Gravity - Damon Salvatore

Chapter 7

Cassandra...

Some say that guilt is the worst demon to bear, strangling you from the inside and in mine and Damon’s case that was true, I felt bad for not going to find the cure myself but I wanted to spend my time with Damon and that guilt was suffocating. If I went to Klaus myself Stefan would be back at home and not out on some Ripper binge with Klaus. Damon was dealing with his little brother been gone by drinking and searching, of course I was helping him find his little brother but to add onto our mental plate Elena was all for trying to find him, but the problem was that Klaus believed she was dead, and we’d like to keep it that way so he doesn’t have all of our heads.

“Come on Cass” I shook my head as I looked over at Damon who was giving me a wide smile. “Where we going?” I asked as I stood up and walked over to him. “We’re going out for the day, just me and you” I stared at him shocked because we had a ripper on the lose. “Don’t look at me like that, since we started properly we haven’t spent time just me and you, we’ve been searching for my little brother and dealing with Elena. So today is about us” I sighed as I placed a kiss on his lips, he was right it’s been 2 months since the whole werewolf bite and not once have we managed to just have a day to ourselves, Elena had been on our case trying to find her boyfriend.

Damon took me to the grill for a couple of drinks before we had a walk around the town square, it wasn’t supposed to be anything romantic, we just wanted a day together no town drama and that’s what we got. “You know what surprises me” I looked over at Damon waiting for him to continue. “That you’ve stuck around” I stared at him shocked. “Why wouldn’t I?” I was confused why wouldn’t I stick around? Did he not realise how much I loved him? “Well let’s face it princess I’m not exactly the most conventional boyfriend” I chuckled shaking my head. “Damon, there’s nothing conventional about us, we’re vampires we feed off humans, even if I’d met you back when I was human I would still choose you” I told him as we stood in the town square, he gave me a smile before placing his lips against mine. Knowing it was getting out of hand he gripped my hand before leading me away from the humans and once we was out of sight he sped us back to the boarding house and into our room.

After spending the rest of the day and night in bed breaking the bed and all the other furniture in the room we finally pulled ourselves away and shared a nice stimulating shower.

“I’ll go get us some blood bags” I told him as I walked out the room with a towel wrapped around my body, we were the only ones in the house, well I thought we was until I heard someone let out a little shriek. “Elena, what are you doing here?” I asked as I looked at the human girl, it’s 8 in the morning. “Sherif Forbes gave us another location to check, Memphis” I stared at her I knew she was desperate to find him but she didn’t understand what sort of crazy boyfriend she would be getting back. “It’s another dead end” I told her because me and Damon had agreed to keep her out of it because she’s human and ripper Stefan and humans didn’t mix well. “You don’t know that” She snapped as she followed be to the basement door. “You’re right Elena I don’t, after two months this could finally be the clue we need to tell us Stefan’s ok” I chuckled shaking my head. “Fine I’ll go by myself” She went to walk off but I rushed in front of her making sure the towel I had wrapped around me doesn’t drop. “And let Klaus know you’re alive? Are you that silly?” I questioned as I snapped the address of Stefan’s location out of her hand. “Me and Damon will check it out, we don’t need Klaus coming back to kill us all because your still human and alive” I told her before walking off to the basement to get me and Damon some blood bags.

“I swear that girl has a death wish” I grumbled as I flopped down on the bed handing Damon a bag. “Yep” He grumbled as he walked over to a door where we had a map of locations Stefan and Klaus has been. “I spoke to Andie, after some compelling she told me that the Pensacola guy from Florida had family in Tennessee” I told him as we looked over the map. “Do you think she can get an address?” He asked making me smirk, I could get it with a little compulsion. “Yep, so are we actually having a bunch of teenagers here for Elena’s birthday?” I grumbled as I walked over to the closet to pull out some clothes for myself to wear. “Unfortunately and we’ve been sworn to no eating or feeding on the guests” I raised my eyebrows because what the hell, Elena was starting to get on my nerves with all the bossing around she was doing lately.

