Disclamer : I don't own vampire diaries.
From the Gilbert's house, Damon came back to the boarding house. When he wants to stepped in to his room to take a shower, he heard a sound that coming from the living room. So he goes there and found Stefan there. Stefan is sat down on the couch with a glass of whiskey at his hand. This is unusual for Stefan to drink alcohol at this time, or any time.
Damon walked to Stefan. " What are you doing?" Damon asked.
Stefan smiled at him. " I need to take a break from the nice vampire." Stefan said as he chugged down the whole glass.
" Do you think this is the right time? Katherine is still on the loose. We need to stay alert all the times." Damon said.
" There's your one box full of human blood downstairs. Just gave me a few minutes to enjoy this." Stefan said.
Damon rolled his eyes on him. " You want to drink human blood? You can't handle that."
" You know I need to. With this situation with Katherine, I need to get stronger." Stefan said.
Damon shook his head. He can see how messed up his brother is. And he's not going to put himself in the middle of his misery. " Suit yourself." Damon said. He started to walk away from him.
" You just got home. What are you doing all night?" Stefan asked again.
Damon turned around and just looked at him silently. He shrugged. " Some stuff."
Stefan laughed bitterly. " You can tell me that you're at Elena's on your patrol job." Damon stood still. He never guessed that Stefan knew. " You don't think I know that you're at Elena's every night? And this morning too. I'm a vampire too, you know. I can hear you outside the window."
" It's not like what you think, Stefan." Damon said.
" You have no idea what I was thinking." Stefan said. He stood up from the couch and walked to Damon. " I need to know. Just for this once, could you please tell me the truth?" Stefan looked straight to Damon. " Are you in love with Elena?"
Damon scoffed. " What are you talking about? You're drunk." Damon is just about to turns around. But Stefan pulled his hand.
" Just this once, Damon. Do me a favor. And tell me the truth." Stefan said.
Damon knows there is no way he can make his way out of this. Even how messed up their relationship is, when Stefan wanted him to do something for him, it's not easy for him to say no. So Damon put his serious face on. " Maybe. I don't know." Damon simply answered.
Stefan laughed. " You should be more honest with yourself, Damon. Even I can see it - that you're in love with Elena." Stefan said. Stefan looked at Damon. " You heard us. We're taking a break for a while. So I need you to stay at her side. To keep her save."
Damon rolled his eyes on him. " You're not afraid that I will steal her from you when you two on a break?" Damon said with a smirk.
Stefan put his serious face. " Her safety is more important. She won't let me stay at her side for now, even just to keep her save. And I need her to be save." Stefan said.
Damon wiped his smirk from his face. " I never understand what are you thinking of, Stefan." Damon looked at Stefan. " You better hurry and sober up. We need to go to that library."
" Take others with you. I need some time off." Stefan turned around and sat back on the couch after he filled up his glass again.
Damon just sighed. He took a shower before he got out from the boarding house. He wants to go straight to Alaric's house then the library, but he worried about Elena. So he went back to the Gilbert's house to check on Elena. He jumped into Elena's room from the window.
Elena just sat on her bed, without an expression. When she heard Damon, she just looked at him without saying anything. " You looked awful, Elena." Damon said. Elena still didn't said anything, just silently gave him a little smile. Damon sighed. He can't just leave Elena like this. Damon walked to Elena and reached her hand. " Come on."
Elena raised her head and looked at Damon. " Where?"
" Work. So you can get your mind off things." Damon said. He pulled Elena's hand. Elena just followed him quietly. Damon took Elena along to the library.
" What are we doing here? It's closed, you know. It has been for years." Elena stood with a confused face in front of the library.
Damon turned to Elena. " John said there is some information in here about the Lockwoods. By the way, they are werewolves."
Elena widened her eyes. " What? Werewolves?" Damon told Elena everything that Katherine told him the other days. " So John said there some information inside this close library?" Damon nodded. " You know this library has been closed for a very long time?"
