Chapter Seven - Sick Rose And Ezra Meets Damon
Elena enters Stefan's bedroom. Elena said "Stefan? Stefan?" She grins "You're standing right behind me, aren't you?" Stefan says "Yep." She turns around and kisses him. Stefan grinned "Good morning" Elena said "I don't want us to be apart anymore. Ever" Stefan nods "Me neither, but..." Elena groans "Don't ruin the moment." They kiss again but Stefan stops. Elena frowns "You're about to ruin the moment, aren't you?" Stefan sighs "I'm totally ruining the moment. Look, I can't just pretend like everything is okay." Elena said "Katherine's locked away in the tomb." Stefan said "I know but we still have this pressing little issue of you being Klaus' human sacrifice." She opens one of Stefan's drawers, removes a vial of vervain and and opens it. Elena said "Yes but Elijah promised to keep me and everyone else safe as long as we play by his rules." Stefan frowns "Right. As long as you play by his rules."
She puts the vervain in a glass. Elena whimpers "Please don't go after Isobel." Stefan said "Katherine said Isobel could have some answers and I just have a couple questions, that's all." She pours water in the glass with the vervain in it. She drinks. Elena said "Stefan, I made a deal with Elijah." Stefan said "Right, you made a deal with him. I didn't make one. You should keep your deal." Elena groans "Stefan, I don't want anyone else to get hurt." Stefan asks "When have I ever wanted somebody to get hurt?" She shows him the glass Elena answers "Vervain. I made it light but are you sure? Just because Katherine built up a tolerance.."
Stefan frowns "Yes, bottoms up." He takes the glass and drinks but ends up on the floor coughing. After a moment he recovers and stands up. Elena asks "Are you okay?" Stefan answers "Yeah." Elena asks "How can Elijah compel another vampire?" Stefan shrugged and answers "He's an original. I don't really know what that means. I don't think anybody really knows what that means. Well, except maybe Isobel. Maybe we should ask her." He kisses her and leaves.
Rose is in the library, she seems sick. Damon enters her carrying a blood bag. Rose said "I was born in 1450, that makes me 560 years old." Damon cooed "Well, if you were a bottle of wine.." Rose smiled softly and continued "So I can die. I've lived long enough." Damon looks at her "You know, if you're gonna be morn, I'm just gonna kill you myself just to put me out of your misery." He pours blood from the bag into a glass
Damon said "Come on, it's just a little werewolf bite" Rose smiled "Just a little, fatal to a vampire werewolf bite." Damon nodded "Well, according to a legend which is notoriously unreliable source. Drink up" He gives her the glass of blood. Damon said "Blood heals." She drinks Rose hummed "Yeah, it does feel like it's working." Damon said "Let's have a look, come on. Let me see." He looks at the bite mark; it has gotten much worse and has spread further down her back.
Rose asked "How is it?" Damon answered "Definitely...better. Right, Elena?" Elena is in the room and she took a breath looking at Rose's wounds. Rose looks at her Elena says "Um, it's not bad." Damon frowns at her "Where's Stefan?" Elena answers "He left. I need you to talk to him. He's convinced that he has to find Isobel but I think that's gonna upset Elijah." Damon sighs "No, can do. I'm with Stefan on this one but if you could play nurse for a little while.." Rose said "It's not necessary." Damon grins "It is necessary. Elena is a do-gooder. It's in her nature, she just can't resist." He leaves the room. Elena looks at Rose for a second, then follows Damon out of the room.
Elena asks "Damon. Is she gonna die?" Damon answers "Probably. The wolf bite caused some kind of infection and it's getting worse" Elena said "Like poison?" Damon sighs "I don't know, Elena. I'm not an expert in the field. And I'm pretty sure she can hear you" Elena said "I'm sorry." Damon shrugged "Death happens. We come, we go. Sooner she dies the better. It's gloomy as hell in here."
Rose and Elena are in Damon's bedroom. Elena puts her in the bed. Rose whimpers "I hate this. I'm a vampire, I haven't had a cold in five centuries." Elena said "Just get in bed." Rose said "We don't get sick. When we die, it's fast and sudden and it's certainly not drawn out in illness." Elena smiled "You're not gonna die." Rose sighed "Such a human thing to say." Elena looks around Damon's room. Rose said "You've never been in Damon's room before, have you?" Elena takes a book and looks at it. It's Gone with the Wind.
Rose hummed "Not what you expected?" Elena shrugged "It's just a room with a bed. Maybe I expected there to be silk sheets." Rose said "You're lucky, you know. No one's ever love me the way you're loved." Elena said "I doubt that." Rose said "Trevor was my best friend. Nothing more. I spent all those years on the run from Elijah. I just never thought it was a good idea to set up roots. The whole idea of family is not exactly compatible with being a vampire. Why are you so eager to give up?" Elena said "I'm not giving up on anything. Here." She gives her a glass of blood.
