There was still a hour, till Amelia had to go to Lockwood Estate for the party, but she was already dressed and finishing off her hair in front of the mirror. She had on a Blue strapless dress, that had a sweetheart neckline, and small brown belt with a gold buckle around her waist. Over the top of that, she placed on a crisp white blazer with three quarter length sleeves, then pulled on a pair of plain brown wedges to finishes off.

She curled the whole of her hair, before placing it all of to the right side of her face, using a lot of hairspray to keep in place. Normally, she wouldn't make this much of an effort but since Damon would be her date, she decided to try her hardest to look good.

"Well, doesn't someone look pretty. Big date, love ?" Klaus questioned in a teasing tone, leaning her doorway, watching her with a grin.

"Maybe. Though, I could say the same for you" She fires back, nodding to his smart suit and silver tie, clearly having dressed like that to make a good impression on Caroline.

Klaus just chuckles, looking down to ground thoughtful, before looking back up at her with a smile "I guess we are both trying to impress today. Can I assume you won't be needing to stay here after tonight ?"

Her cheeks flush red at that, and glares at the Original Hybrid "If you are implying what I think you are implying, I swear to God I will kill you. It is one date, nothing will happen"

"Whatever you say, love"

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When she got to Lockwood Estate early, she didn't think she would be kidnapped by Caroline, and forced to help April pick a dress to wear for the contest. Nor did she think, Caroline would force her to be in the same room as Elena, knowing how she felt about the Doppelganger at the moment.

"Blue" Caroline says quickly, as April holds up a blue and red dress in either hand.

"Blue" Elena agrees, glancing between both options.

"Really ? Blue seems a little safe" April says, biting her lip in conflict, not sure if to trust what they say or not.

"I like the red" Amelia pipes up, finally breaking the silence she had been stood in, giving the girl a small smile.

"Safe is good when it comes to the judges" Elena adds, looking at Amelia in surprise, thinking she wasn't going to give much input whatsoever, but also frowning slightly at her decision.

"She's right. Gracie Lockwood had a three foot slit in her year and practically got laughed off the stage" Caroline reminds, and her and Elena begin to laugh at the memory, while Amelia rolls her eyes and April remains conflicted.

"She got my vote" A voice pipes up, and they all look to see Damon stood in the doorway, in smart black suit and tie.

Caroline frowns, picking up the things closest to her which happens to be a shoe, and lobs it directly at Damon "Get out, Lurker !" Damon narrowly doges the flying shoe, and pouts at Caroline in fake hurt.

"Ouch. Where's Professor Shane ?" He questions, getting straight to the point, his eyes glancing toward Amelia who is stood staring at him with a smile.

"Check the judges table" Caroline huffs, glaring at him to leave, but Damon doesn't budge and looks at both dresses in April's hands, as the girl still tries to decided between them both. 

"Red one, definitely" Damon tells her, smirking at the looks he gets off Caroline for it, trying to hide his grin when he sees a smile form Amelia's face. 

He had heard say Red on his way in here, and couldn't resist the chance to agree with her, make a start on apologizing for all the mistakes he has made recently "We've already agreed the Red ones a bit too showy" Caroline frowns at him, making it very clear his input is unappreciated

"It's a pageant" The Eldest Salvatore scoffs "That's the whole point"

"Did you win Miss Mystic Falls last year ? No. I don't think you did" The Blonde Vampire retorts, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Neither did Elena, and she wore blue" Damon fires back, clearly trying to push Caroline's buttons as far as they will go.

"Nobody cares what you think" Caroline finally snaps in a huff.

"I care" April pipes up, which gets ignored but Amelia can't help but giggle at it all. 

"See ? April cares. Red, right, Amelia ? Elena ?" Damon then says, turning to the Doppelganger and Evans girl. 

"The red is pretty" Elena can't help but admit, as if anything she had told April before Damon entered the room, had completely flown out of the window.

"Yeah, I like the red, like I have already stated" Amelia smirks, seeing the infuriated glare the Blonde Vampire is getting on her face. 

To be fair, Caroline had expected this from Amelia, the second she heard Damon was going to be the girls date. Though she hated the idea of Elena and Damon together, the idea of seeing Amelia and Damon made her smile slightly, knowing how well suited they are for one another. 

