#damon slavatore fanfiction

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Keeping Secrets Ch. 30

Keeping Secrets Masterlist

Pairings: Damon x Oc, Tyler x Oc for a hot minute, Elijah x Oc for a hotter minute, Klaus x Oc endgame. Warning: Mental and physical abuse in some chapters.

Over the next week Katie didn’t talk to any of her friends. She simply went to school, came home, did her homework and had a blood bag while getting caught up on one of her favorite tv shows, Supernatural.

Even though she didn’t feel like going, after school Friday Katie went shopping and managed to find a suitable dress for the homecoming dance. With the clear plastic covered dress and a paper shopping bag containing jewelry and shoes in her hands she opened her front door. The things in her hands went flying when her eyes landed on Klaus sitting on her living room couch. “Did I frighten you, love?” he asked as he stood up and picked her dress up off the floor.

“You think?” she asked sarcastically as she kneeled down, and picked up the empty shoe box. “What are you doing here?” she picked up the closed toe black heels by the ankle straps and set them back in the box.

“I’ve come to accompany you to your homecoming dance.” He answered.

She stood up, looking at him like he was crazy. “You run off and leave your sister behind with no explanation then show up out of nowhere and assume that I want anything to do with you?” she asked as she put her things on the back of the couch. “I’ll ask again. What are you doing here?”

Klaus looked at her with suspicious eyes. “Either you are a really good actress or you have no idea what your friends are planning.”

“Both” she answered then let her eyes fall to her hand that rested on the back of the couch. “My friends no longer trust me so if they are plotting against you…I know nothing about it. Since I have nothing to offer…you can see yourself out. I have a dance to get ready for.” She headed toward the stairs against the wall to the right of the entryway, but he sped in front of her stopping her. She heaved out an aggravated breath and put her hands on her hips as she glared up at him.

“You wanted to know how to sway me?” he asked and she gave him a nod. “You know your friends better than I. You will be able to sense if something is off with them. Stefan and Rebekah have both assured me that Mikael has been daggered. I do not believe it. So stand with me tonight, help me insure that my father is dead and his dagger destroyed and I will let you watch me pull the dagger out of Elijah. Yours will be the first face he sees when he opens his eyes.”

She chewed on the inside of her lip and looked at the floor in thought. She knew that if she did this, everyone she was close to would have nothing to do with her, but she’d already lost them. Her mother had told her to make up with them, but she had meant it when she told her mother she didn’t think she could. “Okay.” She looked up at him feeling sick to her stomach with nerves. “I’ll be your date.” She wrinkled her nose at the words that left her mouth.

“Then you should probably start getting dressed.” He told her with a look at the clock in the room. She grabbed her dress and bags and headed up the stairs. “Wait.” She stopped and looked over the hand rail at him. “Cell phone, please. I don’t want you giving your friends a heads up.” He held his hand out for her phone so she took it out of her pocket and dropped it over the rail into his outstretched hand.

An hour later she walked down the stairs, her blond and red hair pinned in a messy, but pretty updo. A plain black choker was around her neck and paired nicely with the one shoulder white dress. Black lace covered the shoulder strap on her left shoulder, swooped across the bodice, wrapped almost completely around the waist then tapered off along the left side of the short tulle skirt. Classic closed toe back heels with a strap around the ankle finished off the look. “Well don’t you clean up nicely?” Klaus asked from the bottom of the stairs where she met him.

“It’s my last homecoming dance.” She answered and when he held out his suit jacket covered arm she walked past him.

“I’ve commandeered your homecoming dance. The gym randomly flooded so Tyler graciously offered to move the dance to his house. It is now a wake for my father.” He told her with a smirk then opened the front door and jerked his head for her to walk out.

“Is there anything else you want to tell me?” she asked as she walked out then waited for him to close her door.

“Not at the moment, no.” he answered as he pulled the door shut then held his arm out for her again and once again she walked past him and down the steps. Her heels clacked against the cement walkway as she headed to her car.

“You know you can touch me. I won’t bite.” He told her as he walked around to the passenger side and opened the door.

“Yeah,” she scoffed as she slid into the driver’s seat and shut the door, “You’ll understand if I don’t believe you.” Klaus just smirked at her.

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When Katie parked outside the Lockwood’s house lights and music were coming from the back yard and when they went inside the house she saw several kegs and coolers sitting around. They passed a beer pong table as they headed to the back yard where the band was practicing. “Should I be worried at how good you are at throwing high school parties?” she asked with a look over at him from where they stood on the back steps that led down to where a dance floor had been set up.

He smirked. “I’m no stranger to throwing lavish parties. I simply modified the age group a bit.” He told her then pulled her phone out of his jacket pocket and looked to see if she had any messages. “I see you finally changed your background and not one of your friends has messaged you. Including my sister whose number I see is in your contacts.”

“We’re on the cheer team together.” Katie replied, deciding that it would be best if he didn’t know she and Rebekah were friends.

“Oh, look, the photo trash folder. Wonder what could be in here?” he asked with a devious look at her.

Her eyes went wide when she remembered she never deleted the naughty photos she had sent to Damon. “Do not look in there!” She jumped and tried to grab the phone from him but he easily dodged her and opened the folder filling the screen with pictures of her in different poses, only wearing lingerie. “Klaus!”

“Bloody hell, love, are you secretly a lingerie model?” he asked with a cheeky smile and wide eyes. Pissed, she knocked him to his knees, taking him off guard enough that she was able to grab her phone from his hand. “You will give me that back.” he told her with a glare.

“Yeah, I will, as soon as I clear out all the pictures I don’t want you to see.” She told him, not looking up from the screen she was tapping on. When she was done she tossed him the phone back.

He turned the screen on to see that it was now password protected. He turned it off and tucked it onto his pocket. “Your classmates are starting to arrive.” As he said this, the band started really playing instead of practicing and random people came out of nowhere and started dancing.

“Who are all these people?” she asked, not recognizing a single one of them.

“My hybrids.” He answered as he turned to her. “When your classmates start showing up do me a favor. Pretend to be enjoying yourself and stick to my side like glue.” He told her so she nodded. “And smile.” He told her with a smile of his own in a voice that was meant to pep her up. “You look like your dog just died.” She pulled her lips back in an awkward smile. “Now you just look constipated.” He complained with an eye roll and she stopped. “Make it believable.”

“I’m at a party with you because I’m stupidly trusting you to stick to your word and not stab me in the back with the dagger you may or may not pull out of Elijah.” She told him with a glare. “I will pep up when the time comes. Until then I’m not going to waste my energy.” She replied.

“You think I will not keep my promise to you?” he asked with a tone that suggested he was hurt, but she didn’t believe it.

“Your reputation isn’t the greatest.” She answered with a cold tone.

He stepped up to her and grabbed her chin gently with his long nimble fingers. “Trust me when I say I will bring you to Elijah as soon as I see my father’s corpse.”

She glared at him, her eyes meeting his blues as she grabbed his wrist and took his hand from her face. “I’ll trust you when you earn it.”

As soon as everyone was at the party Klaus held his arm out to her. So she hooked hers through it and walked up on stage as the band stopped playing and the crowd cheered and clapped. The vanilla scent of the smoke machine that sat on the stage filled her nose as they walked over to the microphone and Klaus dropped his arm and placed his hand on her lower back. “Good evening everyone!” he greeted the crowd that cheered again. “I want to thank you all for being here with me to celebrate. It’s been a long time coming.”

As they walked down off the stage Katie looked over at him then his arm that was still on her lower back. “What the hell am I supposed to tell people if they ask me why I’m here with you?”

“I don’t know.” He told her as they walked through the crowd and when she noticed her classmates looking at her and Klaus she smiled at them as if nothing at all was wrong in her life when in actuality she was screaming on the inside.

“Klaus.” Stefan said as they walked over to him. “Quite the homecoming.” He chose to completely ignore Katie who stood next to Klaus with her arm looped through his and a look on her face that let everyone believe she was enjoying herself.

“I’ve been planning my father’s funeral for 1,000 years.” Klaus replied. “Granted, in no version of it were any of these people invited. But you get the idea.”

“So what now? You just stop running?” Stefan asked.

“Now I reunite my family.” Klaus told him then glanced down at Katie.

Stefan finally looked at her with his usual brooding expression then back at Klaus. “Your family. You mean, the people you cart around in caskets?”

“None of that matters anymore.” Klaus looked away from Katie to Stefan. “Mikael’s gone. Bygones will be bygones and Elijah will be happy I kept his woman happy and safe.” he looked back down at Katie who made herself give him a closed lipped smile.

“So that’s what this is about?” Stefan asked, moving his finger between the two of them. “Taking care of your brother's girl while he lies in a casket with a dagger in his chest that you placed there?”

“It’s really no different than Damon and Elena.” Katie spoke for the first since the party started. “The only difference is there is absolutely zero chance of me falling for him.” Katie said with a jerk of her head at Klaus.

“Really great party.” The homecoming queen said as she walked by them, her pretty crown atop her head. “I really like the band.”

Klaus smiled at her smugly. “Seems the homecoming queen still walks among the living, which leaves me to believe Rebekah isn’t here. Where is she?” he asked Stefan.

“I have no idea. I thought she was coming with Matt.” Stefan answered making Katie look around to see Matt standing with Elena. Katie’s eyes also spotted Caroline chatting with people while getting a refill of beer from the keg.

“Oh, be honest now, Stefan.” Klaus told him knowing Stefan couldn’t lie to him since he had been compelled to tell the truth. “Where’s my sister?”

“I said…I have no idea.” Stefan answered again and a tense second passed between the three of them.

“Well, it wouldn’t be a party without the guest of honor, would it?” Klaus asked with a smug smile. “Bring him to me.”

Stefan looked off in the distance in thought for a second. “Alright. Perhaps there’s something in it for me?” Klaus and Katie both looked at him curiously. “My freedom from your compulsion.”

“Oh, you want your freedom?” Klaus asked with a tilt of his head. “Well once he’s dead and his weapon destroyed, you’ll have your freedom. It would be my pleasure to give it back to you.” Stefan gave them a tight lipped smile as he walked away.

“Klaus.” Katie said, getting his attention. “Stefan was telling the truth, Rebekah was supposed to come with Matt, but he’s here with Elena. Elena should be here with Damon. He never says no to a party so there has to be a reason he’s not here.” Klaus looked at Elena and Matt who were both drinking beer out of glass bottles. “And by the way…you’re keeping me safe and happy?” she asked with raised brows. “You couldn’t come up with a more believable lie?”

“Who said it was a lie?” he asked with a smirk.

Katie gave him a challenging look. “You wanna make me happy?”

“All in due time, Love.” He told the impatient Katie.

“I need more beer.” She sighed so Klaus walked them over to one of the igloo coolers, lifted the lid then motioned for her to pick her poison. She didn’t even look. She just grabbed the cold bottle, popped the cap off and chunked it aside as Tyler walked over to them. Klaus grabbed a beer of his own and shut the lid of the cooler.

“My mom would seriously freak if she saw all these people here.” Tyler said with a look out at the dance floor packed with people like tuna in a can.

Klaus smiled as he looked at his handy work. “You’re mother won’t be a problem. I’ve compelled her to go to church and pray for your friends.”

Tyler laughed. “What are you talking about?”

Klaus let go of Katie’s arm and walked around to stand in front of Tyler. “I want you to look around. There’s Bonnie.” He pointed over Tyler’s shoulder to Bonnie who was talking to a guy. “There’s Elena and Matt.” He pointed to Elena who took a drink from a beer then handed it to Matt. “And there’s your pretty little girlfriend Caroline.” He pointed to Caroline talking to the group of cheerleaders. “Their big dance was wrecked tonight and who came through with a party?” Tyler looked back at Klaus. “You did. What a pal. But who are all these other people?” Klaus asked with a point over his shoulder.

Tyler looked around with creased brows. “I…have no idea. I’ve never seen half these people in my life.”

“Well, that’s because I invited a few dozen friends of my own.” Klaus answered then started pointing out his people in the crowd.

“Hold on, are those people all hybrids?” Tyler asked with a frown.

“Well, they also love a good party.” Klaus said as he took a step closer to Tyler. “And they, like you, are sired by me. They wish to serve their master. So if anyone should so much as make a move against me, they may feel obligated to retaliate.” Klaus’ serious face turned into a smile as he backed away from Tyler. “Feel free to warn your friends.”

“I assumed that he assumed you’d sired more hybrids as soon as you got Elena’s blood donation and skipped town.” Katie said as she watched Tyler go into the house like a man on a mission.

“That is because you are smart.” Klaus said as they started walking around. “And thanks to my brother you probably know me better than anyone else here tonight.” He smiled down at her and she shifted her gaze elsewhere. When they walked past Elena, Klaus stopped. “Where’s your date?”

“Getting me a drink.” Elena answered stiffly.

Klaus held the beer in his hand out to her and she gave him a look that said, ‘seriously?’

“Seems I have you to thank for Mikael’s demise.” Klaus told her.

“He came at me. I didn’t have a choice.” Elena once again answered stiffly.

“Still I’m impressed. It’s not easy for a human to dagger an original.” Klaus said and Katie rolled her eyes and took a big drink of the beer in her hand.

“It wasn’t my first time.” Elena told him with a sneer.

“Right. Elijah. I’m sure that won a lot of points in her book.” He said with a jerk of his head to Katie then looked around at the crowd. As he did Elena looked around as if she was expecting someone to jump out at her. “You seem nervous.”

“I’m not nervous. I just don’t like you.” Elena told him with an attitude.

“Right. I’ll just get straight to the point then shall I love?” he asked then leaned in closer to her. “People have been after me for 1,000 years. And I am always one step ahead. So whatever it is you’re thinking of trying, go for it. Give it your best shot. You won’t succeed.”

“It won’t be for a lack of trying.” Elena answered with a bit of a head sway and a glare and tried to walk off, but Klaus let go of Katie and stopped her.

“Now, you’d be smart to tell Damon to mind his manners tonight. ‘Cause if I die, I’ve already insured that he’ll die along with me.” Kaite’s heart stopped at his words. “Even in death, my hybrids have their orders. So, you kill me you’re killing him too.”

“What?” Katie asked with wide eyes.

“All the more reason for everyone to cooperate.” He told her with a smirk as her shock turned to a glare.

Elena walked away while she had the chance. “Can we do something more fun than just walking around please?” she asked just wanting to find ways to get the night over with.

“What do you suggest?” he asked.

“We can go kick some stupid jock’s ass at beer pong.” She suggested and he actually took her up on it.

As they were playing the guy she had drank from at the bonfire walked up. “Hey, Katie.” He greeted getting a little too in her personal space.

“Hey…you.” she told him as she took a step away from him.

“Oh, don’t pretend like you don’t know my name. We did make out the other night after all.” He said with a shitty attempt at being flirty, catching Klaus’ attention and he gave her a look that seemed to ask, you and this guy?

She looked at him and whispered, “I really need to work on my compulsion.” Then looked back at the guy. “I’m pretty sure I told you that’s never going to happen again.”

