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Elena Gilbert ([info]notkatherine) wrote in [info]utr_logs,
@ 2010-10-27 12:16:00

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Entry tags:damon salvatore (tv), elena gilbert

Who: Damon Salvatore & Elena Gilbert
What: Meeting for the first time since she got here, and she's not exactly thrilled.
When: Immediately following this conversation.
Where: Some local restaurant in Georgia where Damon's at.
Warnings: Possible swearing from Damon and some angst. Yup.



Elena was completely confused. Florida was a long ways away from Mystic Falls and the website Damon had shown to her hadn't exactly made things perfectly clear. The fact that the last thing she remembered was hugging Jeremy's body after Damon had snapped his neck and then left combined with the other fact that the Damon she was talking to said he didn't remember any of that still made no sense.

She wished Stefan was here. Or even Isobel, because at least she would know what exactly was going on.

Part of Elena was happy that it seemed like Katherine wasn't around at the very least, which was good. Then again, it also meant that Stefan wasn't around so she was back to being that lonely little ex-cheerleader whose parents died, leaving her alone. Except in this world, she was alone with Damon, someone she had come to truly trust and care about until he'd tried to kiss her and...

Using the port key he'd told her about, she tried to shake it all off. From Florida to Georgia, back to some good memories where she'd saved his life and he'd saved hers.

Elena stood in the doorway to the restaurant, scared. Not scared of what Damon would do to hurt her, but scared of what was going to happen next, frankly.

"Hey."



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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-10-27 07:29 pm UTC (link)
Damon had never expected, ever, that Elena would end up in this world. At least not an Elena that remembered *him*. Oh Stefan knew him, but it wasn't the Stefan that he remembered and he wasn't the Damon that this Stefan remembered. All too confusing if one asked him.

And apparently the Elena that Damon knew was not the one that Stefan did. More confusion. But now this Elena claimed that Damon had destroyed any chance with her by killing Jeremy. Sure, he thought the teenager was far too emo and a total ass to his sister but it didn't warrant him killing the boy. It made him curious to what could have possibly driven ANY version of him to do it. Though if Katherine was in the mix, that might explain it some.

He felt her presence before she spoke or before the light illuminated her in the doorway. He rose and turned to face her.

"Hey."

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[info]notkatherine
2010-10-27 09:57 pm UTC (link)
"So..."

This was possibly the most awkward meeting ever,she decided, as she stepped inside and walked over to Damon. Elena took a deep breath as she stared at him, trying to decide if she should slap him or just cry. According to the website, this Damon might not even be the same Damon she knew, so maybe there was hope.

She shoved her hands quickly into her pockets and looked down and away from him. "You're doing that eye thing again." Sighing, Elena sat down and tried to figure out something rational or sensible to say in a place that made no sense at all.

"Tell me you would never hurt Jeremy. Even if Katherine was here and messing with you and Stefan. Even if you tried to kiss me and I told you there was nothing between us and I loved your brother. Tell me that... and we're good."

Or maybe lie to her, which was also an option considering everything right then.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-10-28 05:46 pm UTC (link)
Damon immediately slid into the booth opposite her, frowning at how distraught she seemed.

"Elena, I would never hurt Jeremy. He may be a bit too emo for my tastes and I despise how he is treating you of late, but I'd never hurt him," Damon said. "Hell, he asked me about turning into a vampire, though no idea what that was about. I told him it's not the answer. That you can suppress the pain for the most part, but it never goes away."

He tried not to let the words of how there was nothing between them and that she loved Stefan hurt him, but they did.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-10-28 06:00 pm UTC (link)
She looked up at him from where she was sitting and took a deep breath. "I... believe you. So we're good for right now. Just don't screw it up, Damon. Please?"

Elena leaned her head forward onto her hands, sighing. "Jeremy has every right to be pissed at me. I lied to him. I took his memories away... that was my idea, even if you were the one who did it." And God, she hoped that this Damon at least remembered that much. "Anna was killed and he drank her blood so I'm guessing it had something to do with her." Not that Jeremy had been talking to her much recently, and not that Elena had been doing much of anything except trying to sort our everything with Isobel, Stefan, Damon, and John.

"And Katherine's not here, right?" Just to make sure. Elena had to know; this place was weird enough as it was.

