Gabriella Gilbert || Vampire Diaries

Chapter Seventeen

   The goatee guy from last night was confirmed to be a tomb vampire. Stefan and Damon managed to figure it out when he and another broke in to attack them last night. Goatee guy got away.

    Now Damon is hammering up a board over their window.

    "I say we go down to Pearl's, bust down the door, and annihilate the idiot that attacked us," Damon grouchily suggests. I roll my eyes at his suicidal plan.

    "And what, Damon? We turn to the rest of the house of vampires and say 'Oops, sorry'?" Stefan retorts with crossed arms.

    "I can't believe you made a deal with her." Elena sighs, shaking her head.

    "It was more of an exchange of important information," Damon corrects," She's very...scary." I roll my eyes again. "Besides, she's going to help me get Katherine back." I immediately frown. He still wants her?

    The realization that Damon still wants to find Katherine, despite her not being in the tomb, makes my chest hurt. His actions last night were because he was drunk. His actions with me were because I am a carbon copy of the girl he's chasing.

    Damon wants nothing to do with me.

    The thought is difficult to swallow.

    "Of course she is." Elena scoffs as I remain silent. She glares at Damon. "Damon gets whatever he wants no matter who gets hurt in the process."

    "No need to be snarky about it," Damon mutters, making a face.

    "I wake up this morning finding out that all the vampires are out of the tomb; I've earned snarky," Elena snaps.

    "How long are you going to blame me for turning your birth mother into a vampire?" He sighs, tired of this conversation with a slightly bored tone.

    "I'm not blaming you, Damon. I've accepted the fact that you're a selfish psychopath with no redeeming qualities." She crosses her arms, chin raised in both defiance and self-righteousness.

    "Okay," I interrupt, "Let's stop that conversation right there before someone gets hurt."

    "She's right," Stefan agrees, surprising me, "We're getting nowhere with this. Let's try and deal with Pearl and the vampires, yeah?"

    Damon rolls his eyes before storming off to the other room. Everything in me wants to follow him—to spend more time with him.

    I shouldn't after the realization I just had.

   Elena snuggles up against Stefan. Not wanting to be an extra wheel again, I follow Damon into the study. I'll take the embarrassment of following him over watching my sister kiss her man.

    He's already sitting in an armchair, a glass of whatever in his hands.

    "Aw," I tease, sitting in the chair beside him. "did someone's feelings get hurt by the mean girl?"

    "Maybe..."

    "She'll come around," I reassure, looking back through the doorway. I can't hear anything they're saying—if they're saying anything. "So, what are we going to do about the vampires?"

    "Stefan and I are going to go kill them."

    "No talking it out?" He gives me a look that suggests I'm ridiculous for thinking that. I roll my eyes at that. "Fun, what about Elena and me?" I ask.