“Yeah but-” he started.

“Is this guy bothering you?” Klaus asked as he stepped up beside her and draped his arm over her shoulders.

“Who the hell are you?” the guy asked with a challenging attitude.

Katie breathed in a hiss between her teeth. “That was not the road you should’ve taken.” She cut her eyes up at Klaus. “Don’t kill him, please.”

“I’m her date.” Klaus answered then grabbed the guy up by his dress shirt and looked him in the eyes. “And it would be wise of you to remember, when a woman says it’s never going to happen again…You should stop pursuing her.” he threw the guy away and he fell to the floor on his butt knocking down a tower of beer empty beer cans that someone had made.

The guy was standing back up when Mindy, one of Klaus’ hybrids, came over to them. “You have a visitor.”

“Well, tell my visitor I’m on the brink of victory here.” He told her with the white ping pong ball in his hand.

“He said his name was Mikael.” She told him with a sway of her head.

Klaus sighed and tossed the ball into the rinse cup. “Then we mustn’t keep him waiting.” He told her as he dropped his hand from Katie’s lower back. “Move everyone out back. I’m going to have a little chat with my dad.”

Mindy started moving everyone out of the house and to the back yard as Katie and Klaus headed to the front door. An older man stood on the other side of the threshold. “Hello, Niklaus.” He greeted him ignoring Katie who stood not far behind and to the side of him.

“Hello, Mikael. Won’t you come in?” He asked. “Oh, that’s right. I forgot. You can’t.”

“Or you can come outside if you want.” Mikael replied.

“Or I can watch my hybrids tear you limb from limb.” Klaus retorted as his hybrids gathered on the front lawn behind Mikael.

“They can’t kill me.” Mikael pointed out.

“True, but it’ll make a hell of a party game.” Klaus said with a smug smile. “All I have to do is rub these two fingers together,” he held up his right hand, his thumb and middle finger centimeters apart, “and they’ll pounce.” He touched the fingers together.

“The big…bad…wolf.” Mikael said and Klaus dropped his hand. “You haven’t changed. Still hiding behind your playthings like a coward.” Katie frowned at the guy who called himself Klaus’ father. “Though you forget, they may be sired by you, but they’re still part vampire and they can be compelled by me.” As he said this Mindy walked over to stand beside Mikael and pulled Elena into view. Katie looked at Elena with glaring eyes. “Come out and face me, Niklaus, or she dies.” He grabbed Elena from Mindy by her arm.

“Go ahead, kill her.” Klaus told him and Katie looked between him and Mikael then to Elena.

“No, Klaus, he’ll do it.” something about the way Elena was acting didn’t sit well with her, especially when Elena didn’t look at her for help.

“If she dies, this lot will be the last of your abominations.” Mikael told him with a jerk of his head to the hybrids that still stood in the front yard.

“I don’t need them. I just need to be rid of you.” Klaus told him with his fists clenched at his sides.

“To what end, Niklaus?” Mikael asked. “So you can live forever with no one at your side?” Katie glared at Mikael. She understood what kind of person Klaus could be, but if this hateful man is the one who raised Klaus…Then it’s no wonder Klaus turned out the way he is. Elijah had told her how abusive and hard Mikael was on his children, especially Niklaus. After everything she had been through, two rounds of shitty parents and a shitty grandfather, she had grown a special hatred of men like Mikael. “Nobody cares about you anymore, Boy!”

The way he called Klaus boy caused something in her to snap. “Not true.” she stepped up to the door to stand beside Klaus. “I do.”

Mikael finally acknowledged her. “He killed you and yet you stand with him.”

“You’re an abusive piece of shit and a pathetic excuse of a father.” Katie answered with a glare, hatred dancing in her eyes. “If standing against men like you puts me on his side then I am perfectly okay with that.”

Klaus put his hand on Katie’s lower back. “I’m calling your bluff father. Kill her.”

Katie noticed that Klaus’ words should have affected Elena more than they did, she had been listening to Elena’s heart and it had remained fast, but steady. “Come outside and face me, you little coward, and I won’t have to.”

“My whole life you’ve underestimated me.” Klaus said and as Katie moved her eyes from Mikael and Elena to Klaus she saw just how much Mikael was affecting him. He looked to be on the verge of tears. “If you kill her, you lose your leverage. So go ahead. Go on, kill her.” Mikael just looked at Klaus with a slight shake of his head. “Come on, old man. Kill her. Kill her!” Klaus yelled and Katie looked up at him to see a tear slip down his cheek.

Mikael started chuckling. “Your impulse, Niklaus. It has and will forever be the one thing keeping you from truly being great.” Klaus and Mikael looked at eachother with fixed stares for a second before Mikael stabbed Elena in the back making her let out odd sounding groans of pain before she fell to the ground.

Mikael laughed at Klaus’ look of shock, but Katie trained her ears on Elena to hear her heart still beating strong. “Klaus.” Katie said to get his attention, but at the same time Damon whooshed in from behind them and stabbed Klaus in the gut with an extravagantly carved, old stake. Klaus yelled out in pain. “Klaus!” she yelled as Damon body slammed him on the floor.

She heard Mikael say, “Katherine.” Before Katherine tossed vervain grenades out at the hybrids.

Damon pulled the stake out of Klaus. Katie was making a move to tackle Damon off of Klaus when Stefan came from behind her and beat her to it. Seeing the stake lying on the floor next to Klaus she whooshed over, grabbed it, put it in Klaus’ hand and closed his fingers around it then jerked her head to his distracted dad. Klaus gave her a nod then whooshed at his father as he turned around. He tackled him, stabbing him in the heart as he did. Mikael cried out as Klaus stood up and the stake burst into flames catching Mikael on fire too.

“What the hell did you two do?” Damon asked while Stefan held him down.

“He’s earned his freedom.” Klaus answered then looked at Katie. “She earned my brother.” Stefan stood up and moved to stand across from Klaus. They looked each other in the eyes. “Thank you, my friend. You no longer have to do as I say. You’re free.”

Stefan blinked then looked down to see that Damon was gone then whooshed away. Klaus walked out into the yard and told his hybrids to clear everyone out, the party was over. Still processing everything that just happened, Katie walked into the parlor/living room and sat down on the pretty white couch, leaning forward with her chin resting on her hands that were folded into a fist. Soon, Klaus came in and sat down on the couch across from her. “Thank you.”

“For what? I didn’t do anything you asked me to. I figured out too late that Elena was really Katherine and I should have known that if Damon wasn’t here with her and that he would probably be off doing something sneaky like he did. I completely flopped as a wing woman.” She told him, looking down at the fancy area rug.

“Mikael is dead because you put that stake in my hand.” He argued.

She shook her head no. “You still would have picked up that stake and killed him. I just saved you a few seconds.” She shrugged.

“Then I am thanking you for standing with me when you didn’t have to.” He told her and she looked up at him. “Why did you?”

“Because you and I have something in common.” She answered with a solemn face.

“Pathetic, piece of shit fathers.” He told her with a bit of a smirk.

“Yep.” She answered with a nod. “I hate seeing people’s parents bully them, possibly even more than I hate you.”

“You claimed to care about me.” He said with a point at her.

“I do in a really screwed up, roundabout way. Rebekah too. You’re my soul-mate’s family and despite the…many problems you all have with each other, I know how much family means to you all.” she told him with a shrug. “And after tonight…I have no one.”

Klaus stood up and held his hand out for hers. She took it and stood up. When he stepped closer to her and placed his hand on her arm she thought he was going to try to kiss her. Relief spread through her when he placed a soft kiss to her cheek. “Go home. Get some beauty sleep. You’ll want to look pretty when I take you to wake up Elijah in the morning.”

The thought of getting to see Elijah again brought a bright smile to her face. “See you tomorrow.”

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The next morning Klaus picked her up and brought her to the lot where the van that held the coffins containing his family was. “Rebekah where are you?” Klaus said to Rebekah’s voice mail as they walked through the parking lot. “Pick up the phone, darling. Daddy’s dead. It’s time for a family reunion.” Klaus hung up then answered an incoming call. “Stefan. Miss me already?”

“I’m just calling to thank you for my freedom.” Stefan said as they walked by truck after truck.

“I like to believe I’m a man of my word. More or less.” Klaus replied cockily.

“The thing is, it came at too high of a price.” Stefan told him and both Katie and Klaus frowned. “You took everything from me, Klaus.”

“Let bygones be bygones. Trust me, resentment gets old.” Klaus told him as he stopped at the back of a truck and grabbed the latch of the back.

“You know what never gets old?” Stefan asked as Klaus unlatched the back and pushed it up. “Revenge.” The back of the truck was empty making Katie’s heart sink to the pit of her stomach.

“No.” Klaus practically growled into the phone as Katie placed her hand on her stomach.

“What’s the matter, Klaus? Missing something?” Stefan asked smugly.

“What are you doing?” Klaus asked, walking away from the truck that Katie was leaning on. “Other than breaking Katie’s heart?”

“I’m just enjoying my freedom. Her broken heart is a small price to pay.” Stefan answered as Katie’s disappointment turned to anger and she felt the blood rush to her eyes and fangs in her mouth.

“I will kill you and everyone you’ve ever met.” Klaus threatened.

“You do that and you’ll never see your family again.” Stefan said as Klaus turned and looked at Katie. “I wonder, Klaus. As someone who’s been one step ahead for 1,000 years. Were you prepared for this?”

Klaus glared at no one in particular as he took the phone from his ear and hung up. After a few seconds he turned to Katie and saw her face. “If you don’t kill him, I will.” She told him as she closed her eyes pushed back the blood and fangs.

“I know, love.” He told her as he slid his hand over her face. Too made to be touched she knocked his hand away. “We will get them back.”

“We aren’t doing a damn thing.” she told him with a fire in her eyes like he had never seen. If he had to guess, Stefan was going to pay dearly for what he had done. She whooshed away.

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Katie saw Elena and Damon in the parlor so she whooshed in, grabbed Damon by the neck and pinned him to the wall next to the fireplace. “Where is Stefan?” she asked, more furious than either of them had ever seen her.

“I don’t know.” Damon rasped.

“What is wrong with you, put him down!” Elena yelled at her, worry was clear in her voice.

It didn’t even faze Katie. “Were you in on it?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Damon rasped, his hands on her wrist.

“Katie let him go!” Elena yelled at her again.

Katie turned to her showing Elena the blood that had flooded to her eyes. “If you know what is good for you, you will shut your fucking mouth.” She looked back at Damon. “Stefan took him. He took Elijah.” An angry tear slipped down her cheek.

“We had nothing to do with it. I promise. I wouldn’t do that to you.” Damon told her and the honesty in his eyes made her drop him.

As soon as she did he tackled her face down on the ornate rug with her hands held behind her back. Over the few seconds it took Elena to get a syringe of vervain all anger faded and tears silently slipped down her cheeks. Damon stabbed her in the neck with the syringe and she slowly slipped off to sleep.

When she came to she was lying across Damon’s bed, him leaning back against the headboard with his legs draped over hers. “You wanna have a rational conversation or are you going to attack me again?”

“I’m sorry.” She said as she pulled herself up to sit cross legged in the middle of the bed.

“I know you are.” Damon answered. “I of all people know how much Elijah means to you.” Katie pulled her knees up and hugged them. “So what kind of deal did you make with Klaus?”

She rested her chin on her arms. “If I helped him kill Mikael he’d give me Elijah. He was going to…he brought me to the truck that their coffins were stored in. That’s when we learned that Stefan took them to get back at him for everything Klaus had taken from him. According to Stefan my broken heart was a small price to pay for the satisfaction of revenge.” She wiped at her wet face with her hands.

“His humanity is off. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself.” Damon told her with a face that told her she was supposed to already know that. “What did you think would happen when you got him back?” Damon asked.

“I didn’t think that far ahead.” She answered as she slid off the bed. She started for his bedroom door but he zipped over blocking the door. “What are you going to do, keep me prisoner in your room from now on?”

“Nope. I just want you to promise me that you won’t make any more deals with Klaus.” He told her with a determined look.

“I’m done making promises to you that I can keep. So either vervain me again and put me out of my misery or let me go.” Damon stepped out of the way and watched her walk out of the door.

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The next day Katie was sitting at the grill having lunch at a far corner table listening to Damon and Elena play darts and talk about how Jeremy was backsliding when Klaus came in. “I’m surprised you stuck around town long enough for happy hour.” Damon told Klaus while Elena stood safely behind him.

“My sister seems to be missing. I need to sort that out.” Klaus told him.

“Cute, blonde bombshell, psycho?” Damon asked. “Shouldn’t be too hard to find.”

Klaus took a few steps closer to Damon. “Truth is, I’ve grown to rather like your little town. I’m thinking I might fancy a home here.” Klaus took a dart out of Damon’s hand. “I imagine you’re wondering how this affects you. The answer is not in the slightest.” He turned to the dart board, putting his back to Damon and Elena. “As long as I get what I want and everyone behaves themselves, you can go on living your little lives however you choose.” He turned and looked over his shoulder at Elena and Damon. “You have my word.”

“What more could you possibly want?” Elena asked.

“Well, for starters, you can tell me where I might find Stefan.” Klaus told her as he walked over to her and leaned down at her.

“Stefan skipped town the second he saved your ass.” Damon answered.

“Well, you see, that is a shame.” Klaus said as he turned to the dartboard. He threw a dart landing it deep in the bull’s eye. “You’re brother stole from me. I need him found so I can take back what’s mine.”

“That sounds like a Klaus, Stefan and Katie problem.” Elena replied.

Klaus walked over to Elena but Damon stepped in the way. Katie scoffed and shook her head making Klaus’ eyes find her where she sat in the corner of the room, unseen by Damon or Elena. He turned his eyes back to Elena. “Well, this is me broadening the scope, Sweetheart.” He told her, making her frown. Klaus headed over to the bar and grabbed a beer then walked over to Katie, making Damon and Elena realize for the first time that she was even there. “Hello, love.” He slid into the corner booth to sit across from her and she ignored him, keeping her eyes on the book sitting in front of her. “Have you heard from my sister?” he asked.

Instead of answering him with words, knowing that Damon and Elena were listening, she closed her book and pulled out her journal and a pen. He watched her write, “If Damon and Elena have her she’ll most likely be in a cell in their basement.” in the book and turned it to him as she stood from the booth and took a final drink of her lemon water. When he was done reading it he looked up at her with a smirk. She grabbed her journal, book and pen and shoved them into her messenger bag.

She started to walk off but he grabbed her wrist stopping her. “Don’t ignore me, love. Answer the question.”

She understood what he was doing, keeping Damon and Elena from knowing that she had given him a secret message. “The last time I saw her was at school yesterday.” She told him and he let go of her wrist and let her walk away.