She leaned back in the booth and ordered a soda, remembering the beers she'd had with Damon and wishing she knew the bartender here so she could have one again. Then she remembered her I.D., pulled it out, and noticed it said she was legal. Grinning, she showed it to the passing waiter. "Two beers, please?" A look back at Damon and she smiled for the first time. "I think I'm going to need one before you start explaining everything to me."

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-10-28 06:48 pm UTC (link)
"Still, he had no right to treat you like a--," his thoughts paused on the part about Anna's blood. "Wait... is THAT why he was asking me all those questions?" he said. "Damn... Elena, I swear if I knew he had that, I wouldn't have left him after I told him about Anna. I know how that would have destroyed you if Jeremy had become something like me."

He decided to wait and nod about the beers before continuing. "Katherine is not here," he said. "Though from what I am told that doesn't mean she won't eventually be dropped here. Technically I am the only one you know here. The Stefan that is here, or was, not sure he even is anymore, is not the Stefan you know."

Not that it would really matter, right? He's still St. Stefan and she'll fall for him just like she did back where they were from.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-10-28 07:00 pm UTC (link)
When the beers were brought, Elena smiled and toasted to Damon. "Yeah, well, he thought... I don't know what he thought. He was upset about finding out the truth about Vicki, then with Anna..." She trailed off and took a quick swig of her beer, not wincing. This was more like the Elena that had been with Damon in Georgia before, only that one had eventually had a lot more fun. "Katherine attacked John and sent him to the hospital, Caroline was dying and you gave her your blood in order to heal her, Jeremy was saved by Uncle John's ring after..." Well, that part didn't matter if this Damon didn't know any of it she supposed. "And Katherine apparently wanted Stefan back and me away from him." She laughed as she took another drink. "Guess she got what she wanted."

Maybe getting drunk with Damon right now was a good idea. Elena just wanted to forget everything. If she couldn't go back home, then why should she dwell on the past... right?

"Different Stefan. Gotcha." She raised her eyebrows at Damon and sighed. "Okay, this talk is getting too serious even for me. Can't we go back to that fun thing? You tease me, I get mad at you for doing something rash, we laugh about it later? I miss that." Ever since he killed... no, Elena reminded herself. That wasn't this Damon, he said. Hopefully he wasn't lying.

"So, go for it. Say something snarky at me. I'm giving you a free shot."

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-10-28 07:45 pm UTC (link)
"Caroline was... oh... right- the accident," Damon said. Though he didn't believe he would give her his blood, why and who would have thought that was a good idea? And John gave Jeremy his ring? What the hell had happened to her?

"Yeah... he kinda has this whole glam rock wanna-be look going on, or did, no clue," he said, shrugging some.

He lifted his beer bottle, taking a swig before he reached over and clinked his bottle to hers.

"Believe it or not, I'm fresh out of snark at the moment," he said. "This place has a tendency to do that. Especially if you start to care for someone and then they are suddenly sucked away." Maybe a bad choice of phrase for a vampire?

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[info]notkatherine
2010-10-28 08:15 pm UTC (link)
"Glam rock...?" She shook her head and took another swig of her beer. "Okay, I can't possibly be THAT drunk just yet. Besides, I can outlast you," she pointed out.

So, Stefan was gone. Or her Stefan, at the very least. Elena wasn't sure she wanted to meet this new one or not, especially if he might not even remember her. Maybe it was best to just think of everything here as a clean break?

"You? Out of snark?" Elena shook her head at Damon. "I find this hard to believe." Then his other words hit her and she froze. He wasn't talking about Katherine, was he? She'd thought that he'd hit rock bottom and had gotten over her, but maybe she was wrong. Like he said, he still wanted to at least talk to Katherine and find out what was up with her. Elena cleared her throat and looked at her bottle.

"Who... who did you care for that was sucked away?" She tried to sound as not-jealous as possible. After all, it wasn't like she was dating Damon. She didn't have a right to his love life.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-10-28 08:30 pm UTC (link)
"You think you can," he said, that smirk of his forming as he took another swig of beer. He shrugged at the concept of Stefan being glam, though there was that unfortunate incident during the whole Ziggy Stardust phase...

"Um..." he said. "Her name was Napalm. She was born in this universe around now, but it was her future self that was brought here. We were... involved and shortly thereafter she was taken back out to probably return to her world."

