Chapter Seven: Dinner with The FAMILY Part 1
November 17th 2011 - 1.00pm
After a few days in hospital Elena was given the all clear from the doctor to be discharged. Jenna and Alaric had came to pick her up and brought her home.
Elena followed her aunt and Alaric into the house.
"I might just head upstairs to lay down for a bit." Elena told them.
Jenna smiled "Actually you won't be able to take a nap Bonnie and Caroline are up in your room waiting for you"
Elena turned and walked upstairs straight to her bedroom to seen her aunt was right. Both her best friends were sitting on her bed waiting there talking, both looked up when they heard her come in, there was no hesitation as both girls came over to her and gave her a group hug.
"We heard what happened, Damon told us" Bonnie said when they all pulled away and went over to Elena's bed to sit down.
"I can't believe you are related to that bitch" Caroline said, bluntly.
"Caroline!" Bonnie hissed, shooting the blonde a glare.
Caroline held her hands up in surrender. "Sorry, but they are so different its hard to believe they are twins. They look so alike how come none of us seen that before or questioned it"
"You and me both Care" Elena sighed.
"At least we know why she hates you so much" Caroline said
"Caroline!" Bonnie snapped
"It's fine Bon, Caroline is right. Katherine hates me because I'm her sister, it's sibling rivalry" Elena butted in, not in the mood to hear an argument between her friends at the moment.
Caroline then changed the subject to how Stefan and her were now officially dating.
"Really? When did the happen?" Elena asked
Flashback – 4 Days ago...
Caroline driving home from the local shops after grabbing food for dinner for her mum and her since her mum was working late again at the station.
She pulled up into her driveway to see Stefan sitting on the front steps. He stood up coming over to her as she got out of her car.
"Stefan, what are you doing here? " she asked, confused
He didn't speak, he placed a hand each side of her face and kissed her. At first she was surprised but then she kissed him back.
Caroline pushed him away gently and her eyes widen.
"What's wrong?" Stefan asked her, his green eyes filled with fear.
"We are doing this all wrong! I'm supposed to come over later and give you this big speech I wrote out on why we should start dating then we kiss and you ask me out and then it's official " Caroline explained, rolling her blue eyes.
Stefan chuckled "I guess we are doing it out of order then"
Caroline slapped his shoulder playfully "Not funny, I was working on that speech all last night"
Stefan cupped her face with his hands "I'm sure the speech would have been great. I like you a lot so will you make me the happiest guy alive and be my girlfriend? "
Caroline nodded and wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him.
End of Flashback
"So like you Care to try ruin a moment just because you organized a speech for you to ask a guy out before he could" Elena laughed.
Caroline huffed "Well I thought he would have asked me out ages ago when we had movie night at his and Damon's house but he didn't so I hated the waiting and decided to organize it"
"Sometimes you need patience Care" Bonnie said
After Caroline and Bonnie left, Elena came downstairs to the lounge room sitting on the sofa and turning the TV on and changing the channel to Pretty Little Liars.
She heard the door bell ring and her Aunt Jenna answering it so she ignored and went back to her TV show where the 4 girls and Mona were trapped underground by Charles.
Soon her vision went back as someone covered her eyes.
"Guess who" a male voice whispered
Elena smiled and turned her head around to see Damon there. He jumped over the sofa sitting next to her.
"What are you doing here?" she asked
Damon pretended to be hurt "Can't I see my best friend?"
Elena paused her TV show "You saw me at the hospital yesterday"
Damon looked ahead at the TV. "Ew Pretty Little Liars"
Elena slapped his shoulder playfully "Don't mock it unless you have watched it"
"I have, Katherine forced me to. I even know who Charles is"
There was an awkward silence at the mention of Katherine, Elena unpaused the show. As much as he hated the TV show he sat there watching it with her.
Once the episode finished they went up to her bedroom to hang out. Damon walked pass her grabbing her teddy on the bed and laying down on the bed holding her teddy in his hands.
Elena walked over to her desk and picked Katherine's Diary, she then walked over to Damon and held it out to him.
"Katherine's Diary, you can give it back to her"
Damon sat up and took it off her putting it in his black leather jacket pocket.
"What's with you two anyways?"
"I have no idea what is up with her and why she hates me. She is your girlfriend Damon so ask her yourself" Elena replied, heading back to her desk to go onto her laptop and check her emails.
There was silence for a bit while she was checking her emails.
"Ooh. Put these in the "yes" pile" Damon said cheekily.
Elena turned around to see he was holding a one of her black lace underwear and her underwear drawer was open. She felt her cheeks heat up as she quickly got off her chair and over to him, snatching her underwear from him and throwing them back in the open drawer and closing it shut.
"Stop going through my drawers Damon, you have a girlfriend" she hissed
Damon threw is hands up in mock surrender and then grabbed Katherine's Diary from Elena's bed and turned to Elena.
"I better go. Got to head to Katherine's for dinner anyways" he said, as he walked over to her and gave her a big hug.
