Cold Hearted | Damon Salvatore

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06. Smells Like Teen Spirit

Damon Salvatore couldn't believe it, he couldn't believe it that after a whole summer apart, him and Aria were finally reunited, he couldn't believe that Aria was currently sleeping right beside him, in his arms, he didn't realise how much he really missed Aria until she was finally back in his arms.

Damon's admiring session was broken when Aria started whimpering in her sleep.

"No, please" Aria whimpered, "Stop Stefan, please don't hurt me".

Damon frowned hearing Aria, he could tell she was having a nightmare, and if he wanted to hurt his brother before, he wanted to kill him now.

"Ria" Damon said, trying to get Aria to wake up, which was proving very hard.

"No, no" Aria cried.

"Ria, wake up" Damon said, "Look, you're safe, you're safe with me".

"No, it hurts" Aria cried, starting to trash in her sleep.

"Aria!" Damon yelled, "Come on, wake up".

Aria gasped and opened her eyes in shock, "Damon?".

"Yeah, it's me Ria, you're safe" Damon replied.

"I-I thought I was in the school, Stefan he--" Aria couldn't complete her sentence, it hurt too much to admit that Stefan hurt Aria to make sure Elena didn't get hurt.

"Shh" Damon said, bringing Aria into his embrace, "It's okay, I'm right here".

"Don't leave me" Aria whispered, burying herself in Damon's chest, "Please don't leave me".

"I'm right here Ria, I'm right here" Damon said, placing a quick kiss on Aria's forehead.

***

Aria watched as Alaric punched the dummy as hard as he could.

After finding out what happened at the school, Alaric decided Aria needed to know how to fight, she needed to know how to defend herself in case her powers didn't work, which was why Aria and Alaric were currently in the forest, training.

"So the pressure of your punch ejects the stakes" Alaric explained.

"You make it look so easy" Aria complained, standing infront of the dummy.

"Just take a deep breath and focus, put all your pent up frustration on that dummy" Alaric explained.

Aria took a deep breath and focused on the dummy infront of her, she remembered all the times people overpowered her, all the times she felt powerful less against vampires, using all her pent up frustration, Aria punched the dummy with everything she had, causing one stake to hit the dummy.

"I did it" Aria said excitedly, "Ric, I did it".

"You hit the dummy with one stake, you needed to hit it with two" Alaric said, "You need to start lifting some weights, put some meat on your bones".

"Thanks for being happy for me" Aria said sarcastically.

"You know what this is?" Alaric asked, showing Aria a vervain grande.