Damon nodded again. He looked at Elena. " And I think there are also some information about Katherine in here." Elena just looked at Damon without saying anything. " Come on." Damon opened the window. They can't come in from the door. Damon helped Elena jumped from the window. He holds Elena's hand tightly so she doesn't fall.
As soon as her feet touch the ground, she immediately pulled her hand from Damon. Damon can see how careful she acted around him. That makes him anxious but he doesn't say anything. Elena walked a little far from him. She tried to calm down her heart that beat a little faster than usual.
Elena scooped her surroundings. " How can we find some thing in here?" Elena turned to Damon. " This library is full of books."
" Then we have to start searching." Damon smirked at her. He walked into one alley. Elena walked into the alley next to him.
They spent the whole day in that library, flipping from books to books. Even Damon who is a vampire, felt a little sleepy. Elena already fell asleep.
" I found something." Damon said. Elena immediately opened her eyes and walked to Damon who holding one a very old book.
" What do you find? Something about werewolf?" Elena asked.
Damon shook his head. " Nope. About the other Katherine Pierce. Katie." Damon looked at Elena. " Your ancestor." Elena doesn't say anything. But Damon can see in her face that she's very curious. " So it says here that Katie Pierce was well known in 1490. She had a twin sister who died in 1492." Damon looked at Elena. " That makes Katherine is about 500 years old vampire."
" Anything else?" Elena asked. She really wanted to know about her family history.
Damon looked at the book again then he looked at Elena. " Katie Pierce was well known at Mystic Falls in 1490 because she was married to the first mayor, Benjamin Gilbert." Damon said.
" Benjamin Gilbert?" Elena immediately remembered the story that her dad used to tell both of her and Jeremy.
" You know him?" Damon asked.
" He's one of our ancestor. Long before Jonathan Gilbert, I think." Elena answered. She looked at Damon. " We have one little box at home with Ben Gilbert's name on it. We never opened it."
" We should now." Damon said.
Elena nodded then she put her gaze at the window. " It's getting late, Damon. I have no intention to sleep here." Elena said.
Damon rubbed the back of his neck. Elena also can see the tired in his eyes, even though he is a vampire. " One more hour." Damon said. Elena sighed. " I know that John wasn't lying. You see all the books here. This book is even knows more that we are about vampires. There must be something here about werewolves." Damon said.
Elena looked at Damon. " The Lockwoods is the one that closed this library, because they knew that there is something in here that they don't wanted anyone to see. They closed this library to keep it hidden." Elena turned around and started walking. Damon doesn't understand her but he keep following her. She stopped at the end of the alley. She looked at Damon again. " I almost fall down here, because there is a broken floor in here. I thought this was nothing considering how old this place is. But maybe – " Elena uncover the carpet that covering the wooden floor. They can see there is a door under the carpet.
Damon looked at Elena with an amazed expression then he smirked at her. " That is a really good job, Elena. I won't look down to you anymore. You can be my vampire assistant." Damon said as he used his vampire strength to pull up the door. Elena ignored Damon's comment and tried to see in the darkness of the room below them.
" It's really dark." Elena turned to Damon. " I don't think you have a flashlight?"
Damon laughed. " I'm a vampire, Elena. I can see really well in the dark." He hands out his hand to Elena. " Just take my hand and follow my lead."
Elena just looked at Damon's hand for a while. She doesn't want to touch Damon right now when she feels her heart could explode from that, but she doesn't have any choice if she wanted to see the room. Elena sighed, and gave in to Damon. She put her hand at Damon's hand. Even in the darkness, Elena could feel that Damon smirked at her. But she also can feel how careful Damon is when he stepped down the stairs. Damon adjusted his steps with hers and holds her hand tightly.
Suddenly she felt that Damon pulled his hand from her and he's screaming in hurt. Then she felt there is water that poured from the ceiling. Damon kept screaming. And she can't see anything. She only can scream back.
" Damon! What's wrong? Damon!" She tried to reach him. But she can't see anything in the dark. She can only grab an empty air as Damon kept screaming. Then the light turned on. Now Elena can see her surrounding. " Damon!" Damon's whole body is burned but there is no fire. She quickly ran to his side and holds him. " Damon." Damon isn't screaming anymore. He looked so weak.
