Silver Linings {A TVD Fanfic trilogy}

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I woke up and looked next to me to see the space empty. I reached my hand out and groaned lightly shutting my eyes again. "How do you manage to stay asleep so late?" I heard Damon say as I opened my eyes to see him looking at me. He was wearing dark jeans and a black v-neck.

"Because I love sleeping." I replied moving my arm for him to lay down.

"But doesn't your super sensitive vampire hearing make you wake up?" He asked curiously as he laid down.

"Thankfully no, it doesn't." I said my eyes still shut as I moved my head to over his chest resting my arm across him.

"Is there anything you'd rather do than sleep?" He asked wrapping his arm around my waist.

"Other than the basic vampire survival needs and kissing you, no." I replied quickly as I let out a soft hum.

"What was that second part? I didn't quite catch it." He asked as he rubbed the side of my waist lightly.

I chuckled lightly and turned my head up to him. He was smirking lightly. I patted his chest lightly and sat up. I stretched and stood up. I was wearing a gray tank top I left there once and some black underwear. I brushed my fingers through my hair away from him. I heard a quick whoosh.

"You're such a tease." I heard from right behind me as Damon kissed the side of my neck. I turned and we kissed a little before he pulled away unexpectedly. "Two can play at that game, Emmie." He said my name whispering it into my ear before backing up and walking away.

I scoffed lightly. Nobody played me at my own game and won. "Game on, blue eyes." I replied walking away. Giving him a quick smirk before I made my way down to the basement. I was surprised that he didn't bring up Andie but I didn't bother asking because I didn't want to upset him.

I drank some of a blood bag and headed back upstairs taking normal sips. It was so hard to control hunger. I was supposed to only have three a day but I usually had five. When I was eating I couldn't concentrate on anything else, it was like the sound of the blood throwing through my body masked the sound of anything else and the sensation made me not care about what was happening around me.

I walked back into Damons room and saw Elena talking to him. He was taking papers off of his map as the news talked about Andie. I started to feel bad for not asking him about it.

"Stefan called me." She said as Damon turned to me and raised his eyebrow as I walked in. I tried to hide the blood bag as I went over to some shorts that were laying besides the bed.

Elena turned and saw me, looked down to see that I wasn't wearing pants and turned back around. "Sorry." She said lightly looking at Damon who shook his head, a small smile appearing on his face.

"Don't be too disgusted. We were naked together for nine months." I replied as I put the blood bag under the bed sheet and put on shorts. "So Stefan called?" I asked looking at her.

"What did he say?" Damon asked holding all his papers together.

"He didn't say anything but I know it was him. I asked sheriff Forbes to trace back the calls. They were in Tennessee." She explained.

"Where he is binge drinking on the country folk." Damon replied and I felt my mouth water a little bit. I really didn't like that feeling. "We went through this Elena." Damon said walking to the fireplace with the papers. "He's gone."

"If he was gone he wouldn't have called." Elena replied as Damon started lighting a match. He put so much work into finding Stefan. I didn't want him to give up. Maybe him giving up would help Elena give up though and I didn't want her to get hurt. Either way it was still going to be sad.