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[info]notkatherine
2010-10-28 08:39 pm UTC (link)
"Interesting name." Elena tried to sound as non-committal as possible as she took another drink. "Did you love her?" She smiled and shook her head. "Never mind, this whole place is just... you don't have to tell me. It's only that..."

Why was she fumbling for words around Damon? Then she realized.

"You're my only friend here." Which was scary, because she knew Damon and his tendencies. He wasn't going to stop feeding on humans, he wasn't going to stop hurting people when he got hurt, he was probably going to sleep around with lots of women and brag about it.

"Should I be worried? Being here, I mean.... are there other vampires or things I need to freak out about right now?" Yes, Elena was good at deflecting the real issue, but it probably didn't stop Damon from picking up on it.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-10-28 08:47 pm UTC (link)
Damon's eyebrow arched a bit, wondering at that line of questioning. "Why Miss Gilbert, are you jealous?" he asked with that grin of his before sobering. "No, I didn't love her. I didn't get the chance to." And truth be told, he probably could haven't loved Napalm the way she wanted. He was too hung up on the girl sitting in front of him.

"Worried? I'll protect you, so that won't matter," Damon said, waving his hand dismissively. "But there are other vampires here as well as other magical creatures and beings, coupled with people from the past and various other things, movies and such."

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[info]notkatherine
2010-10-28 08:59 pm UTC (link)
"No, Mister Salvatore," she answered easily, staring right at Damon's eyes, almost daring him to try and ask her again. "Why would I be? You've got... Napalm and I've got... well, anyway..." She looked down and repeated the words she'd said to him after they had opened the tomb to find Katherine wasn't there.

"I'm sorry." And she was sorry he'd lost someone important to him. It was the one thing about Damon that she thought no one else really got.

"Oh... thanks, I guess." Elena took another sip, thinking about all the other creatures. "You don't have to go out of your way, though." And she was falling so easily back into the way things had been between them before the whole Jeremy mess. Maybe things would be okay, Elena thought, as she smiled at him.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-10-29 02:32 pm UTC (link)
"Ahhh but that's just it, isn't it? I don't have Napalm and you don't have Stefan," Damon pointed out. "At least not here."

He paused a moment on her apology before giving a non-committal shrug. "No need to be. It was short and sweet, but that was all." He drank more of his beer.

"And it's not a hardship," Damon said. "Hanging out with you. Been there, done that, remember our last trip to Georgia?" He grinned at her.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-10-29 05:14 pm UTC (link)
She coughed and nodded her head, shrugging. It was true, but Elena didn't really want to think about it much right then. "But I have you. That's what you're saying?" She tilted her chin up a bit as if daring him to deny it, although in truth Elena was glad to have the "old" Damon as her friend back.

"Yes, I remember." She watched the grin on Damon's face and noted it was much less dramatic or angry or anything like she'd seen before being brought here. Somehow she couldn't help but smile back. "I remember that you kidnapped me and forced me to save your life," she smirked, waiting for his reaction.

Maybe this could work. Maybe this Damon wouldn't go around killing or hurting people or staying hung up on Katherine...

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-02 02:28 pm UTC (link)
"That's exactly what I'm saying." In most cases, he would add a smirk or his voice would show his amusement, but in this instance... Damon was very serious about what he was saying to Elena. How she took it was up to her, but Damon did love her and would go to the ends of the Earth for her. Some would say that's what he did for Katherine, but in his heart he knew that this was entirely different.

His eyebrow arched about Georgia. "*I* remember driving out of town to go see a friend when I came across you needing rescuing from both a car wreck and a vampire," he said. "Then you passed out and I figured why stop, so I took you with me."

He set his bottle down. "And I never did thank you for saving my life." He reached across the table to cover her hand with his. "Thank you."

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-02 08:40 pm UTC (link)
"Oh." Elena lost a little of her bravado when she saw how serious Damon was about it and looked away. She had him, as in really having him, and she remembered how he was so upset when he learned she hadn't been the one to kiss him and then how he'd said she was lying to herself and after that the fumbling kiss that she'd tried to deny.

Damon was making it very difficult to think when he acted so serious instead of snarky.