" Vervain." Damon managed to get one word out.
Elena understands now. The water that poured in is vervain. She tried her best to carry Damon to the spot that doesn't pour in water. Elena is holding Damon tightly in her arms. " Please be okay."
" No, he won't." Suddenly there is a voice that coming from the upstairs door.
Elena looked at him. " Mason."
Mason Lockwood smiled at her. " He'll die sooner or later in this vervain ocean."
" Why are you doing this to him?" Elena asked.
" You think I don't know that he is a vampire?" Mason stared at Elena. " And I know that you know that I'm a werewolf. If you don't, you won't be here." Elena doesn't say anything. " This is our fate. We'll always end up killing each other. Kill or be killed." Mason's face softened a little bit when he looked at Elena. " I'm sorry that you have to be in the middle of this, Elena. I never meant to hurt you. But it's your choice that you choose Damon to be your friend." Mason took a glance at Damon who looked weaker by the second. " I'll be back after he died. This is just vervain. You're human. It has no affect on you." Mason turned around.
" Mason! Please. Don't do this. You don't have to do this." But Mason ignored her. " Mason! I'll do anything. Please don't do this." Elena pleaded.
Mason turned around and looked at Elena. " I'm sorry." Elena can see that Mason is really guilty for put her in here too. But he turned again and locked the door.
" Mason!" Elena screamed out his name. Damon reached for Elena's hand to get her attention. Elena looked at Damon. When she sees how weak Damon is, all that she wanted to do is cry. Her heart breaks seeing Damon like this. But she has to keep strong, because Damon needs her. And she knows what she has to do. She takes a look at her surroundings and spotted a shredded mirror at the corner of the room. She looked at Damon. " I'll be back."
" Where are you going?" Damon asked with his weak voice.
Elena stroked Damon's cheek. " It's going to be okay. I'll be right back." Elena said. Elena shifted Damon from her embrace and leaned him over at the wall. She ran to the corner of the room and took that shredded mirror. At there, she also found a really old book. She doesn't think anymore and took the book with her. Then she ran back to Damon. She cut her hand palm and squeezed it so the blood poured right into Damon's mouth.
" No, Elena." Damon pushed out Elena's hand. He refused to drink Elena's blood.
Elena shifted closer to Damon. " What's wrong? You drink my blood before." Elena said.
Damon looked at Elena with his weak gaze. " I'm so weak right now, so in need for human blood. I'm afraid that I can't hold myself. I could kill you." Damon said.
" If you don't drink my blood, you're going to die. And I'm not going to let that happen." Elena looked at Damon with her gentle eyes. " I trust you. You won't kill me." Damon is too weak to argue with Elena now. He's not even has enough strength to pushed out Elena's hand again. So he started to drink Elena's blood. The longer he drank, more hunger he felt. He can stop drinking Elena's blood. But Elena just sat still, let Damon drank all the blood he wants. But she can feel that she's getting weaker. She let out a weak groan. That makes Damon stopped and looked at her. Elena smiled at him then she closed her eyes and fell down on Damon's arms.
" Elena!" Damon holds Elena in his arms and stroked her cheek until she opened her eyes. " I'm sorry."
Elena shook her head a little as she smiled. " But you're okay now, right?" Elena asked, weakly.
Damon nodded. " I'm okay. I'm fine. Your blood cured me." Damon said.
Elena smiled. " Now hurry and get us out of here."
Damon smirked at her and let out a little laugh. A relieve laugh. He's relieved that Elena's okay. Damon slipped his hand in Elena's waist and carried her out of the room. He broke out the door easily. He looked at the surrounding. His eyes are looking for Mason. But Mason is not here. So he carried Elena out of the library.
" We can't go home. I can't let Jenna looked me like this. She'll be worry." Elena said to Damon.
Damon nodded and brought her to the boarding house. He tried to find Stefan but he doesn't see him anywhere. So he took Elena to his room and lie her down in his bed. Damon sat next to her and stroked her hair. " I'm sorry, Elena."
