Vampire Frog

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Sarah: well, there's been at least one other fanfic in The Vampire Diaries category that went with this theme. And there's been a bunch scattered throughout the site. So I'm just adding another to the pile. I hope you enjoy.

CREDIT
Another shout-out to my awesome beta Cameron, aka VDfan2107. You will never know just how grateful I am that you chose to volunteer your services as a beta for my stories.

DISCLAIMER
This theme was first used in a fairytale! There's no way I could possibly own it! I also don't own The Vampire Diaries, Mystic Falls, or anything related to them. I only own what I write and I don't make money for it.

WARNINGS
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE! Alters from series between 2x02, "Brave New World" and 2x03, "Bad Moon Rising". Just Katherine and Mason to deal with. Rated T for language and 'groping'. RATING MAY CHANGE IN FUTURE CHAPTERS! You have been warned.

SUMMARY
After annoying Bonnie one too many times, Damon is accidentally turned into a frog. Will the gang figure out what it takes to change him back? Or will it be up to Damon to show them that fairy tales really do come true? Damon/Elena

Chapter 1
Damon Turns Green

"Go away, Damon," Bonnie growls, trying not to let the handsome vampire annoy her. It's not working very well.

"You know, you should find another witch to teach you," Damon remarks, smirking.

"I'm doing fine on my own!" Bonnie snaps.

"Fine, huh? Then what was with that spell where you turned Elena's hair neon blue the other week? You told her that you were going to cast a spell that would help her sort her feelings out but, instead, her hair turned blue!" he mocks.

"I turned it back!" Bonnie protests.

"It took you three days to figure out the proper spell. You literally put her hair through the rainbow," Damon groans.

"I am not in the mood to put up with you today, Damon," Bonnie warns testily. "I suggest you leave."

"And if I don't?" he asks cockily. "Having another witch teach you would speed up your learning quite a bit. And you wouldn't be taking days to fix a spell that went awry."

Damon fails to notice that as he's speaking, Bonnie's chanting softly under her breath. He goes on at length about why it would be so much easier on everyone if Bonnie had an instructor in the ways of magic. But on one word, only half the word comes out as an actual word and the other half comes out as a croak as Damon suddenly finds himself in a dark, uncomfortably tight place. "What the hell?" he demands, but his words come out as a croaking.

He squirms around, trying to get a grip on what happened to him, and something about the way his body is moving tells him that things just got a lot worse for him.

Gilbert house ten minutes later

Elena sighs as she struggles to concentrate on the math problem before her. Suddenly, her phone starts playing "I'm a Hex Girl", the Scooby Doo song she had chosen for Bonnie. She welcomes the distraction from her Damon-oriented thoughts by picking up. "Hey, Bonnie. Where are you? It's not like you to be late," she says.

"Elena, I did something terrible. Tell me that Jenna's not there," the young witch says, her voice shaking with fright.

"Woah, slow down. Jenna's not here. What did you do?" Elena asks.

"I'm almost at your house now. I'll tell you when I get there." Without a goodbye, Bonnie hangs up.

Elena exchanges a look with her study-buddy-slash-vampiress-best-friend Caroline. "That didn't sound good," Caroline says in a small voice.

The girls put their schoolwork down and mutually agree to meet Bonnie on the front porch. Bonnie pulls in behind Elena's SUV and opens her door. But before getting up, she picks up what looks like a wad of clothes from the passenger seat. Bonnie then climbs out and shuts her door with her hip before racing across the yard and up the steps. Elena and Caroline can see that she is indeed carrying a wad of familiar men's designer clothes, an all-too-familiar pair of designer leather boots, and perched on top of the stack is what looks like a very angry big-eyed tree frog, croaking up a storm.

Elena and Caroline exchange another look. "Why are you carrying Damon's clothes and why is there a frog sitting on his clothes?" Caroline asks.

Bonnie's eyes fill up with tears. "The frog is Damon," she says helplessly. "I-I don't know how this could happen! He was being his usual annoying self and I was having a bad day, and I just got so mad and started chanting. And when I was done, at first I thought I had accidentally vaporized him or something but then I heard croaking from one of his boots and there was this frog in his boot!"

"Let's get inside and talk about this," Elena says wrapping an arm around Bonnie's shoulders and guiding her to the door, where Caroline is holding the screen wide enough for them to pass through. "My room," Elena says decisively. "Jenna could be back any time."

