Chapter Ten: The Cure

"Enzo, I think I love you."

"I'm afraid I don't feel the same way about you mate." Enzo joked, though he saw the way that Damon's blue eyes stared hungrily at the cure for his end of vampire hunger in his hands. Stefan and Katherine were standing a few feet away from Enzo hearing everything.

Katherine fought the urge to roll her eyes as she watched Stefan stared suspiciously at Enzo as if wondering if he would hurt his brother. Apparently Stefan was ignorant to the fact that Damon practically drowned baby kittens for fun.

"How did you even get it?" Damon asked.

"Well, let's just say Dr. Maxfield owed me a favor or two." Enzo chuckled. "After I safely deposited his body in the Atlantic Ocean for a nice, long nap I went back to the lab and found this on the top shelf."

"Excellent." Damon thrust his hand towards him. "Give it to me."

Enzo pulled back rapidly. "Not so fast mate, I want a few answers first."

Damon looked annoyed, but was willing to comply. "All right. What do you want to know?"

Enzo didn't speak for a moment. "You got out of the Augustine's faster than me, you could say." He mused. "Did you meet Maggie? Do you know what happened to her? Is she still alive?"

Stefan saw a rare flash of guilt flashed in his brother's eyes. Oh, no this was bad. "Enzo-"

"Stefan." Damon interrupted, knowing very well what his brother was going to do and he honestly didn't want to drag Stefan into this mess, especially since he was going to be a daddy to be. "Don't." He looked back at Enzo. "In the 1960's, I found Maggie in New York, she tried to attack me and I killed her . . . I didn't know she was your Maggie until only a few days ago, I'm-"

Damon's rare apology was cut short when Enzo pinned him against the wall, Damon's shackles prevented him from defending himself. Damon's eyes bulge and he gave a choking sound as he struggled to breathe. "You what?" he hissed.

"I killed her!"

"Get your hands off him." Stefan snarled as he pulled Enzo away from Damon and smashed Enzo into the wall. Enzo out of fury kicked him to the ground.

Katherine noticed that while the boys had been too busy fighting each to notice her, Enzo had dropped the cure on the floor. Perfect.

Katherine wasn't feeling too sympathetic towards Damon at the moment, but she also didn't want her least favorite Salvatore living under the living room forever. As quick as her human speed would allow her, Katherine grabbed the tiny flask and hurried out of the basement.

"Katherine!" she heard Stefan snapped, but Katherine ignored him as she went upstairs. She hastily opened one of the cabinets and pulled out a vervain grenade.

She flinched when Enzo appeared in front of her. He looked at her strangely and opened his hand. "Hand over the cure, doll and no one gets hurt."

"No one other than you." Katherine threw the vervain grenade towards Enzo's face. Enzo let out a scream of pain. Before Katherine could run much further, Enzo grabbed her shoulder and threw her against the wall.

Katherine grunted as she felt her shoulder hit the floor, she raised her gaze and saw that Enzo was about to pounced on her when he started coughing up blood. His body fell on the floor and Stefan stood behind him holding his heart.

He rushed towards Katherine and helped her. "Are you ok?" he asked anxiously eyeing her stomach. "Don't even do that again, Katherine!"

"Don't scold me." Katherine shot back as she handed him the cure. "Especially since I just save your brother's life again."

"Katherine?"

Katherine fought the urge to groan as she turned around, her hand still half holding the ice pack to the side of her forehead. Because Enzo had thrown her against the wall, a small bump had formed on her forehead, and since Katherine couldn't cure it with vampire blood, ice was the next best thing.

Stefan was off tending to his brother, but that did not mean that Katherine wanted to talk to her "sister" in law.

Elena was standing by the doorway, looking like she didn't want to be here either. "Yes?"

"Thank you." She finally blurted out after a while. "For getting the cure . . . for trying to get it away from Enzo."

"I didn't do it for you." Katherine snapped back nastily.

Elena opened her mouth, but then shook her head. "Never mind, sometimes there is just no use talking to you. You're never going to change. Why can't you just accept my thanks?"

"Because I didn't do it so that Damon and you can live happily ever after," Katherine said. "I did it so that Stefan didn't lose his brother."

"Did it work?" Stefan raised an eyebrow, he had cut his wrist and blood was pouring on the ground. He looked at his brother hopefully, usually when Stefan did this Damon's eyes would grow red and the veins around his eyes would appeared more prominent, but now he was simply staring back at him. "How do you feel?"

"I feel fine, I feel normal." He said as he sniffed the blood. "Positively disgusting again, I'm cured. I no longer want to drain your artery."

Stefan smiled, relieved. "Good." He started unbuckling the shackles. "I'm glad something good came out of the reunion with your little friend."

"So Enzo is dead?" he asked wearily.

Stefan nodded. "Come on, Damon I didn't have a choice. The guy was a complete lunatic-he almost killed Katherine-"

"I'm not blaming you," Damon's jaw tightened. "I'll leave you two alone, I won't give Katherine a hard time anymore, you know as a thanks."

"How are you feeling?" Elena asked as she and Damon sat in the Salvatore living room. It felt weird seeing Damon against almost normal, Elena wanted to kiss him out of complete happiness that he was cured, but she was sure that was not something she did to ex-boyfriends.

"Fine." Damon absentmildly wrapped an arm around Elena's shoulder. "Better than ever actually."

Elena smiled. "Good." She paused for a bit. "I hate to admit it, but Caroline was right. I was jealous of Katherine, well of Katherine's baby. But she didn't have to help you today, but she did."

"Please." Damon gave a tiny eye roll. "She did it for Stefan."

"True." Elena admitted as she looked into the fire. "I guess she must really love him."

"Here," Caroline said as soon as Stefan opened the door. She pressed a small first aid kit in his hands. "It's my mom's."

"Thanks, Caroline." He said as he took the first aid kit. "Besides Jeremy, Katherine is the only human and we kind of need to stock up on things like these."

"No problem." She said chirpily. "And Stefan I know I didn't tell you before, but I'm happy for you, you're going to be a great father and Katherine has her . . . well, charms."

-End of Chapter Ten-

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