Tangled Fate

Crying Wolf

April 2, 2010

In the middle of the night, Louise jerked awake as something touched her face, but a cool finger over her lips and a pair of bright eyes informed her it was Damon.

"What are you doing here?" she whispered to him, but he hushed her and pointed at Elena, Bonnie and Caroline asleep beside her on Caroline's bed. She titled her head slightly, it amazed her how all four of them managed to fit.

Carefully, Louise extracted herself from the two and followed him out into the hallway. Sherriff Forbes was long asleep so there was no chance of being caught.

"What are you-?" Louise began her question again but his kiss silenced her. Damon pulled her tight against his body, kissing her with ferocity. Louise kissed him back, every part of her body rippling with fire as his hands crawled over every part of her back. The vampire backed her against the wall and pinned her there, not relenting in his onslaught.

"Damon." Louise gasped out as quietly as possible as she fought to catch her breath between kisses. "We can't- here-"

"Mmph." he mumbled against her neck, his tongue tickling the skin there. Louise stifled an involuntary giggle.

"I'm serious! What are you doing?" he finally gave in and stopped, though he didn't move apart from her at all.

"I want you." He growled in a way that made her shiver. It took every ounce of her willpower not to pick up where they'd left off, but Louise was wary of being overheard, especially with Caroline in the house.

"You do pick your moments." Louise sighed. "What's going on?"

"Nothing. Just...your aunt must be really keen to drive me away. She gave me the news woman's number." he admitted with a chuckle. Louise felt a flicker of annoyance.

"Did you...?"

"Call her?" He laughed then, and Louise hit him to warn him to lower his volume. "No, Louise. I was taking a bath and all I could think about was how much I wanted you there in the tub with me..." He could be so seductive when he wanted to be. It was almost impossible to resist any vampire's charm when they wanted you to be charmed; it was a part of what they were. But when it came to Damon...Louise steeled herself.

"Damon." she said his name.

"Louise." he said hers back, teasingly.

"We will talk in the daytime, okay?"

"Okay." He sighed, exaggerating his disappointment with a slump of the shoulders as he turned away. Louise grabbed his arm gently, spinning and planted her lips onto his. The kiss didn't last long for his liking, as the brunette pulled away and began to usher him out.

He gave her one last ravishing look before vamping off into the night. Louise sighed, feeling her heart rate finally beginning to slow, before re-entering Caroline's room and crawling back into bed.

It was not the morning sunshine peeking through the curtains that woke the girls but the blaring ringtone that came from Elena's phone. Caroline promptly pushed the elder Gilbert girl out of bed. With a loud thud, Elena fell to the floor, waking her immediately. Soft moaning, the brunette opened her eyes and ignored her heavy bones. She crawled across the floor towards her phone and took it off the dresser.

She put the phone to her ear. "Hello?"

Once those words slipped from her mouth, there was a choir of groans from the three sleepy girls on the bed, all incredibly annoyed with being awaken.

"Shhh." Bonnie scowled.

"Elena!" Caroline sleepily groaned.

"Go away!" Louise pulled the pillow from under her and hurled it at her sister who luckily dodged it.