When the three girls are seated in a circle on Elena's bed with the frog sitting in the middle of them, Elena sighs. "Did you make sure this frog is actually Damon?" she asks. Bonnie frowns at her in confusion, giving Elena her answer. The human turns her attention to the frog, which is staring right at her. "Okay, just to be sure you are Damon and not some frog that Bonnie made Damon switch places with, I'm going to ask you a few yes or no questions. Nod for yes and shake your head for no. Is that clear?" she asks. The frog nods, looking as annoyed as a frog can possibly look. "Do I like pickles?" she asks. The frog shakes its head no. "Was my Miss Mystic Falls dress blue?" The frog nods. "Did it have long sleeves?" The frog shakes its head no. "Were you my last-minute escort at the dance?" The frog nods. "Was it because Stefan couldn't keep it together on human blood?" The frog nods again. "Was the reason I went to Georgia with you because I fainted after you pulled me from my crashed SUV and wasn't able to fight your decision to take me on a five-minute timeout?" she asks. The frog nods. As Elena tries to think of another question, the frog sighs and leaps onto Elena's collarbone before dropping into her shirt to land in her bra amid her cleavage. "It's Damon," she says, fetching him out of her shirt.

"Can't argue with that proof," Caroline acknowledges.

"Can't imagine an ordinary frog doing that," Bonnie agrees.

Elena carefully sets Damon on the bed between the three girls again. But he leaps up onto her shoulder. "Don't try that stunt with my shirt again or I'm going to make a test to see if you still have those healing abilities," she warns him. He croaks as he turns so he can face the group. Elena turns her attention to the group. "Okay, Bonnie, I know he made you mad, but did you have to turn him into a frog?" she asks.

"I was so mad I wasn't event thinking," the young witch admits. "What gets me is that the spell shouldn't have worked."

"And why not?" Caroline asks.

Bonnie averts her gaze. "Because it kind of came from a book of fairytales I found in Grams' house last week," she admits.

"The Frog Prince?" Caroline guesses.

"Yeah," Bonnie says sheepishly.

Elena reaches her hand up to pick Damon up off her shoulder so she can look at him. "You're screwed," she tells him. He croaks and it almost sounds like a question. "Because I am not going to track down whatever viper is your one and only." Damon crosses his front legs and gives her a look that she can read perfectly well even if he is a frog now. "No. I am not kissing you, Damon. Keep dreaming. You killed my brother, remember?"

"Yeah, well, can you watch him until I figure out how to turn him back?" Bonnie asks plaintively, looking at Elena.

"Me? Why?" Elena demands, setting Damon down. He hops back up onto her shoulder.

"My dad won't let me keep anything remotely animal-shaped in the house," Bonnie explains. "Not even animal-shaped costumes."

"Well, I can't keep him at my house," Caroline protests when Elena turns a pitiful look on her. "Mom hates frogs. And we can't keep him at the boarding house; Stefan would eat him for sure!"

"Speaking of Stefan," Elena says, turning her gaze on Bonnie. "Did you tell him what you did to his brother?"

"I was hoping you would do that," Bonnie says in a tiny voice.

"You're the one who turned Damon into a frog; you're the one who has to inform everyone in the know. Including Stefan, Rick, and Jeremy," Elena says firmly.

Bonnie sighs and shifts so she can pull her phone out of her back pocket. She searches through her contacts and calls Stefan. After an immensely long time of waiting, Stefan picks up. "Stefan, get to Elena's room, now," Bonnie says in reply to his 'hello?', hanging up without waiting for a reply.

Five seconds later Stefan leaps through Elena's window. "Is everything okay?" he asks, taking in the three girls seated on Elena's bed. He frowns when he spots a green frog with black specks perched on Elena's shoulder. "Why is there a frog on your shoulder, Elena?" he asks.

"Ask Bonnie," she replies, nodding towards the witch. "She's the one who has to tell you."

"Okay," Stefan says slowly. "Bonnie, why is there a frog on Elena's shoulder?"

"That frog is Damon," the witch says softly.

"Don't bother asking if we've confirmed it," Elena says quickly when Stefan opens his mouth. "Damon already proved to us that he has indeed become a frog."

Stefan examines the serious expressions the three girls are wearing and the woeful expression the frog has. He then snickers. "I'm sorry, this really shouldn't be all that funny, but what did you do this time, Damon?" Stefan asks, trying extremely hard to suppress his laughter.

Damon narrows his froggy eyes before leaping forward to latch his tiny frog teeth into Stefan's thumb. Stefan frowns and holds his hand up, eyeing Damon as he tries to exert enough pressure to break through Stefan's skin. "I don't think he liked that you were finding such amusement at his expense," Elena says dryly, climbing off the bed to come gently pry Damon's tiny frog body off of Stefan's thumb. She turns to Bonnie. "You still have two people to tell about your goof-up, Bonnie," she says.