"And my work here is done" Damon says, turning and leaving the room, to go back downstairs to where the main party is being held. 

Amelia waits for a moment, before quickly following out out after, leaving Caroline to scold Elena for agreeing with Damon on the red.  By the time she catches up to him, Damon is just reaching the bottom of the half spiral staircase "Damon !" She calls out, causing to stop in his tracks and turn, watching as she slowly walks down the stairs toward him elegantly in her dress.

Though he would never tell her this, Damon felt his breath hitch in his throat, never quiet realizing how beautiful the girl look until this very moment "Still here" He finally replies, after a few moments silence. 

Elena arrives at the top of the stairs, just in time to watch Damon takes the Evan's girl hand and kiss the top of it, watching as her cheeks blush and she smiles widely at him. The Doppelganger bites her lip, before sighing and walking back toward the room she was in with April and Caroline, knowing she couldn't talk to Damon about what she needed to with Amelia present. 

"Amelia, you look amazing" Damon compliments the girl, twirling her around playfully. 

"You don't look half bad yourself" She smiles back, looking him up and down "Stefan not with you ?"

"No, he's giving it a miss. I think it's about the breakup, but I wouldn't really know, he wouldn't talk to me about it" Damon tells her, rolling his eyes, but earning a smack on the arm off of Amelia for it.

"Hey ! What was that for ?"

"Stefan loves Elena, and she broke up with him because of you. So, if he hasn't talked to you about it Damon, it is of no fault of your own. Your lucky I'm talking you, given you have been the world biggest jerk lately" She snaps, feeling as if a weight has lifted off her chest by saying it out loud.  

Damon frowned slightly, not wanting to admit it, but knowing her words where the truth. Twice she had told him to figure everything out, and he still had yet to do that. He wasn't going to deny the feelings he had for Elena, but he also couldn't deny how things between him and Amelia had changed. It was like he had his human crush from when they teenagers all over again. 

"I'm sorry, okay ? Now let me have today to prove that to you, please" Damon asks her, with a genuine apologetic look on his face, making her calm slightly when she looks at him.

"Okay, you have today"

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After basically accusing Professor Shane of mass murder, which had earned a scolding from the Evans girl, everyone was listening to Caroline introduce this years Miss Mystic Falls court. As soon as Amelia spotted the Blonde Vampire, she immediately asked her how her date with Klaus, to which Caroline ranted about how unbearably kind her was being to her.
When she caught sight of the Hybrid, she couldn't help but smile and compliment him on how hard he was trying, to which he threatened to bite her if she didn't shut up. She did leave it alone after that, but couldn't wipe the smirk off her face.

In her opinion, Klaus and Caroline were a ship that needed to sail, and she would help that happen in whatever way she could. As Amelia's own date with Damon, apart from the small dispute about Elena and accusation of mass murder earlier, it was going rather well. Damon was trying his hardest to make up for his recent behavior, and she was enjoying every minuet of it.

Everything was perfect. Until, of course, Doppelganger drama started. Jeremy had gone missing, and instead of being here to play escort to April Young like he was meant to. Luckily, Matt had stepped in to April's rescue, but that didn't solve the problem of the missing teen.

"Do the math. Emo teen. Open bar. It's fine" Damon assured Elena, as himself and Amelia joined the panicked Gilbert girl, who was about to call her brother for the hundredth time.

"Matt said Jeremy's been having nightmares about killing Vampires and he's been hiding it from me" Elena argued back, making Amelia roll her eyes.

"I don't blame him. When someone has nightmares, they don't need their overprotective, control freak sisters on their case" She butts in, causing Elena to glare at her, and she glares back without hesitation.

"Look, I didn't exactly ask for your help, and I frankly don't want it" Elena snaps angrily, make something inside the Evans girl snap.

That does it, she thought, before lunging herself at the doppelganger. Up until today, she had bit her tongue and actually tried to help Elena, despite the hatred she felt towards her. And now, Elena had just signed her own death sentence. Knowing she would actually kill the girl, Damon quickly wraps his around Amelia's waste and holds her back, not flinching when she thrashes in his grip and kicks him to make him let go. 