She was cleaning the kitchen out of the need to do something to keep her mind off things when she got a message from Klaus asking her to meet him at an old house. Against her best judgment and because she was going insane with boredom she met him. “I see you’re renovating.” Katie said as she walked into the old house seeing Klaus standing in the middle of the entryway waiting for her. “You weren’t kidding when you said you were thinking about getting a home here.”

“Come.” He told her with a jerk of his head. “I want to show you something.” She followed him to a run down and falling apart bedroom that had been cleared of old furniture and he motioned for her to go inside. “I’d be careful on that floor, it's a bit weak in spots.”

“Why are you showing me a bedroom?” she asked as she walked over to the fireplace in the room and kicked at some ashes that had been left behind.

“Because when it’s ready and I have gotten my family back this room will be yours. You can share it with Elijah or make him get a room of his own. The choice is yours.” he told her from where he stood in the doorway with his hands behind his back.

“You want me to come live with you and your family?” she asked with raised brows and he gave her a smirk. “How do you know the rest of your family would even want me living here with all of you?”

“You’ve grown on me. Elijah fancies you and I have the sneaking suspicion that you have even gotten on Rebekah’s good side. I’m sure Kol and Finn will be no problem.” he told her as he walked into the room, being careful with his steps.

Katie carefully walked over to the window in the room and looked at the broken glass panes. “I don’t understand you.”

“What do you mean?” he asked as he walked to stand behind her.

She turned and looked at him. “You’ve had no problem killing Elijah’s lovers in the past, including me. You have the worst reputation out of all of your siblings. You’re ruthless, hateful and from what I can tell angry at the world. So why are you being so nice to me? And don’t give me that bullshit about keeping me safe and happy for Elijah’s sake.”

He smirked at her and looked down at the rotten floor. “You are everything Elijah said you were and more.” He looked up at her with a smirk. “You’re beautiful, strong and full of fire, I admire you.”

“You admire me?” Katie asked with a disbelieving look. “There is nothing admirable about me.”

“I beg to differ.” He told her with a tilt of his head, looking down his nose at her. “You stood up to a 1000 year old vampire because you couldn’t stand knowing that he abused people you care about.”

“Yet I could never stand up to my own abusers.” She said as her eyes dropped to the floor. “I’m not strong and I’m not admirable. I’m a coward.” She told him and walked around him, not watching where she stepped and her foot went through the floor. Rotten wood scraped up her leg and a yelp left her mouth as her left leg went completely through the floor and into the basement below. Klaus walked around her and grabbed her forearms. She grabbed his and he lifted her up, being careful not to scrape her leg even more on its way back through the floor.

She looked down at her leg as the deep scrapes healed leaving behind spots of blood. “Are you alright, Love?” He asked her, making her realize that they were still holding onto each other.

She let go of him and backed away. “Yeah, is there working water in this dump?”

“Yes and it won’t be a dump for long.” He told her as he jerked his head for her to follow him. He led her to the kitchen and motioned to the sink. “The construction crews will return tomorrow. Do you have any requests for your room?” he asked as he leaned his hip against the old island in the kitchen.

Katie tested the structural integrity of the counter near the sink to find it sound. “Antique white furnishings and a canopy bed and a white plush rug.” Katie answered just throwing a theme out at him as she hopped up on the counter and stretched her leg out over the sink, “Seriously though, I like living alone. Living in a house full of vampires that can hear everything each other say even behind closed doors doesn’t sound fun. I like my privacy.”

Klaus watched as she turned the water on and started washing the blood off of her long smooth leg that was scantily covered by her short denim shorts. “Are you afraid we will hear you making love to Elijah?” he asked and she cut her eyes over at him then looked back down at her leg in the sink as she washed the last of the blood off. “Because I can assure you it’s nothing we haven’t heard before.”

Katie turned and dangled her legs off the side of the counter. “So is showing me my room the only reason you invited me over here?” she asked looking over at him, taking in the thin green shirt that he wore a black leather jacket over, a beaded necklace hung around his neck, tucked into the shirt.

“No.” he answered and jerked his head for her to follow him so she hopped down off the bar and followed him to a room that was currently under construction. Rebekah was lying on a table in the middle of the room. “Elena turned Rebekah over to me, you were right. She was in the Salvatore’s basement with a dagger in her back that Elena put there.”

Katie rolled her eyes then noticed that the dagger was now in Rebekah’s chest. “So why is she still daggered?” She asked with a look up at him to watch his face drop. “Elena told you Rebekah knows didn’t she?”

“I’m not sure what you’re referring to.” He told her as he did that thing where he looked down his nose at her.

“That you killed your mother, not Mikael. You’re keeping the dagger in because you know when she comes to she’s not only going to be pissed at Elena, but you too.” She told him and his eyelids fluttered as he nodded. “Just so you know…I’m not judging you. I killed my own grandfather and I try not to be a hypocrite.”

“And you wonder why I fancy you.” he told her with a smirk as he walked away expecting her to follow him. Instead she just kept standing there looking at Rebekah. As she thought about how bad it sucked that Rebekah had been daggered and she didn’t even know about it, her mind turned to her other friends. As she remembered what tomorrow was, a tear slipped down her cheek and she wiped it away. Klaus turned back and saw her wipe her face. “Are you alright, Sweetheart?” he walked back over to stand beside her.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” She tried to walk around him, but he touched her upper arm and she stopped and looked at him. He gave her a look that asked her to talk to him. “Tomorrow’s Caroline’s birthday. I’ve never missed one of her parties. Now I’m not even invited. And it’s nobody’s fault but my own.” She walked past him and into the entryway. “Is there anything else you want to show me or can I go home?” she asked, turning back to see that he had followed her.

“You can if you wish.” He told her as he took a few steps closer to her. “Or you could stay for a night cap.”

Katie narrowed her eyes at him. “Are you suggesting what I think you’re suggesting?” she asked. Instead of answering her with words he lifted his hand and slid the backs of his fingers down her cheek, testing her. Just like he anticipated her heart started racing and a smile teased the corners of his nicely shaped lips. “Klaus.” Katie sighed as she pulled her head away from his hand. “I’m in love with Elijah.”

He dropped his hand to rest on her shoulder. “I’m not asking you to fall in love with me, Sweetheart.” She glanced down at his hand on her shoulder that her black and red tank top left bare then back up at him. “How long has it been since you broke up with Damon? Three, four months and you're still a new vampire so it's no wonder you’re practically biting everyone’s heads off.”

Katie busted out laughing. “So you’re saying I need to get laid and you’ll bite the bullet for everyone’s sanity?” she asked, still laughing a bit. “How long has it been since you talked a woman into your bed without the luxury of compulsion?”

“Too long apparently.” He answered as he took a step back and dropped his hand from her shoulder looking disappointed.

“I’m sorry I don’t mean to laugh, but you have to know that this…” she motioned between them, “would be a really bad idea.”

“Sometimes it can be fun to be bad.” He told her as he took a step to her and placed his hand on her side.

Deciding that she could use some fun she stepped into him and put her hands on his t-shirt covered chest then sped them over so that he was pressed against the wall next to the double set of stairs that led up to the second floor. “You’re right. It can be fun.” She smiled and bit her lower lip when she saw lust cloud his eyes. In a flash his lips were on hers, but she quickly made her way to his neck then bit his earlobe and whispered, “Keep dreaming, big bad wolf.” While he was caught off guard she sped out the door to her car, leaving him hanging.

[neraidaastrid]

The Book Of You & I

Kai Parker x reader

Fandom: The Vampire Diaries 

Word Count:

Prompt: The Book Of You & I~ Alec Benjamin

Warnings: PURE ANGST!!!!!

A/N: Just pretend that when I say “her” or “she” I really mean “he” and “him”. I just didn't change the lyrics because it’s a song. Anyway this is my first songfic and my first kai fic so I hope you like it! I’ve done this in flash backs, so if you don't understand it, thats probably why.

Well, it all began in the back of her car                                                                   I was just sixteen but I fell so hard

You and kai were in the back of his car. He was laying above you as he pampered your skin with kisses. Giggles and moans escaped your lips from the feel of his lips against your skin. Your hands were intertwined with his above you head, pressured into the seats. The kisses made goosebumps coat your silky smooth skin, and tickled slightly. You wrapped you legs around his torso as he nipped and licked at your neck, trailing sloppy kisses over your jawline.

Well, the years went by and she stole my heart       

Rain poured from the darkened clouds above, soaking you and the heretic. The both of you ran through the trees of the woods. Your hair swayed through the wind, releasing water. Giggles were heard through the splattering of droplets violently hitting the muddy ground. Kai’s hand held onto yours as he pulled you under a bridge for shelter. 

Sounds of rain hitting the bridge you hid under echoed, making it’s own tunes. Kai pulled you into his chest, his eyes admiring your beauty. You hooked your arms round the back of the heretic’s neck, slightly pulling on his hair. Hands possessively grabbed onto your waist, lips smashing onto yours. The kiss was full of passion and love, and you never wanted it to end.

                                                                                                                              But her love ran dry and we fell apart                                                                     I felt her growing distant                                                                                         I knew her love was shifting                                                                                         And all that I could say was

“No, kai!” your sobs grew louder as your shouts cracked. you had just found out that he had slept with another girl. “Tell me it isn't true! please..... tell me.....” it was hard to make a sentence through your sniffles and whimpers. “Y/N.... it was an accident.” kai stepped forwards to get closer to you, but you just stepped back. His face made you want to just hide away and cry.

Don’t tell me that it’s over, the book of your and I                                                        Now you’ve scribbled out my name                                                                       And you've erased my favourite lines

It’s been 3 weeks since you moved out of yours and kai’s apartment. This was the first time you’d stepped foot outside of your new flat. You decided that you should treat yourself to a nice lunch at the Grill. huge mistake. As soon as you stepped foot inside, your eyes flew to the booth with kai and the girl he cheated on you with. Her mouth on his brought tears to your eyes. Water glossed over your sclera at the horrific site before you. When kai finally caught sight of your person, you were already out of the door, once again, raging cries overtook. 

There were so many chapters that we never got to write                                       Like cereal for dinner and staying up all night

The apartment you were in was dark and you couldn't see anything, except for the huge pillow fort you and Kai had built. You were both sat inside with bowls of cereal as you told jokes and laughed together. A lamp in the corner of the fort lit up everything in it. Kai looked hot in the orange lighting. 

Once you'd finished eating you lay on Kai’s chest, his arms around your waist as you spoke. For hours you chatted, not getting tired till early hours in the morning. This man was insatiable, your safe haven. His arms made you feel like the most protected woman on the planet.

I remember where we started, I remember how you looked but now                        I'm missing bits and pieces from the pages that you took                                     You didn't give a reason now, I’ll forever wonder why                                               We never got to finish the book of you and I

“WHY!” You screamed. “Why, why, why.....” At the moment you were trying to make sense of it all, why would he man you love cheat on you. “I don’t know....” It hurt knowing he didn't have a reason, he just did it, and it broke your heat. “Well that’s not good enough!” You stood in front of him, hitting his chest with clenched fists repeatedly.

Well, I bought a pen and I turned the page                                                                  Then I wrote about how I wish you’d stayed

“Kai..... please..... don't leave me.....” You mumbled in your sleep. Whimpers left you as you tossed and turned. “I’m sorry...... please don’t go.......” Kai sat outside of your apartment on the balcony, using his vampire hearing to listen in. He missed you so much, he doesn't know why he did what he did. All he knows is that he loves you and wants you back. 

The sobs that left your body, could have just ripped out Kai’s heart. The guilt he feels is unbearable. Wind gushed passed his heretic body, making his next words inaudible to other ears. “I miss you Y/N”

I said all the things that I never got to say                                                                     Maybe when it’s done I will feel okay

Your mind hadn’t stopped thinking about Kai, even though he broke your heart, you still love him. Your head plagued with thoughts about what he may be doing at the moment, or what he would think of what you were doing. Either one made tears appear in your eyes. 

When you walk passed a mirror, all you can do is cry and scream as to why he left. Why would he be so monstrous as to breaking your human heart. Diary entries piled up in your notebook, all expressing how broken and unhappy you are without him. Pain came to you in waves, just to leave you numb after a huge breakdown. 

Don’t tell me, tell me that you're leaving                                                                 My belly hurts and my heart is hardly beating right                                                      I hate to beg but I'll try one last time

The screams and cries got louder as the pain became mightier. Kai stalked your apartment daily, a swell in his stomach as guilt and shame took over his being. He couldn't hear your cries anymore; they shook him to the core. So with that, he left mystic falls and you behind, too scared to look back.

[thebrotherssalvatore321]

Keeping Secrets Ch. 14

Keeping Secrets Masterlist

Pairing: DamonxOc, Currently Tylerxoc, Elijahxoc, then Klausxoc endgame.

 Katie put on a black dress and matching flats then picked Tyler up and headed to Vicki’s funeral. They got to the church early and were sitting outside when Katie decided she could no longer stand the silence. “So, what do you think Vicki would think about you being with me?” Katie asked not knowing what else to talk about.

 He just shook his head. “She probably wouldn’t care. I treated her like crap.” He said as he leaned forward and placed his elbows on his knees. “Kinda feels like I don’t even have the right to miss her.” he said with a shake of his head as he looked down at his hands.

 Katie leaned forward mimicking his position. “Did you care about her?” Katie asked and he looked at her to see that she wasn’t jealous or judging, just asking a simple question.

“I did.” He admitted. “I just never showed it because I knew my parents didn’t like her.”

She wanted to point out that his parents didn’t like her either, but he was still good to her. Instead of questioning him about it she tried to make him feel better. “Then you have every right to grieve her.” Katie assured him.

When the funeral was over Katie drove Tyler home, walked with him to his door and gave him a hug and a kiss. She was walking away from the house when Carol called, “Katie.” She stopped and turned back to see Carol walking over to her so she met her half way.

“Yes ma’am?” Kate asked, wondering what she’d done wrong this time.

“I know we got off on the wrong foot, finding you in bed with my son…” she wrinkled her nose and gave her head a slow shake at the memory, “was kind of a shock, but Tyler explained how your grandfather treats you and that he was just giving you a safe place for the night. I realized after I calmed down that you were fully clothed and on top of the blankets.” Katie had her hands behind her back, picking at her cuticles. “I want you to know that while I understand the situation, you will not be sleeping in the same bed as my son again.”

“Yes ma’am. I completely understand.” Katie replied taking her hands from behind her back to swing them nervously at her sides. “It won’t happen again.” She made a strike out movement with her hands.

“That being said, I wanted to thank you for being there for Tyler through all this Vicki stuff.” She told her with a small smile. “It means a lot.”

“It’s really no big deal.” She told her with an awkward shrug.

“Regardless, I appreciate it.” she told her again. “Anyway, don’t be a stranger, okay? You’re welcome here anytime and if you need to get away from your grandfather on occasion you can use our guest room.”

“Wow, really?” Katie asked a little shocked.

“Really.” Carol told her with a polite smile.

“Thank you.”

TVDTVDTVD

"Are you sure about this?" Damon asked as they pulled up to Katie's house.

