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Damon Salvatore (most_dangerous) wrote,
@ 2011-02-02 15:27:00

Current mood:	determined
Entry tags:	au, elena, rp

The Aftershocks Go On [RP for notkatherine]
Follows the AU storyline begun in THIS THREAD

Damon had gone through plenty of painful experiences. Even before becoming a vampire, he'd been wounded in battle. After that, the change had not been pleasant, and he'd discovered firsthand the effects of things like sunlight and vervain had on creatures like himself. And just a little earlier that day, he'd taken a wooden crossbow bolt in the back, and that had stung like hell. But there had never been any torture like moving through his insane little existence in Mystic Falls as if what had happened between him and Elena hadn't.

He was actually hoping that the road trip to Duke would have gotten him some traction, even with Ric along for the ride, but it seemed like Elena was determined to take every opportunity to rub Damon's face in ridiculous PDA after PDA with Stefan and then give him a super cold shoulder the entire trip. But a cold shoulder was paradise compared to the twist of the knife. She'd let him believe that there was a chance for her to be his friend-- a euphemism, Damon had assumed-- and then stabbed him in the back once he'd given her the information on Katherine she'd wanted.

The crossbow shot had hurt a hell of a lot less. "I thought friends don't manipulate friends?" He replied to Elena. "You and Katherine have a lot more in common than just your looks."

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notkatherine
2011-02-02 11:50 pm UTC (link)

She wasn't Katherine, she told herself. She'd told both Stefan and Damon that, too, but Elena couldn't deny that she was using them both, trying to have them both somehow. Even Isobel had asked her about that when she'd met her birth mother.

She wasn't Katherine, but Damon called her on it and Elena couldn't look him in the eyes.

"Whatever happened between us... it can't happen again, I can't let it," she whispered. She'd told him before that she didn't want to hurt Stefan -- he didn't deserve to be hurt if he found out -- and she vaguely remembered Damon saying he would take the blame before she'd fallen asleep in his arms in her bed. Elena had tried to push Damon away every way she could think of, but he'd saved her life. Again.

And every night when Stefan wasn't around, she would think about Damon's words and the way they'd fucked. Not making love... fucked.

"I... I do want to be your friend, Damon, but...that's all." And maybe, Elena thought, she could lie to herself about that, too.

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most_dangerous
2011-02-03 12:07 am UTC (link)

"This is getting really old, Elena," Damon spat. He'd been ready to walk away, ready to turn his back on her house and her porch where he'd been tricked into kissing Katherine while thinking it was Elena, where she had just kicked him in the teeth in the name of the her own needs all while condemning him for doing the same. But then she'd brought up their night together, the one that until now she seemed to have forgotten. "It's time to make a damn decision and stick to it."

Two steps in the other direction and he was all but looming over Elena, not more than a few inches separating them now. "Seriously, there can't be any way you're still denying it. Denying us. Obviously, you still remember what happened, not that you've been acting like it. I showed you that I know what you want, Elena... what you really want." He raised his hand, cupping Elena's chin in his fingers. "And you showed me in no uncertain terms it's what you want, too."