"If I'm not worried, you shouldn't be worried. Let it go. We'll go look for him" Damon tells the Doppelganger sternly, before walking away and dragging Amelia along with him, ignoring the stares Amelia was earning them for her outburst. 

They both stay silent, until they enter a empty dressing room, and Damon quickly closes the door behind them. He then pulls the girl over to a chair, then gives her a look "Sit" He orders, and the look he gives her stops her arguing, and instead she just does as told. 

"Can I trust you to stay sat quietly, and not sneak to kill Elena, while I call Stefan ?"He asks, and with an annoyed look on her face, she nods her head solemnly. 

Making sure to keep the Evan's girl in eyesight, Damon sighs and calls Stefan, knowing he will have the answers on Jeremy's sudden disappearance.  "Please don't tell me you've roped Jeremy into a world of crazy" Damon questions as soon as Stefan answers.

"I had no choice. Elena needs a cure"

"Makes killing her a lot easier" Amelia grumbles bitterly, sending Damon a fake smile when he narrows his eyes at her for the comment. 

"Oh, right. So you can turn her back into the girl who's still in love with you" Damon snaps, not needing to think long, to realize Stefan's motives about finding the cure. 

"You know, I get why you wouldn't want to believe it, Damon, but she isn't herself anymore"

"Or course you would think that. Leave it alone, Stefan" The Eldest Salvatore snaps irritated, before hanging up and shoving his phone back into his pocket.

Biting her lip, Amelia stands up then walks up behind him, wrapping her arms around his waist and resting her head on his shoulder. Damon stiffens in surprise, before turning his head and giving her a small smile "You calm again ?"

"If by calm you mean, not wanting to kill Elena, then no. But, I am willing to let her live for now" She grumbles into his shoulder, her head now nuzzled into the crook of his neck.

Damon knew he wasn't going to say it aloud, but this moment meant the world to him, and wished it could last forever. Though currently, it couldn't.

**************

A lot happened after their moment in the dressing room. It turns out, Jeremy had been with Stefan killing Vampires, as to make his mark grow like Damon had suspected. When Elena did finally find her brother, he tried to kill her by jamming a stake in her neck. Luckily for Elena, Stefan and Matt intervened before he could kill her, much to the slight disappointment Amelia felt about it.

Damon had also interrogated Shane once again, and if it wasn't for the fact Shane admitted they needed him alive, Damon would of killed him then and there. But they did, if they wanted Bonnie to get back in touch with her magic.

Both Salvatore's and Amelia where gathered in the living room, when their was a knock at the door. Damon went and answered, to reveal Elena stood there with a suitcase in hand, looking like a lost puppy dog.

"I can't stay at home anymore" She tells them with a defeated sigh, making the three elder Vampire exchange looks.

"Pick a room. I'll crash somewhere else" Stefan states bluntly, before grabbing his jacket and walking out, not sparing Elena a second glance.

Even though she wanted to stay with Damon, she couldn't face being under the same roof as Elena, so Amelia grabbed her jacket also and went to leave. Noticing, Damon furrowed his eyebrows in confusion before grabbing her arm "Hey, where are you going ?"

"I can't stay under the same roof as Elena, and resist the urge to ring her neck, it just isn't going to happen. Besides, Stefan looks like he could need a friend tonight, so I'll see you tomorrow" She tells him simply, before going to leave again, but she freezes and looks at him once more "Thank you, for today. Consider your apology accepted" She says, before quickly pecking him on the cheek, and rushing out of the house in pursuit of Stefan.

***1864***

After racing each other down the gravel streets, the Salvatore boy and Evan's girl finally made it to Amelia's home, before of them sitting down on the porch steps to catch their breath. To say he had more fun with Amelia, then he did at the party was an understatement, and he couldn't be more grateful to the girl.

Even though she was home, Amelia didn't go straight inside like she normally would of, instead she stayed sat on the porch with Damon. They spent what felt like hours, just talking about anything they could think of, and admiring the beauty of the stars above.

"You know, I don't think I can think of anything more beautiful then what we are looking at now" Amelia comments, her eyes set on the dazzling star lit sky above.

Glancing away from the sky and at the girl, Damon can't  help but smile "I can think of one" He says, his voice barely a whisper, but she hears him nevertheless. After what had happened between them back at the party, then his comment just then, a blush creeps up her cheeks.