Elena hugged him back not wanting to let go but did anyways. She followed him out of her bedroom and down through the lounge room to the hallway of the front door. He opened it and saw Isobel standing there, hand raised about to knock on the front door.
"Damon, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at my house seeing Katherine?" Isobel asked, speechless.
Damon glared at her "I am actually heading there, what the hell are you doing here? I told you to stay the hell away from Elena"
"She's my daughter, I wanted to talk to her" Isobel replied back
Both of them in a staring match didn't seem to realize Elena was standing there getting annoyed.
"I think I can speak for myself thanks Damon" Elena said, quietly.
Damon turned to look at Elena, his blue eyes filled with concern and worry.
"I guess I will go then but if you need me please don't hesitate to call me" Damon said, the last bit directed at Elena.
Elena nodded, Damon pushed pass Isobel and headed off to his car. Both of them watched him get in and drive off. Isobel then turned back to Elena, smiling nervously.
"Can I come in?" she asked
Elena stepped aside and allowed Isobel to come in. They walked down to the lounge room and Isobel sat down on the sofa.
"Would you like a drink?" Elena asked, politely.
"Coffee please, white with 2 sugars" Isobel said, smiling.
Soon Elena came back with 2 mugs of coffee and sat them on the coffee table, she then sat next to Isobel.
"So why are you here?" Elena asked
"I wanted you to hear the truth from me rather than your father John" Isobel answered, taking a sip of her coffee then putting it back on the coffee table.
"You just look like her" Isobel started, her eyes scanning Elena all over.
"Katherine" Elena stated.
"Yes, I am terribly sorry I could only choose to keep one of you as a single mum I couldn't afford to keep you both"
"I am nothing like Katherine" Elena said, coldly.
"John was a teenage waste of space, I dated him when I was 15 and fell pregnant to him. We ended up going to John's older brother, Grayson to try sort it out as we were both young back then. Grayson and his wife Miranda agree to take one of you into their care once I had you and Katherine. I was told to move away from Mystic Falls once that happened with Katherine and never come back" Isobel explained.
"But you live in Mystic Falls, Katherine goes to my High School" Elena said, confused.
Isobel smiled sadly "Once I heard from John that Grayson and Miranda had died in a car crash and you had been in it but survived I decided to move Katherine and I back to Mystic Falls. I thought it was about time you knew the truth though I was trying to respect Miranda's and Grayson's wishes on being your parents"
There was a comfortable silence as Elena tried to process all the information Isobel said. She really couldn't blame her for not keeping her, Isobel had only been 15 when she had Katherine and her.
"Where do we go from here?" Elena asked her
Isobel smiled nervously "I was hoping you could come over and have dinner with John, Katherine and I tonight as a family."
Elena felt uneasy about it, seeing as Katherine hated her.
"It's only dinner dear and you will have Damon there too I know you both are close friends, I am not asking you to move in with us. I respect you have your Aunt raising you and probably feel more comfortable living here but I do wish for us to be a family"Isobel hurriedly explained seeing her uneasiness.
"Ok" Elena agreed
Isobel smiled, "If you want to go get ready I can drive us back over to mine as soon as you are ready"
Elena nodded, getting up and heading upstairs to get ready, dreading this dinner.
Of course she was right about dreading it.
As soon as she came through the front door at Isobel's house with her, Katherine had seen her and glared at her, she had grabbed her mum's arm and pulled her into the kitchen leaving Elena alone to explore, not that she needed to since she had only been sneaking around this house a week ago.
Soon she could hear a yelling match between Isobel and Katherine, she sighed and decided to look around bumping into Damon who had been looking for Katherine.
"She is in the kitchen with Isobel" Elena said "I guess she isn't happy to see I am here"
"That's Katherine for you, she loves to be number 1" Damon said "Why are you here?"
Elena shrugged "I heard Isobel out and she wanted me to come over for dinner so I thought why not"
Katherine pulled her mum into the kitchen and glared at her.
"Why is she here?" she demanded
"She is your sister Katherine, she has as much right as you to be here. I invited her for dinner" Isobel said, coldly.
Katherine rolled her eyes "You didn't even care about her up until a few months ago, why now? She has her own family"
"I never stopped caring about her, she is as much as my daughter as you are Katherine, I regret giving her up and I am trying to make up for it. You need to learn you cannot have everything your way" Isobel shouted.
Katherine glared, stamping her foot "This is unfair!"
"Life isn't always fair, you better behave tonight or I will be cancelling your credit card" Isobel said, leaving the kitchen.
Katherine crossed her arms pissed off. 'I'll make this dinner as horrible as possibly, make Elena not ever come back.' she thought, smirking to herself.
"Katherine!" she heard her mum shout out for her.
"Coming!" Katherine said, sweetly already having a plan ready for tonight. By the end of tonight Elena will want nothing to do with Isobel and John.
Author Note:
Hi all,
Sorry it has been awhile, been getting back into writing again slowly as my dad passed away in September so been taking awhile to write this chapter. Hope everyone liked it.
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AmethystSparkles.