She took in a deep breath looking at her childhood home through the passenger window of the moving truck that Damon was driving. "We've already packed up my stuff and the queen bed frame that you insisted I take even though I would be fine with my old twin bed. I'm doing this."

“Okay.” Damon pushed his door open and they both got out and headed to the house. Her grandpa wasn't home at the moment so Katie grabbed the hide-a-key rock out of the fake plant on the front porch and opened the door for them.

“Actually I change my mind. I want my parent’s room.” She said as she led him to the room her grand father had made his and opened the door. It was three times the size of her old room and had it's own separate bathroom.

“Okay no problem.” He clapped his hands and rubbed them together. “Let's get to work.” By the time her grandfather got home from work they had moved his stuff to her father's old office, the smallest room in the house, and moved all of Katie’s things into her parent’s bedroom.

Her grandfather walked in to see them sitting on his couch, both of them drinking his beer. “What the hell are you doing in my house?” He asked glaring at Katie and Damon.

Damon hopped up and walked over to the old, too buff, too tan man with a snarl of a smile and clapped his hand down on his shoulder. “Katie, wanna go up to your new room while the old man and I have a little chat?”

"Gladly." Katie answered and took her beer upstairs with her, taking a swig of it as she passed her grandpa.

After ten or so minutes Damon came upstairs and plopped down on the bed. “It's done.” He tucked his hands behind his head. “He won't bother you and I even told him to let Tyler stay the night if you want him too.”

“What?” Katie asked looking at him with big eyes. “Why would you do that? You hate me being with Tyler.”

“Yeah, but I like you more than I hate him.” He said with a shrug as he got up and headed for the door.

“Hey.” Katie called making him stop and look back at her. She walked over and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. “Thank you.” 

“Anytime, Katie Cat.” He told her as she let go of him. “Or am I still not allowed to call you that?” He asked with a playful quirk of his brows and a smirk.

“I think you've earned back the rights to the nickname.” She told him with a small smile.

“And you better not have changed my name in your phone.” He grabbed the doorframe as he walked further out, still looking at her.

“I haven't, but if Tyler sees it I'll have no choice.” She warned him.

“Yeah, yeah.” He rolled his eyes and walked off.

TVDTVDTVD

Katie headed down stairs and her grandfather, who had been sitting in his recliner, saw her dressed in a tight, navy blue dress with a lace back that stopped at her waist line and heals and he got up. “Where are you going?”

She stopped at the door and turned to look at him. “The founder’s kick off party. I’m hoping to make it onto the Miss Mystic Falls court, so I have to attend all of these stupid parties.” She explained, trying with every bone in her body to play nice.

“Oh, well, have a good time and don’t get into trouble.” He told her as he stumbled back to his chair. Katie tilted her head at him, finding it odd that he had nothing bad to say, then assumed Damon had compelled him to not say bad things to her anymore.

“You used to drag me to all of these events when I was a kid, why don’t you go anymore?” she asked out of pure curiosity.

“Big bad Mayor Lockwood decided that he’s too good to be friends with me. So I said fuck him.” He answered talking with his hands while holding his beer in one.

“Right, well, goodnight.” Katie told him finding the whole exchange between them to be off putting.

When she got to the party she found Tyler and his father talking to Matt and Kelly. When Tyler saw her she gave him a smile and a small wave. As soon as he and his father were done talking to the grieving family Tyler walked around to the bar that Katie knew was on the other side of the wall the walked back around with a bottle of alcohol in his hand. “Check it out!” he whisper yelled as he walked over to Katie and Matt.

“Dude, your dad’s going to totally beat you down if he catches you.” Matt said as the two of them started walking off.

“Yeah, let him try.” Tyler said as he took the cap off of the bottle.

“Alright, screw it.” Matt took the bottle from Tyler and took a swig.

Tyler looked behind him to see that Katie wasn’t following them, but instead stood where she had been since she saw him. “Hey, come on, booze…distracted parents…fun…this way.” He told her not moving from where he stood near Matt.

“Yeah, that’s…not really my thing.” She said with a wrinkled nose and a shake of her head.

He finally walked over to her, “Come on, it’s not like I’m asking you to get high with me, it’s just booze.”

Katie couldn’t help but notice that he hadn’t told her hi, or kissed her or anything and it was really bugging her even though she knew it was a stupid thing to be mad about. “Look, Tyler, I just somehow got your mom to like me. I’m not going to screw that up by getting caught drinking with you at your parent’s party.”

“God, you really are a goody, goody. Go kiss my moms ass. I’m gonna go have fun.” He told her with a hard face and a glare then started walking away.

“Tyler, come on, don’t be like that.” she called but he kept on walking.

Damon walked by and saw Katie looking down at the floor with a frown on her face. “Hey,” Katie’s eyes shot up to him and she forced the displeased look off of her face. “You okay?” he walked over looking around for Tyler. “Where’s your boyfriend?”

“I’m fine and I don’t want to talk about it.” she answered as she crossed her arms over her chest. “I’m gonna go home.” She tried to walk around him, but he grabbed her upper arm, gently stopping her. “Damon, please let me go.”

He moved to stand in front of her and let go of her arm. “You didn’t get all dressed up and spend…” he looked over her hair and make up, “and hour in front of the mirror just to leave twenty minutes into the party.” She just looked at him blankly. She was hiding the fact that she wanted to cry and Damon felt like finding Tyler and ripping his head off. Instead he held his hand out to her. “Dance with me.”

“Damon, I-”

“Just one dance.” He cut her off. “Then you can go find your boyfriend and give him a piece of your mind.” She couldn’t say no to the pleading look in his eyes.

“Fine, one dance.” She told him with a small smile and a nod.

1901 by phoenix started playing when they walked over to the bar where Elena stood watching Stefan dancing to the up beat song with Kelly. "Have I entered an alternate universe where Stefan is fun?" Damon asked Elena.

"Is he drunk?" Katie asked with raised brows.

"Yes." Elena and Damon answered at the same time.

"Is he going to be okay?" Elena asked Damon.

"Eventually." Elena just looked at him then back at Stefan. "One way or another." He looked at Katie and jerked his head to the dance floor. "Let's dance."

"No, no, no. I agreed to dance with you when there was slow music playing." Katie argued. "I don't know how to dance to this."

"I'll show you, come on." He grabbed her hand and pulled her onto the dance floor.

She was on the dance floor with Damon when Tyler walked in. All his eyes could see was Damon's hands on her hips as they moved to the music and the way Damon was looking at her ass in the tight dress. He had been looking for her to apologize for treating her the way he had, but she looked just fine without him. So he snuck a glass of vodka from the bar and walked off.

When the song was over Damon excused himself from her and she moved to the bar to people watch. Elena and Matt were dancing when Stefan cut in. Shortly after Katie watched as Elena bumped into a guy then Stefan made the guy apologize twice and shoved him. Stefan was walking away as Damon walked up beside Katie and asked the bartender for bourbon. "I'll totally sneak you a drink if you want it." He offered, holding up his drink to her.

"I said no to Tyler. I’m not going to say yes to you.” Katie replied and pushed the drink away.

"Wait he ditched you because you didn't want to drink?" He asked with a disbelieving look.

"With him and Matt and risk getting caught, yeah." Katie added with a nod.

"The kids an idiot." He told her and she couldn’t help but love the way his mouth moved when he said the word idiot.

"He's not an idiot. He's a normal teen boy just looking to have fun with his fuddy duddy of a girlfriend." She argued.

"Hey." Damon said dipping his head into her line of view to get her to look him in the eyes, "You're not a fuddy duddy."

"Have you noticed what your brothers been up to?" Elena asked as she walked over to stand on the other side of Damon and took an olive off of the tray on the bar.

"Nope I've been too preoccupied with yours." Damon replied as he turned his head to look at her.

"I'm gonna go find Tyler." Katie said then walked away. She had been looking for him for a while when she ran into Matt. "Hey, have you seen Tyler?"

"No, have you seen my mom?" Matt asked.

"No, wanna join forces?" Katie asked.

"Sure, why not?" He sighed and they started walking the house over. "Have you looked outside?"

Katie shook her head no and they headed out back Katie looked one way and Matt looked the other. Her heart dropped to her feet when her eyes landed on Kelly’s hands and lips on Tyler’s face.

"Tyler?" Katie asked making Matt look at his mom and Tyler making out with each other.

"What the hell are you doin' man?" Matt yelled as he rushed over and pulled Tyler back.

"Dude, calm down." Tyler said with his hands held up in surrender, but Matt punched him in the face, starting a fist fight that knocked Kelly to the ground as Tyler tackled Matt and started wailing on him. "Tyler! Tyler stop it!" Katie yelled at him, but it fell on deaf ears. "Somebody help!" Katie yelled and soon Alaric ran over and pulled Tyler off of Matt. With Tyler out of the way Katie went to Matt and kneeled down next to him. "Matt..." Katie sighed taking in his bloody face as Tyler's dad urged him back inside.

"I'm sorry." Matt said with a shake of his head.

“You have nothing to apologize for.” Katie told him with a sigh as she stood up and held her hand out to him.

She was pulling Matt to his feet when Elena ran out of the house and over to Matt and Katie. "Oh my god, Matt, what happened are you okay?"

Katie pulled Elena back a little as she whispered. "Keep him out if the house and away from Stefan." Elena gave her friend a nod. "I'm going to go get a wet rag or something."

Katie got a wet rag from one of the bathrooms then gave it to Elena and Matt. Since Elena had Matt covered Katie went back inside. She was sitting in an empty office, watching the fire in the fireplace when Tyler found her. "What are you doing in here?" He asked as he came inside and closed the door.

"I needed to get away for a minute and try to figure out what to say to you." She answered turning her hurt eyes on him.

"I'm so sorry. I don’t know what came over me." He said as he came over and sat down next to her.

"I know you are. It's written all over your face." She told him as she examined his wide, sad eyes.

"You have all right to break up with me." He told her looking down at her hand on the couch between them.

"Is that why you did it? To get me to break up with you so you don't have to?" She asked.

"I did it because I saw you dancing with Damon." He answered going from ashamed to pissed in the blink of an eye.

"Wow." Katie blinked at him. "Damon is my friend, Tyler, and if you and I are going to make this work," she motioned between the two of them, "then you are going to have to trust me when I tell you that you are the only guy I want to be with."

"How am I supposed to believe that when he constantly looks at you like he wants to eat you?" Tyler asked.

"Because that's him looking at me, not the other way around." She answered. "Besides, I wouldn't have been dancing with him at all if you hadn't ditched me to get wasted with Matt." Tyler just glared at her for a few seconds then looked away. “Look,” Katie stood up and looked down at him. “We’ve both obviously gotten pissed at each other and lashed out like stupid little kids. Why don’t we take a break for a few days? Try to figure out if we even still want there to be an us.”

“Yeah, sure, whatever.” Tyler said with a glare at her as he stood up then left the room.

She walked out of the room to see that people were gathering to hear Mayor Lockwood make his kick off speech. So not wanting to be rude and leave before the speech Katie joined everyone that was gathered around. “Are you okay?” she heard someone asked her quietly while John Gilbert made his speech, and looked over to see Alaric standing to her left.

“I’m fine.” She told him with a polite smile.

“You just caught your boyfriend making out with his best friend’s mom. You can’t be fine.” He told her and she looked away from him.

“You know too much about your student’s personal lives.” She whispered to him.

“Only the ones involved with vampires.” He whispered back.

“Look at his right hand.” Damon said to Alaric as he moved to stand on his other side.

“Whose?” Alaric asked sounding like he really didn’t care.

“The town’s favorite son. Look at his ring.” Damon said and looked at Alaric then noticed Katie standing beside him with her arms crossed over her chest and a frown on her face.

Katie looked at John’s ring as he pulled the rope, ringing the kick off bell. “That looks like mine.” Alaric said aloud.

“Yeah, and that would be a big coincidence if he hadn’t just come back from the dead five minutes ago.” Damon said whispering the last three words.

“You killed him?” Katie asked and Damon hummed a positive answer. “Too bad he didn’t stay dead. I hate that guy.”

Alaric turned his head to Katie giving her a disapproving look and she just shrugged with a ‘what’ face. “Where the hell did you get that ring?” Damon asked taking Alaric’s attention off of her.

“Isobel, my wife.” He answered.

Damon laughed. “Who gave birth to Elena under the medical care of the esteemed Dr. Grayson Gilbert, John’s brother.” Damon whispered.

“You think John knew Isobel?” Alaric asked.

“I think John knows a lot of things.” Damon answered.

“Okay, I’m leaving. See you two later.” She said as she gave them both a forced smile and headed out.

When she walked into her front door she saw her grandfather passed out in his recliner. With a scoff she left him there, grabbed a bottle of his Jack Daniels out of the kitchen cabinet and headed up stairs to her room. Feeling tired, hurt and like a hypocrite for being mad at Tyler for kissing someone who wasn’t her when she had kissed Damon, she sat down at her desk and uncapped the bottle.

Green eyes stared back at her in the mirror that hung on the wall in front of her and she turned them down to the sparkling pendant that rested on her chest as she tilted her head back and took a drink. Thinking about Damon and what Tyler had said about him, she picked it up and looked down at it. The sapphire star sparkled up at her as if it was judging her for being with Tyler when her heart was so clearly with Damon.

But she didn’t want to be with Damon. She wanted to be happy with someone else, with Tyler. Up until tonight he had been so sweet to her, but she couldn’t help wondering if he had made up his mind that he couldn’t be better to a girl, he couldn’t make it up to Vicki by being with Katie. “Thinking about me?” She heard Damon behind her and turned around to see him sitting on her bed with one of her pillows in his lap.

“No, Tyler, actually.” She told him as she let go of the pendant, grabbed the bottle and moved to sit on the bed with him.

“Did you two break up?” he asked as he put the pillow behind his head and laid back.

“We’re taking a break.” She corrected as she put her lips to the bottle and tilted her head back.

“You know that’s better on ice right?” he asked with a nod to the bottle.

“It won’t stay on the ice long enough to make a difference.” She said as she wiped her lips. “Why are you here?”

“I wanted to let you know to stay clear of John Gilbert. He pretty much threatened to hurt you if I step out of line.” He said as he sat up and grabbed the bottle from her.

“Hey!” she said as she tried to grab it back, but he dodged her and took a drink. “Give it back.”

“There’s a reason I prefer bourbon.” He said as he handed her the bottle back. “And you know it’s not good to drink alone?” he asked as she took another drink.

“Better alone than with you.” she said recalling the last time she got drunk.

“Come on, you’re on a break. Your allowed.” He told her with a seductive look that he knew she wouldn’t be able to resist.

“That’s not what a break is for.” She shook her head.

“Sure it is.” He argued as he sat up and took the bottle from her again. This time she didn’t protest. “Back to why I came here.” He paused to take a drink then handed her the bottle back. “John knows too much.”

“How much is too much?” Katie asked before she tilted the bottle back then swallowed and wiped her lips with the back of her hand, driving Damon crazy.