"Damon Salvatore, are you flirting with me ?" She accuses in a teasing tone, doing her best to make light of the situation.

"Maybe. Would you be okay with it if I was ?" He replies, slowly edging himself closer to her, so they are now sat side by side.

"Maybe" She answers with a playful smile, leaning closer to him without really thinking "Would you be okay if I did this"

And without giving him chance to question her words, she presses her lips against his, slowly wrapping her hands around his shoulders as she does. Grabbing her by the waist, Damon pulls her as close as possible, deepening the kiss without hesitation.

After a few moments, they pulled apart but their foreheads remained pressed together, staring at one another with the ability to speak having lost them both. In this moment, everything was perfect. In this moment, they had both done something they had wanted to do for a long time.

In this moment, Amelia Evans was genuinely happy, for the first time since her Father died.

***Present Day***

That scene played through her, the entire time her and Stefan made their way to Caroline's house, planning on staying at her place for the night. Stefan greatly appreciated the fact she came with him, given he was expecting her to spend the night with Damon, given their day together had gone so well.

While Amelia and Caroline sat down on the couch, Stefan poured three glasses of Bourbon, knowing they could probably all use a drink "Elena is right. I just need to let go"

"No. You're right, Stefan. It's not pretty, and it's not easy, but you can't give up on her" Caroline says stubbornly, taking the glass from his hand as he hands it to her.

"Caroline, she looked me in the eye, and told me to move on" Stefan sighs, looking rather depressed as he remembers the words Elena spoke to him.

"She's lost, okay ? You and her... Epic. Her and Damon... ugh God. There's something wrong with her" Caroline begins, earning a scoff from Amelia and her muttering 'You got that right, which the blonde chooses to ignore "Just promise me you won't stop looking for the cure"

"Klaus won't let me, even if I wanted to"

"What does he care ? He doesn't even want it" Caroline question confused, and Amelia rolls her eyes.

"Hybrids, Caroline. If he makes Elena human, he can continue to make more of them, and form an army" The Evans girl says, stating the blatantly obvious.

"He's gonna need them. Tyler's got almost all them unsired..." She trials off, before jumping to her feet, a look of realization hitting her "Oh my God.. Oh God. Ugh. I was trying to figure out why Klaus was so intrigued by Damon and Elena. He said I would figure it out. This is what he was talking about"

"Care, you alright ?" Amelia question, furrowing her eyebrows at the blonde

"What are you talking about ?" Stefan asks, looking as confused and concerned as Amelia.

"Think about it. Every time Elena has a problem, Damon has been the magic solution. Today Elena was worried about Jeremy. Who swoops in and tells her to relax ? Damon and she listens. When Elena started feeding, who said that she could only drink straight from the vein ?" She asks, glancing between the two, hoping they catch on.

"Damon" Stefan answers.

"And when she tried to drink from Animals ?"

"She couldn't keep it down" Amelia replies slowly, everything Caroline is trying to get across, slowly coming together in her head.

"And blood bags ?"

"Same thing" Stefan and Amelia answer in unison.

"Name one Vampire in the history of Vampires who couldn't drink from a blood bag. Damon said she couldn't, so she couldn't. Damon likes the red dress, Elena likes the red dress" Caroline continues on, and the truth has finally hit both Stefan and Amelia.

"Damon says kill Connor, she kills Connor"

"What if it's possible ? Damon's blood made her a Vampire, right ? It's rare but it happens. What if this is really happening" Caroline eggs on, and pained look falls across Amelia's face, her once good mood turning sour.

"Elena is sired to Damon"

Wow, this took a while to write and post, and for that I am really sorry. But, at least it is done now, that is the main thing. So Damon and Amelia kissed Human, their date went surprisingly well, then Elena sends it all down hill.

So if it wasn't obvious, Amelia now officially hates Elena, and I don't think that will change any time soon. And also if it wasn't obvious, I let Damon and Elena have their sex scene, even though I didn't really want to. What I've done, will work better for later on in the story, trust me on that.

One last thing, I know one of you said you shipped Stefan and Amelia. Tell me in the comments, if you want anything to happen between them on the build up to Damon and Amelia, as I think they are kinda cute together also :)

Question:

New Orleans next chapter, or should she brave girl's night ?