Once the snark came back, she took a deep breath and nodded. "Thanks, you know. For getting me out of the car and not asking all these questions about me and Katherine and..." Elena shook her head. "Let's just not talk about her." For all she knew, Katherine could pop up in this world at any time and Damon could go off the deep end again.

She coughed and looked up at Damon when he touched her hand. "You're... welcome." Blushing, she shook her head. "Why are you being so nice to me? I thought hearts and flowers weren't your thing."

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-04 06:43 pm UTC (link)
"Oh believe me, I wanted to ask," he said, but he didn't want to talk about her either. "Good idea, no mentions or talking of Katherine at all."

Damon pulled his hand back and got comfortable in his seat. He waved to the waitress to bring them menus.

"Oh I can do hearts and flowers. Under the right circumstances and to the right person," he said, giving her that smile.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-04 06:59 pm UTC (link)
Elena smiled easily once Damon moved away and had that smirk back, getting menus for them. This, she could do. Being friendly and not worrying about Katherine with Damon just being Damon and not confusing her the way that she was feeling before.

"Hearts and flowers. Mmm-hmm. I'd like to see that," she smirked, missing what he meant as she peered over the menu.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-04 07:07 pm UTC (link)
With menu in hand, Damon began to look for something to eat. His eyebrow arched and his ice blue eyes peered over the menu to look at her. Her words intrigued him and he simply smirked, the only obviousness to her was the crinkles near the corner of his eyes.

"I'd like to show you," he said.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-04 07:21 pm UTC (link)
"Would you?" She was teasing back, trying for normalcy in a world that wasn't normal at all and ignoring the fact that the "something" she knew she had with Damon was coming back easily for a girl who had just watched him "kill" her brother.

"Let me guess. Would you cook for me, too?" Not that she'd admit she enjoyed the times he'd come over to her place unannounced and spent time cooking for her.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-04 07:25 pm UTC (link)
"Yes I would," Damon said, grinning. "To both questions. I love to cook. And I like to think I've gotten fairly good at it over the past few decades."

Which was saying something for a rich Southern-born man who had servants most of his life that did almost everything for him. One of the hardest things he had to adjust to after becoming a vampire was becoming more self-reliant, but he liked to think he had adjusted well.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-04 07:31 pm UTC (link)
She put her menu down and shrugged a little bit. "I suppose that having someone cook for me wouldn't be so bad considering that my new job here is waitressing." Again, Elena tried her best to ignore the very good points that Damon was making.

She'd gotten pretty good at lying to herself about how Stefan was the perfect boyfriend, considering how nice Damon had become recently and how they'd had to lock up Stefan so he wouldn't kill people. Or the story of how they both became vampires to begin with...

"Hamburger with fries, please. I'm starved." Elena paused. "Could you come over to my place and make sure it's vampire-safe?"

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-04 07:33 pm UTC (link)
"I'll have the same, extra pickles," Damon said, the last a bit more of a tease to Elena at the last time they ate out in Georgia. Once the waitress was gone, he addressed her question. "Of course I will."

There was something that had been niggling at the back of his mind since... well technically since the incident, but it was coming up now so he would ask.

"Can I ask you something, honestly?"

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-04 08:02 pm UTC (link)
Elena rolled her eyes and as she was about to take another sip of her beer -- careful to nurse it now instead of just getting drunk -- she stopped at Damon's question.

"I've always been honest with--" Frowning, she corrected herself. "I've tried my best to be honest with you. Feel free to compel me if you really want to, though." Not that she thought he would. She liked the idea that he trusted her.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-04 08:05 pm UTC (link)
"No need to compel you," he said. He was quiet a moment, almost as if he wasn't going to ask now, but it was more him gaining courage. He wasn't sure if he'd like the answer if she knew.

"Did you..." he started, frowning. "You didn't have anything to do with helping Stefan when he poisoned and imprisoned me, did you? When I was still with Caroline?"

If Damon really thought about it, he would have realized she couldn't have because she hadn't even know Stefan or he were vampires at that point.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-04 08:20 pm UTC (link)
She nodded at his answer, expecting that, and clasped her hands in front of her on the table, waiting. His question hit her like a ton of bricks, though.

"What? No, I... no. Look Damon, you pissed me off while you were with Caroline because I know you didn't treat her well, and God knows what else you did to her. Feed off her, compel her to be some sex slave, whatever. But no, I didn't."

