Author Note: First fanfic in Vampire Diaries section! As for a quick note, I have not watched Rose's death. I will, eventually, but I have seen a lot of videos of Damose, and I had this idea that wouldn't leave me alone.
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To Rose, it was a sensation like spinning and falling. Spiraling in nothingness, everything painted ebony around her.
Then she hit something. Blinking away the ebony, she saw she was in a hospital room, of all places.
"Ivy!" A strange girl fell upon her, hugging her tightly. "Ivy, I was so scared that you'd never wake up, you had me so worried!"
"I..." Rose caught a glimpse of herself in the glass of the window. Long blonde hair tumbled down her shoulders, and blue eyes stared back at her.
Not good. Not good at all.
"Ivy, I'm going to go call Jeff, be right back." The girl stood up, but grinned at Rose. "Oh, I'm so happy you're ok. I'll get a doctor to check on you too, oh thank God..." She scuttled out of the room.
Rose stared back into the window. She was not in her body. Something was desperately wrong here, and she needed to find Damon ASAP.
She found a bag with a change of clothes in it, and though they were maybe a size too large, they would work in a pinch like this.
"Keep a hold of yourself." She murmured to herself as she changed and slipped into the hallway. She found an exit nearby and ran for it.
This body wasn't the same as her vampiric one, as her body. It grew tired with the running, but she knew better than to listen to it. Her bare feet pounded the grass with an increasing intensity, and she found herself at Damon's place within the hour.
She didn't knock, Damon wouldn't be home with her luck and then she'd have a lot to explain to Stefan and Elena. While she didn't hate either of them, they weren't her favorite people in the world.
"Damon?" She slipped around the edge of the house, her voice barely above a whisper. Her body, well, this body ached and her feet were definitely bleeding. Well good, maybe the blood would draw him out.
"May I ask what you're doing here, little girl?" Damon was behind her.
"No, Damon." Rose cursed her defective human hearing and turned to him. "But I may ask about what happened after you lulled me to sleep."
"You wanted me to make it stop." Damon's eyes went dull and he almost backed up a step. Rose gave herself a mental pat on the back for being terrifying even when she had no bite to her bark.
"I did." Rose pressed her lips together. "But as you can tell, I'm not completely gone. Something went wrong, and I'm still here. I don't know if I am a danger to anyone as of right now, but there's a girl who will send police looking for me." Rose stared hard into his eyes, her lover's eyes. "Will you hide me from her?"
"Yes." Damon pulled her in through the window, shut it after them, and leaned against the wall, holding her. "About that switch to shut off our emotions..." He murmured.
"It was bull. There is no switch." Rose sighed, a long, breathy sigh. Dismayed that she didn't even sound like herself, she added, "I feel odd having a second chance like this... especially in someone else's body."
"I would too." Damon grinned, but it was shaky. "I need a drink, how about you?"
"Definitely." The now-blonde girl let him pour them each a glass of alcohol and sighed. "This is all so strange... I've never heard of this happening to any vampire before."
"Well, you always were odd..." The male vampire flashed her a grin.
"You're an ass." Rose took a long drink from her glass and glared at him.
"You know, you don't look legal..." Damon teased. "Maybe I shouldn't be letting you drink."
"Just because I look like a pixie child does not give you the right to talk to me as if I am one." Rose splashed the rest of her drink in his face. "Watch your tongue, Damon, or it's a possibility that I may have to cut it out."
"You're a human now, I doubt that you'd want to put your hand in my mouth like that." Damon's eyes turned serious.
"I'm not afraid of you, and I'm not afraid of being turned." Rose set her empty glass on the counter and headed for the parlor. "I'm not afraid of being a vampire again, just as long as I don't get caught by this body's family."
"Rose, you need to hide." Her lover said out of the blue, and threw his glass in the sink so hard it shattered. "Someone's coming, go to my room. I'll handle this."
"We'll continue our discussion later." Rose hiked up the much-too-loose jeans, knowing she couldn't handle this at the moment, not on her own anyway. She headed for Damon's room. "You just convince them I'm not here then."
"Can do." Damon headed for the front door just as she shut the door to his room.
Author Note: I was fretting for how long I wanted this chapter to be, because I felt it should be longer. Don't ask me why, because I really have no clue why I thought that. I got the idea when watching a Damose video on youtube; I believe it was called "Just Sleep". I'm still on season one of Vampire Diaries, but I saw a few in-the-middle episodes of season two with Rose and Damon, so if my facts are off, I'm sorry. I'm trying, I really am. Will you drop me a comment? I love to hear from my readers.