Forever the One

Sixteen

Clara smiled as Jenna was going to stay home and watch Mara-Belle while Clara goes on her date with Damon. "Jenna, I can take her with me. Damon doesn't mind her. That way you can have a girls night with Kelly."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. Mara-Belle calls him daddy. So she will be happy to go." Clara says as she was finishing up for her date with Damon. "I think I'm falling for him. He treats Mara-Belle as his own and she calls him daddy. He treats me better than my last boyfriend." She sighed as she looked at her. "I think I should tell him one thing about me that no one knows."

Jenna looked at her. "I know."

"Hush your mouth." She tells her. "No one else knows about that not even mom and dad."

Jenna smiled as they heard a horn. Both of them looked out the window to see Damon. "Have fun."

Looking at her aunt, Clara walked over and grabbed the bag as Mara-Belle looked at her. "Let's go, sweetie. Daddy is here."

"Daddy!" She squealed out as she ran out of the house.

Damon saw Mara-Belle running causing him to catch her as Clara walked out in a black dress. He was in shock by her beauty. "Mommy, pretty." Mara-Belle says causing Damon to smile.

"Mommy is beautiful." He says as she walked over to them. "Ready, beautiful?"

Smiling, at him as he put her daughter in. Clara decided to do one thing that would change everything. When Damon raised up from putting her in her car seat, he turned around just for Clara to kiss him. Damon was surprised by the kiss, but kissed her back. Jenna looked outside and couldn't believe what she was seeing. She quickly took a picture as she heard the squealing of Mara-Belle.

"Keep her happy."
~~~
"Why did you kiss me?"

"I don't know." Clara stated. "I probably do, but I don't know where your heart lies." She tells him as she looked at her daughter. Smiling, she looked at him. "You are an amazing father."

"My father abused me because I protected my brother." He says. "I kept him safe and took the blame."

Clara sighed. "I knew about Elena's adoption, but what she doesn't know is that I know who her father is." She tells him. "I pictured it when someone came around and how he was when he saw Elena, but I made sure she was kept safe from him."

Damon nodded. "So, what would you like to do."

"Get to know one another better than what we know now. Like, I read smut books." She tells him. "Reading those and the fantasies I have in my mind. I just enjoy them."

Damon looked at her. "That doesn't help much, Clara." He tells her. "If there was a way for me to have kids and if I can lay you down...I need to shut up."

Clara laughed as she kept her hand in his. Damon looked at her as he knew this woman was his and he knew he will tell her soon. First this date, then a stop by the grill. He was going to make this date longer than the usual plan.
~~~
Damon walked in not seeing Stefan on a double date as he carried a giggling Mara-Belle. Kelly and Jenna looked to see him with Clara. "Wow. They look like a family." Kelly says as she saw him kiss Clara.

Elena couldn't believe that Clara and Damon shared a kiss. Mara-Belle saw Caroline and waved. "I'm concerned." Elena says.

"Let her be happy, Elena. You have Stefan..."

"Don't say I have feelings for him when I don't." She says.

Caroline looked at her. "I don't believe you and I don't trust you." She tells her. "I know for a fact when you act like that you aren't happy."

Elena looked at her. "I promise you now that I don't have feelings for Damon. I'll keep my mouth shut." She tells them. "I was hoping that he didn't hurt her and Mara-Belle. Clara's been hurt too many times." She looked to see Damon's eyes only on Clara. "I'm just worried."

"Elena, I promise that Damon will never hurt her. I mean, look at how he is. That's not the Damon everyone knows, but me. I haven't seen that Damon since Katherine." He tells her. "Clara brought my brother back."

Jenna smiled at them. "You know, I didn't trust him, but seeing how he is with Mara-Belle and Clara, I may have judged him and I will let her be happy." She tells her.

"Good. She deserves it."
~~~
Sitting in the parlor, Clara grabbed her a bottle of bourbon and started drinking. "I got her asleep." He tells her as he saw her drinking. "Welcomed yourself to a glass I see."

"You have the best bourbon here, so I'm welcoming myself to it. Got a problem?"

Damon walked over to her and took the bottle from her. She looked at him as he leaned in and kissed her. Wrapping her arms around him, she kissed him back as he put her on the bar. Damon ran his fangs against her neck causing her to close her eyes. "Damon?" She moaned from the feeling.

"Yes, baby."

"You can feed from me." She tells him. "I don't care."

Damon didn't say anything as he sunk his teeth in the spot that had her moaning. She held on to him as he continued till he moved. Clara saw him biting his wrist causing her to drink it. She knew all about this and didn't care. Damon pulled her back and kissed her causing her to moan into the kiss.

Stefan walked in with Elena as they were talking causing them to stop. "Clara!"

"One of these days, I will kill someone for interrupting me." She says as she looked at them. "What?"

"Really?" Elena says.

"Elena, go fuck yourself and grow the hell up. You can't have both brothers unless you're like her. Which you claim you're not." She stated as she leaned against Damon as he kept her in his arms.

"Trust me. I learnt my lesson with the last one. I don't want you." He stated as he looked at the mother in front of him. "But this one, I do."

Elena couldn't believe they really think she is interested in Damon when she's not. "What will it take to prove to all of you that I will never have feelings for him?"

"Stop judging and interrupting us." Clara stated as Damon picked her up. "My date isn't over."

They watched them go upstairs causing Elena to leave without Stefan saying anything. Clara made a point and Elena has to prove it to them.
~~~
In Damon's room, Damon and Clara danced together. They weren't in no rush to have sex. They were doing things the old way. Dancing with him had Clara kiss him again. Damon smiled into the kiss as this was the woman he wants forever.