For Eternity - chapter 3
His eyes found Elena at the party and he gave her a small smile. She didn't know wether to run over and hug her absent friend or drive a stake through his heart for all the shit he had put his own brother and Caroline through. Even now she still didn't think of all the crap he put her though. Stefan was standing in her living room, the music blasting in her ears and her friends all danced and enjoyed themselves. There he stood, nursing a glass of amber liquid and a smug grin on his face. In the corner stood Carline, having what seemed to be a vampire panic attack.
Damon lifted his eyes and then took a deep breath realising Elena had seen Stefan. Elena greeted a few people absently, her eyes never leaving the person who left her life all those years ago.
"I can ask him to leave." He whispered barely audible to Elena, even with her vampire ears. He nuzzled into her neck giving Stefan a clear message. Elena was his. She shook her head and gave his hand a little squeeze. Damon always knew how to reassure her, keep her safe and make her feel like she was the only thing that mattered. It was in his touches, the little glances and the way his body responded to her everything.
"I suppose I should say thank you for coming." She raised her eyebrows, gave Damon a small smile and then kissed him passionately. Sending Stefan another message. Damon was hers. Were they really doing this again, after 110 years. She walked over to Stefan and gave him a look. He knew the look. The look of a pissed off vampire. "And what do I owe this pleasure Stefan?" She looked him directly in the eye.
"You're a liar." He said with a slice of sarcasm, sipping at his drink Elena almost laughed. She could sense Damon's eyes on her and she loved he could hear everything they were about to say. "Elena the vampire, had to see it with my own eyes." He purred at her. She stepped back and presented herself to him, leaning forward and glaring at him.
"In the flesh. 100 years on. Its old news Stefan." She smiled, cocked her head and gave a little sarcastic laugh.
"Nobody told me Elena." Stefan suddenly seemed quite angry. "Not even Klaus knew you'd changed, but thats another story. Caroline never mentioned a thing. I happen to hear about your surprise party from a Bennet witch." Stefan finished his story and Elena swallowed hard, she knew one of Bonnie's grandchildren was practicing black magic, she assumed he must be talking about her. Lola, Elena recalled. She was called Lola.
Elena softened her expression and tried to let her body relax a little. The mention of Klaus made her swallow hard.
"You never came to check?" It was more of a question than a statement and Stefan looked away. She couldn't believe he honestly hadn't been back to Mystic Falls in all that time, but the look on his face didn't surprise her. He really didn't give a shit. He probably hadn't been back. He really had given her up.
"Im back now!" He pressed and looked over to his brother who was talking to Caroline now.
"You missed a lot. Everything actually." Elena seemed sad but she was right, Stefan had missed everything.
"I know." No sorry, no epic apology and begging for forgiveness. He simply acknowledged his major fuck up. "Look Elena, I came to see you and my brother, I know 100 plus years have passed and a lot has changed, but he is my brother and i've kinda missed him." Stefan finished. In all truths Damon and Stefan had spent far more time apart than together in their long lives. After turning, Stefan didn't see Damon for a very long time and then Stefan left. Elena sighed at the irony, it was like some deep brotherly connection that seemed to switch back on after 100 years and then the wheel put into motion. A few months of hating each other, then a few years of being best friends, then back to hating one another and then one of them left. And it was always about a girl. Only this time, they didn't have anything to fight over.
Elena smiled a small smile and that spread to Stefan's lips. She gave him a small hug and then pulled him back over to Damon. Caroline gave Stefan a look and then walked away and without even a hello, Damon gave them a look that Elena knew too well then walked away too.
"I deserve that." Stefan said to Elena softly as he eyed Damon's move over to speak to some other guests.
"Give him time. Give Caroline a little more." Elena bit the inside of her cheek and picked her half empty bag back up off the table where Damon had removed it from her hands. She gave it a little squeeze, drinking as she watched Stefan eyeball her. "Drink?" She asked, giving him a little smile.
"Please." He replied and didn't say anything when she handed him a bag from the machine. He emptied the contents into his now empty glass and took a sip. "You think they will talk to me sometime in the next century?" He said with a nervous laugh.
Elena wasn't so sure. She wasn't sure how Caroline felt about him now and she could sense Damon wasn't that trilled to see his brother.
"Maybe you could come for dinner tomorrow, speak to them while I haven't got a room full of people here to celebrate my death." Elena gave him a wink and a smile and he nodded in reply. "7 sharp, don't be late." She continued before walking to join Damon.