“Everything and more.” Damon took the bottle from her and took another drink. “He knows about Katherine, about me opening the tomb to find her that she wasn’t in there to begin with he knows…everything.”

Katie took the bottle from him and took a bigger drink than usual. “Why don’t you just cut his ring off and kill him?” she frowned at the words that just left her mouth. “God you’re a bad influence.”

Damon rolled his eyes and took the bottle from her knowing that if she didn’t stop she was going to be hugging the toilet pretty soon. “Don’t blame me.” He told her then took a drink. “If I kill him, everything he knows is going to get leaked to the council and he will have you killed. It’s bad enough that those tomb vamps are getting too much attention from them and now with Stefan on the fritz…”

“How is he by the way? He disappeared tonight.” She asked trying to take the bottle from him but he pulled it away. “Gimme it, Damon.”

“Nope.” he told her and she made a grab for it and fell into his lap. He smirked down at her head on his legs.

She sighed and pushed herself back into a sitting position with her legs tucked to the side so she wouldn’t be indecent in the dress that she still wore. “Fine, keep it.”

“He’s not coping well at all and if he doesn’t get it under control he’s going to bring the council down on us with no help from John.” He said then took a drink from the bottle.

“He’s not going to hurt Elena is he?” she asked looking tired as she stood up, but stumbled in her heels even though they were the thick kind.

“No, but you might hurt yourself if you don’t take those shoes off.” he said and she sat on the side of the bed and took off her shoes, letting them fall to the floor with a thump.

With them out of the way she walked over to her closet and grabbed a tank top, then a pair of shorts out of the dresser. “Unzip me?” Katie asked, sweeping her waves to the side as she turned her back on him.

“With pleasure.” He answered as he stood up and placed his hand on her shoulder as the other one pulled the zipper down her back.

She sighed as his hands slipped the straps from her shoulders and the top fell to gather around her hips, the bottom of the dress too tight to fall off her body. A laugh betrayed her when he grabbed the bottom of the dress and jerked it down. “Hey, easy this stupid thing wasn’t exactly cheap.”

“If it’s stupid why did you buy it?” he asked as she turned around, covering her chest with her arms.

“Because I’ve worn all my other dresses to public events twice and that’s my limit.” She explained as she turned from him and grabbed her tank top. “Plus I thought it would get Tyler all hot and bothered.” She sighed and grabbed her shorts.

“Oh it got someone all hot and bothered, but it wasn’t Tyler.” He told her in a deep voice as he grabbed her hips and pulled her against him, the evidence pressed into her rear.

“Damon…” she sighed fighting her desires. “I can’t… I’m too drunk and I’m with Tyler.” Her body defied her words as she leaned back against him, dropped her shorts and lifted her arm to grab the back of his head.

“Drunk sex is the best.” He told her as he started kissing her neck. “And you’re on a break, you’re allowed.”

“Son of a bitch.” She growled, coming to her senses as she turned in his arms and pushed him away. “I can’t, Damon. Stop trying to get me to be somebody that I’m not!”

“I’m trying to get you to realize that you don’t belong with him!” Damon yelled back. “Figure out who you want and stop leading us on.”

“I will when you will!” She told him with a flared nostril glare.

He whooshed out of her open window without another word.

[thebrotherssalvatore321]

Keeping Secrets Ch. 32

Keeping Secrets Masterlist

Pairing: Previously- DamonxOc. Currently: ElijahxOc. Warning: None.

The next morning Elijah found her sleeping in her bed, wearing his blue dress shirt. The sleeves covered her hands that were tucked close to her face. He sat down on the bed causing the mattress to dip. The movement made her stir, bringing her shirt covered hands closer to her nose. When he laid his hand on her shoulder and rubbed, her eyes fluttered open and a sleepy smile spread over her lips when she saw his face. “Good morning.” Her voice was a little gravely with sleep.

“Good morning.” He greeted.

“How did it go last night?” she asked as she sat up and scooted back to lean on the headboard.

“Bonnie and her mother opened the coffin.” He informed her.

“What was inside?” she asked, wondering what kind of Klaus killing weapon would be in a coffin.

“My mother.” He answered causing her jaw to drop. “She’s alive and has forgiven Niklaus. She wants us to be a family again.” Katie blinked at him in shock. “She wants to meet you.”

“Your mother wants to meet me?” she asked, feeling overwhelmed and intimidated. He smiled at how freaked she was.

“Tonight at the ball.” He told her as picked up a dress box off the floor, took an envelope off the top of it and handed it to her.

Her name was written on the front of the envelope in pretty cursive and the envelope was stamped closed with an M in red wax. She broke the seal and took out the invitation. “Please join the Mikaelson family this evening at seven o’clock for dancing, cocktails and celebration.” She read aloud then looked down at the box that sat between them.

“Open it.” he told her.

She took the lid off the box revealing sparkling rose gold lace over champagne silk. “Wow.” She sighed then whooshed off the bed and pulled it from the box to see that it had elegant off the shoulder short sleeves and was floor length. Under the dress laid a pair of rose gold satin gloves and matching closed toes heels.

“I know I’m spoiling you, but-” she laid the dress on the bed and stepped in front of him where he still sat on her bed and cut him off with a quick kiss.

“I don’t consider a dress for a last minute ball spoiling me.” She told him then looked down at the dress on the bed while his hands found her hips. “I love it and I can’t wait to wear it.”

“Would you like to get ready here or with my family and me?” he asked looking up at her.

“Where would you like me to get ready?” she asked as she rested her hands on his shoulders.

“With my family.” He told her with a small smile. When it faded Katie could tell there was something on his mind.

“What is it?” she asked.

“Something has been bothering me since last night’s dinner.” He told her and she sat down next to him and pulled her leg up on the bed facing him. “When Niklaus brought up Tatia you tensed before I even got a word out.”

“I…asked Rebekah about your past relationships. You told me about your mother using Tatia’s blood in the ritual that turned you into vampires. You didn’t tell me you were romantically involved with her.”

“I didn’t believe it mattered.” He told her with narrowed eyes, trying to figure out why his involvement with Tatia seemed to hurt her when it happened long before he and Hannah ever met.

“Yeah, well, it does.” She answered not looking at him.

He cupped her face in his hands and she finally looked at him. “Explain.” His voice was soft as his eyes searched hers.

She brought her hands up in front of her face and gently brushed his hands off of her. “I never told him or anyone really, but the whole time Damon and I were together I had this…fear, in the back of my mind that because he loved Katherine first he would somehow find his way back to her or end up falling for the new and improved version.” She explained and dropped her eyes to her hands. “And I was right.” She shrugged. “I can’t compete with the doppelganger allure that you seem to have a thing for considering you have been romantic with two doppelgangers one of which is still alive.”

“You think I would leave you for Katherine or Elena?” he asked with a frown.

She bit her bottom lip and shrugged. “It’s just…It feels like no matter what I do Elena ends up with what I want most.”

“Look at me, My Love.” Katie lifted her eyes to meet his. “I promise you. I will never hurt you. I love you.”

“I love you too.” She whispered as a tear slipped down her cheek and he wiped it away with his thumb as he placed his hand on the side of her neck and pulled her into him for a kiss that both of them poured their every feeling into before their small make out session slowed and he pulled back to give her a smile.

“I was also wondering…” he stood up and held his hand out to her and she took it and stood up, “What were you and Damon fighting about?” he asked as he drank in the sight of her in nothing but his dress shirt and a pair of white panties, making him fall deeper in love with her.

“He keeps acting like he still gives a crap about me when I know it’s not true.” She answered with a shrug then went to her closet and grabbed a ¾ sleeved plain black shirt and a pair of light wash jeans then set them on her bed.

As he watched her start unbuttoning the shirt she was wearing he decided to change the subject. “What do you say to lunch at the grill then I properly introduce you to my siblings?”

“Sounds like nerve wrecking fun.” She told him with a smile as she shrugged off his shirt and tossed it onto the bed. “But, only if you promise to give me another shirt, that one is starting to smell more like me and less like you.”

“I thought it looked like you smelled it in your sleep.” He told her with a smile.

“Your scent makes me feel safe.” she told him with a shy shrug.

“How about you stay the night with me and you won’t need a shirt.” He asked with a sparkle in his dark eyes.

“You’re staying with your family at Klaus’ house?” she asked as she grabbed a zebra print bra out of her dresser. “Where all of your siblings and their vampire hearing are also staying as well as your very old, possibly old school, mother?” she asked.

“Are you suggesting-?” he asked, a little amused by her and she interrupted him.

“That your mother probably won’t like me especially if I’m openly sleeping with her son?” Katie asked with raised brows as she pulled her shirt over her head. “Yes.”

“I assure you fornication is not high on my mothers list of sins she would prefer her children abstain from.” He told her with a small laugh.

“I will think about it.” she told him with a smile. “So who all is going to be at the ball tonight?”

“All of the founders and their dates along with whoever my siblings decide to bring.” He answered.

“So practically the whole town.” Katie summed up as she pulled on her jeans then grabbed her old ratty converse off of her shoe rack.

“My mother also invited Elena.” He told her.

“Well, her blood is a very powerful spell ingredient. It makes sense that your mother would want to meet her.” Katie walked over to the stool at the end of her bed and sat down to put on her shoes.

“How long have you had those?” he asked with a look at the black and white, well worn converse that she slipped on her feet.

“So long I don’t remember.” She answered with a smile. “Why?”

“They are literally two steps from falling apart.” He told her and she started laughing.

“I like these shoes.” She argued.

“They smell.” He argued back with a bit of a smirk.

She grabbed her foot, brought it to her nose and gave it a sniff. The sour scent of sweat and dirt invaded her nose. “Holy-.” She dropped her foot and kicked the shoes off sending them flying across the room. “How have I not noticed that before and why didn’t anyone tell me?”

Elijah started laughing. “You may think you have changed, but you are still the woman I fell in love with.”

She smiled up at him remembering the house slippers she’d had in Ireland that she wore until Elijah bargained a new pair out of Fiona and convinced her to throw the old ones away. They too, had developed a smell that she had been nose blind too. He walked over to her closet and grabbed a new pair of black and white checkered slip on Vans and handed them to her.

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“So why are you so convinced that my mother will not like you?” Elijah asked as the waitress set a paper bowl of cheese fries down in front of her and refilled Elijah’s glass of tea.

“Because I have a history of pissing off mothers.” Katie answered and Elijah just looked at her with narrowed eyes. “Ronan’s mother hated me. She thought he could do better. Then when he moved us away from not only my parents but his it really made her mad.”

“That is just one mother.” He pointed out.

“Carol Lockwood, found out Tyler and I were together by walking in on us sleeping together.” she pointed out, making him raise his brows.

“Okay, I think you’ve made your point.” He told her with a nod.

“Hey, you asked.” She told him with a smile. “Besides sleeping together was probably the wrong description of what she saw.”

“You do not have to go into detail.” He told her with a serious look on his face. “It’s bad enough my curiosity led me to see you with Damon.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen you jealous before.” She said with a smile as she leaned back and crossed her arms over her chest. “Tyler’s a good guy and what his mother walked in on was purely innocent. He knew about the kind of man my grandfather was and that I didn’t want to go home so he gave me a place to stay.”

“That’s the second time I’ve heard you mention your grandfather, yet I have never seen him.” Elijah pointed out. “Where is he?”

Katie scratched at the back of her neck uncomfortably and looked around seeing that they weren’t too close to anyone to be overheard. “Rumor is he had a midlife crisis, bought a motorcycle, quit his job and decided to see the world.”

“And the truth?” he asked with narrowed eyes.

“He’s at the bottom of Wickery Lake where I dumped him after I killed him.” She answered reluctantly. “After I turned, obviously.”

“Did he deserve it?” he asked curiously.

“Absolutely.” Damon answered as he walked past them on his way to the bar. “The guy was an abusive, alcoholic asshole.”

“What he said.” Katie said with a point at Damon then looked at her fries that had gotten cold. “I’m done whenever you are.”

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They swung by her house and picked up her dress and accessories then went to Klaus’. “Don’t be nervous.” Elijah told her as they got out of the car.

“Easier said than done.” She said then took a deep breath and let it out as Elijah opened the front door. They found everyone in the parlor. Rebekah was getting her nails painted while the men were getting fitted for suits.

“Rebekah, tell me how handsome I am.” Kol who was standing in front of a mirror said while looking at himself.

“Oh, Kol, you know I can’t be compelled.” Rebekah said while looking at her nails.

In the process of giving Rebekah a glare his eyes caught Katie standing beside Elijah and he walked over to her. “What about you, sweetheart, what do you think?” he asked looking her in the eyes. She would be lying if she said he wasn’t handsome, but his attitude completely ruined it.

A closed lipped smile pulled at her lips as she looked up at Elijah then back at Kol. “I’m afraid if I give you a compliment you might become so full of yourself you explode.” She replied, getting a glare from Kol as Elijah’s hand pulled her closer to his side.

“I knew there was a reason I liked you.” Rebekah said as she dropped her hand and stood up. “Go away Kol she’s not interested.” She told him as she shoved him back to the full length mirror. “I was hoping you’d be getting ready with us. I’ve hired a hairdresser and manicurist.” She said with a motion to the woman that had been painting her nails.

“I was planning on doing it myself, but that sounds much better.” Katie replied not seeing the small smile Elijah gave her and Rebekah.

He walked her around to Finn who was having his pants tailored. “Hello, Katie.” He told her and she was taken a little off guard at how deep his voice was compared to the rest of Elijah’s siblings. He grabbed her hand and kissed the back of it formally, reminding her just how long he had been daggered.

“Hi.” She replied not knowing what else to say to him. The manicurist walked over to Katie with a tray of different nail polishes in different shades of pink ranging from sheer to cream to metallic. Katie picked a metallic rose gold to match her dress and the woman motioned for her to sit on the couch so she sat down and the woman started working on her nails.

Elijah placed his hand on her shoulder to get her attention and when she looked up at him he pecked her on the lips. Right when they pulled apart Klaus stormed into the room, “You went after Elena?” he asked Rebekah who had taken a seat on the other end of the couch. “What is wrong with you?”

“Here we go.” She told him with a snippy smile knowing he was going to lay into her.

“Do you want another dagger in your heart?” he asked.

“Again with the dagger threats. Don’t you have any other tricks?” Kol asked from the other side of the room.

“Oh go back to staring at yourself.” Klaus told him then turned back to Rebekah.

“And who are you, my father?” Kol asked.

“No, Kol, but you are in my house.” Klaus told him and Katie looked across her shoulder at Elijah who had taken off his jacket and was looking at a pair of expensive dress shoes and he gave her a smirk then turned his eyes back to the shoes and she looked back at the guys.

“Then perhaps we should go outside.” Kol challenged as the two men moved to stare each other down.

Katie heard the clanking of heels on hardwood and looked in the direction it was coming from to see who she assumed was Esther walk up. “Enough.” she didn’t yell, but it felt as if she did. “Niklaus, come.” Klaus glared at Kol as he walked past him and followed their mother.