Getting time to do our own thing in this town was becoming non-existent and it was doing my head in and then on top of that we have a bossy human who thought she could dictate our lives and invite a bunch of humans to the house for her birthday party.

We’d gone to the house in Tennessee and it was definitely a lead with blood all over the floor, walls and furniture and then there was of course Stefan’s signature move where the bodies had been put back together, Ric was kind of creeped out, especially when we figured out that Stefan and Klaus was hunting for werewolves.

“Well don’t you look gorgeous” I looked through the mirror noticing Damon lent against the door dressed in black pants and a blue button up shirt. “Eh, I thought I’d make an effort” I shrugged as I ran my hand down my navy blue dress. “Well your definitely the most sexiest” He whispered as he walked behind me and moved my hair from my neck and placing his lips against it.

Walking down the stairs I groaned because the house was full of humans and I couldn’t deal with them all. “Let her have her fun” Damon whispered as we walked down the stairs. “There’s fun then there’s torture” I grumbled as we walked through a crowd of human teenagers making our way to the main room which was full of more teenagers dancing and getting drunk. Damon noticed one of the teenagers with a bottle of his alcohol so he compelled her to stay away from his and go for the cheap stuff that Elena had brought. “I thought it was supposed to be a small party” I spoke as I took the bottle out of Damon’s hand and having a large mouth full from the bottle, I was gonna need a lot of alcohol if I was going to get through tonight without feeding off any of them.

Not wanting to be around the teenagers I headed outside to Ric who was busy drinking a glass of Bourbon. “I’m every parents worse nightmare I’m the chaperone-teacher from hell” I chuckled at him. “Lighten up Ric, at least they’re been supervised and not out drinking god knows wherever” I shrugged because I didn’t see a problem with it, yeah a couple of stuck up parents will slate him but what does it matter what others think? “Did you invite Andie?” Damon asked raising his eyebrows looking at me. “Yes, it was a compromise for the information she gave us. I mean why a fully grown adult would want to come to a teenage party is beyond me” I shrugged as I took a gulp of my drink, just as Elena came walking over to us of course with a complaint, apparently Little Gilbert was smoking weed again, which I didn’t see a problem to at least it wasn’t hard class drugs.

Andie ended up calling me to ask if I could go get her from work so of course Damon came with me, but as we arrived we was welcomed by Stefan who was trying to prove that he was too far gone and compelled her and she ended up dying, he did all that to try and get us to stop searching for him and Klaus and let him go. Of course that wasn’t the end of the drama as we was welcomed back by Elena who had found everything we used to track Klaus and Stefan. “Why didn’t you tell me? Why did you keep it a secret?” Elena questioned holding up a bunch of paper work. “Let’s not do this right now Elena, go enjoy your party” I told her noticing the look on Damon’s face he knew his brother was screwed. “No, I’ve come to you with a lead all summer you made me feel like an i***t for having hope” Elena spoke as she walked over to us.

“You were an i***t, we all were” Damon spoke before walking into the bathroom. I went to grab all the paper work ready to bin until Elena stopped me by grabbing my wrist. “Tell me what you know, why have you been tracking Klaus victims?” I looked down at her hand before looking up at her. “I know that if you don’t remove your hand from me right now your BOYFRIENDS victims will be the least of your problems” I snapped as I glared at her, who the hell did she think she was? That s**t might fly with everyone else but not me. “Stefan’s victims?” She asked confused as she let good me.

“He’s left a trail of body parts up and down the Eastern seaboard” Damon spoke as he walked back out of the bathroom. “No. You’re wrong” Elena denied making me roll my eyes. “I’ve seen it happen before, he’s flipped the switch to full-blown ripper” Damon told her as he walked closer to her to make her realise how far her boyfriend had gone. “Now you need to stop, stop looking for him, stop waiting for him to come home” I spoke making her look at me. “Stefan’s gone and he’s not coming back”

Seeing Damon like this made me feel more guilty because it should’ve been me who sacrificed myself for the cure, not Stefan he couldn’t control himself when it came to blood, but as I thought more on to the situation the more I realised that Stefan was just putting a face on, he wasn’t too far gone. Was he really doing this to protect Elena and Damon?