Stefan seemed to disappear and when Damon finished his conversation with one of Elena's work friends he gave a little sad smile at Elena pressing her body against his back. She wrapped her arms around his middle, letting her hands push across the soft cotton of his expensive shirt.
"I should go... change." She whispered seductively into his shoulder. "Help me?" she moaned slightly as she felt him tense under her words. He smiled and she could feel it in the way he pushed back into her. He turned and pressed the front of his body into hers, his arms finding her back and the gentle sway of movement found their feet under the pressure of the music.
"We have guests and you just said that. Do you really want to embarrass me in front of all our friends." He spoke into her neck, light brushes of his mouth against her ear. He laughed a little and pulled her closer. She knew exactly what she had done, it was pressed into her stomach. A cheeky grin spread her features and she twitched her eyebrow in response. Damon pulled her towards the bedroom, catching Caroline's expression as she sighed in defeat. Her perfect party was about to loose its star guests, at least for the next 30 mins anyways.
Elena got inside their bedroom and shut the door. Feeling Damon push her back into the door her head tilted back giving him perfect access to her neck and collar bone. He devoured her, giving wet kissed up her jaw, over her chin and up onto her mouth. This kiss was passionate like all the rest he ever gave her. Filled with love and oozing with desire.
"I cant believe you invited him for dinner." Damon groaned between kisses. Why they even came up for air still baffled him, but it somehow made the kisses more desperate, needed, human. He was smiling into her mouth now and he knew he couldnt keep up the act of being completely against the idea of Stefan coming back into their lives. He was his brother after all.
"You cant avoid him forever." Kisses down her neck, groaning and wandering hands. The zipper of her black dress sliding down over her back. "Lets invite Caroline." Elena breathed as her dress hit the floor and Damon gripped her ass with one hand while the other trailed paths up her back and into cup her neck. He moaned in response and she chuckled. "Its the least I can do since she obviously planned this whole party." Elena smiled and Damon jumped back. He tried to look serious.
"She didn't help me!" He said crossing his arms over his chest, smirk forced behind tight lips. Elena raised her eyebrows and cocked her head. "Ok, maybe a little." Damon raised his hand and made the gesture with his index and thumb. Elena pushed her fingers into his hand and pulled him close for another kiss. Their fingers intertwined as her back hit the wall again and her leg hitched at Damon's hand pulling at her thigh.
"More like a lot." Elena croaked as Damon pulled aside her underwear and dipped a finger into her moist folds. He let them slide between the soft flesh before finding her core and pushing in to make Elena moan like a school girl. She pulled at his shirt collar, holding on while his fingers pumped inside her and cautiously brushed over her clit. She felt like she was burning. Damon wasted no time in unzipping his trousers and pulling down his silk boxers and entering her without removing his finger. She gasped but pushed herself onto him more. His thumb worked furiously at her clit and she felt the familiar feeling of an explosion wash over her. She thrashed against him as he continued to fuck her, his hand working everything she had. She held her breath and bit her lip. Stars exploded behind her tightly closed eyes and she finally let out a stifled moan as she came quick, hard and fast.
Damon continued to fuck her, kissing her neck and jaw as she rode out her orgasm. He removed his hand and used it to steady himself against the wall. Her other leg curled around his waist and locked behind his back as he took her hard. She was panting now and Damon moaning into her ear. The soft cotton of his shirt tickling her lower stomach as he finally topped over the edge and filled her with his sex. She let out a little cry with his last thrust and smiled into his kiss.
"I love you Damon Salvatore." She kissed his nose as he removed himself from the comfort of her warmth.
"As i do you Elena Gilbert." He smiled and she pouted when he used the word Gilbert, she always saw herself as Damon's wife, but that had never happened. "One day hunny, one day." He knew exactly how to read her and he would make her his wife one of these centuries. He gave her a little kiss on the forehead and a gentle smack on her backside before sorting himself out and getting re-dressed.
Elena smiled and picked out a flowing knee length dress, navy blue with little white flowers around the skirt, simple, elegant and perfect for the occasion. Damon helped her with the zip before pulling her round again and laying a kiss on her cheek. He offered her his hand and she accepted as they left the bedroom and back to the party. Caroline looked disgusted, shame vampire hearing couldn't be switched off if you had no intention of stopping listening. Elena giggled to herself and then pulled Damon into the room for a dance on this; her death day.