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Katie was sitting at the antique white vanity in the now refurbished bedroom Klaus had told her was hers, doing her makeup when he walked in and sat down in the white and cream colored arm chair in the corner to her left. “Do you like your room?” he asked as he watched her apply a thin line of black liner to her eyelids.

“You do realize that I didn’t really think you would do it when I gave you the suggestion of antique white, right?” she asked as she put the cap back on the liquid eye liner and set it on the vanity.

“That doesn’t answer my question.” He pointed out with a smirk.

She turned and took in the room. A grand antique white, Victorian style canopy bed sat against the wall across from the fireplace that now matched the style of the room. A cream and gold floral comforter and matching throw pillows covered the bed while matching bedside tables sat on each side of it. A chest of drawers that matched the tables and bed sat on the wall to the right of it and the vanity that she sat at was against the wall to the left of it. A matching wardrobe sat in the corner between the chest of drawers and the bed. A cream colored plush rug sat at the foot of the bed. It looked like someone plucked the room out of a fairy tale.

A smile spread over his face when he saw her trying to hold back hers. “You like it.”

She laughed and turned back to the mirror on the vanity and grabbed a tube of mascara. “If you and Elijah don’t cut it out I’m going to be the most spoiled girl within a hundred miles of Mystic Falls.” She told him as he watched her sweep the mascara wand over her already longer than normal lashes.

“Is that a bad thing?” he asked and she cut her eyes over at him.

“So, Rebekah has asked Matt to the ball, not a bad pairing in my opinion. She’s sassy, he's sweet, it works. Plus I love the fact that it will not sit well with my ex friends.” she said to change the subject then put the mascara wand back in the tube and set it on the vanity. “Who are you bringing?”

“I’ve invited Caroline.” He told her, getting a slightly shocked look from her. “You are not the only girl in Mystic Falls that has caught my attention.”

“I didn’t assume I was. Caroline’s bossiness might just be the kick in the butt you need.” She told him as she pointed at him with a tube of liquid lipstick. He laughed at her. “I’ll just be surprised if she shows up considering being associated with you is why they kicked me out of their little group in the first place. If she does it just goes to show how hypocritical they can be.”

He watched her apply her lipstick, putting off getting dressed for the ball that he didn’t want to attend to begin with. When she was done with her makeup she walked over to the wardrobe and grabbed her dress that was hanging on the open door. She laid it on the bed then looked at Klaus. “Can I help you?” he asked playing dumb.

“Get out so I can get dressed.” She told him with a sweeping motion of her hand at the door. “Rebekah’s keeping Elijah away from me until I’m ready like it’s our freaking wedding day or something.”

“Alright if I have to.” He complained as he pushed himself up from the chair and started for the door, but when he passed her he purposely started walking really slow.

“Oh my god you’re so childish sometimes.” She complained, eager to get dressed so that she could be with Elijah. She put her hands on his back, pushing him and he leaned back into her making it even harder to push him, but she kept at it until he was out the door making him laugh. When he was fully out of the bedroom she shut the door behind him.

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She stood looking at herself in the mirror on the inside of one of the wardrobe doors. Her hair was pinned back in a simple but elegant style that left a few wisps of her natural waves to hang around her face. Brown eye shadow with a pop of rose gold on the center of her eye lid and a line of black eyeliner and mascara made her eyes pop. Nude matt lipstick let her eyes be the focal point of her face. The off the shoulder dress pushed her ample cleavage up noticeably, but it was slightly hidden by the sheer bit of fabric that added a bit of modesty to the slightly plunging neckline.

She had turned from the mirror and was pulling on her gloves when Elijah walked in, his eyes admiring her. “You are…” he paused wrecking his brain for the right word to describe her, “an exquisite beauty.”

She blushed and smiled as she finished putting on her gloves then walked over to him, her heels tapping on the hardwood floor as she did. “You don’t look so bad yourself, handsome.” She told him as she slid her hands up his tux jacket, taking in his black bow tie before her eyes found his.

“Don’t get agitated.” He stepped back as she gave him a confused look. He pulled a long rectangle, teal blue box out of his pocket.

“You’re spoiling me again.” She said then bit her lips closed to keep back her smile.

“It’s the last time for tonight I promise.” he asked with a glint in his brown eyes.

“I’m not complaining.” She answered with a shake of her head then let her smile shine making him smile as he took the lid off the box revealing a necklace. A silver horizontal infinity sign with diamond accents and a rose gold heart in the center of it was attached to a silver chain at each end of the infinity sign. “It’s beautiful.” She told him in awe then looked up at him. “Will you?” she asked with a motion to the necklace.

“Of course.” He answered and took the necklace out of the box as she turned her back on him. He put the necklace around her neck and fastened the clasp then rested his hands on her shoulders. She placed her fingertips on the necklace as she turned toward him. “Come with me.” He told her as he held his arm out to her and she slid her gloved one through it and he walked her to a set of closed double doors. “My mother would like to speak to you alone.” She looked up at him with panic on her face. He smiled at her. “Just be yourself. She’s not as intimidating as she seems.”

“You’re her son. You would say that.” She said with an eye roll. “I feel like I’m about to jump into a shark tank with a bleeding leg.”

“You will be fine, My Love.” He told her and pecked her on the lips then knocked on the door.

Finn answered and stepped aside for them to come in. “Hello, Katie.” Esther greeted her.

“Hello, Mrs. Mikaelson.” Katie responded as respectfully as she could.

Esther looked at both her son’s. “Leave us please.” the two men gave her a silent nod and left, shutting the door behind them. “So you are the woman who linked herself to my son.” It was more of an observation than a question.

But Katie still felt the need to answer. “Yes, ma’am.”

“And you’re aware that I can easily unlink you if I see fit?” she asked with serious eyes as she walked closer to Katie who stood where Elijah had left her with her hands clasped politely in front of her.

“Fiona wasn’t the most powerful of witches. So I’m sure you can, although I’m not sure why you would want to.” Katie replied curiously.

“Because I fear you are using my son for his immortality.” She answered without a beat.

“That's not why I asked Fiona to link me to him.” Katie argued with a frown.

“Isn’t it though? You were human yet you wished to live forever.” She challenged, and it was pissing Katie off.

She took a deep breath and held it for a second and let it out through her nose. “I wanted to live with him forever.” She countered.

“Yet when he found you, you stayed with Damon.” Esther pointed out.

“Okay.” Katie unclasped her hands and started talking with them. “Since you seem to somehow know everything, I’m sure you know that there have been a lot of bumps in the road since Elijah and I found each other again. But I am with him now and no one, not even you will tear me from his side. So if you see fit to remove the link, go for it. It won’t change anything. I will still love Elijah with every cell in my body.” She finished then folded her hands back in front of her mentally preparing for whatever backlash her rant would get from Esther.

Instead a lashing out at her she simply walked over to the double doors and opened them then motioned for her to leave the room. “Enjoy the rest of your night.” She gave Katie a polite smile that somehow made her even more scared than if she would have lashed out at her.

“You too…I guess.” Katie replied mentally face palming as she walked out of the room and Esther closed the doors behind her.

She was on her way back to her room when Elijah met up with her in the hallway. “How did it go?”

Katie sighed and shrugged. “I told you I suck with parents.”

“What happened?” he asked as he rubbed her shoulder comfortingly.

“Metaphorically speaking, she poked at me with a sharp stick and I bit back.” she replied feeling like she let him down.

“I will speak to her.” he told her and made a move to walk past, but she touched his shoulder stopping him.

“I don’t want her thinking I complained to you about her.” She said and he smirked. “I’m no whiny baby.”

“Then I will not talk to her about your meeting.” he told her with amusement in his eyes. “I will meet you downstairs.” He pecked her on the lips then headed to the room his mother was in.

As she walked down one side of the stairs that led down to the entryway, her gloved hand sliding over the wooden handrail, her eyes quickly found Damon and Carol Lockwood talking down below. Carol’s eyes landed on Katie and she asked Damon, “Is that Katie Finnegan?”

Damon turned and looked at her, his eyes glazing over a bit like they always had when he saw her all dolled up. “Uh huh.”

When she got to the bottom of the stairs she walked over to them. “Careful Damon, you’ll catch flies with your mouth hanging open like that.” She told him then turned to Carol with a smile.

“Katie, I didn’t see you come in.” Carol observed curiously.

“I’ve been here for a few hours.” She told them with a point upstairs.

“I didn’t realize you were close to the Mikaelson’s.” Carol told her and Katie cut her eyes over at Damon.

“Rebekah and Katie became friends pretty fast.” Damon answered for her.

Katie noticed Carol look at the stairs and followed her gaze to Elijah who smiled down at Katie. Carol smiled and waved at him. “He is very handsome.”

Katie noticed Damon look back and forth between the two women. “Yes…he…is.” Katie replied sounding as if she should be fanning herself as she watched Elijah walk over to them.

“Good evening, Mayor Lockwood.” Elijah held his hand out to Carol who took it and he kissed the back of it.

“Hello, Elijah.” Carol replied with a flirty smile. Elijah let go of her hand and she placed it back on the champagne glass in her other hand. “Save me a dance later?”

Elijah looked down at Katie with a fond smile as he slid his arm around her waist and she smiled up at him lovingly then looked back at Carol. “I do not know if my date would be comfortable with that.”

Katie didn't miss the shocked look on Carol’s face that faded into disappointment before she regained her composure. “So the two of you are…?” Carol left the question open ended.

“Together.” Elijah finished.

Carol’s eyes turned cold as she looked at Katie. “My son…Damon now Elijah.” While her voice was pleasant her demeanor was anything but. “No matter how many high status circles you weasel your way into,” she walked over to stand shoulder to shoulder with her as she looked at Katie with demeaning eyes, “you will never be anything more than the trash you spawned from.”

She watched Carol walk away with a smug smile making Katie’s gloved hands ball into fists and the veins under her eyes to pop to the surface. Damon made an uh-oh face and excused himself leaving Elijah to calm Katie before someone saw her slightly vamped out face. “Calm yourself.” Elijah told her quietly. “She is not worth causing a scene.”

Katie took a deep breath and pushed back the urge to kill Carol. “I hate this town.”

Elijah snagged two glasses of champagne off of a tray as a server walked by and handed one to her. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” He quoted as she took it from him and she gave him a small smile. “Who said it?”

“Eleanor Roosevelt.” She answered and placed her gloved hand on his cheek. “Thank you.”

“You are very welcome.” He told her as he took a drink of his champagne then motioned to the stairs with it. “Excuse me for a moment. I have to give the welcoming address.” He joined his family, including his mother that had gathered on the stairs. “If everyone could gather, please.” Elijah spoke to the guests. “Welcome. Thank you for joining us. You know, wherever our mother brings our family together like this, it’s tradition for us to commence the evening with a dance. Tonight’s pick is a centuries-old waltz. So if all of you could find yourselves a partner, please join us in the ballroom.”

Elijah walked down the stairs and held his arm out to Katie and she looped her arm through it. After everyone who had a partner was ready they joined hands in an awkward manner and started dancing to Ed Sheeran’s Give Me Love. “Your dancing has improved.”

“I’ve had a little Miss Mystic training.” Katie replied. “Along with what I remember you teaching me.” She answered.

“Did you win?” Elijah asked curiously.

“Nope, that honor went to Caroline along with the scholarship which was the only reason I ran.” She replied. "Can you believe there was a time when I didn't own a single dress and the thought of wearing heels made me cringe?"

"Judging by those awful shoes you attempted to wear today, yes." He told her with a smile that let her know he was picking with her before they did a twirl and switched partners. Katie ended up with Klaus.

He placed his hand on her side and grabbed her hand in his as she placed her left hand on his shoulder. "So I see Caroline decided to come. How’s that going?" Katie asked.

"She's playing hard to get." He answered. "But I'd rather talk about the fact that you ran for miss Mystic Falls."

"And I lost." She said bitterly as they danced.

"Perhaps you can run again this year." He suggested.

"And lose to an underclassman? No thanks." She replied. "I have a question though.” She told him possibly setting herself up for a let down but it was Klaus so she didn't really care if his answer was what she hoped. “If you were the one and only judge and Caroline and I were running for the crown tonight. Who would you choose?"

“You want me to choose between the two of you?” he asked with a surprised look.

“Maybe you should ask Elijah this question.” He told her and her eyes fell.

“Elijah’s bias. I want the truth from someone I know fancies both of us.” she told him then looked up at him as she adjusted her hand on his shoulder.

“So you are acknowledging the face that I fancy you.” he told her with a smirk.

“I am fully aware that you fancy me. You made me a very expensive, very beautiful room in your house and while I may have my oblivious moments I’d have to be blind to not see that you have a thing for me just like you have a thing for Caroline. Choose.” She told him.

He smirked at her, “We’re out of time, Love.”

He gave her a spin and she ended up with Elijah again. "We meet again." She told him with a smile.

"Yes, we have got to stop bumping into each other like this." He told her with a playful look in his eyes. “My mother has asked to speak to Elena alone.” He told her, making her tilt her head curiously.

“She’s the doppelganger with magical blood and your mother’s a witch. I would think that her wanting to talk to Elena wouldn’t be out of the ordinary.” Katie replied as they danced.

“It’s not, but what I do find strange to say the least is her ability to forgive Niklaus.” He explained.

“You think she’s just pretending to forgive him?” she asked curiously.

“It has me asking questions I never thought I’d ask.” He confirmed with a nod. “Do you think I can depend on her to tell me the truth about what my mother says?”

“No.” Katie answered without missing a beat. “But she’s a bad liar. So it would be useful to ask her to tell you what your mother says before she talks to her then give her a sneaky little lie detector test when they’re done.” Elijah smiled at her and rubbed her side then dipped her as the song ended.

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“Hey.” Caroline walked up next to Katie where she stood at the dessert table looking for something that wasn’t super sweet.

“Hey.” Katie answered back as she grabbed a piece of plain cheesecake and a fork.

“I guess I know now why you looked so happy yesterday morning.” Caroline told her and Katie looked up at her from her cheesecake with a small smile. “You’re practically glowing.”

“So you’re here with Klaus?” Katie asked, changing the subject.

“He invited me, I came to make sure Rebekah doesn’t hurt Matt.” Caroline told her with a look at Rebekah and Matt.

“So your attendance tonight has nothing to do with the fact that Klaus is extremely charming when he wants to be?” Katie asked with a smile as she took a bite of cheesecake.

“That… is beside the point.” Caroline told her as Klaus caught her eye from across the room and gave her a smile. “I need some fresh air.”

Katie smiled when her eyes found Elijah headed her way. “How did it go with Elena?” She asked as he noticed her eating cheesecake.

“We shall see.” He answered. “Rebekah said you didn’t much care for sweets.”

“I usually don’t. However,” she paused to take the last bite of cheesecake and a waiter held his hand out for the empty plate so she gave it to him, “I can never resist a good cheesecake.”

