Unfolding Dreams (a Vampire Diaries fan-fiction)

Lexi Rehab

We heard grumbles and then the fighting began, that was obvious. Elena and I looked at each other, thinking about the day we spent in the dungeon downstairs, when Klaus fought off the hybrids in and around the house.

Suddenly with a big crash the glassed patio-doors from the parlour flung open as the two friends swished past us. The glass smashed to pieces and I who sat closest to those doors felt a piercing pain in one of my upper arms. I groaned and looked down, just to see a big piece of glass sticking into my arm and blood gushing out of the cut.

I think my expression was just stunned and shocked and so were both Elena's and Anna's. Damon had his eyes on the fight and caught my expression a second later when the scent hit him. His face was changing into the red eyed vampire I had met a couple of times. He was instantly by my side to examine the wound, which startled both Anna and Elena.

I groaned and started to feel lightheaded almost instantly, but Damon was doing his best to distract me as a wave of vertigo ran through me. "It's not an artery," he stated, pulled the shard of glass out carefully and then pinched the gap closed with one of his hands. He looked at my face and saw how I started to get green. He looked me straight in the eyes. "Stop breathing through your nose!"

I was still fascinated by his beautiful blue irises that were now surrounded by dark red eye-bulbs and blackening edges with veins around them. I had heard him as through a thick fog but did what he said and the nausea started to fade away.

He swept me up in his arms, still keeping the cut on my arm closed even though I saw blood pouring out between his fingers.

"Damon, stop!" Elena yelled when he carried me to the kitchen door.
"Where are you taking her?" Anna interfered. We both looked at them in surprise.

Damon just shook his head. "Where do you think?" he snarled and went through the door. In the kitchen he put me down on the countertop by the sink to examine the wound closer. Anna and Elena rushed into the kitchen looking like they were ready to fight of a feeding vampire to save me.

"It's really deep, sweetie," Damon said in a caring voice which startled them both and they halted abruptly. "I can take you to the hospital and get them to stitch you up."

I looked hard in his eyes and shook my head. "No. No hospital. You're gonna have to fix me yourself."

A small smile started to light up his face. He crocked his eyebrow to ask if I was sure and I nodded. He took up his wrist, bit it and offered it to me.

Elena and Anna gasped as I took his arm and started to suckle. "Emma! What are you doing?" Elena yelled.

"Healing," Damon snarled and glared at them.

I let go of his arm and looked at my upper arm as it healed.

"What the..." Anna was staring at my arm and looked as if she still didn't believe what she saw with her own eyes. She turned her eyes up at my face and looked at me with her mouth hung open. "What did just happen?"

Damon stroked my lower lip with his thumb. "You're getting better at this, vampire girl," he smiled wickedly and I giggled at him.

"You are out of your minds! Don't you realize what you're doing? Don't you get that you can turn her into a vampire." Elena was furious.

"Would you rather she died from blood lost?" he snapped at her with his full vampire face on.

Anna gasped and recoiled a few steps.

I put my hand on his cheek and turned it to face me. "Thank you darling," I said tender and kissed his lips soft. Anna just stared at us with her mouth still open. I turned to face Elena. "It is my choice," I said soft to her. "I trust him," I assured her.

"Never trust a vampire..." she muttered.

"Elena you trusted Stefan." I gave Damon a grateful look and a smile and then I slid down from the countertop and went over to Elena. "And you will trust him again."

She looked at me and her eyes started to well up. "How can I?"

I hugged her and did my best to comfort her as she cried. "Things will work out, it has too."

About half an hour later, Anna came to see me in Damon's bathroom as I was washing dried blood of my arm. "What the hell happened?" she asked, still stunned about my arm.

"You still don't believe that this is real, do you?"

She gave me a deadpanned look. "How can I? Non of this is real! Vampires only exist on film."

I just sighed.

"You have to admit that this is insane; it can't be true!"

By now I started to snicker. "It is definitelly insane, but I know it is true; dreams can't be this vivid."

She sighed. "Yeah, I've never had a dream like this."

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