She frowned at him. "Why are you asking me this? I thought we were past all that, I thought you wanted to move on and..." Elena couldn't finish her thought.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-04 08:23 pm UTC (link)
"I do, that's why I asked," Damon admitted. "I just..." he sat back some, sighing. "It's been in the back of my mind, constantly biting at me and wondering. So I need to ask, find out the truth and get it done and over with."

He was glad to know she had nothing to do with what Stefan did.

"I just needed to know that, even with how angry you were, that you wouldn't be apart of letting me starve till I couldn't move and being locked up for at least fifty years." He leaned forward again, resting his elbows on the table. He never looked at her, simply stared at his hands.

"Caroline... at the time was a means to get close. And feed. And have that relief there. But if I could change how things happened, the things I did..." He shook his head. "Never mind. Forget I brought it up. New topic." He remembered telling Stefan that his guilt and remorse were his own. He wasn't going to off load them onto Elena, it wasn't fair to her.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-04 08:38 pm UTC (link)
It was a lot for Elena to take in, and she rested her head on her hands as she absorbed it all. "If the two of you would stop fighting for one tiny moment, then maybe things like that wouldn't happen," she muttered more to herself than anything.

She wanted to apologize for Stefan's behavior, but then again, Damon had fed her his blood and threatened to snap her neck once. She ended up just rolling her eyes at him.

"Damon," she started, staring right at him, "if you could change the things you did, you'd do everything the same way because you wanted Katherine out of the tomb and with you." She smiled a little to let him know she was calling his bluff, and that despite whatever he did, she wasn't mad at him. Right now.

"Okay new topic. Did you sleep with Isobel?" The small smile was on her face still, because Elena wasn't sure how much more revelations she could handle.

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-04 08:42 pm UTC (link)
The thing about being a vampire was the super hearing. He frowned, shaking his head. "No it wouldn't," he said quietly. "Stefan made a choice almost two hundred years ago. Made it for the both of us and because of it we lost everything. He made the choice to regret it years later and became what he is now."

He sighed a bit more. Always about Stefan, always about his regrets and his supposed redemption. Once again, passed over for the beloved St. Stefan.

He leveled his eyes on Elena as she spoke. "What I did to Caroline had nothing to do with Katherine, Elena."

The change of topic was not a welcome one. One he hated, in fact. "Unfortunately, yes," Damon admitted. "Just once. The night she asked me to turn her." His eyes unfocused some as he looked away. "If I knew then what I know now..." His last words were but a murmur.

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-04 08:57 pm UTC (link)
Elena sighed and shook her head. She remembered the full story - both versions - of how the brothers became vampires. She tried to think of something that would get Damon out of this funk, because she didn't like seeing him this way. Typically he would be drunk, not...

"Well, as you pointed out, Stefan isn't here." Maybe that would help?

"And I'm not talking about Caroline, or just Caroline." It was Lexi, Bonnie, everyone who had gotten in the way of him finding his love. "It's okay, Damon. I get it. Really, I do."

She froze a little and nodded her head once. "I am... not surprised." Again, more than she wanted to know, but the look on Damon's face was enough that Elena decided to leave it alone. "How about we change the topic again?"

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[info]renaissancevamp
2010-11-05 03:16 pm UTC (link)
"No he's not," Damon said, toying with his beer bottle. He leveled a gaze on her with her next statement.

"Actually, I don't think you really do, Elena," he said. "But it doesn't matter. It's in the past, it can't be changed." He gave a non-chalant shrug.

"Yes. New topic."

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[info]notkatherine
2010-11-05 03:27 pm UTC (link)
She gulped at the look Damon was giving her and looked away. It was really hard to have a conversation when Damon gave THAT LOOK at her.

"I do. Damon, really, you lost someone you loved and you'll do what you want to get them back." Why was she arguing this point with him? "And don't tell me what I know or don't know. Out of everyone in Mystic Falls, I think I know you best." She paused. "And accept you the most." Psychopath and all.

New topic, though. Elena looked at her beer and didn't want to ask how long he'd been in love with her like Isobel had said. She didn't want to ask why he'd danced with her at Miss Mystic Falls. So instead she just asked, "Are we.... good here? I mean, you and me." The last thing Elena needed was to know that he was using her as a substitute Katherine or whoever.

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