Elijah held his arm out to her. She took it and let him walk her to the ball room where people were dancing to another slow song. “What is your favorite dish?” he asked as they started dancing.

“Anything Italian as long as it doesn’t have eggplant in it.” she answered with a smile. “What about you?”

“Hmm” he hummed and narrowed his eyes in thought. “Your burned biscuits.”

“Really?” she laughed with raised brows.

“No, not really.” He answered with a laugh of his own. “I like Japanese curry.” He gave her a serious answer.

“You know what else I like?” she asked as she slipped her hand on his shoulder up to his neck and he gave her a look that told her to answer. “You.”

He usually wasn’t one for public displays of affection, but he couldn’t help pressing his lips to hers in a chaste kiss.

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Katie and Elijah were standing in the entryway while everyone gathered when Elijah spotted Elena. “Excuse me for a moment?” He asked and Katie gave him a nod so he walked over to stand next to Elena with his back to Katie. “So how was my mother?”

“Intense.” Elena replied.

“And for what reason did she need to speak with you in private?” Elijah asked as he grabbed two glasses of champagne off a tray that was offered to them.

A server walked by with a tray and offered Katie a fresh glass so she switched her warm glass for a new one of bubbly light red champagne then trained her ears back on Elena and Elijah while keeping her eyes diverted.

“Elena, should I be concerned about my mother’s intentions?” Elijah pressed.

Elena paused then answered. “She just wanted to apologize for trying to have me killed.”

“So it’s true, then? She’s forgiven Klaus?” Elijah asked and Katie heard Elena’s heart beat quicken.

“It’s true.” Elena lied.

Katie’s attention was drawn up to the stairs when Esther tapped her glass getting everyone’s attention. “Good evening everyone.” Esther addressed everyone while Katie walked over to Elijah’s side and he placed his hand on her lower back. “Waiters are coming around with champagne. I invite you all to join me in raising a glass.” People started switching out their glasses for the red champagne. “It provides me with no greater joy than to see my family back together as one. I’d like to thank you all for being part of this spectacular evening. Cheers.” She raised her glass and everyone else followed suit and echoed the word back.

Elijah turned to Katie and looked lovingly in her eyes, “Cheers.” He held his glass out to her and they tapped them together then both took a drink.

The two of them were about to go dance again when they heard a scuffle going on outside. They along with Finn, Rebekah, Klaus and Stefan followed the sound to find Damon crouching over Kol’s still body. “Are you crazy?” Stefan asked him.

Elena was the last to make it out and see the spectacle. “Maybe a little.” Damon answered then looked at Elena. “Far be it from me to cause a problem.” Damon walked away leaving Kol lying on the concrete unconscious from a broken neck.

Thanks to that the party came to a quick end and within thirty minutes everyone was gone. “Should I head home?” Katie asked Elijah.

“You do not want to stay?” he asked.

“I want to, but your mother looks ticked. I didn’t know if it would be better for me to get out of dodge. Especially considering I’m sure she doesn’t like me.” Katie explained quietly.

“You are still more than welcome to stay regardless of what my mother thinks of you.” he told her.

“Then I’ll stay.” she told him then headed upstairs to her room.

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After talking to Esther, Elijah found Katie in her room. “Klaus usually does a better job of decorating a house seamlessly.” He said as he walked in and looked around. “This room sticks out like a sore thumb.”

“Because he decorated it to my tastes.” she answered from where she was sitting in the arm chair in the corner. “When he asked me to live with all of you he asked if I had any requests for my, slash our, room.” she motioned around them with the cell phone in her hand.

“This is what you told him?” he asked with raised brows.

“Well, I said antique white, canopy bed and plush rug. I didn’t expect him to actually do it, much less take the idea and run with it.” she said as she put her cell phone away and stood up. “If you don’t like it we can stay in your room.”

“Do you like it?” he asked as he closed the space between them and placed his hands on her dress covered sides.

“I do.” She answered with an ashamed face. “But I feel bad for liking it because Klaus is the one that did all this for me.”

“You do not have to feel bad.” He told her as he placed his hand on her cheek.

“But I do.” She took his hand off her cheek and held it in hers. “I feel like he’s trying to compete with you or something and I shouldn’t accept all of this, but at the same time I couldn’t make myself be rude and not accept it from him. I’m sure even if I did try it wouldn’t have done any good because he’s…him. I just don’t want,” Elijah placed a hand on the back of her neck and looped his other arm around her waist as she kept talking, “you to feel like he-” he kissed her mainly to shut her up, but it quickly became more and she quietly sighed into it.

When the kiss slowed and they pulled apart she bit her lips closed as she opened her eyes and looked into his. “If it were a competition would he have any chance of winning?” he asked, his hand resting on the side of her neck.

“None.” She answered without missing a beat. “You already hold my heart.”

“Then stop worrying.” He told her. “We will make this our room.”

“I’m eager to get out of this dress, but I have a request first.” She told him as she walked over to the vanity and picked up her cell phone. “Think you can get someone to take a picture of us?”

“I think I can make that happen.” He told her and she followed him out of the room and down to the parlor where he found Klaus lounging on the couch with a sketchpad and pencil in his hand. “Niklaus.” Elijah said getting his attention. “Take a picture of us?”

Klaus stood up and took Katie’s unlocked phone from her. “Should I show him the trash folder?” he asked, making her glare at him. “Or do you not want him to know what a naughty girl you’ve been?”

“Is there something I should know?” Elijah asked with a narrow eyed look between the two of them.

“Yeah, your brother’s nosey.” Katie answered then looked at Elijah. “He commandeered my phone and went through the trash bin that I forgot to empty after Damon and I broke up.”

“You missed one, love.” Klaus told her then turned the phone around for Elijah to see a selfie of her lying on Damon’s bed wearing only a hot pink and black bra and matching cheeky panties.

“I’m going to murder you!” Katie took her phone from him and punched him in the shoulder as hard as she could.

“You can try.” Klaus told her with a laugh.

Katie looked up at Elijah apologetically then back down at her phone as she closed out the trash bin and pulled up the camera. “Will you just…behave for two seconds and take the picture please?”

“Yes, I promise I’ll stop snooping.” He told her as he forced his smile back and held his hand out for the phone. As he held it up to snap the picture Elijah wrapped his arm around her waist, she placed her hand on his tux covered chest and they both smiled. After they heard the shutter sound Katie stepped away from Elijah and took the phone from Klaus. Satisfied with the picture that Klaus had taken she locked the phone.

“Thank you.” she told him with a tone that said she didn’t mean it then turned and headed back up to their room. “I’m sorry about that.” She told Elijah as they walked into the room and shut the door behind them.

“What are you sorry for?” He asked as he loosened his bow tie then took off his tux jacket.

“I should have remembered to permanently delete those pictures.” She pointed out as she sat down on the bed and kicked off her heels.

“Do not worry about it.” he told her as he walked over to her and held out his hand.

She placed hers in it and stood up. “Are you sure?” she asked as she felt him start unlacing the ribbons of the corseted dress.

“Positive.” He answered as she felt the dress loosen and she grabbed the front of it to keep it from falling to the floor. “What’s your password?” he wrapped his arms around her with her phone in his hand.

She let him watch her type in her four digit pass code. While he sat down in the arm chair and messed around with her phone she stepped out of the dress and hung it back on the hanger. When she heard his text tone chime she turned from the wardrobe where she was hanging the dress up to see that he had put down her phone and had his in his hand. “Did you just…”

“Send that picture to my phone and delete it from yours?” he asked her with a smirk as she walked over to him in just her light pink lace strapless bra and matching cheeky panties. “Yes.”

She straddled his lap and started unbuttoning his white shirt. “Are you sure your siblings won't listen in on us?” she asked as she finished the last button of his shirt then slid her fingers down his toned, but not too toned torso.

He narrowed his eyes for a second in thought as he slid his hands down her sides to rest on her hips. “No, but if they do that’s their own fault.”

She leaned forward and started kissing his neck pulling a sigh from him. As she kissed his soft skin her hands worked on his belt buckle. When it was unfastened along with his button and zipper he whooshed them over to stand next to the bed losing his pants in the process. She pushed him onto the bed with her hand on his stomach as she got on the bed and straddled him. He whooshed them around so he was on top but she quickly rolled them back over, grabbed his hands and pinned them down beside his head as she sank down on him. The playfulness in her eyes made him roll over only for her to giggle and try to fight him to be on top again, but he was stronger and therefore won the fight.

She was kissing his neck again as he rocked into her when he sighed, “Bite me.”

She pulled back and looked into his eyes. “What?” he smiled and gave her a nod making her remember that he wanted to blood share with her.

He watched the veins under her eyes show themselves and the whites of her eyes turn red. So he sat them up and tilted his head to the side. A hissing growl left her lips as she sank her teeth into his neck and started drinking from him. Everything in her relaxed and a moan left her lips. The feeling only intensified when he grabbed her wrist and bit it. When he used his free hand to rock her hips against his, their senses went into overload and she was pretty sure she saw technicolor fireworks explode behind her closed eyes.

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“Is blood sharing always like that?” Katie asked not basking in the after feeling this time. “I mean, I know you said it was intensely intimate but…wow.” She turned onto her side and propped her head up with her elbow and hand.

“I believe our link might’ve had enhanced it somehow.” he answered as he grabbed her hand from his chest and kissed her palm then placed her hand on his neck. She laid her head on his shoulder and he started playing with her hair that was now free of bobby pins and hung around her shoulders.

The mention of their link made her think about Esther threatening to sever it and she frowned. “You know I will always love you…right?”

“Of course.” He answered looking down at her to see her frown.

“Even if your mother undoes the spell linking us?” she asked and he gave her a questioning look. “Today…she accused me of using you for your immortality and said that she could easily undo the spell linking us.”

“I will always love you and I know without a doubt that you will always love me. Spell or no spell.” He kissed her only solidifying his words with the passion of his kiss before he pulled away and picked up his watch off of the bedside table to see that it was two in the morning.

“I swear I could easily trade sleep for you.” she laughed as she snuggled into his side and wrapped her arm around his stomach.

He slid his free arm over hers. “Yes, but unfortunately we still need sleep to function properly.”

Katie sighed dramatically, “If we must.”

He chuckled at her. “Goodnight, My Love.”

“Goodnight, Handsome.” She whispered two seconds before her eyelids slipped shut.

[thebrotherssalvatore321]

Keeping Secrets Ch. 2

Keeping Secrets Masterlist

Pairing: DamonxOc for now. TylerxOc for a hot minute. ElijahxOc for an even hotter minute then KlausxOc endgame. Warnings: None for now.

After a mundane day at school Katie went to work at the bar. "You and Stefan talked, all night?" She heard Caroline asking Elena as she walked up to their table outside with their order and set it on the table before she joined them. "There was no sloppy first kiss or touchy feely of any kind?"

"Nope. We didn't go there." Elena answered as she folded a flier for the comet party that was happening in the town square tonight.

"Wait, what did I miss?" Katie asked, confused.

"Stefan came by Elena's last night to make sure she's okay." Bonnie answered. "Apparently they didn't do anything."

"What, why not? He's hot." Katie asked in disbelief.

"I don't know." Elena laughed dismissively.

"Elena, come on we're your friends. You're supposed to share the smut." Caroline argued.

"We just talked for hours." Elena argued not looking at her friends.

Katie and Bonnie shared a smile at Caroline's prying. "Okay what is with the blockage? Just jump his bones already. Okay it's easy." Katie picked up a flyer and folded it as she listened to Caroline. "Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, sex."

"Profound." Elena commented, still not looking at Caroline, but she stopped mid fold and looked to be in thought for a second before she tossed the piece of paper on the table and stood up.

"Where are you going?" Katie asked, noticing Elena’s sudden change of action.

"Caroline's right. It is easy. And if I sit here long enough I’ll end up talking myself out of it instead of doing what I started the day saying I was going to do." She grabbed her bag and walked off.

"Well that's a change." Katie said as she grabbed her pen and order pad and stood up. "It's good to see her half way happy again, but I need to get back to work before they fire my sorry ass." Her two friends just smiled and shook their heads as she headed back inside.

Later, while her friends and everyone else gathered outside to watch the comet Katie stood behind the bar at the grill. She had just given a customer their nachos when the super hot guy that caught Caroline’s eye the other night sat down and ordered a drink. "Here you go." Katie said, trying to sound chipper and not the least bit nervous as she placed a napkin down on the bar in front of him and set the glass of bourbon on it.

"You're one of Elena's friends, right?" He asked as he slid the glass closer then picked it up and took a drink.

"Uh, yeah." She answered surprised that he had even noticed her. "How do you know Elena?" She drew out the question then realized how rude she had sounded and added, "If you don't mind me asking."

"Not at all." He told her with a smile that made his blue eyes brighter then took another sip of his drink. "She came by my uncle's house earlier today to see my brother."

"Oh, okay. Stefan mentioned that he lived with his uncle, but he never mentioned a brother." She said as she leaned a hip against the bar and crossed her arms over her chest.

"We don't really get along. It's complicated." He answered. "I'm Damon." He reached his hand across the bar.

Katie took it without a second thought. "Katie." She shook it once then let go.

He was taking another sip when Vicki walked out of the bathroom and looked at him with a slack jaw and a confused face. "I know you."

Damon looked at her. "Well that's unfortunate."

Vicki walked around the bar, a little closer as she blinked in confusion. "I...I don't know how, but...your face..." Katie looked back and forth between the two of them, curiously. "I'm sorry, excuse me."

Damon looked back at Katie with wide eyes. "Well that was weird."

"She's probably just high again." Katie popped off before her boss called her name. "Duty calls." She sighed and patted the bar as she pushed her hip off of it. "It was nice meeting you, Damon."

Before she could move her hand from the bar Damon grabbed it and brought it to his lips. "Nice to meet you too, Katie." He gave her a small smile, kissed the back of her hand then let it go.

She felt herself blushing as she headed to the back where she knew her boss would be. "Look," he started as soon as he saw her, "You were here all day almost every day during the summer and now you are here every day from the time you get out of school to closing. I can't keep paying you overtime and Vicki needs to start pulling her weight. So go have some fun for once. Vicki's going to cover your shift."

"Fine." She sighed and started undoing the strings of her apron as she headed to the hook then hung it up. When she walked out of the back she hoped to see Damon still sitting at the bar, but he was nowhere to be seen. So she headed to the table where Elena, Caroline, Jeremy, Matt and Tyler sat arguing about something.

"How about all of you shut up and help me find my sister." Matte said. He turned to Katie as everyone split up. "Have you seen her?"

"Not since about ten minutes ago." She told him with a shake of her head. "I’ll help you look outside." She followed him out to the square then went separate ways.

She was doing a glance over of the square when she thought she heard a faint scream and looked up to see two people standing at the edge of the roof of a building, their backs illuminated by the streetlights. "What the hell?" She whispered as she took off toward the building. After running around the perimeter of the building she finally found a ladder that led to the roof and started climbing.