Elena opened her eyes and looked at Damon. " I'll be fine. It's just a little blood. I just need to sleep." Elena handed out the book that she took to Damon. " I found this in that room."
Damon accepted the book from her and he smiled sincerely at her. " Sleep tight then." Damon kissed Elena's forehead. Elena smiled weakly and fell asleep. Damon stayed beside her for a while, just stroking her hair and watched her sleep. He just wanted to open the book when he heard a voice from downstairs. He watched Elena one last time and went downstairs.
" Katherine." Damon said as he saw Katherine.
Katherine smirked at him and immediately threw Caroline to Damon, who luckily caught her on time before her head hit the stairs.
" What is this? You're returning Caroline?" Damon asked with suspicion tone.
" Can't I be nice for once?" Katherine gave Damon a fake smile.
" You're Katherine. You're not nice." Damon said with a smirk. " Tell me what do you wish to accomplished by returning Caroline?"
Katherine hasn't had the time to answered Damon when she felt a hand choking her neck and pushed her on the wall. Stefan suddenly appeared with his mad eyes looked at Katherine.
" You're coming at the right time. I've been thinking to look for you." Stefan said with his full vampire mode face. " You're the one that break me and Elena apart. This is all your fault."
Katherine laughed. " So you're and Elena breaks up? How surprising. I'm so sorry." Katherine said with a fake tone. " But Damon should be very happy about this." Katherine said to Damon. Damon ignored her. And Katherine looked back to Stefan. " And how it's my fault? Am I the one that lying to Elena? Or I'm the one that forced you lie to Elena? You're the one that decided lying to Elena. This is not my fault." Katherine pushed Stefan across the room with her vampire power. " You're stronger. But not strong enough." Katherine walked to Stefan who tried to back on his feet. " Let me guess. Human blood?" Stefan could felt Damon's eyes on him when Katherine said human blood. But he's ignored Damon and looked at Katherine. " It's about time. We're need all the help we can get."
Stefan stand up and walked closer to Katherine. " The only reason I drank human blood is to be strong enough to rip your heart out." Stefan said.
Katherine just smirked at him. " Fine. Looking your dedication, I will give you a chance to do that if all of this over."
That word of Katherine makes Damon interested. " What do you mean by all of this? This is why you returning Caroline?"
" Caroline?" Stefan looked at Damon's way and noticed unconscious Caroline who leaned on the stairs. Stefan looked at Damon. " She returning Caroline just like that?" Stefan asked with suspicious tone. Damon nodded.
Katherine walked to Damon. " Why is none of you believe that I could play nice sometimes?"
" You're Katherine. All of the words that came out from your mouth are basically a lie." Stefan said as he walked to Damon.
Katherine smirked at them. " But I'm all you can get for now. You better take it or leave it. This is bigger than our lovers quarrel."
" Cut to the chase, Katherine. Just tell us what it is." Damon said.
" We can't trust her, Damon. Do you forget that she's Katherine?" Stefan said to Damon.
Damon looked at Stefan. " But she's right. We have no other option. We have no clue why she came back here. We don't have to take her words. Just hear it and review it later." Damon whispered in Stefan's ear.
But Katherine is a vampire. She can hear all of that. And she doesn't bother to hide it. " You know that I can hear you, right?" Katherine smirked. " I can't believe that you're become the wise one, Damon. It's usually Stefan. Why is that? Because of that Elena girl?" Katherine laughed. " She's really is a Pierce. Maybe it is in our blood the ability to captures the Salvatores heart."
Damon also smirked at her. " Stop fishing and start talking, Katherine. My ears have a limit to hear your voice."
Katherine kept smirking at him. " You're getting so hot, Damon. Make me wanted to kiss you."
" You know where the door is. Don't expect me to escort you out." Damon is ready to turned to Caroline and carry her upstairs when Katherine talk again.
" More hot. Less patient." Katherine said to Damon. Damon just looked at Katherine with a firm look. " Fine." Katherine put her serious expression. " I came back here as soon as I can when I heard that Richard Lockwood is dead."
