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Chapter Ten
Damon is wavering at the corner of the cell. His breath is heaving while he's sweating his undershirt. He's slowly falling down from his sitting position then curling up on the floor. He looks like he's in agonizing pain.
"This is great. I think we finally work this out." Greg says while standing outside the cell with his hands crossed on his chest. "We should do one more test and we can finalize it."
Caitlin bends down as if she's reaching for him but she can only hold the cell. She looks so concerned. "He needs a break. He's beaten himself up to the limit. He'd break if we continue." Caitlin sounds so demanding about it.
"He's a vampire with an evil soul inside! He won't die, Caitlin. We don't have much time! We have to do this now. I'll prepare him for the next installment." Greg doesn't seem to listen to her reasons.
Caitlin stands up in an instant and insists. "He feels, although with all the endurance that he has as vampire and the evil gives him stronger capacity to handle pain, he feels all that. The serum isn't working properly. I could see he had to try his hardest to restrain an evil that kept fighting its way out to control him. If that crack on the wall and the bite marks all over his hands aren't any indication already." Caitlin stands between the lock on the cell and Greg like she's defending Damon from Greg.
She has her hands on her waist. "I say he's taking the break. Or I won't do it at all. I'd go to New Orleans alone or I'd just face the trial since I might as well die either way."
Greg looks at her thoroughly. He's observing the way Caitlin defends Damon. He then takes a look at Damon and Caitlin in turn. "I think I know what's missing. Have you read that this evil was once released around 1000 years ago? Have you read anything about it? There's one very significant character of Pandora evil."
Caitlin tries to remember what she's read. She's living double lives which both require her to read a lot. She's a doctor for human beings and scientist for supernatural.
"Emotions." Caitlin whispers. She's really sure but she remembers that part.
Greg nods. "It's connected to the emotions, rooted deep in the emotions then it consumes the soul with darkness."
"Yes and then? What do we have to do about it?" Caitlin forehead is furrowed.
Greg looks at Damon one last time before he says. "The one missing ingredient of the serum is your blood."
His statement just doesn't shock Caitlin but also Damon. "I will never drink her blood." Damon says in his low and weak voice.
"Yes you will have to." Greg simply responds.
Caitlin is clueless how can Greg suddenly decide that. "What does it have anything to do with my blood and what you said about it being connected to the emotions?"
"The best way is just to prove it. I know what I observed Caitlin. It's not that hard. Now like you said we'll give him a break. So now I'm going to give you more self-defense practice." Greg leaves the room with no further discussion.
Late evening at the woods, Caitlin and Greg have another session of training. This time he forces her to practice shooting using a special designed bow. She has learnt how to use it well but now she has to practice to use it when there's only little light. It's pretty dark in the woods when they go out.
"Am I supposed to have a vampire sight? This seems a little too dark." Caitlin almost stumbles as she steps onto a small rock.
Greg just hands in the bow with six arrows ready to shoot inside the cylinder in which to be filled with arrows like a gun fire. "Just follow my direction."
Caitlin takes a position to be ready to shoot. She checks the bow and holds them firmly with both hands like her uncle has taught her to. One hand is on below near the front side while the other is near the trigger on the back. She either has to hold it up in front of her chest or the neck.
"Look closely to what's on my hand." Greg waves the shooting target on his left hand. "Take few steps back, few more." He says. "Stand near that tree."
Caitlin is busy between calculating the distance and trying to see the target in minimal light. "You want me to shoot it while you're holding it?" she takes a few deep breaths. All the training and getting used to working at night, her eyes seem to slowly adapt to the darkness.
"On 3," Greg starts to count. "1.." yet before he finishes counting, an arrow shot in the target, makes him jump a little and drop the target at once. "Clean shot Caitlin."
Caitlin surprises herself with that. Her heart still races a little after feeling worried that she would miss it but she didn't. She can't be proud yet because they're just getting started. Greg will at least give her an hour of training each session. She did moving target before but during the day. Now she knows what to expect. She'll have to shoot moving target in the dark.
"We'll try with this until you can do it fast enough then we move on to moving target." Greg tells her. "I knew you had that in you, Caitlin. You can do this. You're the Snow after all."
After Caitlin shoots the second one, she takes a pause to ask Greg. "What is it about my blood that you said would complete the serum?"
Greg prepares another target board but this time he sticks it on a tree. "That evil makes him the darkness and you, Caitlin Snow, is the light. Your compassion is a gift. With compassion that extraordinary, the serum will be completed to restrain the darkness and take control of the emotions."
She just nods and tries to understand that.
Greg adds when she's about to take a shot. "And Caitlin, it seems like you and him have some bond. At least it's quite obvious that his emotions are strongly affected by you. That gives me assurance that it has to be you."
That gets Caitlin speechless. She has to shake her head before she gets her focus back.
Greg yells at her. "Caitlin! We have to finish this soon. After that we can have something to eat together, have some rest and ready for the experiment tomorrow."
"Oh sorry." Caitlin lifts up the bow to her chest and takes a position to shoot.