"You know what? Let her go. Let her tell everyone that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls." She heard Stefan's voice and followed it quietly. "Let them chain me up and let them drive a stake through my heart. At least then I'd be rid of you."

She eased her head around the big metal air conditioning unit that she was hiding behind to see Stefan and Damon arguing while Vicki cried on the gravel roof top. "Huh. Wow." Damon said with a look at his brother then moved down to Vicki and gently pulled her to him by her arm. "Come here, sweetheart. It's okay." He leaned down and whispered something in her ear and she stopped crying.

He stepped back and motioned to her then to Stefan before she looked around her and asked, "What happened? Where am I?"

"You okay?" Stefan asked and Vicki looked up at him.

"I took some pills man. I'm good." Vicki laughed.

Seeing that she was okay, Katie came out of hiding and ran over to the girl. "Vicki, hey, everyone's been looking for you." She placed her hand on Vicki's arm just for her to pull away. It was no surprise, the two weren't exactly friends. "Come on, let's go take care of those stitches." She gave Vicki a jerk of her head as she glared at the two guys on the roof who just looked back at her. Damon gave her a smirk when her eyes landed on him and she found herself no longer fooled by how cute he was because if she had heard them right they were talking about how they were vampires. They were crazy.

After delivering Vicki to Matt with Stefan strangely by her side, telling them some story about how he found her wandering around on the roof, Katie told everyone goodnight and went home. "Where the hell have you been?" Her grandpa asked as soon as she walked into the front door that led straight into the living room. His slurred words told her that he was drunk and the best thing to do was answer with one word and make a mad dash up the stairs.

"Work." With her head down she started for the stairs.

"Bullshit!" He yelled and chased after her, but she was already halfway up the stairs that he could never conquer when he was this drunk. So he thankfully gave up and Katie disappeared into her room.

She tossed her bag to the floor near her desk with a sigh then moved to the stereo on her headboard that doubled as a bookshelf and turned it up, blaring the local rock station. Her uncle yelled at her to turn it down, but times like these were the only times that she could blare the music because her grandpa was too drunk to do anything about it.

Needing to relax she took her long, auburn hair out of the tight ponytail that was giving her a headache and sat down at her desk as she shook out her thick waves, sighing at the relief. Thinking about what she had heard Stefan and Damon talking about she woke up her computer and pulled up the web browser. She typed in Mystic Falls and vampires. Nothing came up. She started thinking about Vicki, and trying to figure out why it was her up there with them. Why the girl that had been attacked by an animal at a party that Stefan was at, was on the roof with him and his mysterious brother. So she back spaced over vampires and typed in animal attack instead. A story about Vicki popped up along with a story about two people who were attacked by an animal while camping and a couple who disappeared on their way through. Not finding anything else she brushed it off as her mind running away from her.

After shutting off the computer she pulled out her journal and began writing. "Well, I've had an interesting night. It started when I served Damon, Stefan's older brother and the smoking hot guy that Caroline was eyeing, at the bar last night. This is going to sound pathetic especially considering what I'm going to tell you later in this entry, but I like him and it's not because he's really freaking hot, but because he actually noticed me. Like I said, pathetic. I served him his drink and he struck up a conversation with me. That never happens to me. That was the good part of my night. The bad part happened after I had to leave Damon to talk with my boss who told me I work too much and to clock out and have fun. I didn't have fun. Instead I helped the gang look for the stoner bitch Vicki. I expected her to just be out back getting high or popping pills, but instead I found her crying on top of a roof with Stefan and Damon Salvatore. But the weird thing was Damon and Stefan were talking about being vampires and the town's people staking them in the heart if they found out. I wanted to think they were crazy. I still want to think they are bat shit crazy, but then Damon whispered something in Vicki's ear and she forgot how she even got on the roof in the first place. I know she was high, but I've seen high people before and this was something different. The Salvatore brothers are dangerous and I have no intention of spending time around them if I can help it. I could never talk to my friends about this. I mean, Elena's practically dating Stefan. What am I supposed to tell her, "Hey, your boyfriend and his brother are vampires."? No that would make me sound as crazy as Bonnie's grams...as crazy as I-"

Hearing a thud outside she put down her pen, closed the book and moved to the window to look out. Not seeing anything she slid up the window and leaned out to get a better look. She didn't see anything and was shutting the window when Damon's face appeared right in front of hers causing her to scream and stumble back.

He sighed and put his forehead on the glass. "Calm down and open the window please." He picked up his head and rolled his blue eyes. "No need to be dramatic."

"What? No." She scoffed, still stunned to see him on her roof. "How did you even get up here?"

"I jumped." He answered as if it were obvious. "Now open the window."

Katie crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't even know you. What are you doing here?"

"Open the window and invite me in and I'll tell you." He told her with an aggravated, smart-alecky smile.

"What so you can whisper in my ear and wipe my memory like you did to Vicki?" She asked backing away from the window.

"You saw that huh?" He asked, sounding like a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

"Yeah, I saw that." She said with a sway of her head.

"Okay, I promise if you let me in that I won't wipe your memory. I just need to know what all you heard tonight and this conversation would be a lot easier if you would just let me in." He said glancing around to make sure no one had seen him.

She realized then that if one of the neighbors saw him outside and told her grandpa she would be in a world of hurt. So she pushed the window up and stepped aside. "Get in here before someone sees you."

"Thank you." He told her as he stuck a leg inside then ducked through the window. "That’s better." He straightened his jacket and looked around. "Cozy."

She sat down on her bed, crossing her legs. "So what do you want to know?"

"I want to know exactly what you heard me and Stefan talking about tonight." He said not looking at her but the books that sat along the back of her desk.

"I heard Stefan say that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls and for you to let Vicki go tell everyone about it so that they would drive a stake through his heart and he could finally be rid of you." She said putting it all on the table even though she knew there was about a seventy-five percent chance that he could wipe her memory or simply kill her for knowing something she shouldn't.

"Well, you heard right. I'm a vampire, so is Stefan." He hadn't said anything else and was still looking around her room when he placed his hand on her journal. She jumped off the bed and snatched it off the desk before he could open it. He looked at her as if she were a weirdo. "You can snoop through anything in this room, but not this." She turned from him and tucked the book under her pillow.

"Why? Are there naughty thoughts about me in there?" He asked with a smile and a flick of his brow.

"Anyone ever tell you you're cocky?" She asked avoiding his question as she sat back down on her bed.

"Only every day of my life." He said with a sarcastic smile as he finally sat down backwards in her desk chair. "You seem oddly calm for someone with a vampire in their bedroom. So you either don't believe that I could drink you like a human juice box or you do believe me and you just don't care."

"I want to believe you, because I've always had an open mind like that, and I don't have any explanation for what I saw happen with Vicki on that roof, but at the same time I feel like I need better proof because drugs make people do strange things." She answered as she brought her feet up on the bed to sit Indian style.

"You want me to prove to you that I'm a vampire?" He asked and she simply shrugged. "You realize you're practically asking me to feed on you right?" He asked with raised brows and wide eyes.

"Maybe." She said with a shrug. "But that's not what I meant."

"Then what did you mean?" He asked, surprised with himself and the fact that he hadn't just compelled this girl to forget everything she had heard on the roof, but he was actually having fun talking to her. Any other girl would be screaming or running away…or both.

"I don't know, vampires obviously have tricks like whatever you did to Vicki. What else can you do?" She replied looking him up and down almost challengingly. "Oh and is Vicki going to become a vampire? I assume the so-called animal attack was really one of you considering she was on the roof with two vampires."

"You're too observant for your own good." He said with a shake of his head that made it seem like something bad was going to happen to her for knowing too much. "No, bites don't turn you." He answered then looked at her seeming to be in thought. "As for the proof you need from my bag of tricks...here," he held his hand out to her, "give me your hand."

"Are you going to drink my blood?" She asked suspiciously.

"Only if you want me to." He mentally slapped himself. He didn't need her permission, if he wanted it he could take it from her, permission be damned.

"Will it keep you from hurting more people if I do let you have some of my blood?" She asked and he just smirked and shook his head no. "Then no. Are you going to hurt me?" She asked still not placing her hand in his that was still stretched out to her.

"Only a little." He said with a spark of adventure in his light blue eyes. Katie couldn't resist and she placed her hand in his with her palm facing up. "Do you trust me?" He asked with a smile.

"Not one bit, but go ahead anyway." She told him with a wave of her hand.

You're either really brave or really stupid." He commented as he picked up the letter opener off of her desk and with a flick of his hand sliced open the meaty part of her palm between her thumb and wrist. She flinched and sucked in a sharp breath, but otherwise did nothing. He noticed her high tolerance to pain, but didn't comment on it.

When he smiled up at her, blood veins under his eyes popped to the surface and the whites of his eyes turned red. "Does that mean that you're trying to not drink me?" She asked with a motion to his eyes and he smiled, showing off his fangs.

He blinked a few times and the fangs and blood vessels went away. "Yeah, let's go with that." He answered then looked down at her bleeding hand. "Now, here," he bit his wrist and held it over to her, "drink up.”

"Ew, no." She shook her head and he rolled his eyes.

"Just do it. You won't turn into a vampire I promise."

"Fine." She wrinkled her nose and instead of sucking on his wrist like he thought she would she caught a thick drop of blood with her tongue then licked over the bite mark to collect the rest of it before the bite healed.

"Now, watch." He nodded to her hand that was still resting in his.

She watched with wide eyes as the gash slowly closed and the pain faded. "Okay, I believe you. You’re a vampire." She took her hand from his and ran her finger over the area where the cut had been then turned her eyes to his. "Now what?"

"I don't know yet." He said as he rested his chin on the back of the chair. "Can I trust you not to say anything to any of your little friends?"

"I don't know, can I trust that you won't kill or hurt any of my little friends?" She asked as she scooted back and leaned against the wall.

He thought about it long and hard. As much as he liked this girl, she was still just another expendable human who was also a liability. She knew too much and therefore needed to be taken out of the picture, but something about her made him want to trust her. For the first time in a very long time he didn't want to play with a girl's head. If he did that then she wouldn't really be herself anymore and he probably wouldn't enjoy her company as much. "I promise I won't kill any of your friends. Does feeding on one of them count as hurting? Because I really like Caroline. She seems...easy."

"Yes, it does." She told him with an eye roll as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Then I can't promise not to hurt her." He told her with a big smile.

She just rolled her eyes and shook her head, her eyes catching the time on her alarm clock as she did. "Shit, it's getting late and I have school tomorrow." She said as she slid off the bed and moved to the window. "You should get going." She slid the window up and jerked her head toward it.

"I'm not leaving until you promise me that you won't say anything to anyone about what we are." He said not moving from the desk chair.

"Fine, as long as you don't kill anyone I'll keep your secret." She said with a sigh not sounding like she meant it.

"That doesn't work for me, you have to promise." He said looking down at her with an almost pouting expression. 

"Fine, I promise I won't tell." She told him grumpily.

"Thank you." He told her with a small smile then picked up her hand and kissed it where he had cut her before. His eyes turned red and veins popped below them and she watched them disappear as he pulled back and smirked at her. "Goodnight."

[neraidaastrid]

Prompt list-July 2020

Requests are open so please request a prompt and a character❤️

“You look.....wow...”

“Please....I can’t loose you too”

“Stop acting as though I’m gonna break!”

“I love you more than words can explain.”

“”I’m more powerful than you could ever imagine.”

“Come back! Please....”

“No, it’s too soon.”

“I promise you, i will get you back,”

“Is it seriously that hard to leave me alone for 5 minutes?”

“Stop pretending you don’t care!”

“I can see right through that facade.”

“Is it possible for a woman to be any prettier?”

“Did you invite me here to be a distraction?”

“I expected more from you...”

“Again and again you let me down and I’m sick of it!”

“I just want to be happy....”

“Why is it so hard for you to let people in!”

“You’re an idiot, you know that?”

“You’re lucky you’re my bestfriend,”

“You’re lucky i love you.”

“No, I’m happy that you’re happy, but when i see everything you have, your home, your boyfriend, your kids, your life, it makes me feel so alone that i wanna die!”

“If i see something I haven’t seen before, I’ll throw a dollar at it.”

“Oh go back to staring at yourself!”

“Do you ever just shut up?”

“If you wanted me dead, I’d be dead.”

“Oh you were so much more fun when you were asleep.”

“You know I can’t sleep without you by my side.”

“Dear diary, a chipmunk asked me my name today, I told him it was joe, that lie will haunt me forever.”

“I heard my name, all good I hope.”

“Well, in case you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m a sociopath.”

“You can survive without a spleen!”

“It’s where your boyfriend whispered to you that he loved you.”

“Have I ever told you how much I love you?”

“So, this is your girlfriend....?”

“She’s not my girlfriend.....”

“He’s not my boyfriend......”

“Can you like, leave?”

“Are you able to ever just be quiet?”

“I love you like I’ve never loved anyone before.”

“You ignite this spark in me.”

“I don’t think we could ever be just friends.”

“My parents are going to hate you.”

“We are friends, I don’t like you like that.”

“I’m not letting you leave!”

“Stay..... for me....”

“When are you going to learn that you aren’t in control of me!”

“Just go! Everyone else does!”

“Don’t you believe me?”

“I don’t trust you as far as I can throw you, and I’m weak.”

“Fine. Have it your way.”

Must have been the wind- Alec Benjamin

Stay- Gracie abrams

Mean it- Gracie abrams

Obsessed- Dan+Shay

Jokes on you- Charlotte Lawrence

Call me in the morning- Billy Lockett

Addicted- Kelly Clarkson

Secrets- One Republic

A thousand years- Christina Perri

My immortal- Evanescence

Rest of us- Blake Rose

Demons- Alec Benjamin

Because of you- Kelly Clarkson

Story of my life- One Direction

Heartbreak girl- 5sos

If you leave- Meredith Brackbill

Waves- Dean Lewis

You should be sad- Halsey

From the ground up- Dan+Shay

Speechless- Dan+Shay

Close your eyes- Dan+Shay

She will be loved- Marroon 5

Love Ain’t- Eli Young Band

Ghost of you- 5sos

La Vie En Rose- Louis Armstrong

When I was your man- Bruno Mars

Mr brightside- The Killers

Photograph- Ed Sheeran

Kiss me- Ed Sheeran

I wish- Declan J Donovan

Moral of the story- Ashe

I heard goodbye- Dan+Shay

I blame you- Aidan Martin

Tell me it’s not over- Starsailor

I hope- Gabby Barrett

Moving Along- 5sos

The book of you and I- Alec Benjamin

Gone- Blake Rose

19 you+me- Dan+Shay

Long sleeves- Gracie Abrams

Nothin’ like you- Dan+Shay

Dancing with you ghost- Sasha Sloan

Before you go- Lewis Capaldi

So cold- Ben Cocks

Hold on- Chord Overstreet

Lego house- Ed Sheeran

Perfect- Ed Sheeran

Out of love- Alessia Cara

What we had- Sody

Dancing on my own- Callum Scott