C is for Curse
"Give it back, Damon!"
"Like hell I will! You're just gonna try to use it one me and turn me into a frog or something!"
I walked into the living room and took in the scene before me. Stefan was sitting on the couch next to Caroline shaking his head while she laughed at what they were seeing. Damon and Bonnie stood fighting over the Bonnie's spell book that was currently in his hands.
"What's going on?" I asked standing between them.
"Damon stole my spell book and now he won't give it back!" Bonnie shouted.
"Damon..." I said turning to him in a warning tone. He shrugged his shoulders and bucked his eyes in anger.
"Why give it to her when she's already threatened to try to kill me!?" he shouted.
"Bonnie..." I said with a sigh.
"No I didn't, I just suggested it! And its not like you haven't threatened to kill me before!"
"That is true." Caroline said piping in.
"I thought you were on my side?" Damon asked.
"When have I ever agreed with you, Damon?"
"Give it back!" Bonnie yelled.
"NO!"
"Stefan, a little help?" I asked with a plea. He gave me a look that said "I've already tried." And from his facial expression, it didn't end well.
I waited until both of them were distracted and snatched the book from Damon's hands. "Hey-"
"Neither of you gets it until both of you apologize." I said cutting him off before he could protest further.
"Fine, I'm sorry for insulting you, Damon." Bonnie said. He looked her up and down and folded his arms. "What?"
"Like I'm gonna believe that she means what she says." He said. I glared at him.
"Fine, don't accept my apology." I handed Bonnie her spell book as she gathered her things.
"You're leaving?' Caroline asked.
"Yes, why stay when he's just gonna be a prick the whole entire time. And it's not like I haven't tried to be nice to him." She turned to me and spoke with sincerity. "I've tried being nice for your sake but I can't."
"Oh, like cutting me on fire was trying to be nice." Damon commented.
"I was upset because I thought that it was your fault for turning Caroline! For all I know it is!"
"Bonnie!" I gasped in surprise. I'd never seen her this upset.
"No, no Elena, you know what?" She stepped infront of me and walked up to Damon. She looked him in the eyes and glared up at him. "I think I'll just kill him and get it over with."
"What?" Stefan asked standing up quickly.
"Bonnie-" I started.
"No Elena." I saw her eyes flash a darker green. "I'm done. This time, I'm serious."
"Pfft. As if wicked witch of the west. You wouldn't make it thirty seconds in a fight with me." Damon teased.
"Who said anything about fighting?" Bonnie whispered a few words in Wiccan and her eyes returned to its normal olive green. "There, now I'm done."
"You think a couple of words in witchy woo hoo can scare me?"
"I didn't just-" she stopped and shook her head. "I just put a curse on you. You have twenty four hours to live."
"What?" Caroline, Stefan, and I said all at once.
"Relax, I'll be fine." Damon chuckled and patted Bonnie on the back. "But nice try though."
"Damon, I think she's serious." I warned.
"Come on Elena, this witch couldn't even perform a tomb spell without killing her own grandma in the process. I think I'll be fine." Damon said with a shrug.
"Fine, don't belive me." Bonnie crossed the room and grabbed the door handle. "But when you die a slow, painful death tomorrow, don't come crying to me." And with that, she left.
We sat that way, with silence filling the room and worry for Damon. Then he started laughing.
"Well I don't know about you guys, but I think that the whole thing was pathetic." He said.
"Damon, I don't think she was kidding." Caroline said.
"Okay blondie, I think you're way too gullible for your own good."
"Since when am I gullible?"
"May I remind you of a time when you were still human and I managed to get you into bed with me in under thirty seconds without compelling you?"
Caroline chucked a pillow at his head and walked towards the door. "Screw you. Have fun in hell." She said as she left the house.
"Anyone else wanna say something about this supposed curse?" Damon asked spreading his arms out in a welcoming motion.
"Yes." I said. "Damon I don't think this is anything to play about." I said.
"Just apologize to her." Stefan explained. "It's the right thing to do."
"Yes, no, and like hell it is." Damon said. "Come on guys, if Judgy wanted to kill me she would have done it by now. Not saying that she could, but do you seriously believe it?"
"Damon, your ego is what's gonna screw you over if you don't apologize." Stefan warned.
"Let me tell you something, Stefan. I've encountered a lot of witches in the past century and one thing I know is that they only put curses on people to keep nature at balance. For revenge, they can get their powers taken away." Damon explained.
"Yea, well if that's the case, why hasn't Bonnie gotten her powers taken away yet? She's used her powers for her own purposes before." I asked.
"I dunno Elena, it's none of my business. All I know is that this witchy mumbo is nothing to fret about. If I'm not worrying, none of you should."
At this I rolled my eyes. Sometimes Damon is stubborn for the wrong reasons. A trait I hate to admit that we share.
The next morning after everyone had gone home the night before, I woke up to find that my phone vibrating. A text from Damon about some kind of emergency.
