Opal POV
We made our way back to the house in order to get ready so that my stud can be put up for auction. Damon just rolled his eyes at my excitement, I managed to find him a nice suit to wear because my husband will look nice so that I am justified in my purchase of him. I all but cackled at the thought of buying him like some prized bull like Jazz and Daddy used to do before the war ripped our family apart.
Great now I'm sad again, vampire emotions are hard to get a handle of if anyone is curious. It's like thousands of thoughts running through your brain at full speed with multiple emotions pulling you in every which way not allowing you even a moment to catch and hold on to a single one at times. It's very frustrating and I am beginning to understand why most vampires turn off their emotions so that just existing is easier. I've had years to practice honing in my rage and hope while trapped in the tomb but all the new information being thrown at me everyday is making it hard to keep up. Don't even get me started on the pregnancy hormones that are now galivanting through my system on full blast due to us having twins.
Damon noticing my distress pulled me into his arms and said, "It will be alright love I have you. You don't have to worry so much I will make sure you don't hurt anyone and I will keep you and the babies safe." I sighed and leaned into his hold allowing him to take my weight and give myself over to the moment. He kissed my head and I stood tall again forcing myself to buck up and get dressed for an evening surrounded by humans and Stephan. I almost wish I didn't sign Damon up for the auction, almost.
Damon POV
Opal walked into the bathroom to finish getting ready for the evening when Stephan walked into the room as I was attempting to tie this god forsaken tie that Opal picked out for me to wear. "Damon can I ask you a question?" If I wasn't a vampire I might have missed the almost whisper that came from my brothers mouth. Still struggling with the tie I glanced at Stephan and said, "Speak at a normal volume Stephan I have no secrets from Opal, plus I don't even think she is listening what with the hair dryer going and all."
Stephan sighed and said, "Do you remember a woman you met Isobel Flemming around Duke University a few years ago?" I looked at him in an attempt to understand why he would care before I said, "I don't know Stephan I have met a lot of women and most of them were on university of college campuses if I do recall. Why is this one so important?" He looked at me in badly concealed disgust before he said, "No real reason just thought you might know her she went missing about three years ago." I looked him in the eye knowing there was more to this little interrogation but said, "I had my emotions off three years ago so your guess is as good as mine. I didn't care about who I ate back then still don't if I'm being honest. Are you sure this isn't about something important that I should know about?" I tried one last time to get him to open up and share what he wanted to say in hopes of being able to trust my brother even if just a little bit. Alas he let me down yet again as he just shook his head and left.
Opal then walked out of the bathroom and wrapped her arms around my middle pressing her head to my back as she just held me in silence allowing me to take my comfort without feeling like she is hovering or crowding me for answers to questions I don't have answers to. "It will be fine my love." was all she said as she let me go and walked over to put her shoes on so that we could leave the house.
We made it to the Grill and Liz walked up to me with the results of her background check on our resident history teacher. It was while looking through the file that Stephan's earlier inquiry started to make sense. He was asking for the teach in an attempt to feel me out, to make sure I wasn't going to lose it and kill the guy in an attempt to keep him from nosing around in my life. He is lucky that I have Opal back or I would probably do something to aggravate the guy to try and force him to attack me so that I could kill him in 'self defense'. Sometimes I surprise even myself with the lengths I am willing to go to stay on Opals good side. My wife is a scary lady when she want to be and if I know one thing she will be mad as hell that I turned the wife of this crazed guy in front of him in hopes of starting a fun game of cat and mouse when my emotions were off. "This is going to be a long night." I mutter to myself as Opal walks over to me with a quizzical look, "I might as well just rip the Band-Aid off." I said while holding my hand out for her to take so I could lead her into a more secluded area before the auction started so that she could help me plan out what we were going to do.
After pulling her into a corner I looked he straight in the eyes and said, "I messed up, about three years ago I turned this woman into a vampire in front of her husband. Well not fully in front of him, he just saw my back I think while I carried her out of the window. Anyway he apparently is the new history teacher at the high school and Stephan has taken it upon himself to be his errand boy and find out if I killed her or not. I think he is trying to keep the teach from wanting to kill me but who knows what is going through his mind anymore. We need a plan love I wont put you at risk even if it's from some puny human that thinks he can get revenge for a wife that wanted nothing to do with him."
Opal POV
All I could do was sigh, I have a feeling a lot of our life at least in the short term is going to be made up of fixing the messes Damon has created in his years of emotional unavailability. Looking up at my husband unabashed face I sighed once again before I said, "Is there anything else I should know about your off years before we get to fixing your massive fuck ups my love?" Damon just flashed me his trademark smile and said, "No not really I didn't kill anyone of importance or piss of any vampires during that time other than teach apparently. I almost killed Lexi but no one even knows I was thinking about it so I think we are good." with a heavy sigh and a shake of my head I started to come up with a plan to minimize the damage that Damon has caused to the new teacher in town.