Rose asks "What do you call this whole deal with Elijah?" Elena shrugs and answered "I call it my best option." Rose rolled her eyes "It's your easiest option." Elena said "That's not fair." Rose asks "Do you really think that your witch friend destroyed the moonstone?" Elena answers "I spoke with Bonnie. I know that she had the help of another witch; unless you mean it's Elijah's witch, so no, I don't." Rose said "You really are determined to die, aren't you? At least I ran, you're not even trying." She closes her eyes Rose sighed "I'm so tired." Elena is leaving but Rose is talking in her sleep.
Rose said "No, stop, wait. Tell them to prepare the horses." Elena smiled "It's okay Rose. Just get some sleep. You'll feel better when you wake up." Rose saidTrevor, don't be so stupid. You're never going to make it there before the sun. Suddenly she sits up. She cried out pain Rose whimpers "Elena, Elena, I need more blood." Elena nods "Yeah, of course, here." She gives her the glass of blood. Rose drinks but throws everything up. Elena said "It's okay, everything's gonna be alright." She rushes to the bathroom. When Elena comes back, Rose's not here anymore but is revealed to be standing behind Elena. When she turns around, Rose attacks her and pushes her hard against the wall.
Later that night
Elena enters Damon's bedroom with new sheets. Elena said "I brought some clean sheets." Rose is not here. Elena leaves the room to search for her. She enters the library and calls Damon. Elena said "It's Elena, I'm worried about Rose. I think you should come home." She hears a noise from another room and goes towards it. Elena calls out "Rose?" Elena walks into the basement. She finds an empty blood bag and picks it up. She goes farther into the basement. She finds Rose drinking blood from a bag. There are a lot of emptied blood bags on the floor around her.
Elena said "Oh my god."Rose growls "Katerina." Elena said "No." Rose goes after her. Elena runs. Elena cried "Rose, stop, stop, it's Elena. I'm not Katherine." Rose stops Elena said "You're hallucinating. I'm not Katherine. I'm not Katherine." Rose grabs her and pushes her on the floor. Elena opens a curtain. Rose is hurt by the sun so Elena runs. She tries to gets out of the house but Rose stops her and tries to bites her. Elena digs her fingers into Rose's wounds on her back. Rose screams and Elena runs. She goes in Stefan's bedroom, locks the door and puts furniture in front of it. She opens the window so the sun can enter the room and breaks a wooden chair to make a stake from its leg. Rose tries to open the door. Rose whispered "Elena? I know that's you and not Katherine." She coughs and groans uncontrollably." "Elena? Please, I need your help."
It's night. Elena doesn't hear anything so she leaves the room and goes downstairs. The main door is opened. She turns around and sees Damon. She still has the stake in her hand. Damon asked "Are you okay? Where's Rose?" Elena whispered "I don't know."
Later after Rose dies
A girl is driving down a road in the woods but she stops because a man is laying in the middle of the road. She gets out and rushes over to him. It's Damon. Jessica asks "Sir, are you okay? What happened?" Damon mumbles "I'm...lost." Jessica said "And you're laying in the middle of the road?" Damon sighs "Not that kind of lost." He sits up Damon hums "Metaphorically, existentially." Jessica asks "Do you need help?" Damon sighed "Well, yes I do. Can you help me?" He takes a hip flask from his pocket and takes a drink. Jessica says "You're drunk." Damon hums "No. Well, yes a little maybe."
She starts to leave. Damon whimpers "No please don't leave. I really do need help." He rushes over to her and compels her. Damon said "Don't move." Jessica whimpers "I don't want any trouble." Damon said "Neither do I but all I got is trouble." Jessica asks "Why can't I move?" Damon takes another drink from the flask, then puts his hands on her shoulders. Damon asks "What's your name?" Jessica answers "Jessica."
Damon grins "Hi Jessica. I have a secret, I have a big one and I never said it out loud. I mean, what's the point? It's not gonna change anything, it's not gonna make me good, make me an adopt a puppy. I can't be what other people want me to be, what she wants me to be. This is who I am, Jessica." Jessica whimpers "Are you gonna hurt me?" Damon answers "I'm not sure because you are my existential crisis. Do I kill you or do I not kill you?" Jessica whimpers "Please don't." Damon said "But I have to, Jessica because I'm not human and I miss it. I miss it more than anything in the world! That is my secret but there is only so much hurt a man can take." Jessica says "Please, don't." He cries Damon sighs "Okay" Compelling her "You're free to go."
He's chasing her when a boy appears he grabs her and he says "Obilivate you are going to go to your car and your going to forget about this night when you pull into the yard. Damon stated at the brown skinned teen the boy walked over and said "My name is Ezra." He grinned.