Obviously I knew it had something to do with the curse, so I sped over to the Boardinghouse. The door was open, so I walked in. Stefan' s car wasn't parked in the driveway, so I guess he wasn't home. It kind of explained why he didn't get him for help.
"Damon?" My voice echoed through the house. I walked into the living room and suddenly realized how dark it was. I went over to the window and was about to open the curtains when two things happened: one I was pressed against the wall, two I was looking into the baby blue eyes of Damon.
"What's wrong?" I asked after a second. I'll admit it, the way he had me against the wall did some things to my hormones.
"I can't find my ring." He said frustrated as he let go of me and walked away.
"What? How'd you lose it?" I asked following him.
"I don't know, I woke up this morning being burned alive because it wasn't even on my finger!" He held his hand in front of my face to show me that it was gone.
"Did you take it off last night before you went to sleep?" I asked.
"Why would I do that Elena? What sense does that make?" He walked over to the fireplace and looked along the shelf, knocking down photos along the way. "It's not here! Damn it!" He slammed a photo on the ground in anger and walked over to the book case.
"Damon calm down. We'll find it." I said putting a hand on his shoulder. He shoved me off and walked away. "What's your problem?"
"You! You're my problem!" He shouted.
"How is this my fault?"
"No not...I mean you being here. Stefan hasn't been back since last night and He won't answer his phone!"
"So?" I followed him as he walked into his bedroom and looked around angrily.
"So there aren't anymore blood bags. The dick probably took that too!" Damon yelled.
Then that's when I realized what was going on.
"Wait, you think Stefan did this?" I asked as he took all the sheets off his bed and shook them.
"Who else?" he asked looking at me.
"Stefan didn't-wouldn't do this." I defended.
"Okay then Elena." He said. He turned around and walked up to me. His eyes boring into mine. "You mind telling me who did?"
"I don't know who did, Damon, but it's pretty clear that the curse-"
"Oh don't give me that"The curse it real" crap! This has nothing to do with the curse. Bonnie said it was supposed to kill me."
"Being exposed to the sun can kill you! And since you lost your ring-"
"Enough with the nonsense, Elena. Either you can help me or try to convince me. Your choice." I shook my head and walked over to his bathroom. I looked around for the ring or any spare blood bags lying around and came up empty. I walked back into his room five minutes later and found him under his bed looking around for something.
"Great!" He sat up and collapsed on his bed. "I can't find my phone."
"What? You just called me!" I said.
"Yea I know but now that's missing to. I swear whoever is messing with me is a dead man!" He shouted out as if someone else would hear him.
"Damon it's the curse. And I'm gonna call Bonnie to tell her to stop it." I said looking on my contacts and calling her.
"Please don't waste your time, Elena. She has nothing to do with it." Damon said.
It rang for times and finally she picked up. "Hello?"
"Hey Bonnie. Listen, about last night-"
"Elena I'm not stopping the curse. It's already in motion."
"What do you mean already in motion?" I asked looking at Damon to see if he was listening.
"I mean that nature already hates him anyways, and since I put the curse on him, it's already permanent. Sorry."
"Bonnie, please-"
"Bye Elena." and with that she hung up.
I tossed my phone in the bed and laid beside him. " Well she's not gonna help."
"I told you she didn't do it. The curse does not exist." He sighed and looked over at me.
"Can you do me a favor?" He asked.
"Yea sure." I said with a smile.
"Can you go find Stefan for me. And bring him here so I can kick his ass."
"Alright." I said. "But you aren't gonna hurt him if I do." I got up and walked out of the room. I left the Boardinghouse and called Stefan' s phone. He answered on the first ring.
"Hello?"
"Stefan, it's Elena. Where have you been?"
"I was...out." He didn't have to explain further. I got the picture.
"Well we need you back at the Boardinghouse. Damon needs your help."
"What'd he do now?"
"He lost his ring and his phone."
"Wow."
"Yea. Hey did you um..."
"Did I...what?"
"Did you take any of his blood bags by any chance?"
"No, why?"
"Just asking is all. There aren't any more left and he's kind of getting cranky."
"Well I'll bring some over when I'm done."
"Okay. Bye." I hung up and drove back to the Boardinghouse. Hectic day. Damon had only ten hours left until Bonnie' s curse ended him for good. Honestly, I needed a way to stop it before it did.
When I walked back in, there was silence. "Damon!" I shouted as I closed the door. "Stefan said he's on his way." No answer. "Damon?
I walked into the living room and saw a little boy sitting on the couch. I cocked my head to the side and stood over him. "Who are you?" He looked up at me with the cutest face I'd ever seen in my whole entire life. His eyes were so blue and his hair was tossled in the most adorable-
Oh. My. God. He was Damon.
"Oh my God, Damon what happened?" I asked sitting beside him on the couch. He had to be like twelve or so.