Bonnie sighs and climbs off the bed and crosses out of Elena's room, through the small bathroom Elena shares with her brother, and swings open the door leading to Jeremy's room. Thirty seconds after she enters Jeremy's room, she returns, dragging Jeremy by the ear, the poor kid complaining about how she's hurting him. Once back in Elena's room, Bonnie releases Jeremy's ear and turns him to face Elena's bed. It takes Jeremy a moment to spot what Bonnie wants to show him. "Okay, there's a frog on my sister's shoulder. Are you planning on telling me why she's letting it sit there rather than tossing it out the window like she has all the other frogs that got in her room?" he asks.

"The frog is Damon. He made me mad, I accidently turned him into a frog," Bonnie says.

It takes Jeremy all of one second to reconcile with that notion before he busts out in hysterical laughter. "Dude! That's what you get for snapping my neck!" he gasps out amid his laughter. Damon croaks his annoyance with being laughed at.

And cue Rick walking in, having just brought Jenna home and telling her that he would check on the kids for her. "Okay, what's going on here?" he asks, grinning. "Why is everyone here and why is Jeremy laughing like he just pulled the mother of all pranks successfully?"

Bonnie points to Damon perched on Elena's shoulder. "That frog is Damon. He made me mad and I accidentally turned him into a frog," she admits sheepishly.

Where it had taken Jeremy one second to reconcile with that fact, it takes Rick three seconds before he's also laughing his ass off. "I told you being a dick would bite you in the ass one day," he gets out around his laughter.

Damon works his mouth and new vocal cords, trying to growl at them. What comes out is more like a strangled croak than anything else. That only causes Rick and Jeremy to laugh all the harder. Damon decides to just hide at the back of Elena's neck, under her hair. Elena sighs. "Anyways, it's getting late. There's school tomorrow and I would like some sleep before hand," she says firmly. "So everyone, move the party somewhere else."

"Where's Damon staying?" Rick asks when he's sobered up.

Stefan frowns at that. "What do you mean, 'where's Damon staying'?" he asks.

"Well, he can't stay with you," Jeremy points out. "You might get annoyed with him and eat him!"

"He's staying here until we figure out a way to change him back," Elena says firmly.

"What? But, Elena, he's …," Stefan starts, already well on the way to a full-on brood.

Elena cuts him off. "Stefan, he's a frog. Besides, I told him that if he does anything I don't like, I'm going to test if his healing abilities stayed with him when he was transformed," she says. "Now, everyone, out! As I said, I'd like some sleep tonight before I have to get up for school."

When everyone finally clears out of her room, Elena reaches behind her neck and pulls Damon out from under her hair. He sits in the palm of her hand, looking more pitiful than she had ever seen him. She frowns at him. "Look, if you weren't such an asshole all the time, you wouldn't be in this predicament right now," she tells him. He croaks. "Yes, yes, I know that's your way of messing around with people, but it doesn't mean it's nice. Now, you stay in here. I have to go get my homework from the living room so I can finish it and Jenna would freak if you came with me." With that, she sets him down on her bed before making her way out of her room to go fetch her homework from the living room. When she gets back, she finds Damon hopping around on the keyboard of her computer. "Now what are you doing?" she demands, going over to him. She glances at the screen and sees that he had somehow opened a Word document to use to communicate.

'I can't believe you won't kiss me!'

"Yeah, well, as I said, keep dreaming," she tells him.

Damon then hops onto the enter key and before hopping around to type a new message. 'She got the spell from a FAIRYTALE! So the obvious way to break the spell is a kiss!'

Elena groans. "Look, that book of fairytales was found in a witch's house and the spell actually worked. What if the side-effects are similar to Disney's version of that fairytale in that rather than changing you back with a kiss, I'd turn into a frog?" she demands.

Damon hops to the enter key again and types another message. 'We're not in a Disney movie, Elena.'

"Yeah, well, we're not in a fairytale either and the spell from one worked on you," she points out.

'Just kiss me already!'

"No!" she snaps. "I'm not kissing you and I'm not letting anyone else kiss you until Bonnie lets us know precisely what the side-effects of the spell were in the fairytale she got it from. Now if you're going to insist on typing to communicate, do something useful and help me with my homework."

Damon hops on the enter key so he can types another message 'Fine. But I'm not GIVING you the answers. I do value a good education, after all.'

So Elena reads her homework to Damon one question at a time and he helps her in a way that makes her figure out the answers on her own. By the time Elena climbs into bed, she's dead tired but her homework is complete. Damon hops up onto Elena's pillow and croaks a question at her. "Fine, you can spend the night on my pillow," she tells him. "Just know that I've been tossing and turning a lot in my sleep lately." He croaks again. "Look, I'm having a hard time understanding you now that you speak frog. It's easier if you just type a message on my computer. Anyways, night, Damon."

He croaks again and settles down for the night on her pillow next to her, determined to win a kiss from Elena no matter how he has to do it. But he's not going to cheat and steal one while she's asleep.