey sweatshirt with a white daisy in the middle, skinny jeans and white heeled boots. The boots weren't much for comfort, but she was going to be driving, not walking. And with driving in mind, Eve's hair was braided into a bun so it was out of her face. And, as Caroline would call it, 'basic' makeup. The make up was so Caroline wouldn't ask if she was sick. Eve only had 30 more minutes before she was going pick up Caroline and those minutes were dragging on.
"Eve." Eve's ears perked up at the whisper of her name. "Eve, come here." The voice said and Eve was moving without her own will. Shit. Eve tried to pull her hands away from the locks of her door, but everything was in autopilot. Autocompell. Eve would have hit herself if she wasn't being forced to go down to the basement by her own shitty joke.
"Oh, hi Stefan, fancy meetin' ya here." Eve chirped as she made it to the basement and walked over to Stefan's cell. "How are ya?" Eve asked as she stood in front of the cell's door. Stefan was sitting on the bed without his suit jacket on.
"I'm having these shitty flashbacks and hunger pangs, how do you think I'm doing?" Stefan snapped back.
"Damon should be back soon with somethin' ta eat. No need ta bite me head off about it." Eve scolded back. Stefan flittered over to the cell's door making Eve flinch and almost trip back.
"It's going to be some animal." Stefan snapped loudly, glaring through the bars. "Why not just give me a little human blood? Why the full cut off?" Stefan growled aloud. He was bargaining.
"I'm not in charge of dis stuff Stef. I was asleep by de time I heard any kind of commotion." Eve defended herself. "Dis is good fer ya Stef, look at how yer actin' right now." Eve said gently.
"I'm acting like this because I'm hungry." Stefan growled lowly. "Eve, just get me some blood from the-"
"Stefan, no." Eve screamed as she cut Stefan off before he could officially compel her. Even with the raise in her voice, Stefan didn't seem phased. "Ya know what yer like on human blood. A fockin' addict. So just let dis detox ding happen." Eve snapped at him suddenly. Her arms crossed as Stefan glared at her, letting out an annoyed groan.
"You know this would be a lot easier with Lexi here." Stefan muttered lowly. Eve's shoulders slumped.
"I know, Stef, and I'm sorry dat-"
"No, you're not sorry." Stefan snapped quickly. "You don't get it. Damon is still alive. Imagine not having him around." Eve couldn't help but sigh. Not so much from being annoyed but more so from lack of words.
"Ya forget I had a brother." Eve said gently. Stefan shook his head. "Listen, Stef, I know dis may come as a surprise, but I didn't have many friends growing up." Eve sighed as she walked closer to the cell door, leaning against it. "I know brother and best friend aren't de same, but I dink dey have a similar place in de heart. And if dey're gone, it's just...empty." Eve trailed off. Eve turned to look back into the cell when she heard Stefan begin chuckling.
"It always has to come back to you, doesn't it?" Stefan asked bitterly. Eve took in a slight breath.
"Dat's-No, I didn't mean ta-"
"No, that's fine. Why not talk about all of your family while you're at it, we have a similar past, you know." Stefan snapped suddenly, beginning to pace around in his cell. "You know, we both kind of have similar pasts. We both turned by feeding on our fathers." Stefan hissed. "Both our parents were shitty. At least dad wise. Never really got to know my mom." Stefan continued.
"Stefan, I didn't mean ta make it about me. I just wanted ta-"
"No, no, no, no, no, we haven't even gotten to the part where your whole family and boyfriend is killed!" Stefan continued as his pacing became more rapid.
"Stefan, I'm sorry, I-"
"April Fools, right? Did you ever really make sure they were dead and it wasn't really a joke? I mean, it all seems so-"
"Stefan, dat's enough." Eve suddenly snapped making Stefan turn towards the cell door. "I didn't mean ta make it about me. Killin' Lexi was a shitty ding fer Damon ta do, but dat does not give ya de right ta bring up me family."
"Hey, you brought them up first." Stefan laughed bitterly. Eve stared for a second before she turned around to leave. "Oh come on, it was just a joke." Stefan sassed as Eve began walking up the stairs. "Would it help if I was covered in blood? Too bad you don't have any more family to kill. It would be a good early April Fools." Stefan continued. Eve began to flitter over to the cell, only to be quickly grabbed and pulled back.
"I'm goin' ta snap his neck, dat's it." Eve snapped without looking at who had grabbed her, glaring at Stefan through the bars of his cell.
"I know you were, that's why I stopped you." Damon muttered as he continued to hold onto Eve. "Come on, let's go upstairs, Evie." Damon said gently as he picked Eve up from the ground and turned her around and nudging her up the stairs. Eve sent one last glare to Stefan before she forced herself to go up the stairs while Damon stayed behind. "Stefan, you're a dick." Eve heard Damon mutter.
"Sorry, was I too mean to your girlfriend?" Stefan asked. Eve heard as light thump. "What is this?" Stefan asked.
"It's for you to drink." Damon sassed. "Drink it and get in a better mood." Damon muttered.
"It's been over, what, five decades since they died?" Stefan asked, making Eve tense up once more.
"I don't think that kind of hurt goes away, Stef." Damon muttered. "Just because you're detoxing, doesn't mean you have the right to be an ass. That was her family."
"I considered Lexi mine. And that's been less than a year." Stefan snapped.
"I doubt Eve even brought her up." Damon muttered again.
"Why are you always defending her." Stefan hissed.
"Because she's not here to do it herself." Damon snapped. "I told you not to bring up her family, Stef. It's a touchy subject and you aren't in your right state of mind to begin with, meaning you're going to be a dick about shit you don't know anything about." Damon growled. "Just drink your damn juice, kiddo." Damon snapped before Eve heard him walking up the stairs. Eve turned away from the basement before nearly jumping out of her skin when Damon flittered by her side. "Eavesdropping again?" Damon smirked as he nudged Eve away from the doorway to the basement.
"Bein' hostile again." Eve sassed back. Damon let out a slight chuckle.
"Anything for my queen." Damon smirked as he quickly grabbed Eve's hand and kissed the back of it. "No get going to New York."
OOPS THIS CHAPTER WAS A WEEK LATE. MY BAD. I don't know why, but I had to keep re-writing certain scenes and I just wasn't satisfied with it. I'm still not too satisfied with it, but I gotta keep moving forward because I've already started the next chapter (even when I was still working on this one because this is a filler chapter (AND IT SHOWS AND I'M SORRY)
I've also been working on some fun stuff on the side (like my timeline and a music playlist for each chapter (because I'm that extra and a piece of shit for doing that and not working on the chapter)) ALSO. Y'ALL WANT LINKS, IMMA GIVE YOU SOME LINKS. (why is there no link support-come on fanfic, ur like 3000 years old)
Eve's face
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Outfits and Shit
/not_queen_outfits/collection?id=7065568
NOW FOR SOME ONE ON ONE WITH COMMENTS.
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