"I dunno. I fell asleep and woke up..." He shrugged his shoulders and looked back down at his phone. He gave me a mischievous grin and waved it in my face. "Found my phone though, sunshine."
"Damon this is serious! Maybe Bonnie' s curse is supposed to make you age backwards until you die!" The Candy Crush Saga theme song started playing.
"I wonder why I never bought this game." Damon said playing a level. I took his phone from him. He looked up at me like I was crazy. "Hey!"
"Damon I'm not letting you out of my sight until Bonnie stops the curse. Are you still a vampire?" I asked standing up and pacing back and forth.
"No. I wasn't one when I was twelve before. Why would I be one now?"
"Bonnie made it seem like you'd be sick and dying like with the werewolf bite incident. She's giving multiple factors into how you could die. Before it was with the sun."
"Now it's age." He chimed in.
"Plus vulnerability. Each and every cause has something to so with you being vulnerable. Now that you're human again-"
"Someone could kill me!" He stood up and looked at me with his big blue eyes.
"Now you believe me!?"
"Yea but-"
"Good." Just as I said this Stefan walked in. He took one look at Damon and widened his eyes in confusion and surprise.
"What happened?" he asked walking over.
"Bonnie' s curse is catching up to Damon." I turned to look back at Damon. "We need to get to Bonnie' s place now." I grabbed his hand and Stefan followed us out.
We took my truck out to Bonnie' s house. On the way there I tried to think of what we were gonna do.
"You should get him to apologize." Stefan explained. I let him drive so I could keep a closer eye in Damon, who was sitting in the backseat. I looked back at him and saw that he now looked at least ten years old. Still adorable, but like ten times more. He looked at Stefan in confusion.
"Aren't I older than you?" he asked.
"You were older than me. He looked at him through the mirror. "Past tense."
"I'm still your older brother, moron. I'll still kick your ass too." I turned around in the backseat and glared at him. "What?"
"You're way to young to curse now." I scolded.
"Oh come on, Elena-"
"I'm serious. You need to behave."
"How is that gonna change anything?" he questioned.
"I don't know but it would help if you could be-" my lecture was cut short by the sound of Damon coughing up blood. He doubled over in his seat in pain and coughed up a lot of blood.
"Oh my God." Stefan stopped the car as I said this and I hopped out before he could turn it off. I opened his door and crawled over to Damon. I held him in my lap as he cried in pain and coughed up more blood. "Stefan we need to get to Bonnie! Now!" He started the car back up and drove at top speed towards Bonnie' s place. I cradled him in my lap and felt it as he aged younger to five years old. His tears soaked through my shirt.
I'd never seen him this vulnerable.
We pulled into Bonnie' s driveway and I helped him up the steps to her front door. After knocking multiple times. She came to the door. She took one look at Damon and shook her head. "No."
"Bonnie please-" I started.
"He's tried to kill me. Twice!"
"Then don't stoop to his level, Bonnie. Be the bigger person." Stefan coaxed.
"If it helps any, I'm sorry." Damon said in between coughs. I could see Her expression change as Bonnie rolled her eyes.
"I can't believe I'm doing this." Bonnie huffed out. She closed her eyes and touched Damon's shoulder. We watched her whisper a lot of words in Wiccan and Damon's child like figure was replaced with a bright silhouetted light. I didn't let go of him as the light engulfed me.
Then just like that it was gone.
And in its place was my vampire best friend.
I wrapped my arms around him and couldn't help the tears that fell from my eyes and onto his leather jacket. He stroked my hair and calmed me down. "It's alright Elena. I'm fine." I sniffed and pulled away from him. He turned around to Bonnie and looked her over for a second. Yes, Damon was stubborn, but he could be sweet when he wanted to be. "Thank you. " he said.
She smiled up at him. "You're welcome. Oh, and if it helps any, you weren't gonna die."
What. The. Heck.
"What!" Stefan and I shouted at once.
"It's a pain spell. Some of your worst nightmares into one things that makes you feel as if you're dying."
"So I would've lived?"
"Yes, but it would've felt like death."
"So no curse?"
"Nope."
"Ha!" Damon turned around and looked at both me and Stefan. "I. Was. Right! There was no curse and Bonnie' s never gonna kill me."
"Whatever. And get off my doorstep!" Bonnie said shooing him away. "Prick."
"Thank you Bonnie." I said with a smile as Stefan ans Damon walked back to the truck. "For not killing him I mean."
"I have a soul, Elena. Plus I know you care about him. Had to teach him a lesson so he won't hurt you." Bonnie explained.
"Thanks." I said not denying a single word.
"Friends gotta look out for each other." Bonnie said. I turned away and waved at her as I walked to my truck. I got inside and noticed Stefan stifling back a laugh and Damon pissed off in the passenger seat.
"What?" I asked
"Someone downloaded Candy Crush on my phone."
I didn't plan on updating anytime soon, but I dreamt about this chapter so...
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