" Mayor Lockwood? What that had to do with you?" Stefan asked.
Damon looked at Katherine. " Because that makes Mason Lockwood came back here." Katherine looked at Damon. " That's your purpose in Mystic Falls, wasn't it?"
Katherine smiled. " And you're getting so smart. Make me fall for you even more."
Damon ignored Katherine. " What is it with Mason Lockwood beside he's a werewolf?" Damon looked at Katherine. " Why he's trying to kill me?"
Katherine rolled her eyes on Damon. There's a surprise expression on her face. She didn't know about the attemp. Stefan looked at Damon. " He's trying to kill you?" Stefan asked.
Damon turned to Stefan. " Me and Elena both."
" What?" Stefan widened his eyes.
" We're went to the library, just to get in Mason Lockwood's trap." Damon said.
Stefan stared at Damon. " I told you to stay by Elena's side. Not to bring her along for a dangerous errand."
" I never intended to bring her along with me. Before I went to the library I went to check up on her. She looks so depressed. I can't just leave her alone. So I bring her with me. I don't know that Mason Lockwood tried to kill me." Damon said. There a justified self in his voice.
" This is very interesting. The conversation between the two of you. Maybe this is a Salvatore curse getting stuck with a Pierce." Because of Katherine opened her mouth, Damon and Stefan remembered that Katherine still in the room. When they're talking about Elena, it's hard to care about anything else.
Damon looked at Katherine again. " Continue. What do you say about the Lockwood?"
Katherine looked at Damon. " What library? What Mason did?" Katherine asked.
" John Gilbert said maybe there are some information about werewolves in the old library. But we don't know that Mason already set up a trap in there." Damon explained.
" That's means there are really something in there." Stefan said.
" Elena found a book in a secret room." Damon said.
" Where is it?" Katherine asked.
Damon smirked at her. " Not before you tell us everything."
Katherine looked at Damon and smiled. " Fine. You win. For now." Katherine put her serious face again. " So like I said earlier. I came back when I heard Richard Lockwood is dead. That means Mason Lockwood will return here. Even though you are the bloodline of werewolves it doesn't mean that you're a werewolf. Like Richard Lockwood."
" Richard Lockwood wasn't a werewolf?" Stefan asked.
" I didn't say that." Katherine smirked.
" Stop playing games and just tell us. I'm losing patient here." Damon said.
Katherine looked at both Damon and Stefan. " He's a bloodlines of werewolves. He has the strength that a werewolf has. But he can't transform. Even in the full moon. So he's not a real werewolf. He's not as strength as the full werewolf is. I've been watched the Lockwoods over the years. Waiting for the full werewolf that will born in their family. And that is Mason Lockwood." Katherine explained.
Stefan stepped closer to Katherine. " I still don't why you're so interested in this werewolves business."
" Same question here." Damon also said.
Katherine looked at Damon. " That book you took from the library, about werewolves, even though I haven't read it, but I was pretty sure that there is story about our kind and their kind."
Damon rolled his eyes on Katherine. " So all of this because of an ancient war?" Damon asked.
" Not so ancient. The reason that I ran from the tomb is because I made a deal with George Lockwood, that I won't put a fight with them until the true werewolf is born." Katherine looked at both Damon and Stefan. " They are Mason and Tyler Lockwood." Katherine cast a glance at Caroline. " I made a mistake. I though that girl is Tyler Lockwood's girlfriend. Until she screams others name."
" Matt." Stefan said.
Katherine smirked. " Yes. The blue eyes boy. He's pretty." Katherine said.
" I warned you, Katherine. Stay away from the human." Damon said.
Katherine just shrugged in her elegant way. And she put her serious face again. " We have to get ready. Mason already started by tried to kill you." Katherine said to Damon. " He will try again. With all of us next time."
Damon and Stefan looked at each other. Even without words, they can understand what each other thinking about, is whether they can trust Katherine or not. It's a dangerous decision, siding with Katherine. But they also know that they don't have any choice for now.
Stefan looked at Katherine. " What do you suggest?" Stefan asked. Katherine just smirked with both of them.
tbc.