Inaction's and Consequences

Chapter 11

Disclaimer: I do not ownanything related to The Vampire Diaries, TV show or books. However Idecided to have a little play around with the characters (I woulddefinitely like to play with Damon).

The boarding house was empty apart from Elena getting ready forher girls night in with Bonnie and Caroline that evening. Damon hadgiven her free reign for her to do what she wanted and the firstthing she decided to do a little exploring. She'd spent a lot of timeat the boarding house over the last fifteen months or so, howevershe'd never had the opportunity to really look around. However asmuch as the paintings and decorations were fascinating, her true goalwas to find where they kept their alcohol. Elena knew they had a winecellar somewhere as Stefan had managed to magically produce a bottleof champagne from her birth year, the day of her first feed, out ofnowhere. The thought of drinking animal blood made her shudder as shegrabbed hold of the chill box and took it with her downstairs to huntfor the elusive cellar. Eventually Elena came across a chilly roomwhich housed hundreds of bottles of Dom Perignon. Elena smiledpicking out a crate of bottles as if she were shopping in asupermarket. Making her way back to the stairs, she passed the fridgehousing the blood bags and picked one out for her and a bag ofCaroline's favorite, B positive and placing them in the chill box.

Once back upstairs, Elena emptied her booty from the crate andchill box, placing the bottles and bags into the huge Salvatorerefrigerator to chill and leaving the empty crate in the kitchenwhilst Elena headed up to Damon's room to shower and change. Aftershe'd finished, she checked the time, noticing it was nearly eight,meaning Caroline and Bonnie were due to arrive at any minute.

Elena headed towards the fridge and began packing the champagneand blood bags into the crate as she heard a car pull up outside,which she instantly recognized by the engine noise as Caroline's.Elena heard he car doors opened and closed and two sets of footstepswalking across the gravel. Moments later a knock came on the frontdoor.

"Come in." Elena yelled more for Bonnie's convenience asshe knew Caroline would have heard her without the need for shouting.

Elena brought the champagne laden wooden crate into the parlor,placed it down on the coffee table and opened it.

"One for you." Elena said taking out one of the bottlesand handing it to Bonnie who gratefully accepted it. Elena turned toCaroline. "One for you." she said as she handed anotherbottle to Caroline.

"Ooh." Caroline thanked her as she giggled taking hersas well.

"I'm assuming this is for Caroline." Bonnie sighedBonnie holds up a blood bag.

Caroline went to reach out for it, but Elena grabbed it firstchecking the writing on the front. "Actually, it's for me."Elena grinned prompting Bonnie and Caroline exchange surprisedglances.

"I thought..." Caroline began confused.

"Oh. Are you saying that..." Bonnie began to smile.

Elena put the blood bag to her mouth and began to drink. "Thanksto Damon, I am now a functional dysfunctional vampire." Elenaannounced proudly.

"That's amazing." Bonnie clapped

"Uh, what do you mean "thanks to Damon?""Caroline asked in an accusatory manner.

"Well, after we got back from Whitmore College Damonsuggested that I should be okay and ready to feed from a blood bagwithout experiencing the blood lust. So I did and it worked. No morebabysitting the newbie vampire." Elena explained proudly with abig grin on her face.

"So where is my least-favorite Salvatore?" Carolineasked sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.

Elena held up her phone and read the text message out loud fromDamon. ""Out with Stefan for the night, don't wait up.Brother bonding.""